Chapter 1199: Chapter 1155: King of the Wandering Cultivators
The spies from various clans that appeared within Human Clan Qiankun City, their cultivation at its peak was the Rule Integration Realm, because the news they were able to capture was actually very limited.
Chen Fei previously traversed thousands of miles in one step, directly crossing over to where Nan Longtu and others were, and the spies from all clans simply couldn’t keep up, and they also didn’t dare to follow.
After all, for those in the Rule Integration Realm to monitor someone in the Open Heaven Realm, the most they could do was grasp at straws through various details.
If they dared to follow someone in the Open Heaven Realm, they could be caught in minutes and then slapped to death with a single palm.
Chen Fei’s battle strength definitely wasn’t ordinary, this point had already spread through many rumors from the Xuan Clan as well as the Feng Clan and Chi Clan.
But what level Chen Fei’s battle strength had actually reached had always been speculative before.
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Now, with the fall of two Open Heaven Realm cultivators, and their deaths coming so swiftly, Chen Fei’s battle strength was suddenly elevated to a new level.
The surrounding clans didn’t know which clan’s Open Heaven Realm cultivator was the aggressor, but they subconsciously felt that the aggressor must have been in the early stage of the Open Heaven Realm.
Not a single neighboring race thought that it was the middle stage of the Open Heaven Realm, since that would be too preposterous.
A Chen Fei at the early stage of the Open Heaven Realm, having consecutively slain two cultivators of the same rank, was already an extremely formidable display.
Following this battle, it was recognized that the human race possessed some strength, and with the Xuan Clan standing behind them, the human race’s control over this territory was begrudgingly accepted by the neighboring clans.
It was heard that this human Chen Fei hadn’t been cultivating for long, and the early stage of Open Heaven Realm might not be his peak, so it wasn’t impossible for him to make a breakthrough to the Open Heaven Realm middle stage in the future.
The neighboring clans’ interest in spying on the human race dissipated quite a bit, and today’s events amounted to no small feat of establishing authority.
Of course, if the various clans knew that the dead were from the Open Heaven Realm middle stage, it wouldn’t just be establishing authority but rather causing horror.
Because if the human race had this kind of power, they could directly breach any neighboring clan, scaring them to death.
In a secret room within the Qiankun City City Lord’s mansion, Chen Fei sat cross-legged, taking stock of his gains this time.
It must be said, those in the middle stage of Open Heaven Realm indeed had rich belongings, and killers like Nan Longtu and his ilk have even richer possessions.
There were thirteen thousand mid-grade Primordial Crystals alone, and if the various precious treasures were to be sold, they could fetch about seven thousand more.
There were also two mid-grade Open Heaven Profound Treasures, valued at around eighty thousand each.
Add it all up, and that’s a total of two hundred eighty thousand mid-grade Primordial Crystals. Chen Fei made a round and his pocket of mid-grade Primordial Crystals suddenly became affluent, no longer so threadbare.
Chen Fei’s recent hard cultivation, shattering a thousand mid-grade Primordial Crystals every day, had already almost depleted his supply of mid-grade Primordial Crystals.
Chen Fei was still worrying about where to find mid-grade Primordial Crystals next, but now this problem was solved at once.
As long as he sold the spirit materials and mid-grade Open Heaven Profound Treasures, Chen Fei wouldn’t have to worry about the shortage of mid-grade Primordial Crystals for most of the coming year.
If Chen Fei increased the number of mid-grade Primordial Crystals he shattered every day, he could actually accelerate the efficiency of his cultivation, but it wouldn’t be cost-effective, and Chen Fei couldn’t cultivate like that yet.
If he really needed money, he could also sell the half-piece of the Heavenly Escape Talisman.
Since Chen Fei himself mastered the Rules of Space and Causality, if he were to use the Heavenly Escape Talisman, he could exhibit the effect of sixty or even seventy percent from a talisman that only had thirty percent of its power left.
Thus, for Chen Fei, this Heavenly Escape Talisman was quite valuable, after all, his Seventh Rank Celestial Suppression was still at the beginner stage, and that characteristic of dissolving at the brink of death was not yet fully formed.
