Swallowed Star: Reborn as a Golden Horned Beast
Chapter 5

Who Attacked Me?

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Outside Kyoto City, City No. 008.

"You'll do." The hovering figure's eyes lit up, and he shot forward at top speed.

"Who attacked me?" A Middle-aged Warlord felt pain at the back of his neck and slowly collapsed to the ground.

"I never thought I, Jin Yu, would end up stealing clothes to wear." A young man wrapped in beast hide awkwardly took clothes from the backpack on the ground.

Even after being reborn, he had never imagined that, as a Planetary level powerhouse, he would end up needing to wear beast hide.

If he had not hunted a monster in the sea and made a simple hide outfit, he would have had no choice but to go naked right now.

"I'm not some pervert. One outfit in exchange for a Lord-level monster corpse is more than fair." After changing into a martial arts uniform, Jin Yu finally let out a sigh of relief.

After placing the High-level Lord-level monster corpse he had casually hunted along the way, together with the Middle-aged Warlord, inside a building, he left.

"Hmm? My neck hurts. I wonder which bastard ambushed me. No martial virtue at all." The Middle-aged Warlord slowly woke up and rubbed his still-aching neck.

"This is... a Shadow Leopard! Three shadow stripes on its body, a High-level Lord-level!" The Middle-aged Warlord looked around and realized he was in a hall. Then he saw the Shadow Leopard lying nearby.

Cold sweat immediately streamed down his forehead. The Middle-aged Warlord did not dare move at all as he stared at the Shadow Leopard. He was terrified that the slightest sound would alert it and get him killed.

Second by second, time passed, and the Middle-aged Warlord began to feel that something was off.

"If I die, I die. I, Wu Fan, have lived long enough!" Gritting his teeth, the Middle-aged Warlord slowly approached the Shadow Leopard.

Because of the angle earlier, he had been unable to see the Shadow Leopard's face. As he drew closer, a savage visage with bulging eyes and blood spilling from its mouth came into view.

"Dead?" The middle-aged man's eyes widened in disbelief, followed by a surge of wild joy.

"A High-level Lord-level monster could sell for several billion! I risk my life for a whole year and only make a few hundred million. This is worth ten years of hard work!" Wu Fan was ecstatic inside, then began dissecting the monster materials.

Because of its rank, the dissection process was difficult. It took more than a day to finish, but Wu Fan did not find it troublesome in the slightest. He was practically ready to burst into song.

Meanwhile, Jin Yu, who had robbed himself a combat uniform, had already reached the center of City No. 008. The High-level Lord-level monsters here were having terrible luck.

"Using Mental power to kill monsters really is convenient. I just don't have a suitable weapon." Jin Yu hovered silently in midair, using Mental power to control an alloy battle saber from a monster nest and pierce through the skull of a Tiger-type monster lord at high speed.

However, the battle saber was clearly of poor quality. Under Jin Yu's brute-force manipulation, it shattered directly into fragments.

This battle saber was only a Seven-series battle saber, a weapon used by Beginner War Gods. Although it could barely break the defenses of a High-level Lord-level monster, the tremendous force fed back into it, and after shining briefly, the saber completely fell apart.

After hunting more than ten monsters, Jin Yu used Mental power to control their bodies, along with some equipment he had picked up from their nests, and flew toward Kyoto Base City.

When the flying birds in the sky sensed the monsters' auras around him, they scattered in all directions in panic.

"Am I hallucinating?! A Council-level Mental Master! When did such a powerful Mental Master appear?"

"Ten High-level Lord-level monsters! Brothers, has the city center changed hands? Hurry! The monsters in the city center are weak right now. Contact the nearby War God squads and let's head into the city center to snatch some monsters!"

Anyone capable of freely flying and hovering without relying on anything, while also controlling weapons to kill monsters from afar, would know they had encountered a legendary, powerful Council-level Mental Master, no matter how foolish they were.

Countless Warrior squads watched the exaggerated scene in the sky with shock and envy. Yet many also recognized the enormous opportunity and came away with plentiful gains.

"What is that?" Outside Kyoto Base City, atop the walls of Tianjin City, one of the Eight Great Guard Cities, guards began sounding the alarm.

"What's happening?" A Deputy also climbed the wall and looked at the strange sight in the sky.

In the distance, a vast mass that seemed to cover the sky and block out the sun was rapidly flying toward them. It was incredibly fast, definitely far beyond the speed of sound.

"Fire-patterned Lions? Silver-horned Tigers? King Kong Wolves? Blood-eyed Mane Lions? Flowing Electric Leopards?" The Deputy identified one High-level Lord-level monster after another and felt as though he had gone mad.

What was going on? A monster siege? But where was the monster horde? Without weaker monsters supporting them, even if they were all High-level Lord-level monsters, they posed no real threat to a base city in the face of laser cannons.

"Look! There's someone on the Flowing Electric Leopard!" a soldier responsible for observation shouted.

Everyone looked over together. Sure enough, a young man in a martial arts uniform was sitting cross-legged on the Flowing Electric Leopard's back.

