116: Chapter 116: Number Halved, Combat Power Soars, An Invincible Army is Forged

Dead Star edge, launch area.

Lin Yuan rolled over a dozen meters, stopping only when he hit the metal railing.

He collapsed onto the floor, gasping for air.

His left shoulder had been pierced by a Void Realm bone spur, leaving a fist-sized bloody hole.

Jagged white bone was exposed, and a layer of dark purple energy clung to the edges of the wound, gnawing at his flesh.

"Holy crap!"

An exclamation came from not far away.

The chubby man from the logistics department had been sitting in a recliner drinking tea, but upon seeing Lin Yuan's miserable state, the teacup in his hand dropped to the floor and shattered.

He rushed onto the launch pad, his face full of terror.

"This student, don't scare me like this!" The chubby man was sweating profusely, his hands hovering in mid-air, wanting to help but afraid to touch him.

"Do you need to go to the medical department? Or the Divine-Grade Emergency Center? I'll cover the costs for you first!"

The chubby man was truly panicked.

Starry Sky University had an absurdly high death rate, with countless students dying in alien planes every year.

But those died outside!

How could he die on his own launch pad less than two days after the semester started?

If this was counted as a single-value accident, his bonus and performance review for the second half of the year would all go down the drain.

Just as the chubby man was hopping mad with anxiety, a figure walked slowly from the direction of the elevator.

It was Bai Ye.

He had originally planned to go to the logistics department to exchange for some rare Materials and incidentally see if he could bump into Lin Yuan to probe what this guy was up to.

As a result, just as he stepped onto the launch pad, he saw Lin Yuan lying in a pool of blood.

Bai Ye was stunned on the spot.

A few hours ago, when he met Lin Yuan at the villa entrance, this person had been perfectly fine.

He had even hinted at going to conquer a Platinum-grade plane.

How did he end up like this in the blink of an eye?

The residual Void Realm Law on that shoulder made even Bai Ye's scalp tingle from dozens of meters away.

"What happened to you..." Bai Ye walked closer, his brows tightly furrowed.

Lin Yuan ignored their dismay.

He supported himself with one hand and slowly stood up.

The injury on his left shoulder made him frown slightly, but there were no ripples in his eyes.

"Thanks, no need for trouble." Lin Yuan looked at the chubby man, his tone indifferent, "Just a minor flesh wound."

As his voice fell, Lin Yuan mobilized the remaining Divine Power in his body, activating the "Thrive" character formula of the [Wither-Bloom Mark].

Under the terrified gaze of the chubby man and Bai Ye.

The torn flesh on Lin Yuan's shoulder began to squirm and weave rapidly.

The white bones reconnected, and muscle fibers grew and healed at an extremely fast speed.

On the surface, not even a scar remained, as if the serious injury just now had been an illusion.

After showing his transcendent recovery ability, Lin Yuan nodded slightly: "Thanks for your concern, I'll be going now."

After saying that, he dragged his slightly stiff steps toward the student area.

Only Lin Yuan knew.

The surface flesh healing was just a disguise, belonging to the World Origin of the No. 093 Plane Mother Bug.

It was still lingering deep in his bone marrow, trying to spread to his internal organs like maggots on rotting bone.

He had only used his Divine Power to forcibly seal it in his shoulder; he could not eradicate it.

Not until Lin Yuan's back disappeared from sight did the chubby man swallow a mouthful of saliva.

He turned his head to look at Bai Ye, his voice trembling slightly.

"Student Bai Ye, have you freshmen... developed to this extent? This is too fierce!"

Bai Ye's eye twitched, and he replied dryly with one word: "Uh... I guess so."

While maintaining a calm facade, Bai Ye's heart was churning with massive waves.

What had Lin Yuan gone to do that could make him suffer such a huge loss?

That level of Law... that level of residual Void Realm Law could never be caused by any ordinary Silver or Gold plane.

It was at least Platinum Peak, or even... a Diamond plane!

"This lunatic didn't go to conquer a Diamond-grade plane alone, did he?"

The thought just popped into Bai Ye's mind...

