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The entire Xuan Yu Mountain alliance mobilizes millions of warriors and True Gods of Void Space to launch a full-scale invasion on Nine Smoke Marsh. In this Swallowed Star novel explanation, Luo Feng finds himself trapped right in the middle of an apocalyptic battlefield!
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00:00Rampaging Devil God had his windfall, and he already understood what it cost him.
00:04The gap between the Ordinary Army and the Special Army is enormous, he thought,
00:10recalling the lists on that floating screen.
00:12Many special weapons, special valuables, and strong inheritances can't be bought by the
00:17Ordinary Army at any price in credits.
00:20The few that can cost far more than the Special Army pays, and he was only average,
00:25even among ordinary soldiers.
00:26As for the Special Army?
00:28He shook his head.
00:30He wasn't suicidal.
00:31His plans lay elsewhere.
00:33He was in the world of Jyn only for opportunity, and he meant to return to Universe Ocean.
00:38He had a deadline of his own.
00:40If he couldn't transcend incarnations within three Universe eras, he would die.
00:45So he would master his new set of attack-type Supreme True Treasures,
00:49the most expensive items he'd bought, packed with remarkable techniques.
00:53They could carry him toward the level of a limit true god, and make him a top-tier
00:58being among ordinary soldiers.
01:00Then he spotted something bigger.
01:02Universe Ocean's Supreme True Treasures come at different levels.
01:06Some at true god level, and some at true god-avoid space level, and he reasoned that credits could be
01:12farmed on that difference.
01:13Carry treasures home, trade them for better ones, return, and cash in.
01:19He was in a hurry.
01:20The more time passed, the more people would learn the secret.
01:23Meanwhile, the soldiers who had no such shelf to shop from were already at the swamp.
01:28Nine Smoke Marsh is a vast swampland full of strange beasts, a great power built from them.
01:34On its outer edge, a black ship slid out of the tall grass, and its passengers poured from the cabin
01:40before it vanished.
01:41Kufa looked around at her careful soldiers and spoke in her clear voice.
01:45We've arrived.
01:47Milky Way, Wu He, this is where we part.
01:50Good luck.
01:51Many of her soldiers wished the pair well, and the two thanked them.
01:55Of the three squads, they thought best of Kufa's, yet it was natural she hadn't brought them into the task.
02:01They streaked off through the grass.
02:03Kufa watched them go.
02:05The newcomers are gone, she said.
02:07Time for us to act.
02:09Whatever her squad planned, they planned it without witnesses.
02:13Now the two newcomers hid in the grass while roars rolled through the clouds above.
02:18Wu He whispered how things used to be.
02:20In northern True Ocean, he'd roamed freely and nobody dared bother him.
02:24Here he had to hide.
02:26Luo Feng answered flatly.
02:28They had to survive this task first.
02:30Because if they didn't, even Wu He's father couldn't save him.
02:34Wu He asked what they could do.
02:36Ten thousand credits, and the marsh was swarming with strange beasts.
02:40A fight would expose them at once, and with their strength.
02:44They couldn't kill even one beast's true god, let alone two.
02:47Luo Feng frowned and weighed it honestly.
02:50Using everything he had, he could kill a true god.
02:53But it would take a long time.
02:54And in this place, nobody gets a long time to attack a true god.
02:59Any ideas?
03:00Wu He asked nervously.
03:02Why so anxious?
03:04Luo Feng snapped.
03:05The deadline is the next task, almost a full era away.
03:09That's a lot of time to wait for the right opening.
03:12Wu He relaxed, but he still had nothing.
03:15Luo Feng offered a deal.
03:16Follow my lead, and we act together.
03:18If you won't, we act alone.
03:20Yeah?
03:21Wu He's eyes gleamed.
03:22The beast who'd introduced himself with his father's title now said,
03:26he'd do whatever Luo Feng said, short of killing himself.
03:30That is how a plan gets a leader.
03:33Not by rank, but by the one person with an idea.
03:36Luo Feng's first step was caution.
03:38They had to learn the marsh's periphery, he said.
03:41And planning without understanding the ground would be stupid.
03:44He took Wu He and scouted the edges carefully, weighing every detail.
03:50Half a year went by.
03:51Compared with the span they'd been given, that was barely a sliver.
03:55One day, the wind pushed the grass down, and the two of them looked out like ants.
04:01In the distance, dozens of beings were locked in battle.
04:04A scaled, strange beast with four claws, a long neck, and a triangular head bellowed that
04:09the Neem bastards from Zhuangyu Mountain had come again after being beaten last time,
04:15and twelve beasts just like it charged.
04:17Tall warriors in human form shouted back that they'd beaten them, before and would again.
04:23The tribal warriors had greater numbers.
04:26But the beasts had bigger godly bodies.
04:29Wu He read the fight first.
04:30Neither side wore true god-level armor, and they were fighting recklessly.
04:35So their godly bodies would drain fast, and some would die.
04:39They could wait.
04:40Then collect the leftover weapons as proof.
04:43The proof for a lawmaster's death is a plundered weapon.
04:46The proof for a true god's death is its body.
04:49And the army would verify with nine smoke marsh later.
04:52But a lawmaster's weapon is worth a single credit.
