Chapter 36: He Arrives

After Luo Feng’s seclusion for over five hundred days, a figure clad in grey robes entered Huyang City through the south gate.

“Finally arrived in Huyang City.” The grey-robed figure flew leisurely, his miniature universe domain instinctively surrounding him. Neither the City Lord’s constant surveillance nor the other cultivators nearby could detect him.

He was accustomed to concealing himself, owing to the assassination missions he often accepted.

“This is the border of Yu Kingdom. Huyang City, as a major border city, is much more prosperous than ordinary large cities.” The grey-robed figure, widely travelled, noted that Huyang City’s scale, number of cultivators, and bustling atmosphere ranked among the top of the large cities he had visited.

Suddenly—

“Boom!” A colossal flying treasure streaked across the sky at incredible speed, its passage creating turbulent air currents that swept in all directions.

“Quick, get out of the way!”

“Dodge further away!”

Ordinary True Gods piloting their own flying treasures hastily evaded, while even flying Void True Gods could only reluctantly retreat to the side.

“In Huyang City, those daring to rampage like that are the descendants of powerful families with significant backing.”

“According to Huyang City’s rules, only murder is considered a serious crime. If it’s merely a flying treasure causing collisions… these aristocratic scions won’t be severely punished at all; at most, they’ll be fined some Chaos Crystals.”

Many cultivators were resigned to their fate.

Inside the enormous flying treasure, amidst a contingent of guards, six young masters from prominent families were indulging in wine and pleasure, accompanied by musicians.

“How is this musician of mine? No less skilled than those from Dreamflower Pavilion, wouldn’t you agree?” One of the young masters laughed loudly.

Just then—

An invisible source of the laws was subtly manipulated, influencing the operation of laws within the flying treasure. The young masters, attending servants, musicians, surrounding guards… every living being was silently and imperceptibly reduced to dust, dissipating into the heavens and earth.

The massive flying treasure, no longer guided by divine power, immediately traced an arc, crashing and smashing into the array of a distant cave dwelling. The array blocked its further progress, causing it to tumble onto the street outside the cave dwelling, inciting a clamor amongst the cultivators.

“Almost crashed into me.” The grey-robed figure, still flying, glanced at the distant massive flying treasure. “Insubordination warrants death!”

To him, crushing a group of weaklings was merely a thought.

The grey-robed figure continued to fly leisurely, paying no further attention to the matter.

Such events were commonplace in his long life; he was used to them. He often visited different cities on assassination missions, and he would casually crush anyone who slightly offended him! Since he concealed his presence from beginning to end, and there were no previous interactions, the authorities were unable to identify the culprit.

“Hmph.”

Beside the fallen, massive flying treasure, squads of patrolling Huyang Guards arrived.

“In broad daylight, in the midst of the bustling crowds, descendants of powerful families have been killed just like that?” The arriving Huyang Guards were both shocked and enraged, meticulously examining the flying treasure.

Rumble! A massive, black-scaled beast, bearing three swords on its back, tore through the sky.

“Commander!” The surrounding Huyang Guards respectfully saluted.

Atop the back-sworded, black-scaled beast stood a figure, none other than Gao Wushui, the most favored junior disciple of Commander Mo Lixiao. Now, Gao Wushui’s aura was noticeably more powerful, revealing him to be an Eternal True God.

“I received a report that six descendants of prominent families, including one from the Qu Meng royal family, were instantly killed, along with all their accompanying servants and guards.” Gao Wushui surveyed the scene below. “Examine the site. What have you discovered?”

“Reporting to the commander, there are no traces, nor any energy fluctuations from the attack.” A Huyang Guard captain reported, “To achieve this silently and imperceptibly, it must have been an Eternal True God.”

Gao Wushui, standing atop the three-sworded, black-scaled beast, gazed at the fallen flying treasure. His miniature universe domain naturally enveloped the area, meticulously inspecting every part.

“Killed silently and without a trace, yet their remaining treasures are still inside the flying boat. Clearly, the killer doesn’t even look upon these meager treasures.” Gao Wushui frowned. “The one who acted should be an Eternal True God.”

