64: Chapter 64 Old Stories (1)

Yanjing Base, Kyoto Martial Arts University, Villa No. 186.

The night gently wrapped around the entire steel megacity.

On the balcony of the second floor of the villa, the cold wind was biting, but as it approached within three feet of the balcony, it was quietly neutralized by an invisible force.

Su Wu was not alone on the balcony at this moment.

Su Wu was still wearing those comfortable loungewear, lying lazily on a rattan chair, holding a cup of steaming tea in his hand. Beside him, sitting extremely uninhibitedly on the carved marble railing, was a slender figure.

That person was wearing a windbreaker, one leg bent and stepped on the railing, while the other leg swung casually in mid-air.

It was the Star King-level powerhouse—Lin Feng.

"I say, you, as a father, are truly big-hearted."

Lin Feng put down his wine pot, his long and deep eyes squinting at Su Wu, his tone carrying a trace of condescending playfulness and mockery: "You aren't going to continue being the 'tail-following' protector?"

Su Wu heard this, gently blew the tea foam in his cup, slightly narrowed his eyes, his gaze piercing through the ten thousand lights of Yanjing Base, looking toward the boundless and deep starry sky.

"People always grow through fighting and bloodshed."

Su Wu's voice was very calm, yet it revealed a kind of openness and cruelty after experiencing the vicissitudes of life: "I can protect him for a while, but I cannot protect him for a lifetime. He has his own Dao to walk, and his own era's wind and rain to face."

Su Wu paused, turned his head, and looked at Lin Feng with burning eyes: "Once he stands out on this Earth and obtains the 'seed' quota for the Aolan Star Domain, I will leave him for a period of time."

"Oh?"

Lin Feng raised his eyebrows, seemingly surprised by Su Wu's decision.

He then looked up and laughed, the laughter echoing in the night sky, carrying a bit of relief: "Hahaha! You are quite open-minded. Once he becomes a true 'seed' and is protected by the Aolan Star Domain, you, as a father, indeed don't need to worry anymore."

The laughter gradually subsided, and Lin Feng's eyes became sharp. He stared fixedly at Su Wu: "But are you so certain that Su Yu will become a seed?"

"He is the son of me, Su Wu."

Su Wu did not offer any extra explanation, just picked up the teacup and took a sip. These simple eight words contained absolute confidence in the Chaos Body and the perfect Foundation.

Looking at Su Wu's determined and calm appearance, Lin Feng was slightly stunned, and the scene from more than twenty years ago suddenly flashed in his mind.

"Heh..."

Lin Feng shook his head, the corner of his mouth hooking into a curve with a bit of nostalgia: "The current you still has a bit of that stupid... ahem, that simple-minded stubbornness from back then."

Subsequently, Lin Feng put away his playful expression, jumped down from the railing, walked to Su Wu's rattan chair, and his expression became unprecedentedly grave and serious.

"That's true." Lin Feng nodded, "Your son, Su Wu, will certainly not be a creature in a pool. Just like you... you father and son are both absolute monsters!"

Breaking through four Realms in a year to reach Star King. This cultivation speed made even Lin Feng, who was known as the "Earth's First Genius in a Thousand Years," feel a deep sense of powerlessness.

Hearing this, Su Wu slowly placed the teacup in his hand on the tea table.

The relaxation on his face gradually faded, replaced by an obsession that had been suppressed for a full eighteen years, like a volcano about to erupt.

"Lin Feng."

Su Wu raised his head and looked directly at this big shot, "It's been so many years, the matter I asked you to investigate back then... how much have you found out?"

"To be honest, I originally thought... I would never need to tell you these things."

Lin Feng took a deep breath, "Because that level, that kind of existence, for us in the past, and even for us now... is too far away."

Su Wu did not urge him, just waited quietly.

"The people who took her away back then do not belong to our 1st Star Zone, nor do they even belong to the Aolan Star Domain where we are located."

Lin Feng turned around and said word by word: "Lin Waner, the Family to which she belongs is called the 'Starry Sky Divine Clan.' And this God Race is located at the very center of the vast Milky Way—the Holy Spirit Star Domain!"

"Holy Spirit Star Domain..." A trace of deep awe and powerlessness flashed in Lin Feng's eyes, "That is one of the birthplaces of the largest Human Race civilization in the entire Milky Way, and it is also the strongest and most core Star Domain of the Human Race!"

