Chapter 813: This Damn Welcome Gift

The howling gale was tightly kept outside of Magic Dragon Xiao Hei's thick layer of dark golden dragon scales.

Under the cover of night, a pair of gigantic black wings brutally tore through the clouds, resembling a streak of black lightning piercing the firmament, speeding towards the other side of the ocean at an astonishing pace.

On the dragon's back.

Zhou Huai sat cross-legged with his eyes slightly closed, letting the night breeze brush past the tips of his hair.

His consciousness was currently immersed deep within the System panel in his mind.

The [Personality Editor] was emitting a dim blue glow.

"Domain…"

He muttered inwardly.

Ever since "Ten Thousand Aspects into One" was completed, although his main body had crossed the threshold of a Half-step Transcendent, when all was said and done, the upper limit of his power still depended on the foundations of his Clones.

Every time a Clone comprehended a Domain, not only would its own combat strength skyrocket, but the power of the Law that his main body could mobilize during Fusion would also undergo a qualitative change!

Xiang Yu's "Battlefield", Gabriel's "Holy Light Kingdom", Gandalf's "Domain of the Magic God"…

The benefits he had tasted were simply too huge!

Zhou Huai's slender fingers moved swiftly across the Void Realm, lines of text filled with a sense of tragedy and destiny weaving an independent Soul belonging to "Insect Emperor Caesar".

Betrayal from an alien star, the extinction of the insectoids, despair under the starry sky…

He wanted to use the most extreme emotions to stimulate this soulless shell, forcibly touching the barrier of the Heavenly Dao Law!

"Crack! Crack!"

A crisp and rapid sound of chewing abruptly interrupted Zhou Huai's train of thought.

He opened his eyes and turned his head helplessly.

Chun, sitting beside him, currently held none of the baggage of the First World's Goddess of Nature; she looked more like a starved ghost who hadn't eaten for three days and three nights.

In front of her were piled all kinds of high-calorie meats and spiritual fruits pilfered from the Ancient Egyptian Ruins.

Her left hand gripped a golden-roasted sand beast leg meat, while her right hand pinched a crystal-clear, juicy spiritual fruit. Her mouth was stuffed bulgingly full, glistening with oil.

She looked like a hamster desperately guarding its food.

There wasn't a single moment of pause.

"With the way you're eating, if Mr. Duan were to see this, he'd probably take back his evaluation of 'you're as naive as a child'." Zhou Huai couldn't help teasing.

"Gulp!"

Chun rolled her eyes heavily, directly swallowing the food in her mouth, then grabbed the golden wine flask beside her and gulped down a large mouthful of fiery liquor.

"Hiccup——!"

An unladylike burp resounded loudly across the dragon's back.

She wiped the wine stain from the corner of her mouth, her emerald-green eyes finally looking at Zhou Huai seriously.

Staring for a moment, she slowly spoke, her tone carrying questioning intent.

"Let's talk about business."

"In the pyramid, why didn't you make a move against Anubis?"

Her eyes revealed a bit of incomprehension, and even some unwillingness. "You clearly already activated Ten Thousand Aspects into One; as long as you wanted to, we could have completely joined forces to strip away that little bit of Underworld Origin of his!"

"Keeping such a scheming remnant Soul from the old era poses too great a risk!"

Zhou Huai stopped the work in his hands.

He reached out his hand, feeling the thin air at high altitude, a cold gleam flashing through his dark golden pupils.

"Anubis is different from that Extreme Ice Empress of Ise Grand Shrine."

"I can feel that…"

Zhou Huai's gaze turned extremely grave, and he said word by word: "His strength is several tiers stronger than that Empress!"

"The most crucial part is that he is also an extremely profound Space-type expert."

"Old monsters like this who have lived for countless epochs have countless means of preserving their lives. In this Ancient Egyptian Ruins completely penetrated by the Underworld Law, I have a strong premonition—"

"Right now, I cannot completely kill him."

"Once we make a move, it is very likely to fall into a long standoff."

"Ten days is much too tight."

He turned his head to look at Chun, voicing his concerns, "If we aren't careful, before we even take him down, Mr. Duan over there might have already broken free from the shackles of the Origin Virus and escaped ahead of time."

"By then, the ones getting surrounded and trapped will be the two of us!"

"So I simply settled for the next best thing."

Zhou Huai patted the hard back of Magic Dragon Xiao Hei, "Let's go to the Atlantic Ocean first to deal with that sea god of the Kaslandis Ruins. When picking persimmons, you always pick the softest ones first."

After listening to this analysis, Chun swallowed the last bite of meat in her mouth.

She pulled out a silk handkerchief from beside her to wipe her hands and let out a cold sneer.

"I'm just giving you a reminder."

"That fellow is also an old fox."

Chun's gaze revealed a trace of chilling coldness, "His intelligence regarding The Seventh World and The Eighth World, including the matter of the ten SSS-Rank Experts… you can listen, but you must absolutely not believe it completely!"

"Once you get sold out by him, not even your bone scraps will be left!"

"Naturally, I understand."

Zhou Huai nodded.

Dealing with these monsters that spanned epochs, he had never let down his guard.

As long as his accumulated foundation was strong enough, any conspiracies and schemes would only be a joke!

As they spoke.

The scenery beneath their feet had undergone earth-shaking changes.

The flying yellow sand was left behind, and the rolling mountains rapidly shrank within their line of sight.

Replacing them was a boundless ocean filled with salty, fishy sea breezes!

Under the cover of night, the deep blue seawater resembled a gigantic, breathing abyssal gemstone with no end in sight.

Magic Dragon Xiao Hei let out a heaven-shaking dragon roar, its massive twin wings violently flapping to elevate its speed once more, whipping up two white walls of water tens of meters high on the calm sea surface.

Looking at this endless sea, Zhou Huai stood up.

The fierce wind fluttered his robe hem, and his eyes were filled with deep emotion.

"The last time I entered the ocean…"

He murmured softly, as if returning to those thrilling and unknown days, "was still when I could only hide behind the scenes manipulating Gandalf."

That was the first time he faced the terror of the deep sea directly.

At that time, Gandalf was merely Rank 40.

In order to fight against those few high-Rank sea beasts, he even needed to meticulously calculate the consumption of his mana value, walking on thin ice with every step.

And for Great Xia's military airship to cross this ocean and head to the coordinates where the Kaslandis Ruins were located, it would take several days!

A slight misstep would result in being dragged into the seabed by rampaging ruin monsters in the ocean, leaving not even a bone behind.

But what about now?

Less than a year's time!

Zhou Huai looked at his own hands.

Ten Thousand Aspects into One!

Half-step Transcendent!

He was about to reach the strength ceiling permitted by this current-world Heavenly Dao System!

That once out-of-reach Kaslandis Ruins had now, by riding the Quasi-God Level Abyssal Magic Dragon, arrived near the destination after just a few hours of flight!

The confidence brought by power had caused a heaven-shaking change in his state of mind.

Gone was the initial straitened circumstances, leaving only a yearning for unknown powerful enemies.