Archean Eon Art c1-766

by I Eat Tomatoes, Wo Chi Xi Hong Shi, 我吃西红柿

  “With City Lord Eastcalm’s temper, I’m afraid he will slap us to death if we appear in front of him.”

  These Tribulation Eminences had mixed emotions.

  Apart from one who had reached the Fourth Tribulation realm, the others were much weaker. It was quite important for them to control the trading network and reap its benefits.

  “What did Palace Lord say?” asked the white-robed, bald woman. “Is Palace Lord not going to do a thing about City Lord Eastcalm establishing an Eternal Tower branch?”

  The other Tribulation Eminences looked over.

  Palace Lord Snowjade was formerly the strongest expert in Three Bay River System. As the only Fifth Tribulation Eminence, other Tribulation Eminences usually hid far away, not daring to provoke him.

  Now, they hoped that Palace Lord Snowjade would step forward!

  The mountain-like figure shook his head slightly. “Palace Lord said that he wouldn’t interfere with matters regarding City Lord Eastcalm in Three Bay River System.”

  “He won’t interfere?”

  “So many Tribulation Eminences were hunted down. Six of them died completely. Many Imperial Lords were killed, yet he’s not interfering?”

  “Doesn’t Palace Lord Snowjade want to vie for control of Three Bay River System?”

  The Tribulation Eminences were astonished.

  How could Palace Lord Snowjade tolerate City Lord Eastcalm given his personality?

  “Everyone don’t be anxious. If City Lord Eastcalm really wants to establish an Eternal Tower branch, he will have to sweep the river system’s plundering factions clean. As for our Three Bay River System… the strongest plundering faction is Snake Fiend Star,” said the white-robed, bald woman softly. “I didn’t sense Snake Fiend Star incurring any losses.”

  “Snake Fiend Star.”

  The surroundings fell silent.

  In the past, there were two strongest factions in Three Bay River System.

  Palace Lord Snowjade’s faction was one of them! As the only Fifth Tribulation Eminence, he had an extraordinary status. The other was Snake Fiend Star. Snake Fiend Star plundered the entire river system. It was the most ferocious overlord with a powerful background.

  “Snake Fiend Star has a powerful background. City Lord Eastcalm might not dare to attack directly.”

  “It’s very likely that negotiations will occur, allowing Snake Fiend Star’s species to migrate out of Three Bay River System.

  “Against a Fifth Tribulation Eminence, Snake Fiend Star will likely compromise.”

  The Tribulation Eminences discussed for a long time before finally dispersing.

  Whether an Eternal Tower branch was established in Three Bay River System or not, all they could do was watch from the sidelines. They didn’t dare interfere.

  …

  Tranquilstar Alliance, North Wind Pavilion, Hundred Sword Tower… All the secret organizations in Three Bay River System discovered the deaths of many Imperial Lords and the destruction of many Tribulation Eminences’ true bodies. They discussed the matter urgently.

  In fact, before Meng Chuan took action, several Fourth Tribulation Eminences already knew that Three Bay River System had produced a Fifth Tribulation Eminence named City Lord Eastcalm. However, these secret organizations existed for the sake of trading. The more precious the information was, the higher the price was. They naturally wouldn’t spread it cheaply. On the other hand, unless they had a good relationship, why would Tribulation Eminences care about the lives of other cultivators?

  Of course, some of the plundering factions pursued by Meng Chuan knew about City Lord Eastcalm. Some Tribulation Eminences hid in other river systems, but Meng Chuan still hunted them down.

  Some Imperial Lords had fled back to their homeworlds. Having not seen them with his own eyes or grasping their auras, the karmic connections between Meng Chuan and them were too weak. Meng Chuan wasn’t able to kill the Imperial Lords hiding in their homeworlds because of this.

  …

  At the top of a snow mountain, Snowjade Palace.

  Currently, Three Bay River System is in a state of panic. Palace Lord Snowjade stood outside the palace and looked into the endless void. Through karma, he knew that six Tribulation Eminences had died completely. Many Tribulation Eminences had also lost their true bodies.

