After killing the Queen Mother and passing checkpoint 63 of the Stairway Tree, Lin Huang did not log into the Evil Alliance again.
His combat strength could be hidden on the Stairway Tree leaderboard, but everyone could see his ranking on the Stairway Tree.
If he went higher, everyone in the Evil Alliance would know that his ability had surpassed Chan Dou's.
Moreover, he did not have the mood to join the Evil Alliance. Apart from practicing his sword skills every day, he would watch the news and wait for the Royal Trials to begin.
Throughout the few days, he had accumulated two pseudo-mythical-level sword skill card pieces and combined them into two complete cards. At this point, he had a total of seven pseudo-mythical-level sword skills. They were Almighty Scalpel, Killer, Void-shattering Sword, Instant Slash, Buddha Killer, and the two assassination sword skills that he had recently mastered — Bright Moonlit Night and Silent Snow.
Without Lin Huang killing the Bug Tribe Queen Mother, the order on checkpoint 66 of the Stairway Tree finally returned to normal. There were no more bug hordes during the day.
Since the bug horde stopped on the second day after the Evil Alliance announced the new rule, many people finally connected the bug horde to the new rule.
Many people were discussing this topic on the forum.
The most popular one was an anonymous thread. The author gave a series of inferences that were almost exactly the same as the truth.
The title of the thread was' Is it a coincidence or is it done by someone? '. The most important parts of the book read as follows:
"The bug horde stopped on checkpoint 63 on the Stairway Tree on the second day after the Evil Alliance announced the new rule. Could it be a coincidence?"
"Guys, think about it. Every time the Evil Alliance announced a new rule, it's not because the original rule has been broken. This time, nobody noticed that the Evil Alliance announced a new rule all of a sudden. They said that killing a BOSS will directly pass the checkpoint and there will be no rewards. "
"Some people said that nobody noticed it. Maybe a newcomer came and killed BOSSes repeatedly on the lower checkpoints of the Stairway Tree, which attracted the attention of the Evil Alliance system. I just want to ask, will killing bosses at lower levels affect the balance of the Stairway Tree System? "
"As you all know, the Evil Alliance released two new rules to target Lin Xie. They limited the maximum points he could obtain every day and every level because Lin Xie's behavior of earning points had severely affected the balance of the Stairway Point System.
"Farming bosses in the lower levels isn't enough to affect the balance of the Ladder. Why would the Evil Alliance pay attention to it? The answer is that the Evil Alliance's system doesn't care about such things! "
"The Evil Alliance System announced the new rule because there's a new behavior that affects the balance of the Stairway System. This means that someone is farming the Insectoid Queen on the 63rd step of the Celestial Stairway! "
"Many people have been asking why there would be a bug horde on checkpoint 63 of the Stairway Tree in broad daylight. Many people attributed it to the sudden appearance of a god relic. However, I personally suspect that the so-called god relic is a lie. Of course, I have no evidence to prove this. I'm just presenting my conjecture here. "
"I think the real reason for the bug horde is that someone is farming the Insectoid Queen. As soon as the Queen died, the bugs lost control and went on a rampage, causing a bug horde. "
"Bug horde after bug horde broke out during the day, causing the Stairway Tree System on checkpoint 63 to be completely out of balance. That's also why the Evil Alliance announced the new rule that killing a boss will directly pass the checkpoint. "
"Lastly, please think about it according to my conjecture. Did you suddenly realize that the bug horde stopped on the second day after the new rule was announced? Everything makes sense now. It's because the person who was farming the Queen Mother killed the last Bug Tribe Queen Mother that he could reap from. He stopped hunting for the Queen Mother, so the bug horde stopped. "
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Half of the comments under the post were supportive while the other half questioned.
They supported it because the conjecture was completely logical.
Meanwhile, those who questioned it raised a practical question. "Who on the Stairway Tree can kill the Bug Tribe Queen Mother single-handedly?"
Everyone knew that even Chan Dou, one of the Five Princes, could not do that.
There were also people who asked the anonymous author directly in the post who was the most likely to do that.
The author's reply was: "According to the known ability level of all the members on checkpoint 63, nobody can do that. If I have to say a name, I'd say 'Lin Xie' is the most likely. "
The author's reply caused another round of heated discussion.
"Author, admit it. You're Lin Xie himself. You wrote this post just to brag!"
"The author is a brainless fan of Lin Xie. Identification complete!"
"You're putting Lin Xie on such a high pedestal. What do you think of Chan Dou and Master Chan?"
"I support Master Chan. He's handsome, has long legs, and is powerful!"
"I just want to ask the commenter above, is Lin Xie handsome? Not long legs? Not powerful? "
Lin Huang saw the post too, so he replied using Lin Xie's account, "I support Master Chan. He's the most handsome, has the longest legs, and is the most powerful!"
Chan Dou saw Lin Huang's reply too, so he replied, "Thanks for the compliment! My Master Deputy Chief. "
Zhu Hong from the Hong Alliance might have been bored, so she commented below, "I think I smell dog food …"
The interaction between the three of them blew up the forum again.
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Three days passed by in the blink of an eye.
On this day, Lin Huang opened the Hunters' Association forum while he was having breakfast. He finally saw the news that he was looking for.
The headline on the news section of the Hunters' Association forum was' The once-in-a-decade Royal Trials Are About to Begin! '
Lin Huang grinned after reading the news carefully.
"It'll officially begin on the 5th of May. Today is the 28th of April. There's still a week left. I'll prepare for the battle in these few days. "
After breakfast, Lin Huang logged into the Stairway Mall again.
He picked two demigod-level telekinetic weapons that he had his eyes on and placed them in the shopping cart.
The two telekinetic weapons were supreme demigod relics. One set would cost five billion points, so the two sets would cost ten billion points. Lin Huang had a 40% discount as a Heaven Alliance deputy chief.
He only needed six billion points to buy them.
Lin Huang had always wanted demigod-level telekinetic weapons, but he could not use them at the moment. He bought them in advance mainly for Grimace and the Imp who were proficient in telekinesis.
Apart from the two telekinetic weapons, Lin Huang picked a demigod puppet that cost 18 billion points.
This puppet was also for Grimace to use. Only Bloody and Grimace who had Supreme Intelligence could master such a complicated weapon within a short period of time. Meanwhile, Grimace's telekinetic power was perfect for puppet-type combat weapons. With such a puppet, Grimace could fight an imperial-level purple gold-rank powerhouse head-on even if he encountered one.
Due to the 40% discount, the three sets of items cost a total of 16.8 billion points.
After summoning Grimace and the Imp, Lin Huang distributed the three new equipment sets.
"Telekinetic weapons, both of you have them." Lin Huang passed the demigod puppet to Grimace as soon as he was done speaking. "This is for your help in the hive these few days."
The Imp was envious while Grimace's eyes lit up.
After recalling the two imperial monsters, Lin Huang bought 11 pseudo-mythical-level sword skills and three mythical-level sword skills. He bought them at a 40% discount of 76.8 billion points for a total of 128 billion points.
By then, he had spent close to half of the 200 billion points. Lin Huang gave up on the idea of buying demigod-level soul crystals to elevate the remaining five Combat Souls to imperial-level purple gold-rank for the time being.
To prevent himself from exchanging the god relic battle sword and god relic armor that he wanted with the god relic relics that he had, he planned to save the remaining Stairway Tree points for a rainy day.
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