Lin Xiao circled around the sky-reaching wind pillar, descending thousands of kiloters, and after traversing forty to fifty floating islands, he finally discovered traces of humans on a large floating island spanning over a thousand square kiloters.
However, these were simply indigenous humans. There were several hundred thousand humans on the floating island, developing a fairly impressive civilization, and had already begun to master the power of magic, with huge floating airships traveling between the different islands.
Centered around this large floating island, within a radius of a thousand kiloters, twenty of the nearly one hundred floating islands showed traces of indigenous human activity, similar to colonization. In total, they made up about two million humans - the most populous of the many races Lin Xiao had seen on the hundreds of floating islands.
Whenever there are different races, there will naturally be wars over living territory, and although the various races were small in numbers, their battles were still earnest. Humans, relying on floating airships to travel and attack between islands, were considered one of the dominant forces among the myriad islands.
Lin Xiao watched with great interest for a long ti, as the humans living on these islands had not discovered his presence.
Although there was a very powerful being hidden within the storm pillar, there were no powerful creatures on the surrounding islands, and no True God-level being was seen.
This did not an there were no strong beings in this space; the ti flow in this space was so stable, it would definitely attract many outsiders lost in the Chaos Territory to settle here.
The prerequisite was that they could find this world alive.
After leaving a mark on one of the floating lands near the storm pillar, Lin Xiao left this area and flew away from the storm pillar, wanting to see the situation of the other sky-reaching storm pillars in this world.
However, as he moved away from this storm pillar and its surrounding floating lands, he discovered that the farther from the storm pillar, the more chaotic the void ti beca, gradually transitioning to the chaotic ti state of other worlds outside this one.
Clearly, stability was limited to the region around the sky-reaching storm pillar. The farther from the pillar, the weaker the light wave effect, until it was gone.
No wonder the races on these floating islands were only active within a radius of about a thousand kiloters around the storm pillar and did not venture beyond this range.
With the lifespan of mortals spanning just a few decades, once they left this stable area, if the ti flow varied too greatly, they could age and die in minutes.
Of course, this had no effect on Lin Xiao who, ignoring the impact, dived headfirst into the void and soon disappeared without a trace.
There were also so floating lands in the sky-reaching storm pillar that floated in the void, but without the unknown power of the storm pillar, the ti flow here was as chaotic as in other worlds. The creatures living here went through life cycles incredibly quickly, maturing in an extrely short ti from birth.
Lin Xiao road through this place of no heaven above and no earth below, occasionally seeing floating islands in the void and sotis spotting flying creatures wandering through the void across the islands.
After an indeterminate ti, having traversed perhaps a distance of millions of kiloters - which would have encompassed even the largest of planes - he still had not encountered a second sky-reaching storm pillar. If it weren’t for the faint sightings of other storm pillars piercing the heavens at the Vault of Heaven, he might have thought this world contained only one.
One day, he saw a sizeable floating island from afar. Before getting closer, he noticed several huge shadows in the wind belts at the island’s edges, approaching from afar.
At first, he thought they were so large monsters entering the island, but as he drew closer, he saw they were four huge airships over a hundred ters in length, fitted with cannons, firing shells towards the floating island from a distance.
Soon, the island also launched a counter-attack, but it was only with crossbow arrows. Although powerful, many arrows missed the mark and those that hit the large, tallic airships were mostly deflected. Even direct hits did not necessarily penetrate.
The airships quickly crushed the defenses at the edge of the island and burst through the wind layer into the interior.
Viewing this with interest, Lin Xiao followed and saw that the four large airships had entered the periphery of the island. There was a vast open space which appeared to be a town acting as a port. It had already been bombarded and breached by the cannons. Nurous fully-ard soldiers, resembling octopus n, directly jumped from the nearly touching airships into the town and began fighting with the similarly octopus-like beings inside.
At the sa ti, a striking castle was located in the interior of this floating island spanning twenty to thirty square kiloters, surrounded by many cultivated fields and farms. The floating island was like an independent kingdom, and now around three hundred octopus n were reinforcing towards the port.
The octopus n at the port were clearly no match for the invaders, with a noticeable gap in weaponry and average combat power. Especially when the invaders seed to sense the approaching enemy reinforcents, the largest airship in the center lowered a gondola, and a group that was clearly leaders among the octopus n were let down. Among them, a tall octopus man raised a longsword with one of his tentacles, and an invisible wave spread out like lightning.
Feeling the influence, the invading octopus n seed to beco frenzied, and their combat power soared, overwhelming the already struggling defenders.
"Nightmare?"
Lin Xiao wasn’t particularly concerned with the outco of the conflict between the other races, and stopped mainly out of curiosity, as it had been a long ti since he had seen such a low-level battle.
