"Escape..."

"Hurry up and escape..."

Faced with the dark phoenix emerging from the rift in the sky, that oppressive force that suffocated people turned Lao Du, Lie Huo, and Hei Zhu’s faces as white as paper. Just because trapped within the range of the sealing skill, their inner True Yuan was suppressed, making mobilization extraordinarily difficult.

"Don’t kill me..."

"I, I don’t want to die."

The dark phoenix, like a divine beast descending from the heavens, swept past the three, and then Lie Huo and Hei Zhu were instantly eroded by the Netherworld Power, turning into powder on the spot. With a gust of wind, they scattered into the world, their bodies vanished and paths destroyed.

Even the Space Ring was destroyed, countless treasures, Nether Origin Stones, and soul coins floated in the sky, with treasure lights suddenly appearing.

Only Lao Du didn’t immediately turn to ashes under the attack of the Dark Phoenix Seal but instead used a treasure mirror to block most of the attack. His figure shot backward like a cannonball, spewing blood wildly from his mouth.

The speed of the backward shot exceeded the speed of sound, accompanied by a series of sonic booms.

After stopping, the ancient and crude mirror on his chest split into fragments, turning into bits of golden light, like tiny raindrops scattering down.

Witnessing this, Hu Kuang, Liu Hong, and Wei Dao were dumbfounded. These were three strongmen at the Star System Level, yet Lin Mo killed two with one strike, without any resistance.

Actually, the cause of such an outcome was beyond Lin Mo’s strength increasing significantly. The more important reason was that the three never took Lin Mo seriously, failing to prepare a response in the first instance, underestimating him, getting directly sealed by Lin Mo’s sealing skill, and then attacked with the Dark Phoenix Seal.

Lie Huo and Hei Zhu’s strength was relatively weaker, directly turning into powder under the attack of the Dark Phoenix Seal.

Only Lao Du had strength approaching an Intermediate Star System Level strongman and held a defensive type magic treasure, allowing him to narrowly escape death.

But after narrowly escaping death, he was left with extremely severe injuries. At that moment, his face was like a layer of white wax, his complexion extremely unsightly, and his pupils suddenly tightened. This operation was dubbed a loss of both people and troops.

Initially, he aimed to use the Nether Origin Stone to make Lin Mo deviate, but unexpectedly it backfired, instead allowing Lin Mo to advance to a Second Seal Nether Pattern Master, significantly increasing his strength.

Now, witnessing Lin Mo’s Netherworld Technique, its mighty power terrified him to the point his soul seemed to flee.

"This time, I admit defeat, Lin Tanyu... we’ll see."

Lao Du cast a venomous glance at Lin Mo and turned to escape.

"Are you thinking of killing me to steal treasures, unable to win, then wanting to leave? Is there such a convenient thing in this world?"

Lin Mo sneered, forming a Dharma Seal in his hand. Subsequently, in the sky, numerous golden sword lights bloomed like a golden flower, thousands of Light and Shadow Swords emerged in the sky, resembling a blooming chrysanthemum.

Shoo shoo shoo shoo shoo shoo...

The rapid sound of breaking wind suddenly resounded in the sky, each Light and Shadow Sword shot out swiftly like a Poison Snake.

"Lin Tanyu, do you really want a fight to the death? Even if you can kill me, I’ll make you pay!"

As Lao Du fled, sensing thousands of Light and Shadow Swords coming to kill him from behind, shock and anger filled him. He slapped his palm, revealing a sack, from which countless black insects flew out, sweeping across like a cloud of bugs.

These advancing black insects flew at an astonishing speed, buzzing to intercept the Light and Shadow Swords, then began eroding the swords.

"No wonder they say Insect Cultivation is tough to deal with. Just eliminating those annoying bugs uses up a lot of resources." Lin Mo frowned.

Lao Du noticed his insects blocking Lin Mo’s attack and boosted his True Yuan to the extreme, instantly increasing speed, fleeing into the distance. Surely, he dared not fly upwards, as there were Mysterious Blue Lightning above, so he could only head into the depths of Lin Sea. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

"I told you, attempting murder and theft comes at a price."

Lin Mo’s lips curled into a cold arc, dove his White Jade-like palms into the void, seemingly clutching a door frame, and tearing it outward, revealing a black abyss-like rift, stepping directly inside.

In Lin Sea, a ghostly figure was hiding, none other than Lao Du.

"Lin Tanyu, I admit defeat at your hands this time, but I will surely seek revenge in the future and destroy you." Lao Du gritted his teeth, hate boiling within.

Suddenly, he sensed an energy fluctuation ahead, eyes widened instantly, then found a long vertical space rift appearing.

"Why did a space rift appear here?" Lao Du paused.

Then a cold flash swept from within the rift, Lao Du hadn’t managed to react, frozen at the spot, face changing, lowering his head slightly to notice a blood cavity on his chest, with a sharply suspended treasure sword behind him.

"How, how... can this be?" Lao Du lifted his head, in the last moment his consciousness dissipated, he finally saw a figure walking out of the space rift, "It’s, it’s... you."

The figure in the rift walked out, expression indifferent, with a heroic spirit between his brows, precisely Lin Mo.

Lao Du never expected that plotting against a Star Sea Level High figure would result in the demise of three Star System Level experts here.

Unfortunately, there is no regret pill in the world.

Lin Mo condensed a dark flame in his hand, gently swung it to attach to Lao Du’s body, burning him into ashes, then took his Space Ring, invaded it with spiritual power, wiped off the Spiritual Imprint after some effort, and inspected it.

Lao Du’s Space Ring was already devoid of Nether Origin Stones, presumably used up to deal with him.

As for other items, they were described as stingy, even a Star Sea Level Early Stage strongman had ’wealthier’ possessions.

Aside from common cultivator items, Lin Mo also discovered a pile of closely-packed black insects, resembling a small mountain, making one’s scalp tingle, yet now these black insects appeared spiritually discouraged, seemingly in slumber.

"Clearly, Insect Cultivation is indeed financially draining, otherwise even a Star System Level Beginner Strongman would have more assets than this!"

Lin Mo glanced at the piled black insects, suspecting Lao Du’s money was spent feeding these insects.

"Ah!" Suddenly, Lin Mo noticed a Cold Jade Box placed beside these insects, about palm-sized, crystalline and opaque, emanating intense cold.

Cautiously, Lin Mo divided a strand of Spiritual Power to explore the Jade Box, ready to sever the connection immediately if anything seemed amiss.

"Star Feather Insect, devouring type, ranked 108 among insects."

An influx of information merged into his soul.

Lin Mo’s face revealed great joy. In the boundless universe, insects belonging to the beast branch ranked 108 already belonged to extremely rare sorts. If cultivated, it could assuredly become a peerless fierce insect.