Xuanwu War Sovereign

「The next day, at dawn.」

Crimson sunlight shone into the great hall. Qin Feng sat cross-legged on the floor, gazing at the sunlight with a wry smile. Everything that happened last night felt like a dream.

If not for the lingering fragrance in the air and the changes in his body, Qin Feng probably would have thought it was all just a dream.

At this moment, the aura emanating from Qin Feng was shockingly that of a Half-Step Martial Arts Giant.

Having received the Silver Moon Queen’s Primordial Yin Qi, the Innate Yin-Yang Interactions had, in one go, pushed his Cultivation from the Peak of the Space Realm to the Peak of the Celestial Realm.

If he hadn’t only comprehended five types of Void Mystical Meaning, he might have been able to use this opportunity to break through to the Martial Arts Giant Realm in one fell swoop.

The Yuan Yin of a Martial Dao Great Power was simply too immense.

Even now, the depths of his soul still held faint traces of the Innate Yin-Yang Interactions.

Thinking of last night’s sensuous affair, Qin Feng’s heart stirred. It was a good thing it was him, one who had cultivated the Eight Desolates Undying Body and possessed a freakish physical recovery ability. If it had been any other Sea of Reincarnation Martial Artist, the Silver Moon Queen would have probably torn their body apart.

The Silver Moon Queen had left very early.

As he stood up, Qin Feng’s gaze suddenly shifted. A line of elegant, small characters had appeared beneath him.

"You must participate in the trial!"

It was the Silver Moon Queen’s handwriting!

It was a line of text formed purely from condensed True Power.

Qin Feng’s brow twitched. His expression was puzzled, but he understood in the next moment. The Silver Moon Queen didn’t want anyone to know what happened last night.

If Qin Feng didn’t participate in the trial because of what happened, it would likely arouse suspicion.

Sighing to himself, Qin Feng pulled on some clothes and walked out of Xi Yue Palace.

An hour later, Qin Feng set off for the trial in Cold Moon Valley.

「Silver Moon Lakefront.」

As he walked over at a slow pace, he saw that many people had already gathered by the lake. Qin Feng glanced over; everyone from the Qin Family was present.

On the other side were the experts of the Silver Moon Clan, led by the familiar yellow-robed young woman, Silver Bell.

Not seeing any sign of the Silver Moon Queen, Qin Feng breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing Qin Feng appear at the lakefront, the yellow-robed young woman and her group walked over.

"Young Master Qin, are you ready?"

Feeling a little strange inside, Qin Feng nodded.

Silver Bell’s beautiful eyes swept over Qin Feng. She took a rolled-up map from her robes and handed it to him. "Young Master Qin, this is a map of the Moonless Forest. It will show you the way to Cold Moon Valley. The trial will last for seven days. If you cannot retrieve a Taiyin White Lotus of at least three thousand years old within seven days, your trial will be considered a failure!"

Qin Feng took the map and glanced at it silently.

A hint of a smile appeared in Qin Feng’s eyes. With his current power, the Cold Moon Valley trial was no longer much of a challenge for him.

His Yin Yang Dual Cultivation with the Silver Moon Queen had done far more than just raise his Cultivation by a single Realm.

He glanced at the crowd on the lakefront, then pushed off with his feet. A black shadow shot into the clouds like an arrow.

After getting his bearings, he shot toward Cold Moon Valley like a stream of light.

In the center of Silver Moon Lake, standing on the water’s surface, the Silver Moon Queen watched his departing figure with a complex expression.

She was holding two people in her hands: Princess Yu Qian and Silver Palm.

As she gazed at the two women, a cold glint flashed in the Silver Moon Queen’s eyes. A silver light flared in her hand, and in an instant, Silver Palm was silently turned to dust.

Seeing Silver Palm die, a trace of terror flashed across Princess Yu Qian’s exquisitely beautiful face. The next moment, she shrieked.

"Mother Empress, spare me! Mother Empress, your daughter was also deceived by that Hua Race member! That’s why I foolishly made such a grave mistake!"

Looking at Princess Yu Qian in her grasp, the Silver Moon Queen’s full chest heaved.

She said coldly, "Rest assured. You are my daughter, and even a vicious tiger does not eat its own cubs. I will not kill you."

