Swallowed Star 2: Origin Continent-Chapter 292 : Early-Stage God Emperor, the Path of Life and Death

Chapter 292: Early-Stage God Emperor, the Path of Life and Death

Rainlan City in the night remained prosperous. Luo Feng watched from afar as the golden-armored figure flew away, sensing the undisguised malice from the other party. In the eyes of that golden-armored figure, Qiu Yike, Luo Feng’s days ahead would be miserable.

“They tried to ambush and kill me outside the city. After failing, they want the victim of the robbery to compensate them?” Luo Feng shook his head slightly. “The Trick Workshop is truly tyrannical. As for Heavenly Crane Elder? I’d like to see what he can do to me!”

Luo Feng smiled faintly and continued on to the next merchant.

Meanwhile, inside Emperor Qing’s cave residence.

Luo Feng’s clone there had already summoned his companions.

“What’s wrong?” Emperor Ming had recently been in closed-door cultivation and had no interest in hunting. However, he had not blocked communications from Luo Feng and Emperor Qing even while cultivating.

“Brother Luo Feng, what happened?” Emperor Fu was currently working inside the Nine-Ring World Tower in the city. Naturally, since he cultivated the path of space, he also had a clone within the cave residence.

Emperor Qing sat nearby and had already guessed. “Is it the Trick Workshop?”

“Yes.”

Luo Feng looked at the three companions and nodded. “Just now, the Deputy Workshop Master of the Trick Workshop, ‘Heavenly Crane Elder,’ sent someone to see me. He demanded that I compensate fifty million Primordial Crystals, and the matter of counter-killing during the robbery would be forgotten. I rejected it directly.”

“Counter-killing during a robbery?”

“You were attacked outside?” Emperor Ming and Emperor Fu only then realized that the two powerful pillars they relied on had encountered major trouble.

Emperor Qing explained from the side. “On the way back from hunting, Luo Feng and I were ambushed by a Trick Workshop team. That team had five Mid-Stage God Emperor Comprehender-level experts. Five experts surrounded us… Brother Luo Feng killed one named Ku Mo, and the other four fled out of fear.”

“Two against five, and you counter-killed one? And it was a Mid-Stage God Emperor Comprehender?” Emperor Ming and Emperor Fu were shocked.

Emperor Fu was still working painstakingly toward reaching the Ultimate Divine King level.

Emperor Ming, on the path of the Primordial Bloodline, was only at the Early-Stage God Emperor level! He clearly understood that Mid-Stage God Emperor Comprehenders corresponded to Late-Stage God Emperor bloodline cultivators. Such bloodline cultivators were only one step away from the Half-Primordial Level—yet they had surrounded Luo Feng and still suffered a counter-kill?

“The Trick Workshop is threatening me,” Luo Feng said, looking at Emperor Ming and Emperor Fu. “I’m not afraid of them, but the two of you must be careful.”

Emperor Qing also nodded. “The Trick Workshop’s retaliation will come quickly. Inside the city, there are legal restrictions, so they won’t dare act openly. They can’t do anything to Luo Feng or me. But you two are too weak. Even some covert methods would be enough to deal with you.”

“I haven’t gone out recently,” Emperor Ming said.

“I have many clones,” Emperor Fu said with a smile. “The ones going outside are all very poor clones.”

Only then did Luo Feng and Emperor Qing nod.

“Rainlan City’s laws are strict. Although some Elders act ruthlessly in secret, on the surface the entire city is covered by layers of formation arrays, so they cannot openly violate the rules,” Emperor Qing said while looking at Luo Feng. “Even if they act secretly, it will be through concealed methods. Such methods cannot deal with you or me.”

Luo Feng agreed.

With his Immortal Blood Sea Body, even if Heavenly Crane Elder openly attacked and the two fought, Heavenly Crane Elder would probably need to use special methods just to destroy a single Immortal Blood Sea Body of Luo Feng.

