"Extra, extra! Julie Lololi, the Starfall Empire's rising star, has been captured by the Shadow Plunderer Guild's vice guild leader—the Ash Apostle. Her fate is currently unknown."
The Starfall Empire's residents, who had just woken up, stopped in their tracks upon hearing the newsboy's cries.
They spent two white crystal coins to buy a newspaper from him.
The Starfall Empire was indeed a nation of martial artists, but that did not mean there was no technology here.
The convenience brought by technology was plain to see.
Yet both the Starfall Empire and neighboring Atlantis, which had developed firearms, deliberately controlled the pace of technological advancement to prevent it from heading toward Datafication.
Ordinary people in Eternal World did not start at Tier 5 either. They were still Tier 2.
Because of the powerful laws, these Tier 2 beings were no different from ordinary people in Eternal World.
After reading the newspaper, the residents could not help discussing it among themselves.
"The Shadow Plunderer Guild's vice guild leader is that guy, right? The one imprisoned in Cold Orchid Prison decades ago."
"According to my uncle's neighbor's son's friend's teacher, the entire Cold Orchid Prison was wiped out."
A rather sleazy-looking young man gestured wildly, trying to tell them just how outrageous it was.
The residents dutifully expressed their astonishment.
"I'll tell you another piece of insider news. This Ash Apostle slaughtered more than half an army with a single move. Now no one dares call him the Ash Apostle anymore. They call him the Lord of Ashes."
An Apostle was usually regarded as an existence sent by a Deity to walk the mortal world in the Deity's stead and carry out the Deity's will.
But Chen Yi had clearly surpassed that boundary.
An ordinary Deity might not even dare come out