Intelligence: God of Vajra, Here I Come

After the joy passed, reason returned.

He immediately withdrew all the aura he was radiating, in case there were enemies nearby.

"Small Transcendent world? Large Transcendent world?"

It was a question he needed to settle as soon as possible.

It would determine his strategy from here on, and might even affect his safety.

Awkwardly enough, though the Qie Clan had accumulated a great deal in the mortal world, its knowledge of Transcendent worlds was extremely limited.

The Qie Clan did not possess a single book that actually recorded how to determine a Transcendent world's size.

There were only scattered remarks about the approximate sizes of large and small Transcendent worlds.

For Qie Qiong, this was unfamiliar territory.

The author of the novel he had read in his previous life had never written about it either.

He couldn't tell from what he could see around him, either.

If he had known, he wouldn't have killed that heavily armored warrior. If the man were still alive, he could have given Qie Qiong some intelligence, though it might not have been useful.

A simple, direct method occurred to him.

He could measure it by flying to its edge.

"That's the only way." Qie Qiong made up his mind without hesitation.

As a Transcendent new to the Transcendent world, with no experience from his seniors to draw on, he could only resort to this clumsiest of methods.

With a thought, he acted.

Qie Qiong's body instantly broke apart, transforming into countless golden particles.

Flying in bodily form would make him too easy to spot. Like this, with his First Level mastery of the True Meaning of Metal, even an ordinary Saint Rank Transcendent wouldn't notice him.

The next moment, the streak of light formed from metal-element particles violently tore through the still air!

Whoosh-

His speed rose to the limit of his current realm.

He was like an invisible bolt of lightning slashing across the sky.

Flying high in the air, he watched mountains and rivers race backward and forests become a blurred green torrent. He flew in one direction.

Upon reaching the edge on one side, just as he was about to strike the invisible wall of the world, Qie Qiong came to an abrupt stop.

"The edge!" Qie Qiong was startled.

He didn't linger. He immediately turned around and flew along the direction he had come, at almost the same speed.

When he had flown nearly sixty thousand li, the familiar spatial wall once again made itself clearly felt.

He had been flying for over two shichen.

At this point, no trace of doubt remained in Qie Qiong's mind.

He stopped flying in particle form and re-formed his human body in the air not far from the boundary, hovering there.

Sixty thousand li. Even without his clan's records on the sizes of Transcendent worlds, he knew this was a small Transcendent world.

Because when he had read the novel in his previous life, the size Dongbo Xueying had mentioned while exploring the large Transcendent world in Black Wind Mountain had definitely been many times greater than sixty thousand li!

The greatest risk had been eliminated: this was not a large world capable of giving birth to Demigod Rank beings.

That meant the strongest native Transcendents in this world were theoretically only at Peak Saint Rank!

They were opponents Qie Qiong could match at his current realm, and even if he couldn't beat them, he could still run.

Qie Qiong decisively chose the nearest village.

Then he concealed his aura.

He had only just arrived in this world; it was better to keep a low profile.

The village was as crude as something from the Savage era of his previous life.

A dozen or so huts built from logs and leaves stood scattered across a clearing in the forest.

A fence had been planted around the perimeter.

But as far as the eye could see, the people here were much taller than those in the Material World. Even the women were around two meters tall.

And every one of them would have been considered ugly in the Material World.

They wore nothing but animal hides wrapped around their private parts, no different from those who had invaded.

When Qie Qiong appeared at the edge of the village, standing just over 1.8 meters tall with delicate, handsome features,

The villagers all turned to look.

A burly man cutting up his prey stopped what he was doing, and several children chasing and playing with one another also stared at the "monster" Qie Qiong, their eyes full of curiosity.

After all, they had never seen anyone so short and ugly.

"Stop! Outsider!" A deep roar came from the largest hut.

A giant man half a head taller than the ordinary villagers emerged from it.

He stood nearly 2.5 meters tall, his upper body bare and an entire animal hide wrapped around his lower body.

He held a bone spear, its tip glinting faintly with the cold light of metal.

From the aura he gave off, Qie Qiong needed only a brief moment to sense that he was the strongest person in this small village, a Meteor Rank Transcendent.

In a few strides, he reached Qie Qiong and looked down at him from above, his eyes full of undisguised contempt and greed.

He looked Qie Qiong up and down, taking in his silver robes and his "ugly" face.

