Slaughter: The Next Simulation Opportunity

The battle was being fought by four Marquis-Rank Immortals, though it was not a two-on-two; it was a three-on-one, clearly a gang assault.

The one being besieged was an exceptionally tall Rock Lifeform. His entire body erupted with a grayish-brown radiance, his face twisted in a savage snarl as he roared repeatedly.

Those assaulting the Rock Lifeform were three Silver-Eyed Giant Beasts. The three giants remained completely silent, yet their strikes were incredibly ruthless, each move aimed squarely at the Rock Lifeform's life.

All four immortals possessed considerable strength, roughly at the high-Marquis or peak-Marquis level. Facing three opponents alone, the Rock Lifeform was naturally being beaten into a wretched state.

However, in typical battles between Marquis-Rank Immortals, while a victor could be decided, it was extremely difficult to actually kill one another. To kill a Marquis, one generally needed to be a full major tier stronger to have any hope.

But this time, it was different.

The three Silver-Eyed Giant Beasts had all burned their divine bodies. Two high-Marquis Silver-Eyed Giant Beasts were responsible for restricting the Rock Lifeform's movements, while one peak-Marquis Silver-Eyed Giant Beast was frantically slamming strike after strike into the Rock Lifeform's body.

With his peak-Marquis strength and his divine body burning, combined with his desperate execution of ultimate techniques, he barely possessed the ability to injure this high-Marquis Rock Lifeform.

"Are you three insane?"

"I've never provoked you, so why are you risking your lives against me? Even if you kill me, you'll lose the majority of your own strength!"

"Is it worth it? Why?"

"%&*%...&￥&~!"

The Rock Lifeform roared, interspersing his shouts with profanities from his homeland, but the three Silver-Eyed Giant Beasts offered no response, continuing their relentless assault.

"Once you're dead, go ask my brother yourself." The peak-Marquis Silver-Eyed Giant Beast's eyes burned with a frenzied light.

"Help!"

"Requesting reinforcements!"

"I've run into three lunatics from the Monster Race! If anyone can come and help me, I, Tu Feng, am willing to do anything for them."

The Rock Lifeform realized he couldn't escape, so he frantically broadcasted a plea for help, but no one responded.

However, ten seconds after the battle erupted:

Whoosh!

A spatial fluctuation suddenly appeared above the island, followed by a figure clad in black armor manifesting in the sky.

"Teleportation?"

The Rock Lifeform felt a surge of joy; anyone capable of mastering Teleportation was undoubtedly a King-Sealing powerhouse.

But immediately after, the joy in his heart dissipated significantly.

He belonged to the Machine Race camp, and the newcomer was clearly a human King-Sealing powerhouse.

This was obviously not a powerhouse who had arrived in response to his distress signal.

Still, the Rock Lifeform believed this was his chance.

"Three idiots, don't you see that human King-Sealing powerhouse? Do you want to die with me?" the Rock Lifeform roared.

The three Silver-Eyed Giant Beasts naturally noticed the figure above. The two high-Marquis Silver-Eyed Giant Beasts immediately felt the urge to retreat, and although the peak-Marquis Silver-Eyed Giant Beast longed to kill the Rock Lifeform with his own hands, he could not withstand the urging of his companions.

"Go!"

The three Silver-Eyed Giant Beasts instantly erupted with speed, streaking off into the distance.

The Rock Lifeform shot off in the opposite direction.

Now was the time to gamble on luck, to see which target the human powerhouse would pursue first.

Those three lunatics are surely a bigger attraction than me alone, right? As long as that human King-Sealing powerhouse isn't a fool, he won't chase me, the Rock Lifeform sneered inwardly.

With just a little more time, he could accelerate to the speed of light and enter the Dark Universe to escape.

The one who had arrived was naturally Zhou Yu.

He was quite pleased; having only been in the Outer Battlefield for ten days, encountering four Marquis-Rank Immortals was a rare stroke of luck.

"None of you are leaving."

Zhou Yu's thoughts stirred, and his divine power erupted.

The Space Myriad Blade Disk, a spiritual treasure he had purchased for fifty billion points, instantly split into 108 parts. Each part utilized Teleportation, appearing simultaneously in different spaces within a radius of over a hundred thousand miles.

These 108 spiritual weapons easily manipulated the Space Law, linking together to form a spherical space spanning hundreds of thousands of miles.

