Swallowed Star 2: Origin Continent-Chapter 315 : Attention

Chapter 315: Attention

Inside the headquarters of the Insect Nest, within the massive spherical lifeform.

The beautiful woman lay there as if she had fallen asleep. A transmission message contacted her.

“Hmm?” The beautiful woman slowly opened her eyes, somewhat puzzled. “Elder Saluo, what is it?”

Toward the seven Elder-Level existences of the Insect Nest, she still treated them with courtesy.

“Master of the Insect Nest!” Elder Saluo transmitted, “I’ve been trapped by Luo Feng inside the Yun Dan Tower. He simply refuses to let me leave. He even demands that I hand over one hundred million Primordial Crystals as a compensation gift before he will allow me to go.”

“How did you provoke Luo Feng?” the beautiful woman asked, somewhat confused.

“A Pill Alchemist in the Yun Dan Tower poisoned and killed two of my subordinates. Here is the detailed intelligence.” Elder Saluo sent the complete report.

The beautiful woman reviewed the entire process.

“I personally came to the Yun Dan Tower intending to capture that Pill Alchemist Gu Qingyuan,” Elder Saluo said helplessly. “But who would have thought that this Luo Feng would be so domineering? He directly trapped me with a formation array and demanded compensation. He didn’t even place you in his eyes.”

The beautiful woman asked further, “His formation array alone can trap you so that you cannot escape?”

“Yes.”

Elder Saluo replied, “The formation’s power is terrifying. It completely suppresses me. I cannot resist.”

If he could have forcibly broken through the formation array, he would have already left.

“Moreover, this formation array is even draining my vitality, making me weaker and weaker,” Elder Saluo said. “Master of the Insect Nest, Luo Feng is publicly humiliating us. Our Insect Nest cannot tolerate this.”

“Why can’t we tolerate it?” the beautiful woman asked in confusion. “When encountering a powerful enemy, if one should endure, then naturally one must endure.”

Elder Saluo was stunned.

A powerful enemy?

In the eyes of the Master of the Insect Nest, Luo Feng was a powerful enemy?

“As for the one hundred million Primordial Crystals compensation gift, there is actually no need to give it to him. You are an Elder with many clones. Simply abandon the trapped clone,” the beautiful woman instructed.

Elder Saluo replied helplessly, “I personally came to the Yun Dan Tower prepared to forcibly capture Gu Qingyuan. Therefore I brought an entire set of secret treasures with me, worth over one hundred million Primordial Crystals.”

If it were an ordinary clone, he could simply disperse it. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

But the entire set of secret treasures had been painstakingly gathered and suited him perfectly, so naturally they could not be discarded easily.

“Then give the compensation,” the beautiful woman said.

“If I pay it, the Insect Nest will lose all face this time. Luo Feng is stepping on the face of the entire Insect Nest!” Elder Saluo reminded her again.

“Let him step on it!” The beautiful woman cut off the transmission.

She had never cared about such things.

“Last time he came to the outside of my Cave Dwelling to provoke me, and this time he publicly bullies me again? Is he forcing me to fight him?” The beautiful woman became increasingly vigilant in her heart. She knew a very simple principle.

The more an enemy wanted something to happen, the more one must not let the enemy succeed.

“Information about me has long circulated in Rainlan City. This Luo Feng even had a clash of mental will with me.” The beautiful woman thought, “He clearly knows my background, yet he still forces me to make a move? He must have some confidence!”

“Has he acquired an even more powerful mental secret technique?”

“Or some other unknown method?”

She had only one way to respond: endure!

Time would reveal Luo Feng’s true background.

“As long as this Luo Feng is truly powerful, he will eventually reveal his brilliance. When that time comes, his background will naturally become clear.” The beautiful woman was very patient.

…

The formation arrays of the Yun Dan Tower Complex were operating, forcibly trapping Elder Saluo and compelling him to present compensation. This scene naturally stunned the onlookers, and the news quickly spread throughout the city.

The Yun Dan Tower was merely a pill-refining force, yet it dared to provoke the Insect Nest, one of the three major Raiding Factions?

