Chapter 1062 - Strange Movements from the Nebulous Divine Token

Chen Fan easily saw through Zhu Tianzong’s hidden thoughts. From his flickering gaze, it was clear he was plotting revenge.

He was never one to show mercy to his enemies, especially one who dared touch his reverse scale. A mere secret wouldn’t change that.

𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

“No need to waste your energy scheming, Zhu Tianzong. I know you are devising all sorts of vicious schemes to deal with me. As for your so-called secret... hoho, I don’t need you to tell me. I’ll learn it anyway.”

Before his words faded, he flashed forward, gripping Zhu Tianzong’s head.

Zhu Tianzong’s face twisted in shock. He knew that Chen Fan wanted to search his soul. “You dare—!”

However, any resistance he put up was futile in front of Chen Fan.

Although the current Zhu Tianzong was considered a top-tier Lesser Peak Manifestation realm expert, Chen Fan had improved by leaps and bounds over the past year. If he went all out, unleashing his power of law, he could crush Zhu Tianzong and render all his methods useless.

“It’s useless. In front of absolute strength, all your methods are useless!” Chen Fan destroyed Zhu Tianzong’s dantian and wasted his cultivation.

“Ahhh, you beast, you damned bastard, how dare you waste my cultivation!”

With his cultivation wasted, Zhu Tianzong’s voice cracked with despair, his gaze burning with hatred.

But Chen Fan didn’t care. He pressed his palm to Zhu Tianzong’s head and executed the Soul Searching Technique.

“Ahhh...” Zhu Tianzong’s miserable screams resounded through the Yandang Mountains. His eyes rolled back, and he convulsed.

Soon, Chen Fan withdrew his power.

Now devoid of any cultivation, Zhu Tianzong plummeted from the sky.

A dull thud echoed below. No need to look; he was surely nothing more than a bloody smear.

Chen Fan barely spared it a thought. His eyes flickered.

The soul search had revealed a shocking secret: Zhu Tianzong was once a genius disciple of a superpower in the eastern continent. During a training expedition in the Dead Region, he stumbled upon a mysterious place and gained a great fortune.

The memories told Chen Fan that the place seemed to be a microcosm. But Zhu Tianzong had only reached its outer edges. He was too weak to venture deeper back then.

“Hmph, so he really did have a huge secret... I wonder if even greater opportunities lie within.” Chen Fan narrowed his eyes slightly.

Over the years, Zhu Tianzong would secretly revisit the place, but an invisible force barred his entry. Even with his Lesser Peak Manifestation realm cultivation, he couldn’t force his way in.

If that was the case, perhaps there was a heavenly opportunity inside.

“Forget it, I’ll investigate this matter in the future when I have the time.”

A place capable of granting such fortune was not something Chen Fan would ignore.

After dealing with Zhu Tianzong, Chen Fan brought Chen Zhengqing and the others back to the imperial palace.

Seeing Chen Fan bringing them back safely, Chen Tianxiong, Nangong Baxiong, and the others also let out a sigh of relief.

Chen Fan couldn’t shake his guilt toward his parents, so he stayed with them for three months wholeheartedly. Finally, Chen Zhengqing and Nangong Yue grew impatient and chased him away.

During this period, he suggested they move to the True Martial Academy, whether to Peerless Peak or True Martial City. As long as they remained within its territory, their safety would be assured.

Chen Zhengqing didn’t object to it; he only said that he’ll consider it in the future.

Accepting this, Chen Fan simply nodded and took further precautions. He created another true primeval incarnation and infused his parents and Chen Wushang with a streak of sword qi, along with several threads of law.

Chen Zhengqing and Nangong Yue’s cultivation levels were too low. Although they were once prominent figures of the Great Chu Empire with very high talents, they had wasted eighteen years.

Chen Fan helped the two of them break through to the Divine Nascent realm, but they couldn’t reach the Heavenly Star or even the Manifestation realm.

Still, the laws he planted would ease their path, offering a glimmer of hope for the Heavenly Star realm.

After preparing all these, Chen Fan left under Chen Zhengqing and Nangong Yue’s “disdainful” gaze.

But he knew the truth. They feared delaying his cultivation and pushed him away for his good.

After all, what parent wouldn’t want their child by their side?

......

A silhouette whistled past the vast sea of clouds.

Chen Fan’s gaze flickered. After leaving the Great Chen Empire, he did not return to the True Martial Academy. Instead, he headed toward the Dead Region.

From Zhu Tianzong’s memories, he learned that the secret place was in the Daokong Mountain Range next to the Dead Region’s largest city, Daokong City, and its location was very hidden.

If Zhu Tianzong hadn’t been pursued during training and fled into the Daokong Mountain Range by chance, stumbling upon the microcosm, no one would have ever known of its existence.

For so many years, Zhu Tianzong had kept this secret. Only he knew about it. He would occasionally enter it, gathering some opportunities in its outermost area, fueling his rapid cultivation growth.

The Dead Region, rife with chaos, was an unregulated zone of the Tianwu Continent. Few dared venture there, allowing the microcosm to remain undiscovered.

Thus, no one had discovered that place for so many years.

Arriving at the Dead Region, Chen Fan kept a low profile and headed to the Daokong Mountain Range.

Using Zhu Tianzong’s memories, he located the entrance—a vast, hollow mountain unlike any other.

Stepping inside, he was met with a heavy, lingering aura, not of desolation or timeworn decay, but of tragedy.

It felt like an ancient battlefield where countless experts had fought to the death.

Even though countless years have passed, the remnants of slaughter still permeated the air.

Just as he entered, a sudden flash burst from his storage ring.

“This is...”

Seeing the object that flew out of his storage ring by itself, Chen Fan’s expression changed.

He had almost forgotten about it. It was none other than the Nebulous Divine Token he had obtained when he was at the Nebulous Mysterious Realm. [1]

1. Received in chapter 333 from old man. ☜