Mist Island Incident

"Venina!"

Li Yao stared at Venina's corpse, his eyes involuntarily closing in pain.

A powerful sense of unwillingness and hatred consumed Li Yao's mind, but at this moment, his body was completely frozen by Shen Mu. He was powerless to break free.

Suddenly, Li Yao's entire body trembled slightly, and a special primal energy fluctuation surged and spread from within him.

Buzz!

The light around Li Yao instantly distorted, and a mighty force spread out, instantly breaking free from Shen Mu's ice seal.

Whoosh!

The next moment, thirteen golden streams of light erupted from Shen Mu's throwing knife bag, and in a flash, they pierced through fatal points on Li Yao's body, such as his heart, throat, and dantian.

"Urk..."

Li Yao's expression was frozen in the joy of his recent breakthrough. A strong sense of weakness instantly swept through his entire body. The miniature primal energy planet he had just condensed was also completely shattered by Shen Mu's throwing knives.

As a transmigrator, Shen Mu naturally knew that once he killed Venina, Li Yao might break through. He had been watching him for a long time.

If Li Yao had broken through in front of Shen Mu and then escaped, Shen Mu might as well have gone and smashed himself to death against a piece of tofu.

"You should have recorded this just now. Li Yao broke free from my ice seal and intended to attack me. According to the War God Palace regulations, I have the right to eliminate him."

Shen Mu looked at the middle-aged man in a Tang suit from the security department beside him and explained the basis for his actions.

"I understand the situation. Li Yao was dissatisfied with the General legally executing Venina and intended to attack the General, so he was killed on the spot."

During the conversation between Shen Mu and the middle-aged man in the Tang suit, Li Yao, who had broken free from Shen Mu's ice seal and tried to escape, was directly classified as an attempted assault on a War God Palace councilor.

Then Shen Mu looked at Luo Feng beside him with a stern face, "Inspector Luo, you were fighting a War God-level martial artist in the base city, which violates the internal regulations of the Limit Martial Hall. I will hold you accountable in my capacity as an Inspector."

Hearing Shen Mu's words, the middle-aged man in the Tang suit really wanted to say that Inspector Luo had not only violated the internal regulations of the Limit Martial Hall but had also broken the laws of the War God Palace.

However, he also knew that Councilor Shen Mu's attitude was clearly protective, and the strength displayed by Inspector Luo was not that of an ordinary high-level War God, so he didn't say anything further.

At this time, Luo Feng had also obtained information about Shen Mu through the internet. Upon seeing the rise and experience of Councilor Shen Mu, he felt a sense of kinship, as it was too similar to his own.

"Yes, Inspector Shen, I am willing to accept all accountability from the Martial Hall."

Luo Feng was not stupid. The Martial Hall's accountability was superficial and clearly just maintaining procedural justice.

Half an hour later.

In a private room of a high-end restaurant in the main urban area of Jiangnan Base City, Shen Mu was 'holding Luo Feng accountable' according to the law.

"Thank you for your intervention, Inspector Shen. Otherwise, I might have caused a great disaster and implicated ordinary people."

Luo Feng had also calmed down by now. He picked up his wine glass and sincerely thanked Shen Mu.

"You're welcome. When I was in the training camp, I heard about your reputation, Luo Feng. Just call me Shen Mu."

"Anyway, with your strength, you are not weaker than a general Planet-Level first stage, and since there were no substantial consequences, the War God Palace will just turn a blind eye."

"Planet-Level first stage?"

Although Luo Feng had some understanding of the realm divisions from Ancient Civilization Ruin No. 9, he began to play along now.

Shen Mu cooperated with Luo Feng's act and took the opportunity to explain the realm divisions to him.

After some idle chat, Luo Feng punished himself with three drinks, marking the completion of this accountability.

"You just narrowly escaped from the ancient civilization ruins, so I won't bother you any longer. Go and reunite with your family," Shen Mu said with a smile.

Luo Feng stood up and nodded, sincerely saying, "Thank you, Brother Shen. I'll be going back now."

After Luo Feng left, a strange expression appeared on Shen Mu's face. This situation was like the saying, "I married your sister, and you call me brother; we'll each have our own way of addressing each other."

After the minor interlude ended, Shen Mu continued his journey of comprehending heaven and earth.

For the past few months, Shen Mu had been living in the wilderness, getting closer to nature than ever before, and his understanding of heaven and earth had become deeper.

At the same time, Shen Mu's own realm of Harmony of Man and Nature had also changed. His body, soul, and energy were more harmonious, and his resonance with heaven and earth grew stronger.

Vaguely, Shen Mu had already sensed the barrier between the Harmony of Man and Nature and the Domain realm.

It was this barrier that had trapped Thunder God for decades, and it was only under the pressure of crisis that he finally managed to cross it, stepping into the Domain realm.

While Shen Mu was comprehending heaven and earth and accumulating his own foundation, the Azure Dragon Avatar in the Bohai Sea was also undergoing a transformation.

"Roar!"

Dragon roars echoed across the surface of the Bohai Sea.

In the endless seawater, a ferocious green-scaled dragon was undergoing a transformation. Its length, which exceeded 120 meters, grew again, finally reaching the limit of 130 meters.

Within the sea of consciousness of the East Sea Azure Dragon, the two miniature planets that had once existed were exceptionally brilliant, and immense mental power surged from these two stars.

In just a few breaths, the two miniature planets shrank significantly, and a third, newly born, psychic star was nurtured.

In the past six months, Shen Mu had killed several King-Level Monsters. Now, after devouring and digesting their corpses, he had successfully broken through to Planet-Level third stage.

At the same time as the East Sea Azure Dragon's breakthrough, in a certain sea area of the Pacific Ocean.

An oval black giant egg, about twelve meters in diameter, lay quietly on the seabed, covered by sea mud and seaweed. It had been here for over a year since it fell to Earth's oceans from outer space.

At first, the nearby oceanic beasts discovered the giant egg and wanted to bite through and devour it. However, after breaking many of their teeth, no beast dared to try again.

The giant egg suddenly began to shake violently. For several days now, it had seemed to possess intelligence, trying to break free from within.

The shaking grew stronger and stronger, and the seaweed fell away, revealing strange golden patterns on the eggshell.

Crack!

A seam suddenly split open on the eggshell, and a claw covered in pitch-black scales extended from the gap!

Earth's greatest crisis in history had begun to brew, yet not a single person was aware of it. Only Shen Mu had a general idea that this was around the time the Golden Horned Beast would be born.

However, Shen Mu was powerless at the moment. With the strength of his Azure Dragon Avatar, if he were to patrol the oceans searching for the Golden Horned Beast, he would surely perish at the hands of the two Beast Emperors first.

Time moved to January 5, 2059. Luo Feng, having just returned, was recognized as having Councilor-level strength and became the Limit Martial Hall's seventh Inspector. His inauguration ceremony was currently underway.

On the same day, Shen Mu received a communication from Hong. It wasn't an invitation for Shen Mu to attend Luo Feng's inspector ceremony, but rather because something had happened on Mist Island.

Just a few days prior, the staff stationed on Mist Island by the Limit Martial Hall had discovered strong life energy fluctuations within the core lake of Mist Island through their monitoring instruments.

The data from these strong life energy fluctuations startled all the staff, as the intensity far surpassed all human powerhouses, including Hong and Thunder God, placing it on the same level as the two Beast Emperors.

On Earth, the highest realms were not held by Hong and Thunder God, but by the two Beast Emperors.

Otherwise, if these two Beast Emperors were to hide within the ocean, they would inevitably be killed by Hong, who possessed a domain.