Obviously, this young man was Apartment Boss Q who had bid farewell to Jiang Ye and left the Court of Disorder.

And the ability he used... was the Nomadic Merchant's SSS-level Ultimate Ability, Free Movement!

That's why... he appeared near a living being.

It was just unclear, with so many players gathered here at this moment...

Who did Boss Q select as the displacement anchor point for Free Movement?

Anyway, his gaze wasn't clearly fixed on anyone.

When his eyes swept across the entire area, they only lingered slightly longer on the hunched old woman and the giant shadow phantom sandwiching the black human figure.

In the very end...

His gaze fell on the White-Robed Woman, and he greeted her meaningfully: "Zhou Yuling?"

"......"

The White-Robed Woman looked exactly like Zhou Yuling and had been using Zhou Yuling's identity to command these mutated Defenders.

However, she ultimately wasn't Zhou Yuling.

Her memories weren't completely shared with Zhou Yuling either.

Right now, she didn't recognize this person at all, but couldn't be sure whether Zhou Yuling knew him...

For a moment, she was somewhat unsure how to respond.

But...

The unfamiliar young man didn't seem to care about her response.

With a flip of his hand, he took out a miniature wooden doll.

The next second, he removed the talisman pasted on the doll.

Soon, the doll enlarged, transforming into a human shape...

And what finally appeared was actually... Jiang Ye's appearance!

This??

What kind of situation was this?

Both the White-Robed Woman and Xiao Hei hidden in her hair were momentarily stunned.

However, Xiao Hei's daze truly lasted only for a brief moment.

Because as this Jiang Ye clone was released...

His memories, and all the information he possessed, were instantly synchronized with Jiang Ye's clones outside the Court of Disorder!

In that instant...

Almost all of Jiang Ye's clones were momentarily stunned!

And after the shock, came a wave of wild joy!

First of all...

The long-lost main body finally had news!

Jiang Ye originally thought that even if the clone that entered the Court of Disorder could really return and send some messages out...

It was highly unlikely there would be news about the main body.

After all, in his speculation, news about the main body might only come out when the Court of Disorder was completely cleared, along with the triumphant returning clone.

He never expected...

Before the Court of Disorder even "opened its session," the main body had gained a certain degree of freedom through the "Formless Leaf"!

Even...

The special prison that confined the main body could no longer hold it, instead showing signs of being distributed early as an exclusive instance reward!

And the other information from the Court of Disorder, besides the main body, equally shocked the external Jiang Ye!

First was...

90,000 light clones!

Holy shit!

So he could actually use the milky-white gas to mass-produce light clones!

This was fucking...

Although this counted as an extremely shocking pleasant surprise.

And Jiang Ye was indeed quite delighted.

But to be honest, this situation also gave him a bit of a creepy feeling...

Because on that discarded clone he arranged to explore the "Safe Exit" in the red-lit elevator with Lin Ling, Jiang Ye specifically reserved 10 survival points.

That was to let the discarded clone carefully consider and generate new clones when necessary in a situation where it was destined to lose contact.

Whether to use them or not was up to the discarded clone's own choice.

Anyway, Jiang Ye had money now and didn't care about those mere 10 survival points.

However...

According to the current news...

If that out-of-contact discarded clone really generated 10 clones at once within the milky-white gas that caused it to lose contact...

Then, 10 light-element clones in one breath...

Damn it! That would absolutely attract Lin Ling's attention and suspicion!

The key point was, as a Defender, Lin Ling wasn't even afraid of light clones!

This...

Jiang Ye suddenly felt somewhat worried again about the situation of that discarded clone that lost contact along with Lin Ling...

Besides the method of directionally generating light clones.

The mutated clone created by Jiang Ye No. 1 in the Court of Disorder also caught Jiang Ye's attention.

Simply because the situation of that mutated clone...

Was incredibly similar to the clone mutation recently on the chessboard, led by the chubby guy and the little old man!

These two mutated clones, one inside and one outside...

Both completely black, both unable to move, both requiring external support to survive...

The mutated clone in the Court of Disorder relied on the Little Red Snake's support to stay alive;

While the mutated clone outside the court survived through the coverage of the Giant Shadow Phantom...

These two clones were clearly excessively similar.

And the generation method of the mutated clone in the court gave Jiang Ye new ideas—

He might ask Xiao Bai for more Blood Poison Corpse Water, and ask the chubby guy for more incomplete versions of the Chaos Crucible.

Afterwards, he could try clone mutation again!

Of course, without the support of the Little Red Snake and Giant Shadow Phantom, any mutated clones he created would most likely not survive...

But Jiang Ye could conduct experiments near the Cross-shaped Tombstone in the Reincarnation Graveyard.

