Before he knew it, Zhou Yu had been on the Dark Continent for a month. He had not encountered any other powerful beings, but he had discovered a Dark Radiance Stone mineral-vein mountain with roughly thirty percent purity. The wealth it contained exceeded what one could gain from killing a King-Sealing expert. His luck had been exceptionally good.
Although he had not encountered any other powerful beings, Zhou Yu was not in a hurry. The depths of the Dark Continent had no shortage of experts. As long as he remained here, it would be impossible not to encounter anyone forever.
On this day, Zhou Yu was, as usual, comprehending the Space Law inside his spacecraft when his auxiliary intelligence suddenly informed him that he had received a distress signal from the military system.
"A distress signal?" Zhou Yu's eyes lit up.
Due to the Virtual Universe, the Human Race Faction could detect the approximate locations of allied forces within a certain range on the Outer Battlefield. If someone suddenly encountered an unmanageable crisis and discovered friendly forces nearby, sending out a distress signal was perfectly normal.
What pleased Zhou Yu was that the experts deep within the Dark Continent were generally extraordinary. If someone was asking for help now, it meant they had encountered an even stronger opponent.
Powerful opponents were exactly what Zhou Yu was looking for.
"Master, the expert who sent the distress signal wishes to speak with you," the auxiliary intelligence reported again.
"Connect it!"
Zhou Yu agreed immediately.
The next moment—
Whoosh!
A flickering projection appeared, followed by a tall figure with wings on her back appearing before Zhou Yu.
"Feather Array King?" Zhou Yu was somewhat surprised. He had happened to encounter her when he went to receive the Divine General Kongguang inheritance. He had not expected to run into her again here on the Dark Continent.
However, Feather Array King had previously said that she was adventuring on the Dark Continent. It seemed that she had returned here after receiving the inheritance.
"Zhou Yu!" Feather Array King was also quite pleasantly surprised to see him. She hurriedly said,
"I'm being pursued by Black Fierce King, Nine Bird King, and Wind Domain King from the Monster Race Faction. Please help me this once."
"These three are all Limit-Level King-Ranks, right?" Zhou Yu was somewhat surprised. It was rather rare for three of them to besiege Feather Array King alone.
"They are indeed all Limit-Level King-Ranks," Feather Array King said. "I am willing to offer five billion Hunyuan Units as payment."
Three Limit-Level King-Ranks were no joke. Asking someone to help deal with opponents of that caliber naturally required a price.
Yet Feather Array King was willing to pay it. She knew that Zhou Yu had long since created a peak secret technique, and he had now received the Divine General Kongguang inheritance. His strength was certainly extraordinary.
"Alright. Turn on your location."
Zhou Yu agreed without hesitation. Making some extra money along the way was not bad either.
Whoosh!
With a Teleportation, Zhou Yu arrived above a sprawling mountain range.
"It's over there."
Zhou Yu looked ahead. He could already sense the vast energy fluctuations erupting from that direction.
The space here had been sealed, so he could only fly over.
Whoosh!
Zhou Yu burst forward at full speed.
At the center of the battle, Feather Array King wore a grave expression as she continuously unleashed illusion attacks from the rear. Her three King-Sealing servants were burning their divine bodies as they resisted the three Limit-Level King-Ranks.
In truth, Feather Array King had once possessed five King-Sealing servants, but two had already been destroyed in the previous fighting. Though the remaining three could hold on for now, they definitely would not last for long.
Of course, Feather Array King had not simply waited for death. She had already sought aid through the Hong Alliance, and one of her friends had agreed to come help.
But that would take time!
It was at this moment that Feather Array King suddenly discovered friendly forces nearby. She therefore asked them for help, and after discovering that the ally was Zhou Yu, she decisively offered five billion Hunyuan Units to hire him.
Those five billion Hunyuan Units were roughly equivalent to the price she would have had to pay to hold out until her friend arrived.
Now that Zhou Yu was here, Feather Array King naturally preferred seeking help from him.
This way, she only had to spend five billion Hunyuan Units and would not owe her friend a favor.
"He's here!" Feather Array King sensed Zhou Yu's arrival and inwardly sighed in relief.
"Someone's coming."
The three Limit-Level King-Ranks of the Monster Race naturally noticed Zhou Yu as well.
