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As he sensed the massive number of Rule Bending Powers and sequence powers rushing into his body, Lin Huang felt utterly satisfied, but also slightly puzzled at the same time.
The number of Rule Bending Powers that he had plundered from this Ascetic Buddhist Disaster exceeded that of any Heavenly Gods he had ever killed. There were over seven hundred thousand types of Rule Bending Powers, which was at least ten times more than what he had obtained from other Heavenly Gods. There were even over eighteen god sequence chains.
This caused Lin Huang to speculate involuntarily, ‘Is this a unique trait of the Ascetic Buddhist Tribe, or a characteristic of a Greed that plunders Rule Bending Powers and sequence powers?’
As he contemplated this question, Tu Tong and Lan Ling were looking at him, their expressions utterly shocked.
They knew that Lin Huang had powerful abilities, but they had never expected that he would be this powerful.
With just one sword strike, he had killed the powerhouse that Saber9 and Virtuoso could only contend with after they had joined forces. Although the attack was a stealth attack instead of an upfront assault, it was enough to demonstrate Lin Huang’s ability.
The intensity of Saber9’s gaze also increased as he looked at Lin Huang. He already knew that Lin Huang was a sword cultivator, but so far, he had never seen Lin Huang using his sword. This was the first time he had seen it, and it stunned him.
Even Saber9 himself did not have full confidence to pull off the attack that killed the Ascetic Buddhist Disaster earlier.
The more this was the case, however, the more he felt that Lin Huang was an opponent worthy of being challenged.
In the team, Virtuoso seemed to be the only one who was not surprised. They merely glanced at Lin Huang, then turned their eyes away.
“Let’s go. There’ll be more Ascetic Buddhist Disasters coming if we linger.” After he had extracted all the Rule Bending Powers and sequence powers in the Ascetic Buddhist Disaster’s body, Lin Huang turned around immediately and headed toward their next destination.
He was much more enthusiastic in the subsequent hunt for Greeds after obtaining so many Rule Bending Powers and sequence powers from the Ascetic Buddhist Disaster.
He did not even conceal his probing technique at all and began to lead. The route they took was mostly through the areas distributed with intermediate-level Greeds.
Noticing that Lin Huang had begun to fight more frequently, Virtuoso and the rest merely thought he wanted to end the battles sooner. They had no idea that he was testing out the number of Rule Bending Powers and sequence powers that he could obtain from various Greeds.
After more than ten rounds of testing, he basically confirmed that the more powerful the ability of a Greed, the more Rule Bending Powers and sequence powers it could plunder from others.
In particular, Greeds that had mastered power essence had an incredible number of Rule Bending Powers within their bodies.
Lin Huang even managed to plunder close to 200,000 types of Rule Bending Powers from a fourth-rank Greed.
However, they had already stayed in the Greeds’ gathering grounds for a full day, and Lin Huang did not feel right about continuing to lead everyone to wander around this area. After confirming his speculations, he did not linger there for very long. Instead, he led the rest to the next area—the Gluttons’ gathering grounds.
These monsters called Gluttons were contaminated by Abyssal energy and gluttony.
Such monsters remained forever in a state of hunger. They were eager to eat every second of their lives.
Only food could bring them joy.
Furthermore, the frightening thing about these monsters was that they did not even need to think or cultivate—they could grow more powerful just by eating continuously.
They were able to obtain nutrients from every food they ate so they could gain energy.
In reality, Gluttons were not the only ones in the Greeds’ territory. There were Arrogances as well.
However, Lin Huang chose to go to the area with Gluttons.
He did this because he thought that some Gluttons might possess the ability to plunder the Rule Bending Powers and god sequence chains from their preys’ bodies, just like some Greeds could.
He even speculated that the Rule Bending Powers and sequence powers within Gluttons might be more plentiful than in any of the other Disasters.
Therefore, he decided to verify his speculations.
After entering the Gluttons’ territory, the first Glutton Lin Huang and the rest encountered was a giant ball of flesh.
The ball of flesh was approximately over three meters in diameter, hovering in mid-air. Mouths of various sizes grew all over its body as well as tentacles of varied sizes and lengths.
Each tentacle appeared to have a unique sensory organ—from far off, they had already sensed the presence of Lin Huang and the others.
Countless tentacles extended swiftly and swept toward Lin Huang and the rest like long whips.
The creature was so greedy that it wanted to capture all of them at once and swallow them up together.
However, what greeted it were red electric arcs that were up to a hundred times faster than its own tentacles.
Without waiting for the rest to react, Lin Huang attacked first.
His reason for taking the initiative was simple—he merely wanted to verify if his speculations were correct.
This fourth-rank Glutton was rather unfortunate. It had barely extended its tentacles before Lin Huang’s telekinetic flying daggers turned them into sieves full of holes.
One exchange of blows, and it was all over.
It had made only made an appearance for less than half a second.
Noticing that Lin Huang had grabbed the opportunity to attack, Virtuoso and the rest felt even more that he wanted to leave this Disaster Abyss Land as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, Lin Huang rapidly sensed the Rule Bending Powers and sequence powers surging into his body after killing the Glutton.
Just as he had anticipated, the number of Rule Bending Powers he obtained from this Glutton was more than several times that of an ordinary fourth-rank Heavenly God.
However, one Glutton was not proof of the entire matter. This Glutton might be a special case.
To verify his speculations, he needed more Gluttons as reference.
“Let’s go. What are you standing there for?” Lin Huang did not even look at the Glutton, which had not yet fully turned into a negative emotion. He immediately bestirred himself and headed swiftly to the location of the second target.
Virtuoso and the rest glanced at the dead Glutton, only following Lin Huang after making sure that it was not going to revive.
In the few subsequent hunts, Lin Huang very quickly verified his speculations.
Practically all Gluttons had more Rule Bending Powers and sequence powers than other monsters of the same combat strength. However, most of these Gluttons existed in a state of muddled ignorance.
Eating was the only thing on their minds, and their use of sequence powers was by instinct. Even if they harbored powers stronger than the other Disasters, they could only showcase a fraction of their abilities.
However, this made it easy for Lin Huang—the efficiency of his Rule Bending Power plundering increased more than a few times.
Virtuoso and the rest were quietly pleased as they watched him killing monsters so enthusiastically.
They followed him the entire way and watched him shine.
Meanwhile, Lin Huang killed swiftly everywhere he went. Sometimes he did not even stop walking, disposing of his opponents in a second by using telekinetic flying daggers from a distance.
Virtuoso and the rest soon realized that Lin Huang was killing Gluttons intentionally. This was because the number of Gluttons they had encountered today was several times more than the number of Disasters they had encountered in other areas.
Within the short space of a day, Lin Huang had killed more than two hundred Gluttons.
Each monster provided him with over one hundred thousand Rule Bending Powers at the very least and seven to eight hundred thousand Rule Bending Power at most.
The number of Rule Bending Powers that the two hundred over Gluttons provided allowed him to elevate from seventh-rank to eighth-rank successfully.
If it were not for Virtuoso and the rest following along with him, he would very probably have hunted in this area until he broke through to ninth-rank.
However, considering that he came with the team, he could only abandon the thought. After completing a full day’s hunting, only then did he leave the Gluttons’ territory, feeling unsatisfied…