Chapter 290: Extinguished in a Snap

Lord of Water and Civilization?

Under the crushing pressure of endless world power, even though the pure world oppression held no particular mystery, facing such boundless might gathered from an entire world, even a normal Void Lord would be unable to move, forced to stand helpless and await death.

Lin Qing made no resistance, merely raising an eyebrow slightly and looking up.

The transaction had just begun, yet the Lord of Water and Civilization had descended; so vigilant, it seemed he was watching him at all times?

It was rumored that the Lord of Water and Civilization had once been quite low-key and peaceful, but after entering the ranks of the supreme experts of the Void Sea, his nature had become far more domineering.

Now it seemed the rumors were indeed correct; he actually intervened in such a trivial matter?

"Lord of Water and Civilization, I merely wished to save a small child; why must it be so?" Lin Qing said with a faint smile.

The Patrol Guard Commander beside him also turned pale, quickly kneeling down in respectful submission.

At the same time, he cautiously observed the Emperor's reaction; if Your Majesty was willing to grant this strange Void Lord a favor, he would no longer interfere.

"Who are you?"

The Lord of Water and Civilization looked at Lin Qing with cold eyes and said indifferently, "This is my world, with laws I have set. How can a criminal judged by my laws be allowed such wanton behavior by an outsider like you?"

Lin Qing laughed and said, "So, whoever enters your world must abide by the laws you set? The Yuan Emperor? The Three Ancestors? Is it the same for them too?"

A trace of anger appeared in the Lord of Water and Civilization's eyes as he spoke coldly, "A coward who hides his head and tail, yet dares to compare himself to the Three Ancestors?"

He was considered a supreme expert in the Void Sea; only a few were stronger than him, each a peak existence dominating a region.

If a peak expert stronger than him wanted to save someone, why would they need to be so sneaky? Even without much connection, they could simply send a message and pay a price.

Either he was a weakling, or someone with an old grudge against him!

Therefore, he must ruin the other's plans.

"Hand over the person, and give up half the treasures on your body as apology, and I will let you leave," the Lord of Water and Civilization sneered. "Otherwise, you shall remain here today."

"Oh?" Lin Qing's eyes were calm: "Remain here?"

"Your Majesty!"

The Patrol Guard Commander kneeling beside suddenly bowed his head and shouted, "This subject knew long ago that this man had treacherous intentions, but constrained by the Lord's majesty, I had to temporarily submit. However, I did not truly hand over that prisoner to this man. I beg Your Majesty to see clearly! Allow me to atone for my faults with merit!"

The Lord of Water and Civilization looked at him with cold eyes and said indifferently, "Atone for faults with merit?"

The Patrol Guard Commander knew the opportunity had arrived, so he immediately looked at Lin Qing and said coldly, "Did you truly think I would hand over that prisoner to you obediently?"

Lin Qing looked at him expressionlessly, as if looking at a dead man.

Although the Patrol Guard Commander felt panic in his heart, thinking Your Majesty was present, he felt much relieved, and sneered again, "I have already planted a method combining my authority and secret arts into that prisoner's soul. With a mere thought, I can annihilate his soul. Did you truly think you could succeed?"

Lin Qing narrowed his eyes slightly, and at the same time, his mental force penetrated the Void Pearl. Upon careful investigation, he indeed discovered a strange energy lingering within the soul of the prisoner youth, Lei Lin.

"Not bad, some thought put into it."

The Lord of Water and Civilization glanced at that commander, then looked at Lin Qing, saying indifferently, "You have no chance left. Submit now."

After withdrawing his mental force, a trace of mockery slowly rose on Lin Qing's lips: "No chance left?"

He glanced at that patrol guard commander who was borrowing the tiger's might to intimidate, then suddenly let out a derisive laugh.

As his laughter rang out—

"Boom!"

A terrifying aura suddenly erupted from Lin Qing's body. He instantly transformed into a wisp of gray misty wind and vanished without a trace.

Immediately following, before that Patrol Guard Commander could react, a palm condensed with endless nirvana darkness reached out from the void. It casually slapped down, instantly completely annihilating him, turning him directly into nothingness.

The world power gathering around surged violently, yet seemed like a tsunami powerless to reach the sky.

For a moment, the Lord of Water and Civilization's face turned extremely ugly.

Lin Qing glanced at him and said softly, "Such a method based on soul power; once the caster dies, isn't it useless?"

The Lord of Water and Civilization stared at him fiercely, then sneered, "Good, good technique. I didn't expect you to actually have some ability, but do you think you are my match within this Water and World?"

