## Chapter 133: Merit

Chu Capital, within Luo Feng’s secluded chamber in his cave abode, resided a layer within the Star Tower.

Luo Feng gazed upon the three portions of perfect Chaos Layer creature materials before him: a massive chunk of rock, three silvery scales, and a fragment of a colossal, broken branch.

“Perfect Chaos Layer creature materials are truly difficult to collect,” Luo Feng mused to himself. “At one hundred billion Universe Sand per portion, I’ve only managed to acquire three after such a long time.”

It was understandable upon further consideration. These perfect Chaos Layer creatures were primarily captured by the most powerful beings on Origin Continent! Those apex beings wouldn’t even glance at a mere hundred billion Universe Sand. Only their personal disciples and children might be tempted, motivated to acquire such materials.

“Let’s take a look.”

Luo Feng’s palm transformed into a blade, gently slicing off rock dust, scale fragments, and leaf slivers. He then proceeded to dissect each element, studying their fundamental composition.

“Hm?”

Luo Feng detected something.

The most basic component of the rock dust was also a Trinity Form: a grey particle containing Chaos Law Secret Patterns, with two interwoven grey particles enveloped within.

“Both are Trinity Forms, yet the Golden Feather Divine Bird is far more agile, while this rock’s Trinity is immensely heavy,” Luo Feng contemplated.

The newly acquired three materials all exhibited the “Trinity Form,” yet each possessed subtle differences. Minute distinctions… leading to vastly divergent final, complete forms.

Luo Feng contemplated, his understanding of the Trinity Form slowly deepening.

“Too complex,” even with his Soul lineage at the peak of the Chaos Realm and his Body Refinement lineage at the apex, Luo Feng still found the Trinity Form too profound, akin to a flawless creation of Heaven and Earth! Comprehending its essence was an arduous task.

…

A mysterious palace, existing not in the real world, but as an architectural figment of a phantom realm.

Thoughts converged within.

“The Chaos Realm Transcendent ‘Luo He’ has recently been collecting perfect Chaos Layer creature materials. Could these materials possess unknown, special uses for us?” a thought voiced.

“I once meticulously studied a perfect Chaos Layer creature. Its physical composition is merely slightly peculiar, containing fragments of the ‘Essence of Life Dao’ and ‘Essence of Matter Dao’,” another thought replied.

“This Luo He is developing a Body Refinement art, and his art shares similarities with Chaos Layer creatures. He is likely cultivating both the Essence of Life Dao and Essence of Matter Dao to refine his body. Furthermore, his saber techniques should also incorporate the Essence of Destruction Dao,” yet another thought elaborated.

This deduction was indeed precise. Luo Feng was utilizing the Essence of Life Dao to comprehend the composition of perfect Chaos Layer creatures, then using his “Formless, Faceless” ability to directly transform.

Without the “Formless, Faceless” ability, one would need to study the “Essence of Matter Dao” and material conversion.

“A Chaos Realm cultivator, simultaneously cultivating three Essence Daos? This little fellow is certainly arrogant.”

“It is confirmed that he is simply collecting perfect Chaos Layer creature materials without any ulterior motives. The next intelligence report: Snow Realm Ancestor exchanged for the corpse of a ‘Hump Mountain Beast’ at a great cost.”

“The Hump Mountain Beast is a special lifeform cultivated by Flamewind Ancestor through the gathering of Primal Chaos Bloodline. The beast’s body contains an extremely thin Primal Chaos Bloodline. Snow Realm Ancestor cultivates the ‘Blood Drop Scripture,’ fully comprehending all six branches of the Essence of Life Dao, reaching the ‘Blood Drop as Realm’ boundary. However, he has been unable to break through to the Godking Second Tier. He is likely planning to cultivate using the ‘Primal Chaos Bloodline’.”

“Continue to observe! If he can indeed break through using the Primal Chaos Bloodline, we can invite him to become one of us.”

“Next intelligence report: ‘Snow Demon Godking’ of the Lightning Ancient Kingdom has lost control, devouring the true body of the Thundersand Godking. Thundersand Godking has lost his true body and a Godking Ultimate Realm weapon, suffering immense losses. Thundersand Godking will certainly not let this go…”

They exchanged intelligence.

These ancient beings silently observed Origin Continent.

Any valuable opportunity or powerful treasure would attract the attention of ancient existences, potentially leading to direct theft!

Of course, Luo Feng was merely collecting perfect Chaos Layer creature materials, something these ancient beings wouldn’t even deign to glance at! Furthermore, Luo Feng was in Chu Capital; these ancient beings dared not to go there, to provoke Emperor Chu.

…

Focused on cultivation, time passed swiftly.

In between his cultivation, Luo Feng occasionally accepted missions to earn merit.

There were bounty missions, guard missions, and treasure-grabbing missions. The latter two were troublesome, requiring either a long time or considerable effort. Only bounty missions were relatively simple for Luo Feng, with his Lie Yuan Technique.

“He’s the one.”

Luo Feng was unwilling to cause too much commotion on Origin Continent, so he only accepted bounty missions occasionally.

This time, the bounty was on a peak Chaos Realm expert, “Black Mist Great Sage,” with a reward of a hundred thousand merit points.

“This Black Mist Great Sage cultivates the Essence of Karma Dao,” using his Stealth Transformation technique, Luo Feng arrived at the Black Mist Great Sage’s territory.

It was a relatively remote region, with most of the area 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.

“Carefully inspect everyone returning to the city. Be sure not to be tainted by evil things.” At the city gate of an ordinary city within the Black Mist territory, multiple arrays carefully inspected each returning cultivator.

