Bab 200 – Yun Fei
In the Devil’s Sea, the stars are broken and chaotic.
It’s a ring formed by numerous shattered planets. A mysterious power resides here. Whether entering or exiting, one must face numerous avatars with the same cultivation base as oneself. Only after victory can one enter or exit the mysterious ring. This place is also extremely dangerous, so not many people come here.
Two swords of light shot toward this place, one in front of the other. The sword of light in front appeared dimmer. Within the light was a young woman with pursed lips and a pale face. She wore a greenish-red dress, had a slender waist, and looked extremely beautiful.
In the light behind him, there was a middle-aged man with a square face and thick eyebrows. His eyes were as big as bells. He smiled mockingly as his cold eyes stared at the young woman before him.
The sword beneath his feet was very steady. He clearly hadn’t exerted too much effort in this chase. As he stared at the woman, his gaze grew colder.
These two lights, one behind the other, were rapidly approaching from a distance. The young woman stared ahead at the shattered stars, and an idea occurred to her. She had been running for a month now, and for the past month, no matter where she ran, that person had always been behind her. If she hadn’t used her master’s secret technique to escape, she would have been caught.
However, using this secret technique required too much spiritual power. After using it a few times, he was unable to use it anymore. Under the pressure, he panicked and lost track of where he was going. Without realizing it, he ended up in a chaotic and shattered starscape.
When he realized this, he wanted to change direction, but just then, the person chased after him again. He was helpless, so he could only continue forward. Soon, the two of them drew closer to the ring formed by the shattered stars.
He knew in his heart that the person behind him wasn’t using his full strength, but was toying with him, trying to pressure him into moving forward. He had to be careful not to enter the chaotic and shattered circle of stars, but the distance to it was getting shorter.
Qian Kun chased after her leisurely. He had already set his heart on the object in his possession. If it weren’t for her sudden use of that escape technique several times, he would have already caught up with her, but now, in a panic, he was running towards the shattered stars. It seemed even the heavens were helping him. Thinking of this, his smile widened and grew even colder.
Qian Kun’s gloomy voice slowly said, “Yun Fei, in front of you are the shattered stars. In the Sea of Devils, the shattered stars are an extremely dangerous place. Until now, no one has ever passed through it by relying on luck. Would you like to give it a try?”
The woman’s face turned even paler, and the bitterness in her heart intensified. When she was five feet away from the shattered stars, she suddenly stopped and turned around. She stared at Qian Kun with a gloomy expression. Biting her lip, she said, “Senior, this junior escaped here by chance. Why must you kill me?”
Qian Kun’s lips twitched. The sword beneath his feet stopped ten feet from the woman. He glanced at the shattered stars behind him. He grinned and said, “I’m only here on orders. You should blame yourself for taking something you shouldn’t have.”
The woman laughed. She took out a piece of jade from her bag. Looking at Qian Kun, she whispered, “This is something that belongs to my master. How can I not take it? Senior, there’s a replica inside the Magic Palace. Even if I take this, it won’t affect the Magic Palace at all.”
Qian Kun’s gaze was fixed on the jade. His expression was filled with greed. His task was to kill this woman and retrieve the jade.
There was a seal placed by the Magic Palace on this jade. Qian Kun knew that even if he obtained it, he wouldn’t be able to use it; he could only return it. And this woman named Yun Fei, although her identity was unknown, could read this jade. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have had the opportunity to steal it.
It was precisely because of this series of events that he not only killed him, but followed him closely.
Qian Kun said gloomily, “I don’t know whether taking the jade will affect the Magic Palace or not, all I know is that if I take it, it will be of great benefit to me.”
The woman showed a bold expression. She said, “Senior, if you have something to say, just say it, but consider the importance of this jade.”
Qian Kun didn’t say a word, but a hint of excitement flashed in his eyes. He already knew that this Yun Fei was the successor of the renowned Qi Huang Sect. Although the Qi Huang Sect was destroyed by a mysterious force, this woman somehow managed to escape unscathed.
Afterward, the woman who held the jade slip containing the Qi Huang Sect’s most precious pill recipe was captured by the Magic Palace and forced to become a concubine there. Now, after so many years, she finally found a chance to escape with the jade slip.
