Extreme Almightiest Young Master
Chapter 2488 - 2467: Dark Star
Chapter 2467 Dark Star
Staring at that mass of blood flickering with lightning in midair, the Dark Flame Soul-Devouring Tiger was incomparably excited. Although he didn’t know what he would become after fusing this Bloodline, there was one thing he was sure of: after the fusion, he would become stronger. Just that alone was already enough!
Thinking of this, the Dark Flame Soul-Devouring Tiger leapt into the air, returning to his true form. A ball of green Netherflame Demon Energy on his forehead wrapped toward that lightning-flickering blood, then slowly drifted back toward the Dark Flame Soul-Devouring Tiger’s forehead...
The moment the lightning-flickering blood entered the Dark Flame Soul-Devouring Tiger’s body, his entire body was covered in blue lightning. The extreme pain almost drove him mad, but even using every last bit of his Willpower, he still didn’t let out a roar, even though his whole body was convulsing, even though his entire body had already been charred by lightning! Because he knew the process was supposed to be like this—only by enduring it to the end could the Bloodline Fusion succeed. If he couldn’t hold on, then his fate would very likely be death!
"Boss, Old Black won’t be in danger, right?" The Purple Thunder Transforming Sky Dragon watched the Dark Flame Soul-Devouring Tiger in that state and asked Lin Feng, worried for him in his heart. After all, this Bloodline Fusion process was far too dangerous; it was equivalent to forcibly plundering someone else’s Bloodline, an act that defied the heavens.
"He should be fine. I have confidence in him." Seeing this, Lin Feng answered calmly. The two Demon Venerables had followed him to this day; he knew them well enough. If he wasn’t confident, he wouldn’t have let the Dark Flame Soul-Devouring Tiger fuse with the Thunder Light Sun Tiger’s Bloodline.
Hearing Lin Feng say that, the Purple Thunder Transforming Sky Dragon didn’t say anything more. He could only stand by Lin Feng’s side and wait, waiting for the Dark Flame Soul-Devouring Tiger to finish fusing the Bloodline.
In the blink of an eye, a full two hours passed, and the Dark Flame Soul-Devouring Tiger finally changed. The blue lightning on his body actually began transforming into green lightning, and his Physical Body was no longer as miserable as before, gradually developing in a better direction. This allowed Lin Feng and the Purple Thunder Transforming Sky Dragon to both let out a breath of relief.
Glancing at the time, Lin Feng knew he had no time to keep waiting here. He then said to the Purple Thunder Transforming Sky Dragon, "If we run into a suitable Bloodline, I’ll get one for you as well. You stay here and watch. I’ve got things to do outside, so I’ll head out first."
After speaking, Lin Feng left the Cave Heaven Mansion, returned to the inn, and took a look at the sky outside—it was indeed already bright. He put away the Formations he’d set up around him, and only then did Lin Feng walk out.
Tao Tao and Ma Biaohu heard the sound of Lin Feng opening the door and immediately came out of their rooms, leaving the inn together with Lin Feng.
This time, they didn’t go to the market plaza, but instead strolled through the shops in Ling City that catered to cultivators. Yet after wandering around and around, they still didn’t find anything they needed. Basically everything there had already been refined and formed; to them, it held no value.
As for special types of Dharma Treasures, they did encounter quite a few, but still nothing suitable for them. Even if they occasionally found something that interested them, the prices were absurdly high, so they could only give up.
In the blink of an eye, they had wandered the entire morning and still gained nothing at all. But by the afternoon, they came upon a very special shop that immediately piqued their interest. The shop’s name was extremely strange—Dark Star.
This special shop wasn’t big at all; among all the shops they had come across, it was the smallest. After entering, they saw that there were no goods inside at all, just a very old-looking elder sleeping there.
Looking at the old man, Lin Feng knocked on the table. The dull thumping sound woke the old man. When he opened his eyes and saw Lin Feng, a smile instantly appeared on his face, and he said to Lin Feng, "Honored customer, what would you like to know?"
"Know what?" Lin Feng was slightly stunned when he heard this, then added, "Uh, we thought the name of this shop was a bit strange, so we came in to ask what exactly this place does."
The old man understood immediately upon hearing this, and explained to Lin Feng with a smile, "Dark Star is a very special intelligence organization in the Myriad Heavens Divine Realm. As long as you have Yuan Stones, there is basically nothing we can’t find out. I am the receptionist for the Ling City Dark Star Organization."
"There’s actually a place like this!"
"You sell intelligence?"
When Tao Tao and Ma Biaohu heard the old man, they immediately voiced their questions. They truly hadn’t expected that this Dark Star was a shop specially selling information, and that it spoke with such confidence—it really shocked them.
Lin Feng was also quite surprised, but after thinking for a moment, he asked the old man, "I want to know, if you were to find all the Ascenders within Ling City, how big a price would that cost, and how long would it take to investigate?"
