Devour: Emperor Yan

From that day on, Lin Kun began his arduous training in the killing field.

Of course, he doesn't come every day, and he can't afford to spend money there.

Instead, they try to understand the laws in reality, and only after a period of time and feeling that they have made progress will they go to the killing field to verify them.

They usually go to the killing field once every three or four months or half a year, and stay for a full day each time to test what they have learned.

The opponents in the battle are also gradually raising their requirements.

From the initial ten, twenty, and dozens of ordinary level nine constant stars.

To the first level of the domain, the second level, the third level...

Then he comprehended a trace of the Law of Fire.

Stepping into the threshold of the Law of Fire...

The strength and difficulty of the opponents gradually increase.

Lin Kun was completely absorbed in his rigorous cultivation, ignoring all external affairs and desperately trying to improve himself.

......

Time flies.

In the blink of an eye, 150 years have passed.

Killing Space.

The vast land was covered in a blanket of snow.

Boom! Boom!

Two figures, one in black and one in red, clad in armor and wielding swords, stood twelve meters tall, with a single black horn on their foreheads and flames swirling around them, engaged in fierce combat.

Apart from the different colors of their armor, they were almost identical in appearance, height, fighting style, swordsmanship, movement, willpower, and so on.

clang clang ~

A series of enormous black and red blades of light slashed through the void, cleaving through the wind and snow along their path and colliding together.

The scorching blade light and shockwave seemed to melt away the icy landscape, turning it into rolling heat waves.

Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!

Two figures, one in black and one in red, clashed rapidly as they moved about.

As they moved, afterimages and illusory forms appeared, making it impossible to distinguish which one was their true self.

Battle, disillusionment, rebirth...

A rough count reveals that there are dozens or even hundreds of these illusory bodies.

This is a spatial illusion!

This intense battle lasted for most of the day.

Finally, at a certain moment.

"Ninefold Slash!"

The power of the dark red blade light suddenly surged, and nine enormous dark red blade lights arranged in a fan shape in the void before slashing down.

As it slashed down, the nine blade beams rapidly overlapped and converged, transforming into a massive blade beam over forty meters long that slashed down fiercely.

This strike was scorching hot and incomparably sharp!

The blade's edge locked onto the black figure, including its many illusory forms, and instantly destroyed everything.

snort~

The blade's momentum remained undiminished, cleaving a nearly hundred-meter-long, bottomless, thin gash in the icy snow, as easily as a sharp blade cutting through tofu.

drink!

Lin Kun raised his sword with both hands, and nine illusory sword beams, like a paper fan closing up, converged towards the center, eventually merging into one.

Clang!

The sword was sheathed.

Call ~

Lin Kun let out a long breath, standing there with a somewhat tired expression, the flames that had been burning around his body slowly dying down.

"Fighting against my 'self' from ten years ago is really difficult. It seems that I haven't made much progress in the past ten years."

He frowned and muttered something.

By fighting against his "self" from ten years ago, he can clearly understand the speed and extent of his progress over the past decade.

The result left him somewhat dissatisfied.

There has been progress, but not much.

After all, it took them most of the day to barely manage to kill their 'self' from ten years ago.

Of course, Lin Kun also knew that without learning profound secret techniques or receiving systematic guidance, his progress would be much slower if he had to explore on his own.

"Over the past 150 years, my understanding of the Law of Fire has increased several times over!"

"With the help of the basic movement technique, Ten Illusions, I have barely crossed the threshold of the spatial laws."

Ten Illusory Bodies?

He has long surpassed his master, and now he can create nearly a hundred avatars, far exceeding the ten avatars he once possessed.

"If I were to use a statistic to illustrate this more clearly, I think I've grasped about 5% of the Law of Fire?"

"And the spatial laws, should account for between 1% and 2%?"

Lin Kun thought to himself.

Of course, this is just a guess. Without a standard reference, he himself cannot be sure and can only make a rough estimate.

Uh, it's probably too high. Maybe we should add a zero, like a fraction of a percent, to make it more appropriate.

This is what he has gained over the past 150 years.

If we include the previous thirty years or so, and also the journey from the Savage Universe Kingdom back to the Qianwu Universe Kingdom, then it has been nearly one hundred and ninety years.

There were no teachers to instruct them, no profound secret techniques to learn, and no systematic guidance.

Purely wild, Lin Kun's ability to reach this level through self-exploration can only be described as barely acceptable.

"I wonder what level I am at in the Genius Battle right now? Can I make it into the top 100 or the top 10?" Lin Kun wondered to himself.

He immediately withdrew from the killing space.

......

The Killing Arena Hall.

Lin Kun, dressed in fiery red armor and with a dark red sword hanging at his waist, walked out from a corridor.

"Lin Kun, over here!" A cheerful voice suddenly rang out from afar.

Lin Kun turned his head and looked in the direction of the sound. He saw a gentle-looking bald man waving at him from a corner of the hall.

Beside the bald man sat a young man with short black hair, wearing a blood-red battle suit, and whose eyes held a hint of cold killing intent.

"Lin Kun, come and sit down," the young man with short black hair waved and called out with a smile.

"Thor, Luo Feng." Lin Kun smiled and walked over.

He found a chair and sat down, looking at the young man with short black hair. "You're all sitting here?"

"You're tired, come out and rest for a bit." The short-haired young man smiled and poured Lin Kun a drink.

"I'm tired too, I can't fight anymore, so I came out to rest for a bit." The bald man shrugged.

Lin Kun picked up his drink and downed it in one gulp, letting out a long breath before asking, "Where's Hong? Why isn't he here?"

"He's incredibly mad; he's still in the killing space," said Luo Feng, a young man with short black hair, with a laugh.

"I thought Luo Feng and I were crazy enough. The longest we've gone without leaving the Killing Space is three days. But Hong, he hasn't left the Killing Space for eight days straight. Don't you think he gets tired?" The bald man called Thor shrugged helplessly.

"That's really crazy."

Lin Kun nodded, then shook his head. "The three of you are all rich, super-rich! I come to the Killing Arena at most three or four times a year, one day each time, but you guys practically live here. Damn rich dogs."

"Haha." Upon hearing this, the two people opposite him both laughed.

Luo Feng, Thor, Hong!

These three are naturally the Earth trio who have only recently entered space.

Lin Kun had only known the three of them for a few months.

But they were quite familiar with each other.

Aside from the fact that the Earth trio is rich and frequents the killing field,

Also, Lin Kun and the three of them are "neighbors".

Of course, these aren't real-world neighbors, but rather neighbors in a virtual universe.

Decades ago, Lin Kun bought a second-hand two-story house in the Jiuxingwan residential area on Heilongshan Island.

Several months ago, after meeting the Earth trio in the Killing Arena lobby, Lin Kun overheard them mentioning that they also wanted to buy property in the virtual universe, so he casually recommended that they take a look at the Nine Star Bay community.

In the end, just like in the original story, the Earth trio bought a plot of land in the Nine Star Bay community and had some two-story wooden houses custom-built to serve as their residence in the virtual universe.

Luo Feng, Lei Shen, and Hong's family also live there, and they are neighbors with Lin Kun.

Over time, everyone naturally became familiar with each other.

Meet the Earth Trio and become friends.

Besides wanting to get to know them, Lin Kun also regarded the three of them as fellow villagers.

Lin Kun felt a sense of closeness when he was with the three of them.

If Lin Kun was trying to curry favor with someone powerful, then so be it.

After all, it's not shameful to curry favor with the Lord of Luo City.