One of the buildings in the Danlou complex belonged exclusively to Luo Feng.

“Hua.”

As Luo Feng entered the quiet room, his body naturally divided, with the strongest clone staying outside to protect him. This strongest clone carried both the Undying Heart and the Palm Universe treasures.

After countless years of cultivation, Luo Feng’s energy reserves had grown increasingly profound. He had sufficient energy reserves in both his cave and the Danlou. “No disturbances allowed during treasure consumption.”

In the quiet room, Luo Feng sat cross-legged. In an instant, he flipped his hand and took out the Hundred Tribulations Heart Marrow!

“Hundred Tribulations Heart Marrow…”

“I’ve never consumed such a rare treasure before!” Luo Feng was well aware of the miraculous nature of this treasure. According to the information, once the Hundred Tribulations Heart Marrow was consumed, one’s soul would seem to undergo countless life-and-death tribulations, causing extreme pain. The reason for this pain was that the soul’s thought processing speed and comprehension were forcibly increased to an extremely high level, making the soul feel burdened and painful!

“Come on!”

“I hope my Path of Creation and Destruction can reach the late stage of God Emperor as soon as possible, the sooner the better!” Luo Feng opened the crystal box, and with a gentle inhale, the purple-golden liquid preserved within the crystal jade immediately flew into Luo Feng’s mouth!

The entrance was slightly cool, and the taste of the Hundred Tribulations Heart Marrow was incredibly delicious. Luo Feng’s soul was trembling, yearning to absorb it!

After entering his body, the Hundred Tribulations Heart Marrow was quickly absorbed by his soul. After absorption, Luo Feng quickly felt pain!

Buzz! The speed of his thoughts increased explosively. At this moment, the amount of information he could process in each instant was three thousand times greater than usual!

His comprehension also reached an extremely high level, but such a high workload made his soul feel like it was undergoing countless tribulations, hence the name “Hundred Tribulations.”

“According to my original plan, the best choice would be to slowly comprehend and accumulate enough insights to naturally break through!”

Luo Feng thought, “But that would require me to watch hundreds of millions of cultivators die!” Luo Feng couldn’t do it!

Just for the sake of pursuing the “best effect” in cultivation, would he coldly watch hundreds of millions of cultivators die?

If he were a demon, he could calmly watch everything, even smiling as other cultivators died!

But Luo Feng had always cultivated in a way that he would rather have imperfections in his cultivation than go against his heart! “Although I consumed the treasure, hoping to break through as soon as possible, with the speed at which cultivators and low-level Origin Lifeforms are fighting after the war breaks out, I’m afraid the war will end within a day!”

“Can I break through within a day?”

Luo Feng had no confidence at all!

No matter how powerful the auxiliary treasure, it couldn’t guarantee a breakthrough within a day! “I’ll do my best, and leave the rest to fate!”

Luo Feng closed his eyes and began to fully comprehend the “Path of Creation and Destruction”!

Far away in the Origin Continent, his clone was also using the Eye of Creation and Destruction, watching the Origin bloodline and thinking hard about how to perfect it to the late stage of God Emperor!

Luo Feng entered emergency seclusion, while the Rain Ripple City’s palace master and elders were fully controlling the formations. Hundreds of formations worked together to resist the attacks outside the city!

“This time, we investigated the city’s hidden agents, forcing the low-level Origin Lifeforms to launch their attack in advance. Their army outside the city is not too large, far from the limit that our Rain Ripple City can withstand!”

Palace Master Yuan Xiang transmitted his voice to the elders!

The elders in control were well aware that it would take a huge amount of power to break through from the outside and kill their way into Rain Ripple City! “The biggest threat to us is this group of hidden agents!”

Palace Master Yuan Xiang transmitted his voice: “Palace Master Gai Tao, you lead the 92 elders of the Constellation Formation and work together to hunt down this group of hidden agents. The rest of us will be responsible for blocking the attacks outside the city!”

“Alright!”

Palace Master Gai Tao immediately replied!

“We will cooperate with Palace Master Gai Tao!” Palace Master Gai Tao and the 92 elders, at this moment, no longer paid attention to the outside world. Working together, they caused a series of brilliant stars to appear in the formation above Rain Ripple City. Each star was incredibly powerful, and the position where the stars gathered was directly above Wang and his group of leaders!

