Chapter 176: Chapter 120: Teleport into Japan, Seize the Divine Artifact
"What’s going on?!"
He had dropped to his knees partly to thank Shen Fei for helping kill the monsters and partly because he wanted Shen Fei to embellish the story of the city’s capture, making him, the Immortal Emperor, sound more impressive to the outside world. But Zhao Li never expected Shen Fei to just leave! He showed no intention of taking over the city at all.
Moreover, before Shen Fei left, he had even said, "Help me keep this a secret."
This was exactly what Zhao Li wanted. Brother Chongtian had asked him to keep it a secret, meaning his involvement shouldn’t be revealed to anyone else. And Zhao Li, who had just been itching to show off, needed exactly this kind of reputation. This realization got Zhao Li all worked up.
Shen Fei’s selfless behavior left Zhao Li at a complete loss. Big Bro, if you don’t take something, I’ll feel terrible!
"I, Zhao Li, am not one to owe others a debt," he muttered, taking a deep breath as he stood back up. "Brother Chongtian, just watch what I do next!"
He then turned and walked toward the Neutral City he had successfully captured—a city where the monster tide had vanished and all its walls and buildings had disappeared entirely.
He didn’t know that Shen Fei had left so quickly, partly because he needed to hurry and retrieve the Divine Artifact fragment to avoid any complications. It was also because Zhao Li was too close, which made Shen Fei a little nervous. Although he had made many preparations for dealing with Cultivators, like the Forbidden Immortal Domain Tower from before, and Domain-type items could now be used since the siege battle was over, Shen Fei still didn’t want Zhao Li—a Cultivator with the highest level of cultivation—to be so close. It was human instinct.
WHOOSH.
After quickly taking control of the city, Zhao Li watched as the broken city walls materialized once more, though the other buildings within the city did not reappear. He let out a long sigh and sat down on the wall to rest. The battle, which had lasted the better part of a day, was finally over. Now that he had truly captured the city, he found he no longer had much desire to show off.
He had originally thought that after inheriting his full cultivation and gaining the Immortal Sword as a weapon, he would be invincible. But Shen Fei’s appearance had taught Zhao Li a lesson. Shen Fei’s nonchalant attitude toward the major city he’d just conquered—the way he didn’t even give it a second glance—made Zhao Li feel that the gap between them was far too wide.
While Zhao Li sat on the city wall, his mind awash with a thousand thoughts, Shen Fei was speeding toward Mingchong Island, east of Songhai, on his Golden Celestial Horse. The other Divine Artifact fragment he had detected was right on Mingchong Island.
The Sea Beast Tide in Songhai is truly severe. Half the city is already underwater!
Riding the Golden Celestial Horse, Shen Fei saw dark shadows surging below, moving in along the Huangpu River. He even saw a massive fish, its raised tail alone over a thousand meters long, bring down a dilapidated fifty-story building with a single slap.
With the apocalypse’s arrival, the land had undergone earth-shattering changes. But the oceans, which made up seventy percent of the planet’s surface and had now expanded more than tenfold, had naturally experienced even more immense transformations. In his past life, Shen Fei had been a nobody. On an enlarged Earth, he had never even left Qing City. Therefore, aside from hearing that many cities had been destroyed by the Sea Beast Tide and that heaven-defying battles had erupted on mysterious islands in the great oceans, he knew very little about what was happening at sea. In this life, he understood that the oceans were also something he had to pay attention to.
Gazing at the enormous shadows in the water below, Shen Fei knew that even though he had helped the Immortal Emperor capture a major city, even more perilous events awaited the people of Songhai.
WHOOSH.
Lost in thought, Shen Fei arrived at his destination. The surging seawater had already submerged more than half of the beautiful Mingchong Island. Following the coordinates, Shen Fei brought the Celestial Horse to a halt in mid-air. After summoning two Soldiers to guard his sides, he slowly descended.
The Divine Artifact fragment was located on a small mound and wasn’t hard to find. Although he didn’t understand why a Divine Artifact fragment from Japan would be here, Shen Fei didn’t care about the reason. He only cared about how to get his hands on it quickly.
SWISH!
The moment he landed, before Shen Fei could even make a move, countless sharp spikes instantly shot up from the earth. As if they had scented Tang Monk’s Flesh, the instant Shen Fei’s feet touched the ground, a hundred million spikes, each as fine as a hair, lunged ferociously at him.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Faced with this sudden attack, Shen Fei remained unfazed. He directly summoned a Defense Tower, and an endless stream of small fireballs rained down.
SWISH!
The instant the fireballs began their bombardment, Shen Fei summoned a Vine Tower. It immediately sent out vines that swiftly snatched the corpse from the small mound in the distance and pulled it toward him. The corpse, completely covered in black clothing, was the source of the Divine Artifact fragment Shen Fei had sensed.
A Japanese ninja?
Looking at the corpse being pulled closer, Shen Fei instantly recognized its origin. He had obtained his first fragment from a Japanese ninja, and now the second one was from one as well.
SWISH!
Ignoring the ninja, who had been sucked dry into a desiccated corpse by some unknown creature, Shen Fei grabbed the item and immediately summoned his Celestial Horse to leave.
BOOM!
Suddenly, the entire island gave a violent shudder.
As he watched a massive piece of seaweed several kilometers long rise high out of the sea, churning up endless waves and closing in on him from all sides like a colossal cabbage, Shen Fei couldn’t help but cry out, "Holy shit! Sentient seaweed? And it’s this huge?"
He never would have guessed that Mingchong Island, which had been nearly a hundred kilometers long before the apocalypse, had actually been devoured by a single, giant piece of seaweed. Just now, his endless fireballs, meant to destroy the spikes, had apparently activated it.
