Chapter 1004: Chapter 618: Hao Datong, Sorry to Keep You Waiting

After reflecting on himself with a clear mind and seeing his true nature, Lu Linming temporarily set the matter aside.

Right now the most important thing was to find Hao Datong.

This section of Soul Droplet Ancient Tree root in his hand had Hao Datong’s sleeping Avatar sealed within it. Held in his palm, it looked almost no different from an ordinary piece of root; if one didn’t carefully probe it with Soul Power, it would be impossible to notice anything amiss inside.

After putting this piece of root away, Lu Lin rose and flew off in another direction.

Even with an accurate heading, Lu Lin still flew for one day before arriving outside the Poison Swamp.

This was a paradise for poisons, a forbidden zone for Humans and demon beasts.

Lu Lin hadn’t expected Hao Datong to actually be hiding in a place like this.

Although the toxins in this Poison Swamp were extremely fierce, they were nothing at all to Lu Lin.

Back in those years when he was still in the federation, even the Hundred-venom Belly-tip Snake couldn’t harm Lu Lin. Now that Lu Lin possessed the Four Dragons’ Strength, even if you soaked him in a vat of poison, nothing would happen to him.

What’s more, Lu Lin’s five viscera and six bowels were extremely powerful, having been tempered several times; when encountering these poisons he could directly excrete them. The only drawback was probably that his poop would be especially stinky, and also carry a strong toxicity.

Just as he was about to step into the Poison Swamp, Lu Lin received a message from the Message Conch.

It was Elder Cheng Yu asking whether he had found any trace of Hao Datong and whether he needed help.

Previously, when Lu Lin was in the Kongming White Ape tribe searching for the murderer who had slaughtered Yunlan Xianzong, he had needed only a day or two to find that Four-eyed Spirit Monkey King which had been driven out. But this time he was taking a bit longer.

Lu Lin replied that he had already found him and expected to be back in two or three days; only then did Elder Cheng Yu set his mind at ease.

In addition, Elder Cheng Yu said that Guan Xuejun had searched outside for a few days and had already found all of Hao Datong’s Avatars.

They were just waiting on Lu Lin’s side now.

But Lu Lin knew that the ones Guan Xuejun had found weren’t the true Avatars.

However, he had no time to explain in detail right now; getting Hao Datong back as soon as possible was the proper course.

After hanging up the communication, Lu Lin had just lifted his foot when the Message Conch rang again.

"Master, what is it again?"

"Lu Lin, it’s Lv Susu."

"Ah?"

Lu Lin was stunned for a moment. He hadn’t expected it to be Lv Susu calling at this time. He quickly said, "Oh, oh, sorry, Senior Lv, I just now hung up my Master’s call."

"Is there anything the federation needs help with?"

"Not for the time being, but some changes have appeared in the Exotic Battlefield recently."

Lv Susu said.

"What kind of changes?" 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

Lu Lin asked somewhat nervously.

Before, he hadn’t understood and had thought the Exotic Battlefield was just an ordinary small world like any other.

But after learning about the Auspicious Beast, Lu Lin felt that Tianyuan World’s rule consciousness was rather impressive.

This was a growing world, with enormous potential, even possibly able to be promoted into a Great World like Longyuan World. Lu Lin couldn’t afford not to treat it cautiously.

"Lu Lin, a few days ago, I had a breakthrough."

"You broke through?!"

"Congratulations, Senior Lv. You’ve entered the Star Dust stage for already... wait!"

After saying a sentence of congratulations, Lu Lin suddenly remembered something.

The Exotic Battlefield had rule restrictions; Martial Artists simply could not break through to a realm above the Star Dust stage.

In those years, whether it was the Demon God among the Three Great Strange Beasts, or the Ten Gods among the One Clan, they could only be considered at Star Dust Peak.

Only the black shark had some methods allowing it to exert power stronger than the Star Dust stage, but that also came with a price.

"Senior Lv, what you said... is it true?"

Lu Lin found it a bit hard to believe.

According to what he knew, there were only two possibilities for the world rules to lift their restrictions on Martial Artists within the world.

One was that the world was on the verge of destruction.

The World Will’s degree of control over the rules declined; this would remove the restrictions on the world. Of course, even if the World Will wanted to, it would no longer be able to strengthen its control.

The other possibility was that the world where the Martial Artists resided had strengthened.

And strengthened greatly.

It was possible that the World Will could now suppress a Star Emperor, so it relaxed the restrictions and allowed Star Lord level strong persons to appear within the world.

As for the reason for the Exotic Battlefield’s changes, Lu Lin suspected it was highly likely to be the latter.

After all, a world that could bind an Auspicious Beast clearly had a rather independent mind and consciousness. It hoped to be promoted, so it naturally wouldn’t lightly relax its restrictions on the world.

For it to do so now, Lu Lin even suspected that the Exotic Battlefield’s World Will had already achieved a staged success in its suppression of that Auspicious Beast, and it needed more feedback from the power of the world’s Martial Artists.

Don’t think that the relationship between the world and Martial Artists is antagonistic; such a judgment is very inaccurate.

The relationship between the world and Martial Artists is actually mutually dependent, contradictory yet unified.

When the world is strong, the Martial Artists it gives birth to are strong.

When Martial Artists are strong, they can also feed back into the world rules.

But there is also a kind of reverse effect: if the World Will desperately suppresses and squeezes every bit of potential from the Martial Artists solely to develop itself, or if the Martial Artists madly plunder world resources and attack the World Will, both of these relationships will cause the world and its Martial Artists to rapidly head toward decline. This is undesirable.

"Yes. Not only me; even Chen Danqing and the other veteran Star Dust Peak cultivators all feel on the verge of a breakthrough. As for those Advanced Level Martial Artists who previously advanced with the help of cooperating with the Wild Blade Clan, once they return to the Exotic Battlefield, their ability will no longer be suppressed below the Star Core."

"Senior Lv, how do you feel about the evolution of the whole world?"