Chapter 782: Treating the World as a Game Field
The human race world regained peace and tranquility. Lin Moyu could foresee that this period of peace would not be too short.
The dragon race had been utterly decimated, with only a few little cats remaining that could be exterminated at any time.
The blood race disaster had brought no small losses to the Shenxia Empire.
According to the final statistics, the Shenxia Empire lost over 20 million people in this blood race calamity.
Among them, one-third were combat professionals.
Some were killed on the spot, while others mutated after being injured.
The mutation had an infectious nature - as long as one was injured by a mutated being, they would become infected.
This formed an extremely large chain of infection.
Additionally, after the blood mist formed, many more people went insane within it and committed suicide.
The total population decreased by about 10%, which was still because the Shenxia Empire had the Eternal Great Wall. Otherwise, the casualties would have been even more severe.
But after this disaster passed, the entire human world now belonged solely to the Shenxia Empire.
Anyone not of pure Shenxia descent had been turned into a blood slave by the blood race’s secret methods.
In the end, within the blood mist, they exploded to summon the Blood Ancestor’s avatar.
The land stained red by blood is now recovering, and the original monsters are being reborn.
All the world’s instances now belong to the Shenxia Empire.
With abundant resources, the Shenxia Empire’s population will experience explosive growth.
With a larger population, all kinds of talents are bound to emerge.
It won’t take many years before the Shenxia Empire’s strength undergoes earth-shattering changes.
From this perspective, this disaster has instead brought an opportunity for development to the Shenxia people.
Now the Shenxia Empire’s only remaining enemy is the abyss, and as long as the abyss is also eliminated, they can truly rest at ease.
Orders were issued from the imperial palace, mobilizing the entire nation.
In the soul world, the Immortal Star shone brightly.
Another two years passed in the blink of an eye.
Lin Moyu’s soul body became increasingly pure.
The nine-colored dragon soul crystal exhaled pure soul power daily, gradually expelling the impurities from his soul. Lin Moyu’s soul appeared crystalline and translucent.
On his soul, a law was slowly flowing.
The law of immortality - Lin Moyu had gained some insights into it these past few days.
The immortality law was like a thin thread, sometimes entering his soul, sometimes leaving, weaving in and out ceaselessly.
His soul seemed to have adapted to the existence of the immortality law, showing no major reaction to its movements.
Even if Lin Moyu tried to control the immortality law, it would not harm his soul.
With a tremor of his soul, Lin Moyu retracted his will, and his soul opened its eyes.
His soul was glowing, and his physical body was also glowing.
He had leveled up again, reaching level 88.
The nine-colored dragon soul crystal let out a resounding dragon’s cry, as if celebrating Lin Moyu’s advancement.
Due to the manifestation of laws, Lin Moyu’s comprehension speed was extremely fast and smooth.
He only used two years to go from level 87 to 88.
Of course, compared to leveling up by killing monsters, the time was a hundred times longer.
But the gains were completely different.
He gained deeper insights into the laws, and his soul made corresponding changes to adapt to the laws.
His soul became purer, and his soul power more refined.
Every slight change filled Lin Moyu with joy.
"Stinky brat, you leveled up again?"
Antares’ tone was a bit strange, as if envious.
Lin Moyu smiled and said, "Why don’t you comprehend the law of time?"
Antares shook his head exaggeratedly. "Don’t you understand resting and working in turn?"
Lin Moyu would never believe that. "Do you think I’ll believe you?"
Antares had said before that whenever he comprehended a law, it took dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of years - it was normal.
Now the manifested law of time was right before him - for any powerful being of any race, this was a heaven-sent opportunity, an invaluable treasure.
How could Antares possibly stop comprehending after such a short time?
Unless...he couldn’t comprehend it.
Lin Moyu looked at Antares strangely, making Antares’ hair stand on end.
Antares snorted. "Alright, I’ll tell you the truth - I can’t comprehend your law of time."
"Why not?"
"Just like the law of immortality, the manifested laws contain your personal will. Only you can comprehend them."
The manifested law of time was formed through the Immortal Star technique, which was filled with Lin Moyu’s soul power - it was Lin Moyu’s personal possession.
So the law of time manifested from it naturally also contained Lin Moyu’s personal will.
Once a law carries a personal will, even if manifested, others cannot comprehend it.
It’s the same reason Antares cannot comprehend the law of immortality.
Lin Moyu said, "Is there really no other way?"
Antares said, "No, that’s just how abstruse laws are. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be so difficult."
"Alright, enough nonsense. Since you leveled up, go learn some skills and let me vent."
Lin Moyu smiled. "No rush, tell me about the human race first."
"The human race is doing great. This world now fully belongs to you Shenxia people."
"Speaking of which, you humans really can reproduce. Everyone has been going all out giving birth these past few years."
Lin Moyu was stunned and couldn’t help asking, "What about the others?"
Antares casually said, "They’re all dead. As blood race slaves, what use was there in keeping them alive?"
It always looked down on the blood race with disdain.
Lin Moyu frowned. The world’s population was over 10 billion.
The Shenxia Empire had about 200 million.
Over 8 billion others had died just like that.
The blood race’s methods were truly vicious.
But on the larger scale of the greater world, this was merely a trivial matter.
The extinction of races happened from time to time.
The destruction of worlds was nothing rare either.
Lin Moyu frowned. "First the powerful demonic beasts, then the evil dragon race and blood race, and even the soul race came before."
"What is so special about our world that they would come here? Does our world have something special?"
Antares laughed mockingly. "It is a bit special. The idiots of the previous era screwed up, leading to the tragedy of your era."
"But what exactly is special? Actually, there’s nothing much. You’ll naturally know in the future."
Lin Moyu said unhappily, "Can’t you stop being vague? Always saying ’wait until the future’ - aren’t you tired?"
Antares said helplessly, "Alright, I’ll tell you. Actually, something was stuffed into the core of this world."
"It’s a good thing, and the experts of various races all want to obtain it."
"But to get it, one must first become the master of the world."
"And this is a closed world, protected by the rules of the greater world."
"You understand, right?" Protected by the rules of the greater world, this closed world - supremely powerful beings cannot enter.
But it’s not like there’s no way in at all. For some invincible experts, there are always methods.
It’s just that this world also has Antares’ existence.
So the various races could only play this game of snatching treasures within the rules.
Antares then became an existence like a referee.
If anyone violated the rules, Antares would take action.
Lin Moyu muttered, "To actually treat a world as a game field, how disgusting."
"Don’t...don’t say that, that person cannot be evaluated like that."
Antares hurriedly stopped Lin Moyu, its eyes filled with some fear, clearly the person behind the scenes was extremely terrifying.
This was the second time Lin Moyu had seen Antares show such an expression.
The first was when mentioning the old man riding the qingniu, and the second was now.
Antares clearly did not want to say more. "Hurry and learn some skills, let’s stop this topic."