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While the Python River Army soldiers scramble for military credits across the chaotic battlefield of law masters, Luo Feng patiently stalks an unarmored, eight-clawed True God. Burning his godly power through the second volume of Duan Mie, Luo Feng unleashes a devastating surprise attack on the ultimate target! In this Swallowed Star novel explanation, witness the sheer insanity of a Law Master hunting a True God amidst a war of 10,000 True Gods!
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While the Python River Army soldiers scramble for military credits across the chaotic battlefield of law masters, Luo Feng patiently stalks an unarmored, eight-clawed True God. Burning his godly power through the second volume of Duan Mie, Luo Feng unleashes a devastating surprise attack on the ultimate target! In this Swallowed Star novel explanation, witness the sheer insanity of a Law Master hunting a True God amidst a war of 10,000 True Gods!
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00:00Power in the world of gin did not accumulate the way a cultivator expected it to.
00:04It multiplied.
00:05The captain had learned that early, and he was turning it over again as he watched.
00:10The speck of a man vanished into the purple vines.
00:13An automaton type, treasure could lift a fighter of the seventh tier straight.
00:18To the tent?
00:19Not through comprehension?
00:20Not through decades spent grinding at a secret technique, but through the machine itself.
00:26That was what made the automaton type so seductive.
00:29Nothing a person could invent with his own hands could compete with it.
00:32And because every power in this world armed its people the same way, the advantage did not level out.
00:38It stacked.
00:39A being who was already strong walked into battle stronger still.
00:43And the distance between him and the merely competent, widened into something effort, could not close.
00:50The captain knew the ceiling as well as he knew his own hands.
00:54The higher the tier, the less the machine could do.
00:57Lawmasters leaned on automatons.
00:59To stand level with true gods.
01:01Plenty of them managed it.
01:03But across the whole world of Jyn, it was almost unheard of for a true god to stand level with
01:08a true god of void space.
01:10Even with an automaton in his grip.
01:12That height had to be climbed, not bought.
01:15Which was why the captain was already doing sums about the recruit.
01:19Milky Way had just taken a corpse out from under three true gods.
01:22Given time, that man would earn military credits at whatever rate and in whatever quantity he chose.
01:28He would keep sharpening himself.
01:30And when they returned to the army, the captain would have to get close to him.
01:34Not out of warmth, but out of arithmetic.
01:37By the next reincarnation level mission, if the captain still had not broken through to true god, his survival would
01:44rest on this recruit.
01:46He could still try to kill Milky Way now with the right tools.
01:49But given time, the recruit would pass him.
01:52Since he could not beat him, he would befriend him.
01:54There was no shame in the ledger.
01:56Only entries.
01:58The five true gods who had tried to block the recruit were still processing what they had seen.
02:04Not one true god in the whole of Juanyu Mountain moved like that.
02:08The three who had closed on him together felt it sharpest.
02:11Three of them.
02:12And he had stepped out of the encirclement as easily as a man stepping around a puddle.
02:17Unhurried.
02:18Almost as though he were amusing himself at their expense.
02:21That lawmaster would become a true god, they agreed.
02:24Not an ordinary one.
02:26A top-tier one.
02:27The kind that made other true gods careful.
02:29And if he ever laid hands on an automaton-type treasure, he would be an invincible true god of void
02:35space.
02:36They said it without envy.
02:37Envy needs closeness, and they were not close.
02:40A true god matching a true god of void space was nearly unheard of.
02:45Yet watching him walk away with their dead, they all believed he was the one who could do it.
02:50Above the marsh, six true gods of void space hung in the air, and the pressure of their presence alone
02:56bent the battlefield beneath them.
02:58None of them had struck at another.
03:00Their fight had stalled into something closer to a conversation than a war.
03:05Nine smoke, the three of us together still can't take you.
03:08How many times has it been now?
03:10Kuan!
03:11Nine smoke's shape was monstrous.
03:13An octopus frame, carrying nine human faces.
03:17But his voice was beautiful, cool as water settling in the mind.
03:22You flatter yourselves.
03:24Three of you, and I still can't break your combination law.
03:27If your mountain sent its fourth, I imagine things might go differently.
03:31Then all six looked down at once.
03:33Now that was evasion.
03:34Genuinely impressive.
03:35Even true gods of void space gave credit where it was due.
03:39Nine smoke watched longest, and something in the technique caught him.
03:43The blade was the cutting edge, and the man's body was the handle.
03:48He had made himself one object with his weapon.
03:51Not a man holding a blade, but a blade being wielded by its own motion.
03:55When he moved, the edge sharpened.
03:57When a strike came, he met it and borrowed its force.
04:01And while the enemy braced against him, he was already drifting away.
04:04Nine smoke had not seen the whole technique.
04:07But he had seen enough to understand how it was built.
04:10This was not evasion.
04:12It was a way of existing as a weapon.
04:14The body serving the edge.
04:16The edge fed by the body's movement.
04:18Whoever made this had stopped thinking of attack and defense as two separate things.
04:23The other true gods of void space turned the idea over and found themselves.
04:28Briefly enlightened.
04:30Their own close combat dodging was far beyond what that lawmaster could manage.
04:34Stronger foundation.
04:36Deeper comprehension.
04:37Absolute control over void space.
04:40But they had all been lawmasters once.
04:42And none of them, at that stage, had come anywhere near this.
04:46The technique was too subtle, too finished.
04:48It did not read as something learned.
04:50It read as something invented.
04:52That recruit must be someone the East Army means to cultivate, one of them said.
04:56Yes, he may already be on the name list.
05:00Nine smoke said it plainly.
05:01He is an extraordinary genius.
05:04A rare sight in our world of djinn.
05:06Given time, it is highly possible he will be sealed with a title.
05:10A titled great being.
05:12The others went quiet.
05:13Even among the six of them, none had been sealed.
05:17To be granted the name of a djinn was the dream of countless.
