Chunyu Tao

The Chunyu Family was far more ancient than the newly risen, nouveau riche Shifeng Family. Moreover, the strongest individual in the entire Yangang Territory... also belonged to the Chunyu Family!

Chunyu Tao!

A Domain Lord Tier 6, Chunyu Tao was currently the oldest and most powerful member of the Chunyu Family, secretly wielding the true power within it! It was akin to how the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, despite having emperors who inherited, abdicated, and re-inherited through generations... had its true power controlled by the 'Divine Lord' of the sacred Black Dragon Mountain. By the same logic, Chunyu Tao was the real power holder!

A mere three-story pavilion, entirely deep purple, with its staircase constructed entirely from Purple Flame Sinking Wood. The cost of this three-story structure alone was far more expensive than all other areas of the Chunyu Family mansion combined.

On the third floor, a black-bearded middle-aged man in loose robes sat quietly on his bed, eyes slightly closed. Suddenly, a powerful energy fluctuation erupted from the northeast (the Xueluo World also had its geographical directions—north, south, east, west, up, and down—though the method of determining them differed from Earth).

"Hmm?" Chunyu Tao's expression darkened, and his spiritual force immediately swept outwards.

Although he was a warrior, and his spiritual force was far inferior to that of a spiritual force user, at the Domain Lord level, performing a 'spiritual force scan' was a simple matter.

Boom! A violent spiritual force, centered on the pavilion, surged towards the direction of the energy fluctuation, instantly sweeping over the palace where the Chunyu Family's patriarch resided. This discovery immediately made Chunyu Tao's face change drastically. Swish, he vanished from his bed.

Inside the courtyard of the patriarch's palace, a bloody stench permeated the air. Over three hundred corpses lay on the ground, their red and white splatters chilling to the bone. Almost immediately after these three hundred-plus individuals fell, a black-bearded middle-aged man in loose grey robes hovered above the palace, his eyes angrily scanning below.

"Ah!" A charming woman, peeking out from a second-story window of the palace, shrieked upon seeing the horrifying scene of blood flowing like a river.

"Hmph!" Chunyu Tao's expression darkened in mid-air.

Rumble! A yellowish-brown energy wave instantly enveloped the entire palace. At the same time, the wave directly bound the white-robed man, 'Yukeqi,' and the woman hiding inside the palace, sweeping both of them into mid-air.

"Speak, what happened?" Chunyu Tao glared at the two, full of rage.

"Th-th-this..." The charming woman's face was pale, while Yukeqi shook his head repeatedly, saying, "I don't know what happened. A black figure suddenly appeared, and then I saw over three hundred people kill themselves with their own weapons. And the patriarch was taken away."

Chunyu Tao looked at the woman.

"It was, it was Yukeqi. He brought people to see the patriarch, and the patriarch only went out to look. I don't know anything else." The charming woman shook her head repeatedly.

"Hmm?" Chunyu Tao looked at Yukeqi, who then gave a strange smile.

Bang! His entire body exploded with a roar. The splattered flesh and bone even pierced through the woman beside him. The woman's eyes widened, and with three holes in her chest, she cried out, "Save me!" Almost everyone in the Xueluo World was at the Planetary Level, and this woman was no exception, so even with several holes shot through her body, she wouldn't die immediately.

Swish! Swish! Swish!... From a distance, figures suddenly shot over—they were the various experts and important figures of the Chunyu Family.

"Old Ancestor."

"Old Ancestor, what happened?"

"Grandfather, wh-what is all this?" The pampered high-ranking members of the Chunyu Family were utterly stunned. Looking at the large number of corpses in the palace, heavens, some of them had already recognized the Nine Shadow Guards... those were the Nine Shadow Guards, a very powerful military force of the Chunyu Family. Nine Cloud-Soaring Level warriors!

"Find him for me, find him for me, bring the patriarch back to me!" Chunyu Tao roared, and simultaneously, the energy waves around him surged violently, as if invisible blades were directly shredding the woman into a bloody pulp.

"Yes!"

"Yes!" The group respectfully complied. In truth, seeing all three hundred secret guards dead, they had already guessed that the patriarch had met with misfortune. Now, it seemed... the patriarch must have been taken away.

"Bastard!" Enveloped by yellowish-brown energy waves, Chunyu Tao, hovering like a deity in the night, frantically spread his spiritual force in all directions to investigate. He was a warrior, so his spiritual force's cohesion, flexibility, and ethereal nature were far inferior to a spiritual force user, especially in terms of quantity. However! For a minor task like scanning, it was still perfectly fine. Due to the Xueluo World's extremely high gravity, Chunyu Tao's spiritual force scan could only spread about 80 kilometers.

"Where is he?"

"Where is he?" Enveloped in yellowish-brown energy waves, he instantly flew a hundred kilometers away. In the night sky above Yangang City, a yellowish-brown light silhouette appeared here in an instant, then immediately moved to another area, clearly intending to search the entire Yangang City thoroughly!

Inside the City Lord's Mansion in Yangang Territory. A tall middle-aged man with a faint green secret pattern between his brows walked to the railing of a palace. He wore blood-red scale armor, his eyes cold, as he looked up at Chunyu Tao, who was frantically searching the entire Yangang Territory in the sky. He murmured, "What is that old man going crazy about?"

