"Liu Qing, tell me, do you think Senior wants to take me as his disciple?" Li Yilin asked suspiciously.
A chance to receive personal guidance once every hundred years was probably the treatment even ordinary nominal disciples received.
"Master~ Liu Qing doesn't know."
Being alone was still too lonely.
Li Yilin suddenly felt a sense of solitude. He looked over the empty manor, where only a dozen or so servants provided with the estate were busy with their own tasks.
Most of them were only Planetary Level, not even Star Level.
Although Liu Qing knew many of his secrets and had followed him for tens of thousands of years, she was not truly alive in the end!
Sigh!
He would have to visit the slave market later and buy a couple of beautiful female stewards.
Though he thought so, Li Yilin immediately entered the Virtual Universe and arrived at the Killing Field.
Since breaking through to the Domain Lord Level, Li Yilin had visited the Killing Field only a handful of times. After all, the life-and-death battles he took part in reality were genuine battles where people could truly die.
Although battles in the Killing Field were still battles, death there was not real death, and there was no threat to one's life.
To him, such fights were practically child's play.
The popularity of life-and-death battles at the Giant Axe Arena already demonstrated the difference between the Virtual Universe and reality.
The reason Li Yilin had thought of entering the Killing Field this time was because when Senior Marquis Lei Xu had instructed him, they had been in a place similar to the Battle Space.
He suddenly recalled that when Luo Feng had first encountered the universe in the original story, the three Earth brothers had spent a long time in the Killing Space of the Killing Field. He still remembered Babata's words.
"You can set an opponent! Their physical attributes, spiritual force, consciousness, ultimate techniques, weapons, and so on can all be exactly the same as yours! The only difference is—the opponent's experience will be incredibly rich, and they will be exceptionally skilled in combat."
"You can set an opponent whose weapon control is incomparably perfect! That way, you can see exactly how to wield a weapon to bring out its greatest power."
Luo Feng and Babata's conversation circled through his mind. By the time Li Yilin came back to himself, he was already standing before the Killing Field.
Without hesitation, he stepped inside. A vast hall stretching beyond sight entered his view, and at the far end of the hall stood passageways one after another.
Even as he entered, he saw quite a few people walking deeper inside through those passageways.
"The Killing Field."
Li Yilin raised his brows. His gaze immediately landed on an elderly man not far away with green skin and a head covered in wrinkles. The old man sat in a chair with narrowed eyes, rhythmically swaying his head, doing who knew what.
If nothing unexpected happened, he should be Man Luo, the chief person in charge of the Black Dragon Mountain Island branch of the Killing Field in the original story.
He was also the first plot character from the original story whom Li Yilin had encountered.
If nothing unexpected happened, there were less than twenty years left until the next Genius Tournament.
He wondered whether he would meet the three Earth brothers then.
Thinking of that, Li Yilin could not help smiling.
His gaze was still on Man Luo. As he smiled, Man Luo had somehow already opened his eyes and looked over. Li Yilin gave a slight nod in apology.
"Heh!" Man Luo grinned, looking as kindly as an old grandfather next door.
Li Yilin did not hesitate further. He chose the nearest passageway and walked in.
Although he rarely visited the Killing Field, he had already completed procedures such as linking his bank account. Any fees would simply be deducted directly.
At the Domain Lord Level, even a full day's expense was less than a hundred Universe Coins. Compared with his enormous wealth, it was practically free----
His figure vanished at the end of the passageway, while Man Luo, seated in his chair, gently rocked back and forth.
"A Domain Lord Level Giant Axe Warrior. That's truly rare!"
Five days later.
Li Yilin walked out of the passageway and headed to a corner of the hall, where he ordered a drink and slowly savored it.
"Mm, not bad."
With the drink's straw in his mouth, Li Yilin's eyes swept over the people passing through the hall like radar as his mind went blank again.
Recently, he had often deliberately or unconsciously relaxed this way. There was no helping it—cultivation was truly exhausting on the mind. Even if the progress in strength was addictive enough to make one forget fatigue, once he stopped, all the exhaustion would come crashing in at once.
Proper relaxation was more beneficial to cultivation.
"Eh? Pretty good!"
After finishing his drink, Li Yilin came back to himself. Looking at the empty bottle in his hand, he blinked, tossed it aside, and entered the Battle Space. Someone had accepted his challenge request.
If the Killing Space was designed specifically to serve one person and was the best training ground, then the Battle Space was a place to test what one had learned. There, one could find opponents and improve through fighting each other.
Battle Space.
This was a starry universe. Countless stars, planets, and meteoroids of varying sizes moved along predetermined trajectories.
Li Yilin appeared out of thin air on a massive meteoroid. Before him stood an unfamiliar woman clad in black battle armor.
The woman's eyes were lowered. Enormous black wings behind her gently beat, making her seem like a fallen angel from legend—dark and silent.
At the first sight of her, one thought of death, withering, and destruction----
Yuanji!
Domain Lord Level ninth-rank Fighter. 3,527 total battles, 3,206 wins, 321 losses, with a win rate as high as ninety percent.
Evaluation: Extremely profound comprehension of the Light Law, ninth-level domain----
A Fighter with such an evaluation had likely come to the Battle Space in search of a chance to break through.
Li Yilin thought.
Extremely profound comprehension of the Light Law, ninth-level domain----there was not a single mention of a Higher Law, not even at the threshold-crossing level.
That meant she was lacking only in a Higher Law. Otherwise, she would already have been able to break through to the World Master Level.
Sure enough, every major leap in realm was no simple matter. A Domain Lord merely needed a certain degree of involvement with Laws, but upon reaching the World Master Level, one had to gain some understanding of a Higher Law.
Every breakthrough into a major realm came with even stricter requirements for the depth of one's Law comprehension.
As Li Yilin pondered, Yuanji across from him slowly lifted her eyelids as well, revealing blood-red eyes that looked toward him.
Was she really not some angel from legend?
Li Yilin's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously smiled.
There was no other reason. Whenever he saw something familiar, he could not help feeling fondness for it.
The brief few decades of his previous life had already determined where his heart belonged, the homeland of his heart.
In a long and unfamiliar world, suddenly seeing something familiar from his previous life—even if it was something that made people think of unpleasant things—still made a long-lost sense of closeness rise within him.
A foreign land and one's homeland were nothing more than that!
Yuanji lifted her eyes, and her red gaze unconsciously fell upon Li Yilin's inexplicable, almost foolish-looking smile.
It was the first time someone had smiled upon seeing her, rather than acting surprised, frightened, or evasive----
Was he an idiot?
She lowered her gaze and looked at the opponent information and evaluation provided by the Battle Space system.
Thunder Sovereign. The name was rather domineering.
She did not linger and continued reading.
Domain Lord Level ninth-rank Fighter. 607 wins, 136 losses.
Evaluation: His comprehension of the Lightning Law had reached a certain depth, Time Law----
Her expression sharpened, and her gaze locked precisely onto those four words.
Time Law!
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