159: Chapter 159 What kind of monster dares to act so recklessly in Xuanwu City!
However, deep within the chaotic space of the Enlightenment Pagoda, Lin Fan, who is worshipped as a god by the myriad races, was currently sitting cross-legged in the void with a bold and unconstrained posture.
He looked at the vast sea of nearly 2,900 remaining Great Dao streamers surrounding him and frowned.
"Too slow." Lin Fan sighed, his face full of disdain.
"I only managed to finish thirty-six in one year; do I have to waste decades here for the remaining two thousand plus?"
He shook his head.
"I don't have that much time to sit in prison here."
Lin Fan opened his system panel and took a look at the massive amount of Evolution Points he had accumulated over the past year.
Having slaughtered aliens in Battlefield Number One, combined with the various first-kill rewards triggered within the tower over the past year, his Evolution Points had reached a terrifyingly huge number.
"System." Lin Fan gritted his teeth.
"Max out my Comprehension Ability for me!"
"Keeping these Evolution Points is useless; dump them all! Raise it as high as you can!"
"Ding!" The system's crisp notification sounded in his mind.
"Host command received."
"Deducting 100 million Evolution Points..."
"Comprehension Ability level breaking through..."
A light lit up deep within Lin Fan's sea of consciousness.
An unprecedented, brilliant divine light broke through his crown, illuminating the entire chaotic space.
"Ding!"
"Congratulations to the host, Comprehension Ability has broken through the limit!"
"Current Comprehension Ability Level: V1000 (The Great Dao is Simple)!"
"System has detected that the host's Comprehension Ability has reached a critical value; version upgrade in progress..."
"Upgrade complete!"
"Congratulations to the host, new feature unlocked: [Great Dao Point Allocation]!"
Lin Fan was stunned for a moment.
He quickly opened the system panel to check the new feature.
After studying it carefully for a few minutes,
"Holy shit!" Lin Fan jumped up from the void.
He couldn't help but curse.
"This feature is simply an artifact for exploiting bugs!"
The [Great Dao Point Allocation] feature is extremely overpowered.
As long as the host has gained entry into a certain Great Dao, they can directly consume Evolution Points to forcibly increase their proficiency.
Most importantly, Lin Fan discovered a massive, heaven-shocking loophole.
In the two early stages of the Great Dao, "Form Clarification" and "Nature Seeing," the Evolution Points consumed are pitifully low.
Only in the later "Mastery" and "Enlightenment" stages does the consumption skyrocket geometrically.
Lin Fan rubbed his chin and grinned.
"Since it's cheap in the early stages and expensive in the later stages," Lin Fan's eyes lit up.
"Then I will first use my V1000-level god-tier Comprehension Ability to take a look and manually gain entry."
"Then, I'll use a very small amount of Evolution Points to have the system boost me to the Major Achievement stage."
"Finally, I'll rely on my V1000-level Comprehension Ability to sprint to Perfection on my own!"
"Isn't this just a perfect assembly-line leveling strategy?!"
He acted immediately.
Lin Fan reached out and grabbed a golden stream of light emitting a sharp aura: the Great Dao of Metal.
With his V1000-level Comprehension Ability fully activated, he just took one look.
"Form Clarification, broken." Lin Fan snapped his fingers.
"System, boost me to the peak of Nature Seeing!"
"Ding! 100,000 Evolution Points deducted; the Great Dao of Metal has reached the peak of Nature Seeing!"
Lin Fan closed his eyes, and his immense Comprehension Ability crushed forward once more.
"Sprint!"
Crack!
In less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, a complete and sharp Law of Metal Source erupted from Lin Fan's body and shot into the sky.
The Great Dao of Metal, Perfection!
"Hahaha! Awesome!" Lin Fan laughed towards the sky.
"Continue! Great Dao of Wood, come here!"
"Great Dao of Water, line up, one by one!"
Outside the Enlightenment Pagoda, the originally silent ancient mountain range suddenly erupted with screams of terror.
"Look at the Golden Ranking!!!" Giant Whale Heavenly Monarch pointed at the list in the air, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.
Everyone looked up in unison.
They saw the number next to Lin Fan's name on the Golden Ranking start to jump wildly.
Thirty-seven!
Forty!
Fifty!
One hundred!!!
"Madness... This world has gone completely mad..." Heavenly Wolf Old Ancestor's legs gave out, and he fainted on the spot.
While Lin Fan was frantically harvesting the Great Dao inside the tower, immersed in the pleasure of leveling up, the Blue Star outside was already overcast with dark clouds.
In Xuanwu City, the once-prosperous steel fortress was now shrouded in a layer of thick, impenetrable, blood-red haze.
The air was filled with a nauseating stench of blood.
Deep within the Li family mansion, in a highly concealed underground altar, the Li family ancestor, Li Erxiao, was kneeling in the center of the altar with disheveled hair.
His eyes were bloodshot as he knelt in the center of the altar, surrounded by the kneeling core disciples of the Li family.
"Ancestor... do we really have to do this?" a Li family elder asked, his voice trembling.
"This is collusion with an extraterritorial evil god! Once exposed, the entire human race will grind us into dust!"
"Shut up!!!" Li Erxiao turned his head, the muscles in his old face twitching.
"The human race? Has the human race ever given us a way to survive?!" Li Erxiao roared madly, his voice echoing through the underground space.
"The Heavenly Monarch that my Li family spent countless efforts to cultivate just died out there like that!"
"Qin Cangjue, that old scoundrel, not only refused to help us take revenge but also wanted to cut our Li family's resources!"
Li Erxiao stood up and pointed at the ceiling.
"Since they are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust!"
"The Blue Star that my Li family cannot have, no one else shall have!"
Li Erxiao turned around and looked toward the center of the altar, where an extremely bizarre statue stood.
The statue wore a tattered yellow robe; its face was obscured, with only endless darkness beneath its hood.
Countless twisted tentacles extended from beneath the yellow robe.
Just one look was enough to drive a person mad.
The extraterritorial evil god, the King in Yellow, Hastur!
"O, Great King in Yellow!" Li Erxiao raised his hands high, his voice filled with fanaticism.
"I, Li Erxiao, am willing to offer the billions of living beings in all of Xuanwu City as a sacrifice!"
"I welcome your arrival!"
Li Erxiao pulled a black dagger from his robes and, without hesitation, slashed his own wrist.
Bright red blood gushed out and splattered onto the array patterns of the altar.
"The ancestor has gone mad! Run!" The surrounding Li family disciples finally realized something was wrong and tried to flee in terror.
"It's too late! No one is leaving today!" Li Erxiao laughed wildly.
The array patterns on the altar lit up, erupting with blood-red light.
This crimson light pierced straight through the basement and shot into the sky!
Rumble!
Above Xuanwu City, thick clouds of blood rolled violently.
A massive, blood-red array enveloped the entire city.
"What's going on?!"
"Why has the sky turned red?!"
The commoners and low-level martial artists in Xuanwu City ran out into the streets, looking up at the sky in terror.
The next second, the array activated.
"Aaaah—!!!" Piercing screams erupted simultaneously from every corner of the city.
The bodies of countless commoners twitched violently.
Visible life force was being forcibly extracted from their bodies by the blood-red array and gathered toward the sky.
The entire Xuanwu City had transformed into a living hell.
"What monster dares to act wantonly in Xuanwu City!!!" A thunderous roar of rage echoed from afar.