04:56Wu He was proposing to earn pocket change.
04:58No need to hurry, Luo Feng said.
05:01Wu He grew restless.
05:03After so long, they hadn't earned a single credit.
05:06Luo Feng laid out what he'd been counting.
05:08In all their scouting, they'd seen three battles.
05:12The area was vast, and they'd covered only the tip of the iceberg.
05:16So how many battles were there around the entire rim?
05:19Wu He guessed ten thousand, then stared at him.
05:22Finally understanding.
05:23There was a second clue, Luo Feng said.
05:26Other beasts in the marsh could surely sense the ripples of these fights.
05:31Yet none had come to interfere.
05:32And while the first two battles had told him nothing.
05:36This one named Zhuanyu Mountain.
05:38What was that?
05:39Wu He explained.
05:41It was a great power next door.
05:42Just as strong as nine smoke.
05:45Marsh.
05:45The marsh was a strange...
05:47Beast power led by three true gods of void space.
05:50While Zhuanyu Mountain was a tribal alliance led by four.
05:54With two giants like that, fights were rare, and when they happened, they were savage.
06:00Luo Feng pressed one more question.
06:02When the two powers weren't at war, would their warriors brawl like this?
06:07A no, Wu He said.
06:09When they're not at war, they restrict their warriors so no fights start.
06:14That answer was the whole key.
06:16A brawl here is a symptom.
06:17Not an accident.
06:19Three fights meant the powers weren't at peace.
06:21They were at war, perhaps in a pause.
06:24With lawmasters swinging at each other along the border.
06:27And war was a gift.
06:29Since they're fighting, Luo Feng said.
06:32Let's get their true gods to fight each other.
06:35Then collect the bodies.
06:36Wu He shook his head.
06:38A battle between true gods?
06:40Impossible.
06:41A mass clash of true gods is nearly impossible.
06:44Now, Luo Feng agreed.
06:46But individual true gods can be drawn in.
06:48His eyes gleamed.
06:50The plan was already in his mind.
06:52Follow me, he said.
06:54And both of them vanished from the grass.
06:57The edge of Nine Smoke Marsh had become a patchwork of skirmishes.
07:01Lawmasters clashed in bursts.
07:04Small.
07:04Vicious.
07:05Scattered.
07:06While above them, the true gods of both sides simply watched.
07:11To Nine Smoke Marsh and Zhuanyu Mountain, these little eruptions were not war.
07:16They were practice.
07:17A final battle was coming.
07:19And nothing seasoned a warrior-like blood spilled just before the real thing.
07:23The true gods were the blades that mattered.
07:26And neither side would dull them on trivial ground.
07:29So the Lawmasters fought.
07:31A giant charged with the weight of a mountain behind every step.
07:35His footfalls making the marsh tremble as he barreled toward a wall of beasts.
07:39These creatures were no lesser things.
07:42Any one of them.
07:43Dropped into universe ocean.
07:45Would have ranked as a beast god.
07:47A pillar of its race.
07:48Here, in the world of Jyn, space was stable enough to hold them.
07:52Anywhere else.
07:53The primal universe.
07:55Universe ocean itself.
07:57A clash of this scale would have shattered the void like thin ice.
08:01The beast rolled and hissed.
08:03Fangs gleaming cold.
08:04Arms flailing.
08:05Axes hacking without pause.
08:07Chaos without shape.
08:09A brawl of titans.
08:10Then the order came.
08:12Retreat!
08:13The Alliance Master has given the order.
08:15Retreat!
08:16Three warriors carried the command through the tribes of Xuanyu Mountain.
08:20The token in their hands had spoken.
08:22And warriors who had been fighting like men possessed turned on their heels.
08:27Half fighting, half fleeing.
08:29They poured into a battleship and shot away at lightning speed.
08:33The beasts left behind roared after them, cheated of their kills.
08:37Across the entire rim of Nine Smoke Marsh, the same thing happened.
08:41Troops in ambush.
08:42Troops mid-battle.
08:43Troops waiting for a signal.
08:45All received the identical command and slipped away.
08:49Quiet and swift.
08:50Until the marsh's edge was emptied of Xuanyu Mountain's presence.
08:54Luo Feng noticed before he understood.
08:56He had been advancing carefully, keeping hidden from the roaming troops when he stopped dead.
09:02How strange, he murmured.
09:03Why isn't there a single great being from Xuanyu Mountain anywhere?
09:07Wu-hi's voice came quick and anxious.
09:10Milky Way, Milky Way.
09:11How can we not see even one great being from the Xuanyu Mountain tribal alliance?
09:16If that's the case, how are you going to execute your plan?
09:19How are we supposed to sow discord?
09:21Luo Feng shook his head.
09:23He had no answer.
09:24Their reasoning had been sound.
09:26So many small conflicts should have drawn at least a million law.
09:31Masters from Xuanyu.
09:32Mountain into the field.
09:34And no alliance.
09:35Would expose so many of its own-to-danger-without-true-gods lurking in the shadows to guard.
09:41Against disaster.
09:43That was precisely what Luo Feng had been hunting.
09:46A true god of Xuanyu Mountain.
09:48Alone and vulnerable.