The old man completely ignored Tao Tao and Ma Biaohu, directing his gaze toward Lin Feng. After looking him up and down, he said to Lin Feng, "This matter isn’t that difficult. One million Yuan Stones, and one month’s time, and I can have all of that investigated clearly."
"Deal." Lin Feng was quite surprised by the old man’s quote. That old fellow in Pingcheng before was much more black-hearted than this one, and far slower in efficiency as well. So by comparison, the Dark Star here was pretty reliable. But to be safe, Lin Feng still asked, "If I come back then and you haven’t finished the investigation, or if I later discover that your information is incomplete, how do we settle that?"
"Honored customer, the situation you’re talking about will absolutely not occur. As for how we investigate, that’s not something we’ll tell you. If the results don’t satisfy you at that time, or if our investigation is incomplete and there are people missed, our Dark Star will compensate you with double your deposit." Seeing that Lin Feng was concerned about Dark Star’s credibility, the old man immediately added this, giving Lin Feng a solemn guarantee.
After speaking, he didn’t forget to add for Lin Feng, "In truth, you don’t need to worry so much at all. Our Dark Star’s reputation is known to everyone. You can ask any Divine King at random and learn about our Dark Star’s efficiency."
Hearing this, Lin Feng nodded. To be able to open such a shop specifically in the market, Dark Star’s strength shouldn’t be weak, and what he’d said did make Lin Feng trust this old man a bit more. At worst, he could go ask Elder Zhao at the auction house later, and everything would become clear.
"How much is the deposit?" Lin Feng asked casually as he looked at the old man.
"Five hundred thousand Yuan Stones." The old man didn’t hesitate and directly quoted a price.
Hearing this price, Lin Feng nodded and immediately counted out five hundred thousand Yuan Stones and traded them to the old man. The old man then wrote Lin Feng a receipt, after which Lin Feng left with Tao Tao and Ma Biaohu.
"Boss, we won’t get swindled, will we?" Once Ma Biaohu walked out of the shop with Lin Feng, he immediately asked him.
"Yeah, Brother Lin, we don’t know anything about that old man. He shouldn’t be a fraud, right?" Not only Ma Biaohu, even Tao Tao cared a lot about this matter. After all, this wasn’t a small transaction.
Lin Feng smiled faintly at their words and said to the two of them, "No need to worry. Didn’t you notice? The Dark Star plaque was a very old plaque, which means it’s been operating for many years. To have run for so many years and still be standing is itself an advertisement, a kind of credibility. They definitely won’t do something that ruins their own signboard."
Hearing Lin Feng say that, Tao Tao and the others could finally relax and continued shopping with Lin Feng. But the shops they visited afterward all felt dull to them, and even Lin Feng felt there was no meaning in it. The only reason he hadn’t given up yet was because he wanted to find a suitable shop to establish the Holy Pill Pavilion in Ling City.
Hard work pays off; as dusk approached, they finally found a shop that was being transferred. The shop was quite large, several times the size of the former Xucheng Holy Pill Pavilion. In a place where every inch of land was precious, a shop like this being transferred out was definitely an astronomical figure.
But what surprised Lin Feng and the others was that this shop, for some unknown reason, gave off a kind of dead and desolate feeling that made people feel a bit oppressed.
When they walked into this shop, they finally understood why. It turned out that this place had already been smashed up before. The outside still looked fine, but inside everything was broken, as if it had been looted. In the center of the shop sat a middle-aged beautiful woman, tears hanging on her face like pear blossoms in the rain, staring blankly at the wreckage inside the shop.
Seeing this scene, Tao Tao and Ma Biaohu both furrowed their brows and looked toward Lin Feng, while Lin Feng signaled them with his eyes not to speak, then walked straight toward that middle-aged beauty.
"Is your shop being transferred out?" Lin Feng looked at the middle-aged beautiful woman and asked very seriously.
Hearing Lin Feng’s question, the middle-aged beauty finally came back to her senses. She looked at Lin Feng and said, "Yes, our shop is being transferred out."
But as she said this, tears once again rolled down her cheeks. She continued to say to Lin Feng, "But young man, I suggest you don’t take this shop. You saw it yourself—we’ve run into trouble. If you take over this shop, you’ll very likely invite that trouble onto yourself."
"Can you tell me what kind of trouble it is?" Lin Feng looked at the beauty and asked again. He knew there must be trouble with this shop; if there weren’t, it wouldn’t be getting transferred out. Wasn’t the Holy Pill Pavilion in Xucheng back then just the same? He simply wanted to understand what exactly the trouble was so that he could weigh it and make his final decision.
The middle-aged beautiful woman’s face showed a look of misery at his words. Seeing that Lin Feng didn’t seem like someone who was just casually asking, and that she could also see his sincerity—if he were afraid of trouble, he would have turned and left the moment he saw the shop like this and wouldn’t have said so much—she thought for a moment, then began telling Lin Feng the story of this shop...