Su Wu finished listening, but suddenly laughed.

"Is that all?" Su Wu leaned back on the rattan chair, hands folded.

"Then what else do you want to know?! With my status as a 'countryside Inspector' in this remote Star Zone, it took me a full eighteen years to find out these eight words: 'Holy Spirit Star Domain' and 'Starry Sky Divine Clan.' I was already risking my life to probe! Do you want me to get you the defense map of their Family as well?!"

"Sigh..."

Su Wu did not blame Lin Feng. He let out a long sigh.

Eighteen years.

This name buried in the deepest part of his heart, this figure that made him feel agonizing pain in his midnight dreams.

Closing his eyes, time seemed to be roughly pulled back more than eighteen years ago to that winter by an invisible giant hand.

That year, it had only been a few hundred years since the Earth Era, and the wave of Origin Qi recovery had not yet reached its Peak.

That year, Lin Feng was eighteen, already a world-famous peerless Prodigy who had stepped into the Great Grandmaster Realm.

That year, Su Wu was nineteen. Although his talent was good, he had only just reached the Peak of the Grandmaster Realm. Among the younger generation of the entire Federation, he could be considered a Genius, but definitely not the top-tier one.

Just that year, a major event occurred on Earth that even shocked the entire Aolan Star Domain!

In the Kunlun Mountains, the ancestor of all mountains in Chinese legends, an unprecedented super earthquake occurred. Accompanying the earthquake was a spatial rift that tore through the Earth's atmosphere and led directly to the depths of the Universe.

This was not an ordinary dimensional rift.

In the terminology of Starry Sky powerhouses, this was called a "Progenitor Land"!

"Progenitor Land" is a special starry sky relic formed in the Universe when the small Universe inside a super-powerful being from the ancient or even prehistoric era collapses and solidifies in reality after their death.

In such relics, not only are Spirit Medicine extinct in the outside world bred, but various Legacies and ancient treasures left by ancient powerful beings are also sealed. There might even be Heaven-Defying Opportunities that make Star King-level powerhouses drool!

However, this "Progenitor Land" in the Kunlun Mountains had an extremely strange and domineering spatial rule restriction—it limited the cultivation ceiling!

Any Martial Artist whose cultivation exceeded the "Great Grandmaster" Realm would instantly cause spatial collapse if they attempted to force their way in, and would be shredded into nothingness by Void Realm storms.

In other words, Martial Kings and above were completely locked out!

With this, the entire Solar System, and even many Family forces around the Aolan Star Domain outside the Solar System, went crazy.

Star Kings and Star Emperors couldn't get in? Then send the strongest Great Grandmaster Prodigies in the Family to grab it!

For a time, winds and clouds surged, and demons danced wildly.

Under the Kunlun Mountains, the originally desolate glaciers and snowfields turned into a huge camp within just half a month.

In the sky, interstellar warships of various shapes, emitting terrifying energy fluctuations, were docked. On the ground, high-tech camps spanning tens of miles were set up. Representatives of alien forces of different skin colors and hair colors gathered here.

Yellow skin, black skin, white skin...

And on a hidden ice cliff on the main Peak of the Kunlun Mountains.

The cold wind whistled, and heavy snow flew.

A woman with an extremely slender figure and ethereal temperament was standing quietly in the wind and snow.

She was wearing a set of Advanced nano combat suits that presented a dark silver streamline. This material was unseen on Earth, as if it were alive, clinging to every inch of her skin, outlining her perfect curves vividly.

Most striking was the precise nano mecha mask she wore on her face, revealing only her eyes and lips. The surface of the mask flowed with a faint blue light, exuding a coldness and mystery that kept people away.

This woman was none other than the eldest Young Miss of the Starry Sky Divine Clan—Lin Waner—who had crossed the endless star sea and snuck out of the Holy Spirit Star Domain to "travel."

"Young Miss."

Just then, in the shadow behind Lin Waner, the Void Realm distorted slightly, and an old and worried voice entered her ears.

"Although this 'Progenitor Land' is in a remote place on the edge of the Milky Way, it is a mix of fish and dragons. Do you really want to go in? That space repels power above Great Grandmaster, and this old servant cannot enter either."

