Mission Complete

Zhou Zheng did not think much of it. He looked at Shockwave, whose aura had already weakened to its lowest point, and flew straight toward him.

Shockwave's outburst just now had indeed been terrifying. Not only had his strength reached a level close to that of a Peak Demigod, but more importantly, his control over the world had suddenly surged countless times over. Fu Heng, who had been hiding within Shadow Space, had actually been squeezed out directly.

Fu Heng had been countered in this exchange. Otherwise, he would not have died so quickly.

Of course, this was also because Fu Heng's Shadow Space was not of a high enough level. Otherwise, even if Shockwave had taken control of this small Transcendent World, he might not have been able to force him out of Shadow Space.

As long as he hid within Shadow Space, power infiltrating from outside would find it difficult to kill him.

Of course, what had happened had happened. There was no point discussing it now.

The current situation was that Fu Heng had suddenly been taken out, while Shockwave had nearly lost all ability to resist. Zhou Zheng was the one left standing. What happened next would naturally be entirely up to Zhou Zheng!

"Stop!!"

At that moment, the native Transcendents could no longer sit still as they watched Zhou Zheng fly toward Shockwave. They roared and charged at Zhou Zheng.

For a time, all manner of innate abilities—ice, lightning, wind, light, fire, water, earth, darkness, shadow—came howling toward him.

Boom!

Time Deceleration descended, while time within the space around Zhou Zheng began accelerating as well. In an instant, an enormous gap formed between his speed and that of the dozen or so Native Transcendents.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Zhou Zheng easily evaded the Native Transcendents' attacks, then rapidly closed in on them and decisively threw a punch at each of them.

The Flying Heaven level Native Transcendents did not even have a chance to react before collapsing.

As for the two Saint level native Transcendents, one barely managed to control flames to counterattack, but Zhou Zheng brought him down in a single move. The other possessed an Immortal Body, but his Immortal Body was far inferior to Shockwave's. Moreover, Zhou Zheng was no longer limited to relying on his Bloodline Talent to deal damage as he had been before.

With attacks at the Micro-particle level, just a few sword strikes from Zhou Zheng left that Transcendent Life crying out in misery, completely unable to resist any longer.

Zhou Zheng arrived smoothly at Shockwave's side. Shockwave's aura was now faint to the point of nearly vanishing, and he clearly did not have much time left.

It was not surprising, though. If Shockwave's final move had not required an immense price, he would surely have used it from the beginning. Why wait until the end?

It seemed that from the moment Shockwave unleashed that final attack, he had intended to perish together with Zhou Zheng and Fu Heng. After all, he had already been driven into a desperate situation. If he had not erupted then, he would have been slowly worn to death by Zhou Zheng and Fu Heng.

"..."

Zhou Zheng secretly shook his head. Without further thought, he bent down and began searching for Shockwave's Storage Treasure.

A moment later, Zhou Zheng obtained Shockwave's Storage Treasure. He checked its contents. There were quite a few Origin Stones, but only two or three not very large pieces of Special Lifeform Corpse.

Noticing that the quantity was off, Zhou Zheng prepared to search the other Native Transcendents as well.

"Captain, all the Special Lifeform Corpses in their possession are with me!" Herk ran over with a wide grin, holding a storage artifact in his hand.

Besides the Special Lifeform Corpses Herk had gathered, it also contained some of Fu Heng's treasures.

Fu Heng's storage artifact had been blasted into powder along with him when he died. Most of the treasures within had also shattered, but some were exceptionally sturdy and survived. Herk had gathered all of them.

Of course, with Zhou Zheng right there, Herk had no intention whatsoever of pocketing any of those treasures. He very consciously handed them all over to Zhou Zheng.

"You did well this time!" Zhou Zheng looked at Herk and nodded slightly in satisfaction.

Zhou Zheng had sent Herk undercover because of a small personal grudge from their previous mission. Yet unexpectedly, Herk had not only encountered no danger while operating undercover in this Danger-level Mission, but had actually thrived. That was indeed no simple feat.

"Hehe, I only did a little intelligence work. It's not worth mentioning. Captain, it was your strength that led us to crush this place with unstoppable force." Herk chuckled, then promptly showered Zhou Zheng with praise, leaving Zhou Zheng rather speechless.

At this time, having heard Herk's voice, Shockwave also struggled to open his eyes and glared fixedly at him.

"Captain, what should we do with these Native Transcendents?"

Ignoring Shockwave's gaze, Herk instead looked toward Zhou Zheng.

"I'll leave them to you."

Zhou Zheng did not say much. He transformed directly into a streak of Wind Thunder and vanished from the spot in the blink of an eye.

"..."

Zhou Zheng had not gone far. He arrived a hundred li away and used the power of Micro-particle to observe what was happening around Herk.

During the previous mission, Herk had set Zhou Zheng up once. But strictly speaking, he had not targeted Zhou Zheng alone.

Although Zhou Zheng had remembered the matter, he had not necessarily intended to kill him over it.

This time, Zhou Zheng had sent Herk away from the team to work undercover in a Danger-level Mission. Not only had Herk been fine, but he had also played an enormous role, causing Zhou Zheng's thoughts to change.

Keeping a teammate like this around did not seem so bad.

Of course, Zhou Zheng also wanted to see how Herk would handle these Native Transcendents.

Within Zhou Zheng's perception, Herk did nothing. After going over and saying a few words to the Native Transcendents, he simply left.

Through the vibrations of particles, Zhou Zheng heard Herk's words clearly as well. He had roughly mocked those Native Transcendents for having no brains, telling them to grow some brains next time and the like.

"..."

Zhou Zheng's expression did not change. After waiting a little longer, the mission finally reached its final deadline.

Whoosh!

Vast Power of Space-Time suddenly descended, and in an instant, Zhou Zheng disappeared from this small Transcendent World.

Temporal Temple, within Zhou Zheng's Private Space.

Whoosh!

As vast Space-Time fluctuations descended, Zhou Zheng's figure suddenly appeared where he stood.

"The second mission is over!"

Zhou Zheng let out a breath of relief inwardly. Missions were ultimately uncertain, and only now that he had returned could he truly relax completely.

As he thought, Zhou Zheng quickly immersed his consciousness into the Temporal Temple mark on his wrist and examined the rewards from this mission.

In this mission, he had obtained a total of 17,100 Time-Space Points.

Of those many Time-Space Points, the reward Zhou Zheng received for grasping the Proto Micro-particle True Meaning accounted for more than half—15,000 Time-Space Points in total.

This was 5,000 more Time-Space Points than he had received for grasping the Proto Time Deceleration True Meaning. It was quite astonishing.

Next came Zhou Zheng's gains from the mission itself.

The four-person team had earned a total of 3,000 Time-Space Points. Zhou Zheng received seventy percent, amounting to 2,100 Time-Space Points.

"Seventy percent."

Zhou Zheng nodded slightly to himself, not particularly surprised.

His share was perfectly normal. His contribution to this mission had been much greater than in the previous one. He had received fifty percent of the gains last time, so seventy percent this time was only natural.

"Additionally, the Origin Stones gained this time add up to five or six thousand jin. Exchanged for Time-Space Points without a discount, they would be worth at least 5,600 points. And then there are the most important Special Lifeform Corpses. I obtained nearly seventy percent of them. After handing over the portion to the Temporal Temple, I can receive twenty percent!" Zhou Zheng thought, a faint smile appearing on his face.

The gains this time were indeed enormous!