Chapter 069
Chapter 69: Beyond Comprehension
Nine figures spread out in different directions, not gathering together. They were out collecting cataclysm materials. Only two remained in place, standing watch at the sides of the lake, their senses heightened.
Though the lake wasn’t vast, it wasn’t small either. It would be difficult to instantly kill two cultivators at the ten-seal level. Wang Jie thought for a moment. He would wait—wait for the others to spread even farther apart. He didn’t want to let a single one escape.
The men from Jun Tang, if he killed them, could be of help to Jun Hua. Jun Hua had been good to him. Besides, these people had come onto his territory.
Wait, Wang Jie suddenly thought. Why rush to kill them? He could let them gather cataclysm materials for a while first.
With this in mind, he quietly backed away and left. Those men were hunting mutated beasts, and they all had combat power detectors, so Wang Jie decided not to make a move. Otherwise, he might be detected.
For now, his supply of cataclysm materials was sufficient.
Half a month passed in a blink of an eye. After two more operations, Wang Jie found himself running out of materials again. It was time to hunt.
He activated his combat power detector. At this moment, he was located to the north of the lake, and he remembered that two people were coming in this direction.
He casually made his move, revealing his nine-seal strength.
Several dozen kilometers away, a burly man gnawed on the leg of a mutated beast, sitting on its carcass as he scanned the surroundings. Suddenly, the combat power detector beeped. His eyes brightened. Nine-seals? He tossed aside the beast’s leg. This was worth something.
He grabbed his knife and charged toward Wang Jie.
A short time later, the burly man saw Wang Jie, and Wang Jie also saw him. Their gazes locked.
The burly man was surprised. “Is there someone here?”
The Slaughter Stone planet must have inhabitants; otherwise, how could cultivators be trained here? But all the powerful ones should have been taken away. The ones left behind shouldn’t be here.
“Are you a native?” he asked.
Wang Jie looked at him. “Guess.”
The burly man’s face reddened in anger. He raised his knife and swung. “Seeking death!”
A powerful blade of energy surged forward, spanning a hundred meters toward Wang Jie. Wang Jie charged forward to meet it. A beam of light shot from the weapon in the burly man’s hand. He wasn’t as crude as he appeared.
Unfortunately.
Wang Jie threw a handful of sand toward him. The burly man reflexively raised his knife to block, not thinking to dodge. In his eyes, Wang Jie was just a nine-seal cultivator.
But in that instant, the combat power detector’s value shot up.
The burly man’s pupils contracted. Something was wrong. He tried to avoid the attack, but it was too late. The sand pierced through his blade and struck his head, instantly killing him.
Wang Jie had fought Shu Mu Night three times, and each battle had propelled him forward in leaps and bounds. He no longer knew how large the gap was between him and someone of his own level.
Figures like Insect Xuan had already reached a level of cultivation that ordinary cultivators could only dream of, yet even they couldn’t survive a single strike from Shu Mu Night.
Such was Wang Jie’s current strength.
This was also the mystery Bian Qi and Jun Tang couldn’t understand on the mining planet.
A ten-seal cultivator—how could he be so strong?
Wang Jie looked at the bloody, disfigured body of the burly man. He had used too much force. He had intended to leave him alive to ask questions, but… never mind.
He used the man’s blood to open the storage ring, spilling out a pile of items—weapons, battle armor, food, water, silver coins, and, most of all, cataclysm materials.
Hmm? What’s this? Starstone?
Starstones were one of the currencies used by cultivators. In the universe, there were many kinds of currency due to the vastness of civilizations, and even cataclysm materials could be used as currency. But the most valuable currencies were all related to star force.
For example, starstones contained star force, and cultivators could directly absorb the star force within them.
However, this wasn’t useful to Wang Jie. He cultivated lock force, not star force. Slaughter stones were also used as currency, and they were highly valuable.
This burly man practiced lock force, yet he had starstones.
On to the next one.
The combat power detector beeped again, and Wang Jie confirmed his target and headed in that direction.
In the distance, a man stood lost in thought, gazing at the desert. He raised his hand, summoning a violent wind that swept across the land.
After the wind passed, the desert remained unchanged, but the man noticed something. He grasped some sand and examined it. “It’s been cut… Such sharp swordsmanship.”
Beep, beep, beep!
The combat power detector’s alarm sounded. The man suddenly turned around, surprised to see someone approaching, walking slowly toward him.
His expression changed. The detector hadn’t alerted him until now. The person had a strong breath concealment technique to avoid detection.
“Who are you?” the man asked.
Wang Jie looked up at him. Beneath two blazing suns, the air shimmered with heat. “You’re much more polite than the last guy.”
The man’s eyes narrowed. “You’ve met us before?”
Wang Jie raised his arm and gripped his sword. “This desert was cut open, but the wind and sand have covered it up. You’re sharp to notice. So, what do you say? Want to take a look?”
Without hesitation, the man turned and fled.
Wang Jie thrust his sword out, and Liu Shui flashed through the air, crossing the man’s body and disappearing into the distance.
The man froze in his tracks. Though he was running, he felt his strength draining away. He touched his neck, and his hand came away sticky with blood.
Ten seals.
This man was definitely a ten-seal cultivator, but… terrifyingly strong.
This man had also given Wang Jie starstones and other miscellaneous items, many of which he didn’t recognize. He kept them all.
Over the next two days, the remaining members of the group hunted mutated beasts, while Wang Jie hunted them.
