Shifting Trouble Eastward

The Wind-Following Wings suddenly spread behind him. Dense Wind Secret Patterns appeared across the azure feathers, all lighting up at once and erupting with a blinding cyan glow.

Fang Yan gave a low shout. The Wind-Following Wings beat, accelerating him toward the outskirts.

The King-level Divining Wind Beast was far faster than Ice Qiong King.

Fang Yan felt the pressure behind him drawing ever closer. His heart pounded wildly, yet his mind remained exceptionally calm.

Lanke King was stationed in the outer space surrounding Wind Abyss Star!

"Come on, chase me."

Fang Yan gritted his teeth and pushed the power of his inner world to its limit.

Two figures raced one after the other through Wind Abyss Star's sea of storms, leaving behind two long streams of air that pierced heaven and earth.

Along the way, the World Lord-level Divining Wind Beasts sensed the pressure of their King-level ancestor and fled in panic in every direction, not daring to look back.

The short span of half an incense stick seemed endlessly drawn out amid the life-and-death pursuit.

Fang Yan could feel the aura of the giant beast behind him drawing nearer and nearer.

Just as he was about to exhaust himself, the view ahead abruptly opened up.

At the edge of Wind Abyss Star's atmosphere, a vast expanse of pitch-black Xingkong appeared before him.

"I'm here!"

The Wind-Following Wings burst with one last flash of cyan light, carrying Fang Yan out of Wind Abyss Star's atmosphere.

In Xingkong, that black figure still stood with his hands behind his back, as if he had not moved even a fraction from beginning to end.

"Lanke King!"

Fang Yan's voice carried through the void.

Lanke King slowly turned around. His pure black eyes glanced at Fang Yan, then at the enormous dark-blue creature chasing behind him.

His expression did not change at all.

The instant the King-level Divining Wind Beast burst out of Wind Abyss Star's atmosphere, it evidently sensed Lanke King's presence as well.

Its body came to a sudden halt in Xingkong. Its amber vertical pupils fixed intently on the black figure, a trace of wariness flashing through its eyes.

But it did not retreat.

"Roar—"

It let out a deep roar at Lanke King, as though asserting its territory and issuing a warning.

"Get back!"

Lanke King roared angrily.

He raised his right hand and clenched his index finger in the void. A dark-blue spear appeared in his grasp.

The next moment, there was no dazzling light at all.

The three-thousand-meter-long King-level Divining Wind Beast and Lanke King clashed in a brutal close-quarters battle.

Fang Yan was delighted, but he still swallowed involuntarily.

"Good heavens, two supreme grandmasters of strength?"

After respectfully saluting, Fang Yan stopped watching the battle between the two strength grandmasters, turned, and flew back toward Wind Abyss Star.

The corners of his lips rose slightly, and his flight path abruptly shifted.

"Master, why are we going back again?"

Little Fox Fairy's voice sounded beside his ear, carrying a hint of confusion.

"Could a place where a King-level Divining Wind Beast lived possibly lack good stuff?"

Fang Yan said as if it were only natural.

"That King-level Divining Wind Beast charged out from the depths of Wind Abyss Star. The place it was guarding definitely has something good."

With that, the Wind-Following Wings spread to their fullest, and he plunged once more into Wind Abyss Star's sea of storms.

After flying for roughly half a day, Fang Yan finally reached the place from which the King-level Divining Wind Beast had emerged.

It was an eye of the storm.

Wind Abyss Star was covered in storm eyes of all sizes, scattered across the entire planet.

But the storm eye before him was far larger than Fang Yan had imagined.

It resembled a gigantic vortex that ran through heaven and earth, extending from the deepest reaches of Wind Abyss Star all the way into the upper atmosphere, with a diameter of at least over a million kilometers.

Fang Yan swallowed.

"This place is probably not simple."

That King-level Divining Wind Beast was clearly the guardian of this storm eye.

Fang Yan took a deep breath. The Wind-Following Wings beat gently as his body slowly descended into the depths of the storm eye.

After flying for about two hours, the bottom of the storm eye finally appeared in view.

Fang Yan froze.

At the bottom of the storm eye was not the Chaos tempest he had imagined, but an incomparably flat expanse of void.

Thirty-two divine halls floated in the void.

The divine halls were uniform in size and style, entirely dark gold in color, their surfaces covered in dense secret patterns.

Those secret patterns slowly flowed through the darkness, emanating a pressure that made one's heart tremble.

The thirty-two divine halls were arranged according to some profound law, forming a massive circular array.

Fang Yan's gaze swept across the thirty-two divine halls one by one, and his pupils suddenly contracted.

Divine General Legacy!

"Chaos City Leader is truly generous! But this isn't Magic Sound Mountain, is it? I wonder which Divine General's legacy this is."

Thirty of them were entirely dark gold, with secret patterns flowing over their surfaces and faint light shining out from within.

They were in an unopened state.

The remaining two, however, carried an air of decay.

They had already been opened.

Fang Yan stood rooted in place as countless thoughts flashed through his mind.

While Lanke King was still fighting the Divining Wind Beast barehanded in the Xingkong outside Wind Abyss Star, the cry of a cicada quietly rang out.

The Spring Autumn Cicada Clone flew out from the Flightless Bird and rendezvoused with Fang Yan at tremendous speed.

"If I remember correctly, the stage rewards include rare treasures beneficial for receiving a Divine General Legacy, right?"

"Ready for unlimited refills? Hehehe!"

Fang Yan's mouth twitched as he repeatedly admonished himself inwardly.

I am not of the demonic path. I am of the righteous path!

The golden light spilling from within the hall doors shone over his face with a warm touch, as if some ancient and powerful force were welcoming his arrival.

Then Fang Yan closed his eyes and waited for the Spring Autumn Cicada's arrival.

A cicada's cry rang out, and Fang Yan's eyes snapped open.

"Everything is ready!"

He took a deep breath and stepped through the divine hall's gates.

Golden light enveloped his entire body.

The next moment, an aged and majestic voice sounded in his mind.

"Inheritor, you are the 2,111th inheritor to receive the Wind-Nurturing Divine General Legacy."

Then an immense secret technique poured into Fang Yan's mind like a raging flood.

Psychic Force Amplitude Secret Technique!

A cyan staircase stretching beyond sight appeared.

Fang Yan's eyes instantly lit up, and he summoned the Spring Autumn Cicada Clone.

The thousand-meter-long giant cicada appeared inside the divine hall. Faint golden patterns emerged on its translucent wings, making it appear even more mysterious and majestic beneath the divine hall's golden glow.

Man and cicada stood side by side!

The first-stage reward was at the 3,333rd step.

The innate secret technique of Time Reversal was a refill when he used it alone, but if he used it together with the Spring Autumn Cicada Clone... that was the whole combo meal!

He smiled faintly.

"Spring Autumn Cicada, let's go!"

Fang Yan had originally thought that, with his talent, reaching the 3,333rd step would take at most a hundred or so years.

But he was wrong—wildly wrong.

The moment he stepped onto the first stair, the mental impact rushing toward him directly stunned him senseless.

Fang Yan stood on the first step for three whole days before barely adapting to that intensity of mental impact.