"Who is that?" Nine Bird King and the other Monster Race expert did not recognize Zhou Yu at first. Zhou Yu truly was not very famous among the foreign races yet.
"It's Prison World King. He seems to possess Limit-Level King-Rank strength as well."
Black Fierce King frowned deeply.
Zhou Yu had killed Wood Owl King of his own race, and now he had come to ruin his plans. It was truly infuriating.
"I'll deal with this Prison World King. You two continue handling Feather Array King and force her to hand over the item," Black Fierce King said coldly.
"I refuse to believe that she'll truly risk everything for an uncertain gain!"
"No problem."
Nine Bird King and Wind Domain King both agreed.
They truly were not under much pressure.
Feather Array King was formidable in soul illusions, but they could each withstand her attacks now, greatly reducing the threat. As for her three servants? They were even more ordinary!
Even while burning their divine bodies, they could only barely fight them.
Prison World King, a Limit-Level King-Rank, was more likely to be a tough opponent. Since Black Fierce King was willing to go, they would let him.
Whoosh!
Black Fierce King moved, leaving the battlefield and charging directly toward Zhou Yu.
"Prison World King, I told you to come to the depths of the Dark Continent, not to ruin my plans!" As Black Fierce King approached Zhou Yu, his four arms suddenly expanded several times over.
Four Phases Divine Fist!
With an angry roar, terrifying divine power poured forth from Black Fierce King's four arms.
Black Fierce King's divine power amplification had also reached fifteen hundred times. As four fist shadows blasted forth, their might was immense and astonishing.
"Defense!"
Zhou Yu remained calm. With a thought, ring-shaped spirit-force treasures flew out and formed a shield around him.
They were the Thousand Origin Rings, the spirit-force weapon Zhou Yu had obtained from the Divine General Kongguang inheritance.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The four terrifying fist shadows struck the shield formed by the Thousand Origin Rings, but all were easily blocked.
"Prison World King's defense is this strong too?" Black Fierce King was startled.
This move was clearly not Zhou Yu's signature technique, yet it had easily blocked Black Fierce King's full-force attack under a fifteen-hundredfold amplification.
That had been his strongest move.
Array of Time and Space!
With another thought from Zhou Yu, two thousand blades flew out from his other spirit-force weapon, the Space Myriad Blade Disk.
The two thousand blades rapidly flew toward Black Fierce King. Black Fierce King tried to evade, but he was not an expert in flight. How could his flying speed compare to Zhou Yu's spirit-force weapon?
In the blink of an eye, the Array of Time and Space formed around Black Fierce King, trapping him inside.
However, Black Fierce King did not panic. He had witnessed Zhou Yu's Array of Time and Space before, so he naturally knew that if he got serious, he would soon break this move.
"Black Fierce King, just stay there." Zhou Yu smiled, then directly passed over the Array of Time and Space and flew toward the distant battlefield.
"Has he gone mad?" Black Fierce King was utterly shocked.
One had to know that there was a limit to the number of spirit-force weapons a controller could manipulate. Prison World King was using a massive number of spirit-force weapons to trap him with this move, which meant he was no longer at peak condition. Under such circumstances, what use would it be for him to rush over?
"Could it be that Prison World King's spirit-force amplification is absurdly high? Could these spirit-force weapons trapping me not even be his full strength?"
As Black Fierce King considered this, he immediately erupted with all his power and began attacking the Array of Time and Space trapping him.
But after attacking several times in succession, Black Fierce King realized something was wrong. The Array of Time and Space seemed far more stable than before.
On the other side—
Whoosh!
Zhou Yu flashed to the edge of the battlefield. He once again controlled the Space Myriad Blade Disk, splitting off four thousand blades and firing them toward Wind Domain King and Nine Bird King.
The Space Myriad Blade Disk had ten thousand blades in total. It was more than enough for Zhou Yu to use.
"Prison World King trapped Black Fierce King with one move, yet he still has so much strength to spare?" Wind Domain King and Nine Bird King were both astonished.
At that moment, an Array of Time and Space rapidly formed around Wind Domain King as well, trapping him inside.
But Nine Bird King was a massive avian life-form with astonishing movement techniques. Zhou Yu's spirit-force weapons could not catch him for the moment.