Qian Kun was in the middle stage of Core Formation. Although the path to the final stage was slim, his cultivation techniques were extremely limited. He feared he would never reach the final stage.
However, if he could obtain this piece of jade and concoct a pill with the recipe inside, then he would be able to enter the late Core Formation stage.
The woman sighed heavily. Without a word, she took out a blank piece of jade. After imprinting information on it, she said, “Senior, I’ve finished imprinting. If you let me go, this jade is yours.”
Qian Kun laughed and said, “Good. First, hand over the jade. Once I confirm the information inside, I’ll let you go.” After he finished speaking, he began to walk forward.
The woman immediately shouted, “Stop!” She held the jade in her right hand. With just a little spiritual power, she could destroy this replica. At the same time, she retreated two feet. Staring at Qian Kun, she said, “Senior is already at the mid-Core Formation stage, and I’ve just entered the Core Formation stage. I’m one stage below Senior, so I can’t help but be wary of Senior breaking his promise after obtaining the jade.”
Qian Kun frowned slightly. His cold eyes stared at the jade in his hand and said, “What do you mean?”
Yun Fei took a deep breath and said clearly, “I would like to ask Senior to retreat 1,000 feet. I will place the jade slip here. After I leave, Senior can come here and take this jade slip, or I will directly crush it and commit suicide. That way, Senior will not gain anything.”
Qian Kun smiled coldly, “What a joke. How am I supposed to know if the jade you gave me is real or not? What if you’re tricking me?”
At this moment, none of them realized that, within the shattered stars, there was a 3-foot-long crack. Waves of black energy were emanating from it.
Yun Fei’s face hardened and she was about to speak, but Qian Kun continued, “I don’t have time to waste with you. Hand over the jade and I’ll let you live. Otherwise, don’t blame me for being ruthless. As for the jade, I’ll bear the loss.” As he finished speaking, he slowly floated forward.
A distance of 10 feet could be covered in an instant, but Qian Kun moved slowly, because he was afraid that Qian Kun would unknowingly destroy the jade, then he really wouldn’t get anything.
Yun Fei clenched her jaw. She threw the jade aside and quickly escaped from Qian Kun.
Qian Kun suddenly moved like lightning and chased after the jade. After successfully catching it, he held it in his hand and scanned it with his divine sense, immediately becoming excited. After laughing out loud a few times, he discovered Yun Fei, who was fleeing. His eyes revealed a malicious intent as he quickly chased after her.
This time, the speed was clearly different from before. It was several times faster.
Although Yun Fei ran as fast as he could, he secretly monitored Qian Kun’s movements with his divine senses. After seeing him grab the jade, he suddenly had a bad feeling and started moving faster.
However, soon after, she began to lose hope. Qian Kun did not keep his promise, but instead pursued her.
Yun Fei sneered in her heart, “Qian Kun, even if I die, if you follow that jade slip to refine pills, you will die a miserable death. This is all your own fault.” Then, she sighed. She stopped moving and decided to stop her own heart.
Qian Kun saw Yun Fei stop running and give up on resisting. He laughed heartily and rushed forward. He said, “Since you gave me this piece of jade, I’ll let you die happily. Let me take a good look at that body and see what’s so extraordinary about it, even a bewitched master. If you serve me well, I might even let you go…”
Just as Qian Kun finished speaking, his eyes suddenly stared intently at the shattered stars. His eyes were filled with astonishment, but it quickly turned to fear.
Qian Kun suddenly stopped speaking. Yun Fei restrained herself from stopping her own heartbeat. She looked up at the shattered stars. Her jaw dropped, and a look of shock appeared on her face.
He only saw that, within the chaotic circle of stars, a crack had somehow appeared. The crack expanded rapidly. In the blink of an eye, it was already over five feet wide. The crack formed an arc, like the mount of a wild beast. This caused anyone who saw it to feel a chill in their hearts.
Within the Devil Sea, only a red crack appeared between the inner sea and the outer sea, so the meaning of the crack here was deep. This crack not only emitted black energy, but was also quite large, while the crack that appeared between the inner sea and the outer sea was only a small crack.
