Chapter 338: Quietly Leaving

The cultivator squad stayed in Rainveil City for two days, engaging in Dao discussions with Luo Feng and Palace Lord Abyssal Elephant! At their level, even a slight improvement was exceedingly difficult. Therefore, they frequently exchanged insights with those of similar standing, which also fostered friendships.

Outside the city.

Luo Feng and Palace Lord Abyssal Elephant saw the cultivator squad off.

"These two days of reunion have been truly delightful," said the winged woman, Divine Emperor Bai, who had become more talkative after becoming acquainted. "We shall return to the Dark Holy Realm first. Brother Luo Feng, we eagerly anticipate seeing you again in the Dark Holy Realm."

"Once I arrive at Chengfeng City, I will certainly contact you all," Luo Feng replied with a smile.

The Dark Holy Realm only had five cities in total, and Divine Emperor Bai's team resided in Chengfeng City.

"Farewell."

The old man and the crimson-robed youth also nodded slightly to Luo Feng and Palace Lord Abyssal Elephant.

The three of them boarded their vessel. Under the gaze of Luo Feng and Palace Lord Abyssal Elephant, the ancient ship swiftly vanished into the horizon.

"They have departed," Palace Lord Abyssal Elephant said, watching from afar with a slight smile. "Luo Feng, it is time for me to leave as well."

"As promised, I would depart after the Battle of Rainveil City. I have stayed an extra two days with my three old friends," Palace Lord Abyssal Elephant said, looking at Luo Feng. "I am confident in entrusting Rainveil City to you."

"As for me, I will disperse all my external avatars and return to my homeland to wholeheartedly combat the pollution. Either I will suppress the pollution, or I will completely succumb to it," Palace Lord Abyssal Elephant declared.

At this moment, Luo Feng's mood was complex.

Palace Lord Abyssal Elephant had reached a perilous stage. If he succumbed, his soul would be annihilated.

The Billion Worlds were created by Senior Yuan and others of his level! Although the powerhouses nurtured within the Billion Worlds did not possess avatar techniques, they could request the world creators to resurrect them.

This information had long circulated among cultivators in the Nine Rivers Holy Realm.

Many cultivators in the billion worlds had regrets and desired to resurrect their beloved ones. Senior Yuan, Senior Jin, and others had long promised that upon transcending the cage, a resurrection slot would be granted.

But the Origin World was different!

The Origin World was protected by supreme rules and possessed avatar techniques. However, the same rules also blocked external forces. Once a powerhouse within the Origin World perished, even Senior Yuan and the others could not resurrect them.

Palace Lord Abyssal Elephant was a powerhouse who came from the Origin World. If he died, he would truly be gone. Even Senior Yuan and the others would be helpless.

"Even if I die, there is no need to grieve," Palace Lord Abyssal Elephant laughed. "The path of cultivation is filled with countless trials and tribulations. To have reached this stage today, to be a peak existence in the Dark Holy Realm... there is nothing to regret."

"Brother Abyssal Elephant," Luo Feng solemnly implored, "You have defeated many great enemies on your cultivation path. You will surely defeat this great enemy, the High-Order Primordial Pollution."

Palace Lord Abyssal Elephant nodded. "I will vanquish it. Very well, let us part here."

Having spoken, Palace Lord Abyssal Elephant's figure dissipated.

Luo Feng watched silently.

He knew...

Unless Palace Lord Abyssal Elephant completely suppressed the pollution, it would be difficult to meet again.

As time passed, the elders who had died in the Battle of Rainveil City gradually returned to Rainveil City with their avatars.

In the Elder Hall.

Seven elders were summoned to see Luo Feng.

"City Lord." The seven elders were respectful, and they were both nervous and expectant. Among so many elders in the city, only they were summoned, so they naturally guessed at the possibility.

"In the Battle of Rainveil City, all seven of you were attacked by transcendent Mind-Bewitching Worms." Luo Feng smiled and waved his hand. Seven treasures appeared in mid-air. "Are these seven treasures yours? Take them!"

There were not many elders in the city who carried powerful treasures. These seven were the elders who had lost their treasures in the war.

