New Recruit Yinhe

Luo Feng, no bigger than a speck of dust, advanced at an incredibly terrifying speed through the vast purple vines. Although his size was minuscule, the 'fluctuations' caused by his speed could still be detected through divine power.

Boom!

Over ten thousand True Gods were locked in battle, creating a chaotic, dim, and turbulent scene. Unless one was close to Luo Feng, the relatively small fluctuations caused by his flight would not attract any attention.

“It’s right there.”

Luo Feng swiftly flew towards the True God's corpse.

...

The corpse of the exotic beast True God lay in a massive swamp, tens of thousands of kilometers long, with more than half submerged beneath the mire and only parts exposed. As Luo Feng rapidly approached, three True Gods closer to the exotic beast's corpse—two tribal True Gods besieging one exotic beast True God—noticed him.

“Hmm?”

All three locked onto the relatively minute fluctuation, instantly pinpointing their target based on its movement.

“A Law Master!” All three saw Luo Feng's tiny figure, as small as a speck of dust.

“There was a Law Master before who stole the corpse of a Nine Smoke Marsh expert. These corpse thieves… they must be on military missions. Military missions are tough, but stealing the corpse of a Nine Smoke Marsh expert is even more damnable.” The two tribal True Gods and the one exotic beast True God instantly ceased their battle.

For countless eons, the two neighboring powers, Nine Smoke Marsh and Xuanyu Mountain, frequently clashed.

However, these clashes, besides being for certain benefits, were also meant to temper Law Masters. Therefore, apart from the Law Masters who fought with frenzied abandon, True Gods and even Void True Gods exercised great restraint. In every battle, only weaker True Gods were killed, and very few True Gods who had truly undergone military tempering perished. There was a mutual understanding, but the theft of every fallen True God's corpse as a trophy was something these living True Gods could not tolerate.

“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!”

Three streaks of light, tracing dazzling arcs, directly intercepted Luo Feng.

Whoosh!

A three-colored afterimage, like a rainbow, struck the tiny, dust-like point even faster.

“I’ve been discovered!” Luo Feng glanced at the three incoming streaks of light. “But only three True Gods, nothing to worry about!”

“Bang!”

The three-colored afterimage swept over. There was no longer any way to conceal himself, so there was no need to.

“Boom!” Luo Feng’s divine body surged, rapidly expanding to a height of one hundred thousand kilometers.

...

Not far from the periphery of the True God-level battlefield, a group of soldiers led by their captain vigilantly observed the True God-level battle. Many of them paid more attention to the True God's corpse on the Nine Smoke Marsh side.

“Someone’s going for the corpse!” a soldier suddenly shouted via telepathy.

Immediately, the captain and the others looked over.

“Indeed, someone is.” The captain laughed heartily. “Everyone, see that? The one going for the corpse is being careful. But they’re instantly intercepted by three True Gods. Why? Because your captain here stole a corpse once before, and they’re wary now! If you go, you’ll also be besieged by three True Gods. If you can’t escape in a very short time, it’ll be five, seven, or even ten True Gods besieging you.”

The other soldiers, especially those who were preparing to take a gamble, suddenly felt a chill of fear.

“Let’s see which arrogant fellow it is. Is it Kufa? Is it Yuluo?” The captain was completely at ease.

“It must be that idiot Yuluo,” a soldier immediately said.

Boom!

In the distance, Luo Feng’s divine body surged and manifested.

“It’s, it’s…” Everyone stared in astonishment at Luo Feng’s face.

“It’s that new recruit!”

“The one called Yinhe!”

“The new recruit called Yinhe! He, he actually dares to go for the corpse, and dares to imitate the captain?” Everyone was utterly bewildered.

“He’s dead for sure,” the captain said coldly.

The captain clearly understood how dire the situation the new recruit Yinhe was facing. Even he, in such circumstances, would have to use his most precious mechanical-stream treasure and unleash extraordinary combat power to escape.

“Dead for sure.”

“Let’s see how he dies.” The soldiers watched intently; they had no camaraderie with this new teammate.

Then…

As Luo Feng’s divine body expanded, he held the hilt of his blade in one hand and the back of the blade in the other, directly blocking the three-colored light from the side. He even used the impact force to arc through the air, rushing towards the True God’s corpse at an even faster speed.

“Good use of leverage.”

“To be able to leverage a True God’s attack, he’s worthy of joining our Python River Army.” The soldiers all nodded and praised him telepathically. This leverage, seemingly simple, was something they had only mastered after much tempering.

The captain even nodded: “This new recruit is good, but it’s a pity he encountered a disaster-level mission right away. What a shame. Those three True Gods have arrived; at this speed, the new recruit probably won’t even reach the True God’s corpse.”

They continued to watch…

In the distance, as Luo Feng charged towards the True God’s corpse, the three True Gods, filled with immense anger and confidence, intercepted him.

“He’s dead for sure.”

“What a pity.”

Each of them deliberately sighed.

