Chapter 426 Li Xing's New Request
After resolving the destructive energy in his own Plane, Fang Che returned to the Emperor Plane again.
Fang Che walked out of the Mission Hall, endured the pain brought by the destructive energy, and moved to Li Xing's side.
Li Xing saw Fang Che, silently handed over a storage ring to Fang Che, and said nothing more.
Under the torment of the destructive energy, Li Xing had long lost the desire to speak.
Fang Che took the storage ring and said, "Brother Li, there's no need to look for these things anymore. I'm here to pay the reward."
Li Xing's face broke into a smile upon hearing this.
However, under the torment of the destructive energy, the smile looked worse than a cry.
Li Xing took out a pile of communication tokens, injected energy, and said, "No need to collect resources anymore."
Then, Li Xing stood up and said, "Let's go to the Iron Hand Group to discuss the reward."
Fang Che nodded and followed Li Xing back to the Iron Hand Group.
At this time, the Iron Hand Group had activated its defensive array, forming a protective shield to guard the group's stronghold. The original guards and patrol teams had all disappeared.
Li Xing used a token to open a gap in the protective shield and said, "Fang Che, please come in."
Fang Che nodded and walked into the Iron Hand Group through the gap in the protective shield. Li Xing followed closely behind him and put away the token.
The gap closed quickly.
Afterward, the two came to Li Xing's room.
After the two sat down, Li Xing said, "I've considered it for a while. I don't need the resources Fang Che collected from the Flame Sea Plane; I just hope Fang Che can help create some Skills for the Iron Hand Group's Eight-Order Professionals after they complete their energy accumulation, to help them advance to Ninth-Order."
Upon hearing this, Fang Che said, "I haven't even created my own Ninth-Order Skills yet, so I can't guarantee others' advancement to Ninth-Order."
For a Professional to advance, Skills Creation is a secondary condition; the primary condition is to obtain the Plane Will's permission.
Professionals below Ninth-Order can easily advance as long as they haven't harmed the Emperor Plane's interests and create suitable Skills.
However, Ninth-Order Professionals are different.
Ninth-Order Professionals are the strongest force in a Plane, and the will of Ninth-Order powerhouses can influence the Plane Will.
If there are too many Ninth-Order powerhouses, it's not good for the Plane Will.
The Plane Will, to ensure its own interests, cannot cultivate too many Ninth-Order powerhouses.
Although the previous war caused the death of most Ninth-Order Professionals, and although after devouring the Flame Sea Plane's territory, it can accommodate more Ninth-Order powerhouses.
However, the Emperor Plane Will still won't allow too many Ninth-Order Professionals to appear in one place.
Because if Ninth-Order Professionals are too concentrated, their will also becomes concentrated, which can easily affect the Plane Will.
The Emperor Plane already has a Ninth-Order Professional group formed by the Emperor, and it cannot tolerate the emergence of a second group.
Moreover, for the benefit of his own group, the Emperor cannot allow a second Ninth-Order group to appear.
These are the answers Fang Che obtained after a deep understanding of the Plane rules.
It's normal that Li Xing and others don't know because they don't have access to understanding Plane rules.
And Fang Che won't reveal this information.
If he reveals it, their past friendship will completely disappear, and Li Xing and others might stop looking for advancement resources for Fang Che in order to compete for Ninth-Order slots.
Therefore, Fang Che can only be a little selfish.
Li Xing didn't know Fang Che's thoughts and smiled, "I believe in Fang Che's ability. Fang Che just needs to provide the Skills. If we can't break through, then it's our own bad luck."
Seeing Li Xing's firm attitude, Fang Che felt somewhat helpless.
Some words sound good now, but if Li Xing and others fail to break through to Ninth-Order for a long time in the future, they will definitely resent Fang Che.
Human hearts are fickle and cannot withstand the test of time.
The Iron Hand Group has helped Fang Che a lot, and Fang Che's feelings for the Iron Hand Group surpass those for the former Blue Sky Group.
Now, while they haven't fallen out, he can help the Iron Hand Group more.
Fang Che said, "Once I advance to Ninth-Order and confirm the method is effective, I will help you create Skills; additionally, to thank Brother Li for his help during this period, for some time in the future, I can freely help Iron Hand Group Professionals create advancement Skills."
Li Xing was very happy to hear this and said, "Thank you, Fang Che. It will be hard work for Fang Che from now on."
