Chapter 263 - 772-783

Chapter 772: Took Refuge in Dragon Capital

Qin Feng and Bai Li reappeared at the aircraft apron near Dragon Capital. Guards of the capital were alerted and immediately surrounded them.

They were in extremely bad shape.

"Please display your ID and badge!"

One of the guards yelled, while a few tens of guns were pointed at Qin Feng and Bai Li.

"Stop. They are one of us." An urgent voice came from behind.

Qin Feng and Bai Li looked up and saw Nan Gongshi and the other A-tiers earlier.

Escaping from such a tumultuous situation, these people would never run back to their turf first. The best option was obviously to take refuge in Dragon Capital—the safest place for the Human Alliances and the most feared place for the Dark Coalition.

As such, Nan Gongshi and co. had just arrived ten minutes earlier than Qin Feng.

"General Qin, you are finally back. We thought something bad might have happened to you two," Nan Gongshi said in relief.

"Good to see you two returning safely."

"Nothing would happen to General Qin with his wit and capability. He must have been delayed by killing a couple more members of the Dark Coalition."

The five of them gathered around Qin Feng and Bai Li and chatted passionately.

The sentinels let down their guards a little seeing that but did not retract their weapon.

It was their duty to ensure the identity of any incomer.

Qin Feng did not make life difficult for them and took out his badge. Bai Li did the same.

The leader of the troop scanned the badge with his communicator. His expression relaxed after the identities of Qin Feng and Bai Li were confirmed.

"General Qin from the North. Deputy Governor Bai from the North Sea."

"At ease. They are allowed to enter."

The sentinels immediately retracted their guns. Nan Gongshi quickly said, "General Qin, allow me to treat you to a meal in Dragon Capital. You must have been battered these past few days. It so happens that I have a few properties in the capital. You could have some rest there."

Of course, the others wanted to treat Qin Feng too. But they were not as influential and wealthy as Nan Gongshi, so they let Nan Gongshi make the invitation.

Qin Feng was not entirely relaxed. But after there was no sign of He Tianxing a couple minutes later, Qin Feng believed that the S-tier duke was not fond of coming to Dragon Capital.

The thought loosened up his tension a little.

He gave Nan Gongshi's offer a thought, then said, "If it is not of too much trouble."

Nan Gongshi replied jubilantly, "Of course it won't be. We have fought together, and the reason we are still standing here is because of you!"

They could all tell that Qin Feng was as good as an A-tier now. His future would only be even brighter!

Hence, it was only natural for Nan Gongshi to rope him in now.

After he accepted Nan Gongshi's invitation, Qin Feng took out his hovercraft and followed the latter's vehicle into Dragon Capital.

Qin Feng and Bai Li were both exhausted after the three-day intensive battle in Hell Island. They sighed in comfort after sinking into their respective comfortable and soft seats.

Bai Li broke the silence, "Are we really safe? We have failed to cover our identities. He Tianxing would be going to the North Sea to seek revenge for sure."

Qin Feng frowned but then thought it through. "Don't worry, Z is still there now. He could be our shield. As long as He Tianxing does not come personally, I would not worry about any assassin he sends over. We will go back to Fengli after resting here for a day."

"Alright!"

Qin Feng contemplated the potential development and was further relieved the more he thought about it.

"Besides, if He Tianxing really wants to get his revenge, he would have to wait. We have both seen how the S-tier puppet injured him heavily."

"Yea! It's not a minor injury. If I estimated correctly, a human body would need at least a month to completely heal from that," Bai Li resonated.

Qin Feng nodded and continued, "If not because of the injury, he would have come through the rift no matter what. Not only because he is mad at me but also because of his claymore. It is an S-tier god weapon, which is undoubtedly his trump card. Also, the waymark of Dragon Capital is set far outside of the city. He wouldn't have let us go this easily with his pride as an S-tier."

"If he dares to come, I would knock his teeth out!" Bai Li snorted proudly.

Qin Feng laughed and nodded in agreement. "Yes, yes! My Xiao Bai is the best!"

The atmosphere lightened up. There was still some time before they would reach Dragon Capital. Qin Feng set the car into an auto-pilot to follow Nan Gongshi's hovercraft. They both went to sleep on the comfortable seats.

Precisely, Bai Li went into a deep sleep immediately while Qin Feng was meditating.

'The S-tier puppet is indeed powerful. It's unfortunate that it was destroyed just like that.'

Qin Feng lamented that one of his cards was burned for a battle that he could have avoided.

Nevertheless, since he rarely relied on the puppet and it was picked up from Kounsat, he was not really disappointed. A puppet for their lives, worth it.

Not to forget, Qin Feng had also claimed He Tianxing's claymore in the process. Its value was no less than the S-tier puppet he had just lost.

'This claymore is the source of He Tianxing's resentment toward me. Since he wants to kill me, I wouldn't let him think that I can be bullied easily. This sword is not going back to him. Whatever it is, I can transform it into another weapon with the Magical Tesseract.'

God weapons like this would usually recognize their users. This was another reason why He Tianxing did not rush into action despite being exasperated.

To He Tianxing, though he had lost connection with the sword for the meantime, he could recall the claymore anytime as soon as someone used it.

Qin Feng, who had lost an S-tier puppet, would not let He Tianxing have his way.

'I shall sell this out. The claymore wouldn't remember its master once it has been reformed through the Tesseract.'

Qin Feng was convinced that this was an excellent idea the more he thought about it.

If no one was willing to buy it, Qin Feng could still use it to exchange for treasures with the Human Alliance association. Though the rule allowed only return of lesser value, it would at least be something more useful than the claymore.

Qin Feng had never seen the treasure collections in Dragon Capital before.

As he was immersed in his own train of thought, the hovercraft entered the city. The Nangong family was a prestigious lineage in the Southern Region. The family was headed by an S-tier guardian. Hence, their properties in Dragon Capital were more than just a mansion.

The hovercraft took the highway and went directly into the ninth level of Dragon Capital.

This place was very close to the cloud and full of natural energy. Children living or born here were more talented than the others. They were bound to become excellent aptitude and ability users after awakening.

More so, after two hundred years, there were even babies secretly born naturally to be ability or aptitude users in some influential families.

Finally, the hovercrafts steered into a manor. The ninth level of Dragon Capital was huge but had limited residents. They thought they had entered a paradise.

Qin Feng scanned the area with his consciousness. He found that the other four A-tier aptitude users did not follow them. It seemed that this place was not open to everyone.

"General Qin, we have arrived!"

Bai Li woke up only when they had arrived. She came down from the hovercraft while rubbing her eyes.

Chapter 773: A God Weapon for Battle Points

It could be said that Nan Gongshi's hospitality was very well prepared!

The entire area consisted of villas, Nan Gongshi brought the two to one of said villas where there was even a bath and a change of clothes ready for them.

Qin Feng and Bai Li bathed themselves and finally returned to their former cleanliness. Bai Li changed into a dress, deciding not to wear the prepared traditional outfit.

Qin Feng's Sacred Armor had been utterly destroyed and there was no possible way that it would have automatically repaired itself. He changed out of it and tossed it into a spatial rune equipment, putting on a combat uniform out of habit.

After washing away their exhaustion, they detected the aroma of cooked food.

"Come and get some food, the days spent on Hell Island have given me hunger pains!" Nan Gongshi said in a playful manner.

"Don't mind if I do!" Bai Li chirped. As a greedy little fox, she was already tempted by food.

Qin Feng sat down and began to eat. The dishes that Nan Gongshi displayed were all made from materials gathered from A-tier ultra beast generals. Combined with the chefs' output quality, chefs who have studied and practiced cooking all their lives, this was definitely not like Qin Feng's out-in-the-wild barbeques. This was the kind of food to savor.

After fine dining and drinking, the three found themselves washed with fatigue. After such a stressful battle over a long time, Nan Gongshi did not have the energy to make any more small talks.

He was very smart as well as there were long days ahead of them. Qin Feng accepted his hospitality, which meant that these two now had some kind of a connection.

Then, Qin Feng retreated to the room prepared for him.

Bai Li was already in the soft and comfortable bed, sleeping soundly.

Qin Feng sat down cross-legged and focused on his dantian.

"Ability, absorb!"

The turbulent internal force from other people combined with the elixirs he frequently used and spirit herbs that were converted into internal force were all consumed by him.

However, the battle against Mohrian as well as He Tianxing had him exhaust a huge portion of his internal force. The internal force inside Qin Feng's dantian did not increase, instead he required more time to replenish his lost energy.

Qin Feng was not really bothered, he was tired and crawled onto the bed before fading away into a deep sleep.

This battle really took too long.

***

Qin Feng and Bai Li slept for a whole day and a whole night.

In the matter of 24 hours, the Huaxia Alliance battle net was boiling with the news!

After all, Black Citadel was a city so strong that it rivaled Dragon Capital. They even had a few S-tiers defending it, with perhaps maybe even more S-tiers hidden in the shadows. They were among the leaders of the Dark Coalition.

Now that Black Citadel was attacked by an A-tier beast deity and was almost completely destroyed, how would there not be news about such an event?

However, the news about Qin Feng clashing with He Tianxing was not spread out. The rest of the people on that bridge were Dark Coalition members. The incident about He Tianxing getting attacked was naturally kept under wraps.

Nan Gongshi and the others also did not know what kinds of earth-shattering deeds the already respected Qin Feng had done.

Despite this, Qin Feng had become strong enough for them to value!

He could instantly kill an A-tier!

He could battle an A-tier beast deity for three days straight!

After people heard of this, the thing that caused the most uproar was that Qin Feng was only B3 tier.

Some people began to pay closer attention to Qin Feng and to the Fengli Organization.

After sleeping for a while, Qin Feng recovered from his exhaustion.

Nan Gongshi was not in the villa. This villa was specially made for Qin Feng with the purpose of entertaining him.

