Lin Huang had no idea what the skinless monster's Life Palace, which was in the form of an altar, could do at first.
However, he could roughly guess what it was after witnessing the whole process of the skinless monster trading with the skull.
"It seems like it's communicating with a powerful being through a blood sacrifice and then making a trade … It should be something like an equivalent exchange."
Lin Huang witnessed the skinless monster taking out a demigod relic and giving it to the skull. The skull then shot a black glow into the skinless monster's body and its combat strength skyrocketed. Lin Huang speculated about the skinless monster's Life Palace ability.
In reality, Lin Huang was not surprised at all. He had read a lot of information about the Life Palace when he was at the Martial Arts Academy and Mr. Fu had told him about it. Theoretically, it was possible for the Life Palace to have any kind of function.
However, the thing that troubled Lin Huang the most was the skinless monster's combat strength.
After the trade on the altar, the skinless monster's combat strength skyrocketed from yellow gold-rank to purple gold-rank.
Purple gold-rank was the last rank of imperial-level. It was almost invincible below demigod-level.
Lin Huang knew that the skinless monster had a backup plan, but he did not expect it to be something like this.
"This is troublesome."
When the skinless monster was on yellow gold-rank, he could suppress it with his black gold-rank. However, now that the skinless monster's combat strength had increased by two ranks to purple gold-rank, it was not something that he could handle.
Black gold-rank was the highest combat strength that Lin Huang could achieve at the moment.
Lin Huang communicated with Xiao Hei in his heart.
"If my combat strength continues to increase, how long can my body withstand the Overload?"
"Without Divine Regeneration, your body will collapse completely after three minutes of upgrading to crimson gold-rank."
"With the help of Divine Regeneration, you can only stay on crimson gold-rank for 20 to 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, your body will collapse irreversibly. You can only stay on yellow gold-rank for two to three minutes. After three minutes, you'll definitely die. "
"What about white gold-rank? How long can it last? "Lin Huang asked.
[There's not much point in you asking. Your physical body and soul will collapse in ten seconds at most.]
"I know. Activate two Provisional Combat Strength Upgrade Cards."
…
"Lin Xie, no matter how powerful the secret skill that you've mastered is, it can only elevate your combat strength. It's impossible for it to elevate you to imperial-level!" The skinless monster spoke again after stabilizing its combat strength.
He was actually somewhat convinced by the death aura that the skull had given him. The reason being that he was facing a siege from the entire Wanbao City. A group of imperial-level powerhouses might appear at any time to kill him. It was probably because of this that a thick Death Qi appeared on his body.
"I admit that you are indeed a formidable opponent. But that's the end of it. "
As soon as he finished speaking, the skinless monster's feet tapped lightly in the air and its body appeared in front of Lin Huang like a ghost.
He extended a finger and pointed it at Lin Huang's forehead.
Right at that moment, Lin Huang's combat strength skyrocketed. He skipped crimson gold-rank and leveled up to yellow gold-rank.
As soon as he extended his palm, the Dark Mirror was formed again and blocked in front of Lin Huang.
The skinless monster's finger that was initially aimed at Lin Huang's forehead hit the Dark Mirror again. The attack was reflected strongly.
The skinless monster was caught off guard and was sent flying again.
After stabilizing its body in the air, the skinless monster looked at Lin Huang in shock. "Your combat strength … How's that possible?!"
"Nothing's impossible."
Lin Huang dashed forward and turned into an afterimage. The demigod battle sword relic in his hand even left sparks in the air due to the friction between the sword and the air.
"Since I've shown my trump card, let's see who'll be the final winner of this battle!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Huang swung his battle sword with the force of Thunder.
In the air, the collision between the two figures escalated. It was more than 10 times more powerful than before.
The area within a radius of hundreds of kilometers was affected by the battle.
The clouds in the sky dispersed, and the birds and beasts all fled into the distance. The ground also began to crack, and ravines appeared. Mountains collapsed, and huge waves rose from the calm lakes … ….
The sound of the battle echoed throughout the entire Wanbao City. It sounded like thunder in the middle of the night, waking up countless ordinary people who were in a deep sleep.
Some of the powerhouses who were still on their way could sense the energy wave clearly. Many of them looked serious.
"The intensity of the battle has increased!"
"I'm afraid only purple gold-rank monsters are able to produce such a powerful energy wave."
"Since the battle has escalated to such an extent, they must have shown their trump cards!"
At that moment, Wanbao City's defense system sent a warning.
"Warning! The combat strength of the invading species has increased! "
"Its combat strength has increased to purple gold-rank!"
Seeing the warning, many of the imperial-levels who wanted to join in the fun began to hesitate if they should go.
