Inside a quiet room of Luo Feng’s dwelling in Chudu, an inner space of the Star Tower.

Luo Feng looked at the three perfect Chaos Layer creature materials before him: a huge rock, three silver scales, and a large, broken branch with leaves.

“Perfect Chaos Layer creature materials are truly hard to collect,” Luo Feng mused to himself. “At ten billion Cosmic Sands per piece, I’ve only managed to gather three over such a long time.”

It was understandable. These perfect Chaos Layer creatures were captured by the most powerful beings in Origin Continent! These peak existences wouldn’t even bat an eye at ten billion Cosmic Sands; only their direct disciples or children might be interested and try to acquire some materials.

“Let’s take a look.”

Luo Feng’s palm moved like a blade, effortlessly slicing off rock powder, scale fragments, and leaf pieces. He then proceeded to decompose each, studying their fundamental compositions.

“Hmm?”

Luo Feng saw it.

The fundamental composition of the rock powder was also a ‘trinity’ form: a gray particle containing secret patterns of Chaos Law, encapsulating two interwoven gray particles.

“While both are trinity forms, the Golden-feathered Divine Bird’s is more agile, whereas this rock’s trinity feels heavier and more substantial,” Luo Feng mused as he contemplated.

All three newly acquired materials were ‘trinity forms,’ yet they differed in subtle ways. A minute distinction… led to vastly different complete forms.

As Luo Feng pondered, his understanding of the trinity form slowly deepened.

“It’s too complex,” Luo Feng thought. Even with his life spirituality lineage at the peak of the Chaos realm and his life body lineage at the pinnacle of the Chaos realm, he still found the trinity form profoundly mysterious, like a perfect creation of heaven and earth! Understanding its essence was exceedingly difficult.

A mysterious palace, not existing in the real world, but rather an illusory structure.

Various thoughts converged here.

“The Chaos Realm Transcendent ‘Luo He’ has recently been collecting perfect Chaos Layer creature materials. Do these materials have a special purpose unknown to us?” one thought projected.

“I possess a perfect Chaos Layer creature, which I’ve thoroughly studied. Its physical composition is merely somewhat unique, containing some mysteries of the ‘Great Way of Life Origin’ and the ‘Great Way of Material Origin’,” another thought responded.

“This Luo He has created his own body refining secret art. His art bears some resemblance to Chaos Layer creatures; he likely cultivates both the Great Way of Life Origin and the Great Way of Material Origin for body refinement. Furthermore, his blade techniques probably also incorporate the Great Way of Destruction Origin,” yet another thought added.

In fact, his deduction was quite precise. Luo Feng used the Great Way of Life Origin to comprehend the composition of perfect Chaos Layer creatures, then directly transformed using his ‘Formless and Faceless’ ability.

Without the ‘Formless and Faceless’ ability, one would need to study the ‘Great Way of Material Origin’ and also perform material transformation.

“A Chaos Realm expert cultivating three Great Ways of Origin? This young one is quite arrogant.”

“It’s certain that his collection of perfect Chaos Layer creature materials holds no special significance. Next intelligence: the Snow Realm Ancestor exchanged for a ‘Camel Mountain Beast’ corpse at any cost.”

“The Camel Mountain Beast is a special life form cultivated by the Flame Wind Ancestor using primordial bloodlines. This beast also contains an extremely faint primordial bloodline. The Snow Realm Ancestor cultivates the ‘Blood Droplet Scripture’ and has comprehended all six branches of the Great Way of Life Origin, reaching the ‘Blood Droplet Boundary’ realm. However, unable to break through to the second stage of the Divine King realm, they are likely planning to cultivate using primordial bloodline.”

“Continue observing! If they truly manage to break through with the primordial bloodline, we could invite them to become one of us.”

“Next intelligence: the ‘Snow Demon Divine King’ of the Thunder Ancient Kingdom has lost control, devouring the true body of the Thunder Sand Divine King. The Thunder Sand Divine King suffered immense losses, including their true body and a Divine King Ultimate Realm weapon. The Thunder Sand Divine King will never give up…”

They exchanged intelligence.

These ancient beings silently observed Origin Continent.

Any valuable opportunity or powerful treasure would capture the attention of these ancient beings, even leading them to directly seize it!

Of course, the current Luo Feng was merely collecting perfect Chaos Layer creature materials, which these ancient beings deemed insignificant! Furthermore, Luo Feng was in Chudu, and these ancient beings dared not enter Chudu to provoke Emperor Chu.

Focused on cultivation, time passed quickly.

Besides his cultivation, Luo Feng occasionally took on missions to earn merit.

Bounty missions, defense missions, and treasure hunt missions — the latter two were quite troublesome, either taking a long time or requiring much effort. Only ‘bounty missions’ were relatively simple for Luo Feng, who possessed the Elemental Law.

“He’s the one.”

Luo Feng also didn’t want to cause too much commotion in Origin Continent, so he only occasionally accepted a bounty mission.

This bounty mission targeted ‘Great Sage Black Mist,’ a pinnacle Chaos Realm expert, and offered a reward of a hundred thousand merit points.

“This Great Sage Black Mist cultivates the Great Way of Karma Origin,” Luo Feng noted. Using his Evasion and Transformation technique, he arrived in Great Sage Black Mist’s territory.

This was a relatively remote area, with most places shrouded in black mist.

Within this territory, there were also hundreds of ordinary cities.

Under the shroud of black mist, each city was like an isolated island.

“Everyone returning to the city must be thoroughly inspected. Make sure no one is tainted by evil,” a voice commanded. At the gate of an ordinary city within the Black Mist territory, multiple formations meticulously scanned every cultivator returning.

These cultivators obediently submitted to the inspection.

