Lin Xiao circled the sky-high wind pillar and went down to a depth of several thousand kilometers. He circled around forty or fifty floating islands one after another and finally found traces of human beings on a large floating island of thousands of square kilometers.
However, these are just simple indigenous humans. There are hundreds of thousands of humans on the floating islands. They have developed a fairly good civilization and have initially mastered the power of magic. Huge airships travel between different floating islands.
With this large floating island as the center, there are nearly a hundred floating islands of various sizes within a diameter of thousands of kilometers. Twenty of the floating islands have traces of indigenous humans, which is equivalent to colonization. Together, there are about two million humans, which is the largest number among the many races seen on the hundreds of floating islands that Lin Xiao saw.
Once there are different races, there will naturally be wars for the purpose of competing for the living space. Although the number of races is small, they still fight in a decent manner. Humans rely on airships to travel between different floating islands to attack, and they are considered the overlord among these many floating islands.
Lin Xiao watched with great interest for a long time, but the humans living on these floating islands did not notice him.
Although there is a very powerful being hidden in this storm column, there are no powerful creatures on the surrounding floating islands, and no being above the true god level has been seen.
However, this does not mean that there are no strong people in this space. The flow of time in this space is so stable that it will definitely attract a large number of outsiders who have drifted in the Chaos Realm to settle here.
The prerequisite is to find this world alive.
Leaving a mark on a floating land around this storm column, Lin Xiao left the floating land and flew far away from this storm column. He wanted to see other sky-high storm columns in this world and see what their situations were.
However, when he was away from the sky-high storm pillar and the surrounding floating land for a distance, he found that the farther he was from the sky-high storm pillar, the more chaotic the void time became, gradually changing towards the chaotic time state of other worlds outside this world.
Obviously, the stability is limited to this towering storm column and its surrounding area. The farther away from the storm column, the worse the light wave effect becomes, until it disappears.
No wonder the races on these floating islands are only active within a radius of about one thousand kilometers of the Sky-reaching Storm Column and are not seen leaving this area.
With a mortal lifespan of several decades, once they leave this stable range, or if the speed of time changes too much, they will die of old age in minutes.
Of course, this had no effect on Lin Xiao. He ignored the impact and plunged into the void, soon disappearing without a trace.
There are also some floating lands in the void in the sky-high storm column, but without the influence of the unknown power of the storm column, the flow of time here is as chaotic as in other worlds. The creatures living on it are renewed very quickly, and it may only take a very short time from birth to adulthood.
Lin Xiao wandered in this piece of void where there was neither sky above nor ground below. From time to time, he saw floating islands floating in the void, and occasionally he saw some flying creatures crossing the floating islands and wandering in the void.
He didn't know how long it had passed, but he had crossed a distance of probably millions of kilometers. If it were any other super-large plane, it would be the end, but he hadn't seen the second storm pillar here. If he hadn't vaguely seen other storm pillars piercing the cloud disk on the dome in the sky before, he would have thought that there was only one storm pillar in this world.
That day he saw a large floating island from afar. Before he got close, he saw several huge shadows approaching the floating island from a distance in the wind belt at the edge of the floating island.
At first he thought some large monster was entering the floating island, but when he got closer he found that they were four large airships hundreds of meters long, equipped with cannons, which fired shells from afar in the direction of the floating island.
Soon the floating island also launched a counterattack, but it was just a counterattack with crossbow arrows. Although the crossbow arrows were powerful, the airship was huge and made entirely of metal, so many crossbow arrows missed the target, and most of those that hit were bounced off, and even those that did hit might not penetrate the airship.
The airship quickly defeated the resistance at the edge of the floating island and crashed through the wind layer at the edge of the floating island and entered inside.
Lin Xiao followed with great interest, and saw that the four large airships had entered the edge of the floating island. There was a huge open space there, which turned out to be a city similar to a port. It had now been blasted open by artillery. A large number of fully armed octopus-like soldiers jumped directly from the floating airships that were almost sticking to the houses and rushed into the city, fighting with those octopus-like creatures in the city.
At the same time, inside this floating island of 20 to 30 square kilometers, there is a peculiarly shaped castle, surrounded by many cultivated farmlands and farmhouses. The floating island is like an independent kingdom. At this time, a group of about 300 octopus people are already supporting in the direction of the port.
The octopus people at the port were obviously no match for the invaders. The weapons and equipment as well as the average strength of both sides were a big level apart. In particular, the invading octopus people seemed to have sensed that enemy reinforcements were about to arrive. The largest floating airship pod in the center was lowered, and a group of octopus people who were obviously the leader were released. Among them, a tall octopus man was leading the way, with a tentacle rolled up and the long sword at his waist raised high. An invisible wave spread out like lightning.
