Swallowed Star 2: Land of Origin

Chapter 35: Chapter 34 He's Here

More than 500 days after Luo Feng secluded himself, a figure in a grey robe entered Huyang City through the southern city gate.

"Finally, I've arrived at Huyang City." The grey-robed figure flew leisurely, habitually enveloping himself in his small cosmic domain, making him undetectable by the city owner's mansion's constant surveillance and other nearby cultivators.

Accustomed to taking on assassination missions, he was used to concealing his presence.

"This is the border of Yu Kingdom. As a border city, Huyang is much more prosperous than the average large city." The grey-robed figure, having seen and known much, noticed that in terms of size, number of cultivators, and liveliness, Huyang City ranked high among the large cities he had visited.

Suddenly—

"Boom!" A colossal flying treasure streaked across the sky at high speed, churning the air and disturbing the surroundings.

"Quick, get out of the way."

"Stay far away."

Some of the ordinary True Gods piloting flying treasures hurriedly evaded, and even some True Gods of Void Space had no choice but to dodge to the side.

"In Huyang City, those who dare to charge around so recklessly are usually descendants of powerful families with some background."

"According to the rules of Huyang City, only murder is considered a serious crime; a mere collision caused by a flying treasure… will hardly be severely punished. At most, they'll fine some Primal Chaos Crystals."

The many cultivators were helpless.

Within the colossal flying treasure were a number of guards, six merry descendants from prominent families drinking, and musicians playing music.

"How's my musician? Not inferior to those at the Dream Flower Pavilion, right?" One of the descendants laughed heartily.

At that moment—

Unseen, the Source of Law was subtly manipulated, altering the laws within the range of the flying treasure. All beings—those prominent descendants, the serving servants, the musicians, the surrounding guards—silently crumbled into dust and scattered into the world.

The colossal flying treasure, no longer steered by Divine Power, drew an arc across the sky and crashed onto the formation of a distant cave mansion. It was blocked by the formation and fell to the street outside the mansion, causing a stir among the many cultivators.

"That almost hit me." The grey-robed figure flew past, glancing at the distant colossal flying treasure, "Defying one's superiors deserves death!"

For him, snuffing out a group of weaklings was but a mere thought.

The grey-robed figure continued to fly leisurely, indifferent to the incident.

Such occurrences were common in his lengthy life. He was used to snuffing out any who slightly provoked him during his assassination missions in different cities. Since he always concealed his form and there wasn't any past interaction, it was impossible for officials to identify the murderer.

"Huff."

By the site of the crashed colossal flying treasure, patrols of Huyang Guards rushed over.

"To think these descendants of great families were killed in broad daylight?" The arriving Huyang Guards were both shocked and angry as they carefully inspected the flying treasure.

Rumble~~~ A giant scale-covered Exotic Beast with three swords on its back broke through the sky.

"Commander!" The surrounding Huyang Guards saluted respectfully.

The giant black-scaled, sword-bearing Exotic Beast bore a figure on its head, none other than 'Gaowu Shui,' the favored youngest disciple of Commander Moli Xiao. Now, Gaowu Shui had a significantly stronger aura and was already an Eternal True God.

"I received the message that, including descendants of the Qumeng Royal Family, a total of six major family descendants perished instantaneously, and all the accompanying servants and guards also died." Gaowu Shui looked down, "Have you found anything at the scene?"

"Reporting to the Commander, there's no trace, nor any energy fluctuations from an attack," reported a captain of the Huyang Guards. "To achieve this without a sound, the perpetrator must be an Eternal True God."

Gaowu Shui stood on top of the three-sword-bearing Exotic Beast, gazing at the crashed flying treasure, while his small cosmic domain naturally enveloped the area for a thorough inspection.

"Killing without a trace, yet the treasures belonging to the victims remain inside the flying boat. Clearly, the murderer looks down on these trinkets," Gaowu Shui frowned. "The one who acted must be an Eternal True God."

With a profound accumulation of experience, he had recently made a breakthrough to become an Eternal True God. Because of his master, Commander Moli Xiao's favor, he immediately became one of the top ten commanders of the Huyang Guards. Currently, he was piloting one of the Huyang Guards' top ten Mechanical Treasures—the 'Three-Sword Sky-Splitting Beast.'

