Chapter 1361: Greed

“Chase him down!”

“Capture him!”

Each of the beast True Gods was furious. Even the True Gods from Xuanyu Mountain were astonished. How could a Law Sovereign kill a True God in such a short time? It was simply unbelievable. Fortunately, the Law Sovereign had taken the corpse from Jiuyanze’s side; Xuanyu Mountain wasn’t in a hurry.

But Jiuyanze was in a panic!

“The bodies of our Jiuyanze brothers, more than thirty corpses, must be retrieved, must be retrieved!” roared the beast True God with three golden horns.

“Retrieve!”

“Retrieve!”

Over a thousand beast True Gods roared. After all, the number of True Gods in Jiuyanze was limited, and they were all familiar with one another. Among those more than thirty corpses, there might be brothers who had been close friends and comrades-in-arms. Dying honorably in battle was the fate of a strong warrior, but their corpses would still be given a respectful burial after the battle.

Now, more than thirty of their brothers’ corpses had been taken away—by a Law Sovereign! How could they endure such humiliation?

“Ba Kuh Tao, you lead the team to capture that Law Sovereign and retrieve the bodies of our Jiuyanze brothers,” commanded the beast True God with three golden horns.

“I will definitely capture him.”

Boom!

Streams of light shot rapidly through the sky, chasing in the direction Luo Feng had fled.

Fifty beams of light tore through the air.

…

“Heh, they really value me,” Luo Feng had already quietly changed directions multiple times in the weeds of Jiuyanze, reducing his speed to avoid any noticeable fluctuations, steadily moving away from the battlefield of the True Gods. Due to Luo Feng’s detours, the fifty True Gods chasing him were heading in the completely wrong direction.

“Fifty True Gods coming after me, not like those half-baked True Gods before. More than half of these fifty are wearing True God battle armor,” Luo Feng thought. Though confident, he dared not let himself be surrounded by these fifty.

After all, fifty True Gods was no small number.

Moreover, the True Gods in the Jin World were generally slightly stronger than those in the Cosmic Sea. And in the Jin World, their divine power wasn’t suppressed, so they could be even stronger—perhaps two tiers stronger. Even an ordinary eight-clawed beast True God could use secret techniques at the eighth tier and momentarily reach near ninth-tier strength in an emergency. Previously, when Luo Feng fought it, the beast had already been injured, so its strength was only at the peak of the eighth tier.

Without True God battle armor to protect it, it was hacked to death by Luo Feng.

“If I get surrounded by these fifty, it might be even more terrifying than being attacked by five hundred True Gods from the Cosmic Sea.”

“Even if I ride the Mausoleum Boat, I can’t be certain of escaping.”

Luo Feng dared not be careless.

Swoosh!

He stealthily changed direction, irregularly altering his path as he steadily moved toward the outskirts of Jiuyanze.

…

The war between Jiuyanze and Xuanyu Mountain involved too many powerful beings.

Over ten thousand True Gods were engaged in battle on both sides. Jiuyanze had dispatched fifty True Gods to capture Luo Feng, but this had little impact on their overall strength.

At the edge of the battlefield of True Gods.

Swoosh!

The squad leader was quietly retreating: “Fifty True Gods from Jiuyanze are chasing the rookie Yinhe, I must make sure they don’t catch me instead.”

Since his position was completely opposite to Luo Feng’s, the squad leader faced no danger. After several days, he quietly returned to the battlefield area of the Law Sovereigns, finally feeling safe. He began disguising himself as a tribal warrior from Xuanyu Mountain, blending into the massive, chaotic army locked in battle.

“This rookie Yinhe is actually this strong,” the squad leader thought while mingling with the troops, recalling the scene of Luo Feng killing a True God. “So powerful! I must use my mechanical stream treasures to even have a chance against him.”

“More than thirty True God corpses—what an enormous amount of military merit! Enough to exchange for another mechanical stream treasure. If I obtain another mechanical stream treasure, even a Samsara-level mission would be within my capability. Then I could safely train within the army, and once I become a True God, I could obtain even deeper inheritances, becoming even stronger.”

A glint of greed flashed in the squad leader’s gray eyes.

He wanted those corpses!

“How do I get them?” He immediately thought of a plan.

“Everyone,” he immediately sent a message through his communication talisman to the seventeen soldiers under his command.

“Captain.”

“Captain.”

“What’s the order, Captain?”

“Captain.”

They all responded.

The squad leader continued sending messages: “A few days ago, during the battle, the eight-clawed beast True God from Jiuyanze, who specialized in collecting corpses, was killed by another True God. At that critical moment, the rookie Yinhe suddenly appeared… he took the corpse of the eight-clawed beast True God! And then, incredibly, he escaped!”

“What!”

“He got the corpse of the eight-clawed beast True God?”

“The corpse collector?”

All the soldiers were shocked.

The squad leader replied: “Yes, that beast True God. Rookie Yinhe took the corpse, along with many treasures that fell from the beast True God, naturally including the treasure containing more than thirty True God corpses. That beast True God had collected over thirty corpses! Now all of it is with Rookie Yinhe!”

The seventeen soldiers, scattered across different areas of the battlefield of Law Sovereigns in Jiuyanze, were all trembling with excitement.

More than thirty True God corpses!

