Age of Evolution

Chapter 309: 309: Spatial Cutting

After the space was sealed, Adams immediately took out his communicator.

“Brother Arthur, I’ve locked Lin Zhen in a space cage using the Void Stone you gave me. What should I do next?”

Arthur on the other side replied immediately: “This kind of spatial cage can’t be broken without strong Star Power as a support, so you don’t need to worry about Lin Zhen breaking out. The only way to move the cage is for four Star Realm experts to move it slowly using their Star Power as support. I’m currently perfecting the next Void Stone, so I can’t come and help you for now. You’ll have to figure something out.”

“Alright, I’ll think of something.” Adams ended the call and summoned several quasi-Star Realm experts who had been hiding far away since the beginning of the fight. They had been filming the battle, so Adams asked them to record more and then send the footage to the Pope to ask for assistance in moving the spatial cage back to the Holy See.

Lin Zhen, inside the Foldable Space, could see Adams’ actions and hear his words.

The surrounding spatial cage seemed to be a real cage, locking him inside. Even if he escaped now, he would still be trapped within the cage.

Lin Zhen didn’t expect the opponent to have this trick up their sleeve.

He had seen spatial cages made from Void Stones before, and they were not uncommon in the future interstellar era.

There were two methods to crack the cage. One was relying on tremendous strength to break it directly.

The other was to find a flaw in the cage and use Space Power to break it.

Lin Zhen first used his Spiritual Power to examine the spatial cage.

As his Spiritual Power scanned the area, the surrounding light twisted, making the space look strange. The external space surrounded the spatial cage, and the spatial cage encased the Foldable Space Lin Zhen occupied. Space twisted and shimmered here.

Fortunately, Lin Zhen’s spiritual power had reached the Diamond Middle Stage. After scanning several times, he found that the spatial cage was not invulnerable.

Of course, it was impossible for him to break it with his current strength. Even if he advanced to the quasi-Star Realm, it might not be enough. He would need to advance to the Star Realm in one go.

Since brute force wouldn’t work, the only option left was to break it using Space Power.

Having absorbed a Spatial Star Crystal and mastered teleportation, as well as creating the Foldable Space technique, Lin Zhen had studied Space Power quite thoroughly.

“In the past few days, I’ve spent my free time studying Space Power. I’ve been researching a way to cut through space, but my strength is still not quite sufficient. If I can break through to the quasi-Star Realm, perhaps I’ll have a chance to break this spatial cage.”

“At this point, I have no other choice. Without Star List level strength, I won’t be able to do anything in this Ancient God City. The only way is to advance to the quasi-Star Realm.”

“However, I don’t know if the crystals I have will be enough to satisfy the requirements for my advancement. If I lack even a bit of power at this point, my future strength will be weakened by a corresponding amount.”

Lin Zhen ignored everything outside and began meditating within the Foldable Space, first using his Radiant power to restore his injuries.

Adams’ attack had been powerful, and he would be in big trouble if he didn’t recover properly.

Thankfully, Lin Zhen had already resonated with the light molecules. His recovery speed and efficiency were quick, and after spending five full hours, he managed to heal his injuries.

Afterwards, Lin Zhen took out all the crystals he owned and piled them in front of him.

“Finally, it’s time to advance to the quasi-Star Realm.”

“The quasi-Star Realm is the transition process from the Level Nine War God Peak to the Star Realm. It’s the process of turning one’s Dantian into spinning gas. Once the gas completely condenses into a Star Core, one becomes a Star Realm expert.”

“Now, let my Dantian become spinning gas.”

With a large number of well-adjusted S-level crystals placed in front of his lower abdomen, Lin Zhen began to absorb the power within the crystals. “For the first time, I’ll start with three hundred S-level crystals.”

The gas in his Dantian began to rotate slowly as the power from the crystals was infused.

Lin Zhen had already reached the peak of Level 9, and his Dantian was almost saturated with gas. Once new energy arrived, his Dantian started to spin.

“Hiss!”

A stream of white light poured into Lin Zhen’s Dantian, making it grow increasingly more powerful!

Each crystal was almost instantly absorbed dry, becoming waste.

Not only was his Dantian spinning, but the Dark Star was also spinning. A lot of the gas in his Dantian was being absorbed by the Dark Star, so the growth of his Dantian gas wasn’t very fast.

“As I thought, the Dark Star is a power-hungry monster. It’s a good thing I’ve prepared plenty of crystals this time, otherwise advancing to the quasi-Star Realm would really be a problem.”

Within twenty minutes, the three hundred S-level crystals had turned to waste, and there still seemed to be plenty of room for his Dantian to absorb more.

“Again!”

Lin Zhen once again took out another three hundred S-level crystals, allowing his Dantian to continue absorbing and devouring the power.”

