Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
One hundred and eight throwing knives poured forth like a sky full of blossoms in the rain, easily piercing the chests and heads of one Star Level slave after another.
Bodies burst apart, heads exploded, and screams rose one after another.
In a single exchange, Star Pupil No. 1 slaughtered all one thousand Star Level slaves.
A spirit reader slaughtering the weak truly was like cutting grass.
Blood rained from the sky. Severed limbs and mangled flesh fell in showers, staining the ground crimson.
"Let's go."
Chu Yuan watched the scene indifferently, his eyes calm, without the slightest ripple in his heart.
Black Blade One and Star Pupil No. 1 returned to the group, and Chu Yuan's party of seven arrived above a large lake.
The lake was over five hundred kilometers in diameter. Its water was black, and no living creatures existed within it.
"Master, the opportunity is 280,000 meters underground beneath the lake."
Feiluan spoke.
"Understood."
Chu Yuan nodded, dove into the lake, and descended rapidly.
The six bodyguards were even faster, reaching the lakebed ahead of him. The three spirit readers controlled their spiritual weapons to drill into the ground.
To Universe Level experts, a depth of 280,000 meters was no more than a layer of turf. They bored through it in the blink of an eye.
Chu Yuan's party of seven arrived in an underground cavern.
"No spaceship?"
Chu Yuan had thought it would be like before: he would discover a spaceship here, then find a fallen Immortal inside.
But he found no spaceship. All he saw here was a palace.
The palace was roughly 26 meters long, 17 meters wide, and 10 meters tall.
"Master, this entire palace was built from E6-grade pure metal, guiyan stone essence."
Feiluan spoke after examining the palace.
"Guiyan stone essence?!"
Chu Yuan was startled. This was worth a considerable sum. E6-grade pure metal was extremely valuable.
"Who squandered such a precious material, using guiyan stone essence to build a palace 280,000 meters underground?"
Chu Yuan was somewhat speechless. Did they have so much money that they had nowhere to spend it?
"Let's take a look inside." Chu Yuan waved a hand.
Fully armed, Black Blade One pushed open the palace gates and walked inside.
Before long, he came back out and said respectfully, "Master, there's a World Lord World inside."
"A World Lord World? Not an Immortal?!"
Chu Yuan had never imagined that what he found would not be an Immortal Expert's legacy, but a World Lord World left behind by a World Lord.
World Lord experts possessed world power and could freely construct World Lord Worlds.
Something that looked like a small palace from the outside might be larger than a planet within.
"It was clearly left behind by a World Lord, yet the system lists it as a six-star opportunity. It looks like the treasures inside are extraordinary."
Chu Yuan hesitated no longer and followed the six bodyguards into the World Lord World.
The stars wheeled, and space shifted.
An overwhelmingly powerful gravitational force pulled at Chu Yuan. Unable to control his body, he plummeted at an astonishing speed.
"Master!"
Star Pupil No. 1 hurriedly flew over and supported him with spiritual force, slowing his fall.
Universe Level experts could fight on white dwarfs. Gravity like this had no effect on them at all.
After falling for roughly ten minutes, Chu Yuan finally landed on the ground.
Looking around, he saw a vast desert stretching as far as the eye could see.
The air temperature was high, exceeding sixty degrees.
"Everyone, be careful!"
The six bodyguards formed a circle, protecting Chu Yuan in the center.
"Master, no signs of life have been detected within a radius of one hundred thousand li," Feiluan said.
Chu Yuan looked northeast. The sky was brightest in that direction, and the heat was also coming from there.
"This way."
The party of seven flew northeast. The desert stretched on without bounds, seemingly endless.
"What's that?"
Chu Yuan saw a "mountain range" appear ahead, its rolling contours extending thousands of li into the distance.
But it was not a mountain range. Its surface bore unusual patterns, and it was not part of the desert.
"Master, this is a cloud-touching vine!"
