The howling gale was tightly blocked outside the thick, dark golden dragon scales of Magic Dragon Xiao Hei.
Under the veil of night, massive black wings arrogantly tore through the clouds, like a bolt of black lightning splitting the firmament, racing toward the other side of the ocean at a staggering speed.
On the dragon's back.
Zhou Huai sat cross-legged, his eyes slightly closed, letting the night wind brush past his hair tips.
His consciousness was immersed in the System panel deep within his mind.
The "Personality Editor" was emitting a ghostly blue glow.
"Domain..." he mused to himself.
Since completing "Ten Thousand Aspects into One," although his main body had crossed the threshold of a Transcendent, ultimately, the upper limit of his power still depended on the foundations of his Clones.
Every time a Clone comprehended a Domain, not only did its own combat power soar, but the Law power that his main body could mobilize during Fusion would also undergo a qualitative change!
Xiang Yu's "Battlefield," Gabriel's "Holy Light Kingdom," Gandalf's "Domain of the Magic God"...
The benefits he had tasted were truly immense!
Zhou Huai's slender fingers moved rapidly through the void, weaving the independent Soul belonging to "Insect Emperor Caesar" with lines of text filled with tragedy and a sense of destiny.
The betrayal of the alien star, the extinction of the insect race, despair under the starry sky...
He wanted to use the most extreme emotions to stimulate this soulless husk, forcibly touching that barrier of Heavenly Dao Laws!
"Crunch! Crunch!" A crisp and hurried chewing sound abruptly interrupted Zhou Huai's train of thought.
He opened his eyes and turned his head helplessly.
Chun, sitting beside him, currently had none of the burdens of the First World's Goddess of Nature; she looked more like a starving ghost who hadn't eaten for three days and three nights.
In front of her was piled a variety of high-calorie meats and spirit fruits pilfered from the Ancient Egyptian Ruins.
She held a piece of golden-roasted sand beast leg meat in her left hand and a translucent, juicy spirit fruit in her right, her mouth stuffed full, glistening with oil.
She looked like a hamster desperately guarding its food. She didn't stop for a single moment.
"If Mr. Duan saw how you were eating, I'm afraid he would retract his assessment that 'you are as innocent as a child'." Zhou Huai couldn't help but tease her.
"Gulp!" Chun rolled her eyes dramatically, swallowed the food in her mouth, and then grabbed the golden wine flagon nearby, taking a huge swig of strong liquor.
"Hiccup—!" A burp completely lacking any ladylike image echoed loudly on the dragon's back.
She wiped the wine stains from the corner of her mouth, and only then did her emerald eyes look seriously at Zhou Huai.
After staring for a moment, she spoke slowly, her tone carrying a questioning air.
"Let's talk business." "In the pyramid, why didn't you attack Anubis?"
Her eyes held a trace of confusion, and even some unwillingness, "You had clearly already activated Ten Thousand Aspects into One; if you wanted to, we could have completely joined forces to strip him of that bit of Underworld Origin!"
"Keeping such a remnant Soul from the old era, full of calculations, is too risky!"
Zhou Huai stopped what he was doing. He reached out, feeling the thin air at high altitude, a cold glint flashing in his dark golden pupils.
"Anubis is different from the Extreme Ice Empress at the Ise Grand Shrine."
"I can feel it..." Zhou Huai's expression became extremely grave, and he said word by word: "His strength is several levels higher than that Empress!"
"The most crucial thing is that he is also a highly profound Space-type expert."
"Old monsters like this, who have lived for countless eras, have countless means of preserving their lives. In this Ancient Egyptian Ruins completely permeated by the Underworld Laws, I have a strong premonition—"
"Currently, I cannot completely kill him."
"Once I start, it is very likely that we will fall into a long stalemate."
"Ten days, the time is too tight." He turned to look at Chun, expressing his concerns, "If things go wrong, before we can take him down, Mr. Duan might have already broken free from the constraints of the Origin Virus and escaped early."
"By then, it would be the two of us getting surrounded!"
"So I simply settled for the next best thing."
Zhou Huai patted the hard back of Magic Dragon Xiao Hei, "Let's go to the Atlantic Ocean to deal with that Sea God of the Caslantis Ruins first. You have to pick the softest persimmon to squeeze first."
After listening to this analysis, ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) Chun swallowed the last bite of meat in her mouth.
She pulled out a silk handkerchief from the side to wipe her hands and sneered.
"I'm just giving you a reminder."
"That guy is also an old fox." Chun's gaze revealed a hint of coldness, "His intelligence regarding the Seventh World and The Eighth World, including the matter of the ten SSS-Rank Experts... you can listen, but you absolutely cannot believe it all!"
"Once you are sold out by him, there won't even be bone scraps left of you!"
"I naturally understand." Zhou Huai nodded.
Dealing with these monsters that span eras, he had never let down his guard. As long as his accumulated foundation was strong enough, any conspiracy or trickery would only be a joke!
As they spoke, the scene beneath their feet had undergone earth-shaking changes.
The yellow sand that filled the sky was left behind, and the rolling mountains also shrank rapidly in his line of sight.
Replacing it was a vast ocean filled with salty sea breezes!
The deep blue seawater under the night veil was like a huge, breathing abyss gem, with no end in sight.
Magic Dragon Xiao Hei let out a heaven-shaking dragon roar, its massive wings flapped violently, its speed soared again, raising two white walls of water dozens of meters high on the calm sea surface.
Looking at this endless ocean, Zhou Huai stood up. The gale blew his clothes, and there were many emotions in his eyes.
"The last time I entered the ocean..." he whispered softly, as if returning to those days full of thrills and unknowns, "was when I could only hide behind the scenes manipulating Gandalf."
That was the first time he faced the terror of the deep sea. At that time, Gandalf was only level forty.
In order to fight those few high-level sea beasts, he even needed to carefully calculate the consumption of mana, walking on thin ice with every step.
And for the military airships of the Great Xia to cross this ocean and reach the coordinates of the Caslantis Ruins, it would take several days!
If they were slightly careless, they would be dragged into the seabed by the rampaging ruin monsters in the sea, leaving not even a corpse behind.
But what about now? Less than a year! Zhou Huai looked at his own hands.
Ten Thousand Aspects into One! Half-step Transcendent! He was about to reach the strength ceiling allowed by this current Heavenly Dao System!
The once unreachable Caslantis Ruins, now, riding the quasi-god level Abyssal Magic Dragon, after just a few hours of flight, had already arrived near the destination!
The confidence brought by power made his state of mind undergo a complete transformation. There was no longer the embarrassment of the past, only a longing for unknown strong enemies.
