Pretending to be a genius starts with the civilization advancement assessment.

Chapter 342 Reunion with Elizabeth
The next day.

Deep within the white fog, in the center of the camp, Lin Yi and his men were already on high alert.

suddenly.

A powerful spatial fluctuation came without warning from the distant southeastern horizon.

"coming!"

Lin Yi, who was sitting cross-legged on the crystal at the highest point of the camp, suddenly opened his eyes. A ripple of time and space flashed in the depths of his silver-gray pupils.

Edith, Aoba, Radiance, and all the other members beside her also sensed it at the same time.

"Location locked, approximately 300,000 kilometers away," Edith said in a deep voice, her emerald eyes gleaming.

Since the secret realm began to expand after collapsing and shrinking 2,500 years ago, it has not differentiated into multiple layers of space; the entire secret realm consists only of this boundless layer of white mist.

Today, the white mist layer is extremely vast, encompassing everything from the weakest early-stage Star Swirl-level White Mist Beasts to the strongest peak-level Star Domain-level White Mist Beast Kings.

However, because there are no rules to suppress this place and soul perception is not restricted in any way, for the members of the "Star Origin Society" who have all stepped into the Law Realm, this white mist layer has long become a huge hunting ground for regularly harvesting resources.

Sensing the entrance to the secret realm, Lin Yi didn't delay any longer, stood up and said softly, "Let's go!"

Without any further orders, the more than 1,300 prodigies in the camp instantly transformed into streaks of light and soared into the sky. The power of the laws flowed naturally, and their auras merged into one. Although they did not deliberately unleash their power, they possessed a calm and imposing aura that could change the color of heaven and earth.

Lin Yi and Edith walked side by side in front, followed closely by more than thirty geniuses who had broken through to the Law Realm in terms of spatial rules.

Everyone raised their hands at the same time, and the fluctuations of spatial laws began to resonate and intertwine.

Immediately.

A huge silver-white spatial light membrane unfolded around Lin Yi, instantly enveloping all the team members behind him.

The next moment, the light membrane, along with everyone inside, merged into the space like mercury spilling onto the ground and disappeared.

Three hundred thousand kilometers away.

The thick white fog was forcibly pushed aside by an invisible force, revealing a clear void with a diameter of over ten thousand meters.

In the center of the void, a massive spatial passage with flowing rainbow light at its edges and a deep, rotating interior is slowly taking shape.

This is the entrance to a new round of countless secret realms!

The moment the passage was completely secured.

hum!
A flash of silver light appeared.

Lin Yi and the others had already appeared directly in front of the entrance to the passage, as if they had been waiting there for a long time.

More than 1,300 people stood in mid-air, their movements perfectly synchronized. Although they tried their best to conceal their aura of law, the skill and tacit understanding honed over thousands of years of blood and fire, as well as the invisible pressure brought by all of them being at the Law Realm, were enough to make any being who sensed them tremble with fear.

"Battle formation! Cover the entrance!" Lin Yi said coldly.

"Yes!"

All the prodigies acted simultaneously, shooting out beams of light of various colors of law with precision. These beams quickly intertwined and connected around the entrance passage, instantly transforming into a huge, semi-transparent spherical light shield flowing with multiple layers of law runes, firmly enveloping the entire entrance to the secret realm.

The light shield appears thin and light, but it actually contains multiple spatial folds, energy isolation, and even time delay effects, making it difficult to break through from both the outside and the inside.

The group of people were scattered and suspended above the key nodes of the light shield, like hunters waiting for their prey, coldly watching the deep passage.

"coming."

Lin Yi had the most acute sense of space and time, and was the first to detect the subtle spatial ripples coming from the depths of the passage.

That was not a natural fluctuation, but a disturbance caused by the teleportation of a large number of life forms.

The voice just fell.

Whoosh whoosh!

Inside the entrance passage to the secret realm, countless tiny specks of light suddenly spewed out.

