In the dead of night, the wind howled violently.
At the core region of the Jiezhongjie, amidst the allied forces.
Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God exchanged glances, each revealing a faint smile.
“Let’s move,” Luo Feng whispered.
The five-man squad quickly rose and casually made their way toward the outermost edge of the allied forces. Entering the allied forces’ territory was difficult—it required identity verification! Entry was restricted to individuals not affiliated with major factions, but exiting was much easier. After all, various organizations frequently sent people to deliver Thunder Stones for exchange.
With people coming and going, quite a number of individuals passed through.
“Captain, the five of them are leaving.”
“Follow them quickly.”
“Hurry.”
“Move faster.”
A prearranged squad under the Ninth Prince’s command swiftly mobilized as well.
It must be known that the Ninth Prince now commanded over 220,000 troops, divided into seven major battalions, each with 30,000 soldiers. Even the so-called “squad” consisted of a thousand soldiers! Patrols and guards were also conducted in units of a thousand.
…
In the howling wind of the night, Luo Feng and his four companions soared into the sky, leaving the allied forces’ base behind.
Behind them, a thousand-strong unit quickly took flight, closely pursuing Luo Feng’s group.
“Don’t rush to attack,” the leader of the thousand-man unit transmitted in a low voice to his subordinates. “We are still near the allied base. If they escape back inside, we won’t be able to act.”
“Follow them first. We’ll attack after they’ve flown a distance.”
…
In the sky ahead, Luo Feng’s five-man team flew.
“Haha, what a thrill, what a thrill,” Thunder God transmitted joyfully through the air from high above. “Just thinking about the Life Fruits and the two Sovereign-level weapons makes me tremble with excitement.”
“Earlier, I was worried about complications during the exchange,” Hong smiled. “But now everything seems to have gone smoothly.”
“Big Brother, Second Brother, once the Moyun Vine evolves, we’ll have even more to celebrate,” Luo Feng laughed, his heart brimming with anticipation.
The previous trip to dig for Thunder Stones had only been successful because of Babata’s early reconnaissance, which allowed them to collect so many. But now, with two million adventurers occupying various regions and excavating all the Thunder Stones… what would follow would be the darkest and cruelest phase of slaughter! Luo Feng was certain of this.
Some Sovereigns would successfully exchange for treasures, while others would not.
Those Sovereigns who failed to obtain treasures would naturally order their subordinates to kill and seize them. To those Sovereigns, even if ten thousand adventurers were lost in the process, it was nothing at all.
“Wait, something’s wrong. There’s a squad following us,” Luo Feng frowned and transmitted.
“Indeed,” Thunder God frowned.
“Are they tracking us, or just heading out to fight for Thunder Stones along the same route?” Hong asked.
“Let’s speed up and turn,” Luo Feng transmitted.
“Yes, Master!”
Tie Nanhe and Ao Gu obeyed Luo Feng’s command.
Instantly, the five-man team curved through the sky in an arc, accelerating rapidly and becoming five streaks of light flying leftward.
Behind them, in the thousand-man unit.
“Captain, they’re trying to escape!”
“We’re already hundreds of kilometers away from the allied base. All members, listen! Chase them at full speed and eliminate the five-man squad,” the captain ordered.
“Yes!”
“Understood!”
“Affirmative!”
In the shrouded darkness, one by one, the Black Alloy-clad warriors of the Ninth Stage Stellar Realm answered the call. With bursts of breathtaking velocity, they transformed into streaks of radiant brilliance. Against the obsidian heavens, their luminous trails burned like a thousand falling stars—each blazing at different intensities, yet all converging in a frenzied pursuit to hunt down the five figures fleeing ahead.
…
Streaks of light swiftly closed in from behind. These were all ninth-stage Star-level psychics, riding their psychic weapons—far swifter than Luo Feng’s group! Among Luo Feng’s team, only Ao Gu, also a ninth-stage Star-level, could rival their speed, yet even he had to carry Hong and Thunder God.
“Not good.”
“They’re catching up!” Thunder God’s expression changed drastically.
“Master, run!” Ao Gu’s aged face was filled with anxiety.
Luo Feng glanced back.
The streaks of light behind rapidly approached, and in an instant, the distance between the two groups was less than a kilometer.
“What do we do?” Thunder God and Hong both wore anxious expressions.
Tie Nanhe and Ao Gu, the two ninth-stage stellar servants, were also seized with panic.
“Behind us, there are a thousand Star-level ninth-stage warriors,” Luo Feng gazed down at the flickering dots on his armband’s display, his heart sinking like a stone. The thousand radiant points were closing in on their five at an impossible velocity, as if they were about to be devoured by an all-consuming void.
“Master!!!”
Ao Gu and Tie Nanhe looked anxiously at Luo Feng, while Hong and Thunder God were also thrown into disarray.
Luo Feng’s thoughts were in utter turmoil. Ever since entering the Thunder World and the Jiezhong Realm, their team had encountered numerous crises—but none as desperate as this. It was practically a dead end. A full thousand ninth-level Star-level warriors! A single synchronized strike with their psychic weapons would annihilate them all.
Could it be…
Time to summon the Golden-Horned Giant Beast?
But they weren’t too far from the allied forces. If the Golden-Horned Giant Beast appeared here, it would definitely be exposed! Once the cub’s existence was revealed… immortal existences might descend upon Canglan Star to capture Luo Feng, turning him into a slave through techniques like beast-taming or soul-branding—methods not unique to the master of the Yimo Star.
At that point, Luo Feng would surely become someone else’s slave.
“Attack!” the captain ordered.