He had just controlled the world power to protect that Patrol Guard Commander, but the other's power had already exceeded the limit of the world power's defense!

World power mainly relies on the gathering of boundless, massive quantities, but it has an upper limit for protection or attack. That limit is the level of the Eighteen Layers of the Yu Xingyuan, equivalent to a supreme expert among Void Lords, so it can easily suppress and kill the vast majority of Void Lords.

However, a supreme expert among Void Lords can defend themselves or move freely even against world power.

Nevertheless, the strongest technique of world power is to directly expel and reject the enemy out of this world. Except for the Three Ancestors and the Main Gods, no one can resist, which is why it is called invincible.

But as the Lord of Water and Civilization, a supreme expert famous throughout the Void Sea, how could he let an enemy leave so easily?

As the Lord of Water and World, with the support of the world's origin, his strength could surge by a major level!

Even if some Void Divine Officers entered, he had the confidence to fight a great battle against them.

"Boom!"

Another figure suddenly appeared from the void. Under the support of the world's origin, it emitted an extremely powerful aura; it was none other than the Yuanlan Zhen Shen of the Lord of Water and World!

The mere avatar just now only controlled world power; its strength was not even half of his true body's strength at this moment!

"I want to... see who you are!"

Blinding golden light erupted from the surface of the Lord of Water and World's body, instantly spreading across heaven and earth, forming a domain that imprisoned the void and suppressed Lin Qing. At the same time, his two wings gathered boundless might, transforming into two blade lights that cut the world, directly slashing down towards Lin Qing!

With his divine technique integrating the complete spatial laws, plus the support of the world's origin, even a supreme expert among Void Lords would be defeated or even annihilated facing this strike!

At this moment, all the Void Lords of the entire Water and World sensed the terrifying aura erupting here and noticed this scene.

"Has Your Majesty's true body descended?"

"Who is he dealing with?"

"Is there really someone worth Your Majesty using the world's origin to strike with full force?"

"Your Majesty's divine might! Even stronger than in the past..."

One by one, the Void Lords looked over, their hearts filled with shock and awe.

Among the thousands of Void Lords, there might not even be one such supreme expert, so this current Emperor Your Majesty is also the pride of the Water and World!

Just then—

"Boom!!!"

When the terrifying blade light formed by the convergence of two wings descended, an aura ten or a hundred times more terrifying suddenly arose; boundless power instantly condensed into a dark golden finger resembling a pillar of heaven, blocking the two blade lights.

However, after the two blade lights, carrying the world's origin and seeming ready to cleave the world in two, struck that dark golden finger resembling a pillar of heaven, not the slightest mark appeared on the dark golden finger!

Instead, the two blade lights could not hold, and were directly shattered and scattered by the shock!

"Merely this much."

Beneath the dark golden finger condensed in the void, Lin Qing glanced expressionlessly at the Water and World Lord.

All the Void Rulers of the entire Water and World were completely stunned.

The strongest since the birth of the Water and Civilization, the pride of the entire civilization, a full-power strike from their home world, was actually... as powerless as an ant shaking a tree?

The Water and World Lord looked at Lin Qing in shock and terror, his heart filled with disbelief: "How is this possible? My full-power strike, bolstered by the world's origin, cannot shake him at all? What kind of person is this fellow? He clearly does not have the aura of a Void Divine Official, yet the Void Ruler is so strong?"

Before he could think further, he saw that dark golden finger, as tall as a pillar of heaven and over a hundred kilometers long, suddenly move, sweeping horizontally towards him with a boom!

"Oh no!"

The Water and World Lord felt everything in the world before his eyes be filled by this massive pillar of heaven; vast world power gathered madly, yet could not block even the slightest bit, so he could only desperately control the world to completely expel the opponent!

In an instant, the space-time where Lin Qing stood was completely twisted, and he immediately vanished from within the Water and World.

And that dark golden pillar of heaven with boundless power swept across majestically, instantly crushing the entire body of the Water and World Lord!

Outside the Water and World.

Lin Qing gazed from afar at that secret realm of the void which had been completely sealed and could not help but smile: "Reacted quite quickly. A secret realm master with a clone is indeed hard to kill."

After he integrated the complete spatial laws into the World God, with his gene index nearly a hundred times that of a Void Ruler, the might of the World God was that of a peak combat power of the twenty layers of the Yu Xingyuan.

And the Water and World Lord, even with the world's origin bolstering him, was only at the mid-to-lower level of the nineteenth layer of the Yu Xingyuan; naturally, he could not compare to even a single finger of the World God.