These light spots were only the size of a grain of rice, and as soon as they left the passage, they scattered wildly in all directions.

However, what it encountered was a vast and intricately interwoven web of laws that had already been laid out.

"town!"

Lin Yi's eyes flashed with a silvery-gray light, and he raised his hand to press down.

The perfected level of time law descended silently, like invisible glue splashed out, instantly enveloping all the light spots that had just rushed out of the passage.

The flight of all the light points paused for a fleeting moment.

Although it lasted less than a fraction of a second, it was enough for a well-prepared hunter.

"Spatial confinement! Pull them back!"

Lin Yi's clone, along with the more than thirty spatial law prodigies, attacked simultaneously.

The immense power of space transformed into countless invisible hands, precisely grasping each point of light that was delayed by time, and pulling it backward with a sudden force.

shhhhhh!
The tens of thousands of scattered points of light, like a reversed galaxy, were forcibly pulled back into the light shield of the law without any resistance, and gathered into a dense storm of light points.

As the light spots fell into the light shield, they immediately began to rapidly enlarge and solidify, transforming into concrete figures.

Its carapace was menacing, its compound eyes were cold, and its limbs were sharp and densely packed, filling nearly half of the space inside the light shield.

It is the Eclipse Clan!
These Eclipse warriors, having just recovered from the slight dizziness of the teleportation, immediately let out excited hisses, their compound eyes scanning their surroundings.

But the screeching stopped abruptly.

Because they can "see" their surroundings clearly.

What secret realm is that inside?
It was clearly a massive cage of laws that emanated fluctuations that made their very souls tremble!

Outside the cage, those figures suspended in mid-air, looking down at them like gods, each emanating a fluctuation of law that filled them with suffocating fear.

"Enemy attack! Trap!"

"How could that be! We were the first to get in!"

"An illusion! It must be an illusion created by the rules of the secret realm! Break through it!"

Chaos erupted within the Erosion Warband.

Among them, several of the stronger members of the Eclipse Clan reacted the fastest. They simply couldn't believe the absurd scene before them and immediately concluded that it was caused by the strange rules of the secret realm.

They roared and unleashed their strongest domain power, indiscriminately blasting outwards in an attempt to "break the illusion"!
Boom boom boom!
The ferocious attack not only struck the law-based light shield, but also landed in the densely packed Eclipse Clan battle group surrounding it.

In an instant, severed limbs flew everywhere, and foul-smelling bodily fluids splattered. Thousands of Eclipse Clan warriors died on the spot under the illusion-breaking attack of their own prodigy, leaving the area within the light barrier a bloody mess.

At the very top of the light shield, Lin Yi coldly looked down at the chaotic and inflicted carnage of the Eclipse Clan below, his eyes showing no emotion whatsoever.

His soul power had already scanned these Corruptors like the most sophisticated scanner.

“Around 87,000, close to the size of a standard battle group, with three prodigies mixed in, one at the third level and two at the first level,” Lin Yi said to Edith beside him. “Moreover, over 40% of the Eclipse Clan members are wounded, with broken carapaces, damaged weapons, and unstable energy fluctuations, as if they had just been through a fierce battle and were hastily thrown in.”

Edith's emerald eyes flashed with a cold light. "It seems that something has indeed happened outside. This time, it was actually an Eclipse Clan battle group that came in, mixed with a few prodigies."

"Ah."

Lin Yi nodded slightly, his gaze falling on the Eclipse Clan prodigy who was still frantically attacking his own kind in an attempt to "break the illusion," a cold glint flashing in his eyes.

He raised his right hand and made a crisp, clean downward chopping motion towards the inside of the light shield.

All the light shield nodes instantly shone brightly.

The spherical light shield that had enveloped nearly 100,000 members of the Eclipse Clan instantly transformed into an invisible "law shredder".