"Hmph." "To make that old man so furious, the Chunyu Family must have suffered a great loss." A cold smile played on his lips.

He was the highest authority in Yangang Territory, the City Lord—Shifeng Xiong! However, in terms of strength, he was slightly inferior to Chunyu Tao. He became the Lord of Yangang Territory for two reasons: first, he successfully fused with a Xueluo Crystal, and second, his relationship with the World Master of this realm was extremely special. Chunyu Tao, though stronger, had failed to fuse with a Xueluo Crystal, and thus had no qualifications to become a Lord.

"Go mad, die mad for all I care." Shifeng Xiong sneered, then ordered below, "Go investigate for me, find out what exactly happened to the Chunyu Family?"

"Yes!" A low voice replied.

The Chunyu Family had roots too deep in Yangang City. For someone to directly break into their mansion and abduct the patriarch—what an immense humiliation was that? After the Old Ancestor Chunyu Tao furiously searched the entire Yangang City, all the overt and covert forces of the Chunyu Family were mobilized, beginning a frantic investigation. Simultaneously, the City Lord's family, the 'Shifeng Family,' and other various powers also began to get involved, causing the entire Yangang City to become a turbulent undercurrent.

That You Family's 'Youyan Tower' was a Star Level Tier 9, capable of reaching speeds of 8 kilometers per second when fleeing. Luo Feng, however, was a Universe Level Tier 9, with a nine-layered domain and an extremely high comprehension of spatial laws, making him exceptionally skilled in instantaneous speed bursts. In this Xueluo World's gravity, he could instantly burst to 300 kilometers per second for a short duration.

At that moment, Luo Feng grabbed the patriarch, enveloped him with spiritual force, and with a single step, shot straight into the sky, soaring directly into the clouds.

In the 15th layer of clouds, thirty thousand kilometers away from Yangang City. Luo Feng, holding the patriarch, finally stopped.

"What do you want?" Chunyu Chong's face was ashen, because the moment he was captured, his dantian was instantly destroyed, and his soul was directly suppressed by an incredibly powerful spiritual force.

"You ask me what I want?" Luo Feng directly pulled a spatial wristband from Chunyu Chong's hand. The wristband naturally contained Chunyu Chong's spiritual imprint, but Luo Feng's spiritual force, like a spear, directly pierced into it, forcibly shattering the spiritual imprint, making Chunyu Chong's face turn even paler.

"Quite wealthy." Luo Feng held the spatial wristband, carefully examining its contents.

"You want money? Fine, take as much as you want, just don't kill me." Chunyu Chong quickly said, "You're a spiritual force user, just make me forget this memory, and I won't remember what you look like."

Luo Feng frowned slightly. Inside the spatial wristband... there was no Xueluo Crystal!

"Chunyu Chong." Luo Feng looked at Chunyu Chong.

"Hmm?" This Chunyu Family patriarch seemed even less impressive than the Na Family patriarch. And at this moment, Chunyu Chong suddenly felt that the black-robed youth's eyes were truly captivating... One second later, Chunyu Chong's eyes dimmed slightly, but he looked at Luo Feng with fervent devotion and extreme respect: "Master!"

"Mm." Luo Feng stood on the floating cloud, looking at Chunyu Chong before him. "I ask you, do you know who has Xueluo Crystals? Does your Chunyu Family have any?"

"Yes!" Chunyu Chong replied without hesitation.

"Where?" Luo Feng's eyes lit up.

"With my family's Old Ancestor." Chunyu Chong respectfully said.

"Old Ancestor?" Luo Feng frowned. He had heard that the Chunyu Family had a Domain Lord Level expert, but this had not been confirmed.

"Yes, the strongest in my Chunyu Family, and also the strongest in the entire Yangang Territory," Chunyu Chong said. "The Xueluo Crystal is with him. However, although the Old Ancestor obtained a Xueluo Crystal, he couldn't fuse it into his body no matter how he tried. That's why the position of Lord of Yangang Territory fell into the hands of the Shifeng Family."

"Your family's Old Ancestor is stronger than the City Lord?" Luo Feng understood.

"Yes," Chunyu Chong respectfully replied. "The City Lord only entered the Domain Lord Level a little over a hundred years ago. According to the Old Ancestor, he's only considered early-stage Domain Lord Level! My family's Old Ancestor is already close to entering late-stage Domain Lord Level."

Luo Feng's heart stirred. He estimated that the City Lord was likely at Domain Lord Tier 2 or 3. After all, he had only broken through a little over a hundred years ago. Most people needed to slowly accumulate energy after breaking through; progressing from Tier 1 to Tier 9 took a very, very long time. Even in the cosmos, only the most top-tier geniuses received treatment like Luo Feng's, not needing to waste time on accumulating quantity.

"Besides your family's Old Ancestor, who else has Xueluo Crystals?" Luo Feng pressed.

"The ones I'm certain of are the Old Ancestor, and the current general managing the entire army of Yangang City, 'Shifeng Zhan'," Chunyu Chong said. "Shifeng Zhan is City Lord Shifeng Xiong's younger brother, and we have a good relationship. He even showed off a Xueluo Crystal in front of me once, saying his elder brother gave it to him for fusion."

"Oh? One with your family's Old Ancestor, and one with Shifeng Zhan?" Luo Feng smiled and nodded.