Blood Warrior

“How is this possible?” Including the previously arrogant leader of the Thirteen Axes, all thirteen of them stared with terrified eyes. The enemy had appeared too quickly, too strangely, almost as if teleporting! But even as terror gripped them, each desperately tried to wield their weapons! Thirteen illusions, thirteen Luo Fengs. Luo Feng’s eyes were cold, his gaze like a blade, as all thirteen illusions fixed on the members of the Thirteen Axes. Blade light flashed! Thirteen streaks of blade light, heartbreakingly beautiful, contained an endless hatred. Nake, Uncle Lei, and the group of guards watching this scene, including the targeted Thirteen Axes, were involuntarily drawn into the artistic conception of the blade technique, their consciousness pulled in by the blade’s allure! *Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!* The thirteen streaks of blade light were like precise surgical scalpels, slipping directly into the helmets through the seams, then retracting. The ethereal, continuous blade lights flashed and vanished, the illusions disappeared, and Luo Feng stood there, sheathing the Blood Shadow Battle Blade he held into the scabbard on his back. Silence! The thirteen experts stood motionless. Meanwhile, the simple youth Nake, Uncle Lei, and the group of guards were completely immersed in the artistic conception of the blade technique, unable to extricate themselves. Seeing this, Luo Feng glanced back at them, and a slight burst of psychic pressure instantly jolted these completely engrossed individuals awake, making them realize what had just happened. “Why are the Thirteen Axes standing there motionless? I wasn’t seeing things just now, I saw…” a guard stammered, bewildered. “Shut up,” the burly Uncle Lei transmitted angrily. The guard immediately snapped out of it, startled. “They’re dead, the Thirteen Axes are dead,” the burly Uncle Lei transmitted. “Didn’t you see the faint bloodstains between their helmets and armor seams? And you all have some strength, didn’t you notice that the Thirteen Axes have no aura at all?” “It’s true, there’s blood.” “I can’t feel any aura.” “Heavens, just… just now, I wasn’t mistaken, was I? That silly… no, that black-armored expert casually struck, killing all thirteen at once, and the Thirteen Axes didn’t even have time to retaliate?” “I saw thirteen black-armored experts simultaneously draw their blades, and that blade light was truly mesmerizing.” The group of guards was completely awestruck. In the Xueluo world, power was revered! And such a mesmerizing blade technique was even more shocking! “I was so foolish, so foolish,” the burly Uncle Lei’s body trembled slightly. “The first time I met this expert, how could he be foolishly looking at the Manggu Beast? He simply didn’t consider the Manggu Beast an opponent. Even the Thirteen Axes, with three Cloud-level experts, were instantly killed before they could even retaliate! What more needs to be said about the Manggu Beast? Those scoundrels even called him foolish… we were the foolish ones! Yes, when Youfang led his men to humiliate the young master, everyone fled in terror, and it must have been this expert who helped. To silently scare away someone like ‘Blood Blade’ Youyan Tower, that’s what you call an expert, a super expert!” The silver-armored youth Nake looked at Luo Feng with a fervent, almost crazed gaze. “An expert! A true expert! A super expert!” Nake murmured. “The Thirteen Axes, they easily succeeded in killing experts like ‘Blood Blade’ Youyan Tower. They are legendary experts. But… Brother Feng’s strike left the Thirteen Axes no time to retaliate, and even after being killed, they remained standing motionless, as if nothing had happened. What kind of power is this?” “Young master, this is a true super expert. A low-key, diligent cultivator!” Uncle Lei said excitedly, transmitting, “He has a good impression of you, you should quickly try to get closer to him. Befriending such a super expert would be better for our Nake family than anything else.” “Don’t bother me,” Nake couldn’t care less about family matters; all he felt now was excitement! The excitement of meeting a legendary idol! Nake was nervous and apprehensive, but he gritted his teeth and walked towards Luo Feng. … After Luo Feng killed the Thirteen Axes, he didn’t bother with the bewildered guards. Instead, his psychic energy spread out, sweeping over the Thirteen Axes and the corpse of the deceased Youyan Tower. “These Thirteen Axes are indeed wealthy; each of them actually has a spatial storage device.” Luo Feng’s psychic scan confirmed this. Then, under his psychic control, storage bracelets, storage armguards, storage armbands, and storage belts were detached from the Thirteen Axes’ bodies and directly collected into his spatial ring. “Let’s check what’s inside.” Luo Feng flipped his hand, took out a spatial bracelet, and his psychic energy permeated it, beginning to investigate. “Brother Feng, Brother Feng,” an excited, nervous voice sounded. Luo Feng turned his head and saw the silver-armored youth Nake, his face flushed, his eyes filled with excitement, apprehension, and nervousness. Nake took a deep breath, his eyes unable to hide his worship and excitement: “Brother Feng, are you one of those legendary low-key ascetics who constantly wander the continent?” “Ascetic?” Luo Feng was slightly startled, then nodded, smiling, “You could say that.” “Ah!” Nake was incredibly excited. “I heard that ascetics are very low-key and powerful. They drift from one world to another, their knowledge is vast, and they’ve been to many magical places. Like the Blood Demon Sea, Forbidden