Within the city, it was still safe.

“The Insect Nest, the Ten Thousand Shadows Loft, and the Trick Workshop all act viciously. Their retaliation mainly occurs outside the city,” Emperor Qing said. “If we’re not completely confident, we shouldn’t go hunting for the time being.”

“Agreed.” Luo Feng nodded. “Let’s rest properly for a while.”

Emperor Qing had just advanced to Mid-Stage God Emperor. It was foreseeable that it would take a long time before his next breakthrough. He needed long-term accumulation, and now that they had offended the Trick Workshop, he was unwilling to take risks.

Luo Feng had also obtained a large amount of spoils and wanted to thoroughly digest these treasures.

…

The Trick Workshop’s retaliation came quickly.

Only two days later, Emperor Fu lost his job at the Nine-Ring World Tower. And on his way back after leaving the tower, he was silently annihilated! It was impossible even to determine how the attacker had struck.

“The Trick Workshop truly has no bottom line. They even attacked you?” Luo Feng and Emperor Qing had anticipated it, but when it actually happened, they were still furious.

An organization like the Trick Workshop had no shame whatsoever.

“It was just a trivial job,” Emperor Fu said with a smile. “I guess the Trick Workshop simply sent a message to some middle-level person in the Nine-Ring World Tower. With just a single sentence, my job was gone.”

After all, Emperor Fu’s status was extremely low. In the Nine-Ring World Tower he was among the lowest ranks.

“The attack on you contained causal methods,” Emperor Qing said. “Fortunately, the entire Jiugang Holy Realm heavily suppresses causality, and my cave residence formation arrays also provide isolation. So it failed to affect your clone inside the cave residence.”

“If the clone inside the cave residence had died as well, I would’ve had to travel all the way from the Origin Continent again,” Emperor Fu said with a laugh. “I never expected that someone like me—just a bottom-tier figure in Rainlan City—would have the fortune of being targeted by the Trick Workshop.”

“You were implicated because of me,” Luo Feng said. “Emperor Fu, you lost your job because of me. I owe you. Before long, I’ll repay you with a better job.”

“Haha, then I’ve made a big profit,” Emperor Fu laughed. “This period is perfect for closed-door cultivation. I can properly study the insights I gained from the Nine-Ring World Tower.”

Luo Feng understood clearly.

Although Emperor Fu appeared unconcerned, he actually valued that job greatly. Back then it had not been easy to obtain it, and the four of them had even celebrated together. Now that he had lost it, how could he not feel heartache and disappointment?

“Trick Workshop… Heavenly Crane Elder!” Luo Feng’s eyes turned colder.

…

An Official Flying Boat passed by Rainlan City. Luo Feng used the Formless and Phaseless technique to change his appearance and aura, quietly boarding the Official Flying Boat.

Afterward, from the lake at the foot of the Sacred Mountain, he used the transmission of the Infinite Primordial Space and returned to the Origin Continent.

Origin Continent, Huyang City, City Lord’s Mansion.

“I’m back.”

Standing atop a tall building in the City Lord’s Mansion, Luo Feng looked at the enormous furry palm that supported the entire Huyang City. This gigantic furry palm was the Innate Treasure he controlled—the World-in-Palm.

“The World-in-Palm’s value is close to the Heart of Immortality,” Luo Feng thought. “But unleashing its full power is much more difficult.”

The Heart of Immortality had been carefully chosen by Luo Feng from the Infinite Space Treasury as the Secret Treasure most compatible with him. With the two paths of life and destruction as the core, it was naturally easier to wield.

The Innate Treasure World-in-Palm, according to the judgment of the Flame Wind Ancestor, had originally been a claw of a High-Rank Primordial Lifeform. After being nurtured for a long time inside the body of that World-Level Primordial Lifeform in the Dream Domain, it eventually formed into this Innate Treasure.