Any faction that dared to engage in raiding was extremely terrifying. The Insect Nest possessed the Master of the Insect Nest and seven Elder-Level existences. As for Seeker-level cultivators at the Mid-Stage God Emperor level, their numbers were even greater.

“So we’re just going to keep Elder Saluo trapped like this?” Yun Dan Tower Master Changqing asked uneasily.

“I will handle this matter. Pavilion Master, there is no need to worry,” Luo Feng said.

Yun Dan Tower Master Changqing was truly nervous. With insufficient strength, he simply did not dare to act so forcefully in front of the Insect Nest.

“I just hope Luo Feng doesn’t drag me down,” Yun Dan Tower Master Changqing thought.

Elder Saluo, who was trapped, remained silent for a moment.

Finally he spoke, his tone much gentler. “Luo Feng, coming to the Yun Dan Tower this time was my offense. Please allow me to leave.”

“Hm?” Yun Dan Tower Master Changqing was surprised. The other members of the Yun Dan Tower were also rather shocked.

He really bowed his head?

“I already said it. Hand over one hundred million Primordial Crystals as a compensation gift, and I will naturally release you,” Luo Feng said calmly as he looked at him.

Elder Saluo felt extremely aggrieved. He was also a Source World expert with many clones, so there was no real need for him to care about Luo Feng’s pride. He had lowered his head in hopes that Luo Feng would waive the one hundred million Primordial Crystals.

“Luo Feng, I came to the Yun Dan Tower for Gu Qingyuan, not against you. Yet you still demand one hundred million Primordial Crystals as compensation?” Elder Saluo could not help but say.

“If it were directed at me, it would not be something that one hundred million Primordial Crystals could resolve.” Luo Feng looked at Elder Saluo.

Scum like the Insect Nest deserved to be taught a lesson. If this were outside the city, Luo Feng would have already crushed him to death.

No matter how ferocious Elder Saluo was, he had to endure at this moment.

A short while later.

Another clone of Elder Saluo arrived carrying one hundred million Primordial Crystals.

“This is the one hundred million Primordial Crystals as compensation.” A sack of Primordial Crystals was presented.

“You may leave.” Luo Feng accepted the compensation and allowed him to depart.

As Elder Saluo left, he looked at Luo Feng and said, “Brother Luo Feng, impressive, truly impressive.”

After that he said nothing more. Under the gaze of the many onlookers outside, he quickly departed.

“He really paid the compensation?” The many members of the Yun Dan Tower could hardly believe it.

Within the city, forcing an Elder to obediently offer compensation?

Elders all had clones. Sometimes they would rather have their clone perish than bow their heads so easily.

What the Yun Dan Tower members did not know was that even the Master of the Insect Nest had chosen to endure. Elder Saluo naturally sensed something was wrong. Therefore he suppressed his temper, did not summon allies to escalate the situation, and instead offered the compensation, bowed his head, and ended the conflict.

“Senior Luo Feng.” Pill Alchemist Gu Qingyuan respectfully bowed. “Thank you for saving my life.”

Without Luo Feng’s intimidation, Gu Qingyuan would have been in grave danger this time. Even if he had fled the city immediately after poisoning them, the Insect Nest could still investigate the traces of space-time and causal traces. His chances of survival would have been slim.

But after the death of his only disciple, Gu Qingyuan had been filled with killing intent. He killed the two murderers first, then prepared to escape if possible. If he could not escape, he was ready to perish together with them.

“I believe that Saluo will not target you again,” Luo Feng said. “Stay in the Yun Dan Tower with peace of mind.”

“Yes, Senior.”

Gu Qingyuan was deeply grateful.

“Alright, disperse everyone,” Yun Dan Tower Master Changqing said with a smile, then pulled Luo Feng aside and left.

“Brother Luo Feng, this time you openly humiliated the Insect Nest. The Master of the Insect Nest must know about it, yet Saluo still obediently paid the compensation.” Yun Dan Tower Master Changqing said urgently. “Clearly, it wasn’t Saluo who chose to bow his head—it was the Master of the Insect Nest! Why?”

Luo Feng thought for a moment and smiled. “Perhaps during our last clash, she was seriously injured, so she would rather bow her head this time?”

As Luo Feng’s realm rose, his use of the Lieu Yuan Technique had become increasingly terrifying, and its power naturally grew even stronger.

