Swallowed Star 2: Origin Continent-Chapter 303 : Victory and Defeat

Chapter 303: Victory and Defeat

Although the aura of the Heavenly Crane Elder was terrifying, Luo Feng did not pay much attention to it.

Because he had long known that the Heavenly Crane Elder’s greatest strength lay in his close-combat physical techniques.

In fact, Luo Feng even felt somewhat emotional.

From the Heavenly Crane Elder, Luo Feng could see the common predicament faced by cultivators of the Dark Holy Realm.

“When cultivation completely falls into a bottleneck, they try every possible method to search for a path that might allow them to break out of the Caged World,” Luo Feng thought. The Heavenly Crane Elder had studied over a hundred inheritances, yet in the end he had still taken the Bloodline Path.

On the Bloodline Path, the Heavenly Crane Elder had already reached the Half-Primordial Level. One step further would be ultimate awakening, breaking out of the Caged World! At least on this path, there was still a sliver of hope.

“When faced with a bottleneck and unable to advance for endless ages, cultivators of the Dark Holy Realm will exhaust every possible method,” Luo Feng thought. “I wonder what kind of bottleneck I will encounter in the future.”

“Luo Feng, let’s see whether your physical body or my Body of Eternal Night Nether-Kite is stronger.”

After speaking, the Heavenly Crane Elder vanished into thin air.

However, the Simulated Eye of Life and Death at Luo Feng’s brow could see everything clearly. A subtle fluctuation flashed, already arriving before him as the Heavenly Crane Elder’s finger swept across Luo Feng’s chest like a blade.

“Chi! Chi! Chi—”

A sharp edge sliced toward his chest.

Luo Feng stood there, watching the scene with interest.

The robe formed from his own condensed energy was also reinforced by the Heart of Immortality. Even when the sharp edge cut across the robe covering his chest, it failed to leave the slightest mark.

“My physical secret technique, the Immortal Blood Sea Body, was modeled after the blood-red scales of the Star Tower, so it naturally possesses a trace of undying characteristics. With the secret treasure Heart of Immortality enhancing it, why would I fear your assassination?” Luo Feng clearly saw the entire process of the Heavenly Crane Elder’s attack.

“Whoosh.” “Whoosh.” “Whoosh.” …

Whenever the Heavenly Crane Elder moved, he transformed into a subtle stream of air. Without the Simulated Eye of Life and Death, Luo Feng would not even have been able to see his movements.

While moving rapidly, he repeatedly slashed at Luo Feng’s body. In the blink of an eye he had struck more than ten times, yet he could not damage the robe in the slightest.

“Heavenly Crane Elder, is that all you’ve got?” Luo Feng said.

Previously, Luo Feng had used the Endless Blood Sea in combination with a formation to block and crush hundreds of Dao Soldiers. This time, however, he faced his enemy in pure physical form.

“Your protective robe is indestructible?” The Heavenly Crane Elder appeared in the distance, surprised. “You’ve only just become an Elder, yet you possess quite a few secret treasures. But no matter how tough your robe is, the power your lifeform can endure has its limits.”

The Heavenly Crane Elder’s body suddenly changed. His size rapidly expanded, and three pairs of silver-gray wings sprouted from his back. Silver-gray fur grew across his entire body, and even his head transformed, until he became a gigantic bird-man.

This appearance instantly excited the large crowd watching from the walls of Rainlan City.

“Eternal Night Nether-Kite!”

“So this is the Heavenly Crane Elder’s Body of Eternal Night Nether-Kite?”

Many spectators had purchased intelligence on God Emperors, and this bloodline body was recorded in the Heavenly Crane Elder’s information.

The gigantic silver-gray bird-man emitted a powerful will fluctuation. After all, this body was cultivated from the foundation of a High-Rank Primordial Lifeform Bloodline. Its potential was enormous, and it carried the Heavenly Crane Elder’s hope of breaking out of the Caged World.

Luo Feng also became slightly more serious.

“Hmph!”

