Chapter 1 Bow

In the spacious hall, Li Cheng颐 bowed deeply to Lan Meng with utmost sincerity.

"Bai Lu greets Senior Brother Lan Meng."

Both he and Lan Meng were disciples of Celestial Master Tian Xuanzi, but within the Heavenly Gathering Pavilion, cultivation reigned supreme. Apart from the master-disciple relationship, the seniority among fellow disciples was determined first by cultivation level, and only among those of equal cultivation was it determined by generation. Therefore, he addressed Lan Meng as Senior Brother here.

"When I was on Earth and Moon, I often heard tales of Senior Brother. Now that I finally meet you in person, Bai Lu is truly delighted!" Li Cheng颐 said with a hint of emotion.

Back then, their team had relied entirely on obtaining the Moon Mark from the counterfeit Eternal Wishing Book, thus avoiding significant casualties in several blind spots.

Otherwise, there might not be many survivors left in their team now.

Therefore, he felt a great deal of gratitude towards Lan Meng.

Although Lan Meng might have planted some hidden cards in the Earth-Moon timeline, that was to be expected.

The hall fell into a slight silence.

Hei Niu retreated, silently leaving the space to the two of them.

The fleshy pouches on Lan Meng's head were still chattering idly, but his main face was scrutinizing Li Cheng颐 carefully.

After a long while, he sighed.

"Is it the Lan Book? That was one of my great regrets back then. I never expected you and I to have such a connection."

Clearly, he had just been reading Li Cheng颐's information from the Earth-Moon period.

Without the premise of a blockade from someone of the same level, any non-unknown area could be known to them in an instant, if they so wished.

With the combination of understanding all things and infinite energy, what the All-Knowing Ones could do was far beyond the imagination of those in lower realms.

Apart from conceptual attacks, no other method could completely kill them.

And if they couldn't be completely killed, it was equivalent to being ineffective. Because the All-Knowing Ones could react extremely quickly, derive a solution, and then nullify your attack.

"Since it was arranged by our master, and you, Junior Brother Bai Lu, have such a deep connection with me, then you can operate around the vicinity of my Huanmeng Temple," Lan Meng instructed with a smile.

"If you encounter any difficulties, you can transmit your thoughts to the outer wall of the temple, and I will naturally know and resolve them. But..."

He paused.

"I hope you can rely on yourself as much as possible to solve everything. This will be of great benefit to your future growth. As you are now, you are completely ignorant of the common methods of fighting in the Black Sea."

"Bai Lu understands," Li Cheng颐 nodded.

"You are currently a nascent Dimension, in urgent need of a large amount of consciousness to integrate with the new dimension. If you want to incinerate all things, you can go to the Behemoth Zone." Lan Meng waved his hand, releasing a ray of blue light.

The blue light flew to Li Cheng颐 and transformed into a rectangular Dao talisman.

"This is a life talisman. It can help you detect the presence of an All-Knowing One at the first moment and teleport you back to the temple. But it can only be activated when the All-Knowing One has not truly made a move, only when they are approaching. It has a certain effect of blocking the perception of the All-Knowing One. But you should also understand that on the battlefield, although the opponent cannot sense you, if there are a few black dots suddenly appearing when everywhere is brightly lit, it is actually even more conspicuous and eye-catching," Lan Meng reminded.

"Bai Lu understands." Li Cheng颐 also understood this principle. But he still had to take the item.

He accepted the Dao talisman and pinned it to the same place on his waist as the sect jade pendant.

"Next, if you have any doubts or questions, you can ask them now, and I will do everything I can to help you," Lan Meng said with a smile.

He knew that Bai Lu was following the forbidden Nine Stars Difficulty system. This system was extremely powerful. In theory, naturally reaching the peak, being able to withstand immortality, could naturally achieve the Dimension Demon God. And it would lay a solid foundation for stepping into omniscience.

But... its danger was also extremely high.

"Bai Lu thanks Senior Brother for your guidance!" Li Cheng颐 was overjoyed. He had indeed accumulated many doubts about the Dimension Demon God Realm and the future omniscience, and now he needed to ask them.

In an instant, the entire Daoist temple suddenly stilled.

The state of time was instantly accelerated countless times at this moment.

Even if they spent a year in it, only a second would pass outside.

