Chapter 254: Wan Family Merchant Guild

Just as several Ninth Rank experts were about to make their move, they saw a pitch-black vortex appear in the void ahead, from which a heart-palpitating aura emanated.

Immediately after, a tall and straight figure stepped out from the vortex.

“A bunch of ants, daring to set their sights on the Young Lord of my Wan Family?”

Boom!

An invisible pressure spread out, and a powerful force instantly descended upon the heads of the several Ninth Rank experts.

The latter’s skulls shattered, their heads pressed deep into their necks before they crashed to the ground, firmly embedded into the earth.

The man waved his hand, and a banner appeared in his grasp. With a few shakes left and right, those embedded in the ground instantly felt their souls being torn away.

“No! Stop!”

In their vision, they saw the banner emitting a dark, cold glow, with dense, sinister Qi swirling within.

The wails of countless vengeful spirits crawled over them like maggots clinging to bone.

The next second, the banner opened a bloody maw and swallowed all their souls.

“You will remain… inside forever.”

The man’s cold gaze fixed on the trembling banner, a cruel smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

Tenth Rank—Transcendent Creatures generally referred to it as godhood!

“Waaah—Uncle! I thought I’d never see you again, wuwuwu…”

The round ball scurried over and hugged the Tenth Rank powerhouse, smearing tears and snot all over him. The latter didn’t say a word of complaint, instead speaking in a gentle tone.

“There, there, it’s all right now.”

With that, he turned to Jiang Yan, cupping his hands slightly in gratitude.

“Thank you for your assistance, Your Excellency.”

“If you hadn’t intervened just now, our Wan Family’s useless Young Lord would have been in grave danger.”

“I am Wan Buxing, and this is my Wan Family’s Young Lord, also my nephew, Wan Tongming. May I ask how I should address you, young friend?”

“I am Jiang Yan.”

“Hmm, since you saved the Young Lord of our Wan Family, you have done a great service to us.”

As he spoke, he opened his right hand, and a bottle of black spiritual material appeared in his palm.

“This is a bottle of King-Grade Spiritual Material. You only need to purchase a set of Armament of any quality, and you can directly upgrade it to King-grade Armament.”

The man handed the glass bottle to Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan didn’t stand on ceremony and directly accepted it, cupping his hands and saying, “Then this Junior will humbly accept.”

“Hahahaha, straightforward! I, Wan Buxing, would like to be your friend.” With that, he took out another token. “This is the VIP token of our Wan Family Merchant Guild. Holding this token grants you a fifty percent discount on your first purchase every day!”

Jiang Yan, never one to refuse what was offered, directly took the token.

“Thank you.”

“Hmm, good, no dilly-dallying. I like that.” Wan Buxing praised him and then asked, “Why not come to our Wan Family Merchant Guild for a chat, young friend?”

Jiang Yan smiled and politely declined, “I’m afraid not. I still have some trivial matters to attend to.”

“Very well. If you ever need help in the future, you can directly seek assistance at the Wan Family Merchant Guild. Today, our Wan Family owes you a favor.”

Wan Buxing glanced at his unconscious nephew in his arms and, without further hesitation, vanished on the spot.

After Wan Buxing left, Jiang Yan finally let out a long sigh of relief.

“Good thing I didn’t try to rob them first, or I’d be in deep trouble today.”

Facing the Martial God, Jiang Yan had absolutely no confidence.

“So weak, truly rather disappointing.”

Jiang Yan thought, taking out the King-Grade Spiritual Material. He opened the bottle’s mouth, and the Spirit Ink transformed into a tentacle that automatically extended inside.

In just a moment, the tentacle trembled slightly and began to slowly writhe. The black substance inside the bottle vanished completely.

Jiang Yan discarded the empty bottle and carefully observed the changes in the Spirit Ink.

Hmm… pitch black, seemingly unchanged.

“Are you a King-grade Armament now?”

“Heh, don’t rush. Sooner or later, I’ll upgrade you to the strongest Armament.”

Jiang Yan released the black substance wrapped around him and began cultivating on the spot once more.

Around him, a layer of Chaos Void World rose, making it difficult for his aura to flow outward.

This Domain had been refined by Jiang Yan with the Life and Death Law, Chaos Yin-Yang Law, Thunderfire Law, and Sky-Severing Law.

Within it, prey would lose their vitality, attacks launched would be redirected back to themselves, they would be scorched by thunder and fire day and night, and they would be unable to teleport.

Of course, the Laws were not yet perfected, so they might not fully achieve the described effects. Still, this represented a completely new evolutionary direction for Domains. It wasn’t as if Domains became utterly useless after breaking through to the Eighth Rank.

He still had a small portion of the Heaven Demon Origin Source unused.

Inside the Domain, Jiang Yan began using Zhuozhuo to check the intelligence on the Wan Family Merchant Guild.

He discovered that the Wan Family Merchant Guild indeed had an unusual background. Although its scale couldn’t compare to the Myriad Realms Company, it still held considerable influence within the Galactic Domain, boasting immense wealth.

“Right, I still have that token.”

Jiang Yan entered the Wan Family Merchant Guild’s webpage and used the “scan” function on the token. Immediately, a dedicated customer service representative contacted him.

“Hmm, not bad.”

Looking at the screen filled with half-priced goods, Jiang Yan knew his efforts hadn’t been in vain.

Coincidentally, the Sky Demon had raided a planet’s treasury, so Jiang Yan was now fairly well-off.

“Excellent. The Wan Family Merchant Guild also has Secret Realms specifically for cultivating Laws. I can train for a long time afterward.”

Jiang Yan remained fixated on the “Sky-Severing” Law, eager to cultivate it into a complete Law Embryo as soon as possible and reach the Ninth Rank level.

Next, he began fierce combat with the Sharp Ruler Tiger.

The Chaos Yin-Yang Law was clearly more challenging than the Life and Death Law. It took Jiang Yan another two and a half months to fully comprehend it into a complete Law Embryo.

Current progress:

Life and Death Law: Complete Law Embryo, corresponding to a Transcendent who has just stepped into the Ninth Rank.

Chaos Yin-Yang Law: Same level as the Life and Death Law.

Thunderfire Law: Half-completed Law Embryo, corresponding to Half-Step Ninth Rank.

Sky-Severing Law: A trace of Law Embryo, corresponding to a Transcendent Creature at the Peak of the Eighth Rank but still far from the Ninth Rank.

Jiang Yan casually found a planet and deposited the Cloud Core Coins into his account.

Then, using the Wan Family Merchant Guild’s VIP token, he purchased 12 hours of Secret Realm usage time at a 50% discount.

With this, all the resources the Sky Demon had provided him were spent.

Jiang Yan had inquired about this Secret Realm beforehand. It was said to frequently spawn Law fragments with spatial attributes, which made its price higher than ordinary Secret Realms.

Spatial-type Laws had high priority, so naturally, many people wanted to learn them.

As for whether these people ever doubted their own Talent?

Those who could cultivate to the Eighth or Ninth Rank—which among them wasn’t a Genius?

Therefore, Secret Realms containing spatial-type Law fragments were generally expensive and packed to capacity.

However, most were newcomers.

Only those who have tried understand how difficult it is to comprehend spatial-type Laws, which is why those who have entered once almost never choose such Secret Realms again.

After all, the cost is high, and success in comprehension is not easily achieved.

After entering the Secret Realm, Jiang Yan found an open space and sat down directly.

He activated the Sky-Severing Law and began sensing the Aura of the same origin.