Chapter 846: Forced Upgrade

"Abyssal Blood Death Seal!"

Zhou Huai hovered in the endlessly gloomy abyss, the dark golden abyssal blood dragon spear in his hand erupting with a heart-palpitating red light. The spearhead whipped up turbulent physical damage and mana, transforming into a meteor piercing the long night as it fiercely thrust toward the endless stomach wall ahead.

A loud explosion rang out.

The shock force traveled up the spear shaft, numbing the web between Zhou Huai's thumb and index finger.

That blow, which was enough to easily one-shot a max-level high-tier exotic beast, landed on the Sea Gods Stomach and left only a shallow white mark.

Zhou Huai narrowed his eyes, staring at the barrier ahead.

The stomach wall of this Sea Gods Stomach was so hard that it completely defied the physical common sense of the current world; not only was it unimaginably thick, but its surface was also covered in a layer of eerie high-dimensional Death Qi. Illuminated by the lightning radiance surrounding Zhou Huai, this layer of the stomach wall reflected a crystal-like, brilliant yet fatal luster.

"Is the defense value stacked this high?" Zhou Huai sneered.

Without hesitation, purple-gold light lit up in his eyes, and the Word of Law belonging exclusively to Great Sage Li Er descended.

"Word of Law."

"The dragon spear in my hand is indestructible and possesses the Absolute Armor-Breaking characteristic!"

As the Word of Law fell, the abyssal blood dragon spear in Zhou Huai's hand was infused with the supreme Law, and the dark golden Dragon patterns on the spear shaft began to swim.

"Break for me!"

Zhou Huai exerted force from his waist, the fivefold strength amplification of the abyssal blood battle armor fully erupting. Wielding the dragon spear, he transformed into a cannonball fired from a chamber, once again fiercely slamming into the crystal-like stomach wall.

"Screech!"

This time, the teeth-aching shattering sound finally rang out.

The dragon spear, imbued with a one-hundred-percent defense-breaking characteristic, tore through that layer of high-dimensional Death Qi without any obstruction, forcibly poking a huge hole over several meters in diameter into the crystal stomach wall.

Foul-smelling black mucus gushed out from the hole; that was the high-dimensional acid inside the Sea Gods Stomach that digested all things.

"Nothing much." Zhou Huai scoffed.

However, the scene before him made his smile freeze on his face.

"Gurgle—"

Accompanied by the nauseating sound of flesh writhing, countless dark red granulation buds frantically emerged around the large hole poked by the dragon spear. These granulation buds intertwined and stitched together at an extremely fast speed.

In less than a second.

That hole, which was large enough to accommodate a truck passing through, miraculously healed seamlessly!

The newly healed location was no longer the previous dark red, but had completely crystallized, becoming even more crystal-clear and reflecting a diamond-like luster.

Zhou Huai raised the dragon spear and backhanded the butt of the spear, fiercely smashing it against the newly healed piece of crystal stomach wall.

"Clang!"

Sparks flew in all directions.

A counter-shock force several times stronger than before swept over, forcibly pushing Zhou Huai back by dozens of meters.

Zhou Huai hovered in mid-air, gritting his teeth.

"This self-healing mechanism can actually forcibly enhance local physical defense and magic resistance after being injured?" Zhou Huai stared at the brand-new, smooth stomach wall and said in a deep voice, "Not only that, even the high-dimensional life Origin tampered with by Mr. Duan is continuously providing it with resilience."

Time was tight; eight days had unwittingly passed in the outside world, leaving less than forty-eight hours remaining.

Under conventional conditions, if Zhou Huai wanted to completely grind through this layer of stomach wall, it would take at least a week.

"It seems that relying solely on the defense-breaking judgment of the Word of Law is not enough; we must instantly deal devastating damage that exceeds its self-healing upper limit."

Zhou Huai adjusted his breathing, calming the surging mana in his body.

"Since the quality is not enough, I can only boost a wave of panel attributes."

Zhou Huai opened the System panel.

His current Karma reserve still had an extremely terrifying 300 million plus points.

"Over 300 million Karma points…" Zhou Huai looked at the numbers on the panel and calculated inwardly: "I don't know how many Ranks this resource can push the SSS-Rank class Clone upward."

The higher the-tier class, the more exponential the experience points and energy required for leveling up exploded. Especially for hidden Clones like Great Sage Li Er that touched the edges of rules, every single Rank upgrade was a test of the bottom line of the current world's Laws.

"You're it."

Without hesitation, Zhou Huai directly locked onto the Great Sage Li Er Clone within his body.

"Word of Law!"

"Saints Domain, open!"

"Hum—"

Accompanied by Zhou Huai's command, purple-gold divine light erupted around his body. This light was holy and grand, carrying a high-dimensional coercion overlooking all living things, crowding out the sickening high-dimensional Death Qi around him.

Under the blessing of the Saints Domain, Zhou Huai directly skipped the routine judgment logic of the Heavenly Dao System, forcibly compressing all consumption.

"System, upgrade Li Er's Rank to Rank 70!"

Li Er's original Rank had already reached the Rank 50 major milestone. At this stage, improving every single Rank was as difficult as ascending to heaven.

[Saints Domain state, the Karma consumption required for this upgrade is reduced by 90%!]

[Forcibly upgrading Clone Rank…]

A loud explosion came out.

An incomparably thick upgrade white light shot straight up from the top of Zhou Huai's head! In this gloomy Sea Gods Stomach, this white light transformed into a rising scorching sun!

[Ding! Clone Great Sage Li Er Rank upgraded to Rank 55!]

[Ding! Clone Great Sage Li Er Rank upgraded to Rank 60!]

…

The prompt tones sounded densely like a machine gun, the white light on Zhou Huai's body becoming more and more blazing. Wave after wave of violent attribute feedback frantically scoured his main body's limbs and skeletons like a tsunami.

[Ding! Clone Great Sage Li Er Rank upgraded to Rank 70!]

[Upgrade complete! Deducted Karma points: 250 million points!]

Zhou Huai looked at the shrunken Karma balance on the panel, his eye corners unable to stop twitching.

"Two hundred and fifty million."

Zhou Huai snorted coldly.

This was still under the condition of opening the Saints Domain and forcibly reducing nine-tenths of the consumption! If it were in a conventional state, forcibly pulling an SSS-Rank class Clone from Rank 50 to Rank 70 would require a terrifying 2.5 billion Karma points! Harvesting the faith of hundreds of millions of people in the Great Xia Country once might not even be enough to gather this astronomical figure.

"The upgrade barrier of an SSS-Rank class is indeed a Wall of Sighs." Zhou Huai felt the earth-shaking changes inside his body: "Only a wall-hacking player like me who can exploit System bugs and forcibly instill power using Karma points can afford to play this kind of upgrade method."