He had accumulated deep reserves, and recently broke through to become an Eternal True God. Because he was appreciated by his master, Mo Lixiao, he directly became one of the ten commanders of the Huyang Guards. Currently, he was riding one of the ten mechanical treasures of the Huyang Guards, the ‘Three-Sword Sky-Rending Beast.’

Compared to the ten major legions of the Huyang Army, the Huyang Guards were much weaker overall, and this type of legion treasure was significantly less powerful.

The Three-Sword Sky-Rending Beast only required one Eternal True God and three thousand Void True Gods to control.

“The City Lord’s Manor is investigating scenes of monitoring of the entire city, but they haven’t discovered any traces of the murderer.” Gao Wushui lightly shook his head. “If that Eternal True God is very careful, the City Lord’s Manor will not be able to find out at all.”

…

“Investigate! Find a way to investigate every trace! Who exactly acted, killing the descendants of my family!”

“Investigate! Dare to kill the descendants of my Jiang Clan, we must investigate thoroughly.”

Of the six dead scions, two came from the five great clans: one was a descendant of the Qu Meng royal family, and the other was a descendant of the Jiang Clan. The City Lord’s Manor naturally mobilized reconnaissance experts to investigate various clues, but found nothing in the short term.

The deaths of these aristocratic sons were not a big deal. After all, like the Qu Meng royal family, after a long period of time, there are countless descendants. Those in Huyang City were only an insignificant branch of the ‘Qu Meng royal family’.

“Looks like the aristocratic descendants I killed had fairly ordinary identities.” The grey-robed figure flew leisurely within Huyang City. “It’s been so long, and no powerful expert has tracked me here.”

“Apparently, the City Lord’s Manor hasn’t attempted to deduce the heavenly secrets to find me.” The grey-robed figure pondered. He frequently carried out assassinations, so he did everything possible to conceal cause and effect, making it difficult to track him through it. Heavenly secret deduction was an easier method to realize, but the cost was very high.

He was capricious, acting on impulse, and had even crushed a child of a Chaos Dominator. That time, he stirred up a huge disaster!

Fortunately, that Chaos Dominator had over 300 children, and the power dispatched to hunt him down for the death of one child wasn’t too strong. He relied on life-saving secret techniques passed down from his bloodline to escape! That was why he fled to the Yu Kingdom!

Having arrived in the Yu Kingdom, he remained the same, killing whenever he pleased!

“I want to purchase all information regarding ‘Eternal True God Luo He’.” The grey-robed figure flew in mid-air, contacting Dark Palace via transmission token.

“All information on Luo He is valued at 100 universe sand. Confirm purchase?” Dark Palace responded.

“Purchase.” The grey-robed figure didn’t care about the price. Intelligence was graded, with higher grades being more expensive. ‘All information’ was even more exorbitant. Fortunately, Yanfeng Pavilion didn’t know much about Luo Feng, so this information wasn’t priced too high. “Ying Cang, deducting 100 universe sand, you still have 829200 universe sand stored in Dark Palace,” Dark Palace responded.

“Does your Huyang City have a bounty on Luo He?” The grey-robed figure inquired, having failed to find any via the transmission token.

“No bounty,” Dark Palace replied.

The grey-robed figure, quite displeased, closed the transmission token.

“Yanfeng Pavilion’s information is fairly detailed.” The grey-robed figure saw an image of Luo Feng with six golden wings unfurled behind him, surrounded by chaotic energy.

“Based on the image, Luo He’s six wings closely resemble the singular mechanical flow treasure ‘Chaos Golden Wings’! Judging from the traces of battle, he had an absolute advantage in his confrontation with Blood Python Guild Leader, likely comprehending a Chaos Realm technique.” The detailed intelligence also included some speculation.

Yanfeng Pavilion’s information had surmised seventy to eighty percent of the truth. However, ‘perfect divine body’ had never appeared in the Origin Continent before, so Yanfeng Pavilion had not considered this possibility.

The speculation naturally contained deviations.

“Comprehended a Chaos Realm technique?” The grey-robed figure didn’t care.

