Starfield, here I come

"Is this all?"

Zhenpin looked at the three cultivation manuals in his hands.

These three were not the originals, but copies transcribed by Chen Yi.

Zhenpin glanced over them.

The content was extremely profound, and the handwriting was incredibly sloppy.

Just reading through them once would probably take a monumental amount of effort.

Actually, Chen Yi didn't mind giving Zhenpin some crystals, pills, or spiritual weapons.

However, with Zhenpin's physique, the more resources he received, the slower his cultivation would be.

He couldn't harm him like that.

"Of course there's more. In another fifty or sixty years, I will come find you again. At that time, I'll help you break through to the Martial King Realm!"

Zhenpin's mouth twitched.

Even if you live long enough to make such a grand promise, I might not live long enough to see it fulfilled!

"Senior, I saw that the water from just now was quite magical, how about you share some with me..."

"I still have a meeting to attend, so I'll be taking my leave. Remember my words: study hard and make progress every day."

Zhenpin watched Chen Yi fly away, holding the three shoddily written copied manuals in his hands, standing rooted to the spot, disheveled in the wind.

As the saying goes, karma always comes around.

When the two first met, Chen Yi had been played for a fool by Zhenpin.

Now, the tables had turned.

"You two-faced bald donkey, bet you never expected this day would come, huh? Haha..."

After flying a great distance, Chen Yi finally couldn't hold it in anymore and burst into laughter.

The Demon Refining Pot chimed in.

"Hahaha! That was hilarious!"

The Myriad Soul Banner mocked the Demon Refining Pot.

"Can you even understand what this kid is busy with every day? All you know is to laugh along like an idiot!"

The Demon Refining Pot spoke righteously.

"When the master is happy, I am happy! When the master is sad, I am sad! To grieve before the master grieves, and to rejoice after the master rejoices! This is the proper etiquette that a fairy weapon of our generation should possess!"

"Demon Refining Pot, oh Demon Refining Pot, can you grow a spine?"

"I am a pot, what spine do I have!"

"Damn it! Don't say such spineless words in such an impassioned tone!"

While the two artifacts were bickering, Chen Yi's smile abruptly vanished.

"Stop!"

It was exactly like his older brother Chen Jing, who could be crying one second and stop the next.

Because at this moment, Chen Yi had already flown into the airspace above Hanfeng Temple.

Like the other Dragonkin strongholds, there was a dense, fresh aura of Dragonkin here.

This Hanfeng Temple was located in a remote area; not a single proper village or town could be found within a hundred miles.

There were only twenty or thirty monks in the temple cultivating bitterly, farming their own land and remaining self-sufficient.

Xiliang's presence among the Five Domains was already low.

And Hanfeng Temple's presence in Xiliang was at rock bottom.

Furthermore, being located in the extreme west of the continent, powerful martial artists rarely visited this place.

It was indeed a great place for foreign races to infiltrate and establish an intelligence base.

"That unlucky old bastard Yu Qian actually had some skills, he was quite good at picking locations."

Thinking about it this way, Yu Qian dying early brought quite a few benefits.

Otherwise, if such a professional human traitor were allowed to live, the help he could provide the Dragonkin would be massive.

With his death, the Dragonkin's preparations would inevitably take much longer, which was highly beneficial to Chen Yi.

His divine sense covered Hanfeng Temple, accurately scanning every corner.

The Dragonkin stronghold here was similar to the one in the Dashi Kingdom.

There was a Magic Bridge Array for teleportation.

There were fully developed laboratories, archive rooms, intelligence rooms, and so on.

Moreover, there were a full six Dragonkin working here.

They were all in soul form, but they would frequently possess the monks in Hanfeng Temple, just like how Hu Chacha of the Crimson Heart Sect attached himself to Yin Rui.

Through this possession, they could control the bodies of these monks to record information and refine things.

After all, soul forms could not directly touch physical entities. Although there were indirect methods, it definitely wasn't as easy as direct possession.

Their Magic Bridge Array was placed blatantly in the backyard of Hanfeng Temple, directly visible from high above.

There were absolutely no means to block investigations.

This was actually a brilliant move.