09:49Instead, the lawmasters themselves had vanished.
09:53Do we even need to talk about true gods when not even a single lawmaster can be found?
09:58Wu-hi's frustration spilled over.
10:00If this keeps up, when will we ever complete the army's mission?
10:04We're talking about ten thousand military credits.
10:07Enough!
10:08Luo Feng snapped.
10:09He was just as frustrated.
10:11Xuanyu Mountain's forces had been everywhere earlier.
10:13Now they had simply disappeared.
10:16And if the alliance had decided to pull back entirely, there would be no conflict left to exploit.
10:22Not far away, hidden in the grass, another group was asking the same question.
10:26Why have they stopped fighting?
10:28A warrior muttered.
10:30We found six separate crossfires between Xuanyu Mountain and Nine Smoke.
10:34Marsh in a row.
10:35How could they all vanish at once?
10:37A dozen figures lay low among the stalks, led by a burly giant with curved horns.
10:43This was the captain and his troop.
10:45Six times they had found a melee, waited until the final moments,
10:49then thrown themselves in, disguised as Xuanyu Mountain warriors,
10:54cutting down the lawmasters of Nine Smoke Marsh.
10:57The deception was easy.
11:00Xuanyu Mountain was a super-tribal alliance vast beyond reckoning.
11:04So vast that its own lawmasters did not know all their fellows by sight.
11:08The beasts of Nine Smoke Marsh had no chance of telling the difference.
11:12A humanoid shape was enough.
11:14Kill.
11:15Now their prey had evaporated.
11:17Captain, what should we do?
11:19Do we keep disguising ourselves as Xuanyu Mountain and keep killing the beasts?
11:23The captain's gray eyes held no ripple of emotion beneath his horns.
11:27No, he said quietly.
11:29We haven't seen a single lawmaster of Xuanyu Mountain for some time.
11:34Perhaps they're retreating.
11:35If we keep posing as them, and Nine Smoke Marsh,
11:38realizes that every conflict has suddenly dried up except the ones we create,
11:43they'll grow suspicious.
11:44They'll send true gods.
11:46And then it will be too late to run.
11:47His warriors nodded one by one.
11:50So what now?
11:51We wait, the captain said.
11:53Xuanyu Mountain and Nine Smoke Marsh are locked deep in war.
11:56Even if they pull back, small fights will keep flaring.
12:00The moment they stop altogether, that's when something is truly wrong.
12:04Thousands of light years away, in a desolate stretch of space.
12:08The truth was already gathering.
12:10Mighty figures hung in the void, thousands of them each radiating a tyrannical aura.
12:15More arrived by the moment.
12:17True gods flying in to join the host.
12:20Small teams of lawmaster.
12:22Warriors merging into the mass until the sky was thick with them.
12:26Three figures stood before the assembled army.
12:29Xuanyu Mountain was an alliance of four great tribes.
12:32And every tribal leader was a true god of void space.
12:35The three before the host radiated power.
12:38So, immense that the surrounding void seemed to condense,
12:42and seal itself off from the outside world.
12:44The master of that space was the one in the center.
12:47His voice came cold and dripping with fury, resonating through the entire void.
12:52Nine Smoke Marsh has provoked us again and again.
12:54They dared to attack Xuanyu Mountain itself.
12:57We will teach them what it means to raise a hand against us.
13:00Death sentences for every one of them.
13:02Punish Nine Smoke Marsh!
13:04Howls of rage answered him.
13:07Fighting spirit ignited like dry grass.
13:09Punish Nine Smoke Marsh!
13:11Punish Nine Smoke Marsh!
13:12The alliance master, his face like carved rock, gave the order without further ceremony.
13:18Let's go!
13:19And the vast army vanished into the void.
13:22Back at the marsh's edge, Luofeng and Wu He crouched in the grass, turning over alternatives.
13:28With Xuanyu Mountain's great beings gone, their original plan was dead.
13:32Do we have to go into the tiger's den after all?
13:35Luofeng muttered.
13:36Entering the tiger's den was a last resort.
13:39Beyond his earthling original body, he had brought the golden-horned beast into the world of jinn.
13:45And here, the golden-horned beast belonged to the beast faction.
13:49It could pass as a wandering beast that had stumbled into Nine Smoke Marsh.
13:54Marsh, a wandering tribal warrior, would never dare enter.
13:58A wandering beast would have the nerve.
14:01Once inside, it would wait.
14:02Sooner or later, Nine Smoke Marsh would send troops to join the army, and he could slip in among them.
14:08As a lawmaster, he would not be watched.
14:11He need only pray the troop was led by a single true god.
14:14And when they were far enough from the marsh, he would strike.
14:17One dead true god.
14:19Mission complete.
14:20But the plan was riddled with holes.
14:22He did not know how many universe masters would join the army.
14:26Even a few would be a deadly threat.
14:28He did not know how many true gods Nine Smoke Marsh would send as escorts.
14:32Nine Smoke Marsh was far larger and far stronger than Dry Wilderness Tribe.
14:37Abate?
14:38Lure them out?
14:38Sneak in?
14:39Or hunt lawmasters one by one and spend nearly an entire era to make up ten thousand?
14:44All possible.
14:46All dangerous.
