Chapter 895: Chapter 772 The Demigod’s Ladder (Two-in-One)

The moment Divine Abyss Wanderer’s intent swept over all the members of the Longevity Association, the ‘Financial Emperor’ Yi Duxing, quietly entering the Ninth Base City, frowned deeply, his face contorted in pain.

His face, originally filled with anticipation, instantly turned gloomy, and the excitement and joy in his heart vanished, his chest growing cold as an ice cellar.

Yi Duxing had long guessed that their president, Divine Abyss Wanderer, had laid a hidden hand within the Heavenly Curtain, yet he didn’t expect this hidden hand to be so terrifying, actually able to use the vast soul power within the Heavenly Curtain to impact their Primordial Spirit.

What did those talismanic array consultants he recruited say at the time? They said the base blueprint had no issues, that behind the highest authority lay a layer of management authority and several loopholes, which they could crack and suppress.

Yi Duxing instantly realized these people were either bribed or incompetent.

But now the more troublesome issue was the interior of the Heavenly Curtain.

Yi Duxing sensed the situation within the Heavenly Curtain, Lin Rui was actually using his Heavenly Curtain Base to reverse erode the Artificial Sky, altering the deep structures within the sky, intending to grasp the control of the Heavenly Curtain!

Lin Rui was even attempting to make his Heavenly Curtain Base the core of the entire Artificial Sky!

He realized that he must not let this child succeed under any circumstances, or most members of the Longevity Association would fall under the control of this Lord of Purity, and he, Yi Duxing, would be utterly ruined.

“What on earth is happening?” Yi Duxing inquired, his expression incredulous as soon as his headache slightly eased: “Wasn’t it said that our president, mastered the Silent Annihilation Power of the Quasi-Abyss, and with two Conceptual Powers over 80% super longevity level simultaneously acting, how could they possibly lose?”

He already knew that Lin Rui was King Ming, a demigod!

This child indeed possessed the ‘Pure Method’ of the seventh-generation Sect Hierarch of the Light God Sect, along with the ‘Holy Thunder Tribulation Fire,’ a Supreme Divine Artifact.

But that’s an Artificial Sky; their three founders were fully capable of excluding Lin Rui’s powers from the Artificial Sky.

They employed every means, both coercion and persuasion, trying to make Lin Rui quickly migrate the spirit of the sky into the Artificial Sky due to the protective properties of the Heavenly Curtain Subspace that reject external conceptual powers.

Without that Divine Concept and Supreme Divine Artifact, by what ability could Lin Rui contend with true Longevity?

He indeed had exceptional talent, worthy of being the revival vessel chosen by the Great Sun Venerable and the seventh-generation Sect Hierarch, yet according to current intelligence, his cultivation was merely at the level of Seventh Realm Divine Power, with conceptual power peaking at only 56%!

But the current situation was entirely contrary to their prior predictions, Lin Rui’s ‘Purity’ concept not only hadn’t been seized, but was now even reverse refining the Primordial Spirit of the three presidents of the Longevity Association.

Beside him was Cameron Brown, formerly the Vice President of the Longevity Association.

This formidable council-level figure, although returning from the Artificial Sky, lost his previous vice presidency due to Yi Duxing’s downfall and the relentless pursuit of Lin Rui and his sister.

However, leveraging their previous groundwork within the Longevity Association, Cameron Brown still possessed considerable influence and a vast network within the association.

He weathered the mental assault from Divine Abyss Wanderer’s intent and, once the headache eased, checked data through his terminal bracelet while contacting various parties.

His complexion gradually turned pale: “Sir Executive, indeed, the situation isn’t looking good. Our experts say although the Forest Group’s Artificial Sky Base is compatible with our sky, in essence, it’s entirely a different system, so our Artificial Sky authority over there is all restricted by Lin Rui, and those backdoors practically don’t exist, furthermore–”

“And furthermore what, speak quickly!” Yi Duxing, seeing the hesitation in Vice President Brown’s expression, impatiently urged in a strengthened tone.

“Moreover, besides the Ninth Base, they’ve detected etheric fluctuations from large sky bases in the Sixth, Seventh, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Base Cities. Their bases aren’t one but seven, in total five large and two small, fully containing nearly 3 billion!”

Cameron Brown frowned deeply: “These bases aren’t directly linked with our Artificial Sky but have generated a semi-enclosed intranet; besides, our talismanic array experts suspect these bases might not be merely bases. They might be Divine Artifacts, like the Light God Sect’s ‘Radiant Holy Altar’ and ‘Imperial Jade Seal’ Divine Artifacts!

Therefore, Lin Rui’s intranet of the seven Heavenly Curtain bases, apart from the functions of the Artificial Sky, can also aggregate the will of the Light King Sect believers, practically equivalent to his Divine Country, where the president and others are essentially fighting Lin Rui within Lin Rui’s Divine Country.”

“That’s impossible!” Yi Duxing subconsciously questioned: “Only about a year and a half, how could he possibly achieve that? If following Divine Artifact standards in making, the difficulty and material consumption far exceeds that of bases, how could he have so much–”

Yi Duxing’s speech halted; he originally wanted to say where Lin Rui got so many Artifact Refiners and engineers? Where’d he get so many precious materials?

Yet he immediately thought of the thirteen thousand prisoners Lin Rui looted from the Mechanical God Sect’s Heresy Prison.

These so-called ‘heretics’ were all incredibly capable Artifact Refiners, Array Talisman Masters, and Mechanical Masters, subsequently making Lin Rui’s Forest Heavy Industry, using only half a year, become the Federation’s top-tier technology heavy industry enterprise, covering all metallurgical, mechanical, material, equipment, and military domains.