After finishing the call with Wu La, 12 hours later, they arrived at Bailan Star.
Snow was falling heavily, and the biting cold filled the air.
The spaceship landed in front of the castle inside the warehouse base.
“Master.” The servant guard team was respectfully waiting in front of the base.
“Mm.” Luo Feng quickly rushed out of the cabin, and Thunder God and Hong came down together with him.
“The metals ordered by Master arrived long ago, and they have all been stored in the warehouse,” the servant guard captain respectfully reported. “Also, a slave merchant spaceship has arrived, transporting three slaves.”
“Oh.” Luo Feng nodded slightly.
The metals he ordered were the optimal combination of metals that the Golden Horned Beast could devour during the Stellar Level stage. They could increase its evolution efficiency by 89 times. The previous batch of metal combinations had cost over ten billion Black Dragon Coins, but now they were almost used up, and the efficiency had only reached 51 times.
Watching Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God enter the castle,
the servant guard captain was somewhat surprised. In the past, Master would usually have a smile on his face, but why was his killing intent so heavy this time?
Ever since the possession, the killing intent deep within Luo Feng had always been extremely strong. It was only because of his wife and child that his bloodthirstiness had weakened somewhat, along with his own restraint. Therefore, he had always appeared polite and never relied on his status to bully others.
One should know that when Luo Feng first went out to sea and killed Sago Nehru and Atkin, that was the true unrestrained Luo Feng.
This time, the bloodthirsty killing intent that Luo Feng had always suppressed could no longer be contained.
……
Top floor of the Bailan Star castle.
Nearly nine hours had passed since arriving at Bailan Star. Just before this, the final five Stellar Level ninth rank slaves had just arrived.
“Third brother, are you really going back to Earth alone with these slaves? You don’t need us to go with you?” Thunder God widened his eyes.
“Big brother, second brother, this battle mainly depends on the Stellar Level ninth rank slaves. You and I won’t be able to help at all. I am going because I can command them more flexibly and quickly. If I didn’t need to command them, there would actually be no need for me to go,” Luo Feng explained.
Hong and Thunder God understood.
This battle was between Stellar Level ninth rank fighters. One of them was only Stellar Level first rank, and the other was merely Planetary Level ninth rank. Going there would basically mean sending themselves to their deaths.
“Third brother, be careful,” Thunder God could not help saying.
“Don’t force yourself,” Hong reminded him as well.
Luo Feng nodded slightly. “I’ll leave first.”
Ever since he found out that his wife and younger brother had been captured, Luo Feng had been unable to hold himself back. He had only waited until the eight slaves arrived before acting.
At the entrance of the castle.
Hong and Thunder God watched as Luo Feng boarded the spaceship with eight Stellar Level ninth rank slaves and disappeared into the distant sky.
“Hu…” Thunder God breathed out a mouthful of warm air and looked at Hong beside him. “Big brother, you don’t feel good about this, do you?”
“A little.” Hong slightly raised his head, looking towards the direction where the spaceship disappeared.
“I don’t feel good either.” Thunder God sighed softly. “In the past, no matter what danger we faced, the two of us could always fight with everything we had. But who would have thought that this time… from beginning to end, the two of us couldn’t even participate! This feeling of helplessness is truly… truly damnable! It feels terrible!”
“It does feel terrible.” Hong nodded.
Who were Hong and Thunder God?
For decades, the two of them had always stood at the peak of humanity on Earth. Whether during the Great Nirvana period back then, or even during the Devouring Beast incident, they had always been able to fight and give everything they had.
But this time, the disaster brought by the Nuolan Shan family was something they could not interfere in at all.
“Our strength is too weak.” Hong said in a low voice.
“Yeah, our strength is too weak.” Thunder God nodded. “Not only are the two of us weak, even third brother’s strength is weak. Right now, we are relying on the power of money. But what about the strength of the three of us? Two Stellar Level first rank fighters and one Planetary Level ninth rank fighter. Compared with the Nuolan Shan family, the gap is enormous!”
“Go to the Virtual Universe,” Hong said.
“The Virtual Universe?” Thunder God was stunned.
“The Virtual Universe is a place where countless human experts throughout the vast universe gather. We need to find a path suitable for us,” Hong said.
Inside the Virtual Universe.
Hong and Thunder God sat in the corner of a bar, while Hong used his intelligent optical computer to search for information.
“How is it?” Thunder God asked.
“I found it, a place that is very suitable for martial artist cultivation.” Hong nodded slightly. “However, this place is very expensive. The amount of money required differs depending on strength, but it is still extremely costly.”
“Third brother gave each of us five hundred million Qianwu Coins! It should definitely be enough,” Thunder God quickly said.
“It is enough. Five hundred million Qianwu Coins is an enormous amount.” Hong nodded. “However, as our strength increases, these five hundred million Qianwu Coins will eventually run out.”
“What place is it?” Thunder God could not help asking.
“The Killing Field!”
Hong slowly said.
For a martial artist to increase their strength, could they simply train bitterly?
Unless they were someone like the Manka Star people or the Golden Horned Beast, whose innate bloodlines were powerful and destined them to reach the Domain Lord or World Lord level.
However, even the Manka Star people needed to spend great effort and use various methods to break through after becoming Domain Lords.