“Fuse!”
“New technique discovered, Heavenly Gang Yu God Technique!”
By integrating the incomplete Heavenly Gang True Returning Technique and Starfall Frenzy Kill into the Lanyu Divine Technique, he obtained an even stronger martial art.
Although it was still at the level of a Seventh Rank Top Grade Technique, it had progressed from just entering top grade to nearing Seven Rank Ultimate Grade.
However, a Seventh Rank Ultimate Grade Technique was a hurdle, and to cross this hurdle, it might require the fusion of multiple Seventh Rank Top Grade Techniques to succeed.
The simplest way, of course, would be to acquire a Seventh Rank Ultimate Grade Technique, but similarly, that was also the most difficult method.
The Heart Deceit Bureau was one approach, but even within the Heart Deceit Bureau, exchanging for a Seventh Rank Ultimate Grade Technique required a considerable price.
Nan Longtu and Xie Changxuan, who had been in the Heart Deceit Bureau for so many years, had not exchanged for a Seventh Rank Ultimate Grade Technique either.
The new Heavenly Gang Yu God Technique’s Skill Level had slipped to just over halfway to Perfection, but Chen Fei wasn’t concerned about this, especially since he still had two portions of mid-grade spiritual essence from the Open Heaven Realm cultivators that he hadn’t used.
After organizing his gains, one portion of spiritual essence flew out, and Chen Fei directly crushed it, the next moment, rich epiphanies filled the entire secret room, with a flood of realizations appearing in Chen Fei’s sea of consciousness.
Moments later, the epiphanies dissipated, Chen Fei took out another portion of spiritual essence, crushed it, and continued to immerse himself in cultivating.
Thousands of miles away, in a courtyard in the eastern city of Hannan City, several figures were gathered together.
Hannan City was quite famous within the Xuanling Domain; it was a Loose Cultivation City, and its City Lord was a peak powerhouse in the Open Heaven Realm who was rumored to be attempting a breakthrough to the Eighth Tier in recent years.
Once the Hannan City City Lord succeeded, Hannan City’s status in the Xuanling Domain would change drastically.
Liao Xia was also a wandering cultivator, thus he usually resided within Hannan City, where not only was his status revered, but he could almost always satisfy all his needs for cultivating.
The expansive courtyard in the eastern city belonged to Liao Xia.
At this moment, several figures gathered in the courtyard because of the shattering of Lv Fan’s soul token.
Lv Fan’s soul token was not usually in the hands of Liao Xia, but rather it was with those followers of his in the early stages of the Open Heaven Realm.
Liao Xia would typically employ followers at the Peak of Rule Integration Realm as his servants, and once these talented servants luckily advanced to the Open Heaven Realm, their status would be elevated to that of followers.
There’s only a one-word difference between servant and follower, yet their statuses are worlds apart.
The Open Heaven Realm is not to be insulted, and Liao Xia granted sufficient status to those in the early stage of the Open Heaven Realm, a world apart from the Sixth Tier of Rule Integration Realm.
Thus, the number of followers in the Open Heaven Realm by Liao Xia’s side was not small; over the years, he had accumulated as many as seven following him.
There was even one who had broken through to the middle stage of the Open Heaven Realm, which made Liao Xia’s power quite formidable, not the position of a lonely, unsupported individual.
Last time he went to the Black Stone Domain, Liao Xia happened to be nearby, so he decided to enter the Black Stone Domain alone to avoid losing the advantage.
“Someone has killed Lv Fan. Now that City Lord Liao is not in the mansion, how should we deal with this?” Zhong Weiyi placed the shattered soul token on the table, speaking gravely.
The various Open Heaven Realm occupants in the room turned their heads to look at the one in the center, Wan Mengzhi, at the middle stage of the Open Heaven Realm, who usually decided on important matters when Liao Xia was absent.
Wan Mengzhi didn’t speak, looking at the broken soul token on the table.
He had some memory of Lv Fan, the Peak Rule Integration Realm follower whom Liao Xia had recently taken in the Black Stone Domain.
