"Humph." The golden Lin Fan gave a snort before looking down at the black ball of energy lying there.
Without even picking it up, he turned back to Lin Fan lying in that golden barrier and then he disappeared into Lin Fan.
He hadn't wanted to crush the Outer God fragment just now because it meant that the essence left behind would be weaker. A part of the Outer God fragment's power would be scattered by the power that he suppressed him with.
But that Outer God fragment gave him no choice.
He could see in his eyes that he refused to submit.
…
"Ah!"
When Lin Fan woke up, that was the first thing that he said.
He sat up and looked around himself, but he found that everything was calm.
He was in his mind space and there was nothing around him.
He couldn't help looking down at his own body and found that there was nothing wrong. It was as if everything that he thought had happened didn't happen at all.
But it all felt so real…
He could even sense the strange energy at this moment.
Wait…
He could sense the strange energy.
Lin Fan started looking around himself until his eyes fell onto the black ball of energy lying near him.
This was where the strange energy was coming from.
Lin Fan couldn't help looking around again to see if there was anything else here, but he found that other than him and the black ball of energy, there was nothing else here.
Just with a little thought, it wasn't hard for him to figure out what had happened.
When he had been pressured by the fragment of the Outer God's power, there had been someone or something that had appeared to save him.
This black ball of energy had to be what remained of the Outer God fragment.
"Who was it?" Lin Fan muttered to himself.
He just remained there looking around himself, trying to find the one that had saved him.
But there was just nothing around him.
So in the end, Lin Fan could only accept that he had been saved by someone and not knowing who it was.
The suspicion that he had was that it was related to the system somehow, but the system wasn't replying to anything that he asked it. It was as if the system was completely playing dead.
Lin Fan knew that he couldn't do anything to the system, so he turned his attention to the black ball of energy on the ground.
This was what he was supposed to absorb in the first place. This was the item that the system wanted him to obtain.
So after picking it up, Lin Fan started absorbing it.
Unlike the strange energy that he absorbed before, this energy just obediently entered him and allowed itself to be swallowed and refined by the void laws.
As he absorbed this black ball of energy, the statue inside of his dantian became more and more refined.
Finally, when the black ball of energy was gone, the statue was fully formed.
This statue was different from the vague statue that he saw before.
Instead, this statue had a form that sent shivers down Lin Fan's spine.
It was a statue that was completely made of people and each one had a face that was twisted in agony. This was a statue that was completely made to represent the agony that these people suffered.
However, Lin Fan could feel the strong power coming from it.
At the very least, he knew that there wasn't a law like this in this world.
After absorbing the black ball of energy, there was something else that he gained as well.
Just like with the strange energy that he had absorbed from the skeleton, there were memories that came with the strange energy that he absorbed from this black ball of energy.
The memories were the memories of the owner of this strange energy, the Outer God fragment.
The first memory that Lin Fan received was the formation of the undead of this planet.
They had all been refined with the same strange energy that the Outer God fragment had used to refine Lin Fan, though they were not refined the same way. The way that Lin Fan was refined was as a vessel while the undead were refined as puppets.
The main use of these puppets was to gather power for the revival of the Outer God fragment.
That was why Lin Fan had received the memories of those people dying.
The people who died in those memories were all those that had trespassed on this planet and had been slain by the undead. The agony that they left behind at the moment of their death was collected by the undead and given to the Outer God fragment to strengthen it.
It used the agony, which contained fragments of the souls of those that died to empower itself.
This allowed the Outer God fragment to slowly regain its power and reach the level that it had been at before.
If it wasn't for Lin Fan's meddling, it would have taken less than a hundred years for the Outer God fragment to regain its power. Then it would have left this realm and gone back to the Outer, or tried to find a way to establish itself in this universe.
All of that depended on the situation of the surrounding area, but that was a problem for the future when the Outer God fragment regained its power.
The other memories that Lin Fan obtained from the Outer God fragment were about the past.
These were memories that dated all the way back to the war between the gods and the Outer invaders.
Lin Fan had already seen a bit of this because of the trial that he had undergone, but this time, he saw it from the point of view of the invader.
He was able to see fragments of the Outer, the world where this Outer God fragment had come from.
It was a world that was completely destroyed, but it was still filled with creatures like the Outer God fragment. These were grotesque creatures that fed on the suffering of others to strengthen themselves.
But these creatures worshiped the Outer God who was the progenitor of them all.
They were running out of materials to refine, which was why they had invaded this world along with the other Outers.
Once they came to this world, they were caught up in a fight with the residents and the gods of this world.
They had only come here in the first place to absorb some agony, but since the residents and the gods of this world stood in their way, they had no choice but to fight.
The story went as Lin Fan had known.
The Outer Gods and Outers fought against that man and his army of beasts, being overwhelmed by him in the end and being defeated.
Once they had been defeated, most of them had been destroyed.
It was only this Outer God and a few other Outer Gods that had been able to survive.
They left behind fragments on worlds that they had conquered, allowing them to survive all this time.
The skeletons with three eye holes were an ancient race that had been wiped out because of the war with the Outers. That was why even Momonga didn't know about this race.
As for the fish skeletons, they were something that this Outer God had stolen from another one of the Outer Gods and kept here as puppets.
There were many other things that couldn't be found in this universe at all that were hidden on this planet as well. They had all been gathered by this Outer God fragment in preparation for the future.
After he finished sorting out these memories, Lin Fan had an idea of what the system wanted.
The system was without a doubt connected to the gods that had sealed themselves up.
So for them to bring him to a place like this with an Outer God fragment, it could only mean one thing.
They were training him and teaching him about the Outers.
Could it be that there would be another war with the Outers in the future?
Lin Fan remembered that he had talked to Momonga about the Outers in the past, but he had just changed the topic.
Did that mean that the Rulers of this universe already knew about the Outers and knew that there was an invasion coming?
Was that what they were worried about?
There were many different possibilities that filled Lin Fan's mind as he thought about this.
But there was one thing that was clear on his mind as he thought this through.
He didn't know when these Outers would come, but he knew that with his current level of cultivation, he was just too weak to face them.
Even the peak Rulers of the past had been destroyed by the invading Outers. Even the gods had been killed by Outer Gods.
The enemies were definitely not weak and he wasn't even a Ruler yet.
If they invaded while he was at this level, there was no doubt that he would be nothing more than cannon fodder.
If he couldn't become stronger, he wouldn't be able to protect his family.
While there was the Lin Astral Empire behind him now, that was far from being enough.
So Lin Fan started feeling the urgency after learning all of this.
He would need to make some changes to his plans after heading back.
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