Qin Feng got up and took a bath with Bai Li before heading out.

"Where are we going?" Bai Li asked curiously.

"To the Huaxia Alliance's headquarters!" Qin Feng replied.

Bai Li nodded and flipped on her communicator before starting to scroll through the clothing on display in the battle net. After spending a month on Hell Island, she did not have the time to show herself off!

Qin Feng activated the aircraft and piloted it toward Dragon Capital's fifth level.

The most iconic building of the capital was a skyscraper. On the very top of this building were large words that said, "Huaxia Alliance"

Bai Li had never entered the conscious world and did not know that the Huaxia Alliance building also looked the same in the conscious world. While you could enter it with a single thought and open up any conference room, it was not the case when it came to reality.

When Qin Feng walked in with Bai Li, they saw that the first floor was densely packed with people. Tasks marked as E-tier and below were announced here and everyone on the floor looked very young.

In Dragon Capital, aptitude users who were E-tier and below were all recently awakened people.

Qin Feng took the elevator and reached the fifth floor.

They saw a large screen as they stepped through the door, rows of names were being displayed on a grid along with a series of numbers following them. On the top layer of this grid were the words,

"Point List"

This was where Dragon Capital calculated battle points and where such points could be exchanged for items.

However, exchanging points for items could be done in the conscious world. The people that came here did not come to swap for items, they came to swap items for points.

Qin Feng, along with Bai Li, approached a not busy window.

The receptionist behind the window was surprised, mostly from how young Qin Feng looked but very quickly composed himself and saluted, saying with a smile. "General Sir, what can I do for you?"

"I want to exchange items for points!"

"Very well, please display your items and in accordance to the rules, the estimated value of the item will be converted into points with a 10% cut off and items can only be exchanged for other same level items that could be obtained with points!"

"Right, I understand," If it were not done, then people could have just used a lot of F-tier items to swap for one A-tier treasure. The Dragon Capital's vault would long be empty!

"May I know the tier of the items you are exchanging for so I can get a professional appraiser, Sir?"

Qin Feng said without hesitation, "S-tier god weapon."

The others were completely unnecessary.

There was a huge amount of A-tier rune equipment inside Qin Feng's inventory. These were what he looted from dead aptitude users. However, if he traded them with the Huaxia Alliance, the items he would get back were the things that he already had or could obtain on his own!

What he needed were S-tier items.

"Huh?" The receptionist was stunned, not expecting Qin Feng, a B-tier aptitude user, of all things, to have a sudden request for an S-tier god weapon.

However, since the beginning of the Great Rift Age, in addition to horrible crises, there were people lucky enough to obtain all kinds of treasures. When the receptionist saw that Qin Feng was absolutely serious, there was a moment of hesitation before they said, "Please wait a moment, Sir. I'll call an appraiser for you immediately, you may wait over there!"

The receptionist took Qin Feng to a private room on the side.

As they left, the people who were in the hall shifted their eyes and discussed in a hushed tone.

"That's one lucky kid!"

"He looks a bit familiar!"

"Wait! Isn't he that prodigy from last year?!"

Chapter 774: Master Long

"What? Last year's Prodigy? He's already a B-tier, how old is he? A twenty-year-old B-tier?"

"You guys really don't know who he is! That's Qin Feng. He should be 18 this year. He killed 30 A-tiers at the Dusk Dragon Auction before coming back from Hell Island!"

"Huh? Hell Island? The guy actually had the audacity to go to a place like that?"

Everyone was surprised, some were full of admiration, while others wallowed in envy.

Qin Feng knew none of this, he was waiting in a private room and after a while, a handsome and mature-looking man entered.

The vibe that this man gave off to others was special.

While he looked to be about thirty five or thirty six years old, upon closer inspection the glossiness of his skin made him resemble more of a twenty year old. He looked confident and at ease, frivolous to whatever the world could throw at him.

That kind of princely nature, combined with his aloofness and the sense of superiority he gave off made him hard to ignore.

When Qin Feng and this other man's eyes met, in that instant he knew that this man was no pushover.

He had only seen that kind of gaze in one man!

And that was Z!

This person was very old!

"Hello, hello, number one prodigy. So lucky to be meeting you!" The man approached, reaching out to shake Qin Feng's hand.

"Hello, Sir!" Qin Feng responded to the handshake, he even instinctively used the man's honorifics.

The man paused for a moment, momentarily raising his eyebrows as he glanced over Qin Feng and the look on his face, then returned to his smile.

The receptionist from before said, "This is the S-tier appraisal master, Master Long! He will be appraising your items and estimating the value!"

"Okay!" Qin Feng nodded his head.

"You may leave first!" Master Long asked the person to leave. They were only a D-tier aptitude user, the woman was only at the very baseline of cultivation and had not seen battle before. If there was an S-tier god weapon present there would be no way for her to resist the pressure brought on by such a powerful weapon.

"Yes, Sir!" The woman respectfully bowed and left.

There were only three people left in that private room.

"Alright, Prodigy Qin. Let me see what kind of treasure you obtained from Hell Island?" Master Long was obviously very curious.

Qin Feng said, "I got this from Dark Citadel. Hell Island is sheer wilderness, you won't get any god weapons out there!"

The other nodded in approval of Qin Feng's words.

"Bai Li, seal this space first!"

Qin Feng did not need to say it out loud, but he was worried that Master Long might misunderstand him so he decided to voice out the order.

Master Long did not refute and Bai Li acted to put this place under a Spatial Lock.

Suddenly, the surrounding area warped into a different realm. Not only that but here, it was as if they were inside Bai Li's space. Not even He Tianxing would be able to feel the presence of his sword here.

Bai Li took out the sword from the space and laid it out on the display stand.

The sword measured up to 1.8 meters long, and the moment it appeared it seemed to have realized it lost its owner and let out a low humming sound that gave everyone present goosebumps.

Master Long was curious at first, but he was a bit more inattentive. At this point, his eyes widened as he got surprised.

For many years, there had not been an incident such as this, he almost lost his composure and audibly gasped.

"The Sky Demon Sword?"

Was this not He Tianxing's weapon?

Master Long immediately moved his face closer to inspect it, looking up and down before concluding that this was indeed the Sky Demon Sword. Nothing on it would have marked it as a fake.

With that in mind, Master Long raised his head and looked at Qin Feng, he had a very strange expression on his face when he did.

If even something like this could be obtained, would that not drive He Tianxing insane?

However, as an appraiser, Master Long had some things that he could not ask!

That made his mind itch.

Despite that, he quickly recovered his professional composure, politely coughed and said, "This god weapon is indeed an S-tier god weapon. It is very powerful but it has an obvious issue. It is an attunement weapon and its current owner is an S-tier ancient warrior with a powerful consciousness. If you want to erase the trace of this attunement you'd need at least an SS tier aptitude user! For someone like that to even do such a thing, I'm afraid that would cost more than what this sword is worth!"

Qin Feng naturally understood this but this problem was easily solved.

"I believe Master Long can feel it too. We created a space that completely isolates the sword and temporarily seals it up. I also have something else…"

Qin Feng took out the Magical Tesseract and explained its functions. Master Long's eyes lit up, not expecting Qin Feng to have so many treasures. He felt that this Magical Tesseract was more powerful than the Sky Demon Sword.

When Qin Feng finished the explanation and continued, "I can temporarily put the Sky Demon Sword up on the internal network and wait until there's someone who can redeem it, then give me the points!"

This was also counted as a compromise.

Mainly, that would also open up some level of authority.

There was a limit when it came to trading items for points, but when normally carrying out tasks for the Human Alliance, there were no limits on the points that could be gained.

Qin Feng was assigned two missions by the Human Alliance, one in Dusan Basin and another in the East Sea. Both missions were rewarded locally but their completion had been recorded by the Human Alliance in point accumulation.

However, the points he gained were those after conversion. Dusan Basin gave 3,400 and East Sea gave 5,200, which only added up to about 8,000.

An S-tier item would cost up to at least a few million points which Qin Feng could not exchange for right now, but as long as he had a goal, the points would flow in naturally!

However, Master Long did not agree with Qin Feng's suggestion and said, " No, no, I'll ask someone to take this sword away immediately!"

He turned on his communicator and began to call someone.

This time, half an hour passed before the other person hurried over.

When the person was at the door, before Bai Li even had time to retract her space they had already made their entrance and stepped in.

This man was about two meters tall and had an incredible physique, like some kind of metal tower. He exuded a tremendous amount of pressure.

Qin Feng's pupils suddenly shrank!

An S-tier!

This was definitely an S-tier ancient warrior!

"Thirteenth Uncle, you called for me!" The man said in a deep voice.

Master Long looked very happy and waved the man over. "Little Yue Yue, come and take a look at this!"

From what it sounded, it was a pretty ridiculous name* but Qin Feng was able to figure out the person's identity!

'If these two are uncle and nephew, both surnamed Long, then wouldn't this person be the strongest in the Long family's 25th generation, Long Yue!'

The Long family was an ancient martial arts family before the Great Rift Age, only their internal circles would know how long the family had been around!

However, since the establishment of Dragon Capital, Long Ting was the duke of Dragon Capital. She was two hundred years old and had claims of being the Long family's 28th generation's strongest!

Long Yue was her uncle!

Although there were sometimes huge differences in generations and ages in such a large family, what Qin Feng was more concerned about was the fact that Long Yue called Master Long as his thirteenth uncle.

'Dragon Capital really does have crouching tigers and hidden dragons, even an appraiser is S-tier!'

Translator's Note: Little Yue Yue in the original text was called '小岳岳' which can be misheard as '小月月' which translates to 'Little Moon Moon'!

Chapter 775: Wanzong's Spirit Chain Rend

By now, Master Long had already told Long Yue about Qin Feng's Magical Tesseract and the Sky Demon Sword.

