Chapter 451: The Doubtful Strongest Human
Chapter 451: The Doubtful Strongest Human (End of Chapter)
Four seconds ago, tens of thousands of 11th-tier powerhouses were locked in battle.
Four seconds later, less than a hundred of the strongest 11th-tier fighters struggled to hold their ground.
Swish!
With a slight stir of Lin Yuan's consciousness, countless supreme weapons and scattered treasures were drawn into his internal world.
Any treasures that remained intact despite the crushing might of four rounds of Vast Cosmic Power were undoubtedly priceless.
The slightly inferior ones had long been crushed to smithereens, transformed into nourishment for his cultivation of the Mysterious Yellow Body.
On the side of the Human Civilization Alliance, Xuanyuan Yu and the other peak 11th-tier evolvers stared dumbfounded at the events unfolding on the battlefield.
Originally, faced with the threat of the Nightmare Realm's insectoid mother nest, Xuanyuan Yu had intended to use the trump card bestowed upon him by the Xuanyuan Supreme. Now, however, he was at a loss for words.
Before he could even make a move, all but five or six insectoid mother nests of the Insectoid Alliance had perished, along with countless insectoid warriors turned to ashes.
"What just happened?" Xuanyuan Yu's thoughts froze as he struggled to process the scene before him. It was as if his eyes were deceiving him, for he found it hard to believe what he was witnessing.
Had tens of thousands of 11th-tier powerhouses from the foreign races just been eradicated like that?
"It's the Galaxy Master!" Xuanyuan Yu exclaimed as he turned his gaze toward Lin Yuan in the distance.
While the foreign 11th-tier powerhouses were suppressed under the External World, their Human Civilization Alliance counterparts remained unaffected.
However, with his strength, Xuanyuan Yu immediately realized that the space-time fabric around them had changed, and the source of this change was none other than Lin Yuan, the Galaxy Master, standing at a distance.
"They're dead... all of them are dead," muttered a peak 11th-tier evolver beside him, clearly shaken by the spectacle before them.
When had there ever been a large-scale death of 11th-tier powerhouses like ants? These were 11th-tier experts, not cabbage on the roadside!
Even Supreme Beings would hesitate to act against so many 11th-tier cultivators, as it would easily invite retaliation from other Supremes.
'You slaughter the 11th-tier experts of my race, then I shall do the same to yours.'
"Galaxy Master!!"
The strongest 11th-tier expert of the Celestial Feather Tribe, Tian Yumeng, turned around. The Angelic Sacred Crown she wore cast layer after layer of radiant light curtains, blocking the overwhelming might of the four rounds of Vast Cosmic Power.
As the Celestial Feather Tribe's trump card, the Angelic Sacred Crown was an all-purpose artifact, excelling in both defense and offense.
"The Galaxy Master? How can he be so powerful?" The strongest 11th-tier expert of the Plunder Tribe echoed Tian Yumeng's disbelief. From the moment the Vast Cosmic Power had started crushing down, he had sensed that something was amiss and immediately tried to flee.
However, under the suppression of the External World, he hadn't gotten far before he was subjected to the crushing might of the four rounds of Vast Cosmic Power.
Even someone as powerful as the Plunder Tribe's strongest 11th-tier expert struggled to withstand the might of four rounds of Vast Cosmic Power. Despite having activated the lifesaving measure bestowed by their tribe's Supreme, his physical body and soul still sustained injuries. Without that measure, he would have surely perished.
"How can there be such a powerful lifeform below the 12th tier?" The Plunder Tribe's strongest expert found it hard to accept. As the person with the most promising chance of breaking through to the 12th tier in his tribe, he was privy to many cultivation secrets and had a clear understanding of the limits of the 11th tier.
In a sense, he himself had already pushed his cultivation to the very limits of this stage.
Yet, in front of Lin Yuan, those supposed limits were rendered laughable.
Both Tian Yumeng of the Celestial Feather Tribe and the Plunder Tribe's strongest expert were unable to fathom Lin Yuan's terrifying strength.
However, one thing was clear to all the powerhouses present—they had to flee.
They had to get as far away as possible.
If they stayed any longer, they would die.
The strongest 11th-tier experts of the various peak races were already struggling under the might of the first wave of Vast Cosmic Power.
And then, the fifth second arrived.
The fifth round of Vast Cosmic Power descended.
This time, a third of the remaining peak experts couldn't withstand the crushing force and perished.
Experts like Qu Li Xiao, who didn't have their tribe's trump card to protect them, had their physical bodies and souls shattered.
"We can't wait any longer!" The Plunder Tribe's strongest expert roared. His eyes seemed like two universes, and as mysterious powers intertwined, he tore open a pitch-black spatial rift and instantly moved away from the range of the External World.