  To be able to dispatch them so quickly, Meng Chuan should have sent multiple Essence Soul avatars to attack at the same time, Snowjade concluded. Now, only Snake Fiend Star is left. Snake Fiend Star will likely give in to Meng Chuan during the negotiations. Snowjade knew the strength of both parties.

  Snake Fiend Star had a powerful background, but Meng Chuan was also very powerful!

  The information that the outside world had gathered was the simplest: City Lord Eastcalm had the strength of a Fifth Tribulation Eminence and lived on Thousand Mountain Star.

  As for more important intelligence, such as having a dual Physical Body and Essence Soul Fifth Tribulation realm cultivation, had grasped two Fifth Tribulation laws, was a member of the Cang Alliance, and so on… This kind of important intelligence couldn’t be obtained without paying a certain price.

  …

  On Thousand Mountain Star, the six Essence Soul avatars returned after completing their missions.

  Meng Chuan’s true body was on a tall building. He looked at the continuous mountain range as he pondered over his mission of clearing out the plundering factions.

  Eternal Tower listed 18 plundering factions for me to wipe out. The other 17 factions have been resolved. Meng Chuan frowned slightly. Only the strongest plundering faction, Snake Fiend Star, is left.

  I have to send my true body.

  Meng Chuan knew very well that the other party wasn’t to be trifled with. Previously, the main reason why Palace Lord Snowjade couldn’t fully control Three Bay River System was because of Snake Fiend Star.

  Chapter 579 - Extraordinary Treasure

  Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snakes lived on Snake Fiend Star. The leader was at the Fourth Tribulation realm.

  I once obtained an adult Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snake corpse from Senior Pang Ming. Meng Chuan found it rather magical. Now, I’m facing a branch of the Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snake species. The ten-plus Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snakes that live on Snake Fiend Star are nothing to me. However, there’s a spacetime hole on Snake Fiend Star that connects to Warped Cloud River System.

  There were various special phenomena in the outer realm. Spacetime holes were one of them. Through them, one could reach a distant place.

  The two regions connected to each other by spacetime holes were usually in the same river zone. Very few connected to places in different river zones.

  I can instantly destroy Snake Fiend Star. However, on the other end of Snake Fiend Star’s spacetime hole is Warped Cloud River System, which is the true lair of Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snakes. Meng Chuan knew this very well.

  More than 30,000 years ago, Three Bay River System did not have Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snakes. Later, Warped Cloud River System’s Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snakes discovered a spacetime hole that led to Three Bay River System. When they arrived at Three Bay River System, they realized that there were no Fifth Tribulation Eminences here. Therefore, they moved a massive star to the entrance of the spacetime hole. The star’s layout was modified, becoming Snake Fiend Star. It was governed by an Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snake at the Tribulation realm with eight other adult Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snakes. They wantonly plundered Three Bay River System.

  Warped Cloud River System’s strongest expert is an Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snake at the Fifth Tribulation realm. Its name is Cave Lord Scenic Cloud; its a Physical Body Fifth Tribulation Eminence. It has cultivated for more than 50,000 years and has grasped three Fifth Tribulation laws. Unfortunately, the compatibility between its three grasped laws are too low. It failed to fuse them into a Sixth Tribulation law. Even so, it’s extremely powerful at the Fifth Tribulatio
n realm. It’s much stronger than Palace Lord Snowjade. Meng Chuan knew this very well. Under normal circumstances, one would have a high chance of fusing three Fifth Tribulation laws into a Sixth Tribulation law. However, failure happened when there was low compatibility between the laws. This was the case for Cave Lord Scenic Cloud.

  Palace Lord Snowjade was also at the Physical Body Fifth Tribulation realm. He had also grasped two Fifth Tribulation laws. Furthermore, he had only recently broken through, so he naturally wasn’t willing to offend Cave Lord Scenic Cloud.

  Fortunately…

  Thankfully, the Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snake species in the entire River of Spacetime hasn’t produced a Sixth Tribulation Eminence in this era. According to the intelligence, there are over 30 Fifth Tribulation Eminences in the species, and they are scattered across the River of Spacetime.

  In terms of life’s natural order, the Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snakes were in no way inferior to Scarlet Snakes.

