Logan’s forehead was covered in a thin layer of sweat.
Decoding the runes on the Demigod’s bones was a huge burden on his soul. Even with the support of thirty Star Legend stages, he still felt sharp pain, but he didn’t stop.
After one hour, Logan’s eyes flashed with golden light as he whispered: "The 876th rune... cracked!"
In just one hour, he had mastered hundreds of rune rules.
Although it was still very little, it was a big leap forward. It was worth more than the half-year of hard training he had done with his spiritual body.
More importantly, he had gained a glimpse of a [Rule Fragnt] about the balance between life and destruction.
"If I keep going, maybe I really can light up the thirty-first star mark."Logan clenched his fist, but he held back his urge to push forward.
"Fine... I’ll first stabilize my stage."Logan focused his mind and started to activate his star marks.
Thirty-star marks shed together like gears, and the energy flowed back and forth, gradually reaching a perfect balance.
The surge in evolution value from absorbing Novan’s soul was now completely digested and absorbed.
His soul, body, and energy—all three weaknesses were now fixed.
Logan’s fighting power had increased by at least 50% compared to three days ago.
Although the number of stars hadn’t changed, his actual combat power was now almost as strong as a normal Saint stage first rank.
Just as he was about to end his cultivation session, the Supervisory Council principal watch on his wrist suddenly started to vibrate violently.
An encrypted communication forced its way in.
Logan frowned and activated the call. A familiar voice ca through the static: "Logan, can you hear ?"
"Can you please be polite next ti and call instead of just forcing to answer?" Logan replied in a deep voice.
"Does that even matter? I didn’t interrupt you while you were in cultivation."the voice replied casually through the static.
"Ugh, you pervert!" Logan rolled his eyes. "What’s up? Spill it."
"There’s a big problem in the north. Deep inside Lost World, sothing’s coming back to life." The voice on the line was broken, making Logan’s ears hurt.
"Be clear."Logan frowned and asked again.
"Monsters, all running away. The border monitoring station sent back data—energy fluctuations went way past the limit. We don’t know why, but the energy pattern is similar to those Shadow Energy things you just found."
Logan’s pupils shrank.
Shadow Energy, in the depths of the Lost World?
Had Shadow already reached into Lost World?
"Exact location?" Logan asked again.
"Saint Heart City... to the north..." The boss’s voice suddenly got weaker, and he spoke in broken words: "Threat level... very high... it’s ssing with the signal between and the Federation... suggest you... check it out... asap..."
"Zzz...."the communication cut off.
The watch screen showed "Signal Lost"—obviously, sothing was causing strong interference.
Logan stood up, his eyes cold.
"It seems Shadow has already started moving. No matter what she’s up to, we have to stop her." Logan pushed open the door of his cultivation room and stepped out quickly.
In the underground base, General Darwin, Natalia, Arthur, and others were discussing the next steps for defense. When they saw Logan, they all rushed over.
Darwin noticed Logan’s strange expression and asked urgently: "What happened?"
Logan didn’t waste ti. He directly repeated the information from Pinocchini’s broken voice.
After hearing it, everyone’s faces turned pale.
"Shadow Breath is wild..." Arthur clenched his fists. "Looks like Shadow has already started moving."
Darwin frowned. "According to what Logan said, Shadow must have used so thod to interfere with the electromagnetic field between Pinocchini and Saint Heart City. We need to send soone to check it out."
Logan nodded, agreeing with General Darwin’s plan. "General Darwin, you stay at Star Lake and keep reinforcing the defenses. Also, monitor the internal situation in the Federation."
"Natalia, Sophia, Lucia, and Judge Arthur—please go to the north of Saint Heart City for a reconnaissance mission."
"General Camilla and Mr. Corleone, you’re in charge of coordinating with the Senate and the Judgent Tribunal. Make sure the rear is stable."
"Yes!" Everyone answered in unison.
After watching them leave, Logan went back underground again.
With Novan’s mories, he knew just how dangerous Shadow was.
Thirty-six stars—this was way beyond what the current Logan could handle.
In Logan’s view, even a stupid god’s holy light body was only at thirty-two stars at most.
So, Logan had to rush. He needed to get stronger, fast.
Cultivation began again...
Deep in the underground space of Star Lake, Logan sat cross-legged in his familiar space core. Behind him, tthirty stars marks were as solid as stones, casting cold golden light.
He was going through the fragnts of Novan’s mories, trying to piece together the outline of the Shadow Beings’ infiltration network.
mories ca flooding in.
He saw a huge black web covering the underground of seven Federation cities.
Each node represented a Shadow Beings carrier, and the lines were the energy transmission channels.
At the center of the network, three red glowing points stood out clearly—areas where energy was gathering abnormally, sending out much stronger waves than the other nodes.
But just as he tried to dig deeper, the mory suddenly broke.
That was the part about the [Order Reorganization Protocol]. Shadow had spent thirty years trying to slowly infiltrate the Federation through Shadow Beings, turning humans into Shadow beings.
Novan’s dream—her desire to rge humans with the life forms of the Lost World—was also sothing Shadow had manipulated.
To achieve this, she had made Novan do countless experints. Many of the data and materials had not even been recovered by Shadow when Logan had already taken them first.
