Science Fiction

“Please thank God-Emperor Yuhe for me,” Luo Feng messaged. He now knew information about all the peak-level powerhouses in the Dark Saint World, as there were barely over a thousand known ones in total, and God-Emperor Yuhe was among them.

“Weren’t you planning to pay a high price before?”

“Oh, by the way, Brother Luo Feng,” God-Emperor Boxiu reminded him.

“Regarding acquiring powerful life-death secret treasures, I’ve also spread the word, and it’s now confirmed that five God-Emperors in Mount Cusp City are willing to sell life-death secret treasures. They can visit at any time. Or perhaps… when you meet God-Emperor Yuhe, you could also summon those five?”

“Alright, thank you, Brother Boxiu,” Luo Feng said, quite moved.

Relying solely on the Heart of Immortality and the Palm-sized World, his combat methods were still too simple. If he had a few more potent secret treasures, even just by combining them, his strength would improve.

Moreover, these secret treasures contained higher-level profound mysteries, which would be beneficial for his cultivation.

“It’s nothing,”

Boxiu didn’t mind at all. His three teammates had gone to Rainfall City and spoken with Palace Master Yuanxiang! As a result, they understood Luo Feng well, knowing he had indeed grown to this level in a very short time! The three of them had secretly discussed following God-Emperor Luo Feng for a period.

As long as God-Emperor Luo Feng hadn’t escaped the cage, they would patiently continue to follow him!

The three of them didn’t spread any information about Luo Feng, and Palace Master Yuanxiang, having fully returned to the Source World, also didn’t spread this news.

In a small cave-dwelling in the outer reaches of Mount Cusp City, a man in a light white robe, God-Emperor Jixiu, received a message.

“God-Emperor Luo Feng has summoned me to buy my life-death secret treasure!” Jixiu’s face lit up with joy. He exhaled.

He didn’t dare to hesitate and immediately left the small cave-dwelling.

Jixiu looked up at the sky. Black snowflakes drifted down, bone-chillingly cold.

But Jixiu was now filled with excitement and joy: “Finally, I’ve met a peak-level existence willing to acquire my life-death secret treasure. Perhaps I can make a huge profit from this!”

The price of such powerful secret treasures varied greatly depending on the buyer. The bids from God-Emperors at the late enlightenment stage, half-Chaos enlightenment stage, and peak-level existences differed significantly.

God-Emperors at the late enlightenment stage were usually stingy, starting negotiations from two or three billion Chaos Crystals, with very small increments. There was no other way; they were simply too poor! A few billion Chaos Crystals already meant emptying all their accumulated wealth. Even the elites among them, those who comprehended two late God-Emperor level Daos, like the Lord of the Swarm… they still had to carefully calculate every few billion Chaos Crystals!

Half-Chaos enlightenment stage cultivators, like Pavilion Master Weiyang and Palace Master Gaican, might have accumulated tens of billions of Chaos Crystals over long epochs. The price of a powerful secret treasure was naturally something they had to calculate carefully. Only peak-level existences could afford to be ‘generous’.

They were willing to pay a sufficient premium for the secret treasures they needed.

Mind and Soul System.

“I hope this God-Emperor Luo Feng’s so-called high price acquisition offers a bit more,” Jixiu thought.

Even a small amount of wealth from God-Emperor Luo Feng could be all the wealth Jixiu had painstakingly accumulated over endless epochs.

Jixiu flew along, soaring through a world of black ice and snow, finally arriving at the core area of Mount Cusp City. Each cave-dwelling here was much larger, and the formations arranged were even more formidable.

“Come in quickly, you’re the last one to arrive.”

“God-Emperor Luo Feng is currently meeting with God-Emperor Yuhe. The five of you can wait here for a moment.”

Upon arriving at God-Emperor Boxiu’s cave-dwelling, Jixiu was led by a puppet servant to a side hall, where several other God-Emperors had already gathered.

Jixiu’s gaze swept across the room.

Of the five God-Emperors waiting there, three were at the ‘late God-Emperor enlightenment stage,’ and two were at the ‘half-Chaos enlightenment stage.’ All of them were patiently waiting, without the slightest impatience.

Luo Feng was currently hosting God-Emperor Yuhe.

God-Emperor Yuhe had black feathers all over his body and the head of a bird!

