Beautiful Xueluo Crystal

“It’s you!” Shifeng Zhan’s eyes widened in shock. Heavens, he was only pretending to cooperate with the Chunyu Family, yet he had actually captured a terrifying individual.

A flash of insight struck Shifeng Zhan, and he immediately cried out, “Did you capture Chunyu Chong too?”

“Yes, he’s already dead,” Luo Feng said with a smile.

“Dead?”

Shifeng Zhan’s face instantly turned grim. Chunyu Chong was dead, and this person in front of him would likely kill him too. What to do? What to do? His energy core was destroyed, leaving him with no primal energy, and his soul was completely suppressed by the opponent’s terrifying psychic energy. There was no way to resist or even transmit a message. What could he do?

Shifeng Zhan’s face was ashen, completely distraught.

“How can I avoid being killed?” Shifeng Zhan looked at the black-haired youth before him. “Tell me, I’ll do anything!”

“Give me ten Xueluo Crystals, and I won’t kill you.” Luo Feng stood there, smiling. “Can you do that?”

Shifeng Zhan couldn’t help but stare with wide, bell-like eyes: “Ten Xueluo Crystals? Even my elder brother couldn’t produce ten Xueluo Crystals! However, I have one Xueluo Crystal here. I can give it to you, just spare my life!” Although his energy core was destroyed, he wouldn’t die, because the most important thing for a person was their soul.

If the soul was fine, the body could recover, and the lost primal energy could be cultivated again.

“No, one isn’t enough. It must be ten Xueluo Crystals.” Luo Feng shook his head.

“You’re toying with me!” Shifeng Zhan was both anxious and furious.

“Yes, I am just toying with you!” Luo Feng said indifferently. “Die.”

Shifeng Zhan immediately roared wildly: “Help!!!” His powerful body made his roar sound like thunder, and the sound waves violently impacted in all directions. However, the intense sound waves were forcefully blocked by an invisible psychic energy barrier, which formed a membrane, preventing even a single sound from escaping.

“What’s the use of struggling further?” Luo Feng slapped Shifeng Zhan’s head, and primal force poured into his skull, turning it into mush.

Shifeng Zhan, dead!

...

“What does a Xueluo Crystal look like?” Luo Feng’s gaze swept over Shifeng Zhan’s corpse, and he instantly located the spatial storage device on his person. Without banks, almost all cultivators on Xueluo Continent kept the vast majority of their treasures in spatial devices, carrying them close to their bodies.

Because, it was safest on oneself.

If he didn’t die, the treasures wouldn’t be lost.

If he died, the treasures, even if still present, would be meaningless!

“A pretty good spatial ring.” Luo Feng gripped the spatial ring, and his psychic energy forcefully surged into it, permeating it to begin his search.

“So rich.”

“Dozens of times richer than those Thirteen Axes.” Luo Feng initially wore a smile, but the more he searched, the more he frowned. The spatial ring contained a large amount of expensive blade coins, some precious weapons, and many treasures packed into boxes. Yet, Luo Feng’s simple psychic energy scan didn’t detect any Xueluo Crystals.

Luo Feng had seen what Xueluo Crystals looked like in common knowledge books.

“It can’t be missing. Could it not be on him? Impossible.” Luo Feng searched carefully again, specifically examining a box of crystal stones. There were many crystal stones in that box. Luo Feng divided his psychic energy into thousands of strands, each probing the interior of every crystal stone. Immediately, a smile appeared on Luo Feng’s face.

With a flick of his hand!

A spherical black crystal stone appeared in his palm. Looking at the spherical black crystal stone, Luo Feng shook his head and chuckled, “This Shifeng Zhan actually disguised the Xueluo Crystal and threw it into a box containing many other crystal stones. Someone whose psychic energy control isn’t precise enough really wouldn’t find it.”

“Hiss, hiss~~” The black spherical crystal stone in his palm was subjected to needle-like psychic energy attacks, and it instantly began to crack. Soon, this entire black spherical layer shattered, finally revealing the Xueluo Crystal inside!

Blood red!

The color of blood, the color of life.

It was a long, triangular prism-shaped crystal, entirely blood-red, faintly transparent, and subtly emitting an invisible fluctuation, making one feel a bit like a beating heart, wave after wave of pulsations.

“Xueluo Crystal!” Luo Feng looked at the transparent, triangular prism-shaped crystal in his hand and couldn’t help but exclaim, “It’s truly beautiful!”

Hmph!

Luo Feng waved his hand, and Shifeng Zhan’s corpse, lying on the ground, vanished directly. At the same time, the blood on the ground and the bloody scent in the palace all dissipated.

“Excellent, this way no one will know that Shifeng Zhan is dead for a short while.” Luo Feng smiled. “They’ll probably think Shifeng Zhan went somewhere.” It was very common for cultivators to suddenly go into seclusion, disappear for a year or two, and then return. Even if Shifeng Zhan was a General, no one would suspect anything if he disappeared for three to five days.

Whoosh!

Luo Feng transformed into an ethereal phantom, darting directly out of the window, instantly reaching hundreds of kilometers away.

The entire palace was silent.

The numerous soldiers, maids, and guards in the General’s Mansion had no idea that their General was already dead.

...

While Luo Feng killed Shifeng Zhan and obtained the Xueluo Crystal.

At the Yangang Territory City Lord’s Mansion.

“Come, drink!”

