And to be honest, this reason is not too outrageous. There are fourteen players fighting in pairs and only seven are left. If there is one less player in the pair fight, there will definitely be a bye.
If it is a normal game, having a bye is a good thing, but here it is not a good thing. At this step, if you kill one less opponent, you will lose a lot of evolution points.
Now there are only four left, which is equivalent to him fighting two fewer rounds and losing a large number of evolution points.
If he had not completely digested the power of the incarnation, his current strength would be equivalent to the super power of the nineteenth level of the godhood. He would have been at a loss if he had fought two fewer rounds.
So it's hard to say whether this kind of thing is good or bad, but compared to him, it's a good thing.
The remaining four contestants were himself, his other incarnation of the ancient golden tree, the seven-headed dragon, and another familiar figure, the Lightning Ghost.
That's right, just like when he gained the power of Mystery Mother and directly liberated the power of the incarnation, thus greatly increasing his strength, the six-headed dragon he had fought before also gained the benefit bestowed by the Nine-Faced Dragon God Io and grew a new head again.
The new head has no attributes and does not add any additional laws of the Seven-Headed Dragon Clan. Its only function is to greatly increase the various resistances of the Seven-Headed Dragon Clan, especially against the law of time mastered by Lin Xiao.
To put it bluntly, it is to defend against the laws of time that he masters.
Lin Xiao had seen the Lightning Ghost before. It was the strongest opponent for him except for the Ancient Ice Spirit in the last few levels of the Tower of Babel. It mastered the power of lightning and could forcibly extract the power of its opponents. It seemed very powerful at that time, and it must be even more powerful now.
The four contestants attracted the attention of dozens of great masters. Various hidden will fluctuations that were imperceptible to those who were not great masters were transmitted back and forth. The great masters discussed and prepared for the final bet.
Unlike before when one could bet at will, at this point, each great master can only choose one player to bet on, and cannot choose more than one.
What is different from before is that most of the overlords are now quite optimistic about Lin Xiao. Not to mention the time law he has mastered, with the appearance of Mystery, a terrifying existence that is considered a legend even among the great overlords, the powerful overlords can see the relationship between them at a glance, and it is clear what to choose at this time.
However, there are also a small number of Overlords who are quite optimistic about the Seven-Headed Dragon Clan. His Majesty the Nine-Faced Dragon God Aio is also a well-known powerful figure in the Chaos Void Sea. Compared with the mystery that sleeps most of the time and does not have much impact on them, the relatively active Nine-Faced Dragon God can make them feel his power more intuitively.
But the most crucial thing is that the Nine-Faced Dragon God has specially strengthened the resistance of the Seven-Headed Dragon Clan to the law of time. Combined with its own strength, this is the main reason that gives them a certain amount of confidence.
In addition, there are also a small number of Overlords supporting the Golden Ancient Tree and Lightning Ghost which are even larger than before.
Soon Lin Xiao felt the BUFFs being added to him one after another. Although the benefit added by each one was not much, only about 5%, but there were so many of them, and twenty or thirty 5% added up was very considerable.
Most of them are enhancements in various aspects, including physique, strength, speed, mana limit, etc., which together increase the strength by nearly times.
The second one who received the most BUFFs was the Seven-Headed Dragon, which accounted for about two-thirds of him.
The number of golden ancient trees and lightning ghosts combined is not as many as any of them alone.
At this time, the ball of light they were in slowly fell above the final arena, and the light curtain that separated them slowly disappeared. The four final contestants each stood on one side and could clearly see their opponents. At first glance, Lin Xiao saw the seven-headed dragon's gaze staring at him.
He smiled slightly, turned his eyes, and saw the hostile gaze of the lightning ghost.
Obviously, they think they are the biggest threat.
Looking at the ancient golden tree that reached from the sky to the earth in the light ball, he immediately sensed the will of the same origin.
Looking at the seven-headed dragon that was staring at him covetously, Lin Xiao smiled slightly. With a thought, the towering golden ancient tree in the light ball suddenly moved without wind. The lush branches kept shaking, and little golden lights lit up. As the branches of the golden ancient tree quickly decomposed, more and more golden lights appeared.