It possessed extremely obvious life characteristics—similar to the blood-red scale within the Star Tower. Life was its main aspect, yet it also contained many other paths.

The Innate Treasure World-in-Palm was the same. Life was the core, but it also contained the profundities of world, destruction, space, matter, infinity, and many others. Naturally, this made it much harder for Luo Feng to fully unleash its power.

“Hoo.”

With a step, Luo Feng immediately returned inside the Star Tower.

Within one cultivation space on a certain floor of the Star Tower, a large number of Low-Rank Primordial Lifeform materials were stored.

With a wave of his hand, batches of materials with even stronger auras descended.

“Materials from Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms with Late-Stage God Emperor strength—there are 800 portions in total, each averaging 38,000 Primordial Crystals. For the Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms suitable for me at this level within the Jiugang Holy Realm, I’ve collected about seventy percent of them.”

“Materials from Complete God Emperor Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms—80 portions in total, each averaging about 390,000 Primordial Crystals.”

“I also purchased three portions of ‘limit-breaking’ Low-Rank Primordial Lifeform materials, costing a total of 10.2 million Primordial Crystals.”

Luo Feng had invested most of his wealth into these materials.

Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms were divided into different races. Within the same race, the weaker ones might only be Early-Stage God Emperor, while the strongest could reach the Complete God Emperor level.

Just like among cultivators, there were some extremely powerful individuals who far surpassed others of the same realm.

Among Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms at the Complete God Emperor level, there were also extremely outstanding individuals whose strength far exceeded their peers. In the Jiugang Holy Realm, they were called ‘limit-breaking’ level.

In a one-on-one fight, even the three Hall Masters of Rainlan City would generally be unable to defeat them.

The so-called ‘limit-breaking Low-Rank Primordial Lifeform’ corpse materials in the Jiugang Holy Realm were usually transported from the Dark Holy Realm. The intensity of battles there was far greater, making it relatively easier to obtain such corpses.

Even fragments from limit-breaking corpses were worth millions of Primordial Crystals per portion.

“Every one of these Low-Rank Primordial Lifeform materials contains the profundities of ‘life’ and ‘death’.” Luo Feng was quite pleased. “This harvest is far greater than before. And I also purchased quite a few auxiliary cultivation treasures.”

“This time, the Path of Life and Death must break through.”

The Eye of Life and Death on Luo Feng’s forehead opened as he began carefully studying the newly obtained materials and entered cultivation.

…

At the God Emperor level, closed-door cultivation lasting hundreds or thousands of eras was common. Emperor Qing had already decided to cultivate in seclusion for a long time, and Luo Feng had also prepared for prolonged cultivation.

However, this time Luo Feng had purchased too many Low-Rank Primordial Lifeform materials, and many of them formed complete systems.

For example, within the same race—Early-Stage God Emperor, Mid-Stage, Late-Stage, and Complete—Luo Feng had purchased them all. Studying them comparatively naturally brought him greater insights.

As Luo Feng studied each portion of material, he had not even finished examining them once. After studying only about seventy percent of them, nearly two hundred eras had passed. During this gradual accumulation, the Path of Life and Death naturally became complete, undergoing a qualitative transformation.

“Hm?”

Sitting cross-legged inside the Star Tower, Luo Feng habitually comprehended, studied, analyzed, and integrated. Yet within his mind, the complete Early-Stage God Emperor Path of Life and Death naturally formed.

Luo Feng was momentarily stunned.

Then his heart filled with joy.

The joy of enlightenment was the most intoxicating for cultivators.

Many God Emperors had already become invincible in their home worlds, able to enjoy everything imaginable. Yet they still risked death to come to the Jiugang Holy Realm, continuing to struggle and explore.

They pursued higher levels of the Path and wished to witness greater scenery.

“It has been nine hundred eras since I came to Rainlan City! The Path of Life and Death has finally advanced from the Ultimate Divine King level into the Early-Stage God Emperor.” Luo Feng murmured with a smile.