Then take the opportunity to observe whether the Cross-shaped Tombstone and its iron chains would show any changes during the experiment.

Moreover...

Even if the mutated clone ultimately died, the death itself would also be a result.

If the mutated clone's "container" was truly higher level than other clones...

Then the final "corpse" it formed might also be unique?

When Jiang Ye's ordinary clones died from blood extraction, they were ultimately sufficient to form Formless Leaves!

Then what would a higher-level bloodless physical body turn into after mutation and death?

In short, this experiment with relatively low cost was still very necessary to attempt.

Besides that...

Formless Tree, Formless Leaf, Reincarnator...

And Privileged One, Forbidden Body, Rebirth Day...

All this information also gave Jiang Ye varying degrees of pleasant surprises!

Not long ago, Jiang Ye was still cautiously thinking—

A small Calamity like him absolutely must not offend big shots like the chubby guy!

But in the blink of an eye, he discovered...

The main body he thought was imprisoned had actually advanced so far ahead without the external clones knowing!

Not only had he enslaved Zhou Yuling through the trap of the "Formless Leaf."

But he had also obtained a large number of strong player clones!

He even relied on the Time-Stop Prison to make Jiang Wenxing, who was a Reincarnator, appear restrained!

Tsk tsk!

In an instant, all Jiang Ye clones outside that synchronized the information straightened their backs considerably!

The whole person felt somewhat lightly inflated...

Ahem.

Of course, so-called inflation was just one symptom of excessive joy.

When Jiang Ye quickly calmed down, he naturally adjusted his mindset.

Although the main body in the court was much stronger than Jiang Ye had imagined.

The main body's situation also concealed many risks.

Jiang Wenxing hidden underground beneath the Formless Tree was restless;

The upcoming court session was equally an unknown challenge;

And this Apartment Boss Q who seemed to have left the Court of Disorder...

Had he really left?

Perhaps he had other identity clones remaining in the court?

Jiang Ye didn't dare to truly become inflated.

He immediately prepared to follow the main body's idea and focus the external clones' efforts on the Mirror Palace secret realm, especially that strange Reincarnation Mirror Palace!

Of course, the exploration of this Abyss Restricted Zone was also of utmost importance.

The external Jiang Ye, the moment the clone returned, received a massive amount of information in his mind and flashed through countless thoughts.

And the White-Robed Woman, also because of Apartment Boss Q releasing Jiang Ye's clone, flashed through countless thoughts.

She even thought that this suddenly appearing mysterious strong player was going to use Jiang Ye as leverage...

But...

Just a mere Jiang Ye clone, what could it possibly leverage?

Unless the one he released wasn't an ordinary clone?

Or even directly Jiang Ye's main body?!

The White-Robed Woman's gaze falling on that Jiang Ye clone was filled with shock and uncertainty.

However, what she didn't expect was...

This mysterious strong player's attitude toward Jiang Ye wasn't the condescending superiority of a higher position toward a weaker one.

But rather in a relatively polite tone, he said to that Jiang Ye clone:

"I've brought your clone out safely."

"Then there are just two questions left, and our transaction will be completely finished."

Uh...

Jiang Ye wanted to say—

In such a public setting like this...

Directly conducting information-based transactions?

This... isn't quite appropriate, right?

But before he could say it, Boss Q stated directly:

"Then let's add each other as friends."

"Whenever you have time, you can use those two question opportunities anytime."

Obviously, because he was worried that when targeted by Jiang Wenxing, Jiang Ye wouldn't help him if he used Free Movement to appear by Jiang Ye's side, Boss Q's attitude toward Jiang Ye was quite good now.

Jiang Ye thought about it and felt it was acceptable, so he immediately added Boss Q as a friend.

The name displayed in the friend information for Boss Q was still "Wu Ce."

Jiang Ye was pondering whether this might be Boss Q's real name?

When he suddenly felt a sharp, fierce gust of wind violently assaulting him from not far away!

There was killing intent!

But this discarded clone of Jiang Ye was only level 0!

He simply didn't have the capability to withstand anyone's sneak attack here!

Clone swapping was possible...

Clone Sacrifice could also be used...

But...

Just as Jiang Ye hesitated internally.

In the blink of an eye, he saw...

Boss Q standing in front of him, who had just finished adding him as a friend...

Was directly wrapped entirely by the attacking iron wires!

Then in an instant, those seemingly ordinary but actually extremely sharp and terrifyingly powerful iron wires, through simple contraction movements, sliced the entire Apartment Boss Q into countless fine meat paste...

For a moment, a thick bloody smell filled the entire gloomy, damp, cold restricted zone space.