Long Yue glanced at Qin Feng, the face on this person was much too young and they did not have that wizened expression that Master Long had!

"How did you get the Sky Demon Sword? Even knowing that I just so happened to be missing a sword? I think that there's something fishy about this Magical Tesseract!"

When speaking, Long Yue's baritone voice seemed as if he was putting out a large amount of pressure onto people.

Qin Feng raised a brow as he said, "I didn't know that you're missing a sword, but this sword was snatched right out of He Tianxing's hand!"

Long Yue's deep set eyes locked onto Qin Feng. "By you?"

Qin Feng adjusted his jaw. "By my wife!"

Bai Li also looked at Long Yue with a displeased gaze as she said, "Do you think I'm not strong enough to snatch it away? You take out a god weapon right now and I swear that it'll disappear!"

Long Yue's gaze fell onto Bai Li and sensed the other's aura. He was confused, then as if he just realized something, he reflexively raised his eyebrows.

Although it had a human form, he was definitely looking at some kind of Spatial Behemoth, not only that it was at A-tier deity class!

Now he was fully convinced by this.

As for Qin Feng calling Bai Li as his 'wife', he was not surprised either. In the end times, sometimes ultra beasts were more reliable than human companions, not to mention, Qin Feng and Bai Li probably had a contract!

Nobody could exceed the amount of trust Qin Feng put into Bai Li!

"Well, in that case, what would you want to exchange for? You can swap for points or items!"

This was exactly what Qin Feng needed.

"I want to take a look at the Dragon Capital's inventory first!" He said.

"Of course!" Long Yue immediately adjusted Qin Feng's authorization.

[Beep Beep]

In Qin Feng's communicator, the battle point exchange page popped up and showed that he had only a pitiful amount of around 8,000 points. For the S-tier items that were on display, he saw that they cost up to millions of points and could not be exchanged for.

He quickly scanned through everything on the list.

S-tier god weapons, S-tier god armor, he even saw a few sacred stones.

These things could be bought outside of this trade, and the thing Qin Feng did not lack was money.

However, he soon found a few that could not be bought outside!

[Solar Cycle] S-tier ancient martial arts.

[Boundless Blade Intent] S-tier martial arts style.

[Apocalypse Star] S-tier machine blueprints.

Qin Feng looked through them one by one, fascinated by many things.

Dragon Capital was much more bountiful than the Northern Region.

He could count the inventory of the Northern Region with his fingers but when he saw the inventory in Dragon Capital, he saw that there were hundreds of selections.

All of these were accumulated over time!

Suddenly, Qin Feng's attention was locked onto one martial style.

[Wanzong's Spirit Chain Rend] S-tier martial arts style!

There was even an introduction for this style written under the name.

[Wanzong's Spirit Chain Rend was created by Lin Wanzong, a Dark Coalition monster, about 100 years ago. It allows one's blade to condense their soul into it and unleash ten thousand strikes at once. Befitting spectral themed techniques, this ability can allow a single person to take on an army!]

[P.S.: Wanzong's Spirit Chain Rend needs a weapon built with a Soul-lock Stone in order to achieve its maximum effect!]

A Soul-lock Stone was also an S-tier item. It had the unnatural effect of being able to steal the souls of ultra beasts and humans alike.

After closely reading through Wanzong's Spirit Chain Rend's description, Qin Feng finally pointed to the martial arts style and said, "May I swap for this one?"

While He Tianxing's god weapon was powerful, Wanzong's Spirit Chain Rend was a martial arts style and when put into comparison, the martial arts style was much more valuable.

Long Yue and Master Long were both taken aback.

"You want that one?"

"Yeah!"

"Maybe consider something else? I mean, after Lin Wanzong created this martial arts style, there hasn't been anyone who has been able to properly learn it, even those who have studied this martial arts style for decades were unable to use this move to its greatest extent. Not to mention, a Soul-locking stone is extremely rare to find!" At this point, Master Long tried to persuade him.

Long Yue added, "Wanzong's Spirit Chain Rend needs to absorb a lot of souls for it to be able to unleash its great power. Besides, Lin Wanzong was a murderous psychopath, I wouldn't recommend you pick up this skill!"

Qin Feng then asked, "Ultra beast souls, can't those be absorbed too?"

Master Long was caught off guard by that question, but he remembered that Qin Feng was the number one prodigy. After this, he would have to keep a close eye on Qin Feng, even more so when he knew about Qin Feng's record!

He had hunted down many, many ultra beasts.

All of a sudden, it felt like Wanzong's Spirit Chain Rend suited him very well!

"Are you sure about this exchange?" Master Long asked.

"Yes, I am!" Qin Feng replied.

"Very well, I will retrieve it for you," said the appraiser.

He left the room, exiting Bai Li's spatial lock and activated a special spatial waymark which allowed him to enter the Dragon Capital's vault and retrieve the manual for this martial arts style.

Not more than three minutes later, the martial arts style manual was in Qin Feng's hands!

Qin Feng checked it for a moment and found that there were no problems, then he handed the Sky Demon Sword to Long Yue.

Long Yue touched the Magical Tesseract and after learning about how it could be used, he thought for a moment, then started to insert S-tier materials into the Tesseract as if they did not cost him a lot of money to get in the first place.

It took a full hour before Long Yue changed this weapon. The moment it was taken out, a bright beam of light burst out from the blade!

Sching!

A sword slash burst out, slamming into the surrounding silver runes.

Not only did this slash into the ground, this slash completely sliced through Bai Li's Spatial Lock.

Of course at this time, her spatial lock would have had no effect.

That was because He Tianxing's Sky Demon Sword had disappeared without a trace. The sword in Long Yue's hand had a completely new appearance!

Not only that, borrowing the light of Qin Feng's Magical Tesseract, the sword raised in power again.

"This Magical Tesseract is a useful thing!" Master Long said before shaking his head. "Forget it, on a gentleman's honor I won't ask you to sell that item!"

Qin Feng then said, "If necessary, I can lend you the Magical Tesseract at any time!"

"Alright, but I'd need to make some preparations! Come come, add my contact number!"

Qin Feng opened up his communicator and added the other's number. At this time, he also learned of the appraiser's full name.

'Long Yunyi? I've never heard of him, maybe it's been too long since this man's tales were told!'

However, considering that Qin Feng had never heard of the man before only made the appraiser more unfathomable.

After all, even Long Yue referred to him as 'Thirteenth Uncle', and his rank was not too far away. This meant that this person had to have been alive for at least two hundred years.

A person like that still alive and kicking in the Dragon Capital was a powerful representative!

The two sides reached a consensus, this exchange was a joy for both the host and the guest.

Chapter 776: Glorious Return

"Thank you Master Long and Sir Long Yue. I'll be leaving now!"

Qin Feng bid the two farewell. Bai Li lifted the spatial lock after Long Yue had the Sky Demon Sword in his hands. By the time Qin Feng wanted to leave, he did not try to hide it and opened a spatial passage directly in front of them.

The two had planned to directly leave Dragon Capital.

After all, the news that Qin Feng had come to redeem an S-tier item had probably already spread!

Qin Feng and Bai Li returned to Fengli City.

Meanwhile, news was quickly spreading throughout Black Citadel.

"Duke, according to the news Qin Feng was in Dragon Capital and sold the Sky Demon Sword. I'm not sure if the news is accurate or not, after all the Sky Demon Sword is a weapon that is bound to its original wielder!" Fire Phoenix reported anxiously.

He Tianxing fell silent.

Previously, he still had some vague indication of where the Sky Demon Sword was but he could not summon the sword back, as if it was in a different plane. That meant that just now, what just happened was that he had completely lost connection with his weapon.

All of a sudden, He Tianxing was extremely melancholic as if he had lost the most important thing in his life.

By the time the news came, He Tianxing was already mentally prepared.

"It's fine, I already know. You can go now." He Tianxing said.

Fire Phoenix was obviously a little confused when she saw He Tianxing's calm face. She could only regard that as her City Duke's enigmatic nature and did not dare ask anymore so she carefully started to depart.

After Fire Phoenix was gone, He Tianxing's expression twisted in anger.

"Qin Feng!!!"

He would remember that name.

Just when he was about to get angry, a sudden pain struck through his abdomen. He Tianxing's face was now twisted in pain, blood dripping from the corners of his mouth.

He pressed the bandages on his abdomen as black blood began to stain it.

An S-tier Undead Puppet, the effects definitely were not something to scoff at. Otherwise, Kounsat would not have been able to hold off so many A-tiers for so long. Even S-tiers had to be careful with him!

Kounsat was a master at corpse toxin. He Tianxing was fully capable of going to Fengli City and killing Qin Feng, but he was seriously injured and was a little wary of Bai Li's true identity, as such he did dare take action.

"Damn it, do I really need to find that Light God old coot to heal me?" He Tianxing held a hand over his wound, his heart pulsed with sheer rage.

The moment one reached S-tier, it was difficult for them to get healed by ordinary ability users.

However, when seeking out other S-tiers, things such as blackmailing was more common than finding aid, that or something tricky would occur as another party became privy to your physical condition.

S-tier aptitude users controlled massive powers and a huge amount of resources. This was a position that all S-tiers shared, but the allocation of resources depended on their strength!

He Tianxing was hesitant to move!

Compared to He Tianxing, Qin Feng was in a very happy mood.

After getting rid of the hot potato that was the Sky Demon Sword, he managed to exchange it for a new S-tier martial arts style. He knew that the trip to Hell Island had been different from what he planned, but the results were very good!

After returning to Fengli City, Qin Feng naturally greeted the people to announce that he had returned!

"President, I heard that Black Citadel was attacked by a beast deity! Thank goodness you're alright!"

"Yeesh! Of course the president's alright! What are you worried about?"

"Yeah, with Lady Bai Li beside him, he'll be fine!'