What an enormous amount of military merit!

“The True Gods of Jiuyanze are furious. Fifty of them are now searching all over the battlefield for Rookie Yinhe,” the squad leader continued. “They want to capture Yinhe.”

“I just saw it too, there were quite a few beast True Gods flying around, I was wondering… why were there beast True Gods flying around without fighting.”

“I saw it too.”

“I saw many beast True Gods yesterday.”

Each soldier responded.

The squad leader immediately said: “Now those beast True Gods are still flying around everywhere, clearly they haven’t captured Rookie Yinhe yet. And now the entire Jiuyanze has been completely isolated from the outside by Void True Gods, so Rookie Yinhe must be within Jiuyanze. Yet those beast True Gods can’t find him, so there’s only one possibility… he’s hiding among Xuanyu Mountain’s army.”

“Right.”

“Right, he must be hiding among Xuanyu Mountain’s army. Since Xuanyu Mountain and Jiuyanze are enemies, he’s hiding among the Law Sovereigns of Xuanyu Mountain… those beast True Gods from Jiuyanze wouldn’t dare to enter the army of Law Sovereigns.”

True Gods are powerful.

But when thousands or even more Law Sovereigns gather together, even a True God would dare not enter.

“Everyone,” the squad leader said immediately, “those beast True Gods can’t enter Xuanyu Mountain’s army, but we can. We should now start spreading out to search. Once we find Rookie Yinhe… immediately notify the other soldiers. We will quickly assemble and use our combined techniques to deal with Rookie Yinhe.”

“We probably can’t kill Rookie Yinhe?”

“Rookie Yinhe is very strong.”

The soldiers responded one by one.

The squad leader said: “I know, killing him is difficult. But he is most afraid of being exposed now! As long as we threaten him… force him to hand over most of the True God corpses, he can keep a few. If he dares not hand them over… let the beast True Gods know where he is, and he is doomed.”

“Right, we probably can’t gather enough military merit. Either way, we might as well threaten him! Drag him down with us!”

“He will definitely hand them over.”

“He has so many True God corpses, I just need one.”

“Force him to hand them over.”

One by one, the soldiers immediately became filled with desire.

The squad leader’s eyes revealed a cold glint as he observed the spreading message through the communication talisman. Everything was going as he had predicted. He hadn’t even mentioned that it was Rookie Yinhe who had killed the beast True God head-on. Without that detail, his seventeen subordinates naturally remained highly motivated and unafraid of Luo Feng.

“Although Rookie Yinhe is strong, each of these soldiers is wearing True God battle armor. It won’t be easy to kill him,” the squad leader thought secretly. “They know I might be using them, but for the sake of the military mission, they will still go all out.”

“No matter what… most of these True God corpses will belong to me.” There was a trace of madness in the squad leader’s eyes.

He had originally planned to befriend Luo Feng.

But faced with the temptation of a huge amount of military merit, he chose another path.

After all…

Personal strength was the greatest guarantee of survival.

…

“We can’t find him.”

“The Law Sovereign has disappeared, we can’t find him at all.” Beasts True Gods were scattered throughout the Jiuyanze battlefield, searching rapidly.

“He must be hiding in Xuanyu Mountain’s army, hiding among the masses of Law Sovereigns.”

“It must be!”

The beast True Gods all guessed this, but even knowing this, they dared not enter the massive armies of Law Sovereigns.

…

Whether it was the beast True Gods or the squad leader and his soldiers, they all guessed that Luo Feng was hiding in Xuanyu Mountain’s army.

And indeed, that was the case.

“Hiding elsewhere still carries the risk of being discovered. But here… they know I am here, yet the beast True Gods dare not enter.” Around Luo Feng, countless tribal warriors roared, fighting fiercely against hordes of beasts. Luo Feng was just one among tens of thousands of tribal warriors.

It seemed like chaotic, disorderly fighting.

But if a True God dared to charge in, if a beast True God rushed in, all the tribal warriors would instinctively unite in attack, sweeping through. If a tribal True God attacked, then all the Law Sovereign beasts would instinctively unite in attack, sweeping through as well.

This was an unspoken rule!

Law Sovereigns could engage in fair warfare.

But if a True God dared to enter, they could not blame them for uniting in retaliation.

“Jiuyanze, there are many such battlefields filled with massive tribal warrior armies. The beast True Gods know I am in one of them but dare not investigate. Once the war ends, I can leave Jiuyanze and quickly depart.” Luo Feng endured the days.

A month, another month passed.

In the blink of an eye, Luo Feng had been hiding among Xuanyu Mountain’s tribal warriors for more than three months. With Luo Feng’s strength, naturally, it was effortless for him in this army.

Just as Luo Feng was enjoying himself, waiting for the moment to leave—

“Kill the scum of Jiuyanze!” Luo Feng, tall and muscular, his wild hair flying like a savage, roared as he flew through the sky with other tribal warriors to engage in battle. Suddenly, his speed sharply decreased.

“Hmm?” Luo Feng glanced around.

Far away, a tribal warrior was looking at him…

“Yinhe.” The tribal warrior grinned, his mouth moving, though no sound was made, Luo Feng understood the meaning.

“It’s one of the soldiers under the squad leader from the three small groups.” Luo Feng immediately recognized.