"Hm?" Ender was a little puzzled. "What's wrong with King Farlight? He seems very angry. Did I provoke him?"
What he didn't know was that King Farlight's anger wasn't just because his servant, Mantis, had fallen, causing him to lose tens of thousands of Mixed units.
The main reason was that with his Breakthrough to an Immortal, he completely lost the chance to kill him and missed out on obtaining a large amount of military merit to upgrade his Mechanical Puppet army.
"Bastard!"
Inside the pyramid spaceship's control room, King Farlight gritted his teeth. "Cloud Vine Lord, it's one thing for you to become an Immortal, but you even dare to appear before me. You really don't put me in your eyes at all!"
"Even if you become a King-level Immortal, I can't do anything to you, but I still won't let you have an easy time!"
"King Melting Rule's reputation was greatly damaged because of you. He will definitely want to kill you to salvage his reputation. As long as I inform King Melting Rule of your news, hehe…"
King Farlight sneered as he ordered his Mechanical Puppet army to dispatch ten thousand Mechanical Puppets to hold Ender, while his consciousness entered the Yulan World to contact King Melting Rule.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!!
Among the hundreds of thousands of Mechanical Puppets, ten thousand F-class Mechanical Puppets separated and charged towards Ender.
...
Yulan World.
In a room adorned with dazzling gems, King Farlight and King Melting Rule sat opposite each other.
"King Melting Rule, I've found traces of the Cloud Vine Lord, but he has now become a King-level Immortal," King Farlight said directly.
"Where is he?" King Melting Rule hurriedly asked.
Due to the message Marquis Lang Yi sent before his death, King Melting Rule had taken some measures to salvage his reputation, but his reputation had still significantly decreased.
Now that he had received news of the Cloud Vine Lord, he saw an Opportunity to salvage or even enhance his reputation.
All he had to do was kill the Cloud Vine Lord and then release the killing video!
"He's still in the central area of the Endless Island Secret Realm," King Farlight replied.
"Send me his coordinates. As long as your request isn't too excessive, I can satisfy you," King Melting Rule said in a deep voice.
"Ten percent of the kill reward!" King Farlight put forward his condition. "I'll help hold him off and try not to let him leave before you arrive."
"Good!" King Melting Rule agreed directly, then stood up and said, "I'll contact King Eternal Night now and ask him for help."
Swish!
Seeing King Melting Rule agree to his terms, King Farlight sent out his coordinates, then most of his consciousness left the Yulan World.
...
Original Universe, Endless Island Secret Realm Battlefield.
Boom! Boom! Boom!!
In the Void, dozens of golden vines, each over ten kilometers in diameter, swung, sending Mechanical Puppets flying or damaging their internal precision parts.
King Farlight, inside the pyramid spaceship's control room, coldly watched the battlefield through a virtual external scene simulation.
Seeing that ten thousand Mechanical Puppets had been deployed to the battlefield, and more than half were lost in just over ten seconds, he ordered another thirty thousand Mechanical Puppets to join the fray.
At this moment, he no longer had that petty demeanor, because as long as he could stall for time for King Melting Rule and King Eternal Night, he would surely receive a huge return.
According to the Mechanical Race faction's bounty, killing the Cloud Vine Lord after he became an Immortal would yield a massive reward equivalent to killing a Limit stage King-Level.
That was a staggering 200 billion Yulan Units!
Even if King Farlight only received ten percent, that would still be 20 billion Yulan Units, which was even higher than the reward for killing a Pinnacle Stage King-Level Immortal!
This was also why he dared to go all out and have his Mechanical Puppet army implement a piecemeal tactic.
"Cloud Vine Lord!"
King Farlight's gaze was cold. "Even if you become a King-level Immortal, facing a Pinnacle Stage King-Level and a High Stage King-Level who can temporarily rival a Pinnacle Stage King-Level, you will still fall here!"
...
In the Void battlefield.
Dozens of golden vines, each over ten kilometers in diameter, swung and struck, continuously sending Mechanical Puppets flying. Many Mechanical Puppets lost their mobility due to damaged internal precision parts.
Ender saw another thirty thousand Mechanical Puppets charging at him and felt a bit strange. "Why doesn't King Farlight send the remaining hundreds of thousands of Mechanical Puppets into the battlefield all at once?"
Recalling that the data showed King Farlight to be a relatively poor Low Stage King-level Immortal, he secretly speculated, "Is he planning to decide whether to continue fighting after I reveal my strength?"
Ender knew that a King-level Immortal would not attack another King-level Immortal without a certain degree of confidence, because it would purely be a waste of time.
And for an Mechanical Race Immortal, taking action often meant losing a lot of money, simply because combat would inevitably involve the Mechanical Puppet army, and once deployed, it meant energy consumption and wear and tear on the Mechanical Puppets.
Therefore, King-level Immortals would be more restrained and would not engage in battle with opponents of similar strength, unless the benefits were so great that they had no choice but to act.
