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Inside the dim maze, the only light source was the firelight on both sides of the walls.

“The last one.”

Lin Qing moved, instantly appearing before the five-meter-tall black metal guard, casually slapping out a palm.

“Boom!”

The last maze guardian's neck snapped instantly, its head flying out like a cannonball, smashing into the incredibly hard wall.

Lin Qing walked into the room at the end of the maze. Inside the bright, empty room, only two humanoid crystal statues of similar size stood.

He stepped forward and began to receive the inheritance of the Fusion Art.

The maze trial of Sky Island No. 288 was naturally nothing difficult for him. He didn't even need to use his World God power; his current body alone could easily defeat the maze guardians one by one.

With his body containing the characteristics of the World God's four great divine skills, even barehanded, he could defeat ordinary Star Abyss sixth-level experts.

“Fusion Art… truly heaven-defying.”

After receiving the inheritance of this secret technique, Lin Qing couldn't help but smile. “Although it requires sufficient understanding and familiarity with each other, and almost no psychological defenses to succeed, it's still outrageous…”

If he could obtain a human clone with strong enough genes, his own genes could also be continuously elevated and approached through repeated fusions.

“Next one.”

Lin Qing didn't waste any time and immediately left this Sky Island.

...

As a Primordial Divine Practitioner, he could explore five Sky Islands in the middle-level Sky Islands.

In addition to the God Skill series of Warlord and Starry Sky Demon, and the Fusion Art, Lin Qing chose another special secret technique and two sets of Holy Words for the other two Sky Islands.

The special secret technique was 'Eye of Secrecy,' which could accurately observe the remaining lifespan, gene index, attributes, fatal points of the enemy's body based on their life aura, and this observation would not be discovered.

The two sets of Holy Words, 'Gravity Perception' and 'Overseeing Microcosm,' allowed his perception to delve into a transcendent level.

These two sets of Holy Words were not only helpful for cultivation but also for combat and enemy searching.

Gravity is the embodiment of spacetime curvature. The 'Gravity Perception' set of Holy Words could sense subtle changes in gravity, and combined with 'Overseeing Microcosm,' it could be precise to the changes of microscopic particles. It was said that this set of Holy Words was also helpful for the transformation of Void creatures.

Currently, in terms of frontal combat power, he already had the World God, which was strong enough; what he lacked was other aspects.

The Star God assessment didn't just look at frontal combat power.

Moreover, the Eye of Secrecy could cooperate with Kadoan's life token to first determine the opponent's lifespan and gene index, and then directly reduce their lifespan.

“It's over.”

After leaving the fifth Sky Island, Lin Qing also understood that this was the last opportunity to learn inheritance in the Sky Archipelago before Earth was opened.

Therefore, he also tried to choose the inheritance that was most beneficial to him, and tried to complete himself as much as possible.

“There are still a few I want to learn, but… I can only wait until next time.”

Lin Qing hovered in mid-air, taking one last look at this group of Sky Islands floating above Earth, and then withdrew from the Second Universe Network.

His consciousness returned to reality.

“The Sky Archipelago has only been open for five hours.”

Lin Qing glanced at the time. “Dean Chu and the others haven't come out yet. Let's first study the newly learned Holy Words and secret techniques… The entry difficulty of Eye of Secrecy seems quite low, but transforming oneself is more troublesome…”

The detection secret technique learned from the Divine Child Trial had already been paid off.

...

...

Inside a lonely, cold, and purely dark alien space.

Yan Qingqing floated in this empty dark space. Relying on her fourth-order Starry Sky Battle Armor, even in a complete vacuum where the temperature was only 2.725K of the cosmic microwave background radiation, she could still survive easily.

“This alien space…”

Yan Qingqing frowned tightly: “It's actually Lin Qing's doing?”

She had already consulted that nine-star civilization's Great One in the Second Universe Network.

That Great One had clearly told her that, given her current situation, if the other party never opened this alien space, only the ancestor of the nine-star civilization could save her.

If the other party opened this alien space channel, she would have a small chance to rush out.

——Provided that she had the strength to do so.

