Make me leave the team? My beast girl and I can win easily.

The golden light gradually faded.

Lin Yu stood there, looking no different than before—

She was still wearing that white T-shirt and black casual pants, holding a little furball Taotie in her arms.

But at this moment, he exuded an indescribable aura.

The aura wasn't strong; it was even quite gentle.

But for some reason, the demigod monster with a dark red glow on its body opposite them felt a slight sense of unease.

The Golden Dragon Clan Chief stared intently at Lin Yu, his vertical pupils filled with disbelief.

"Impossible... How could you possibly break through at this crucial moment?"

Lin Yu looked down at her hands and then clenched her fist.

He could feel a new power within him—it wasn't just energy, but a law.

The laws that create all things.

He looked up at the demigod monster and smiled.

"To be honest, I have to thank you for this."

"If it weren't for you, I really wouldn't have been able to break through this barrier."

The demigod monster's expression turned even uglier.

It sacrificed tens of thousands of members of the five races, as well as all the high-level combatants, almost giving everything to obtain the power of a demigod.

And this human actually broke through the barrier so easily during the battle?

"You brat, stop being so smug!" it roared. "Even if you've reached the level of a demigod, you've only just begun."

"I have sacrificed the elite of my entire clan; my power far surpasses yours!"

It opened its mouth, and a dark red beam of light, ten times thicker than before, shot out and shot straight at Lin Yu.

Wherever the beam of light passed, space shattered, revealing a pitch-black void.

The rocks on the ground melted under the high temperature, turning into molten lava that splashed to both sides.

Faced with such an attack, Lin Yu made no attempt to dodge.

He raised the scepter of dominion and waved it gently.

A golden beam of light shot out from the top of the scepter and collided with the dark red beam of light.

There was no explosion as expected, nor was there a shockwave.

The two beams of light intertwined, devoured and dissolved each other, and finally vanished simultaneously.

The demigod monster's pupils contracted.

That attack used almost 80% of its power.

Lin Yu, however, seemed to be taking a leisurely stroll, as if he were merely waving his hand casually.

"This is impossible!" it roared. "You just stepped into the realm of demigods, how could this be—"

Before she could finish speaking, Lin Yu had already moved.

He didn't use any skills; he just charged at us.

It was incredibly fast, leaving a trail of afterimages in the air.

The demigod monster instinctively raised its forepaws to block.

"Bang!"

As their fists and claws clashed, a visible shockwave spread out, sending all the surrounding rubble flying.

The demigod monster retreated three steps, each step leaving a deep footprint in the ground.

A thin crack appeared on its front paw.

Lin Yu stood still, motionless.

He looked at his fist and nodded in satisfaction.

"The power of a demigod is indeed different."

The demigod monster looked down at the cracks on its forepaws, its expression completely changing.

"Impossible... This is impossible... I sacrificed so many elites, how could my strength be inferior to that of a mere novice human?!"

It couldn't understand it.

But it doesn't require figuring it out.

All it needs to do is win.

"Since that's the case—" A mad glint flashed in its eyes as it turned to look at the clan leaders behind it.

The chieftains of the Behemoth, Black Dragon, and Green Dragon tribes stood not far away, each with a different expression.

The Behemoth chieftain looked bewildered, the Black Dragon chieftain's eyes flickered, and the Green Dragon chieftain subconsciously took a step back.

The Titan chieftain stood at the very back, his massive body trembling slightly.

It glanced at the crazed demigod monster, then at Lin Yu, seemingly making some difficult decision.

The demigod monster opened its mouth, and a terrifying suction force surged out from it—unlike the gluttonous beast's devouring power, its suction force carried a bloody, corrosive aura, and any target sucked in would be instantly melted and turned into energy to be absorbed by it.

Before the Behemoth chieftain could react, he was enveloped by the suction force.

Its enormous body began to melt; its skin, muscles, and bones all turned into blood, which was swallowed by the demigod monster.

"No—!" The Behemoth chieftain let out his final scream before disappearing completely.

The aura of the demigod monster rose once again.

The Black Dragon Clan Chief's expression changed drastically. He turned to run, but the suction force had already enveloped him.

"You're a madman!"

"We are allies!"

"you--!"

Before it could finish speaking, it was sucked in as well.

"Go in peace, give me your power!" The Golden Dragon Clan Chief laughed hysterically. "By absorbing you, I will become stronger, enabling me to achieve our goal and completely annihilate Lin Yu!"

Although he heard what the Golden Dragon Clan Chief said, the Green Dragon Clan Chief was clearly unhappy.

What a joke! Sacrificing its own kind is acceptable, but expecting it to become nourishment itself is absolutely impossible!

It struggled desperately, wrapping its vines around the ground in an attempt to resist the suction.

