98: Arise! Invasion! Dead Space

“Are you alright?” Ying Xi asked Yi Xin.

“My body is fine, but my spirit is a bit wounded!” Yi Xin said, then got out of Ying Xi’s embrace.

“Wounded where?” Ying Xi scanned Yi Xin up and down with a serious expression.

“No, no, no! That’s not important!” Yi Xin waved his hands repeatedly, then changed the subject, looking around. Their current location seemed to be in a mountain forest. The environment and air here were not much worse than Xu Heng: “We must have arrived at the Gui Xu Realm, right?”

“Mm.” Ying Xi, still with that expressionless face, nodded and looked around. Then her delicate nose twitched: “There are several different scents over there…”

“???” Yi Xin looked at Ying Xi, utterly confused. Are you a dog’s nose?

Ying Xi lifted her leg and was about to walk over.

“Hey, hey, hey! We agreed! Listen to me here!” Yi Xin called out to Ying Xi.

“Oh, I forgot.” Ying Xi stopped, then looked at Yi Xin, waiting for him to speak.

“…Alright, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go take a look!” Yi Xin was utterly exasperated by Ying Xi.

…

Normania Continent.

Three figures in strange attire appeared in the wilderness.

“Death Timed Mission?” The three looked at each other. They were a team.

They were “Dead” from the Death Space.

It was very similar to the Main God Space and Reincarnation Space.

It also involved traveling to various worlds, performing missions, and then earning various rewards by completing those missions. Through these rewards, one could exchange for different powers from different worlds to improve oneself, repeating the process.

Moreover, these spaces were extremely “exploitative” and “capitalist-like” in their monopoly and coercive methods when it came to their “subordinates” carrying out missions, to the point where “even capitalists would cry.”

They would basically kill you at the drop of a hat. Fail a mission, get killed. Or die on the way to a mission.

Or violate some rule, get killed.

In short, if it was disadvantageous, it was a kill.

And these individuals, no matter how they entered these types of spaces, everything was actually under the control of the space.

As for the so-called “breaking free from the space’s constraints,” that was all nonsense.

It’s possible that in the end, true “breakthrough” simply means your value has been fully exploited, and you’re no longer obedient. The final outcome isn't death, but rather something akin to “Infinite Tsukuyomi,” making you believe you’ve broken free.

Finally, you become a major villain, your last shred of value exploited, or you are discarded and eliminated.

These have already formed a complete system. “Reincarnator” and “Dead” come in batches, endlessly.

They are infamous throughout the Celestial Realms!

As the saying goes, where there is light, there is darkness.

Such existences naturally gave rise to other groups, such as “chat groups”…

In short, the Celestial Realms are vast and boundless, the world is immense, and countless forces are intertwined.

[Death Timed Mission]

[Find the System Bearer and Kill Them!]

[Reward…]

[Timed Mission: 30 Days]

[Failure: Elimination]

…

At the same time, Tang Ziheng, lying like a salted fish in the system space, suddenly heard an alarm.

“Invaders? Death Space?” Tang Ziheng immediately saw the invading three-person team.

Then he discovered that the Death Space was actually launching a suppression against him.

Fortunately, the system’s power was extremely strong, resisting the Death Space’s suppression and attempting to counterattack.

Then, Tang Ziheng watched his source points rapidly decrease.

“Good heavens! They’re bullying me!” Tang Ziheng frowned, then immediately sent out a “notice” to his “workers.”

Clarissa, Bai Mo, Lin Ze, Xu Duantong, and Yi Xin all received the system notification about the “Harm of Otherworld Invasion.”

It explained to them what “Reincarnation Space,” “Death Space,” and similar existences were, including various dangers and consequences.

“So… even if our world is currently ‘peaceful,’ it could still be invaded, disrupting the normal functioning of the entire world?” Lin Ze and Xu Duantong were slightly surprised to see this message.

Xu Duantong was fine; after all, the entire world was already as bad as it could get, with demons everywhere… Forget it, no more thinking, just farm more monsters and level up more!

If any invaders dared to come, just kill them!

Lin Ze, on the other hand, felt a tightening in his heart. He, who had been living too comfortably and leisurely due to the system, suddenly felt a sense of urgency, as if a knife hung over his head.

“Not working hard enough!” Lin Ze thought to himself, glancing at Lin Zhi beside him, who was already battle-hardened and increasingly heroic. Lin Zhi had already used evolution crystals 14 times.

As members of the “Cross-Realm Platform,” Bai Mo and Yi Xin received even more news! That was, Clarissa’s world was suffering an invasion!

“Invaders?” Clarissa frowned, stood up, and, following the God’s instructions, realized that these people wore strange clothes and were out of place in the local world.

Moreover, their abilities were bizarre and varied, clearly not from the same world system!

Therefore, as the One-Worded Equal Rank King, Clarissa immediately sought out Alice, instructing the entire nation to pay close attention to people in strange attire! Including the appearance of unseen abilities, to be reported immediately!

“Is something wrong?” Alice asked, looking at Clarissa with some worry after issuing the order. She didn’t believe Clarissa would suddenly do this without a major reason.

After all, almost ten days had passed since Clarissa had cut down the legend with her sword.

Clarissa didn't concern herself with the “co-governance” matter at all. Even when Alice sought Clarissa's “counsel,” Clarissa would at most offer an opinion. In most cases, she would simply state, “You are the Queen; you make the decisions!”

Clarissa stated that she could primarily provide military assistance!

“Something very serious has happened!” Clarissa nodded and said, “If it’s not handled well… it could affect the entire world!”

Alice looked at the serious Clarissa and immediately recognized the complexity and severity of the matter.

“Then… what else can we do?” Alice pursed her lips. She didn’t doubt Clarissa in the slightest.

“Wait! And you can’t get involved in this matter…” Clarissa shook her head slightly and said, “I might as well tell you, I am a God’s apostle. These troubles come from other worlds. You can think of them as otherworld God’s apostles, coming here to disrupt the normal operation of our world.”

“Ah!?” Alice exclaimed.

…

Tang Ziheng watched as the Death Space, after its probing yielded no results, retreated again. Neither could do anything to the other; it all depended on their “subordinates.”

Tang Ziheng looked at his source points, which had dropped by over thirty million, and his heart filled with anger.

The Death Space clearly prevented him from making any interventions, stopping Tang Ziheng with its power, and the two sides remained in a stalemate.

The Death Space was able to let its “subordinates” destroy so many worlds, so it clearly had a system for suppression.

Tang Ziheng’s current power made it too difficult to contend with them.

Although the other party couldn’t do anything to him, the system’s power was still formidable.

However, Tang Ziheng had no physical body, and he also felt the pain of losing source points.

“Then let our subordinates decide the outcome…” Tang Ziheng didn’t believe that small team from the Death Space could defeat Clarissa.

What level of “Dead” could the Death Space send to a Level 1 world?

After all, the Death Space was the invading party! It would also face resistance from the Normania Continent’s World Will.

If they dispatched existences exceeding a certain threshold, they would instead trigger the laws of the Celestial Realms due to being too strong, making it even harder for the Death Space to “invade.”

And existences like the Death Space, while lacking top-tier strength, certainly had an abundance of high-end, mid-range, and low-end enforcers.

This is also why many Reincarnation Spaces, Main God Spaces, and the like had no designs whatsoever on super-level worlds like the Primordial World.

It was because the combat power there was too terrifying, so terrifying that the World Will capable of nurturing such existences didn't even need to act; just those overpowered experts could blow them up.