Void Realm True Meaning

The abyss seemed to have no end at all.

Entering it meant certain death. Death Crystals were only produced at the edges.

Here, even Zhou Lin's soul could not extend outward.

He could only grope around the edges slowly, like a blind man trying to feel out an elephant.

"Ugh, this thing is way too hard to find." Zhou Lin had circled the edge for at least several hundred kilometers, but everything he touched was just dirt or stones.

Occasionally, he could even touch bones.

They might have belonged to a Cosmic level expert who had died here while carrying out a mission.

This Death Star was located in a secret realm of the Universe Mercenary Alliance. Talents from the Five Great Powers would occasionally come here to explore, so the bones of Cosmic level experts could still be preserved for a fairly long time.

As for the Virtual Universe System's description of the core abyss, it said that Death Qi would occasionally erupt here, and anyone below the World Lord level would die without exception.

As Zhou Lin searched, he also had to guard against the Weird Creatures in the mist.

Thus, he followed the edge of the abyss for at least several thousand kilometers.

"Something's wrong. I feel like I've been here before..."

Zhou Lin's consciousness was incredibly sharp, and he quickly noticed that something was wrong.

He seemed to be under some kind of influence.

"This Death Qi is affecting my will?!"

Zhou Lin immediately felt a chill run down his spine. The Virtual Universe System had not mentioned this at all.

That meant that, in the eyes of the higher-ups, this kind of influence on one's will was an unavoidable part of the journey. The talents had to discover it themselves for it to serve as a tempering experience.

If they knew about it from the beginning, they could simply take precautions.

The confusion caused by this place was not particularly strong.

In fact, Zhou Lin's initial guess that a super expert might have fallen here had indeed been almost exactly right.

But it had not been a true super expert.

Billions of years ago, many powerful experts had fallen in the Primordial Universe.

The Innate Beast Gods and various other Special Lifeforms had been surrounded and killed by countless super existences.

Among them was a Beast God that had been besieged in Human Territory. Before it died, its resentment had soared to the heavens. It had gone on a rampage, crazily destroying everything in an attempt to drag more innocents down with it.

The Death Star had been stained by this Beast God's resentment.

This place had already been extremely remote and strange, an isolated and desolate Cosmic Secret Realm.

The Beast God's resentment before death had cut off all signs of life.

As time passed, this place became what it was now. A Universe's Strongest might have been able to change everything, but Giant Axe had never taken action.

Zhou Lin's expression grew increasingly solemn. The human higher-ups had clearly arranged this trial for a reason.

A test of will?

He continued searching, hoping to find the legendary Death Crystal.

After some time, Zhou Lin suddenly noticed that the sensation beneath his hand was strange, as if he were touching a mass of sticky liquid.

According to the mission description, the Death Crystal felt scorching hot like a flame, hot enough to make a Cosmic level body feel somewhat unable to endure it.

"What kind of strange thing is this?"

Zhou Lin picked it up in confusion, only to discover that he was holding a purple stone. Its texture instead felt like mucus.

After thinking for a moment, he did not use the Virtual Universe System to search for what it was. Instead, he directly chose the system panel.

[The system has detected that the host possesses an E-Class rare treasure, Purple Spirit Stone. Would you like to exchange it?]

"Exchange it?" Zhou Lin pondered for a long while before saying, "Is there an exchange panel? Let me see."

As soon as he finished speaking, an exquisite and dazzling panel appeared before him. However, the items listed were all of ordinary quality, consisting almost entirely of World Lord level or ordinary god-level items.

There were even Fourth-grade True Meanings and Third-grade True Meanings, though he had no idea what use they would be.

The cultivation techniques and similar items were also inferior to what he could purchase himself.

One had to know that if Zhou Lin wanted to obtain a cultivation method suitable for cultivating the Chaotic Hole True Meaning, it was completely impossible to exchange for one with an E-Class item.