Following his lead, Tian Yumeng and the other peak experts who possessed their tribe's trump cards also acted. They unleashed a strike containing hundreds of thousands of combat strength indices, forcefully tearing through space and fleeing into the distance.
"They actually escaped from my 'World' ability's range?" Lin Yuan narrowed his eyes as he roughly locked onto the locations of those peak experts through causal perception. In the next instant, he appeared at the edge of the battlefield, swiftly weakening various aspects like causality to conceal his actions.
"Is that the true power of a 12th-tier existence?" Lin Yuan wondered as he gazed into the distance.
Not long after the fifth round of Vast Cosmic Power descended, over twenty peak 11th-tier experts had used their trump cards to tear through space and escape the core battlefield.
"There's no other way," Lin Yuan admitted. "Even if I had detonated the External World in the first second, I wouldn't have been able to kill them. In the instant of their imminent death, those trump cards bestowed by Supremes would automatically activate and carry them far away."
Lin Yuan frowned slightly.
With his current strength, dealing with 11th-tier experts, even those armed with supreme weapons, was as easy as flipping his hand. However, if the 12th-tier ultimate existences interfered, it would be beyond his ability to kill them.
Although those 12th-tier ultimate existences hadn't directly intervened in the battle, the activation of the trump cards left behind in their tribes' supreme artifacts still constituted indirect interference.
"Never mind," Lin Yuan consoled himself. "Only around twenty of them escaped."
Lin Yuan turned his attention back to the remaining 11th-tier experts.
Not every peak 11th-tier expert possessed their tribe's supreme artifact. Those who didn't would find it difficult to tear through the space suppressed by the External World and would likely be unable to escape.
"The remaining 11th-tier experts won't be able to withstand the sixth round of the External World's crushing might. There's no need to detonate it," Lin Yuan decided after a moment's thought.
If the Plunder Tribe's strongest expert were still present, Lin Yuan would have detonated the External World for safety. However, now that those peak experts had fled, there was no need to expose the full power of his 'World' ability.
Swish!
In the blink of an eye, the sixth round of Vast Cosmic Power descended.
The remaining peak 11th-tier experts of the various tribes couldn't withstand the crushing might and had their physical bodies and souls shattered, leaving only their treasures floating in the air, which were soon collected by Lin Yuan.
Huff!
The ripples of the 'World' ability slowly dissipated.
Six seconds later, the once vast and spacious battlefield was left with only the 11th-tier experts of the Human Civilization Alliance. As for the foreign 11th-tier experts, most of them had perished, with only a scant twenty or so managing to escape.
"This is truly a windfall."
Lin Yuan scanned his internal world and saw countless supreme weapons casually piled up in the corners, along with various other twelve-star wonders and backup plans left by twelfth-tier beings.
After his trip to the Two-dimensional World, Lin Yuan emerged as the ultimate victor, having acquired nearly a hundred wonders, excluding those he returned to the Human Civilization Alliance.
Among them were approximately thirty supreme weapons.
But now? The number of supreme weapons in Lin Yuan's internal world far exceeded thirty; it was more like ten times that amount.
"With these resources, even if I can't cultivate my Mysterious Yellow Body to the perfect Eleventh Tier, I can at least take a huge step towards perfection."
Lin Yuan was in high spirits. The number of supreme weapons he now possessed likely surpassed the total number owned and forged by Human Civilization.
"It's a pity I wasn't able to obtain a clan-suppressing weapon."
Lin Yuan sighed inwardly.
However, upon further thought, he accepted this outcome. Even if a clan-suppressing weapon were presented to him now, Lin Yuan wasn't sure he would dare to take it.
Due to their essential nature, clan-suppressing weapons could withstand the power of twelfth-tier ultimates, surpassing ordinary supreme weapons. If Lin Yuan were to arbitrarily take a clan-suppressing weapon into his internal world, he might very well be inviting a wolf into his house.
"Galaxy Master."
Just then, Xuanyuan Yu led a group of peak eleventh-tier Human evolvers towards Lin Yuan.
"Hmm," Lin Yuan glanced at Xuanyuan Yu, his mind still mostly focused on appraising the treasures in his internal world.
He couldn't help it; his harvest had been too bountiful, and he needed time to understand the uses of many of these treasures.
"Now... what do we do now?"
Xuanyuan Yu voiced the question on his mind. Logically, with the large-scale war underway, the eleventh-tier powerhouses of the Human Civilization Alliance should have been engaged in fierce battles with their foreign counterparts.
But now...
All the foreign eleventh-tier powerhouses had been eliminated by Lin Yuan alone.
This left the eleventh-tier powerhouses of the Human Civilization Alliance unsure of what they should be doing.