Suddenly, as one cultivator underwent the formation’s careful scrutiny, a blood-red mark abruptly appeared on their skin.

“Impossible, when did I get tainted?” The cultivator’s face twisted in despair as their body silently disintegrated into nothingness.

“Oh no.” The cultivators undergoing inspection nearby instantly changed their expressions.

“Everyone who witnessed the blood-red mark must undergo a secondary inspection to ensure they are not tainted,” a voice announced. Even the guards, who were in a relatively safe area, had to undergo an inspection.

Otherwise, if it spread into the city, the entire city would face a catastrophe.

At this moment—

Luo Feng appeared high in the sky, observing the scene.

“Great Sage Black Mist unleashes ‘Karma Tribulations,’ causing countless cultivators in his territory to live in perpetual fear. The transmission of these karmic marks… makes countless cultivators extremely panicked, generating even stronger karma.”

“He cultivates by leveraging the karma of all beings, comprehending the Great Way of Karma Origin.”

“If the karmic entanglement becomes too deep, he then unleashes a karmic catastrophe, wiping out all cultivators in the city, thereby completely eliminating the karma.”

Luo Feng had long been aware of Great Sage Black Mist’s methods.

Complete annihilation was the simplest way to eliminate karma. The countless cultivators in these cities were indeed deeply entangled in karma with Great Sage Black Mist. Yet, in the end, they all met their demise.

Luo Feng traveled above the cities, seeing countless cultivators within them live in constant dread. Whenever a Karma Tribulation erupted, a large number of lives perished.

“Found him,” Luo Feng murmured, sensing a Chaos Realm aura. It belonged to a merchant living in one of the cities.

The merchant was jovially conducting business, warmly interacting with old customers. The cultivators in the city had no idea… that this merchant was the source of endless evil and catastrophe.

“Hm?” The merchant sensed something and looked up at Luo Feng.

The instant he saw Luo Feng, the merchant felt everything else vanish from his sight, replaced by an infinitely majestic star! This colossal star rolled forward, its immense presence already crushing the merchant’s spiritual will.

His spiritual will instantly annihilated, Great Sage Black Mist completely perished.

Luo Feng had been overly cautious, fearing that Great Sage Black Mist could employ karmic evasion. In reality… Great Sage Black Mist cultivated only one branch of the Great Way of Karma Origin and was not adept at karmic evasion.

Luo Feng’s first move was a killing blow: the Elemental Law. With his incredibly strong spiritual will, he directly crushed the merchant, leaving not a shred of consciousness, not even enough time to cast a reincarnation secret art.

“Thump.” The merchant, still smiling, collapsed directly.

At that moment, the countless cultivators in the hundreds of cities within Great Sage Black Mist’s territory had no idea that the Karma Tribulations… had completely vanished from that point onward.

“Collect,” Luo Feng said, waving his hand to put away Great Sage Black Mist’s corpse. “Molos finally has food again.”

Luo Feng then immediately departed.

The complete demise of Great Sage Black Mist also drew the attention of some factions in Origin Continent.

After all, it was common for Chaos Realm experts to fight and for their true bodies to be destroyed. However, complete annihilation, with karma entirely disappearing? That was extremely rare. Within just a few epochs, both Great Sage Beiyu and Great Sage Black Mist had completely perished in succession, prompting those with keen interest to investigate.

“Great Sage Beiyu and Great Sage Black Mist, both completely dead within a few epochs. They were both beings of great sin. Could it be a powerful Divine King intentionally targeting these great sinners?”

“Great Sage Beiyu and Great Sage Black Mist were relatively restrained, primarily slaughtering within their own territories and not daring to affect too wide an area. Did they still provoke a powerful expert who loathes evil?”

This led to speculation among many factions.

Not many experts in Origin Continent could completely kill a pinnacle Chaos Realm expert; even a first-stage Divine King generally couldn’t achieve it. Thus, they naturally speculated that some powerful entity had acted.

Of course, only two had died, so the commotion was not significant.

However, if ten or eight were completely annihilated, the repercussions would be far greater, potentially even causing panic among some Chaos Realm experts.

“One hundred thousand merit points.” As the Emperor’s direct disciple, Luo Feng’s authority to claim merit now surpassed even that of a first-class Marquis of the Imperial Family.

He could submit missions directly to the spirit of the Emperor Chu Palace.

Emperor Chu Palace, Legacy Hall.

Luo Feng arrived here once more.

“I need to view the Shadow of the Tribulation Beast once,” Luo Feng told the elderly spirit directly. His spiritual will had advanced from a Chaos Realm bottleneck to the Divine King level, thanks in large part to the Tribulation Beast Diagram. Naturally, he was very interested in the even more effective Shadow of the Tribulation Beast.

However, viewing it once was equivalent to the legacy of the first tribulation of the ‘Eight Tribulations Life Form,’ making the cost extremely high. Luo Feng had only just accumulated enough merit points to do so.

“View the Shadow of the Tribulation Beast?” The elderly spirit looked at Luo Feng. “The complete Shadow of the Tribulation Beast, even just its image, requires Divine King level will to barely remain conscious. It’s best to reach the second stage of Divine King spiritual will before viewing it. A spiritual will at the threshold of Divine King… would primarily be used just to stay conscious, and you wouldn’t remember much of the image.”

“Are you still certain you wish to proceed with viewing it?” the elderly spirit asked, looking at Luo Feng.

Luo Feng nodded: “Yes, I will.”

If just a mere image was so terrifying, what was the true origin of this Tribulation Beast?

“Prepare yourself,” the elderly spirit nodded, then dissipated.

Luo Feng gazed at the chaotic expanse before him, and suddenly, a faint, colossal silhouette began to emerge from within…