Swallowing the Stars: Analyzing All Things

In mid-air on the continent of Lanqi.

Lin Yan hovered in mid-air, having dealt with several Domain Lord-level opponents, and calmly looked down, waiting for his team members to complete their respective elimination missions.

Each team member played to their strengths, with the most outstanding being his mentalist assistant, Wei Ran. Although not as relaxed and effortless as Lin Yan, she was still quite efficient and capable.

Less than ten minutes.

The team members then each defeated their opponents.

"team leader!"

"team leader……"

The team members gathered from all directions, surrounding Lin Yan and looking at him with admiration.

They had all witnessed the battle just now. In just a few breaths, Lin Yan had taken down four Domain Lord level experts, including the sixth-level Domain Lord.

All of this instilled in them a deep sense of awe for their captain.

Moreover, because Lin Yan's killings had intimidated the tribe, the local people's resistance was far weaker than usual, which allowed them to complete the extermination mission in such a short time and at no cost.

"Um!"

Lin Yan glanced at everyone and nodded slightly. The team members had performed quite well in this mission. Although their teamwork was still a bit rough, at least they didn't hold the team back.

"Ready..."

He glanced at the battlefield again, his mental energy covering every corner to make sure nothing was missed, and was about to give the order to return.

"Um?"

Suddenly, Lin Yan frowned.

In that instant, the mental power actually detected an extremely faint fluctuation, which was neither an energy fluctuation nor a life force.

If it weren't for his keen senses, his initial understanding of the laws of space, and his mastery of the second level of Void Shadow, he would never have been able to discover it.

"Who?"

Lin Yan's voice boomed in the void, and his gaze suddenly turned to the sparse forest outside the tribe.

The aura seemed to be startled.

A figure darted out of the woods at an astonishing speed, leaving a blurry afterimage in the air. Its life force was only at the Hengxing level, but its speed was in no way inferior to Lin Yan's.

Lin Yan's pupils contracted slightly.

A ninth-level Constant Star possesses a speed comparable to a ninth-level Domain Lord. This is abnormal, extremely abnormal.

"You go back first."

He immediately said to the others, "I'll go after them."

"Captain—" Wei Ran stepped forward, as if to say something.

"That's an order."

Before he could finish speaking, Lin Yan's figure vanished from the spot. He chased after the figure, pushing his speed to the limit, but the figure in front of him always maintained a distance.

however.

Just a few minutes later.

The figure seemed to be unable to hold on any longer, its speed decreased instantly, until its body swayed precariously due to inertia.

"Whoosh!"

Lin Yan flashed and blocked the figure's path.

This is an indigenous person.

But unlike the Stone-skinned tribe he had seen before, this native was more slender, had a more human-like head, and had dark brown skin that was as smooth as satin.

However, at only 1.8 meters tall, he is considered short among indigenous peoples.

"No...don't kill me..."

The native knelt on the ground, his cloudy, dark yellow eyes filled with fear, his body trembling slightly, yet he begged for mercy in a broken, universal language.

"Buzz~"

Lin Yan did not reply. Instead, he unleashed his mental power, instantly constructing a deep hypnotic illusion. Since the Stone Skin Clan was a race with a soul, illusion techniques were naturally effective against them as well.

"Origin? Purpose of being here? Why are you running?"

Lin Yan's voice echoed in the illusion, and under the shroud of the illusion, the native spoke some information intermittently.

He comes from a country on the mainland. He has come out to train in order to find the "secret bones" left behind by the legendary sacrificial temple, so as to strengthen himself and return to compete for the right to inherit his family's estate.

Lin Yan frowned slightly upon hearing this.

"You're just a ninth-tier Celestial Realm cultivator, how can you achieve such speed?"

The native remained silent for a moment in the illusion, then his voice became erratic, "It's a secret bone... I've fused with the secret bone passed down from the temple of shrines..."

"Secret Bones?"

Lin Yan's mental power enveloped the native, scanning his body inch by inch—skin, muscles, bones, internal organs, energy flow… everything was clearly visible in his perception.

Then he noticed something was wrong.

The leg bone of this native was clearly not his own, but rather appeared to have been transplanted through some means.

The leg bone was silvery-white, with fine lines on its surface, crisscrossing like blood vessels. It was connected to the native's own skeleton in some way, and energy flowed at the interface, maintaining the fusion of the two.

From this local, Lin Yan learned more information, some of which was not even issued by the military system.

Legend has it that long, long ago, the entire starry sky was ruled by a force called the "Temple of Sacrifice".

The continent of Lanqi is just a small part of the countless territories that the Temple of Sacrifice once ruled, but for some reason, the Temple of Sacrifice lost contact with this continent tens of thousands of years ago.

"Tens of thousands of epochs ago?"

Lin Yan pondered for a moment. Wasn't it precisely the time tens of thousands of years ago when the demon race and the human race opened up this extraterrestrial battlefield? This so-called sacrificial temple was probably destroyed long ago.

shook his head.

He continued organizing the information.

The priests of the temple possess an ancient secret technique called "Secret Bone," which allows them to transplant special bones into their bodies and activate them with a unique power of their tribe, thereby greatly enhancing themselves.

Speed, strength, defense, perception—

Different bones have different amplification effects.

However, not all indigenous people can integrate and use the secret bones; it requires a specific physique and even a long period of sacrifice.

Moreover, each time the Secret Bone is activated, a huge price must be paid—burning one's life force, which may even lead to the disintegration of the body.

The secret bone on this native's body came from a ruined valley in the western part of the continent.

In that valley of ruins.

According to the indigenous people, he found a complete skeleton in the ruins and, with great effort, removed a leg bone from the skeleton and temporarily transplanted it onto himself.

"A complete skeleton?"

Just as Lin Yan was about to press for more information, he suddenly realized that the native's life force had dissipated.

died.

The life force within my body seemed to be drained away by some force, as if swallowed by some being, silently and without a trace.

"Is this the price for using that secret bone?"

Lin Yan remained silent for a moment, then used his mental power to probe out the silvery-white leg bone.

As I held the leg bone, a warm sensation spread from my palm. It wasn't large, only about a foot long, but its weight was astonishing.

It weighs at least tens of thousands of kilograms.

Its surface is as smooth as a mirror, and its texture is as fine as hair. Under the dark red light of the sky, it gleams with a faint silver light.

Lin Yan stored the leg bone in his world ring and turned to fly towards the spaceship.

Behind them, the dark red sunlight shone on the earth, enveloping everything in a blood-red hue.

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