The invading octopus people in the city became excited as if they were injected with chicken blood, and their fighting power soared instantly. The defenders who were already unable to win collapsed immediately.
"nightmare?"
Lin Xiao didn't care about the outcome of the alien race. He stopped just out of curiosity. He hadn't seen such a low-level battle for a long time.
But he didn't expect that this pause would bring him an unexpected gain. When the octopus leader cast his skills, he actually felt the breath from the Son of Nightmare Realm.
Yes, this octopus leader is not the Son of Nightmare, but the power it exerts comes from the Son of Nightmare.
Lin Xiao instantly became interested when he discovered the breath of the Son of Nightmare here.
The invaders quickly defeated the port defenders and lined up outside the city to fight the octopus people who came to support them. In this battle involving 500 people, the invader leader used his skills several times to change the situation. Lin Xiao carefully experienced it and determined that the power that emerged when he used his skills did come from the Son of Nightmare.
In other words, there is definitely a Son of Nightmare behind this octopus man who gives him power.
Next, Lin Xiao took action directly. A white light fell from the sky into the crowd, and the octopus man leader disappeared.
The leader suddenly disappeared, and the invaders were thrown into chaos, their morale plummeted, and they were defeated by a round of attacks from the defenders and fled in all directions.
Lin Xiao ignored these changes. At this time, he had appeared in the void more than a hundred kilometers away from the floating island where the octopus man lived. He was sitting cross-legged in the void, and the octopus man was lying unconscious in front of him.
Although this race is called octopus people, they are not actually a race evolved from octopuses. They should be some kind of humanoid species, but their limbs are not ordinary human arms, but four flesh tentacles and many tiny fleshy hairs behind the head, making them look like an octopus.
These flesh arms have no bones inside, only pure flesh, as flexible as octopus tentacles.
Lin Xiao didn't wait for it to wake up and ask, he just stretched out his finger and tapped the octopus man's forehead. After a few seconds, a hint of surprise appeared on his face, and he muttered to himself:
"Is it such a coincidence?"
He directly read the soul memory of the octopus man and read all the memories of his life from birth to the present in one breath. He found the source of the nightmare power he possessed.
The result was both unexpected and expected.
It was indeed the Son of Nightmare who gave the octopus man the power, but the source of this power surprised him, or rather, the origin of this octopus man surprised him, because both the invading octopus man and the octopus man attacked by them actually originated from a very powerful creature from the Son of Nightmare.
To put it bluntly, these octopus people are species derived from the divine creatures of a certain son of the Nightmare Divine Realm, and are not native to this world.
However, because they have been wandering in this world for a very long time and have reproduced for countless generations, they are no different from the local indigenous people.
Although this octopus leader is also a member of the octopus tribe, he is different from other members of the same tribe. He has received the marks of other nightmare children and gained the ability to borrow the power of nightmare children, which is the skill he just displayed. Such natives have a unique name in this world - heroes!
"What a familiar name!"
Lin Xiao stood up and looked into the distance. From the memory of this octopus hero, he learned that the vast area ahead from here was the territory of the Nightmare Empire. Countless Nightmare Lords ruled this area with the sky-high Storm Pillars as the center, and they were constantly fighting with the lords of other empires for the Storm Pillars.
Although the status of this octopus hero makes it impossible to know the main bodies of other empires, his lord is just an ordinary son of nightmare and is not qualified to participate in the war with other empires, but Lin Xiao can guess that it should be an empire established by the descendants of other divine civilizations.
In other words, in this unimaginably vast space, it is very likely that one would encounter other human sons of the divine realm who had accidentally gotten lost in the Chaos Realm.
Although the Sons of God's Realm rarely enter the dangerous realm of chaos, most of them are not strong enough to survive the dangerous worlds and find this world, but there will always be various accidents and good luck, and there will always be some after a long time.
He killed the octopus man with one finger and reached out to grab the floating island more than a hundred kilometers away.
The space above the floating island suddenly twisted, and the huge floating island was squeezed and deformed by an invisible force. With a "bang", it broke into several large pieces and squeezed towards the center.
The octopus people on the island died one after another in this destructive disaster before they could even react. Along with the shattered floating island, they turned into meat paste and merged into the giant stone ball.
At the moment he destroyed the floating island, a will suddenly awakened in a sky-reaching storm pillar inside the Nightmare Empire which was far away. A flash of black light flew out from the storm pillar and headed in a certain direction.
At this time, the stone ball made of the floating island had been completely twisted and soon disappeared.
Lin Xiao exhaled lightly, and a beam of light flew out in front of him and turned into a jade token made of flowing light. A piece of information appeared in his mind out of thin air:
"Divine Domain Fragment: Divine Domain Fragment of the Fallen Nightmare Son. Gather ten Divine Domain Fragments to synthesize a complete Divine Domain Seed!"
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(End of this chapter)