Feiluan confirmed it after a scan. "There are no signs of life. It's already dead. Its main vines are over 2,600 kilometers long. It should have been at the Domain Lord Level when it was alive."
"A Domain Lord Level cloud-touching vine?"
Chu Yuan froze for a moment, then flew higher into the sky. Looking down at the surface, he saw one enormous main vine after another lying in the desert-seventy-two in total.
Seventy-two main vines, each over 2,600 kilometers long, meant that this cloud-touching vine had been at the Domain Lord Ninth Stage in life, with combat strength sufficient to rival a human First Stage Realm Lord.
Yet such a powerful cloud-touching vine had died here.
Its remains were preserved very well. It did not look as though it had been killed in a great battle, but rather as though it had exhausted its lifespan and died of "old age."
Plant lifeforms lived longer than humans, but as long as they had not broken through to Immortality, they would eventually die of old age.
"It looks like the World Lord who built this world hasn't returned in a very long time. He's most likely dead."
Chu Yuan's group crossed over the cloud-touching vine's corpse and continued flying forward.
The temperature rose higher and higher, and a lake of lava appeared before them.
"Master, there are signs of life in the lava lake. It isn't a plant lifeform or a human, just an ordinary plant," Feiluan said, pointing at the lava lake.
Chu Yuan arrived above the lava lake and looked down. A large tree grew in its center.
The tree was peculiar. It stood over 3,000 meters tall, with a trunk roughly 900 meters in diameter. It had no leaves, and a single fruit hung from it, scarlet all over and resembling lava.
Glowing patterns covered the trunk's surface. Energy could faintly be seen flowing within them, ultimately gathering in the fruit.
"This should be the treasure that World Lord hid here. Feiluan, what kind of fruit is this?" Chu Yuan asked.
Feiluan flew beside the fruit and scanned it with beams of light from the eyes, instantly becoming excited.
"Master, this is a Fire Origin Divine Fruit! A Fire Origin Divine Fruit!"
Chu Yuan frowned. "What is a Fire Origin Divine Fruit?"
Feiluan hurriedly explained, "The Fire Origin Divine Fruit is an incredibly precious spiritual fruit in the universe. Consuming it can greatly enhance one's affinity with the fire origin law, directly making one a darling of the fire origin law, comparable to or even surpassing the universe's pinnacle bloodlines."
"A ripe Fire Origin Divine Fruit has a market price as high as 800,000 Hunyuan Units!"
"800,000 Hunyuan Units?!"
Chu Yuan's eyes widened. That was more than the entire fortune of a High-level Immortal Military Lord.
But it made sense when he thought about it.
The universe's pinnacle bloodlines were powerful bloodlines second only to special lifeforms. Perhaps only the twelve pinnacle bloodlines of the starry sky behemoths could reach that level in the entire Primal Universe.
The Golden Horned Beast, for example, was a darling of the origin of gold law.
From birth, it only needed to eat, drink, and grow. Without cultivating at all, it could naturally comprehend the domain of gold, then the origin of gold law, and ultimately break through to Peak World Lord.
As long as he consumed the Fire Origin Divine Fruit, Chu Yuan's efficiency in comprehending the fire origin law could also reach or even surpass the level of a pinnacle bloodline.
From then on, cultivating the fire origin law would no longer pose any difficulty for him.
"It really is a wonderful treasure!"
Chu Yuan's blood surged, and every fine hair on his body stood on end in an instant.
He glanced back at the remains of the dead cloud-touching vine and instantly understood everything.
Some World Lord had likely been the first to discover this Fire Origin Divine Fruit, but when he found it, it had not yet ripened and could not be picked.
So he had built this World Lord World to hide the Fire Origin Divine Fruit and left a peak domain lord cloud-touching vine to guard it.
Unfortunately, that World Lord had later fallen and never returned.
The cloud-touching vine had also died of old age within the World Lord World.