"I can hold fast to my own bottom line, I will never be controlled by anyone!"
"I can do this!"
Inoue Amano's gaze was incomparably firm.
At that moment, even the Demon Emperor felt a little stirred.
The pros and cons Inoue Amano had just analyzed, how could the Demon Emperor not know them himself?
The ten ferocious beasts he had resurrected couldn't kill Zhang Yue, who was under the protection of Dragon Nation's Tier 9 professionals, because their levels were too low.
But he didn't dare to resurrect high-level emperor-class bosses either, for fear that they might rebel against him.
As for the Demon Emperor himself, he couldn't kill the Necromancer, nor could he do anything about the Ghost Swordsman or the Frost King.
Thus, the situation had reached a deadlock.
If this stalemate could not be broken soon, once the Necromancer reached level 500, the Demon Emperor would have no way left to fight him.
Thinking of this, the Demon Emperor couldn't help turning to look at Inoue Amano and asked, "Are you truly willing to bear all the risks, even if it means being possessed or devoured?"
Inoue Amano clenched his fists, his sharp eyes brimming with intense hatred, "The Necromancer personally killed my only son, and he caused our Eastern Nation to become a laughingstock before the entire world."
"The only meaning left in my life is to kill the Necromancer!"
"I live for revenge!"
Hearing this, understanding the Demon Emperor's concerns, Inoue Amano went on, "I swear upon the glory of our Eastern Nation, once I obtain the power of an emperor-class boss, I shall pledge my undying loyalty to Your Majesty the Demon Emperor! No matter what happens, I will never betray you!"
The Demon Emperor was silent for a moment, then said, "Tomorrow night at midnight, come find me here."
"Also, I need a Resurrection God Stone. If you truly wish to cooperate with me, then show your sincerity, bring me that Resurrection God Stone!"
"This…", Inoue Amano knew full well how difficult it was to obtain a Resurrection God Stone.
The Gate of Immortality was the only place in the Otherworld where one could get such a stone.
But the difficulty of clearing that dungeon made countless professionals give up in despair.
Except for the very top, just a handful of the world's most powerful, no one else could pass through the Gate of Immortality to get a Resurrection God Stone.
That included Inoue Amano himself.
If he could get one, he would have already used it to resurrect his dead son.
But just as he was about to refuse the Demon Emperor's condition, he realized the Demon Emperor had already vanished without a trace.
Only a voice lingered in the air, "I give you this one chance. Tomorrow night at midnight, if you don't have the Resurrection God Stone, our cooperation is over."
Inoue Amano lifted his head to the starry sky, clenching his fists, murmuring to himself, "Necromancer, I will kill you!"
"And I will get that Resurrection God Stone!"
With that, Inoue Amano exited the World 60.
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At the same time, elsewhere—
Zhang Yue was still going all out in his conquest of the Divine Tomb.
After clearing the previous floors, he had roughly grasped the nature of this secret realm, its greatest difficulty was its unpredictability.
Each level's clearing method was always something no one could have imagined.
As they say, never take the usual path.
To conquer the Divine Tomb, one couldn't follow conventional methods, but instead had to think in an eccentric, almost "two-dimensional" way, just like Ouyang Linger.
Truly, it was thanks to this genius, Ouyang Linger.
Using the precise guides she provided, Zhang Yue had already broken through six floors in succession.
Now, his progress had reached the seventh level of the Divine Tomb.
At this stage, the enemies Zhang Yue faced were at level 300, at the Immortal-class boss level.
ROAR!
A deafening dragon cry echoed through the heavens.
The Thirty-Six-Winged Armageddon Black Dragon, burning with searing flames, scorched the earth and blasted the final Emperor-class boss [Centipede Emperor] to death.
Its enormous body crashed down upon the city wall, shaking the ground as it let out a sky-shaking roar, radiating battle intent.
Meanwhile, Zhang Yue stood upon the battlefield outside the city.
Surveying the scene, all around, the ground was strewn with countless corpses of Emperor- and Immortal-class bosses, lying scattered everywhere.
This kind of battle, an epic war beyond imagination, made even those watching through their screens feel their scalps go numb.
["My god! Hundreds of Emperor- and Immortal-class bosses, and not a single weak monster among them! If I were in there, surviving even one second would be a miracle! I really can't fathom how the Guild Leader has managed to keep fighting till now!"]
["This is terrifying. I'd rather marry a rich beauty than set foot in a place like that!"]
At this moment, Ouyang Linger was running multiple analyses, preparing to send Zhang Yue instructions for the seventh-floor battlefield.
But suddenly, Zhang Yue spoke up, ["Wait, don't say anything yet."]
["Let me guess."]
He stepped across the enormous corpses of countless bosses and said, ["They all have one thing in common, a crystal embedded in their heads. If I'm not mistaken, these crystals must be the key to clearing the seventh floor."]
As soon as Zhang Yue finished speaking, Ouyang Linger's eyes lit up, ["Guild Leader, you've gotten smarter! You actually guessed it!"]
Just then, Liyue spoke from behind, ["The Guild Leader's always been smart, he just doesn't like using his brain."]
Zhang Yue summoned his Dead Legion. Thirty thousand Death Servants instantly spread across the entire area.
At his command, they climbed onto the bosses' corpses, pried the faintly glowing purple shards from their heads, and brought all the pieces to Zhang Yue.
Gathering them together, Zhang Yue found there were 285 shards in total.
And each shard was shaped differently.
On every shard, intricate patterns were engraved.
["This… a puzzle?"]
In front of the computer screen, Liyue stared at the video feed from Zhang Yue's perspective, startled, ["What kind of gameplay is this? A secret realm that makes you do puzzles? That's a first…"]
Ouyang Linger explained, ["That's the favorite painting of the former peak-era being who surpassed even the Lord God, Lord Xingtian. After his fall, he took the painting into the Divine Tomb and split it into hundreds of fragments, each guarded by one of these divine beasts."]
["Once the puzzle is completed, it should open the entrance to the next level."]
Even without her explanation, anyone could figure that out.
So Zhang Yue found an open spot and began piecing the puzzle together.
He wasn't particularly good at this kind of thing.
Fortunately, he had Cherry, nimble and clever, by his side.
"Master, leave it to me!"
Cherry knelt down and began assembling the pieces on the ground.
Before long, she had indeed pieced all 285 fragments together, forming a massive picture.
And when everyone saw the image depicted on the completed puzzle, they all fell silent.
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