Chapter 988: Void-Blocking Ring (Requesting Monthly Votes)

Lin Qi quickly booked his time for observing the Yan Fa.

This time it was again booked in units of ten years, and with the dozens of free observations gifted by the original tower, he could observe for much longer.

He spent another large sum of cultivation points.

But this was a necessary expense.

He had three hundred years to cultivate slowly.

Even if he couldn’t fully master the fifth true meaning of space law, he could greatly enhance his combat power.

While waiting, he opened another document sent to him by Lord Kongming.

It was a detailed investigation dossier.

It recorded the entire life of the Dread King, including every scripture, secret technique, and cultivation method he had ever practiced throughout his growth.

It was extremely thorough.

Lin Qi couldn’t help but marvel at how powerful human intelligence networks still were.

Anything could be found.

If you wanted to find something, nothing was beyond reach—it only depended on whether they cared to look.

And with the power of the Supreme Beings, they could even resurrect someone from the river of time.

Gathering a little intelligence was effortless for them.

They simply might not have wanted to look.

Now that he had identified the Dread King as his target, the Dread King had only two possible fates.

Either he would severely injure Lin Qi and escape successfully.

Or he would be killed by Lin Qi.

There was no third path.

Lin Qi quickly skimmed through the dossier, starting from the Dread King’s childhood.

But there wasn’t much here—most of it was briefly mentioned.

However, after the Dread King entered the Primordial Sacred Ground following the Deep Space Talent Competition, the details became abundant.

Lin Qi’s expression began to change.

Especially after the Dread King reached the Fifth Cosmic Realm and returned to his homeworld, claiming three star systems as his territory, where deities arose.

He then unleashed waves of bloodshed and terror.

Because of his breakthrough, his family rose to power overnight.

But as his family ascended, the three star systems began to suffer.

Murder, plunder, and extermination of entire families were countless.

Someone merely posted a single critical comment online—and their entire family was wiped out by the Dread King’s clan.

Cases like these were too numerous to count.

Some factions had confronted the Dread King—but all of them vanished.

Because the one behind them was the Dread King himself.

He ruled the entire star system like a tyrant, a local emperor.

He did whatever he pleased.

Even if someone appealed to the Deep Space Academy, they would mysteriously disappear.

As he read on, the crimes committed by the Dread King’s family were too heinous to record fully.

Lin Qi’s eyes widened, and a surge of nameless rage rose in his heart.

The dossier revealed that thousands of years ago, the Dread King, out of boredom, captured hundreds of billions of ordinary people from newly discovered life-bearing planets and transported them all to a single planet.

Those with high cultivation were sold into the Cosmic Arena as slaves.

The weak were forced onto the planet to participate in the Dread Trials.

The trial’s rule: everyone on the planet must kill each other until only ten million remained.

Hundreds of billions of lives perished in it.

It was because of this that the Dread King’s sins crossed the line.

Too many had died.

Even if he hadn’t killed them himself, he had organized it all.

The Dread King probably thought that as long as he kept silent, the Deep Space Academy would never know.

But the Deep Space Academy knew everything about this incident.

That was why the Deep Space Academy had now decided to eliminate him.

And now, the task of eliminating him had fallen to Lin Qi.

Lin Qi stared at the dossier.

He suddenly remembered the nightmare vision he had experienced when consuming Nightmare Crystals.

It was nearly identical to this scene.

Although there was no Corpse Demon King, the Dread King was no different from him.

And he had done even worse.

He was like the combined embodiment of every enemy in countless nightmares.

Indeed, environments were illusions—reality was always more nightmarish than any nightmare.

He felt only a fierce, burning rage—such a being must be eradicated.

“Truly deserving of death!”

“Huh~”

Lin Qi exhaled slowly, calming himself.

The Dread King’s crimes were too numerous.

Although he now understood the existence of the Fifth Cosmic Realm, the Deep Space Academy would not act against them unless their sins reached a certain threshold.

But the Dread King had now reached the absolute limit.

Since he had chosen the Dread King as his target, he would kill him without fail.

Such a mad, monstrous being should not exist.

Lin Qi rose slowly.

He needed to prepare thoroughly—once the artifact was forged, he would depart immediately.

Such a being, even one extra day of life, was a curse.

Thinking of this, he walked slowly beneath the Void Tree and began his cultivation.

He had to hurry.

In these three hundred years, he would raise his cultivation as much as possible.

But he had his own trump card.

That was the Eye of Heaven—once activated, he was confident he could obliterate the Dread King.

But it was his secret—he refused to reveal it before others.

After over a thousand years of accumulation, the energy within the Eye of Heaven had rebuilt itself, now even more vast and potent.

The Space Divine Light he now unleashed would be far stronger than before.

Thinking of this, he pulled out Volume Five of the Book of Void and began his contemplation.

……

Six days later, Suolan arrived.

He delivered the purchased Void-Blocking Ring.

Beneath the Void Tree, Lin Qi stared at the black metal box before him and slowly opened it.

Inside lay a silver ring embedded in the casing.

Shaped like a bracelet, it emitted a silver glow, its surface covered with liquid-like silver patterns flowing continuously.

An invisible force drew Lin Qi toward it.