Chapter 55: Bounty

Luo Feng had originally been drinking and watching with interest from the side, for due to his Master Shanke, he might one day clash with the rulers of the Food Nation. But he held no great animosity toward other cultivators of the Food Nation.

But when they began slaughtering weak True Gods without restraint, Luo Feng’s killing intent surged.

“Two nations contend, each relying on their own skill! But slaughtering the weak… you’re all scum!” Luo Feng’s eyes turned icy as he began searching the hidden chamber of the Yanfeng Guild for the bounty on “Yu Tianyi.”

The bounty tasks listed here in Huyang City were all those received by the Yanfeng Guild’s Huyang branch! Bounties from other major cities or even other nations were not automatically sent to all clients.

“The bounty on Yu Tianyi is 500,000 Cosmic Sands?” Luo Feng immediately found it and claimed the bounty at once.

Not everyone could have a bounty, for the minimum reward was always “10,000 Cosmic Sands!” The reward had to remain locked in the Yanfeng Guild until the task was completed. Thus, the vast majority of Eternal True Gods had no bounty tasks.

Luo Feng himself had never had a bounty task until now.

“This Luohe Shenjun, merely by using his domain technique, crushed a top-tier Eternal True God. Is his mechanical-stream treasure particularly unique?” Yu Tianyi speculated.

Some combined mechanical-stream treasures could condense divine power to rival chaotic divine power, then unleash chaotic techniques with such overwhelming force.

“The Blood Serpent Guild Master’s final message claimed Luohe Shenjun’s mechanical-stream treasure was worth at least five million Cosmic Sands. Perhaps it’s true.” Yu Tianyi thought, and this stirred her interest.

Yu Tianyi glanced downward; now only one of her subordinates remained alive—the Eternal True God who wielded Thunder.

This Eternal True God, who commanded Thunder, possessed the mechanical-stream treasure “Thunder Core,” and after eons of cultivation, had unlocked its potential to an extremely high level.

In strength, he was no less than the Blood Serpent Guild Master.

But now, suppressed by Huyang City’s formation and pinned down by the Chaos Domain of the Death-Wu Wings, he had crashed to the ground, bound and crushed by chaotic air currents, unable to move.

“Yu Tian Shenjun, save me, save me!” the Eternal True God sent a mental plea.

Hu!

Countless strands of snow-white threads coalesced in the air, wrapping around the Eternal True God and swiftly carrying him away.

“You leave first. I’ll test this Luohe Shenjun.” Yu Tianyi, her body of ice, stood midair and projected her voice from afar.

“Yu Tian Shenjun, be careful.” The Thunder Eternal True God, being carried away, exhaled a silent breath of relief.

“Run?”

Luo Feng, standing before the hall’s entrance, moved. With a single step, using the “Ten Thousand Worlds Dash Token” obtained from Ying Cang, he traversed space and appeared near the snow-white-thread-wrapped Thunder Eternal True God.

“No—” The Thunder Eternal True God stared in disbelief as Luo Feng suddenly materialized beside him.

“Hmph!”

Luo Feng extended his hand; his five fingers sharpened like five blades, piercing straight through the snow-white threads and into the Eternal True God’s chest, seizing his True God Heart.

Pu!

The True God Heart had already shattered!

Luo Feng collected the corpse and all remaining items; the snow-white threads naturally dissolved into nothingness.

Then Luo Feng looked up toward Yu Tianyi in the distance.

Yu Tianyi didn’t care about her subordinate’s death. She fixed her gaze on Luo Feng and spoke: “Traversing space? Does the City Lord trust you so much as to grant you the power to traverse space?”

Even when hiring powerful warriors, the City Lord’s mansion always remained wary, fearing betrayal in battle!

“Yu Tianyi, are you ready to die?” Luo Feng spoke.

“Since I began cultivating, no Eternal True God has ever killed me!” Yu Tianyi sneered. In an instant, countless blades of ice erupted around her, blasting back the Giant Jin Xiao, the Three-Sword Shatterbeast, and the Knife-Winged Devourer.

“I’ve heard your sword techniques have reached the Chaos realm. Conveniently, I know a few sword techniques too.”

“You know sword techniques?” Yu Tianyi flickered away, instantly distancing herself from the Giant Jin Xiao, the Three-Sword Shatterbeast, and the Knife-Winged Devourer.

This left General Jin Xiao and Gao Wu Shui exhausted—even with their legion mechanical-stream treasures, they were utterly outclassed by such an overwhelming Eternal True God.

Three against one, aided by Huyang City’s formation, and they were still suppressed! Now, shaking them off was effortless.

“Die!”

Yu Tianyi lunged forward, summoning nine blades of ice before her. The nine blades seemed ready to slice open heaven and earth, rushing at Luo Feng with unstoppable force.

“Hmm?” Luo Feng felt the surrounding space completely sealed—he had nowhere to dodge before those nine blades!

“For ambush and assassination, Ying Cang has the edge. But in direct combat, Yu Tianyi is even stronger.” Since he couldn’t dodge, Luo Feng didn’t try. Instead, he used his Chaos Domain’s perception to gauge her power.

When the nine ice blades reached his body, Luo Feng suddenly surged upward, his eyes blazing: “Ten Directions, Infinite!”

