An Unusual Disturbance

But this time, Emperor Qing Ming had guessed wrong.

True Realm experts did have formidable vitality, but even they couldn't withstand Shen Fan drawing their Origin Blood Essence for a full ten years!

If Shen Fan hadn't later slowed the rate of extraction, Feather Emperor probably wouldn't have lasted until now!

Though Feather Emperor had been released, he would need at least tens of thousands of years to recover.

Until then, not only would he be nowhere near his peak strength, even fighting someone would be extremely difficult!

But Shen Fan wasn't going to mention any of that. The deal he'd proposed had only guaranteed that Feather Emperor would stay alive and be returned. Now that the deal was done, if Feather Emperor died the very next moment, it wouldn't have anything to do with him!

He'd gotten the treasures, after all. There was no chance he'd hand them back!

Feather Emperor was taken away in the end, but no one except Shen Fan noticed anything amiss about him. That spared Shen Fan quite a bit of trouble.

Carrying the five True Realm materials Emperor Qing Ming had just given him, Shen Fan returned to the Cave Mansion he'd opened for himself.

He didn't rush to cultivate. Instead, he decided to forge a suitable weapon first.

Truth be told, Shen Fan wasn't particularly skilled at fighting with weapons. In the past, when battling enemies, if he could crush them with sheer strength, that was exactly what he did.

With a flip of his palm, his enemies would turn to ash. He'd never needed a weapon.

But now that he'd reached the True Realm, Shen Fan knew things would be different. He could still maintain his overwhelming advantage in battles against those of the same realm, but killing an opponent with