If the monster was only on yellow gold-rank and it was injured, even if it was only on black gold-rank, they might be able to take advantage of it. However, if it was on purple gold-rank, it was only one step away from becoming a demigod. In the entire Wanbao City, there were less than five people who could fight it. The rest of them would just be sending themselves to their deaths.
"This monster has some tricks up its sleeves!" A short old man who was on his way narrowed his eyes. "The human who's attacking it seems like he's not an ordinary person."
The middle-aged man next to him was upset. "I was thinking of taking advantage of it, but it seems like I won't have the chance to do so."
On the battlefield, Lin Huang collided with the skinless monster again and again.
Since his combat strength had increased to yellow gold-rank, he knew that he did not have much time left. He only had three minutes at the most.
If he could not kill his opponent within three minutes, he would be the one who would die.
Even if his body did not collapse, the skinless monster would not let him go as his combat strength had regressed to immortal-level rank-1.
The skinless monster was furious. Its opponent's Sword Dao was too powerful. Although its combat strength had increased to purple gold-rank, which was only one step away from demigod, it was still suppressed by its opponent who was only on yellow gold-rank.
Although it was wearing a demigod armor relic, it would be slightly injured each time they collided.
"No, if this goes on, I might be the one who's going to die."
The skinless monster was panicking. It knew that there was a time limit to Lin Huang's combat strength, but it did not know that he only had three minutes. As it recalled what the skull had said earlier, it thought that Lin Huang's reinforcements would arrive soon. It then recalled what the skull had said. There was no deathly aura on Lin Xie's body and it had used up all of its skills. Indeed, it could not defeat Lin Xie. It suddenly wanted to retreat.
However, it did not show it on its face. Instead, it was calculating in its mind.
A few moments later, it shouted at Lin Huang, "Lin Xie, since I can't escape, you'll die with me!"
As soon as it finished speaking, blood started oozing out of its skinless body.
The blood solidified into granulation at a speed that could be seen by the naked eye. In the blink of an eye, the skinless monster's body became much bigger.
It was initially three meters tall with a skinny body. Now, it was more than four meters tall. Its body was muscular and it looked extremely strong.
As Lin Huang fought with it again, the sound of metal clashing could be heard when his sword landed on its body. There was no wound on its body, only faint white lines could be seen.
The skinless monster smiled ferociously and pounced towards Lin Huang with its arms wide open.
Lin Huang frowned and swung his sword again, hitting the skinless monster's chest. Feeling the impact on his arm, Lin Huang retreated quickly to reduce the impact.
However, at this moment, the flesh on the skinless monster's back started moving. In the blink of an eye, a figure appeared.
Lin Huang fixed his eyes on the figure and saw that it was the skinless monster. The previous strong giant form was now just an empty shell.
However, the empty shell pounced towards Lin Huang again.
The skinless monster took out a dimensional relic. As it opened the door, it turned around and looked at Lin Huang in disdain. "Have fun with my substitute body. We'll meet again …"
What it did not know was that Lin Huang had already contacted Xiao Hei when he saw its body being separated.
"If I use another Provisional Combat Strength Upgrade Card, how long can my body take it?"
"Three seconds"
"That's enough." Lin Huang nodded.
…
"Do you think you can escape?" Looking at the skinless monster standing at the portal, Lin Huang smiled mockingly.
The skinless monster was shocked and immediately took a step forward.
As soon as it stepped into the portal, it saw a black ray of light coming from nowhere. Almost at the same time, it felt a chill at its crotch. It lowered its head and saw that there was a bloody wound from its crotch all the way to its head.
Before it lost consciousness, it finally saw that the person who had attacked it was Lin Xie who was less than two meters behind it. However, when it looked past Lin Xie, it saw that there was another Lin Xie at the place where its substitute body was. What surprised it was that the combat strength of the two Lin Xie's was no longer gold-rank but white gold-rank.
The portal collapsed on its own. It was obvious that Lin Huang's slash had affected the portal.
The dead body that was cut into half fell to the ground slowly. The skinless monster's substitute body had turned into a pile of flesh and blood.
The two God Figurines' Combat Souls that were fighting with Charcoal transformed into two palm-sized God Figurines that were bitten by Charcoal. It then flapped its wings and flew towards Lin Huang.
"Fortunately, the Cloning Card can locate my clone anywhere within the range of my territory …" As he was entangled with the Substitute Body, not only did he use a Combat Strength Upgrade Card to elevate his combat strength to white gold-rank, but he also used a Cloning Card so that his clone could kill the skinless monster with the same ability as him. He had actually gotten the idea to use the Cloning Card from the substitute body.
After removing the Provisional Combat Strength Upgrade Card, Lin Huang's body that was on the verge of collapsing immediately stabilized.
Lin Huang removed the integration with the knight, and his combat strength dropped back to immortal-level rank-1. A strong sense of weakness spread through his body.
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