"Thank you, City Lord." The seven elders were overjoyed. They had guessed at the possibility, but they did not expect the City Lord to give them the treasures without mentioning any conditions.

One had to know that...

According to the general rules of cultivators, spoils of war typically belonged to the victor.

"You fought for Rainveil City," Luo Feng said with a smile. These seven elders, who carried important treasures, were all those who had worked hard to build their influence in Rainveil City and wanted to settle here.

The seven elders felt even more that with such a City Lord, their future days would be much better.

When Palace Lord Weiyang's influence had permeated the entire city, he had demanded a large share of every benefit!

If such precious treasures had fallen into Palace Lord Weiyang's hands, he would never have returned them.

"City Lord, Palace Lord Weiyang has been secretly transferring resources out of the city recently."

"He doesn't dare to come himself, so he has asked other elders to help him carry the resources away," one elder said.

"I know," Luo Feng replied.

With his control over Rainveil City, how could he not notice Palace Lord Weiyang's movements?

"His transferring resources means he plans to leave of his own accord," Luo Feng said. "There is no need to pay too much attention to it."

"Yes," the seven elders respectfully replied.

Just five days later.

Palace Lord Weiyang's avatar actually came to Rainveil City and personally visited Luo Feng.

"Palace Lord Weiyang, the City Lord has agreed to see you. Please," a guard said, leading the way in front of the Elder Hall.

Palace Lord Weiyang could only follow.

He walked through the familiar Elder Hall, once thinking that he would completely take control of the Elder Hall and become the lord of all Rainveil City! But who would have thought that Luo Feng's rise would be so rapid? And his strength so terrifying!

A single person suppressing four transcendent beings?

Relying on formations, only ten percent of the vast low-order primordial life army that entered the city managed to escape?

"Even if I carried my treasures, I fear I could not withstand a single blow from him," Palace Lord Weiyang sighed inwardly. "The strength he has displayed is even more terrifying than Palace Lord Abyssal Elephant at his peak."

Soon, Palace Lord Weiyang saw Luo Feng sitting in the garden in the distance, guided by the guard.

"Weiyang greets the City Lord," Palace Lord Weiyang said, bowing slightly.

Luo Feng looked at Palace Lord Weiyang with interest.

"You actually came to see me?" Luo Feng asked, looking at him. "Did you plan to continue staying in Rainveil City?"

"With the City Lord here, Rainveil City is incredibly stable. There is naturally no need for me," Palace Lord Weiyang replied respectfully. "I have decided to completely withdraw from Rainveil City. I have come this time to request something."

"Oh? What is it?" Luo Feng asked, looking at him."When I previously guarded Rainwave City, a doppelganger perished at the hands of that Transcendent Mind-Worm, and I lost two important secret treasures as well," Hall Master Wei Yang pleaded. "I beseech the City Lord to return them. Name whatever price you require, City Lord."

Luo Feng looked at him, and couldn't help but chuckle.

"You actually have the gall to ask me for secret treasures?" Luo Feng shook his head, amazed.

Back then, he had been forced to resign from his position as Sky Patrol Palace Warden! When he refused, Hall Master Wei Yang had even attacked him!

Given such a conflict, Luo Feng was astonished that Hall Master Wei Yang would dare show his face, let alone ask for something.

"I know I offended the City Lord," Hall Master Wei Yang said. "But the importance of powerful secret treasures suited to oneself is something the City Lord surely understands! Name whatever price you require, City Lord!"

Luo Feng gazed at him and said, "I offer you two choices."

Hall Master Wei Yang's heart leaped with joy, thinking Luo Feng's temperament was truly so agreeable. He had heard that the seven Elders had all recovered their lost treasures, and hope had ignited within him.

"What two choices?" Hall Master Wei Yang pressed. As long as he could retrieve his two lost treasures, he was willing to pay any price.

"First, you can self-annihilate this doppelganger. Second, I will take action and destroy it myself," Luo Feng said, his eyes fixed upon him. "Choose!"

Hall Master Wei Yang's expression changed drastically.

He sensed the chilling iciness in Luo Feng's eyes at that moment.

"I am willing to self-annihilate," Hall Master Wei Yang said, bowing respectfully as his doppelganger silently dissipated into nothingness.

