Swallowed Star: Infinite Fortuitous Encounters
Chapter 19

Conflict Rekindled

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After returning to the villa, Wang Cheng no longer went to the wilderness area.

While the monsters in the wilderness area weren't entirely useless to Wang Cheng, their significance had greatly diminished. Therefore, Wang Cheng's main body spent a peaceful month at home.

However, although Wang Cheng's main body did nothing during this month, his three thousand clones were extremely busy.

Absorbing cosmic energy and comprehending various secret manuals. Even though it was only a month, Wang Cheng's progress speed was more than just a little faster than before!

Especially in terms of laws, Wang Cheng made rapid advancements.

"Time, so that's how it is!"

Wang Cheng's main body stood in the training room of his villa. The light around him subtly distorted. If one looked closely, they would notice that within the distorted area, everything, including Wang Cheng's movements, was moving at an extraordinarily fast pace, as if a fast-forward button had been pressed.

In reality, it was indeed fast-forward!

After thousands of clones spent three days comprehending, Wang Cheng had already gained an initial understanding of the time-related secret manual, Eternal Void. To be precise, it was a secret manual for studying time acceleration!

Wang Cheng gained an initial understanding in three days, and then he discovered that his previous guess was correct. Besides having an exceptionally clear perception of the Lightning Law, his perception of the Time Law was equally sharp.

Now, a month later, Wang Cheng could already achieve a slight time acceleration around himself!

Don't underestimate this slight acceleration. In combat, it meant that Wang Cheng's burst speed, attack speed, and so on would be significantly faster than before. With so many aspects of his speed increased, dealing with the Wang Cheng from a month ago would be as easy as flipping his hand, effortless!

As a high-level law, the Time Law, even if only a tiny bit was mastered, could produce incredible effects!

"However, activating time acceleration requires too much Gene Energy. As a Stellar level cultivator, I really can't afford it. I can at most accelerate myself, but large-scale time acceleration is temporarily impossible!" Wang Cheng secretly assessed his current situation. Soon, with a thought, he withdrew the time acceleration field that enveloped him.

Besides the Time Law, Wang Cheng's progress in the Lightning Law and Wind Law over the past month was also astonishing, even more so than his progress in the Time Law.

Time was, after all, much more obscure, so Wang Cheng felt his progress wasn't too exaggerated. But with the guidance of secret manuals, the progress speed in the Lightning Law and Wind Law was truly fast!

So fast it could be described as a wild surge!

However, Wang Cheng couldn't experiment with these two laws in his small villa. Otherwise, with the power of the Wind and Lightning Laws erupting, this small villa would instantly turn into dust!

"I should go out for a walk!" Wang Cheng made up his mind.

Although the space within the World Ring was larger, it was devoid of any life. Wang Cheng had been cooped up at home for a month, with his three thousand clones cultivating intensely. The mental pressure on him was considerable.

Under such circumstances, Wang Cheng naturally wanted to go out and relax.

Leaving behind an apprentice level clone at home, Wang Cheng soon departed from Yangzhou City.

Without deliberately choosing a direction, Wang Cheng subconsciously headed towards City No. 016, where he had left last time. However, he wasn't flying at full speed. He had come out this time with the intention of relaxing, and flying too fast would spoil the fun.

As Wang Cheng flew, he observed the events along the way.

He had no interest in the battles between some warriors and monsters, and quickly passed them by. Battles between warriors...

"Huh?"

Wang Cheng suddenly stopped. He looked down at the ground with some surprise.

At this moment, two groups of warriors were clearly in conflict.

Furthermore, Wang Cheng recognized people in both groups.

Currently, on a small hillside on the ground.

Jiang Mingyue stood at the very top. Around her, a total of six people had her firmly surrounded. Among these six people were four men and two women. The leader was Silvia, who had previously had an intimate encounter with Wang Cheng.

Silvia and the other six were surrounding Jiang Mingyue, clearly not for a friendly chat; they were there to cause trouble!

"Jiang Yueming, dare you say it wasn't you who caused the beast horde attack on me and my teammates last time?" Silvia rebuked Jiang Yueming with a frown.

"If I say it wasn't me, then it wasn't me!" Jiang Yueming replied calmly, "If you want to steal my prey, just say so. Why find other excuses?"

"You b*tch, if you don't admit it, we'll make you admit it!" Silvia waved to the few teammates she had newly recruited. Then, six cold, black flying daggers rose behind her.

