Chapter 45: Murder Is Necessary

On the Golden Star, Qiu Tong, Tian Wen, Bai Fang, Sang Guang, Gongye Bo, and Jin Muqing ran swiftly all the way until they reached a mountain peak.
At that moment, the six of them stopped.
“Everyone, we’ve been running nonstop. Aside from seeing countless gold mountains along the way, there’s nothing unusual. Where exactly is that Void Mountain?” Gongye Bo sat on a golden rock and shouted in frustration.
These six individuals came from the eight great royal families and naturally knew that during each cycle of ten trillion years, there would be a special divine artifact in the great chaos. Thus, when they saw the words “Void Mountain” in the sky, they realized that the artifact must be inside that mountain on this star.
However, after ten years of traveling together, they still hadn’t found the Void Mountain, and they began to feel disheartened.
“I’ve thought about it. If we keep running on this star, we probably won’t see anything else. I believe that to truly find this Void Mountain, certain conditions must be met—conditions we haven’t yet discovered,” Qiu Tong said calmly.
The other five immediately nodded.
If finding the Void Mountain were that easy, it would be a divine artifact that appears once every ten trillion years, so there must be certain difficulties.
“Everyone, let’s stop running for now. Let’s sit quietly on this mountain and carefully understand the uniqueness of this star. Maybe that way, we can find the key,” Tian Wen said calmly.
Qiu Tong, Bai Fang, Sang Guang, and Jin Muqing all nodded immediately. They really didn’t want to keep running aimlessly anymore.
But Gongye Bo shook his head, his eyes filled with cruelty as he said coldly, “You five, sit here and meditate. I have something to do. If I don’t kill Qu Yi, his evil spirit will always haunt me, preventing any progress in my cultivation.”
It turned out that over the years while traveling across the star, Gongye Bo had noticed that the pressure in the sky above the star was increasing, making it increasingly difficult to ascend and leave the surface of this star. Therefore, he came up with this plan—to use enough cultivators to surround and kill Qu Yi, using speed akin to spatial jumps to overcome him.
He wouldn’t miss such a good opportunity.
When Qiu Tong, Tian Wen, Bai Fang, Sang Guang, and Jin Muqing learned of Gongye Bo’s plan, they understood why he must eliminate Qu Yi and nodded in agreement.
“Brother Gongye, stay in touch at all times. I’ll have the cultivators in my divine realm keep an eye on Qu Yi’s movements and inform you of his location at any time.”

Immediately, all five expressed the same idea. In fact, they had also seen Qu Yi’s potential and knew that if he continued to grow like this, once they all reached the Divine General stage, Qu Yi’s strength would surpass theirs, which would be a great shame to the eight royal families. Therefore, when they saw Gongye Bo about to take action against Qu Yi, they were happy to use him to get rid of Qu Yi.

Gongye Bo nodded and then rushed off immediately.
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Qu Yi had been flying across the stars for ten years, crossing one mountain after another, without finding any mountain with the words “Void Mountain” written on it. Now, he sat on a mountain, filled with confusion.

“Strange, strange… Is there really any treasure here? I’ve wasted ten years for nothing,” Qu Yi complained.

Soon after, Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui were released from the Dimensional Ball by Qu Yi. By this time, the number of Golden and Wood Spiritual Entities within Wu Yuan’s body had increased to one million five hundred thousand, making him one of the top cultivators at the Divine Weapon stage in the entire Divine Realm.

“Woo woo, Qu Yi, you’ve been running for ten years and still haven’t found anything. Are you just that unlucky?” Wu Yuan laughed as soon as he appeared.

Qing Wu Gui, on the other hand, sat down calmly without saying a word.

Qu Yi glared at Wu Yuan.

“Woo woo, Qu Yi, you scared me again. Go contact the Artifact God and let him tell you about the special circumstances on this star,” Wu Yuan immediately called out.

Qu Yi shook his head and said with a faint smile, “The Artifact God warned me before I ascended to the Galaxy Battlefield—that only souls at the Divine Weapon stage could exist here. If he dared to release his consciousness, he would be instantly destroyed. Now, we can only rely on our own strength.”

Wu Yuan was shocked and then sat down on a piece of gold stone, losing interest. He wouldn’t waste his mind on such troublesome matters.

Qu Yi could only smile, a hint of joy flashing in his eyes as he murmured, “I remember now. When I killed those cultivators who fell to this star, the pressure on the space around my body decreased. I didn’t notice it at the time, but now that I think about it, the spatial pressure on this star is getting increasingly intense, as if it wants to crush people outright. Perhaps it’s forcing the cultivators here to fight each other to reduce this pressure.”

Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui heard this.

“Woo woo, we need to kill people! That’s great! Let’s go have a massacre right now!” Wu Yuan, who had a violent tendency, immediately shouted upon hearing Qu Yi’s words.