“I can't even break through now…”

Yan Qingqing sensed this alien space but couldn't even find a trace of free energy.

She had already completed the duties of the divine profession many times, and had completely understood how to transform into a Star Creature, but she had deliberately suppressed it in order to explore the Sky Archipelago.

But…

As a seventh-level life form, the Star Creature needs seventh-level energy.

In this near-absolute vacuum alien space, how could she break through?

“I can only wait. No matter what, I must survive…”

Yan Qingqing waited silently, trying to maintain the lowest consumption state, slowly providing energy to the Starry Sky Battle Armor.

Once the space channel was opened, it would be the moment she erupted with all her strength.

Even if she was not Lin Qing's opponent, with the trump card left to her by that Great One, she hoped to escape even in the face of the Star Abyss sixth level.

A few hours later—

Suddenly, a light appeared in the dark and lonely alien space. The light was like a channel, and the outside world could be faintly seen through the light.

“Now!”

Yan Qingqing's pupils shrank, and she immediately exploded with all her power, rushing frantically towards the opened channel!

In this zero-gravity environment, the speed was easy to skyrocket. Under her energy back-push, she instantly swept across dozens of kilometers and rushed into the opened space channel!

As the space in front of her changed, Yan Qingqing found herself in a spacious reception room.

But the moment her psychic power spread out, she had completely fallen into despair.

Because…

In the reception room, besides Lin Qing, who was looking at her with a teasing look, there were three other people.

Elena Duo, Chu Hongjun, Qi Lingxiao!

Three Star Divine Practitioners?

She was instantly stunned. How could she escape?

“Lie down.”

Lin Qing casually stretched out a hand and pressed down with his palm, and a giant hand phantom appeared, like swatting a fly, instantly slapping her to the ground.

“Bang!!”

The solid ground was unharmed, and there was invisible power to protect it. Yan Qingqing slammed into the floor, and her eyes went black. She vomited a large mouthful of blood, and she felt like countless bones in her body were broken, and her internal organs were also severely ruptured.

This kind of injury was enough to kill ordinary people, but she would naturally not die and was still recovering quickly.

But slender dark golden chains flew out, dancing and surrounding her like spirit snakes, binding her, and then completely locking her down.

She knelt on the ground in a mess, covered in blood, and her flesh was blurred, looking extremely miserable.

“Not bad.”

Qi Lingxiao praised, “So strong, yet you can control it so accurately? You didn't slap her to death in one palm?”

Lin Qing said calmly: “It's nothing, I just didn't want to kill her.”

Kneeling on the ground, Yan Qingqing's heart suddenly filled with hope.

At this time, a powerful illusory psychic power penetrated into her body, inch by inch, probing her body, and then shattering all the nano-machines and the Second Universe Network login device in her body.

At the same time, her subspace storage equipment and Starry Sky Battle Armor also detached from her.

Immediately, Elena Duo opened her mouth softly and said: “Okay, Lin Qing, she can no longer contact the outside world.”

“Thank you.” Lin Qing nodded.

Chu Hongjun watched from the side and said: “She is just a servant of the Zhi Xing Group, and cannot leak secrets. What's the use of keeping her?”

“No!” Yan Qingqing knelt on the ground and immediately gritted her teeth and said: “I still have value. I know a big shot of a 1.9-level civilization! I once saved that big shot from the nine-star civilization. As long as you let me go, I can help you go undercover, I…”

“Again, are you still deceiving us? Yan Qingqing.”

Lin Qing's mocking voice interrupted her words: “You are just a servant of that big shot of the nine-star civilization, you can't change anything.”

Yan Qingqing suddenly looked at him, her heart full of disbelief: “Impossible… How could he know?”

The fact that she was a servant of that big shot, even in the Zhi Xing Group, only Lei Tong knew, and few people in the Yuan Chen civilization knew. How could Lin Qing know?

“However… I can give you a chance to live.”

Lin Qing looked at her and said: “I know you are secretly absorbing energy to break through. I will give you a chance to break through. After you finish transforming, as long as you can beat me, I will let you go.”

