Encounter

At this moment, Yuan Tian had no idea that a major trouble was waiting for him outside the Chaos Star Formation. He was secretly delighting in his good fortune, tallying up the gains from this time. Speaking of which, Yuan Tian's harvest had been enormous. Leaving aside everything else, Po Hun's inheritance alone was enough to benefit him endlessly. With Po Hun's inheritance, Yuan Tian could use it to comprehend the Soul Law and the Slaughter Law. Added to Yuan Tian's own Primordial Five-Element Law—originally, Yuan Tian had comprehended only the Primordial Wood Law and the Primordial Earth Law among the Five-Element Law, but after cultivating the Five-Elements Heaven-Seizing Hand, he had comprehended the Primordial Water Law, Primordial Fire Law, and Primordial Metal Law through cultivating the divine ability and consuming the Five Elements Fruit, though his understanding of those latter three Primordial Laws was still shallower than that of the first two—as well as the Chaos Star Law, Time Law, and Spatial Law, Yuan Tian would then possess ten Laws. And all ten were Laws of no small power, capable of raising his overall strength to another level. The only problem was that he had not mastered a single one of them. Most of the Laws Yuan Tian had comprehended were only at the minor achievement stage, while none had reached major achievement. He did not know whether that was a good thing. There was an order to hearing the Dao; one's craft was still best pursued through specialization.

Obviously, Yuan Tian did not care about such things right now. He had considered his own situation. The cultivation technique he practiced required boundless magical power, which would inevitably demand a great deal of time to absorb spiritual qi. Yet Yuan Tian could cultivate his technique while comprehending Laws at the same time. That way, he would neither delay his cultivation and strength nor neglect improving his understanding of Laws. It was killing two birds with one stone, and it made Yuan Tian's overall strength far superior to that of others.

No matter what, Yuan Tian's gains had been considerable, and he had also dealt with that fellow he had fought for a thousand years. Since Po Hun was already dead as a doornail, his weapons, spirit treasures, and everything else naturally belonged to Yuan Tian.

Yuan Tian could not help sighing. In his previous life, killing monsters in games could make equipment drop. Now that he had been reborn in the Primordial Wilderness, killing "people" could make spirit treasures drop too. In games, you never knew what kind of equipment would drop. If it was good, you might get something top-grade or epic. If it was bad, they would toss you a blank-grade item as some consolation prize, and you could find a corner to cry in. But now things were different. As long as he knew what the slain "monster" had used, he would know what equipment that "monster" could drop.

Yuan Tian had long been coveting Po Hun's Po Hun Saber and the Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus. Now, Po Hun was finished, and these things truly belonged to Yuan Tian. Taking down an opponent and then snatching away his belongings felt unbelievably satisfying. He felt that "robbery" was quite enjoyable too. Of course, onlooking friends should not try it. Yuan Tian loved keeping all the spoils for himself most of all, so nobody should compete with him.

Yuan Tian did not put away the Chaos Star Formation. He simply examined his "spoils of war" within the formation. So long as he did not activate the formation, it did not consume much magical power anyway. Although Yuan Tian's magical power was pitifully low right now, that was only relative. The magical power remaining within him was still no weaker than that of an ordinary Zenith Heaven True Immortal. This showed the benefit of having a hundredfold magical power. Thus, Yuan Tian did not care in the slightest about the tiny amount of magical power needed to maintain the formation.

After the living beings of the Primordial Wilderness died, some reverted to their original forms. If you had transformed from an ox, then after death, you became an ox again and could no longer maintain a human form. Yet some could remain in human form even after death. Po Hun belonged to the latter kind. Yuan Tian first put away Po Hun's corpse. After obtaining Po Hun's inheritance, Yuan Tian had a feeling that Po Hun's corpse might prove useful to him. Even if it was not useful, Yuan Tian would not waste it. An innate demon god was covered in treasures from head to toe, more Tang Monk than Tang Monk himself. How could a miser like Yuan Tian let such a fine treasure slip away?

After putting away Po Hun's corpse, Yuan Tian finally had the chance to inspect the spirit treasures he had long desired. The Po Hun Saber was entirely dark green and somewhat resembled the Tang saber Yuan Tian had seen in his previous life. The blade itself bore no other engravings, while the hilt was black and marked with spiraling patterns.

The entire saber was roughly eighteen point eight inches long, not particularly long. Of course, if he wanted it longer, that was no problem at all. The Sha Qi within the blade was restrained, gathered without being released, which was why Yuan Tian had actually failed to notice it the first time he saw it. That had to be called a mistake. But now it was his. He could slowly collect it and slowly use it. As for the Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus, it was shaped like a lotus flower with twelve grades, its entire body ink-black. Yuan Tian had also wanted the Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus very badly. He did not yet possess a defensive spirit treasure, while this Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus was a top-grade defensive spirit treasure. Although Yuan Tian's physical body was incomparably powerful, and would grow even stronger as his cultivation and realm improved in the future, one had to keep a low profile. We had to keep a low profile, understand?

We understand keeping a low profile, but where exactly had he kept a low profile? Not long after leaving Penglai, he had fallen out with the Dragon Clan, killing some of their dozen-plus clansmen and capturing the rest. Was that keeping a low profile?