All the Eclipse Clan members within it, whether ordinary warriors or the three crazed prodigies, didn't even have time to scream before they were completely decomposed and annihilated, turning into the most basic energy particles, which were absorbed by the light shield to replenish the energy consumed to maintain it.

In just one breath, the light shield was completely emptied.

Nearly 100,000 members of the Erosion Clan were wiped out.

Only one of the Eclipses, who was specially marked, was frozen into a lifelike "amber" statue by a wisp of Edith's time power, suspended in mid-air for interrogation.

The entire cleaning process was quiet and swift, carrying an eerie efficiency and indifference.

After doing all this, Lin Yi finally breathed a slight sigh of relief.

He looked at the slowly rotating entrance passage to the secret realm and said in a deep voice, "Judging from these Eclipse Clan members, the situation shouldn't be as bad as we discussed some time ago, otherwise the Eclipse Clan wouldn't have sent a group of wounded soldiers... Hmm, here we go again."

Before the words were finished, the entrance passage to the secret realm fluctuated violently again, and another large number of dense light spots gushed out.

"Same as always, intercept them!" Lin Yi said coldly.

The same process, time delay, spatial capture, and all the light points were pulled into the battle array light shield.

The light faded, revealing the figure.

This time, what appeared was not a pure Eclipse Clan, but a kind of insectoid with a dark red and deep purple carapace, a more slender shape, and translucent membranous wings on its back.

The Rainbow Clan is a powerful vassal race under the Eclipse Clan, known for its speed and stealth.

It was also a battle group of about 80,000 people, with a few Rainbow Clan prodigies mixed in.

Moreover, similar to the previous Eclipse Clan battle group, this Rainbow Clan team also clearly bore the marks of battle, with many warriors having damaged wings and weak auras.

"Clean them out completely, but leave one alive." Lin Yi didn't even bother to look closely and gave the order directly. This vassal race was of lower status than the direct descendants of the Eclipse Clan, and probably knew even less core intelligence. Leaving one representative survivor would be enough.

"Yes!"

The protective shield of laws glowed faintly once more, and the Rainbow Clan warband followed in the footsteps of the Devourer Clan, silently annihilating, leaving only a frozen Rainbow Clan officer behind.

Following that, the third, fourth, and fifth batches
These are the Abyss Clan Warband, the Rock Armor Clan Warband (a vassal race of the Abyss Clan), and another Eclipse Clan Warband.

Five consecutive batches, all from the enemy camp.

Moreover, they were all regular battle groups mixed with a few prodigies, but none of them were in good condition.

Lin Yi's brows furrowed deeper and deeper. "This can't go on."

He glanced at the few surviving enemy soldiers, his mind racing. "Perhaps we should have our team members skilled in illusionary laws target these survivors first, constructing targeted illusions to quickly extract information. Using a Law Realm expert to deal with these ordinary Star Core level beings who don't even have a Domain should be a piece of cake."

Just as he was preparing to issue new instructions.
The entrance passage to the secret realm experienced its sixth violent fluctuation.

"Get ready!" Lin Yi suppressed his distracting thoughts and focused his attention.

Light points surged forth, time lag occurred, and the spatial grasping process had become highly proficient.

However, when these points of light were pulled into the light shield and revealed their forms, the eyes of all the Star Origin Society members, including Lin Yi, lit up, and a look of joy unconsciously appeared on their faces.

This time, it is no longer the ferocious Zerg or the wild Orcs that appear.

Instead, they were figures with slender builds, pure auras, and mostly wearing standard spirit-patterned battle armor.

They are the Elven race!
Finally, we've met our own people!

Judging from the scale, there were approximately 70,000 people, many of whom were also injured.

Lin Yi nodded slightly to Edith.

She is the most suitable person to handle the situation with the Spirit Clan.

Edith understood, and with a swift movement, her clone passed through the law-protected barrier and entered the inner area.

Inside the protective shield, the Eldar team had just completed their teleportation.