14:47The cleanest path was still to let the two sides.
14:50Bleed each other and take the spoils.
14:52Kill a true god of Nine Smoke Marsh, snatch the corpse, and flee.
14:56The boat of mausoleum could carry him away before anyone reacted.
15:00Then he looked up.
15:01Far in the distance, above Nine Smoke Marsh, a black mass had appeared in the sky.
15:07Towering figures, tens of thousands of kilometers tall, filled the heavens until the crowd became a sea of bodies.
15:13And the bodies became storm clouds.
15:16Millions of tribal warriors.
15:18Gathered in the air above the marsh, blotting out the light.
15:21Luofeng's eyes widened.
15:23He had never seen anything like it.
15:25A great war.
15:27Wu he breathed beside him.
15:29Head tilted back, eyes bright with shock and delight.
15:32A great war.
15:33The final war between...
15:34Xuanyu Mountain and Nine Smoke Marsh.
15:37Nothing like the skirmishes before.
15:39Ha ha ha.
15:40I've only seen a war this large once since.
15:42I came to northern true ocean.
15:44We were too strong.
15:46Nobody dared provoke us.
15:47Those three at the front must be true gods of void space.
15:50Even they are joining.
15:52This is the real thing.
15:54Heaven and earth changed color.
15:56Time and space twisted.
15:57In an instant, everything around Nine Smoke Marsh, the marsh itself, the outlying ground where Luofeng and Wu He hid,
16:05the fields where the captain's troop and Ku, Fa Zanyu Luo's, waited, was swallowed into a blurred void.
16:13The skies above, the marshes below, the edges of the world, all of it became one sealed expanse.
16:20As though the entire region had been cut free of reality.
16:23A single thought and the void space is formed, Luofeng whispered.
16:28A true god of void space.
16:30He had heard the stories.
16:31Every true god of void space was an overlord, of some corner of the world, of jinn, and in universe
16:38ocean.
16:39Such a being could transcend reincarnation, establish a holy land universe of their own, and guarantee their race would endure
16:47forever.
16:47Ever since entering the world of jinn, Luofeng had been hungry for knowledge about true gods of void space.
16:54They stood a tier above true gods, and he wanted every scrap of information he could scrape together.
17:00From the Duandong River inheritance, and from conversations with Northern Wind and Wu He, he had assembled a picture.
17:07True gods possessed miniature universes, and their orders once spoken, were enforced by reality itself.
17:14But that enforcement only worked in universe ocean and the original universe, not here.
17:19It was a gift, a mark of respect from the original mind, which allotted true gods a domain to govern,
17:25and gifts could be withdrawn.
17:26When the original mind chose not to back a true god, as when one clashed with a universe master, the
17:33true gods, authority evaporated.
17:36The power to command was not earned through law comprehension.
17:39It was handed down like multiple bodies, like inherited techniques.
17:43If the original universe wanted it back, it was gone.
17:47True gods of void space were different.
17:49Once a being reached that level, their understanding of the universe deepened beyond measure.
17:53Based on their law comprehension alone, they could seize total control of a void space.
17:59Not a gift, but something carved out by their own comprehension.
18:03The original mind could not strip it away.
18:06With a single thought, the void space formed.
18:08Inside it, a true god of void space wielded terrifying power.
18:13True gods could not slaughter universe masters.
18:16With their bestowed authority, but a true god of void space could form a void space with one thought and
18:23cut-down true.
18:24Gods and universe masters alike.
18:26That was the chasm between borrowed power and power claimed by oneself.
18:30And it was why any true god of void space could rule a region of the world of Jyn as
18:36an overlord.
18:37Now the entire Nine Smoke Marsh had been sealed off.
18:40A void space wrapped the marsh like a fist closing around a coal.
18:43Morons from Xuanyu Mountain, you dare cross us again?
18:47The voice that answered was clear as flowing water, and it pierced the mind.
18:52Suddenly the power saturating.
18:54The void space multiplied.
18:56Two void.
18:57Spaces grinding against each other for dominance.
19:00A tide of strange beasts poured out of Nine Smoke Marsh, roaring.
19:05At their head stood three colossal beings.
19:07The center one had green scales, a tentacled body, and nine heads.
19:12She was Nine Smoke, the ancient ruler of the marsh.
19:16The being the marsh was named for.
19:18Behind the true gods led by those three, law universes surged into the sky.
19:23In the grass, Luo Feng and Wu He watched the two armies square off.
19:28Nine Smoke is a very powerful true god of void space, Wu He transmitted.
19:33Nine Smoke Marsh is famous because of her.
19:36Even my father appreciates her strength.
19:38But her temperament is strange.
19:40Nobody can satisfy her.
19:42Which is why the other powerful true gods of void space don't want anything to do with her.
19:47But she has three true gods of void space under her, Luo Feng said.
19:52Wu He smiled oddly.
19:54The other two were chased by enemies and had nowhere else to go.
19:57My father said he could easily kill both of them.
20:00Luo Feng was dazed.
20:02Could the gap between true gods of void space really be that wide?
20:06It tracked with what he knew.
20:07He was a universe master, and given enough time, he could kill a true god.
20:12Against other universe masters, if he went all out, he could end them in a single move.