The Heavenly Crane Elder’s three pairs of wings trembled. In an instant he had already arrived before Luo Feng, and a claw descended.

Unlike Luo Feng’s huge furry claws, the Heavenly Crane Elder’s claws were thinner and far more vicious.

“Boom—”

The claw descended directly toward Luo Feng’s head.

Luo Feng did not dodge. Instead, he raised a palm to meet it head-on, as though he intended to support the entire sky.

Bang!

A direct collision.

The Heavenly Crane Elder had intended to exhaust Luo Feng’s energy with overwhelming power, but upon the clash he sensed the might of Luo Feng’s palm. Although he held a slight advantage, it was far too small.

“A newly promoted Elder with such a powerful body?” The Heavenly Crane Elder frowned slightly.

His three pairs of wings beat repeatedly as destructive claws rained down one after another. Luo Feng, however, responded fiercely, meeting them with palm after palm.

“Rise!”

Luo Feng suddenly shouted.

The Endless Blood Sea immediately surged with massive waves. In an instant the blood sea churned and enveloped the Heavenly Crane Elder.

The Profound Azure Heaven Annihilation Formation Diagram began to operate!

The blood sea bound and strangled the Heavenly Crane Elder from every direction. His massive body was hindered, the speed of his wings slowed considerably, and the power he unleashed declined. Naturally, each claw strike became weaker, and in direct clashes he even fell to a disadvantage against Luo Feng.

“Heavenly Crane Elder, these methods are rather weak,” Luo Feng laughed loudly as his towering form battled the enormous bird-man.

With the blood sea binding and strangling while his physical form fought head-on, Luo Feng indeed held the upper hand.

The Immortal Blood Sea Body, combined with the Endless Blood Sea, was his complete form.

“I’m actually at a disadvantage?” The Heavenly Crane Elder felt extremely stifled.

When dealing with many troubles in Rainlan City, simply using the Body of Eternal Night Nether-Kite had always been sufficient. According to his original plan, that form alone should have killed Luo Feng’s clone.

Yet even now he still had not forced out that super-gigantic claw.

“Fifty percent of my strength isn’t enough. Then I’ll use one hundred percent!” Bloodlight appeared in the Heavenly Crane Elder’s eyes.

He had never fully unleashed his power in Rainlan City before. Of course, this powerful technique had only been perfected over the past hundreds of millions of eras.

“Boom!!!”

Beneath his fur, formation diagrams began to appear across the surface of his skin.

Countless formation diagrams covered every inch of skin—even the surface of his eyeballs displayed formation diagrams.

If one could peer into his body, every drop of his blood would contain formation diagrams engraved within it.

Formation diagrams had always been the core path by which the Heavenly Crane Elder had grown from weakness to his current level.

He used formation diagrams to refine Dao Soldiers.

He had also attempted to treat his own Body of Eternal Night Nether-Kite as a Dao Soldier, engraving countless formation diagrams upon his flesh to further excavate the potential of his bloodline and reach ultimate awakening.

Although he was still far from that ultimate awakening, the fusion of formation diagrams with the Body of Eternal Night Nether-Kite had indeed greatly amplified its power.

“Hm?” Luo Feng’s Simulated Eye of Life and Death could not see inside the Heavenly Crane Elder’s body, but it could clearly see the countless formation diagrams emerging on the skin beneath the fur.

These formation diagrams flowed with golden light, causing the Heavenly Crane Elder’s aura to surge dramatically.

“This strength?”

“The Heavenly Crane Elder has this level of power?”

Among the spectators on the walls of Rainlan City were also several Elders’ clones. They were quite familiar with the Heavenly Crane Elder, and with a single glance they judged—

This already exceeded the methods recorded in intelligence about him.

“He engraved countless formation diagrams on his skin.”

“It seems he successfully fused formation diagrams with the Body of Eternal Night Nether-Kite.”

The Elders were secretly astonished.

The Great Paths shared certain commonalities. It was indeed possible to combine different cultivation systems—but actually achieving it was extremely difficult.