Fine, I admit that few in the Primordial Wilderness knew he had done that. But now he and Po Hun had fought until heaven and earth shook, alerting even the top experts of the entire Primordial Wilderness. That was not keeping a low profile this time, was it?

What? You said this was not your fault, that Po Hun had forced you to fight, and that there had been no spectators during the battle, so it did not count either.

Fine, I'll shut up. You win!!!

As for the fact that his physical body was powerful, Yuan Tian had no intention of letting others know. He still wanted to ambush people when the crucial moment came. How could he let them know? It had to be said that Yuan Tian's mind was dark indeed. No wonder Po Hun had managed to scheme against him.

Most importantly, Yuan Tian feared that if others learned his physical body was too formidable, they would create a weapon specifically designed to deal with it. Would that not be a tragedy? Do not say that no such weapon existed or that such a thing could never happen. Of course it had happened, only during the Witch-Demon Era. Back then, the Witch Clan relied on their powerful physical bodies to bully the Demon Race mercilessly every time, eventually enraging the Demon Race into forging the Witch-Slaying Sword, a weapon made specifically to counter the Witch Clan's physical bodies. The Witch Clan's losses had been utterly devastating. Since the Demon Race could forge the Witch-Slaying Sword during the Witch-Demon Era, there was no reason the various races of the Dragon-Phoenix Era could not forge a similar "Witch-Slaying Sword" with the same function. Yuan Tian did not want to try the taste of that sword. It would not feel very good.

Now that he had the Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus, Yuan Tian could use it as a cover. He no longer had to fear others discovering the truth about his powerful physical body. Perhaps at a critical moment, it might even bring an unexpected gain. That was possible too. Hehehe...

Just as Yuan Tian took out the Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus, Luohou outside the formation seemed to grow impatient. He could not wait to get that Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus into his hands. After all, only something in one's hand truly put one at ease. As for whether he could obtain it, Luohou had never worried. He had absolute confidence in his own strength. There had never been anything he wanted that he could not get. He seemed to have forgotten what had just happened.

Finally, just as Luohou was about to explode from waiting, Yuan Tian slowly sauntered out of the Chaos Star Formation, then slowly put away his Chaos Star Chart. With that, the Chaos Star Formation vanished as well. But Yuan Tian's slow-motion act was truly slow beyond belief, making anyone who watched want to give him a vicious beating.

Yuan Tian had only just put away the formation and had not even had time to turn around when a person appeared before him—a young man dressed in black.

Yuan Tian's first impression upon seeing the man in black was that this fellow had very fair skin. It was not the frightening kind of pallor, but a normal whiteness. His black clothes made that whiteness stand out all the more. So white. It was a pity he did not become a pretty boy; such whiteness would have gone to waste.

If Luohou had known what Yuan Tian was thinking, would he have immediately dealt with him? As for little brothers or subordinates, he would surely have thrown such matters to the back of his mind and dealt with this fellow who had "slandered" him first. Unfortunately, Luohou did not possess such great divine abilities that he could know the thoughts of an expert at Yuan Tian's level. Otherwise, Yuan Tian would have had quite an interesting time.

Yuan Tian's second impression of the man in black was that he was an expert—an expert stronger than himself.

Good fellow, Yuan Tian had finally noticed the other party's strength. He really was different from the living beings of the Primordial Wilderness. Yuan Tian's first impression when looking at someone was their appearance. When the living beings of the Primordial Wilderness saw others, their first thought was to assess cultivation and strength. As for appearance, who cared whether you were beautiful or ugly, white or black? Even if you were white plus black, they would not care. They had no mind for that. They only looked at the level of one's cultivation and strength. It seemed Yuan Tian had not yet fully integrated into the world of the Primordial Wilderness.

"Junior greets Senior!" Although he did not know who the person before him was, Yuan Tian still bowed to the man in black, following the principle that excessive courtesy offended no one. Heaven knew whether he bowed because of etiquette or because the other party was stronger than him. Perhaps even Heaven did not know.

"Mhm, boy, you're not bad. By the way, what is your name?" Damn, after watching such a long show, Luohou still did not know Yuan Tian's name. But Po Hun seemed not to have known either. He had died so unjustly, ending up dead without even knowing his opponent's name. Sigh!!!

"Oh, this junior is Star. May I ask how Senior should be addressed?" Although he did not know what the first half of the other party's words meant—what did he mean by "you're not bad"? Of course I'm not bad. How could I possibly be bad?—the thick-skinned Yuan Tian directly took it as praise. As for whether it was praise masking criticism, he could let the criticism go to hell and keep only the praise. Although Yuan Tian shamelessly accepted the other party's "compliment," he still had to answer the question. There was no helping it; his strength was inferior to the other party's. But why not take the opportunity to probe out some "enemy intelligence"? Sometimes, a name could be very useful, especially for someone who had been reborn.

"I am—Luohou!" That "pretty boy" gave an answer with an air of great pretension, one that nearly scared Yuan Tian to death.

PS: Everyone remembers, right? Yuan Tian's Daoist title is Star. It was mentioned at the end of Chapter Two of this volume!

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