The one speaking in the dark was Lin Waner's protector. A terrifying powerhouse who was like a god in the eyes of Earthlings.

Lin Waner turned her head slightly, and in those eyes that were as bright as stars, a trace of unyielding and stubbornness flashed.

She shook her head slightly, her voice as crisp as pearls falling on a jade plate, but carrying unquestionable firmness: "Uncle Fu, you don't need to persuade me anymore."

"The Opportunity in this 'Progenitor Land,' even if placed in our Holy Spirit Star Domain, can be considered a rare treasure that is hard to come by in a thousand years. Moreover, didn't I sneak out behind my father's back just to experience the Mortal World? If I retreat because of danger and don't enter, how can it be considered true travel in the starry sky?"

"But Young Miss..." Uncle Fu wanted to persuade her again.

"No buts." Lin Waner interrupted him, her tone revealing a trace of arrogance, "Although I am only at the Middle Stage of Great Grandmaster, I am carrying the 'Nine Heavens Ring' and various life-saving ancient treasures given by my father. Can this small Aolan Star Domain really pose a fatal threat to me?"

Uncle Fu in the dark could only let out a long, helpless sigh.

He muttered to himself in his heart: "My little aunt, where is there a core descendant of a big Family who dares to run around the Universe when they are only at the Great Grandmaster Realm! If it weren't for you clamoring to see the outside world in the Family all day long, and the Patriarch spoiling you without limits... Sigh, in this world, how can there be such a willful yet impossible-to-refuse Young Miss."

But in the end, Uncle Fu chose to shut up.

He knew his Young Miss's temper well; once she decided on something, even nine Starry Sky Giant Beasts couldn't pull her back.

Meanwhile.

Several kilometers away from the ice cliff where Lin Waner was, within a Federation official camp.

Two young figures were standing together, and the atmosphere seemed a bit... not so harmonious.

"What the hell is this?!"

Eighteen-year-old Lin Feng was wearing a flashy silver combat suit, his hair standing up aggressively, and his handsome face was full of impatience and arrogance.

He turned his head and rudely pointed his finger at the nose of Su Wu, who was standing next to him looking a bit honest and simple, and complained loudly: "Are those old guys in the military brain-dead? Why let a Great Grandmaster like me team up with a Grandmaster?! Even if you are at the Peak of the Grandmaster Realm, you are still a drag who will hold me back at any time!"

As the recognized first Genius of Earth, Lin Feng had the capital to be arrogant. In his view, entering the Progenitor Land this time, he was destined to be the protagonist who would kill all directions and snatch the most core Opportunity. Bringing a Grandmaster Peak? How is that different from bringing a pendant!

Facing Lin Feng's aggressive attitude, Su Wu was not angry.

He touched his nose, a very bright, even somewhat "cowardly" smile appeared on his face, and he accompanied him with a smile: "Lin Genius, calm down, calm down. It's the arrangement from above, what can we do? Don't worry, after we go in, I will definitely listen to the command. If you tell me to go east, I will definitely not go west. I guarantee to stay far away and will never hold you back!"

Seeing Su Wu's "hopeless" cowardly look, Lin Feng was furious. He snorted coldly, sat directly on the supply box next to him, turned his head away, and didn't even want to look at him more.

Seeing this, Su Wu also very sensibly did not touch the bad luck. He found a corner that was slightly sheltered from the wind, sat cross-legged, and closed his eyes to rest.

In fact, what outsiders didn't know was that the reason why the military high-level officials forcibly bound Su Wu and Lin Feng together naturally had its profound considerations.

Three months ago, when Su Wu was exploring a Secret Realm that was accidentally opened, he had a narrow escape from death and finally obtained an extremely incredible alien treasure—a set of "Liquid Biological Mecha" from an unknown Advanced civilization!

This mecha usually lies dormant around Su Wu's heart in the form of liquid metal. Once activated, it can instantly cover his whole body.

Under the energy blessing of the mecha, although Su Wu only had the cultivation of the Grandmaster Peak, his explosive combat power, defense, and recovery ability could definitely reach the level of the Peak of the Great Grandmaster!

Even in a life-and-death state, relying on Su Wu's combat intuition that far exceeded ordinary people, who was stronger and who was weaker between him and the current Lin Feng was really an unknown.

