“You’d better find a secluded place to refine the beast core,” Janelle Pearson continued.
“You stole the soul water from Shadow Hall. They won’t let it go easily. The next few days, Deadland will be chaotic.”
“Alright,” Billy nodded in response.
After a brief conversation, Janelle Pearson took her leave.
Billy stayed behind. He entered the Nine Dragons Cauldron Space and manipulated the Nine Dragons Cauldron to shrink to the size of a thumb, then placed it among some ruins. Even if someone came to the scene, they wouldn’t find it.
For the next two or three days, Billy stayed in the Nine Dragons Cauldron Space refining the beast core.
As he expected, with the help of the beast core and his bloodline power, after three days, his cultivation smoothly broke through to the fourth-rank Controlled Kun Realm.
From the fourth day, Billy’s soul entered The Tower of Heaven Book to continue studying the third volume, the Space Translocation Art.
During this time, although he hadn’t entered the book tower much, he had already memorized the texts of the third layer in his mind.
Whenever he had free time, he would combine those texts in his mind, and he had already gained some insights.
After staying in the book tower for five days, Billy returned to the Nine Dragons Cauldron Space.
“Let’s try it!” After adjusting his breath for a while, Billy muttered to himself.
He then dropped two drops of soul water into his mouth. A powerful spiritual force radiated from his forehead as he activated the Translocation Art.
In an instant, the space in front of him twisted like a vortex, ready to collapse at any moment.
The next moment, his figure flashed and disappeared into the center of the vortex.
It was an endless dark space with a lot of dark matter floating around, filled with terrifying pressure.
He felt that if it weren’t for his strong physical body, he would have been torn to pieces.
He also noticed that his spiritual power was depleting rapidly. Without those two drops of soul water, he wouldn’t have lasted long before his soul dissipated.
After about a few minutes, Billy returned to the Nine Dragons Cauldron Space.
“Did it work?” Looking at his position, Billy’s eyes lit up.
Although he could tell that he hadn’t traveled far from his original spot, he had indeed succeeded!
Given time, as his cultivation improved and his spiritual power reached a certain level, the distance he could travel would surely increase.
He now believed that those truly peerless experts could directly traverse star domains!
On the tenth day, Billy took out the Heaven Book he obtained in the seventh-tier star domain and entered the first layer of the book tower.
After spending most of the day inside, he figured out the techniques of the first volume of the Heaven Book.
Teleportation!
The first volume of the Heaven Book was about cultivating teleportation speed techniques!
It was clear that the first three volumes of the Heaven Book were all about body movement techniques. Whether it was teleportation, Invisibility Technique, or Translocation Art, they were all related to body movement!
This made him curious about the fourth to sixth layers, wondering what kind of techniques they contained.
Since he had Nether Wings, he wasn’t in a hurry to cultivate teleportation. He would take his time with it later!
However, he could feel that if he succeeded in cultivating it, his speed would far surpass that of Nether Wings.
Billy then exited the Nine Dragons Cauldron Space and returned to the ruins.
However, to his confusion, after waiting for half a day, Janelle Pearson did not appear.
The next day, he continued to cultivate near the ruins while waiting for Janelle Pearson but still didn’t see her.
After waiting another day with no sign of her, he had a feeling that something had happened to Janelle Pearson.
Billy then walked deeper into Deadland.
Along the way, he occasionally found fallen corpses by the roadside. Judging by the bloodstains on them, these incidents had occurred recently.
After walking for two or three hours, a loud noise came from ahead. The void trembled, and a figure crashed not far in front of him.
It was a middle-aged man, blood continuously flowing from his mouth, severely injured.
Billy didn’t want to get involved. He glanced at the man and walked towards a side path.
“Stop!”
Just as Billy took a few steps, a voice called out. An old man descended from mid-air nearby.
The old man glanced at Billy. “Who are you?”
“Just a nobody passing by,” Billy replied.
“Hand over your storage ring for inspection!” The old man demanded.
“Why?” Billy asked.
“Stop wasting time and do it!” The old man frowned.
“What if I don’t?” Billy continued.
Before he finished speaking, the old man punched at him with overwhelming force.
From his aura, it was clear that he was at half-step Mystic Kun Realm cultivation level.
Billy’s eyes narrowed slightly as he raised his hand to meet the punch.
After a loud bang, both retreated a thousand meters apart.
“Hmm?” The old man steadied himself and exclaimed in surprise.
A fourth-rank Controlled Kun Realm cultivator could match him evenly, which was unexpected.
After a brief pause, he looked at Billy and asked again, “I’ll ask one last time. Will you hand over your storage ring? If not…”
Before he finished speaking, a blade light flashed from Billy’s hand.
“Courting death!” The old man roared and punched again.
To his shock, the blade light passed through him effortlessly. His body and soul perished at the same time.
In his final moments, he couldn’t understand why he had been annihilated so easily!
“Young man, he’s from Shadow Hall. You killed him; Shadow Hall won’t let you go. You should find a place to hide,” said the middle-aged man after catching his breath. He was equally shocked by Billy’s combat prowess at fourth-rank Controlled Kun Realm.
“Take this pill; it will help with your injuries,” Billy said as he handed two healing pills from his storage ring to the man.
“Thank you!” The man named Kaeden Pearson took the pills gratefully.
“Why did he want to inspect my storage ring?” Billy asked.
“He wasn’t just checking yours! Everyone except Shadow Hall members is being searched!” Kaeden Pearson replied.
“They’re looking for their stolen soul water and are inspecting everyone in Deadland.”
“I see,” Billy nodded and asked again, “Do you know where Gate of Serenity’s headquarters is?”
“Gate of Serenity?” Kaeden Pearson hesitated. “Why do you need to go there?”
“I’m friends with Gate of Serenity’s Miss Janelle. I’m going to check on her,” Billy replied.
“You know Miss Janelle?” Kaeden Pearson was surprised again.
“Are you from Gate of Serenity?” Billy asked.
“Yes,” Kaeden Pearson nodded heavily. “Young man, you won’t find Miss Janelle at Gate of Serenity now. She has been captured by Shadow Hall.”
“As expected,” Billy frowned slightly.