Science Fiction

Before this war, only three Primal Ancestors had fallen in battle. Through the crucible of war, the remaining Ancestors had become more experienced, and the Lords’ side had not achieved a victory for a long time.

But now, two more Ancestors had died!

“Lord Jin’s techniques, the very essence of destruction, are indeed superior to mine.” Among the group of Ancestors, a restrained black light emanated, within which stood a figure that seemed both human and avian.

This was Ancestor Nirvan, one of the Nine Emperors of the Born Primal Life camp, and among the top three in rank!

Six of the Nine Emperors were participating in this battle: four immortal and indestructible beings, along with Ancestor Endless and Ancestor Nirvan.

“This new Lord possesses the ability to instantly restore his comrades to their peak strength; he is the critical point,” Ancestor Nirvan observed, looking at Luo Feng.

“Great Serpent, Endless, Initial, I will try to engage the new Lord!” Ancestor Nirvan’s voice resonated in the minds of his three companions. “If we cannot breach this nexus, we must retreat for now!”

Ancestor Infinite Serpent, Ancestor Endless, and Initial all acknowledged. These Ancestors had many coordinated strategies, but they were reluctant to employ this one. However, the situation was now dire; if Ancestor Nirvan also failed, retreat would be their only option.

While this exchange seemed slow, the Ancestors’ mental communication occurred in an instant. They moved together to confront the new Lord. Ancestor Nirvan’s voice echoed in the minds of the other six Ancestors, who included beings like the Thousand-Eyed, the Enchanting Creature, and an exotic beast shimmering with starlight…

With Ancestor Nirvan leading and the six Ancestors assisting, they launched a coordinated attack. “New Lord, be consigned to oblivion!” A detached voice resonated within Luo Feng’s soul.

As Luo Feng came under attack, Lord Minghuang also ignited her primary combat avatar, her body dissolving into terrifying golden lightning. This golden lightning pierced through spacetime barriers, locking onto gravely wounded Ancestors, who found themselves unable to escape once targeted.

Infinite light spread, and illusions flickered into existence as the Ancestors tried every means to help their comrades. Ancestor Nirvan had a premonition that if they could gravely wound this new Lord, the situation would change.

“Boom!” Luo Feng felt his soul as if it had crashed into a vast, resilient mountain. The enemy’s power coalesced into a colossal hammer that encompassed heaven and earth, striking his soul with immense force. This was a combined mental and physical assault from Ancestor Nirvan, Ancestor Thousand-Eyed, Ancestor Starweb, and four other Ancestors!

Instantly, Luo Feng’s soul boomed, and an invisible force permeated every part of his body, driving his physical form towards collapse and destruction!

“Is this Ancestor Nirvan and their group?” Though his soul roared, Luo Feng remained absolutely clear-headed. He pursued the ultimate strength of life.

“The Primal Creation and Destruction Path contains six major systems, with the Mind Consciousness system being a crucial component. This makes his soul exceptionally strong even among Lords of the same tier, and terrifyingly powerful when compared to those Ancestors!”

Resisting the full-force assault of Ancestor Nirvan and their allies, he remained unharmed. His 180 million origin energy points could recover a tenth of their total energy every second. Such terrifying recovery capabilities quickly expelled all anomalous energy from his body!

“We have failed!” Ancestor Nirvan observed from afar, sighing softly. This outcome was also within its predictions.

Ancestor Thousand-Eyed, Ancestor Starweb, and the others also expressed their helplessness. The Ancestors’ collective attacks were usually affected by Yuan’s formations, passing through the weakening resistances of multiple Lords’ domains. Yuan’s formations would guide the attacks, causing Wu Lan to bear most of the impact, while Luo Feng would also endure a smaller portion.

However, the seven Ancestors led by Ancestor Nirvan unleashed a mental-based killer move that bypassed Yuan’s formations and domain resistances, directly manifesting within Luo Feng’s body.

With this technique, the Born Primal Life camp had managed to kill some beings of comparable power from other factions.

Yet, this killer move proved less effective against the eight Lords of the Cultivator camp.

Each Lord was immortal and indestructible. Even if they directly withstood this move, only Lord Naigu and Lord Jin would be affected, suffering a reduction in strength; the others felt no fear.

This technique could not lock onto Lord Starlight, nor could it touch Yuan’s soul. Wu Lan effortlessly withstood all attacks, and Luo Feng likewise endured them.

Lords Minghuang and Moman both possessed extremely powerful minds. Once their mental resistance held, their physical injuries were negligible. In the past, this technique, when aimed at Lord Naigu and Lord Jin, had indeed plunged the Lords’ side into crisis. However, with Luo Feng’s arrival, the Lords’ defensive capabilities had fully surged!

“Retreat!” Ancestor Endless’s voice echoed through the mind of every Ancestor.

Under Minghuang’s furious lightning assault, Ancestor Endless instantly transformed into an immense, boundless expanse of light. This light instantly enveloped the vast territory where the Ancestors were, assimilating the bodies of many Ancestors.

The infinite light abruptly contracted, shrinking into a single point, then drawing back into a massive sphere.

All other Ancestors vanished from the vast space, leaving only a colossal sphere in their place. They had retreated from the battle!

The eight figures gazed at the colossal sphere, not even feeling the urge to act.

“Hahaha, what a thrill! For so long, we had to scheme endlessly just to kill one Ancestor with the weakest life-saving abilities, but this time we killed three in a very short span!”

Jin laughed heartily, feeling an immense satisfaction. Treating the technique of igniting his primary combat avatar as something he could use every second was simply exhilarating!