“Understood!” Hundreds of figures behind responded in unison.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
A storm of psychokinetic weapons rained down like arrows, densely packed and overwhelming, flying toward Luo Feng’s group. At this moment, Hong, Thunder God, Tie Nanhe, and Ao Gu were filled with despair.
“Go!” Luo Feng stared intently at the incoming barrage.
Boom!
Suddenly, a massive object appeared in front of the five, blocking the attack with a series of loud impacts. It was a disc-shaped spaceship, about 100 meters in diameter, completely black in color, and of the ‘C9’ class. Even Cosmic-level fifth or sixth-stage experts would struggle to damage this ship.
In the universe, one never knew when a spaceship might come in handy.
Although there was already a spaceship docked at Canglan Star’s port, for Luo Feng—who had received his teacher’s first account—it was easy to purchase several spaceships.
“A spaceship!”
“He actually has a spaceship! He must possess a supreme-grade spatial storage artifact over a hundred meters long!”
“Hurry, kill them!”
The hundreds of Star-level ninth-stage psychokineticists swiftly redirected their psychic weapons with a mere thought after their initial assault was repelled. Like bolts of lightning, the weapons arced around the starship, slicing viciously toward the five figures.
“Master, hurry!”
“Run!”
Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God quickly rushed toward the spaceship’s hatch. Fortunately, when Luo Feng summoned the spaceship, the hatch had been facing them. However, their flight speed was far slower than that of psychokinetic weapons! Fortunately, they were closer to the hatch.
“Hurry!”
“Hurry!” Hong and Thunder God’s eyes turned red.
“Get inside!” Luo Feng’s eyes were also bloodshot.
Ao Gu and Tie Nanhe covered the retreat. Hundreds of psychokinetic weapons arced through the air like a torrential rain of arrows, hurtling toward them. At the forefront of the defense stood the stellar ninth-stage warrior Tie Nanhe, with the psychokineticist Ao Gu backing him up closely.
Puchi! Puchi! Puchi! Puchi! Puchi! Puchi!
Like a storm of arrows, the psionic weapons instantly riddled Tie Nanhe’s body, turning him into a human sieve… Confronted with an overwhelming barrage of psychic armaments unleashed by hundreds of peers, even a ninth-stage Stellar Warrior bearing the title of Axe Champion was fated to perish!
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
The outer hatch and inner gate slammed shut one after another.
Sealed off from the outside.
Whoosh!
The spacecraft surged forward with blinding speed, leaving the cluster of Star-level Ninth Stage warriors in its wake as it swiftly disappeared into the cosmic horizon.
…
A thousand figures hovered in the sky, watching helplessly as the spaceship disappeared into the horizon.
“A thousand warriors couldn’t even kill five people, and they still escaped?” the bearded captain roared angrily. “How are we supposed to explain this to the Prince?”
“Captain, it’s not our fault. Who could have guessed they had a spaceship!”
“Yeah, a spaceship at least a hundred meters in diameter. For one of them to possess a space ring that large is just unbelievable.”
“Hmph.”
The captain nodded slightly. “A space ring that large is indeed hard to believe.”
…
The spaceship was rapidly moving away from the core region. Its speed was hundreds to thousands of times faster than human flight.
Inside the ship.
“Hurry, Ao Gu, quickly absorb the life force from the wooden crystal,” Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God anxiously surrounded Ao Gu. Ao Gu had already removed his alloy battle suit; from the chest down, his body was reduced to a pulp, while only the upper chest remained intact.
Earlier, hundreds of psychokinetic weapons had concentrated their fire.
At the forefront, Tie Nanhe was instantly riddled with holes and exploded into a bloody pulp—utterly annihilated. Ao Gu, positioned behind Tie Nanhe, barely shielded his head with a fragment of the Crimson Chaos Copper. However, from his chest downward, the psychic weapons struck his armor, the overwhelming force shattering his body into pieces.
“Hu hu~~” streams of life force spread over Ao Gu’s body.
Ao Gu gradually recovered.
“Damn it!” Luo Feng felt a surge of anger in his chest upon seeing this. “Babata, whose men were those?”
“Every individual among the allied forces’ nearly 200,000 troops has been recorded. These thousand are under the command of the Ninth Prince Bulorin,” Babata explained. When Luo Feng first entered the allied forces, Babata had naturally recorded basic information on all the allied troops—such as their aura, appearance, and strength.
“Bulorin?” Luo Feng frowned, his anger intensifying. “Why would he pursue me? We have no enmity.”
“Probably for the treasures,” Babata replied.
“How did he know I obtained treasures? Many people enter the Lightning Castle regularly,” Luo Feng felt an immense sense of grief, especially after losing two bodyguards—Tie Nanhe had died, and Ao Gu had nearly perished.
Man is not a blade of grass, how can one be without feeling?
Although they were only purchased slaves, Luo Feng still faintly heard Tie Nanhe’s desperate cry—”Master, run!”—echoing in his ears. In the moment of danger, Tie Nanhe and Ao Gu had sacrificed themselves to cover the retreat.
“Bulorin, Bulorin!!!” Luo Feng’s heart burned with fury.
It hurt!
“Luofeng, don’t grieve yet. Although you didn’t use the Golden-Horned Giant Beast, using the spaceship is also a big problem,” Babata said. “A storage item with space over a hundred meters in length and width is extremely rare. When I gave it to you, I warned you not to reveal it. Such a high-grade space storage item is rare even among Domain Lords. And after this battle, Bulorin will definitely take notice of you. Once he does, you’ll be in serious trouble.”
“Take notice of me? I’d like to take notice of him too!” Luo Feng growled.
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