One of the spirit race's female prodigies, clad in silver-blue spirit-patterned armor and possessing exquisite features, had just regained her footing when her powerful soul force swept across her surroundings, and her expression instantly changed.

Contrary to expectations of the eerie environment of the secret realm, what came into view was a huge light shield that enveloped her entire team and emitted a terrifying fluctuation of multiple laws!

Even more terrifying, at each of the key nodes of the light shield, there floated blurry yet unfathomable figures!

She had only ever sensed that level of law fluctuation in a few of the clan's elders at the Realm of Derivation who were in seclusion.

"A trap?! Impossible! That's the rule of the secret realm, an illusion?"

Qing Lana was horrified, but she reacted extremely quickly, almost instinctively unleashing her full power in her domain, while simultaneously shouting a warning to her teammates: "Careful! Form a defensive array! It might be an illusion!"

However, before she could even utter the word "illusion," the domain that had just left her body collapsed silently, as if it had hit an invisible wall, without even causing a ripple.

Not only that, she found herself suddenly unable to move.

It wasn't that she was bound, but rather that the flow of time around her seemed to be infinitely stretched, and every subtle movement she made, even the thought of mobilizing the source energy within her body, was delayed to the point of near stagnation.

The mind was still working, but the body was completely out of control; only a pair of horrified eyes could still move.

Immediately afterwards, she saw a blurry figure pass through the seemingly indestructible barrier of light without any hindrance, and land lightly in front of their Spirit Clan team.

It was a tall woman, also dressed in Elven-style armor.

Her face was stunningly beautiful, her emerald eyes were like deep pools, calm and undisturbed, and her body naturally exuded a powerful aura of law that made Qinglana's soul tremble.

However, the moment Qinglana saw the person's face clearly, her pupils suddenly contracted, and her mind went blank with a "boom".

That face... she knew it all too well!
Within the Eldar's archives, amidst the elders' sighs of regret, and in the painful memories of the last time the Myriad Secret Realms were "completely wiped out."
"Your Highness, Iettis?"

Qinglana's soul trembled; she could hardly believe her eyes.

Five thousand years ago, Edith was confirmed to have been lost in countless secret realms. She was the most dazzling pearl of the Spirit Clan's generation, a peerless genius of time, space, light, and darkness.
How could she still be alive?

And, how did it appear here?
In such an incredible way?
“I am Edith.”

The clear, cold voice rang out distinctly within the frozen space of time, reaching the ears of every immobilized Elven race member like a thunderclap.

Edith's clone hovered in front of the Eldar team, her emerald eyes calmly sweeping over the shocked faces, and continued, "Warriors of the Eldar, you must have already felt the real power of this battle formation. This is not a secret realm illusion."

She paused, allowing the impact of her words to fully develop.

"As you can see, I, and all the previous generation of Pan-Spirit Alliance prodigies who entered the secret realm," her gaze swept over the blurry but overwhelming figures outside the light barrier, "we did not perish. We survived in the secret realm and have cultivated to our current level."

Qinglana, along with the other spirits, almost thought they were hallucinating.

They're not dead? They're all alive?

He even cultivated to the Law Realm?
How can this be?

However, the irresistible battle formation of laws surrounding them, and Princess Edith's profound and abyssal fluctuations of laws, all proclaimed that this was an undeniable fact.

"Now, put away your territoriality and hostility, and do not try to resist."

Edith's tone was authoritative and left no room for argument: "I will lead you away from this battlefield. And then, you..."

Her gaze was fixed on Qinglana's face. "Tell me, what has happened in the outside world over the years? And what is the situation in the entrance area outside the secret realm right now?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Qinglana felt the light barrier beneath her feet tremble slightly, and a gap silently opened near the bottom of her group.

A gentle yet overwhelming force enveloped her, guiding her slowly toward the gap.

Qinglana took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the turmoil in her heart.