It soon turned into a golden torrent that penetrated the light curtain, crossed the void in full view of all wills, and drilled into the space where Lin Xiao was.
All the great masters were shocked by this scene and quickly realized what was happening. Dozens of great wills in the void excitedly communicated back and forth. A deafening dragon roar sounded in the void, and a powerful will flew out from the halo where the Nine-Faced Dragon God was entrenched, but was quickly blocked by another more powerful will.
The person behind the Evolution Journey appeared out of nowhere in front of the halo and said in a deep voice:
"Although I was also surprised, he did not break the rules!"
The Nine-Faced Dragon God was silent. He tried to negotiate with the man behind the scenes to take the seven-headed dragon away, but the man behind the scenes shook his head and refused:
"I'm sorry, I can't agree to that!"
The person behind the scenes gave no respect to the Nine-Faced Dragon God and refused directly.
Looking back at the golden ancient tree that had completely merged into a golden giant that was taller than the seven-headed dragon, he smiled after a while and said,
"Interesting!"
At this moment, Lin Xiao, who has completely merged with the incarnation of the ancient golden tree, now realizes how terrifying the vitality accumulated by his incarnation is. The size of thousands of kilometers seen before was the result of its efforts to compress its own vitality. If it is fully released, its true body is actually a world tree that can carry a large number of planes.
To put it simply, if placed somewhere else in the Chaos Void Sea, this incarnation of the ancient golden tree would be enough to become a golden world tree that carries all the dimensions of a small or medium-sized crystal wall universe.
Moreover, the incarnation of the ancient golden tree possesses not only tremendous vitality, its real killer weapon has never been used.
At the beginning, a Gaia will was also exiled along with the incarnation of the ancient golden tree. After being exiled to the Chaos Realm by the Nightmare Will for a period of time, he refined the Gaia will and obtained a Gaia origin. His trump card is to use the Gaia origin to temporarily achieve a higher dimension.
In layman's terms, it means temporarily transforming into a great master.
Although it can only last for a moment, that moment is enough for him to instantly kill any opponent under any great master.
Because this move is too terrifying and will exhaust all strength once used, he has never used it. No one knows that he has such a killer move that has never been used. Fortunately, no one has been able to force him to use this move until now.
Lin Xiao perfectly recovered the incarnation of the ancient golden tree, and naturally inherited this move.
It can also only be used once, but the two incarnations become more powerful when combined, so this move will last longer.
But to be honest, Lin Xiao felt that there was no chance that this trick would be used. With the combination of the two incarnations, he obtained the massive vitality of the golden ancient tree and made up for the biggest shortcoming. He didn't think that the seven-headed dragon and the lightning ghost could defeat him.
Once he defeats these two opponents, he will be the ultimate winner of this evolutionary journey, and will be directly promoted to the new great master in one step. At that time, he will have no chance to use this trick.
I don't dare to use it casually now, and I won't be able to use it in the future, so it's quite useless.
"Or maybe use it in the final battle?"
There were only three options left, but the final had to go on, and he wasn't forced to fight two against one just because he suddenly became so strong.
In the first round, the seven-headed dragon challenges the lightning ghost, and Lin Xiao has a bye round.
He had no objection to this, as it was just the right time for him to take a good look at the memories of the incarnation of the ancient golden tree after it was exiled.
There weren't many valuable things in his memory. What attracted him most was the part where the incarnation refined Gaia's will. Unfortunately, there were no exciting scenes in this part. Gaia's will took the initiative to let the incarnation of the ancient golden tree refine it before it lost control. It was not an internal conflict.
Unlike these incarnations, Gaia's will itself is just a collection of the wills of billions of creatures in the main world, and does not have a main will. Generally speaking, the differentiated will incarnations will be immediately taken back after returning to the main world after completing their tasks.
If an accident happens and you are stranded outside, there is only one result, and that is independence.
Once the essence of Gaia's will becomes independent, it will 100% become a super powerful being comparable to super divine power in a short period of time, and it will be easier for it to be promoted to a great master than a normal super powerful being.