[The host may choose a random exchange. The quality of an item obtained through a random exchange can rise by one level.]

"Then I'll choose the random exchange."

E-Class was at the World Lord level, equivalent only to an ordinary god.

Rising by one level in quality would make it equivalent to a Peak God.

Zhou Lin's current strength was already comparable to that of a World Lord, so treasures of this level were not particularly meaningful to him.

[Congratulations, host. You have obtained a Second-grade True Meaning: Void Realm True Meaning.]

Zhou Lin was no stranger to the Void Realm True Meaning. It was the path Dong Bo Xue Ying was most skilled in.

If he used it to condense a God Heart, he could become a Peak God with just a little polishing.

"Void Realm... it's actually the Void Realm!"

Zhou Lin was ecstatic. This thing could let him move through the illusory world. Without a Void Realm Technique capable of attacking it, there was completely no way to harm him.

He could also kill enemies through a Void Realm clone while hiding his true body.

Of course, World Lords possessed World Projections, while Immortal experts possessed Law Domains. Both could completely suppress Zhou Lin's Void Realm Technique.

In a real battle, it could only bully the weak.

But this was the Death Star. The Death Knights were merely comparable to Immortal experts in strength, which did not mean they truly possessed those kinds of techniques.

With only powerful strength and no laws or domain abilities, it was impossible to harm Zhou Lin.

Zhou Lin had just obtained the True Meaning at the first level. The world around him began to distort, and his entire person vanished without a trace, arriving in another world.

As soon as he entered the Void Realm, Zhou Lin could sense the difference.

He could still touch the ground with his hands. Even when he entered the mist and faced the Weird Creatures, nothing happened. The other party could not detect his existence at all.

If he relied solely on the Void Realm True Meaning, its offensive power would be especially weak.

But Zhou Lin also possessed the Chaotic Hole True Meaning. Combining the two would only make his strength terrifyingly powerful.

Walking through the Void Realm, Zhou Lin was no longer afraid of encountering Death Knights. Instead, he searched with great patience.

"If they rely solely on strength, they probably need to be capable of interfering with the stability of real space before they can barely affect me."

Just now, Zhou Lin had casually toyed with a World Lord level Death Knight and killed it. The other party had no idea what was happening and could only stand there stupidly, allowing itself to be attacked.

Pure strength was not enough to affect the Void Realm.

At the very least, one had to be at the Immortal level and capable of truly affecting spatial stability before one could injure Zhou Lin across the Void Realm.

As for the Venerable level, even without any laws, they could burn space into particle streams, and a trace of the aftershock of their might could shatter his Void Realm body.

Unfortunately, the edge of the abyss was too vast. Zhou Lin searched step by step, while occasionally remaining alert for eruptions of Death Qi. The strongest might at the center was definitely capable of affecting the Void Realm.

If surviving in Demon Mountain or the Purgatory Abyss meant that one could maintain fairly high control over the surrounding environment,

then in this strange place, one's mind had to remain tense at all times, because no one knew what lay ahead.

In the second month on the Death Star,

Zhou Lin encountered a Cosmic level expert wearing armor along the way.

Judging by his appearance, he should have come from the Universe Mercenary Alliance. However, Zhou Lin was in the Void Realm, so it was impossible for the other party to discover him.

"These Death Crystals really are hard to come across."

Zhou Lin had already walked along the edge of the abyss for so long, yet he still had not found the legendary Death Crystal.

That was the true essence of the Death Star.

It was the embodiment of the Beast God's resentment, and it could provide considerable help to both the soul and the will.

Even Immortal and Venerable experts could make use of it.

As for these little Cosmic level fellows, they had almost no chance of discovering the secret behind the Death Star.

"There's one month left before the survival mission is complete. If I can't obtain a Death Crystal, then for me, this will only be a two-hundred-thousand-point mission."

Zhou Lin hesitated over whether he should rely on the Void Realm to take a risk and make one desperate attempt.