Chapter 868: A Person’s Reputation

As soon as he fell, Luo Feng landed on the surface of a stone bridge, clearly having left the original forbidden space.

“This is…” Luo Feng looked around in astonishment.

In an endless void,

a stone bridge twisted and wound its way into the distance. This bridge had no supporting structures; it simply floated in the void, extending endlessly.

“Master, this is the passage,” Chongjian Wang also landed nearby, respectfully pointing toward the far end of the stone bridge, which was a void. “Reaching the end of this passage will bring you to the next forbidden space.”

“What’s below here?” Luo Feng looked down beneath the bridge, where there was only endless void. “Can you fly down?”

“There’s no problem flying down,” Chongjian Wang smiled. “Generally, walking along the passage, if you’re lucky, you can even see the ‘Zhenfeng Stars.’ However, the positions where the Zhenfeng Stars appear are very dangerous. There are invisible barriers preventing anyone from approaching. If you insist on getting closer, you’ll almost certainly perish. I’ve seen many Zhenfeng Stars before. If you’re lucky, you might see one every one or two years. If you’re unlucky, you might only see one every thousand years… Back then, many alien monarchs who accidentally saw the Zhenfeng Stars were extremely excited. Some desperately tried to obtain the Zhenfeng Stars but ended up perishing because of it.”

“Seeing one every one or two years?” Luo Feng looked down. “I think I’ve already seen it.”

“Eh?” Chongjian Wang was stunned, then quickly looked down and widened his eyes in shock. “Indeed.”

Luo Feng looked down into the void below.

Deep within the endless void, a star was faintly visible, slowly rolling. This star, comparable in size to an ordinary planet, exuded a faint but unsettling aura, continuously and steadily rolling slowly through the endless void… for eons without ceasing.

“A treasure,” Luo Feng murmured softly.

Chongjian Wang, however, said, “It can only be seen but not obtained. There are many ‘Zhenfeng Stars’ within the Star Tower. Many have already been recorded, and many more remain undiscovered. Unfortunately, unless the Zhenfeng Stars actively emerge, even the supreme cosmic overlords of the four peak races cannot forcibly obtain them.”

“Hmm.”

Luo Feng continued walking forward.

“Another Zhenfeng Star,” Chongjian Wang walked along the stone bridge, looking down in admiration.

Luo Feng kept walking and looking. Deep within the endless void beneath the stone bridge, occasionally a slowly rolling Zhenfeng Star could be seen. In different positions, deep within the void, faintly visible, each Zhenfeng Star rolled steadily and slowly for billions of years, never stopping until they emerged…

As Luo Feng walked along the stone bridge, he received a call request. Instantly, a thread of his consciousness entered the virtual universe to accept the call.

“Yang.”

“Tianzhen Wang,” Luo Feng was surprised but smiled. Tianzhen Wang was a human. Although Luo Feng had joined the Hong Alliance for a short time, he had conversed with many human monarchs and was acquainted with them. Many other human monarchs were either in secluded cultivation, too aloof, or exploring cosmic mysteries, so they hadn’t met Luo Feng, but he had collected some basic information about them.

“I’m in the Star Tower. I discovered your coordinates nearby through the military internal system, so I immediately contacted you,” Tianzhen Wang said.

“Oh,” Luo Feng nodded.

The military system could collect coordinates for every soldier and integrate them within the virtual universe. Even in special environments like the Star Tower, where other forbidden spaces couldn’t be probed, it could still detect other comrades and allies.

“I’ve already contacted several friends because I was suddenly attacked by the forbidden space guardians within this forbidden space, causing me considerable trouble. This is very rare. After contacting some friends, I found that three of them also encountered the same situation. How about you?” Tianzhen Wang asked.

“Eh, you too? I was also attacked by the forbidden space guardians,” Luo Feng replied.

“This is serious. It seems the possibility of a Zhenfeng Star emerging is very high,” Tianzhen Wang said. “Yang… if a Zhenfeng Star emerges, the countless forbidden spaces within this Star Tower will naturally guide nearby strong individuals of various races to gather together, converging toward the location where the Zhenfeng Star emerges! Every time a Zhenfeng Star emerges, there will be a great slaughter. You must also be careful. No more time to talk, I’m entering the next forbidden space.”

…

After ending the call with Tianzhen Wang, Luo Feng received calls from six other allies within the same faction, all comrades and allies within a 100 million kilometer radius. They also encountered some troubles and suspected whether a Zhenfeng Star was about to emerge. After discussing with friends, they became even more convinced… the possibility was very high.

“Is the Zhenfeng Star really about to emerge?” Luo Feng’s heart was alert.

Although the Zhenfeng Star was a precious treasure, Luo Feng, possessing the ‘Lockspace Arm,’ ‘Jiangjia,’ ‘Shiwu Wings,’ and ‘Purple Bell,’ had very high standards. Especially since he was being summoned from various parts of the Star Tower, he certainly wouldn’t get excited and act recklessly just because a Zhenfeng Star was about to emerge.

“Zhenfeng Stars usually only occasionally emerge after long periods.”

“Has one emerged as soon as I arrived?”

“A coincidence? Doesn’t seem like it!”

Luo Feng became even more vigilant and asked, “Chongjian Wang, what happens when a Zhenfeng Star emerges?”

“The situations vary, but the Star Tower will show various anomalies, and the forbidden spaces will naturally connect, guiding and gathering nearby strong individuals of various races. In the end, it will result in a bloody slaughter…” Chongjian Wang explained.