If a small, nearly bankrupt faction suddenly had a restriction blocking investigations in some area inside, what could they possibly have that was worth hiding?

Passersby with divine sense might not even notice Hanfeng Temple in the first place.

Adding a divine sense barrier would instead draw attention.

"Black Wind, this wave will let you eat your fill!"

Chen Yi charged into Hanfeng Temple, leading with his fists and following with his feet. Three punches shattered the Dragonkin souls, beating them until they cried for their daddies.

Chen Yi didn't make things difficult for the ascetic monks in Hanfeng Temple; he only killed the Dragonkin.

These monks, like Yu Qian, thought the Dragonkin were Demonkin.

And the benefit they received for cooperating with the Dragonkin was surprisingly just three full meals a day.

These martial arts-practicing monks were living too miserably.

It wasn't to the point where their crimes were unforgivable.

After dismantling the Dragonkin's Magic Bridge Array and confiscating all their data, Chen Yi leaped up, soared into the sky, and returned to the Central Plains amidst the explosive sounds of breaking the sound barrier.

"Thump!!"

The monks of Hanfeng Temple lay prone on the ground, shivering.

"Mar... Martial King..."

[Simulation Task Progress: Destroy Dragonkin Strongholds (5/6)]

On the return journey, Chen Yi had Black Wind eat all six of the Dragonkin Orbs obtained from Hanfeng Temple.

After digesting them, Black Wind's four hooves underwent a change.

Previously, his hooves were horse hooves.

Now, there was a trend of them transitioning into dragon claws.

A ring of dragon scales grew on the horse legs above the claws, making it look as if he were wearing four dragon claw boots.

"Boss, I feel like I've become much stronger."

Chen Yi suppressed his own combat power and sparred with Black Wind a bit.

He discovered that Black Wind now had combat power comparable to a human Soul Quenching Realm martial artist.

However, this combat power was rather difficult to calculate.

Because Black Wind didn't have much offensive ability; he mainly focused on defense and positioning.

He ran incredibly fast, even faster than a Golden Body Realm martial artist running at full speed with their Golden Body state activated.

"It seems the awakening is still not enough. With only this much, how can he counter the Dragonkin?"

At this point in time in reality, even if Chen Yi ran around everywhere chasing the aura of the Dragonkin, the number of Dragonkin he could catch was still small.

They were in the early stages of infiltration, so the number of people who had come was naturally low.

To fully awaken Black Wind, the number of Dragonkin required would only be higher, not lower. He still had to wait until the Dragonkin appeared on a large scale.

...

On the way back to Baiyun County from Xiliang, Chen Yi also took a detour to visit the Northern Territory.

He went to visit his older brother.

However, he merely looked and didn't interfere in anything.

This was to avoid a butterfly effect that might cause his brother, who had lived his whole life walking on thin ice and finally managed to rise to power, to fall into an ice hole.

The process of going from the Khan's adopted son to the new generation's Khan was absolutely not a comfortable one for his older brother.

But being able to polish him into the master of a domain, and allowing him to obtain ample resources to improve his cultivation, made it all worth it in terms of the results.

"Over the past year or so, I've taken a trip to the Central Plains, the Eastern Wastelands, the Southern Borders, Xiliang, the Northern Territory, and even the Great Wastelands. Thank goodness Martial Kings can fly through the air, otherwise my legs would have broken from all the running."

Strictly speaking, apart from the Star Domain and overseas, Chen Yi had visited all the major regions on the continent.

As for the Star Domain, he now had no choice but to go.

Rather than running around the Five Domains and the Great Wastelands like a headless fly, searching for the Dragonkin aura like finding a needle in a haystack.

It would be better to go to the Star Domain, where it was almost certain that the Dragonkin had infiltrated, to complete the final link of the simulation task.

Actually, even without doing the task and just letting the simulation cool down on its own, there was only a little over a year left anyway.

But doing so would mean losing a wave of quest rewards, which Chen Yi felt was simply not worth it.

After resting for a few days and treating Third Sister's family to several lavish feasts, Chen Yi set out toward the dazzling starry sky on a pitch-dark night with a howling Black Wind.

"Star Domain, here I come!"