146: Chapter 144 Boss Turns into Henchman

"This world was originally empty."

"The so-called world, the so-called Boundary Sea, were all nurtured from the void."

"There is nothing in the world that was not born from the void."

Cecilia curled her lip.

"As a human, weren't you also born in this world nurtured by the void?"

"Then why don't you just run off to live in the void?"

"Is it because it's too cold outside, or because there's no internet?"

Lin Mo glanced at her.

This woman was starting to get mouthy again.

Cecilia cleared her throat and continued:

"As for why Void Creatures erode the True World, it's even simpler."

"Instinct."

"They are born with hostility toward the True World. Just like a hungry wolf seeing meat, no reason is needed."

Lin Mo fell silent for a moment.

So it wasn't just Void Creatures that were born from the void.

Rather, everything in existence was born from the void.

This statement indeed gave his understanding a bit of a shock.

Lin Mo leaned back against the chair, his fingertips lightly tapping the armrest.

"One last question."

He looked up at Cecilia.

"God... what exactly is that?"

Cecilia was about to speak, but her throat seemed to be stuck by something.

Her fingers subconsciously clenched, her nails almost digging into her palm.

The Demon King, who had a punchable face just a moment ago, had unexpectedly and rarely quieted down at this moment.

"Regarding gods, I don't know much either."

Cecilia lowered her voice.

The voice was very soft, as if she were afraid of disturbing something sleeping deep within the Boundary Sea.

"The True World has the gods of the True World, and the Void Realm has the gods of the Void Realm."

"They transcend the Boundary Sea."

"They are truly supreme existences."

Lin Mo shifted into a more comfortable position.

"Just give me an example."

Cecilia swallowed hard, her lips turning somewhat pale.

"Deep within the Boundary Sea, there is a very famous God of the True World."

"His honorable name is—"

"Eternal Blissful Avidya Da..."

Before the last word could leave her mouth—

Boom!

Lin Mo's expression changed instantly.

The world within a billion meters suddenly sank.

The branches and leaves of the world tree trembled violently, and over three thousand law flowers dimmed simultaneously for an instant.

At that moment, it felt as if an invisible hand had crossed the Endless Void and pressed directly onto his inner world.

It wasn't an attack.

It was merely a gaze.

But just this single gaze caused Lin Mo's inner world to let out an overburdened roar.

He couldn't let her finish saying it!

Lin Mo rose instantly and lunged for Cecilia's mouth.

Slap.

Before Lin Mo could act, Cecilia herself tightly covered her own mouth.

That terrifying gaze that crossed dimensions receded like a tide once no one continued to recite the name.

The world tree stopped shaking.

The sky cleared up again.

However, the purple cloud divine wood chair behind Lin Mo was now covered in fine cracks on its armrests.

Lin Mo looked down, his eyelids twitching.

This thing was Divine Wood.

It almost cracked just from being looked at?

"You felt it too, didn't you?"

Cecilia lowered her hands and gasped for air.

"That is a True God."

"Even just attempting to recite His full title will draw an unimaginable great horror."

Lin Mo didn't speak immediately.

The pressure from that moment just now far exceeded any enemy he had ever encountered.

Whether it was the White Dragon King...

...or the Demon King.

In front of that gaze, they all seemed like things that didn't even belong on the same level.

"That True God is extremely terrifying."

"The Sect of Eternal Bliss claims that those who recite the true name of our God can find eternal life in reincarnation."

"If one catches a glimpse of our God's true visage, one can obtain eternal bliss."

"Sounds pretty beautiful, doesn't it?"

She curled her lips.

"But if someone is foolish enough to actually recite His true name, they'll either mutate into a monster on the spot or become a crazed believer of the Sect of Eternal Bliss."

It wasn't that Cecilia hadn't thought about tricking Lin Mo into saying the God's name.

But at Lin Mo's level, his sense of danger was too strong.

Before the true name was even finished, he had already sensed something was wrong.

Rather than playing such petty tricks, it was better to be honest.

At least she'd get beaten up less.

Lin Mo let out a cold laugh:

"Sounds like a cult leader running a pyramid scheme."

"You'd better not say that in the Boundary Sea."

Cecilia shook her head.

"The Sect of Eternal Bliss possesses countless worlds."

"Once targeted by them, even our Demon Realm would find it very troublesome."

