Sword Gate King Begs for Forgiveness

“Once the rumors of my demise spread, they immediately began to test the waters,” Luo Feng mused. “This is what happens when your influence fades.”

“Your family relies solely on you. Once you fall, your family’s strength will naturally decline significantly,” Zhenyan King said, taking a sip from his wine cup and shaking his head with a sigh. “My Kahuns Clan also relies on me. Even if I were still alive, if I didn’t interfere much with the Ape-men Clan’s affairs, my clan would be bullied. If I don’t teach those fellows a harsh lesson, they’ll harbor illusions of impunity and come to bully you.”

Luo Feng nodded. “Chaos City Lord, my teacher, also said that afterward, he wants me to challenge the Realm Lord-level Primordial Sky-Reaching Mountain to display my strength and deter various powerful individuals.”

“Chaos City Lord makes a good point,” Zhenyan King nodded, then exclaimed in surprise, “You can challenge the Realm Lord-level Primordial Sky-Reaching Mountain?”

“More or less,” Luo Feng nodded.

“That requires your comprehension of laws to reach the 20th layer,” Zhenyan King quickly added.

Luo Feng grinned, a slight smirk playing on his lips.

“Haha, good lad,” Zhenyan King couldn’t help but say, “How long have you been cultivating? You’re already catching up to your third senior brother.”

“A genius, naturally,” Luo Feng replied with a brazen smile.

“Haha, when you get to Chaos City, you must buy me some good wine,” Zhenyan King pressed.

“Of course,” Luo Feng said generously.

“Challenging the Sky-Reaching Mountain comes with 100 billion points. A few drinks and a bite to eat from you is nothing,” Zhenyan King laughed.

Though he was enjoying a pleasant conversation and drinks with his teacher, Luo Feng was secretly contemplating how to deal with Sword Gate King. As for challenging the Sky-Reaching Mountain, Luo Feng wasn’t in a hurry; it could wait until he returned from the Outer Territory Battlefield.

But Sword Gate King…

He needed to be dealt with swiftly!

Although Sword Gate King had been quite restrained this time, committing no murders or major transgressions, this was a ‘beginning’—the ‘beginning’ of someone daring to bully the Luo family! Any such nascent threat had to be decisively crushed to let other families know the severe consequences of provoking the Luo family!

…

Luo Feng and his teacher chatted freely over drinks. Such casualness was only possible between those of similar strength and status. He couldn’t be so uninhibited with Chaos City Lord or Zuoshanke, one of the universe’s ultimate powerhouses. And neither Chaos City Lord nor Zuoshanke would engage with Luo Feng in such a manner.

“Luo Feng, you have mail,” Babata reminded him from his shoulder. “It’s from Sword Gate King.”

“Finally, an email,” Luo Feng’s eyes narrowed.

His son, Luo Ping, and wife, Xu Xin, had both mentioned that Sword Gate King was reportedly trying to contact him, but Luo Feng hadn’t received any emails from him.

Luo Feng lightly tapped the screen, and an email appeared.

Zhenyan King, holding his wine cup opposite him, asked, “What did Sword Gate King say?”

“He said,” Luo Feng smiled, “he’ll personally come to my Nine Star Bay residence to beg for forgiveness.”

“His posture seems quite low,” Zhenyan King scoffed. “It seems he understands that his life depends on this.” On the Outer Territory Battlefield, soldiers of the same faction are forbidden from killing each other, but within the human race, there are no such military system restrictions. Feuds and killings between human powerhouses are common, and the human high-levels rarely intervene.

The high-level human management’s attitude is simple:

Internal conflicts are fine, but if an alien infiltrates and kills humans, that would turn the world upside down. As for human powerhouses fighting aliens on the Outer Territory Battlefield, absolute unity is required!

“Mere posturing is useless,” Luo Feng raised his wine cup. “Teacher, I’ll finish this bottle of wine with you, then it won’t be too late to see Sword Gate King.”

“Indeed, let him stew for a bit,” Zhenyan King also raised his wine cup.

Clink.

Their cups met, and master and disciple discussed many things. After a long while, with the bottle of wine finished, Luo Feng finally departed.

…

Virtual Universe, Black Dragon Mountain Island, Nine Star Bay.

“The family head is temporarily unavailable. Sword Gate King, you may return another time, or wait here.”

“No rush, I’ll wait patiently.”

“Then I shall withdraw.”

In one of the tea pavilions specifically for guests at the Luo family mansion, a giant, over eight meters tall, clad in gleaming golden combat armor, with an elephant-like trunk, sat there.

The Luo family’s reception of guests was tiered.

This tea pavilion was merely a resting place for ordinary guests. To make a King-level Immortal wait here was an insult.

“It seems Luo Feng holds a deep grudge against me,” Sword Gate King sniffed with his trunk, his eyes filled with worry. “Without his implicit instruction, would these ordinary members of the Luo family dare to treat an Immortal so disrespectfully? Moreover, I am a King-level Immortal! No one to attend to me, just a servant leading me here, to such a common place, and even the tea is cold.”

“Wait.”

“I’ll just wait for Luo Feng to appear.” Sword Gate King even picked up the cold tea and slowly drank it, seemingly unfazed by the indignity.

…

Meanwhile, within the Luo family at Nine Star Bay, the high-ranking members had also gathered.

“Sword Gate King is here? And he’s been arranged in the cold tea pavilion?” Gong Xinlan couldn’t help but worry. “He’s a King-level Immortal, after all. We shouldn’t treat him so disrespectfully.”