However, he did not expect to find a surprise during this pause. When the octopus man leader used his skill, Lin Xiao sensed the aura of the Children of the Nightmare Divine Realm.
Indeed, the octopus man leader was not a Child of Nightmare, but the power it was wielding ca from the Children of Nightmare.
Upon detecting the presence of a Child of Nightmare, Lin Xiao was instantly intrigued.
The invaders swiftly defeated the port’s defenders and faced the Octopus n in battle outside the city. In this massive battle involving over five hundred people, the leader of the invaders used his skills several tis to change the tide of the battle. Lin Xiao paid close attention and confird that the power emanating during the skill deploynt indeed ca from a Child of Nightmare.
That is to say, there must be a Child of Nightmare behind this Octopus man, bestowing power upon him.
Then, Lin Xiao took action; a streak of white light descended from the sky into the crowd, and the Octopus man leader vanished.
With the leader suddenly gone, the invaders’ formation was thrown into disarray, their morale plumted, and they were routed by a round of attacks from the defenders and scattered in escape.
Lin Xiao ignored these changes; he now sat cross-legged in the void, a hundred kiloters away from the floating island inhabited by Octopus people. The Octopus man lay unconscious in front of him.
This race might be called Octopus people, but in reality, they are not evolved from actual octopuses. They appear to be so sort of humanoid species, with limbs that are not arms but four muscular tentacles and hair composed of many small fleshy tendrils, giving them an octopus-like appearance.
These muscular limbs don’t have skeletons, only pure flesh, and are as flexible as octopus tentacles.
Lin Xiao had no intention of waiting for the creature to awaken to question it. Instead, he lightly touched the forehead of the Octopus man, and after a few seconds, a look of surprise crossed his face as he muttered to himself:
"Could it really be such a coincidence?"
Directly reading the soul mories of this Octopus man, he accessed all mories from its birth to now in one go and found the source of its Nightmare Power.
The result was both surprising and expected.
The one who had granted power to this Octopus man was indeed a Son of the Nightmare Divine Realm, but the origin of this power surprised him. Or more accurately, the origin of this Octopus man was surprising, because both the invading Octopus n and those they attacked were actually derived from a very powerful Son of Nightmare Divine Realm creature.
In plain terms, these Octopus people were a species derived from a Divine Realm creature of a Son of Nightmare Divine Realm; they are not natives of this world.
However, having been in this world for a very long ti, and having propagated through countless generations, they are virtually indistinguishable from the indigenous population.
Although this Octopus man leader is also one of the Octopus people, he is different from his kin; he bears the mark of another Child of Nightmare and has the ability to harness the power of a Child of Nightmare, which are the skills he had just deployed. And such natives in this world have a unique na—Heroes!
"What a familiar na!"
Lin Xiao stood up and looked into the distance. From the mories of this Octopus man Hero, he learned that the vast area ahead was the territory of the Nightmare Empire, where countless Nightmare Lords ruled over different regions, each centered around a Sky-reaching Storm Pillar, and were constantly waging war to gain control over these pillars against rulers of other empires.
Although the status of this Octopus man Hero did not grant him knowledge of the other empires’ main constituents, his lord was rely an ordinary Child of Nightmare, not yet qualified to participate in the grand battles with other empires. Lin Xiao could guess that they were likely empires established by Descenders from other Divine Realm civilizations.
aning, within this unimaginably vast space, it was quite possible to encounter other Sons of the Human Divine Realm who had inadvertently beco lost in the Chaos Territory.
Although it’s rare for Children of Divine Realm to enter the dangerous Chaos Territory, and most who do enter can’t survive the dangers of nurous worlds to find this one, there will always be so who, due to various accidents and good fortune, make it eventually.
With a single finger, Lin Xiao killed this Octopus man and reached towards the floating island over a hundred kiloters away.
The space above the floating island suddenly distorted; the large island was compressed and deford by an invisible force and, with a ’bang’, broke apart into several large pieces, squeezing towards the center.
The Octopus people on the island had no ti to react before dying in this destructive natural disaster, along with the collapsing island turning to mush and rging into a giant stone sphere.
At the exact mont he destroyed the floating island, deep within the Nightmare Empire, a will suddenly awoke within a Sky-reaching Storm Pillar, a faint thread of black light flashed out from within the pillar, shooting towards a particular direction.
By then, the stone sphere ford from the floating island had already been completely engulfed by distortion and quickly disappeared.
Lin Xiao exhaled; a streak of brilliance flew out in front of him, transforming into a Jade Brand made of flowing light. A ssage appeared in his mind out of nowhere:
"Divine Realm Fragnt: Fallen Child of Nightmare Divine Realm Fragnt. Collect ten Divine Realm Fragnts to form a complete Seed of Divine Realm!"
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