Cultivating Through The Game-Chapter 458 - 277: Dark Sun

Beifeng City, Celestial Immortal Guest Inn.

Lu Yu glanced at the street outside the window and regained his composure. He had already informed the City Lord of Beifeng City about Yang Jingyuan's murder of his colleague.

Unfortunately, up to now, he hadn't seen the City Lord send anyone to investigate the Yang family. It seemed this matter was easily brushed aside.

What Lu Yu didn't know was that Yang Jingyuan had already died, supposedly killed by a monster attack. Without Yang Jingyuan as a living witness, Lu Jingfeng couldn't easily act against the Yang family either.

Unless he had solid evidence, a mere letter from Lu Yu wasn't enough to hold the Yang family accountable.

But he wasn't sitting idly by, secretly investigating the Yang family's actions and gathering evidence.

And there was a significant breakthrough. A tragedy that occurred half a month ago in Beifeng City became the turning point. At that time, all the residents of a street in Beifeng City suddenly died, and following the investigation into the cause of death, the constables of Beifeng City traced the evidence to the vicinity of the Yang family.

"Check, please." Lu Yu called out.

"Sir, that's 55 silver coins in total," the waiter said respectfully as he approached.

Lu Yu pulled out the money, placed it on the table, and stood up to leave. Two days later, the Fire Rain Mountain secret realm was about to open, and by then, Fire Rain Mountain would become incredibly bustling. That was Lu Yu's opportunity.

Right now, he didn't dare to leave Beifeng City easily. He wasn't sure if the Yang family had any means of monitoring him, but he had noticed that there were always people watching him.

Ever since he returned to Beifeng City, shortly after leaving the Divine Weapon Pavilion, someone had started following him.

Whether they were from the Yang family, Lu Yu wasn't sure, but he had a ninety percent confidence that these observing eyes belonged to the Yang family.

As Lu Yu walked out of the Celestial Immortal Guest Inn, several guests also settled their bills and followed behind him out of the inn. The few exchanged glances and blended into the bustling crowd.

Ignoring those eyes on his back, Lu Yu walked into the dormitory area of the Divine Weapon Pavilion in Beifeng City. The others stopped at the entrance of the dormitory area; one turned around and disappeared into the crowd, while the rest also silently vanished into the shadows.

The guards of the Divine Weapon Pavilion stood at the gate, scanning the passing crowd. When Lu Yu entered, he displayed his Identity Token, and the guard saluted and let him through.

Since the incident six months ago, when a disciple of the Divine Weapon Pavilion was attacked in the dormitory of Beifeng City, the alert level of the Beifeng City branch of the Divine Weapon Pavilion had increased considerably. The guards at the gate had been replaced by Martial Cultivators at the peak of the Qi Refining Realm.

Lu Yu walked along the road within the dormitory area of the Divine Weapon Pavilion. Rather than dormitories, it would be more appropriate to call them villa clusters since each disciple's dwelling was an independent single courtyard.

He randomly found an empty courtyard and walked in. He turned over the sign at the entrance, indicating that someone had moved in.

He released his perception to scan every corner of the courtyard, ensuring there were no hidden entities, then threw out the Little Forest Array Plate, and the Little Forest Array unfolded.

He stood in the room and took out the "Immortal's Guiding Map." After so long, the cooling time of the Immortal's Guiding Map had long since ended, allowing it to be used again.

Since he had never desired anything specific, he had not used the Guiding Map for fear that it would be in cooldown when he needed it.

But now, he had something coveted in his heart.

In his mind, he imagined the final piece of the Sevenfold Icefire Heavens—the ninth Fire Jade—and opened the Immortal's Guiding Map.

Lu Yu stared at the Immortal's Guiding Map, his eyes vacant, completely immersed in its power. He saw the clues to the ninth Fire Jade.

The ninth Fire Jade was in the center of a burning sea of fire, surrounded by a pitch-black void, with cosmic starlight flickering in the void...

The Immortal's Guiding Map closed, and its power dissipated, causing the vision in Lu Yu's eyes to disappear. He felt slightly dazed.

"The ninth Fire Jade is in space?"

Recalling the scene he just saw, it seemed to be a starry sky.

Lu Yu furrowed his brow. This wasn't good news. If the ninth Fire Jade was truly in space, the chances of obtaining it were very slim.

The starry void of the Shenwu Realm is vastly different from Earth's, incredibly dangerous.

Even leaving the atmosphere of the Shenwu Realm was a challenge for Lu Yu.

On Earth, Lu Yu had nearly flown out of the atmosphere once, but in the Shenwu Realm, the top of the sky was dominated by ferocious astral winds. Even Core Formation Realm experts found it hard to survive in such winds.

Astral winds, one of the strongest winds between heaven and earth, have long been the ultimate pursuit of geniuses cultivating wind-attributed spiritual power. Yet, few geniuses have successfully refined them into their own power.

Many who believed themselves well-prepared to consecrate astral winds as their life-bound Divine Soldier had fallen within them.

Recalling the scene before seeing the ninth Fire Jade, his vision hadn't been moving upward continuously to space but rather moving along the ground, suddenly entering the starry sky.

Lu Yu introspectively concluded that the starry sky he saw wasn't the true starry sky. It was more likely a secret realm, or perhaps the Immortal's Guiding Map was pointing to a pathway to space.

Either way, he wouldn't need to directly confront the astral winds or fly out of the Shenwu Realm.

Before embarking on the journey to find the ninth Fire Jade, Lu Yu planned to visit the Fire Rain Mountain secret realm to see if he could acquire a piece of the Sun Remnant.

The Sun Remnant wasn't his best choice; Lu Yu merely wanted to estimate the power of spiritual objects ranked ahead of it to determine if he could control and refine them.