Normally speaking, accelerating time requires absorbing a massive amount of materials and energy in an instant to compensate, otherwise the materials inside would quickly decay.

After all, this is equivalent to condensing a large amount of time into one point. The creatures inside need to eat and drink to survive, so the consumption required during this large amount of time must also be replenished.

But at this time, with the All-Knowing One's infinite energy supply, this was only a small matter.

Li Cheng颐 took a deep breath and began to speak, stating his doubts one by one.

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A moment later.

A stream of light instantly flew out of Huanmeng Temple, hovering in the nearby sky, overlooking the entire temple and battlefield.

On the Heavenly Gathering Pavilion side of the battlefield, the area within several hundred light-years surrounding Huanmeng Temple was a vast white zone.

In the center of the zone, the Daoist temple was constantly spreading out countless points of light.

The points of light were blue. After flying out a certain distance, they rapidly expanded and grew larger, transforming into fleshy embryos.

As the embryos continued to fly, they grew rapidly mid-air, transforming into various humanoid monsters with ferocious faces and naturally growing white armor all over their bodies.

In addition to the humanoid monsters, some of the embryos in other directions grew into enormous war beasts.

One by one, the gigantic beasts, tens of thousands of meters in size, bizarrely shaped, flew towards the distant battlefield boundary line, joining the fray.

As they flew, layers of colored light curtains were attached to their bodies.

Looking down from above the Daoist temple.

Countless fleshy thin lines constantly flew out from around the Daoist temple, which were the supply lines for the troops in this area.

These supply lines formed a total of nine channels in the void between the Daoist temple and the front line of the battlefield.

Below the nine channel lines were rows of semi-cylindrical silver-white creations.

They were like bamboo tubes cut in half, with the supply lines passing above them.

From afar, all the troops passing through these semi-cylinders automatically had various kinds of spells, enhancements, equipment, and weapons attached to them.

The large number of Heavenly Gathering Pavilion and other faction powerhouses that Li Cheng颐 had seen heading to the battlefield earlier were now at the edge of the cylinders, frantically buffing the troops.

Some people even separated their sub-bodies, avatars, and projections to merge into the torrent of troops, rushing towards the front line together.

Li Cheng颐 noticed that every time these people buffed a soldier, the Heavenly Gathering Pavilion token on their waist would flash once. Clearly, it was calculating merit points.

"This is really a good place to farm merit points..." he sighed.

Earlier, in the Daoist temple where time was accelerated, he had also requested Lan Meng to help him partially rewind and restore the time in the Saintly Death Trap World within his body.

In order to revive many of the living beings who had died due to the aftershocks of his Eternal Vitality.

This was only a small matter for Lan Meng, who had infinite energy.

Because of their shared homeland, and their natural connection to the Lan Book, Lan Meng had a very good impression of Li Cheng颐. In addition, he was actually discovered, found, and recruited into the Heavenly Gathering Pavilion by Celestial Master Tian Xuanzi because of Li Cheng颐.

Therefore, Lan Meng felt that he owed Li Cheng颐 a great debt.

If not for Celestial Master Tian Xuanzi's support back then, he didn't know how many years it would have taken him to take the final, crucial step.

One had to know that in the Black Sea, there were far too many individuals stuck at the last step of the Dimension Demon God, unable to ascend.

He had entered the dimension through illusionary dreams, which made it even harder to ascend than other dimensions. Therefore, the magnitude of this karma made him exceptionally attentive to Li Cheng颐.

Li Cheng颐 was now suspended in mid-air, overlooking the nine battle lines below, which eventually converged into one line.

The troops in the battle line were a chaotic mess of various forms, completely lacking the uniformity of other wars.

Moreover, the forms and abilities of the nine types of troops were constantly changing, seemingly adjusting and evolving in response to the opposing defenses.

At a glance, each battle line could supply millions upon millions of soldiers to the front line every moment.

Li Cheng颐 dove down, quickly making a decision.

He planned to try his hand at long-range combat first.

He successively teleported into the first battle line.

As the distance closed, the battle line rapidly magnified in his vision, changing from a thin line to the thickness of a finger.

Then it became as wide as a washbasin, until it completely occupied his entire field of vision.

Countless dense white individuals appeared in his vision, as tiny as grains of sand on a beach.

