Chapter 115 Inter-Cosmic Alliance Encirclement, Three Dimensional Bosses Join Forces to Counterattack

The news of the establishment of the Cross-Universe Anti-Unscrupulous Alliance was first discovered by Ghost. He monitored the player forums of three planes simultaneously: Magic Era, Interstellar Warframe, and Immortal Cultivation World. Suddenly, on the same day, posts with almost identical content appeared on all three forums.

The titles varied; Magic Era's read "Resist Malicious Charging of External Accounts", Interstellar Warframe's read "Free Mining Rights Must Not Be Violated", and Immortal Cultivation World's read "Spiritual Vein Treasure Lands Must Not Be Touched by Outsiders". However, after clicking into them, the wording style and paragraph logic of the main text were exactly the same, and even the use of punctuation marks looked like it was written by the same person.

Ghost put the three posts on the same screen for text comparison, and the match rate exceeded 90%. He traced the registration information of the posting accounts. The registration time for all three accounts was within 48 hours. The registration IPs came from different servers of Magic Era, Interstellar Warframe, and Immortal Cultivation World, but the login IPs all jumped to the same physical address—an abandoned sect site on the edge of the Spiritual Vein Treasure Land in the Immortal Cultivation World.

"The Magic Council, the Interstellar Alliance, and several major sects of the Immortal Cultivation World have already held two offline meetings at that abandoned sect site." Ghost projected the real-time energy scan map of the abandoned sect onto the screen, where more than 5,000 player account signals were densely gathered. "They are building a united front, electing the president of the Magic Council as the alliance commander-in-chief, Captain Valhalla of the Interstellar Alliance is responsible for tactical deployment, and a sect master of the Taixu Sword Sect in the Immortal Cultivation World is responsible for providing terrain intelligence on the Spiritual Vein Treasure Land. The official name of the alliance is the Cross-Universe Anti-Unscrupulous Alliance, passed by a vote."

Fatty Wang came over with a bowl of instant noodles, staring at the screen, the noodles hanging from his mouth without being sucked in: "More than five thousand people, top guilds from three planes gathered together, just to besiege the three of us?" He sucked the noodles in, chewed twice, and shook his head: "These people haven't been this united even when fighting World BOSSes."

Ghost continued to flip through the intelligence. The combat plan of the Anti-Unscrupulous Alliance had been completely intercepted by him—they planned to set an ambush at the only entrance to the Spiritual Vein Treasure Land when Lin Ye next entered the Immortal Cultivation World to collect protection fees. The Magic Council would provide crowd control magic, the Interstellar Alliance would provide long-range artillery support, and the Taixu Sword Sect would be responsible for using terrain formations to block the retreat. Captain Valhalla left a mobilization voice message in the alliance combat channel, which Ghost converted into text and projected on the screen. The last sentence read: Even if we have to pile up bodies, we must bury that cross-server charging account here this time.

Lin Ye leaned back in his chair, drinking tea, and read the text twice. The tea in the cup was the new tea sent by Grandpa Zhang last week; the tea aroma was very strong. After finishing the last sip, he put the cup on the table and stood up to stretch. Then he turned his head to look at Ghost: "They want to ambush me at the Spiritual Vein Treasure Land. Whose territory is the Spiritual Vein Treasure Land?"

Su Qinghan replied from the side without lifting her head: "It belongs to Sword Venerable Qingming."

Lin Ye asked again: "Where is the Shadow Demon Dragon now?"

Ghost switched to a surveillance screen. The Shadow Demon Dragon was sleeping in a valley in its territory, belly up, four dragon claws curled in front of its chest, its tail draped over a large rock, looking like a giant lizard that had fallen asleep. A trace of shadow breath that hadn't completely extinguished was still hanging from the corner of its mouth, flickering with its snoring.

"What about the Interstellar Behemoth?"

Ghost switched the screen again. The Interstellar Behemoth was moving star core steel with its mechanical arm outside the interstellar mining station, neatly stacking the daily quota of 100 tons on the docking platform according to the instructions previously given by Lin Ye. It moved very seriously; each piece of star core steel was stacked into a standard cube, with edge alignment errors of no more than one centimeter. After moving a batch, it would stop and use its sensors to scan the stacking quality, confirming it was correct before moving the next batch.

Lin Ye picked up his phone and opened the cross-plane contract management interface. The contract status of the three BOSSes was all green—the Shadow Demon Dragon was voluntarily cooperating, and after the Magic Council was beaten into submission last time, it had witnessed it personally; its loyalty was marked as pragmatic reliability on the contract panel. The Interstellar Behemoth had been mining on time every day without delay since it was subdued by Lin Ye's energy transmission lock; a system note was added to the contract panel: This target has an obsessive-compulsive tendency toward contract execution. The contract of Sword Venerable Qingming was in the standard spiritual power oath format of the Immortal Cultivation World, with such strong binding force that violating it would cause a backlash from his own sword energy; as a Tribulation Transcendence stage sword immortal, he couldn't possibly risk his thousand years of cultivation.