“Are you serious?” Yan Qingqing looked at him.

She was indeed doing this.

She didn't know why, but she found that the energy in this living room seemed to be extremely stable and pure, and it was easy to absorb and refine, a hundred times simpler than her normal cultivation!

So, she frantically absorbed the free seventh-level energy to transform herself as soon as possible.

As long as she could transform into a Star Creature, the seventh-level energy could not only optimize her genes several times, but also engrave seventh-level Holy Words. At that time, her strength could reach the Star Abyss sixth level!

Moreover, as the consciousness of a Star Creature, she could control seventh-level energy and use the Star Origin Domain on the home star.

In this way, she would have full confidence to fight against Lin Qing's divine skills, and may not be able to win!

“Whether it's true or false, you only have this one way.”

Lin Qing stared at her and said indifferently: “You have no choice. Either I kill you now, or you can do it yourself.”

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Although Yan Qingqing didn't speak, her appearance of fully absorbing energy and transforming was enough to explain her choice.

Moment.

In a pure and stable free energy environment, Yan Qingqing's life level had completely transformed, and her genes had also been optimized.

However, her divine power and Holy Words were still stuck at the sixth level and needed to continue absorbing energy to transform. She continued to absorb energy silently.

Lin Qing observed from the side, his eyes flashing with ripples, always observing Yan Qingqing.

The Eye of Secrecy, which had been pre-emptively used, could see her clearly at this time.

The purpose had been achieved, and Lin Qing was too lazy to wait for her to continue transforming and breaking through.

“Enough.”

In an instant, a dark golden streamer turned into a sharp long knife in Lin Qing's hand.

“Huh?” Yan Qingqing's face changed.

Although her strength had increased more than doubled, she was still only at the Star Abyss fifth level and had no confidence to block Lin Qing's divine skills.

“Wait! I haven't…”

Before Yan Qingqing could finish speaking, she saw Lin Qing flash in front of her, and a flash of knife light instantly swept across her neck.

Hair and a beautiful head fell to the ground together, and blood spurted out.

Lin Qing looked at the long knife in his hand, feeling the trace of life origin belonging to the Star Creature, then turned to look at Yan Qingqing and mocked: “Star Creatures are indeed different. As long as I kill one more, the Warlord divine power is enough to promote a life transformation experience…”

He just wanted to use her as the Warlord divine power to promote the resources for evolution, and naturally would not really wait for her strength to completely transform.

“You…”

Yan Qingqing's head rolled down, her eyes staring at him, then her eyes gradually lost their luster and returned to silence.

Lin Qing didn't have so many feelings and moods, and with a wave of his hand, he shook her body into powder.

Although it was the enemy from the previous life, he had long since ignored Yan Qingqing.

As for torturing her?

For Star Creatures, the consciousness is as stable as a star, and simple pain and torture have no meaning at all.

What she fears most is directly extinguishing all her hopes.

Now, using her life to exert the final heat, as his resources for evolution, can be regarded as retribution.

He could not possibly abandon everything like her in order to live.

This is just a revenge.

“Okay.”

Lin Qing put away the long knife, felt the life origin integrated into his body, and nodded slightly: “As Dean Chu said, as long as the life level is successfully transformed, after killing it, the effect on the Warlord divine power is the same.”

Chu Hongjun nodded slightly and said: “Next, we can start dealing with the Zhi Xing Group. After solving Lei Tong, those Star Creatures of extraterrestrial civilizations will be left to you.”

“Okay.” Lin Qing nodded.

In addition to himself, the Black Flame clone also needs enough killing.

Although the Black Flame clone still needs to experience the Primordial Divine Trial, it can be stored first and then break through after the Primordial Divine Trial is passed.

“The Sky Archipelago hasn't ended yet.” Lin Qing asked: “Are we starting to act now?”

“We have already tried.” Chu Hongjun said: “Star Divine Practitioners only have one chance to explore the upper Sky Archipelago.”

Elena Duo nodded slightly.

“Did the two of you gain anything?” Lin Qing couldn't help asking.