05:21True gods avoid space.
05:23A thing all of them wanted.
05:25And none had touched.
05:26True gods could be sealed, too, but the bar was brutal.
05:30Almost unbelievable.
05:31The weaker the true god, the more impossible the standard.
05:34A general of the East Army would be sealed the moment he reached that rank.
05:38Almost no one ever reached it.
05:40Far off, hidden in the grass,
05:43Luo Feng let a small smile reach his face.
05:45He had taken a true god corpse from Nine Smoke Marsh.
05:49That alone meant the disaster-level mission was done.
05:53But the corpse was not what he had come for.
05:55Crossing the true god battlefield,
05:57he had collected blood, scales, hair,
06:00and other fragments from two hundred and twelve true gods.
06:03Every scrap left behind in the marsh or the wild grass where
06:08they had fought and fallen.
06:09His godly power had given him a path toward becoming a true god.
06:13But the samples of true god life genes he had gathered before were far too few to be any use.
06:19Now he had more than enough.
06:21When the era ended, he could enter or leave the world of Djinn.
06:25And his new remote ocean body would take the blood, the scales, the hair, and build from them.
06:30A corpse was credit.
06:32This was his future.
06:33He stayed low, kept watching, and waited.
06:36Watching was its own kind of work.
06:38An opportunity might still present itself.
06:41The two stolen corpses had changed the war's mood.
06:45The first theft, the captain's, had been ignored.
06:48The second, a new recruit, Milky Way, left the true gods not just angry but baffled.
06:55Yet whatever their confusion, taking a true god's body was provocation against the living.
07:01Hunt them both.
07:02Hunt them, or both Nine Smoke Marsh and Zhuanyu Mountain will be shamed.
07:06Next time, the next time they show themselves we take them.
07:10They were alert now, all of them.
07:12When a being fell in the fighting, no true god wandered far from the spot afterward.
07:16They swept the field constantly with their godly power, and the instant a ripple showed,
07:22they would close the whole region at speed.
07:24But Luo Feng and the captain were both careful men.
07:27Each already had his corpse.
07:29Neither was in a hurry.
07:30The war between the two powers dragged on, long, shapeless, tedious.
07:35Sometimes the two sides met head-on and tore at each other.
07:39Sometimes one chased and the other ran, cat and mouse.
07:42The longer it went, the harder the lawmasters were sharpened.
07:46And the more true gods fell.
07:48And the more true gods fell, the deeper the living one's rage ran.
07:53One day, two, three, half a month, a month.
07:56Just like a lawmaster's mission.
07:58Demanding a true god corpse is simply unrealistic.
08:01Those two must have finished and left.
08:03The great beings of both powers gradually stopped caring about their losses.
08:07Someone proposed a truce for retrieval.
08:10Each side would send one true god to gather their own dead, and neither side would attack
08:16during the collection.
08:17All right, let's do it that way.
08:19A tribal true god wrapped entirely in red became a streak of light and set out for the tribal
08:25warrior's corpses.
08:27Not one beast true god moved against him.
08:29At the same moment, an eight-hooved beast true god with a long neck flew out for the
08:34beast dead.
08:35After nearly three months of fighting, more than twenty true god corpses lay in the marsh.
08:41And the beast gathered them all in a single pass.
08:44No, don't take them all.
08:45The captain's warriors watched with burning eyes, strung tight with panic.
08:51They had waited three months.
08:52They had seen those corpses lying in the open.
08:55How could they not have wanted them?
08:57But the captain had given his order, and no one had moved.
09:01Now every corpse was gone.
09:02Under the huge curve of his horns, the captain's gray eyes swept over them.
09:07Go on your own if you like.
09:08They were baiting us.
09:10Now they're ignoring us entirely and collecting the bodies.
09:13Do you think you can kill a true god?
09:15Even all of us together would need an extremely long time.
09:18Before we could finish, thousands of true gods would be around us.
09:22They were angry, and they had no answer.
09:24Wait, he said.
09:25Wait for the right moment.
09:27We have an entire era.
09:29Elsewhere, Luo Feng watched every move of the scaly, long-necked, eight-hoved beast true god.
09:34He watched closely, because that beast had just collected.
09:37Twenty-six true god corpses in one pass.
09:40One corpse is worth ten thousand military credits.
09:43Twenty-six is two hundred and sixty thousand.
09:46His heart stirred.
09:47The beast had been sent out because its status was low.
09:50Watching it in the melee, Luo.
09:52Feng had judged its power ordinary, and it did not appear to own true god-level armor.
09:58No armor, and weaker than a true god should be.
10:01He was tempted.
10:03Eight million eras of painstaking cultivation had brought him to this strength.
10:07And by his own reed, killing this beast would be simple, but he needed time.
10:11And even a short stretch of time would be more than enough for the true gods to close in.
10:17With his close combat dodging, he could still break out of a siege by a few true gods.
10:22A few dozen or a hundred, and he would have to depend on the boat of Mausoleum.
10:26More than a hundred, and even the boat of Mausoleum might not carry him free.
10:30Wait.
10:31I have to wait for the right moment.
10:33His eyes stayed on the eight-hoved beast.
10:35When the collection ended, it would return to the battlefield and fight as it normally did.
10:41Its strength was already below what a true god should be, and from what he had observed, he could measure
10:47the rate of its decline.
10:48Another twenty percent down, and its body would be weak enough.
10:52With my current strength, a full-force strike could kill it in no time.
10:56Luo Feng kept his eyes on the eight-hoved.
10:58Beast true god and waited.
11:00For the right moment to move.
11:02Outside the true god battlefield, two men waited.
11:06Luo Feng and the captain, positioned apart.
11:09Both measuring a war, neither had any business entering.
11:12Below them was the real madness of Nine Smoke Marsh, the war among lawmasters.
11:18Tens of millions had been thrown into it on both sides, and a third were already dead.
