Chapter 158: Wandering Alone

Xiangjie City was far more prosperous than it had been a hundred epochs prior.

The news that the Chaos Realm's foremost transcendent, 'Grand Saint Luohe,' had been punished and was required to guard Xiangjie City for ten thousand epochs gradually spread, reaching even ordinary Eternal True God families.

More and more small factions, branches of great clans, and Eternal True God families were willing to settle in Xiangjie City.

Many trades between the two ancient kingdoms were settled here. Firstly, its location as a border city provided a strategic advantage. Secondly, safety was paramount. The larger the trade volume, the more critical security became. Killing and plundering were common occurrences on the Origin Continent.

However, with Grand Saint Luohe garrisoning the city, few dared to cause trouble there.

"General Moyu.""General Moyu."

Moyu Qingyan led a few personal guards to the Garrison Manor, where the guards at the entrance showed him great respect.

Moyu Qingyan now wielded significant power in Xiangjie City. Over ten epochs ago, after he achieved the Eternal True God realm through the bloodline cultivation system, both Luo Feng and Yuanzu intended for him to manage some of the city's affairs.

Yuanzu was the Deputy Garrison, and by Luo Feng's command, Yuanzu represented Luo Feng within the city.

Moyu Qingyan, on the other hand, served as the Patrol General, managing numerous minor affairs within the city.

"General Moyu." Inside the Garrison Manor, the servants also showed great respect upon seeing Moyu Qingyan.

Everyone knew he was the Garrison's only disciple.

Moyu Qingyan proceeded unhindered. He soon spotted a figure sitting idly in a distant, tall pavilion and immediately hurried towards it.

"Master." Moyu Qingyan bowed respectfully upon reaching the pavilion.

"Come up." Luo Feng glanced at his disciple below and smiled.

He was pleased with this disciple. Although Moyu Qingyan's talent was somewhat lacking, even with Moluosa's dedicated efforts, he only painstakingly became a Void True God through the Law System. Moluosa even decided to have him switch to the easier bloodline cultivation system. With abundant resources, he had now become an Eternal True God.

A bit less talent did not matter; character was more important.

As Luo Feng's only personal disciple on the Origin Continent, Moyu Qingyan had never abused his master's reputation. This was also why Yuanzu continuously delegated authority to him.

Moyu Qingyan quickly ascended the pavilion and saw his master.

His master sat there, seemingly ordinary. Yet, Moyu Qingyan, through his source of laws and his perception of heaven and earth, could sense that the world subtly revolved around his master, with multiple operational laws synchronously at play.

"Qingyan, is something the matter?" Luo Feng asked, smiling at his disciple.

"Disciple has spent a considerable amount of time with Zhang Yunguo of the Zhang clan. We have discussed it, and after visiting her parents in the Zhang clan, we will also travel together to Huyang City to visit my father," Moyu Qingyan replied respectfully.

"Oh? So you've settled on Zhang Yunguo?" Luo Feng chuckled.

For cultivators, a life partner was not always a necessity for solitary cultivation, though many chose to have one. A life partner was more a companion of the soul, and selecting one was a very serious matter.

"Disciple has decided," Moyu Qingyan nodded.

"Hmm." Luo Feng nodded. "Although Zhang Yunguo is of royal lineage, she is many generations removed from Divine King Fengzhang. For you, as my personal disciple, marrying her is quite sufficient."

Divine King Fengzhang was a first-tier Divine King, an esteemed guest Divine King of the Yanfeng Ancient Kingdom, with deep accumulations, comparable to the Snow Realm Ancestor.

The royal descendants were countless.

Although Zhang Yunguo was an Eternal True God and a branch of the royal main lineage, her status was not very high, being too many generations removed from a Divine King.

"Moluosa!" Luo Feng immediately summoned Moluosa.

Moluosa instantly appeared inside the pavilion, smiling obsequiously, "Master, did you call for me?"

He also noticed Moyu Qingyan.

Moyu Qingyan immediately bowed.

"This boy Qingyan has taken a liking to someone named 'Zhang Yunguo' from the Zhang clan, and they're already preparing to visit her parents!" Luo Feng chuckled.

"I know!" Moluosa knew much more than Luo Feng. "I advised him that cultivation requires focus, and romantic entanglements would only distract him, but this time, he's truly set on Zhang Yunguo!"

