Age of Evolution

At this point, large-scale carnage was basically non-existent. The remaining individuals were almost all killers. Each person’s individual account generally had a balance of over ten million.

The more money they had, the more cautious they became, knowing that while killing resulted in large gains, being killed incurred huge losses.

You could see pairs or small groups fighting everywhere. The strong chased and killed while the weak busily avoided them.

No one dared to rush up and self-detonate in the area where people attacked Lin Zhen anymore. They had realized that he was a martial artist of the god-level, an entity that they could not tremble.

Martial artists who recognized the situation began to retreat, seeking opponents of similar strength to fight.

In this way, the pace of Lin Zhen’s killing significantly slowed.

However, Lin Zhen wasn’t in a hurry. He began to slowly wander around the battlefield, quietly approaching and eliminating opponents who had killed a significant number of people.

Although the speed of his killing had reduced significantly, the amount of money he earned was increasing steadily. Oftentimes, Lin Zhen could earn tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of cosmic crystals by killing just one person.

Due to Lin Zhen leading the charge, his teammates hardly faced any direct attacks. The joint efforts of his team turned out to be quite successful.

Especially Long Juetian, the emperor of the Tianhe Empire—he was getting really pumped.

His power was extremely great in the first place. With nine thousand units of star power to support him, he could freely roam the battlefield without facing any direct attacks. One by one, martial artists fell at his feet and his wealth was rapidly accumulating.

Zi Qianxia’s strength was pretty good too. While protecting Zi Shisan, she had already killed more than a dozen opponents.

Even Ni Ke, whose strength wasn’t outstanding, had already killed five to six people on the battlefield.

The team hung behind Lin Zhen, easily taking down the remaining enemies that Lin Zhen didn’t bother to deal with.

Gradually, the number of people on the battlefield decreased. Less than three hundred thousand remained.

A small team appeared ahead, clad in black, and their teamwork was quite good.

Upon seeing this team, Lin Zhen came to a halt. To his surprise, Heige and his group were part of the opposing team.

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Heige, along with Yan Qiyue and a few others, formed a small phalanx and steadily pushed forward. They weren’t too aggressive nor did they fall behind. Their kill count consistently increased.

“Captain, the people ahead, are they Lin Zhen’s group?”

Polo from the God Machine Clan spoke first.

Heige’s team also had improved significantly in strength. Although they lacked Lin Zhen, who was at the Black Hole stage, they had gained an additional warrior of the Star System Level 7, whose strength could even compare to Heige’s. They could hold their ground against any team, except for those with the top-tier Level 9 warriors.

None of Heige’s team knew Lin Zhen’s true strength. Even Yan Qiyue at this point wasn’t sure about Lin Zhen’s capabilities, because during the last team battle, like them, Lin Zhen was easily killed, making them think that his strength was just average.

So when they saw Lin Zhen’s team, Heige halted.

“Brother Qiyue, just as I thought, your lord is our enemy. Now, do you think I should eat this juicy piece of meat that’s right in front of me or let it go?”

Yan Qiyue’s face fluctuated for a moment, then he seriously said, “What the captain said is correct. The principle of team battles is to eliminate opponents at all costs. Just because Lin Zhen is my lord, should I go easy on him?

“Don’t you fear offending him since your hometown is on the same planet as his?” Polo asked.

“Although I’m from Earth, after nearly a thousand years of cultivation, all of my relatives have long since passed away. I have no relatives or obligations on Earth. I haven’t even been back there in several years, so it doesn’t matter if we let it go.”

“Good! Brother Yan Qiyue is clear about love and hate. Since that’s the case, I won’t be polite.”

Heige glanced at Lin Zhen’s team and said to the Star System Level 7 warrior next to him, “Brother Tie Jiang, do you see the warrior in the dragon robe? He’s an emperor from a primitive cosmic country. He’s at Level 9 of the Star System. Your task this time is to hold him off. As long as you can do it for…No! Just one minute. We will eliminate the rest of Lin Zhen’s team and then join you to deal with the emperor. Once we succeed, each of us will give you an extra ten million. ”

The warrior called Tie Jiang patted his chest, “You can rest assured. Although I dare not guarantee victory against that Level 9 Star System, I’m sure I can hold him off. You know, I’ve done this kind of cross-level challenge more than once.”

“Good! Let’s go!”

At Heige’s command, the team immediately advanced towards Lin Zhen’s team.

At this moment, Zi Qianxia came to Lin Zhen’s side and smiled, saying, “Captain Lin, it looks like your old teammates want to turn against you. How do you feel at this moment?”

Looking at the somewhat playful princess of the Black Wing Clan, Lin Zhen smiled, “I feel as if someone has poured cold water over my head, making me feel cold from head to toe, inside and out, making my heart colder and more merciless. Do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing?”

Zi Qianxia paused for a moment and then said earnestly, “I still hope that you won’t become too merciless. Life still has a lot of wonderful things. As for those annoying ones, just obliterate them.”

Lin Zhen didn’t respond, but thought to himself how much he would be able to earn from this and how big the gap was from resurrecting Little Phoenix.

