124: Chapter 124: About to Break Through to the Fifth Stage of Demigodhood

The rumbling from deep within the earth merged into a continuous roar.

Gravity and tides were thrown into disarray.

Countless rocks defied the Laws of physics, flying upward into the sky.

The will of the plane faced its final collapse.

"Withdraw." Lin Yuan stood on the bone-like mountain peak and issued his final divine oracle.

The passage to the Wasteland Divine Domain erupted with intense light.

The last batch of blood-soaked Tyrant Demons and specialized Dominator insects dragged tons of spoils back into the Divine Domain.

The sounds of the countless Zerg army's slaughter faded away, and the entire world plunged into a bizarre collapse.

Just then, the crust in front of Lin Yuan suddenly exploded.

A gray-purple pillar of light shot into the sky, piercing straight into the Void Realm.

In the center of the beam, a fist-sized crystal with an irregular polyhedron shape slowly emerged.

The surface of the crystal was covered in dense Zerg totems, and it contained the Origin Law of an entire world.

The plane core.

Lin Yuan surged forward, his right hand reaching straight for the crystal in mid-air.

Sensing the aura of an outsider, the plane core instinctively erupted with intense resistance.

The space around the crystal suddenly collapsed, and hundreds of Void Realm cutting blades materialized out of thin air, slashing toward Lin Yuan's arm.

"A mere broken, masterless will dares to fight back?"

Lin Yuan scoffed coldly.

Dark golden Divine Power erupted from his palm, forming a giant handprint that met the Void Realm cutting blades and grabbed the plane core.

Crack.

The Divine Power burned it.

The plane core emitted the sound of shattering.

Lin Yuan showed no mercy; his vast Mental Energy transformed into a heavy hammer and slammed fiercely into the interior of the crystal.

Once, twice, three times.

The residual mark of the Zerg Mother and the plane's final will to resist were crushed into powder.

The crystal stopped trembling, and its gray-purple light became docile.

Lin Yuan pressed the plane core against his brow.

Deep within his Sea of Consciousness, Divine Power churned.

This crystal, containing the Origin of a world, was swallowed by the Divine Power.

Lin Yuan's consciousness was instantly elevated, descending above the Wasteland Divine Domain.

The expansion of the Divine Domain began.

It was no longer just the piling up of ordinary resources as before.

It was an elevation of the world's underlying logic.

At the edge of the original 300,000-square-kilometer Divine Domain, the Chaos mist that blocked the view began to churn and dissipate outward.

The land extended outward, and the water level of the Blood Abyss Sea surged, raising hundred-meter-high blood-colored waves.

The volcanic clusters in the far north erupted one after another, and new mountain ranges rose from the ground.

The sky became higher and more distant, and the Law lines in the air gradually solidified.

Just as the Divine Domain's area exceeded 500,000 square kilometers, the Central Basin erupted with a pressure that made all the subjects tremble.

The [Liquid Metal Blood-Devouring Demon Tree] awakened.

This extraordinary building, which had fused with the Lesser Divine-Grade traits [Abyss Life] and [Law Devouring], finally completed its long transformation.

Its trunk grew taller at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Thirty thousand meters, fifty thousand meters, one hundred thousand meters!

With the awakening of the mother tree, the millions of sub-trees spread throughout every corner of the Divine Domain resonated simultaneously.

The concentration of dark abyss spiritual energy in the air surged exponentially.

The Spiritual Qi was so dense that it even condensed into dark red raindrops in mid-air.

As the raindrops fell on all the subjects in the Wasteland Divine Domain, their bodies expanded, and the fanaticism in their eyes was nearly burning.

Lin Yuan hovered in mid-air, feeling the transformation of the Divine Domain.

Plane 093 had reached its end.

The surrounding spatial barriers began to collapse on a large scale, and the Void Realm storms were pouring in.

"Time to go." Lin Yuan prepared to cut off the main passage.

At that moment, a crack suddenly opened in the trunk of the Demon Tree.

Countless dark golden roots, thousands of meters thick, shot out from the crack.

Ignoring the distance of space, they pierced directly through the Divine Domain passage that Lin Yuan had not yet closed.