Even if a normal super divine power is integrated with the origin of a powerful crystal wall system, there is only a very small probability that it can break through that step. But if it is the will of Gaia or the will of other divine civilizations that is integrated with the origin of a powerful crystal wall system, I dare not say it is 100%, but it is more than 50%, which makes it easier to be promoted than a normal super strong person.
As we all know, the incarnation is incomplete and necessarily longs for completeness.
What would the incarnation of Gaia's will do if it wanted to be complete?
There was only one result: it would try to destroy the human civilization and devour Gaia's will.
This is inevitable.
Therefore, after confirming that it was exiled to the Chaos Realm and unable to leave, Gaia's Will took the initiative to let the ancient golden tree incarnate and refine it before it became independent.
Unfortunately, the strength of Lin Xiao's incarnation has now reached the peak under the great divine power, and there is no room for improvement. This benefit did not greatly improve his strength.
After a while, Lin Xiao, who was recalling his memories, seemed to realize something and raised his head suddenly with a hint of surprise on his face.
In the final arena, the battle between the seven-headed dragon and the lightning ghost has been decided, but the result is beyond his expectations. The winner is not the seven-headed dragon, but the lightning ghost.
This lightning master, who came from an unknown race, had a move that could drain the opponent's strength. With this move, he forcibly drained most of the power of the seven-headed dragon, thus suppressing the seven-headed dragon and beating it to death in one fell swoop.
This was quite beyond his expectations. He had thought that the final battle would be between himself and the seven-headed dragon supported by the nine-faced dragon god Io, but he didn't expect that he would fall down in advance.
It has to be said that those who can reach this step are all top-level experts. It is impossible to determine who will win or lose before the last step.
Once the seven-headed dragon was defeated, only Lin Xiao and Lightning Ghost were left. The other overlords began to hesitate, and many who had been optimistic about him before were also hesitating whether to support Lightning Ghost instead.
Lin Xiao raised his head and looked towards the void behind him. He felt a little regretful that there was not a single familiar face among so many masters. None of the great powers of the human divine civilization were here. There was no familiar face to witness him taking that step.
He has absolute confidence in becoming the final champion of this Evolution Journey.
After all, he had fought the Lightning Ghost once before and had a certain understanding of His methods. Although that trick of extracting power could be considered a BUG, it could not do anything to him.
As each master made his choice, the final battle began amid secret communication among the masters.
The ground beneath their feet sank, and the light balls containing the two contestants disappeared into the void. When they reappeared, they were already in the final arena.
There is no nonsense. In the final battle, there is no way to survive by surrendering. When two tigers fight, one must die. Only one survivor can accept all the power and become the new great master.
As soon as the countdown ended, the Lightning Ghost stretched out his hand and grabbed. A ball of lightning in the sky quickly expanded. At the same time, a circle of extremely thick lightning rings spread out like a tide. In an instant, it crossed more than ten kilometers and turned into a lightning wall several kilometers high when it reached Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao flashed across more than ten kilometers, penetrated the Lightning Ghost and appeared behind Him. With a "boom", a bolt of lightning struck Lin Xiao from the Lightning Ghost, knocking him unconscious and unable to move.
The Lightning Ghost also fell into a state of mental stagnation, and the two of them fell into a coma at the same time with their backs to each other.
Compared to the passive stun effect of Lightning Wraith in Tower of Babel, which lasted less than one second, the passive stun effect now lasts for several seconds.
But compared to the state of mental stillness during time travel that lasts up to fifteen seconds, even if the Lightning Ghost has evolved to the extreme and has super strong resistance at this time, it only lasts for a few seconds, which is still a few seconds less.
When Lin Xiao woke up from his dizzy state, the Lightning Ghost had not yet awakened. He directly equipped the Libra Cloth, took out the Libra Armor - the Golden Twin Swords from his back, and slashed at the Lightning Ghost frantically.
"Bang, bang, bang"
Thousands of attacks occurred in an instant, and what fed back to him was thousands of tiny lightning bolts connected together.