However, a huge gap appeared in front of Qian Kun and Yun Fei. The moment the gap appeared, Qian Kun felt a tingling sensation in his head.
He almost immediately wanted to give up on killing Yun Fei and flee this place. As soon as this thought arose, he immediately suppressed it. His eyes lit up as he stared at the shattered star ring. His heart calmed down. With the formation there, no matter how powerful the thing that came out of the crack was, it wouldn’t be able to escape from the ring, so there was no need to flee.
At the same time, the crack suddenly began to expand. Waves of black light poured out from it, along with a strange energy. Soon, a black-robed young man walked out calmly.
This person had white hair that fell behind him, giving him an ancient impression, but his eyes revealed a cruel gaze.
The most eye-catching feature was the dark purple star on his forehead. This purple star radiated a purple light, seemingly filled with demonic energy. Combined with the black light emanating from the rift behind him, he looked like a demon fresh from hell.
The man didn’t even look back. He waved his right hand, and the large crack behind him quickly began to close. In the blink of an eye, the crack disappeared completely, leaving only the young man who looked like a demon god.
He stood in the air, his eyes showing signs of regret as he looked through the ring of shattered stars and saw Qian Kun and Yun Fei.
Qian Kun felt a sense of dread from the moment he saw the young man emerge from the crack. Because there was a ring between them, he couldn’t scan the young man with his divine sense. However, even if the ring wasn’t there, Qian Kun wouldn’t have dared to scan the young man with his divine sense.
In his opinion, if that person could emerge from such a large gap, then their cultivation level must have reached an unimaginable level. The young man must be at least in the Nascent Soul stage, or even the mystical Spirit Formation stage.
As a result, how could he dare to offend the youth?
More importantly, he felt like he saw the scene before him, he had heard it somewhere before, but couldn’t remember where he had heard it.
When the white-haired youth looked at her, even through the broken stars, his legs became weak and he wanted to run away, but he held back.
Qian Kun knew that even if he ran, if the young man could get through the ring, he would be able to catch up to him in an instant, so running or not was the same. In fact, running would only make the young man remember it more clearly.
Moreover, if the young man cannot get out of the ring, then even if he does not run, he is still safe.
Thinking about this in his heart, Qian Kun suddenly stopped and clasped his hand. He respectfully said, “This junior is a 5th generation disciple of the Poison King Magic Palace. Qian Kun greets senior.”
Yun Fei’s heart sank as she had just experienced a near-death experience and then witnessed such a scene. Her conclusion was almost the same as Qian Kun’s, but in her mind, she was thinking that if she ran, she would be killed by Qian Kun, but if she stayed, there might be a chance for her to survive.
After thinking about it, he said respectfully, “Junior is Tu Mo Yun of the Qi Huang Sect. Greetings, senior.”
The white-haired youth averted his gaze after coldly glancing at them. He looked at the ring of shattered stars. After a moment of contemplation, he slammed his bag shut, and a small creature appeared in his hand.
The beast had three pairs of wings on its back. Its clear eyes gave it the appearance of psychic powers. It immediately flew forward.
With a flap of his wings, he quickly charged towards the ring. Soon, he arrived inside the ring.
Shortly after, the fragment emitted a white light. After the light faded, a replica of the beast emerged.
When the two animals met, they both let out high-pitched screeches and began attacking each other.
The white-haired youth frowned. He waved his hand, and the small beast’s body suddenly began to vibrate. Its body formed a small tornado and flew out of the ring, landing on the youth’s shoulder. With a wave of his hand, the beast disappeared.
This white-haired youth was Wang Lin. He had used a method left behind in the memories of the Ancient Gods to open a tunnel to leave the Land of the Ancient Gods.
After exiting the tunnel, he emerged within a circle of shattered stars. If he wanted to leave, he would have to pass through the circle. From what he had heard from Duanmu and the others, he had an idea of what the circle looked like.
He planned to use the same method he entered before to leave, but the transfer array was too complicated, and among the memories of the Ancient Gods, for some reason, there was almost no information about transfer arrays.
