Chapter 3299 - 1130:

Chapter 3299: Chapter 1130:

And I believe that by the time Zhou Tian has the ability to recuperate from his injuries, whatever he experiences in that world now won’t matter much to him. As long as Zhou Tian recovers from his injuries in the future, no matter how many more times those heavenly thunder strikes him, they will be meaningless.

The Abyss World can indeed help Zhou Tian recover from his injuries, but no matter how powerful the Abyss World is, recovering Zhou Tian’s injuries is not without limitations. If Zhou Tian’s injuries turn out to be too severe, even relying on the Power of the Abyss World may not guarantee a full recovery of his injuries.

For the future war, Zhou Tian can indeed only serve as the brain; his own combat power does not play as significant a role as imagined. But no matter what, Zhou Tian’s combat power has played a certain role in past wars. If he really ends up severely damaged due to this invasion, it isn’t worthwhile for Zhou Tian.

So, no matter how unhappy Zhou Tian is at this moment, or how much resentment he has against that Lion-headed Deer, he will not hesitate to retreat when it’s absolutely necessary.

Since he can’t stay, he might as well retreat first. Despite feeling somewhat unhappy due to the previous experiences, it doesn’t hold much significance now. If Zhou Tian genuinely feels unhappy about those Lion-headed Deer, he won’t lack chances for revenge in the future. Even if Zhou Tian manages to annex this world, extinguishing the Lion-headed Deer would pose no difficulty for him.

Of course, how Zhou Tian will deal with those Lion-headed Deer in the future is one thing, but right now, due to the Lion-headed Deer, Zhou Tian must halt his actions. He has no method to kill those Lion-headed Deer, so he can only leave that world for now.

Although Zhou Tian’s actions were prematurely ended due to the obstacles from the Lion-headed Deer, it doesn’t mean everything at that time simply ended. Although Zhou Tian suffered losses at the hands of those Lion-headed Deer, such an unexpected encounter does not suggest it shouldn’t have happened. Even if Zhou Tian hadn’t come across the Lion-headed Deer, he might have encountered other accidents in that world; failure in the invasion action due to inadequate strength is not a big deal.

Despite Zhou Tian’s actions failing this time, it doesn’t mean there weren’t any gains.

Initially, Zhou Tian had no understanding of that world whatsoever, and even upon entering it, he was clueless about what to do to conquer it. Due to his lack of information about the world, he was merely driven out upon encountering a group of Lion-headed Deer.

Now, although Zhou Tian spent a shorter time in that world than he had anticipated, and did not obtain the information he originally intended to get, he did manage to stay in the world for a while. Saying that he didn’t gain anything from that world is certainly impossible.

At the very least, after entering the world and interacting with the group of Lion-headed Deer, Zhou Tian gained some understanding of the indigenous creatures of that world. Although knowing the abilities of the Lion-headed Deer doesn’t grant him freedom to act in that world, acquiring more related information could allow him to deduce information about all creatures in that world.

Once Zhou Tian obtains the information he wants, he will be able to learn a method of survival from the living beings of that world. With that method, it wouldn’t be as easy for them to drive him out of the world again.

Of course, the combat with those Lion-headed Deer was a form of gain for Zhou Tian, but when that gain will take effect is still uncertain. At the very least, the information he collected regarding the Lion-headed Deer currently doesn’t serve much purpose for Zhou Tian.

During that time, the real large gain for Zhou Tian came only from one unexpected source, discovered due to the heavenly thunder striking him. Despite being unexpected, even when Zhou Tian was driven out by the Lion-headed Deer upon acquiring that information, his mood remained quite good.

"It’s truly a treasure trove!"

Initially, to Zhou Tian, the world he entered was incredibly bizarre. Although overall, its strength was on par with any large world, internals were quite bad.

Continuous heavenly thunder fell, and even the indigenous creatures of that world seemed unable to escape such experiences. In such a macro environment, foreign inhabitants shouldn’t even consider it. Although the World Consciousness, like in Divine Realm, doesn’t care about the origin of creatures in its internal world, even if foreign beings entered the world, it’s estimated that they wouldn’t last long before heavenly thunder struck them down.

For ninety-nine percent of beings, the environment of the world was simply uninhabitable. Yet, such a harsh world was nonetheless incredibly strong; Zhou Tian couldn’t believe there were no reasons behind this.

Zhou Tian didn’t actively focus on those problems, because to him, it wasn’t important why the world was powerful. As long as he could eventually annex that world, its factors of strength would become Zhou Tian’s nutrients. If treating this world as ’food,’ though he wouldn’t neglect the reasons for its strength, he wouldn’t spend much energy investigating it either.

Until Zhou Tian, dealing with that Lion-headed Deer, was accidentally struck by the heavenly thunder, making him leave the world. But it was precisely this striking that allowed him to understand why the world was so powerful.

The heavenly tribulation is both danger and opportunity, frequently mentioned in cultivation novels, where enduring a heavenly tribulation instantly boosts one’s strength. In cultivation worlds, the existence of heavenly tribulations represents both danger and opportunity.

As Zhou Tian’s world isn’t a cultivation world, he’s never witnessed anyone benefiting from heavenly tribulations. Generally, once heavenly thunder strikes, either beings strong enough ignore it, or under the direction of World Consciousness, even powerful beings are struck dead by heavenly thunder.

Zhou Tian frequently experienced heavenly thunder attacks before, so based on past experiences, he thought the thunder was an attack by the world’s consciousness. Thus, troubled by various thoughts, overall, he believed to survive in that world wasn’t a matter of blocking these thunders but finding a way to avoid them, or he’d end up poorly in such a world.

Due to his considerations of how to avoid the thunder’s attacks, Zhou Tian focused all preparatory work for invading the world in that direction. With circumstances as they were, since Zhou Tian was solely aiming to win via that method, he couldn’t obtain information he should easily have acquired. (To be continued. If you like this work, kindly support me by voting for recommendations or monthly tickets at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)