Luo Feng and Hall Master Wei Yang

Hall Master Wei Yang's cave residence.

"Luo Feng is exceedingly arrogant. Even when you personally invited him, Hall Master, he claimed to be too busy with official matters. He said he would visit you after screening the tens of thousands of cultivators and finishing his many duties," the Myriad Shadow Pavilion Master's phantom reported.

"Does he think that with Yuan Xiang's support, he can disregard even me?" A faint smile appeared on Hall Master Wei Yang's sculpted face. "Then we'll wait. Wait for him to come visit me."

The Myriad Shadow Pavilion Master bowed slightly, then vanished.

Among Rain Ripple City's elders, the greatest number followed Hall Master Wei Yang! The most fundamental reason... was that Hall Master Wei Yang was powerful enough! His attainments in formations were also the most important to Rain Ripple City's defensive system!

Before Luo Feng arrived, Hall Master Yuan Xiang had been prepared to transfer the City Builder authority to Hall Master Wei Yang. Hall Master Wei Yang had originally been the first choice! But once Luo Feng arrived, Hall Master Yuan Xiang had been astonished.

Luo Feng's talent and potential far surpassed Hall Master Wei Yang's!

Even so, Hall Master Yuan Xiang would only be able to give Luo Feng the City Builder authority once Luo Feng possessed the strength of mastering two Half Primal Chaos-level Daos! Once he reached that level of strength, his absolute superiority in power would naturally sweep away all dissent.

But if Luo Feng, Hall Master Wei Yang, and Hall Master Gai Tao were of equal realms, then Hall Master Wei Yang's attainments in formations would be the greatest help to Rain Ripple City's defensive system.

"Luo Feng, even Yuan Xiang thinks highly of you?" Hall Master Wei Yang still looked down on Luo Feng with the bearing of a superior.

He was the number one God Emperor in Rain Ripple City, a Half Primal Chaos-level Enlightenment Seeker!

He had cultivated his body to an incomparably formidable level. In a one-on-one battle, he could directly kill a God Emperor Completion-Level Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform with his physical body alone! From that feat alone, one could see just how great his achievements in bodily cultivation were.

But what was truly terrifying about him was his attainments in formations!

Terrifyingly powerful formations, combined with his physical body and several powerful secret treasures he had acquired through his status, firmly secured his position as Rain Ripple City's strongest.

When the Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform race sought to attack Rain Ripple City, they also regarded Hall Master Wei Yang as their greatest threat!

"I'd like to see just how strong you really are, to dare ignore me." Hall Master Wei Yang was rather expectant.

"I must teach you a lesson."

"No matter who supports you, your own strength is the most important foundation of your status! Even Hall Master Yuan Xiang must rely on me to guard Rain Ripple City!" Hall Master Wei Yang decided that this time, he would make Luo Feng properly wake up and understand who Rain Ripple City's most powerful existence truly was!

Within a towering great hall of Sky Patrol Palace in Rain Ripple City's core region.

Luo Feng sat high upon his throne, with a row of guards standing on either side.

"How many suspicious cultivators have been captured in total?" Luo Feng asked.

"Reporting to the Commander, a total of fifty-three thousand, six hundred and twenty-two cultivators have been brought in," one of the Patrol Team captains reported.

Luo Feng nodded. "Bring them into the hall in batches and have them walk past me one by one."

"Walk past one by one?"

The guards in the hall were somewhat stunned.

"No more than a thousand cultivators need enter the hall at a time," Luo Feng instructed. "As long as they walk past me, no possessor will escape my eyes."

"Yes." Though the guards were surprised, they obediently complied.

Very soon—

Large groups of suspicious cultivators filed into the hall through its main entrance, then exited directly through the side entrance.

Under the Patrol Team members' supervision, these cultivators obediently walked onward. Not one of them dared disrupt the order. They also noticed the black-haired man in black seated above the hall.

The man's third eye, the Imitation Life-Death Eye, was open between his brows as he observed them.

"Buzz."

An invisible force enveloped the entire hall, seeping into the bodies of these cultivators.

Not a single cultivator dared resist!