Although the guards had activated their emergency protocols, they had not launched any attacks for the moment. At the same time, higher-ranking officials who had received the intelligence arrived at the wall.

"Finally here? Carrying so many monsters did slow me down a little." Jin Yu looked at the navigation on his Wristwatch. This was the place in front of him.

He had traded a High-level Beast General monster to a Warrior squad for this Wristwatch.

To avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, when he was about a kilometer from the city wall, Jin Yu controlled all the monster bodies and lowered them to the ground.

Soon, Tianjin City's guards drove several heavy trucks over to meet him.

"Hello, I'm Nie Yongtao, the person in charge of Kyoto Base City. The man beside me is my deputy, Xu Xiangdong. Is there anything we can do for you, sir?" Nie Yongtao stepped out of a military vehicle. His sharp eyes studied the young man before him, and a trace of shock appeared in them.

Too young!

"Oh, hello, Mr. Nie, Mr. Xu. My name is Jin Yu."

"?" Nie Yongtao looked at Xu Xiangdong in confusion. Seeing the latter shake his head just as uncertainly, Nie Yongtao was instantly at a loss.

Someone capable of hunting so many High-level Lord-level monsters was either a Councillor level powerhouse or an Invincible Wargod. Both were extremely famous figures, and they would have learned such intelligence first.

Yet among all the intelligence from before, he could swear on his life that there had never been anyone named Jin Yu.

"May I ask where Mr. Jin lives? Which faction have you joined? Is there anything we may assist you with?" Countless thoughts raced through Nie Yongtao's mind, but his outward manner remained exceptionally warm, as though Jin Yu were one of his own family.

However, with a gesture behind his back, one of the Guards behind him had already secretly gone to contact Jia Yi. This was the agreed signal from before they had set out.

Jin Yu was a Planetary level Mental Master. His senses were incredibly sharp, and he immediately noticed the other man's small movement. He simply did not care.

"I haven't joined any faction. As for my home?" A trace of sadness unconsciously appeared on Jin Yu's face. "Maybe it still exists. Maybe it doesn't."

"My condolences, Mr. Jin Yu." Nie Yongtao had clearly misunderstood.

Jin Yu sighed softly and did not correct him. In truth, the other man was not wrong. He had crossed into this world, separated from his family by two worlds. Calling it a divide between life and death would not be an exaggeration.

The reason he had come here now was, first, to meet Jia Yi, the guardian deity, and second, to trouble them with handling these monster materials.

After all, he was effectively an undocumented person now and needed the authorities to arrange identification for him. As for the black market? He had no money either way, and it would only waste more time. Why take the long way around?

August 21, 2057

It was already noon. The sky was deep blue and cloudless for miles.

On the city wall outside Kyoto City Wei City stood a lean middle-aged man under 1.7 meters tall. Beside him stood a black short-haired youth about 1.8 meters tall with a well-proportioned build.

The youth's bare arms beneath his short sleeves resembled tempered steel, radiating an endless sense of power.

"Thanks, Old Brother Jia. Everything went smoothly. You got me an ID and saved me quite a bit of trouble." The black short-haired youth continuously played with the card in his hand as he spoke with a smile.

The youth was Jin Yu, who had created a Human Clone.

Because the soul level of the clone was identical to that of the main body, just like the Golden Horned Beast clone, the created clone immediately matched his soul strength and reached Planetary level 1.

The middle-aged man was none other than the legendary Jia Yi. Frail and sickly since childhood, he had not developed properly and was small and thin.

Yet during the Great Nirvana Period, this small and thin middle-aged man had performed one legendary salvation after another. Back then, he had saved more than ten million refugees!

After Jin Yu created his Human Clone this time, he flew directly into the territory of Kyoto Base City.

Once he revealed his circumstances and strength, Jia Yi received the information.

Yet the intelligence system had no record of such a Councillor!

This made Jia Yi's heart surge with excitement. Most War God level and above powerhouses around the world had joined the War God Palace. The sudden appearance of an unfamiliar Councillor level powerhouse was most likely an expert who had lived in seclusion.

Jia Yi then canceled all his meetings and arrangements and personally received Jin Yu.

The moment they met, when Jin Yu said he had no identification and wished to join, Jia Yi did not hesitate before ordering his subordinates to handle it with every convenience.

What a joke. A Planetary level powerhouse had voluntarily come to join them. Why would Jia Yi suspect his motives? There was simply no need.

As long as Jin Yu wanted it, he could receive the grandest welcome and treatment from any organization or nation. No organization was luxurious or powerful enough to send a Councillor level powerhouse to another country as an undercover agent.

For Planetary level powerhouses, power and status were theirs for the taking. Without sufficient benefits, no one could command them.

As for whether Jin Yu truly had identification, Jia Yi could not care less.

In Jia Yi's words to his subordinates: "It's best if Jin Yu has no identity records. Even if he does, treat them as if they don't exist. From now on, Jin Yu is one of us! I, Jia Yi, said so!"

From that moment onward, Jin Yu rightfully became a guest elder.

The last two days were blocked, so I revised everything and reposted it several times before it finally worked. I released all three chapters at once. Please send some recommendation votes to support me.

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