Among the supreme existences in Eternal True Gods, some, based on their bloodline talent or their understanding of chaos laws, could occasionally comprehend a particular killing move, even without fully comprehending the entire chaos law.

“No matter how high his comprehension is, he will die if my divine body hits.” The grey-robed figure thought, “According to the information, he should be in seclusion in his cave dwelling right now. The time of seclusion is the most cautious time. I have to wait for the opportunity, wait for his most relaxed moment, and then make a surprise attack!”

…

Yanfeng Pavilion.

“Pavilion Master, Ying Cang has come to Huyang City. He just purchased Luo He’s intelligence through Dark Palace.” The Deputy Pavilion Master walked to the side of the burly man.

“He came to Huyang City? It seems that Ying Cang killed the six prominent family scions today.” The burly man said with a smile.

“It’s a pity that this intelligence cannot be sold.” The Deputy Pavilion Master also smiled.

Yanfeng Pavilion’s rules were strict.

If they learned about a customer’s secrets from other channels, they could naturally sell it as intelligence.

However, if it was information on transactions between customers and Yanfeng Pavilion, Yanfeng Pavilion absolutely prohibited its leakage. For example, Luo Feng recently purchased forging materials worth 700,000 universe sand, and Yanfeng Pavilion would never leak that information.

Transactions must be kept confidential!

The entire operation of Yanfeng Pavilion was monitored by array spirits, and even the Pavilion Master and Deputy Pavilion Master dared not break the rules.

“He purchased Luo He’s intelligence, probably to deal with Luo He.” The Deputy Pavilion Master said.

“I have never been able to see through Luo He, and this Ying Cang may be able to figure out his details.” The burly man said.

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As time passed, Luo Feng had been in seclusion for more than twelve hundred days, and the second level of the “Chaotic Great Strength Diagram” was about to be fully completed.

The first seclusion took more than an epoch, mainly because it took a long time for the divine body to grow to its peak. The real physical training time was not that long.

The second time, Luo Feng focused on physical training, so it was naturally faster.

At this moment, in the underground hall of Cave 913 of the Chaos Armor.

Inside the Star Tower, Luo Feng had already manifested a towering divine body 18 billion kilometers high.

A large number of materials piled up in the distance flew up, naturally began to melt, and then merged into the towering divine body. After merging into the divine body, Luo Feng also separated out many thoughts and began to record dense array diagrams.

“The first physical training was just a reluctant foundation, and all aspects were relatively rough.”

“Now the secret treasure structure is much more refined.”

As Luo Feng was about to succeed completely, his perception was very clear.

His divine body was a super-large weapon treasure! A weapon treasure 18 billion kilometers high. The power can be imagined. The previous physical training, the secret treasure was very rough, purely relying on being large enough and breaking the law with force, to have that kind of power.

Now it is much more precise, and the divine body’s power is naturally much more terrifying.

“Buzz!”

With the complete physical training of his whole body, Luo Feng had a sense of pleasure from the bottom of his heart. A wave of his hand and a move of his foot had several times the power than before. Even agility and speed had a qualitative improvement.

“Since I came to the Origin Continent, I am still in a period of strength improvement.” Luo Feng smiled.

Those top Eternal True Gods generally cultivated all aspects to the limit, their bloodlines reached the tenth level of eternity, and their secret techniques reached the limit of the eternal level, making progress very difficult.

Luo Feng’s “Chaotic Great Strength Diagram” had three eternal level realms, and he had only completed the second level at the moment. Like the “Boundary Breaking Nine Blades”, he had only mastered three of the six eternal level blade techniques.

Like “Severance” and “Donghua” and other divine king level techniques, progress was even slower. The progress of “Lie Yuan Technique” was even slower, and it would take a time unit of “epoch” to slowly comprehend and improve.

“Go out for a walk.” With the success of the second physical training, Luo Feng was in a good mood. He quickly put away the Star Tower and left the underground hall alone.

With a thought, Luo Feng found that the cave dwelling was very quiet, and Mo Luosa and Mo Yu Qingyan had not returned yet.