Something Wrong with His Strength

The moment Zhou Zheng said they should retreat, Mo Zitong immediately nodded.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

The two instantly arrived on the ground. After calling Feng Zhuhong, who was still setting up arrays, the three of them each used their own methods and flew rapidly into the distance.

Meanwhile, on the other side, a group of more than ten Transcendentals had arrived near the mountains. They also discovered the two Saint Level transcendents lying there.

"Lord Shockwave, they're still alive!"

The two Flying Heaven level transcendents who had gone to check immediately reported back.

"They're alive?"

A Native Transcendent standing a full nine meters tall, with purple skin, showed a trace of relief. But then, as if he had thought of something, he suddenly said, "Leave them alone for now. Follow me!"

With that, the Native Transcendent turned into a streak of Flowing Light and shot into the mountains.

However, the instant he entered, he fell into an array that had been set up in advance.

Boom!

A vast fluctuation emerged, and the many array foundations forming the array were all shattered into powder.

Whoosh!

The figure continued onward, but another array appeared.

Boom!

The same fluctuation erupted again, and the array was destroyed in an instant.

In merely a few breaths, the figure arrived at the Origin Stone vein. Following the fluctuations coming from within, he immediately realized that the Origin Stone vein had been mined.

"Damn it!!"

The figure roared and abruptly looked into the distance.

By then, using the time it had taken their opponent to realize what had happened, Zhou Zheng and the other two had already flown a hundred li away.

But suddenly, a massive amount of the power of heaven and earth gathered around them, and a terrifying fluctuation spread out.

"What is this?"

Feng Zhuhong and Mo Zitong's expressions immediately changed.

Whoosh!

Zhou Zheng raised a hand without hesitation. In an instant, the flow of time nearby slowed drastically, and the gathering power of heaven and earth also slowed at once.

"Go!"

Zhou Zheng grabbed the two women. A fluctuation surfaced around him; wherever it passed, the effects of Time Deceleration vanished, but Zhou Zheng's speed increased sharply.

Whoosh!

In the blink of an eye, Zhou Zheng vanished from the spot with Feng Zhuhong and Mo Zitong.

Not long after Zhou Zheng disappeared, the Time Deceleration effect in the area also vanished. A massive amount of the power of heaven and earth rapidly finished gathering, and a terrifying fluctuation came crashing down.

Rumble!

A muffled boom rang through the sky as the terrifying fluctuation erupted in an instant.

But the people trapped within it had already left.

Elsewhere, Zhou Zheng unleashed his full speed. He took Feng Zhuhong and Mo Zitong more than ten thousand li in a single burst before finally stopping.

"Captain, what was that just now?"

Mo Zitong was still shaken. That attack had come far too suddenly, and its power had been terrifying. Just thinking about the amount of the power of heaven and earth it had mobilized made its horror clear.

"I don't know either." Zhou Zheng shook his head slightly, then said, "But one thing is certain: the Temporal Temple's intelligence on that Native Transcendent, Shockwave, was incomplete. There's something wrong with his strength."

"..."

Mo Zitong and Feng Zhu Hong both nodded.

Something was indeed off. A peak Saint Level transcendent could spread an attack over a range of a hundred li at full power, but that would greatly disperse its force, making it incapable of inflicting much damage.

That was why, when Transcendentals fought, their power was usually highly concentrated. They generally would not spread it over too great a distance.

Yet they had suffered an attack of that intensity from a hundred li away.

"Good thing Captain got us out," Mo Zitong said with feeling.

The speed Zhou Zheng had unleashed in that crisis had truly been astonishing, even vastly exceeding that of a peak Saint Level transcendent.

Logically, Zhou Zheng's body, which was only at the peak Flying Heaven level, should not have been able to endure such speed. Yet not only had he endured it himself, even Mo Zitong and Feng Zhuhong, whom he had carried along, had suffered no major problems.