"Bring it on!" Jiang Yueming looked at the eager individuals. Without fear, she unslung an iron rod from her back. With a slight extension, this iron rod instantly transformed into a spear.

"Capture her!"

With Silvia's command, in an instant, she and her five teammates attacked simultaneously.

Whoosh!

In a flash, Jiang Mingyue also moved. Facing the simultaneous assault of six people, including high-level war generals and mental masters, she showed no panic. Instead, she met them with composure.

Compared to her last fight with Silvia and the others, Jiang Mingyue's movement technique had become more poised and even more fierce.

She was like a nimble black cat, dodging back and forth in the confined space while parrying the attacks of the six.

"Her movement technique has reached Perfect level!" one of Silvia's teammates exclaimed in surprise.

"Don't panic, surround her, don't let her have any room to dodge!" Silvia commanded with a calm expression.

"..."

This time, Silvia's teammates were significantly weaker than her previous ones. Coupled with Jiang Mingyue's movement technique completely breaking through to the Perfect level, she didn't fall into a disadvantageous position immediately.

"Tsk, however, this woman can't hold on for long!" Wang Cheng watched the fight from above, contemplating whether he should help Jiang Mingyue later.

Although Silvia had a past connection with him, Wang Cheng would not compromise his principles because of it.

Jiang Mingyue was, after all, a warrior from Huaxia Country. Wang Cheng wouldn't stand by and watch her be captured and taken away by these people.

"Hmm?"

As Wang Cheng was thinking, he suddenly looked into the distance with some surprise.

"Interesting!"

Wang Cheng smiled, then continued to watch the show from where he stood.

After a while, just as Jiang Mingyue was struggling and about to collapse, a black shadow suddenly descended from the sky.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The black shadow flickered, and in an instant, the five people surrounding Jiang Mingyue were all kicked flying. The flying daggers controlled by Silvia were also snatched away by the black shadow.

Whoosh!

The black shadow landed in front of Jiang Mingyue. He wore a black combat suit, stood nearly two meters tall, and was as powerfully built as a giant bear.

"War God?" Silvia's expression changed slightly.

"You actually dare to surround our Warrior on our Huaxia Country's territory. Aren't you a bit too arrogant?" the black shadow's calm voice rang out, instantly making Silvia and the others feel immense pressure.

"Respected War God, we had no intention of offending your country's Warrior!" Silvia said in a deep voice. "Moreover, with the great enemy of monsters upon us, why should we distinguish so clearly between countries? The reason we surrounded Miss Jiang Mingyue was because she once incited a monster swarm to attack me and my teammates, and it resulted in the deaths of my five teammates."

"She's lying!" Jiang Mingyue interrupted Silvia instantly. She said calmly:

"I never did such a thing. If you want to accuse me, you can always find a reason! I think you just want to snatch my prey and take revenge!"

"You—"

Silvia was furious. The reason she gathered people was because she was 80-90% sure that the incident was caused by the person in front of her. She had found quite a few clues when she went to look for her teammates later.

But who would have thought that this person would be so shameless? Not only did she deny it without hesitation, but she also turned the tables!

"Enough, I don't care about your grudges, but today's matter ends here!" the black shadow said domineeringly, bringing the conflict to a close.

However, although Silvia and the others were angry, they knew they were no match for a War God, nor could they afford to offend one, so they could only endure it for now.

Just then—

In a place no one perceived, holes suddenly appeared from the ground. In the next moment, countless black shadows darted out from them, targeting the unsuspecting Silvia.

Sensing danger, Silvia instantly formed a barrier behind her with her Mental Energy. In an instant, countless black shadows were knocked to the ground. Then, more black shadows surged out, madly pouncing towards Silvia.

"These are?"

Silvia's mental barrier didn't last long. Soon, it was broken through by the relentless black shadows. At this point, the others finally reacted.

"It's a Rat Swarm!" The War God, who had just domineeringly stopped the dispute between the two parties, became serious.

"Hurry over here! If this Mental Master dies, none of you will escape!" the War God shouted. Everyone reacted.

Even Jiang Mingyue, after a moment of hesitation, instantly charged forward with her spear.

Although Jiang Mingyue had no good feelings for Silvia, she also knew that if this was just a small Rat Swarm, it would be fine. But if it was a Rat Disaster, then apart from the flying Mental Master who could provide them a way out, almost everyone else would surely die.

Never mind whether Silvia would save her later, for now, she had to save the other party first!

PS: Seeking Support!

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