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 tangle with Liu Mu. If the Supreme Elder was injured and fled, how could they contend with Liu Mu, who held a grand dao secret treasure?
However, it was a bit too late for them to think of escaping now.
Since he had revealed his trump card, Liu Mu naturally would not hold back. Even though he could only exert a fraction of the grand dao secret treasure's power, he was not someone two peak Nascent Soul cultivators could contend with. Facing Liu Mu, who wielded the Heavymount Greatsword, Nangong Pu was sent spitting blood with a single move. After only a few dozen more moves, both of them died tragically under Liu Mu's sword.
Liu Mu collected his spoils and muttered to himself, "The older one gets, the more one fears death. Even pushed this far, they still didn't dare to self-detonate their Nascent Soul. What a windfall for me."
After waiting for a full day above the Great Luo Sea and still seeing no sign of Zhang Fan, Liu Mu gave up waiting and headed for the Six King Cities.
He wasn't worried about Zhang Fan's safety at all. The dark space was extremely dangerous for low-level Nascent Soul cultivators, but for cultivators at their level, the dark space posed little threat.
He knew that once Zhang Fan emerged, he would definitely head for the Six King Cities. As his only friend in the Wushan Star Domain, he naturally had to go and help.
After all, those three top forces had deep foundations. When Zhang Fan went to raze their sects, there would undoubtedly be many good things. He didn't want to miss this opportunity to get rich.
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"Where is this?"
Zhang Fan flew out of the dark space and looked at the city below. His immense soul power spread out, enveloping the entire city. After a long moment, a strange expression appeared on his face.
"I was only in the dark space for a short while, and when I came out, I had already left the boundaries of the World Heart Continent and arrived on a living planet?"
Zhang Fan felt helpless, but also a little fortunate that he was still within the Wushan Star Domain.
After a scan with his soul, Zhang Fan gained a basic understanding of this living planet. This planet was named Baiyu Star, and its Star Lord was a three-tribulation Nascent Soul cultivator. It was a property of the Sun Shadow Grotto-Heaven. The planet had no direct teleportation array to the World Heart Continent; it required a transfer through another living planet.
Moreover, this planet had only one teleportation array, located in Baiyu City, the main city of Baiyu Star.
Immediately, Zhang Fan determined his direction and turned into a stream of light, heading towards Baiyu Star.
With his current strength, this living planet was far too small. Even flying around the planet would not take much time.
A few minutes later, Zhang Fan landed outside Baiyu City. To avoid drawing attention, Zhang Fan deliberately concealed his aura, appearing to be only a Golden Core stage cultivator from the outside.
After entering the city, as he had no spirit crystals on him, Zhang Fan first found a shop that could exchange for spirit crystals and traded spirit treasures for a large amount of them.
In the Great Luo Realm, Zhang Fan had killed countless Nascent Soul cultivators. Although he had consumed all their spirit crystals and spirit herbs, he had acquired many spirit treasures and heavenly treasures. Any high-grade spirit treasure could be exchanged for tens of millions of spirit crystals.
"I need to go to Cangyu 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 in 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 Cangyu Star, come back in three days."
"Three days?"
Zhang Fan shook his head. Being stranded here had already cost him a lot of time. If he were to delay for another three days, he worried that Ling Xiu and the others wouldn't be able to hold on.
"I need to activate it individually. How many spirit crystals will that cost?" Zhang Fan asked again.
"Activate individually?" The guard looked at him as if he were an idiot and shook his head. "The rules were set by the Star Lord. I can't make the decision. Unless the Star Lord gives the order, no one can activate the teleportation array without authorization."
"Star Lord?" Zhang Fan nodded, then his soul spread out, enveloping the entire Baiyu City. He quickly located a Nascent Soul cultivator at the three-tribulation stage.
He stretched out his arm, which rapidly elongated and, in the blink of an eye, reached tens of kilometers away.
In the Star Lord's mansion, a fat old man in luxurious robes was lounging leisurely on a chair, enjoying the sunlight and sipping spirit tea, looking very content.
But suddenly, he saw an arm coming from the sky, reaching directly for him.
"What is this!"
The fat old man shrieked in fear. The terrifying aura emanating from the arm made his soul tremble. He wanted to escape, but found himself unable to move, watching helplessly as he was grasped by the hand.
"It's over, it's over," the fat old man muttered repeatedly, lamenting his fate.
"Is this your Star Lord?" When Zhang Fan retracted his arm, the fat old man was already standing in front of him. He realized he was still alive and immediately knelt down, "Senior, spare my life! Senior, spare my life!"
Besides panic, he was also confused. He had lived peacefully in seclusion, 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 Cangyu Star. The guard said that the teleportation array can only be activated if you, the Star Lord, give the order. Please help me by giving the order," Zhang Fan said to the fat old man.
The two guards responsible for the teleportation array were already terrified. In their eyes, the incredibly powerful Star Lord had been grabbed like a chicken by this young man and brought from his mansion tens of kilometers away to the present.
"What are you standing there for? Hurry and activate the teleportation array for senior!" The fat old man, seeing the guards still frozen in place, had his heart in his mouth and quickly reprimanded them.
The two guards reacted, glancing fearfully at Zhang Fan. They quickly took out their teleportation tokens and activated the array.
"Senior, please!" The fat old man bowed respectfully.
Zhang Fan nodded, took out a million spirit crystals from his Spatial Sphere, threw them in front of the old man, and then stepped into the teleportation array, disappearing from sight.
Only after Zhang Fan left did the fat old man dare to look up. Cold sweat covered his forehead. He couldn't help but swallow and mutter to himself, "What terrifying power!"
As the lord of a star, he had seen elders at the nine-tribulation stage within his sect, but none of them could compare to the young man before him.
"This matter is of utmost importance. I must report it to the sect immediately." The fat old man collected the million spirit crystals Zhang Fan had left behind, then quickly returned to his mansion, preparing to contact an elder in the sect to report the incident.
After transferring through Cangyu Star, and taking more than a day, Zhang Fan finally returned to the World Heart Continent.
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