“Haha, Junior Brother Shifeng, it’s been many years. You’ve become a territory lord, I’m truly happy, drink, drink.” In the center of the living room, a group of charming dancers performed, while three men laughed heartily and drank together. One of them was Shifeng Xiong, the highest authority in Yangang Territory, the City Lord.

The other two wore silver-gray standard armor.

“Senior Brother, I’m just a territory lord. How can I compare to you? You joined the Immortal Divine Temple as a special envoy. No matter where we are on this continent, who dares to disrespect you, Senior Brother?” Shifeng Xiong laughed heartily.

“Just a mere errand runner,” the handsome middle-aged man said with a smile.

“Senior Brother, what brings you and Special Envoy Mo back from the Divine Temple?” Shifeng Xiong asked curiously.

The handsome middle-aged man and the other Special Envoy Mo exchanged glances. Special Envoy Mo spoke, “Brother Shifeng, it’s not that we don’t want to tell you, but the Divine Temple has rules, and we dare not violate them. Actually, our return this time is mainly for your master, the World Master. We cannot say anything more.”

“Because it’s Master’s matter, I was assigned to come with Old Mo. Passing by your place, of course, I had to see you, Junior Brother,” the handsome middle-aged man said with a smile.

“I miss Senior Brother very much too,” Shifeng Xiong sighed. “Speaking of which…”

...

As Shifeng Xiong chatted animatedly with his two friends, he had no idea that his younger brother had already lost his life.

...

In the wild grass wilderness, three hundred thousand kilometers away from Yangang Territory, Luo Feng sat.

“One Xueluo Crystal!”

Luo Feng held the Xueluo Crystal, his eyes fixed on this incredibly miraculous crystal stone. “The first-tier dangerous mission is to obtain one Xueluo Crystal, which rewards ten thousand points. I can use it to exchange for points, or I can integrate it into my body.”

“How to use it?”

“No doubt!” Luo Feng grinned, his finger like a blade, slicing directly across his left palm.

Slice!

A wound opened, and crimson blood flowed out. Luo Feng took a deep breath and placed the triangular prism-shaped Xueluo Crystal on the wound. This was the method of integrating Xueluo Crystals described in the books, and during his time in Yangang City, Luo Feng had also heard others discuss it; it was almost universally known on Xueluo Continent.

The method was simple, but achieving it was difficult!

“Is it difficult?” Luo Feng looked at his palm.

The beautiful, dazzling Xueluo Crystal touched the wound, especially when the fresh blood came into contact with the Xueluo Crystal. Instantly, an invisible, strange energy erupted violently from the Xueluo Crystal, as if a peerless fierce beast, suppressed for a long time, suddenly surged into Luo Feng’s body. Luo Feng, who had been confidently sitting there, suddenly changed expression, his face contorting hideously.

“Damn it!” Luo Feng gritted his teeth.

“Boom!”

An incredibly ferocious will descended, directly merging into Luo Feng’s sea of consciousness.

“Kill!”

“Kill!”

Shouts and roars of battle filled the sea of consciousness. That incredibly ferocious and tyrannical will clashed repeatedly with Luo Feng’s will. This was a pure test of willpower… Willpower and consciousness were different. Consciousness depended on the thickness and strength of mental energy, while willpower was purely driven by personal belief.

An Apprentice-level martial artist’s willpower could still be more terrifying than a Sector Lord’s!

“You think this kind of will can conquer me?” Luo Feng’s voice echoed in his sea of consciousness. “Turn to ashes!”

Boom!

Luo Feng’s incomparably powerful willpower, like a massive mountain, directly crushed the roaring wills into dust. While crushing them, Luo Feng also wondered: “Consciousness suppression, consciousness suppression… it’s all consciousness attacking. How can pure willpower rush into my body? So strange? Ah, this is bad!”

“Rumble~” As that will was crushed by Luo Feng, the true fundamental strange power within the Xueluo Crystal truly erupted. Threads of red energy surged wildly from the Xueluo Crystal into Luo Feng’s body.

Luo Feng’s body trembled uncontrollably.

Luo Feng’s facial muscles twitched involuntarily. His skin surface sometimes solidified into a carapace, sometimes cracked open with fresh blood. His arms swelled violently, and at the same time, his veins sometimes became completely transparent, like crystalline pipes, and sometimes turned pure gold. His muscles constantly changed.

Pain!

Pain beyond the extreme!

“What’s going on? What exactly is this Xueluo Crystal?” Luo Feng roared in his heart. He felt his entire body’s temperature instantly reach an unbelievably high heat, as if he were about to be incinerated into ashes, yet in a blink, it dropped to an astonishing low temperature, freezing him so much that he couldn’t feel his own body.

Hiss, hiss~~ Luo Feng’s fingernails slowly extended, like metallic claw-blades! Then they rapidly retracted. Simultaneously, all ten fingers mutated, even the internal bones changed, and his entire palm became like a hoof or claw, with hair slowly growing out.

Not just his fingers, but his arms, legs, feet, and even his face began to grow black hair. In just a few moments, Luo Feng turned into a furry creature.

But a few minutes later, this hair rapidly retracted and disappeared.

Hiss, hiss~~

Black scales emerged from Luo Feng’s arms, fingers, legs, feet, and even his face. At the same time, his entire body grew stronger and taller.

“What exactly is this Xueluo Crystal? Heavens!” No matter how strong Luo Feng’s imagination was, he never expected to encounter such a thing, and the Xueluo Crystal integration process continued…