20:17If the gap between true gods of void space was anything like that, one could absolutely suppress another.
20:24Wu He, he said.
20:25The major tribal powers and strange beast powers are all led by true gods of void space.
20:31Have you heard of anyone stronger?
20:33I haven't, Wu He admitted.
20:36There must be something above them.
20:38What is it?
20:39The supreme leader of the East Army, Wu He said.
20:42The general of the Easy Army.
20:44Luo Feng's eyes gleamed.
20:46The general?
20:47The military is the most powerful organization in the world of Jin.
20:51East Army, North Army, South Army, West Army.
20:55The four generals who lead them are the supreme beings of this world.
20:59Rumor says they've surpassed true gods of void space and reached a higher level.
21:03What level?
21:04I don't know.
21:06Wu He shook his head.
21:07My father didn't tell me.
21:09Luo Feng stared at him.
21:10Why are you looking at me like that?
21:12Wu He snapped.
21:14If you really want to know, earn military credits and buy the information from the military.
21:19He was displeased.
21:20The weakest child of northern true ocean, always neglected by his father.
21:26Below them, the negotiation between Nine Smoke Marsh and Zhuanyu Mountain had already soured.
21:32Nine Smoke, you're being too reckless.
21:34You won't share anything with us.
21:36Do you really think four true gods of void space from Zhuanyu Mountain can't rival you alone?
21:42You want to share?
21:43Be my sidekicks.
21:44Then I'll happily give you some.
21:46You're asking for your own death.
21:48Warriors of Zhuanyu Mountain, punish that bastard from Nine Smoke Marsh.
21:53The two sides crashed together.
21:55Soldiers against soldiers, leaders against leaders.
21:58Above, it was as though the clouds of both armies collided and merged.
22:03It has begun, Wu He said, exhilarated.
22:05It has begun, Luo Feng echoed, holding his breath.
22:09War was a tangle of variables, and no one could predict which side would win.
22:14True gods of void space could shape the outcome, but their soldiers mattered more.
22:19Quantity had a quality all its own.
22:22Lawmasters were weaker than true gods.
22:24But ten thousand lawmasters performing combined techniques could bring down any true god.
22:30True gods were weaker than true gods of void space.
22:33But a thousand true gods could rival one.
22:36And with a machine-type valuable like Zhu Shu, a hundred true gods could wield the power of thousands.
22:43Stronger defense.
22:44Greater flexibility.
22:46A hundred true gods with Zhu Shu could rival a powerful true god of void space.
22:51Against weaker ones, they might even kill.
22:53In a true major war, machine-type valuables decided everything.
22:58Chinlo sky and land required a million.
23:00True gods to operate and could annihilate a whole.
23:04Group of true gods of void space at once.
23:07But the world of Jyn was ruled by His Majesty the Godly King.
23:11And such group-operated valuables were forbidden.
23:14Even Zhu Shu was owned by no tribal or strange beast power.
23:18On the Dark Land, the two forces slaughtered each other.
23:21And lawmasters were the first to die.
23:23Godly bodies were consumed in swaths.
23:26Under terrifying combined attacks, lawmasters were killed instantly.
23:30Their weapons and armor dropping where they fell.
23:33Weapons and armors!
23:34Wu He's eyes gleamed.
23:36Universe masters kept dying in the distance and their gear kept falling.
23:40These are all worth military credits.
23:42He looked at Luo Feng.
23:45Milky Way?
23:46Hurry!
23:47Those weapons and armors aren't precious.
23:49Few will be gathered up.
23:50We can collect a great many.
23:52We might get ten thousand military credits.
23:55Then we finish the task and survive.
23:57Bodies of true gods and weapons of lawmasters were the requisites for proof.
24:01Even if Wu He didn't kill the lawmaster himself, as long as one died and he retrieved the weapon,
24:06the points counted as his.
24:08In some ways, it encouraged mutual killing.
24:11Luo Feng shook his head.
24:12Only ten thousand lawmasters from Nine Smoke Marsh joined.
24:16It's unrealistic to collect ten thousand weapons and armors.
24:20If we can get the bodies of true gods, we finish the task immediately.
24:25You!
24:25You!
24:26Wu He was anxious, staring at the falling gear, both worried and furious.
24:31Milky Way!
24:32How powerful do you think you are?
24:34True gods are important to every power.
24:36If a true god dies, someone will be responsible for collecting the body.
24:41You won't stand a chance at getting one.
24:43And fighting them?
24:44Do you really think you're strong enough to meddle in a fight like this?
24:48You're being suicidal!
24:50Wu He called him a fool and Luo Feng only shook his head.
24:54Companion had been carrying weight neither of them ever put on it.
24:57From the army selection, the two of them the only recruits left standing,
25:02Wu He had been keeping a private ledger.
25:04Stay close.
25:05Hold the life-saving measures in reserve.
25:07When the danger sharpened enough, let Luo Feng spend himself first.
25:12That was the arrangement he never said aloud.
25:14He was the weakest son of Northern True Ocean,
25:17the one his father had long stopped counting.
25:20And he had learned early that survival meant standing behind someone else.
25:24What he misjudged was not Luo Feng's strength, but its shape.
