Swallowed Star 2: Origin Continent-Chapter 291 : Heavenly Crane Elder and Yu Yong

Chapter 291: Heavenly Crane Elder and Yu Yong

Primordial Hall, First Floor, Shop Number Three.

“Oh!” The chubby old man Bu You widened his eyes as he examined the corpses of Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms stored inside the storage bag. Among them, one enormous corpse with a completely crimson body was the most eye-catching. “Judging by the size and the aura, this is a Low-Rank Primordial Lifeform at the Mid-Stage God Emperor level.”

Bu You looked at Luo Feng and Emperor Qing in surprise.

In Rainlan City, being able to hunt a ‘Mid-Stage God Emperor’ Low-Rank Primordial Lifeform already proved the strength of the team.

“Hurry up and give a price,” Emperor Qing urged.

“For this Flame Zheng Beast corpse, the highest I can offer is 12.5 million Primordial Crystals,” Bu You said. “Including its 10 War Merits, that totals 13.5 million Primordial Crystals.”

Luo Feng and Emperor Qing exchanged a glance. This was already the highest offer. The other two shops they had just visited had offered only 12 million and 12.2 million at most, not counting War Merits.

“This Flame Zheng Beast corpse is yours,” Emperor Qing said with a smile.

Hearing this, Bu You burst into laughter. He had been determined to obtain this intact Flame Zheng Beast corpse. The core tendons of the Flame Zheng Beast were something the power behind him had long been purchasing. As for the rest of the body materials, they could be used for refining weapons, making medicines, crafting puppets, and more.

Although it was only a ‘Mid-Stage God Emperor’ Low-Rank Primordial Lifeform corpse, that was because these lifeforms had relatively low realms and could not fully display their advantages. As beings that were born having already escaped the cage, their corpses were still very special. In the hands of cultivators, they could play a much greater role.

Even the leftover fragments could be used as materials for cultivators to study and comprehend cultivation.

“All sold.”

Luo Feng and the others visited the three shops they were most familiar with on the first floor of the Primordial Hall, selling everything suitable.

“This time, we hunted one Mid-Stage God Emperor and seven Early-Stage God Emperor Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms. In total, we sold them for 19.5 million Primordial Crystals.” Luo Feng and Emperor Qing simply divided the income.

Thirty–seventy split. Emperor Qing took 5.85 million Primordial Crystals, while the remaining 13.65 million Primordial Crystals went to Luo Feng. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Luo Feng had previously borrowed 300,000 Primordial Crystals from Emperor Qing to purchase the Formation Diagram Secret Treasure, and he returned it as well.

“When you handle the spoils from Ku Mo, don’t rush,” Emperor Qing said. “Take a look around Rainlan City first.”

Luo Feng nodded.

Handling those spoils would be somewhat troublesome.

If he was lazy, he could sell everything directly here in the Primordial Hall. But that would come with a large discount.

Complete Low-Rank Primordial Lifeform corpses could be sold here. But many scattered materials, as well as the prepared poisons and rare ingredients meant for refining poison, needed to be sold to people who truly recognized their value.

“Spend a few more days dealing with it,” Luo Feng thought. He wasn’t in a hurry at all. With such a large batch of spoils, they naturally had to be handled properly.

“You should also be careful of Ku Mo’s master, Yu Yong, and the Trick Workshop!” Emperor Qing reminded him before leaving.

Luo Feng then went to deal with the spoils.

…

In Rainlan City, there were only three factions that engaged in long-term ‘theft and plunder’: the Insect Nest, the Ten Thousand Shadows Loft, and the Trick Workshop!

It should be known that within the entire city, there were 723 individuals with the strength of Late-Stage God Emperor Comprehenders. For these three forces to dare to plunder so openly without fearing enemies showed just how confident they were.

“Deputy Workshop Master, Ku Mo of the Blacklight team is dead.”

The four experts from that team had returned to Rainlan City ahead of Luo Feng’s group, so they had naturally reported the news.

Within the entire Trick Workshop, there were eight Deputy Workshop Masters! Each possessed the strength of a Late-Stage God Emperor Comprehender. Among them, five even served as Elders of Rainlan City.