"Let's wait for the response from the ultimates," Lin Yuan said.
Everything that happened in the super-large battlefield was undoubtedly under the watchful eyes of the twelfth-tier ultimates.
Now, they just needed to see what the other eleven peak racial forces would do.
Would they gracefully admit defeat and cede the first battlefield initiative, or would they continue to throw more eleventh-tier powerhouses into the fray?
"Alright."
Xuanyuan Yu nodded.
In truth, he should have thought of this earlier, but the actions of the Galaxy Master had muddled his brain, slowing his thought processes, and he couldn't calm his mind for a long time.
Outside the super-large battlefield.
The twelfth-tier ultimates of the various races also fell silent.
When Lin Yuan had first descended upon the battlefield, his stomp had nearly swept away the Insectoid Alliance.
At that time, the twelfth-tier ultimates had realized that something was amiss.
However, none of them had anticipated this outcome. In just six seconds, eleven of the twelve peak racial forces had been eliminated, leaving only the Human Civilization Alliance.
During this time, there were twelfth-tier ultimates who wanted to take action, but the super-large battlefield was jointly refined by numerous ultimate existences, and some of the permissions were in the hands of the Human Civilization's ultimates.
If the Human Civilization's ultimates were unwilling, it would be difficult for the other twelfth-tier ultimates to influence the battlefield in a short period of time.
Of course, this restriction applied not only to the foreign twelfth-tier ultimates.
If the Human Civilization's ultimates wanted to interfere with the events on the battlefield, they wouldn't be able to do so without the agreement of the twelfth-tier ultimates of the other peak racial forces.
This was a mutual restriction.
"Xuanyuan Ultimate, your Human Civilization's Galaxy Master, well done, well done indeed."
"Was the method the Galaxy Master used at the end derived from your Human Civilization's ultimate foundation? To gain the first battlefield initiative, your Human Civilization was willing to use even your ultimate foundation?"
"We've failed, all of us from the eleven peak racial forces, have failed at the hands of the Human Civilization."
One by one, the twelfth-tier ultimates turned to the nine ultimates of the Human Civilization, their tones displeased and their expressions cold.
Although the eleventh-tier powerhouses who had perished on the battlefield were mostly avatars, many supreme weapons had fallen into the hands of the Galaxy Master.
Those supreme weapons were the fruits of countless years of accumulation by the various peak racial forces, and now they had all been obtained by the Galaxy Master.
If not for the restrictions of the super-large battlefield, some of the twelfth-tier ultimates really would have intervened during those six seconds.
At the very least, the Insectoid Alliance's Mother Queens, the Celestial Feather Tribe's ancestors, and especially the Insectoid Alliance, would have found it difficult to restrain themselves. The Insectoid Alliance's Mother Nests were already few in number, and their 'insect sea' tactic referred to the countless insectoid warriors birthed by the Mother Nests.
As for the Mother Nests themselves, they were exceedingly rare.
"Hahahaha!"
A smile appeared on the face of the Xuanyuan Ultimate, completely ignoring the displeasure of the other twelfth-tier ultimates.
What were peak racial forces? They were the powers that stood at the very pinnacle of the universe, with basically no chance of falling.
Even if the Human Civilization were to go to war with all eleven peak racial forces at once, it wouldn't lead to the destruction of Human Civilization, and the eleven peak racial forces wouldn't dare to push Human Civilization too hard.
So—
No matter how much the other eleven peak racial forces disapproved of Lin Yuan's actions, the nine ultimates of the Human Civilization remained unconcerned.
The rules of the super-large war had long been established.
If the eleventh-tiers of your race were slaughtered, it was because they were too weak.
The Xia Qin Ultimate also stood by, a smile on his face.
At the same time, Xuanyuan Yu's voice sounded in his ear.
"Xia Qin, was the method the Galaxy Master used at the end one of our Human Civilization's ultimate foundations?" Xuanyuan Yu asked, puzzled.
Xuanyuan Yu was aware of most of the Human Civilization's ultimate foundations, and there was nothing like the method Lin Yuan had used.
But aside from the ultimate foundations, what else could explain the scene of tens of thousands of eleventh-tier foreign races being crushed?
"I'm not sure either."
The Xia Qin Ultimate immediately replied via sound transmission.
In fact, he was also quite puzzled. He really didn't know anything about it.
The Xia Qin Ultimate had indeed considered giving Lin Yuan some trump cards.
But they had nothing to do with the Human Civilization's ultimate foundations.
"You don't know either?" Xuanyuan Yu fell silent. Could it be that the Galaxy Master had achieved the feat of crushing tens of thousands of eleventh-tier foreign races on his own?
(End of Chapter)
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