Compared to Huyang's Ten Great Legions, the overall strength of the Huyang Guards was significantly weaker, and the power of their legion-class treasures was also much lesser.

The Three-Sword Sky-Splitting Beast only required one Eternal True God and three thousand True Gods of Void Space to operate.

"The city owner's mansion has reviewed the citywide surveillance but found no trace of the murderer," Gaowu Shui shook his head. "If that Eternal True God is very cautious, the city owner's mansion won't be able to track them down."

...

"Investigate, find a way to check every trace and find out who dared to attack and kill our family's descendants!"

"Investigate, whoever dares to kill a descendant of the Jiang Clan must be thoroughly identified."

The six descendants of prominent families who died were from two of the Five Great Families, including a descendant of the Qumeng Royal Family and one from the Jiang Clan. Naturally, the city owner's mansion mobilized its best investigators to scour for clues, but in the short term, no discoveries were made.

The deaths of these family descendants mattered little, as over the long years, the members of royal families like Qumeng had become uncountable. Those in Huyang City were merely an inconspicuous branch of the 'Qumeng Royal Family.'

"It seems the descendants of prominent families I've killed were quite ordinary," the grey-robed figure flew casually within Huyang City. "So much time has passed, and still no powerful beings have tracked me down."

"Clearly, the city owner's mansion has not employed divination to find me." The grey-robed figure pondered; he was accustomed to assassinations and had tried every method to conceal the cause and effect, making it challenging to trace him through it. Divination was a more feasible approach, albeit at a high price.

He was capricious, striking whenever he wished and had even crushed to death the child of a Primal Chaos Overlord. That incident indeed caused great trouble!

Fortunately, that Primal Chaos Overlord had over 300 children, and the death of one did not lead to a particularly strong pursuit force being sent after him. This allowed him to escape the predicament with the life-saving techniques from his legacy! And that was how he ended up fleeing to the Yu Kingdom!

In the Yu Kingdom, he remained unchanged, killing as he pleased!

"I wish to purchase all information on 'Luo He,' the Eternal True God." The grey-robed figure flew mid-air, contacting via the Dark Hall's Transmission Order.

"All information on Luo He is worth 100 Cosmic Sand, do you confirm the purchase?" the Dark Hall replied.

"Purchase," the figure in the gray robe didn't care about the price, knowing that intelligence also has its levels, with higher levels being more expensive. And 'all intelligence' is even pricier. Fortunately, the Flame Wind Pavilion didn't have much knowledge about Luo Feng, so the pricing of this intelligence was not too high.

"Ying Cang, deduct 100 Cosmic Sand. You still have 829,200 Cosmic Sand remaining in the Dark Hall," the Dark Hall responded.

"Does your Huyang City have a bounty for Luo He?" the figure in the gray robe asked, not having found any through the transmission token.

"There is no bounty," the Dark Hall responded.

The figure in the gray robe was quite displeased and turned off the transmission token.

"The intelligence from the Flame Wind Pavilion is rather detailed." The figure in the gray robe also saw an image showing Luo Feng with six pairs of golden wings unfurled behind him, surrounded by the Primal Chaos Current.

"Based on the image, Luo He's six pairs of wings closely resemble the 'Primal Chaos Golden Wings' from the Mechanical Stream Secret Treasure! Judging from the battle traces, his clash with the Blood Python Association Leader shows he holds an absolute advantage, highly likely having grasped moves from the Primal Chaos Realm." This detailed intelligence also contained some conjectures.

The intelligence from the Flame Wind Pavilion had mostly figured it out. However, since the 'Perfect Divine Body' had not appeared in the Land of Origin before, the Flame Wind Pavilion did not consider this possibility.

Thus, naturally, there were deviations in their conjecture.

"Grasped moves from the Primal Chaos Realm?" The figure in the gray robe was unconcerned.

Among the pinnacle existences of the eternal true gods, with their innate talents and understanding of the Primal Chaos Laws, even without fully comprehending all the Primal Chaos Laws, it's possible to occasionally grasp certain killing moves.

