Hunyuan City stood as the paramount city of the entire Darkness Holy Realm, its grand Hunyuan Hall overflowing with countless resources. “Your military exploits are more than sufficient, Brother Luo Feng,” Bo Xiu chuckled. “Within the Hall, you can exchange them for even greater treasures.”

The red-robed youth, Chi Zheng, added, “Brother Luo Feng, carrying tens of billions of Hunyuan crystals, you are likely to face robbery upon leaving Chengfeng City! Even the three of us joining forces may not be enough to contend with the dangers.”

“It would be best to summon ten or more peak existences,” Bo Xiu suggested. “Brother Luo Feng, you only recently arrived in the Darkness Holy Realm with peak strength. In Chengfeng City, finding peak existences willing to assist is quite easy.”

“No need,” Luo Feng calmly shook his head. “There’s no need for such trouble.” Asking peak existences for escort would incur debts of favor, and debts of favor must be repaid!

“You three can depart with me,” Luo Feng offered.

“Us?” Bo Xiu and Chi Zheng exchanged surprised glances.

The White God Emperor couldn’t help but speak up, “Brother Luo Feng, as we discussed before, the force led by the Secret Ruins God Emperor and the Sky Wolf Eight Friends are both potential threats for robbery. Facing their attacks, we wouldn’t be able to hold out!”

Bo Xiu nodded in agreement. “The Sky Wolf Eight Friends received a gift from the Sky Wolf Guest. Although their temperaments have drastically changed, their strength has all increased. Should the eight join forces, we three wouldn’t last more than a few moves.”

“The Secret Ruins God Emperor and his fifteen fellow God Emperors, when they join hands and their techniques cooperate, are even more formidable than the Sky Wolf Eight Friends. We also wouldn’t be able to resist.”

“We truly need some helpers.” Bo Xiu was acutely aware of the terrifying power of the three major forces in Chengfeng City.

Luo Feng smiled faintly and shook his head. “If we encounter a robbery, I can handle it.”

Bo Xiu, Chi Zheng, and the White God Emperor were all somewhat stunned.

*I can handle it?* The meaning of this statement was abundantly clear to the three of them!

“The Secret Ruins God Emperor and his fifteen fellow God Emperors, when they join forces, experience a qualitative leap in power,” the White God Emperor said, looking at Luo Feng. “Unless one possesses strength at the invincible level, they cannot be defeated.”

“Your words actually make me look forward to their attempt,” Luo Feng laughed. “Make your preparations, and once you are ready, we shall depart! If the three of you are not at ease, or unwilling to go, I shall depart alone!”

“No, no, no.”

“We are naturally willing to accompany Brother Luo Feng.”

“We just need a moment to prepare, and we can depart shortly.”

Bo Xiu, Chi Zheng, and the White God Emperor all spoke at once.

Luo Feng nodded and turned to leave.

Watching Luo Feng’s retreating back, Bo Xiu, Chi Zheng, and the White God Emperor felt a surge of emotion within them.

“Did Brother Luo Feng truly mean he has the confidence to contend with the combined strength of the Secret Ruins God Emperor and his fifteen comrades?” The red-robed youth, Chi Zheng, found it hard to believe.

“You didn’t mishear, that’s precisely what he meant!” Bo Xiu nodded lightly.

“Could Brother Luo Feng have already reached the invincible level?” The White God Emperor was puzzled. “But if he had reached the invincible level, should Senior Yuan and the others not have come to guide him?”

Bo Xiu furrowed his brow. “When Brother Luo Feng emerged from seclusion before, that terrifying pressure instantly subsided. But I felt that pressure very clearly. Brother Luo Feng must have achieved a significant breakthrough during this period of seclusion! My guess is that even if he cannot defeat the Secret Ruins God Emperor and the others, he should at least have the means to preserve his life and escape.”

“Mmm.” Chi Zheng and the White God Emperor both nodded slightly. Defeating the combined might of the Secret Ruins God Emperor and his fifteen allies would indeed require invincible level strength. However, merely preserving one’s life and escaping was far easier.

That day, Bo Xiu and his two companions followed Luo Feng, leaving Chengfeng City in a ship.

“Luo Feng God Emperor has finally left the city. He is only accompanied by Bo Xiu and the other two.” Within the Secret Ruins God Emperor’s faction, those who kept a constant watch on the movements within Chengfeng City and utilized karmic induction to pinpoint Luo Feng and his companions’ departure, confirmed their exit immediately.

“Luo Feng God Emperor spent over a thousand epochs in Chengfeng City, purchased some treasures, and exchanged thirty million military exploits. He now carries nearly thirty billion Hunyuan crystals! Do we make our move?”

