“I genuinely never thought that you’d be able to kill Spy.”
Yang Ling’s expression was also full of astonishment as he stared at Lin Huang.
After that, he unhurriedly fashioned a set of illusory garments and put them on. It was not the first time Lin Huang had seen him naked anyway.
Lin Huang could tell that the person in front of him was really Yang Ling. However, this was not his actual physical body but a digital projection.
“Hong Zhuang told me you had been killed by a Raider and that your connection with your Goldfinger had been completely wiped. What’s going on now?” Lin Huang was rather confused about Yang Ling’s current state.
Yang Ling sighed when he heard Hong Zhuang being mentioned. After a brief moment to settle his emotions, he began relating what had befallen him.
“I wasn’t killed at all. Theoretically, it could be considered being captured alive…
“After sending Hong Zhuang off the other day, I digitized my consciousness as I knew I was no match for Spy. After that, I separated my consciousness into nine layers from the core to the surface, setting a password for each layer to seal them off. The deeper the layer, the harder the password. I set a group of passwords on the last layer—the core—that would definitely change randomly.
“I knew that given Spy’s character, he would certainly try to decode them. That’s because all along, he’s wanted to surpass me in every aspect. I left passwords that ranged from easy to difficult, firstly to prevent him from becoming humiliated and angry at being unable to decode the password and immediately destroying my consciousness data. For another, I wanted to buy myself more time to stay alive.
“I knew very well that with Spy’s intelligence, he would easily discover my plan. However, I was also aware that he would most certainly take up my challenge and fall into my trap.
“Apart from setting up passwords, I’d also made other preparations for my return. One of them included Spy’s death. I made his death a trigger condition. As soon as he died, my consciousness data would automatically be unsealed.
“Now that you’ve killed him, you’ve successfully triggered the conditions for my revival.
“Simply put, that’s the entire process. As for the disconnection from my Goldfinger, that ought to have been caused by my consciousness being sealed. We’ll talk about the details later after we get back.”
After Yang Ling had given a quick summary of what had happened to him, he immediately switched to the topic which concerned him most. “Oh yes, is Hong Zhuang alright?”
“She’s doing pretty well.” Lin Huang nodded slightly. “After you were captured alive, she located me approximately four months later, and I set her up safely in the Devil Hunter Star Zone. A few days ago, in anticipation of the Raiders showing up, I arranged for her, Lin Xin, and the others to move to another star zone. They have peak lord powerhouses guarding them now, so their safety is definitely guaranteed.”
“That’s great.” Yang Ling could at least finally be fully at ease.
“You should stay in digital form for the time being. We’ll talk more after I settle these fellows.” Lin Huang could tell that Yang Ling was still in his digitized form. His body was not a materialized physical entity but a virtual projection.
If not, he would have been pulverized by the aftermath of the battle between the Destructive Divine Mammoth and Black Mountain earlier since his cultivation base was not yet at heavenly god-level.
Yang Ling nodded and turned his head to look at where the Destructive Divine Mammoth and Black Mountain were.
At his current level of eyesight and Divine Telekinesis strength, he could not catch any of the battle proceedings at all.
He could only rely on his eyes to see the sparks from the encounter.
Although he was only a digitized form now, he could faintly sense the shockwaves rippling from the collision between lord-level powerhouses. The terrifying aftershocks even interfered slightly with the digital world.
Lin Huang merely transmitted a thought, and all ten God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls joined in to besiege Black Mountain.
At that moment, Black Mountain was endlessly bemoaning his current predicament mentally. When Lin Huang had killed Spy earlier, he already had decided to pull out from the battle.
After all, he knew Spy’s abilities.
Although Black Mountain was a combat cultivator with powerful defense abilities, Spy had far surpassed him in terms of survival abilities.
However, Spy, who had claimed that even ultimate-rank Lords could not kill him, had been disposed of by Lin Huang in less than ten seconds.
Black Mountain was not even really able to fathom how Spy’s digitized physical body had been decoded.
That made him even more fearful of Lin Huang now.
‘We can consider this hunt an utter failure this time.’
Black Mountain gave Lin Huang a long, hard look and merely hesitated for a moment before he made up his mind.
His opponent had ten imperial monsters. If the battle continued, Black Mountain would exhaust his Divine Power sooner or later.
Moreover, the other two people on Lin Huang’s side had abilities that were close to middle-rank lord-level.
Meanwhile, on Black Mountain’s side, apart from himself who still could fight, it was only a matter of time before the three remaining lower-rank Lords were killed.
If he did not pull out now, he might not have the chance to do so later.
Black Mountain did not even spare a glance for his three partners. He forced the Destructive Divine Mammoth, Divine Sun Tree, and the other Combat Souls back with an attack, then immediately retreated as fast as he could.
As a combat cultivator, the speed of his retreat was really quite astonishing.
When Lin Huang saw what Black Mountain was doing, his mouth twisted in a sneer of disdain.
A second later, a black kitten blocked Black Mountain’s way. Beside the kitten was a dark blue butterfly flapping its wings.
“Move!”
Black Mountain did not slow down; he charged right at the two little creatures.
Naturally, the Ninetails Lynx was not used to his temper. It slashed continuously with its sharp claws, and countless spatial blades surged forth torrentially like a violent storm.
A ferocious gleam flashed through Black Mountain’s eyes. He made no move to dodge at all. Instead, he used his Dao seal to raise a heavy shield in front of his body to counter the spatial blades that were raining down on him.
He did this because he knew that the other imperial monsters behind him would catch up if he stopped for even a second. At that point, he would only be surrounded by more imperial monsters.
That was why he was willing to risk injury and meet the Ninetails Lynx’s attack head-on.
Only by breaking out from the circle of imperial monsters that surrounded him would he stand a chance of survival.
He did not even spare a glance to see how the battle was going for his three partners. To him, all three were just cannon fodder for attracting the attention of Lin Huang and the others.
The heavy shield was soon dented and scarred from being slashed by the spatial blades. Some spatial blades even pierced through the shield’s defensive layer, slicing bloody wounds on Black Mountain’s body.
Black Mountain did not pause at all. He did not even fight back only because he wanted to reserve enough Divine Power to escape.
Just as Black Mountain’s figure approached the Ninetails Lynx, Death Butterfly abruptly stirred its wings from beside the kitten.
An instant later, a colorless, formless wave began to ripple outward.
The already heavily damaged shield began to collapse inch by inch under the rippling of the wave.
The moment Black Mountain’s muscular frame was exposed, his body appeared to be sliced by countless thin blades and began spurting copious amounts of blood…