“Hmm, let’s go.”

Luo Feng nodded, said no more, and soon reached the end.

He looked down into the endless void beneath the stone bridge, faintly seeing the slowly rolling Zhenfeng Stars. Luo Feng retracted Chongjian Wang into his world ring and then alone stepped into the exit at the end, entering another forbidden space.

…

This was a world of oceans.

As soon as Luo Feng entered, the entrance had already vanished. The silver-armored, silver-winged Luo Feng stood above the calm sea surface, looking around for the passage to the next forbidden space. Normally, the passage was very easy to find; reportedly, it could be found in at most one day.

“Swish swish swish~~~” The calm sea surface suddenly surged, making splashing sounds.

Then with a thunderous boom.

“Screeee!”

A piercing, high-pitched sound rang out. A bluish-necked, flat-bodied creature resembling a snake, covered in metallic scales, suddenly shot out from the seawater. The part that emerged from the water was nearly two kilometers long. Its lower body faintly had hoof-like claws, causing the entire ocean to tremble and roar.

Those golden eyes stared at the silver-armored, silver-winged human far away in the sky.

“Encountered another forbidden space guardian?” Luo Feng muttered to himself.

…

The Star Tower seemed truly unfriendly to Luo Feng. From the first forbidden space to the ninth, each one summoned its own guardian. The fighting styles, methods, and danger levels varied. The seventh forbidden space was the most dangerous Luo Feng had encountered. At that time, he faced a short, stocky black metallic gorilla only 1.2 meters tall. This short, stocky gorilla guardian wielded two large hammers and was astonishingly fast and extremely agile.

The smaller the size, the more agile.

The black gorilla was the most agile opponent Luo Feng had encountered in the nine forbidden spaces, matching Luo Feng’s speed and dodging ability. The two hammers in its hands were even more terrifying than Chongjian Wang’s attacks.

Chongjian Wang could only act as a ‘shield’ when attacked, having no resistance power unless he burned his immortal body.

Luo Feng used the Shiwu Wings with all his might for the first time, sometimes enduring the hammer blows and sometimes continuously dodging. They fought fiercely for over half an hour before Luo Feng finally spotted the passage exit… thus exiting that seventh forbidden space. When Luo Feng and Chongjian Wang escaped, the metallic gorilla was still roaring in anger.

“Luckily, it was just a metallic puppet, unable to burn its immortal body,” Luo Feng muttered.

“Crazy, crazy. This guardian’s combat power alone has completely surpassed the monarch limit, even approaching the level of an invincible monarch. If it were a real immortal capable of burning its immortal body, even slightly burning it to unleash a thousandfold combat power, we would have no resistance at all,” Chongjian Wang also felt stunned by the guardian’s combat power.

…

After passing through nine forbidden spaces, Luo Feng no longer encountered attacks from forbidden space guardians.

In the Star Tower, Luo Feng continued to advance through one forbidden space after another.

“21st forbidden space.” Luo Feng sat cross-legged on a fireball, which carried him directly toward the entrance of the 21st forbidden space.

…

The 21st forbidden space was a swamp world. Currently, above this swamp world, two groups of alien immortal monarchs were gathering. One group belonged to the Machine Race faction, consisting of 22 alien immortal monarchs, all at the monarch level, including two Machine Race members.

Machine Race monarchs! And two of them!

The other faction… was the Insect Race, which had only six alien monarchs, yet their aura was distinctly more formidable. Among these six alien monarchs was a “monarch-limit puppet” controlled by an Insect Race monarch. The presence of this monarch-limit puppet naturally signified the terrifying power of the Insect Race’s immortal.

The Insect Race Empress immortal, each one represented an unparalleled terrifying combat power.

“Didn’t expect to run into them right away.”

“This is going to be troublesome.”

“But we’re not afraid either. Once the Zhenfeng Star emerges, our race’s Mingyun Wang will definitely appear. If we Machine Race members join forces, why fear the Insect Race?”

The two Machine Race members, similarly dressed in black battle armor, exchanged glances. The twenty other monarchs following them clearly regarded them as leaders… The Machine Race was few in number, and each Machine Race monarch represented a terrifying mechanical empire, extremely formidable.

Of course, under normal circumstances, they were somewhat weaker than the Insect Race immortals. The Insect Race didn’t distinguish between monarch and non-monarch levels.

As long as it was an Insect Race Empress immortal… it represented the most terrifying existence below the Cosmic Sovereign level, controlling immortal insect legions… a single combined attack would make monarchs of countless races in the universe tremble in fear.

“Whoosh!”

A rift suddenly appeared in the distance.

A silver-armored, silver-winged figure flew out from it, then hovered above the swamp.

Both the Machine Race faction and the Insect Race faction had already been in a stalemate, but they paid no heed to the arrival of this single powerful individual.

“It’s Daohe Wang!”

“It’s the human Daohe Wang.”

“Oh, it’s Daohe Wang, who chased Bloodbeast Wang into hiding and put Chongjian Wang into a deep slumber?”

Both the Machine Race faction and the Insect Race faction quickly became alert. A person’s reputation precedes them; Daohe Wang’s reputation was well-known, and they dared not underestimate him.

“This is…” Arriving at the 21st forbidden space, Luo Feng looked toward the two distant groups of alien monarchs who were clearly hostile. Especially sensing their powerful auras, Luo Feng’s heart tightened.