"Alright, I'll use my mental energy to mark the attack location for you."

Lin Ye had learned this type of technique, but this was his first time using it.

"Don't mess this up. An attack of this magnitude, I can only use it once."

Xivia drew her longsword. The gem on it lost its luster. A certain type of rule power locked onto the Giant Plant. Lin Ye used his mental energy to guide this rule power and marked the core area of the Giant Plant.

Some destruction doesn't need sound to demonstrate its power; it's a kind of silent, crushing force.

The core area of the Giant Plant simply vanished. A hole with a diameter of a full hundred meters appeared in the center of the Giant Plant.

At the moment it was destroyed, the entire world seemed to fall silent for an instant, as if a segment had been abruptly cut from a playing film.

Xivia leaned on Lin Ye's back with one hand. Her face was deathly pale, her body temperature skyrocketed then plummeted rapidly, soon falling far below that of a normal person.

"Are you alright? Do you need me to help you? Don't judge by my current appearance; I used to be a surgeon."

Lin Ye didn't check the situation inside Xivia's body. This was the most basic respect for a powerful individual.

"...I need to rest for a while."

Xivia leaned her body against Lin Ye's back, breathing rapidly.

"Hearing you say that puts my mind at ease."

A dagger stabbed towards Xivia's heart from behind, but just before its tip touched Xivia, the dagger suddenly stopped.

"Making such a big commotion is bound to attract many enemies to come investigate this area. If you don't mind, you can sit on my back. I'll take you to a safe place to rest first. Don't worry about the loot either; I'll use the Red Frog to collect some important parts to take with us."

Lin Ye completely ignored the black-clad figure that had appeared behind them. A fool with no self-awareness like that wasn't even worth paying attention to.

"Damn witch! What did you do to me?!"

The black-clad figure let out an angry roar.

From the chance encounter with the powerless witch to the failed ambush, from extreme excitement to extreme terror, this kind of transition wasn't something an ordinary person could withstand.

"Although this host body doesn't have those kinds of organs, I am male, not some witch."

Lin Ye turned his somewhat oversized head and glanced sideways at the black-clad figure.

"It was you, this ugly monster, who did this? Let me go, or I'll send people to wipe out your entire race!"

The black-clad figure tremb all over, but no matter how he struggled, he couldn't control his body to move even an inch.

"Really tasteless. This host's race went extinct tens of millions of years ago... Ah, could it be that you were the one who sent people to cause the dinosaur extinction?"

Lin Ye teased.

"Just deal with him directly. I'm feeling a bit unwell."

Xivia sat very properly on Lin Ye's back, placing both legs on the same side.

"...Don't you think that monster earlier shouldn't have appeared here? If you let me go, I'll tell you what's happening here."

When facing death directly, no one remains completely indifferent. The black-clad figure suddenly realized he didn't want to die here.

"You don't think I'm controlling your body, do you?

Want to hear it? I don't really like obtaining information from enemies, as it's a rather dangerous source of information. Many scams are related to this kind of information source."

Lin Ye coiled his tail around the black-clad figure and, carrying him and Xivia, moved away from the area at top speed. Earlier, he had been controlling the Red Frog to collect loot.

"I'd like to hear it. Even if the information is problematic, it's better than knowing nothing at all."

Xivia stroked the epidermis on Lin Ye's back. It was her first time touching a creature with such a pleasant texture.

She now understood why this creature called a dinosaur went extinct. This epidermis would definitely feel incredibly comfortable if made into pajamas.

"Then go ahead and say it."

Lin Ye shook the black-clad figure. He had previously placed replicas of mental parasites within the Red Frog's body. The Red Frog could implant mental parasites into an enemy's consciousness through mental contact. The black-clad figure had clearly killed many Red Frogs. The constantly self-replicating mental parasites had completely taken over his consciousness world and seized control of his mobility.

"...I only know part of the information... The tier of the ritual has been altered... The better the talent... the more dangerous the things attracted... The Master also threw a Dangerous Relic with a prefix into the ritual... Cannot exit the ritual... If the summoned creature dies... the Master automatically becomes ritual material..."

The black-clad figure's gaze was vacant as he haltingly finished relaying the information he knew.

"...Can you tell me the purpose and principle of this ritual?"

Lin Ye discarded the black-clad figure whose brain was already broken. These fragmented pieces of information gave him a faint sense of foreboding.

"The purpose of the ritual is to obtain a special type of rule power. This rule power will be held by the final victor. The ritual will draw out the rule power most suitable for the victor.

The principle is that the ritual connects to the origin Planes of the various major families and, through sacrifice, obtains and binds a portion of rule power."

Xivia explained the principle and purpose of the ritual in the most concise terms. Actually, this ritual was far more complex than this; it couldn't be fully explained in a short time.

"Origin Planes? They're not Planes like the Red Sea or the Abyss, are they?"

Lin Ye asked warily.

"Of course not. They are some higher-level Planes that possess rule power. These Planes simply can't compare to dangerous Planes like the Red Sea... Though, after elevating the ritual's tier, it's hard to say."

Xivia said with a heavy expression.

"So you mean the Planes aren't fixed? As long as you elevate the ritual specifications, you can obtain rule power from more dangerous Planes?"

Lin Ye's tail drooped to the ground. The sense of foreboding gradually intensified. He was even starting to feel like summoning a batch of Abyssal creatures to clear the area.

"Don't worry. Establishing a connection with those dangerous Planes isn't an easy task. If the other party only prepared one prefix relic, then they can only connect to one dangerous Plane. Considering that Giant Plant earlier, the prefix of that relic should be Emerald Capital."

Xivia perked up. If it was just Emerald Capital, she still had a way to deal with it. After all, her compatibility with Emerald Capital wasn't very good; what just happened was probably just an accident.

"Um... Is it only ritual participants and relics that can attract corresponding Planes?"

Lin Ye's voice became slightly softer.

"That's not the case. Any creature within the ritual will attract corresponding rule Planes... You're not related to some dangerous Plane, are you?"

Xivia asked somewhat nervously.

"Haha..."

Lin Ye gave a dry laugh, then tentatively asked:

"Does your grandmother perhaps have some grievance with you? Did you recently make her angry?"

"Grandmother never gets angry... But her favorite thing is gambling..."

Xivia seemed to realize something.