222: Chapter 222: Evil Cultivation Methods

At the far northern edge of the Divine Domain, deep within an abandoned underground psionic nuclear reactor.

The Devilish Qi here was thin.

The surrounding walls were entirely made of anti-spiritual lead plates and radiation-proof steel plates, capable of isolating the vast majority of Mental Energy probes.

Beside the cooling pool at the lowest level of the reactor, in front of an altar, a bloody light lingered.

A blood-red crystal full of cracks floated in mid-air; it was precisely the heavily damaged rudimentary divine persona of Blood Crow.

Below the rudimentary divine persona, a lump of viscous essential blood was struggling to wriggle.

Accompanied by the clicking sounds of growing bones, the essential blood slowly condensed into a withered and skinny humanoid body.

Blood Crow leaned against the edge of the altar, coughing violently as large mouthfuls of black blood spilled from the corners of his mouth.

He had reluctantly reshaped his Physical Body.

But his current state was miserable to the extreme.

The tyrannical Divine Might of the Seventh-Turn Demigod vanished completely, and the divine fire within his body withered like a flicker of a dying candle about to go out at any moment.

Because of overdrawing his Origin, the Law radiance continuously escaped outward from the rudimentary divine persona.

Sixth-Turn Demigod... Fifth-Turn Demigod...

Blood Crow looked at his own hands in terror.

Palms that were once as tough as divine iron had shriveled like withered tree bark.

His Divine Power Realm within his body was falling in an irreversible trend!

"Stop! Stop for me!"

Blood Crow let out a low roar like a beast, pressing his hands tightly against the rudimentary divine persona on his chest, attempting to use his remaining Divine Soul to block those cracks.

It was completely useless.

The divine persona was deeply bound to the Origin of the Divine Domain.

At this moment, within his perception, his Divine Domain was dying on a massive scale at a devastating speed.

In the Eastern District, a population of three hundred million was disconnected...

In the Southern Industrial Belt, five hundred million dependents lost their life reactions...

The Tiansha Blood Industry Group was annihilated, the Black Water Security Company was razed to the ground, and the gene research institute turned into ruins...

In just half a day, his massive Divine Domain, which he had painstakingly managed for hundreds of years and possessed a population of five billion and countless modern cities,

had already seen over sixty percent of its areas reduced to dead zones!

Every time a city was leveled and tens of millions of dependents were devoured, a corner of the Origin crystal wall of the Divine Domain would shatter.

Every time the Origin shattered, it would transform into an invisible backlash heavy hammer, slamming heavily onto Blood Crow's rudimentary divine persona!

Pu!

Blood Crow spat out another large mouthful of Origin divine blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, collapsing limply beside the cooling pool.

Boundless fear and despair finally emerged in his eyes.

He was about to fall from the divine altar.

According to this speed of destruction, in at most another hour, when the last building within his Divine Domain was razed,

and the last life was completely devoured, his Divine Domain would completely return to the Void Realm.

Losing the reliance of the Divine Domain and with his rudimentary divine persona completely shattered, he would die without a burial place!

"Why did it become like this..."

Blood Crow curled up on the dark and cold floor, trembling uncontrollably all over.

Extreme remorse bit into his heart like a venomous snake.

If back then, when that old thing contacted him through the Soul Summoning Platform, he hadn't been blinded by that one million cubic meters of pure Divine Power crystals and divine art Legacy...

If he could have been a bit more cautious and directly rejected this deal...

If he had immediately cut off the space channel and retreated when he first stepped into the Wasteland Divine Domain and noticed its oddity...

If he hadn't impulsively counterattacked just now on his home turf, but instead commanded the dependents of the Divine Domain to resist using the advantages of timing and terrain...

Countless thoughts flashed back in Blood Crow's mind.

Reality allowed no assumptions.

In his ten years of fugitive career, he considered himself cautious and cunning, able to escape death time and again under several encirclements of the Federal Law Enforcement Team.

This time, simply because of taking a greedy order, he kicked the hardest piece of iron board.

He had gambled away his accumulated foundations of several years, his modern Divine Domain, and even his entire cultivation!

"Old dogs... You two damned old dogs!"

...

More and more cities fell, and Blood Crow's Divine Domain territory underwent an irreversible physical collapse.

After gnawing through the reinforced concrete on the surface, the insect horde began to dig deep into the underground.

The giant claws of the Liquid Metal Crab sheared open the crust, and the Nether-Uranium Heavy Armor Beetle devoured the ore veins.

Rock layers tens of millions of meters deep were peeled away layer by layer.

The Fire Spirit army in the sky burned the clouds into a crimson red, and the extreme cold poisonous fog fell as ice rain, throwing the meteorological System of the entire Divine Domain into complete chaos.

The underground psionic nuclear reactor at the far northern edge was located in the most secretive corner of the Divine Domain.