And where Apartment Boss Q was crushed into meat paste in death...

A Permission Iron Piece burst out!

Ah, this...

This Boss Q... died right after coming out?

This thousand-mile delivery of a head?

No!

Jiang Ye didn't think Boss Q was dead!

It was very likely just a staged fake death with Jiang Wenxing!

However, if it was fake death, why didn't Boss Q's death state turn into light points?

Jiang Ye felt some doubts arising in his heart.

His gaze fell on that Permission Iron Piece amidst the meat paste.

Then followed the iron wires, slowly turning toward that hunched old woman.

The old woman's wrinkled, weathered face showed no emotional fluctuations whatsoever.

Just the next second, the iron wires between her fingers lightly flicked again.

Immediately after, a large hand reaching for that Permission Iron Piece had its entire palm instantly crushed into meat paste by the entwining iron wires!

A piercing scream came through the air.

From... the young man Tao Sheng!

This guy simply didn't know the old woman's strength.

Probably still thought that his shadow phantom father was only slightly weaker than the chubby guy, ranking second in the combat power rankings here?

And the old woman completely ignored Tao Sheng.

After just crushing his right hand, her eyes drifted meaninglessly toward the direction of the Giant Shadow Phantom, then she said calmly:

"If there's a next time, it won't be just a palm that's simple."

As she spoke, the old woman's iron wires circled the Permission Iron Piece.

After thoughtfully wiping all the blood stains from it, she handed the iron piece to Yuan Qiu.

Speaking of Yuan Qiu's situation, it was quite strange.

Clearly, she had also entered the soil to explore the radioactive ground.

But Yuan Qiu didn't appear to have developed particularly obvious mutations.

Her whole person was still the same as before entering the Abyss Restricted Zone, sunny and bright, infinitely youthful.

Her movement of taking the iron piece showed some disgust.

Even when she heard the old woman say "Young lady can bind this," she frowned and said:

"Isn't a player only able to bind one permission identity?"

"Do I... really need to choose this permission identity to bind?"

"......"

This extremely humble-bragging statement made all the players present wish they could stab her to death with knives!

It was true that a player could only bind one permission identity!

But the problem was!

How many players wanted to bind a permission identity but didn't have the opportunity!

They simply didn't have the power to choose!

Being able to obtain a Permission Iron Piece was already great! How could they afford to be picky!

But this naive and innocent young lady...

Was simply fucking detached from the real world!

She actually wanted to choose!

She was worried this Permission Iron Piece wasn't worthy of her?!

Especially Tao Sheng, who just tried to forcefully snatch the iron piece, was so envious his neck thickened!

He secretly glanced toward the shadow phantom's direction.

After confirming that shadow phantom father didn't intend to seek justice for him, he finally belatedly realized...

This old woman's strength was probably unfathomable!

But such a terrifyingly powerful existence was willingly serving as a servant to that young lady?

Tao Sheng's gaze circled Yuan Qiu a few more times.

Jiang Ye nearby also looked back and forth between the old woman and Yuan Qiu.

He knew that Permission Iron Piece was the Privileged One's Permission Iron Piece.

Apartment Boss Q had practically exhausted all his efforts and racked his brains for this iron piece!

And this little old woman who instantly killed Apartment Boss Q...

Actually so generously handed the iron piece to Yuan Qiu...

Perhaps it was because this little old woman already had a permission identity and couldn't bind additional identities?

Or perhaps, the mass-producible Privileged One identity truly had pitfalls, and the little old woman knew exactly what those pitfalls were?

Or perhaps, Yuan Qiu as this special chess piece required the Privileged One identity for the old woman's subsequent plans to proceed smoothly?

Huh??

Wait!

If viewed from this angle...

Perhaps Apartment Boss Q was essentially following this little old woman's orders to exhaustively obtain the Permission Iron Piece?

So when Boss Q left the Court of Disorder, the target he selected for Free Movement was actually this old woman?

There might even be the chubby guy's involvement behind this?

From how easily the old woman handed the Ghost Valley Soul Shepherd Formation's Array Disk to the chubby guy, it wasn't hard to see...

The old woman and the chubby guy might have had interactions long ago, or even cooperation?

For a moment, many thoughts flashed through Jiang Ye's mind.

And Yuan Qiu...

She seemed to trust the old woman completely.

After receiving confirmation, she raised her hand.

But, looking at her stiff, greenish hand, she paused for a moment and reminded the old woman: "But I injected Blood Poison Corpse Water..."

If she couldn't bleed, how could she perform blood-drip acknowledgment?

The old woman said: "This isn't a problem."

But after saying this, her expression suddenly changed...