The King of Urban Mercenaries

Chapter 1677 - 1682: Tip of the Iceberg

Dugu Aotian hadn’t expected that the matter of the Divine Artifact had actually spread to the Upper Realm, and had already spread throughout the entire Upper Realm.

This was something Dugu Aotian hadn’t anticipated. Of course, he also understood that this might be a kind of invisible protest from the Divine Desolate Hall, but this kind of protest was extremely weak and basically useless.

On the Qianhuang Peak, they held absolute authority in the Upper Realm. It was just that Qianhuang Peak also couldn’t control so many people descending to the Lower Realm at once, so for Dugu Aotian, having so many people come down was really hard to handle.

Moreover, the most troublesome thing about this descent was the forces involved. They didn’t belong to a single faction. If they were all from one force, Dugu Aotian could easily settle it—just kill all of them directly. After all, they were the culprits, the ones who disobeyed orders and rules. Qianhuang Peak would never forgive them.

However, the law does not punish the masses.

As long as there are ties of face and favor involved, in the end they won’t punish everyone.

"Senior brother, what should we do?" Lin Fei asked Dugu Aotian.

Dugu Aotian’s brows were tightly furrowed. He said, "Let’s do this for now. Give me your Divine Artifact, I’ll lure these guys over!"

Lin Fei immediately handed the Moon Blade in his hand to Dugu Aotian. Dugu Aotian took a deep breath and said, "You follow me to a place where there are no people, otherwise this place might be shredded to pieces in an instant."

After speaking, everyone headed deep into a large mountain. There wasn’t a single person here, not even apemen.

Lin Fei and the others hid far away, a full five li from Dugu Aotian, which was about two thousand five hundred meters, but even so, Dugu Aotian still told them to go farther.

Finally, the distance was far enough. Ten li away, Lin Fei and the others stood still.

"Is this Divine Artifact really that powerful?" Lin Fei wondered.

"I don’t know either, but it should be insanely over the top. We’ve only ever heard the name of Divine Artifacts, but we don’t actually know how strong they are, just that they’re very, very powerful." Tian Yi explained.

Now, none of the people around Tian Yi dared to look down on Lin Fei anymore. After all, behind this "deep feelings" guy there was still a truly terrifying person—Dugu Aotian!

At this moment, Dugu Aotian stood deep in the mountain. There was already a sort of Rule Power wrapped around his body, but it wouldn’t last long. That was why he had to come fast and go fast, because the consumption of this thing really wasn’t something an ordinary person could afford.

If he were to describe the speed at which this thing devoured Heaven and Earth Qi, the Heaven and Earth Qi in Lin Fei’s body would be swallowed clean in just an instant.

So Dugu Aotian didn’t dare act recklessly, but this time he had no choice but to use powerful strength to settle this matter, even though it was extremely dangerous for him.

With a Divine Artifact in hand, everything was mine—especially in terms of attack power. At this moment, Dugu Aotian gripped the Moon Blade. In just an instant, surging True Qi poured into the Divine Artifact, like a raging, stormy sea, incomparably mighty. If it were an ordinary weapon, it would have turned to powder long ago. Even a Treasure would be obliterated, and even a pseudo–Divine Artifact couldn’t be used like this.

Although pseudo–Divine Artifacts possessed some powers close to that of a Divine Artifact, they still couldn’t compare. If a Divine Artifact truly unleashed its full strength, a pseudo–Divine Artifact would probably be wiped out in an instant. That was the difference in power!

At this moment, the Moon Blade was suddenly flooded with this power and instantly transformed into a full moon that shot up into the sky, illuminating the heavens. At the same time, that full moon seemed like a summoning from the Otherworld. In an instant, an incomparably huge sword blade burst out from the moon. Of course, the shape of this blade was still just as strange.

Meanwhile, dense bands of rosy light coiled around this giant sword that stretched a full thousand meters, spiraling about it. At the same time, below, under the illumination of the Moon Blade’s radiance, the mountain range beneath actually began to slowly dissolve. Dugu Wushang felt an incomparable pressure, as if a hundred thousand great mountains had landed on his shoulders.

He hadn’t even fully unleashed the Divine Artifact’s might yet, but even this small portion of power was already beyond what Dugu Aotian could bear, so the pressure he was facing right now could well be imagined.

Not only that, this giant sword that pierced straight into the sky shone incomparably bright. Even a thousand li away, one could still see this great sword towering above the land!

Cultivators immediately flew toward the giant sword. Clearly, something with such terrifying power was anything but simple. It had to be a Divine Artifact—everyone was convinced of it in their hearts: this must be a Divine Artifact.

Lin Fei and his group were nearby and could feel the immense pressure. The few of them had already fallen to the ground, all sitting down, but the pressure still made it hard for them to stand. Even someone like Zhang Fan, a Golden Core Realm expert, was already sprawled on the ground, crying out in pain, "Fuck, this is a Divine Artifact? I actually thought of comparing myself to it. I didn’t expect it to be this strong."

"Don’t you have a Demon Artifact? Why don’t you take it out? Maybe it’d make things a bit easier on you." Lin Fei said.

Zhang Fan rolled his eyes at Lin Fei. "Can’t you feel the pressure? You’re actually still standing there. As for my Demon Artifact, forget it. Right now I don’t even dare breathe too loud. It’s probably only at the pseudo–Divine Artifact level at best."

"So that’s how it is. I’m not really feeling anything. After all, that Moon Blade is mine; I can’t feel its pressure." Lin Fei looked up at the sky.

Right now, even though it was daytime, this Light Sword seemed to compete with the sun and moon. Wang Qing had never imagined that a Divine Artifact could be this powerful. In his own hands, it really did feel like a case of casting pearls before swine.

After all, Lin Fei had no way of unleashing its full power, and he couldn’t even reach the level of strength that Dugu Aotian was displaying now.

Suddenly!

Right at that moment, a crisp cracking sound seemed to ring out from the sky, like the wrapper of a bun being punctured from outside, while the Lower Realm inside—like the meat filling—shuddered once. They watched as a hole appeared in the sky, and in that wound, a scene was reflected.

The dim sky seemed shrouded in a layer of black mist. The ethereal mountains all around were also black, like a place where a Demon King would live. What was even harder to comprehend were the ferocious, terrifying beasts in that reflection—extremely powerful, with bands of muscle on their bodies as if cast from steel, utterly terrifying!

Lin Fei’s brows knit tight as he asked the people beside him, "Is that the Upper Realm?"

The others nodded. Zhang Fan, however, spoke up, "Our Qingyun Mountain is way better than that. The clouds in the sky look pretty much the same as in the Lower Realm."

Lin Fei hadn’t expected the Upper Realm to look like this. His first impression was shock! There were even trees a thousand meters tall, blotting out the sky and sun, incomparably frightening!

But Lin Fei was now even more intrigued by the Upper Realm.