Bright Moon Residential District.
"Li, have you heard? A new family just moved into our neighborhood. There's a handsome young man, and they say he's insanely rich. He didn't even try to haggle when he bought a villa here..." A woman who'd been out shopping for groceries whispered to her companion. The only one who thought she was whispering, though, was herself.
"Yeah, yeah, Zhao, I heard too. They say the young man has powerful connections. Maybe he's the heir to some influential family, out here to gain experience..." Her companion wasn't exactly quiet either. "If some girl could get him to... then she'd..."
"Right!" Zhao slapped her thigh. "We could help set something up..."
"Don't you dare go meddling," a stern voice suddenly interjected. It belonged to a manager from the Bright Moon Residential District property office. After a pause, he added in a hushed voice, "I heard the supervisor say that young man is at least a War God. His standards are sky-high. Which girl do you think he'd be interested in?"
After moving into Bright Moon Residential District, Yin Congyang asked the property office to find him a housekeeper who could come by every day to shop for groceries, cook, and tidy up.
He had spent over half a year training in the wilderness, facing life-or-death situations more than ten times along the way. He had managed to pull through each one using various methods. The risks were great, but for Yin Congyang, the rewards were even greater.
He had been keeping a low profile for the past few days, focusing all his attention on absorbing everything he had gained over that half year in the wilderness. Danger lurked everywhere out there, and he had to stay on edge every moment, leaving little time to settle down and reflect. He also needed to take stock of all his abilities and make a training plan for the next stage.
Over the past six months, he had made tremendous progress in using Spiritual Force for telekinesis and Illusion Techniques. He no longer suffered the backlash he had experienced the first time he used Soul Annihilation on an Iron-Horned Bull. The fluctuations in his Dantian not only helped his body evolve but also greatly strengthened and fortified his soul.
His physical strength would soon reach the High-level War God threshold, and his Spiritual Force was just as powerful. The fluctuations in his Dantian continued to strengthen his body and soul day and night, but Yin Congyang had a vague feeling that both his body and soul had to reach a certain limit before he could break through to Planetary Level. For now, that limit was still far away.
The threshold for a High-level War God was a basic force of 256,000 kilograms. Usually, once someone's basic force reached around 500,000 kilograms, they could be called a peak War God. Then, if they focused more on "spirit" and "will," they had a chance of breaking through to Planetary Level.
Yin Congyang could currently feel that his basic force was around 250,000 kilograms, but his force amplification continued to increase steadily. This was partly thanks to the Thirty-Six Heaven-Opening Axes and partly due to the fluctuations in his Dantian. Those mysterious fluctuations often served as a guide, offering Yin Congyang direction whenever he hit a bottleneck in force application and helping him overcome one obstacle after another.
Moreover, the stronger his body became, the more quickly and effectively the Dantian's fluctuations worked, accelerating his growth in strength. It was a positive feedback loop, and every day Yin Congyang could clearly feel that he was stronger than the day before.
Several peaceful but busy months passed, bringing the date to the end of December 2060.
That day, Yin Congyang went to the main city's Limit Dojo to test his strength. His basic force had reached 600,000 kilograms, and his Spiritual Force had surpassed the peak of High-level War God. Unfortunately, he felt no sign that a breakthrough was imminent. It seemed his earlier intuition had been right: his body and soul both had to reach a certain limit before he could break through.
After returning to Bright Moon Residential District, Yin Congyang thought back to the events in the novel. The date in the book was the evening of March 9, 2061, when Sago Nehru and Vino came to steal the Moya Crystals from Luo Feng's family.
That was still more than three months away. Yin Congyang continued to make rapid progress every day, and he was confident that by then he could face the newly advanced Sago Nehru on his own. As for Vino, the other Planetary Level fighter, a single Spiritual Impact would be enough to deal with him. Yin Congyang had tested it before: even when he was only a Beginner War God, his Spiritual Impact had inflicted severe damage on a High-level Lord-level Monster without any backlash. As long as he hid in Luo Feng's house ahead of time, he could stop those two shameless Planetary Level fighters in time.
Time passed quickly. Yin Congyang celebrated his first New Year's Day and Spring Festival in this world, and before he knew it, he had been here for a full year. He had grown from a Primary Warrior to someone whose strength surpassed the peak of High-level War God.
