Dismissing His Subordinates, Cultivating in Peace (Part 1)

Fengyun didn't refuse, and the two chatted happily for a while. As it got late, Fengyun accepted Nathans's invitation and stayed at the city lord's mansion.

A few days later, he became familiar with the three Bluefire brothers. Nathans even gave him a house in the city center as a gift to make communication easier.

After Fengyun memorized the location of the residence and returned to Light Shadow Town, he discovered that the damaged buildings in Light Shadow Town had been rebuilt, but the magic circles on each building were not yet fully inscribed.

Upon returning to his residence, the Great Shaman who saw Fengyun immediately stepped forward and said, "My lord, the remaining prisoners' souls have been almost refined. These are the refined Soul Gold Bead."

With a smile, he presented the box in his hands, which was filled with Soul Gold Bead.

Fengyun took it and said with a smile, "Great Shaman, how long have you been with me!"

The Great Shaman was taken aback for a moment, then sighed, "My lord, it's been five years!"

In the past, five years would have meant nothing. Sometimes, he would simply find a place to go into seclusion, and thousands of years would pass in the blink of an eye.

And that's considered a small number; most of the time, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of years pass in the blink of an eye.

But in the past five years, he has hardly ever seriously secluded himself for spiritual practice, spending his days busy with Fengyun.

Although it was only a short five years, he felt as if he had returned to his youth when he was working hard to improve his skills, and he felt a great sense of fulfillment!

Fengyun chuckled and said, "Five years have passed. Sigh, I can't believe five years have gone by in the blink of an eye."

While laughing, he withdrew his hidden hand from the Great Shaman's sea of consciousness and dissipated it in front of the Great Shaman. Then, under the Great Shaman's surprised gaze, he laughed and said, "Originally, I promised you that I would give you your freedom in a hundred years."

"However, things always change unexpectedly. I have now established a relationship with Lord Bluefire and even own property in Qinghuo City. I will probably be living in Qinghuo City for a long time in the future, so there is no need for this Light Shadow Town to exist."

"So now I'm giving you your freedom!"

The main reason Fengyun captured the Light and Dark Divine Beast and the God-level Expert Great Shaman because they were worried that they would be targeted by others. That's why they kept looking for people like the Great Shaman to unite with in order to increase their ability to withstand risks.

He was also wary of the people in the Plane Prison, so he resorted to enslavement to prevent his subordinates from rebelling.

However, he was also extremely confident in his own progress and believed that he would become a god within a hundred years. Therefore, when making contracts, a hundred-year agreement was always made, and the enslavement would be lifted when the agreed time was up.

With the hope of freedom and the condition that they only had to serve Fengyun for a hundred years, they cooperated well with Fengyun and got along very well over the past five years.

The Great Shaman was suddenly released from control. After a slight pause, he didn't feel much excitement. Instead, he looked around at everything with a nostalgic look in his eyes.

Finally, he bowed to Fengyun and said, "Farewell, sir!"

Although his days following Fengyun were fulfilling and he didn't feel enslaved, he was still enslaved at heart. So, once he gained his freedom, he decided to leave immediately.

Nobody wants to be enslaved; they want to be free!

Just as he was about to leave, the Great Shaman was stopped by Fengyun again. He took out ten Soul Gold Bead from the box and handed them to him, saying, "Take these. Consider them a reward for following me all these years."

When he was stopped, the Great Shaman thought that Fengyun had changed his mind, or that everything just now was just a test. But he didn't expect that Fengyun would give him the Soul Gold Bead as a reward.

For a moment, even the Great Shaman felt an impulse to die for one who understands him.

But in the end, the allure of freedom prevailed, and he accepted the ten Soul Gold Bead and left immediately.

Watching the Great Shaman's figure gradually shrink, Fengyun thought to himself, "Now that I have a residence in Qinghuo City, I can just stay here and cultivate slowly."

"I'm letting you go now, hoping you'll live up to expectations in the future and find the weak point in the space connecting the Plane Prison to the Yulan Plane, just like in the original story!"

"But I don't know if there will be any butterfly effect. I hope that my presence won't cause any problems!"

He rubbed his chin and continued to ponder, "I've been observing Bomont's area for two years now, and I haven't seen any weak spatial nodes appear within his area of activity."

"While this is most likely due to the time not being right, it could also be a butterfly effect caused by my enslavement of the Great Shaman for two years. I hope it won't cause any problems in the end."

"I really want to go back to the mainland as soon as possible!"

After the Great Shaman left, Fengyun summoned his subordinates whom he had recruited over the past five years. He then released them from the control over their souls and declared them free.

But this time, something went wrong!

"My lord, the contract I made with Kloss hasn't expired yet, why are you terminating it now?" a rather sinister-looking man said unwillingly.

As for Kloss, she is his contracted magical beast.

Fengyun released them from their soul-controlling abilities and allowed them to leave, but also demanded that they break their contracts with their contracted magical beasts. However, having become familiar with beast-taming contracts and experienced their benefits, most of them were unwilling to renew their contracts.

Moreover, it wasn't just them; some of the magical beasts that had made contracts with them were also reluctant to break their contracts, since this thing also had benefits for them.

Fengyun nodded and said, "Yes, if you and the magical beasts are still willing to maintain the contract, I can help you set up Beast Taming Magic Array to re-establish the contract after it is dissolved, but not now!"

In the Plane Prison, divine beasts are a resource and are hunted as high-grade food. Therefore, generally speaking, the number and strength of divine beasts are weaker than those of humans.

Fengyun's forces are mostly composed of Middle God gods and Lower God beasts who form contracts with each other.

The reason Fengyun wanted them to break their contracts now was to provide these divine beasts with a guarantee. Without him, although the divine beasts could break their contracts at any time, the moment they did so would likely be the moment of their death.

In this Plane Prison, Fengyun never doubted their ruthlessness!

Just like Kloss now, although she also wanted to continue maintaining the beast taming contract to ensure that the contract would enhance her cultivation, she also breathed a sigh of relief when the contract was dissolved.

She was also worried that after the disbandment of Light Shadow Town, without Fengyun as their master to guarantee their fair contract, they would be exploited by the contractors and eventually be completely drained, with no hope of ever turning their lives around.