Cultivators might come from various races, but they generally preferred to transform into forms similar to ‘Senior Yuan’ and others. Maintaining their original racial form, like God-Emperor Yuhe, was quite rare.

“This World Origin Bead is also part of my spoils of war. It’s been in my hands for hundreds of millions of epochs, and I haven’t used it. Now that Brother Luo Feng needs it… it seems to be fated with Brother Luo Feng.”

God-Emperor Yuhe, with his pointed beak, smiled and carefully observed Luo Feng.

Although the peak-level existences in Mount Cusp City didn’t understand Luo Feng as well as Palace Master Yuanxiang, God-Emperor Boxiu, and a few others, they could confirm one thing:

Luo Feng was already a peak-level existence before he came to the Dark Saint World! This alone was enough to make other peak-level existences wary. When facing Luo Feng, they naturally lowered their posture.

Only the City Lord’s faction, God-Emperor Yang Xu’s faction, and the Eight Heavenly Wolves, the three most powerful forces in the city, had enough confidence when facing Luo Feng!

“Thank you, Brother Yuhe,” Luo Feng said with a slight smile. “I truly need this World Origin Bead for my current cultivation.”

Luo Feng and God-Emperor Yuhe chatted casually, while Boxiu, Baiyin, and Chizheng accompanied them.

“Brother Luo Feng has other guests, so I won’t disturb you further.” God-Emperor Yuhe had intended to show goodwill to Luo Feng this time, forging a bit of friendship, and after a brief conversation, he took the opportunity to take his leave.

Luo Feng also rose to see him off.

“God-Emperor Yuhe cultivates the paths of Death and Destruction! He’s famously ferocious; I’ve never seen him so friendly,” the red-robed youth, Chizheng, said with a laugh after the other party left.

“There are only a few in all of Mount Cusp City who can make him suppress his ferocity! Brother Luo Feng is naturally one of them,” Boxiu also said with a slight smile.

“Let the other five guests come over now,” Luo Feng said.

Soon, all five guests arrived.

“Greetings, God-Emperor Luo Feng. Greetings, esteemed God-Emperors.” All five of them felt pressure upon arriving.

Boxiu and his two companions were already peak existences in Mount Cusp City, holding extremely high status. Yet, they were all seated to the side, allowing Luo Feng to occupy the main seat, clearly showing the difference in status. “So, you intend to sell life-death secret treasures?” Luo Feng said with a faint smile. “Bring them out. I will offer a suitable high price. You are free to sell if you wish, or leave if you don’t.”

“Yes, sir.”

The five of them each took out the secret treasures they had prepared.

To cultivate to such strength, they had their own fortuitous encounters and obtained powerful secret treasures. However, not every powerful secret treasure was suitable for them.

Even if a secret treasure was suitable, sometimes they needed to trade ‘world-level life materials’ or ‘powerful secret treasures’ for resources! Ancestor Yanfeng and Ancestor Leiting had done such things. There was no other way; the two of them were quite poor in the Dark Saint World. Earning resources by risking their lives was too difficult.

Luo Feng looked at the five treasures before him.

One was a painting.

He exhaled.

Luo Feng’s thoughts permeated them, and he began to examine the five secret treasures one by one.

These secret treasures were primarily based on a combination of ‘life’ and ‘destruction,’ with some also incorporating other profound mysteries.

“For this alchemy furnace, I offer 20 billion Chaos Crystals. For the other four items, I offer 10 billion Chaos Crystals each,” Luo Feng stated. “You can decide whether or not to sell.”

The five God-Emperors all revealed expressions of joy upon hearing this.

“We are willing.” “Indeed, we are.”

All five of them were very satisfied with the price. For powerful secret treasures that usually sold for only three to five billion, Luo Feng was offering 10 billion. And for the alchemy furnace, which typically sold for nearly 10 billion Chaos Crystals, Luo Feng offered 20 billion.

In fact, even peak-level existences weren’t usually so generous with their offers! After all, Luo Feng had earned over seven trillion Chaos Crystals in one go, and with his strength, he could easily hunt lower-tier Chaos Lifeforms just by wandering in the wilds, which was why he could afford such a high premium.

“This God-Emperor Luo Feng isn’t just ordinarily generous,” God-Emperor Jixiu was also very excited at this moment.

He had discussed the price of his spear with other cultivators several times, and the prices were generally between three and four billion, but he had always been unwilling to sell.

