LRAB Chapter 82, Shattered Dust
Chapter 82, Shattered Dust
Deep within a massive mountain range on the Luoyin Continent, inside a cave, the enormous branches of the Moyun Vine completely blocked the cave, and with a small detector shielding him, Ye Muxuan also used this place as a base.
You can't be as arrogant here as you are in the Starry Sea, flying your spaceship around everywhere. If you're unlucky, you might actually run into a king here.
Although with the help of the "Windwalking" combat boots, even if he couldn't defeat some high-level Kings, he could still escape, but there was no need for that. What if he encountered a peak King? His senior brothers and sisters were all peak Kings, and he knew very well how terrifying a powerhouse at that level was.
I have been wandering the Luoyin Continent for over five hundred years. In most cases, I only encounter elite teams led by Marquis Immortals. There is pressure, but not enough to lead to a life-or-death crisis. However, I was unlucky enough to encounter a King-level high-ranking member of the Zerg faction.
Although she wasn't an immortal-level Zerg queen, but rather a king from a vassal Zerg race, she was only a high-ranking king. While she wasn't a match for the queen, she eventually escaped.
The existence of the powerful treasure, Windwalker, has not yet been exposed, so this can be considered a victory that is not a true victory.
If someone discovers that a Marquis-level warrior possesses a powerful treasure, then a whole bunch of King-level warriors will be hunting him down! Not to mention the alien races, even within the human race, there might be people who have designs on him.
The battlefield military system's detection isn't foolproof. Even for Ye Muxuan, there are several ways to evade it. The simplest way is to retire directly. That way, although he won't be under the military's protection if he encounters danger, similarly, even if a retired prince kills him, as long as he can escape on the spot, he won't be punished by the military.
For the human race, or for the kings of the Hong Alliance, this might not be worthwhile. However, the human camp is not entirely part of the Hong Alliance. Many powerful alien races can simply seize the treasure and escape back to their own tribes. The human race might not really risk offending some powerful races for the sake of a single treasure.
Of course, Ye Muxuan's background is an exception. He has top overlords, venerables, and peak kings behind him. It's not impossible that he could even storm their lair.
Aside from that one encounter with a high-ranking King, things were generally quite good. Over the course of five hundred years, they hunted down over a hundred low-ranking Marquis, and even more Immortal Military Lords. Using peak-level secret techniques to hunt down low-ranking Marquis was practically a waste of their talents.
Ye Muxuan's level of understanding of the laws has also improved considerably in the past five hundred years. He gradually felt a bottleneck, and his understanding of the laws slowed down.
Inside the cave, Ye Muxuan shook off this lingering thought and, with a joyful expression, carefully examined the enormous, immortal divine body lying on the huge blue stone before him.
This is a special life form that resembles a tiger-like monster. Its divine body, which is over 500 meters long, is as crystal clear as if it were carved from an iceberg. Its entire body radiates a fine silver light. Its limbs are as thick as ice pillars, and it has a tail that is nearly 200 meters long. On the forehead of its huge tiger head is a blood-red horn that is about 100 meters long. Even when it is lying on the blue stone, it still exudes a huge immortal pressure.
The greatest gain in the past five hundred years is an alien immortal whose combat strength is barely close to that of a high-ranking marquis, but when it comes to the understanding of the laws, he is at most at the level of the thirteenth level of the Bridge to Heaven, barely qualifying as a high-ranking military lord immortal.
However, its life gene multiplier is extremely high, which can be said to be the highest among special life forms that Ye Muxuan has seen in the past tens of thousands of years. It is born with 70 times the life gene multiplier, coupled with a divine body of more than 500 meters, which greatly enhances its combat power.
It was only after encountering this alien immortal and researching extensively that Ye Muxuan confirmed that this special life form was called "Shattered Dust," a type of flesh-and-blood life randomly conceived in certain special secret realms of the primordial universe. According to currently available information, there are over eight thousand Shattered Dust beings in the universe. Aside from those who perished, there are still over six thousand remaining, mostly within the Northern Frontier Alliance, with a small number joining other forces.
Although the many fragmented dusts belong to the same race, there is no universally recognized leader. The strongest fragmented dust they know of is the one from the Northern Frontier Alliance. He is a cosmic overlord in terms of strength and is also known as the "Fragmented Ancestor Emperor". However, the other fragmented dusts do not listen to him and each goes their own way. There is really no sense of cohesion.
However, Ye Muxuan didn't care about any of that. All he knew was that since he had knocked Suichen unconscious, now was the perfect time for him to plant the Dark Mark.
Compared to the solitary Shattered Dust, with its own help, it will soon become a true King, and even have the opportunity to become a Venerable!
Using techniques learned from the secret arts of "Dark Mark," Ye Muxuan drew out a deep, dark, long-bladed seed from the soul and poured it directly into the soul of the shattered dust.
The massive divine body of the previously dormant Dust, which, including its horns and tail, was nearly eight hundred meters long, suddenly trembled after being invaded by the dark mark. The blood-red horns on its forehead became even more intense, as if they were soaked in blood, and were dripping with crimson.
Ye Muxuan carefully observed the situation and also faintly sensed the state of his soul through the dark mark. The slumbering dust would occasionally tremble, but having been beaten down to only about 35% of its divine body, it never woke up.
The fusion of the dark marks lasted for nearly five days. Finally, Ye Muxuan discovered that Sui Chen's body had stopped trembling and his aura had stabilized.
hum~
Suddenly, Ye Muxuan sensed that the soul connection between him and Suichen in front of him was extremely clear, no longer faint as before. He had a premonition that as long as he had a thought, the dark mark in Suichen's soul that had been completely fused would explode instantly, annihilating Suichen completely from the soul!
Of course, the dark mark can also be forcibly removed from the shattered soul, thus extracting it intact for future use. As for the shattered soul, which appears tattered and broken after the removal of the dark mark, it is absolutely useless.
However, it seems that Ye Muxuan is unwilling to give up this fragment of dust.
Ye Muxuan looked at the shattered dust with satisfaction, and then put it into an empty world ring.
The gains over these five hundred years have been enormous; it's time to return to the barracks base.
On the way back to the barracks base, Ye Muxuan also looked up the precious materials needed to restore Suichen's divine body. Jiufeng provided a list, and finally listed the cost, which totaled 958 billion Hunyuan units.
Ye Muxuan grinned and searched through all his spoils of war, finally finding some treasures that could restore his divine body. Even so, it would cost around 860 billion.
The total value of a typical newly appointed king is only this much. If it were Sui Chen himself, not to mention whether he had the capital, he wouldn't be willing to spend it.