“It's still a gain.” Elena Duo sighed and said: “I found a little hope to transform to the next level, but it will take a long time to have a little possibility.”

Lin Qing raised his eyebrows slightly.

He had already helped Elena Duo awaken the ninth-level authority [Soul Homeland], which meant that she already had a spatial talent.

But there is only a little hope?

“There is no ninth level on Earth, so you can't sense or recognize it, and you can't directly use the power of the ninth level, you can only create something out of nothing.”

Elena sighed again, "No wonder level 1.9 civilizations are so rare. The difficulty of transforming into a void creature is indeed unbelievably high."

Lin Qing pondered for a moment and said, "Madam Elena, actually… not only does Earth lack ninth-level energy, but the entire universe doesn't have it. This ninth level is a unique, self-created power level that can only be advanced in the dark."

"Doesn't exist?" Elena murmured.

"The talent to surpass the eighth level is actually spatial talent," Lin Qing said. "What you sensed was actually a void secret realm formed from spatial fragments, which is where a second-level civilization is located, not the power of the ninth level."

He paused and said, "If Madam Elena can find the location of a second-level civilization and enter the void secret realm, the transformation might be much easier."

"Even if it's easier, it's impossible to break through in a year or two."

Elena sighed and shook her head, "Now that Earth is in danger, I can play a big role with the authority I have, so I can't leave Earth right now."

She looked at Lin Qing, "But you should leave Earth if it really comes to an impossible situation."

Lin Qing pondered for a moment and said, "Actually, the situation isn't that bad."

He paused and said, "Today I met the Sky Island Guardian, and he told me… if I can become a Star Divine Authority, I will have a chance to completely restore peace to Earth and prevent extraterrestrial civilizations from invading."

Becoming a Star Divine Authority is only a possibility, and it is necessary to become the guardian of the Vacuum Mausoleum to achieve this.

"What?"

Qi Lingxiao, Chu Hongjun, and Elena all looked at Lin Qing in surprise.

"Lin Qing, is what you said true?" Qi Lingxiao couldn't help but ask.

"Just a Star Divine Authority?" Elena also couldn't help but say, "Even if you become a Star Divine Authority and your strength can run rampant in a first-level civilization, there is still the threat of a second-level civilization, are you sure?"

Chu Hongjun said softly, "Are you confident?"

"The Sky Island Guardian doesn't need to lie to me," Lin Qing nodded and said, "He said it himself, including that second-level civilizations can't threaten Earth, and third-level civilizations don't care about Earth."

As soon as he said this, the eyes of the three people changed significantly—that was hope.

"…Okay."

Chu Hongjun slowly nodded, "Before you achieve the Star Divine Authority, no matter what the cost, I will help you hold them back."

"Understood," Qi Lingxiao said, "Don't worry, as long as it's not a level 1.9 civilization, I'm not too afraid. That Governor of the Yuanchen Civilization is just on my level."

Hearing this, Lin Qing couldn't help but shake his head and said, "Speaking of level 1.9 civilizations, I also have bad news to tell you."

He said in a deep voice, "A level 1.9 civilization—the Nine Stars Civilization—has already confirmed Earth's existence. A big figure from the Nine Stars Civilization once came to Earth and even asked Yan Qingqing and Grock to help explore Earth's ruins and treasures."

Qi Lingxiao was stunned.

Elena's expression also changed.

"As expected…"

Chu Hongjun nodded slightly as if he had expected it, "Yan Qingqing's status in the Zhixing Group is not high, but she was able to obtain the Three-Eyed Race's eyes. I had already guessed this possibility at the time."

He slowly said, "Now that we have confirmed that the threat of a level 1.9 civilization is imminent, we must seize the Zhixing Group's seventh-order fortress. If we don't have the deterrent power to destroy Earth, in the face of a level 1.9 civilization, Earth will probably fall in an instant after it is opened up."

Unable to confront them head-on, they can only threaten them with what the enemy values.

Even if that is themselves.

"Tonight… we will destroy the Zhixing Group and expel all extraterrestrial civilizations from Earth!"