"With my current strength, killing a King-level Immortal is impossible. It's better to display some strength and let King Farlight retreat on his own."
Ender thought to himself, "My goal is to make a name for myself, so I don't get targeted by some Pinnacle Stage King-Level Immortals all the time."
Whoosh!
Having made up his mind, Ender stepped on the Shadow Shuttle, transforming into a dark green stream of light that shot out.
Hiss!
The Void Spear in his hand danced, and the silver-white spear tip cut through the Void, creating a long, smooth spatial crack.
Some spatial fragments were drawn by the silver-white spear tip, flowing out from the spatial interlayer through the slender spatial crack, forming a stream of spatial fragments.
Whoosh!
The dark green stream of light flew at extreme speed, leaving behind a constantly repairing spatial crack and a continuously growing river of spatial fragments.
Ender charged into the densest area of Mechanical Puppets, ignoring the energy attacks. He swept his Void Spear, and the spear, carrying the terrifying power of the spatial fragment torrent, struck thousands of Mechanical Puppets.
Boom!
With a single strike, dozens of Mechanical Puppets directly facing the spear suffered a powerful blow. Although their external F-class alloy shells were not completely shattered, most of the Mechanical Puppets' internal precision parts were damaged, and a few Mechanical Puppets' energy cores were attacked, causing explosions.
Boom! Boom! Boom!!
Several Mechanical Puppets' internal energy cores exploded, instantly tearing open their F-class alloy shells and sending internal precision parts flying everywhere under the explosion's shockwave.
In addition to the dozens of Mechanical Puppets directly facing the spear's power, hundreds of other Mechanical Puppets were also slightly affected. Some nearby Mechanical Puppets had minor damage to their internal precision parts, and even those further away experienced shock impact internally.
"One strike, and I've lost dozens of Mechanical Puppets equivalent to F6-class alloy."
After witnessing the power of Ender's attack, King Farlight, inside the pyramid's control room, felt a slight relaxation in his heart. "This Cloud Vine Lord should have High Stage King-Level strength. With the strength of King Melting Rule and King Eternal Night, killing him shouldn't be too difficult."
"Only twenty seconds have passed. Based on the speed at which King Melting Rule and King Eternal Night are arriving, they are expected to arrive in another thirty seconds."
King Farlight calculated, "At his speed of destroying the Mechanical Puppet army, I'll need to deploy another thirty to fifty thousand Mechanical Puppets to stall until King Melting Rule and King Eternal Night arrive."
Whoosh!
Fifty thousand Mechanical Puppets were dispatched, separating from the hundreds of thousands of Mechanical Puppet army, and accelerating towards Ender's location.
"Again?"
Ender swung Void Spear, continuously attacking, destroying thousands of Mechanical Puppets in a few seconds. In the blink of an eye, he saw tens of thousands more Mechanical Puppets charging at him.
"What's wrong with King Farlight? Seeing that these Mechanical Puppet armies are useless, he keeps sending them up for me to destroy. Is he just too rich?"
He was first a little puzzled, then he sensed something was wrong. "Wait... he's stalling for time!"
Recalling King Farlight's actions, and the differences from a normal Mechanical Race King-level Immortal, Ender immediately understood the other party's intention.
"Heh heh, he's found a helper..."
Ender swung the long spear in his hand, destroying dozens of Mechanical Puppets. He felt a little anticipation in his heart. "Those who can arrive quickly in a short period are nothing but Pinnacle stage King-Level Immortals who have comprehended Space Teleportation."
Given King Farlight's identity as a Low Stage King-level Immortal, the probability of him inviting a Pinnacle Stage King-Level Immortal was over ninety-nine percent.
"Pinnacle Stage King-Level Immortal, I really look forward to fighting him..."
Sensing King Farlight's intention, Ender not only did not leave, but instead, he was filled with anticipation for the arrival of the Pinnacle stage King-Level Immortal.
...
Distant Void.
An F-class biological Universe spaceship was sailing.
Inside the spaceship's control room.
A centipede with metallic luster was observing the light screen projected by the detector.
"Hmm? In the direction of 3 o'clock, 900 million kilometers away, there are intense energy fluctuations."
Seeing the detector alert, the metal centipede was a little curious. "Is there a Marquis-level Immortal from a hostile faction fighting? Perhaps I can go check it out, maybe there'll be an unexpected Opportunity..."
Saying that, the metal centipede manipulated the spaceship to accelerate towards the direction of the energy fluctuations, until its speed increased to nearly light speed.
When he had traveled 300 million kilometers, he saw the hundreds of massive golden vines, each millions of kilometers long, through a virtual external scene simulation.
"Is that the Immortal Cloud Vine with 108 main vines?"
The metal centipede was first puzzled, then pleasantly surprised, "This direction and distance, if I remember correctly, the Cloud Vine Lord appeared two days ago, so this Immortal Cloud Vine is most likely..."