11:22That was the design.
11:24The war was a screen, and a lawmaster who survived.
11:27It came out sharpened past the threshold that had held him back.
11:32Many would soon become true gods.
11:34The dead had failed.
11:35The living had passed.
11:37Down there, Wu, he was carving through the chaos.
11:40Tail lashing, roaring at every tribal warrior of Zhuanyu Mountain he found.
11:45The strange beasts around him took him for one of their own.
11:49In a war this vast, no one could know every face.
11:53Nine Smoke Marsh was too enormous.
11:56Lawmasters born and dying every hour, and recognition was meaningless.
12:00He killed, and every time a body fell, he was on it, stripping weapons and armor before anyone else could.
12:07Three months.
12:08Twelve thousand military points.
12:10That was all.
12:11He was anxious.
12:12He could only take gear, and only while staying alert.
12:16One distracted moment, and he would be the one stripped.
12:18At another edge, Kufa's soldiers ran the same disguise, and the same purpose.
12:25Tribal.
12:25Warriors passing as Zhuanyu Mountain.
12:28Two of them had already died to carelessness, and the group had taken the message to heart.
12:33But underneath the caution, every one of them was doing the same math.
12:37The more teammates fell, the more gear was left for the living.
12:42Their combined haul had barely passed ten thousand pieces.
12:44Enough for one of them to survive the mission.
12:47A teammate's death was not a tragedy.
12:49It was an inheritance.
12:51Nobody said it.
12:52And none of them went near the True God battlefield.
12:55The arithmetic there was a different order of death.
12:58Four months of the True God War had ground past, and the captain's soldiers had stopped waiting.
13:04A skinny soldier in dark golden armor broke first.
13:07Captain!
13:08There won't be an opportunity like this again once the war ends.
13:11Without military credits, we can only run, and if the military wants us dead, running buys us a short while
13:18at best.
13:19We have to earn credits.
13:20We want to live.
13:22We want military credits.
13:24The team picked it up until every eye was on the captain.
13:27He understood them.
13:28They had nothing, and they were watching the only window close.
13:32He had a True God corpse.
13:33Whatever happened, he would live.
13:35They would not.
13:36But going to the True God battlefield would be suicide, he said coldly.
13:41We know, but the lawmasters are tearing each other.
13:44A part out there, every fallen.
13:47Warrior is a credit.
13:48Give us time, and we can gather enough to survive.
13:51The captain looked at them, and something behind his eyes went hard.
13:55He knew how long that would take.
13:58He also knew that saying no would change nothing.
14:01Go if you want, he said.
14:02But I'll send a message at the crucial moment.
14:05Tell me your coordinates, and you must come.
14:08Otherwise...
14:09Yes, Captain Dotté.
14:11If you summon us, we'll be there.
14:13One by one, they left.
14:15In a short while, the captain was alone.
14:18He shook his head and sneered.
14:20They were panicking like animals who could smell the knife.
14:23He looked down on them.
14:25But they were still soldiers of Python River Army.
14:28And if led well, they could accomplish what a single hand could not.
14:33He would not give up on them unless he had to.
14:36That was not mercy.
14:37That was inventory.
14:39The eight-hoved True God wandered the battlefield alone.
14:42His one long eye swept the field.
14:45And it was not a confident eye.
14:47His power had already tumbled enough that he moved like a man on ice.
14:51True gods like him, without True God armor,
14:54were lesser than those who had joined the military.
14:56They knew it.
14:58And it showed in what the army asked of them.
15:01Clearing the field.
15:03Patrolling.
15:04Retrieving the dead.
15:05Small duties given to the weak.
15:07They took them because there was no choice.
15:10A True God without armor was not a True God.
15:13He was a target.
15:14That was why he was not fighting.
15:16He was hunting something else.
15:18Damn it!
15:19He muttered.
15:20When a True God dies,
15:22his weapons and armor fall with him.
15:24The one who kills him takes them.
15:26I haven't gotten anything yet.
15:28True God armor was precious beyond measure.
15:31Lesser treasures were everywhere.
15:33Most lawmasters had them.
15:35But in the world of Djinn,
15:37a thousand pinnacle true treasures did not equal a single supreme true treasure.
15:42Good gear and True God gear were not the same category of existence.
15:46I must get one.
15:47I have to.
15:49Ah!
15:49He wandered.
15:50He avoided fights.
15:51He waited for an armored True God to fall.
15:54That was the plan,
15:55and he had run it a long time.
15:57Armored True Gods rarely died.
15:59When they did,
16:01they rarely died alone.
16:02That was why he still wore nothing.
16:05At different points on the periphery,
16:07two men watched him.
16:08If there aren't other True Gods around,
16:11the captain said quietly,
16:12I could kill him with my machine-type valuable.
16:15But this is the True God battlefield.
16:18He's collected over thirty bodies.
16:20I'd never make it back out.
16:22On the other side,
16:23Luo Feng watched in silence.
16:25His power has tumbled.
16:27He has no supreme true treasure armor.
16:30I can kill him before he can react.
16:32He tracked the beast as it wandered.
16:34When it moved,
16:35he moved.
16:36Never quickly.
16:37Speed left ripples.
16:39And ripples were what godly power searched for.
16:42So he approached slowly,
16:44patiently,
16:44one careful increment at a time.
16:46Three days of that.
16:48Three days to close on a True God.
16:50One step at a time.
16:52Then he was inside the battlefield.
16:54Wait, he told himself.
16:55Wait for the right moment.
16:57But something was shifting in him as the hours passed.
17:00The longer he waited,
17:01the more aggressive he became.
17:03Other thoughts burned off.
17:05There was only one goal left.
17:07Kill the eight-hooved beast.
17:09And kill it fast.
17:11His power stirred.
17:12His hand wanted the blade.
17:15Why is it only in life and death battles that I break through?
17:19It was true.
