Chapter 12: Slaughter: The Next Simulation Opportunity

The battle erupts with four Marquis Immortals, but it's not a two‑on‑two; it's three versus one, clearly a mob attack.

The one being mobbed is an extremely tall stone being; its whole body radiates gray‑brown light, its face is ferocious, and it roars repeatedly.

The three silver‑eyed giant beasts that surround the stone being are all silent, yet each strike is ruthless, every move aimed at taking the stone being's life.

These four Immortals are all strong, roughly at High‑level Marquis and Peak‑level Marquis tiers; one versus three, so the stone being is naturally beaten into a sorry state.

However, in ordinary Marquis battles, although a winner can be decided, it's hard for either side to kill the other; to kill a Marquis, one must reach a much higher tier to have a chance.

But this time is different.

The three silver‑eyed giants each have ignited their divine bodies; two High‑level Marquis silver‑eyed giants are tasked with restricting the stone being's movements, while the Peak‑level Marquis silver‑eyed giant launches a frenzy of attacks on the stone being.

Using his Peak‑level Marquis strength to ignite his divine body and recklessly unleashing a supreme technique, he barely managed to wound the High‑level Marquis stone being.

"Are the three of you crazy?"

"I never provoked you; why are you fighting me? Even if you kill me, you'll lose most of your power!"

"Is it necessary? Why?"

"%&*%……&￥&~!"

The stone being roars, peppered with some hometown curses, but the three silver‑eyed giants give no reply, only a relentless assault.

"Once I kill you, I'll go ask my brother," the Peak‑level Marquis silver‑eyed giant says, its eyes flashing with madness.

"Help!"

"Assistance!"

"I've run into three demon‑race lunatics; who can help me? I, Tu Feng, am willing to do anything for them."

The stone being realizes it cannot escape, so it frantically sends out a plea for aid, but no one responds.

However, more than ten seconds after the battle erupts,

Whoosh!

A spatial disturbance suddenly appears above the island, followed immediately by a figure clad in black armor appearing in the sky.

"Teleportation?"

The stone being feels a surge of joy; anyone who can master teleportation must be a King‑level strongman.

But then his joy quickly fades.

He belongs to the Mechanical Clan, while the newcomer is clearly a Human Clan King‑level.

This clearly isn't a strongman who came because of his distress signal.

Nevertheless, the stone being still sees this as his chance.

"Three idiots, can't you see that Human King? Do you want to die with me?" the stone being roars.

The three silver‑eyed giants certainly notice the figure; the two High‑level Marquis giants immediately feel a desire to retreat, while the Peak‑level Marquis giant, though eager to kill the stone being personally, cannot endure his companions' urging.

"Go!"

The three silver‑eyed giants instantly burst forward, shooting toward the distance.

The stone being darts straight in the opposite direction.

This is the moment of luck; see which human strongman pursues first.

"Those three lunatics will definitely attract more attention than I do alone; that Human King, if he's not foolish, certainly won't chase me."

With a little time, he can accelerate to light speed and slip into the dark universe to escape.

The one who arrived here is, of course, Zhou Yu.

He is also pleased; in just ten days on the outer battlefield, he has encountered four Marquis Immortals, which is quite rare.

"None of you think you can leave."

Zhou Yu's thoughts shift slightly, and his divine power erupts.

The mental‑force artifact "Matrix Void Ten‑Thousand‑Li Plate" he bought for five hundred billion points instantly splits into 108 pieces, each a teleport that appears in different spaces tens of thousands of li around him.

These 108 mental weapons easily manipulate spatial laws and, linked together, form a spherical space spanning hundreds of thousands of li.

The spherical space is absolutely sealed; although it can't temporarily block teleportation, the Marquis Immortals cannot escape.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Inside the sphere there is immense resistance; the four trying to flee, whose speed was soaring, instantly slows.

"What technique is this?" the three silver‑eyed giants gasp in shock.