As the power permeated their bodies, Luo Feng's Imitation Life-Death Eye saw even more clearly. He could peer into the deeper structure of every cultivator's soul.

In this state, Luo Feng did not believe anyone could escape his inspection!

"Commander, during this capture operation, seven cultivators committed suicide during their arrest," the Patrol Team captain at the side respectfully reported. "We determined that they were likely possessed, so we also arrested some cultivators who had come into contact with them."

Luo Feng nodded. "Any cultivator who walks out of the hall can be released directly."

"Released directly?" The Patrol Team captain and several nearby guards were all stunned.

They were simply being let go like that?

Based on past practice, they were always squeezed ruthlessly!

Of course, no matter how ruthlessly they were squeezed, these ordinary guards would not receive the slightest benefit. The benefits were all divided among Hall Master Wei Yang and certain elders.

"I am screening them right now. As long as they walk out of the hall, it means the screening is complete. Naturally, they can be released." Luo Feng glanced at the Patrol Team captain, his gaze cold. "What? Do you have an objection to my decision?"

"No, no, I have no objection." The Patrol Team captain immediately replied in fright. This Commander did not even give the Myriad Shadow Pavilion Master or Hall Master Wei Yang any face. What the hell was a mere captain like him?

Luo Feng glanced at him and said nothing more.

He had no intention of befriending Sky Patrol Palace's two deputy commanders or its captains! Nor could he be bothered to concern himself with however many tangled interests lay within. But if anyone dared defy his orders, Luo Feng would act strictly according to the laws and make an example of them to warn the rest!

"Hmm?"

Luo Feng suddenly noticed that one of the cultivators entering the hall had a Bewitching Heart Worm hidden within their soul.

"There are actually still those hoping to get lucky, thinking I won't discover it?" With a thought from Luo Feng, a streak of blood-red light instantly enveloped that cultivator, who crumpled to the ground.

A Bewitching Heart Worm fell into Luo Feng's hands.

Splat. Luo Feng easily crushed the Bewitching Heart Worm to death. Using his Imitation Life-Death Eye to observe the karmic threads, he saw them more clearly and thereby determined the locations of the Bewitching Heart Worm's other avatars.

Luo Feng, who was inside his cave residence, immediately dispatched avatar after avatar to capture the Bewitching Heart Worm's incarnations.

"There are more Bewitching Heart Worm avatars?" The soldiers nearby were somewhat astonished, while the suspected cultivators grew a little panicked.

Luo Feng continued screening them.

There were only several tens of thousands of cultivators in total, with several hundred entering the great hall each time. It took only a short while to finish them all.

Because new Bewitching Heart Worm avatars had been discovered, a large number of Patrol Team members were deployed. After spending considerable time, they arrested more than ten thousand additional suspected cultivators. Once these cultivators had been sent to the Sky Patrol Palace, Luo Feng screened them as well, then released every last one after the screening was complete!

"They're just letting us out like this?"

"We've left the Sky Patrol Palace?"

These suspected cultivators had been imprisoned for less than a day before being released. They had not even lost a single Primal Chaos Crystal.

"They actually didn't squeeze us dry?"

"Th-this..."

They could hardly believe it as they turned back to look at the towering Sky Patrol Palace. They had already prepared themselves to be imprisoned for some time and ruthlessly exploited.

"Hurry up and leave!"

"What, do you want to go back in?"

The guards at the Sky Patrol Palace's main gate shouted at them.

Only then did the many cultivators hurriedly move farther away, each of them feeling incomparably fortunate.

"Whew."

Only now, after being busy until this moment, did Luo Feng finally have some free time. He flew out of the Sky Patrol Palace.

"Commander." The guards at the main gate were all exceedingly respectful as they watched Luo Feng fly away into the distance.

"The Sky Patrol Palace Commander used to be the Myriad Shadow Pavilion Master, but now he is God Emperor Luo Feng! God Emperor Luo Feng merely had us walk through the great hall once before letting us out."

"This God Emperor Luo Feng is far better than the Myriad Shadow Pavilion Master, whether in investigative secret arts or in the way he handles matters! He simply disdains exploiting us in the slightest!"

