Abyssal Silence Angel

"Liu Qing, tell me, do you think the senior intends to take me as his disciple?" Li Yilin asked, feeling a bit doubtful.

A one-on-one guidance session once every hundred years—that was the kind of treatment usually reserved for registered disciples.

"Master, Liu Qing does not know."

Being alone, it really is too lonely.

Li Yilin suddenly felt a sense of desolation. He looked at the empty manor, where only a dozen servants, purchased along with the estate, were busy with their own tasks.

Most of them were at the Planetary level, not even reaching the Stellar level.

Although Liu Qing knew many of his secrets and had followed him for tens of thousands of years, she was, after all, not a living being!

Sigh!

I should head back to the slave market and buy two beautiful housekeepers.

Despite these thoughts, Li Yilin turned around and logged into the Virtual Universe, arriving at the Killing Field.

Ever since he broke 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 participated in within reality were true combat; people actually died there.

While the battles in the Killing Field were also combat, death there was not a true death; there was no threat to his life.

To him, such battles were simply child's play.

The prevalence of life-and-death battles in the Giant Axe Arena already highlighted the difference between the Virtual Universe and reality.

The reason Li Yilin thought of coming to the Killing Field this time was that he recalled the senior Lei Xu Marquis guiding him in a place similar to the Battle Space.

He suddenly remembered that in the original story, when Luo Feng first came into contact with the universe, the three brothers from Earth had "spent a long time" in the Killing Space of the Killing Field. He still remembered those words from Babata.

"You can set up an opponent! Physical fitness, spiritual energy, consciousness, techniques, weapons, and so on—exactly the same as you! The only difference is that the opponent has incredibly rich experience and is extremely skilled at fighting."

"You can set the opponent to control their weapons perfectly! This way, you can see exactly how to wield a weapon to unleash its maximum power."

As the conversation between Luo Feng and Babata circled in his mind, Li Yilin came back to his senses and found himself standing in front of the Killing Field.

Without hesitation, he stepped inside. A hall that seemed to stretch on forever came into view, and at the end of the hall were rows of passageways.

Just as he entered, he saw quite a few people walking along the passages into the depths.

"The Killing Field."

Li Yilin raised an eyebrow. His gaze immediately fell upon an old man not far away with green skin and a wrinkled face, sitting in a chair with his eyes narrowed, his head swaying rhythmically as if he were doing something.

If he wasn't mistaken, this should be Man Luo, the general manager of the Black Dragon Mountain Island branch of the Killing Field from the original story.

He was also the first character from the original plot he had ever encountered.

If things went as expected, there was less than twenty years left until the next Genius Tournament.

He wondered if he would run into the three brothers from Earth by then.

Thinking of this, Li Yilin couldn't help but smile.

His gaze was still on Man Luo, and as he smiled, Man Luo opened his eyes and looked over. Li Yilin nodded slightly to express his apology.

"Heh!" Man Luo grinned, looking as kind as a neighbor's grandfather.

Li Yilin didn't hesitate any longer; he chose the nearest passageway and walked in.

Although he rarely visited the Killing Field, the bank account binding and other procedures had already been completed, so any fees would be deducted automatically.

For a Domain Lord, the daily cost was less than a hundred Universe Coins. Compared to his vast wealth, it was as cheap as if it were free.

His figure disappeared at the end of the passage, and Man Luo, sitting in his chair, rocked gently.

"A Domain Lord level 'Giant Axe Warrior', how rare!"

Five days later.

Li Yilin stepped out of the passage and walked toward a corner of the hall, where he ordered a drink and began to sip it slowly.

"Hmm, not bad."

Biting on the straw of his drink, his eyes scanned the people coming and going in the hall like a radar, and Li Yilin let his mind go blank once again.

He had been doing this intentionally or unintentionally lately to relax himself. There was no helping it; cultivation was truly an exhausting endeavor. Even if the progress in strength was addictive and made one tireless, once he stopped, all the fatigue would surge up at once.

Proper relaxation was more beneficial for cultivation.

"Oh? Not bad!"

After finishing his drink, Li Yilin came back to his senses. He looked at the empty bottle in his hand, blinked, tossed it aside, and entered the Battle Space—someone had accepted his battle request.

If the "Killing Space" was specifically designed to serve an individual and was the best training ground, then the "Battle Space" was the place to verify what one had learned. You could find opponents there and improve through mutual combat.

Battle Space.

This was a starry universe where countless stars, planets, and meteorites of various sizes moved along specific trajectories.

On a massive meteorite, Li Yilin appeared out of thin air. Before him stood a strange woman wearing black armor.

The woman's eyes were cast downward, and massive black wings behind her fluttered slightly, making her look like a legendary fallen angel—dark and annihilating.

The first sight of her made one think of death, withering, and destruction.

Yuanji!

Domain Lord level 9 martial artist, total battles 3527, wins 3206, losses 321, win rate as high as 90 percent.

Evaluation: Deep comprehension of Light Law, Domain level 9----

A martial artist with such a performance evaluation coming to the Battle Space must be looking for a glimmer of opportunity to break through.

Li Yilin thought to himself.

Deep comprehension of Light Law, Domain level 9----there was not a single mention of a superior law, not even to the extent of crossing the threshold.

This meant she was only lacking in a superior law; otherwise, she would have already been able to break through to the World Lord level.

Indeed, crossing every major tier was no simple matter. Domain Lord only required a certain level of involvement with laws, but to reach World Lord, one absolutely had to have some involvement with a superior law.

Every breakthrough between major tiers was accompanied by increasingly stringent requirements for the depth of law comprehension.

While Li Yilin was pondering, Yuanji opposite him slowly lifted her eyelids, revealing her blood-red eyes as she looked toward Li Yilin.

Is she really not the angel from the legends?

Li Yilin's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously flashed a smile.

It was nothing more than this: seeing something familiar always made him feel a sense of goodwill.

The short, fleeting decades of his past life had already defined where his heart belonged, his home.

In a long, unfamiliar world, suddenly seeing something familiar from his past life—even if that thing might remind one of unpleasantries—still made a long-lost sense of intimacy rise in his heart.

A foreign land versus one's hometown, it was nothing more than this!

Yuanji raised her eyes, her red pupils falling involuntarily upon Li Yilin's inexplicable, even somewhat silly-looking smile.

This was the first time someone hadn't been surprised, afraid, or avoidant after seeing her----but instead smiled!

Is he an idiot?

She lowered her gaze and glanced at the opponent's data evaluation provided by the Battle Space system.

Thunder Sovereign, the name is quite overbearing.

She didn't linger, continuing to read downward.

Domain Lord level 9 martial artist, wins 607, losses 136.

Evaluation: Certain depth of comprehension in Lightning Law, Time Law----

Her eyes narrowed, her gaze landing precisely on those four words.

Time Law!