Then he shook his head vigorously, casting away this ridiculous idea.

Impossible, this was absolutely impossible.

A freshman who had just enrolled, soloing a Diamond-grade plane?

Did he really think the mortality rate of Starry Sky University was just a decoration written in textbooks?

But recalling Lin Yuan's always composed eyes, Bai Ye lost his confidence.

"Damn it, this thigh is even thicker than I imagined." Bai Ye rubbed his chin, his eyes drifting.

"Must find a chance to properly probe his bottom line. If it really doesn't work, hugging it tight won't be a loss."

...Back to Villa 079.

Lin Yuan took off his tattered combat suit and sat cross-legged on the cushion in the living room.

Looking inside himself.

Inside his left shoulder, the dark purple World Origin was colliding with the Divine Power blockade he had set up.

This was a venomous curse condensed by the Mother Bug burning the plane's Origin.

"Troublesome."

Lin Yuan frowned slightly.

To erase this World Origin, in his current state, it would take at least several days.

"Suppress it first, and make do for now."

Lin Yuan mobilized the Divine Fire in his Sea of Consciousness, turning it into heavy chains, locking that mass of dark purple energy tightly within his shoulder blade.

After dealing with the wound, Lin Yuan closed his eyes.

His Mental Energy sank, and his consciousness descended into the Wasteland Divine Domain.

Looking down from high altitude.

The landscape of the entire 300,000 square kilometer Divine Domain had not changed.

But the murderous aura in the air was more than ten times thicker than before.

Since he issued the divine oracle for [Unlimited Life-and-Death Battle], this Wasteland had experienced a great Gu-refining in a very short time.

Lin Yuan called up the Divine Domain panel to check the kin data.

The total quantity had been slashed in half!

The once 12-million-strong Zerg army now had less than 6 million left.

The numbers of the sea and sky tribes had also been halved.

Even the Tyrant Demon tribe, which Lin Yuan had ordered to be "suspended" and could only spar internally, had their numbers reduced by nearly a third.

Dropping from 800,000 to just over 500,000.

But there was no heartache in Lin Yuan's eyes.

The sharp reduction in quantity was exchanged for a significant leap in combat power.

He cast his gaze toward the Blood Abyss Sea in the Central Basin.

The Tyrant sat in the center of the blood sea, its body like a mountain of flowing gold.

Its rank was already stuck at Platinum Peak. Limited by the rank of Lin Yuan's Divine Domain, it could not cross that barrier.

But the Titan and Shadow Lurker power contained within its body had already concentrated to a terrifying degree.

Around the Tyrant stood dozens of Tyrant Demons with slightly smaller bodies but equally terrifying auras.

Under the feeding of the demon tree [Supernatural Flesh], the number of elite individuals in the Tyrant Demon tribe who had broken through to Platinum Peak had reached dozens.

These Platinum Peak Tyrant Demons all understood dual-sequence genes.

They were huge but could perfectly blend into shadows, possessing terrifying strength and ignoring physical defense.

If not for the Tyrant possessing the hero characteristics of [Absolute Domination] and [Law Suppression], which could form an all-around suppression on the Bloodline level against its own kind, these rebellious elements with skyrocketing strength would probably have been impossible to control long ago.

Lin Yuan rubbed his chin and continued to look down.

Even the ordinary Tyrant Demons, the weakest individuals now reached Gold High-rank.

This was a true invincible army in the true sense.

Lin Yuan withdrew his gaze and turned to look at the Far North Volcano Group.

That was where the changes were the most exaggerated during this internal Gu-refining.

The Calamity Fire Spirit tribe had suffered the heaviest casualties.

Under the pollution of the Divine-Grade negative trait suppressed by the Demon God Altar, plus the catalysis of the Unlimited Life-and-Death Battle.

The original 8,000+ Fire Spirits now had fewer than 3,000 left.

Damage exceeded two-thirds.

But the surviving Fire Spirits had been completely reborn.

Lin Yuan flashed and descended above the crater.

The lava below had turned into a viscous dark black.