"No matter how high the comprehension, a godly body struck by a blow must die," the figure in the gray robe pondered, "According to the intelligence, he should be in secluded cultivation within his cave mansion right now. The most cautious time is during seclusion. I must wait for the opportunity, for the moment he lets down his guard the most, to launch a surprise attack!"

…

Flame Wind Pavilion.

"Pavilion Master, Ying Cang has come to Huyang City. He just purchased the information on Luo He through the Dark Hall," the Deputy Pavilion Master walked up to the burly man.

"He's come to Huyang City? It seems that the one who murdered the six major family descendants today is this Ying Cang," the burly man said with a smile.

"It's just a pity that this information can't be sold," the Deputy Pavilion Master also said with a smile.

The rules of the Flame Wind Pavilion were harsh.

If they learned about the secrets of a customer through other channels, they could naturally sell it as intelligence.

However, if it was information about a transaction between the customer and the Flame Wind Pavilion, it was absolutely forbidden to be leaked. For instance, the information of Luo Feng purchasing artifact refiner materials worth 700,000 Cosmic Sand a while ago, the Flame Wind Pavilion would never divulge it.

Transactions must be kept confidential!

The operation of the entire Flame Wind Pavilion was monitored by a spirit formation, and even as the Pavilion Master or Deputy Pavilion Master, they dared not break the rules.

"He purchased the information on Luo He, probably to deal with Luo He," the Deputy Pavilion Master suggested.

"I've always been unable to see through Luo He; perhaps this Ying Cang can figure out his details," the burly man stated.

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Time passed, and before one knew it, Luo Feng had been in seclusion for over 1,200 days, with the second layer of the 'Primal Chaos Great Strength Diagram' nearly complete.

The first seclusion took more than an epoch, mainly because the growth of the godly body to its pinnacle took a long time. The actual body refinement process wasn't very long.

This second time, Luo Feng focused only on body refinement, so naturally it was faster.

At this moment, in the underground hall of the 913th cave mansion in Primal Chaos Armor,

Within the Star Tower, Luo Feng's towering, immense godly body of 18 billion kilometers had already taken shape.

The vast materials piled in the distance began to levitate, naturally starting to melt, and then merged into the towering godly body. After fusing into the godly body, Luo Feng also dispatched numerous thoughts to record the dense formation diagrams.

"The first body refinement just barely laid the foundation; it was relatively crude in all aspects."

"Now, the Secret Treasure structure is much more refined."

Luo Feng could sense the process coming to successful completion, feeling extremely clear.

His own godly body was an ultra-large Weapon Secret Treasure! The might of a 18 billion kilometers tall Weapon Secret Treasure was imaginable. The previous body refinement was rough, relying purely on size and the principle of 'Break Laws with Force' to have such power.

But now it was much more refined, and the power of the godly body was naturally much more terrifying.

"Buzz~~~"

As the body refinement throughout was completed, Luo Feng felt an innate pleasure, each gesture and each action now possessing several times more power than before. Even flexibility and speed had undergone a qualitative improvement.

"I've arrived in the Land of Origin and am still in a period of strength improvement," Luo Feng said with a smile.

Those top-tier eternal true gods generally have cultivated every aspect to the limit, with their blood lineage reaching the Ten Stages of the Eternal Realm, and their Secret Techniques reaching the limits of the Eternal Level. For them, progress is extremely difficult.

Luo Feng's 'Primal Chaos Great Strength Diagram' at the Eternal Level consists of three stages, and he had now only finished the second. For the 'World Breaking Nine Blades' at the Eternal Level with six blade techniques, he had only mastered three.

For Godly King Level Dharma like 'Duan Mie' and 'Dong Hua', progress was even slower, and for the 'Lie Yuan Technique,' the progress was the slowest, meant to be contemplated and enhanced over epochs of time.

"I'll go out for a walk to clear my mind." His mood jubilant from the successful second body refinement, Luo Feng quickly gathered the Star Tower and left the underground hall alone.

With a single thought, Luo Feng found the cave mansion eerily quiet; Morosa and Moyu Qingyan had not yet returned.

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Thanks to the new rewarding Alliance Hierarchs: Shen Wei Shen, Xi He, and Yong Yuan Bu Xiang.