Volume 1, Chapter 425 – Intelligence

“With a top-tier system on her and a reaction indicating Rank Nine energy fluctuations, it’s hardly surprising that she can unleash power beyond her assessed level.”

The man at the front shook his head slightly, deep in thought.

“So do we keep chasing or not?”

“The few of us together could at most surround and kill someone at the early Tier Eight level. This person has Rank Nine energy fluctuation reactions on her. She might be able to unleash Supreme-level battle power for a short time. The risk is too great.”

The others nearby were all beginning to think of retreat. To have made it this far in Reincarnation Hall, the overwhelming majority of them were deeply versed in the art of protecting themselves.

Unless the reward was great enough to make them ignore those potential risks, they were instinctively inclined to stay far away from anything that clearly carried enormous danger.

“Emperor Yuan is about to open the world gate and launch a massive invasion of the Qiongluo Realm. Why not pass the news on to him? We might even be able to exchange it for some reward.”

“Not a bad idea.”

“That makes sense.”

Compared with risking themselves personally, this approach was obviously much more to their liking.

…

In the far western reaches of Qiongluo lay a chain of colossal peaks.

Juling Divine Peak stood at over one hundred and seventy-eight thousand zhang tall. It was the highest peak in the Qiongluo Realm. At its summit stood a divine hall that had existed for more than forty thousand years, housing countless top-grade rune stones and serving as almost the spiritual symbol of the entire Qiongluo Realm.

In the present-day Qiongluo Realm, the strongest powers were the five great academies jointly established by the Hundred Races.

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Among them, Tianhuo Academy, Guiyi Academy, Zixiao Academy, and Wuji Academy were distributed across the four extremes of the Qiongluo Realm, while Yuntian Academy was located at the center of the continent.

The headmasters of these five academies were all among the strongest beings in the Qiongluo Realm. Their attainments in the Dao of runes had reached the pinnacle, and their strength was surpassed only by a Supreme.

At this moment, the five headmasters and the peak experts of the Qiongluo Realm had all gathered within the divine hall. Aside from the many experts of the Hundred Races, there were also two special guests.

One was a white tiger with a resplendent rune seal branded upon its brow, and the other was a dragonfish with a pair of wings beneath its fins.

These two strange beasts were the two Beast Emperors who nominally ruled over all the vicious beasts in the Qiongluo Realm. Their strength exceeded that of the headmasters rather than falling short of it.

Never before since ancient times had anything happened that could make all these giants from various factions, and even the Beast Emperors among the vicious beasts, sit together in silence under one roof.

But today, the Qiongluo Realm was witnessing something that had never happened before in all its history.

Everyone’s gaze was fixed on a young man standing in the center of the divine hall.

“Repeat what you said to me earlier.”

An old man dressed in black spoke in a deep voice. He was the headmaster of Tianhuo Academy. In the path of fire-aspected runes, no one in the Qiongluo Realm could surpass him.

“Yes.”

The stern gazes coming from all around made the man’s scalp tingle. After instinctively wiping the cold sweat from his palms, he began to speak.

“In a few days, a Supreme will descend upon the Qiongluo Realm with a great army, shatter the Heavenly Dao of the Qiongluo Realm, and destroy this world.”

The moment his words fell, the hall sank into an eerie silence. One could hear a pin drop. The atmosphere was oppressively heavy.

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“Human, where do you come from?”

The white tiger at one side slowly opened its mouth. Its emerald beast eyes locked firmly onto the man, killing intent surging so violently that it looked ready to strike at the slightest disagreement.

“I come from beyond the realm. As for where exactly… that cannot be said.”

The man shook his head slightly. Reincarnators could not reveal information about Reincarnation Hall, or they would suffer a life-and-death catastrophe.

The reason he had come here despite the risk of being killed was because he was taking a gamble. To the natives of this world, news of Emperor Yuan’s invasion might fetch a decent price.

“That damned invading Supreme—how many troops will he bring?”

The headmaster of Zixiao Academy was a middle-aged man with a short beard. He skipped over the issue of probing the man’s identity and pressed the question impatiently.

“Hundreds of millions of troops. Even ordinary soldiers are enough to rival runemasters who have cultivated rune battle armor. The experts in the army are no weaker than those present in this hall.”

The man answered truthfully. In fact, he did not believe the Qiongluo Realm had any chance of victory at all. He was simply thinking of making a small profit with this information before the war truly began.

Putting Emperor Yuan’s own battle strength aside, the combat power of the Dragonblood Army under his command was no exaggeration whatsoever. Even within Reincarnation Hall, it ranked among the best.

Every soldier in the Dragonblood Army had once bathed in dragon blood. The weakest among them were all at Tier Four, and there were even several experts at complete Tier Eight.

And on top of that, there was Emperor Yuan himself—a living Supreme. With a single thought, galaxies could be born or extinguished. His strength was simply beyond estimation.

He did not even dare reveal Emperor Yuan’s title outright, fearing that Emperor Yuan might sense it afterward and trace the matter back to him.

“Do you have any more detailed information?”

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A powerful being with a single horn on its brow frowned slightly and asked.

“The intelligence I know is limited.”

The man shook his head slightly. He was not familiar with Emperor Yuan. The reason he knew of the matter at all was because Emperor Yuan had single-handedly taken on an entire great world, causing an enormous stir throughout Reincarnation Hall.

“That’s enough. You may withdraw for now.”

The headmaster of Tianhuo Academy waved a hand, signaling the man to leave.

After the man withdrew, the assembled giants of the Qiongluo Realm looked at one another, speechless.

The Qiongluo Realm had not seen the flames of war for a very long time. The mysteries of the Dao of runes already demanded the utmost of their entire lifetimes to explore. They simply had no spare energy for conflict.

Even those two Beast Emperors had gone a long stretch of time without engaging in any major battle.

This sudden world-ending crisis had truly caught them completely off guard.

That unknown Supreme had come to destroy the Qiongluo Realm, not to rule it. There was no room at all for reconciliation.

“We should have been on guard long ago. Those visitors from beyond the realm have been appearing more and more frequently. This calamity was only a matter of time.”

One of the headmasters, who had not spoken at all from beginning to end, let out a sigh, his brows full of desolation.

“How should we respond now?”

“The Qiongluo Realm is the root of the Dao of runes. It is the place where our ancestors have lived for generation after generation. We absolutely cannot allow outsiders to trample it at will!”

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The headmaster of Zixiao Academy spoke again, his sharp resolve fully revealed.

“I am willing to fight to the death for Qiongluo!”

“Fight? How are we supposed to fight?!”

One of the headmasters rose to his feet and slammed the table.

“The Qiongluo Realm has not produced a Supreme in over forty thousand years! The power of the two remaining Extreme Dao Rune Seals is nearly exhausted. What are we supposed to use to contend with him?!”

All kinds of arguments rose and fell one after another. The two Beast Emperors standing silently to one side suddenly rose to their feet and began to walk slowly toward the door.

“Please wait, you two.”

The headmaster of Tianhuo Academy stood and followed after them.

“How does the vicious beast race intend to respond?”

With a great enemy at the gates, the vicious beasts were a force in the Qiongluo Realm that could not be ignored. Their stance could not remain ambiguous.

“I’d be delighted if all of you dropped dead together right now.”

The white tiger turned its head and swept its gaze across the people in the hall. The rune-light on its brow flickered, and its emerald beast eyes were filled with undisguised killing intent.

“But Qiongluo is my home. I will slaughter every enemy who dares invade it!”