"It resembles a Mechanical Clan weapon effect."

The stone being's heart also sinks; he has seen a similar weapon on a Mechanical Clan strongman.

Simultaneously, the four Marquis Immortals begin frantically bombarding the invisible barrier at the sphere's edge; note that they are all in a divine‑body‑burning state, each capable of King‑level attacks, yet the barrier is incredibly solid and cannot be broken.

"If you manage to blast it open, then my move wouldn't deserve the title of Peak Secret Technique," Zhou Yu says calmly, standing in the air.

The secret technique may be the only commendable thing about this "genius" of his.

In Chaos City, Zhou Yu chose the "Chaos Stele", whose recorded "Flame Sky Road" is also extremely powerful, but certainly incomparable to the Beast God Path, the Time‑Space Path, and the like.

Moreover, this path is ultimately just someone else's path.

So, in the simulation, Zhou Yu, while on the outer battlefield, tried a different route; using the "Flame Sky Road" as a foundation, he began to devise his own secret technique.

Eventually Zhou Yu was inspired by a Mechanical Clan strongman he killed, and he adopted the "Matrix Road".

Following this road, the simulated him ultimately didn't create a Peak Secret Technique, but he was close to it.

The real transformation of this road came in these past few years.

Zhou Yu incorporated many concepts from the Wild Chronicle World's Array Great Way, finally causing his secret technique to evolve; Zhou Yu is certain that his technique now is the Peak Secret Technique.

He now names this secret technique "Time‑Space Array".

The reason it's called Time‑Space Array is that Zhou Yu is ambitious; for now he evolves the move using spatial laws, and plans to later integrate temporal laws.

"All four of you, die!" Zhou Yu says, utterly ruthless as his divine power continues to erupt.

Rows of terrifying light pillars burst from the formation in all directions, shooting toward the four Lord Immortals.

Each of these pillars was almost a peak‑level King's full‑force strike; even the four Lord Immortals, despite burning their divine bodies, could not block them.

Every strike easily caused them to lose a large amount of divine body.

"Human, I'm going all out against you."

The three‑headed silver‑eyed giant beast roared and lunged at Zhou Yu, but before it could get close, it was engulfed by the endless eruption of light pillars.

The other rock lifeform quickly saw the reality and understood that it was certainly doomed.

However, before dying, it sent out one final message.

"I was killed by a stranger, a human‑race powerhouse; his technique was very unusual, characterized by"

As soon as the message was sent, the rock lifeform was erased by successive attacks.

"The last time I killed a top‑tier Celestial, I earned a simulation opportunity; this time I slaughtered four Lord Immortals in one go yet got no opportunity. It seems that each simulation requires increasingly more primordial energy, and the increase is substantial."

Zhou Yu understood this, but since he was on the outside domain battlefield, he could simply kill a few more.

Hoo!

Zhou Yu waved his hand, summoned a spaceship, and quickly left the island.

Zhou Yu did not venture deep into the Dark Continent; on the Dark Continent, the deeper one goes, the more powerful beings there are.

If Zhou Yu were there to hone himself, he would naturally head to the depths to clash with Kings, but he came to kill, and searching on the outskirts is more efficient.

In the blink of an eye, three years had passed.

Although the Dark Continent teems with countless strong ones, it is so vast that they are widely scattered; even Zhou Yu's detector has a huge range, yet finding anyone remains difficult.

Aside from the four Lord Immortals he luckily encountered at the start, over the following years Zhou Yu's record was modest: he only killed one Lord and four General Immortals.

In fact, Zhou Yu also knew that his large‑over‑small slaughter of Immortals might not have mattered at first, but killing many in a certain region would inevitably draw the attention of the major factions, prompting a response.

After all, Immortals are not infinite; Lord Immortals are already quite rare, and cannot be slaughtered indiscriminately.

"Whatever, as long as no one notices, I'll just have a good kill first," Zhou Yu thought calmly.