The passive talent of Lightning Ghost is that every time it is attacked, a lightning bolt will be reflected back, and the power is quite strong.
After enduring thousands of lightning strikes in an instant, Lin Xiao finally understood why the seven-headed dragon could not defeat him. In addition to the drawing attack, this hedgehog-like rebound was also quite disgusting.
The individual damage is not high, but each attack will rebound once. Each time the innate dragon breath is spewed out, a powerful lightning shock will rebound. The key is that the lightning ghost does not control ordinary lightning. The lightning he controls has additional damage to the mind and soul, which is very powerful.
The seven-headed dragon did not have Lin Xiao's time travel to cancel the damage it had suffered in the last fifteen seconds, so it could only endure it. Of course, it would not be able to bear it for too long.
Time locked!
The ancient golden tree relied on its vast vitality to withstand millions of lightning strikes in an instant, and used time travel to return to fifteen seconds ago intact, while the lightning ghost could only withstand millions of attacks in a hundred thousand seconds within the one-second time bubble of the LV6 time lock.
After being freed from the time bubble, the Lightning Ghost's body shook violently, and countless tiny cracks appeared on its surface, with strands of lightning overflowing from the cracks.
The recovered Lightning Ghost stretched out his finger towards Lin Xiao, and the lightning link connected to Lin Xiao, and began to extract his power, extracting nearly one percent of his power in one second.
He quickly cast a black hole shield on himself and failed to interrupt the lightning link.
Black Hole Shield can dispel all negative buffs, but Lightning Link is not a negative buff, but a continuous casting talent.
Once again, time travel appeared in an instant at the edge of the final arena, a thousand kilometers away. The lightning link did not have such a long connection distance and was directly interrupted.
Appearing behind the Lightning Ghost again, the Lightning Ghost, who had anticipated this, reached out to the sky before the lightning link was interrupted. The super lightning ball in the sky, whose diameter was hundreds of kilometers, suddenly lit up, and a blazing white lightning column fell down and hit the Lightning Ghost directly. It also happened to hit Lin Xiao who had just appeared behind it, knocking him out on the spot.
"Boom boom boom!"
Endless blazing white lightning struck down, and Lin Xiao seemed to be in a lightning purgatory. The horrifying power of lightning constantly impacted his soul and destroyed his body.
From the outside, it seemed that the lightning ball with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers above the Lightning Ghost's head was pouring down like a flood, submerging the two in an endless sea of thunder.
The wills of the masters involuntarily approached, and almost at the same time, they uttered a cry of surprise:
"Huh?"
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Chaos Void Sea, Crystal Wall System XP-4512, a mid-level crystal wall system recently discovered by the Colossus Division.
The huge Temple of Truth is close to the edge of the Crystal Wall System. The powerful force has forcibly torn a gap in the outer wall of the Crystal Wall System. The division's various regiments have invaded the Crystal Wall System through this gap for decades. Now they have conquered one of the two main planes of the Crystal Wall System. The remaining indigenous gods, led by the Son of the Crystal Wall System in this world, are defending the other main plane and confronting the coalition forces.
Lin Xiao's true body has descended into this Crystal Wall System for more than ten years. Relying on the powerful divine power of the Temple of Truth and the divisions, he has forcibly suppressed the resistance of the Crystal Wall System's original consciousness. Now, as long as they kill the indigenous son of the Crystal Wall System, this world will be in their hands.
But this step will be a bit difficult. The strength of the Son of the Crystal Wall must be the limit that the current world can accommodate. The limit of a mid-level Crystal Wall Universe is not weak. With the home advantage, it is comparable to the super power of the nineteenth level of the godhood, and it is still the best among them.
Although the Giant God Legion has many powerful divine powers, and he controls the Temple of Truth, after suppressing the original will of the world, he has no spare power to suppress the Son of the Crystal Wall.
The war situation has now entered a stalemate, and the indigenous gods can do nothing about it for the time being.
After meeting with his subordinates, Lin Xiao made a decision to temporarily stalemate and return to the war zone to see if he could find a colleague in the war zone to cooperate in attacking this world.