"Hahaha, this move is useless against me!"
Nine Bird King laughed loudly as he shot out from Zhou Yu's side at extreme speed. His pair of eagle claws viciously grabbed at Zhou Yu's head.
Zhou Yu's expression remained calm. He again activated the Thousand Origin Rings to form a defensive light shield, blocking the attack.
"Impressive, truly impressive. You can trap two Limit-Level King-Ranks and still have the spare strength to block my attack!" Nine Bird King looked at Zhou Yu and said,
"Feather Array King is fortunate to have found an ally like you. We admit defeat."
"This Zhou Yu truly deserves his reputation as a genius of the ten-million-epoch level. It seems he gained greatly from the Divine General Kongguang inheritance." Watching this scene, Feather Array King was also full of admiration.
He had become Immortal only around two hundred years ago, yet he had so easily forced three Limit-Level King-Ranks to admit defeat.
"Admit defeat? I'm afraid it won't be that simple."
Zhou Yu sneered. The next moment, the speed of the thousands of Space Myriad Blade Disk blades under his control suddenly soared.
Their speed easily surpassed Nine Bird King's movement speed.
"What?"
Nine Bird King was shocked, but by the time he reacted, he had already been trapped within the completed Array of Time and Space.
From the very beginning, Zhou Yu's goal had been to kill all three. To avoid arousing their vigilance, he had not used his full strength when he first attacked.
He had only used one hundred thousand times Peak World Lord Power, equivalent to the power of an ordinary Peak-Level King-Rank.
Even so, it was strong enough. The Array of Time and Space was a peak secret technique, and combined with a spirit-force weapon controlled under a two-thousandfold spirit-force amplification, it was sufficient to trap ordinary Limit-Level King-Ranks.
But now, after activating Xueluo Power, his strength had surged to one million times Peak World Lord Power. Naturally, things were different.
Even though Nine Bird King's movement technique was powerful, Zhou Yu was controlling his spirit-force weapons with even greater power. Their speed instantly surpassed Nine Bird King's, allowing him to trap him with ease.
"Prison World King, you hid your strength?" Nine Bird King finally understood. He was both shocked and furious.
If the other party had displayed such strength from the beginning when dealing with Black Fierce King, he and Wind Domain King might have fled long ago. Instead, they had all fallen into his technique.
"Isn't that obvious?" Zhou Yu shook his head.
He immediately controlled the three Arrays of Time and Space and unleashed their killing moves.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Within each Array of Time and Space, thirty-six streams of light spun madly, erupting with incomparably terrifying crushing force.
Thousand Spin Kill! Thousand Spin Kill! Thousand Spin Kill!
"The power of this?"
The three Limit-Level King-Ranks were all stunned. They could not block this move at all. Their divine bodies were instantly ground into dust, and even part of their divine power was annihilated within it.
"My divine body has been damaged?"
All three were furious and shocked.
This was perfectly normal.
The three Arrays of Time and Space each combined a peak secret technique, one million times World Lord power, and a two-thousandfold spirit-force amplification. Their might had reached two thousand times that of an ordinary Peak-Level King-Rank, enough to damage a Peak-Level King-Rank divine body.
Although Nine Bird King and the other two were Limit-Level King-Ranks, their divine bodies were not necessarily stronger than those of Peak-Level King-Ranks. Under Zhou Yu's explosive attack, they would naturally be injured.
"Fight him to the death!"
The three no longer dared to hesitate and directly chose to burn their divine bodies.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
All three erupted with a thousand times their previous strength, and the terrifying power immediately distorted the Arrays of Time and Space.
Zhou Yu frowned slightly. If this had been a one-on-one fight, he could have used his seven-thousandfold spirit-force amplification at full power to stabilize a single Array of Time and Space. In that case, he could trap even a Limit-Level King-Rank burning their divine body.
But now, he had to divide his power into three portions to deal with three opponents. Naturally, he could not withstand the force as easily.
"If I had a heavy treasure, this wouldn't be such a hassle."
Zhou Yu's gaze turned cold, and he decisively burned 0.5% of his divine body. He had already recovered the divine body he had burned earlier after consuming soul-type treasures in succession.