17:19When death stood close enough to touch,
17:22his instinct gathered everything he had and threw it at the problem.
17:26It was the reason he had come this far.
17:28It was also why he was about to do something insane.
17:32Killing a true god in the middle of ten thousand true gods.
17:35There was no sane version of that plan.
17:37Which was exactly why his blood was running hot.
17:40An opportunity.
17:41An opportunity.
17:43An opportunity.
17:44The eight-hooved beast drew closer, still moving carefully.
17:47Still avoiding any true god he judged too strong.
17:51Still barely able to fight the weakest tribal true gods.
17:54He did not know he was being watched.
17:57Closer.
17:58Closer.
17:59Luofeng's eyes went bright, then cold.
18:01This is the moment.
18:02His speed exploded.
18:04His godly power ignited without restraint.
18:06The first volume of Duan Mi.
18:08The godly power burned harder.
18:10The second volume of Duan Mi.
18:12This was the second.
18:14Of his two greatest gains across eight million eras, Osteo.
18:18Completion of Duan Mi's second volume.
18:20The eight-hooved beast turned his long head.
18:23His one eye went wide.
18:24A massive, blurred blade shadow was racing at him with a force he had no time to understand.
18:30Everything the eight-hooved beast believed about lawmasters was true, and that was exactly
18:36what killed it.
18:36The instant it recognized the vast, blurred blade figure rolling toward it as the lawmaster
18:42who had stolen a true, god's body earlier, the beast gave a startled leap.
18:47But the alarm faded as soon as it reminded itself what it was facing.
18:50A lawmaster, however slippery his dodging, stands on a shallow foundation, and a shallow
18:57foundation limits what a fighter can ever comprehend.
19:00That was not arrogance.
19:01It was how this world works.
19:03Among universe masters, a secret technique that tops out at the sixth tier is already
19:08remarkable.
19:09So remarkable that nobody in universe ocean had managed one before Luo Feng, and even
19:15he had needed the space of inheritance to get there.
19:17A seventh tier technique is rarer still.
19:20Across the generations of Duandong River, a lineage of real power.
19:24Only slightly more than half ever created one, and just two ever reach the eighth.
19:29A true god, by contrast, treats the seventh and eighth tiers as routine, and the super-true
19:36gods climb to the ninth and tenth, because a higher foundation makes comprehension easier,
19:41and a true god begins far above anyone beneath him.
19:44By that logic, the beast had no reason to be afraid.
19:47Its error wasn't ignorance.
19:49It reasoned correctly from a premise that was about to fail, that a man's rank predicts the
19:55outcome of his fight.
19:56What it felt instead was greed.
19:58It assumed the young lawmaster was after the many true god corpses it had gathered, and it
20:03savored the thought, picturing a gifted elite of the army, surely wearing true god armor,
20:09delivering to it a prize it never expected to win from a lawmaster.
20:12It knew it couldn't catch him if he fled, since his speed and dodging were too good for that.
20:18But a man who came to fight head-on could be finished quickly, and the kill would make
20:23its name, so it didn't run.
20:25It roared and charged, its single eye bright with murder, while the blade figure tore through
20:31the purple vines to meet it.
20:33Elsewhere on the battlefield, other true gods had spotted the blurred blade at the edge and
20:38recognized it at once, the super-genius who had stolen the corpses.
20:42They scoffed that he had dared to return, since however gifted he was only a lawmaster,
20:47and then they called for his capture and his death and flew toward him.
20:51They were entitled to, the army forbids true gods avoid space from interfering when it tests
20:57its talents, but ordinary true gods may strike freely, and a talent killed by one has only
21:03its own weakness to blame.
21:04That single rule turned the whole battlefield into a hunting ground.
21:09Luo Feng had already done the sums.
21:11The true god battlefield is boundless.
21:13The beast was drifting along its outer rim, and he had come in from a remote corner.
21:18So even at the world of Jin's great speeds, the nearest true gods needed twenty-nine seconds
21:24to arrive.
21:25Twenty-nine seconds to kill a true god!
21:27Then finish it, he decided, his gaze locked on the beast.
21:32Neither of them could afford to waste a breath, one chasing glory, and the other chasing the
21:37clock.
21:38The two giants crossed paths.
21:40The beast's claw swept across space, and Luo Feng slipped it like a tornado.
21:45Dodging again, the beast raged inwardly, and it lashed out with its tail, a boneless,
21:51knotted whip that curved through the air in an arc.
21:53Luo Feng, still a blurred blade figure, touched the tail, stepped onto it, and rode it up onto the
21:59beast's back.
22:00To an onlooker, it might have seemed slow, but he was behind the beast almost the moment
22:05they crossed.
22:06Only then did he draw the blood ghost blade.
22:09Its rays drifted like water, with no fixed direction and swept, down toward the long neck,
22:15and the beast twisted its head back and clamped its bloody jaws on the blade.
22:19At that instant, the water exploded.
22:21A terrifying penetrating force burst out.
22:24The finest blade technique Luo Feng had ever created, light of water and fire, and the
22:29precious blade embryo from the pulse of Duandong River bit through the beast's defenses.
22:36It screamed in shock and horror.
22:38Impossible.
22:39After he set his godly power ablaze, how can he be stronger than me?
22:43I'm a true god, and he's only a lawmaster.
22:46It was wrong, and the whole fight turned on how wrong.
22:49Its godly power really was a full level above Luo Feng's, but it had never joined the army.
22:55So it knew nothing of the army's secret technique of blazing godly power.
23:00Luo Feng had executed only the first volume of Extermination, and that was enough to close
23:05the gap in godly power, while the second volume carried him past it.
23:09When it came to burning godly power, he was simply the more skilled.
23:13His close combat dodging also made him far harder to touch, so the beast, facing his strikes,
23:19could only try to withstand them with brute strength.