This time, he persevered for half an hour, and the Qi in Lin Zhen’s Dantian had almost doubled in size. The vortex grew larger and larger, like a spinning ocean.

The Dark Star also became more and more bright, with its energy surging and seemingly on the verge of condensing into a Star Core at any moment.

“I want to see how much energy you can absorb before you can advance to the Quasi-Star Realm.”

Lin Zhen took out all the remaining four hundred S-level crystals for the third time and continued to nourish his Dantian Qi.

However, the Dantian Qi’s demand was still not satisfied, Lin Zhen’s Qi continued to grow. The only difference was that, if the initial Dantian Qi was like Bohai Bay, it was now like the Yellow Sea.

For the fourth time, Lin Zhen took out all the Quasi-SS level crystals and let his Dantian absorb them again.

After this absorption, Lin Zhen felt that the speed at which his Dantian Qi absorbed energy had slowed down. He thought it was getting close to the limit, but it was still a bit off.

“As I thought, I haven’t absorbed enough crystals. So there’s only one way left, to absorb the Dark Energy Stones.”

Lin Zhen took out fifty Dark Energy Stones and absorbed them again.

“Hahaha! Good! Well done, Adams, really well done!”

Upon receiving the report from his subordinates, Pope Yan Huang laughed with delight within the church.

At first, he hadn’t placed his hopes on these small hunter squads but on his teacher, Laricus.

Not only did Laricus take the Breaking Boundary Nail, but he also came back and took the Divine Cloak, saying that he would definitely eliminate Lin Zhen for him. However, Adams managed to trap Lin Zhen in the Spatial Cage before he received any news from Laricus.

Now all he needed to do was send someone to bring the Spatial Cage back to the church, and then put up a strict guard, waiting for Lin Zhen to reveal himself from within so he could be captured alive.

He had seen all the video footage, and Lin Zhen was indeed trapped.

Yan Huang stroked his chin and said, “Alright, inform the nearest hunter teams to go support Adams, and as for these videos… put them on the internet.”

The church immediately took action, and soon, shocking news appeared on the internet.

Lin Zhen captured!

Clear video clips were uploaded, and Lin Zhen’s situation in the Ancient God City became known to the whole world.

Yan Huang also issued a special statement on this incident.

He originally wanted to announce it only after capturing Lin Zhen himself, but he couldn’t wait any longer. The current situation was too grim for the Gods Clan: the number of believers was rapidly declining, and even some other countries other than Hua Xia were seriously losing believers.

For example, the African Union and Brazil, the situation in these two countries was not optimistic.

Only the European Union, the United States, Sand Russia, and India were slightly better, but they were still far from their peak periods.

People were discussing that the Gods Clan couldn’t even defeat Lin Zhen and had no future, so he had to speak up.

On television and the internet, Yan Huang said with a smile,

“People of the Gods Clan all over the world, I have an exciting piece of news to share with you today. Four hours ago, the blasphemous Lin Zhen was captured in the Ancient God City by our brave warriors. I believe you have all seen the video.”

“Actually, we all know that this is an inevitable outcome. It is foolish and overconfident for one person to try to fight against an organization with half the world’s population.”

“Originally, I wanted to invite Lin Zhen’s parents to our Gods Clan as guests to persuade their son to change his ways as soon as possible. As you all have seen, we have always treated Lin Zhen’s parents with great respect and never mistreated them. However, Lin Zhen still stubbornly walks down the path of confronting the Gods Clan. A person who can so easily disregard his own parents is not worth pity.”

“Here, I declare Lin Zhen to be a heretic, an unscrupulous blasphemer who does not deserve the forgiveness of the gods. Our Gods Clan warriors have already set out and will bring Lin Zhen back to Constantinople within a few hours. At that time, I will judge and sentence Lin Zhen’s crimes.”

“For thousands of years, evil has never triumphed over justice. The power of light has always persisted. I won’t arrogantly claim that I am justice, but I, Yan Huang Lucifer, indeed received the inheritance of the Gods Clan’s Holy Light Armor Set. This is the most powerful evidence of the True God’s existence.

Everything Lin Zhen said is groundless, so his demise is his only outcome.”

“May the True God of the Stars be with you, people of the Gods Clan!”

As Yan Huang said this, the seven-piece Holy Light Armor set descended from the sky, emitting thousands of rays of white light, and fell onto him one by one.

Sword, shield, and full-body armor covered him, making Yan Huang’s appearance resemble that of a celestial being, appearing before the world in an extremely stylish manner.

This image was captured and spread worldwide, with Yan Huang being hailed once again as the Son of the True God, walking on earth in place of the deity.

Upon seeing this scene, some people believed that the deity truly exists, and others chose to join the Gods Clan.

The number of Gods Clan believers, which had been declining during these days, had finally stopped falling and showed a slight sign of recovery. As long as Lin Zhen was captured, everything would seem to be in order..