Without much thought, the metal centipede connected to the Demon race faction's Endless Island Secret Realm communication channel and found the pinned contact method for the Cloud Vine Lord bounty.
"Respected King Mistflare, I am Marquis Yiren of the Thousand-Legged Tick Centipede Clan. I have found traces suspected to be of the Cloud Vine Lord. The coordinates are..."
The metal centipede discovered the Immortal Cloud Vine and sent out its own coordinates along with it.
"I'm on my way. If it truly is the Cloud Vine Lord, I will transfer the bounty reward to you."
Seeing King Mistflare's reply, the metal centipede chuckled, "If this time I truly discover the Cloud Vine Lord, then I might be able to use this Opportunity to establish a connection with King Mistflare."
King Mistflare, a famous Pinnacle Stage King-Level Immortal of the royal Heavenly Wolf Race. As long as he could establish a connection with her, he would have the confidence to go to the Hongwu Secret Realm Battlefield.
The Hongwu Secret Realm, that was the most dangerous place in the First Battlefield, and also the most legendary Opportunity place.
Throughout the countless years since the First Battlefield was established, there have been many legends about people getting rich overnight in the Hongwu Secret Realm, or even obtaining a heaven-sent Opportunity to Break through to a Universe Venerable.
Of course, correspondingly, there was also a lot of bloodshed. Every time an Opportunity treasure appeared, it would inevitably be accompanied by the fall of many King-level Immortals, and even the number of fallen Limit stage King-Level was not small.
The metal centipede's heart was fervent. "Now that I barely have King-level Immortal strength, going to the Hongwu Secret Realm is a bit risky, but if I can invite King Mistflare at a crucial moment, then my survival probability in the Hongwu Secret Realm will greatly increase. If I obtain an Opportunity treasure, then I'll make a huge profit!"
Looking at the hundreds of golden vines in the virtual external scene simulation, the metal centipede softly muttered, "Cloud Vine, oh Cloud Vine, I hope your master truly is that Cloud Vine Lord..."
...
Void Battlefield.
Boom, boom, boom!
Hundreds of golden vines swung and struck, while also beginning to coil around, intending to entangle the Mechanical Puppets.
Whoosh!
Ender stepped on the Shadow Shuttle, dodging and flying amidst the encirclement of tens of thousands of Mechanical Puppets. He swung his spear at the Mechanical Puppets while trying to create a flying secret technique during the battle.
Because he was wearing the Frost Armor, the Mechanical Puppet's attacks posed no threat to him. He simply took this Opportunity to try and create a secret technique, waiting for the Pinnacle Stage King-Level Immortal to arrive.
He repeatedly used the Pinnacle Immortal secret technique "Eternal Sky" to attack, and repeatedly dodged by stepping on the Shadow Shuttle.
This allowed Ender to gain insights in this battle, but the direction of his insights was focused on the offensive secret technique "Eternal Sky"; there was no sign of a flying secret technique being created.
Buzz!
Suddenly, ripples appeared in space, followed by spatial fluctuations.
Two Immortals, emitting powerful pressure, appeared out of thin air. One was a giant snake, about a hundred meters long, whose body seemed to be cast from metal.
The other was an Mechanical Race member whose body seemed to be composed of countless metal parts, with a predominantly silver-gray color.
These two King-level Immortal powerhouses were the King-level Immortal powerhouses King Farlight had been waiting for: High Stage King-Level King-level Immortal Melting Rule and Pinnacle stage King-Level Immortal King Eternal Night!
"Haha, it seems this trip wasn't in vain."
King Eternal Night, like a metallic giant snake, teleported to this Void with King Melting Rule and saw Ender fighting amidst the Mechanical Puppet crowd.
"Wearing dark green battle armor, using a silver-white spear with black patterns as a weapon, and protected by 108 main vines of the Immortal Cloud Vine. It's the Cloud Vine Lord, no doubt!"
King Melting Rule's glowing electronic eyes stared intently at Ender, who was swinging his spear and fighting, his whole body seemingly exuding a sharp killing intent.
"That Cloud Vine Lord has become an Immortal, and he's even a King-level Immortal."
King Eternal Night felt the pressure and aura emanating from Ender and transmitted his voice with some emotion, "Judging from the intensity of the pressure emitted by his Immortal Body, he's at least High Stage King-Level."
"Even if he's High Stage King-Level, it doesn't matter. With you and me working together, killing him won't be difficult," King Melting Rule said coldly. "We can act now."
King Eternal Night reminded, "Alright, but according to our agreement, after killing this Cloud Vine Lord who has become a King-level Immortal, I will receive sixty percent of the military merit reward and spoils of war."
"Of course, I won't go back on my word," King Melting Rule emphasized in his transmission. "Compared to obtaining military merit rewards and spoils of war, what I care about more is how to salvage my reputation!"
"King Melting Rule, since you're so straightforward, then I'll make the first move."
King Eternal Night laughed heartily. As space rippled, his hundred-meter-long serpentine body vanished into the Void.