This was Su Wu's confidence in pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger.

Three days passed in a flash amidst everyone's anxious waiting.

This day at noon.

"Boom—!!!"

The entire Kunlun Mountains suddenly began to shake violently. The glaciers that had not melted for ten thousand years experienced a large-scale avalanche. Amidst the shaking of the earth and mountains, the space that was originally calm at the waist of the Kunlun Mountains seemed to be torn to both sides by a pair of invisible giant hands!

Rip!

A long, thin spatial rift, thousands of feet long and tens of feet wide, suddenly appeared before everyone's eyes.

Inside the rift, there was no starlight, only a chaotic, grayish light. A mysterious aura, extremely ancient, desolate, and even carrying the blood-reeking scent of a primordial beast, surged out from the rift, as if possessing a magic that was crazily summoning everyone outside to enter.

"The Ancestral Land has opened!"

"Charge! The Opportunity is right before our eyes!"

"Whoever dares to block me will be killed without mercy!"

The crowd instantly erupted. Geniuses, death squads, and mercenaries from various factions, their eyes bloodshot, all burst forth with tyrannical life blood and True Qi, rushing towards the spatial rift in a scramble, like a swarm of locusts passing through.

"Don't dawdle! Keep up, and if you die, I won't be collecting your corpse!"

Lin Feng stood up, his eyes flashing with excitement. After leaving behind this harsh remark, his figure transformed into a silver bolt of lightning, and he was the first to charge into the rift.

Su Wu did not hesitate either; True Qi erupted beneath his feet, and he followed closely behind Lin Feng, crossing that spatial boundary.

After a brief moment of weightlessness and dizziness, when Su Wu opened his eyes again, he found that he and Lin Feng had arrived in an endless primeval forest.

The gravity here was three times that of the outside world, and the heaven and earth essence permeating the air was so dense it was almost turning into water droplets. Every tree was a hundred feet tall, with trunks so thick they would require over a dozen people to wrap their arms around. Looking up, there was no sun in the sky, only a glowing dome emitting a soft white light.

Here, it seemed no different from the outside world, yet it was filled with eeriness everywhere.

Su Wu and Lin Feng did not act immediately. They lurked on the branches of a giant tree.

Before entering, military intelligence had clearly informed them of the rules.

This so-called "Ancestral Land" was not filled with treasures everywhere. Its core rule was: during the one month it remained open, every few days, a certain location in the Ancestral Land would be accompanied by celestial phenomena, randomly erupting with a powerful ancient martial art or ancient treasure.

At that time, all contention would revolve around these emerging exotic treasures. Of course, during this period, many people with weaker strength preferred to cautiously search the forest for those aged Spiritual Plants and Spirit Medicine, unwilling to participate in that meat-grinder-like core battle for dominance.

The two lay in wait quietly on the tree for half a day.

Suddenly!

"Boom—!!!"

Deep in the forest, dozens of kilometers away from their location, a thick red beam of light shot into the sky without warning, dyeing half the vault of heaven red. Accompanying it was a heart-palpitating aura of slaughter.

"It's here! That's the sign of an Advanced ancient martial art emerging!"

Lin Feng, on the tree trunk, saw his eyes brighten sharply, and his whole body became like an arrow released from a string, instantly rushing out. "Don't just stand there! If you want good stuff, hurry up!"

Su Wu took a deep breath and immediately began to shuttle and leap rapidly between the dense tree crowns, following closely behind Lin Feng.

The towering trees around them receded rapidly under their full-speed dash, leaving only the whistling wind in their ears.

However.

Lin Feng was indeed worthy of being a wind-attribute Great Grandmaster; his speed was truly too fast, simply like a ghost.

Not long after, Lin Feng, who was rushing at the very front, suddenly threw back a cold sentence without turning his head: "Your footwork as a Grandmaster is too slow. At this speed, by the time you arrive, the daylilies will have already wilted! I'm going on ahead, you can crawl there slowly yourself!"

As soon as his voice fell, Lin Feng's figure suddenly produced a sonic boom in mid-air, his speed forcibly increasing by another fold, directly transforming into a silver streak of light, instantly disappearing at the end of the dense, deep forest ahead.

"Damn! This bastard!"