These eight Deputy Workshop Masters were the ones truly managing the Trick Workshop.

As for the Workshop Master?

The Workshop Master was extremely powerful, already approaching the level of the Three Hall Masters! He rarely appeared. Most of his attention was on his clone in the Dark Holy Realm. Maintaining the existence of the Trick Workshop was merely a way to obtain sufficient benefits.

“Ku Mo is dead?”

A handsome man draped in a white robe sat there. A faint layer of radiance naturally covered the surface of his skin. Upon closer inspection, that radiance was actually formed from thousands of protective layers.

This handsome man was one of the Deputy Workshop Masters of the Trick Workshop—Heavenly Crane Elder.

“I only have twenty teams under my command. Losing a member from the Blacklight team so suddenly makes reallocating members quite troublesome.” Heavenly Crane Elder smiled faintly as he leisurely poured himself a drink with fingers as white as jade. “How did he die?”

“Deputy Workshop Master, the detailed intelligence is here.” The golden-armored figure respectfully presented the report.

Heavenly Crane Elder glanced at it.

The report clearly recorded the entire process of the previous battle.

“Luo Feng?”

Heavenly Crane Elder murmured softly. “A cultivator who has only been in Rainlan City for about seven hundred eras. His physical body technique is somewhat interesting.”

However, he did not care much.

He too was a powerhouse who had emerged from a Source World. Serving as an Elder in Rainlan City and a Deputy Workshop Master in the Trick Workshop was merely a convenient way to gain benefits. Most of his energy was also devoted to the Dark Holy Realm.

As a Comprehender who had long reached the Late-Stage God Emperor level, the wealth accumulated over endless years meant that even in Rainlan City he possessed a full set of powerful Secret Treasures. Naturally, he did not regard Luo Feng as a threat.

“He killed one of my subordinates. He should compensate something,” Heavenly Crane Elder said, glancing at the golden-armored figure. “Go find Luo Feng and tell him… compensate fifty million Primordial Crystals, and the matter will be settled.”

“If he refuses to pay, don’t say anything more. Just come back,” Heavenly Crane Elder instructed.

“Yes.”

The golden-armored figure respectfully acknowledged and left.

Heavenly Crane Elder leisurely drank his wine, his mood barely stirred.

A subordinate had died? He did not care at all.

The purpose of leaving a clone in Rainlan City was simply to accumulate resources.

“Rainlan City has been boring for too long.” Heavenly Crane Elder revealed a faint smile. “Luo Feng? I truly hope you refuse me. That would make things more interesting.”

If one wished to reap benefits in Rainlan City for a long time, reputation alone was not enough—there also had to be sufficient deterrence!

And deterrence was earned through killing!

“Hmph.”

Heavenly Crane Elder’s eyes turned cold.

Compared with the cruelty of the Dark Holy Realm, life in the Jiugang Holy Realm was merely relaxation for him.

…

In the most central area of Rainlan City stood a cave residence. In terms of safety and energy supply, it was superior even to Emperor Qing’s cave residence.

“Ku Mo is dead?”

Yu Yong, within the cave residence, received the news along with the full record of the battle from those four companions.

Yu Yong’s physique was much more towering. He was not part of the Path of Comprehenders but a Primordial Bloodline cultivator! In terms of strength, he had nearly pushed his Primordial Bloodline to the Half-Primordial Level.

Yet he still lacked that final step.

Only true Half-Primordial Level bloodline cultivators held a status comparable to Late-Stage God Emperor Comprehenders. With Yu Yong’s current strength, if he went to the Dark Holy Realm, he might barely meet the minimum threshold. But he did not wish to try.

Even if he went, he would be at the very bottom.

He would rather remain in the Jiugang Holy Realm and continue accumulating strength—at least until he truly reached the Half-Primordial Level.

“Ku Mo…” Yu Yong sighed softly. “I already told you. After we came to the Jiugang Holy Realm, life became much easier. There was no need to join that Trick Workshop.”

Yu Yong and Ku Mo had climbed up from the very bottom together.

Along the way they had other companions, but in the end only the two of them reached the Jiugang Holy Realm together.