Under the alternating erosion of the karmic fire and poisonous fog of the Formless Source Insects, the outer layer of radiation-proof steel plates and anti-spiritual lead plates, up to a hundred meters thick, rapidly softened and collapsed.

The insect swarm made a creaking gnawing sound, swallowing the Formation marks inside the special metal into their bellies together.

Sunlight penetrated through the cracked strata gaps, shining directly into the lowest level.

Blood Crow curled up beside the cooling pool, his hands tightly covering the rudimentary divine persona on his chest.

When the last underground bunker on the outer perimeter was smashed to pieces by a punch from a Tyrant Demon.

The Origin crystal wall of the Divine Domain let out a muffled wail and completely shattered.

Blood Crow wildly spat out a mouthful of black blood.

The divine fire within his body shrank, and his remaining Sixth-Turn Demigod aura plummeted once again.

Fifth-Turn.

Fourth-Turn.

Third-Turn.

The backlash brought by the falling Realm caused the Physical Body he had just reshaped to collapse once again.

He didn't even need Lin Yuan to actively search for him.

The lead plate above his head was lifted open by a Tyrant Demon, exposing the entire underground reactor under the daylight.

Lin Yuan stepped on the Void Realm, walking step by step toward the cooling pool at the lowest level.

Surrounding him were dense armies of Zerg and Tyrant Demons; they surrounded this area tightly, yet with tacit understanding, they made a path for Lin Yuan.

Blood Crow was stained with blood all over at this moment, his shriveled body shaking endlessly.

He raised his head, meeting Lin Yuan's gaze.

A strong desire to survive burned in Blood Crow's heart.

Disregarding the excruciating pain of his shattered divine persona, he crawled toward Lin Yuan using both hands and feet, dragging a trail of blood on the ground.

"Don't kill me!"

Blood Crow shouted with a hoarse voice: "Lin Yuan! Junior! I am your senior!"

He tried hard to squeeze out a smile uglier than crying, his withered fingers attempting to grab Lin Yuan's trouser legs.

"I am also from Starry Sky University! We are family! I used to be a good person too, I really am a good person!"

Lin Yuan took half a step back, avoiding that dirty hand stained with viscous blood.

He raised his eyebrows, smiling yet not smiling.

"Why do the expressions of you people all look like they were carved from the same mold?"

Lin Yuan shook his head and sighed.

"At the beginning, you're high and mighty, arrogant and domineering, shouting to beat and kill. When you can't beat them, you start playing the victim, acting pitiful, and begging for mercy."

"You don't give a single bit of freshness, would it kill you to change a template? It's so repetitive, really boring."

Lin Yuan raised his right hand, and grayish-white light lingered around his fingertips.

Seeing the light at Lin Yuan's fingertips, Blood Crow was scared out of his wits.

He knew ordinary begging for mercy was completely useless; he had to produce something that could move the other party.

"I really have hidden difficulties!"

Blood Crow heavily kowtowed on the ground, throwing out an emotional card at an extremely fast speed.

"Lin Yuan, you are just like me, you also came from a commoner background, right? You understand the pain of being exploited by aristocratic family descendants!"

He raised his head, tears mixing with blood flowing down, his expression becoming incomparably sorrowful and indignant.

"Back then when I was admitted to Starry Sky University, I wholeheartedly thought I could change my destiny."

"I cultivated desperately, explored the most dangerous ruins, and handed over all the resources I obtained to my mentor."

"As a result, the mentor took their bribes, and they distributed all my resources to those aristocratic young masters! They even used me as a path-finding stone and cannon fodder!"

Blood Crow spoke more and more excitedly, his voice shrill, accusing the injustice of the past.

"That time in the ruins, they made me probe the Void Realm rift and made me attract the fierce beasts' firepower!"

"They triggered the ancient Restriction, yet forced me to use Divine Power to fill the Formation eye! If I hadn't resisted, I would have died inside long ago!"

"I killed them because they wanted to kill me first! I had no way out, I could only flee!"

"These ten years, I hid in the Chaotic Star Domain, I didn't want to become like this either, this world forced me!"

Blood Crow finished in one breath, looking into Lin Yuan's eyes, attempting to find a trace of resonance from within.

Lin Yuan touched his chin.

"Oh."

He nodded and gave an evaluation.

"This time there is indeed some emotion, and the mood is quite in place."

A glimmer of hope flashed in Blood Crow's eyes.

"However, it's still too mainstream."

Lin Yuan's tone changed, and the grayish-white light on his hand not only didn't dissipate, but grew brighter instead.

"I can brush eight hundred posts a day on the Star Net forum about the trope of a victim turning dark for revenge."

"Your plot doesn't even have a twist, it's hard to make people feel a sense of immersion."

Lin Yuan's fingers curved into a claw shape, directly grabbing toward Blood Crow's head.

The shadow of death shrouded down.

Looking at that hand coming closer and closer, Blood Crow's brain operated at high speed, racking his brains to find the last reason that could let him survive.

Just when Lin Yuan's fingers were about to touch his scalp,

"Don't you want to know who wants to kill you!"