With ten-seal cultivation, an attack could theoretically affect half a planet. They had spread out widely, so it wouldn’t be easy to notice a few missing. But these individuals were unusually cautious.
After two days, several had gone missing, and they decided to meet up again.
Wang Jie blocked the path where two of them were set to meet. He cut them down one by one, and eventually, only three remained.
When Wang Jie neared the lake, a spaceship took off toward space.
They were escaping.
The three of them were running away, without a thought for the others.
Watching the ship disappear, Wang Jie took a deep breath, lowered his body, bent at the waist, and drew his sword.
Star Gazing Sword Style.
The stars above shifted. Sword Qi rained down like falling stars, piercing the ship and causing it to explode in a flash.
The ship fell rapidly toward the ground. Two figures leaped out, each escaping in opposite directions.
Unfortunately for them, the distance from the high sky to the ground was just long enough for Wang Jie to catch up.
He slashed twice with Rainbow Drinking Sword Style, the force enough to tear the sky open. One figure was shredded to pieces, while the other barely managed to block the blow, his body sent flying.
He actually blocked it?
Even without using his Qi, Wang Jie’s sword was now powerful enough that any cultivator under the ten-seal level would have a hard time blocking it. This man’s power might be close to that of Yun Lai, a genius.
Wang Jie quickly gave chase.
In the distance, a gust of wind stirred up yellow sand that obscured the sky. One figure plunged into the storm, twisting his body to take advantage of the wind and rush in the opposite direction.
This man’s face was pale, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. As his foot touched the desert ground, he pulled out a huge weapon from his storage ring and fired several blasts behind him.
Beams of light rained down on the desert, bombarding everything in sight.
Wang Jie gripped his sword. The blade shimmered like Liu Shui as he unleashed dozens of slashes in an instant. Each sword reflected the scorching light, covering a vast area. One sword was struck by the light beam, but the attack was blocked.
Found you.
In the distance, the man was horrified. He threw down his weapon and fled.
But he couldn’t escape. Wang Jie caught up to him.
Panting, the man stood still, staring at Wang Jie. “Are you from the Silver Radiance Empire, sent to kill us?”
Wang Jie studied him. The man looked older than Bai Yuan and was clad in exquisite battle armor. His gaze was filled with unease and fear. But was he truly afraid?
The man’s left hand gripped a knife, but Wang Jie observed his Qi. It was concentrated in his right palm, dense and powerful. Strange. The knife also contained Qi, but it wasn’t connected to him. Odd.
Qi could be faked or transferred, but the Silver Radiance Empire had no knowledge of Death Realm techniques, much less the manipulation of Qi.
So, this man hadn’t transferred his Qi.
His strength lay in palm techniques, and he cultivated star force. His eyes and actions were a disguise.
“I’ll tell you a secret,” the man said, his voice low. “When Jun Tang was stripped of his inheritance, he hid a large amount of resources in case of rebellion. If you don’t kill me, I’ll tell you where they are.”
Wang Jie raised an eyebrow. “Oh? Really?”
“Otherwise, why would the Silver Radiance Empire be hunting us? Jun Hua, as a disciple of Frost Radiance Sect, would never care about us!” The man spoke in a deep voice, feigning severe injury and coughing up blood. His left hand was trembling, unable to hold onto the knife, which fell to the ground.
Wang Jie walked toward him, stopping less than three meters away. “Where?”
The man gasped, his head hanging low. “It’s… it’s…” Suddenly, he raised his palm, releasing a swirl of star force that turned the wind into a violent storm, pulling the desert into a deathly silence.
The strike missed.
It struck the desert behind Wang Jie, leaving a massive imprint in the ground.
The man recoiled in horror, turning to run, but a heavy blow hit his back. He heard the sound of breaking bones, and his strength rapidly drained away. His body fell forward, unable to rise again.
“Who… who are you?” he asked, struggling to turn and face Wang Jie, blood staining his lips.
Wang Jie had no interest in conversing further. He killed the man instantly, then opened his storage ring. There was a lot of stuff. This man was likely the leader of the group. His starstones were worth more than everyone else’s combined. Silver Radiance force? Battle techniques? Wang Jie continued looking, his eyes drawn to the knife that had fallen to the ground. He raised his hand, and the knife flew into his grasp.
Star force.
The knife was infused with star force. Could this be a star artifact?
He wasn’t some naïve beginner anymore.
The universe had battle techniques, bridge laws, and all sorts of strange cultivation forces. Weapons, too, could be star artifacts imbued with star force.
A star artifact automatically contained star force. The simplest star artifacts were ranked by how much star force they contained, while the more powerful ones had special abilities.
This knife was basic, but it was still a star artifact.
If this man fought against an enemy of similar strength, this knife would be enough to slay a powerful foe, as its star force was equivalent to a ten-seal cultivator’s power.
Star artifacts weren’t cheap.
Hmm? What’s this? A newspaper?
There were newspapers in the universe?
Even on Blue Star, such things were rare in times of peace.
Wang Jie picked it up and looked at it. Yes, it was indeed a newspaper, from Star Dome Visage. But the material was unlike regular paper. Though it was only the size of a palm, the content changed depending on the angle you viewed it from.
The material was surprisingly tough.
Wang Jie examined it with interest, shifting it at different angles. Suddenly, he froze, his gaze darkening as he read a news headline.
“Shu Mu Night Breaking Star Stage–Thirteen Stars.”
“Evaluation—Beyond Comprehension—Gu Moon.”