194: Lin Chuan's arrangements

"You Qi."

"Your subordinate is here!"

"Next, the Nether Beasts below Monarch Rank are not to charge the defense line anymore. Have them devour each other and advance to Monarch Rank;"

"All territories of the Monarch-level Nether Beasts shall retract toward your Nether God Temple, controlled within a range of one thousand kilometers."

"As you command."

As You Qi issued the command through the crown, countless Monarch-level Nether Beasts retreated to the rear.

The soldiers on the front line discovered a strange phenomenon: the originally fierce Nether Beasts suddenly started attacking each other, causing mutual destruction, allowing the Yu Ming Army to harvest their lives.

However, most of them ended up devouring and absorbing each other.

As one Commander Rank after another devoured each other, a continuous stream of Monarch Ranks was produced, and these Monarch Ranks immediately left the battlefield and returned to the depths of the Nether Realm.

"Done!"

Lin Chuan said easily.

He was already highly skilled at this kind of thing.

Xia Yuan and Xia Jing looked at him as if he were a monster.

The Nether Realm calamity, which was capable of capturing Xuanwu City, was resolved just like that?

"Venerable Xia, how about it? I told you I came here to solve the Nether Realm threat. I didn't lie to you, right?"

Xia Jing: ... Not only did you not lie to me, but this is completely off the charts!

"In that case, the Nether Realm area in the Academy Secret Realm has long become your private garden?"

"Yes, that place is too barren. The Nether Beasts are almost extinct, and there are barely any Commander Ranks."

"I am now a little worried. I'm worried that there aren't enough Nether Beasts here for you to mess with."

"What's the big deal? The Nether Realm has over three thousand regions. It lacks everything except Nether Beasts," Lin Chuan said carelessly.

Furthermore, judging by the speed at which Nether Beasts are generated here, it will probably continue for a long time.

Yao Beasts, Sea Beasts, White Tiger City, Vermilion Bird City... the number of deceased beings is probably in the tens or hundreds of billions... I just don't know where the other areas of Nether Beast outbreaks are. This kind of thing doesn't seem to be fixed.

On Xuanwu City's side, only the Intermediate Nether Realm entrance controlled by Xia Jing and Dragon Roar experienced a Nether Beast outbreak; the remaining Elementary areas are not a cause for concern. As for the entrance controlled by the Yao Race, no one knows about that.

"You've helped me so much, kid. What do you want in return? Finally, I can take a break for a while."

Xia Jing asked with a smile.

"To be honest, I didn't exactly come to help you. It was mainly because this guy sent his subordinates to try and encircle me, so I could only strike first to gain the advantage."

You Qi: ??? What does that have to do with me?

"Master, this subordinate did not know..."

"Well, You Hong, I killed him. All those Nether Beasts under you, I slaughtered them."

You Qi... So, the root cause was here all along.

From the very beginning, You Qi's fate was sealed. Having clashed with Lin Chuan, his outcome was destined to be either death or control...

"Boom, boom, boom..."

While they were talking, the advancement of the three Nether Kings was nearing its end.

Before long, three more King-level Xuanming Guards appeared, marking the achievement of all of Lin Chuan's goals for this trip.

"Next, do you know what you should do?"

Lin Chuan asked You Qi.

"Master, this subordinate will immediately summon all those King Ranks back."

"Mhm... How many Nether Kings do you still have under you?"

"Excluding the eleven Elementary Temple Nether Kings, there are twelve King-level Nether Beasts and Nether Spirits combined in this region. Besides that, each Elementary region has about three to four King Ranks."

Counting them up, You Qi can directly command twenty-three Nether Kings, and indirectly command thirty to forty.

However, the indirect ones are unlikely to obey his commands.

Otherwise, there wouldn't have been just over twenty Nether Kings attacking Xia Jing's defense line, but fifty or sixty.

The defense line would have been instantly crushed.

"Over the next few days, have the twelve King Ranks from this region return in batches. Three or four returning each time is enough."

"Master intends to?" A chill ran down You Qi's spine.

"Naturally, I intend to catch them like a turtle in a jar and replace all the Nether Kings in this area with Xuanming Guards!"

Lin Chuan's voice was not loud, but it sent shivers down the spines of Xia Jing and Xia Yuan.

Because they knew that Lin Chuan would certainly succeed.

Given enough time, he might truly be able to slowly swallow the entire Nether Realm...

He possessed astonishing power, yet he didn't rush forward, instead proceeding steadily and surely—that was the most terrifying thing.

"Venerable Xia, there is something I need to trouble you with."

Lin Chuan looked at Xia Jing and said.

"Ah? Tell me."

"Next, the advancement of Nether Kings in this area might be frequent. Please try your best to restrain the Yu Ming Army under your command and prevent them from trespassing. For routine training, using Commander Ranks should be sufficient.

I suspect that once the Yao Race resolves the hidden danger of the Nether Realm, the Beast Tide might arrive earlier. At that time, the battlefield for the Yu Ming Army will likely be outside."

"Don't worry, I understand that. The fact that the million-strong Yu Ming Army here can have more than half survive and walk out of the Secret Realm is thanks to you. Otherwise, who knows how long we would have to fight those Commander-rank Nether Beasts." Xia Jing nodded and said.

"Alas, I just did my best."

Lin Chuan sighed.

He recalled the scene of rivers of blood when he came to investigate previously.

No matter where the battlefield was, death was always the unchanging theme.

"Let's leave it at that for now. Nether One, you all stay here and cooperate with You Qi. I hope you don't disappoint me."

"As you command."

After speaking, You Qi and all the Nether Kings rushed toward his Nether God Temple. Next, they just needed to wait for those twelve Nether Kings to walk into the trap.

After dealing with this, Lin Chuan noticed the strange expressions on Xia Jing and Xia Yuan's faces.

He couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing much. It just feels like you, kid, are more like a Nether King than a Nether King himself!"

Xia Jing said with a laugh, while Xia Yuan continuously expressed agreement from the side.

"Venerable Xia, your thinking is small."

"What is small?"

"Your scope is small. How do you know that a Nether God doesn't exist? After all, the Nether God Temple is right there."

"Nether God?"

The moment Xia Jing uttered those two words, he felt a bone-deep chill wash over him.

He shouldn't think about it too much...

"Oh, right." On the way back, Lin Chuan suddenly said, "Xia Siye has already advanced to Gold. Aren't you going to prepare a few Beast Taming Contracts with King Rank Potential for him?"

"Damn it, kid, do you think things with King Rank Potential are just blown in by the wind?"

Xia Jing cursed playfully.

He then continued, "In our Xia family, we handle our own tamed beasts, either by buying them or catching them ourselves. Little Ye wouldn't look favorably upon those provided by others."

"Alright!"

Lin Chuan said nothing more.

The matters concerning the Nether Realm here were temporarily settled and didn't require much effort from Lin Chuan. Lin Chuan planned to take a trip outside the city after Old Hei advanced.

One reason was to try his luck and see if he could find a suitable tamed beast; the other, naturally, was to 'stock up' outside the city—no, rather, to audit the financial status of the King Rank Demon Beasts outside the city.

Speaking of which, in all this time, Lin Chuan had only left the city once, back when he was a Black Iron little squirt.

The Yao Beasts he encountered at other times were all inside Secret Realms. Lin Chuan was highly anticipating the real scenery outside the city.

After asking Xia Jing for a special pass allowing him to enter and exit the Secret Realm at any time, Lin Chuan returned to the Academy with Xia Yuan.