They fiercely plunged into the collapsing land of Plane 093.

Lin Yuan was stunned.

The Demon Tree's roots, like the greediest vampires in the world, firmly locked onto the core plate of Plane 093.

The next second, the Demon Tree exerted its power.

Accompanied by an ear-shattering roar, the remaining continental plate of Plane 093 was ruthlessly stripped away.

Using the authority of the plane core it had just fused with, the Demon Tree forcibly dragged this broken world wreckage into the passage of the Wasteland Divine Domain!

This was a violent act of devouring that defied common sense.

Above the sky of the Divine Domain, chunks of dark purple land crashed down.

The roots of the Demon Tree intercepted them in mid-air, turning them into new material Origin to fill the edges of the Wasteland.

The area data on the Divine Domain panel jumped wildly.

One million square kilometers.

Two point five million square kilometers.

Three point one million square kilometers!

When the last root was withdrawn, the Divine Domain passage finally closed.

The total area of the Wasteland Divine Domain settled at 3.2 million square kilometers.

A true prototype of a world unfolded before Lin Yuan's eyes.

"Holy shit."

Looking at the vast Wasteland below, which was both vibrant and filled with an aura of destruction, Lin Yuan couldn't help but curse.

It is worthy of being the strongest building in the Divine Domain.

This is no tree; this is clearly a monster that devours the heavens and the earth.

Just the effect of this one tree alone was worth more than half the foundation of the entire Divine Domain.

Before Lin Yuan could recover from the shock.

An extremely vast amount of energy fed back from the Divine Domain into his body.

The Realm barrier of the fourth rank of Demigod was crumbling under the impact of this power.

Lin Yuan could even feel that if he relaxed for even a second, the Divine Power for the fifth rank would ignite on the spot.

"Suppress it."

Lin Yuan gritted his teeth and formed hand seals.

His Mental Energy transformed into a cage of thousands of threads, binding the boiling Divine Power.

The spatial coordinates of the alien plane had collapsed; breaking through here...

Once it attracted the indescribable entities from the depths of the Void Realm, it would be certain death.

He hurriedly took out the extraction device given by the chubby senior.

He exerted force with his five fingers.

The extraction device shattered, and an intense silver pillar of light descended from the sky, enveloping Lin Yuan completely.

The next second, his figure completely vanished from this ruin that was about to return to nothingness.

...

On the edge of the Dead Star, Launchpad No. 3.

The chubby Zhu Tai was leaning on a recliner, scrolling through the school forum in boredom.

Several days had passed.

After that stubborn freshman named Lin Yuan went in, there hadn't been a single sound.

There was no distress signal, and the star key hadn't triggered the extraction procedure either.

"He's most likely dead," Zhu Tai sighed and unscrewed the lid of his thermos.

A freshman soloing a Diamond-rank plane was a fantasy to begin with.

It was only because this kid was lucky that he managed to escape back once five days ago, yet he insisted on going back to die.

Hum.

The spatial array in the center of the launchpad rippled.

Zhu Tai looked up nonchalantly.

A figure walked out of the silver-gray light.

Zhu Tai nearly spat out his water; he stood up abruptly, staring fixedly at the teleportation array.

The light faded.

Lin Yuan stood in the center of the array.

Although his combat suit was covered in dust and dried blood, his vitality was vigorous, and his eyes were terrifyingly sharp.

Not only did he return alive, but there wasn't even a sign of any serious injury.

"Holy shit! You actually came out alive?" Zhu Tai rushed to the isolation door in a few steps, staring at Lin Yuan with wide eyes.

Lin Yuan ignored his shouting and walked out quickly.

The Divine Power inside him was still surging, and the pain caused by suppressing his Realm made him frown tightly.

"Senior, thanks for the extraction device. I'm in a hurry, I'll be going first."

Lin Yuan dropped a sentence, his figure turning into an afterimage as he dashed toward the student villa area.

Zhu Tai's outstretched hand stopped in mid-air.

He watched Lin Yuan's disappearing back, and an absurd thought suddenly popped into his mind.

Could it be that he conquered that plane?

Zhu Tai shivered and then shook his head vigorously.