"After more than one month of Lady Bai Li not being with the organization I was worried that some B-tier lords would come over and cause trouble!"

"If so, then I'm more worried about A-tiers keeping their eyes on us!"

Everyone had something to say, but from the way they said things it was obvious how important Qin Feng was to them.

Qin Feng was the backbone of the entire organization.

Of course, be it lone B-tier or A-tier groups. If someone dropped, then the group itself would eventually fall apart.

However, with Fengli coming up and up so quickly this was bound to cause people to worry.

Qin Feng was also paying attention to this phenomenon!

The Fengli Organization was way too young!

"Afterwards, I will be heading to Cinderclast City. If there is anything, you will find me there!" Qin Feng said.

Everyone was surprised, but there was no doubt that they were all extremely happy.

Qin Feng being around and him not being around were like two completely different scenes.

Later, Xue Xingfu was called over by Qin Feng so they could both privately sort through the loot that he had picked up during his time on Hell Island!

"This…all this is…" Xue Xingfu looked at the spatial rune equipment one after the other and randomly picked one up. This spatial rune equipment contained items of great value, not to mention there was a sizable amount of power credits in it.

That was because all of this money was originally used for the Dusk Dragon Auction!

Qin Feng said, "Go to Zong Qianli, you can hand some of this to the guy. You don't need to rush the sales of these, take it at your own pace. However, I want them to provide an S-tier material. A Soul-locking Stone!"

"Soul-locking Stone?" Xue Xingfu remembered reading something about that kind of treasure then nodded and said, "Understood!"

As for how much that he needed to give to Zong Qianli, Xue Xingfu had already calculated the amount that would get him the greatest benefit!

Qin Feng rested for about two or three days. During this period, Z did not appear but the deadline where they agreed upon when the Cinder Pine fell was fast approaching!

As such, on the third day he had already gone to Cinderclast City and reached the fortress that housed the entrance to the Cinderclast Realm!

There were more and more people coming these days, there were even some clad in cloaks and masks. There was no doubt that these people were from the Dark Coalition.

However, people of Fengli City kept one eye open and one eye shut, not really caring too much about it.

The aptitude users guarding the area, Jin Hao, Fu Wenjie and He Liming had a leisurely time.

Bai Li's presence here before made the people here not want to underestimate the aptitude users defending the area. Even if she had left for more than a month, nobody wanted to act rashly.

Only if they had heard the news about Bai Li having died out in the wilderness would they actually dare to try anything.

Now that the two of them had returned, that was bound to draw attention.

"Oh no, that silver-haired witch is back!"

"Why do I get the feeling that her aura got stronger?"

"Yeah, seeing her I don't even want to lift my head, now I can't even look at her skirt! This feeling of wanting to kneel down and keel over, I hate it!"

Although people were unhappy, they were helpless and feared Bai Li.

This was the sheer pressure of a beast deity.

Then Qin Feng appeared, making them remember things from before. Every news about Qin Feng being able to take on armies flooded back.

"The President of Fengli is back!"

"That's right! It's him!"

"You probably don't know, but the President of the Fengli Organization has done a lot of good things!"

Chapter 777: Entering the Cinderclast Realm

Qin Feng's name got more and more famous, and his identity was always different.

Now, he was a General of the Human Alliance, he could lift a finger and send the people who cause a scene on extremely dangerous missions. This case was in line with the saying 'resolution without drawing blade'.

Therefore, these people would never dare to provoke Qin Feng again!

Qin Feng did not bother with what these people were thinking and checked up on Fu Wenjue and the other two before they guided him into the Cinderclast Realm.

Although he technically owned the realm, he was not familiar with it. Fortunately, there had been countless people coming to explore before. After all, there were a few simple maps provided.

As soon as Qin Feng entered, he felt a scorching heat. Even being an aptitude user, this was something he could actually feel!

The temperature of the surrounding air was above 40 degrees.

When he looked around, he saw an orange sky and blackened dirt. He was surrounded by different tents scattered about, there was even litter on the ground. Not only that, there were some trenches dug into the ground further away but those looked like they were incomplete. Their surroundings were extremely sparse.

This was normal though, Qin Feng's Cinderclast Realm was different from Hell Island. It was fully open, Qin Feng did not leave any manpower within to defend it and allowed aptitude users to enter.

The good news was that Qin Feng had long stabilized the spatial crack that led to the realm, as such the aptitude users that entered the area had eventually cleared out the ultra beasts surrounding the perimeter, making it temporarily safe.

Qin Feng saw some people that were either resting here or preparing to go out with a hunting party.

He took out his aircraft and brought Bai Li on board, heading out on the path designated by the map.

The others turned their attention to these two strangers.

"That guy's got to be crazy, right? A hover car in the Cinderclast Realm?"

"It looks strange! It could be a new model of aircraft from the Fengli Organization!"

"An aircraft is just asking for death! Don't they know how powerful the Pyrocrows are?"

The Cinderclast Realm was not just home to the Cinderclast Golems or the Cinder Pine. Many people learned that the most troubling thing was not a Cinderclast Golem, but in fact a flock of Pyrocrows!

These kinds of creatures were only C-tier and their numbers reached about a thousand and above when they moved. Even if a team was led by a B-tier, they would end up being engulfed in flames. Aerial travel was not a good idea in this realm.

However, this kind of danger was no issue for Qin Feng or Bai Li!

They did not go very far before they suddenly attracted a flock of Pyrocrows.

The Pyrocrows saw a lone aircraft and thought it was going to be easy prey, preparing a fireball in their beaks, wanting to knock it out of the sky for intruding on their aerial domain.

They swooped down, moving as if a sea of fire was raining down from the sky.

However, when they were about a hundred meters closer, Bai Li merely raised her gaze and let a trace of her aura leak out.

"Squawk!"

The leading Pyrocrow was shocked and immediately scattered. The other Pyrocrows would naturally sense Bai Li's aura.

A-tier beast deity!

Among ultra beasts, the caste system was even more ingrained and they did not dare violate it.

The aura of a beast deity, even if a little bit more was unleashed, it would shatter their souls!

This fear was deeply ingrained, how would these Pyrocrows dare come an attack now? They would rather try to grow a new pair of wings just so they could get further away faster!

The neat formation of the Pyrocrows were thrown into chaos, bumping into one another as they tried to escape, nothing dared to stop Qin Feng's aircraft.

In the blink of an eye, the aircraft flew past the flock of Pyrocrows.

Through this way, Qin Feng went on unimpeded. He did not even bother using his dark ability to hide himself, ultra beasts fled as far as they could as he got closer.

Gradually, they reached far beyond where the B-tiers have explored.

However, there were some daring and artistically talented aptitude users who dared to enter dangerous areas and drew down what they saw.

Three hours later, Qin Feng finally arrived at his destination.

In the distance, a Cinder Pine that towered in the sky came into view. Its huge canopy was in full bloom. Not only that, under its dark trunk were exposed roots that were tightly grasped onto a massive red glowing boulder.

Under this peculiar scene were a bunch of magma pools in all shapes and sizes, nobody knew how many Cinderclast Golems were in there.

"Looks like this tree has reached the level of B5 tier beast emperor!"

If it were not for the fact that the Cinder Pine sapling that came out of the Cinderclast Realm consumed so many B-tiers, it could not have grown so quickly.

Even though the place where Qin Feng stood had abundant resources, allowing the Cinder Pine to reach its powerful state, yet it was in its early stage. Compared to the Cinder Pine he was looking at now, they had completely different levels of strength.

This Cinder Pine was six to seven hundred meters tall. More importantly, the roots of the tree were all glowing red.

Even without the support of the mountain below it, the Cinder Pine was still a towering peak.

However, Qin Feng's strength was different from what it was before.

"We'll make a move!" Qin Feng said.

He opened the aircraft's door and walked out into the air, the Blue Flame Peacock Wings appearing on his back.

Bai Li did the same, hopping through space.

Qin Feng stored his aircraft in his spatial rune equipment and fixed his eyes onto the Cinder Pine in front of him, and his consciousness surged.

Around him, waves of water began to churn.

The waves gathered and grew in size to the point where the Blue Flame Peacock Wings could no longer maintain themselves and were extinguished as Qin Feng quickly swapped his abilities.

A cloud manifested below his feet, holding him afloat.

Water runes within the Sacred Water Meteor in his mind finally burst forth.

It was like the opening of the flood gates, and like a waterfall had been held up in the sky for a moment before it came cascading down and crashed onto the ground.

The waterfall was a hundred meters wide and felt as if the cosmic river had decided to bring itself down as it completely enveloped the Cinder Pine.

As the waterfall came down, the downward direction along with its size caused a resounding impact.

Boom!

There was a huge booming noise as the huge Cinder Pine was suddenly shaken and bent a little from the violent slam, teetering so hard that it almost crashed into the ground.

Psssssthsssst!

Fire was extinguished as hot steam filled the air, even the water that hit the ground was instantly evaporated.

However, this was not fire reacting with water, this was the force of two runes colliding and canceling each other out!

"Hrrruuuuuh!"

The trunk of the Cinder Pine cracked open, revealing several large mouths as it let out a howl.

The originally motionless tree suddenly began to move, shaking violently as if possessed by something.

Meanwhile, the Cinderclast Golems near the Cinder Pine felt their sacred tree's roar and began to crawl out of the magma, but they were suddenly swept aside by a huge current.

These Cinderclast Golems were no match for Qin Feng at all.

It was at this moment that the huge waterfall was broken through! A glowing bright red crystal tree root pierced through the waterfall and was headed straight for Qin Feng!

Chapter 778: B4-Tier

It was a striking hit that would definitely pierce through Qin Feng and annihilate him to a tragic death!

However, Qin Feng was already totally different from before, he had steadily advanced his capabilities. Despite his highly contrasting physique, his overall capabilities were still on par with the Cinder Pine.