Not to mention, Lin Qing did not even bring the set-type Chaos Divine Artifact 'Silent Void' this time.

Otherwise, his strength could rise another major level, truly reaching the level of a Child of Chaos!

But speaking of it, the Water and World Lord dared to have his Yuanlan Zhen Shen appear before him and fight him only because he had a clone.

Otherwise, if he had only one life, once his Yuanlan Zhen Shen died, it would be completely over.

"Very well."

Lin Qing sensed the youth Lei Lin inside the Void Pearl; since the goal had already been achieved, he immediately manipulated the power of the Shanhai Realm across the void to pierce through and open a temporary wormhole, returning to the Shanhai Realm.

Only because the space near the secret realm of the void was stable could such a transmission be so easy.

The central plane of the Water and World.

The boundless ocean of origin energy surged wildly; above the ocean stood a massive and majestic temple.

Inside the temple, the Water and World Lord's eyes were full of shock and panic: "Where did such a powerful figure come from? With such strength, yet so low-key? If he had just sent a single message, would I not have agreed?"

If he did not have a clone, this time the home world would have lost its World Lord!

Once the World Lord is lost, the home world would become like a sieve, allowing anyone to enter and exit; even worse, if enough time passes without a suitable World Lord appearing, this secret realm of the void would gradually decay and collapse!

"I did not sense the aura of a Chaos Divine Artifact; possessing such strength solely on his own? That is too terrifying..."

The more the Water and World Lord thought, the more fearful he became. "His aura is not that of a Void Divine Official... Could he be one of the Children of Chaos?"

With such strength, any other type of Void-level Divine Official besides the Chaos God could easily succeed.

Therefore, among the Void Rulers, only the Children of Chaos possess such strength!

"Strange..."

The Water and World Lord took a deep breath. "The methods of those five Children of Chaos do not seem to include this type of World God body... Where did he come from? And the aura is unfamiliar."

Several possible suspects flashed through his mind, including even Lin Qing, but he felt none were very likely; especially that Shanhai Realm Lord Lin Qing, who had only recently made a move on the Life System's Main Star. Although his strength was great, it was not even that of a Void Divine Official; how could he possess such strength in the blink of an eye?

He immediately transmitted this news to the Yuan Huang of the Star Fall Civilization, the powerful civilization that the Water and Civilization depended upon.

"With my humiliation, his fame is established..."

The Water and World Lord smiled self-mockingly. "If I had known, I would have ignored him and let him take his people and leave..."

He also knew clearly in his heart—

This unknown, strange powerful figure was destined to tread upon the head of him, the Water and World Lord, and have his name spread throughout the entire Void Sea!

Shanhai Realm, Buzhou Mountain.

"Lei Lin."

Lin Qing sized up the taciturn youth before him and said in a faint voice: "You must understand the current situation. I saved you from the Sols Great Prison of the Water and World. Are you willing to join my Shanhai Realm from now on?"

The youth Lei Lin immediately knelt down and kowtowed, saying: "Thank you, my lord, for saving me. I am naturally willing."

"Read this contract; if there are no problems, sign it." Lin Qing casually handed over a five-star contract.

Lei Lin was slightly stunned; kneeling there on the ground, he carefully flipped through the contract, then felt somewhat incredulous—could such a good thing really exist?

He immediately respectfully said: "I am willing, my lord."

"Work hard." Lin Qing said casually: "I know you still have enemies, but I will not avenge you for you; I will only do my best to cultivate you. If you truly wish to take revenge, then work hard."

"I dare not trouble my lord." Lei Lin said respectfully, while hope filled his heart.

Lin Qing nodded slightly in satisfaction.

He had also learned of this youth's past; to avenge his mother, he dared to take revenge against a royal of the Water and Civilization with such strength, and that too knowing he would surely suffer endless imprisonment.

Compared to the Lei Lin in the simulated future, the current Lei Lin had only endured thousands of years of punishment; his will was not as strong, but his talent would not change.

Even if his mental will was insufficient, relying on his secret technique talent, he could still become a second-grade successor of Lord Lan.

That was enough.

After all, Lin Qing's goal was only the supreme secret technique created by Lord Lan.

……

Time drifted on, and in the blink of an eye, more than twenty thousand years had passed.

The Mountain and Sea Realm had existed for over thirty-seven thousand years and was about to emerge from the thirty-eight-thousand-year civilization protection period.

And the Civilized War was now less than two thousand years away.

(End of this chapter)