Li Cheng颐 teleported continuously, and each teleportation caused the white grains of sand to instantly grow larger.

With each successive teleportation, the grains of sand rapidly grew, transforming into gigantic war beasts.

Here, there were dense masses of giant dragon beasts all around.

The white beasts formed a vast and boundless white ocean, swarming and rushing forward into the distance.

They were silent, their eyes blood-red, devoid of any reason, driven only by a deep desire for slaughter.

Soon, Li Cheng颐 transformed into a streak of black light, landing on the back of a mountain beast tens of thousands of meters long, and sat down cross-legged.

This beast resembled a saber-toothed dragon with a turtle shell, with a large number of sharp and dense horns on its forehead, a mouth full of serrated teeth, and constantly releasing a stream of green poisonous mist.

Li Cheng颐 was sitting in the gap between two serrated teeth on its back.

Each individual serrated tooth was hundreds of meters high, like a white mountain peak, blocking his entire field of vision.

As soon as he landed, Li Cheng颐 realized something was wrong. He couldn't even see what was happening ahead.

He stood on the ground, his feet on the beast's scales and keratin layer. But here, it was displayed as a textured white hard shell, as hard as stone.

He crouched down and gently tapped the ground.

Thump, thump, thump.

The muffled tapping sound was like tapping on a composite material mixed with metal and wood.

'No heat... or rather, the heat is completely isolated and sealed?' Li Cheng颐 understood.

He needed to understand these basic battlefield troops first, and then use them as a reference to measure the strength of the enemies on the other side from a distance.

He stood up and took a deep breath. The Black Sea liquid substance here had been squeezed away, leaving only the light green poisonous mist emitted by the beast itself.

The pungent, almond-scented poisonous mist circulated through his body and was naturally discharged without any damage.

'It seems to have enemy and friend recognition.'

He raised his head and looked at the sky.

The green poisonous mist had transformed into clouds, squeezing out the black viscous substance of the outer Black Sea, creating a spectacle like a dark green ocean.

It was as if the entire green ocean was suspended upside down in the sky.

Combined with the surrounding white serrated peaks and the occasional violent tremors of the earthquake.

If an ordinary person came here, they would probably think they were in a dream.

Li Cheng颐 glanced around, seeing only white serrated peaks. He immediately knew that he couldn't rely on vision here, so he released his consciousness.

His consciousness instantly crossed the giant beast, scanning the surrounding situation of the first battle line.

This battle line was extremely wide. Li Cheng颐's consciousness could now basically cover the range of a planet, but he couldn't even touch the walls on both sides of the channel here.

All he could see were giant white beasts, tens of thousands of meters long, constantly changing their shapes and rushing towards the front line.

On the outermost layer of the giant beasts, countless colored lights covered the surroundings from bottom to top.

Here, the small number of Heavenly Gathering Pavilion and Liancheng Association, as well as the powerhouses from many small forces, were spread out over such a vast battlefield like sesame seeds in the ocean. The probability of running into each other was so low that it was unimaginable.

Li Cheng颐 scanned for a long time, but didn't find any other companions around. He immediately gave up on that idea and focused on adjusting his state on the back of the saber-toothed dragon, ready to strike at any time.

With his current power, the strongest was naturally the terrifying physical body brought about by Eternal Vitality.

Other methods, whether it was the even stronger dimensional severing of the lifeline, the Burning Sword Furnace flame, or the countless Wisdom Swords condensed by consciousness, were far less powerful than his physical body.

So...

He stood up and floated upwards.

As the giant beast continued to accelerate its charge, approaching the front line.

From his position, it looked like there were huge sounds coming from the dark green ocean sky revealed between the saber-toothed peaks in front, stirring up huge waves in the inky sea.

Poisonous mist turned into wind, and the dragon's back shook violently.

Li Cheng颐 heard the terrifying roar of the dragon beast, filled with anger and murderous intent.

Moo!!!

The thunderous sound, like the roar of a bull, shook the heavens and the earth.

He gently floated upwards, higher and higher.

When he was a thousand meters away from the dragon's back, he stopped.

His consciousness extended forward, penetrating the dark green ocean sky and entering the Black Sea. Then, he instantly made contact with the front line hundreds of thousands of miles away.

There, the white beasts, like mountains, crashed into the black beast swarm.

(End of this chapter)