Qie Qiong frowned slightly. As a powerful Transcendent, he could naturally sense the greed in the giant man's gaze.

Even so, he spoke in as calm a tone as he could manage. "I come from far away. I have questions for your chief or elder..."

"Where did you crawl out of, boy? You're shorter than a woman!" The giant man's voice boomed, thickly nasal. "Questions? Hahahahaha!"

He let out a burst of deafening laughter. If Qie Qiong hadn't stepped back quickly, the spittle would have landed on his face.

Several equally muscular adult male warriors behind him also closed in, wearing nasty grins as though waiting for a good show.

In their eyes, the diminutive Qie Qiong was nothing but a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

"Hmph! I don't care who you are. Now that you're on Rock Claw Tribe territory, you'll follow the Rock Claw Tribe's rules! Hand over all the good things you have, especially the clothes on your back."

Although the burly man had never seen clothing made from the material Qie Qiong wore, Qie Qiong was a Transcendent, and his clothes were naturally no ordinary garments.

As he spoke, he pointed his bone spear at Qie Qiong's chest, the threat unmistakable. "Hand them over nicely. We of the Rock Claw Tribe are the most merciful. Maybe we'll just break one of your legs and throw you out of the village! But if you dare resist..."

He paused. "Don't expect to leave here alive today."

Qie Qiong looked quietly at the giant man before him, then glanced at the villagers wearing mocking smiles.

He sighed softly.

It seemed that although Dou Qi had already appeared in this small Transcendent world,

It still followed the most primitive law of the jungle.

Peaceful communication apparently wasn't going to work.

Without any warning.

Boom!

Countless tiny golden lights appeared in the air in an instant.

These golden lights were a combination of Qie Qiong's Transcendent Dou Qi and True Meaning of Metal.

They bore the sharpness of all the metal in the world.

Pfft-

Apart from the Meteor Rank giant, every warrior was pierced by the golden lights at the same instant.

One moment, the barbarian warriors had been laughing at Qie Qiong; the next, they all fell stiffly to the ground, lifeless.

The entire village sank into a deathly silence.

The Meteor Rank giant who had threatened Qie Qiong stood stiffly before him.

The nasty grin and greed froze on his face.

Qie Qiong hadn't even lifted a finger. He merely looked indifferently at the sole surviving giant.

"Now," Qie Qiong's voice rang out again, still clear and calm, as though he hadn't just been the one to act, "can we have a proper talk?"

His voice wasn't loud, yet it carried clearly throughout the village, reaching the ears of the stunned Rock Claw Tribe villagers.

The air froze.

Only after the threatening pressure receded did the surviving villagers, including the giant, finally fall to their knees and beg:

"Spare us! Great Deity, we'll tell you everything."

Qie Qiong's gaze fell calmly on the giant, who was prostrate on the ground, his head almost buried in the earth.

What he needed was intelligence, not this meaningless repentance.

"What is this world called? What powerful figures are here?" Each word struck the giant's heart like a heavy hammer.

This world! Is he a powerful being from another world?

At that thought, the giant pressed his forehead hard against the ground, his voice coming out in fits and starts from fear:

"I... I report to the great Deity, this world... for as long as I can remember, we... we've called it the 'Extreme Thunder World.'"

"Extreme Thunder World?" Qie Qiong repeated silently. The names of small Transcendent worlds were generally related to the resources they produced in abundance. Did that mean this was a small lightning-attribute world?

"Go on. What powerful figures are here?" His tone was bland, but the giant didn't dare raise his head at all.

The giant spoke much faster from nerves. "The Extreme Thunder World is jointly ruled by five supreme 'Deities': the God of Extreme Thunder, the Sea God, the God of Hurricanes, the Fire God, and the God of Vajra, who represents undying gold and iron."

When he spoke of the God of Vajra, his voice seemed to stop trembling, and reverence crept unconsciously into his tone.

Qie Qiong understood. These so-called "Deities" bore that laughable title only because they were powerful and because this world was isolated from the outside.

A small Transcendent world like this could never give birth to a true Deity.

The "Deities" here might be nothing more than a group of Saint Rank Transcendents, according to the Material World's division of realms.

"Are there any powerful figures under their command?" Qie Qiong pressed.