She did not resist, but obediently followed the force, leading the Spirit Race team members, who were also in a state of shock and confusion, towards the gap.

She knew that everything before her was beyond her comprehension and control, and that only by cooperating could she have a glimmer of hope and uncover this unbelievable truth.

At the top of the light shield, Lin Yi saw that the Spirit Clan team had been successfully lured out, so he stopped paying attention to that side and focused all his attention back on the deep, rotating entrance passage to the secret realm.

Edith will handle communication and intelligence gathering with the Eldar.

Almost the instant the Eldar team left the area of ​​the shield.

hum!
The entrance passage fluctuated violently again, and another wave of dense light burst forth.

After the light spot was intercepted, the figure appeared.

“The Holy Radiance Clan.” Lin Yi recognized them at a glance, feeling slightly relieved; at least another friendly force from the Pan-Spirit Alliance had arrived.

He immediately instructed Liu Yun via telepathy: "Liu Yun, go and make contact. Follow the same procedure as Edith and find out the external situation as soon as possible."

"Understood, Guild Master!" Liu Yun unfurled her wings of light and headed towards the Holy Radiance Clan battle group.

As soon as the arrangements were made, the entrance passage seemed to be fully activated, and with almost no pause, another wave of light appeared.

Even after the light spot was intercepted, it was still the Eldar.

Lin Yi raised an eyebrow, quickly calculating the batches and races in his mind.

"The Eclipse Clan, Rainbow Clan, Abyss Clan, Rock Armor Clan, Eclipse Clan, Spirit Clan, Holy Radiance, Spirit Clan. The waves are dense, but everyone is injured. They came in without even being treated. Obviously, there is a battle outside. The first few waves were between the two clans, and the recent waves are from the Pan-Spirit Alliance. Are they fighting for the entrance?"

As Lin Yi pondered this, he glanced down and saw Edith's clone still rapidly conversing with the Spirit Race members who had entered first, her expression seemingly somewhat grave.

"Qingye," Lin Yi called out directly, "You go and contact this group of new Spirit Race members. Have them leave the battle formation and gather at Edith's side to get a unified understanding of the situation."

"Yes!" Qingye's figure flashed, rushing towards the new batch of Spirit Clan battle groups that had been captured.

However, just as the figures of these new Eldar warriors solidified within the light barrier, before they were guided away by Qingye's clone...

The entrance passage suddenly shuddered, and once again, a dense stream of light gushed out.

Lin Yi's eyes narrowed, and he dared not be negligent. The law of time enveloped him once again, and with the help of spatial grasping, he pulled the group of light spots into the battle formation's light shield.

The light quickly dissipated, and a figure appeared.

Lin Yi was immediately shocked.

This batch is made up of humans!
This human warband numbered around 60,000, all wearing standard Astral Army armor. Many of them had broken armor and were wounded.

Lin Yi's soul power swept across the crowd, instantly fixing his gaze on a figure in the crowd.

It was a woman, her armor mostly shattered.

On her face was a huge scar, as if it had been slashed by some kind of sharp claw, running diagonally from her forehead across her left eye and down to her jaw, ruining her originally beautiful face but adding a touch of fierceness and vicissitude.

She gripped a dimly lit longsword tightly in her hand, her eyes burning with a fierce light like a trapped beast, staring intently at the light barrier as if she were about to pounce and tear it apart at any moment.

Although her face was somewhat altered by scars and bloodstains, and although her aura was more somber and fierce due to the fierce battles and the long years, Lin Yi recognized her immediately.
"Elizabeth?"

Inside the battle formation's protective barrier, Elizabeth, who had just regained her footing and was surveying her surrounding predicament, seemed to sense something as well.

She suddenly looked up, her gaze like that of a sharp eagle, seemingly piercing through the light barrier and striking the very top of it, where a pair of eyes were staring at her.

Eyes facing each other.

Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

(End of this chapter)