That day, while Zhou Yu was contemplating the laws of space inside his spaceship, his detector's auxiliary AI suddenly alerted him that a powerhouse had been detected a billion kilometers away.

"It's the Jiu Yu Wang of the Insect faction; the data says he roughly possesses High‑level King strength," Zhou Yu couldn't help but ponder.

This was the first King Immortal he encountered on the outside domain battlefield, and in terms of strength, Zhou Yu was certainly stronger than Jiu Yu Wang.

Kings are roughly divided into Primary, High, Peak, Limit, and Invincible tiers; Jiu Yu Wang is a High‑level King, while Zhou Yu, building on the Peak tier, has devised a Peak secret technique and already qualifies as a Limit‑level King.

"I have some confidence in killing him, but considering he might call for aid, I'll have to pay a price," Zhou Yu thought and decided to act.

He had never unleashed his full power; as a distinguished human genius, it would be shameful to only slay a few Lords or ordinary Immortals—only killing a King would be a true feat.

Having decided, Zhou Yu hesitated not; he instantly teleported and appeared a billion kilometers away.

Since the detector was inferior to Zhou Yu's own level, Jiu Yu Wang had never detected Zhou Yu himself; when Zhou Yu appeared, Jiu Yu Wang hadn't even had time to react.

By the time Jiu Yu Wang reacted, Zhou Yu had already unleashed his ultimate technique, the Temporal‑Spacial Array, trapping him inside.

That wasn't all; blood‑colored patterns instantly flared across Zhou Yu's body.

Blood Luo Power!

Zhou Yu became a Blood Warrior at the cosmic level; later he continually tried to integrate Blood Luo Crystals, but even up to breaking through Immortality, he never managed to become a Black Warrior.

That's actually normal; to become a Black Warrior, besides a strong will, one's genes must also harmonize with the Golden Beast deity.

Will and genetic compatibility are both crucial.

Thus, in the simulation, Zhou Yu never lingered on becoming a Black Warrior and ultimately chose to break through directly.

However, although he didn't become a Black Warrior, he did integrate eight Blood Luo Crystals, allowing him to unleash several times the power.

Boom!

Zhou Yu immediately burned 0.5% of his divine body as well.

Killing a High‑level King and causing this Limit‑level King to burn so much divine body is more than sufficient.

"Who is he?"

At that moment, Jiu Yu Wang was immensely shocked—an unknown King‑level powerhouse who, upon meeting, immediately burned his divine body?

"Is this guy crazy?"

"Jiu Yu Wang, die."

At that moment, Zhou Yu manipulated the Temporal‑Spacial Array to shrink rapidly, shrinking in the blink of an eye to less than a thousand li, and immediately a series of jet‑black light attacks burst forth.

Each beam was actually an attack formed by Zhou Yu's telekinetic weapon.

A single attack, when he neither burns his divine power nor employs Blood Luo Power, is comparable to a normal Peak‑level King's full‑force strike; however, when he does burn his divine power and uses Blood Luo Power, each attack's potency exceeds that of a Peak‑level King's full‑force strike while burning divine power.

Crucially, these beams were not singular but erupted simultaneously in thirty‑six lines.

Maintaining the Temporal‑Spacial Array's stability while unleashing thirty‑six attacks at once represents Zhou Yu's limit.

At that moment, the thirty‑six attacks instantly engulfed Jiu Yu Wang.

"Madman!!"

Jiu Yu Wang also burned his divine power recklessly, but even after doing so it was insufficient; in an instant, he was completely overwhelmed by the thirty‑six attacks.

Jiu Yu Wang, die!

At that moment, a faint smile appeared on Zhou Yu's face.

Killing Jiu Yu Wang was gratifying, but even more so was that the primordial energy he absorbed finally accumulated enough for another simulation.

PS: Early on, simulation attempts were easier to obtain, so they may have been more frequent; later the frequency will decrease.

(End of Chapter)