Furthermore, Qin Feng was equipped with his powerful weapons.

The Verdant Emperor Saber was slashed forward.

An array of horrifying annihilating force exploded from Qin Feng's Verdant Emperor Saber.

"Wanzong's Spirit Chain Rend, first level chain rend!"

Although Qin Feng had only completed the initial level research on Wanzong's Spirit Chain Rend, his strong natural born talent, combined with experience from his rebirth had compensated for what was lacking. Not only did his consciousness enhance from the Sage Fruits, but his understanding toward ancient warrior skills had also surged a little.

First level chain rend was without any additional spiritual energy, but the output of it was even more horrifying than the Burning Sword Glare.

Combined with the unique attributes of the Verdant Emperor Saber, the instant explosion had immediately broken several roots of the Cinder Pine into pieces.

"Still seems to be quite energetic!"

With that being said, a swirling whirlpool was formed in between Qin Feng's eyebrows.

Within the whirlpool, a clear blue stone emerged and flew out from the consciousness realm. Despite its small size, when looked carefully, it was like a giant planet.

The Sacred Water Meteor.

"Go!"

Qin Feng ordered the Sacred Water Meteor, and a horrifying wave instantly exploded, like an overflowing ocean. The massive amount of ocean water then poured down and even formed into a gigantic swirling water pillar.

The surface of the ocean would often experience formation of massive tornadoes, sweeping the ocean waters up to the sky, forming into horrifying draconic suction blasts that contained shocking destructive force.

Now that the Sacred Water Meteor had gained direct control of the ocean waters, swirling them into a hydra-dragon formation, the dragon then wrapped around the Cinder Pine and confined it within.

Branches and leaves from the Cinder Pine were all swept up in the air. Although they were dampened by water earlier, their flames were still not extinguished.

All of the ignition sources had disappeared.

The massive crown of the Cinder Pine had been destroyed and turned bald by the water pillar, the intense suction force had then pulled up the entire pine and swept it up to the sky.

Roots that were even longer than its crown and trunks were trapped in a wild wobble within the water, and they looked like a bunch of wild dancing demons.

Crack!

Hit by the insurmountable forces from the vigorous twisting and bending, a cracking sound was then heard from the pine trunk of the Cinder Pine.

The Cinder Pine was too massive in size, and the noises from the breakdown of the creature were extremely loud too.

Crack crack crack!

Barks exploded, roots slowly extinguished and faded, the giant rock that it had entangled onto had also been tossed away.

Red glows on the roots of the Cinder Pine dimmed down and was greatly reduced, only several ignited tips were left!

"Retrieve!"

Qin Feng recalled his consciousness.

Ocean water waves withdrew itself and merged into Sacred Water Meteor, then sucked back into the centre in between Qin Feng's eyebrows.

"Phantom Shift!"

"First level chain rend!"

"First level chain rend!"

"First level chain rend!"

Qin Feng's shadow circled around the floating Cinder Pine, and multiple first level chain rends exploded.

Such an S-tier battle skill would consume quite a significant amount of internal strength. However, after three explosions, Qin Feng had already moved away to the side of the pine!

The giant Cinder Pine fell from the sky, struggles from the helpless roots were useless, the devastating fall was inevitable.

Boom!

The Cinder Pine crashed onto the ground. The impacted ground took the massive hit and it was like an earthquake had erupted as all Cinderclast Golems were screaming out their miserable shrieks.

Their sacred pine had collapsed!

Furthermore, the sacred pine that had fallen to the ground had broken into two from the centre.

To the Cinderclast Golems, it was the end of the world, but for Qin Feng, it was definitely a delightful moment.

It was the death of the Cinder Pine, countless amounts of pure and concentrated energy exploded forth.

Qin Feng's ability had certainly sensed the presence of the energy and began his rapacious absorption.

The Cinder Pine was a unique creature that was filled with a massive amount of energy.

With only the energy presence from its death, Qin Feng's consciousness had already been fully regenerated.

Dong!

Within the consciousness realm, his starglobes vibrated. A gushing energy had broken the limits, arriving at a new height!

Consciousness B4-tier!

The energy of the Cinder Pine had yet to be completely drained out by Qin Feng, and his body was still swallowing it. Within a short moment, energy that was not gained from Hell Island was now accumulated in Qin Feng's body.

Boom!

Qin Feng's body was filled with explosive energy again.

Physical strength B4-tier!

With the amount of energy available, Qin Feng could even transform and channel them into his dantian to replenish the consumed internal strength earlier.

Not only that, Qin Feng was not exhausted from battling a B4-tier beast emperor, he had even become more energetic and stronger.

The Cinder Pine was definitely a rare treasure!

Qin Feng descended from the sky and went to dig out the core of the pine. There were still Cinderclast Golems that intended to rush forward and kill him, they were all annihilated by Qin Feng. The crystal cores that were left behind were definitely a cheap bargain for him.

Qin Feng no longer cared about those worthless items, but he still wanted to accumulate them to a significant amount. The Cinderclast Golems were crushed into pieces and collected, while the small branches from the Cinder Pine were all picked up by Bai Li.

"Z mentioned that the Cinder Pine is capable of absorption to strengthen itself, so I am collecting some for my own research!"

If such capability were to be made available for everyone, it would then become a difficult situation for the ultra beasts to survive.

Even if the outcome of the research would only be the same as Qin Feng's capability before his rebirth, it would still be quite powerful!

With that in mind, Qin Feng and Bai Li entered into the aircraft and planned to continue with killing another Cinder Pine to obtain more specimens for their research.

As soon as they had left far away, shadows of aptitude users began to appear.

They were afraid of being noticed by Qin Feng's senses; hence, they were using a unique telescope that would not reveal their presence.

"Gone, they are gone!"

"That person, was that Qin Feng?" Isn't he a fire and dark ability user?"

"It was him, perhaps he has some unique methods to obtain other abilities. Water abilities being used at this Cinderclast Region are really powerful!"

Everyone began to communicate via their consciousness, it had even resulted in quarrels, but some were already rushing toward the battlefield. There were still unwanted items that were left behind by Qin Feng, but for them, those were highly valuable items.

Obviously, Qin Feng did not care about those!

Qin Feng led Bai Li to another giant Cinder Pine and killed it. It was only a B1-tier that was not really powerful, and Bai Li had still not participated throughout the entire battle.

Bai Li was back to the days where she was no longer required in the battles!

Now that Qin Feng's capabilities had gradually improved, the enemies and the required level of understanding toward the explored world had also become stronger and higher. There were still some horrifying enemy encounters, fortunately, he was able to overcome all of them.

All he needed to do was to become stronger to strengthen his solid foundation!

It would not take him too long!

Chapter 779: Soul-Lock Stone

It was at the Cinderclast Realm that Qin Feng had totally transformed into a water ability user. With his powerful capabilities, it had only taken him one day to wipe out two Cinder Pines that were discovered by the humans.

But Qin Feng did not stop there, after killing both of the Cinder Pines, he had then returned to Cinderclast City.

"I have prepared the items that you wanted!" Qin Feng opened his communicator and sent across the message to Z.

Owing a favour from Z earlier and the threatening signs from Z had pushed Qin Feng to clear the debts and return the favour to Z as soon as possible!

"Deliver them to my laboratory!" Z answered.

Qin Feng bluntly declined.

He was no match against Z, but he had a three-year agreement with Z, and Z had even mentioned that some special methods were used to ensure favourable results.

Hence, Qin Feng would definitely not go to Z's headquarters.

"Where do you intend to store them, I'll send someone to deliver them! You have to arrange someone for pick up!" Qin Feng answered.

"Alright, deliver them to the Mingsha City of Hui Lu State, remember to deliver them to the location, there will be nobody to get in touch with you beyond the city!" Z answered.

Mingsha City? Z was really everywhere.

Hui Lu State was the place where Hu Shan had agreed to hand over to Z. Since then, he had been there. A major part of it was desert, but it was embedded with a lot of minerals underground that were worth a fortune.

Presence of sandstorm had caused it to become an extremely dangerous and barren area. The endless desert was even embedded with several risky hallucinative sports.

Mingsha City was the gathering spot for the members of the Dark coalition, hidden with the desert, unknown by others.

However, those were not worrying issues for Qin Feng.

Qin Feng had access to the spatial waymark of Mingsha City.

"I'll get Bai Li to send them over!"

Qin Feng passed Bai Li's number to Z and got Bai Li to help with the delivery.

Z's intention to give Qin Feng a hard time had failed to the support rendered by the spatial beast, Z could only begin the research on the freshly obtained ingredients.

There was another reason behind Qin Feng's refusal to meet with Z, something that he wished to have had been delivered by Wanzong.

It was the Soul-lock Stone!

"Wanzong's Spirit Chain Rend is still attached to the Spirit Saber, such a waste to allow such a great weapon to be turned into ashes!"

Not only that, Qin Feng had obtained books recorded with sword style references. There was even a biography of the homicidal maniac that had created the sword style, some of those were added on later by others.

During the death of Lin Wanzong, millions of spirits that were sealed within the weapon had broken out from the god weapon. The spiritual nature of the weapon slowly faded, and after several continuous battles, the weapon had finally transformed into ashes.

Nobody knew the steps to reproduce the Spirit Saber because most of the god weapons were unique and distinct. Perhaps they were some leftover treasures from some unknown regions.

Although some might have obtained the Soul-lock stone, it was still impossible for them to reproduce the Spirit Saber.

However, the Magical Tesseract had allowed Qin Feng to skip the research on steps to reproduce the Spirit Saber!

During the night, Qin Feng merged the Soul-lock Stone into his Verdant Emperor Saber. The saber was then enhanced with Myriatonnic Force, Hyper Fluctuation, Dark Burning Sword Glare, and the attribute of soul-lock was also added on.

The next day, Qin Feng headed to the Cinderclast Realm in high spirits.