Coming out of the Crystal Wall System and returning to the Temple of Truth, Lin Xiao sat on the throne of Truth. Just as he was about to give an order, he suddenly paused, a hint of surprise appeared on his face. At the same time, a strange aura spread out from him, and ripples appeared in the space. If there were powerful divine powers here, they would surely be able to see that he could not control the overflow of his own power for the time being.
With a wave of his hand, dazzling rays of light flew out from him, quickly weaving into a net inside the huge Temple of Truth, blocking all breath from leaking out.
After doing all this, he no longer suppressed the leaking power, and his divine body expanded rapidly without control. Thousands of feet of divine light shot up into the sky but was blocked by the temple's prohibitions. Billions of stars lit up above his head, and he reached out and pressed the armrest of the throne of truth. The chaotic fireball behind the throne burst into flames with a bang, and the uncontrollable divine power filled the entire temple, and his divine body became larger and larger.
"What did my avatar do?"
Lin Xiao closed his eyes and held tightly onto the armrest of the throne. He could feel that his soul seemed to be undergoing some indescribable qualitative change. An endless stream of soul power gushed out from the depths of his soul, endless and seemingly without end.
In just a short while, the soul power that surged out was almost one tenth of his own soul.
This surprised him greatly. He had no idea what was going on and did not dare to act rashly for a while.
However, as the power that continued to flow out of his soul soon exceeded his current soul strength, a thought that he couldn't believe arose in his mind.
He couldn't believe it because he had never seen or heard of such a situation before and couldn't grasp it at all.
But there was no other explanation for what was happening to him at this moment. After all, he now held two ancestral seals in his hands, which were still providing him with power continuously until now.
The difference from the Ancestral Mark is that the Ancestral Mark continuously increases divine power, while what is continuously generated now is soul power, but they are essentially the same.
"Could it be that one of my incarnations has been promoted to great divine power?"
Lin Xiao couldn't believe it, but there was really no other explanation for this abnormality.
Only by introspection can one ascend to great divine power and thus reflect one's true self.
He was both excited and a little nervous.
The gap between great divine power and super divine power is too huge, even greater than the gap between true God and mortals. If the incarnation is promoted to great divine power, if the incarnation is not allowed to return as soon as possible, there may be a crisis of independence.
But at this moment he had no idea which incarnation had the problem, let alone where the incarnation had gone, and he had no idea where to look for it.
"No, I have to ask my father-in-law for help!"
Once the incarnation becomes independent, it will be a big trouble.
He did what he said and immediately stood up and prepared to leave, but as soon as the thought came to his mind, he suddenly paused and sat down again.
In his sea of consciousness, the Magic Cube of Creation, which had been motionless for a long time, suddenly changed as his soul underwent a qualitative change, and appeared out of thin air in the center of his sea of consciousness. Incredibly rich flames gushed out from the cracks in the Magic Cube, emitting a different aura of laws as the Demon Lord slowly turned it.
Lin Xiao stared at the Cube of Fortune. Compared to the threat of the incarnation that was far away somewhere, the Cube of Fortune was right in the sea of his soul. Any changes that happened to it would directly threaten him.
It is certain that the change of the Creation Cube was triggered when one of its incarnations was promoted to a great master, and the feedback to its true body and soul also underwent a qualitative change. This has never happened before.
Lin Xiao soon discovered that the aura of laws emitted by the Creation Cube was different from what he had imagined. It was not the common mystery of laws, but the origin of laws?
"Where does the origin of the law come from?"
Soon he had no time to think about what was going on, because there was another piece of information that appeared with the origin of this law. He was shocked at the first sight of it.
At the end of a certain chaotic era, a supreme ruler was unwilling to perish with the end of the era, so he gathered thousands of great rulers of the entire era, including more than ten supreme rulers, to work together to refine this transcendent artifact.
However, they did not expect that their actions accelerated the end of the era. The end of the era came before the transcendent artifact was refined. All the overlords fell, leaving only this unfinished transcendent artifact to survive the end of the era.