“Then let’s go kill people,” Qing Wu Gui said simply, yet the killing intent in his words was heart-stopping.
Upon hearing this, Qu Yi immediately stood up and smiled, saying, “Good, let’s go have a fight.”
The three of them dashed forward and quickly reached a flat area, where they saw over ten thousand cultivators.
“That’s Qu Yi.”
“Oh, why is Qu Yi looking at us like that? What does he mean?”
“What else could it mean? It’s killing intent. What are you waiting for? Run!”
In an instant, those ten thousand cultivators, seeing the fierce aura of Qu Yi, Wu Yuan, and Qing Wu Gui, scattered in panic like deer and antelopes.
“Kill!”
Qu Yi shouted and drew his divine weapon, the Black Rod. Moving like a hare, he rushed into the crowd and swung his rod swiftly.
With each activation of his divine energy, three million Golden Earth Spirit Bodies formed blades, clubs, and weapons, slashing and crushing everything in their path. In moments, the ground was covered in blood, with thousands of cultivators killed.
Wu Yuan, wielding the Nine Heavens Rod, descended like a demon among the crowd. His rod struck down like a mountain, shaking the ground. His violent power distorted space, knocking cultivators to the ground before finishing them off with repeated blows.
Qing Wu Gui, light and agile, moved among the crowd. With just a slight thrust of his long sword, he could kill cultivators instantly. Having already defeated the laws of Metal and Wood, any spell he cast could disrupt other cultivators’ spells, even rendering them ineffective. Thus, when Qing Wu Gui thrust his sword, the defensive spells cast by those cultivators offered no resistance at all; they could only watch helplessly as the sword pierced their bodies.
“Haha, I get it. On this star, we must kill people. Only by killing can we reduce the spatial pressure around us,” Qu Yi said, delighted after several attacks, noticing that the spatial pressure around him had returned to normal.
Wu Yuan, having killed over two thousand people, could now fly up to more than two meters in the air.
The same was true for Qing Wu Gui—after killing thousands of people, the spatial pressure around him had significantly decreased.

“This must be the spatial rule. On this star, there’s definitely an influence from spatial rules. Any cultivator who enters this star must kill enough others before they can avoid being affected by its spatial rules. Moreover, I have an intuition that once a certain number of cultivators have been killed, we’ll be able to fly in the air, no longer affected by the spatial rules, and be able to see the entire star,” Qu Yi said with joy.

On this star, once one flew in the air, they couldn’t see clearly what was ahead, nor could their spiritual senses detect anything, which greatly hindered cultivators’ ability to observe the star. But when Qu Yi discovered that killing people could reduce the spatial pressure, he immediately realized that reaching a certain number of kills would allow them to fly and use their spiritual senses to perceive the entire star.

“Ugh, then what are we waiting for? Now that we’ve discovered this rule, let’s keep killing!” Wu Yuan shouted excitedly, waving his Nine Heavens Staff.

“Continue,” Qing Wu Gui replied indifferently.

The reason this golden star existed was to drastically reduce the number of cultivators entering the galaxy’s battlefield. Now, Qu Yi, Wu Yuan, and Qing Wu Gui also understood this, and with clear minds, they immediately decided to kill as many as possible.

Since the cultivators from the Fire Departure Divine Realm had already been wiped out, and the rest had been trapped by Qu Yi inside the Inch Realm Ball, the cultivators entering this star now were all from the other six realms. Qu Yi killed them without any moral burden.

Immediately, Qu Yi, Wu Yuan, and Qing Wu Gui took to the air and began searching for other cultivators. Yes, with the reduced spatial pressure, they could now fly at low altitudes, so they naturally used this speed advantage to hunt down other cultivators quickly.

In fact, it wasn’t just the three of them who discovered this secret. Guo Huo, Liu Shi, Mu Rong, and Pang Shu had also long figured out this rule, so they too had already started killing on a large scale.

Naturally, this rule was soon discovered by everyone else as well. Thus, on this golden star, another final frenzied battle ensued, one filled with brutality.

Qu Yi, Wu Yuan, and Qing Wu Gui arrived at a valley. The valley was filled with golden, glittering stones, creating a solemn and serene atmosphere. At the other end of the valley was another group of people, led by Gongye Bo.

“Qu Yi, the three of you have killed too many. Now there’s no way you can escape anymore. Just hand over your lives obediently,” Gongye Bo said coldly, his Pen of Piercing Hearts planted firmly in the ground, his eyes gleaming with cruelty.

Behind Gongye Bo, there were actually ten million cultivators, all from the Zedui Divine Realm.

Qu Yi looked at Gongye Bo and smiled faintly. “Gongye Bo, since you’re seeking death on your own, you can’t blame me. The eight great royal families may be mighty, but that’s only in the divine realm. On the Galaxy Battlefield, if I kill you, what can the Gongye family do?”