…

Golden light faintly flowed across the Heavenly Crane Elder’s body. His blood-colored eyes, fused with formation diagrams, stared at Luo Feng as his voice boomed: 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

“This is the first time I’ve gone all out in Rainlan City. Luo Feng, this is your honor!”

The moment his words ended—

Boom!

The Heavenly Crane Elder’s three enormous pairs of wings shook violently, instantly tearing apart the surrounding Endless Blood Sea. A terrifying claw had already landed on Luo Feng’s chest.

Bang!

Luo Feng felt a horrifying impact and was sent flying backward, crashing into the blood sea.

Boom!

Now the Heavenly Crane Elder was ferocious beyond measure, relentlessly pursuing Luo Feng. Each claw strike could shatter countless waves of blood, while the beating of his wings caused huge portions of the blood sea to explode and scatter. The blood sea itself was beginning to be consumed.

“I’m injured?” Luo Feng was shocked.

Even with the Heart of Immortality enhancing him, the Heavenly Crane Elder had managed to wound him!

Luo Feng also realized that the top experts of countless worlds could never be underestimated. Each of them possessed their own opportunities.

He himself had never learned any Half-Primordial inheritance, precisely to explore his own path without interference.

But cultivators who had studied numerous inheritances and fused the wisdom of many systems into themselves could also become incredibly powerful.

“Compared to these old fellows who have been Elders for endless ages, my accumulation is still somewhat shallow,” Luo Feng thought.

These Elders mainly roamed the Dark Holy Realm. In the Jiugang Holy Realm they lacked many treasures, so their strength was actually somewhat inferior.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The Heavenly Crane Elder’s three massive pairs of wings unleashed terrifying power, annihilating everything around them and sending countless waves of blood surging into the air. His claws repeatedly enveloped Luo Feng, completely suppressing him.

“Heavenly Crane Elder, your accumulation truly surpasses mine,” Luo Feng said. “But this battle can end here.”

Boom—

Luo Feng suddenly stretched out his hand. His arm expanded rapidly, and his palm transformed into a super-gigantic furry claw!

With the enhancement of the Heart of Immortality, Luo Feng’s power could already rival the Heavenly Crane Elder’s Body of Eternal Night Nether-Kite. Now, wielding this claw, Luo Feng’s divine power activated the secret patterns inside it, unleashing its might.

Compared to fighting bare-handed, the power of this claw increased dramatically.

“Hm?” The Heavenly Crane Elder saw the massive furry claw.

The aura it emitted was overwhelming. At a glance he realized he could not resist it.

This claw could even tear off two or three scales from the Primordial Wildhoof Leader.

Boom—

With a single claw strike!

It enveloped heaven and earth, dividing heaven and earth, forming its own world prison.

Inside this world prison, the Heavenly Crane Elder had nowhere to escape and could only resist with all his strength.

Boom!

As the gigantic claw tore down, two of his wings were ripped apart, blood splashing everywhere. The Heavenly Crane Elder revealed a trace of helplessness.

After just one clash, the difference in power was obvious. There was no way to fight back.

“At least I forced you to use that claw,” the Heavenly Crane Elder sighed inwardly.

He had long known Luo Feng possessed a super-gigantic furry claw, yet Luo Feng had never used it before. That had left the Heavenly Crane Elder feeling extremely stifled.

Only at the very end had he finally forced Luo Feng to reveal it.

Though he had lost, the Heavenly Crane Elder felt much more relieved.

“I lost!”

The Heavenly Crane Elder folded his remaining wings and transformed into a streak of golden light, instantly piercing through the world membrane of the World-in-Palm and flashing back inside the East City Gate.

Seeing this, Luo Feng’s right hand instantly returned to normal. The Endless Blood Sea withdrew into his body, and he once again appeared as an ordinary black-haired man.

But at this moment…

The many spectators on the walls of Rainlan City all stared at the black-haired man in disbelief.

Under that super-gigantic claw, even the Heavenly Crane Elder had been severely wounded and forced to flee in an instant.