As she spoke, a flash of hatred crossed her eyes. ’I never would have imagined,’ she thought bitterly, ’that I would one day be brought down by my own daughter.’

Grasping Princess Yu Qian, the Silver Moon Queen’s figure flickered and vanished without a trace.

...

Above the Sea of Clouds, a figure flew at extreme speed, covering hundreds of zhang in the blink of an eye and leaving a rainbow-like trail in his wake.

The wind howled and roared.

In mid-flight, Qin Feng pulled out the map to take a look, then increased his speed again.

SCREECH!

Just then, a sharp cry like scraping metal rang out from the Void.

WHOOSH!

Qin Feng heard the sound of flapping wings. In the distant sky, a colossal creature appeared on the horizon.

It was a cyan-colored bird. Its body was entirely cyan, with a wingspan of several zhang. Its gaze was savage as it stared at Qin Feng as if eyeing its prey. With a flap of its wings, it was above him in the blink of an eye.

With a beat of its wings, four cyan tornadoes rushed toward Qin Feng.

It was a Cyan Sparrow!

A Tier Two Beast King comparable to the Sea of Reincarnation Realm!

Without slowing down, Qin Feng’s expression turned frigid as a monstrous Sword Qi erupted from his body.

A streak of black light shot a hundred zhang across the Void, effortlessly tearing through the four tornadoes. Before the Cyan Sparrow’s terrified eyes, the black light struck it like lightning.

CRACK!

The two halves of its body fell. In an instant, the terrifying Barbaric Beast, strong enough to suppress a Sea of Reincarnation First Realm Martial Artist, had been slain.

The Moonless Forest was known as a paradise for Barbaric Beasts.

There were many powerful Barbaric Beasts.

Qin Feng flying so brazenly without concealing his presence angered many of the highly territorial flying Barbaric Beasts.

Along the way, a succession of powerful Barbaric Beasts shot into the sky to cause trouble for Qin Feng.

Qin Feng showed no mercy, slaughtering these creatures that came seeking their own deaths.

By the time he was through, he had slain more than a dozen Beast King-level Barbaric Beasts.

Ten hours later, Qin Feng appeared in the sky before a mountain valley.

It was a peculiar valley. Qin Feng’s gaze swept over it. A cold wind carrying flurries blew through the valley, which was draped in silver. A frigid qi billowed out from within, turning the surrounding hundred-li radius into a forest from a snow kingdom.

"This must be Cold Moon Valley!"

His figure descended. He scanned his surroundings, pondered for a moment, and then with a flash of black light, he tore through the Void like a black bolt of lightning.

Qin Feng’s figure appeared inside the valley.

The temperature inside the valley was exceptionally low, even a bit colder than the Snowfield Glacier Qin Feng had experienced.

Qin Feng’s gaze swept the area. The valley wasn’t large, and the frigid qi was blowing up from a large fissure within it.

WHOOSH!

The roaring power was like a cataclysmic Divine Ability—utterly terrifying.

"This is actually an Ice Element Spirit Mountain Blessed Land!" he muttered to himself, feeling the active, cold qi in the air.

Qin Feng leaped up, spotting numerous Taiyin White Lotuses on the surrounding cliff walls.

The white lotuses grew on the cliffs, pure and flawless, as if condensed from ice itself, translucent and sparkling.

It was just that most of them weren’t old enough.

The oldest one was only a thousand years old.

"ROAR!"

Just then, Qin Feng heard the furious roar of a dragon echo through the valley.

"Is that... the sound of a Taiyin Ice Dragon?" Qin Feng’s expression shifted slightly. The Taiyin Ice Dragon sounded utterly furious.

RUMBLE!

Within his Divine Thought, two forces—one of ice and one of fire—collided. The fiery power appeared within his Divine Thought like a crimson sun.

After that one strike, the Taiyin Ice Dragon’s icy power vanished!

The Taiyin Ice Dragon was dead!

"The Taiyin Ice Dragon was killed? Someone beat me to it? Who could be so powerful as to kill a Taiyin Ice Dragon at the Martial Arts Giant Realm in just a few moves?!" Qin Feng’s expression changed, and his figure shot forward in an instant...

(One more Chapter to come)