Chapter 866: Arrival at the Free Federation
"Is the world calling for your help?"
Upon hearing Rahil's words, Zhou Huai frowned, his expression turning serious.
A fierce wind howled outside the Dragon's Might Barrier, and Rahil's emerald eyes were filled with compassion.
Zhou Huai did not respond immediately.
The words Mr. Duan had once said came to mind.
The world version has been updated.
The Heavenly Dao System Cleansing.
The destruction and rebirth of an era.
Mr. Duan once clearly stated that once the Heavenly Dao System detects that the power of human professionals exceeds the control threshold, it will unleash a world-destroying divine punishment, erasing the entire world like cleaning up garbage, and ushering in the next era.
The Seventh World and the Eighth World both disappeared in the same way.
"Is this... a harbinger of an impending change in the world?" Zhou Huai wondered to himself.
The current world situation has deteriorated to the extreme.
Mr. Duan escaped his predicament, absorbed the essence of the Sea God, and further completed his higher-dimensional divine status.
The coordinates of the eighth ruin have been revealed in the far north, and the remnant souls of top-tier powerhouses from the old era are about to be revived.
Have all these changes already touched a nerve in the Heavenly Dao system?
So, the world felt the crisis of destruction and thus issued a "cry for help"?
In order to find out what this so-called "cry for help" was, Zhou Huai had an idea.
"return."
Whoosh!
Rahil transformed into a stream of green light, entered Zhou Huai's brow, and returned to his body.
Zhou Huai closed his eyes.
He attempted to perceive the so-called "world's cry for help" through Rahil's perspective, using this SSS-level World Tree clone.
His spiritual power spread outwards.
One floor, two floors, three floors...
He expanded his perception to the extreme, even using the spatial exploration ability of Viktor, the Herrscher of the Void, to capture abnormal fluctuations at the dimensional level.
A minute passed.
Two minutes passed.
result......
There was nothing there.
Zhou Huai opened his eyes, his brows furrowed.
Apart from the muffled sound of the wind in his ears and the roars of the low-level beasts in the deep sea below, he could not sense anything else.
There was no sound, no image, and no sense of "calling for help".
"What happened?"
Zhou Huai was somewhat surprised.
"Could it be... that only Rahil, who possesses an independent consciousness, can perceive this kind of world-level fluctuation?"
The more Zhou Huai thought about it, the more alarmed he became.
Rahil seemed to be more special than he had anticipated.
In the past, Yasuo, Viktor, and Li Er, although each wielded extremely domineering power of laws, were ultimately more like sharp weapons in Zhou Huai's hands.
Wherever Zhou Huai pointed, they attacked.
But Rahil was different.
He not only possesses an independent personality, but he can even perceive world-class anomalies that even Zhou Huai, a half-step transcendent being, cannot detect.
"The value of this World Tree is probably even greater than I estimated."
Zhou Huai silently opened the clone panel.
Currently, Rahil's level is still at level 1.
As is customary, as soon as he draws an SSS-level clone, Zhou Huai will definitely spend a huge amount of merit points to directly level it up to the maximum level and unlock all its skills.
But this time, Zhou Huai suppressed his urge to upgrade.
He wasn't in a hurry.
Although there are currently tens of billions of merit points.
We still need to use it sparingly.
The reason is simple: the cost of leveling up by making one's words law is terrifying.
The state of the Saint's Realm has now ended.
This skill has a cooldown period of 24 hours.
In other words, if he wants to ignore the level cap again and forcibly maximize the combat power of his clone, he has to wait 24 hours.
If you force its use during the cooldown period, or try to artificially inflate your level or forcibly modify higher-dimensional laws by relying solely on merit points without the blessing of a Saint's Domain...
The amount of merit points consumed would be astronomical.
A billion merit points may sound like a lot, but in front of someone as detached as Mr. Duan, it might not even last a single glance.
Good steel should be used where it's most needed.
Zhou Huai closed the panel and regained his composure.
Before he had a clear understanding of the specifics of the Free Federation and had pinpointed his mother's exact location, he must not reveal his hand too easily.
Before we knew it.
The massive body of the Abyss Dragon, Little Black, has already crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
The violent sea wind gradually subsided.
Instead, a completely different sense of landiness has emerged.
Zhou Huai stood on the dragon's back, looking down.
At the edge of the horizon, a new continent appeared.
Steel building ruins, a massive rift valley, and neon lights faintly visible amidst the ruins.
This is the continent where the Free Federation is located.
It is also the region in the world today where technology and supernatural powers are most closely intertwined.
Zhou Huai did not rush to land Xiao Hei.
He closed his eyes, his consciousness connecting to the insect hive network in his mind.
"Drip—drip—drip—"
On the holographic star map, several red dots are flashing.
Those were the alien parasites he had previously planted inside the bodies of the ancient remnants of the race.
Zhou Huai carefully sensed the distance.
It's less than two thousand kilometers away.
For an abyssal dragon of Little Black's caliber, a distance of two thousand kilometers could be covered in less than half an hour at full speed.
However, Zhou Huai suddenly pulled on the invisible reins.
"Stop."
roar--
Little Black let out a deep dragon roar, spread its fleshy wings in the air, forcibly stopped its forward momentum, and hovered in the clouds.
Zhou Huai decided not to continue riding Xiao Hei.
This is the Free Federation.
It is Mr. Duan's carefully cultivated base camp, and also the lair of "Dawn".
Even with the complex situation, and even with the intelligence from Anubis that the eighth ruins had opened in the far north, Mr. Duan's attention was likely already drawn to it.
But Zhou Huai still dared not be careless.
Now, to brazenly ride a quasi-god-level abyssal dragon across the Free Federation would be tantamount to courting death under Mr. Duan's nose.
Its enormous size and undisguised dragon might made it an obvious target.
Even if Mr. Duan isn't here right now, as long as the spies and high-dimensional detection instruments left in the hideout detect Xiao Hei's whereabouts...
Zhou Huai's infiltration plan will fall through.
If we alert the enemy, the higher-ups of the Free Federation will be on guard and may even shift their target ahead of time.
His hope of rescuing his mother was completely shattered.
"Now, this may be my only chance to save my mother."
Zhou Huai's gaze darkened slightly.
The eighth ruin is about to open, and the "Throne of Despair," the abyss prison in the far north, has become the biggest eye of the storm in the world.
All eyes and top combat forces are converging on that direction.
No one could have predicted that Zhou Huai would choose to return to Mr. Duan's lair alone at this critical juncture instead of heading to the far north.
This is what happens when you're in the dark!
This is the perfect time to infiltrate!
"Little Black, find a place to hide first."
Zhou Huai patted the dragon scales and issued commands through the mental connection.
"Conceal your presence and dive into the deep sea or underground rifts. Do not show your face without my summons."
Xiao Hei let out a dragon's roar, but it was absolutely obedient to Zhou Huai's orders.
It nodded its enormous head, then folded its wings, and its massive body silently plunged into the deep ocean trench below.
And just as Xiao Hei was falling...
Zhou Huai leaped directly off the dragon's back!