23:21It had weighed the rank of the man in front of it, when what mattered was what he had learned,
23:27and it had never been taught.
23:29Kill, kill, kill!
23:30Luo Feng was racing past reason, keeping up the burn demanded by the second volume.
23:35His godly power poured away like a broken dam.
23:39That is the price of the technique.
23:40It lifts a fighter past his level, and it consumes him just as quickly.
23:46Even without the pack closing in, he couldn't have held that pace for long, so everything
23:50had to be fast.
23:52And because there would be no second chance, every ray aimed to kill.
23:56His whole soul seemed to pour into the blood-ghost blade.
24:00Light of water and fire.
24:03Again and again.
24:04A dozen times a hundred.
24:05The water-like rays gained weight, and something quietly shifted inside that strain, pressed
24:12against his limit.
24:13His understanding of the blade was rising.
24:15He never noticed.
24:17His entire mind was on the beast.
24:19More than a hundred rays rained down in an instant and kept hacking at it, and its strength
24:24collapsed at a terrible speed.
24:26It was shaken, then terrified.
24:28And then it only wanted to live, no longer caring how a lawmaster could fight like this.
24:33But against close-quarters technique like this, even escape was too much to ask.
24:38The blade seemed to merge with Luo Feng into a single, gigantic blur, and the water-like
24:44rays crashed down like ocean waves.
24:46Hundreds, then thousands.
24:48A storm that annihilated everything in its path.
24:51The astonishment spread outward.
24:53The dozens of true gods who had found Luo Feng and flown toward him froze in the air.
24:58They could accept that he dodged well.
25:00They could not accept that his attacks were also strong enough.
25:04Because a lawmaster who beats a true god in a strait, duel does not merely beat one god.
25:09He threatens the ladder they all stand on.
25:11So they seized the only explanation that left their world intact.
25:15The blade had to be an automaton-type treasure.
25:18The very kind of treasure that lets a warrior leap past his level.
25:23Its machine core pouring out power far beyond any lawmaster's reach.
25:27The captain, still lying in ambush far away, watched with his eyes stretched wide.
25:33When Luo Feng first charged out, he had shaken his head discreetly.
25:36He had judged the new recruit foolish and arrogant for belittling.
25:40A true god's power.
25:42Since even a captain armed with an automaton-type, treasure of his own would have only a small,
25:47chance of killing that true god.
25:49And the time it took would let other true gods trap him.
25:52He's going to die, he had said.
25:55Sure of it.
25:56Incertainty is the most expensive kind of mistake.
25:59Now he saw a new recruit crushing an ordinary true god so completely that it left him dazed.
26:05And since he owned such a treasure himself, he knew what one could do.
26:10Which made it the only answer he could see.
26:12It has to be an automaton-type treasure, he muttered.
26:16He must have had it before he joined.
26:18His battle blade.
26:20That's why his power.
26:21Climbs by several levels.
26:23The captain had made the beast's own mistake.
26:26Trusting rank to predict a result.
26:28And he'd been wrong in exactly the same way.
26:30More than a thousand true gods.
26:32Across the battlefield had noticed the strange, fight at the far edge.
26:37An ordinary eight-hoofed beast true god of their own, driven helpless by a lawmaster.
26:42And almost every one of them reached the same conclusion about the blade.
26:46They were all mistaken in the same direction.
26:49The Blood Ghost Blade is a blade embryo and extremely precious.
26:52But it raised Luo Feng's attacks by only a single level, not several.
26:57The rest was him.
26:58And none of it could be seen from outside.
27:00His close combat techniques.
27:03His mastery of the first two volumes of Extermination.
27:07And his understanding of light of water and fire.
27:10The world around him had decided to explain.
27:13A man by his weapon.
27:14Which was the safest explanation he could have wished for.
27:18Every watcher stared at the blade.
27:20And not one thought to ask about the technique.
27:23It was easier to believe in a magical blade than in a man.
27:26The rays kept crashing into the beast.
27:28Now nearly perfect, and it could barely resist.
27:32Something rose in its chest.
27:33A dreadful certainty that this time it really would be annihilated.
27:38I am a true god.
27:39It roared in its mind.
27:41Then the endless rays closed over everything.
27:44Its life core disintegrated, and it was gone.
27:46Its pride in being a true god the last thing to break.
27:50Its armor and other items broke loose from the ruined body.
27:53And Luo Feng swept out an arm to claim every one of them before they could scatter.
27:57The armor the beast had hoped to take.
27:59From a lawmaster ended up in that law.
28:02Master's hands instead.
28:04In the same instant, he turned into a streak of light and fled as far as he could.
28:08Without a glance back, because every second of delay belonged to the pack.
28:12Where the duel had raged, the purple vines had snapped and fallen into the marsh.
28:17And soon no trace of them remained.
28:19A true god had been annihilated, and the lawmaster had won.
28:23Better still, more than thirty beast true god corpses now belonged to him.
28:27And at ten thousand credits a body.
28:29That was a fortune no newcomer was ever meant to hold.
28:32And exactly what a pack of true gods would never let go.
28:35From the far side of the battlefield, a powerful beast true god with three sharp golden horns roared in fury.
28:43After him, take back the bodies of my brothers of Nine Smoke Marsh whatever it costs.
28:48To the Nine Smoke Marsh true gods, the god Luo Feng had killed mattered less than the bodies he was
28:54carrying away.
28:55The hunt had only just begun, and the twenty-nine seconds he had counted so carefully were already spent.
29:01What remained was the part no calculation could finish for him.
29:05Getting away alive with the prize.
29:08Seize him!
29:09Catch him!
29:10The strange beast true gods were wild with fury.
29:13And even the true gods of Xuan Yu Mountain stared in shock.
29:16A lawmaster had just killed a true god in the span of a few breaths.
29:21The tribal side could breathe easier, though, because the bodies Luo Feng had stolen belonged to Nine Smoke Marsh.
