“My Dao of Life and Death is completely stuck!”

“Could it be that this path I’m exploring myself is a dead end?”

Luo Feng couldn’t help but feel a sliver of doubt.

In the God King realm, there was a complete Great Dao as a reference! So there were no dead ends. Failure to comprehend was simply due to insufficient comprehension or ability.

But the God Emperor stage requires groping in the darkness, making it easy to take the wrong path, fall into a complete dead end, and be unable to progress forever.

Why is fusing Daos so difficult? Precisely because the complexity far exceeds that of a pure Dao! It’s easy to get stuck and unable to move forward! Even someone with the comprehension of the Master of the Arcane Emporium only reached the early God Emperor stage with a fused Dao.

“I have the Eye of Life and Death, and I’ve observed so many Primal Chaos bloodlines. My path should be correct!”

“If the path is correct, then how should I break through the bottleneck?”

Luo Feng muttered to himself.

“Life and Death fusion, the direction of life, what I’m pursuing is the ultimate physical body! The larger, the better! Large represents powerful energy. Large represents the hope of erupting with super strong power. Large also represents endless vitality.”

“But – when the physical body is large enough, how to control it?”

“According to my estimate, the half-Primal Chaos Life and Death Dao can theoretically reach ‘1.2 billion times’ the energy reserves of a perfect divine body.”

After the battle in Rain Origin City, Luo Feng entered seclusion again, pushing himself forward in all aspects. He wasn’t too far from the ‘half-Primal Chaos Life and Death Dao’, and could already vaguely judge the theoretical strength of that state!

As the most difficult of the “three invincible paths”, this path, once successful, would be absolutely invincible.

“In the middle God Emperor stage, my Dao of Life and Death and the Undying Blood Sea Body had a peak combat power of 500 times the energy reserves of a perfect divine body. At the limit, I could control ten thousand times the energy reserves, but the strength didn’t increase.”

“But now, my Undying Blood Sea Body’s peak combat power is at 3,000 times the energy reserves of a perfect divine body, and at the limit, I can control one hundred thousand times the energy reserves. Any more, and because the body is too large, I can’t perfectly control it, and my strength starts to decline.”

“But…”

“The half-Primal Chaos Life and Death Dao theoretically has 1.2 billion times the energy reserves of a perfect divine body. How can I perfectly control them?”

“With such a massive body, even walking would be very difficult.”

“This shows that I have a huge flaw in ‘controlling my body’.” Luo Feng encountered this bottleneck.

His Dao of Life and Death was already very complete in many ways.

The massive physical body, undying vitality, and how to unleash power all reached the predetermined goals!

Only one aspect!

When the body was small, it was fine. Luo Feng’s current total reserves were no more than 5,000 times the energy reserves of a perfect divine body, so he could control it easily.

But theoretically, with ‘1.2 billion times’ the energy reserves, controlling and operating it would be far from enough.

But if he sacrificed the massive body! This Dao couldn’t be called complete! It wouldn’t be the ‘God Emperor Perfection’ Life and Death Dao.

“Based on the experience of many Primal Chaos bloodlines, to control such a massive body, I estimate that I need to meet two conditions. First, in terms of controlling my body, I need to have an essential transformation. Second, my heart and willpower must also jump out of the cage. Only by meeting both conditions simultaneously can I perfectly control such a massive body.”

When Luo Feng chatted with Hall Master Abyss and the cultivator team, he also learned that even after the heart and willpower jumped out of the cage, the power of the heart and willpower only increased by a dozen times.

Because in history, the first path of the three invincible paths, “willpower jumping out of the cage” was the most common, and they had personally seen a few.

Invincible heart and willpower could completely suppress Hall Master Abyss and the others with a single thought. But it was only suppression! They couldn’t achieve ‘willpower annihilation’.

“A heart and willpower that are only a dozen times stronger will help me control my body, but it’s far from reaching the point of ‘perfect control’.” Luo Feng understood this.

With such a large body, he would struggle even to walk.

Forget ten times, even if his willpower increased a hundredfold! He estimated that the massive body would be able to fly flexibly and perform some simple moves. But it would still be impossible to perform the most profound moves, let alone multitask.

On one hand, using the massive body to perform formations to trap enemies, and on the other hand, using close combat secret techniques, and then using the Eye of Life and Death to observe, and then using secret treasures to fight…

Multitasking, that’s what perfect control of the body would be!

A heart and willpower that had only increased a dozen times was still far, far away.

“Too far away.”

“Even with heart and willpower jumping out of the cage, according to my estimate, it’s still very far away. This shows that my own path, may be wrong.”

“My Dao of Life and Death, perhaps I shouldn’t pursue the ultimate mass of the physical body.”

Luo Feng was also reflecting on himself.

Exploring in the darkness requires constant reflection and constant correction.

“Let’s try to explore a way to ‘control the body’ first.” Luo Feng wasn’t one to give up easily. This path was the direction he had set from the beginning. Once the fundamental direction changed, the entire Dao of Life and Death would have to be overturned.

He would need to re-deduce and explore from the ultimate realm of God King!

A blank sheet of paper is easy to draw on!

Even if he overturned the past path, he would still be affected by the old path, and the new path would be difficult to follow.

This is cultivation!

One wrong step, and every step is wrong!

“As long as you walk through it, there is no wrong!”

“How long have I been cultivating? The two country founders have experienced several reincarnation eras in the Origin Continent. What is this bottleneck?” Luo Feng closed his eyes and began to think quietly.

He searched for inspiration from each Primal Chaos bloodline, from the Undying Heart, the Palm Universe, from the Star Tower, and the Eye of Life and Death.

