Revenge

Zhang Zhi looked at Lei Aigou's wide-open eyes, his heart filled with complicated emotions.

That's right. I lied to you.

Killing the man while crushing his heart—your mouth said I was lying, but if you truly thought I was lying, how could you have been angered to death so directly? And died with your eyes still open?

I had held back quite a bit just now. I'd wanted you to struggle a little longer before drawing your last breath.

But thinking that they had both come from the same Orphanage, he sighed inwardly. Why should one orphan make things difficult for another?

Zhang Zhi gave the paint-chipped wooden door a deep look. Enduring the agonizing pain, he walked out of the room that had held him for eight days, supported by the other person he had summoned.

Although he had said a great deal to Lei Aigou just now, only a few minutes had actually passed.

Glancing at the pitch-black passageway, he had the Dao Boy lead the way while the other person protected him from behind as they felt their way outside.

He had summoned two people from his Small World in total, using Simple Mode. Retainers summoned in this mode had very poor intelligence and required the Realm Lord's command.

There were three modes for summoning Retainers from a Small World.

The first was Simple Mode. Simply put, the World Bead used World Power to form projections in the Main World based on the strength of the Small World's Retainers. These projections possessed only rudimentary intelligence, and Masters of the World could control all summoned Retainer projections through their World Beads.

The second was Complete Mode. This mode also summoned the consciousness of the Retainers from the Small World. Retainers summoned this way were practically identical to those within the Small World.

The last was Opening a Teleportation Gate. However, this mode came with far too many restrictions and requirements. Generally, only Realm Lords who had advanced to a Lesser Thousand World or above would use it.

The mode Zhang Zhi had used this time was Simple Mode. Or rather, Simple Mode was what the overwhelming majority of Realm Lords used at the beginning.

The reason was simple: to preserve an air of mystery.

Take just now, for example. If the Retainers summoned from the Small World saw Zhang Zhi in such a miserable state, would they truly continue to revere him afterward?

This time, he had expended a bit of World Power to summon two Retainers in the Mortal Transformation Realm from his Small World.

The number of Retainers that could be summoned from a Small World depended on the strength of the Retainers being summoned.

The Dao Boy at the Peak Mortal Transformation Realm had consumed the vast majority of his World Power.

If one point of World Power could summon Retainers with 1,000 Combat Power, then the Dao Boy alone took up at least ninety percent of it.

Of course, the greater the cost, the greater the strength.

At first, Zhang Zhi had only wanted to sneak away quietly, but he had unexpectedly encountered that Realm Lord along the way.

What surprised him was that the Realm Lord was also only in the Mortal Transformation Realm.

Because of the functions controlled through the World Bead, as long as a Realm Lord had enough time, their strength would not fall below that of the strongest person in their Small World.

Through control, a Realm Lord could comprehend every rule within their Small World. In other words, given enough time, they could master every cultivation technique in their Small World and gain insight into the cultivation realizations of everyone within it.

Yet the Realm Lord before him was only in the Mortal Transformation Realm!

That meant the strongest Retainer in his Small World was likely only in the Mortal Transformation Realm as well.

When that Master of the World discovered the Dao Boy Zhang Zhi had summoned, he was also startled. In the next instant, seven Mortal Transformation Realm cultivators appeared beside him, while he himself turned and fled.

But who knew what the Dao Boy had done during the time the Small World had been evolving? His Combat Power was so formidable that it shocked Zhang Zhi.

Including that Realm Lord, none of the eight Mortal Transformation Realm cultivators could evade a single palm strike from the Dao Boy.

The Dao Boy lightly extended several palm strikes toward the eight of them.

Those strikes appeared exceptionally slow, yet in truth, no one could avoid them.

All eight people turned into clouds of bloody mist at the same time.

Watching the Dao Boy kill eight Mortal Transformation Realm cultivators at once, Zhang Zhi was stunned as well. The Dao Boy's strength had already exceeded his imagination.

But after discovering that the Realm Lord was so utterly vulnerable, and finding during his earlier search that this place was extremely crude and clearly not some major power—

then the remaining people were surely nothing to fear. So, while having one Retainer projection carry him outside, he simply had the Dao Boy slaughter this entire place.

During the slaughter, he finally learned what this place actually was.

It was a small gang called the Night Shadow Gang. The Master of the World whom the Dao Boy had turned into bloody mist with one palm strike was Night Shadow, the Night Shadow Gang's leader.

This was also the Night Shadow Gang's headquarters.

Besides that Realm Lord, there was another Mortal Transformation Realm cultivator here. But just like before, he was killed by a single palm strike from the Dao Boy.

While slaughtering the Night Shadow Gang, Zhang Zhi unexpectedly discovered that quite a few people were imprisoned here as well.

In one area were two students like himself, who had received World Seeds and were preparing to open Small Worlds.

In another area, more than a dozen children aged seven or eight were imprisoned.

After pondering for a moment, although he felt something was off, he was in no condition to investigate thoroughly in his current state.

After killing all the guards, he had Fang Yun release both groups.

Once the crowd had gone far away, he set the place on fire. Taking the supplies he had looted from there, he silently left the hellhole that had imprisoned him for eight days.

Zhang Zhi did not know whether there were any survivors from the Night Shadow Gang, nor did he know whether anyone else knew he had been kidnapped by them. But with those two students and that group of children out in the open, even if something did happen, it would not lead back to him anytime soon.

By the time it did lead back to him, he would have already left Yizhou for some renowned Secondary World Education School.

Yizhou First Primary World Education School ranked among the top fifty across the thirteen prefectures and one hundred twenty-five states of the entire province, yet he seemed never to have heard of a student whose newly opened Small World already contained a Retainer in the Mortal Transformation Realm.

With someone at the Peak Mortal Transformation Realm the moment his world was opened, was he supposed to worry about finding a good school?

Yes, for now, he did not intend to tell anyone about what he had experienced over the past seven days, especially not the relevant authorities.

The main reason was that he had no way to explain how he had obtained the card to open a world while being kidnapped and held captive.

Besides, he had already recovered the debt for all the suffering he had endured these days, principal and interest included. Right now, he only wanted to find a place to rest and recuperate properly.

To be safe, he did not return to the house he rented. Instead, he booked a room at the hotel across from the school.

The moment he shut the door and lay down on the bed, before he had even taken off his clothes or touched his head to the pillow, he had already fallen asleep.

Over the past eight days, he had endured inhuman torment, both mentally and physically. His entire being had nearly been stretched to its limit.

Now that he had reached a safe place, the moment he relaxed, he naturally fell into unconscious sleep at once.

He slept for a full twenty hours.

After waking up, Zhang Zhi found his experiences from the previous days felt like another lifetime.

He sat there blankly for quite a while. Only when his stomach began growling did he realize he was hungry. His nerves had been wound so tight these past days that he seemed to have nearly forgotten what hunger felt like.

Only now, as he felt the hunger in his stomach and fully came back to himself, did he realize that those suffocating, nightmare-like experiences from the past few days would never happen again.

He had returned to the world of the living.

Barefoot, he climbed out of bed and opened the window beside it. Listening to the various clamor outside, Zhang Zhi took a deep breath. The normal him had finally returned.