Fang Che smiled, "It's all minor. If you need anything, contact me using the communication token. I'll be leaving now."
Li Xing stood up and said, "I'll see Fang Che off."
Fang Che said, "No need to see me off. I'll be staying in the Iron Hand Group for a while."
Li Xing smiled upon hearing this, "Still, I must. I prepared a new dwelling for Fang Che a long time ago. I'll take Fang Che there."
Fang Che laughed, "Then I'll trouble Brother Li."
Afterward, Fang Che followed Li Xing to the new dwelling.
The new dwelling was far from Fang Che's previous residence, in a quieter place.
Li Xing said, "This is the quietest place in the Iron Hand Group, not far from where the Seventh and Eight-Order Professionals live. If Fang Che gets bored, he can find us to chat."
Fang Che didn't like interacting with others when there was nothing to do, so he perfunctorily said, "Okay, I'll go if I get a chance."
Li Xing smiled and said, "Then I'll take my leave."
"See you."
After Li Xing left, Fang Che closed the door, set up a warning array, and quietly endured the attacks of the destructive energy.
Time flew by, and soon another two months passed.
On this day, the destructive energy filling the air suddenly decreased, and Fang Che could no longer feel any pain.
Fang Che understood that this meant most of the destructive energy in the Flame Sea Plane had been disintegrated.
And the remaining destructive energy, the Emperor Plane was fully capable of bearing.
While Fang Che was thinking, he felt the Plane rules begin to increase again, and the Plane energy became denser.
This meant the Emperor Plane officially began to devour the Flame Sea Plane!
Another month later, the destructive energy in the air completely disappeared, and the Emperor Plane's energy had reached an extremely dense state.
At the same time, new text information appeared in the sky:
["Thank you, Professionals, for your help to the Emperor Plane. The crisis has passed, and you can redeem resources at the Mission Hall at any time."]
Upon seeing this information, Fang Che left the Iron Hand Group, found a hidden place, and returned to his own Plane.
As soon as he returned to his Plane, Fang Che felt the entire Plane become very strange.
This strange state originated from the territory of the Flame Sea Plane.
After each Plane is destroyed, some of the rules contained within it will integrate into the new Plane. Previously, when Fang Che's Plane devoured Other Planes, he encountered such problems.
However, the Flame Sea Plane was a little different.
After Fang Che transferred all the destructive energy away before, the rules did not appear because the mutual destruction ability was still present, and the Flame Sea Plane had not completely died.
Now that the mutual destruction ability has been completely resolved by the Emperor Plane, the Flame Sea Plane is considered truly dead, and its Plane rules have finally revealed themselves.
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Chapter 427 [Master of Time] and More Secrets
There is no good or bad in a Plane's rules, only suitable or unsuitable.
Fang Che needed to keep the rules suitable for his Plane and clean out those that were not.
Under the Observe of the Illusory Eyes, the various rules of the Flame Sea Plane were categorized; suitable ones directly merged with the Fang Che Plane, while unsuitable ones were erased by Plane energy.
Once the cleanup was complete, the Plane's rules were strengthened, and at the same time, a massive amount of spatial energy poured in from the outside, merging with the Fang Che Plane.
When the Fang Che Plane absorbed spatial energy to its limit, the newly merged rule power suddenly changed, and this change also affected other rules.
Fang Che nervously checked his Plane, only relaxing once he confirmed there were no issues.
Moments later, the rule changes ceased, and all spatial energy gathered, transforming into a brand new rule power.
This rule power represented the special ability possessed by a Ninth-Order Plane!
Fang Che had thought that this special ability would only appear after plundering more Planes in the future, but he hadn't expected to achieve his goal by merely merging some of the Flame Sea Plane's rules.
Fang Che observed this rule power with some excitement, but then received a not-so-good piece of news.
This special energy was named: Observe.
This energy could observe various items, understanding their information and vulnerabilities.
This Observe ability overlapped with Fang Che's Illusory Eyes ability, and it also lacked the improvement capability of the Illusory Eyes.
Fang Che felt a bit disappointed and used his Illusory Eyes to find a way to change the ability.
However, Fang Che was disappointed to discover that this special ability had already merged with the Plane, and a new ability could only be condensed if the Plane was completely destroyed.
Completely destroying a Plane was very difficult; even if a faint trace of the Fang Che Plane remained, it wouldn't be considered completely destroyed.
Fang Che felt a sense of loss, sighed softly, and then began searching for a suitable skill.
