The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 249 - 160: 5th Rank Lords

"Indeed, the lords of other regions each have their own unique encounters, with a hundred regions’ lords, some are bound to stand out.

I have the advantage of being reborn plus a Dual Talent, and others have their own extraordinary Lord Talents.

Fortunately, this time I didn’t fall behind but kept up with this tier!"

Jun Lin looked at the names on the panel channel, feeling his blood boil.

He had entered the instance of the Immortal Cultivation World yesterday and, using the sect he once controlled as territory, managed his former legacy and completed 5th tier promotion.

With the support of Admirers, he, like Bai Yi, obtained the [5th Tier Promotion Permit], skipping the promotion-induced stupor.

He did not stay in that world any longer and directly returned to his territory.

As he had guessed, while one could cheat to advance in the instance, many buffs for the territory could not be carried over from world to world.

Instead, they were bound to the territory of the sect in the instance.

This also caused him to be strongly bound to that dungeon world, necessitating a return to fight for the world if it were attacked.

This was a compulsory draft, the price he paid for exploiting the world.

But this also had its advantages; because of this binding relationship, he also gained more time there and could re-enter that world in the format of missions, at the cost of dungeon tickets.

Even if his territory was destroyed, he could still retain his Lord status through the territory of that world.

Jun Lin had foreseen this outcome.

After all, in his previous life, he was a 5th-tier lord, also promoted within the instance.

Only this time, he entered as an Admirer instead of a Fearful.

It’s really quite a feat to succeed using such an irregular method of promotion; one can’t expect too much more.

Moreover, this wasn’t purely a disadvantage, as that world was his focus for future development anyway; gaining more authority there was beneficial.

Upon returning, he promptly organized his collaborator Su Su, who traveled back and forth with him, to coordinate the details of the territory’s promotion.

His gains there were not merely promotion, but also during the preparation period for Admirers, he received a message and found the tomb of a predecessor.

Though it was dangerous, and he and Su Su even fell into peril at one point,

fortunately, it proved worthwhile in the end, not only deepening his and Su Su’s relationship but also finally addressing the last impediment and taking the final step.

He also acquired a more advanced Immortal Cultivation Method.

Even though it was a path hypothesized by the predecessor based on his life’s experiences and was incomplete and unsuccessful at the predecessor’s time of death,

For him, it was a treasure.

As long as he could manage to complete it, using the predecessor’s experience as a guide, it could be a stepping stone to the 6th tier.

Even if he ultimately failed, it was a fine Immortal Cultivation Technique that could substantially enhance his own territory’s strength or serve as a reference for his own cultivation.

And this technique was also key for maintaining his strength at the 5th tier.

After all, post-5th-tier upgrades all depended on his own training and breaking through with experience points.

Without a special method of training, how could one merely absorb Magic Power that quickly?

Take the other lords of White Poplar City, for instance, Landon might possess some Mage’s meditation method, while the Corpse King seemed to follow a certain Martial Path from my last observations.

As for Iron Blood...

Now that he confirmed his strength, he knew he was unable to compete with them in this aspect and resigned to managing the lower-tier Lords; there’s no point discussing that.

As for Fan Mao, he’s baffling.

He also attended the meeting that day and saw the Tree-men Fan Mao prepared for battle, all 5th tier Elite Units, akin to mini-bosses.

But exactly how Fan Mao reached this level of strength, Jun Lin had no clue.

In both his past and current life, Fan Mao remained a mystery, just like the magic of the Plant Series.

His gaze returned to the world channel; as night fell, no new members had been added to the channel in over an hour.

The number finally settled at 31.

All were 5th-tier lords from various regions of the world, each the ’Protagonist’ of their own region during this time frame.

"It’s just a pity we can’t see regional affiliations and confirm who is an enemy.

But maybe that’s a good thing; otherwise, if our region had four 5th-tiers, it might scare people to death."

Jun Lin joked to himself, his expression relaxed.

In his previous life, although he experienced the subsequent lord chaos, his strength wasn’t strong, only enough to barely recognize some powerful lords who had advanced into White Poplar City.

Regarding other lords, he had no interest in discerning from which region they came.

After all, he couldn’t even defend against other lords, or he wouldn’t have been reborn.

His memory of the lord who killed him was particularly vivid.

He still remembered clearly how that lord had advanced on him with a katana.

This life, he reached this strength earlier but didn’t see that Lord’s name in the channel, which proves his currently leading strength.

As long as the region is open, he can definitely take revenge for his past life!

And it seems because there has been no new member joining, someone finally couldn’t endure the loneliness and sent out the first message.

"Hey everyone, how about coming out for a chat?"