“Mom,”

Xu Xin smiled, “It’s fine. Luo Feng personally instructed this.”

“Oh, I don’t quite understand,” Gong Xinlan nodded, sighing. “I just feel that a King-level Immortal is a great figure. Our Ganwu Universe Nation, under the Ganwu Nation Master, doesn’t even have a single King-level Immortal.”

“Sword Gate King being arranged in the cold tea pavilion, yet he hasn’t made a fuss,” Luo Ping chuckled.

“Because…”

A voice sounded, and a figure walked in from outside. It was Luo Feng. “He doesn’t want to die!”

“Dad.” Luo Ping and Luo Hai immediately stood up.

“You’re back.” Xu Xin also walked over.

“Brother,” Luo Hua called out with a smile.

Luo Feng nodded, then looked at his parents. “Dad, Mom.”

“It’s good you’re back, it’s good you’re back,” Luo Hongguo and Gong Xinlan both nodded.

“I’ll go deal with Sword Gate King, and then we’ll all have a reunion dinner,” Luo Feng said. With extremely long lifespans, the Mid-Autumn Festival on Earth was less emphasized. Since Luo Feng often cultivated for years, decades, and even over 6,000 years this time, his return was the Luo family’s true reunion day.

“Go ahead.”

“Go,” his family said. After all, facing a King-level Immortal powerhouse, the invisible pressure alone would make ordinary people (those below the Immortal level, unless they possess heaven-defying will and consciousness, are indeed just ordinary people before a King-level Immortal) feel a sense of submission. As for Luo Feng, his will surpassed many Universe Venerables; he was the leader of the Earth lineage who had endured the life-and-death inheritance.

…

The cold tea pavilion, with its unappealing surroundings, wind blowing, cold tea, and no servants attending.

Sword Gate King sat there, waiting patiently.

Just then, a figure approached from a distance, causing Sword Gate King to look up. Upon seeing him, his face immediately broke into a smile, and he stood up, waiting at the entrance of the cold tea pavilion. As Luo Feng drew near, Sword Gate King bowed directly. “Your Highness Luo Feng, this was indeed a disgrace to my Ross family. I have come to beg for forgiveness.”

“Beg for forgiveness?” Luo Feng glanced at him. On the Outer Territory Battlefield, Luo Feng could annihilate someone like Sword Gate King with a single move, like slaughtering a dog.

He could already acquire peak King-level Immortals as servants back then, and now his strength was even greater, his vision even higher. Even super powerhouses like Seven Swords King and Talong King, whose reputations spread across billions of races, Luo Feng feared not in the slightest. As for this mere Sword Gate King? What kind of small fry was he?

Sword Gate King quickly said, “Your Highness Luo Feng, I have personally come to beg for forgiveness, but there is one thing I must clarify.”

“Speak,” Luo Feng had already sat down on a stone stool.

“I believe Your Highness also knows that I founded my family a long time ago. I focus solely on cultivation, and family trivialities are simply not my concern,” Sword Gate King explained. “Any family almost always has managers. And the true founders of families all prioritize cultivation and rarely bother with trivial matters.”

“Currently, the overall manager of my Ross family is my seventh-generation grandson, an ordinary Immortal with decent strength and considerable management ability,” Sword Gate King continued. “When my Ross family and Your Highness’s family had a conflict, and it escalated… the negotiation team sent out was all arranged by that seventh-generation grandson of mine.”

“He kept everything from me.”

Sword Gate King shook his head and sighed. “This time, Your Highness issued a warning, throwing my Ross family into chaos. It was then that one of my descendants finally dared to email me, asking how to resolve it. Only then did I realize… we had provoked Your Highness’s family! I was terrified at the time. How dare that scoundrel provoke Your Highness’s family? Was he trying to destroy my Ross family?”

“I used God Kingdom Teleportation to rush back. When I saw my seventh-generation grandson, he gave a strange smile upon seeing me, then self-destructed,” Sword Gate King said.

Luo Feng sat there, listening silently.

“Are you finished?” Luo Feng looked at him.

“Your Highness, I was lax in managing my family, leading to such an incident. But… this matter, I, a newly ascended King-level Immortal, wouldn’t dare to provoke Your Highness,” Sword Gate King quickly said. “I also know that many alien races are investigating Your Highness’s information. How would a small Sword Gate King like me dare to interfere? Even if those alien races have spies among us humans, they probably wouldn’t waste them on me. Instead, controlling an ordinary Immortal in my Ross family to use my family’s power to test Your Highness’s family would be a smaller price for them.”

“But no matter what, I am guilty.”

“I have come to beg for forgiveness.” Sword Gate King flipped out a list and respectfully placed it on the stone table.

Luo Feng glanced at it.

The list contained various apologies and compensation, showing a humble attitude.

“Hmph.”

Luo Feng, however, snorted coldly and looked at Sword Gate King. “Are you done speaking?”

Sword Gate King froze, then quickly said, “Please speak, Your Highness.”

“I don’t care what happened within your Ross family; it has nothing to do with me,” Luo Feng said coldly, looking at him. “I only know that your Ross family provoked me. Don’t blame me for not giving you a chance to live. The universe’s operating laws always provide a glimmer of hope, and I will give you a chance. Agree to this… and your life will be spared!”

Luo Feng coldly tossed out a pre-prepared list. Sword Gate King’s face turned pale upon hearing Luo Feng’s words, and when his eyes scanned the list… his eyes widened even further.