Chapter 134: The Appearance of the Sky Island

The monsters began to move, launching an assault on the five ninth-tier powerhouses.

The power of laws surged across their bodies. This was the best defensive method available after reaching the sixth tier.

Although this defense was not especially powerful, it could withstand the aftershocks of an attack so long as the attack itself did not strike them head-on.

From a distance, Lu Sheng could not see the battle unfolding at the center of the battlefield very clearly.

He could still make out its general shape, however.

The monsters began counterattacking the ninth-tier powerhouses, and the imposing momentum those experts had established at the beginning collapsed in an instant.

Even when facing ninth-tier powerhouses whose strength surpassed their own by an entire tier, the monsters still launched their attacks without the slightest fear of death.

The ninth-tier powerhouses truly lived up to their rank.

In response to the monsters’ assault, they displayed overwhelming strength.

Every monster that drew near was blasted away.

Being sent flying did not necessarily mean certain death for the monsters.

Many suffered only minor injuries. Once they crawled back to their feet, they could continue fighting.

Only a small number sustained severe wounds and became unable to resist.

Very few monsters actually died beneath the attacks of the ninth-tier powerhouses.

The monsters did not fear death, while the strength of the ninth-tier powerhouses was limited.

If things continued this way, then once the experts exhausted their strength, it would be the monsters’ time to die.

The five ninth-tier powerhouses naturally understood this principle.

They simply had no other choice.

If they fled, the monsters would scatter.

By then, there would truly be no way to stop them.

Fortunately, they had called for reinforcements long ago.

Ninth-tier powerhouses from other locations were already on their way.

As long as they held out for a while longer, their reinforcements would arrive.

Once that happened, dealing with these monsters would pose no problem.

At Altar Mountain, Lu Sheng attended to his own affairs while watching the battle taking place there.

The two sides were separated by a great distance, yet Lu Sheng could still clearly sense the shock waves of their clash.

Gust after gust of wind swept across his cheeks. Even though he was not present at the scene, he could still feel just how terrifyingly powerful the battle was.

The ground there had already been blasted into one crater after another.

During the fierce exchange, every strike sent a visible ring of energy rippling outward.

So far, Lu Sheng could not see any sign that the ninth-tier powerhouses had the advantage.

If anything, they seemed on the verge of defeat.

There were simply too many eighth-tier monsters, surging forward like a tide.

The five ninth-tier powerhouses were like five stone pillars standing amid that tide.

Under the ceaseless assault of the sea, their collapse was merely a matter of time.

Fortunately, after resisting for some time, reinforcements finally arrived.

As more and more ninth-tier powerhouses joined the battle, the resistance of the eighth-tier monsters gradually weakened.

The number of ninth-tier powerhouses continued to increase.

Eleven… twelve… nineteen.

Yet when Lu Sheng saw this, he did not feel particularly happy.

There were indeed many ninth-tier powerhouses.

But what Lu Sheng wanted to see were tenth- and eleventh-tier experts.

What use were ninth-tier powerhouses alone?

They might be able to deal with the crisis before them, but what about a month from now?

Lu Sheng did not know what the situation would look like then.

But he knew that without the strength to contend with the monsters from the other world, they could do nothing but await slaughter.

When a floating island appeared, Lu Sheng’s expression changed.

This floating island, which had crossed the void to arrive, awakened painful memories buried deep within his mind.

To the current Lu Sheng, those memories flashed by like scenes from a film.

Yet for some inexplicable reason, a surge of hatred rose within his heart.

It was an instinct rooted in the depths of his soul, not a remnant of his predecessor’s will.

Lu Sheng silently watched the floating island.

He could not personally experience the pain suffered by his predecessor, and he currently lacked the ability to settle accounts with the floating island.

Even if he had possessed such ability, now would certainly not have been the time.

After the floating island appeared, Lu Sheng carefully observed its combat strength.

Based on his observations, the floating island’s strongest forces were only at the ninth tier.

Lu Sheng silently recorded this information in his mind.

One day, he would go to that floating island and reclaim justice for his predecessor.

He would not kill too many people, but those who had participated in the experiments, as well as those who had proposed the experimental plans, would all have to die.

He silently suppressed the hatred in his heart and devoted himself to cultivation and to improving the quality of his monsters.

As more and more ninth-tier powerhouses joined the battle, the entire earth was beaten into ruin.

Brilliant, multicolored powers of law illuminated the night.

The earth could not withstand such violent attacks. Under the unbearable burden, it collapsed and sank.

The monsters fought desperately to break out, but it was already too late.

By then, the ninth-tier encirclement had long since been completed.

No matter which direction the monsters charged toward, they would face attacks from all the ninth-tier powerhouses.

Escape was impossible.

After a period of fierce combat, not a single monster remained visible on the collapsed ground.

Every monster had been killed or mortally wounded, lying on the ground with no possibility of revival.

Law stones floated above the earth one after another.

The appearance of those law stones filled the participants with delight.

Even for ninth-tier powerhouses, these medium-grade law stones were still useful.

Moreover, they had gained a tremendous number of source points from tonight’s battle.

The things that could be exchanged for those source points were enough to make them covetous.

As long as they had enough source points to support their cultivation continuously, then reaching the tenth tier was, in their eyes, absolutely achievable—even if the eleventh tier remained beyond reach.