Luo Feng watched this scene with detached indifference.

His benevolence was reserved for specific individuals. Hall Master Wei Yang was clearly not worthy!

Luo Feng had long ago erased Hall Master Wei Yang and Hall Master Gai Tao from the Rainwave City's core formation layer, stripping them of their positions as Hall Masters.

Time flowed onward.

The Elders of Rainwave City gradually became familiar with Luo Feng's temperament. Aside from the City Lord's inherent share, he was too lazy to contend for other resources within the city, which encouraged even more powerful cultivators to settle down in Rainwave City.

Elders and Hall Master-level cultivators alike continuously relocated to the city.

Even ordinary cultivators moved in great numbers!

There was no way around it; a city that was virtually "absolutely safe," whose City Lord disdained to compete for resources, and who protected the weak and powerless, naturally possessed immense allure within the Thirty-Five Cities of the Nine Rivers Holy Realm.

"Rainwave City has more and more cultivators," Emperor Qing, Emperor Yi, and Emperor Consort, the three of them, overlooked the entire city from the high point of the Elder Hall. As Luo Feng's trusted aides, they were responsible for handling many of the City Lord's trivial matters.

"It is fortunate for many cultivators to encounter a City Lord as benevolent as ours," Emperor Yi said. "The majority of this cultivation world is still dominated by the law of the jungle."

Emperor Consort nodded. "The law of the jungle is the norm. The City Lord has changed the order of Rainwave City through his individual strength alone."

Originally, even without the Insect Nests, the Sinister Dens, or the Fang Shadow Towers, other forces would have emerged to steal and plunder.

But Luo Feng's power was too great! With the formations, he could cover the entire city with a single thought, capable of annihilating any force.

Therefore, his "words were law." Because he declared that he would not permit the existence of thieving and plundering forces, no such forces dared to exist within the city.

"The City Lord appears less and less often," Emperor Qing said, turning to look at the cave dwelling next to the Elder Hall, which was Luo Feng's current abode.

"Just like how the Ancestors of the Two Nations rarely appear in the Origin Continent," Emperor Consort mused. "The City Lord does not often appear in Rainwave City either. Perhaps, the City Lord's main focus is already in other realms."

Emperor Qing and Emperor Yi were both startled.

Luo Feng was indeed very likely to have already gone to the Dark Holy Realm.

In fact, Luo Feng had secluded himself in cultivation for more than half an Epoch, only emerging after the effects of the 'Hundred Tribulation Heart Marrow' had completely dissipated! Cultivating in the state granted by the Hundred Tribulation Heart Marrow for over half an Epoch had been of enormous benefit to Luo Feng.

After emerging from seclusion, Luo Feng first erased the original formations within the core formation layer of Rainwave City and re-engraved a more powerful formation that he had carefully considered. Then, after leaving behind an ordinary doppelganger in Rainwave City, he quietly departed.

An ordinary doppelganger, wielding the city's even more terrifying formations, would only be more powerful than during the Rainwave City War!

Luo Feng walked alone upon the lands of the Nine Rivers Holy Realm.

He walked along the 'Nine Rivers,' taking a good look at them, and along the way, he encountered low-level Chaos lifeforms who did not know any better and attacked him. These low-level Chaos lifeforms then became the occupants within Luo Feng's treasure storage.

After traversing the Nine Rivers, Luo Feng arrived at the center of the Nine Rivers Holy Realm – the Holy Mountain.

"It is time to go to the Dark Holy Realm."

This time, Luo Feng did not go to the transmission pool at the foot of the mountain but walked along the mountain path towards the summit.

The invisible pressure of the mountain path grew increasingly terrifying, but for Luo Feng, whose 'Undying Blood Sea Body' was completely perfected, it felt like a gentle breeze, allowing him to reach the summit. At the summit, there was also a dark pool.

Luo Feng sent a wisp of his consciousness into the dark pool and immediately sensed that this transmission pool was connected to another distant realm.

"Let's go take a look." Luo Feng stepped into the dark pool and disappeared, a stream of light swirling around him as he was transmitted.

(End of this Chapter)