“He’s spent less than half of it!” The initial transaction had amounted to a total of seventy-three billion Hunyuan crystals, but now less than half remained.

“Even though it’s less, it’s still worth our effort.”

“If we miss this opportunity, who knows when we will encounter someone carrying nearly thirty billion Hunyuan crystals again?”

One by one, the peak level existences exchanged messages. They harbored no fear. Below the invincible level, they had no qualms.

“Since there are no objections, we act,” the Secret Ruins God Emperor transmitted his command to all sides. “Assemble immediately and pursue them.”

A flying boat, inconspicuous and swift, departed Chengfeng City.

“The Secret Ruins God Emperor and his group have set off. Their secret treasure flying boat can traverse the void, making their speed faster than ours.”

Within a black ship, the Sky Wolf Eight Friends were gathered, a dense, dark aura suffusing the entire vessel. The space within the ship was dim and gloomy, only the auras of the eight individuals interacting with one another.

“If the Secret Ruins God Emperor and his group make their move, we won’t get anything.”

“Luo Feng and his group also have four peak level individuals. As long as they can delay them for a bit, we will arrive. At that time, we can join forces with Luo Feng and his group, ha ha! Compared to Luo Feng, the Secret Ruins God Emperor and his group are a better whetstone.”

“With the Secret Ruins God Emperor and his group as a whetstone, perhaps we can even improve further, our minds will leap out of their cages, completely shedding the pollution.” The gift bestowed upon them by the Sky Wolf Guest also carried a degree of pollution. However, this was not a malicious pollution but rather a minor byproduct naturally attached to a powerful opportunity. Thus, the Sky Wolf Eight Friends were in a far better situation than the Abyss Elephant Hall Master; their strength had not declined, but instead had even increased somewhat.

The Sky Wolf Eight Friends were originally peak level existences. With this kind of opportunity, they held a glimmer of hope of breaking free from their cages.

“This time, perhaps, is our opportunity.”

“Our minds will completely break through.” The Sky Wolf Eight Friends were well aware that a leap out of the cage for one’s life level was exceedingly difficult. A ‘mind’ leaping out of the cage was significantly less challenging.

“The Secret Ruins God Emperor’s faction and the Sky Wolf Eight Friends have both given chase. We should also go and take a look.”

“Send a clone to witness this battle.” Among the peak level existences in the city, numbering just over a hundred, news spread quickly. Many of these peak level existences dispatched clones to witness this terrifying battle.

Within the ancient ship, Bo Xiu, the White God Emperor, and Chi Zheng were somewhat nervous.

“I can sense the karma of the Secret Ruins God Emperor and his group. They are rapidly closing in,” Chi Zheng transmitted. “It won’t be long before they catch up.”

“Not only the Secret Ruins God Emperor and his group, but the Sky Wolf Eight Friends are also approaching.” The White God Emperor also felt the pressure at this moment. Bo Xiu looked towards the front hall of the ship.

In the front hall of the ship, Luo Feng was alone, simply gazing at the scenery outside. The heaven and earth were vast. In one part of the heaven and earth to the left, all matter had transformed into a particle flow, like boiling water, constantly swirling and releasing energy. Further ahead, a place was ravaged by a maelstrom of wind, tearing everything apart. The Darkness Holy Realm held many harsh environments, places where weaker, lower Hunyuan life forms could not survive.

“What a spectacular view,” Luo Feng said with a laugh, watching with ease. He truly did not put the fifteen peak existences led by the Secret Ruins God Emperor or the Sky Wolf Eight Friends in his eyes.

Over these thousand epochs of cultivation, Luo Feng, with the aid of the ‘Wisdom Book’ and the ‘Life and Death Eye’, and also consuming various cultivation rare treasures, had maintained the speed of his thought processes at least a hundredfold the normal rate.

“The three types of higher Hunyuan bloodlines, those containing ‘mind consciousness systems’, I have seen clearly and researched countless times.”

“However, their three mind consciousness systems are most suitable for themselves. They are not suitable for me.” The Sky Fire Shadow, the Prison Disaster Beast, and the Nine-Headed Chaos Beast, their respective mind consciousness systems were entirely different.

The Sky Fire Shadow’s mind consciousness system was deeply intertwined with every part of its life force.

The Prison Disaster Beast, itself a prison, self-imprisoned its life body’s power layer by layer. Its mind consciousness system also actively imprisoned and restrained its life body’s power layer by layer. Through this form, it could possess an incomparably massive body, though most of it was self-imprisoned. Its frontal burst of power was not sufficiently strong, but it could burst ‘endlessly’.