Since things had come to this, the important thing was to quickly advance to Ninth-Order.
As Fang Che searched for skills, the Observe ability born from his Plane also helped him.
When the Observe ability and Fang Che's Illusory Eyes ability overlapped, both were strengthened, and skills suitable for Fang Che quickly appeared before him.
The speed at which skills appeared far exceeded before; Fang Che hadn't even finished reading the information for the first skill when the hundredth new skill had already condensed.
Such rapid Observe speed significantly reduced the sense of loss in Fang Che's heart.
Afterward, Fang Che no longer observed the skill information in detail but waited silently.
A quarter of an hour later, the Observe ability reached its peak, and Fang Che directly checked the last skill.
The last skill was named: Time Dominance.
Mastering the Time Dominance skill would grant the power to manipulate time!
Fang Che didn't hesitate at all and immediately chose to create this Time Dominance skill.
After recording the materials needed to create the Time Dominance skill, Fang Che returned to the Emperor Plane to observe its situation.
In the information Fang Che had understood previously, there was no record of time-type skills.
To deceive the Emperor Plane, Fang Che needed to continue observing the Emperor Plane's rules to find information about the existence of time-based skills.
This time, Fang Che not only used his Illusory Eyes to observe the Emperor Plane's information but also activated his own Plane's special Observe ability.
Both energies worked simultaneously, allowing Fang Che to see much information that he had not discovered before.
Under Fang Che's shocked gaze, much information hidden by the Emperor Plane was exposed!
That hidden information was only supposed to be discovered after the Plane was destroyed.
But now, with the enhancement of the special Observe ability, all this information surfaced.
At this moment, the sense of loss in Fang Che's heart completely vanished, and he was happy to have obtained the special Observe ability.
Fang Che took a deep breath, adjusted his state, and carefully observed the hidden information of the Emperor Plane.
As he delved deeper, Fang Che's expression became increasingly serious.
According to the information, the prerequisite for advancing to Ninth-Order was that soul fragments must remain within the Plane.
If soul fragments were not left in the Plane, there would be no possibility of advancing to Ninth-Order.
And the advancement process was to use the soul fragments as a connection channel, integrating more soul fragments into the Plane in exchange for Ninth-Order strength.
To fully advance to Ninth-Order, at least half of the soul fragments had to be sacrificed.
The Emperor Plane could easily control Ninth-Order Professionals with this large portion of soul fragments.
Ninth-Order Professionals losing soul fragments would also reduce their influence on the Plane Will.
However, this current method of advancement by sacrificing soul fragments had not been around for long.
In the past, Professionals could advance to Ninth-Order without sacrificing soul fragments.
Their will could easily influence the Emperor Plane, and the Professional with the strongest will was the current ruler of all Professionals in the Emperor Plane: the Emperor.
At a certain stage, the Emperor chose to cooperate with the Plane Will, killing all Ninth-Order Professionals who had not sacrificed soul fragments, except for himself.
It was then that as soon as a Professional was born, a portion of their soul fragments would be taken away.
And those soul fragments that Professionals sacrificed for Ninth-Order advancement were all divided between the Plane Will and the Emperor.
The Plane Will used the soul fragments to achieve transcendence, completely escaping the influence of the Professional's will.
As for the Emperor, he intended to use the soul fragments to advance to a realm no one had ever reached: Tenth-Order!
Fortunately, Ninth-Order Professionals who lost half of their soul fragments still had some ability to influence the Plane Will.
For safety, the Plane Will did not massively create Ninth-Order Professionals, thus obtaining relatively fewer soul fragments.
Therefore, neither the Emperor Plane nor the Emperor achieved their goals, and their control over Ninth-Order Professionals was not strong.
The Emperor Plane Will did not have the ability to completely erase the traces of the Ninth-Order Professionals' original advancement methods.
Fang Che quickly found a loophole.
As long as Fang Che exploited this loophole, he could advance to Ninth-Order without sacrificing soul fragments!
This loophole was called: the Ancient Advancement Path.
To take the Ancient Advancement Path, the primary condition was that one's soul must not be controlled by the Plane Will.
Most people could not achieve this now, but Fang Che had already reclaimed the soul fragments controlled by the Emperor Plane Will in order to create his own Plane.
Although the soul fragments had become the Plane Will of Fang Che's Plane, these soul fragments were still controlled by Fang Che.