Mountain Range, Ancient God Ruins, and so on. Have you been to any of them?” Luo Feng was stunned. The youth before him looked at him with eager, worshipful eyes, asking if he had been to those places. But… What kind of strange places were those? He had been to the Dark Universe, to Chaos City of the Primal Universe, to the World of Worlds, to the Primal Secret Realm, and even to the Virtual Universe Company’s universal headquarters. But! He had never heard of anything like the ‘Blood Demon Sea,’ ‘Forbidden Mountain Range,’ or ‘Ancient God Ruins’ in this Xueluo world. “No, I haven’t,” Luo Feng shook his head with a smile. “Perhaps I’ll have a chance to go in the future.” “Mm,” Nake said excitedly. “I heard the Blood Demon Sea is eight hundred worlds away from us! Even a World City Lord would take a very, very long time to get there.” Luo Feng was secretly astonished. The distance wasn’t far, but the Xueluo world had no technological spacecraft, only flight. Plus, the gravity was immense… eight hundred worlds away? The indigenous people of Xueluo Continent referred to a ‘world’ as ‘the area governed by a World City.’ Each World City’s governed area had a diameter of hundreds of millions to over a billion kilometers! Such a range, even traveling 100,000 kilometers a day, would take 10,000 days to cross one world. Eight hundred worlds… How many years would that be? … Luo Feng and Nake’s team walked towards the vast and magnificent Yangang City in the distance, while Luo Feng continued to examine the items left by the Thirteen Axes. This examination brought Luo Feng some unexpected surprises. “There’s so much currency; these Thirteen Axes are truly wealthy. Hmm, with this money, things will be much more convenient for me.” Luo Feng wasn’t thrilled by the money; what truly excited him was, “There are so many books, mainly cultivation secret techniques and skills, and also a portion of common knowledge books and encyclopedias needed for traveling the continent.” Luo Feng didn’t care for those secret techniques and skills at all. Having seen thousands of secret techniques in the Space-Time Essays, Luo Feng’s own casually created secret techniques were superior to these. It must be said! The ‘Xueluo world’ in terms of cultivation was simply not on the same level as ‘Chaos City,’ the human cultivation holy land of the universe. “Common knowledge, encyclopedia-type books.” Luo Feng casually took out a book. Its pages were made of a soft, tough material, and the cover had three characters: ‘Xueluo Crystal.’ “I was just worrying about not having information on Xueluo Crystals, and now a detailed book on ‘Xueluo Crystals’ appears.” Luo Feng was very happy. The money and secret techniques meant nothing to him. He immediately began reading the book with his psychic energy while traveling, quickly learning detailed information about Xueluo Crystals. Xueluo Crystal: The treasure of the entire continent. It possesses incredibly miraculous power. It is a precious gift bestowed upon the continent by the gods. Only the lofty Immortal Divine Temple occasionally distributes a Xueluo Crystal to a World City. Aside from the exalted Immortal Divine Temple! No other force or individual can create Xueluo Crystals, and no one even knows where Xueluo Crystals come from or how they are formed. Xueluo Crystals can integrate into a person’s body, producing incredibly miraculous effects! (As for how miraculous? These commercially sold books only offer various speculations, without publicly stating the exact miraculous effects.) However, not everyone can integrate a Xueluo Crystal into their body. This requires extremely high standards for a warrior. Generally, warriors who have committed more killings find it easier to integrate a Xueluo Crystal. Integrating a Xueluo Crystal is something every warrior on the vast continent yearns for. However— Xueluo Crystals are too precious, too rare, too uncommon! On the vast continent, the Immortal Divine Temple has established rules: A Domain-level expert must integrate one Xueluo Crystal to be qualified to govern a territory. Otherwise, an ordinary Domain-level expert is not qualified to be a Domain Lord. A World-level expert must also integrate one Xueluo Crystal to be qualified to govern a World City! … Xueluo Crystals are rare and precious! Integration is very difficult. Integrating one is already hard; integrating two increases the physical requirement tenfold, and integrating three Xueluo Crystals increases the physical requirement a hundredfold! The further one goes, the more stringent the requirements! There is a legend on the continent… A warrior who integrates three Xueluo Crystals will possess incredibly miraculous abilities. Such a warrior is called a ‘Blood Warrior.’ Blood Warriors can go to any World City to receive a ‘Xueluo Medal’; each of them is a pride of the continent. A warrior who integrates ten Xueluo Crystals is a ‘Black Warrior,’ and can go to the Immortal Divine Temple to receive a precious ‘Black Xueluo Medal.’ Blood Warriors are legends, with one appearing only after countless years. Black Warriors? They are purely mythical; no one even knows when a Black Warrior last appeared. Perhaps no Black Warrior has ever appeared in billions of years. “So that’s how it is,” Luo Feng closed the book, a surge of joy in his heart. “No wonder the Blood Warrior title gives 100,000 points, while the task of obtaining one Xueluo Crystal only gives 10,000 points. The difficulty difference between the two is clearly immense.” He looked up. Ahead, the ancient city gate, towering a hundred zhang high, was already in sight. Yangang City had been reached!