“Including the Star Tower, life and destruction are only combined, not fused.”

“There is no reference for the path of fusion.”

For ordinary paths, one can refer to the mysteries in the physical materials of Primal Chaos creatures.

But a fused Dao! There’s no reference at all!

It’s fine in the early stages, but the further you go, the harder it gets!

Luo Feng truly encountered a major bottleneck in this stage of “late God Emperor” going towards “God Emperor Perfection”.

In fact, this isn’t even the most difficult part of the fusion Dao.

Going from a “Dao of God Emperor Perfection” to a “Dao of Primal Chaos level” is the most difficult, like a chasm! It’s many times harder than the bottleneck Luo Feng is currently facing!

Many people with unparalleled talent turn to cultivate bloodlines to jump out of the cage.

Because the path of “Dao” becomes more and more difficult as one progresses, so difficult that it makes cultivators despair.

“Controlling the body—”

“How should I control such a massive body?”

Luo Feng pondered.

His research into each Primal Chaos bloodline sparked various flashes of inspiration.

“That’s not right.”
“This method is insufficient.”

One after another, rudimentary concepts for techniques to control his physical body surfaced in his mind, only to be immediately rejected by Luo Feng.

With his intellect, he could already foresee their limitations as soon as they took shape.

Luo Feng walked upon the dark lands of the Dark Sacred Realm, his mind constantly preoccupied with cultivation, occasionally pausing to contemplate and refine his techniques.

Whenever he encountered lesser Chaos Source lifeforms along the way, Luo Feng would naturally dispatch them with ease.

Sometimes, slaying the weak would attract the stronger! And eliminating the strong would even draw a terrifying squad to encircle and kill him.

Luo Feng would use his imitation of the Destruction Eye from afar to detect these dangers and immediately travel through the seams of space, quickly fleeing far away.

“Hmm?”

Luo Feng looked at the ancient city before him, “Summitpeak City, have I arrived?”

Meditating as he journeyed, half a cycle had passed before Luo Feng finally reached Summitpeak City!

“Hoo.”

Luo Feng completely concealed his aura. With a single stride, he traversed the spatial distance and arrived directly within the city. The vast majority of cultivators in Summitpeak City were completely oblivious to his presence.

“The Dark Sacred Realm gathers the strongest existences from the surrounding numerous source worlds and countless realms. The strength of a God Emperor Late Stage Dao Comprehender is the minimum requirement to enter this place.”

Those who cultivate the bloodline path, many “Half-Chaos Source Bloodline Cultivators,” are considered the bottom rung in the Dark Sacred Realm.

“White God Emperor and the other two are within Summitpeak City.” Luo Feng sensed his three friends from the cultivator squad through the Law of Karma. Luo Feng did not rush to visit his friends but instead flew towards the Chaos Source Hall within the city.

“Of the five cities in the Dark Sacred Realm, only the central ‘Chaos Source City’ possesses a large Chaos Source Hall.” Luo Feng also understood this information.

When the Dark Sacred Realm was first established, there was only one city, Chaos Source City, which was left behind by Senior Yuan and others.

Later, after countless ages, cultivators constructed four more cities by exchanging war merits! This made it easier for cultivators to hunt lesser Chaos Source lifeforms in the surrounding area. The cities in the Dark Sacred Realm have much higher exchange prices than the cities in the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm.

“Hoo.”

Luo Feng directly flew to the second floor of the Chaos Source Hall.

On the second floor of the Chaos Source Hall, two tall figures stood motionless. When Luo Feng arrived, they simultaneously opened their eyes, and an invisible aura enveloped the entire second floor of the Chaos Source Hall.

“Cultivator Luo Feng, do you wish to confirm your war merits or exchange for treasures?” One of the tall figures said. Both of them were puppet beings left behind by Senior Yuan and the others, and they were absolutely impartial.

“Confirm war merits.”

Luo Feng nodded, “These are the corpses of the lesser Chaos Source lifeforms I hunted. I trouble the two of you.”

As he spoke, Luo Feng took out a storage bracelet and released its restrictions.

“One…one…” The two puppet beings simultaneously began to examine the contents of the storage bracelet. Although it contained a terrifying number of corpses of lesser Chaos Source lifeforms, the puppet beings remained expressionless.

“Corpses of lesser Chaos Source lifeforms: 9 at the Transcendent Limit level, 2902 at the God Emperor Completion level, 39522 at the God Emperor Late Stage level, 68990 at the God Emperor Middle Stage level, and 83560 at the God Emperor Early Stage level.”

“Cultivator Luo Feng, your current war merits total 7,717,660.”

One of the puppet beings announced the final war merits.

Luo Feng heard this number, over seven million war merits?

The top-tier experts of the Dark Sacred Realm, although slightly weaker than Luo Feng in strength, have lived long enough. Through the accumulation of countless ages, they also use Chaos Source Crystals to purchase war merits. After all, the uses of war merits far surpass those of Chaos Source Crystals.

Therefore, it is quite common for top-tier existences to have several million war merits. Using Chaos Source Crystals to purchase them, 10 Chaos Source Crystals can buy one unit of war merit. Spending hundreds of billions of Chaos Source Crystals can buy hundreds of units of war merit.

Many cities are constantly buying war merits, and Rain Ripple City also has such purchases.

Although Luo Feng only had over seven million units of war merit, he was considered extremely wealthy. This was because his war merits were entirely obtained through his own hunting! The value of those Chaos Source lifeform corpses was at least tens of trillions of Chaos Source Crystals.

“Seven million war merits should be enough.” Luo Feng thought, turning around and heading directly to the first floor of the Chaos Source Hall. He intended to sell all these corpses!