But its power is utterly insignificant in the face of a demigod.

The vines broke off one by one, and its body slid little by little toward that gaping maw.

"Titan! Save me!" it cried out in despair.

The Titan chieftain stood rooted to the spot, his body frozen in fear.

It glanced at the Green Dragon Clan Chief, then at the demigod monster who had gone completely mad, and then made a decision that surprised everyone.

It turned around, took big strides, and ran towards Lin Yu.

Each step it took shook the earth, and when it reached Lin Yu, it knelt down with a thud.

"Lord Lin Yu! I surrender!"

"I submit to you! I seek your protection!"

The enormous body knelt on the ground, head bowed, its posture extremely humble.

Lin Yu looked down at the hundred-meter-tall giant and remained silent for a second.

"You're quite sensible."

The Titan chieftain smiled wryly: "Having lived for thousands of years, I still have this much insight."

"That madman has gone completely insane; following him will only lead to death."

Lin Yu nodded.

"Step back."

The Titan chieftain, feeling as if he had been granted a pardon, scrambled to Lin Yu's side and cowered in a corner, trembling with fear.

The screams of the Green Dragon Clan Chief abruptly ceased.

Its resistance was ineffective, and it was eventually swallowed by the demigod monster.

The power of the three clan leaders was completely integrated into the demigod monster's body.

Its body expanded again, growing from 150 meters to 200 meters.

Strange patterns appeared on the dark red scales: the brute force runes of the Behemoths, the corrosion runes of the Black Dragons, and the life runes of the Green Dragons.

The powers of the three races intertwined and merged within it, causing its aura to rise once more.

When its aura stabilized, it had transformed into a terrifying entity two hundred meters tall.

Its entire body radiated a dark red light, and the runes on its scales flowed continuously. With each breath, it brought forth gusts of fishy wind.

It looked down at Lin Yu, its blood-red vertical pupils filled with madness.

"Human... now, do you still dare to say you can win?"

Its voice became low and hoarse, like an echo from the abyss.

Lin Yu looked at it calmly.

"Give it a try."

The demigod monster roared to the sky, the sound so powerful that it dispersed the clouds.

It raised its front paw and slapped down!

That claw strike carried the brute force of the Behemoths, the corrosive power of the Black Dragons, and the life-draining power of the Green Dragons. These three forces intertwined, transforming into a dark red claw shadow that blotted out the sky.

Lin Yu did not take the hit head-on.

He dodged to the side, his claws landing on the ground, splitting the earth open into a thousand-meter-long abyss.

The demigod monster lashed out with claw after claw at an astonishing speed.

Each claw carried earth-shattering power, forcing Lin Yu to constantly dodge.

Gradually, Lin Yu was cornered.

"What's wrong? Weren't you being very arrogant just now?"

"Why are you only hiding now?"

"Like an insect!"

The demigod monster grinned and slammed down with its claw again.

Lin Yu raised the scepter of dominion to block.

"Bang!"

He was thrown into the air and crashed into a hill, which then collapsed.

Lin Yu stood up from the rubble and dusted himself off.

This demigod monster has indeed become much stronger after absorbing the power of three clan leaders.

He took a deep breath, preparing to fight seriously, when he suddenly heard a crisp voice behind him.

"Master! Catch this!"

Lin Hui stood on the distant warship, waved her small hand, and a golden light flew towards Lin Yu.

The light entered Lin Yu's body and instantly transformed into countless streams of information, flooding into his mind.

[Knowledge Infusion] - Infuse a massive amount of knowledge into the target's mind, causing them to be instantly overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information.

This is an innate talent skill that Lin Hui possesses as a member of the noble Blue Dragon race.

Originally intended for use against enemies, the massive amount of knowledge injected into them would instantly overwhelm the opponent's brain, turning them into an idiot.

But Lin Yu is already a demigod.

His brain is capable of processing and absorbing this massive amount of knowledge.

The knowledge came flooding in—mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, history, philosophy, art, languages…

The accumulated knowledge of the Blue Dragon race over tens of thousands of years, categorized according to human academic disciplines, is all condensed into this ray of light.

Lin Yu closed her eyes.

His brain was working at high speed, processing tens of thousands of pieces of information every second.

That knowledge is not simply words and numbers, but the crystallization of various civilizations and the condensation of the wisdom of countless sages.

They intertwined, merged, and sublimated in his mind, transforming into invisible threads.

Those threads are the laws.

The laws of knowledge.

Humans are considered the most intelligent of all beings not because they have sharp teeth and claws, nor because they have thick armor and hard scales, but because they have knowledge.

Knowledge is humanity's most powerful weapon and its most fundamental law.

Those few seconds felt like thousands of years.

