Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

After acquiring the Void trait, Liu Nian was able to see the names above the heads of the Void Guardians.

They are also incredibly diverse:

Dream Focus, Wood Spirit, Brilliant Clouds...

The Void Guardian who had been in contact with Liu Nian was named: Fallen Qingcang.

He told Liu Nian, "You need to practice more and familiarize yourself with your abilities. Next, you can try to handle some matters related to the escapees—that is, adventurers who use the power of the Boundary Tree to transfer between dimensions."

Liu Nian nodded.

He understood what that meant. Just like he had done before, relying on the Boundary Tree to smuggle himself across, he was blocked by the Void Guardians and then "extorted" a sum of experience points.

Now he's become part of this system. To put it bluntly, he can also extort others and extract a certain amount of their attributes, experience points, etc., for his own use.

But he had no intention of using this to level up. There weren't many escapees to begin with, and each Void Guardian had their own area of ​​responsibility; it was impossible for him to monopolize all the "benefits." This ability was more for maintaining daily expenses—after all, the Void would constantly devour his experience points and attributes, albeit slowly, but he still needed to replenish them.

"I need to familiarize myself with my abilities first. As for the matter of the level nine city, I'll have to wait a while, but it won't be too long!" Liu Nian said.

Fallen Qingcang nodded and, along with the other Void Guardians, slowly dissipated into the void.

Liu Nian spread his six pairs of ink-wash shaped wings, and in a flash, he disappeared from the spot.

---

For the next few days, Liu Nian practiced in the void.

Spatial displacement, body shape change, void devouring—he tried them again and again until these abilities were as natural as breathing.

Spatial displacement has evolved from "only being able to go to places within sight" to "being able to reach anything as long as there are coordinates." Size change has evolved from "requiring concentrated thought" to "being able to enlarge or shrink with a single thought." Void devouring has evolved from "only being able to devour inanimate objects" to "being able to devour buildings without damaging their internal structure."

He also tried the Void Avatar once.

His main body remained in the void, while another translucent, phased body separated from it, like a thin shadow. That body could neither cause harm nor be harmed, like a ghost that could move through any terrain.

"Good heavens." Liu Nian looked at the avatar. "Isn't this just an invincible version of a scout?"

Liu Nian practiced in the void while waiting for news from Gamir.

The Dragon Kingdom ruins within the Demon Abyss are also undergoing a continuous transformation into a floating city.

As for whether the Transcendent Ones will target other humans on Earth, there's really no need to worry about that.

The transcendents don't care about those people at all; the only ones they care about are potential transcendents who might shake their position. Everyone else is no threat to them whatsoever!

---

Battlefield of the Heavens.

The sky was a deep, intense purple; neither the sun nor the stars could be seen. Only enormous, slowly rotating vortexes of energy hung above the dome, like closed eyes, coldly surveying everything below.

Deep within the Demon Forest, a group of players are battling a horde of demonized monsters.

The Dark Druid summoned twisted vines, and the corrupted giant bear roared as it charged forward, while the players' skill lights flickered in the dim woodland.

Suddenly, a figure in black appeared in the center of the battlefield.

The figure was translucent with blurred edges, like a wisp of flowing mist condensing into a human shape.

He stood there quietly, looking up at the sky, seemingly oblivious to the monsters and players engaged in fierce combat.

A rotting giant bear roared and pounced on the figure, its claws tearing through the air—

The claw blade pierced through the figure's body, as if passing through a phantom.

The giant bear missed its target, staggered a few steps, glanced back at the figure with a puzzled look, then abandoned its attack and turned to charge at the other players.

"Boss, what's that?!" a player shouted.

"I don't know! It's a bit strange...it looks like a shadow?"

"Don't come near! There are too many weird things in this place!"

"It seems to be looking at the sky? What is it looking at?"

……

The dark figure was none other than Liu Nian's ethereal incarnation.

It turned out that, out of boredom, he remembered the side quest he had promised the engineering gnomes to find their capital city, Gnomeregan, in the Battlegrounds of the Heavens, which he hadn't yet completed. If those gnomes could join their ranks, even just as mercenaries, it would significantly speed up the reconstruction of the floating city.

At the same time, in order to try to summon the Emperor of No Light, he used the ability of Void Avatar and entered the Battlefield of All Heavens through the Battlefield of All Heavens Pass.

Perhaps because the Void Avatar had broken free from the rules of Cyber ​​Hell, Liu Nian waited for a long time after arriving here, only to find that the Emperor of No Light had not appeared.

This is absolutely great news!

Ignoring the fighting players and monsters, Liu Nian closed his eyes and immediately sensed that there were several World Trees in this huge battlefield.

With a thought, he unfurled his Void Wings.

Although not in the void, Voidwings had most of its abilities suppressed, but still retained some teleportation and flight capabilities.

Six pairs of translucent, ink-wash-like wings unfurled behind him, and he transformed into a streak of dark light, soaring into the sky.

The players on the battlefield below looked up and watched the dark streak of light streak across the sky and disappear into the deep purple distance.

---

Nomereghan was even more secluded than Liu Nian had imagined; it was just an ordinary-looking stretch of Gobi Desert.

If he hadn't brought Gerbin along, he would never have been able to find this place with the help of the detector on his body.

After confirming that they had not been targeted by Emperor Wuguang, Gerbin was released from his body by Liu Nian (who had picked him up in Dragon City beforehand), and using the equipment on his body, they finally located him here.

The dwarf prince stood on this desolate Gobi Desert, squinting his small eyes, turning his head left and right, and then pointing to a seemingly ordinary rock.

"there."

Liu Nian glanced at it; the grayish-brown rock surface was covered with cracks and moss, looking no different from the surrounding geology.

Are you sure?

"Confirmed," Gerbin said. "The entrance to Gnomeregan is dynamic, seemingly random, but actually algorithmic. And if a calculation goes wrong, the entrance will change its location again. My friend, you should know that apart from engineering and cryptography masters like myself, it's very difficult for anyone else to..."

Gerbin kept talking, but Liu Nian couldn't understand a word he said!

After a series of incomprehensible actions, ripples spread across the grayish-brown rock surface, revealing a dark golden metal door underneath.

The door had no gaps or handles, and its surface was covered with intricate hairline patterns and gear designs. The patterns were slowly turning, making a soft "clicking" sound.

Gerbin walked to the door, took out the second instrument, and began calculating again.

This time, something embarrassing happened... I entered the password several times in a row, but it failed each time.

Gerbin was sweating profusely. On his last attempt, he pressed the button with trembling hands... and got it wrong again!

The door then closed abruptly, and then disappeared...