Fang Che could advance to Ninth-Order through the Ancient Advancement Path.
However, after advancing to Ninth-Order through the Ancient Advancement Path, the aura of a complete soul would immediately be detected by the Emperor Plane Will.
At that time, the Emperor would personally act to eliminate Fang Che.
One Emperor posed no great danger; Fang Che believed the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book could eliminate the Emperor.
Fang Che was only afraid that the Emperor Plane would control all Ninth-Order Professionals to attack him.
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Chapter 428 [Time Reversal]
If all the Ninth-Order Professionals in the Emperor Plane attacked Fang Che together, Fang Che had no confidence in resisting them.
As for advancing to the Ninth-Order in his own Plane and then disguising himself as an Eight-Order Professional in the Emperor Plane, that was even more impossible.
The two Planes were inherently different, and Fang Che had previously relied on various disguises to prevent his Plane from being exposed.
If he abandoned his disguise when advancing to the Ninth-Order, he would no longer be able to deceive the Emperor Plane, and Fang Che's Plane would definitely be exposed.
Once the Plane was locked onto, Fang Che would still die.
The best method now was to intentionally let the Plane Will detect Fang Che using the Ancient Advancement Path to break through to the Ninth-Order.
After breaking through, Fang Che had to immediately escape and leave behind the intention of eliminating the Emperor.
For the Plane Will, both Professionals with complete souls posed a threat.
However, threats also varied in degree, and the Emperor, who shared soul fragments with the Plane Will, was certainly a greater threat than Fang Che.
And Fang Che was incapable of sharing soul fragments with the Plane Will, so he would not affect the interests of the Emperor Plane.
The best choice for the Emperor Plane was to watch Fang Che eliminate the Emperor, and then eliminate Fang Che.
Therefore, even if Fang Che resolved the Emperor, he could not return; he had to find a representative to return on his behalf.
Additionally, to prevent the Emperor Plane from sending people to hunt Fang Che, Fang Che also needed to record information on all the Ninth-Order Professionals in the Emperor Plane.
When Fang Che was being hunted, he could deter the Emperor Plane by eliminating its powerful individuals.
Of course, just eliminating powerful individuals was not enough; Fang Che also needed a means to directly threaten the Emperor Plane.
The most unique method of the Emperor Plane was the array set up using Concession Tokens.
With this array, the Emperor Plane feared no Other Planes; even if they couldn't win, they could escape at any time.
If Fang Che had the ability to destroy the array set up by the Concession Tokens, the Emperor Plane should choose to compromise.
As for giving up on eliminating the Emperor and directly choosing to threaten the Plane Will, that was impossible to succeed.
Because the Emperor relied on the Plane for survival and could not truly destroy the Plane, Fang Che's threat would simultaneously offend both the Plane Will and the Emperor, leading to them both targeting him.
Furthermore, the business of soul fragments had already been divided between the Emperor and the Plane Will, and Fang Che could not intervene. His threat to the Plane Will was lower than that of the Emperor, so the Plane Will would definitely lean towards Fang Che.
The Emperor would surely discover this problem, and to prevent the Plane Will from completely siding with Fang Che, the Emperor would certainly try every means to resolve Fang Che.
Although Fang Che had never seen the Emperor, as long as Fang Che advanced to the Ninth-Order, the Emperor would be his greatest enemy; only one of them could survive!
After Fang Che solidified his intention to eliminate the Emperor, he continued to observe the Plane information.
After some time, Fang Che found the best method to destroy the Concession Token array and also found information about time-related skills.
There was only one time skill in the Emperor Plane, named Time Reversal.
The Time Reversal skill could not be applied on a large scale; it could only act on tiny objects, reverting an object to its state a few seconds prior.
Each time this skill was used, the Emperor Plane had to pay a price.
This was certainly a skill created out of necessity when the Emperor Plane was weak.
Fang Che recorded this information, and then, with the power of his Illusory Eyes and in conjunction with the Emperor Plane's rules, he began to improve the Time Reversal skill.
A moment later, an improved version of the Time Reversal skill was formed.
The effect of this skill had not changed, but some new rules were added.
That was, after Fang Che used the Time Reversal skill, all costs would be borne by Fang Che.
Not only that, but after Fang Che used the Time Reversal skill, it was very likely that the Plane Will would gain a portion of the ability to control time.
And the cost of controlling time would be entirely borne by Fang Che!