The Super Limit Mind-Bewitching Worm and his group of leaders, after leaving Palace Master Wei Yang’s cave, were heading straight for Palace Master Gai Tao’s cave! Because Palace Master Yuan Xiang’s soul was contaminated, he posed a very low threat!

As long as they successively killed Palace Master Wei Yang and Palace Master Gai Tao, they would have won more than half of the war!

Palace Master Gai Tao’s eyes were ice-cold!

“Kill.” Although his formation skills were inferior to Palace Master Wei Yang, as a master of artifact refining, he was also extremely skilled in formations.

Under his leadership, the 92 elders cooperated perfectly. One after another, brilliant stars descended from the sky, like shooting stars!

“Shua.”

“Shua”

“Shua.”

“Shua”

“Shua”

One after another, the stars drew incredibly precise arcs, accurately locking onto that group of leader-level hidden agents! These stars avoided “Wang” and mainly targeted the leaders!

“Hmm?”

Wang and the 23 leaders gathered behind him noticed the terrifying stars and were instantly close at hand.

“Block them!”

Wang even took the initiative to attack, using his palms to continuously block six stars. He was currently possessing Palace Master Wei Yang’s body, and Palace Master Wei Yang’s body was tough and strong enough. Even after being hit by six stars, he was only injured, and the injuries were quickly disappearing!

“Stop them!”

“There are too many!”

The other 23 leaders tried their best to resist, but under the dense barrage of hundreds of stars, their resistance quickly collapsed, and they could only rely on their bodies to resist!

This Constellation Formation was effective against mental beings! The dense stars smashed down, and Wang and the leaders were all injured. One leader’s true body was even smashed to pieces, dying on the spot!

“One leader is dead!”

This shocked the other leaders!

“The threat from the outside is too low, allowing the Rain Ripple City elders to organize a formation to deal with us!” Wang also understood this point. There were more than 300 elders in total, and the only unharmed palace master was Gai Tao!

This Constellation Formation mobilized one palace master and 92 elders, reducing Rain Ripple City’s external defense capabilities by at least half. Even with half the defense capabilities reduced, it could still withstand the frantic attacks from the outside.

If the external army had reached its perfect state at this time, under a frantic siege, the elders would only be able to use individual formations to attack the hidden agents, making it much easier for the hidden agents to move!

“All hidden agents in the city, take action!” Wang remotely commanded, his voice resounding in the minds of every hidden low-level Origin Lifeform in the city, “Follow the plan… separately assassinate the elders!”

“Yes.”

“Yes.”

Everywhere in the city responded!
Instantly, the Mind-Bewildering Worms and the Soul-Devouring Snakes, roughly half of the core members across all thirty-five branches of the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm, mobilized! There were as many as thirty-five God Emperor-level descendants. Counting their true bodies and avatars, these core members possessed thousands of cultivators. Additionally, the leaders had hundreds of avatars out and about.

As for the low and mid-level members, unaware of the plan, their true bodies didn’t enter the city; only their avatars did!

These low and mid-level members were even more fearless!

Kill! Hidden teams erupted throughout the city. At a glance, tens of thousands of cultivators surfaced, causing the elders managing the defense system of Rainveil City to look grim!

“Our team’s mission is to kill Elder Qiu Ge!”

A team composed of ten leader avatars, a God Emperor-level true body, and hundreds of other avatars charged straight towards Elder Qiu Ge’s residence, which was the closest, because they had been lurking here precisely for that purpose!

“Our team’s mission is to kill Elder Tian He!”

Another hidden team, also led by ten leader avatars, prepared to strike!

There were two types of these hidden teams!

One type was led by ten leader avatars to kill specific elders! The other was intended to mislead outsiders and consisted of teams of low and mid-level members!

From the surface, it was hard for the elders to discern which teams were strong and which were weak.

After all, these members were all possessing cultivators!

“Hall Master Gai Tao, you must use the Constellation Formation to simultaneously attack every hidden team!” Hall Master Yuan Xiang immediately ordered!