25:28He had assumed recklessness came from stupidity.
25:30He was discovering it could come from arithmetic.
25:33You don't even know what a disaster-level mission means, he shouted.
25:37You fight for your life.
25:39I'll fight for mine.
25:40I'm not your companion anymore.
25:42He was gone before the sentence finished.
25:44Fast.
25:45Quiet.
25:46Already angling toward the melee.
25:48Luo Feng watched the empty grass and let out a breath.
25:51He never trusted me wholeheartedly anyway.
25:53The thought was not bitter.
25:55It was accurate, the way most things about Wu.
25:58He were accurate once you stopped expecting warmth from them.
26:01Then he turned back to the sky.
26:02A companion leaving changed nothing about the problem in front of him.
26:08Nine smoke marsh had become three wars stacked on top of one another.
26:12And the stacking was the whole story.
26:14The lawmasters held the widest field.
26:17Sky.
26:18Marsh.
26:18Mud.
26:19Water.
26:20Thousands of collisions with no center and no line to hold.
26:23No formation to break.
26:25No flank to turn.
26:26Just death spread thin across a flooded landscape.
26:29Each skirmish isolated, each body swallowed by distance.
26:32A warrior could die within sight of an ally and never be avenged.
26:36To the powers above, those deaths were the cost of seasoning.
26:40They were noise.
26:41The true gods had pulled themselves into a single killing ground called Purple Vine Marsh,
26:47where more than ten thousand fought in a deliberately broken pattern.
26:50No formations.
26:52No clustered charges.
26:54Only ones and twos grinding against each other.
26:56Bunch up and one combined strike erases hundreds.
27:00Disperse and the war becomes patience.
27:02A slow bleed measured in bodies rather than ground.
27:05It was not a battle.
27:06It was negotiated attrition, and every true god on that field understood the terms.
27:11The ones who did not had already died.
27:14Above them both, six true gods of void space had claimed a battlefield of their own,
27:19and no one else dared approach.
27:21That last tear explained the other two.
27:23A true god of void space could form a void, space with a single thought.
27:29A sealed domain where their will was law.
27:32Inside it, domain treasures went dark.
27:35Time and space answered only to the void's master.
27:38And even true gods fought half-blind.
27:40The entire marsh sat inside one now.
27:42No one could flee without permission.
27:45No one could hide.
27:46This was the chasm between a true god and a true god of void space.
27:50And it was not a matter of degree.
27:53A true god's authority was a gift.
27:55The original universe allotting them.
27:58Territory to govern.
28:00The same way it handed out multiple bodies or inherited techniques.
28:04A gift can be revoked.
28:05And it was.
28:06When a true god clashed with a universe master,
28:09the original mind simply withdrew its backing.
28:12And the true god's command over reality evaporated.
28:15A true god of void space had built something the original mind could not take back.
28:21Claimed, not borrowed.
28:23That was why they ruled regions.
28:25And why a true god of void space could slaughter.
28:28True gods with a thought while a true god could not reliably kill a universe master.
28:34Both powers understood what this meant.
28:36True gods were the real currency.
28:38Too few, too slow to replace.
28:40A lawmaster's death was a number.
28:42A true god's death was a wound.
28:44So the field had settled into this strange, dispersed rhythm.
28:48And neither side would spend its true gods recklessly.
28:51The war would be won by whoever ran out of patience last.
28:55Or by whoever saw an advantage no one else had.
28:58Luo Feng advanced toward the true god field, swift and careful.
29:02Three times, lawmasters from Nine Smoke Marsh blocked his path.
29:06And three times he killed them.
29:08Not from appetite, but because they would not move.
29:12He had no interest in bullying the weak.
29:14The weak simply insisted.
29:16When he finally reached the edge and looked out across Purple Vine Marsh, he stopped and
29:21read the field the way a man reads a ledger.
29:23True gods from both sides were scattered through each other's ranks, deliberately intermingled.
29:29No clusters.
29:30No formations.
29:31If either side had grouped up.
29:33A single sweeping attack would have annihilated several at once.
29:37And then both armies would have crashed together into one enormous brawl.
29:41Instead, they fought one against one or two against one.
29:44And the killing would take a very long time.
29:47True gods were few.
29:48No power would waste to supply that precious for the sake of speed.
29:52He was not looking at a battle.
29:55He was looking at a market.
29:56And he was waiting for the price to drop.
29:59Corpses.
30:00Not far from him, eighteen lawmasters lay hidden in the wilderness.
30:05They had been deployed by Python River Army.
30:07And their captain had just done the impossible.
30:10Slipped onto the true god battlefield.
30:12Seized a corpse.
30:14And escaped before anyone registered his presence.
30:17His warriors praised him for it.
30:19They saw the feet, not the margin.
30:21The captain let them praise him for a while, then cut it off.
30:24Enough.
30:25They had not seen the risk.
30:27He had.
30:28Surprise had been his only armor.
30:29The true gods had not expected a lawmaster to dart in and grab a body.
30:34And that was the only reason he had lived.
30:37One attack had still grazed him.
30:38A little slower.
30:39A few more aware.
30:41And he would have been carrying nothing but his own corpse.
30:44He had run reincarnation-level missions and survived everyone.
