Luo Feng completely killed Grand Sage Beiyu with “Lie Yuan Art.” The Dark Hall of the Blazewind Guild immediately confirmed that Grand Sage Beiyu’s karmic connection had entirely vanished and promptly informed their important clients of his death.

“Grand Sage Beiyu was completely killed?”

“A top-tier Chaos Realm expert, cultivating the Grand Dao of Life Origin. Although his combat ability was somewhat inferior, his life-preserving ability was extremely strong.”

“Who could have completely killed him?”

“Could it be some of the top ancient God Kings on the Origin Continent? Those beings hold extremely high status and generally don’t bully those weaker than them. Grand Sage Beiyu was also very careful and never dared to provoke them. What exactly happened?”

Grand Sage Beiyu’s death drew the attention of many experts on the Origin Continent and caused some alarm.

They also worried that this terrifying being might come after them. After all, most Chaos Realm experts’ life-preserving abilities were inferior to Grand Sage Beiyu’s.

“Grand Sage Beiyu might have immediately chosen reincarnation after encountering a formidable enemy.” Some experts speculated that Grand Sage Beiyu was still alive but had merely reincarnated. This was common practice; facing an overwhelming enemy, one would naturally choose to reincarnate swiftly.

Luo Feng’s divine power avatar in Chudu also received this important intelligence from the Dark Hall of the Blazewind Guild. Given his current status, he naturally had a long-term subscription to crucial intelligence from the Origin Continent.

“This intelligence only states that Grand Sage Beiyu died, but not why he died or who killed him! It knows nothing!” Luo Feng found the intelligence somewhat amusing as he traveled through space on his way back.

When he acted, only the cultivators of that ordinary city were present. At Luo Feng’s cultivation level, even if he walked right in front of them, those ordinary cultivators wouldn’t have been able to see him.

Thus, the only one who knew Luo Feng had acted was Grand Sage Beiyu himself! Luo Feng merely glanced at Grand Sage Beiyu, and under the power of Lie Yuan Art, Grand Sage Beiyu died. He didn’t even have a chance to use his reincarnation secret art, let alone transmit any messages.

Whoosh! With Luo Feng’s evasion and transformation technique, his spatial traversal speed was extremely fast. Yet, it still took him about six hours to travel from the Heavenly Extreme Icefield back to Chudu, the capital of the Blazewind Ancient Kingdom.

Marquis Chuyu’s Residence.

“I gave Brother Luo He a bunch of troublesome tasks, and he chose the Grand Sage Beiyu mission. He had just accepted it, and Grand Sage Beiyu died shortly after?” Emperor Chuyu was surprised and doubtful. “According to the battle at Thousand Star Tower, Brother Luo He’s physical body is formidable, easily sweeping aside peak Chaos Realm experts. But no matter how powerful a physical body is… it can’t completely kill a Chaos Realm expert.”

Grand Sage Beiyu had quite a few life-preserving secret arts.

“It seems his formidable physical body is merely Brother Luo He’s superficial method. He must have hidden killer moves, capable of even completely slaying a top-tier Chaos Realm expert.” Emperor Chuyu speculated, his eyes lighting up. “What exactly is Brother Luo He’s origin? Could he truly be a reincarnated God King?”

If he were a reincarnated God King, it would be perfectly normal for him to possess some hidden, unknown abilities.

Suddenly, Emperor Chuyu saw a figure appear above his residence.

“Brother Luo He.” Emperor Chuyu immediately went out to greet him, and Luo Feng descended.

“The mission is complete,” Luo Feng said with a slight smile.

Emperor Chuyu also exclaimed, “I never expected Brother Luo He to possess such a method for completely slaying a top-tier Chaos Realm expert. It seems when you faced five enemies earlier, you were holding back.”

Luo Feng smiled.

For one thing, all five were peak Chaos Realm experts, and he wasn’t entirely sure if he could kill them with “Lie Yuan Art.” Furthermore, two of them were First-Rank Marquises… Killing an Imperial Clan Eternal True God would incur a bounty; killing an Imperial Clan First-Rank Marquis? He would likely lose his life the moment he acted.

On the other hand, within Chudu, he still needed to maintain a low profile.

“The mission is complete. Do I need any proof?” Luo Feng asked.

“This mission hasn’t been claimed by anyone for a long time. You just accepted it, and Grand Sage Beiyu died. That itself is already partial proof. If you have Grand Sage Beiyu’s corpse or weapon, just present it, and I’ll record it,” Emperor Chuyu said. “If not, you can provide a recorded memory of the scene where you killed him.”