The Nine-Headed Chaos Beast, however, divided into nine consciousnesses! The nine consciousnesses each controlled a portion of the body, and the nine consciousnesses could develop freely, without interfering with one another.

“I have obtained three complete mind consciousness systems, absorbing the parts suitable for me to construct a mind consciousness system that belongs to me.” Luo Feng pondered.

“After over a thousand epochs of refinement, my mind consciousness system can be considered to have a prototype. It can already perfectly control the ‘hundred times perfect divine body reserve’.” Luo Feng was quite satisfied with this progress. Compared to before his seclusion, he had improved immensely.

“However, theoretically, a half-Hunyuan Life and Death Dao should master twelve billion times the energy reserve. Thus, I need to go to the grand Hunyuan Hall. There, my physical body can rapidly reach twelve billion times.” Luo Feng considered. He would elevate his physical body to a sufficient size, constantly testing his mind consciousness system.

“They’ve arrived.” Bo Xiu, the White God Emperor, and Chi Zheng instantly appeared by Luo Feng’s side, their senses solemnly sweeping in all directions. Through karma, they could confirm that the Secret Ruins God Emperor and his fifteen comrades had arrived nearby.

“Fifteen peak existences?” Luo Feng’s eyebrows parted, revealing the ‘Imitation Life and Death Eye’. With interest, he observed his surroundings. Suddenly, the endless expanse around them plunged into utter darkness. Within this boundless darkness, there was no sense of direction, nor any light. Luo Feng, Bo Xiu, the White God Emperor, and Chi Zheng could only rely on secret methods to observe their surroundings.

“A fine array,” Luo Feng praised lightly. His Imitation Life and Death Eye could perceive that within the endless darkness, the power of fifteen peak existences was being jointly wielded! Some were scorching flames, some were formless winds of annihilation, some were black liquids swallowing everything, some were billions of insects gnawing at everything… The forces of fifteen peak existences, operating simultaneously and unified within the array, brought everything to silence, reducing everything back to its origin. The array encompassed this portion of heaven and earth, seemingly leading everything towards its end. Even peak level existences, before such an array, would be shredded and annihilated.

“It’s the Hunyuan Silence Great Array!” Bo Xiu, the White God Emperor, and Chi Zheng all grew nervous. They involuntarily glanced at Luo Feng beside them. Hadn’t he said ‘I can handle it’?

“Hunyuan rules in operation, everything returning to silence? It has a bit of the meaning of great destruction,” Luo Feng praised. “The Secret Ruins God Emperor should have witnessed the great destruction of the source world.”

“But this bit of great destruction is too fragile.” Luo Feng took a single step. Instantly, he was outside the ship, in mid-air.

Luo Feng stood in mid-air, his over hundred million times perfect divine body energy reserve perfectly controlled. In an instant, with Luo Feng as the center, the surrounding vast space-time began to collapse and distort. In the battle at Yulan City, the power Luo Feng unleashed was weak, yet it could tear open a gap in heaven and earth. Now, the prestige of his life form was far stronger than during the battle at Yulan City. The large-scale burst of power caused the surrounding billions of kilometers of space-time to completely distort and collapse. The closer to Luo Feng, the more severe the distortion of space, and the faster the flow of time.

“What is happening?” The Secret Ruins God Emperor and his fifteen peak existences, originally concealed within the array, each felt that the space-time in which they were located was collapsing. It was as if an extremely ‘heavy’ existence was pressing down, causing space-time to collapse!

“How stable is the heaven and earth space-time of the Darkness Holy Realm? Short-distance shuttling is extremely difficult. How is it possible for such a massive range to cause heaven to collapse?”

“Is it Luo Feng God Emperor?”

“How is this possible?” The fifteen peak existences could see the black-clothed, black-haired figure standing in the center far away.

At this moment, one could see with the naked eye the entire heaven and earth space-time collapsing with ‘Luo Feng’ as the center. The place where he stood was the core of the collapse and distortion. The surrounding vast range was distorted and swallowed, the array was naturally crushed and destroyed, and the fifteen peak existences were wrapped within the collapsing space-time, forced to fly towards Luo Feng.

“Space-time is too heavy, I can’t shake it off!”

“Can’t escape.”

“In this range of collapsing heaven, we cannot shuttle through space.” The fifteen peak existences despairingly discovered that they did not even possess the ability to escape. Before the collapse of the vast heaven, they could not form an array, could not cooperate. Each one could only separately contend with the collapsing heaven and space-time! Each one was wrapped and sent flying towards Luo Feng.

Luo Feng stood there, calmly watching this scene. He only needed to stand still, and his enemies would actively come before him, one by one.