When Lin Yu opened her eyes again.

His eyes changed.

It was no longer the calm of before, but a profound clarity that seemed to see through everything.

He looked at the demigod monster, its terrifying two-hundred-meter-tall body, its dark red scales, its flowing runes—he understood it all.

The brute force runes of the Behemoth race are essentially the laws of power.

The Black Dragon Clan's Corruption Runes are essentially based on the law of decomposition.

The life runes of the Green Dragon Clan are essentially the laws of growth.

The three laws are intertwined, seemingly perfect, but in reality, they contain a fatal contradiction.

The Law of Power seeks pure power, the Law of Decomposition seeks to destroy everything, and the Law of Growth seeks to perpetuate life—these three are inherently in conflict.

The demigod monster merely forcibly fused them together; it never truly understood them.

After all, it only gained the power of sacrifice and used that power to enter the level of "demigod".

It does not possess the status of a "demigod" nor has it formed its own unique "rules".

Although there are numerical values, without a mechanism, these values ​​will simply be wasted.

After understanding all of this, Lin Yu smiled.

"I see."

He raised his hand, and a pale golden light condensed in his palm.

The light was very soft and appeared to have no power whatsoever.

The demigod monster laughed disdainfully: "After all that effort, is this all you've got?"

It swung its giant claws and slammed them down on Lin Yu with thunderous force.

Lin Yu raised her hand and flicked it lightly.

The pale golden light shot towards the claw shadow.

The two collided, but there was no explosion or shockwave.

The light disappeared into the claw's shadow, and then—

The claw shadow disappeared.

It wasn't blocked, it wasn't shattered, it simply vanished.

It's as if it never existed.

The demigod monster was stunned.

"This...this is impossible!"

It refused to believe it and swung its claws again.

Lin Yu raised her hand again and snapped her fingers again.

The claw shadow disappeared again.

The demigod monster went berserk, opening its mouth and spewing out beams of dark red light.

It slapped its front paws wildly and swept its tail horizontally.

The runes all over his body lit up simultaneously, releasing their strongest power.

The attacks were overwhelming, pouring down like a torrential downpour.

Lin Yu stood still, motionless.

He simply raised his hand and waved it lightly.

A golden light screen unfolded before him, and all the attacks that struck the screen vanished.

Like a pebble thrown into a deep pool, it didn't even create a ripple.

The demigod monster was completely dumbfounded.

"What...what have you done?!"

Lin Yu said calmly, "Knowledge is simply the understanding of all things."

All the attacks you launch are understandable.

"Now that we understand them, resolving them is naturally not a problem."

"Your power comes from sacrifice, from forced fusion."

"You don't understand them; you're just forcibly piecing them together."

"Therefore, once you understand the conflict between them, you can easily resolve it."

He paused, then added, "This is the law of knowledge."

What Lin Yu said was clearly "beyond the scope" and the demigod monster couldn't understand it.

It doesn't need to understand it either.

All it needs to do is win.

"Stop talking nonsense!" it roared. "I sacrificed everything to gain supreme power; how could I possibly lose to you!"

It unleashed its full power, concentrating all its strength in its right claw, and slammed it down!

That claw contained all its power—the brute force of the Behemoths, the corrosive power of the Black Dragons, the life-draining power of the Green Dragons, and its own divine power as a Golden Dragon.

The four forces intertwined, transforming into a dark red beam of light that shot directly at Lin Yu.

Lin Yu looked at the beam of light and raised her hand.

This time, he failed to resolve the situation.

Instead, they chose to create.

A golden light condensed in his palm, a light different from the previous one—

It carries a vibrant, warm, bright, and hopeful aura.

This was created after understanding the source of the opponent's power, specifically to counter that power.

Pure, bright, life.

The power of the demigod monster is darkness, corruption, and death.

Light overcomes darkness, and life overcomes death.

Golden light pierced the dark red beam of light, and the two forces began to collide and dissolve.

The dark red beam of light shattered inch by inch, while the golden light surged forward with unstoppable momentum.

The demigod monster watched in horror as the golden light drew ever closer and closer—

"No--!"

Golden light pierced through its body.

Its body began to disintegrate.

Scales fell off piece by piece, runes went out one by one, muscles, bones, internal organs—everything was disintegrating.

It looked down at its own body, its eyes filled with disbelief.

"I... have given so much... and yet..."

"I lost to you... you human brat..."

Lin Yu stood in front of it, looking up at the colossal creature that was crumbling.

"You are sacrificing other people's lives, which are insignificant to you."

"I'm protecting the people I want to protect; they're of utmost importance to me."

"That's the difference between you and me."

The demigod monster was stunned.

Then it laughed.

In that smile, there was resentment, anger, despair, and a hint of... relief.