With a flip of his hand, Luo Feng produced Grand Sage Beiyu’s rather famous double-bladed axe.

Emperor Chuyu glanced at it and nodded. “Alright, I’ve submitted the mission. Your merit points should be distributed very soon.”

Luo Feng nodded. “Please keep the matter of my mission completion confidential.”

Emperor Chuyu understood and nodded. “Don’t worry! I’m directly responsible for your mission, and my submission… is handled by the Spirit of the Emperor Chu Palace! Apart from the Emperor Ancestor, no one outside will know.”

Luo Feng nodded. There was no need to publicize the fact that he could completely slay a top-tier Chaos Realm expert. He still needed to hide this killer move as much as possible.

“Hmm?” Luo Feng’s guest elder token received a message: he had been awarded 100,000 merit points.

“I have enough merit points now. I can exchange for the first volume of ‘Seventy-Two Swords of Annihilation,’ which pertains to the Grand Dao of Destruction Origin.” Luo Feng’s heart burned with anticipation. He had set his sights on two inheritances back then, but only exchanged for one last time.

Luo Feng immediately bid farewell to Emperor Chuyu and headed straight for the Emperor Chu Palace to obtain the long-coveted inheritance.

Inside the Inheritance Hall of the Emperor Chu Palace.

“Guest Elder Luo He, are you sure you want to exchange for the first volume of ‘Seventy-Two Swords of Annihilation’?” the old Spirit of the Emperor Chu Palace asked, looking at Luo Feng.

“I’m sure,” Luo Feng nodded.

The old Spirit nodded slightly, then vanished. The Inheritance Hall became a chaotic expanse, with only a faint glow enveloping Luo Feng. A vast amount of inheritance information surged into Luo Feng’s mind.

Luo Feng’s consciousness rapidly absorbed the immense information, comprehending the true nature of this inheritance.

“This…” Luo Feng was somewhat shocked. He had only understood the basic information about the inheritance before, but upon encountering the true inheritance, he was still profoundly shaken.

The first tribulation of “Eight Tribulations Lifeform” contained the three major branches of the Grand Dao of Life Origin: ‘Life Spirituality,’ ‘Life Body,’ and ‘Source of Life.’ One could only cultivate the first tribulation after fully mastering all three branches.

In contrast, the first volume of “Seventy-Two Swords of Annihilation” contained only two major branches of the Grand Dao of Destruction Origin: ‘Sky-Splitting Lineage’ and ‘Dark Heaven Lineage.’ Despite having only two branches, this first volume required 90,000 merit points, only slightly less than the 100,000 merit points for the first tribulation of “Eight Tribulations Lifeform.”

Furthermore, “Seventy-Two Swords of Annihilation” offered almost negligible life-preserving abilities, so why was it so expensive?

“It’s too powerful.” Luo Feng finally understood just how terrifying a path focused solely on slaughter and destruction could be.

On this path, there was no need for life-preservation, because once the enemy was killed, they posed no threat.

The blade techniques he had comprehended were like an infant playing with a twig. They were countless times inferior to the first volume of “Seventy-Two Swords of Annihilation.”

“Three Forms of Sky-Splitting Blade Art…” In the inherited information Luo Feng received, he saw those three blade strikes. Each strike had a restrained blade light and didn’t appear powerful. Yet, a seemingly ordinary strike could effortlessly cut through everything, even severing the operation of laws.

Whoosh! A very ordinary blade strike swept past, and everything was cleaved open! Even the thick, mysterious world membrane was sliced open, revealing a gap.

“My hundreds of billions of units of transformed power explode with incalculable might, yet they can’t even budge the world membrane. From what I understand, even some ancient God Kings cannot break through this cage-like membrane,” Luo Feng thought, observing this ordinary blade strike in the inheritance information.

This blade strike wasn’t powerful in terms of raw might, but it could cut through anything!

It was as if everything was destined to be severed!

Even the world membrane was to be cleaved open!

“In front of such a blade strike, even the world membrane would be split open. How many divine bodies could withstand that?” Luo Feng mused, noting that this was merely the Sky-Splitting Blade Art.

“Boom!”

Luo Feng also saw the blade light of the Dark Heaven Lineage in the inheritance information. This blade light was even more restrained than the ‘Sky-Splitting Blade Art,’ but its restraint made Luo Feng’s heart pound.