Facing the nine ice blades’ assault, Luo Feng used his own divine body as a blade and unleashed the only purely defensive sword technique from the “Nine Breakthrough Blades”: “Ten Directions, Infinite Blade!”

“Wum wum wum~~~” His entire divine body became like a blade, terrifying force swirling across his surface, forming thick layers of sword shadows.

The sword shadows piled upon one another, making Luo Feng’s figure appear blurred.

“Hmph.”

Yu Tianyi had full confidence in her strength. The nine ice blades sought to slice and shatter all, striking Luo Feng’s body! As they cut through the layered sword shadows, their power diminished sharply; when they finally struck his divine body, they left only faint marks on the skin of his perfectly refined third-stage body—marks that vanished instantly.

“Even ‘Ten Directions, Infinite Blade’ using my body alone still scratched me a little.” Luo Feng thought.

After twenty-plus eons of cultivation, Luo Feng was far stronger than when he fought Ying Cang. He hadn’t even activated “Annihilation” to burn divine power—only his normal third-stage perfected divine body.

This sight made the charging Yu Tianyi freeze, startled: “What defense technique is this? Layered sword shadows shielding him? My prideful ultimate technique couldn’t even wound him?”

“‘Ten Directions, Infinite Blade’ still isn’t strong enough.” Luo Feng thought. The six Eternal-level techniques of the “Nine Breakthrough Blades” grew increasingly complex. The earlier ones—Life-Death Blade, Return-to-Nothing Blade, Reincarnation Blade—were relatively simple. The later ones—“Three Aspects Shadow Blade,” “Five Directions Sky-Shatter Blade,” and “Ten Directions, Infinite Blade”—all fused multiple meanings, deepening Luo Feng’s understanding of Chaotic Laws.

But they still fell short of true Chaos-level sword techniques.

!

“Luohe, it seems you possess a set of combined mechanical-stream treasures—domain, defense, traversal… all proficient.” Yu Tianyi sneered. “What’s the point of relying on artifacts? I’m done playing with you today.”

Hu!

Yu Tianyi shot straight upward.

“Think you can leave?” Luo Feng instantly traversed space, appearing directly before Yu Tianyi’s flight path.

“I knew you’d traverse space!” Yu Tianyi had already laid a trap. With a thought, countless snow-white threads embedded in space surfaced like a vast net, engulfing Luo Feng. As she trapped him, she swiftly fled into the distant night sky.

Luo Feng’s hand suddenly produced a blade. All the boundless power of his third-stage refined body flowed into this divine king-grade blade core.

A flash of blade light!

A blade of light, as if tearing heaven and earth, ripped through the snow-white net—and sought to cleave Yu Tianyi as she fled! She twisted nimbly, barely avoiding most of it, but her arm was grazed and instantly annihilated.

The power of this strike shocked Yu Tianyi: “How is it so strong? He feels even fiercer than my second brother!”

Luo Feng surged forward with the blade light. His third-stage perfected divine body granted terrifying speed, and with the Ten Thousand Worlds Dash Token’s control over space, his close-range charge left Yu Tianyi no escape.

“No good!” Yu Tianyi felt an unstoppable, terrifying figure crashing into her!

Boom!!!

Her ice body exploded into fragments, utterly shattered. Luo Feng passed through her body before stopping, frowning as he scanned the surroundings.

“She condensed an ice body to launch this attack. Her true body isn’t here.” Luo Feng carefully sensed all directions. “And she’s not within my Chaos Domain.”

Her true body hid far away; the one fighting was merely a body formed from ice energy. Killing her was extremely difficult.

This was merely the tactic of an Eternal True God.

Ancient Chaotic Sovereigns spent great effort on survival techniques and reincarnation methods.

Even a Divine King couldn’t claim he could utterly kill a Chaotic Sovereign. Even if he appeared slain, the Sovereign might revive elsewhere or reincarnate.

Like my Master Shanke—he chose reincarnation. After reincarnation, his karmic ties were severed. Unless he revealed himself, no one could recognize him. The rulers of the Food Nation now had a hidden great enemy!

Invading and devouring other divine nations brings many aftereffects. The Food Nation chose this path—they must prepare for these “aftereffects.”

“Of the five Eternal True Gods sent by the Food Nation, only three were killed.” Luo Feng landed. “To truly kill them… it’s not easy.”

“Luohe Shenjun.”

“The invading Food Nation forces have been completely crushed!” The Giant Jin Xiao, the Three-Sword Shatterbeast, and the Knife-Winged Devourer flew over, exhilarated. No wonder he was Luohe Shenjun—one move, total domination.

Luo Feng wasn’t particularly excited. He’d claimed Yu Tianyi’s bounty—and still couldn’t touch her.

“Such a fierce battle aura.” Luo Feng sensed distant, terrifying fluctuations from elsewhere in Huyang City. “Especially in the southwest—two supreme beings are clashing. Even without burning divine power, I’d still be outmatched.”

The terrifying clash in the southwest involved combatants surpassing Yu Tianyi and Ying Cang in power.

“Mo Li Xiao, I sense fierce combat in Huyang City’s southwest. Do you need help?” Luo Feng sent a message. “I’ve already crushed the Food Nation forces here.”

(End of Chapter)