“He’s—!” The captain had just opened his mouth when it was as if his throat was choked. His eyes widened, and he couldn’t utter a single word, staring in astonishment at the distance.

All the other team members also stared in astonishment at the distance.

An incredible scene, a terrifying and shocking scene, unfolded there.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Holding a blade, the blade was like an illusion, and his body moved with the blade. For a moment, his entire being transformed into an afterimage… as if he had become a massive yet incredibly ghostly blade shadow. Under the combined assault of the three True Gods, this blurred ‘blade shadow’ was ethereal and unpredictable. After several clashes and contacts, it instantly darted out from their encirclement.

This was one of the two greatest gains from Luo Feng’s cultivation of over 8 million epochs!

Melee evasion technique, 'Flowing Gold'!

...

All eighteen soldiers, including the captain, stared blankly at this scene, an almost unbelievable sight. A Law Master actually easily dodged and escaped from the encirclement of three True Gods. Even for the captain, who had experienced countless missions, even reincarnation missions… he knew that he could not easily shake off and escape from the encirclement of three True Gods.

What terrifying melee evasion and transformation ability this was.

“You two, state your names and what you’re good at.”

“I, Wuhe, I’m good at… I’m good at… oh, my divine body is big enough, my divine body is over a million kilometers long.”

“I, Yinhe. My strength is a bit stronger than Wuhe’s, and my melee evasion is a bit better.”

The astonished captain’s mind replayed his first conversation with this new recruit Yinhe.

“A bit better? What does ‘a bit better’ mean?” The captain’s heart trembled. “Among all the Law Masters I’ve seen, none have such terrifying melee evasion.”

Little did he know.

Luo Feng had the inheritance space in hand, which was a training base for successive inheritors of the Duan Dong River lineage! Besides cultivation spaces with time acceleration, the greatest boost to strength came from the ‘virtual space’ specifically for combat trials. That virtual space contained 282 opponents, including all previous Duan Dong River inheritors! The strongest opponent, of course, was the Third Ancestor!

During Luo Feng’s long period of over 8 million epochs.

The gains in blade techniques were actually the smallest. After all, among the successive Duan Dong River inheritors, only a portion created peak seventh-tier blade techniques. Luo Feng, building upon the peak sixth-tier blade technique 'Nirvana Rebirth', advanced a step further, creating a seventh-tier blade technique called 'Light of Water and Fire'. This had a relatively limited impact on Luo Feng’s strength, only counting as one of his many gains over 8 million epochs.

Among the two greatest gains, one was the melee movement technique 'Flowing Gold'.

Because blade techniques were difficult to improve, Luo Feng began to research melee evasion techniques. He also frequently engaged in combat with many virtual opponents in the ‘virtual space’, even fighting against the Third Ancestor. Unfortunately, even with the Third Ancestor suppressing his divine power to the level of a ‘Law Master’, he could still easily crush and instantly kill Luo Feng.

After all, the profoundness of the Third Ancestor’s attacks stood at the pinnacle of ancient civilization.

Under such tempering… absorbing the experience of past generations, and drawing upon numerous exquisite secret methods.

Luo Feng finally created 'Flowing Gold'!

A vast amount of super secret technique inheritances, sparring and tempering with experts in the virtual space, and his own comprehension—all these combined were necessary to create such a movement technique, with none being dispensable.

...

The captain and the eighteen soldiers remained in a state of astonishment, watching everything unfold in the distance.

The new recruit ‘Yinhe’ first used an unbelievably profound melee evasion technique to easily break out of the encirclement of three True Gods, directly reaching the True God’s corpse and instantly collecting it. Immediately after, he charged along another route, his figure vaguely resembling a giant battle blade, swiftly tearing through the air. Even when two other True Gods tried to intercept him, they were easily shaken off by his terrifying ability to change direction and transform.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Amidst the purple vine thicket, the new recruit Yinhe simply plunged in, completely disappearing from sight.

“Crazy.”

“Too, too strong.”

“How can there be such an incredible movement technique?” The soldiers were utterly astonished and dumbfounded. “If there were a chaotic battle between two major powers, with his melee evasion ability, all the other Law Masters in the melee would be dead—oh, perhaps even most True Gods would be dead—before it was his turn.”

Everyone was scared speechless.

The captain was also scared speechless. He had undergone so much tempering and considered himself to be at the absolute peak among ‘Law Masters’. Even looking across the entire East Army, perhaps only a few abnormal individuals could be stronger than him. But he had never imagined that a Law Master could reach such a terrifying level in melee evasion.

“If I were to fight him fairly without relying on mechanical-stream treasures, he would toy with me to death.” The captain felt a chill of fear just thinking about a battle with the new recruit Yinhe.

“Of course, in a life-and-death struggle, weapons and mechanical-stream treasures are also part of one’s strength. With mechanical-stream treasures, my strength would skyrocket. And they happen to counter him perfectly, allowing me to kill him.” Only then did the captain calm down. Some powerful mechanical-stream treasures could indeed cause an expert’s strength to immediately surge by a large margin!