The Legend of the Great Desolation: I Am the Fortress

"The newcomers this time are all of pretty good quality! Winning just one match allowed me to loot tens of thousands of cubic meters of treasure!"

"That was exhilarating! Plundering is so much more satisfying! Although it won't increase my strength, acquiring more treasures is still a way to enhance my power!"

"Treasure! Treasure! I've gotten lucky this time and managed to get an eternal divine weapon. This is so satisfying! It's so great to plunder the weak from the strong!"

On Star Island, some are happy while others are sad.

Those who originally stayed on Star Island, whether they were strong or had accumulated enough resources, won quite a few battles in this challenge, and naturally, they also plundered some of their spoils.

Of course, there are also unlucky cultivators who run into a tough opponent, encountering a powerful newcomer, and end up being the one who gets plundered.

suddenly.

"Huh? That's..."

"Star Island has been reclaimed!"

"This... Star Island on the fourth level? Those who can challenge me today are usually newcomers! Who could be so powerful? Killing a fourth-level cultivator on the very first day?"

The worlds of hundreds of thousands of Star Island beings were shocked.

There are fewer than two hundred cultivators on the fourth level in the entire Star Island. They are generally beings who have surpassed the peak of the World Realm. There are even some prodigies who have been defeated from the fifth level and fallen to the fourth level.

Generally, once you reach this level, very few people can be killed.

But now, one of them has actually died.

……

"One person died on the fourth floor..."

A young man with white hair and a loose white robe stood at the edge of the island, looking down at the view below, like a lonely king surveying his territory.

"Interesting! To possess the strength to kill someone beyond the peak of the World Realm right from the start, things are getting quite interesting from here on out."

"A special life form? Has cultivated powerful supernatural abilities? I just don't know just how strong this cultivator really is."

The young man in white robes and white hair spoke softly, his gaze fixed on the falling island as it gradually sank into the abyss, finally being swallowed whole by the enormous dark abyss.

"Hurry up and come on, it's getting a bit boring on the sixth floor."

……

Wow.

On Star Island, in an elegant courtyard, Lei Zhan emerged from a house, toying with a palm-sized cyan scale in his hand.

"Hmm? This falling island..." Lei Zhan suddenly looked up and saw a floating island streaking across his eyes like a shooting star, rapidly falling downwards.

"It seems to have fallen from the fourth floor." Lei Zhan glanced at it and immediately understood.

"It seems that the previous owner of this island was the cultivator I killed."

There is generally only one situation in which Star Island falls: if you lose a duel, you will fall down one level.

But for those who fall into the abyss or have their islands reclaimed, there are only two possibilities.

One possibility is that the cultivators on the island gather enough inheritance to meet the conditions for leaving, and then they can leave directly.

Another possibility is that, like the cultivator Lei Zhan killed, the island's owner dies and his cultivation dissipates, and the island will naturally be reclaimed.

"There's no way we can challenge them today."

Lei Zhan withdrew his gaze, lay down under the shade of a tree, took out some fine wine and drank it, looking at the tens of thousands of floating islands above with a leisurely gaze.

"However, we still need to rush to a higher level, because only at a higher level can it be more convenient to challenge others."

"At the very least, we need to get our hands on the legacy left behind by the Overlord."

……

Since that battle, Lei Zhan has been challenging others to a duel every day.

The challenges ranged from matches between players of the same skill level to challenges between players of a higher skill level.

Once a day, almost without fail. And Star Island, where Lei Zhan was located, was also rising rapidly like a rocket as time went by.

Of course, in every challenge, only those who are utterly reckless will lose their lives.

Under normal circumstances, Lei Zhan would just casually loot some treasures and take away some inherited treasures that interested him, and he hardly killed any other cultivators.

That's it...

It took ten days to build the platform to the second level.

It took another ten days to build up to the third floor.

It took another eleven days to advance the team to the third level.

On the forty-fifth day after arriving at Star Island, Lei Zhan was directly promoted to the fifth level.

After all, the defense has improved too quickly, and not every Vietnam War will have someone respond.

Perhaps one second Lei Zhan had just challenged a cultivator to a duel, but the next second that cultivator, not wanting to face such a monstrous talent, quickly challenged someone else and avoided him altogether.

Even so, with its own strength, Lei Zhan naturally swept through everything in its path, crushing all in its path.

It should be noted that on Star Island, the strength of each World Realm cultivator generally corresponds to a certain level. On the first level, which is the lowest, most are at the peak of the World Realm, though some are weaker.

Those who are most likely to die and perish are generally practitioners at this level.

The second level consists of those with special magical treasures, unique methods, or those skilled in strange and unorthodox techniques, or those who possess puppets, whose strength can reach the peak of the World Realm.

The third level generally consists of individuals with peak World Realm strength.

The fourth level generally involves those who have surpassed the peak of the World Realm.