“Yes!” Hall Master Gai Tao and the other elders responded!

Rumble!

In the sky above Rainveil City, countless stars, up to ten thousand, rapidly condensed. As their numbers increased, their power sharply decreased!

“Kill!”

Hall Master Gai Tao and the ninety-two elders were filled with killing intent!

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Like a meteor shower, over ten thousand stars assaulted each team individually.

Those teams of low and mid-level members, meant to deceive outsiders, suffered heavy casualties under the star attacks. A single wave wiped out more than half of them. However, the elite teams, led by multiple leader avatars, were able to withstand the star attacks!

Hall Master Gai Tao, expressionless, adjusted the Constellation Formation and launched a second wave of attacks!

Under the second wave, the teams of low and mid-level members were completely annihilated. Only thirty-nine elite teams remained intact!

“Everyone, the rest is up to you!”

Hall Master Gai Tao suddenly transmitted to the other elders: “I, Gai Tao, have been refining weapons in Rainveil City until today, but now I must leave!”

“What?”

“Gai Tao!”

The elders, focused on defense, were shocked!

“How can you do this?”

“Brother Gai Tao, you are also a powerhouse from the Origin World… this is just an avatar. We can fight to the death if necessary! As a hall master, how can you abandon us at such a crucial moment?”

“Gai Tao.”

One by one, the elders grew anxious!

Hall Master Gai Tao was too important. In external combat, a hall master was worth twenty to thirty elders! But at this critical moment, Hall Master Gai Tao’s impact was even greater. His departure would significantly weaken Rainveil City’s defensive and responsive capabilities!

“See for yourselves, the Transcendent-level infiltrator is leading over twenty leader true bodies straight for my residence! They’re almost there! I, Gai Tao, have been single-mindedly refining weapons in Rainveil City and haven’t sought any resources, any benefits! I haven’t taken those advantages, so naturally, I don’t need to risk my life for Rainveil City!”

“I’m here to refine weapons, and my many weapons and treasures cannot be damaged!”

“My years in Rainveil City, I owe Rainveil City nothing!”

Swoosh!

With the King leading twenty leaders and their true bodies only ten breaths away from Gai Tao’s residence, Hall Master Gai Tao, carrying the countless weapons and treasures he had painstakingly crafted, launched a ship into the sky!

As a hall master, the high-altitude formations didn’t stop him. His ship shot out of Rainveil City in an instant!

The moment it left the city, the ship vanished, reappearing hundreds of millions of kilometers away. Clearly, Gai Tao spared no expense to use a teleportation treasure. Spatial travel was almost impossible within the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm, but as a grandmaster of weapon refinement, he had long ago purchased escape treasures in the Dark Sacred Realm!

“Hmm?”

Among the low-level Primal Chaos lifeform legions outside the city, a blue and white figure saw Hall Master Gai Tao fleeing!

“Shadow, do you need me to pursue that Hall Master Gai Tao?”

The blue and white figure transmitted!

“Don’t bother with him. With him gone, things will be much easier for us!”

The King, in the form of Hall Master Wei Yang, looked up and smiled!

Gai Tao had a few avatars. It would be difficult for the infiltrators to track him down, whether he fled or resisted!

However, Hall Master Gai Tao’s residence was also an important site for weapon refinement. Hall Master Gai Tao had led a group of elders here for a long time to refine weapons. Many weapons and treasures were still here!

“Gai Tao’s nature is such that he doesn’t care about his avatars, but he can’t bear to part with his weapons and treasures! Just as I expected.”

“Very smoothly, with a little pressure, he took the initiative to flee!”

The King smiled: “Now it’s time to find Hall Master Yuan Xiang!”

At that moment, Hall Master Yuan Xiang and the three hundred elders in Rainveil City felt a chill in their hearts! Indeed!

Hall Master Gai Tao’s desertion had a huge impact!

Of the three hall masters, one was dead, and one had fled, leaving only Hall Master Yuan Xiang!

“Has it come to this?”

Hall Master Yuan Xiang was well aware of his situation. His mental strength was focused on resisting the pollution, barely able to manipulate the formation! But to fight a Transcendent-level low-level Primal Chaos lifeform was simply impossible!

End of chapter.