The airflow was still hot and unbearable. Qin Feng identified his direction and drove toward the opposite way. Surprisingly, he encountered a flock of Pyrocrows.

The flock was obviously different from the one the day before, they were more powerful and in greater numbers. There were more than five thousand of them that flew across the sky, blocking the sunlight. Flames fell off from their flapping wings and could even form into raining flames.

Pyrocrows were commonly seen in the region, or perhaps the arrival of the rift opening was crowded by them.

Bai Li reduced her presence. As the Pyrocrows were from another flock, they would certainly not know of the presence of a beast deity.

"Wait a minute!" Qin Feng stopped Bai Li from annihilating the flock of Pyrocrows with her presence!

"Hmm?"

Bai Li was confused and looked at Qin Feng. She noticed that Qin Feng had set the aircraft to be in a floating state, the Pyrocrows then flew toward a crowd of people.

The Pyrocrows were surprised by the provocation from the humans as they immediately opened their mouths and let out their annoying noises.

"Gawk gawk gawk gawk gawk!"

Qin Feng's internal strength shield was protecting him, combined with his powerful consciousness, he was not hit by any of the Pyrocrows.

Any other B-tier aptitude users would have already lost their heads!

"Phantom Shift!"

All of a sudden, Qin Feng split his shadow into thousands of duplicated ones. Not only were they hollow shadows, their movements were also controlled by Qin Feng.

His Verdant Emperor Saber on hand was only injected with internal strength, and his sword glare had already extended to more than ten meters away. Dark flames shot through the flock of fiery red Pyrocrows, it was like a sharpened black blade that had been mercilessly pierced into the flock.

The Pyrocrows were instantly annihilated into pieces!

Regardless of Qin Feng's capabilities or the strength of the Verdant Emperor Saber, both were too great a force for the Pyrocrows.

The Pyrocrows began to fall. Surprisingly, another spooky shadow was torn apart and merged into the Verdant Emperor Saber.

However, as the shadows got closer to Qin Feng, they had turned translucent again, like they had suffered another bite.

Qin Feng was shocked.

But he immediately recovered from it.

"It is an absorption ability!"

Spirits were enigmatic and mysterious, hidden from the naked eye, and undetectable by consciousness.

Unless special methods were being used, with the Soul-lock Stone being one of them.

However, myths of rebirth from death and retaining the complete spirit were long disregarded by the people in the post apocalyptic world.

Living in such end times was definitely a nightmare for some. Death was a better option, why would anyone choose rebirth?

For Qin Feng, he understood more about the nature of the absorption ability. Perhaps it was spirits within ultra beasts that were being absorbed by him along with their energy. However, he did not feel remorse or emotional about it.

A kill was a kill.

However, he began to frown.

"I wonder, will this affect the capability of the spirit chain rend?!"

Qin Feng pondered upon this, but he did not test on it immediately, and he continued with the annihilation.

The entire flock consisted of five thousand Pyrocrows, Qin Feng could only kill thirty to fifty of them within a minute, and it took him ten minutes to kill all of them. Of course there were still some that escaped in different directions. Qin Feng did not bother to go after them either.

Meanwhile, he was surprised by a circling dark presence around his Verdant Emperor Saber. Qin Feng could feel that it was not related to its dark flames at all!

"Could this be the unrestricted state of the Spirit Saber?"

Qin Feng waved his hand, injected his internal strength, and an array of dark traces appeared suddenly.

Within fifty meters of a fan-shaped area, horrifying wailing cries were unveiled. There were even annoying screaming noises from the Pyrocrows, it was deafening!

At that moment, even Qin Feng was shocked!

Chapter 780: Spatial Overlap

Qin Feng did not inject too much internal strength. The input was even much less than the burning sword glare that had previously extended for more than ten meters away. However, such a shocking and horrifying mirage had occurred.

Furthermore, Qin Feng had only killed five thousand Pyrocrows, what if there were more, what shocking outcome would it have?

With that in mind, Qin Feng could not wait any longer!

"Wanzong's Spirit Chain Rend, will this fuel my capacity to resist against S-tiers?" Qin Feng exclaimed in excitement.

Sacred Dark Meteor, Sacred Flame Meteor, Sacred Water Meteor, S-tier undead puppets, all of those were items that could resist against S-tiers, but all of them would vanish after their usage!

Qin Feng no longer needed a winning move for himself, instead, he needed a signature move.

Wanzong's Spirit Chain Rend seemed to be filled with great potential!

"Let's go, continue!"

Qin Feng stepped onto his aircraft and headed toward another location within the Cinderclast Realm. There were still large groups of ultra beast spirits that were waiting for him!

A month had passed, Qin Feng remained within Cinderclast City. The Fengli Organization had also undergone fast-paced development. With Qin Feng's solid foundation and support, they had become bolder in their operations and were not as cautious as before.

The North Sea State had completely fallen under Qin Feng's influence, even states Along the Sun were the same. The influence of the Fengli Organization was still constantly expanding.

Compared with Qin Feng's hectic work, Z's experiment was rather smooth sailing.

Something that Qin Feng was unaware of was that since the commencement of the Cinderclast Realm, Z had directly explored the region and did not sense any presence of S-tier unique fortunes. As such, the region was then abandoned and left to be hunted by the subordinates.

However, it was too wasteful to assign A-tiers, but it was also impossible for assigned B-tiers to obtain pine essences from the Cinder Pines.

As he had conveniently saved Qin Feng, he was delighted to have an extra henchman for himself and he left Fengli feeling satisfied. If Qin Feng were to return to Fengli with him as a covert, it would have harmed himself.

Upon Z's departure, he had been investigating some regions and then returned to his own laboratory.

Z's laboratory was not located at any specific location, similar to the Battlegod Tomb that Qin Feng had controlled, it was a small-sized secret territory.

However, low-end experiments or experiments that required human test samples would definitely be held outside.

Z looked at his new batch of experiments while the researchers beside him looked at him in awe.

"Professor Z, it is a success, another ten percent advancement. The current awakening rate has achieved fifty percent."

By referring to Qin Feng's life path before his rebirth, Z's experiment had also been sped up.

Certainly, Qin Feng had played an important role in being the evolving subject of experiment.

As Qin Feng had partnered with Z, Z had returned to develop the Hui Lu State. He had even discovered some research talents that were undiscovered before rebirth. Furthermore, Qin Feng's return from the Perished Lands had sourced him with some resources as well as advanced methodologies and technologies that had set his path to explore further. Hence, his experimentation progress had also benefited from it and was spurred on.

Z was very satisfied, but he had unintentionally recalled Qin Feng's previous statements.

Initially, he did not care about the remaining fifty percent rate. However, Qin Feng was very upfront with his refusal, and it had driven his desire to make Qin Feng as his subject of experiment.

"This is not enough; it has to be a hundred percent awakening rate!"

By that time, would Qin Feng then agree to be his subject of experiment?"

Z was excited about the thought.

As the other researchers heard Z, their burning excitements were then slammed by the cold reality. However, some of them smelled greed and were secretly delighted by it.

Z's research outcome was not secured by any non-disclosure protection. Those that were present were prominent and intellectual figures, some of them were only driven by the sole purpose of pursuing their research, while some wished to excavate more for themselves.

Wealth, power, capability, all of those.

Z's research could already provide them with a huge number of profits.

All potions were sold to the people from the Dark Coalition. With injection modifications, their capabilities would be doubled, and it would definitely be sought after by many.

Ordinary humans that were not awakened at the age of sixteen but still insist on pursuing the path of an aptitude user would most probably exhaust all of their family fortune to get their hands on a mutant potion from them.

Hence, a giant loophole was formed to reap benefits from it.

It was where Qin Feng had seen the overflow of mutant experiments before his rebirth.

It was at that moment, a beeping alert was heard. Everyone looked at the screen's notification and raised their eyebrows in astonishment.

"Is it the alarm from experiment base number eight? What is happening? Revolting subject experiment?"

It was a common scene for them. After all, some of those experiment subjects that were captured by them originated from the Human Alliance.

"Number eight? I remember that there is a devourer that is being cultivated in it, is it inside?" Z instantly questioned.

"Ah, right, yes yes!"

"Correct, the cells are inside, still yet to be transplanted onto the experiment subject's body!" The others were instantly alerted by the urgent situation, it was because materials on the devourer were all A-tier and above. Those researchers were also aptitude users themselves, and they knew how precious those materials were. Although Z might be a S-tier, some of those were rare items that were impossible to replace!

It was because the devourer was combined with Leviathan's cells by Z.

Such an ultra beast would definitely not bring transformation to every human. However, Z often had two different approaches in his experiments in order suit his own high-level awakening, and to create mutant experiment subjects. The latter could be utilized as his henchmen to scout for more treasures from different regions.

The devourer was a parent cell, and the cells found on other mutants were all sourced from it.

"Let me check it out, it is a good opportunity to cultivate a new batch of creatures!"

Z cared very much about his vow. A space was immediately torn apart which allowed him to instantly land in experiment room number eight.

In the next moment, Z felt a sense of spatial oppression that he had never felt before.

Presence of runes gradually diminished from the air, and energy was drained to a low level. Z had even felt that his own energy was being locked and channelled away.

He was shocked and confused. He did not care to examine the situation within experiment room number eight anymore as a space was torn apart once again.

However, the space could only fit half of his body in, and the opening was still constantly shrinking.

Without any hesitation, Z immediately dived in and one of his legs could not fit into it. It was instantly chopped off and left behind.

Meanwhile, requests for assistance flooded the battle net. Slowly, all news disappeared, but everyone knew that the Huaxia region, a city that was controlled by a duke that was at least an A-tier aptitude user, had fallen.

Chongluo City was one of the top three cities from the Northern region, and it was somehow dragged into a dimensional overlap region.