Su Wu stopped on a thick branch, looked at the direction where Lin Feng had disappeared, and shook his head helplessly.

It was not that he lacked the means to accelerate. However, the "Liquid Mecha" at his heart, while capable of causing his combat power to soar, required the consumption of the energy stored in his body to operate. In the absence of a true life-and-death crisis or a critical moment to contend for treasures, wasting precious mecha energy on mere travel was an extremely foolish act.

"Sigh, this guy runs as if he's rushing to be reincarnated. Forget it, I'll just make my way there slowly."

Su Wu sighed, although the speed beneath his feet did not diminish...

Ten minutes later, the red light in the distant sky suddenly flickered a few times, then completely dissipated.

This meant that the ancient martial art that had emerged had either been snatched by someone else first, or the battle for it had entered a white-hot, hidden stage.

"It's over, I've completely lost him."

Su Wu stopped in his tracks and stood still in a relatively open clearing in the forest.

He could be certain that he had completely lost Lin Feng's tracks, and he could not even accurately pinpoint the specific location where the red light had erupted.

Just when Su Wu was distractedly pondering where to go next, an accident arrived without warning.

"Shhh—!!!"

An extremely faint, yet extremely fast sound of breaking air attacked from his left blind spot!

As a Martial Artist who had walked on the edge of life and death for years, Su Wu's nerve reflexes were extremely fast. He almost instinctively crossed his arms to protect his chest, and a layer of life blood shield instantly emerged on the surface of his body.

However.

"Bang!!!"

Accompanied by a muffled, loud noise.

Su Wu felt as if he had been hit head-on by a heavy maglev train traveling at eight hundred kilometers per hour!

That force was ridiculously large, and it was accompanied by an extremely sharp sensation of spatial cutting. The life blood shield on his body shattered like glass the moment it made contact.

"Thud!"

Su Wu was sent flying like a broken sack by this huge impact, rolling continuously on the ground for over ten meters, and only managed to stop after breaking the roots of three large trees.

"Hiss... Damn it... what the hell is that?!"

Su Wu felt dizzy, his internal organs churning violently, and a sweet, fishy taste rose in his throat. Fortunately, at the last moment, he had activated a trace of the Liquid Mecha at his heart to protect his vitals; otherwise, this collision, even if it didn't cost him half his life, would have broken two of his ribs!

After a long while, Su Wu finally caught his breath.

He stood up unsteadily from the ground, forcefully brushed off the mud and dead leaves from his body, pulled out the war saber at his waist with a "clang," and scanned his surroundings vigilantly like a hawk, preparing to deal with any Vicious Beasts or sneak attackers that might appear.

However, when he saw the scene not far in front of him, he couldn't help but be stunned.

He saw that in a bush about ten meters away, there was no terrifying Vicious Beast, nor was there a vicious enemy.

There, lying quietly, was a slender, delicate figure.

It was a woman.

She was wearing a nano-mecha mask covered in cracks, and the set of Advanced combat suit she was wearing, which should have been extremely tough, was now torn apart as if by some extremely terrifying force.

What made Su Wu's heart jump the most was the wound on the woman's chest.

It was a terrifying saber wound that extended diagonally from her left collarbone to her right lower abdomen! The wound was deep enough to see the bone, and the flesh at the edges had even been scorched into charcoal. Beneath the charred black, bright red blood was constantly gushing out like a spring, completely staining the soil beneath her a striking crimson.

"This... this wound is too heavy, isn't it?"

Su Wu's heart tightened. Human compassion made him subconsciously put away his long saber and cautiously walk up to check.

He squatted down beside the woman, looked at the shocking wound, and extended two fingers, gently placing them on the artery of the woman's fair, slender neck.

Cold.

There was not a trace of a pulse.

He reached his fingers under the woman's nose again.

No breath.

"Dead... she's dead?!"

Su Wu was startled and hurriedly retracted his hand as if electrocuted, his body retreating several steps in succession.

"It's none of my business! I didn't do anything! I was just passing by and got bumped by you. Yes, your death is definitely because of that fatal wound on your chest, it has absolutely nothing to do with this light bump of mine! Hmm, right, that's it."

Su Wu muttered as if hypnotizing himself, while turning around, preparing to grease his feet and slip away.