Blood Crow screamed with a voice crack, curling his entire body into a ball.

Lin Yuan's movement stopped in mid-air.

Blood Crow panted heavily, thinking he had finally grasped a life-saving straw.

He hurriedly climbed up the pole, shaping himself into a pure victim.

"I don't even know you at all, how could I inexplicably come to cause you trouble! I was threatened by someone!"

"Those people found my Divine Domain coordinates; if I didn't take this order, they would sell my location to the Federal military!"

"I had no other choice either! I beg you, Lin Yuan, spare me!"

Blood Crow's tone was humble to the dirt.

"I will tell you everything I know!"

"Their identities, their contact methods, there are still quite a few hidden resource repositories in my Divine Domain here, whatever you want I'll give you!"

"As long as you spare my dog's life, I'll be a cow and a horse for you!"

Blood Crow looked eagerly at Lin Yuan, waiting for the other party to withdraw that fatal hand.

As long as Lin Yuan wanted to know the mastermind behind the scenes, he had to keep him alive.

As long as he survived, as long as the Divine Domain was still there,

even if his cultivation was completely lost, he had a way to make a comeback.

Lin Yuan looked at Blood Crow's flattering expression with no ripples whatsoever.

"So much nonsense."

Pah!

Lin Yuan slapped Blood Crow heavily on the crown of his head.

The grayish-white Law of End sealed the space around Blood Crow, completely freezing his remaining Divine Power.

Blood Crow's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief.

"You..."

He only had time to spit out a single word before Lin Yuan's Mental Energy pierced into his Sea of Consciousness.

Soul Searching.

This craft was something Lin Yuan had just spent credits to study in a special study location at Starry Sky University some time ago.

Although he wasn't a deity specializing in the Soul aspect, his technique was slightly unfamiliar.

But dealing with a cripple whose Realm had fallen to the Third-Turn, whose rudimentary divine persona had shattered, and whose Physical Body was broken was more than enough.

Blood Crow at this moment was inferior even to an ant in Lin Yuan's hands, and could not organize any effective mental defense at all.

Lin Yuan closed his eyes, his consciousness sinking into Blood Crow's memory ocean.

Fragmented memories that were complex, chaotic, and filled with a bloody and tyrannical aura rushed toward him.

Lin Yuan frowned.

He didn't dare use too much force.

Blood Crow's Divine Soul was currently covered in cracks; if he used a bit too much force, it would directly shatter, and by then no clues could be obtained.

Lin Yuan patiently controlled his Mental Energy to shuttle through those memory fragments.

Most of them were scenes of Blood Crow fleeing, killing, and plundering in the Chaotic Star Domain over the past ten years.

Devouring the lives of entire planets in order to Cultivate Demonic Techniques.

Pushing out his trusted aides to act as scapegoats in order to evade capture, and slaughtering gathering places of other wandering deities to seize resources.

Among them were also mixed with a large number of scenes refining human deities into blood pills, and throwing infants into Formations to extract Innate Qi.

Lin Yuan filtered out these useless waste memories, locking the search range onto the time period of the past month.

Soon, a section of memory fragments was precisely stripped out by Lin Yuan.

It was a black altar.

In the memory image, the Divine Soul projection of Blood Crow floated above the altar.

At the other end of the altar stood an old man with a withered face and gloomy eyes.

Lin Yuan's Mental Energy concentrated on this old man.

Relevant information about this person immediately surfaced in Blood Crow's memory.

Chen Fu.

Lin Yuan continued to investigate downwards along this clue.

Blood Crow and this Chen Fu turned out to be old acquaintances.

More than ten years ago, when Blood Crow was still studying at Starry Sky University, he had been set up in a black market transaction to be double-crossed.

The one who rescued him at that time and helped him counter-kill his enemies was precisely this Chen Fu.

In Blood Crow's impression, Chen Fu was ruthless and vicious, able to betray companions for just a few pieces of Divine Power crystals.

The two got acquainted because of this, and had a few brief cooperations in the underground world.

Later, Blood Crow defected and fled to the Chaotic Star Domain, completely breaking off contact.

In Blood Crow's cognition, a desperate outlaw like Chen Fu who mixed on the edges of the black market all year round should have died long ago in some shootout or double-cross.

Until a few days ago, this special altar named the Soul Summoning Platform suddenly lit up.

Chen Fu's old face reappeared in front of Blood Crow, offering one million cubic meters of pure Divine Power crystals.

Divine art Legacy, and astronomical prices of life planets to buy Lin Yuan's life.

Lin Yuan carefully reviewed this memory segment.

Blood Crow did not know who Chen Fu was working for now.

In the memory image, Chen Fu only mentioned "my master", and did not disclose any specific identity information about the employer.

Blood Crow didn't care much about who the employer was either; he only valued the resources that could allow him to Breakthrough to the Eighth-Turn Demigod.

"Chen Fu..."