The life and death of a servant were not important matters, as after all, it was merely a might-have-been Rule Integration Realm, and moreover, he had joined the household for a very short time, so there were unlikely to be any deep feelings involved.
However, it was permissible for servants to be killed by them, but absolutely not by other cultivators; it was a matter of face.
“First, we need to figure out who killed him,” said Wan Mengzhi after a moment’s thought, his voice deep.
“I’ve checked. Before his death, Lv Fan had taken on a mission from the Heart Deceit Bureau to assassinate a member of the human race. However, this mission was left unclaimed for over two months and was only recently accepted by an assassin from within the Heart Deceit Bureau itself, to whom Lv Fan followed,” Zhong Weiyi said in a low voice.
The Heart Deceit Bureau was essentially a marketplace; as long as one was willing to spend money, it was easy to buy a lot of information, as long as it wasn’t confidential to the Heart Deceit Bureau.
Zhong Weiyi had spent some mid-grade Primordial Crystals and obtained all the latest news regarding Lv Fan.
“The human race?” Wan Mengzhi was surprised; what was this race?
“The human race from the Black Stone Domain, which has recently come to the Xuanling Domain alongside the Xuan Clan. The Xuan Clan even gave the territory previously belonging to the Wu Meng Clan to the human race, and it’s been causing quite a stir in that region,” said Zhong Weiyi with a smile.
Wan Mengzhi’s brow furrowed slightly as he remembered hearing news about this recently, but since it had virtually no impact on Hannan City, he hadn’t made much of it.
“Was Lv Fan killed by this human race?” A cold glint flickered in Wan Mengzhi’s eyes.
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Could it be that a mere native species from the Black Stone Domain, emboldened by the Xuan Clan’s support, presumed they could brazenly kill the servants of their mansion?
“It could be, or it might not be. The ones who accepted Lv Fan’s mission were at the middle stage of the Open Heaven Realm, and there were two of them. Now they are also dead,” said Zhong Weiyi, frowning.
With Nan Longtu and Xie Changxuan dead, they were no longer of value to the Heart Deceit Bureau. Open Heaven Realm Middle Stage cultivators without value could be traded.
Wan Mengzhi’s eyes widened slightly; two middle stage Open Heaven Realm cultivators dead?
Subconsciously, Wan Mengzhi ruled out the human race.
Considering a place like the Black Stone Domain, where even the emergence of an Open Heaven Realm was remarkable, how could it possess the ability to slay two at the middle stage of the Open Heaven Realm, and to kill both of them no less?
If such power truly existed, even if they went to attack the human race, would they not also be wiped out in one fell swoop?
“I have deliberately sent scouts to the human race’s territory, and before the shattering of Lv Fan’s soul token, indeed, cultivators of the human race’s Open Heaven Realm did leave the city, and after their departure, the resonance of the Rules spreading from two Open Heaven Realm cultivators dissipated,” stated Zhong Weiyi.
The other Open Heaven Realm cultivators in the room frowned slightly at Zhong Weiyi’s words, as all clues seemed to point towards the human race again.
“Could it be a coincidence?” one of the early stage Open Heaven Realm cultivators murmured.
“It might be possible. It’s said that the human race’s Open Heaven Realm cultivator has only just broken through, and not long after leaving the city, there was the dissipation of the Rules resonating from two Open Heaven Realm cultivators, which happened too quickly,” replied Zhong Weiyi, nodding.
All clues pointed to the human race, but the human race’s Open Heaven Realm cultivator didn’t seem capable of pulling off the act, and moreover, the speed and efficiency of the killings were too great to be believable.
“Let’s assign the Heart Deceit Bureau a new task, to help us find out the cause of Lv Fan’s death,” Wan Mengzhi suggested after some thought, proposing a relatively safe approach.
Zhong Weiyi and the others exchanged glances and nodded in agreement.
Thousands of miles away, Human Clan Qiankun City.
Chen Fei’s figure floated within the secret chamber, and the next moment, eight figures simultaneously appeared around him, indistinguishable between real and fake, the power of the Eight Gates Formation pervading the entire secret chamber.