Want to increase strength?
Battle!
Battle was the best method! The best kind of battle was an evenly matched fight, a battle that made one feel the threat of death!
“That’s right, big brother. Back then, the fastest time our strength improved was during the Great Nirvana period. That was because there were all kinds of monsters during the Great Nirvana period. But after our strength surpassed all the monsters, our progress slowed down. After decades, we only improved by two or three ranks,” Thunder God said.
“Mm.” Hong’s eyes also shone brightly.
Could a martial artist who did not fight still be called a martial artist?
……
Hong and Thunder God had indeed found a relatively correct path. Battle was indeed an important route for improving strength. This was also why more than 99% of powerful martial artists and spirit readers joined the Universe Mercenary Alliance.
It was also why a terrifying place like the Giant Axe Fighting Arena, where every battle resulted in one side dying, remained extremely popular.
Obtaining the title of “Universe Level Giant Axe Warrior” meant there was a 50% chance of becoming a Domain Lord.
For ordinary Universe Level fighters advancing to Domain Lord, the probability was ridiculously low.
……
“Is this the Killing Field?” Hong and Thunder God entered a hall. The hall was extremely large, comparable to an entire city, but there were not many people inside.
“What grandeur.”
Thunder God looked at the huge background image of a “blood drop” inside the hall and could not help praising it.
“Of course it is grand. The cost of this place is incredibly high. At my Planetary Level ninth rank, I need to pay one million Black Dragon Coins or seven hundred Qianwu Coins every day. This is absolutely something ordinary people cannot afford.” Hong could not help saying.
One million Black Dragon Coins was enough to purchase a large warehouse base on Bailan Star.
But here, it was only enough for one day.
“But there are still many people willing to come.” Thunder God could not help saying. “Didn’t you see the advertisement? You can completely set what kind of opponent you want.”
“Indeed, that is also what I like about it.” Hong took a deep breath.
The Killing Field.
This was an extremely luxurious place for battles. Those who paid could submit their requirements to the Virtual Universe system. For example, Hong was a Planetary Level ninth rank fighter with the second level of Domain. He could completely request an opponent who was a Planetary Level ninth rank fighter with the third level of Domain.
Finding a suitable opponent in reality was extremely difficult.
He could even request one hundred Planetary Level ninth rank fighters to surround and attack him.
Such encounters were difficult to find in reality, but in the Virtual Universe, they could be realised.
Of course…
The Virtual Universe and reality were still different. Otherwise, the Giant Axe Fighting Arena would not have been so popular.
“Turul, you made a good haul this time, didn’t you?”
“Not bad, but three people from our team died. There was no other way. Several teams discovered a new ‘world’ together, so how could there be no fighting or competition? I don’t even know which World Lord created that world. I didn’t get any of the strange treasures inside. At least I managed to obtain ten thousand units of ‘Universe Crystals’, so I still made a profit.”
“Ten thousand units? This world definitely has never been explored before!”
Three men walked past from the side. Each of them had a badge on their left chest. The badge depicted a planet floating above blood-coloured waves.
“Universe One Star Mercenary.”
Hong and Thunder God looked at each other.
Mercenary badges, Giant Axe badges, and others were all recognised by the Virtual Universe. When the Virtual Universe customer terminal, the consciousness sensor, auxiliary optical computer, and intelligent optical computer scanned the user’s body, it would automatically record them. Users could choose to hide or display them.
“What world were they talking about just now?” Thunder God could not help asking.
“They were talking about World Lords. I have also heard that World Lords can create their own worlds.” Hong shook his head. “Anyway, that is still far away from us. Let’s go in and fight.”
“Mm, fight.”
Hong and Thunder God began their days in the Killing Field.
……
This place was where many powerful beings in the universe often came. If they encountered an enemy in reality, they could enter the Killing Field, create an opponent exactly like that enemy, and battle them.
Of course, reality and virtual reality would always have some differences.
You could never create an opponent exactly identical to a real enemy.
While Hong and Thunder God experienced being “killed” again and again in the Killing Field, and repeatedly “killed their opponents” through insane training, after travelling through the Dark Universe for around eight hours, Luo Feng’s spaceship finally arrived at Earth.
In a wilderness area somewhere in eastern Huaxia.
A man wearing a blood-red battle suit stood there, his eyes faintly burning with red flames. Behind him stood a row of eight people. The shortest was only 1.2 metres tall, while the tallest reached more than four metres. Among them were both men and women, and one man even had a lion’s head.
That’s right!
These were the eight Stellar Level ninth rank slaves Luo Feng had purchased.
Because of the urgency of time, Luo Feng had no choice. Therefore, these eight slaves were very different from the ones he bought previously. The previous slaves looked extremely similar to Earth humans, and it was difficult to distinguish them without careful observation.
“From now on, none of you are allowed to leave more than one hundred metres away from me.” Luo Feng spoke in the universal language of the universe.
“Yes, Master!”
Their voices, some loud, some deep, some clear, mixed together as the eight Stellar Level ninth rank servants respectfully responded.
Luo Feng remained expressionless, his eyes burning like flames.
“Babata, connect to the global satellite network. Use the monitoring systems of all countries around the world to search for the traces of those Nuolan Shan family bastards.” Luo Feng ordered.
“Yes!”