After that, it went through countless eras and had many masters, but no one could reach the step of being promoted to a great master until it fell into Lin Xiao's hands.
And this transcendent artifact can only be controlled by the master.
As a transcendental artifact forged by all the great masters of an era, it contains the origin of the laws mastered by all the masters of that era, as well as the transcendental function originally set for this treasure itself.
The original plan was to gather the power of all the great masters to survive the end of the era after the successful casting, but the end of the era came ahead of schedule and the masters fell one after another, but the power of the masters was still there, and the artifact was still there. Now there is only one last step, which is to refine it, fill the central core of the transcendent artifact with oneself, and complete this artifact.
By then, as the master of the Creation Cube, he will possess all the origins of thousands of great masters, including more than a dozen supreme masters.
In other words, from now on, from the moment his soul began to transform, the Cube of Creation has been activated, and the thousands of dominant origins within the Cube began to give feedback on his evolution.
In other words, from now on, his power will become stronger and stronger. The Great Lord is just the starting point, until he completely integrates the Creation Cube and the remaining Lord's origin inside, until the treasure is fully opened, and he
"maybe, there is a way to deal with the Distorted Abyss!"
The first thing Lin Xiao thought of was that as he finally opened the Cube of Creation and gathered the remaining power of an era, it was only a matter of time before he became the supreme ruler, and in the future he would eventually transcend the era.
Before that, his biggest problem had been solved.
He promoted himself to the Supreme Lord, and together with the two Supreme Lords of Mystery, he united the forces of all parties and, together with the strong men of the human divine civilization, he could face the Twisted Abyss head-on.
There is no need to worry about whether human civilization is willing or not. As long as they can deal with the masters of the Twisting Abyss, the human leaders will be very willing to do so.
You should know that it is a super powerful crystal wall system that can accommodate nearly twenty great masters and a supreme master. Once it can be conquered, with the power of the origin of the crystal wall universe, it can ignore any conditions and forcibly transform many strong people who meet the conditions and promote them to great divine power.
This is an irresistible temptation for many powerful people in the main world who are stuck in this realm. As long as there is a possibility of victory, it will definitely push the main world to declare a full-scale war on the Abyss of Distortion.
Half a year later, the Titan Legion coalition, which had been stagnant for a full half year, restarted the invasion war against the natives, and the war soon entered a white-hot stage.
The huge floating city was parked outside the plane. Fu Haofei, the commander of the Arcanist Battalion of the Colossus Regiment, was studying the virtual sand table with several other colleagues in the regiment. He was confused about the current war situation. After carefully examining the virtual sand table for a long time, he sighed and said:
"If there is no force to change the situation, the current situation will end in a stalemate."
He pinched his brows and looked at Thanatos, the God of Order and Earth assigned to the Giant God Regiment, and asked respectfully:
"What do you think, Your Excellency?"
Thanatos shook his head expressionlessly:
"This is the order of His Majesty the God King!"
Fu Haofei quickly shook his head:
"Don't misunderstand, Your Excellency. I am not questioning your majesty's orders. I am just a little confused."
As soon as the words fell, everyone in the floating city turned their heads to look outside. The crystal wall passage at the rear suddenly twisted rapidly, and a terrifying power wave that made them feel extremely palpitating flew out of the crystal wall passage, and quickly opened into a giant hand that covered the sky and the sun and grabbed the main plane.
Dozens of united kingdoms in the center of the coalition of indigenous gods on the edge of the main plane burst into dazzling divine light. An extremely huge true god flew out from the central kingdom and quickly turned into a towering giant to meet the giant hand.
The next second, the giant was caught by the giant hand, and a voice full of fear and familiarity rang out:
"Great divine power!"
"this!"
The whole place was silent. Fu Haofei opened his mouth but made no sound. He then looked at Thanatos. This powerful god was also filled with shock and ecstasy!
At the same time, Lin Xiao, who was in the Fortress of Truth, also opened his mouth wide and looked at Shen Yuexin who had come specially in front of him. The only thing in his mind was what she had just said to him:
"I'm pregnant with your child, you're going to be a father!"
(End of this chapter)