30:48And he knew the truth better than any of them.
30:51At the crucial moment.
30:52You had to gamble.
30:54Skill could be repeated.
30:55Luck could not.
30:57And since he led these men, his first duty was to secure his own proof before he could
31:02afford to help them.
31:03There can only be one, he told them.
31:06The first time, I caught them off guard.
31:09There won't be a second time.
31:10Those true gods didn't catch me.
31:12But they're not going to keep letting me have my way.
31:15Don't take risks.
31:16If anyone moves recklessly, I leave this battlefield immediately.
31:19I won't leave you in a lurch, he added.
31:22If I meant to abandon you, I would already be gone.
31:25Wait.
31:26When the opportunity comes, follow my plan and I'll do what I can.
31:29Captain, give the order and we'll follow.
31:32Their mouths agreed.
31:33Their eyes did not.
31:35Seventeen of them still needed corpses.
31:37Not one had asked the only question that mattered.
31:40What would it cost?
31:42To them, the captain had made it look easy.
31:45And easy things can be repeated.
31:47What they were actually watching was someone else's gamble mistaken for a method.
31:51The army's rules encouraged exactly this blindness.
31:55A corpse retrieved by anyone counted for the retriever.
31:58Whether or not they had done the killing, it rewarded opportunism and punished hesitation.
32:03It also killed people who mistook one man's narrow escape for a template.
32:07The true god battlefield broke open.
32:10A beast body came tumbling out of the marsh.
32:12Half-conscious, massive, rolling end over end.
32:16A tribal true god followed at speed, stone rod in hand.
32:20He raised it and threw.
32:21The sharp end punched through the beast's skull and pinned it into the mud.
32:26Ripples of power crawled out from the rod.
32:28The beast cried once and went still.
32:30The tribal true god laughed.
32:32Loud, open, unrestrained.
32:34Three beast true gods descended in answer.
32:37Only brave enough to bully the ones without armor.
32:40Bastards of Xuanyu Mountain.
32:42He fled.
32:43This was the pattern.
32:44Prey on the weak.
32:45More than half the true gods on this field had never joined an army.
32:49No true god-level armor.
32:51No protection.
32:52Armor was the difference between a true god who could survive a mistake and one who could not.
32:58And the unarmored had learned to hunt each other while the strong picked them off.
33:02It was the same lesson the rampaging devil god had.
33:06Learned when he first arrived and met a true god-beast with nothing to shield himself.
33:12A corpse lay in the marsh now, tens of thousands of kilometers long, half-submerged, exposed.
33:18It was not a victory.
33:20It was an opportunity, and everyone within reach had already seen it.
33:24Far off, the captain's warriors stared at it.
33:28Seventeen lawmasters, all seeing the same thing, a solution.
33:31The captain saw it, too, and said nothing.
33:34He had already warned them.
33:36The warning was all he owed.
33:38Luofeng's eyes found it.
33:40He swept his godly power across the field, counting the true gods nearest the body,
33:45measuring distance, estimating arrival times.
33:48At most five could reach him before he was gone.
33:51Five true gods, not a threat.
33:53Eight roots unfolded in his mind.
33:55Each weighed a different risk.
33:58The true gods' positions.
34:00Their likely reaction times.
34:02The terrain between him and the corpse.
34:04The speed of his retreat once he had it.
34:07He chose one and moved.
34:09Every second undiscovered was a second earned.
34:12He adjusted his path continuously.
34:14Threading between true gods too busy with their own battles to notice a lawmaster slipping past.
34:20The later he was seen, the easier his escape would be.
34:24The danger zone swallowed him.
34:26He charged into the heart of the true god battlefield.
34:30Luofeng shrank to the size of a speck of dust and slipped forward.
34:33Through the purple vines.
34:35Small as he was, speed still leaves awake.
34:38And out here awake was something godly power could read.
34:42He had one thing working for him.
34:44Over ten thousand true gods were tearing at one another.
34:47Their ripples overlapping into pure chaos.
34:49Only a true god close enough to trip over him would feel the disturbance.
34:54Everyone else had larger problems.
34:56He found it.
34:57The body lay half sunk in the giant.
35:00Marsh.
35:00Hundreds of thousands of kilometers of dead beast.
35:03More water than flesh.
35:05Three true gods were fighting over it.
35:07Two tribal warriors circling a single beast.
35:10Then all three turned and saw the ripple.
35:13Lawmaster.
35:14A lawmaster stole the body of a great being from Ninesmoke.
35:19Marsh.
35:19Those body stealers.
35:21Must be under a military task.
35:23The task is indeed difficult.
35:25But stealing bodies of great beings from Ninesmoke Marsh is punishable by death.
35:30They stopped fighting each other instantly.
35:32That was the strange logic of this war.
35:34Shenyu Mountain and Ninesmoke Marsh had ground against each other for a long time.
35:38But the fighting was never only about killing.
35:41It was also training.
35:43Weak lawmasters were pushed to burn everything they had.
35:47To squeeze out every scrap of growth before the final battle.
35:50True gods and true gods of void space restrained themselves deliberately.
35:55Holding back the power that could have annihilated the field outright.
35:59Weak true gods died every time.
36:02Those trained in the military rarely did.