Zi Qianxia saw that Lin Zhen did not respond, felt a little regretful in her heart, then took the initiative and said, “Leave that Heige to me, I despise that guy.”

Long Juetian also stepped forward, “That man from the Star System Level 7 is looking at me as if he thinks I’m scared of him. This guy is mine, Captain Lin, you cannot fight me for him.”

Zi Shisan said, “I will deal with that one from the God Machine Clan.”

The dwarf also voluntarily said, “I’ll take care of that woman from Qingling Empire. Damn it! She’s so ugly but still so arrogant. Comparing her to our Princess Qianxia is an eyesore.”

Lin Zhen chuckled, “It seems like you all have already made your arrangements. Well, then, I’ll take Yan Qiyue. He knows that I am his lord, but he still behaves as such. People like that won’t wake up unless they are made to see the situation clearly.”

The battle formation surprisingly coincided with Heige’s side.

When both teams stood together, no one said too much.

Anything said at this point would be redundant. Since the friendship was already broken, there was no need for hypocritical lies. Even if they had to speak, it would be an intense exchange of provocative words.

Yan Qiyue stood in front of Lin Zhen, swinging his sword, “Lin Zhen, don’t blame me.”

Lin Zhen blinked slowly and reopened his eyes, “I remember back when I was facing you in the Star Fruit Tree courage test. Your hologram was the examiner who told me that anyone who dares peep at Yan Qiyue, the Dragon Slayer, during that time, you seemed like a godlike man to me.”

“Unfortunately… the dream is now shattered, Yan Qiyue, you brought this upon yourself!”

“Enough nonsense! The world of martial artists is one where the victors are crowned and the losers dethroned, Lin Zhen, if you don’t understand this, I can teach you today!”

A glimmer of sword light, Yan Qiyue thrust his sword straight at Lin Zhen’s throat.

“Cling~!”

Lin Zhen lifted his hand. With two fingers, he caught Yan Qiyue’s thrusting sword, making a resonant sound of metal collision.

No matter how Yan Qiyue tried to stimulate his star power, he couldn’t shake the sword in Lin Zhen’s hand!

“Lin Zhen…you…”

“Yan Qiyue, your memory is still stuck at the time when the Tianhe Empire invaded. I admit, at that time, our strengths were comparable, but your progression speed and mine are incomparable.”

“When you rejected my proposal, I didn’t think too much about it. But you made a grave mistake by betraying me. People can be selfish, but they should not cross certain limits, especially when they don’t fully understand the other party’s true strength. As for the principle of ‘victors are crowned and losers dethroned,’ I understood it before you!”

Spiritual Evil Spirit Cone~!

Boom~!!

Yan Qiyue’s Spiritual Consciousness Sea was severely hit by Lin Zhen’s Spiritual Evil Spirit Cone. In fact, Lin Zhen could easily kill Yan Qiyue, a man with barely over a thousand star power, but he didn’t want to. He wanted Yan Qiyue to experience what fear is!

Millions of ghosts wreaked havoc in Yan Qiyue’s mind. His spiritual power, barely reaching sky blue level, was nowhere near enough to resist Lin Zhen’s spiritual power.

If there’s such a thing as hell, then Lin Zhen’s move is indeed it. It could make one lose their appetite for three years and they would never want to recall it for a second time in their life!

After ten seconds, Yan Qiyue was brain dead and was eliminated from the arena.

Lin Zhen exhaled deeply. It was just a small matter that quickly drifted away with the wind.

When he turned to look at his companions, all their battles were already over.

Long Juetian was the first to kill Tie Jiang, then Zi Qianxia incredibly killed Heige, an equal in terms of realm. Later, Polo and Yuxuan fell into chaos and were easily taken down by the dwarf and Zi Shisan, leading them out of the arena.

“Lin Zhen, you’re slow!”

Zi Qianxia intentionally teased Lin Zhen, to which Lin Zhen laughed, “What’s there to fear now? After a while, you guys will see how fast I am. The competition is over, whatever you guys want to eat, however much, I’ll treat you all in the Fire Kirin Empire.”

“Cheapskate! This time you must’ve earned at least a few hundred billion, yet you’re just treating us to a meal? Well then, I want to order every single dish from the Fire Kirin Empire, which I assume amounts to tens of millions or even billions. I aim to eat you out of house and home!”

“Well, that depends on whether you have the stomach for it. Stop dawdling now, continue to clear the battlefield. At this time, every person represents a significant amount of money.”

Long Juetian and a few others continued to work together to avoid anyone being eliminated. On the other hand, Lin Zhen moved alone, his figure appearing and disappearing like a ghost. Everywhere he went, one after another phantom was eliminated.

The battlefield, which consisted of a million people, was set for one hour and had already passed fifty-five minutes.

Out of the two million people, only a few tens of thousands were left.

On the black side, Xuan Jiang was annihilating everyone and had already taken out an unknown number of people. On the contrary, the red side was down to fewer than two thousand people.

Now it seems that the red side is on the verge of losing.