Lin Ye activated the summoning permissions for all three BOSSes, then said a sentence in the studio's internal channel: "Ghost, lock in the ambush coordinates of the Anti-Unscrupulous Alliance for tomorrow in advance. Qinghan, notify Sister Chen that the Guardian Alliance might detect cross-dimensional energy fluctuations from three planes simultaneously tomorrow, tell them not to panic, it's me mobilizing troops. Fatty, help me brew a cup of new tea, make it a bit stronger."

The next morning, more than 5,000 people from the Anti-Unscrupulous Alliance set up their formation at the only entrance to the Spiritual Vein Treasure Land as planned. The mage group of the Magic Council guarded the cliffs on both sides of the valley entrance, their staves fully charged, and the magic light on the staff heads lit up the entire valley in colorful hues. The warship formation of the Interstellar Alliance hovered above the sea of clouds, with all ship-borne laser cannons calibrated, and Captain Valhalla's flagship was parked in the center of the formation; in the bridge command channel, he was making the final tactical confirmation, his tone high-spirited. The disciples of the Taixu Sword Sect were scattered on various formation eyes throughout the Spiritual Vein Treasure Land, having already used spiritual power to activate the sect's ancestral Trap Immortal Lock Earth Formation, and a layer of translucent golden light shield covered the entire valley tightly.

Captain Valhalla posted a pinned message on the universal channel: Que De Studio account, you can't get through this door today.

Lin Ye replied: I'm not going through the door. I'm making the ones inside come out to greet me.

He put his phone into his pocket and stood still. Then he opened three cross-plane summoning channels simultaneously.

The clouds above the Spiritual Vein Treasure Land were torn open first, and the Shadow Demon Dragon plunged in from the Magic Era's channel. Its wings spread out, covering half the valley; when it landed, the ground shook a few times, and its four dragon claws stamped four deep pits into the bluestone slabs. Immediately after, the sky above the sea of clouds was illuminated by a deep blue refraction. The Interstellar Behemoth jumped directly from the orbital channel of Interstellar Warframe to just above the Spiritual Vein Treasure Land, its huge mechanical body hovering above the fleet, several sizes larger than the Interstellar Alliance flagship. Then, the golden pillar of light deep in the Spiritual Vein Treasure Land suddenly burst into piercing sword cries. Sword Venerable Qingming walked out from the golden light of the Myriad Swords Return to Origin, his white clothes like snow, his long sword still sheathed, and the sword energy circulating around him directly tore the golden light shield of the Trap Immortal Lock Earth Formation from the inside.

Lin Ye stood on the stone platform at the valley entrance, hands in his pockets, looking up at the three BOSSes. The Magic Council's mage group hadn't reacted yet when the Shadow Demon Dragon spat a mouthful of shadow breath from the sky onto the open space in front of the mage group, blowing out a deep pit that was still emitting purple smoke; the staff heads of the front-row mages overloaded collectively, and the charged magic particles all failed after being eroded by the shadow breath. The Interstellar Alliance's battleships hadn't fired yet when the Interstellar Behemoth's main cannon was already aimed at the bridge of Captain Valhalla's flagship; the blue light of the particle stream in the muzzle shone Captain Valhalla's face into a deathly pale through the bridge porthole. The disciples of the Taixu Sword Sect tried to reactivate the Trap Immortal Formation, but Sword Venerable Qingming raised his hand and pressed it down in the air. Thousands of sword energies condensed into a waterfall of sword energy out of thin air, pouring down and inserting itself beside the feet of the sect disciples, forming a perfect encirclement.

More than 5,000 people from the Anti-Unscrupulous Alliance stood in the encirclement of the three BOSSes, and not a single person made the first move.

Lin Ye walked to the dragon head that the Shadow Demon Dragon had lowered, patted its hard dragon horns, and then sent a voice message in the cross-universe joint channel. The tone was neither mocking nor showing off, as calm as if stating a weather forecast: "The Shadow Demon Dragon from the Magic Plane is the part-timer I signed. The Interstellar Behemoth from the Interstellar Plane is the miner I hired by the day. Sword Venerable Qingming from the Immortal Cultivation Plane owes me a favor and just finished paying off the first installment. You organized a cross-universe alliance of 5,000 people to besiege me, and I brought three BOSSes to counter-kill. Now, whose side has more people?"

After sending the voice message, Lin Ye turned his head and pointed to the cliff where the president of the Magic Council was hiding. The Shadow Demon Dragon flapped its wings, smashed half the cliff, picked up the president along with his staff, and placed him gently at Lin Ye's feet. The president lay on the ground, raised his dust-covered face, and sent the first message in the joint channel after the entire alliance collapsed: "Our Magic Council is withdrawing from the alliance. We will pay the protection fees monthly, or quarterly in advance is fine."

Captain Valhalla watched the Interstellar Behemoth's main cannon still charging outside the porthole from the flagship bridge, remained silent for a long time, and posted a line of text in the Interstellar Warframe server-wide channel: "The Interstellar Alliance applies for the corporate annual payment package for protection fees, please send the payment code."

The sect master of the Taixu Sword Sect stood among his disciples surrounded by sword energy, looking up at Sword Venerable Qingming who was still walking on the void in mid-air, his lips trembling a few times before he squeezed out a sentence in the Immortal Cultivation World server-wide channel: "The Taixu Sword Sect is willing to fully transfer the management rights of the collection quota for the Spiritual Vein Treasure Land."