Of course, Luo Feng’s strongest method now was direct combat under the amplification of the Heart of Immortality and the World-in-Palm.

He did not even take the Three Hall Masters too seriously, much less the Master of the Insect Nest.

“Alright, no need to worry. No matter what moves they make, I will handle everything.” Luo Feng smiled slightly and then returned to his small tower.

He continued focusing on cultivation.

Even without deliberately fusing Life and Death, his Path of Life and Death was already only a thin veil away from reaching the Late-Stage God Emperor.

As long as he accumulated gradually, reaching the Late-Stage God Emperor in the Path of Life and Death was only a matter of time.

“Once the Path of Life and Death reaches the Late-Stage God Emperor, I can head to the Dark Holy Realm.”

“I can leave a clone in Rainlan City to repay Hall Master Yuan Xiang’s kindness. But my main efforts must be spent exploring the Dark Holy Realm.”

…

Within one of the Cave Dwellings in the Core Region of Rainlan City stood a tower. Inside the tower were tens of thousands of lifeforms, each with terrifying auras, all at the God Emperor level.

“Hmm? This Luo Feng showed no respect for the Insect Nest. With such humiliation, the Insect Nest still endured?”

“Strange, very strange.”

“The Master of the Insect Nest is famously domineering. If she endured, there can only be one possibility—she’s afraid. She would be afraid?”

The tens of thousands of lifeforms all revealed puzzled expressions.

This tower was the Ten Thousand Shadows Loft.

No one knew what the master of the Ten Thousand Shadows Loft looked like. That was because the tens of thousands of lifeforms within the loft were only a portion of the master himself. Many other parts of him existed in the Dark Holy Realm and in other places.

He was an existence whose clones and incarnations numbered countless.

The Master of the Trick Workshop, the master of the Ten Thousand Shadows Loft, and the Master of the Insect Nest—these three had each established theft and raiding factions, and none of them were easy to provoke.

…

“Luo Feng stepped on the face of the Insect Nest, and Elder Saluo obediently paid one hundred million Primordial Crystals?” Elder Xingyi’s branches had already grown blossoms. His status in Rainlan City was extremely extraordinary.

As the personal disciple of an invincible existence in the Dark Holy Realm, even the Three Hall Masters gave him face.

“Luo Feng had only just arrived in Rainlan City. He even shared a Cave Dwelling with Emperor Qing and hunted only Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms at the Early-Stage God Emperor level.”

“And now, in the blink of an eye, even the Master of the Insect Nest fears him?”

“He has a bit of my master’s bearing.”

Elder Xingyi thought.

Even he rarely had the chance to meet his own master.

Those dazzling existences of the Dark Holy Realm seemed ordinary when compared to his master.

Within the largest Cave Dwelling in Rainlan City.

Hall Master Wei Yang sat there with deep eyes and an expressionless face as he read the latest intelligence report.

He paid close attention to everything happening in Rainlan City.

He clearly knew that Hall Master Yuan Xiang’s condition was deteriorating more and more.

He had already prepared himself to assume the position of City Lord of Rainlan City.

“Luo Feng?”

Hall Master Wei Yang looked at the report and slightly frowned.

“He’s growing this quickly?”

The Master of the Trick Workshop had once suggested recruiting Luo Feng, but Hall Master Wei Yang had not done so. From Luo Feng, he sensed a powerful threat.

“Insect Nest, Luo Feng acted so domineeringly. Yet you endured?” Hall Master Wei Yang transmitted directly to the Master of the Insect Nest.

“He is skilled in mental will secret techniques. I’ve already clashed with him mentally. I do not wish to provoke him,” the Master of the Insect Nest replied.

“Only a mental clash?” Hall Master Wei Yang asked again.

“Yes. If I had a powerful secret treasure capable of protecting the mind, I would naturally be willing to teach this Luo Feng a lesson,” the Master of the Insect Nest responded.

Hall Master Wei Yang did not ask further.

A moment later—

“Hall Master, what ranking should Luo Feng’s latest God Emperor ranking be set at?” a subordinate asked through transmission.

Hall Master Wei Yang frowned slightly and instructed:

“Set it at Rank 33.”