Chapter 1630: Huge Gap

Bang bang! Bang bang! bang!

On the boundless yellow-brown plain, a soil dragon like an explosion shot across the ground at high speed.

Like a chain of explosives detonating on a lake surface, the sharp blasts and running sounds were especially piercing in this quiet world.

He couldn't worry about hiding his tracks, nor about the huge commotion he caused.

On the ground, Lin An strained to keep his body low, his whole person seeming to fly just above the surface as he ran wildly.

Stone dust shattered by his feet fell behind him at extreme speed, booming like explosions.

The gravity is truly too great.

After trying several times to fly, Lin An helplessly realized he could only desperately rush using this most primitive method.

It's not that he can't fly; rather, in this world not only is the gravity coefficient insanely high, but spiritual energy and rule power are also consumed extremely fast.

No matter what method he tried to move, Lin An bitterly discovered that his once vast reserves of power were being drained far too quickly in this world.

"Electromagnetic rules can be used, but just the consumption from moving the magnetic field can drain my rule reserve in ten seconds...

"Spiritual energy, moreover, can't even last three seconds...

"Even if I have many points, constantly exchanging for state recovery... needing to recover state every few seconds, no amount of points can hold up...!

"Points, I still need to save them for my life!

He couldn't judge just how large this world was.

As he ran all the way, Lin An felt heavy-hearted, frequently checking his distance to the fortress.

If it weren't for his strong body, he couldn't run this fast without special power.

With his attributes having no weaknesses, his huge constitution attribute was enough to support him running all the way in one breath.

Lin An had no doubt he might even die on the way to the assembly!

It's laughable to say.

As Earth's strongest, the pinnacle of human limits, in the difficulty of the fifth stage he actually had to strain just to keep pace.

"Is this the difficulty of the fifth stage...

"Entering the fourth stage is indeed no different from courting death...

With a bitter laugh, Lin An suppressed his useless emotions and continually pondered this world's peculiarities.

The Stellar Battlefield seems unfriendly toward both the spiritual energy system and the body system.

After several tests, he keenly discovered this world obviously limits the effectiveness of other powers.

Although any power here is consumed extremely fast and is hard to replenish,

but the consumption of spiritual energy and mental power far exceeds that of rule power.

And as a body system practitioner, Lin An feels his limitations are truly too great.

Without special means, the few displacement skills must be kept as trump cards.

In this situation, he too can only run on his legs like Tie Han Han.

"Rule system travel surely isn't as arduous as mine.

"Although the rule system may not be pleasant either, since they don't rely on bodily combat, their main body speed being slow or fast is irrelevant.

"But didn't the Overseer say the Stellar Battlefield is more suited for the body system...

He felt doubtful in his heart.

While multitasking and simultaneously rehearsing his combat, Lin An helplessly found that all his previous battle plans must be completely overturned.

At his current speed, even thinking of sneaking up on a fifth-stage foe at three times the speed of sound...

... is truly like lighting a match in a toilet—just courting death.

Likewise, at this snail‑like speed, he doesn't even know how to evade pursuit by a fifth‑stage opponent.

The only thing he can hope for is that the fifth‑stage body system has low strength, so he at least might be able to break through defenses...

After thinking it over, Lin An could only vaguely reach a conclusion.

That is, the advantage the Overseer spoke of for the body system refers to the fifth‑stage body system.

Upon reaching the fifth stage, the body system's ability undergoes a qualitative change; not only would lacking special abilities make him a fool, but even his speed would only make him a living target.

"A fifth‑stage body system should possess the ability to resist rules, or else have strong adaptive capacity.

His eyes showed contemplation.

Lin An recalled the mutants he had encountered in the Death Battle Ground, remembering their abilities.

If he remembers correctly, those mutants obviously had decent resistance to rules when fighting alien species.

Speaking frankly, Lin An also clearly knows he cannot truly be considered a body system practitioner.

His entire strength comes solely from point allocation, not from gradual self‑strengthening.

Thus he doesn't know many things, and simply cannot do them.

"My shortcomings... are really too many.

He gave a bitter laugh.

With his head down, running wildly, Lin An secretly sighed in his heart.

He felt like a cheating elementary student who scored sixty, suddenly thrust among college students who scored a hundred.

No wonder the Overseer's tone was so strange then, feeling he was practically courting death.

Time trickled by.

As the first round of preparation time had already begun, Lin An couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

According to the map, he still had three‑quarters of the way to the gathering point!

Not minding that his body had begun to slowly collapse under such high‑intensity running, Lin An gritted his teeth and simply sped up again, his legs seeming to leave afterimages as he increased his speed a notch.

High‑speed motion generates tremendous heat.

From afar, at this moment he looked like a blazing fireball, stirring up gust after gust of wind on the ground.

Faster! Even faster!

Striving to increase his speed, just as Lin An was desperately thinking of how to boost it, in an instant a heaven-shaking explosion suddenly rang out from above his head!

"Boom!!"

It seemed as if space itself had been shattered.

Accompanied by what seemed like a star appearing above his head, the earth instantly darkened.

Lin An's breath caught, and he felt the area he was in instantly freeze.

An indescribable pressure actually slammed him into the ground with a bang.

No time to be shocked!

His pores all over his body erupted, as if encountering a top predator, Lin An instinctively gripped his sword with a backhand and spun around, his eyes locked firmly on the sky behind him.

Enemy!?

He glanced hastily.

All he saw was, in the sky above the shadow‑cast ground, a metal giant entirely encased in sealed armor, cylindrical in shape, slowly stepping out from a torn space rift.

Its stature was kilometers tall; at a glance it looked like a giant walking out of the stars.

Within its can‑like sealed head, a narrow red glow seemed to be its eye.

Before Lin An, facing a formidable foe, could make his next move,

In the sky, this kilometer‑tall metal giant seemed not to have seen him at all; with a sweep of its massive hand it tore open a new rift and walked straight in, vanishing before Lin An's eyes.

In less than a second, everything seemed as if it had never happened.

Only the slowly healing black crack remained, as if indicating what had just occurred.

"What... level is this!?"

In the deep pit crushed by his body, Lin An gasped heavily, his tense frame finally relaxing.

After being shaken for several full seconds, he then weakly lowered the twin swords in his hands.

No wonder his reaction was so great.

At the instant the steel giant appeared, he felt a strong sense of mortal danger enveloping him.

Although the aura the opponent released was merely emanating outward, not directed at him.

But the pressure was simply too great, and Lin An couldn't help but instinctively enter a combat state.

"To tear open such a huge space rift... in this world..."

"This pressure, one cannot even gauge how strong it is."

"Casually activating space rules to rush along, judging by the earlier commotion... the distance the other side moves in one second could probably match what I run in ten minutes..."

"Is this what Fifth Stage is..."

After a long while, Lin An gave a bitter laugh, as if mocking himself, he put away his weapons, his heart filled with mixed feelings.

He didn't know what level that giant which ignored him belonged to; he only knew that if it attacked him, he probably wouldn't survive even a second.

If that opponent counted as a top‑tier existence among Fifth Stage beings, that would still be acceptable.

But if it were merely an ordinary Fifth Stage...

Having thought this, a hint of heaviness immediately flashed in Lin An's eyes.

If all Fifth Stage beings are like this, can he really survive...

Could his previous understanding of Fifth Stage all be wrong?

"No.."

"I will certainly..."

"I will definitely survive!"