29:28The rage and the anxiety under it belonged to the beasts alone.
29:33The bodies of our brothers!
29:34The beast with three golden horns roared.
29:37More than thirty of them.
29:38We have to get them back!
29:40The cry rolled through the ranks, and it carried real grief.
29:43Nine Smoke Marsh has only so many true gods.
29:46So every one of them knows the others.
29:48And some of those bodies might have belonged to close friends.
29:51Dying on the battlefield is part of a great being's fate.
29:54And the fallen are still buried properly afterward.
29:57But that dignity had been snatched away by a lawmaster.
30:01And no true god could let that stand.
30:04Bakula, go get that lawmaster and bring our brothers back.
30:07Fifty streaks of light shot out after Luo Feng.
30:09He was already moving through the marsh grass, turning constantly, slowing down so he wouldn't stir the slightest ripple.
30:17Because he kept changing direction, the fifty true gods chose the wrong way.
30:21Even so, he knew exactly what he was facing, and he respected it.
30:25These were no ordinary true gods.
30:27Most of them wore true god armor.
30:29And true gods in the world.
30:31Of jinn are stronger than their counterparts.
30:33In Universe Ocean, since godly power isn't suppressed here, which puts them two levels higher, even the beast he'd just
30:40killed had been formidable.
30:42It could execute an eighth level technique and, at full strength, might have touched the ninth, and it had died
30:48only because it was already wounded.
30:50With its power at the top of the eighth level, and had no armor to protect it.
30:55Fifty such opponents were another matter.
30:57Being surrounded by them would be worse than being surrounded by five hundred.
31:01True gods in Universe Ocean.
31:04And even the boat of Mausoleum couldn't guarantee his escape.
31:07So he swung abruptly in a new direction and slipped toward the marsh's periphery.
31:12For nine smoke marsh, sending fifty true gods after one man cost almost nothing.
31:17More than ten thousand true gods were in the war, and fifty hardly dented its strength.
31:23On the opposite side of the true god battlefield, the captain was retreating, and he muttered that if fifty true
31:29gods were hunting Milky Way, they had better not mistake him for the target.
31:34Being on the far side, he was in no danger at all.
31:37It took him several days to return to the lawmaster's battlefield, where he disguised himself as a tribal warrior and
31:44melted into the great army.
31:45His mind kept circling back to Luo Feng's power.
31:48He needed a machine-type valuable to rival a man like that.
31:52And thirty-odd true god bodies meant a great many military credits, enough to buy exactly such a treasure.
31:59With a second machine-type valuable, he could survive even incarnation-level tasks.
32:04Then train, become, a true god and claim a more advanced inheritance.
32:09His gray eyes glinted with greed.
32:12He wanted those bodies, so he sent a message to all seventeen soldiers through his token, and what he left
32:18out mattered as much as what he said.
32:20Several days ago, he told them, the true god who collected bodies for the beasts was killed by another true
32:26god, and the new soldier.
32:28Milky Way appeared and snatched the body along with its valuables, including the one that holds all the corpses.
32:34More than thirty true god bodies, and Milky Way had them all.
32:39Nine Smoke Marsh was furious, and fifty true gods were hunting for him.
32:44What he never mentioned was that Luo Feng had killed the beast himself.
32:48If the soldiers had known, they might have been afraid.
32:51As it was, they were thrilled.
32:53More than thirty true god bodies meant enormous military credits.
32:57Several of them had even seen
32:59The beast's true gods flying across, the sky without fighting, and had wondered why.
33:04The captain's deduction was clean.
33:06The beast's true gods were still flying everywhere, so they hadn't caught him.
33:10True gods of void space had sealed all of Nine Smoke Marsh from the outside,
33:15which meant Luo Feng had to be somewhere inside it, and the beast still couldn't find him.
33:21There was only one place that fit, the army of Zhuanyu Mountain.
33:24It was an enemy of Nine Smoke Marsh, and even true gods hesitate to wade into an army of more
33:31than ten thousand lawmasters.
33:33But the captain's soldiers could go in.
33:35They would find him, tell one another, then gather and confront him.
33:39We might not be able to kill him, one soldier said.
33:42He's powerful.
33:43The captain agreed, but he knew where the real leverage lay.
33:47Luo Feng had more to fear from exposure than from them.
33:50If they forced him to hand over most of the bodies and let him keep a few, that would end
33:56it.
33:56If he refused, they would tell the beast's true gods exactly where he was.
34:01That's right, the soldier said.
34:03We can't earn enough credits alone.
34:05We might as well threaten him.
34:07He's got so many bodies, and I only need one.
34:11Force him to give them to us.
34:12The captain's eyes glinted coldly.
34:15Everything was unfolding as he'd planned.
34:17And by hiding the truth, he had made sure of it.
34:20His seventeen soldiers were cheerful and unafraid, each wearing true god armor, which made them
34:26hard to kill.
34:27They knew he might be using them, but for military credits, they'd still give it everything they
34:32had.
34:32And whatever happened, he would end up with most of the bodies.
34:36The man who had once vowed not to leave his soldiers in the lurch, and who had wanted to
34:41befriend Luo Feng, now chose another road under the temptation of credits.
34:45For him, survival came down to one thing, power, and he had decided it was worth taking from
34:51the man who had earned it.
34:52Elsewhere, the beast's true gods were scattered across several battlefields, searching.
34:57I can't find him.
34:59He's vanished.
35:00They reached the same conclusion the captain had, that he must be hiding in the army of
35:05Zhuanyu Mountain among its lawmasters.
35:08And like the captain, they understood how dangerous that was.
35:11They didn't dare enter.
35:13So the hunters from both sides had worked out the same answer, and they were right.
35:17Luo Feng understood this, too.
35:18He'd be found wherever he hid, he knew.
35:21But here, the beast's true gods wouldn't dare come in, even if they knew he was inside.