This was a skill that was disadvantageous to Fang Che but entirely beneficial to the Emperor Plane, which was enough to attract the attention of the Emperor Plane and thus allow Fang Che to advance to the Ninth-Order.
And as soon as Fang Che advanced to the Ninth-Order, he would replace the skill, and the Time Reversal skill would never be able to harm Fang Che.
Fang Che recorded the materials needed to Create the Time Reversal skill and then set off for the Iron Hand Group.
Upon arriving at the Iron Hand Group, Fang Che saw Li Xing and Su Ye standing at the entrance.
The two quickly walked up to Fang Che, and then Su Ye spoke, "Fang Che, welcome back."
Fang Che was a bit helpless; he hadn't been gone for long at all, yet it felt as if he had been away for a long time.
Fang Che didn't dwell on these matters and said, "I came here this time because I want to ask for your help in collecting some advancement resources."
Li Xing smiled and said, "Everyone hasn't claimed their rewards from resisting the destructive energy before, which happens to be able to help Fang Che with resources."
Fang Che smiled and nodded, saying, "Then let's find a place to talk."
Su Ye said, "Let's go to Fang Che's residence."
Fang Che nodded and returned to his residence with Su Ye and Li Xing.
Then, Fang Che took out paper and pen and wrote down the materials he needed.
Most of these materials, Fang Che had found among the resources of the Yan Hai Plane.
What Fang Che was writing now were the materials he did not yet have.
Fang Che quickly finished writing all the information and handed it to Su Ye.
Su Ye took the materials, glanced at them, and then handed them to Li Xing, saying, "Let everyone exchange for resources. Exchange for the highest value ones first, and we will provide the remaining materials."
Li Xing nodded and said, "I will personally go and inform everyone. I'll take my leave."
Li Xing turned and left, and Su Ye said, "When will Fang Che advance to the Ninth-Order? I'll make arrangements to avoid disturbance."
Fang Che shook his head and said, "No need, some of my friends have already prepared the advancement location for me."
When Fang Che advanced, he would definitely be noticed by the Plane Will. To avoid affecting the Iron Hand Group, it was better to go far away.
Upon hearing this, Su Ye said, "Since Fang Che's friends have already prepared the advancement location, I am relieved. I wish Fang Che a smooth advancement."
Fang Che smiled and said, "I will do my best. If anyone in the group needs to advance in the future, you can contact me through the communication token. I might be out for a while."
Su Ye nodded and said, "No problem. I'll also go help Fang Che exchange for some materials. Li Xing will send them over later. I'll take my leave."
"Take care."
After Su Ye left, another half an hour passed before Li Xing came to Fang Che and handed him a storage ring, saying, "The materials have been gathered."
Fang Che took the storage ring, checked it briefly, and a smile appeared on his face.
Inside the storage ring were all the materials Fang Che needed; now Fang Che could advance to the Ninth-Order.
Fang Che said, "This Plane Will is quite generous, actually taking out so many good things."
Li Xing said, "It's not that the Plane Will is generous; some things require more than a dozen people to make a request together to exchange for one portion. Now all the resources within the Iron Hand Group have been exchanged, and then we exchanged another batch with the Plane Will using resources, which is how we managed to gather them."
Fang Che nodded in realization and said, "Thank you, thank you."
Li Xing smiled and said, "It's nothing, this is what we should provide. I wish Fang Che an easy breakthrough. I'll take my leave."
"Take care."
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Chapter 429: Promotion to Level 9
After Li Xing left, Fang Che also left the Iron Hand Group and found a secluded spot to return to his Plane.
Back in his Plane, Fang Che, as before, took out two sets of materials for skill Creation and cut off hair-thin strands from them.
Then, Fang Che arranged the formation for the Creation of the [Time Domination] skill in the Plane, placing most of the [Time Domination] skill materials and the hair-thin [Time Reversal] materials into the formation.
After the formation was set up, the Plane energy rapidly gathered towards it, and the Plane showed signs of collapse.
Fang Che put away the other materials and then took out the materials required for the advancement ritual, processing them into ink.
Having done all this, Fang Che did not return to the Emperor Plane; instead, he used the [Space Dominator] skill to envelop his body, concealing all his auras.
Immediately after, Fang Che took out a Plane coordinate he had obtained from the Criminal and directly arrived in an unfamiliar Plane.
With the help of the [Space Dominator] skill, Fang Che was not discovered by the Plane Will of this unfamiliar Plane.