"Novan is dead. The only one who knows about these experint records is . That’s why Shadow is so angry."Logan said, his eyes flickering slightly.
Novan’s death not only ruined the plan to modify the human race’s genes, but also made Shadow lose its most important research results.
All the planning over thirty years was destroyed in an instant—nothing was gained.
At that mont, four cold and dark presences tore through the space barrier.
The gray-black Shadow Realm rushed in like a flood, freezing rocks into black ice crystals wherever it passed. The air temperature dropped by thirty degrees.
The domain’s gravity suddenly increased, and the air beca thick like glue.
Logan suddenly opened his eyes.
In his view, four figures stood in a four-direction formation, surrounding him in the center.
On the east side was the Blood Shadow—wearing a broken war armor, holding a bleeding bone blade, with dark red Inferno burning in its empty eyes.
On the west side was the Soul Shadow—its body was hazy like mist, with semi-transparent mind needles extending from its fingers.
On the south side was the Death Shadow—wrapped in green toxic mist, causing hissing holes to form on the ground.
On the north side was the Devour Shadow—its mouth opened wide, three ters in size, with a spinning black vortex deep inside.
Four Shadow Guards had arrived.
The Blood Shadow raised its bone blade, and the blade left black lines in the air as it cut through.
He spoke, his voice dry like bones rubbing together, delivering Shadow’s will: "Logan, you destroyed my thirty-year plan."
"Today, the four Shadow Guards are here. Either hand over the secret of the shadow core power you’ve consud, or I’ll dig it out of your corpse myself."
As the words fell, the Shadow Realm fully spread out.
Logan felt his familiar energy being suppressed by thirty percent, and his ntal Power moved like it was stuck in mud, slowing down a lot.
This was a suppression at the rule level—Shadow Realm had a natural advantage over the human energy system.
But Logan’s face remained calm.
He slowly stood up, and the thirty star marks behind him all lit up at once. His voice was cold as he said: "Four puppets with thirty stars—do they even deserve to threaten ?"
"Arrogant!" The Soul Shadow shouted.
Ten mind needles shot out silently, attacking Logan’s soul core from different dinsions.
Logan didn’t move or dodge.
Inside his soul core, a baby who had been sleeping suddenly opened its eyes and started laughing loudly.
Logan reached out with his hand, grabbed the Soul Shadow’s mind needles, and they shattered into countless light points instantly.
The strong counterforce made the Soul Shadow wobble, and he let out a grunt before stepping back.
"Is that all?" Logan laughed coldly.
Then, Logan clenched his right hand. The Sli Battle Style—Tenfold Space Fold activated.
Within a hundred ters, space was folded into countless protective layers. Silver light moved around, protecting Logan in the center.
"Co on, all of you!" The Death Shadow roared.
The green toxic mist ca like a living thing, and when it touched the space wall, it made a hissing sound.
The mist was extrely thick, lting rocks and twisting the air wherever it went.
But inside Logan’s body, the Yepera bone rune automatically started to flow.
Golden light ca out of his body, colliding directly with the toxic mist. The mist lted and disappeared quickly, like snow under the sun.
The Death Shadow’s face changed slightly, and he increased the concentration of the mist again.
The Devour Shadow opened its mouth as wide as it could.
The black vortex created a terrifying suction, wildly devouring the energy Logan had released, the stray shadow energy in the domain, and the fragnts of the space wall.
Logan lightly tapped his index finger: "Can you really swallow it all?"
"Soul-Hooking Chains!"
Twelve silver chains shot out from the void, instantly wrapping around the Devour Shadow.
The other end of the chains was nailed deep into space, forcing the vortex to stop.
The four Shadow Guards all changed expression.
The Blood Shadow sent a ssage through the mind link: "The information was wrong! His actual power is at least equivalent to a Saint-level first-stage peak!"
"Then we have to kill him!" The Soul Shadow roared: "Shadow Lord gave a death order—either bring back his soul, or we don’t go back at all!"
The four Shadow Guards burned their puppet cores at the sa ti.
The Blood Shadow’s bone blade grew to five ters long, and its edge gathered a bloody sharp glow.
The Soul Shadow split into twelve copies, each holding a mind needle.
The Death Shadow’s toxic mist doubled in concentration, with thick green liquid pouring down like a waterfall.
The Devour Shadow broke free of three space chains and opened its mouth again. In the center of the vortex, a twisted black rune appeared.
Logan’s eyes narrowed.
He sensed the four Shadow Guards’ power had increased by fifty percent, but their puppet cores were already cracking. This kind of burning wouldn’t last long.
"End this quickly."Logan thought.
His familiar space fully opened.
Lilith arrived, in her Hell Queen form. Three layers of mind illusion surged like a tsunami.
Kerparos stepped forward, its three wolf heads releasing a world-destroying elental storm.
Hydra raised its nine heads, creating an elental storm with nine types of stat attacks raining down like a storm.
Nabo turned into a mountain-like shadow, covering Logan’s head. Its turtle shell rune lit up, forming an absolute protection called the Blood Cultivation Realm, and it also gave every familiar a Turtle Armor.
At the sa ti, the Spirit Palace’s shadow appeared. A bone stepped out, holding a door-sized axe. The blade was wrapped in blood and fire patterns.
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