The speaker was the last lord to join the world channel. Jun Lin, as the third to join, remembered the order in which they all entered.

Only for Yun Dao in front of him, he wasn’t sure whether Yun Dao just joined like him, or was a monster like Fan Mao who had already reached rank 5.

He personally tended toward the former.

He did have many lords to confirm with, everyone had been promoted during this time, but when this lord joined, it was all unknown to him.

From his perspective, it was even likely they were all veteran rank 5s, but the history empty of messages gave him confidence. As a newbie in this "circle", he dared to talk in this tone, trying to fish for some useful information.

However, while considering whether to reply, a new message popped up in the channel again, making him smile wryly:

"A mere newbie, is this how you speak to your seniors?"

"Cut it out, you only came in like ten minutes before him, I haven’t even started comparing seniority with you!"

If one just looked at the messages, it’s naturally the "senior" expressing displeasure at someone leveraging their seniority to dominate the newbies.

If it weren’t for him knowing that the two speakers were the last and second last to join the channel...

Obviously, everyone is trying in their own way to verify their guesses from the "elders" of the channel.

Seeing there might be a continued development, Jun Lin directly posted the record of the order everyone joined the channel, including the time with less than a minute of error, which instantly silenced the channel.

It took a long time for a message to finally break the silence.

"Since we’re all centuries-old ghostly talkers, let’s not make fool of each other here, what are the situations with Fan Mao and Yun Dao?"

"I joined ten minutes before Jun Lin."

The latter was naturally Yun Dao’s reply, clearly meaning: I don’t know what’s up with Fan Mao.

And it seems that Landon and Corpse King from the same region also decided not to disclose any information, not revealing Fan Mao’s situation.

After all, without knowing whether Fan Mao is willing or not, speaking rashly is the easiest way to offend someone.

Moreover, there’s going to be a Battle Zone challenge next, so within this channel, lords might become enemies, why would anyone willingly reveal intelligence?

In fact, not only him, but the other lords thought similarly, all aware of keeping intelligence confidential, without revealing much personal information; instead, they played riddles.

A group of people acting for two or three hours, turning almost into cyber siblings.

But Fan Mao remained silent the whole time; only the lord’s name hung there, becoming the subject others tirelessly implied and inquired about in their conversations.

In their silence, others naturally couldn’t know about a strange lord.

Instead, those participating in the chat inadvertently revealed some of their own messages, gaining some intelligence from other lords.

Exiting the channel, Jun Lin took a deep breath.

"Phew, didn’t expect that Fan Mao’s silence was the wisest choice in the end.

With everyone having their ulterior motives, slips are bound to happen. Even without a direct answer, intelligence could be deduced from their knowledge and speaking habits.

Yet Fan Mao, relying on his own mystery and the first to be rank 5 title, always maintained this oppressive atmosphere..."

Thinking that even in this life and past life, Fan Mao seems to be very cautious about his own intelligence, always radiating a sense of mystery, he came to a realization.

But what he doesn’t know is, it’s not that Bai Yi doesn’t want to show off in the channel, but the only two people who can handle the channel information in the territory are currently preoccupied.

After completing the preliminary technical research of the Heroic Spirit Hall at noon, Bai Yi proceeded with the experiment of superpower limbs as planned.

The process went very smoothly, and in just two or three hours, she produced five prototypes of sub-races, each possessing different external limbs.

They were the Feather Clan, Sea Clan, Cat Girl, Elf, and Fox Lady.

After finishing, Bai Yi first approached the hero.units.still in the territory, preparing to let them try.

Shang Ji was naturally among them.

The fusion process went very smoothly, taking only about ten minutes to complete.

However, Bai Yi thought, since it’s rare to come by, she decided to also complete the mind backups for the Heroic Spirit Hall for them, which dragged the time_out till now, deep into the night.

When she finally had a moment to herself, and upon Shang Ji’s reminder, she noticed the hustle of the world channel had long simmered down.

Shang Ji needed to go back and sort out tonight’s channel intelligence and quickly left with a few other witches.

Bai Yi tidied up the laboratory and left to rest, yet her mind was still pondering the suggestions the witches had made about the sub-racial limbs after the fusion.

.........

Sea Demon Witch: Possessing strong ice series talent, able to cast unique ice series talent abilities, particularly adept in ice and water spells, and unaffected in mastering other spells like fire series; their unique tentacles grant them formidable melee capabilities, but at the same time, they have special dual eyes...

[Note: The Sea Demon Witch is just too disgusting! The tentacles can fucking cast spells independently, combined with eye control abilities maxed out!]

[Note’s note: But please, Cat Witch, this is not a reason for you to bite and cling onto the adversary’s tentacles during the competition]