But just after walking two steps, his pace became sluggish again. He stopped in place, his mind flashing with the dozen years of nine-year compulsory education he had received in the rule-of-law society of his past life, and then looked at this wild, desolate primeval forest.

"Sigh, forget it, forget it. Since I bumped into it, in the end, I can be considered a participant in this 'traffic accident.' I can't just let you be exposed in the wilderness and eaten by those beasts, right?"

Su Wu turned around and walked back, looking at the female corpse on the ground, and sighed helplessly: "Consider yourself lucky to have met a kind-hearted young man like me. I'll just help you be laid to rest. Remember to watch your step when you reincarnate in the next life, and don't 'speed' again."

No sooner said than done.

Su Wu inserted his long saber into the ground, squatted down directly, and began to dig the ground with his hands.

Although he didn't have tools like shovels, he was, after all, a Martial Artist at the Peak Grandmaster Realm. With life blood wrapped around his hands, the hard frozen soil was as fragile as tofu before him.

Soil flew. In a short while, a shallow pit about two meters long and half a meter deep appeared under the giant tree.

"The conditions are simple, you'll have to make do."

Su Wu walked to the side of Lin Waner's "corpse," bent down, passed his hands under her armpits and behind her knees, and scooped up her light body.

"Off you go!"

Su Wu, showing no tender care for the fair lady, very crisply and neatly "threw" Lin Waner directly into the pit.

Thud.

Just as Su Wu was brushing the dirt off his hands, preparing to fill back the soil he had just dug up, and draw a period to this absurd encounter.

A bizarre scene occurred! He saw that on the surface of Lin Waner's lifeless body, a trace of an extremely faint energy fluctuation suddenly emerged. Immediately after, a green bead, only the size of a soybean, crystal clear throughout, and emitting an extremely dense aura of life, actually floated out slowly from her chest.

This green bead floated in mid-air, emitting a soft and warm green light, illuminating this dim forest clearing.

Under Su Wu's dumbfounded gaze.

After the green bead floated in mid-air for a moment, as if attracted by some kind of pull, it slowly flew toward the forehead of Lin Waner's mask, and finally silently merged into her brow.

The next second.

"Cough..."

Lin Waner, who had originally been judged by Su Wu as completely dead and was lying quietly at the bottom of the pit, actually trembled extremely slightly.

Immediately after, a cough, so weak it was almost inaudible, came from under the mask.

"Holy sh*t!!!"

Su Wu was so scared his scalp went numb, his whole body bouncing three meters back, his eyes widened like copper bells, looking at this scene in disbelief.

"A corpse coming back to life?! No... it was that bead!!!"

Upon realizing this, Su Wu's first reaction was not to save the person, but to turn around and run!

What kind of international joke was this! Anyone capable of possessing such a level of life-saving trump card was absolutely a core descendant from those super-large factions! The Karma and vendettas involved with such a person were simply not something he, a native Grandmaster from Earth, could bear!

"Not completely dead? If she's not completely dead, then there's no need to bury her! Forget it, forget it, I'd better stay far away from this kind of heaven-sized trouble."

Su Wu turned around while frantically warning himself in his heart: "Su Wu, oh Su Wu, you are now in the Cultivation world where the weak are the prey of the strong, not in the civilized society where you help old ladies cross the street! Put away your pathetic sympathy, and hurry up and run!"

He strode forward, walking toward the depths of the forest without hesitation.

One step, two steps, three steps...

He walked about ten meters away.

Su Wu's footsteps, however, became heavier and heavier, as if filled with lead. In his mind, that slender, delicate figure lying lonely in the cold mud pit, covered in blood, and likely to take her last breath at any moment, just wouldn't fade away.

"Damn it!"

Su Wu suddenly stopped, slapped himself hard in the face, and cursed through gritted teeth: "Why can't a dog change its habit of eating sh*t! I received over ten years of quality education in my past life, and I never expected that after Transmigrating to this man-eating world for over a decade, this damn conscience of mine would still f*cking hurt!"

"Forget it! If I die, I die! At worst, once I heal her, I'll just part ways immediately!"

Su Wu turned around abruptly and rushed back like a whirlwind.

He jumped into the pit he had dug himself, scooped up the extremely weak Lin Waner again, held her in his arms, and quickly left this place of trouble.