35:25The tribal warriors roared and fought the beasts, and Luo Feng was among them, one
35:31more tribal warrior in the crowd.
35:33It looked like chaos, but it followed a hidden law.
35:36Lawmasters can fight each other fairly, but against true gods, they join forces.
35:41If a beast's true god rushed into the army, the tribal warriors would strike him at once.
35:46If a tribal true god charged into the beasts, the beast lawmasters would strike him just
35:52as swiftly.
35:53A true god in the wrong army was a common enemy, and that is what made the army a refuge.
35:58So Luo Feng settled in.
36:00After the war ended, he decided he would leave Nine Smoke Marsh at once.
36:04The days slid by, one month after another, until three months had passed.
36:08With his strength, surviving in the tribal army was easy, and he was beginning to enjoy the
36:13waiting.
36:13With his enormous body and wild, messy hair, he looked like a savage, roaring right along
36:19with the others.
36:20Kill the bastards from Nine Smoke Marsh!
36:23Then he slowed.
36:24Huh?
36:25He glanced around.
36:26A tribal warrior was looking straight at him.
36:29The warrior smirked, and though he made no sound, his lips shaped two words, and Luo Feng
36:35read them at once.
36:36Milky Way.
36:38One of the captain's soldiers.
36:39Three months of safety had ended with a silent smile, and the hunt had found him.
36:45The captain came to Luo Feng smiling, and that smile should have been the first warning.
36:50It began with a red-faced warrior who strolled over with a grin.
36:54Milky Way, you think a new look and messy hair could fool us?
36:57You can change your face all you like, but your godly power and your aura stay the same.
37:03A face is easy to disguise.
37:05A godly aura is not, and it gave him away to anyone who drew near.
37:10All we have to do is get a little closer, and we know you at once.
37:14Luo Feng's gaze swept the crowd.
37:16There are more of you.
37:18The captain and the rest are scattered around, the warrior said through voice.
37:24Transmission.
37:25We saw your strength with our own eyes from the edge of the true god battlefield.
37:29You got away so easily from several true gods.
37:32I wouldn't have the confidence to face you alone.
37:35Soon.
37:36More than ten figures were threading through the chaos of Xuanyu Mountain's army,
37:40and Luo Feng recognized the captain by his gigantic curved horn,
37:45with the rest of his warriors behind him.
37:47Each of them spoke in turn.
37:49New recruit, you're stronger than we?
37:51Expected.
37:52Your power is impressive.
37:55We're willing to accept you as one of us.
37:58The captain said it himself, all smiles.
38:00In the beginning, he had looked down on this new recruit, but now he looked winsome.
38:04We didn't accept you before because new recruits are usually weak.
38:08Your power has changed that.
38:09All you need to do is contribute those true god corpses and share them with us.
38:13After that, every warrior in our little troop will trust your loyalty.
38:17I'll even step down as captain, and you can take my place.
38:22This was the same man who had once told two newcomers they were on their own.
38:27We're willing to serve you as captain, the warriors chimed in, one after another.
38:32Just lend us a hand and give us a chance to live.
38:35Every face looked longingly at Luo Feng, and the captain's looked just as sincere as
38:41though he truly were giving up his position without a thought.
38:45Really?
38:45Luo Feng asked.
38:47Of course.
38:48It's the truth.
38:50Luo Feng smiled, but there was only indifference in it.
38:53Whether you live or die, what does that have to do with me?
38:56The warriors froze.
38:58I thought none of you cared whether new recruits survived, Luo Feng said with a sneer.
39:03And now we're talking about friendship in wartime?
39:06He had seen through it long ago.
39:08What, captain?
39:09What friendship?
39:10The brutal selection process had annihilated countless warriors, and the veterans had grown
39:15used to watching it happen.
39:17With only one goal left becoming true gods themselves.
39:20Who cared about a captain's seat?
39:21These warriors followed the captain only because he was strong, and if survival were at stake,
39:27they would have dropped him in an instant.
39:29The captain and his seventeen warriors wore sour faces.
39:32They hadn't expected such detachment, and the captain's anger leaked into his transmission.
39:38Fifty true gods were hunting Luo Feng, he said, and they had guessed he was hiding among
39:42the lawmasters of Xuan Yu Mountain.
39:45True gods hid far away on many battlefields, sweeping them in search of him.
39:50And one was already spying from the sky not far from here.
39:53I know, Luo Feng said, raising his head to look.
39:57But it's too far to recognize me.
39:59We can tell it, the captain answered.
40:01One look at it, and it will turn its attention here.
40:04A twitch of our lips is enough.
40:06It can read our mouths.
40:08And the moment Luo Feng was discovered, a single command from that true god would bring
40:13a multitude of nine.
40:15Smokemarsh's law masters down on him, and he'd have no way out.
40:19Choose.
40:20Hand over most of the corpses and carry the rest home safely, or get nothing and die here.
40:25Choose, the warriors echoed.
40:27We have very slim hopes of surviving this mission.
40:30If you force our hand, we'll all die together.
40:33If we have to die, we'll take you with us.
40:35The threat was a calculation, built on one assumption, that Luo Feng had more to fear
40:40from being exposed than they had to fear from him.
40:43It was also a bluff that cost them something, since exposing him would hand the corpses back
40:49to the beasts and leave the captain with nothing.
40:52Luo Feng shook his head, then die.
40:54I'm taking these thirty-five true god corpses back to the camp.
40:59He turned away and roared at the top of his voice.
41:02Kill those bastards from Nine Smokemarsh!
41:05The shout fit the tribal warrior he was pretending to be, and it covered his departure.
41:10He wasn't running from them so much as walking out of the conversation.
41:14Then he became a streak of light and shot into the distance.
41:16For a moment, the eighteen stood stunned.
41:19They had never imagined this new recruit would be so fearless.
41:23Did he truly believe he could escape a siege by nine Smokemarsh's top figures?
