Chapter 1692 - It’s Time

In the virtual realm cabin, Lin Huang went into closed-door cultivation again.

This time, his main objective was to refine the Kingdoms of Nine Snake and the other Raiders.

In the cabin, days went by.

Lin Huang completely lost all concept of time as he immersed himself fully in the refining process.

It was unclear how much time had passed when he finally managed to refine all nine Kingdoms completely.

On average, the short, burly, bald man and the other five middle-rank Lords had contributed approximately 80 Dao seals, which had given Lin Huang an increase of 483 Dao seals. His Dao tattoos had also shot up to over two million in number. 

Nine Snake and the other two upper-rank Lords had added 2,728 Dao seals to Lin Huang's existing total, and his Dao tattoos had increased to over twelve million in number.

This brought the total number of Dao seals in Lin Huang's Kingdom to 4,618 and significantly increased his Dao tattoos to over 33 million.

It could be said that this had exceeded the limits for an upper-rank Lord.

However, this was merely the limit of the power that he was able to use within his Kingdom.

In reality, outside his Kingdom, his ability was still restricted by the strength of his God's soul.

Apart from being able to invoke the three million levels of Dao tattoo power from his three Dao seals, at most, he could only borrow the Dao seal power of the 1,000 Dao seals in his Kingdom to give himself a further boost of 1.8 million levels of Dao seal power.

As long as he did not encounter a top-notch ultimate-rank Lord, he could fight anyone at all.

However, if he descended into his Kingdom, the total number of Dao seals currently within it was enough to defeat all ultimate-rank Lords.

This round of ability boosting was something entirely within the realm of Lin Huang's expectations.

After refining the Kingdoms of the nine Raiders, he did not proceed with the absorption of the twenty-two Origin Energies.

Aside from the two minor dao-level Origin Energies, he fed the remaining twenty spheres to Xiao Hei.

This was because Xiao Hei needed Origin Energy to create various cards.

Lin Huang needed Xiao Hei's help to create a lot of Advance Cards and Combat Strength Upgrade Cards so he could elevate the imperial monsters under his control to a level where they could be useful.

Furthermore, to Lin Huang at present, lord-level inheritances were not of very much use to him, even if there were Sword Dao cultivators and Lords with cultivation paths that specialized in God's soul. For those that were truly useful to Lin Huang, Xiao Hei could also use a small amount of Origin Energy to create Inheritance Cards, so there was no need for Lin Huang to absorb all of the Origin Energies.

As for the two minor dao-level Origin Energies, Lin Huang decided to keep them for the time being.

He would use them when he was finally able to do so.

He was not in a hurry to elevate his ability at present anyway. The twenty Origin Energies that Xiao Hei had absorbed were sufficient to elevate all of his imperial monsters to Pure Spirit rank-6 Lords.

As soon as he returned from the virtual realm to the Demon Eye Star Zone, Lin Huang summoned Yang Ling and passed him the storage rings from Nine Snake and the other Raiders.

Yang Ling immediately sensed the anomaly when he received the dozen or more storage rings. With some curiosity, he scrutinized them.

"This batch of storage rings isn't from our great world, right?" Yang Ling asked off-handedly as he carefully checked the rings.

"They're from the universe." Lin Huang nodded with a smile.

Yang Ling paused what he was doing when he heard that, and raised his head to look at Lin Huang. "Raiders?"

"That's right." The smile on Lin Huang's face did not change.

"You handled all of them?" Yang Ling pursued the matter further.

"Not a single one was left." Lin Huang nodded again.

"Didn't they send any upper-rank Lords?" Yang Ling was rather puzzled.

Theoretically speaking, since a middle-rank Lord had been killed, there had to be upper-rank Lords among the investigators sent by the Raiders' headquarters. Yang Ling felt that Lin Huang's abilities were likely not enough to handle the investigators that the Raiders sent this time.

"Yes, three came. One of them had abilities that weren't bad at all," Lin Huang commented with a smile.

"You killed all three upper-rank Lords?!" Yang Ling looked utterly shocked.

"I happened to achieve a small breakthrough before they arrived. I can only say that they were unlucky."

Yang Ling was rendered speechless. After quite a while, he could not help asking, "What exactly is your level of ability now anyway?"

In reality, he had been wanting to ask this question for a long time and finally could no longer resist the urge.

"It's almost the equivalent of an ultimate-rank Lord." Lin Huang silently added, 'If I don't go into my Kingdom.'

"Your elevation speed in terms of ability is just too frightening for words," Yang Ling exclaimed involuntarily.

He could be considered someone who had witnessed Lin Huang's development as it progressed. When Yang Ling first met him, Lin Huang was only at bronze-level. He had seen Lin Huang's combat strength elevate significantly along the way until lord-level, encountering practically no bottlenecks at all.

All this time, Yang Ling had even suspected that Lin Huang's Goldfinger had a connection to the elevation of his combat strength.

After passing the storage rings to Yang Ling, Lin Huang wanted to let Lin Xin and the others out from his Kingdom.

After all, for the time being, the threat from the Raiders was resolved, and he felt much more at ease about their safety.

Moreover, under the Sword Servants' covert protection, nothing would happen as long as they did not offend any half-step Lords or Lords.

However, Lin Xin rejected his suggestion when he brought it up.

Her reason was very simple. She wanted to become more powerful and did not want to be a burden.

Lin Xuan, Xiao Mo, Chan Dou, and the rest also declined to return to the great world.

Lin Huang had previously been worried that they would be bored staying in his Kingdom, so he had selected a hive and duplicated it for them so they could kill time through combat training.

It turned out they had become rather addicted to killing monsters in the duplicate hive.

They could train their combat skills and elevate their combat strength as well—there was no need to waste time moving to another place.

The reactions of Lin Xin and the others actually surprised Lin Huang a little.

He guessed that most likely, the move back into his Kingdom this time had caused them some pressure as well.

Naturally, they felt that they ought to become stronger.

Even if they could not fight enemies of the same level as Lin Huang, at the very least, they would not hold him back, nor would they give him trouble.

Lin Huang had to admire this sort of attitude, however.

It was a good thing for one to have a desire to improve.

In truth, he had been concerned that Lin Xin and Lin Xuan might become too sheltered and over-protected under his aegis. However, for a time after that, he had also felt that as long as he was a sufficiently powerful guardian, it would not matter if his siblings were sheltered. Allowing them to have a stable life was by no means a bad thing.

However, from the looks of things, Lin Xin, Lin Xuan, and the others had never lost their enterprising spirit.

All along, they had hoped to be able to share the burden with Lin Huang. It was just that their abilities were not yet up to par.

Seeing that Lin Xin and the rest had made up their minds, Lin Huang chose to respect their decision.

He merely informed them that they could return to the great world any time they wished.

Lin Huang was smiling as he withdrew his consciousness from his Kingdom. The decision that Lin Xin and the others had made gave him a great deal of comfort.

After only a moment of letting his mind wander, Lin Huang soon communicated through his consciousness with the contract within him. He then spoke to his imperial monsters through voice transmission.

"All of you can stop gathering resources for now. Return to the Demon Eye Star Zone in the human world as soon as possible."

The smile on Lin Huang's face grew increasingly brighter after he sent the message. "It's time to build my lord-level rank-6 imperial monster army...."