"Since it's a formal visit to the Zhang clan, you shall go on my behalf!" Luo Feng said. "After all, you are also in the Chaos Realm, and your presence representing me will be enough to give the Zhang clan proper respect."

Over ten epochs ago, after Moyu Qingyan became an Eternal True God by utilizing the bloodline cultivation system, Moluosa, with Luo Feng's consent, swiftly "revealed" his true strength.

He announced that he had broken through to the Chaos Realm.

For Luo Feng, the foremost transcendent in the Chaos Realm, having a newly advanced Chaos Realm expert accompanying him was a very common and unremarkable occurrence.

After Moluosa publicly revealed his Chaos Realm strength, Luo Feng also formally arranged for Moyu Qingyan to acknowledge Moluosa as his master.

Luo Feng naturally understood the bond between Moluosa and Moyu Qingyan.

"Very well, I shall go on Master's behalf," Moluosa immediately agreed.

"Thank you, Second Master," Moyu Qingyan added.

"What can I do? You're also my disciple, aren't you?" Moluosa was quite happy to do this.

Luo Feng suddenly extended his hand and lightly pointed. A drop of water flew from his fingertip, landed on Moyu Qingyan's palm, transformed into a water droplet mark, and then the mark concealed itself and vanished.

Moyu Qingyan was somewhat puzzled.

Luo Feng said, "From here to the Zhang clan, and then you'll travel to Huyang City, it's a long journey. Should you encounter any danger, you can activate this mark with a thought, and it will protect you thoroughly."

Moluosa could only display limited strength, so Luo Feng still provided a hidden safeguard for his disciple.

"Thank you, Master," Moyu Qingyan said gratefully.

Moluosa, witnessing this, muttered to himself, "My master is clearly just a Chaos Realm transcendent, while I am a true Divine King. Yet, I can barely discern his methods now."

"Go," Luo Feng nodded.

Moyu Qingyan immediately left respectfully.

Moluosa, however, remained in the pavilion.

"Master, should I go alone?" Moluosa looked at his master.

"Remember to control the strength you display," Luo Feng instructed via telepathy. "Five to six tenths of Marquis Jiujiang's power should be your limit."

"Understood," Moluosa acknowledged. "Then I will go and prepare for departure with Qingyan."

Luo Feng nodded. His disciple was to marry, and Luo Feng did not wish to interfere too much.

Love was also one of the most splendid journeys in his disciple's life.

The treasured land, 'Infinite Space.'

A psychic creature was entrenched there.

Luo Feng, meanwhile, was in the distance.

Their psychic wills clashed, contended, and battled.

Luo Feng did not use the Elemental Annihilation Art but rather employed methods he had devised himself. He allowed himself to be contaminated by chaotic thoughts during their engagement.

"Almost there."

After a brief clash, Luo Feng's mind stirred.

All his psychic will condensed into a rolling star, directly crushing the psychic creature's vast spiritual power. This crushing instantly annihilated over ninety percent of it, leaving only a small amount of the purest spiritual power that swiftly re-coalesced.

"The ninth tribulation has passed," a voice echoed in the tentacled creature's consciousness, and an invisible force descended, nourishing its remaining spiritual power and rapidly restoring it to perfection.

The tentacled creature was overwhelmed with excitement at this moment. It had finally overcome a thousand tribulations, each one incredibly difficult. This ninth tribulation, specifically, had seen it annihilated by Luo Feng over a thousand times. The Infinite Space had finally acknowledged that its ninth tribulation was complete.

"Hmm?" Luo Feng's expression subtly changed. How did it recover so completely and swiftly?

"We've clashed over a thousand times, but we won't meet again," the tentacled creature said to Luo Feng before vanishing into thin air.

Luo Feng pondered, "Won't meet again, so it seems it's going to disappear."

Some of the native creatures within this Infinite Space were psychic beings. Although they could be repeatedly annihilated while entrenched in a fixed location, only a small number of reward points were gained with each repulsion, and these points continuously diminished with more repulsions. For instance, Luo Feng only received 0.001 reward points for this recent repulsion.

Typically, after being repelled over a thousand times, a psychic creature might disappear and never reappear.

"Emperor Ming allotted this area to me, and there were three psychic creatures in total," Luo Feng mused. "In a hundred epochs, two of them have vanished, and the reward points from repelling the remaining one are now negligibly low. It's time to leave."