Furthermore, horrifying mutations had occurred across the region, internal strengths and abilities were deemed unusable.

Aptitude users were unable to unleash any form of energy. The city that had fallen into dimensional overlap had become heaven for ultra beasts and mutated plants.

Unfortunately, all of them were unable to escape.

***

Within Cinderclast City, Bai Li had instantly received the communication from Shang Han.

"Deputy Governor Bai Li, as the regent of the Northern Region, I am assigning you to a special mission, I hope that you can head toward Chongluo City!"

Chapter 781: The Fettering Land

There had been two occurrences of spatial overlapping in the last two hundred years.

The first time happened on an important highway of a city, which caused countless cars to go missing. Not only that, this incident also caused the disappearance of an A-tier. Naturally, this had caused great panic among the general populace.

What made this phenomenon rather horrifying was that all spatial waymarks were rejected in these overlapping dimensions—thus, resulting in people who were transported away by the spatial overlap to not be able to return.

The place was thus designated as a forbidden zone. Five years after the incident, the A-tier who went missing finally walked out of the place. From the A-tier's point of view, he had struggled to live for ten years, causing his powers to be greatly enhanced along the way. However, all of his underlings that were following him that day were all dead.

The second spatial overlap happened in the wild—this time in a mountain ridge. The phenomenon only lasted for three days. Yet, after the spatial overlap was over a huge horde of B-tier beast generals that was found flocking together in the mountains. These monsters' appearance resulted in the total destruction of the colonies around the mountain ridge and a C-tier city.

Humans, of course, tried to fight back. Yet, the armies that were sent there were too weak to take on these beast generals. The general was killed along with thousands of his soldiers.

Now, they were witnessing the third spatial overlapping phenomenon! And this time, things were much more dire than the previous two. This time, the spatial overlap happened inside a bustling, lively city!

In the last two hundred years, humans were not able to figure out what caused the phenomenon. Since before the A.C Calendar started, humanity had always liked to research and figure out answers to mysteries via science and technology. If they could not do so, the most that they could do was theorize.

Nowadays, the most popular theory amongst the scientists was that when spatial overlaps happened, this meant that this specific spot of space and dimension had two different dimensions pressing against one another. When one of the two dimensions was stronger than the other, this would result in a spatial rift where the stronger one devoured the weaker one.

Right now, humans were already practically living in hell. If there was another much stronger dimension overtaking their turf, things could escalate to a much larger, unbearable scale.

After listening to what Shang Han had to say, Bai Li's face turned grim and she gave Qin Feng a look. Seeing this, Qin Feng gave her a nod.

"Regent Shang, I will head there at once!" Bai Li said.

Hearing this, Shang Han felt relieved. "The dimension around Chongluo City is quite eerie right now. We could not activate spatial waymarks over there. And even if we could activate spatial waymarks that could go there, I would not recommend teleporting there too. Therefore, I'm sorry to say this but you will have to travel there without spatial powers."

Qin Feng raised his communicator and answered, "Don't worry, Regent. We'll be fine."

"Are you going too, Qin Feng?"

"Of course!"

"This mission is really dangerous. The situation there is quite eerie to say the least. Many teams that we sent over have all gone missing. Many of them who got close to the city all lost their powers and abilities, and they could only fight using their fists!"

Qin Feng felt that he had heard something similar before upon hearing this.

Still, Qin Feng was not going to back down. "If it's fighting with my fist, I can totally handle it. I have a god weapon with me and I have trained my body a lot since we last met. Now, my body is as strong as a B4-tier ancient warrior."

Shang Han was pleasantly surprised when she heard this. At the same time, she could not help but to feel astonished at how monstrously powerful Qin Feng had become. It was already quite rare to see a prodigy learn and train both abilities and martial arts. And yet, now Qin Feng said he had also trained his physical capabilities too? Damn, was there anything that this young man could not do?

"Alright then. I'll be patiently awaiting your good news, Qin Feng!"

"Okay."

After hanging up, Qin Feng and Bai Li immediately got the information and data about the situation at hand from Shang Han via the communicator—this included the exact, geographical location of where Chongluo City was at.

When he saw the picture of the city, the fleeting confusion that Qin Feng was feeling in his mind was now cleared off.

"It's the Fettering Land!"

Of course, Qin Feng knew where this was since before he was reborned. However, he had never been to this part of the world. Still, he had never known that there was this city that A-tiers frequented in Hui Lu State back then. This was because before he was reborned, around A.C 219, Qin Feng was only an E7-tier. He had only risen up from the slums and walked out of North Sea State. Then, he spent a lot of time traveling to Shadong Town. In other words, he had spent a lot of his youth wandering in areas where E-tiers and D-tiers mostly flocked together.

Thus, he had never been to Chongluo City.

In fact, when he was strong enough to go there, the city was already no more. It was instead called the "Fettering Land". And he would have never thought of going to this place.

This was because the place was quite a barren, perilous hellhole.

Due to the spatial overlap that was occurring in the area, abilities, internal energies, runes, consciousness and even the weakest guns could not even function within the Fettering Land.

Thus, if one needed to fight off ultra beasts in this place, one could only rely on their own physical bodies. Still, even though there were a lot of D-tier ultra beasts in there, there were also many B-tier ultra beasts roaming around too!

Without their abilities, even the A-tier ability users stood no chance in taking on the D-tier ultra beasts. Without their powers and abilities, these A-tier ability users were as weak as the civilians.

To Qin Feng, this place was of course as dangerous as it was to the other ability users too. However, as mentioned before, he was much more powerful than them.

"We better head to this spot. By doing that, we could scout from afar and…"

Before Qin Feng could finish his words, his communicator started ringing. When he looked at it, he was surprised to see that it was Z that was calling him!

Frowning, Qin Feng accepted the call.

"Qin Feng, I have a task for you. If you can do it, I can call off that Cinder Pine's Essence deal we made last time."

"Really?" Qin Feng's eyes widened upon hearing this.

Right now, Z's face was also as grim as a brick. One of his legs seemed to be missing. The spatial force within the area was so powerful that it could cut off Z's limb!

If he was an S-tier, this would definitely mean that he was gravely injured. However, he was Z. He was able to create spirit by experimenting on himself. Also, his experiment and research had all yielded success, resulting in him being capable of using pure energies to materialize his own limbs from nothing.

As seconds went by, sheer energy that was flowing out of his broken limb had slowly morphed into a new leg for him.

Even though he was able to recover his body with ease, this did not mean that Z would still continue onward to scout the place himself.

Z was able to recognize that this phenomenon was a spatial overlap.

Regardless, he still needed to save his devourer. This was the reason he called Qin Feng.

After listening to what Z had to say and learning that his task had to do with Chongluo City too, Qin Feng felt that this was his chance to repay his debt to Z in one go. As such, he agreed immediately.

Then, Qin Feng called up the authorities of Fengli to inform them where he was heading to before doing a spatial leap with Bai Li. In an instant, they had arrived in the wild from the villa.

"We're not there yet. But we're close. Be extra careful when moving around this area." Qin Feng reminded Bai Li.

"Okay!"

Chapter 782: To the Rescue

When Bai Li activated her spatial tunnel again, they had leaped to another new area. From here on, they decided to not use a spatial tunnel and briefly blinked a few times ahead. And then, they finally saw their destination.

Chongluo City looked like a mirage in the desert from afar.

The original geographical areas and locations were still visible and existing. However, there were several gigantic trees appearing in the middle of the city, already rocking the skyscrapers down while countless ultra beasts roamed around.

There was an eerie, silver fog looming in the air, making the place felt like a fleeting, dreamy palace in the clouds.

Meanwhile, there were also other humans surrounding a small ultra beast. And in front of them was a cloak of silver fog, with a C-tier beast king just a few meters ahead.

"Chase it in!" One of the ability users ordered.

Then, a D-tier piglet beast was released by these ability users and chased into the silver fog.

"Squeak!!"

The piglet beast rushed into the fog, which served as a curtain of barrier for the city. As soon as the C-tier beast king saw the piglet beast, it immediately locked its consciousness onto it furiously before lunging at it.

Seeing this, the piglet beast turned and fled without hesitation.

However, when the piglet beast went past the silver fog, trying to come back to this side of the dimension, it had vanished completely! Even the C-tier beast king too had vanished. It felt as though they had been teleported out of view!

A moment later, they could see the C-tier beast king re-appear in view, seemingly having finished a meal and slowly walking back to where it was before.

These ability users seemed to not be fazed by the C-tier beast king's reappearance. They appeared to have expected this to happen.

The C-tier beast king was not on the same plane of existence as them. As such, they were not in immediate danger.

Still, when they saw this, their faces turned grim.

"It's expanding again!"

"This time it's one meter! And it's expanding in all directions!"

"But it's only been 10 minutes though! How could this be?!"

After listening to what they were talking about, Qin Feng understood that they were using the piglet beast and beast king to determine the rate of expansion of the spatial overlap.

And from the looks of it, things were not looking good.

Not only that, it seemed that they could do nothing to stop it too.

"It's here! The equipment is here!"

"Quick! Set it up!"

"Will this work though? After all, Chongluo City has its own dimension stabilizer. Yet, it still succumbed to spatial overlap!"

"We have no choice but to keep trying."

These ability users then quickly set up the newly arrived spatial device that they got. Still, this was mostly a useless attempt.

Qin Feng knew that Z should already be in the area. He could be watching them right now.

If using a spatial device could solve this, Z would have something that was much more powerful and technologically advanced than what they had. And yet, Z could not rescue whatever that he was trying to rescue. Instead, he opted to ask Qin Feng for help.

Even Z could not solve this by the press of a button on his super machines.

Meanwhile, he could see a group of people running out of the main entrance of Chongluo City. These people were wearing C-tier and B-tier badges, and wielding weapons in their hands. However, these weapons were not rune equipment, they were just ordinary sabers and swords that one could buy from any low-ranked shops for a few dozen in cash!

