In a vast, silent sky full of stars, a giant black hole invisible to the n.a.k.e.d eye rotated slowly.

  It was mercilessly devouring everything around it—stars, meteorites, dust, and even light……​​


  Right now, however, a figure stood before this black hole, seemingly unaffected by gravity at all.

  If one were to observe from up close, they would see that this was a "young man".

  He looked to be thirteen or fourteen at most and was less than 1.6 meters tall, but he had a head of short white hair.

  He hovered before the black hole’s great mass just like that. His hands were in his pockets, and his eyes were slightly lidded as if he were waiting for something.

  Not too far from the white-haired "young man" stood six figures of various shapes and sizes.

  If any senior Gold Sickle members from Death Sickle were here, they would be able to identify these six as Death Sickle’s Blood Sickle members.

  Six out of the seven Blood Sickle members were present. Clearly, they were guarding Buried Heaven’s unification ceremony to prevent anyone from interfering.

  When Lin Huang traversed the void and showed up, the six Blood Sickle members immediately had their guards up.

  Sensing Lin Huang’s arrival, Buried Heaven slowly opened his eyes and nodded at him.

  Lin Huang nodded slightly in response, then turned his head to study the six Blood Sickle members.

  He had never seen the Blood Sickles before. However, judging from the intensity of their auras, all six were half-step Lords. Furthermore, among half-step Lords, they would be considered powerhouses.

  Meanwhile, the six Blood Sickle members were weighing Lin Huang up as well.

  Over the course of this year, they had naturally heard many stories about Lin Huang, this exceptional newly-emerged genius. Whether in his identity as Xie Lin or Xiu Mu, he had left behind a stunning record of battle exploits in Death Sickle.

  Not long ago, Lin Huang had anonymously accepted twenty-six missions. They knew about his consecutive killing of the geniuses on the Heavenly God Leaderboard in the God Territory, as well as how he had managed to successfully assassinate Shen Yu and Shen Jue despite a half-step Lord attempting to stop him.

  Right now, this young man had finally appeared before them.

  Naturally, the Blood Sickle members could not help giving him a second look.

  However, the more they studied him, the more apprehensive they felt. In fact, a moment later, their expressions revealed bewilderment.

  The six Blood Sickle members only had one word come to mind after sensing the aura emanating from Lin Huang’s person—impenetrable!

  Due to this peculiar feeling, two of the six could not help but try probing with Divine Telekinesis.

  Naturally, the probe attempts ran into a snag.

  Lin Huang’s current God’s soul’s strength was already at the level of a regular Lord. Not only that, he had a spirit-type Dao Weapon within him that easily blocked any attempts at Divine Telekinesis probes from the outside world.

  The two Blood Sickle members who could not resist probing had both their strands of Divine Telekinesis snuffed out easily by the Dao Weapon.

  After the failure of their attempts, the two gave an involuntary exclamation at practically the same time.

  After the remaining four asked about it via voice transmission, they could not help trying to probe as well. They encountered the same issue.

  All six Blood Sickles were looking at Lin Huang in an increasingly odd manner.

  Naturally, Lin Huang had sensed the six of them probing one after the other. However, it did not particularly bother him; he then took the initiative to greet them.

  "Xiu Mu greets the six Blood Sickle seniors!"

  "Young Xiu Mu, we’ve heard many things about you throughout this year, and now we’re finally able to meet you in person today." The first person to greet Lin Huang was a tall, thin old man. He was fully three meters tall and then some, while his body was as gaunt as a withered corpse. His skin was pale, and he looked almost bloodless.

  Although Lin Huang had never met any of the Blood Sickle members before, Death Sickle’s Gold Sickle authorization gave access to a limited amount of information regarding the seven Blood Sickle members.

  The man in front of him was one of Death Sickle’s founders. His name was Boundless Blood.

  He had been born into the Blood Protoss Tribe, which was considered a major tribe in the God Territory, and had a large population.

  "Truly, the younger generation has surpassed their elders!" The second person to speak was a long-legged woman of alluring beauty.

  Her body was almost no different from that of a human. However, several flame-like red tails undulated beneath her skirt.

  Lin Huang recognized at a glance that this was the only female among the seven Blood Sickle members—Hu Xian’er of the Nine-tailed Fox Tribe.

  The Nine-tailed Fox Tribe had been considered prominent for a time in the God Territory. At their peak, they had been regarded as one of the most powerful tribes in the God Territory. However, they had experienced a significant decline since then.

  The rest of the Blood Sickles did not speak, but Lin Huang saw one of them nodding slightly at him.

  It was only after Lin Huang had been promoted to Gold Sickle-level and obtained authorization to look at information about the Blood Sickles that he found out there was a human among the seven Blood Sickle members. The man standing before him was evidently this individual.

  Although only a few brief pieces of information were disclosed, Lin Huang knew that this Blood Sickle was called Gao Ming, and he was a saber cultivator.

  Lin Huang was aware that the reason he had been able to progress so smoothly as a human within Death Sickle was in no small part due to Gao Ming.

  It was because of Gao Ming—a human within the Blood Sickles—that such a massive organization in the God Territory like Death Sickle had never discriminated against humans. Furthermore, they had always accepted human members.

  Lin Huang nodded back at Gao Ming as well, indicating that he knew the other’s identity.

  As for the anomaly they sensed from Lin Huang’s being, the Blood Sickles did not ask about it.

  Every supreme genius possessed inherently matchless destinies and incredible luck. These were things others might envy but never achieve.

  In reality, the six Blood Sickles had vaguely guessed that Lin Huang might have a soul-type Dao Weapon on him.

  Very soon, the Blood Sickle members came forward one by one to chat for a while. The atmosphere was not as awkward as Lin Huang expected. He had initially expected that since the Blood Sickle members had higher status and were all half-step Lords, they would definitely be haughty in front of him, a mere junior. However, this was not the case. They seemed to sense that his ability was no weaker than theirs. All six Blood Sickle members did not treat him as a junior, nor did they put on airs.

  "When selecting a venue for the unification ceremony, is there anything particular that one must pay attention to? Why did Buried Heaven choose this place?" After they had become a little more familiar with each other, Lin Huang soon brought up his concerns.

  From a long way off, he had already sensed the giant black hole behind Buried Heaven. As he had heard a great deal about black holes during his past life on Earth, he still regarded this celestial phenomenon with some awe.

  "The process of unification releases massive amounts of energy, and one also has to battle raptors. It would cause destructive harm to the entire star zone. Naturally, one can’t select a region with a dense population," Gao Ming explained, "Moreover, there’s an advantage to performing unification near a black hole. It can absorb massive amounts of energy waves, which will significantly lower the possibility of being sensed by other powerhouses."

  "I see. So that’s why." Lin Huang had evidently learned something.

  After that, he asked some questions about unification, and the Blood Sickle members answered him one by one.

  Several hours passed by in this manner.

  When they sensed Buried Heaven’s aura beginning to emanate from him, Lin Huang and the others immediately stopped talking and turned in Buried Heaven’s direction.

  They knew that Buried Heaven’s unification was about to begin!