First Hundred and Fifty-Third Chapter: Besieged

I just came in.

Waves of heat swept over them, the heat even more terrifying than the temperature inside a star, capable of easily melting ordinary Universe Level powerhouses! Even Lu Yan'an, with his current strength as a ninth-level Domain Lord, could not afford to be careless in the face of this heat!

His gaze swept quickly around. This was a cave, tens of thousands of kilometers high and tens of thousands of miles wide, with a vast space. The cave walls had countless cracks, from which waves of heat surged out.

Perhaps due to the terrifying heat, there wasn't even a single living being around! After observing the surroundings, Lu Yan'an began to walk towards the center of the cave ahead.

"Sizzle!"

A massive heat wave surged from the cracks, and in some areas, the temperature was so high that even he felt threatened!

Fortunately, Lu Yan'an had made thorough preparations, and he had avoided these high-temperature areas, so the surrounding environment posed no real threat to his life!

But after advancing for about half an hour, the scene before him made his expression change instantly! It seemed that he had arrived at the center of the cave, where the walls were carved with images of strange beasts. In the center of these images were several stone pillars covered with golden patterns, and on these golden patterns were layers upon layers of complex Secret Pattern.

"Tsk!" Lu Yan'an carefully observed the stone pillar in front of him, and then slowly walked towards it.

"Boom!"

When he was about ten meters away from the stone pillar, the golden patterns on its surface suddenly lit up. Then, the pillar rose rapidly, as if Lu Yan'an were riding an elevator. There were also corresponding mythical beast patterns on the top of the cave. Just as the pillar was about to reach the top, the patterns cracked, and the pillar burst out of the cave space.

Card.

The stone pillar had just emerged from the cave when it suddenly stopped.

"Roar! Roar!"

Before Lu Yan'an could even observe his surroundings, he heard a series of deafening roars and shouts.

The roars and shouts, accompanied by the vibrations of the armor, were highly rhythmic, as if welcoming a victorious army.

Upon hearing the call, his gaze immediately swept around.

This is a huge spiral space with a large number of stone steps floating overhead. Every eight steps form a platform, which is also carved with mythical beast patterns. These steps and platforms are densely packed throughout the space and extend to the top in a pyramid shape.

At this moment, a strange beast with the shape of a lake, its sharp claws Rend Heaven and Earth, came crashing down.

"Kill!" Seeing this, Lu Yan'an also drew his standard longsword and began fighting the strange beast.

With a "whoosh," the beast was instantly severed by the longsword. This beast wasn't particularly strong, only at the level of a normal Domain Lord! It was naturally no match for Lu Yan'an now.

"My God!" After the beast was beheaded, a series of voices suddenly came from the surrounding environment.

It turns out that this strange beast was just an appetizer! More and more strange beasts appeared from all directions.

From the front, back, left, right, up, down, and every other direction, strange beasts of all shapes and sizes pounced at us.

At the same time, Lu Yan'an's soul was also attacked by countless illusions, and various black Spiritual Force weapons flew around and bombarded him.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

A dense, overwhelming horde of strange beasts charged forward.

It's important to understand that this situation is far more critical than when he was tackling the Trial Tower back then! But to be fair, Lu Yan'an is no longer the naive little Star Level guy he was years ago.

"Buzz!"

The surrounding scenery has changed.

Originally, Lu Yan'an was in a spiral-shaped space, with a series of stone steps floating above his head, eight steps forming a platform. In an instant, the surrounding scenery changed, transforming into a vast plain. Then came towering mountains, with a blazing sun shining down on the vast plain.

All the strange beasts began to besiege Lu Yan'an on this plain.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

In less than a second, all the alien beasts participating in the attack lost consciousness and fell from mid-air one by one.

This move was precisely Lu Yan'an's application of the World Projection! Having just broken through to the level of the Heart World, Lu Yan'an was least afraid of being surrounded. The World Projection was equivalent to the power of an entire world pressing down! That terrifying sense of restraint was something that these ordinary Domain Lord- level alien beasts below could not withstand!

One hundred strange beasts were killed after losing consciousness.

One thousand.

Three thousand heads.

Eight thousand heads.

Countless strange beasts swarmed, seemingly endless. Moreover, with each kill, the beasts' strength slowly increased. Until one sudden moment, one of the beasts, though restricted by the World Projection, was able to move freely!

"This is... the World Energy?" Lu Yan'an observed the faint World Energy emanating from the strange beast, and his expression instantly turned ugly. Although the World Lord possessing the World Energy was still restricted in his movement under the limitations of the World Projection, it was much better than the previous group of Domain Lord who were unable to move. At least he was able to begin to counterattack Lu Yan'an.

"Awoo!" One after another, the strange beasts struggled against the pressure of the Heart World and desperately moved towards Lu Yan'an. The pressure restriction of the Heart World, which was billions of kilometers in diameter, began to have less and less effect on them.

Suddenly, an invisible force emanated from Lu Yan'an. A special Heart Power swept over all the strange beasts present, and wherever it passed, all the beasts instantly succumbed, and it was a succumb to their will!

"Is this the effect of Heart Power illusion? It's so terrifying!" Lu Yan'an looked at the effect of his Heart Power illusion in disbelief.

Although the World Projection had previously enabled the large-scale annihilation of these Domain Lord- level alien beasts, the emergence of World Energy capable of resisting pressure brought the swarm tactic back to the forefront. Now, the use of Heart Power Illusion had instantly subdued at least ten thousand World Lord Level alien beasts on the field! This level of performance far surpassed that of traditional illusion techniques!

"Moreover, the effect of the Heart Power Illusion Technique directly targets the enemy's will, so there is no situation where it is countered by non-flesh-and-blood life forms. Unless my opponent's will is strong enough to resist my secret technique, I am invincible!" After realizing this, Lu Yan'an looked at the strange beasts present, and his heart was no longer apprehensive!

Just like the Will Impact emanating from the Supreme Treasure "Ancient God Eye" in the original work, which had the same effect on the Machine Race's Universe Master, the Will Secret Technique applies to all life! And the illusion of Heart Power is essentially an illusion that acts on the will of the opponent. Its appearance perfectly makes up for the shortcomings of the Illusionist path in the Devouring Universe system.

"There must be some underlying logic behind this siege by these horde of beasts!" Lu Yan'an pondered carefully, observing the continuous emergence of beasts around him. "If I had come to this mission at the Universe Level, I probably wouldn't have even made it through the first round, would I?" He was now incredibly grateful for his decision to abandon this Purgatory Abyss at the Universe Level!

It wasn't that Lu Yan'an lacked confidence in himself; the strength of these strange beasts was simply outrageous. If he hadn't cultivated his Heart Power to the sixth level— the Heart World —even if he were incredibly powerful, he wouldn't have been able to leave alive! This was the level of difficulty of the mission, with a near 100% mortality rate. Pure martial artists, Controller, and even Illusionist would find it difficult to survive here.

"Simply wasting time here isn't a solution. I'll check the situation and see if there's a chance to escape!" After subduing all the strange beasts within the World Projection, Lu Yan'an began to get up and look for a way out.

Faced with this group of increasingly powerful beasts, although he didn't say it, he was very wary! Most importantly, he didn't know where the limit of these beasts' strength was.

Just after he cleared out this batch of World Lord Level alien beasts, the newly appeared alien beasts began to slowly carry the aura of laws! It seems that this batch of newly appeared alien beasts are all beings recognized by the Universe Origin Law!

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