The cultivators obediently submitted to the inspection.

Suddenly, during a detailed inspection of one of the cultivators, a crimson mark surfaced on their skin.

“Impossible, when was I tainted?” the cultivator exclaimed in despair, their body silently dissolving into nothingness.

“Not good!” The cultivators waiting for inspection were instantly alarmed.

“Anyone who witnessed the crimson mark must undergo a second inspection to ensure they have not been contaminated,” a voice announced. Even the guards, sheltering in a relatively safe place, needed to undergo an inspection. Otherwise, if it spread into the city, the entire city would be engulfed in a calamity.

At that moment–

Luo Feng appeared in the high sky, watching this scene.

“Black Mist Great Sage inflicts ‘Karma Tribulation,’ leaving countless cultivators within his territory living in constant fear. These Karma Marks are transmitted… causing countless cultivators to panic, generating more powerful Karma.”

“He cultivates by borrowing the Karma of the masses, comprehending the Essence of Karma Dao.”

“If the Karma becomes too entangled, he will inflict a Karma Cataclysm, wiping out all the cultivators within a city to completely eliminate the Karma.”

Luo Feng had already known the intelligence about the Black Mist Great Sage.

Complete annihilation was the simplest way to eliminate Karma. The countless cultivators in these cities were indeed deeply entangled in Karma with the Black Mist Great Sage, but ultimately they all faced destruction.

*Whoosh.*

Luo Feng walked above the cities, witnessing the countless cultivators living in constant anxiety, with frequent eruptions of Karma Cataclysms resulting in the deaths of many beings.

“!”

“Found him.” Luo Feng sensed a Chaos Realm aura; it was a merchant living in one of the cities.

The merchant was smiling and conducting business, enthusiastically interacting with some old customers. The cultivators in the city had no idea… that this merchant was the source of the endless evil calamity.

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

The moment they saw Luo Feng, the merchant felt all other things in existence disappear, only seeing an immeasurably towering star! This towering star came crashing down, already crushing the merchant’s mind and will.

*Pfft!*

Their mind and will instantly annihilated, the Black Mist Great Sage completely perished.

Luo Feng was also too cautious, worried that the Black Mist Great Sage might be able to perform a Karma Escape. But in reality… the Black Mist Great Sage only cultivated one branch of the Essence of Karma Dao and was not skilled in Karma Escape techniques.

Luo Feng immediately unleashed his ultimate move, the Lie Yuan Technique, relying on his powerful mind and will to directly crush his enemy. Not even a trace of consciousness remained, making it impossible to even use Reincarnation techniques.

*Bang.* The merchant, still wearing a smile, directly collapsed.

At that moment, the countless cultivators in the hundreds of cities within the Black Mist Great Sage’s territory had no idea that the Karma Tribulation… had completely disappeared from that moment on.

“Collect,” Luo Feng waved his hand, collecting the Black Mist Great Sage’s corpse. “Moro Sath will finally have some food again.”

Luo Feng immediately departed.

…

The complete death of the Black Mist Great Sage also attracted the attention of some powers on Origin Continent.

After all, it was normal for Chaos Realm experts to fight and kill each other, with true bodies being destroyed. However, complete death, the complete disappearance of Karma? That was extremely rare. In just a few eras, North Vast Great Sage and Black Mist Great Sage had consecutively completely perished, prompting some to investigate.

“North Vast Great Sage, Black Mist Great Sage, completely perished one after another within a few eras. They both have great sins, could it be some powerful Godking is intentionally killing these sinners?”

“North Vast Great Sage and Black Mist Great Sage were considered restrained, primarily slaughtering within their own territories. They dared not to affect too large an area. But they still incurred the wrath of an upright and righteous powerhouse?”

This led many forces to speculate.

Completely killing a peak Chaos Realm expert, there were not many powerhouses on Origin Continent who could do so, and Godking First Tier cultivators generally couldn’t. Naturally, they speculated it was the work of some powerful being.

Of course, only two had died, so the commotion wasn’t large.

If ten or eight died completely, the commotion would be much greater, possibly even causing panic among some Chaos Realm cultivators.

“One hundred thousand merit points.” As a personal disciple of the Emperor, Luo Feng’s current authority to claim merit exceeded even a first-class Marquis of the Imperial Clan.

He could submit missions to the Chucapital palace spirit himself.

Chucapital Palace, Hall of Inheritance.

Luo Feng arrived here again.

“I need to watch a glimpse of a Tribulation Beast,” Luo Feng directly told the spirit elder. His mind and will had broken through the Chaos Realm bottleneck to reach the Godking level thanks to the Tribulation Beast diagram. He was naturally very interested in the better glimpse of a Tribulation Beast.

Just watching once was comparable to the inheritance of the first tribulation of the “Eight Tribulation Lifeform,” but the cost was too high, and Luo Feng had only accumulated enough merit points by now.

“Watching a glimpse of a Tribulation Beast?” The spirit elder looked at Luo Feng. “A complete glimpse of a Tribulation Beast, even just its image, requires a Godking-level will to barely maintain consciousness. It’s best to come again after reaching the Godking Second Tier mind and will. A Godking threshold mind and will… is mainly used to stay conscious. You won’t remember much of what you see in the image.”

“Are you sure you still want to watch it?” The spirit elder looked at Luo Feng.

Luo Feng nodded: “Watch it.”

An image was already so terrifying. What kind of origin does this Tribulation Beast have?

“Prepare yourself,” the spirit elder nodded, then he disappeared.

Luo Feng looked at the chaos before him. Suddenly, a vague, enormous figure began to emerge from it…