For cultivators from a Source World, the path of cultivation was even more difficult. Becoming a God Emperor was unimaginably hard! Yet within their Source World, the pressure they faced was not as great.

But Yu Yong and Ku Mo possessed many resources, making cultivation easier—but danger was everywhere, and death constantly approached, forcing them to train.

If you were not strong, you died.

“I once personally met Senior Jin. Senior Jin said that as long as we can escape the cage, he would be willing to revive many of our dead companions.” Yu Yong sighed. “For us, the most important thing is escaping the cage—not fighting other cultivators to the death.”

Yu Yong understood his disciple Ku Mo very well.

Ku Mo had grown up through slaughter his entire life. Even after becoming a God Emperor, he habitually followed this path—because it was the fastest way to earn resources.

“Before, the environment forced us to kill. But now the Jiugang Holy Realm does not force us. We can slow down.” Yu Yong cherished these relatively peaceful days.

“Luo Feng?”

Yu Yong looked at the intelligence record of the entire battle.

“Perhaps Luo Feng was Ku Mo’s tribulation.”

He had no hostility toward Luo Feng at all.

If one actively chose to plunder and kill others, and was ultimately killed instead—who could be blamed?

On the path of growing through slaughter, Yu Yong had witnessed too many companions die. He had long prepared himself to die at any time. In the end, he and Ku Mo had been extremely fortunate to completely transcend their original world and reach the Jiugang Holy Realm.

Ku Mo dying here did not surprise Yu Yong in the slightest.

If one chose the path of plunder, one had to be prepared for the backlash.

“I will not avenge you,” Yu Yong sighed softly. “I believe this is what you would also hope for, Ku Mo.”

The two of them understood each other too well.

They were called master and disciple, but after growing together through endless years, they had long been comrades who had faced life and death together.

“My path of cultivation has only one goal—escaping the cage!” Yu Yong’s eyes became unprecedentedly resolute. Only by escaping the cage could he make up for far too many regrets.

…

Luo Feng wandered through various merchants in Rainlan City, seeking a suitable way to handle the large number of spoils. He did not necessarily need the highest price, but it had to be close.

Night had fallen, and the wind was strong.

Just as Luo Feng walked out of a merchant shop, he saw a golden-armored figure appear ahead. The man was completely covered in golden armor, his expression cold as he looked at Luo Feng.

“Trick Workshop, Qiu Yike.”

Luo Feng immediately recognized him. He had already purchased intelligence on all the God Emperors in the city. Although he had not bought the latest updates yet, such intelligence rarely changed in the short term.

Qiu Yike was a member of the Trick Workshop with Mid-Stage God Emperor Comprehender strength.

“You came because of Ku Mo?” Luo Feng asked.

“Luo Feng.”

The golden-armored figure looked at him. “Ku Mo was under the Trick Workshop Deputy Workshop Master ‘Heavenly Crane Elder’. You killed Ku Mo, and the Deputy Workshop Master is furious. However, considering that Ku Mo attacked you first, you are given a chance to atone!”

“A chance to atone?” Luo Feng looked at him.

“Compensate fifty million Primordial Crystals, and the Trick Workshop will not pursue the matter further,” the golden-armored figure said.

“Fifty million Primordial Crystals?”

Luo Feng laughed in anger. “Your Trick Workshop team tried to rob and kill me outside the city. I counter-killed one of them, and now you want me to atone and compensate? When facing robbery and slaughter, should I just let myself be butchered?”

“You may counter-kill,” the golden-armored figure said. “But after doing so, you must still compensate. Within three days, deliver fifty million Primordial Crystals to the Deputy Workshop Master. Of course, you may also choose not to pay. But the consequences are not something you would want to see.”

After speaking, the golden-armored figure turned and left.

“Don’t wait three days.”

Luo Feng spoke.

“Go back and tell your Deputy Workshop Master ‘Heavenly Crane Elder’—forget fifty million Primordial Crystals! Not even a single Primordial Crystal! Whatever tricks he has, let him bring them out!”

The golden-armored figure glanced at Luo Feng and grinned.

“Impressive.”

With that, he flew away.