In the Outer City District of Yulan City, within an ordinary cave mansion.
“Not good, one of my sub-worms has been discovered.” A cultivator within the cave mansion sensed something, slightly puzzled, “How did this sub-worm avatar of mine get exposed?”
The Enchanting Heart Worm clan possesses strong disguising capabilities, infiltrating the soul of cultivators. Many of the defense systems in Yulan City are unable to detect them. Generally, the exposure of one avatar does not affect the others.
“It seems I need to be more cautious.” The cultivator thought, remaining inside the cave mansion.
In just a moment——
Boom!
A streak of blood light instantly penetrated the formation of this ordinary cave mansion in the Outer City District, also sweeping past the cultivator.
“Huh?” The cultivator’s eyes widened, still in disbelief.
The blood light condensed into the figure of Luo Feng, holding a sub-worm of the Enchanting Heart Worm in his hand.
“These Enchanting Heart Worms are crafty. Usually, only sub-worms enter the city, while the mother worm might be hiding outside the city.” Luo Feng frowned, aware that the infiltrating ‘Enchanting Heart Worm clan’ and ‘Soul-devouring Snake clan’ are indeed the most dreaded by cultivators. As for the ‘Void Wanderer clan’, their appearances in the entire Nine Rivers Sacred Realm are extremely rare, and their threat can be ignored.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
One after another, Luo Feng’s avatars, using the Biomimetic Destruction Eye to follow the causality line, hunted down each Enchanting Heart Worm avatar.
“Not good!”
“The cultivator can track my numerous avatars!”
With successive avatars being captured, the other avatars panicked as well.
An Enchanting Heart Worm can only produce nineteen sub-worms, so losing just one is a significant loss.
“Quickly, out of the city!”
In a gathering of cultivators, two exchanged glances and resolutely stood up to leave.
“Xi Ke brother, why are you two leaving so soon?” Other cultivators at the gathering asked.
“Urgent matters.”
The two cultivators answered perfunctorily, preparing to leave.
Suddenly——
A streak of blood light pierced through the formation in a flash, sweeping past the two departing cultivators, who fell powerless; the blood light condensed beside them into the figure of Luo Feng.
“Two more sub-worms.” Luo Feng looked at the two Enchanting Heart Worm sub-worms in his hand and instantly crushed them.
The gathered cultivators also saw the Enchanting Heart Worm sub-worms and recognized Luo Feng.
“Xi Ke brother and the other were actually controlled by the Enchanting Heart Worm?”
“The Enchanting Heart Worm must be targeting us, planning to control us?”
The group of cultivators shuddered with fear.
“Thank you, Senior Luo Feng.”
The present cultivators, primarily at the level of ‘Divine Emperor Early Stage Enlightened’, were aware of Luo Feng’s intelligence, knowing this powerfully subdued Elder Tian He, ignoring the might of the Insect Nest completely!
“Senior Luo Feng, I am Nanfeng Yu.” A woman hurriedly spoke, “Thank you, Senior Luo Feng, for saving our lives.”
Luo Feng glanced at the woman, a formal member responsible for sales at the Dan Tower; they had met several times. Luo Feng nodded slightly.
Nanfeng Yu was quite excited.
Swish.
Luo Feng transformed into blood light and vanished.
“Enchanting Heart Worms infiltrating Yulan City are extremely difficult to trace. Yet Senior Luo Feng can hunt them down.” The cultivators present were shocked, as their weaker perception failed to detect any trace of the Enchanting Heart Worm when face-to-face.
Confronting the Enchanting Heart Worm, they could only endure the innate Secret Technique ‘Enchanting Heart’! This is one reason cultivators highly value spiritual will.
The stronger the spiritual will, the greater the hope to resist ‘Enchanting Heart’.
…
Within an ordinary cave mansion in the Outer City District.
A slender cultivator sat cross-legged.
“What is going on?” The slender cultivator mentally linked with companions, “Our Enchanting Heart Worm clan, with its thirty-five branches in the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm, assembled in Yulan City this time! This action must not fail. How did ordinary members of the ‘Enchanting Heart Worm clan’ launch attacks suddenly? From which branch is the attacking member?”
“It’s from my branch.” A voice responded, “According to the King’s instructions, those below the leader must be kept secret. I brought my clan to Yulan City, only restraining the core forces under my command. As for the middle and lower-level clans… I merely advised caution, without many orders.”
“Jiu Yu! As we approach the crucial moment, we must all remain hidden, not act further.”
“Occasional attacks by the lower ranks are a common occurrence in every cultivator city. If a prolonged period goes by without any lurking attacks, that would indeed be suspicious.” Leader Jiu Yu responded.
“Fine, fine.”
The slender cultivator conveyed mentally, “Remember, if ordinary members are exposed, let them die! Don’t save companions, to avoid exposing more of our clan.”
“Understood.”
“We get it.”
“The matter of the King is of utmost importance.”
Each leader responded.
Low Level Primordial Life forms typically live in the nine rivers, hunting cultivators based on the positions of the thirty-five cities of the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm, forming thirty-five enormous branches.
The Enchanting Heart Worm has a branch around the Yulan City area.
The different branches are far apart and rarely interact.
Yet this time…
Summoned by the King, the thirty-five branches of the Enchanting Heart Worm clan in the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm all responded. Each branch has over half of its core forces quietly converging in Yulan City.
The slender cultivator looked at the elderly cultivator approaching from a distance.