Burning some more now was nothing.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Under Zhou Yu's divine power, which had increased a thousandfold, the three distorted Arrays of Time and Space immediately stabilized. No matter how frantically the three attacked from within, they could no longer shake the arrays in the slightest.
Thousand Spin Kill!
Zhou Yu unleashed Thousand Spin Kill six times in succession. Before the terrifying power supplied by his burning divine body was exhausted, the three Limit-Level King-Ranks were thoroughly killed.
"My god, those three Limit-Level King-Ranks were killed just like that."
"The expert our master invited is far too terrifying."
"That must be Invincible King-Rank strength, right?"
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Feather Array King's three King-Sealing servants watched the scene in utter shock, whispering among themselves.
Invincible King-Ranks were legends, every one of them.
"You three, shut up!" Feather Array King reprimanded them. At her words, the three King-Sealing servants immediately obediently fell silent.
"Such a genius is truly terrifying." Feather Array King looked toward Zhou Yu, her heart filled with envy.
She had been a King-Sealing expert for ten million years. Even after receiving the Divine General Kongguang inheritance this time, she still could not be considered a Limit-Level King-Rank. Otherwise, as a soul master, she would not have been bullied so badly.
Yet Zhou Yu, someone who had become Immortal only around two hundred years ago, had already reached the Invincible King-Rank level. It was truly outrageous.
As she thought this, Feather Array King took the initiative to fly over.
"Zhou Yu, thank you for saving me this time. I never expected your strength to improve so much after receiving the inheritance. It seems my offer was too low," Feather Array King said.
"The price you offered was to escape the pursuit of those three. Burning my divine body to kill them was my own decision." Zhou Yu smiled and did not say more.
Feather Array King nodded. "What is your bank account number? I'll transfer the five billion Hunyuan Units to you shortly."
"It's &&T*6t." Zhou Yu gave her his account number, then asked curiously,
"However, why were those three Monster Race King-Sealing experts pursuing you?"
"Of course, if it involves a secret, you needn't say anything," Zhou Yu added.
"I believe that with your strength, Zhou Yu, you would not care about my little secret." Feather Array King smiled faintly and waved her hand.
A pitch-black Universe Rank life-form with three eyes immediately appeared before them.
"Is this... a Dark Radiance Race lifeform?" Zhou Yu asked in surprise.
"Yes. The Dark Radiance Race are Rock Lifeforms. They once developed an extremely prosperous civilization on the Dark Continent, but later this place became a battlefield for the four major factions, and the Dark Radiance Race civilization faded away," Feather Array King said.
"However, the Dark Radiance Race reproduce in a very special way. They are lifeforms born within Dark Radiance Stone veins. Generally speaking, only veins with a purity exceeding seventy-five percent can possibly nurture a Dark Radiance Race lifeform. Thus, discovering a Dark Radiance Race lifeform on the Dark Continent basically means discovering a highly pure mineral vein."
"No wonder." Zhou Yu nodded and said nothing more.
A Dark Radiance Race lifeform could indeed represent an enormous mineral vein. It was understandable why the three Monster Race Limit-Level King-Ranks had been so relentless.
Seeing that Zhou Yu did not ask further, Feather Array King secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
She had enslaved this Dark Radiance Race lifeform and learned much from it. It was no ordinary Dark Radiance Race lifeform.
Otherwise, she would not have chosen to fight those three Limit-Level King-Ranks to the bitter end.
After all, if her luck was poor, the mineral vein she found with the help of this Dark Radiance Race lifeform might not even earn back the five billion Hunyuan Units she had spent this time.
Not to mention that two of her five King-Sealing slave servants had been destroyed, while the other three had burned their divine bodies. Restoring them quickly would cost another enormous sum.
Zhou Yu is far too strong. Otherwise, with my strength so badly depleted, cooperating with him once wouldn't have been impossible. Feather Array King secretly shook her head.
Even though they were both Human Race King-Sealings, she did not dare trust Zhou Yu too much. If Zhou Yu secretly turned on her, she would have no ability to resist.
Zhou Yu did not say much more to Feather Array King either. He soon left.
He had to strike while the iron was hot. His strength had advanced greatly this time, so it was best to kill more powerful opponents on the Outer Battlefield and directly begin the next simulation!
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