Fang Che looked around, and after confirming that no one had noticed him, he immediately set up a teleportation array.
After the teleportation array was completed, Fang Che took out the Plane coordinate of this Plane and used the [Space Dominator] skill to modify the Plane coordinate.
Not long after, the modification was complete, and Fang Che placed the Plane coordinate in the teleportation array, instantly establishing a connection between the two.
At this point, the safety measures were in place.
Once Fang Che advanced to Ninth-Order Professional in the Emperor Plane, he could use the Plane coordinate to instantly arrive at this unfamiliar Plane.
Even if the Emperor Plane had special tracking methods, they could only pinpoint this Plane and would be unable to find Fang Che's Plane.
As long as Fang Che's Plane remained unexposed, Fang Che would be absolutely safe.
After putting away the Plane coordinate, Fang Che returned to his own Plane.
Then, Fang Che returned to the Emperor Plane via the teleportation array in his own Plane.
The moment he returned to the Emperor Plane, Fang Che unhesitatingly destroyed the teleportation array between his Plane and the Emperor Plane.
In the future, Fang Che would no longer be able to return to the Emperor Plane from his own Plane!
However, these were minor issues.
After returning to the Emperor Plane, Fang Che found a secluded area, directly dug up a large chunk of earth, and used the [Space Dominator] skill to seal it.
In the future, Fang Che would use this piece of earth to set up a teleportation array, helping his representative return to the Emperor Plane.
As for the Emperor Plane's ability to track Fang Che via his territory and the infiltration ability contained within the territory, there was no need to worry.
Fang Che had already thoroughly understood the hidden secrets of the Emperor Plane and could easily seal these abilities.
As long as the territory was not integrated into the Plane, there would be no problems.
Fang Che put this piece of earth into a storage ring, then drew a formation on the ground, integrating the materials for the Creation of the [Time Reversal] skill into the formation.
After all the materials were placed, Fang Che immediately used the Create skill to activate the formation.
The next second, vast and ethereal Plane energy gathered here, condensing the eye of the plane in Fang Che's Niwan Palace.
The aura emanating from this eye of the plane was a hundred times denser than before, and the Plane Will's attention to Fang Che far surpassed what it had been.
Fang Che quickly condensed the skill Creation method in his Niwan Palace for the eye of the plane to review.
After the eye of the plane understood all the information, its eyes showed satisfaction and joy, then it condensed a 'allow' (quasi) character and disappeared.
Fang Che instantly felt that the [Time Reversal] skill had established a connection with him; as long as Fang Che set up the advancement ritual, the [Time Reversal] skill would immediately integrate into Fang Che's body, helping him advance to Ninth-Order Professional.
Everything seemed no different from before.
However, under the Illusory Eyes' Observe, Fang Che confirmed that the rule of plundering soul fragments was already connected to Fang Che's advancement permission.
As soon as Fang Che began to merge with the [Time Reversal] skill, his own soul fragments would silently be offered to the Plane Will.
If Fang Che hadn't seen through the hidden information of the Emperor Plane, he might have thought this advancement was the same as before.
Fortunately, Fang Che had found the Ancient Advancement Path; by appropriately modifying the advancement ritual, he could solve the problem of soul fragments being plundered.
To prevent the residual Plane energy here from discovering Fang Che's actions, Fang Che left this place and found another secluded area.
After confirming that there was no Plane Will attention around, Fang Che took off his clothes, took out the hair-thin [Time Domination] skill material, and pierced it into his body.
Piercing the material into his body still hurt, but Fang Che was already accustomed to it; after enduring it silently for a moment, he pierced all the material into his body.
Then, Fang Che took out the ink he had prepared earlier and drew the advancement ritual on his body.
The advancement ritual on Fang Che's body now looked very uncoordinated, with many awkward additions.
These awkward places were the modifications made by the Ancient Advancement Path.
After setting up the advancement ritual, Fang Che injected energy into the materials pierced into his body, using the materials as a transit point to transfer the energy to the ritual.
The advancement ritual was slowly activated, and at the same time, Fang Che's soul aura fluctuated violently and continuously weakened.
This weakening was precisely the deceptive method of the Ancient Advancement Path.
Through this deceptive method, false soul fragments could be condensed and given to the Plane Will.
This deceptive method was to prevent the Plane Will from forcibly interrupting the advancement process if it detected a problem.