Zhou Zheng had no intention of explaining. After pondering for a moment, he said, "Shockwave's strength has exceeded expectations. We'll temporarily stop targeting these Native Transcendentals and wait until the Transcendentals from the other forces in the outside mortal world arrive."

"Yes!"

Feng Zhuhong and Mo Zitong both nodded.

An hour later, the three found a concealed cave. Feng Zhuhong set up an Alert Array and a Concealment Array nearby, and they temporarily made the place their base.

Zhou Zheng called Feng Zhuhong and Mo Zitong over, preparing to divide the spoils.

"This time, we obtained roughly another fifteen percent of that Special Lifeform's corpse from those two Saint Level transcendents. Together with the ten percent we got before, we now have twenty-five percent," Zhou Zheng said. "We're only five percent away from completing the mission. Feng Zhuhong, you said before that you wanted to study it, so I'll give you a portion. I'll keep the rest. No objections?"

"No objections!"

Anticipation had already appeared on Feng Zhuhong's face. Objections? How could she possibly have any?

"Do you want any?" Zhou Zheng looked at Mo Zitong again.

"No!"

Mo Zitong directly shook her head. She had no interest whatsoever in the Special Lifeform Corpse. What interested her more was Origin Stone.

"Next are the Origin Stones."

As Zhou Zheng spoke, he took out two portions of Origin Stones.

One portion had come from the Molten Transcendent, while the other was naturally what they had mined.

"I'll take sixty percent of these Origin Stones, and you two get twenty percent each. Any objections?" Zhou Zheng pointed at the pile of Origin Stones obtained from the Molten Transcendent.

Though it had appeared that he had not acted in defeating the Molten Transcendent, Time Deceleration had actually been crucial. Therefore, he felt no guilt about taking the larger share.

Feng Zhuhong immediately nodded. After looking at Zhou Zheng with some surprise, Mo Zitong nodded as well.

"As for these..." Zhou Zheng looked at the other large pile of Origin Stones and directly said, "I'll take fifty percent. Mo Zitong, as the one who discovered it, you'll take twenty percent. Feng Zhuhong will take fifteen percent, and the remaining fifteen percent will be reserved for Herk. He did provide intelligence, so it wouldn't be right to leave him nothing. Of course, if Herk dies outside, we'll divide those Origin Stones among ourselves then."

"No problem!" Feng Zhuhong nodded excitedly. This huge pile of Origin Stones had to weigh several thousand jin, right? Fifteen percent of it? She had struck it rich.

"I have no objections either!" Mo Zitong nodded as well, then smiled. "But Captain, you really are a good person!"

"What?"

Zhou Zheng frowned.

"Nothing, nothing!" Mo Zitong hurriedly shook her head.

"Then that's how we'll divide it."

Seeing Mo Zitong shake her head, Zhou Zheng could not be bothered to press the matter.

Mo Zitong and Feng Zhu Hong took their spoils and soon left.

"Sister Zitong, what did you mean just now?" Feng Zhu Hong asked through voice transmission.

"You mean the Captain?" Mo Zitong asked.

"Yeah!"

"You know I joined many teams before. In a situation like today's, do you know how much of the spoils I would get in the other teams?" Mo Zitong asked.

"Ten percent?" Feng Zhu Hong asked through voice transmission.

"That would be when I was lucky. When I was unlucky, I'd get only a hundred jin of Origin Stones," Mo Zitong said. "When the captain's strength overwhelmingly surpassed everyone else's in a team, the captain would normally take ninety percent of all the spoils!"

"This..." Feng Zhuhong was slightly stunned.

"So I should thank you!" Mo Zitong smiled. "I originally came because the Captain had grasped the Second-grade Proto True Meaning. After all, following a transcendent with Second-grade True Meaning meant far greater prospects for the future! But now it seems that our Captain's character is solid too!"

"..."

Feng Zhuhong said nothing more. After hearing Mo Zitong say that, she instantly felt that her luck was incredibly good. She had actually joined a team like this from the very beginning.