  However, the Scarlet Snake species had produced Starlord Scarlet Snake. He was considered one of the top Sixth Tribulation Eminences. Therefore, the environment the Scarlet Snakes lived in was much better. They even had a large lair in the River of Spacetime

  -Scarlet Snake Star! The number of Fifth Tribulation realm Scarlet Snakes on Scarlet Snake Planet accounted for half of those in the River of Spacetime.

  For example, the Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snake species hadn’t produced a Sixth Tribulation Eminence, so they were relatively weak. Their species was bullied everywhere… With no Sixth Tribulation Eminence protecting them, their living conditions were much worse than the Scarlet Snakes.

  Under such circumstances, the Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snakes were naturally extremely scattered! Since they were scattered, they wouldn’t be affected when they encountered a formidable enemy. They could reproduce and survive.

  Special lifeforms are very united because they don’t have an inhabited world’s protection. There are 30 known Fifth Tribulation Eminences for the species, and there’s one who has grasped a Sixth Tribulation law, but it hasn’t fully stepped into the Sixth Tribulation realm.

  That Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snake, who has grasped the Sixth Tribulation law, is very far away. It will take it at least half a year to reach here.

  I won’t be able to kill Cave Lord Scenic Cloud. I’m only capable of killing one true body of each of the eight Fourth Tribulation Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snakes. If the strongest Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snake wants to deal with such a trivial matter, it will have to travel across the River of Spacetime all day.

  Meng Chuan knew very well that the only person he needed to deal with was Cave Lord Scenic Cloud.

  Physical Body Fifth Tribulation realm, and has grasped three Fifth Tribulation laws. Meng Chuan felt pressured. I have to make sufficient preparations.

  According to Eternal Tower’s investigations, Snake Fiend Star has slaughtered more than 5,000 cultivators in Three Bay River System in the past 10,000 years. Many had their true bodies destroyed, but that can’t be confirmed by Eternal Tower’s investigations. There are probably many more victims.

  The intelligence provided by Eternal Tower consisted of confirmed cases. Eternal Tower wasn’t omnipotent. Its investigations couldn’t pinpoint those who carried out more covert operations or if the deceased didn’t have much connection to Eternal Tower.

  Many low-level worlds only had one Supremacy.

  When killed, their true bodies and avatars were destroyed! They couldn’t recount this to anyone else-it was a very common situation.

  In 10,000 years, there have been more than 5,000 confirmed cases. In fact, 20,000 to 30,000 people have likely been slaughtered. The Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snake species has been in Three Bay River System for over 30,000 years. Nearly 100,000 cultivators have likely been slaughtered. Meng Chuan estimated the number of deaths with a ferocious glint in his eyes. They really treat Three Bay River System as a hunting ground for Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snakes.

  To have no intention of paying the price after slaughtering so many people? As for Cave Lord Scenic Cloud and the entire Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snake species? Meng Chuan made a decision.

  To have reached the Fifth Tribulation realm with an Imperial Lord-level paramount technique in a short period of time, reaching the Sixth Tribulation realm wasn’t a distant possibility for Meng Chuan.

  Now, he had grasped two Fifth Tribulation laws. He was also studying the Void Catalog’s third volume. He was confident that his Cloud Dragon Snake Movement Technique would reach the Fifth Tribulation realm in the near future. When that happened, he would have grasped three Fifth Tribulation realm laws. Furthermore, Infinite Saber was a pure time lineage technique. Cloud Dragon Snake Movement Technique was a pure spatial lineage technique. Nirvana Saber fused both the time lineage and the spatial lineage. The three were extremely compatible. Therefore, Meng Chuan had the confidence to deal with the entire Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snakes species.

  Meng Chuan had to admit that Cave Lord Scenic Cloud was not to be trifled with. Therefore, he chose array formations and other items from Ancestral Master Archean Eon’s treasure vault in advance and prepared to send his true body.

  Before setting off, I should check my war spoils. Meng Chuan was in a good mood. I wiped out the 17 other plundering factions. Of the 19 Tribulation Eminences on the list… I killed 13 Tribulation Eminences’ true bodies. Six of them were completely killed.