After the soul fluctuation weakened for a moment, the rule power belonging to the [Time Reversal] skill integrated into Fang Che's body, gathered on the curse master gem, and condensed into a unique skill symbol.
The moment the skill symbol successfully condensed, Fang Che successfully advanced to Ninth-Order Professional, and his overall strength was enhanced.
Fang Che did not pay attention to the process of his body's enhancement; he directly threw out a mass of curse energy, and at the same time, took out the Plane coordinate and crushed it.
In an instant, Fang Che disappeared, and at the same time, terrifying Plane energy gathered there, grabbing the surrounding unfamiliar space energy and forcibly opening a spatial passage.
The spatial passage instantly opened to the size of a fist, and then could not expand any further.
It wasn't that Fang Che's escape ability was so brilliant, but that the curse energy Fang Che left behind had transformed into text information:
"[I will help you kill the Emperor, no soul fragments needed!]"
The violent Plane energy quickly calmed down, and the fist-sized spatial passage and text information were all wiped clean.
Even Fang Che's residual aura was cleaned up, as if nothing had happened.
At this moment, a tall, handsome man appeared out of thin air at the location.
The man observed his surroundings and asked doubtfully, "Did someone complete their advancement using an ancient method?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a pile of shining soul fragments appeared in front of the man.
The man relaxed slightly, accepted the soul fragments, and then instantly left the place, arriving at a palace in the center of the Emperor Plane.
In the palace, many Eighth and Ninth-Order Professionals guarded, each of them possessing the Soul Master profession.
And when these people saw the handsome man, they all respectfully bowed their heads and said, "Long live the Emperor."
The tall and handsome Emperor nodded slightly and said, "I will be in seclusion for a period; you all guard the surroundings well."
The Soul Masters responded in unison, "As you command!"
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Chapter 430: Replacement of Ninth Level Skills
After Fang Che crushed the Plane coordinates, he was teleported to an unfamiliar Plane.
Then, Fang Che quickly retreated, moving away from the teleportation array, and at the same time, he used the Space Dominance skill to disrupt the spatial fluctuations of this Plane and disturb the attention of the Emperor Plane.
At the same time, a fist-sized spatial passage appeared above the teleportation array.
However, the spatial passage did not continue to expand; instead, it vanished instantly.
Fang Che understood that the Emperor Plane had given up on pursuing him and agreed to his idea of eliminating the Emperor.
Fang Che relaxed slightly, stopped using the Space Dominance skill, and quietly felt the state of his body's reinforcement.
When the reinforcement ended and Fang Che's overall strength reached Ninth-Order, he immediately took out the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book, wrote down the Emperor's simple information on a blank piece of paper, and kowtowed in worship.
The Emperor was Fang Che's enemy, and Fang Che didn't want to wait too long; he wanted to eliminate him now!
After the kowtow was complete, Fang Che mobilized a stream of assassin's aura stored within the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book and directly cut the paper in half.
However, to Fang Che's shock, the shredded paper instantly healed the next second, and at the same time, a terrifying Time power was released from the healed paper, destroying the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book.
This was the first time the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book had failed a kill since its Creation!
However, Fang Che quickly regained his composure.
The Nailhead Seven Arrows Book was already bound to Fang Che's soul fragment, so this destruction had no effect on Fang Che.
Once Fang Che replaces the Time Dominance skill, he can use the Time Dominance skill to suppress the Emperor's Time power and kill him again!
Thinking of this, Fang Che cleared all traces of himself from this Plane and returned to his own Plane.
At this moment, in the core area of the Emperor Plane, the Emperor, who was in seclusion, observed his surroundings with some alarm.
Just now, the Emperor felt a sharp aura cleave down on him, and his body was directly split open.
Fortunately, the [Time Reversal] skill, which was sealed in an item beforehand, took effect, reversing the Time around his body by one second, allowing his body to heal again.
Otherwise, the Emperor would have already died!
However, now that the Emperor checked his surroundings, he found no trace of any enemy.
The array set up in the room also showed no signs of damage, as if the previous injury was just a dream.
The Emperor looked down at the broken item after releasing the [Time Reversal] skill, confirming that this was not a dream!
The Emperor's face was grim as he quickly took out a pile of skill-sealing items and sealed the [Time Reversal] skill.
The Emperor stuffed all these skill-sealing items into his clothes, set up an array to activate upon injury, and then carefully recalled the Observe situation.