“The Dark Heaven Blade Art is an extreme condensation of power, condensed to more than a hundred thousand, even a million times beyond that of a normal Chaos Realm expert.”

The Dark Heaven Lineage focused on the convergence and refinement of power.

If the same amount of power were condensed a hundred thousand or a million times…

“Whoosh.”

An ordinary blade light, when swung, could similarly destroy all things. Before it, the cage-like membrane trembled, appearing as if it could crack open at any moment.

“The Dark Heaven Blade Art has little power, but simply because it’s condensed to the extreme… its destructive power far surpasses mine.” Luo Feng wasn’t surprised, as one could only hope to fully master the three forms of the Dark Heaven Blade Art upon reaching perfection in the Dark Heaven Lineage.

To perfect the Dark Heaven Lineage meant already being a God King.

It was perfectly normal for a destructive blade technique cultivated by a God King to be more powerful than his own.

“The three forms of Sky-Splitting Blade Art and the three forms of Dark Heaven Blade Art merge into one…” Luo Feng saw the core essence of this inheritance.

It combined the ‘condensation’ of the Dark Heaven Blade Art with the ‘cuts through anything’ aspect of the Sky-Splitting Blade Art.

A blade light condensed to the extreme could effortlessly cleave a massive gash in the world membrane, possessing world-destroying power. Luo Feng had a feeling that even with the formidable strength of his own body, he would be annihilated before such a blade light.

“This is only the first volume, the first three blade strikes of ‘Seventy-Two Swords of Annihilation,'” Luo Feng thought to himself.

As the first volume, the blade art’s creator also explained its original intent.

The blade art sought to transcend the confines of the cage, achieve infinitely extreme destructive power, cut through anything, and even sever all operating rules.

“What a terrifying obsession.” Merely by encountering the inheritance, Luo Feng felt the creator’s obsession embedded within it.

Cut! Cut through everything! Cut through everything beyond the cage as well!

“Seventy-Two Swords of Annihilation” only represented his strongest blade art at the time he left the inheritance; he was still pursuing even more powerful blade arts, aiming to cut through even stronger targets.

In the Emperor Chu Palace, the Emperor Lord was observing Luo Feng.

“He can actually completely kill a top-tier Chaos Realm expert. Could he be a reincarnated God King?” the Emperor Lord mused. “Regardless of his origin, all life nurtured in this source world… can be cultivated.”

The two ancient kingdoms possessed the magnanimity to embrace the entire source world. Even peak World Beasts could be tolerated, though they naturally couldn’t stand World Beasts that were uncontrollable and wantonly destructive.

“In terms of strength, I am inferior to Emperor Qing! Throughout the Origin Continent, apart from the two Ancestral Gods, Emperor Qing is considered the strongest. I cannot compare with him.”

“But when it comes to cultivating disciples, I may not be inferior to him.”

The Emperor Lord was still somewhat unconvinced.

Among the thirteen Imperial Clan lineages, Emperor Qing had fifteen direct disciples: six God Kings, eight Chaos Realm Transcendants, and one peak Chaos Realm expert. Furthermore, the six God Kings under Emperor Qing also had numerous disciples, and two God Kings had emerged from among these disciples of God Kings.

This clearly showed the strength and prosperity of Emperor Qing’s lineage.

“Currently, I have a total of two disciples: one Chaos Realm Transcendant and one peak Chaos Realm expert,” the Emperor Lord thought.

He was inferior to Emperor Qing, and so were the disciples he had nurtured.

“This Luo He might be a reincarnated God King. If I take him as a direct disciple, won’t I have a God King disciple in the future?” the Emperor Lord pondered, watching Luo Feng receive the inheritance. “Of the two inheritances he chose after becoming a guest elder, I don’t quite understand the Life Origin lineage, but the Destruction Origin lineage? I cultivate the Grand Dao of Destruction Origin!”

The Emperor Lord was quite satisfied. “It seems he is destined to be my disciple.”

“However, the two inheritances he chose don’t rely on cultivating with primal chaos artifacts or primal chaos bloodlines; instead, they are inheritances for enlightened cultivators. Such inheritances seek no external aid, but rather aim to forge one’s own path. Although this path is powerful, its difficulty is extremely high,” the Emperor Lord thought. “I need to consider what to prepare for this third disciple of mine.”

The Emperor Lord began to ponder.

Among the thirteen Imperial Clan lineages, it had become customary for Emperor Lords to bestow weapons, resources, and other items upon their disciples.