Brand new Fire Spirits crawled out of the lava. Their appearance had undergone subversive changes.

Within their Poison Fire bodies, black bones had actually grown.

These mutated Fire Spirits had slender bodies, with eerie halos intertwined with bone spurs and gray-white karmic fire growing on their backs.

Every step they took, the rocks under their feet turned into nothingness under the burning of the karmic fire.

The Law of [End and Origin] was perfectly embodied in them.

Destroying the body, reshaping the divine bone.

Their rank lower limit soared directly to Gold Peak!

Higher than the Tyrant Demon tribe's lower limit by a small stage.

Most Fire Spirits reached the Platinum rank.

Among them, there were seven or eight Fire Spirits with the most outstanding bodies that had reached Platinum Peak.

They stood in the lava, looking up at Lin Yuan.

Blackish flames flickered, conveying pure submission and the desire for destruction.

"Not bad."

Lin Yuan nodded in praise.

This Fire Spirit legion would become the sharpest spear for his future attacks on alien planes.

Besides the leap of the kin, the core buildings in the Divine Domain also showed unexpected evolution during this Law baptism.

Lin Yuan's Mental Energy swept across the entire Divine Domain.

The [wasteland radiation tower] located at the edge of the Divine Domain had risen another hundred meters.

The purity of the radiation had greatly improved, and the mutation catalysis efficiency had doubled.

The [Endless Killing Gladiator Cage] in the center of the basin had expanded its internal spatial folding range.

The baptism of the vengeful soul gale was even more overbearing, purifying the Bloodlines for the surviving Tyrant Demons.

The [living casting mother nest] next to the Far North Volcano Group was covered with a layer of blood-colored cuticle.

After swallowing the vein energy, the high-level living metal embryos it produced already carried fire-attribute resistance.

The [Blood Abyss Sea] in the Central Basin had become more viscous.

The special effect fluctuations of the rapid recovery even faintly interfered with the surrounding space, forming a natural healing field.

And at the highest point of the Far North, the [Demon God Altar] built of white bones was running at high speed.

The altar connected to the Abyssal Source Crystal Vein underground, absorbing the vein's energy.

Combined with the breathing of the sub-trees, the air of the entire Divine Domain was filled with high-concentration [dark abyss spiritual energy].

The Spiritual Qi ignored racial boundaries, fairly nourishing every surviving kin, and continuously raising their genetic limits.

Finally, Lin Yuan's gaze fell on the [star spirit gene monolith] in the center of the basin.

This monolith had always been placed in the territory of the Tyrant Demon tribe.

Now, the Tyrant Demon tribe had over 30,000 individuals who had comprehended the dual-sequence gene map during the internal competition.

The rest had also basically comprehended the single sequence.

The improvement of the monolith to the Tyrant Demon tribe had reached saturation.

"It's a bit wasteful to leave it here."

Lin Yuan's thought moved.

Rumble!

The star spirit gene monolith rose from the bank of the Blood Abyss Sea.

Lin Yuan controlled the monolith, crossing space, and placed it on a plain in the middle of the Divine Domain.

Here was the junction of the Black Gold Blade-Feather Demon Vulture in the sky, the Scarlet Flying Blade Bone Fish in the ocean, and the Zerg in the underground.

The monolith landed, and the evolution barrier unfolded accordingly.

The fluctuations of the Titan Pressure Domain and the Void Shadow Lurker Domain spread to the surroundings.

The Zerg, Bone Fish, and Demon Vulture at the junction felt this genetic map power and all fell into madness.

Tens of thousands of population creatures gave up killing each other and rushed desperately toward the direction of the monolith.

They craved evolution.

After doing all this, Lin Yuan turned to look at the [Liquid Metal Blood-Devouring Demon Tree] that pierced the sky and earth.

The demon tree still kept its branches and leaves closed, in a dormant state.

Its foundation had long accumulated to the point of a Breakthrough.

But limited by Lin Yuan's rank, it was always stuck in the Bottleneck period and could not complete the final transformation.

"Soon."

Lin Yuan looked at the demon tree and whispered to himself.