They flocked together to shield a person in the middle. That person seemed to be quite weak. This must mean that this person was an ability user—in the Fettering Land, an ability user was as weak as a kitten after all.

"Look! It's the Chongluo City's First Corp!"

The ability users outside of the fog were quick to recognize who these people were.

The most powerful person in Chongluo City was the A-tier ability user. However, he usually did not care about the internal matters of the city. He even ran his own business and earned money on the side. Becoming the mayor of the city was merely a side-job for him.

With a mayor like this, it was natural that the others would need to get stronger people to protect the city. And thus, there were other B-tiers too within the city to fill in the protector roles.

Now, these C-tiers and B-tiers that were fleeing out of the city were mostly relying on the ancient warriors due to them not being dependent on powers and abilities. As they ran out of the city, they ran in random directions like mad men. After all, without consciousness to scan their surroundings, they were as good as blind when in the wild. Even though they were merely one hundred meters away from the ability users outside of the fog, all they could do was stare at the space ahead in despair.

Qin Feng and the others did not know what these people saw inside the fog. Perhaps it was the view of the other side of the "stronger dimension". Perhaps it was a cloak of silver fog and nothing else ahead of them.

It was then, the C-tier beast king started to move again. It had noticed that it had new prey!

The ability users outside of the fog could feel nothing but helplessness.

"Quick! Come on, just set this damn thing up already!"

"We don't even know if this will work!"

"But we need to save them!"

"How are we gonna do that?!"

"Yeah! How?!"

These people were overwhelmed with panic and desperation. However, they had no means to help their fellow comrades who were trapped inside the silver fog.

Suddenly, they sensed that someone was stepping toward the silver fog—It was Qin Feng. The ability users stared at him taking one step and another forward. When they realized that Qin Feng intended to step into the silver fog, their faces turned pale.

"What are you doing, kiddo?! Come back!"

"Stop! You can't go in there! It's too dangerous!"

"Don't do it! We can't lose anyone anymore, given the circumstances. Even if you go in there, you still won't be able to save them!"

As the ability users tried to talk Qin Feng out of entering the overlapping dimension, the C-tier beast king had already lunged toward the ability users on the other side. The ancient warriors were too weak to hold it off. In just one powerful slash, the beast king was able to cut open the B-tier's body, leaving a few bloody wounds!

The B-tier ability user widened his eyes with dread. He was a B-tier, damn it! Under normal circumstances, he could have slain this C-tier beast king with ease. Heck, he could kill a thousand of these things. And right now, all he could do was stand there and watch this monster tear him asunder! And without his abilities, he could not even heal and recover his body!

He was going to die!

The B-tier had never had this thought flashing in his mind so clearly before!

Suddenly, he could see a silhouette appearing below as he was tossed to the sky by the beast king. It was a young man, wielding a saber that was spewing raging, black flames. However, as soon as the silhouette became clearer in view, the saber seemed to have morphed into an ordinary saber.

Regardless, the young man seemed to not hesitate at all when he dashed toward the beast king. He did not use any consciousness, martial arts, abilities… all he did was run toward them. And in five seconds, he had already reached them!

It was Qin Feng!

And the Verdant Emperor Saber in his hand had lost its black flames. However, it was still as heavy as ever. And most importantly, the saber still retained the effects of the Grand-ripple Metal!

Chapter 783: The Parallel Champion

"Pffshht!"

As the saber's blade cut open its flesh, the C-tier beast king let out an excruciating cry before wildly rocking its body, flinging the young man up into the sky.

Qin Feng's body was at its peak condition due to the numerous physical enhancements he had gone through. As such, he took a flip in the air and then dove straight to the ground agilely. Without his consciousness and internal energy, he had to use his limbs to balance himself when he landed, creating a three-meter wide trench.

If he were an ordinary human or an ability user that relied only on his powers, his palms would have been completely skinned off by now! However, thanks to his enhanced physique, Qin Feng only endured a scrape from the feat.

Still, danger was still looming in the air.

"Roaar!!"

The C-tier beast king let out a furious roar as it locked onto Qin Feng. There was a huge cut on its neck—the wound was much bigger than Qin Feng's Verdant Emperor Saber's blade. It was torn to a much bigger scale due to the properties of the Grand-ripple Metal.

Despite the cut being around seven to eight meters in length, this seemed like a scratch to the C-tier beast king, which was as huge as a three-floor building.

Seeing this, Qin Feng frowned. "I should have gone for its head!"

Indeed, if he opted to stab the beast's skull earlier, his Verdant Emperor Saber could have shredded its brain.

Nonetheless, it was already too late. Now that the beast king was provoked and had locked onto him, it would not give Qin Feng a second chance again. In an instant, it swiftly lunged at Qin Feng and attacked him with its massive claw!

"Ah!" The ability users let out a cry of shock.

"Be careful!"

"Run! You're going to die!"

Some of the ability users were female. Therefore, their despairing cries were quite ear-piercing, making the situation seem even more dire and depressing.

"Quick! We have to retreat!"

"But if we run, what about him? He's here to help us!"

"Sure, but he's about to die though!"

The group started to fight amongst themselves. If this were under normal circumstances—when they still had their powers, they would have gone ahead and saved Qin Feng. Right now, however, not even one of them believed that this young man could take on the beast king. They believed that Qin Feng would be smashed to pieces by the ferocious beast.

Yet, things did not turn out the way they expected.

Qin Feng swung his Verdant Emperor Saber feverishly. In a blink of an eye, a fountain of blood gushed out as the beast king's claw was cut open.

"Argh!!"

Then, with a terrifying force bursting out of his body, Qin Feng pushed his palm forward! The beast king then lost its balance and was shoved aside! Seeing his opponent flinch, Qin Feng immediately slashed out his saber again, slicing off half of the beast king's claw.

He did all this without any powers or martial arts. Just a simple slash with great brute force.

Even though the Verdant Emperor Saber had only a one-meter blade, Qin Feng was already capable of using it to destroy the beast king.

The despairing group was now staring at this bloodied young man with awe. They did not expect things to turn out this way.

They had fought all the way from the city's entrance; the fight along the way here was quite gruesome—they had encountered numerous ultra beasts and had to sacrifice a lot of their comrades to get here. Without their consciousness and internal energy, they felt as though they were as squishy as rabbits.

And now, they had witnessed someone slaying a beast king without any powers.

This was so unbelievable.

"Yes! He did it! We're safe!"

"This guy must be a parallel-trained ancient warrior!"

"Quick! We must escort General Jiang over!"

The group then looked around. There was nothing but thick woods around them. Not only that, they could also see a massive snow mountain in the distance.

They then became quiet as despair overwhelmed them.

Were they going to be alright? Could they still get back to their own world?

"Phew…!!!"

Meanwhile, Qin Feng breathed out a mouthful of burning vapor as he paced his adrenaline. Usually, he was able to kill a beast like this with ease with his powers. He did not think he had to put so much effort to slay a lowly C-tier beast king like this.

As Qin Feng was wiping off the sweat on his forehead, the group of ability users approached him.

After a brief glance at Qin Feng's badge, they instantly recognized his identity despite him being so bloodied with the beast king's blood.

"This guy is the governor of North Sea State!"

"Ah, this is that governor! He's so young but is already a B-tier! It must be him!"

"But isn't Governor Qin an ability user?"

"You're such an ignorant dimwit! This is him!"

As the group was celebrating that they had a B-tier coming to their rescue, the B-tier ability user that they were protecting earlier came up to greet Qin Feng—it was General Jiang Haolin, the general who was stationed at Chongluo City. This was actually the day for him to head out of the city to patrol the city borders with his patrol guards. When this spatial overlap phenomenon happened, he was already out of the city—which would explain why he was able to escape the city.

After detailing his escape, Jiang Haolin's face turned grim and he was depressed again. "Thank you, General Qin. If it weren't for you, I would have died here."

"There's no need for thanks, General. You ought to thank the regent for sending me here."

Qin Feng's voice was loud and cold—some of Jiang's goons were thinking of leaving him behind to save themselves. Several ability users, having heard him, lowered their heads in shame and did not dare to look at Qin Feng.

They had lost their powers right now… they were afraid that Qin Feng would kill them.

"Regardless, you still saved my life. And for that, you have my utmost gratitude. It's such a shame that I can do so little at the moment; I cannot even activate my spatial rune equipment!" Jiang Haolin replied sincerely.

Due to him being an ability user, Jiang Haolin was the weakest in the group right now. Right now, he could still retain some level of authority and garner some respect from his men; but if things were to go on for another few hours, he could be facing a parley of leadership!

In this dog-eat-dog world, no one would want to protect a weakling.

This was why, right now, Jiang Haolin's first concern was escaping this wretched dimension that made him so powerless.

"General Qin, I wonder if the regent has found a way to pull us out of this… place? This whole area has changed so much. Could this be… the infamous spatial overlap?"

Jiang Haolin was a well-informed veteran. As such, he knew about a lot of things that were happening in the world. He had also heard that previously an A-tier ability user was trapped in this spatial overlap world for ten whopping years.

And everything that was going on near Chongluo City fitted the A-tier's description of the spatial overlap world.

Jiang Haolin could not imagine staying in this dreaded world for a whole decade.

Seeing the general's depressed state, Qin Feng said, "Follow me, General."

Then, he walked to the direction from where he emerged earlier.

Seeing this, the ability users gathered their spirits and followed him.

A few steps later, they could see a square of silver light ahead—it was a two-meter wide "door" made of silver light.

The ability users were overjoyed when they saw this.

"So, we can escape?"

"Yes! We can get out of this damn place now!"

"Let's go!"

"Let's go! Let's go! I don't want to stay in this godforsaken place any longer!"

They then rushed to the "door" like excited children, as Qin Feng followed from behind.