After several months of training, reflection, and refinement, Yin Congyang's combat system had largely taken shape. In close combat, he had the Thirty-Six Heaven-Opening Axes and nearly tenfold force amplification. At range, he relied on the methods of a Mental Master Controller. With Spiritual Force at the peak of High-level War God, each flying dagger could strike with a force of 800,000 kilograms. However, he could perfectly control only eight daggers at most; beyond that, their power fell off exponentially. So Yin Congyang later ordered ten SS-Grade Flying Daggers online and also had a custom SS-Grade Heaven-Opening Axe made to suit his fighting style.
After more than half a year of constant use and experimentation in the wilderness, he had developed plenty of practical knowledge and techniques for his Illusionist abilities. Whether in close combat or when using his Controller abilities, illusions could be decisive. A slight disruption at a critical moment could determine who lived and who died.
His Spiritual Impact, which used soul power to kill an opponent, had also become capable of easily killing someone at the same level, thanks to the growing quality and resilience of his soul power. Of course, that only applied if the target wasn't wearing a Force Battle Suit with soul-defense capabilities. In the future, if he encountered an opponent wearing equipment that could weaken soul attacks, he probably wouldn't be able to kill them so easily, but he could still affect them.
In the blink of an eye, March 9 arrived.
For several days, Yin Congyang had been quietly keeping an eye on Luo Feng's house. Everything had been calm, so the timeline from the original story hadn't changed. That meant the incident would happen during dinner that evening.
Starting in the afternoon, Yin Congyang had kept watch nearby. Dusk soon fell, and Luo Hua sat down to dinner with his parents. Their meal was filled with laughter and conversation.
As night fell, Yin Congyang's expression changed. He abruptly turned to look up at the sky. More than two hundred meters away, a disc-shaped fighter jet had silently come to a stop in midair.
The hatch opened, and a muscular blond white man and a young South Asian man flew out. They quietly headed toward Luo Feng's house.
Yin Congyang enveloped himself with Spiritual Force, used telekinesis to open a side window, and slipped inside without a sound. He concealed himself around the corner of the living room.
Just as Yin Congyang settled into place, he suddenly felt an unfamiliar Spiritual Force sweep through the entire villa. The security guards outside, the housekeeper in the kitchen, and Luo Feng's parents all lost consciousness.
"Who's there?" Luo Hua's voice rang out, determined despite his unease.
"Mr. Luo, hello."
Sago and Vino walked in with smiles, dressed in black suits. "Don't worry. I only hypnotized them for a moment. I didn't kill them."
The implication was clear: they were only hypnotized for now, but if Luo Hua refused to cooperate, the hypnosis could be permanent...
After exchanging several sharp, barbed remarks, Sago Nehru used his Spiritual Force to locate the safe in the basement containing the Moya Crystals and Spirits of Vegetation. He floated it out with telekinesis.
Just as Sago reached out to catch the safe...
"Whoosh!"
Amid a sudden, piercing whistle, eight streaks of black light split into two groups, shooting toward Sago and Vino.
Yin Congyang's Spiritual Force had already far surpassed the War God peak. Although he hadn't broken through to Planetary Level, he was not far from it.
To neutralize Vino as quickly as possible, Yin Congyang sent six flying daggers toward Vino's head, chest, and abdomen, while an illusion swept over him first. Caught completely off guard, Vino took the full force of all six daggers.
There was a world of difference between bracing for an attack and taking it without warning. If you were prepared and conscious, you could draw on the muscles throughout your body and your Origin Force to resist, allowing you to withstand much greater force.
A split second before launching his attack, Yin Congyang first condensed his Spiritual Force into a guillotine-like blade and swung it down, severing the Spiritual Force Sago had spread across the living room. Then he transformed it into several shields of mental force and enclosed Luo Hua, his parents, and the two children, ensuring that they wouldn't be touched by Sago's Spiritual Force or harmed by the shock waves of the ensuing battle.
Vino barely had time to spread the Black God Set over his body before the six flying daggers struck him with a barrage of blows. He spat blood and crashed through the window, flying out of the villa.
"Who are you?" Sago Nehru was a Planetary Level Mental Master, after all. Although he had only just broken through, two flying daggers couldn't threaten him. Startled by the immense force behind them, he still turned to Yin Congyang with a dark expression and asked.
"Nobody important. Who I am doesn't matter. What matters is, you're that shameless—does your mother know?"
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