This time, God-Emperor Luo Feng bought it for 10 billion Chaos Crystals. The premium was so great that God-Emperor Jixiu, even after toiling desperately for endless epochs in the Dark Saint World, might not have been able to earn as much.

The transaction was quickly completed.

In the quiet room.

Luo Feng looked at the five powerful secret treasures laid out before him, feeling quite satisfied. He knew very well that without a sufficient premium, these unique and powerful secret treasures would require considerable effort to negotiate for, and might not even be acquired.

A doubled offer was more than enough. If a seller remained greedy, Luo Feng would simply expel them.

Although he liked these powerful secret treasures, as their number grew, one more or one less didn’t make much difference.

“With these five secret treasures, combined with the Heart of Immortality and the Palm-sized World, my strength will increase significantly,” Luo Feng nodded in satisfaction. Of course, among these secret treasures, he valued the Heart of Immortality the most.

It was exchanged from the Infinite Space and possessed the strongest life-saving ability. He exhaled.

With a flip of his hand, he put away these powerful secret treasures. Luo Feng then took out the World Origin Bead. This black World Origin Bead faintly shimmered with a hint of purple light. After Luo Feng’s power permeated the World Origin Bead, he easily refined it successfully.

“What an excellent World Origin Bead! No wonder it can assist in developing a miniature Source World within the body, and even serve as the origin of a miniature Source World within the body. Its energy is truly abundant,” Luo Feng was very satisfied.

After refining the World Origin Bead, its power could easily be converted into his own energy.

The conversion lasted for three days.

Luo Feng’s physical energy reserves surged to a million times their original amount.

A million times the perfect divine body reserve! Now, wielding such a body, his strength didn’t increase, but rather decreased.

Luo Feng felt the strain, yet a smile appeared on his face. “This is a perfect opportunity to test some of the profound mysteries of the Mind and Soul System.”

Time flowed by.

Luo Feng alternated between consuming various wondrous auxiliary treasures, keeping his thought processing speed generally above a hundred times normal! His Mind and Soul System was also slowly taking shape over time.

In the blink of an eye, a thousand epochs had passed.

Some factions in Mount Cusp City had been restless, wanting to ambush Luo Feng when he left the city! However, Luo Feng had taken up long-term residence in God-Emperor Boxiu’s cave-dwelling and entered seclusion for cultivation, leaving them with no opportunity. They also understood that the wisdom of a peak-level existence would not easily grant them a chance to ambush.

Over these thousand epochs, Luo Feng had also exchanged battle merits with the City Lord’s faction twice, and a cumulative total of thirty million battle merits had been fully traded.

“Whoosh.”

Luo Feng’s cultivation chamber was sealed by layers of formations, but on this day, the sealing formations suddenly opened on their own.

Boxiu, Baiyin, and Chizheng naturally sensed the movement of the formations opening.

“Brother Luo Feng has emerged from seclusion!” The three of them immediately came to greet him.

They saw the familiar black-clothed, black-haired man step out. They were quite familiar with Luo Feng, but this time, as they watched him emerge, it was as if an boundless world was pressing down on them.

They actually felt a sense of suffocation.

“Hmm?”

Seeing this, Luo Feng immediately realized the problem. “I emerged from seclusion with my complete body this time; the oppressive aura is too strong.” Before, when he emerged to exchange battle merits, he had only sent a clone. This time, he had brought his enormous physical body out of seclusion.

With a thought, his powerful physical body temporarily retreated into the ‘Scroll World,’ an extremely powerful secret treasure he carried with him. What remained outside was merely a clone with a ‘ten thousand times energy reserve’! The oppressive feeling naturally diminished rapidly.

Boxiu and his two companions also felt Luo Feng’s oppressive aura quickly return to normal.

“Brother Luo Feng, it seems your seclusion yielded considerable gains,” Boxiu said with a smile.

Baiyin and Chizheng also looked at Luo Feng, both secretly alarmed.

They clearly remembered the ‘oppressive aura’ from moments ago. It was an oppressive aura that even the two publicly strongest beings in the Dark Saint World, God-Emperor Jike and Dao Lord Longjiu, could not possibly exert.

“Indeed, I’ve made some gains,” Luo Feng said with a slight smile, then gently shook his head.

“However, cultivation indeed has many obstacles, and I’m quite troubled by them. I plan to go to the large Chaos Hall in Chaos City.”