36:04Everyone had reached that consensus without ever speaking it.
36:07But the dead were different.
36:09Stealing a true god's body as a trophy was not tolerated by the living.
36:14Three streaks of light converged on a speck of dust.
36:17Three rainbows aimed at something almost too small to see.
36:20I've been found.
36:21Luo Feng counted them.
36:23Only three true gods.
36:25Nothing to worry about.
36:26He let his godly body swell to a hundred thousand kilometers.
36:29A speck could not carry a corpse.
36:32The captain and his eighteen soldiers were watching from the periphery.
36:36And one of them spotted the attempt first.
36:38There he is.
36:39The captain laughed.
36:41This was the lesson he had been waiting to deliver.
36:44See?
36:45That one was careful and he's still chased by three.
36:48Why?
36:49Because I took a body first, so now they're more careful with it.
36:52If you go, you'll be encircled by three true gods as well.
36:55If you can't get away quickly enough, there might be five, seven, or even ten.
36:59The soldiers felt their stomachs drop.
37:02Their earlier confidence.
37:03The quiet belief that if he could do it, so could they, you know, curdled where they stood.
37:09Let's see which arrogant fool it is.
37:11Kufa or Yulo?
37:12It must be that idiot Yulo, one said.
37:15Then Luo Feng's godly body expanded and they saw his face.
37:19Milky Way!
37:20The new soldier!
37:21It's the new soldier!
37:23He dares to snatch bodies like the captain?
37:25He's dead meat, the captain said coldly.
37:29He knew the situation better than any of them.
37:31He had needed his most precious machine type valuable to escape that same position.
37:36Without it, he would not have gotten away.
37:38He's dead.
37:39Let's see how he'll die.
37:41They settled in to watch a stranger die.
37:44Luo Feng gripped his blade, one hand on the handle, one on the steel, shoved back against
37:49the three streaks on his flank, and kept driving for the corpse.
37:53Great power borrowing, a soldier said.
37:56The others nodded.
37:57Borrowing power while under a true god's attack.
38:00Simple to describe.
38:01Nearly impossible without training.
38:04The captain nodded, too.
38:05He's doing okay.
38:07Too bad about the task.
38:08At that speed, he won't reach the body.
38:10He's dead.
38:12What a pity.
38:13They all pretended to sigh.
38:15Then the captain opened his mouth and stopped, as if something had closed around his throat.
38:20Luo Feng's blade moved like a phantom, and his body stayed glued to it, not dodging the
38:26attack so much as flowing through them.
38:28Blur contact!
38:29Blur contact!
38:30Then he was out, flung free of three true gods at once.
38:33Flowing gold, eight million eras in the space of inheritance, had produced two great gains,
38:40and this was one.
38:41The captain and his men stared.
38:44A lawmaster had escaped three true gods.
38:46The captain had run countless incarnation tasks and knew he could not shake three true
38:52gods that easily.
38:53He remembered his first conversation with the newcomer.
38:56You two, tell me your names and your advantages.
38:59I am Wu He.
39:01I'm good at...
39:02A large godly body, over one million kilometers tall.
39:05I am Milky Way.
39:07I am stronger than Wu He.
39:09I'm good at close combat dodging.
39:11The captain had been amused then.
39:14Now he was thrilled.
39:15Good at?
39:16Just good at?
39:17I've never seen a lawmaster so good at close combat dodging.
39:20What he did not know...
39:22Luo Feng held the space of inheritance.
39:24The cultivation ground of every generation of Duandong River's inheritors.
39:28Beyond time acceleration, it contained a virtual space for trials and combat, with 282 competitors,
39:36every generation of Duandong River, and the three ancestral teachers at the top.
39:41Eight million eras sharpened many things.
39:44Blade technique improved the least.
39:45He had built light of water and fire at level 7, from his earlier Nirvana incarnation, but top-tier blade
39:54work was rare even among those generations, and progress came slowly.
39:58That difficulty pushed him toward close combat body techniques instead.
40:02He fought the competitors in the virtual space, often the three ancestral teachers, who could crush him while using only
40:10the godly power of lawmasters.
40:12They stood among the top beings of the ancient civilization.
40:16From those bouts, from past generations and their ingenious methods, flowing gold was born.
40:22Inheritance techniques, virtual great beings, training, comprehension, all of it combined.
40:28He reached the corpse, took it.
40:31Then he was gone, body moving like a giant blade, shedding two more true gods with the same evasion until
40:37the vines swallowed him.
40:39Madness.
40:40Too incredible.
40:41How can someone have such an incredible technique?
40:44The soldiers were shocked to their core.
40:46With evasion like that, he could survive a clash between two great powers, even after all the law universes, and
40:53most true gods were dead.
40:55Even the captain was frightened.
40:57He had trained through countless hardships and counted himself among the top law, masters of the entire East Army.
41:04Few could outmatch him.
41:06He had not expected a lawmaster who could evade like that.
41:09Without machine-type valuables, I would be crushed by him in a fair fight.
41:13But battles were never fair.
41:15Weapons and machine-type valuables mattered too, and some could multiply a great being's power enormously.
41:22With one, his power would surge.
41:24He could still suppress, even kill, the newcomer.