After all, the reward points generated from this area were minuscule, and its contribution to honing his psychic will was becoming increasingly weak.

"For these hundred epochs, I have consistently refined myself using psychic contamination in conjunction with the Elemental Annihilation Art. Although my psychic will has improved somewhat, I still cannot destroy psychic creatures solely with the Elemental Annihilation Art.

"These psychic creatures possess extremely strong vitality. Just now, it seemed as if the opponent's spiritual power was instantly annihilated, yet a remnant of their psychic will quickly coalesced once more."

No wonder it was said that even peak Divine Kings, wielding ultimate psychic will secret arts, only had a chance of destroying psychic creatures.

"Whoosh."

With a single stride, Luo Feng was already in the distance, his flying speed over a hundred times faster than when he first arrived in the Infinite Space.

In just a few steps, he reached the edge of where Emperor Ming's will resided.

"Emperor," Luo Feng bowed respectfully. It was thanks to Emperor Ming's protection that he could cultivate peacefully during his first hundred epochs in the Infinite Space, and this growth over a century had given him the confidence to establish himself there.

"Oh, Luohe," Emperor Ming's will enveloped Luo Feng, with a hint of surprise. "Your psychic will has grown considerably over these hundred epochs. You are not far from the ultimate Divine King realm."

"It is due to your benevolence, Emperor, that I could cultivate peacefully in the Infinite Space and make such progress," Luo Feng replied.

For normal cultivators, the growth of psychic will was exceedingly slow, often stagnating or even regressing.

Even with the Elemental Annihilation Art, Luo Feng spent most of his time refining his psychic will through the Great Destruction Heart Cultivation method. Under normal circumstances, it would take tens of thousands of epochs to achieve his current rate of growth.

In the Infinite Space, Luo Feng, encountering psychic contamination for the first time, was repeatedly contaminated, and each time, he refined away all impurities using the Elemental Annihilation Art, continuously purifying himself.

After a hundred epochs of such refinement and purification, Luo Feng's gains were naturally substantial.

However, the further he progressed, the less this assistance helped him.

"The area Your Majesty granted me originally contained three native creatures," Luo Feng said. "Now, two of them have vanished, and the reward points from the remaining native creature are extremely low."

"Oh, it seems you've defeated them quite a lot," Emperor Ming said.

"I've defeated all three of these native creatures over a thousand times," Luo Feng replied.

"Indeed, after more than a thousand defeats, native creatures might completely disappear, usually by being relocated to some distant part of the Infinite Space," Emperor Ming explained.

Luo Feng understood.

Given the vastness of the Infinite Space, the probability of encountering those two vanished native creatures again, now that they were relocated elsewhere, was very low.

"My approach with royal descendants is to grant them an area early on, and then they must contend for themselves," Emperor Ming stated.

"I also came to bid Your Majesty farewell," Luo Feng said. "I plan to go and establish my own territory."

"If you can reach the ultimate Divine King will while still in the Chaos Realm, that would be remarkable. The Infinite Space highly values this aspect and will bestow rewards," Emperor Ming said. "While idle in the Infinite Space, I also painted some 'Tribulation Beast Diagrams,' so I will give you one."

As he spoke, a scroll of black and red artwork appeared out of thin air and flew towards Luo Feng.

Even before the scroll was unfurled, Luo Feng could sense the powerful will contained within it.

"This is different from ordinary Tribulation Beast Diagrams," Luo Feng immediately realized. The Tribulation Beast Diagrams sold outside were likely Emperor Ming's early works!

Luo Feng respectfully accepted the scroll at once.

"You should have seen the 'Shadows of Tribulation Beasts,' but a shadow of a tribulation beast is different from a painted tribulation beast," Emperor Ming explained. "A painting depicts the tribulation beast in the artist's mind, and every artist's vision of a tribulation beast is unique!"

"Thank you, Emperor," Luo Feng said, feeling quite grateful.

Come to think of it, his master Emperor Chu and Emperor Ming did not have a good relationship, yet Emperor Ming still took such good care of him. Luo Feng was naturally very appreciative.

Thereupon, Emperor Ming withdrew his consciousness.

Luo Feng bowed respectfully, then flew away, beginning his solo journey through the Infinite Space.