Above the Great Luo Sea.
After the white-robed elder and Zhang Fan entered the dark space, Nangong Pu and Zhao Nanqiang no longer dared to entangle with Liu Mu. If the Grand Elder was already injured and fleeing, how could they possibly contend with Liu Mu who wielded a supreme treasure of the Great Dao?
However, it was a bit late for them to think of escaping now.
Since he had revealed his trump cards, Liu Mu naturally would not hold back. Even though he could only unleash a fraction of the supreme treasure's power now, he was still not someone that two peak Nascent Soul cultivators could resist. Facing Liu Mu, who wielded a massive sword, Nangong Pu was vomited blood with a single move, and within a mere few dozen exchanges, both of them met a tragic end under Liu Mu's sword.
Liu Mu tidied up the spoils of war, muttering to himself, "The older one gets, the more afraid of death one becomes. After I forced them this far, they still didn't dare to self-detonate their Nascent Souls. It's my good fortune."
After waiting for a whole day above the Great Luo Sea and still seeing no sign of Zhang Fan, Liu Mu gave up waiting and headed towards the Six King City.
He was not worried about Zhang Fan's safety at all. The dark space was extremely dangerous for low-level Nascent Soul cultivators, but for those who had reached their level of cultivation, the threat from the dark space was not significant.
He knew that after Zhang Fan emerged, he would definitely head to the Six King City. As Zhang Fan was his only friend in the Wu Mountain Star Domain, he naturally had to go and help him at this time.
After all, those three top forces had deep foundations. By the time Zhang Fan came to flatten their sects, there would undoubtedly be many treasures. He certainly did not want to miss this opportunity to become rich.
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"Where is this?"
As Zhang Fan flew out of the dark space, he looked at the city below. His potent divine soul power spread out, enveloping the entire city. After a long while, a strange expression appeared on his face.
"I only stayed in the dark space for a short while, and when I came out, I had already left the scope of the Realm Heart Continent and landed on a living planet?"
Zhang Fan felt quite helpless, but also a hint of relief. Fortunately, he was still within the Wu Mountain Star Domain.
After a scan with his divine soul, Zhang Fan gained a basic understanding of this living planet. The planet was named Bai Yu Star. Its Star Lord was a cultivator of the Three Tribulations Nascent Soul stage and belonged to the Sun Shadow Grotto-Heaven's territory. There was no direct teleportation array to the Realm Heart Continent on the planet; it required a transfer through another living planet.
Furthermore, there was only one teleportation array on this planet, located in the main city of Bai Yu Star, Bai Yu City.
Immediately, Zhang Fan determined the direction and transformed into a streak of light, heading towards Bai Yu Star.
With his current strength, this living planet was simply too small. Even flying around the planet would not take much time.
A few minutes later, Zhang Fan landed outside Bai Yu City. To avoid attracting attention, Zhang Fan deliberately concealed his aura. From the outside, he appeared to be merely a cultivator of the Golden Core stage.
Upon entering the city, having no spirit crystals on him, Zhang Fan first found a shop that could exchange for spirit crystals and traded a spiritual treasure for a large number of them.
In the Great Luo Realm, Zhang Fan had killed countless Nascent Soul cultivators. Although all the spirit crystals and elixirs among them had been consumed by him, he still had plenty of spiritual treasures and heavenly treasures. If he casually took out a high-grade spiritual treasure, he could exchange it for tens of millions of spirit crystals.
"I need to go to Cang Yu Star immediately. How many spirit crystals will it cost?" Zhang Fan walked directly to the teleportation array in the city and asked the two guards responsible for its upkeep.
The guard looked at Zhang Fan with surprise, thinking he didn't understand the rules. He replied, "The teleportation array opens every half a month. The next opening is in three days. If you want to go to Cang Yu Star, come back in three days."
"Three days?"
Zhang Fan shook his head. Being stranded here had already delayed him for a considerable amount of time. If he were delayed for another three days, he worried that Ling Xiu and the others might not be able to hold on.
"I need to activate it separately. How many spirit crystals will that cost?" Zhang Fan asked again.
"Activate it separately?" The guard looked at him as if he were an idiot, shaking his head and saying, "The rules were set by the Star Lord. I cannot make the decision. Unless the Star Lord gives the order, no one can arbitrarily activate the teleportation array."
"Star Lord?" Zhang Fan nodded, then his divine soul spread out, enveloping the entire Bai Yu City. He quickly located a cultivator of the Three Tribulations Nascent Soul stage.
He extended his arm, which rapidly lengthened and, in the blink of an eye, reached tens of kilometers away.
In the Star Lord's mansion, a corpulent old man in opulent robes was lounging leisurely on a chair, enjoying the sunlight and sipping spirit tea, appearing quite content.
But suddenly, he saw an arm descending from the sky, reaching directly for him.
"What is this!"
The corpulent old man shrieked in fright. The terrifying aura emanating from the arm made his soul tremble. He wanted to escape but found he couldn't move at all, watching helplessly as he was grasped by the hand.
"It's over, it's over," the corpulent old man muttered repeatedly, lamenting his fate.
"Is this your Star Lord?" When Zhang Fan retracted his arm, the corpulent old man was already standing before him. Realizing he was not dead, he immediately prostrated himself, "Spare my life, esteemed sir, spare my life!"
Besides fear, confusion also filled his heart. He had lived peacefully in a corner, honestly serving as the Star Lord of a living planet, and had not offended any powerful enemies. Who was this man before him?
"I need to go to Cang Yu Star. The guard said that the teleportation array can only be activated if you, the Star Lord, give the order. Please help me by speaking to them," Zhang Fan said to the corpulent old man.
At this moment, the two guards responsible for the teleportation array were already terrified. In their eyes, their immensely powerful Star Lord had been grabbed by this young man like a chick from his mansion tens of kilometers away and brought before them.
"What are you still waiting for? Hurry up and activate the teleportation array for the esteemed sir!" The corpulent old man, seeing the guards still frozen in place, shouted urgently, his heart in his mouth.
The two guards snapped back to reality, casting a frightened glance at Zhang Fan. They quickly took out their teleportation tokens and activated the array.
"Esteemed sir, please," the corpulent old man bowed respectfully.
Zhang Fan nodded, took out a million spirit crystals from his spatial artifact, and threw them before the old man before stepping into the teleportation array and disappearing from everyone's sight.
Only after Zhang Fan had left did the corpulent old man dare to look up. Cold sweat covered his forehead. He couldn't help but swallow and mutter to himself, "Such terrifying power!"
As the lord of a star, he had seen elders of the Nine Tribulations stage within his sect, but none of them could compare to the young man before him.
"This matter is extraordinary. I must report it to the sect immediately." The corpulent old man pocketed the million spirit crystals Zhang Fan had left behind, then quickly returned to his mansion to contact a deacon within the sect and report the incident.
After transiting through Cang Yu Star, it took Zhang Fan more than a day to finally return to the Realm Heart Continent.
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