Come to think of it, it makes sense. With how powerful the Ancient Gods were, there really wasn’t a need to use a transfer array to travel. They could simply open a black hole and travel through it.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that there shouldn’t be information about the transfer array in the Ancient Gods’ memories. Otherwise, why would there be that mysterious array in the fourth realm?
If this was truly the case, then as Wang Lin had suspected, the inheritance he had absorbed was incomplete.
However, all of this is just Wang Lin’s speculation. As to whether it’s true or not, no one really knows.
Wang Lin pondered for a moment. His eyes were filled with determination and he charged towards the ring.
As Wang Lin entered the arena, although Qian Kun’s expression was calm, his heart began to tighten. This wasn’t the first time he had seen someone charge into the arena. Many years ago, he had seen a nascent soul from the Enchanted Place charge into the arena. He had died so miserably that even his nascent soul hadn’t managed to escape and was swallowed by that mysterious force.
So when he saw Wang Lin charging at him, his eyes immediately focused.
Yun Fei was even more nervous than Qian Kun. He had placed all his hopes of escaping death on the young man. He thought that if Wang Lin managed to break out of the ring, then Qian Kun wouldn’t act rashly. With the jade as a reward, he might have a chance. Although this might not work, it was a chance Yun Fei decided to take.
As Wang Lin entered the ring, several fragments quickly collided. In a flash of white light, an exact copy of Wang Lin appeared in the ring.
When the copy appeared, he smiled coldly. He slammed his storage bag shut, and a black sword appeared. This flying sword was strange, with many spikes on it. It was clearly Wang Lin’s personal flying sword.
Wang Lin observed the black sword and was truly impressed by the power behind that mysterious force, which could even copy a magical treasure. Even the crack created by Hunchback Meng was there.
This time, Wang Lin decided not to fight. He was just there to scout.
After the copy took out the black sword, it laughed loudly and the sword shot towards Wang Lin. Wang Lin’s mouth twitched. He slammed his storage bag and took out the black sword as well.
Instantly, two identical swords began to attack each other.
Shortly after, Wang Lin smiled coldly. His Ji Realm Divine Sense suddenly moved and formed a red flash. At the same time, the copy’s eyes also revealed a red flash.
Wang Lin stared at the clone with a dignified gaze. He saw a red flash flash several times in the clone’s eyes, then the clone’s eyes exploded and shattered into pieces. At the same time, the clone seemed unable to withstand the power of the red lightning and exploded as well.
Wang Lin’s eyes lit up and he immediately began to think. Although he was using the Ji Realm Divine Sense, he wasn’t attacking it, but was simply using it to test whether the copy could copy his Ji Realm Divine Sense.
Now he knew that although the ring’s power was mysterious, it couldn’t replicate his Ji Realm. Wang Lin smiled coldly and stepped deeper into the ring.
According to what Wang Lin had heard from Duanmu, this ring was 100 miles wide. After defeating the first copy, one could travel 50 miles, then one had to defeat two more copies, then one could travel another 50 miles and exit the ring.
Qian Kun’s heart nearly shattered as the copy exploded. Wang Lin’s ranking in his heart instantly soared to an unprecedented height. He never expected the copy formed by that mysterious power to explode so quickly on its own. He couldn’t fathom the technique behind it.
Yun Fei’s gaze sharpened. She stared at Wang Lin in the ring, thinking of a way to ask for his help without being rejected.
Wang Lin moved forward easily, but only after moving ten feet did the fragment release white light again. After the white light faded, two more copies appeared.
After the two copies appeared, one took out a flying sword and the other took out a scroll.
Wang Lin’s expression remained the same, but his heart sank. Unless Duanmu was lying, then it was because he had destroyed the first copy so quickly that it caused the change.
However, Wang Lin’s mood didn’t change at all. He remained cool and calm. The moment the two copies appeared, a red flash appeared in his eyes again, and his Ji Realm Divine Sense appeared once more.
This time, the two copies did not immediately follow and use their Ji Realm, but immediately started using their treasures.
Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. Without hesitation, he attacked the copy. Previously, he had been experimenting with his Ji Realm. This time, he wanted to test how strong his body was after receiving the Ancient God inheritance and undergoing reconstruction.
Will the body formed through reconstruction be as strong as his memories suggest?