By the fifth level, one usually possesses the strength of a Dao Lord.

As for the sixth floor, there is only one Betalieu now.

Therefore, as long as someone accepts the challenge, the speed at which the skill level increases is extremely fast, naturally attracting the attention of many cultivators.

"The legacy left by the Sovereign..." Lei Zhan flipped through the golden scroll in his hand, checking the information of each cultivator, and choosing his opponent for a duel.

In forty-five days, Lei Zhan was promoted to the fifth level, and in the process, he naturally acquired a number of heirloom treasures.

Of course, in Lei Zhan's eyes, of the hundred inheritances circulating on Star Island, only the first and second ranked inheritances could move him.

The first-ranked power inheritance has always been in the hands of Betalieu. Since Lei Zhan has not yet reached the sixth level, he naturally cannot fight against Betalieu.

Lei Zhan has been consciously prioritizing the collection of the second-ranked Sovereign's Legacy. Now, he is only 300 pieces away from collecting 1,600 pieces to form a complete Sovereign's Legacy.

"The remaining three hundred or so coins are in the hands of three different cultivators," Lei Zhan thought to himself.

"There are currently fifteen cultivators on the fifth level, and these three cultivators are also on the fifth level. Challenging them when I try to break through to the sixth level will save me a lot of trouble."

"But there are still Su Qi and the others..."

Lei Zhan recalled the current situation of his three servants. Although Su Qi and the others were strong, they had the strength to surpass the peak of the World Realm and could even barely reach the threshold of the Dao Lord.

During his time on Star Island, Lei Zhan was able to deduce the progress of the others by observing the changes in information on the golden scroll.

Of the three World Gods of Su Qi, the fastest is Wu Ming, who is skilled in assassination and has already reached the fourth level.

As for the other two, Su Qi, the World God, and Yi Feng, the World God, are still on the third level, and it won't be long before they ascend to the fourth level.

"The God of the Flying Dust World is skilled in spacetime and also possesses the most Sovereign inheritance treasures among the three cultivators... Today, let's choose the God of the Flying Dust World."

Lei Zhan looked through the information of the three cultivators and immediately decided on his target for today's duel.

……

On Star Island on the sixth floor.

"Betale."

A woman dressed in blue armor chuckled and said, "As you know, our Palace of Light is one of the top three among the twelve palaces, and you have exceptional talent in the path of light..."

"If you can join our Palace of Light, I believe you will have a bright future."

"Senior." The young man in white robes and with white hair smiled gently. "I'm naturally willing to go to the Palace of Light, and the Palace of Mental Power has also invited me. However..."

This white-clad, white-haired youth was none other than Betalieu, who had been on the sixth level.

Betalieu looked at the woman in blue armor, paused, and said, "But I'm not in a hurry to make a decision right now. Of all the inheritances on Star Island, I've only obtained five sets so far. Let's wait a few more years, and when my strength has improved a bit more, perhaps I'll understand my own path."

"This..." the woman in blue armor smiled and said, "Very well. But your strength is already quite great. If you take another step forward, you'll be on that path. At that time, it probably won't be me inviting you."

If one were to take another step forward, that would be embarking on the path to ultimate power. At that point, the ones who would come to invite one of the most powerful and influential beings in the Palace of Light would be those of even greater stature.

"Hmm?" Bertalele was taken aback, then smiled. "Then I'll take your kind words, senior."

“However…” the woman in blue armor looked at Betalieu, “Do you know that God of the Unified World?”

"The God of the Unified World?" Betalieu seemed to have his memories stirred. "Of course I know. This God of the Unified World has only been on Star Island for a little over forty days, and he has already directly reached the fifth level."

"Unfortunately... as far as I know, although the God of the Unified World has not revealed much strength, he does not seem to be good at the Path of Light."

Bertalieu naturally understood what the woman in blue armor meant.

The woman in blue armor accepted the mission, which was to invite some promising and powerful World Realm experts to join Star Island, and the newly risen World God of Unity was so dazzling.

I bet any of the twelve houses would be green with envy if they saw this.

"Yes. We in the Twelve Palaces also have some news. On the first day this World God of Unity arrived, he directly killed a cultivator at the fourth level. And in ordinary battles, he usually only needs to use one secret technique to crush his opponent..." The woman in blue armor said, her face full of helplessness.

Even now, they still don't know which Dao this World God of Unity is good at.

All they knew was that the other party was powerful, that their secret techniques were from the realm of time and space, and that they were intentionally collecting the legacy left behind by the Sovereign on Star Island.

It is through these messages that we can deduce that this God of the Unified World is at least skilled in the art of time and space.

But much more, they knew nothing about.

"I wonder where the Great Ruler got such a monstrous genius from..." the woman in blue armor muttered to herself. "He's skilled in time and space... to have such a monstrous genius for nothing, those guys in the Time and Space Palace must be laughing in their sleep!"

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(End of this chapter)