Swallowed Star 2: Origin Continent-Chapter 302 : Luo Feng Battles Heavenly Crane Elder

Chapter 302: Luo Feng Battles Heavenly Crane Elder

Luo Feng and Heavenly Crane Elder looked at each other from afar.

God Emperor Wu Ya immediately returned quietly to the city, while Emperor Qing also brought the Taixu Nether-Pupil Vessel back into the city. Heavenly Crane Elder did not attempt to intercept them, because his target was Luo Feng.

“Heavenly Crane Elder.” Luo Feng looked at the other party. Heavenly Crane Elder wore a white robe, his appearance handsome, his skin like crystal jade. A faint halo protected him, and his aura was restrained and ordinary.

“I thought some Elder wished to compete with me,” Heavenly Crane Elder said with a soft smile. “Only now do I realize it’s merely a junior who has just broken through. Is this your confidence for refusing to give me face?”

“Why should I give you face?”

Luo Feng looked surprised. “Are you one of the Three Hall Masters, or the master of the Trick Workshop?”

At this moment, around the East City Gate of Rainlan City were guards, members of the Trick Workshop, and many observing cultivators. Even more cultivators were rapidly arriving.

“An Elder-level confrontation.”

“It’s right outside the East City Gate — they’re about to fight!” Many cultivators received the news and rushed over excitedly to watch.

Elder-level battles in Rainlan City were quite rare, and the chance to observe one was even rarer.

“One side is Heavenly Crane Elder, one of the eight deputy masters of the Trick Workshop! Anyone capable of serving as a deputy master must be extraordinary. The other is God Emperor Luo Feng. He doesn’t have much reputation — he only killed a Trick Workshop raiding team in return. He should be a newly advanced Elder-level existence.”

“Heavenly Crane Elder has extremely deep accumulation. The other Luo Feng’s accumulation must be shallow.”

The spectators communicated through voice transmission, discussing among themselves.

All of them were within the boundaries of Rainlan City. With the city’s layers of protective formation arrays, they had no worry about being affected, so they could comfortably watch the battle.

…

Outside the East City Gate, only Luo Feng and Heavenly Crane Elder remained. No other cultivator dared step outside the gate.

“A newly advanced Elder, yet so confident.” Heavenly Crane Elder was not angry at all. “Let me guess. You obtained a powerful secret treasure, so you feel completely confident?”

Luo Feng looked at him.

“You are too young and have too little experience.”

Heavenly Crane Elder shook his head lightly. “If you went to the Dark Holy Realm and ventured there for a while, you would realize that the opportunity you gained is nothing worth mentioning in the Dark Holy Realm.”

The Dark Holy Realm gathered the strongest cultivators from countless worlds. There were many with dazzling talent, and quite a number were qualified to obtain treasures worth more than one hundred thousand Reward Points from the Infinite Space Treasury.

“The Dark Holy Realm indeed gathers countless experts. But Heavenly Crane Elder, what are you there?” Luo Feng looked at him.

“I spent long years in the Dark Holy Realm and made some progress.” Heavenly Crane Elder smiled. “Although I’m nothing in the Dark Holy Realm, I can still teach you a lesson.”

“Use whatever moves you have,” Luo Feng said while looking at him.

Heavenly Crane Elder casually extended a finger. A point of light appeared at the fingertip. The light rapidly expanded and instantly covered billions of kilometers around them, transforming into a massive Formation Diagram.

Within the range of the Formation Diagram, phantom gray birds began to form one after another.

Before taking action, Luo Feng had already gathered intelligence about his opponent. He knew Heavenly Crane Elder had extremely deep accumulation and was proficient in many methods. The Formation Diagram was one of the techniques he excelled at.

Heavenly Crane Elder was capable of refining Formation Diagrams and forging Dao Soldiers, and his attainments were extremely profound.

Luo Feng stood there. With a single thought, an endless Blood Sea surged beneath his feet. At the same time, the Profound Azure Heaven Annihilation Formation Diagram inside his body began to operate. The endless Blood Sea naturally began forming a formation array.

Accompanied by piercing screeches, phantom gray birds streaked through the void, pouncing toward Luo Feng and the endless Blood Sea.

“Whoosh—”

Each phantom gray bird was like a sharp sword, instantly piercing through part of the blood waves before eventually being eroded and annihilated by the Blood Sea.

“Your body cultivation technique is interesting. It can rival a Low-Rank Primordial Lifeform at the Late-Stage God Emperor level,” Heavenly Crane Elder said with a smile.

The entire formation’s power gathered, condensing into a massive gray bird.

This enormous gray bird possessed terrifying might, and Luo Feng could faintly sense the threat.

“Screech!”

A piercing cry resounded across the sky as the enormous gray bird moved at incredible speed and instantly lunged at Luo Feng’s body.

“Profound Azure Heaven — A Single Line Between Heaven and Earth!”

The formation condensed into a beam of life-and-death light that instantly met the attack, forcibly piercing through the enormous gray bird and causing its body to become distorted and illusory.

“Is that all?” Luo Feng stood there calmly. “Heavenly Crane Elder, where are your Dao Soldiers? What about your close-combat techniques? Use all your moves.”

“A Dao Soldier formed purely from energy is indeed somewhat weak.” Heavenly Crane Elder watched calmly. “Today I brought several hundred refined Dao Soldiers with me. Try them.”

With a wave of his hand—

Bird-shaped wooden carvings flew out one after another. Once released, the carvings rapidly expanded, each possessing power no weaker than the previous enormous gray bird.

“Several hundred Dao Soldiers?” Luo Feng looked at them seriously.

He could sense their strength. Though these bird carvings appeared somewhat clumsy, their power was formidable, comparable to Late-Stage God Emperor bloodline cultivators. But when hundreds combined together, it became extremely terrifying.