The giant hurriedly said, "Under the Deities, there are also many 'Demigod' lords of overwhelming power! They possess some of the Deities' might. There are more than twenty Demigod lords in the Extreme Thunder World altogether."

Qie Qiong's thoughts stirred.

Demigods? Then they're Sky Realm Transcendents. More than twenty Sky Realm Transcendents...

Together with the five native Transcendents, that made more than thirty Transcendents.

For a small Transcendent world sixty thousand li across, that was already quite a few.

"How are these Demigods aligned? Are they under the command of the five 'Deities'?" Qie Qiong's voice carried a trace of barely perceptible interest.

After all, this world was only sixty thousand li across. At a Transcendent's speed, it was too small. If they weren't under the command of these so-called "Deities,"

There was only one possibility: that "Demigod's" comprehension of laws was not low.

"Yes, great Deity!" the giant answered cautiously, not daring to look up at Qie Qiong's expression. "The Demigods all follow and serve under the powerful Deities."

"Lord God of Extreme Thunder is the most terrifyingly powerful among them. It's said that nearly half the Demigod lords follow him."

Thoughts raced through Qie Qiong's mind. It was a small Transcendent world, with no Demigod Rank beings, and its highest combat power consisted of five Saint Rank Transcendents.

And the world was named after Extreme Thunder. Perhaps he had been wrong just now.

The world wasn't named after its resources, but after a powerful figure.

He hoped Extreme Thunder wasn't the Controller of this Transcendent world, though that was unlikely. Otherwise, the other four wouldn't stand a chance.

Seen in that light, the warriors he had wiped out at the mine entrance were most likely Transcendent warriors serving under one of the "Deities" or "Demigods."

Attracted by the commotion when the spatial gate connected, they had blundered into the Qie Clan's mine.

That also explained why there had been no grand welcoming ceremony when Qie Qiong came through the spatial gate.

The sharpness deep in Qie Qiong's eyes grew keener.

He looked down over the vast, primordial land as though gazing at an enormous treasure waiting to be opened.

In his eyes, those so-called "Deities" and "Demigods" were nothing but thieves stealing his resources.

Those were all his resources!

Qie Qiong looked at the giant, his voice betraying not the slightest ripple of emotion. "How much do you know about the locations of the five Deities?"

The giant shuddered and immediately said, "Great Deity, because we live close to the God of Vajra, we must worship him for our entire lives. I only know where the God of Vajra's holy city is! It's on the highest peak of the Steel Ridge Mountain Range. There's a giant city there, cast entirely from metal! The other Deities' territories are too far away. A small tribe like ours never travels more than a thousand li in a lifetime..."

The corners of Qie Qiong's mouth curved into a slight smile.

That's enough. God of Vajra... a metal-attribute Saint Rank Transcendent?

He would see whether he, who had comprehended the complete True Meaning of Metal, was stronger, or this so-called Deity was.

The next instant, before the giant could breathe a sigh of relief-

Pfft!

A barely perceptible streak of golden light pierced his neck.

Disbelief showed in the giant's eyes. I've already submitted. Why can't I escape death?

Qie Qiong shook his head slightly. Although he had obtained the answers he wanted, this man also knew far too much.

If he ended up in a stalemate with the five Saint Rank Transcendents of this world, the giant was the most likely source from whom they could learn of his origins.

Qie Qiong released countless golden lights into the village, instantly filling an area several dozen li across.

Although Qie Qiong did not have powerful laws like the Void Realm Law, which could directly probe an area a thousand li across,

He had his own method.

"There really are quite a few Transcendent materials." With his probing, Qie Qiong soon found many Transcendent materials unavailable in the outside world.

In particular, he found more than ten jin of "pebbles" radiating rich Heaven and Earth energy in the hut the giant had emerged from.

Origin Stones! In the mortal world, not even Qie Qiong, a Transcendent, possessed such things. He hadn't expected even a Meteor Rank to have them in this Transcendent world.

"Extreme Thunder World..." Qie Qiong gently stroked the warm, smooth Origin Stones, his gaze burning. "It seems the resources here are even more astonishing than I expected."

He waved his hand, storing all the Origin Stones in his Space Ring, and looked toward the Steel Ridge Mountain Range.

Qie Qiong's figure turned into golden particles and soared into the sky as he said silently:

God of Vajra, I hope you're a little stronger. Otherwise, I'll be taking your life and your resources.