"To protect...?"

It closed its eyes.

His body turned into dust, drifting away with the wind.

Only a ball of dark red, pure energy remained in its place—the essence of power it had gathered after sacrificing its entire clan.

Lin Yu raised her hand.

[Rare and precious materials] activated.

A gigantic phantom of a pill furnace appeared, absorbing the remains of the demigod monster—that is, the essence of its energy—into the furnace.

As the flames of the alchemy rose, mysterious runes lit up the furnace.

Before long, that ball of energy essence was refined into an "essence pill".

The lid of the alchemy furnace was opened, and a fist-sized, dark red pill floated in mid-air, which Lin Yu then took into his palm.

Within the elixir, one could vaguely see a miniature golden dragon swimming around, surrounded by the phantoms of the Behemoth, Black Dragon, and Green Dragon races.

Lin Yu put away the pills and turned to look at the Titan clan chief behind him.

The Titan chieftain knelt on the ground, his massive body still trembling slightly.

Its eyes were filled with awe as it looked at Lin Yu.

"Lord Lin Yu..."

Lin Yu looked at it and remained silent for a few seconds.

Get up.

The Titan chieftain stood up cautiously, head bowed, not daring to look at him.

Lin Yu thought for a moment, then took out a Transformation Pill from her spatial ring and tossed it to it.

"have eaten."

The Titan chieftain caught the pill, hesitated for a moment, and then swallowed it in one gulp.

A flash of light.

The two-hundred-meter-tall Titan transformed into a three-meter-tall... female giant.

Yes, the Titan chieftain is female.

Since she is female, she can also transform into a beast girl through Lin Yu's Transformation Pill.

She looked to be around thirty years old, with bronze skin, firm but not exaggerated muscles, long silver hair tied in a ponytail, and a resolute gaze with a hint of... docility?

She looked down at herself, then looked up at Lin Yu, and said in a muffled voice, "Master."

Lin Yu nodded.

"Follow me from now on."

"Yes, Master."

Just then, a strange phenomenon appeared in the sky.

Golden beams of light shot down from the clouds, each beam connecting to some unknown entity deep within the sky.

Those beams of light emanated a terrifying pressure, many times stronger than that of demigod monsters.

That was the gaze of the gods.

Those who occupy divine positions sense the birth of new demigods and are spying on it.

Once they confirm that Lin Yu has the potential to ascend to true godhood, they will take action to suppress him—no one wants to see a new god born and take away their authority.

Lin Yu looked up at the beams of light and felt cold, scrutinizing gazes.

He didn't panic.

Because he knew someone would help him.

really--

A chaotic light exploded from his body; it was Lin Shan's "Source of Chaos." A powerful aura surged into the sky, transforming into a chaotic light curtain that enveloped Lin Yu.

Immediately following, a dark green light appeared—Lin Qing's "Nether Abyss." The aura of the Nether Abyss intertwined with the source of chaos, forming a two-colored barrier that completely blocked the golden pillars of light.

The gaze of the gods was blocked.

One by one, the beams of light dissipated, and the sky returned to calm.

Lin Yu stood still, feeling the newly stabilized power of the laws within his body.

Understand all skills, create all skills, and dissolve all skills.

This is his rule.

Knowledge is power.

He took a deep breath and turned to look at the warship in the distance.

Lin Hui stood at the cabin door and waved to him.

"Master! We're home!"

Lin Yu smiled.

He picked up the Taotie and strode toward the warship.

Behind her, the Titan chieftain followed closely, his three-meter-tall figure appearing exceptionally "petite" in front of Lin Yu.

"Master," Taotie nestled in his arms, tilting its head back to ask, "what are your plans regarding that Titan?"

Lin Yu thought for a moment: "Take her back and make her the captain of Hui'er's dragon maids."

Taotie blinked: "Can she do it?"

Lin Yu smiled.

"Give it a try."

Back on the warship, Lin Hui threw herself into his arms and nuzzled against him.

"Master is so amazing!"

Lin Yu rubbed her dragon horns.

"You're amazing too. If it weren't for your knowledge, I might not have been able to win."

Lin Hui wagged her tail even more enthusiastically.

Taotie poked its head out from his arms, looked at the dark red essence pill, and swallowed.

"Master, um... can I eat this?"

Lin Yu tapped its head.

"No. I need this."

Taotie scratched its head, looking aggrieved.

Lin Yu put away the pills and looked out the window.

As the sun sets, the sea of ​​clouds surges and rolls.

The invasion by the five tribes thus came to an end.

He looked down at his hands, feeling the new power within him.

Demigods are just the beginning.

One day, he will step into the true realm of gods.

but not now.

now--

"Let's go home. The children must miss me."