At this point, she looked at Lin Mo cautiously.

"I've basically told you everything I know."

Seeing that he had finished asking most of what he wanted, Lin Mo waved his hand.

"Alright, that's it."

Cecilia finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She immediately put on a flattering smile and leaned toward Lin Mo.

"Papa, about that video..."

"What video?"

Lin Mo looked bewildered.

Cecilia froze.

Lin Mo casually tied the dog leash to a nearby tree and turned to leave.

"I never said I'd give you the video."

"What are you talking about?"

The smile on Cecilia's face froze bit by bit.

The next second, she had a breakdown.

"Lin Mo! You have no sense of contract!"

"You bastard!"

"You're shameless!"

Cecilia's curses echoed across the vast plains.

Lin Mo didn't even look back.

With one step, he directly left the Law Space.

The Void Creatures were still waiting for him.

With so many trillions of attribute points, he couldn't keep them waiting for long.

...

Lin Mo's figure landed on the lawn of the Shen Family Manor in Core City.

As soon as he returned, he noticed something was off outside the manor.

He looked out through the wrought-iron gates.

On the wide central avenue, hundreds of people stood in a dense mass.

There were swordsmen in tattered Taoist robes.

There were berserkers clad in heavy armor.

And there were old mages holding staves, with elemental light flowing around them.

Any one of them picked at random would be a legendary figure named in the Alliance's history books from a hundred years ago.

Sixth-turn were the lowest, seventh-turn were everywhere, and there were even dozens of eighth-turn old monsters.

But at this moment, this group of top-tier powerhouses who had returned from the Extraterrestrial Battlefield were all standing outside the manor gates in an orderly fashion.

The few eighth-turns in the front row had their toes almost touching the threshold, yet they didn't dare cross half an inch inside.

Just as Lin Mo walked to the gate—

The group of old monsters outside seemed to have a switch pressed simultaneously, and they all bowed ninety degrees in unison.

"Welcome, Mr. Lin!"

The sound was terrifyingly synchronized.

The manor's defensive array hummed from the vibration.

At the front of the crowd, Alliance Leader Jiang You quickly walked into the courtyard.

He held a white jade tea tray in both hands, the smile on his face looking incredibly natural.

"Mr. Lin, you've worked hard."

"This is freshly brewed tea, please moisten your throat."

Lin Mo took the teacup with a smile and walked over to the Purple Cloud Divine Wood lounge chair to sit down.

"Not bad, not bad."

"You, the Alliance Leader, are the sensible one."

Lin Mo took a sip of tea and glanced at Jiang You.

"I thought that with the world barrier shattered, that group from the Extraterrestrial Battlefield would cause some commotion when they came down."

The smile on Jiang You's face stiffened for a moment.

Commotion?

How could they not have?

Half an hour ago, when these old monsters first fell out of the spatial rifts, they were each more arrogant than the last.

A few hot-tempered eighth-turn old monsters immediately wanted to carve out territory in Core City.

In the end, Qin Lan and Shen Yuntang didn't say a single word of nonsense.

They directly brought out an oversized holographic projection.

They showed the videos of Lin Mo humiliating the White Dragon King, dispelling the Eternal Night across the entire continent in three seconds, and suppressing the natural disaster with one hand all in one go.

That scene was remarkably effective.

The several old monsters who were just shouting about re-establishing the rules fell into a collective silence after watching.

One of the eighth-turn berserkers who had shouted the loudest slapped himself three times on the spot.

Then he proactively ran to the city wall and swept trash for half an hour.

The main theme was 'admitting one's mistakes and correcting them.'

Jiang You smiled apologetically, his waist bending even lower.

"Mr. Lin must be joking."

Jiang You smiled apologetically, his waist bending even lower.

"Mr. Lin must be joking."

"You are the only lighthouse of this world."

"Everyone respects you greatly, so they came here of their own accord to report to you."

Lin Mo chewed a grape and casually wiped the juice from his fingertips.

"Perfect timing."

"I do have something I need you all for."

Jiang You immediately stood up straight.

"At your command."

Lin Mo opened his hand.

In his palm, a gray diamond-shaped crystal floated quietly.

"I need void matter."

"Unlimited quantity, unlimited level."

"The more, the better."

Jiang You stared at that gray crystal, his eyelids twitching.

void matter.

Something dropped by Void Creatures.