“Starlight, did you secure all three Ancestor corpses?” Minghuang asked, looking at Starlight. In the final moments, under her primary combat avatar’s ignited assault, despite the Ancestors’ full defensive retreat, she still managed to successfully kill one.

“Rest assured, no one surpasses me in spacetime mastery. The instant you killed them, I seized their bodies and pulled them into another timeline!” Starlight chuckled. Once an Ancestor died and lost the ability to resist, he could immediately collect them.

“It’s fortunate we concealed information about Luo Feng’s breakthrough in advance, catching these Ancestors off guard. That’s why we achieved such results!” Yuan also felt elated and relaxed. The tide of this war had completely turned. Hadn’t the Ancestors retreated into Initial’s body, avoiding battle entirely?

One must remember that during the previous stages of the war, the Ancestor side held the advantage. No matter how Starlight calculated, he couldn’t counter them; the absolute disparity in strength meant they could only watch as their territories fell one by one.

Now, everything had changed, forcing the Ancestors to choose retreat.

“If the information had been exposed beforehand, given the Born Primal Life camp’s profound insights and a definite target, they could have deduced a lot. They might have sent reinforcements or temporarily retreated,” Starlight explained.

Luo Feng looked at the massive sphere in the distance and asked, “So, we have absolutely no way to deal with this Initial Ancestor? Can the eight of us combined move it to a dangerous location in the Infinite Primal Space?”

“We truly have no way to deal with it!” Yuan nodded. “No one in the entire Infinite Primal Space can do anything to it!” Starlight added.

Luo Feng had familiarized himself with the intelligence on Initial Ancestor. The records stated that Initial Ancestor represented the ultimate defense of the Infinite Primal Space. It was indestructible and unshakable, though it moved slowly and its attacks were clumsy. It could be disregarded, treated as if it didn’t exist. “Its body is very special,” Wu Lan explained. “In terms of sheer toughness, it’s comparable to me, but its body also possesses an incredibly perfect ability to deflect power. Even if I strike with full force, ninety-nine percent of the power will be transferred and negated!”

Jin added, “The remaining one percent of power, which is barely left, then has to contend with a toughness level similar to Wu Lan’s body!”

Luo Feng was astonished! Jin, known among the Lords for his exceptionally strong enemy-slaying capabilities, had ninety-nine percent of his technique’s power deflected.

In the Infinite Primal Space, for other beings’ attacks, retaining even a thousandth or a ten-thousandth of their power would be considered good.

“Its location is like a fixed point in spacetime; it cannot be shaken or moved,” Starlight stated. “It can’t be moved at all?” Luo Feng marveled.

Wu Lan replied, “If the power were strong enough, it would be possible to move it! But after our power is transferred and negated, perhaps only a thousandth remains, so naturally, we cannot shake it.”

Luo Feng understood.

“Brother Luo Feng, you can give it a try!” Minghuang chuckled. “You can hack at it all you want; it won’t fight back!”

“Even if it did fight back, it would be negligible!” Moman also laughed. Luo Feng knew that among all the Ancestors, Initial Ancestor’s deterrent power ranked in the lower-middle, and it was far inferior compared to the Lords!

Every Lord was comparable to the highest-tier Ancestors.

“I’ll try!” Luo Feng was quite curious about the strongest defensive entity in the entire Infinite Primal Space!

He gazed at the large sphere ahead.

It was denser than even a primal world, having become a fixed point in spacetime. Just by looking at it, Luo Feng sensed the profound mysteries of various Daos it embodied: the mysteries of life, of matter, and many other profound insights, all perfectly integrated. It was a miracle of existence in itself!

Luo Feng extended a hand, and the Riftblade appeared within it!

“Whoosh!”

The Riftblade instantly pierced through spacetime, carrying immense power as it struck the enormous sphere. Yet, the moment it hit, Luo Feng felt as if the blade had struck empty space, experiencing no sense of contact at all!

Even when some of its power, guided by a life-lock, forcibly transmitted, barely a sliver of blade light touched the surface of the colossal sphere! This was merely a thousandth of the blade light’s power, and the sphere showed not even a faint mark.

Starlight chuckled, “Luo Feng, the fact that you could even hit it is already quite impressive!”

The colossal sphere suddenly emitted a deep, resonant voice: “The Lord who attacked is the eighth Lord of your Cultivator camp. Your Cultivator camp has quite good fortune, to produce a new Lord during this war of annihilation.”

“Initial, have you decided whether to continue or end the war?” Yuan asked, looking at it. “If you continue, we will gladly accompany you!”

Alongside the colossal sphere, four avatars suddenly materialized!

These were Ancestor Infinite Serpent, Ancestor Endless, Ancestor Nirvan, and Ancestor Fiery. These were the core warmongers among the Nine Emperors of the Born Primal Life camp!

“Do you truly believe you can win just because you have one more Lord?” Ancestor Infinite Serpent coiled in the void, staring intently at Luo Feng and the other eight.

“The Cultivator camp is merely our food! You have no right to resist!”

“Your food, you say?” Jin laughed. “We Lords are immortal and indestructible. It’s you Ancestors who are *our* food!”

“Hunting you down, turning each of you into resources for our cultivation… Let’s see, as of now, we’ve killed about twenty Ancestors, haven’t we? And not a single one of our Lords has fallen!”

“Yes, twenty Ancestors have died,” Ancestor Nirvan calmly stated. “But because of your death threats, we have also spawned thirty-two new Ancestors! The weak ones die; only the stronger ones survive!”