Chapter 707 - 227: One Man Against 800,000 Martial Artists! Qin Feng’s Divine Might! Slaying Yu Hai and Yan Hu, the Hope for a Comeback
Chapter 707: Chapter 227: One Man Against 800,000 Martial Artists! Qin Feng’s Divine Might! Slaying Yu Hai and Yan Hu, the Hope for a Comeback
In the void, Qin Feng’s consciousness was immersed within his Identity Jade Token.
His brow furrowed slightly, a trace of unconcealable surprise flickering in his eyes.
’Hm? What’s going on?’
As his mind swept across the list of loot recorded in the Jade Token, two streams of data, just stripped from his enemies, clearly materialized in the sea of his consciousness.
The abnormally large quantity of one particular item puzzled him.
’These two... How could they have so many golden beast shards?’
Qin Feng’s breath caught for a moment.
Eighteen.
A full eighteen beast shards, shimmering with a brilliant golden light, lay quietly in the Subspace Storage Unit.
Each one contained energy of the utmost purity, identical to the shards he had fought to the death to collect from the core region.
He knew very well what this meant.
The energy and value contained within just five golden beast shards were enough to complete roughly 10% of the construction.
And now, he had looted eighteen of them from the two guys he had just casually obliterated.
This fortune was enough to cause the construction progress of his [Immortal Tower] to skyrocket, adding at least another 30% to 40%.
’Don’t tell me... these two smuggled them out of the core region?’
A thought flashed through Qin Feng’s mind like lightning.
He immediately recalled a detail from his time cultivating inside the star.
In the later years of his seclusion, he had clearly felt a sudden, unnatural drop in the energy density of the beast shards in that core region.
At the time, his first thought was that Caesar had absorbed all the shards along his patrol route, causing the energy density to drop.
But now, Qin Feng had a new theory.
As he thought it over, he realized there was a clear logical flaw in that deduction.
Caesar’s strength was unfathomable, and his Control over the chaotic force field inside the star far surpassed his own.
If Caesar had really explored the area where he was in seclusion, with the other’s overwhelmingly powerful perception, it would have been impossible for him to hide for decades.
But if he looked at it from another angle—if he assumed these two, whose strength was far inferior to Caesar’s, had snuck into the core region during his seclusion and made off with a large number of beast shards—then everything made sense.
Their strength, while somewhat greater than his own before his Rebirth, was ultimately limited. Moreover, their understanding and application of the chaotic force field were nowhere near Caesar’s level.
Therefore, it was perfectly logical that they had failed to discover him in that complex environment while he was in deep secluded cultivation.
’So they were a couple of traitors.’
A cold smile touched the corners of Qin Feng’s lips.
Instead of angering him, the discovery felt like a weight had been lifted from his shoulders.
’It seems even someone as strong as Caesar isn’t omnipotent. What he’s built is nothing more than a temporary alliance, held together by absolute force and mutual interest,’ Qin Feng thought.
The Martial Artists from Star System #99 had gathered under Caesar’s banner partly out of submission to his despair-inducingly vast power, and partly for the potential profits.
They hadn’t submitted wholeheartedly.
This made sense. After all, wasn’t every person who had made it this far a top prodigy from a major Warband or civilization?
They stood at the pinnacle of power—proud, arrogant, and with unyielding character. How could they be so easily conquered and made to serve another?
Caesar could use his power to hold them together temporarily, but he couldn’t truly unify their Wills.
The moment a great enough temptation arose, or if Caesar’s oppressive authority were to waver even slightly, such a fragile alliance would immediately begin to fracture from within.
’That... makes things a bit more acceptable.’
Qin Feng let out a slow breath.
An invincible and united legion would be terrifying, but the threat posed by a group riddled with selfish motives and betrayal was significantly lower.
Without a doubt, the Star System Alliance of #99 that Caesar had built was merely a group bound by mutual interest, not a powerful Warband forged through countless trials of blood and fire, with its own discipline and convictions.
His mind settled, and his consciousness shifted once more, landing on the final item on the list of loot.
It was an ancient-looking Bronze Compass covered in intricate patterns, emitting faint spatial fluctuations.
The moment his Intent touched the Compass, lines of cold text appeared. Like a data stream, they were projected directly onto his Identity Jade Token and branded themselves clearly into his consciousness.
[Tournament Item: Rebirth Compass]
[Description: Automatically forms when two Compass fragments are collected.
The Rebirth Compass allows the user to lock onto and view the real-time coordinates of all Martial Artists within the current Trial Star System Cluster who are at the same cultivation level and are currently in the ’Hunting Stage’.]
[Mission: Hunt down twenty Martial Artists of the same cultivation level who are in the ’Hunting Stage’.
Upon mission completion, the Rebirth Compass will automatically vanish, and the user will receive an enormous reward.]
[Current Progress: 18/20]
[Mission Reward: Cultivation resources appropriate for the user’s current cultivation level, valued at 1B Imperial Contribution Points.]
Qin Feng read the description, word by word. The initially calm expression on his face gradually gave way to a smile he couldn’t suppress.
1B Contribution Points!
This was an astronomical sum, enough to drive any Constant Star Martial Artist into a frenzy.