Chen Ao had spent more than two years in the Purgatory Abyss, while Luo Feng was still in the Blood Luo World.
Chen Ao sought out Luo Feng in the Virtual Universe.
"Senior, did you need something?" Luo Feng was rather surprised. Normally, Chen Ao seemed to want to stay as far away from him as possible.
He had never taken the initiative to seek Luo Feng out before.
"Luo Feng, are you still in the Blood Luo World?" Chen Ao asked.
"Yes. Are you planning to come to the Blood Luo World too, Senior?"
Last time, Luo Feng had told Chen Ao about the mysteries of the Blood Luo World, so he assumed Chen Ao was very interested in it.
"Yes, I'm planning to take a look, but my goal is to hunt down some city lords and get their Blood Luo Crystals!"
Hmm?
Luo Feng had yet to start hunting for Blood Luo Crystals, so Chen Ao's idea excited him.
It was exactly what he wanted to do.
"Great. I'm at the Baleful Qi Vortex in the Blood Luo World right now. Come find me, Senior, and we can go hunting together!"
Chen Ao nodded, then followed Luo Feng's directions and had the ship arranged by the Virtual Universe drop him off at a suitable location.
After that, Chen Ao easily made his way to the Baleful Qi Vortex.
"Senior, would you like to enter the Baleful Qi Vortex? This place is incredible. It's a huge help for comprehending laws and fusing with Blood Luo Crystals!"
Chen Ao shook his head. "I have no need for the Baleful Qi Vortex. Have your Mosha Clan clone take me out to hunt city lords!"
When it came to assassination, the Mosha Clan clone was unquestionably first-rate.
Chen Ao was certainly stronger than Luo Feng, but killing someone openly would inevitably draw attention, which would be very dangerous.
Well, dangerous wasn't quite the word. The main problem was that it would make earning enough much harder.
He was still short more than three million points. At the purchase price for Blood Luo Crystals, he would probably need over six thousand of them.
To be safe, he needed at least seven thousand. With half going to Luo Feng, that meant at least fourteen thousand.
"All right, then my Mosha Clan clone will go with you, Senior!"
Soon, Luo Feng took Chen Ao into his World Ring, then headed straight for a city within sight.
"No need to gather information. Just go straight in!"
Luo Feng's usual method was to gather information first, then assume a suitable identity. Once he got close to a Domain Lord, he would assassinate them instantly, giving them no chance to react.
With that approach, even without counting travel time, Luo Feng needed a day or two of preparation to kill a single Domain Lord.
That was a little too slow.
"Senior, they're all Domain Lords. Some might even be at the eighth or ninth level. If we give them an opening, they might call for help!"
The most important thing was to deny them any chance to call for help. Otherwise, someone would definitely notice.
"It's fine. They're only Domain Lords. I slaughter them like chicks!"
Luo Feng: ...
Luo Feng looked at Chen Ao in surprise. His Mosha Clan clone could assassinate Domain Lords because the clone himself was a Domain Lord.
Combined with his secret techniques, that allowed him to carry out those assassinations successfully.
But Chen Ao's body was clearly only at the Universe Level.
Does Senior have a clone too? Luo Feng wondered. But even having a clone would be useless. This body was at the Universe Level; it couldn't suddenly gain Domain Lord combat strength.
"Since you say so, Senior, I'll give it a try!" Seeing how confident Chen Ao was, Luo Feng chose to trust him.
Chen Ao's approach was indeed fast. All Luo Feng needed to do was get close to where the Domain Lord was, then pose as one of their subordinates.
With less than half an hour of preparation, he could get close to the Domain Lord.
"The first target should be a fourth-level Domain Lord!" Luo Feng had already disguised himself as one of the Domain Lord's guards, pretending he had an important matter to report.
Now, Luo Feng stood before this fourth-level Domain Lord city lord.
"What's so urgent? Out with it!" the Domain Lord demanded, looking at the guard before him with some displeasure.
Luo Feng was just about to strike when a flash of sword light emerged from his World Ring.
"Urgh!"
The fourth-level Domain Lord city lord died instantly, without making the slightest disturbance.
Luo Feng stared in shock at Chen Ao, who held a long sword, unable to understand why that strike had been so powerful.
Chen Ao, however, thought nothing of it. Never mind a Domain Lord-even a peak World Lord was only ten thousand times stronger than him in terms of base strength.
His genes were around 450 times the baseline, which meant a peak World Lord was actually only about twenty-three times stronger than him.
And his E skill, with its active and passive effects combined, was enough to offset a tenfold difference.
Active: attacks could deal ten percent true damage.
Passive: increased power when using sword weapons.
That brought the gap between him and a peak World Lord down to 2.3 times. The sophistication of his secret techniques was enough to bridge that small difference.
If that held true even for peak World Lords, then Domain Lords and some lower-level World Lords were certainly instant kills.
"Come on, let's find the next one! Killing one person per city is enough!"
"All right!" Luo Feng's Mosha Clan clone had already collected the loot. He didn't find Chen Ao's immense strength all that strange.
After all, Chen Ao had already been that strong back then, surpassing even Universe Level fighters while at the Star Level. After all these years of cultivation, Luo Feng didn't believe for a moment that Chen Ao had progressed more slowly than he had.
Chen Ao's confidence and composure made it clear to him that Chen Ao's progress would not fall behind anyone's. Otherwise, he couldn't possibly be so calm.
Killing a fourth-level Domain Lord in one strike surprised Luo Feng, but it wasn't beyond what he could accept.
It seems my Earthling Main Body is still a little weaker than Senior!
His Earthling Main Body was also confident of killing a fourth-level Domain Lord, just not as effortlessly as Chen Ao had.
At the very least, that sword strike had been considerably more powerful than his strongest secret technique. It had also been controlled exceptionally well, killing the Domain Lord without making even the slightest sound.
On to the next!
Luo Feng's Mosha Clan clone traveled very quickly too, at least much faster than Chen Ao. In less than two hours, they reached the next Domain Lord's location.
They followed the same procedure: posing as a servant with an urgent matter to report.
Eighty percent of the Domain Lords would grant an audience, then get killed.
The remaining twenty percent might be in seclusion and unable to appear. In those cases, Chen Ao and Luo Feng wouldn't wait around; they simply moved on to the next target.
Normally, each city took about three hours.
They could kill around eight Domain Lords a day, netting roughly ten Blood Luo Crystals.
"Senior, the city ahead is where a World Lord resides. Let's go somewhere else!"
They had arrived at a large city, only to discover after investigating that a World Lord presided over it.
Even his Mosha Clan clone would need a long, grueling battle to kill a World Lord.
And that World Lord couldn't be too strong. Against a ninth-level World Lord, he would basically be done for.
"No need. Stick to the plan. Killing one World Lord nets at least as much as dozens of Domain Lords, and the haul is reliable. Passing one up would be a waste!"
Luo Feng: ...
Senior, are you serious?
You're only at the Universe Level. Are you sure you want to kill a World Lord?
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