“I have received word that your Enchanting Heart Worm clan members have taken action?” queried the elderly cultivator.
“The lower ranks acted on their own.” The slender cultivator spoke mentally.
“The closer we get to the end, the less we can afford any carelessness. This time, the Soul-devouring Snake clan is expending over half its strength across the entire Nine Rivers Sacred Realm. Additionally, the ‘Kings’ are all prepared. At any cost, we’re coordinating internally and externally to completely overthrow Yulan City,” the elderly cultivator transmitted telepathically, “Such a massive price cannot allow for any slip-ups.”
“This is merely a low-level attack, a trivial matter, nothing to mention. Occasional lurking attacks are the norm for Yulan City.” The slender cultivator also used this rationale, “Prolonged periods without attacks would only make the three Hall Masters of Yulan City suspicious.”
“Alright then. By the way, when will the King arrive?” the elderly cultivator asked further.
“Be ready to act anytime,” the slender cultivator said.
The elderly cultivator stopped questioning.
…
A red-robed cultivator stood watching as a streak of blood light attacked a cave mansion in the sky and swiftly departed.
Though in close contact with one another, Luo Feng did not sense anything amiss with this red-robed cultivator.
According to the intelligence, this cultivator was Luo Feng?” The red-robed cultivator observed, “Seems he should rank among the top twenty in Yulan City.”
“However, in the entire Yulan City, the only one worthy of attention is the Wei Yang Palace Master.”
The red-robed cultivator looked off towards the city’s core area.
“Yuan Xiang Palace Master’s injuries have worsened, and he probably no longer dares to make a move. Master Gai Tao is wholly absorbed in artifact refining and essentially very selfish. Faced with a large-scale city siege, he would likely choose to flee at the first opportunity,” the red-robed cultivator thought.
“Though Wei Yang Palace Master is also selfish and ruthless, he has invested too much into Yulan City to easily abandon it, treating it as his domain.”
“My first target is the Wei Yang Palace Master.”
“Eliminate him first.”
“With Wei Yang Palace Master dead, the rest will be much easier.”
The red-robed cultivator strolled leisurely, remaining inconspicuous among the countless cultivators in Yulan City.
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Luo Feng stood high in the air, absorbing his avatars into his body.
“I killed a total of fifteen Enchanting Heart Worm avatars,” Luo Feng thought, “These fifteen Enchanting Heart Worm avatars were all sub-worm avatars! They should belong to two different Enchanting Heart Worms.”
“Killing these avatars, the two Enchanting Heart Worms should also be heavily weakened.”
Facing so many avatars, Luo Feng was also quite troubled.
Just like Source World experts, it’s very difficult to kill them completely.
Now Luo Feng faced a similar problem.
“Buzz~~~” “Buzz~~~” “Buzz~~~”
Suddenly, waves of fluctuations descended, enveloping the areas where Luo Feng previously hunted, and inspection teams from Yulan City arrived, starting the rapid capture of numerous cultivators.
“According to Yulan City regulations, when Low Level Primordial Life forms lurk and attack, the thousand cave mansions surrounding the lurking residence must be carefully screened to prevent a Low Level Primordial Life form from attaching.”
“According to Yulan City regulations, during the lurking period, all known cultivators must also be carefully screened.”
“All cultivators must cooperate with inspections; violators will be executed without mercy!”
The cultivators in each area were taken aback, but upon hearing the patrol team’s announcement, they all obediently cooperated.
“When Low Level Primordial Life forms lurk, should you know them, please cooperate with the screening.” The patrol team began capturing cultivators one by one; these cultivators were bewildered but dared not resist.
Captures were made everywhere.
Luo Feng watched all of this from afar.
“It’s dismal.”
“They say to cooperate with inspections, but those who don’t hand over a large sum of Primordial Crystals won’t get out in a short time.”
“Having associated with lurking Low Level Primordial Life forms, they have to be fleeced.”
Many cultivators were whispering quietly among themselves.
This was also a common occurrence in Yulan City!
Every time a lurking attack was discovered, a screening would ensue. The screened members, even if not controlled, would be thoroughly extorted.
Suddenly, a patrol team approached Luo Feng, and the patrol team leader respectfully said, “Qiu Feng, thank Luo Feng Divine Emperor for discovering fifteen Enchanting Heart Worm avatars and saving more cultivators!”
Luo Feng watched all this.
“Senior Luo Feng.” From afar, a captured female cultivator, seeing Luo Feng, quickly called out; it was Nanfeng Yu!
“Luo Feng Divine Emperor, do you know her?” The patrol team leader Qiu Feng asked.
Luo Feng nodded, “She is a member of my Dan Tower. I can assure you, she is not possessed.”
“With Luo Feng Divine Emperor’s assurance, it’s no problem, release her.” The patrol team leader ordered, and Nanfeng Yu was released.
“Thank you, Senior Luo Feng.” Nanfeng Yu quickly expressed gratitude.
Luo Feng nodded, his mood sour.
Even though he was hunting Low Level Primordial Life forms ‘Enchanting Heart Worm,’ tens of thousands of cultivators were implicated, all going through screening, being extorted! For those ordinary cultivators, earning a bit of Primordial Crystals was not easy.
“Yuan Xiang Palace Master.” Luo Feng immediately communicated with Yuan Xiang Palace Master.
“Hahaha, Luo Feng! How did you discover the Enchanting Heart Worm clan? Even managing to identify fifteen avatars?” Yuan Xiang Palace Master responded, seemingly delighted.