A moment later, the Emperor murmured to himself, "Could it be that a Ninth-Order Curse Master integrated the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book into other items, gaining such a powerful assassination ability?"
As soon as he thought of this, the Emperor took out another pile of treasures to defend against the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book and placed them on his body, then said, "Plane Will, come out and talk!"
Vast and ethereal Plane energy instantly gathered here.
The Emperor asked, "Which Ninth-Order Professionals have mastered the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book? Tell me all of them? Also tell me their locations."
The Plane energy instantly condensed a list of names of Ninth-Order Curse Masters, but Fang Che's name was not among them.
The Emperor wrote down all the information and said, "These people are unstable factors; I will go eliminate them.
Additionally, I need you to set a rule prohibiting Professionals who Create the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book from advancing to Ninth-Order.
In return, for the next fifty Professionals who advance to Ninth-Order, I will not contend with you for their soul fragments."
The Plane energy instantly condensed two words: [Three Hundred].
The Emperor shook his head and said, "No, a maximum of one hundred."
The Plane energy remained still for a moment, then condensed new text: [Deal, give me back the soul fragments I gave you earlier.]
The Emperor took out the soul fragments he hadn't had time to use and directly threw them to the Plane energy.
The Plane energy instantly took the soul fragments and then disappeared.
Immediately after, the Plane's rules began to change.
After the Emperor confirmed the change in Plane rules, he instantly vanished from his original spot.
At this time, in Fang Che Plane, Fang Che had already used the Create skill on the array.
The array was instantly activated, and all the materials belonging to the [Time Domination] skill melted.
The melted materials fused with the Plane energy, rapidly changing the Plane rules, successfully Creating the [Time Domination] skill.
When the [Time Domination] skill appeared, the Plane returned to calm, and the Plane energy also quieted down; however, the Plane's vitality disappeared again, and the Plane once again lost its potential for continued development.
Fang Che did not pay too much attention to the issue of the Plane's potential; he directly walked into the array and injected energy into it.
After the array was activated, it erupted with a strong suction force, drawing the power belonging to the [Time Reversal] skill from Fang Che's body and integrating it into the hair-thin [Time Reversal] materials underground.
After most of the [Time Reversal] skill's power was absorbed, the materials that had previously pierced his body also erupted with suction, drawing the power of the [Time Domination] skill into his body.
A moment later, the [Time Reversal] energy in Fang Che's body completely disappeared, and the [Time Domination] skill was fully integrated into Fang Che's body.
At the same time, the pattern belonging to the [Time Reversal] skill on the curse master gem was replaced by the [Time Domination] skill pattern.
At this moment, Fang Che had completed the skill replacement.
Once the skill replacement was complete, the curse master gem once again released energy, adjusting Fang Che's physical state.
This made Fang Che's body more suitable for the [Time Domination] skill.
When the adjustment was completed, Fang Che was finally considered to have successfully advanced to Ninth-Order!
Under the influence of the [Time Domination] skill, Fang Che instantly understood much knowledge about Time.
What made Fang Che happy was that the knowledge of Time was incredibly compatible with the knowledge of Space; using them simultaneously seemed to be able to condense even stronger power.
Therefore, Fang Che unhesitatingly used both the [Time Domination] and [Space Dominator] skills.
In an instant, Time in the Plane flowed rapidly, and the Space energy within the Plane quickly increased.
The Plane, which had originally lost its vitality, was instantly activated by the rapidly growing Space energy!
The cost of Creating the [Time Domination] skill was easily resolved, and the Plane's potential returned to normal!
Not only that, as Time passed, the Space energy attracted infinite energy, which quickly atomized and then liquefied in a very short amount of Time.
This speed was even faster than directly devouring a Plane!
Unfortunately, the Plane did not grow, and its rules did not change.
To expand the Plane, combat was still necessary!
Fang Che quickly put aside the thought of continuing to condense energy, took out the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book, recorded the Emperor's information, and kowtowed again.
In the Emperor Plane, the Emperor suddenly appeared behind a Ninth-Order Curse Master, throwing a punch, and countless souls automatically gathered on the Emperor's fist.
As the Emperor struck the Curse Master, the souls instantly surged into the Curse Master's body.
The Curse Master's body rapidly swelled, and cracks appeared on his body; as a crack on his head widened, countless souls drilled out of the crack and into the Emperor's clothes.
When all the souls had drilled into the Emperor's clothes, the Ninth-Order Curse Master was left with only a layer of skin spread on the ground.