"I only hope cultivators like God Emperor Luo Feng can hold high positions!"

These cultivators discussed it among themselves through voice transmission.

They were all extremely excited.

If all those in high positions were beings like Luo Feng, ordinary cultivators would have much easier lives.

Unfortunately...

The cultivator world was one where the strong preyed upon the weak! Those in high positions who retained kindness were ultimately only a portion. There were also many like Hall Master Wei Yang, the Myriad Shadow Pavilion Master, and the Insect Nest Master.

Only after Luo Feng had finished his work did he head to Hall Master Wei Yang's cave residence.

"God Emperor Luo Feng?" The guard at Hall Master Wei Yang's cave residence smiled faintly. "My Hall Master has been waiting for you for quite some time. Please."

Luo Feng nodded and entered at once.

Within this cave residence, the largest in the entire city by area, Luo Feng walked for quite a while even under the guard's lead before finally reaching an enormous courtyard. There was only one figure within the courtyard.

Hall Master Wei Yang's figure was like a statue, his face expressionless. His whole person seemed somewhat like a puppet. Only those deep eyes, as though they contained limitless heavens and earth, allowed Luo Feng to sense Hall Master Wei Yang's extraordinariness.

"Luo Feng." Hall Master Wei Yang looked at Luo Feng. A trace of a smile was forced onto his formerly expressionless face. "You are also a Source World expert with numerous avatars. How could you not spare even one avatar to come see me? Did you have to wait until after screening several tens of thousands of cultivators? Were you deliberately trying to make me lose face?"

"Screening several tens of thousands of cultivators required my full concentration. I could not afford distraction."

Luo Feng looked at him. "Naturally, I had to be sincere when meeting the Hall Master."

"Sincere?"

Hall Master Wei Yang nodded. "You've now finished screening those several tens of thousands of cultivators! Fine, resign from the post of 'Sky Patrol Palace Commander' to Hall Master Yuan Xiang, and I'll consider you a friend."

"I can't resign from the post." Luo Feng shook his head.

Hall Master Wei Yang froze, then said coldly again, "I am telling you to resign as Commander!"

Luo Feng was somewhat surprised. Then he laughed, loudly and heartily. "Hahaha, hahaha... Interesting, interesting. Too interesting!"

Hall Master Wei Yang's expression darkened. "Is it that funny?"

"Of course it's funny." Luo Feng looked at him. "Today is the first time you and I have met, yet the moment you open your mouth, you tell me to resign from my post as Commander. Isn't that the greatest joke in the world? What exactly gives you the confidence to think you can order me around?"

Hall Master Wei Yang stared at Luo Feng.

"Hmph."

With a cold snort, black flames rose from nothingness over Luo Feng's body and began to burn him. The flames were terrifyingly powerful. Even a God Emperor Completion-Level Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform would likely suffer severe injuries beneath these black flames.

Yet Luo Feng's Undying Blood Sea Body had already been perfected to a new level. It was inherently no weaker than a God Emperor Completion-Level Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform, and with the enhancement of the Undying Heart, the terror of his body could well be imagined.

"Such a tiny flame?" Luo Feng looked at him with a smile. "It couldn't even harm a single hair on my head."

Seeing this, Hall Master Wei Yang smiled. "You do have some skill."

Restricted by the city's laws, he could not make too much of a scene. He had only displayed a slight measure of his abilities, intending to make Luo Feng retreat in the face of difficulty.

Yet who would have thought that the moment his flames appeared, Luo Feng would treat them as nothing more than air.

"Luo Feng, in Rain Ripple City, you'd best listen to me." Hall Master Wei Yang looked at Luo Feng. "If you do, I can even make you a hall master in the future."

Luo Feng looked at him and smiled. "In Rain Ripple City, you don't have the final say!"

With that, Luo Feng turned and left.

Watching Luo Feng's departing back, Hall Master Wei Yang let out a cold laugh.

"Blocking a single wisp of my Black Sun Fire made you think you can contend with me? Ridiculous!" Hall Master Wei Yang was rather enraged. In all of Rain Ripple City, there were only a handful who dared refuse to give him face.

And now, there was one more—Luo Feng!