“Rumble!!!”

Under the leadership of a formation array, the several hundred Dao Soldiers naturally formed a military formation whose momentum made Luo Feng feel uneasy.

“Stronger than expected,” Luo Feng thought.

When the hundreds of giant birds charged simultaneously, it was like an enormous tribe of Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms rushing toward him. Luo Feng instinctively activated the Heart of Immortality.

With the Heart of Immortality as the core, countless veins spread outward, rapidly extending throughout the entire endless Blood Sea.

Luo Feng had a premonition: without relying on the Heart of Immortality, his Immortal Blood Sea Body would suffer severe damage under the assault of hundreds of Dao Soldiers.

His energy reserves were only a little over two hundred Perfect Divine Body Energy Reserves — he could not afford to waste them casually.

“Rumble—”

Hundreds of giant birds, coordinated through formation arrays, unleashed terrifying combined power that caused even the cultivators watching from Rainlan City to feel their hearts tremble in fear.

Suddenly, a blood wave billions of kilometers high surged upward like a mountain, blocking the giant birds.

The birds did not hesitate and smashed directly into it, crushing many waves of blood.

However, their power rapidly declined.

“With the enhancement of the Heart of Immortality, the Immortal Blood Sea Body’s power only increases several times. But its defensive strength increases dozens of times.”

“Even the full-force stomp of the Primordial Wildhoof Leader only consumed two percent of my energy reserves. These Dao Soldiers can’t injure me at all.”

Before the Primordial Wildhoof Leader, Luo Feng did not dare call himself “immortal.” But against opponents of the same level, Luo Feng’s “immortality” was truly worthy of the name.

“Rumble—”

The two sides clashed.

Under the command of the formation array, the hundreds of Dao Soldiers attacked like thunderous charges, sometimes combining like a sword, sometimes gathering into a giant axe strike. Their power was indeed terrifying.

“How is this possible?” Heavenly Crane Elder frowned.

“I released these Dao Soldiers, yet they still didn’t force him to use that super-massive claw.”

He remembered clearly: the move that crushed Wu Ya in one strike had been a gigantic furry claw.

“In front of my Dao Soldier formation, he’s still hiding his strength?” Heavenly Crane Elder could hardly believe it.

The Dao Soldier formation was his regular method.

Usually he was too lazy to fight personally. Releasing some Dao Soldiers was enough to deal with enemies.

“Split.”

With the Heart of Immortality’s enhancement, the power of the Profound Azure Heaven Annihilation Formation increased greatly. The endless Blood Sea twisted and crushed violently, finally causing some wooden bird carvings to shatter.

These birds had all been personally carved by Heavenly Crane Elder and fused with Formation Diagrams to become Dao Soldiers.

…

More and more cultivators gathered to watch from Rainlan City. Members of various forces also arrived.

“Heavenly Crane Elder’s hundreds of Dao Soldiers forming a formation attack are actually at a disadvantage?”

“This Luo Feng, a newly advanced Elder-level existence, is this strong?”

All sides were surprised.

“Heavenly Crane Elder will probably use his true methods.”

“He’ll likely go all out.”

The spectators were filled with anticipation.

…

Heavenly Crane Elder stood there and casually beckoned. The hundreds of Dao Soldiers flew back from afar and were instantly stored away.

“No wonder you’re so confident,” Heavenly Crane Elder said with a smile. “You blocked my Dao Soldier formation so easily. I underestimated you.”

Luo Feng looked at him silently. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

He knew very well that to prevent excessive losses to the Immortal Blood Sea Body, he had already used the Heart of Immortality against the Dao Soldier formation.

“The fundamental path I cultivated for countless years is the ‘Formation Diagram Path,’ and I also use Formation Diagrams to refine Dao Soldiers,” Heavenly Crane Elder said with emotion. “These Dao Soldiers have been my reliance as I grew from weakness step by step over endless years.”

“But as a Seeker, after reaching the Late-Stage God Emperor level, I fell into a bottleneck and could not reach perfection no matter what. I realized that while groping forward in the darkness, I must have taken the wrong path.”

Heavenly Crane Elder looked at Luo Feng.

“In the Dark Holy Realm, I studied the inheritances of other cultivators. I learned at least a hundred inheritances, absorbing their essence and integrating them into myself.”

“Although I mastered many methods, I could never achieve perfection.”

Heavenly Crane Elder smiled. “Oh, strictly speaking, the Primordial Bloodline Path I cultivated later did reach perfection. That path is the simplest.”

As soon as he finished speaking—

Heavenly Crane Elder no longer restrained himself. His terrifying aura erupted completely, sweeping across the surroundings. Silver secret patterns began appearing on the surface of his skin.

“Primordial bloodline… Half-Primordial Level?” Luo Feng looked at him.

However, Luo Feng understood clearly that once someone cultivated the bloodline path simultaneously, the bloodline’s will would contaminate their own will. Even the mysteries within the bloodline would merge with the mysteries of their Dao comprehension. This was also a form of contamination of the path.

Therefore, for the Path of Comprehenders, once Primordial bloodline was integrated into the body, further progress in Dao comprehension became almost hopeless. From then on, they generally relied mainly on the bloodline path.

“In the Dark Holy Realm, I exchanged War Merits for a High-Rank Primordial Lifeform bloodline,” Heavenly Crane Elder said while looking at Luo Feng. “I fused it into my body and used it as the foundation of my bloodline cultivation. By excavating its potential, I formed the Body of Eternal Night Nether-Kite.”

“And for this bloodline body, I even created a set of ‘Eternal Night Battle Techniques.’”

Heavenly Crane Elder stood there as silver-gray energy swept across heaven and earth. His presence was terrifying, and an invisible willpower pressure spread outward.