Plane 093 was a notoriously tough nut to crack, with a Zerg Sovereign and billions of Zerg swarms.

Never mind a freshman, even a regular sophomore team would lose a layer of skin if they went in.

Furthermore, how long has this kid been in there?

A few days, what could he possibly do?

"What am I thinking? He definitely went in, saw that the situation wasn't right, and just crushed the extraction device to run away."

Zhu Tai muttered to himself, trying to convince himself with common sense.

But the unease in his heart grew heavier.

Zhu Tai put down his thermos and turned to rush to the console.

He accessed the highest authority of the Star Gate and entered the coordinate code for Plane 093.

The interface loaded.

A few seconds later, red light flashed across the screen.

[Error: Coordinates invalid.]

[Plane status assessment: Annihilated/Core stripped.]

Zhu Tai stared blankly at the lines of red text on the screen.

His eyes widened, and his breathing became rapid.

He stretched out his chubby fingers and pinched his philtrum hard.

His legs went weak, and he slumped into his chair.

It was annihilated.

A Diamond-rank alien plane, in less than ten hours.

Was wiped off the star map by a freshman who had only just enrolled two days ago.

Zhu Tai stared blankly, his vision blackening.

He had been at Starry Sky University for over two years and considered himself knowledgeable.

Now he just felt that his last two years had all been wasted.

...

In front of Villa No. 079.

Bai Ye was wearing that flashy white trench coat, leaning against the fence with a glass of high-end red wine.

He was in a great mood today.

That brainless brute Yan Lie had been leading his subjects to tank damage for several hours.

Bai Ye's undead army seized the opportunity, successfully tearing open the defensive line at the main city of the Platinum-rank plane.

The plane core was within reach.

Having captured a Platinum-rank plane right at the start of the semester, this achievement was enough to strut around among the freshmen.

He waited here specifically to show off in front of Lin Yuan.

Rapid footsteps approached.

Lin Yuan was walking with his head down, moving very quickly from the intersection.

The airflow around him was chaotic due to the leakage of Divine Power.

Bai Ye's eyes lit up, and he raised his wine glass to approach him.

"Oh, Brother Lin Yuan! You've returned just in time!" Bai Ye smiled broadly, his tone light, "Let me tell you some good news, Yan Lie and I..."

Lin Yuan looked straight ahead, brushing past Bai Ye directly.

He pressed the star key against the access control.

Beep. The gate slid open.

With a bang.

Bai Ye held his wine glass, the smile on his face frozen in mid-air.

"What the?"

Bai Ye's eye twitched.

Did this guy take the wrong medicine?

He was half-dead a few days ago, how come he's rushing around like he's in a hurry to be reincarnated today?

He curled his lip, just about to curse under his breath.

Suddenly, Bai Ye's gaze stopped at the place where Lin Yuan had just walked.

On the stone slab of the ground, there were several footprints about an inch deep.

The edges of the footprints radiated an aura of Void Realm storms so thick it was impossible to disperse.

Bai Ye's expression gradually became serious.

As a Demigod of the Undead Divine Domain, his perception of auras was extremely acute.

This wasn't the residue of ordinary spatial shifting.

It was the "Death Qi of a Great World" that only appeared after a plane collapsed and its world core was forcibly stripped away.

And.

Bai Ye carefully recalled the Divine Power pressure that Lin Yuan had inadvertently leaked when he passed by just now.

Fifth rank of Demigod?

Or rather, about to break through to the fifth rank?

"Holy shit!" Bai Ye couldn't help but let out a curse.

His previous guesses spread in his mind like wild weeds.

Could this guy have really single-handedly wiped out that Diamond-rank plane?

Bai Ye swallowed, feeling a chill down his back.

He turned to look at the live broadcast on his personal terminal, where Yan Lie was struggling in the Platinum-rank plane.

The joy of being about to capture the Platinum-rank plane vanished instantly.

What the hell is the point of playing anymore?

We're all freshmen; I'm here feeling smug about fighting with teammates for a Platinum core.

And you're next door just packing up the Diamond-rank plane and taking it away?

Bai Ye rubbed his stiff cheeks and took a deep look at Villa No. 079.