This spherical space was absolutely sealed; while it could not yet block Teleportation, there was no way for a Marquis-Rank Immortal to escape it.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The spherical space was filled with immense resistance, and the four individuals, who had been accelerating rapidly in their attempt to flee, saw their speed plummet instantly.

"What kind of technique is this?" The three Silver-Eyed Giant Beasts were struck with terror.

"It looks a bit like the effect of a Machine Race weapon."

The Rock Lifeform's heart sank; he had seen weapons with similar effects used by a powerhouse of the Machine Race.

Without prior agreement, the four Marquis-Rank Immortals began frantically bombarding the invisible barrier at the edge of the spherical space. It must be noted that they were all in a state of burning their divine bodies, each capable of unleashing attacks at the King-Sealing level, yet the spatial barrier remained incredibly stable, refusing to break.

"If I let you lot break through, this move wouldn't be worthy of being called a peak secret technique." Zhou Yu stood in the sky, perfectly calm.

Secret techniques were perhaps the only thing worth mentioning about this "genius" at the moment.

In Chaos City, Zhou Yu chose the "Burning Sky Chaos Stele." While the "Burning Sky Path" recorded within this stele is quite powerful, it certainly cannot compare to paths like the Path of the Beast God or the Path of Time and Space.

Moreover, this path is, in the end, merely someone else's path.

Therefore, in the simulation, Zhou Yu attempted to embark on a different path while on the Outer Battlefield. Using the "Burning Sky Path" as his foundation, he began to create his own secret technique.

Ultimately, Zhou Yu drew inspiration from a Machine Race powerhouse he had killed and embarked on the "Matrix Path."

Following this path, although he did not manage to create a peak-level secret technique in the simulation, he was not far from it.

It was these past few years that truly allowed this path to undergo a transformation.

Zhou Yu integrated many concepts from the Great Dao of Arrays of the Desolate Era World into it, finally allowing his secret technique to evolve. Zhou Yu is certain that his secret technique at this moment is a peak-level secret technique.

Zhou Yu now calls this secret technique Array of Time and Space.

The reason it is called the Array of Time and Space is that Zhou Yu has ambition; at this moment, he is only using the Space Law to evolve this move, but he intends to integrate the Time Law in the future.

"The four of you, just die for me." Zhou Yu was naturally merciless at this moment, his divine power erupting continuously.

Terrifying beams of light erupted from all directions of the array, shooting toward the four Marquis-Rank Immortals.

Each of these beams was nearly equivalent to a full-force strike from a Peak-Level King-Rank, and the four Marquis-Rank Immortals could not block them even by burning their divine bodies.

Every strike easily caused them to lose a large amount of their divine bodies.

"Human, I'll fight you to the death!"

The three Silver-Eyed Giant Beasts roared and lunged at Zhou Yu, but before they could even get close, they were submerged in the eruption of endless beams of light.

The other Rock Lifeform recognized the reality quickly; he understood that he was definitely doomed.

However, before dying, he sent out one last message.

"I have been killed by an unfamiliar human powerhouse. His moves are very unique, characterized by..."

The moment the message was sent, the Rock Lifeform was annihilated by the barrage of attacks.

"Last time, killing a Top-Tier Celestial Immortal granted me a simulation opportunity, but this time, killing four Marquis-Rank Immortals in one go didn't yield one. It seems the origin energy required for each simulation is not only increasing, but the jump is quite significant."

Zhou Yu understood this in his heart, but since he was on the Outer Battlefield anyway, he could just kill more.

Whoosh!

Zhou Yu waved his hand to take out a spaceship and quickly left the island.

Zhou Yu did not venture deep into the Dark Continent; in the Dark Continent, the deeper one goes, the more powerhouses there are.

If Zhou Yu had come to hone himself, he would naturally head deep inside to fight against King-Ranks, but he was here to kill, and searching the periphery was more efficient.

In the blink of an eye, three years had passed.

Although there are countless powerhouses on the Dark Continent, the continent is too vast, and the powerhouses are widely dispersed. Even with the vast detection range of Zhou Yu's detector, finding people is still not easy.

Excluding the four Marquis-Rank Immortals he was lucky enough to encounter at the beginning, in the following years, Zhou Yu's record was not very high, having only killed one Marquis-Rank and four General-Rank Immortals.