  I only found 127 of the 139 Imperial Lords on the list. All of them have been killed.

  Not long after he joined Eternal Tower, a handful of Fourth Tribulation Eminences in Three Bay River System learned of Eastcalm City Lord’s existence.

  Some Imperial Lords among the plundering factions were related to them. They had fled back to their homeworlds early. Meng Chuan failed to see them with his own eyes, so his karmic connection with these Imperial Lords was very weak. He naturally couldn’t kill the Imperial Lords hiding in inhabited worlds.

  All the six Tribulation Eminences I completely killed off were special lifeforms. It wasn’t by Meng Chuan’s choice. A Tribulation Eminence from a plundering faction was at least at the Second Tribulation realm. With a homeworld in the way, Meng Chuan had no way of killing their true bodies. Cave Lord Redmynah left behind the most treasures. They are worth over 6,000 Outer Realm Essence Crystals. Yes, this one is not bad either. It is worth over 2,000 cubes.

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  Meng Chuan carefully inspected his war spoils. It’s no wonder many Tribulation Eminences crazily plunder others. They do gain plenty from such acts.

  He had obtained quite a lot from killing these plundering factions.

  He only destroyed one of the three Fourth Tribulation Eminences’ true bodies, earning him over 9,000 cubes; Cave Lord Redmynah contributed the most of it.

  There were 11 Third Tribulation Eminences. He obtained more than 5,000 cubes from them. There were five Second Tribulation Eminences. He obtained nearly 1,000 cubes from them.

  There were also many Imperial Lords’ treasures…

  Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

  He directly teleported the Imperial Lords’ treasures out of their mobile grotto-heavens and storage spaces. Soon, piles of items appeared in front of Meng Chuan. Meng Chuan could probe the items with his Essence Soul domain with a thought. With his experience, he could tell the value of 99% of the items.

  Whoosh.

  Meng Chuan took out a spatial bracelet and forcefully infused his Power of Essence Soul into it. He teleported all the items inside out. Another pile of items surrounded him.

  As Meng Chuan calculated the value of the treasures, he suddenly lowered his head and looked at his waist.

  Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

  Meng Chuan’s Demon Slayer trembled as it attempted to leave the scabbard.

  Demon Slayer was a weapon Meng Chuan had chosen when he finished cultivating at Archean Mountain. He had been nurturing it for many years. He even carried
it with him all the time, nurturing it for a long time. Its compatibility with Meng Chuan was higher than his intrinsic treasure, Bloodblade Disc.

  What’s going on? Meng Chuan was somewhat surprised. He could sense that Demon Slayer had been greatly attracted by something and wanted to leave the scabbard.

  Go. With a thought, Meng Chuan controlled Demon Slayer and allowed it to fly to the source of attraction.

  Swoosh.

  Demon Slayer immediately flew out and charged into the latest pile of items with a boom. The invisible force sent many miscellaneous items flying. Demon Slayer’s power only enveloped one of the items, causing it to float in front of Demon Slayer.

  It was a fragment of a wine cup-only the size of a finger.

  Chapter 580 - I’m Willing to Serve You, City Lord

  A wine cup shard. Could this wine cup be some powerful treasure? Meng Chuan was puzzled. He could sense Demon Slayer’s desire. Like its desire to absorb flesh and blood, it wanted to devour the fragment. However, Meng Chuan didn’t let it do so immediately. Instead, he waved his hand, and the shard flew in front of him.

  It was the size of a finger, resembling an ordinary wine glass’s fragment without any runes.

  It’s just a shard. It’s not a treasure fragment. Even its materials are very common. There’s nothing special on the surface, but it’s very heavy. Meng Chuan was somewhat puzzled. Despite being the size of a finger, it’s as heavy as a mountain.

  I’ve never heard of such a heavy cup before. Meng Chuan was puzzled.

  Some outer realm’s materials were indeed very heavy. Despite being the size of a fist, they were as heavy as a star, but nobody used such heavy materials to make wine cups.

  Perhaps some large-sized lifeforms would use super-large wine cups, but the fragment in front of him was very small. It was probably only a normal wine cup that humans used, yet it was so heavy. What kind of lifeform would use it?