Kill!
The souls of the merged avatars were more powerful than those of the God Kings.
These guards were annihilated.
Then, he, along with the souls of many merged avatars, headed towards the imperial palace.
Along the way, all obstacles were easily cleared.
At this moment.
Deep within the imperial palace.
The Empress Dowager spoke to herself, "I advise you to give up resisting!"
Zhao Ke snorted coldly and remained silent.
Hearing the commotion outside, the Empress Dowager's heart trembled.
Lin Yu's strength was formidable, and his mastery of the fusion technique was such that he was not much weaker than her at her peak.
The Empress Dowager said fiercely, "Since that's the case, I will have to forcibly refine you. Although this will result in a loss of some power, there's no other choice now!"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Ke's eyes became extremely cold.
She remembered that when she cultivated to the seventh rank, she accidentally discovered a crown appearing in her sea of consciousness. That crown was an extremely powerful treasure.
But when she refined the crown, a second personality was born within her.
Later, she realized that this so-called second personality was actually her past life.
The two shared a single soul, but the powerful crown had followed her in reincarnation and had activated her original personality.
In reality, Zhao Ke was the second personality.
And so, she was imprisoned.
Using the crown, the Empress Dowager's strength increased rapidly. As the second personality, she naturally also grew stronger, which was why the Empress Dowager had been unable to devour her for so long.
But now, the Empress Dowager was about to forcibly refine her.
Thinking of her impending death and remembering Lin Yu, a trace of tenderness flickered in her eyes.
I wonder!
How is he doing?
Alas, I will never know~
She closed her eyes, ready to face death, but with a smile.
Suddenly, a familiar voice reached her ears.
"It's a dream!" She opened her eyes, then closed them again.
"It's not a dream!" Lin Yu's voice rang out gently.
Zhao Ke opened her eyes and looked up, seeing Lin Yu's handsome face.
"You've come~" she said with a smile, her voice as gentle as the warm sun.
"Yes, I've come, and I've come to save you."
"Mmm!" Zhao Ke asked nothing, nodded, and leaned her head on his shoulder.
Lin Yu turned his head and looked towards the Empress Dowager on the other side, who was already being suppressed by the avatars.
"You deserve to die! Kill her for me!"
"Yes!" All the avatars shouted in unison.
The Empress Dowager was naturally no match for the merged avatars and was soon cornered.
"Damn it, you all deserve to die! I was so close to succeeding, I'm not reconciled!"
The Empress Dowager cried out in agony.
"Kill!" Lin Yu said coldly.
Zhao Ke got up from Lin Yu's embrace and said, "Don't kill her."
Lin Yu frowned but said nothing, knowing Zhao Ke had her own reasons.
Zhao Ke smiled and said, "She and I share a soul. I just need to erase her personality and keep her memories."
Lin Yu walked over and asked, "Can you do it?"
Zhao Ke nodded. "She tried to absorb me, so I naturally glimpsed her memories. Therefore, I know how. However, doing so will cause me to lose some power, which is why she has been hesitant to forcibly merge with me."
Lin Yu smiled, held her hand, and said, "I have the power. Go ahead!"
"Mmm." She nodded gently and walked to the Empress Dowager's side.
The Empress Dowager glared at her. "You have a good man, a powerful man. I haven't lost unfairly!"
"I, the Empress Dowager, lived my life alone. I never expected my reincarnation to encounter such good fortune. Excellent, excellent! I have no regrets in dying!"
She turned to look at Lin Yu, a hint of admiration in her eyes.
Why couldn't she, such a powerful man, meet someone like this!
She was not reconciled!
Her resentment surged!
Zhao Ke frowned and said, "He's mine, you can't look!"
Saying that, she used her body to block the Empress Dowager's view.
"Next, you will disappear, and I will exist!" she declared.
The Empress Dowager sighed, seemingly accepting her fate.
Zhao Ke continued, "I can merge with you, but with me as the dominant one, we will become one!"
This way, there would be no loss of power, and upon merging, they would have peak strength.
In fact, with the two merging, with Zhao Ke as the main body, the other party would be almost as good as gone.
This was also why Zhao Ke had been unwilling to be merged.
However, for the Empress Dowager, this was the best option, as she had no other choice.
She tried to look past Zhao Ke to steal another glance at Lin Yu.
Such a powerful and handsome man...
"I agree!"
Zhao Ke thought she was unwilling, but the next moment, she was stunned by her words.
"You agree?"
The Empress Dowager laughed. "I lived my life alone and never even tasted the experience of a man. If I merge, I merge. At the very least, I will still exist, even if I might not be aware of my own existence!"
"But at least, I can make up for the regret of not having a man!"
Zhao Ke snorted, "You desire my man? Then I'll just erase you!"
"How can you go back on your word?"
"I am a woman!"
The Empress Dowager: "..."
Although they quarreled, they eventually merged.
Before the merge, Zhao Ke said, "Lin Yu, the fusion will take some time. I'll trouble you!"
Lin Yu held her hand and said, "No one will disturb you. Don't worry!"
"Mmm!" She nodded sweetly.
...........
Leaving Zhao Ke's sea of consciousness.
Lin Yu shouted loudly, "No one is allowed to approach this place within a month!"
"Yes!"
The guarding avatars stood at attention.
Lin Yu did not leave and stayed at the academy.
However, the phenomenon of Zhao Ke's cultivation also shocked the world.
Everyone knew that Zhao Ke had broken through to the Golden Immortal realm.
Among the human race, besides Lin Yu, a second powerhouse capable of carrying the great cauldron had appeared.
This surprised powerhouses from all realms.
This Blue Star truly was a blessed land, producing Lin Yu and now Zhao Ke.
Was this place really so magical?
Lin Yu had not been idle these past few days either.
He was inquiring about the Empress Dowager's whereabouts.
An Empress Dowager of a Thunder Kingdom, and one at the peak of the Golden Immortal realm, should not be an unknown figure.
Moreover, the Empress Dowager had perished under the siege of countless monsters.
What were those monsters?
He was also investigating all of this.
Suddenly, he found related records in an ancient book.
"In the ancient era, the myriad realms were divided into nine rings. The inner ring was the center of the myriad realms, followed by the second, third, and so on, down to the ninth ring."
"Beyond the ninth ring, there was an outer ring where rules were chaotic, and countless bizarre creatures were born. They frequently attacked the worlds within the nine rings."
"The worlds in the inner ring were the most powerful. To resist the invasion from the outer ring, they led billions of realms in the nine rings and fought against the outer ring for countless years."
"But one day, a battle of unprecedented scale began!"
"Both the nine rings and the outer ring shattered!"
"The rings were gone!"
"The major worlds also disintegrated, drifting like planets that had lost their solar gravity."
"And the Thunder Kingdom where Zhao Ke was located was a powerful world in the second ring."
"It seems that even in the second ring, the emperor of a world was only at the peak of the Golden Immortal realm, not the Great Luo realm."
"Did all the Great Luo go to the inner great world?"
"It should be!"
After reading this piece of history, he had a clearer understanding of the myriad realms.
The battle that year shattered the rings, and the worlds drifted. It took countless years for the current structure to form.
Chaos had lost its largest inner ring world. Like a sunless day, it could no longer form rings.
The largest world at the core in the past was so vast that it possessed immense gravitational pull, causing the worlds in other rings to revolve around it, much like the solar system.
However, in a great battle, that inner ring world also shattered.
"I wonder if there's any chance of re-fusing a great inner ring world?"
"That's too ambitious. I haven't even reached Great Luo yet, so thinking about these things is useless."
"Right, I have enough upgrade points. I can raise my realm."