41:28But shock didn't slow them.
41:30They leaped after him, faces twisted with madness.
41:32You want us dead, new recruit?
41:35Then you die too!
41:36Loathsome Milky Way!
41:38You forced us!
41:39Law!
41:40Feng answered with a cold smile and fully executed the second volume of Extermination,
41:45the burning technique that trades a flood of godly power for speed and strength.
41:50The only trick that fit the moment.
41:52His speed turned vicious, and he left the pursuers behind almost at once.
41:57Think you can keep up?
41:58He said, not bothering to look back.
42:00Only the captain stayed close.
42:03He had expected a worried man, someone who could be squeezed into surrendering some of
42:08the corpses.
42:09Instead, Luo Feng wasn't trying to escape at all.
42:12The other warriors had never seen Luo Feng in a frenzy, but the captain had, and he knew
42:17that if this man truly burned, none of the others could handle him.
42:21So he stopped holding back.
42:22A huge pair of black wings unfolded behind him, fringed with hundreds of black ribbons,
42:28and they raced across space to shroud the road ahead.
42:32No matter how fast Luo Feng flew, he couldn't outrun them.
42:35Darkness fell around him, and when he looked back, the ribbons were closing in like enormous
42:40snakes.
42:41Scram!
42:42He shouted, and two hammers appeared in his hands.
42:45He had chosen them on purpose.
42:47He had been living among Xuan Yu Mountain's lawmasters under a false identity, and he didn't
42:53want the beast, true god prowling the battlefields, to recognize him by his usual weapon.
42:59The hammers swung in arcs, and with his godly power burning hard, their force was astonishing.
43:05The ribbons were driven back a little, but that tiny delay was all they needed to knit,
43:10themselves into a huge black sphere that swallowed him whole.
43:14Luo Feng felt the ribbons' strength through his hammers and was stunned.
43:18The captain hadn't executed any secret technique.
43:21The wings and shrouding force alone was this strong, and that made no sense.
43:26Strong powers usually come from secret techniques.
43:29An automaton-type treasure?
43:31He thought.
43:32The kind of treasure that lets a warrior bypass levels and unleash far.
43:37Greater power than his own.
43:39The only way through was his blood ghost blade and his strongest blade.
43:43Technique.
43:44But every second spent here was a second the beast, true god, could notice him.
43:49Meanwhile, the nearby tribal warriors watched, puzzled.
43:52From the outside, the captain seemed to be pinning down a recruit, with some kind of spiritual
43:57force weapon.
43:58Why were two of them fighting at such a moment?
44:01A grudge?
44:01Spoils?
44:02Still, they kept their doubts to themselves, and some of the captain's own warriors envied him.
44:08Captain, your black cloud wings are impressive.
44:10So fast, so good at restraining, and so protective.
44:14The perfect treasure for escape and survival.
44:17Then the black sphere shuddered.
44:18The ribbons wrapped around it suddenly tore away at terrifying speed, and a bump swelled out
44:24of its surface, as if some monster inside were hauling the whole sphere through the sky.
44:29The ribbons split apart to reveal an ancient battleship, still bound in countless black
44:34ribbons.
44:35And it was accelerating anyway, as if the restraints were nothing.
44:39What?
44:40The captain roared, his composure gone.
44:43Such flying power!
44:44He fought to control the ship through his black cloud wings.
44:48But it wouldn't budge.
44:49Instead, it dragged the captain along behind it at tremendous speed.
44:54Captain, a voice said from inside.
44:56Didn't you want to bring me to see a true god?
44:59Let's go meet him.
45:00The ancient battleship soared upward with the captain in tow.
45:04This was the driving force of the boat of Mausoleum.
45:07And a universe master like him had no hope of blocking it once it truly broke loose.
45:12High in the sky at the outer edge of the battlefield, a beast true god hovered in a
45:17winding coil, and the ship charged straight at it.
45:20Stop!
45:21Are you courting death?
45:22The captain shouted.
45:24Ha!
45:25Let's see which of us dies, the voice answered.
45:27The captain's panic had a cold logic behind it.
45:31He too had stolen a true god's corpse.
45:33The true gods of Nine Smoke Marsh wanted Luo Feng.
45:36But Luo Feng was hidden inside the ship, and not a breath of him leaked out, so the
45:42beast's true god might never confirm who he was.
45:45What it could confirm was that the captain had taken a corpse first, and then it would
45:50never let him leave.
45:51He had built his trap on the assumption that everyone fears exposure, and he hadn't allowed
45:56for a man who would rather close the distance.
45:59You vicious man, he spat.
46:01Furious, he had no choice but to let go, and the black ribbons released the ship as he tore
46:07himself free.
46:08An automaton-type blade?
46:10And now an automaton-type battleship?
46:13Even my black cloud wings can't hold it back.
46:15He hung in the air, staring after the battleship as it sped over the marsh grass, torn between
46:21rage and reluctance.
46:22I didn't know you had an automaton-type battleship.
46:25That's how you got away before.
46:27Through gritted teeth.
46:28He added, you escaped once.
46:30But you won't escape again.
46:32He had solved the puzzle with the same wrong answer as everyone else.
46:36Where he saw yet another automaton-type treasure, there was only one man with more secrets than
46:42anyone had allowed for.
46:44And his plan to expose Luo Feng had ended up threatening only himself.
46:48Elsewhere, among the nine smoke-marsh army of a few thousand beast warriors, a great roar
46:54rose, and the beasts charged toward Zhuanyu Mountain.
46:57Kill!
46:58We'll kill every bastard from Zhuanyu Mountain!
47:01bellowed golden-horned beast, a huge winged lizard of a creature, and it tore out of the
47:06army's ranks and flew straight at the enemy.
47:09It was the same golden-horned, beast that Luo Feng had once considered sending into the
47:14marsh as a disguise, now plunging headlong into the war.