Unfortunately, battles of this scale could not occur often.

After collecting their spoils, the ninth-tier powerhouses did not immediately disperse.

Instead, they began repairing the rift in the world at that location.

One precious material after another was sent into the rift.

As the materials poured in, the rift began to mend. The fissure, which had stretched for ten thousand meters, gradually disappeared from the world.

Once the rift had been repaired, the ninth-tier powerhouses present finally breathed sighs of relief and departed one by one.

From Altar Mountain, Lu Sheng watched everything.

He made no move and did nothing.

He was merely a spectator.

It was within Lu Sheng’s expectations that the people of Blue Star would be able to resolve the crisis.

It was also within his expectations that only ninth-tier powerhouses would appear.

With the monster vanguard eliminated, no major incident occurred that night.

But the entire planet remained in a state of uproar.

The large number of monsters that had descended at dusk had not been mere decoration.

Surviving the first and fiercest wave of attacks did not mean the end.

Large numbers of monsters that had descended into the wilderness began attacking inhabited settlements.

Wave after wave, they crashed down like an endless tide.

Only the settlement where Lu Sheng was located differed somewhat from the others.

Monsters continued to arrive there as well.

But they were all sixth-tier monsters.

Not a single one was below the sixth tier.

Zhuo Lei honestly stood guard throughout the night. Whenever a sixth-tier monster appeared and he could handle it himself, he did so. If he could not, he summoned the sixth-tier monsters Lu Sheng had left behind to fight alongside him.

However, whenever those sixth-tier monsters took action, the law stones dropped by the monsters they killed belonged to Lu Sheng.

Therefore, Zhuo Lei would never call on Lu Sheng’s subordinates for help if he could deal with a monster himself.

The monsters summoned by Lu Sheng gathered the law stones dropped by the monsters they killed.

They would hand them over to Lu Sheng during the day.

The sixth-tier monsters had long since developed minds of their own. They simply did not take the initiative to communicate with humans.

Still, they carried out their master’s orders with great seriousness.

As Zhuo Lei looked at the law stones piled beneath the feet of those sixth-tier monsters, his heart felt as though it were being scratched by a cat’s claws. He desperately wanted to gather them all into his own hands.

But he knew that if he truly dared to do so, he would die a miserable death.

He shifted his gaze away, not daring to look any longer.

The more he looked, the more afraid he was that he would lose control of himself.

Zhuo Lei was the busiest person throughout the night. The other night watchmen occasionally caught sight of sixth-tier battles.

In the past, witnessing one had been extraordinarily difficult.

Now, they were practically sick of seeing them.

Watching Zhuo Lei fight so enthusiastically had made their own hands itch.

Unfortunately, with no monsters below the sixth tier appearing, they could do nothing but suffer in silence.

The absence of monsters below the sixth tier meant they had no way to earn points by killing monsters.

Without points, they had no means of rapidly increasing their strength.

During the first half of the night, they were still relieved that no monsters had appeared.

But by the second half, they had begun to grow unhappy.

Without monsters, how were they supposed to improve their strength?

None of them understood why not a single monster below the sixth tier had appeared.

With forced laughter, the night eventually passed.

…

The next day.

As soon as Lu Sheng rose, he first checked how many points he had gained.

One hundred and fifty million!

That was right—one hundred and fifty million!

Looking at that enormous figure, Lu Sheng’s heart began to beat faster.

What a pity they were not source points. Otherwise, he could have taken off on the spot.

Even so, he could use those points to exchange for spirit fruits and pile up his cultivation realm.

At present, he had only just entered the sixth tier and was still in its early stage.

Although points could only be exchanged for fifth-tier spirit fruits, such fruits were still somewhat useful to him.

He spent thirty million points to exchange for three hundred fifth-tier spirit fruits. Every one of them was white-grade.

He ate all three hundred from morning until noon.

Fortunately, they were energy-based items and did not make him feel full. Otherwise, he would have been sick from eating them long ago.

Three hundred fifth-tier spirit fruits pushed him from the early sixth tier to the late sixth tier.

He was still somewhat short of reaching the sixth-tier peak.

However, he estimated that another two hundred fifth-tier spirit fruits should be enough.

From morning until noon, the points in his possession had returned to one hundred and fifty million. The thirty million he had spent that morning had already been replenished.

At the same time, he still possessed some source points. They had been obtained by the sixth-tier monsters he left behind to stand guard the previous night, after they killed other sixth-tier monsters.

Adding the twenty-three points he had possessed at dusk the previous day, he now had a total of forty-three.

In other words, twenty sixth-tier monsters had been killed during the night.

When he went to retrieve his subordinates that morning, he also gained twenty law stones.

Thirteen of them were unaligned law stones.

After cultivating throughout the previous night, each of his three law pillars had successfully increased by one and a half meters.

Yet they showed no sign of having reached their limits.

The law pillar of strength was now two meters tall, though it remained as thick as a finger.

The law pillars of time and space had reached three and a half meters, while their thickness remained that of a forearm.

After the law pillars grew taller, Lu Sheng could clearly feel that using these laws had become much more effortless, and their power had also grown considerably stronger.

The most obvious improvement was in the law of strength.

His strength had increased by roughly tenfold. This was what he had experienced from simply covering himself with the law of strength.

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