In fact, Zhou Yu knew that his bullying of weaker Immortals might not have mattered at first, but if he killed too many in a certain area, the various factions would certainly notice and take countermeasures.

After all, Immortals are not infinite, especially Marquis-Rank Immortals, who are already quite rare and cannot be slaughtered at will.

"Whatever, I'll kill to my heart's content before anyone finds out." Zhou Yu felt very calm.

On this day, Zhou Yu, who was comprehending the Space Law inside his spaceship, suddenly opened his eyes. His detector's auxiliary AI suddenly alerted him that a powerhouse had been discovered one billion kilometers away.

"It's King Jiuyu of the Zerg Race faction. The data says he has roughly the strength of a High-Level King-Rank." Zhou Yu pondered.

This was the first King-Rank Immortal he had encountered since arriving at the Outer Battlefield. In terms of strength, Zhou Yu was definitely stronger than King Jiuyu.

King-Ranks are roughly divided into levels: Primary, High, Peak, Limit, and Invincible. King Jiuyu is a High-Level King-Rank, while Zhou Yu, having created a peak-level secret technique on the foundation of a Peak-Level King-Rank, can already be considered a Limit-Level King-Rank.

"I have some confidence in killing him, but considering he might call for reinforcements, I will have to pay a price." After thinking for a moment, Zhou Yu decided to act.

He had never gone all out before. As a proud human genius, it was beneath him to always kill Marquis-Rank and ordinary Immortals; it was embarrassing to even mention. Only by killing a King-Rank could he prove his worth.

Having made his decision, Zhou Yu did not hesitate. He performed a teleportation and instantly appeared one billion kilometers away.

Because the detector was not as high-end as Zhou Yu's, King Jiuyu had not discovered Zhou Yu at all, so when Zhou Yu appeared, King Jiuyu did not even react.

By the time he reacted, Zhou Yu had already unleashed his ultimate move, Array of Time and Space, and trapped him within it.

That was not all; blood-colored patterns instantly lit up on Zhou Yu's body.

Xueluo Power!

Zhou Yu had become a Blood Warrior when he was at the Universe Rank. Later, he naturally tried to integrate Xueluo Crystals continuously, but unfortunately, he had not been able to become a Black Warrior by the time he broke through to become an Immortal.

Actually, this was normal. To become a Black Warrior, besides having a strong will, the key was that one's own genes had to be compatible with the Metal Beast God.

Will and genetic compatibility were both crucial.

Because of this, the Zhou Yu in the simulation eventually stopped obsessing over becoming a Black Warrior and chose to break through directly.

However, although he failed to become a Black Warrior, he had integrated eight Xueluo Crystals, which allowed him to erupt with several times his normal power.

Boom!

Zhou Yu immediately burned 0.5% of his divine body as well.

To kill a High-Level King-Rank, burning this much divine body for a Limit-Level King-Rank like him was more than enough.

"Who is he?"

King Jiuyu was incomparably shocked. An unknown Peak-Level King-Rank powerhouse, and he had burned his divine body the moment they met?

Was this guy insane?

"King Jiuyu, die."

Zhou Yu controlled the Array of Time and Space, causing it to shrink rapidly. In the blink of an eye, it had contracted to less than a thousand miles, and immediately after, streaks of pitch-black light erupted from within.

Each streak of light was, in fact, an attack formed by Zhou Yu manipulating his spiritual weapon.

A single attack, without him burning divine power or unleashing Xueluo Power, was merely comparable to the full-force strike of a normal Peak-Level King-Rank. However, as he was currently burning divine power and utilizing Xueluo Power, the might of each strike exceeded that of a Peak-Level King-Rank burning their own divine power.

The key was that these rays were not just a single beam, but thirty-six of them erupting simultaneously.

While maintaining the stability of the Array of Time and Space, unleashing thirty-six attacks at once was Zhou Yu's limit.

In that instant, the thirty-six attacks completely engulfed King Jiuyu.

"Madman!!"

King Jiuyu burned his divine power regardless of the cost, but even after doing so, he was still outmatched. In the blink of an eye, he was completely submerged by the thirty-six attacks.

King Jiuyu, dead!

At this moment, a smile appeared on Zhou Yu's face.

Killing King Jiuyu was worth celebrating, but what was even more gratifying was that the origin energy he had absorbed had finally accumulated enough for his next simulation.