Swallowing the Stars: Analyzing All Things

Killing Space, above the icy plains.

"Ice Needle Feather Strike".

Looking at the black-clad warrior attacking him, the mirage feathers floating around him suddenly bloomed, and the silvery-white light surged in all directions like a tide, instantly enveloping the entire ice field.

in the light.

Countless tiny ice needles, as fine as cow's hair, coalesced into shape.

These ice needles floated densely in mid-air, each one gleaming with a chilling light.

Ice Needle Feather

This is a simple killing move that Lin Yan combined with the Mirage Feather and the Water Domain. After more than two hundred years of continuous refinement and optimization, its illusory killing power has been upgraded time and again.

Now, this killing move not only consists of simple illusions and ice needle attacks, but also contains a trace of the power of the law of water.

More than sixty years ago.

Lin Yan had already crossed the threshold of the Law of Water. For more than two hundred years, although he had been researching the secret methods of the Law of Water, he had not given up on comprehending it himself.

For more than two hundred years.

Lin Yan attended every public lecture at the Lan You Holy Land. As long as the course was related to the Water Domain and the Fundamental Laws of Water, he would attend regardless of the teacher's level.

Some of the lessons benefited him greatly.

Some classes, however, seemed rather ordinary to him.

He was like a sponge, greedily absorbing all the knowledge he could, and then putting that knowledge into the killing space to verify, practice, and digest it.

"Whoosh~"

The ice needles flew under the cover of the illusion, distorting the enemy's perception. They could not see the trajectory of the ice needles, hear the sound of the ice needles, or even hear the fluctuations.

The black-clad warrior paused.

In his perception, everything around him had changed; the ice field had vanished, replaced by endless darkness.

"laugh!"

Suddenly, a silvery-white light emerged from the darkness, followed by a dense array of red and white lights, like fireflies surging towards him from all directions.

back.

The black-clad warrior instinctively chose to retreat.

He knew these were illusions, but knowing was useless. The terrifying thing about illusions is not that they make people believe they are real, but that they make it impossible for people to distinguish between reality and illusion.

Among these points of light, which are illusory ice needles, and which are the real ice needles? Which are actually attacking him, and which are feints?

He couldn't tell the difference.

His consciousness was trapped in the illusion, and he was unable to break free from it in a short period of time.

"Swish, swish, swish~"

The black-clad warrior's figure flickered continuously on the ice surface, leaving behind spatial illusions as he attempted to escape the range of the ice needles' attacks.

But the countless ice needles followed him relentlessly; he was fast, but the ice needles were even faster.

Moreover, those ice needles did not fly in a straight line, but constantly changed their trajectory under the cover of the illusion, sometimes scattering, sometimes converging, sometimes shooting from the front, and sometimes flanking from the side.

"Pfft~"

suddenly.

An ice needle pierced his left shoulder.

The black-clad warrior's dodging movement faltered for a moment, and in that brief pause, two more ice needles pierced his legs.

Followed by.

The ice needles poured down like a torrential rain.

On the spot, the black-clad warrior's shattered corpse vanished, leaving only Lin Yan to recall the countless ice needles, which transformed back into a silver-white feather and returned to his body.

"Soon."

Lin Yan muttered to himself, not only because he was about to cross the threshold of the Space Origin Law, but also because his current physical qualities as a ninth-level Domain Lord meant he was not far from the Realm Lord level.

"Um?"

He suddenly paused, stunned.

He immediately disappeared onto the ice field.

……

Virtual universe, Ningxuan Island, inside a villa.

"Master, great news!" As soon as Lin Yan appeared, the fat cat jumped onto his shoulder, its eyes full of excitement.

"Speak quickly!"

Lin Yan glanced at it indifferently.

"Shadow Auction!"

"The Shadow Auction of the Lanyou Universe Kingdom will be held in 23 years!" The fat cat's tail swished excitedly. "According to the information they released, there will be a research-type secret technique of the Water Law up for auction at this auction."

Lin Yan's pupils contracted slightly; he had been waiting for this news for over 200 years.

"Shadow Auction..."

He repeated the name to himself.

Fat Cat wisely unfolded its light screen, displaying the collected information to Lin Yan.

Shadow Auction.

The auction, hosted by the Cosmic Galaxy Bank, is held only once every 1000 years in the Lanyou Cosmic Kingdom. It is specifically for dealing with "stolen goods" of dubious origin that cannot be brought to light.

Here, no one asks about the origin of the goods, no one checks the seller's identity, and no one tracks the buyer's information.

All transactions are conducted anonymously, and all traces will be erased by the Cosmic Galaxy Bank.

Among these stolen goods.

Some of them came from battlefields outside the region. For example, a powerful human killed a powerful alien race with a strong background and seized treasures that were too valuable to sell directly, yet he dared not use them directly.

Therefore, they anonymously converted their assets through the Shadow Auction to obtain cultivation resources.

Some come from secret realms in the universe, treasures brought out by explorers who risked their lives in these realms, but were hunted down because they were involved in the inheritance of a certain force, and could only be sold secretly through this channel.

Some of them are simply the remains of a family that was plundered after its extermination, and which ended up here after many twists and turns.

In short, every item at the Shadow Auction had some issues that couldn't be discussed openly.

Those who enter to participate in the auction can choose to conceal their appearance, identity, and strength to avoid causing trouble for themselves.

"Shadow?"

"I can't believe there are auctions like this."

Lin Yan suddenly found it interesting. He hadn't specifically collected this kind of information, nor would he be so bored as to do so.

It was only because Virtual Universe Company did not sell any research-type secret techniques related to the Law of Water that he turned his attention to channels outside the public market.

But this type of auction does have its reasons for existing.

Conceal your face, conceal your identity, conceal your strength—

These three crucial layers of concealment can resolve unnecessary troubles for buyers in a short period of time.

Some powerful individuals may not need these.

After all, who would dare covet the possessions of those immortal gods? Anyone who dared to reach out without sufficient strength would be slapped to death. But just because they don't need them doesn't mean others don't.

If a weak Domain Lord like Lin Yan were to auction off such a hot commodity without any attempt to conceal it, he would most likely bring trouble upon himself.

Every husband is not guilty, and he is guilty of his crime.

Once people find out, forget about cultivation, I might not even be able to save my life.

"Three-star customer, that's enough." Lin Yan stood up, walked to the window, and gazed through the virtual scenery of Ningxuan Island.

Auctions naturally have entry requirements.

The requirements for the Shadow Auction are that one must be a three-star customer of a bank on Universe Star One or the Universe First Bank, meaning that the account must have at least 10 Mixed Units of deposit.

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