In the mouths of those old monsters from the Extraterrestrial Battlefield, this thing had another name—Experience Poison.

Whoever dared to absorb it recklessly would at best have their experience plummet, and at worst, lose levels on the spot.

But since Lin Mo had spoken, it wasn't a question of whether it could be done.

It had to be done well.

Jiang You immediately turned around and hollered at the group of ancestors outside the gate.

"Did you all hear that clearly!"

"Mr. Lin needs void matter!"

Before his voice had even faded, a seventh-turn Sword Saint carrying a heavy sword shattered a stone pillar beside him with a slap.

"This old man is going to the East Sea Rift right now!"

"If I don't slay ten thousand Void Creatures today, I'll cut off my head and give it to Mr. Lin to use as a chamber pot!"

An eighth-turn Fire Dharma God nearby got anxious and kicked the Sword Saint in the butt.

"Get lost!"

"With your method of hacking them one by one, how long would it take?"

"This old man is going to set up the Nine Dragons Heaven-Burning Array right now; one burn will cover an entire coastline!"

Someone behind them immediately shouted at the top of their lungs:

"Teaming up, teaming up!"

"Seventh-turn big daddy leading a team to speed-run the rift, missing one nimble mob-pulling support!"

"All void matter will be handed over, no keeping materials!"

Another sixth-turn assassin in a star-patterned robe jumped with urgency.

"Scram!"

"You guys are too slow, our Storm Guild is taking this job!"

Hundreds of old monsters who could once make the continent tremble were all rushing to take the order.

Lin Mo leaned back against his chair, suddenly feeling that this world had finally become sensible.

Before, he had to grind mobs himself.

Now, it was great.

The whole world was helping him power-level.

Wasn't this just broadening the scope of things?

Jiang You turned his head, his tone very certain.

"Mr. Lin, please rest assured."

"In half a day at most, the first batch of void matter will definitely be delivered to you."

Lin Mo nodded with satisfaction.

With this group of high-end combatants power-leveling for free, he didn't even have to lift a finger.

Ten minutes later, Shen Yuntang and Qin Lan quickly walked into the manor.

Shen Yuntang handed an electronic briefing to Lin Mo's hand.

"Lin Mo, the full-band dispatch has been completed."

"The Alliance's three hundred and forty thousand active combat professionals, plus the one point two million reservists from the five major guilds, have all gone to clear low-level Void Creatures."

Qin Lan also said:

"All the void matter they gather will be sent to you."

"Currently, not many Void Creatures have entered this world; our people are enough to handle them."

"Good! Good!"

Lin Mo nodded with satisfaction once again.

This way, the increase in his fusion degree was secure.

He glanced at the time.

It was already getting late.

These past few days, Su Xiaoli had been frantically grinding levels in dungeons.

It was time to go see her.

And also to reward her properly, hand in some 'homework' and such.

Lin Mo stood up and walked toward the depths of the manor.

...

The western mountain range of the home world.

Night had fallen.

A few lizardmen emerged from a rift at the foot of the mountain.

They were clad in dark scales, long thin tails trailing behind them, their pupils narrowed into cold slits.

If Lin Mo were here, he would recognize one of them at a glance.

It was exactly that Tali Tribe Crown Prince from back then.

Back then, Lin Mo was busy having a group of geniuses help him level up and didn't care about these small fry at all.

But the Crown Prince clearly didn't think that way.

He stood in the mountain wind, spreading his arms and greedily breathing the air of this world.

"Hahahahaha!"

"My race has finally found a way to enter this world!"

"I will lead my Tali Tribe's mothership to completely invade this Primordial World!"

He looked down at his hands covered in new scales, his eyes full of crazed pleasure.

"Lin Mo!"

"The humiliation of that day is like a thorn in my back!"

"Current me has completed super-evolution! I am no longer the me from a year ago!"

Behind him, more lizardmen shadows emerged from the rift.

Pairs of vertical pupils lit up with an eerie green light in the darkness.

The Tali Tribe Crown Prince slowly looked up toward the distant east.

That was the direction of Core City.

"I could have just stood by and watched your destruction."

"But I chose to take the initiative to lead the mission and return with my kin's army."

"Because I want to personally end the nightmare you brought me!"

He grinned, revealing a mouth full of sharp teeth.

"Lin Mo!"

"Are you ready to welcome hell?"