Chapter 231, Episode 6: The Dream Domain, Dark Region

Luo Feng’s avatars in the Dream Domain usually reside in its outer layers, where the impact on one’s mental will is minimal.

At this moment, a weak avatar explores the path ahead, while a stronger avatar follows behind. This powerful avatar possesses one percent of the energy reserves of a World Lifeform True Body.

“Hoo.” Luo Feng’s two avatars quietly journeyed, traversing independent spaces, and finally arrived at the Dream Domain’s deep region.

“The Dream Domain’s depths.”

Luo Feng grew even more cautious.

Over the long, preceding years, Luo Feng had already attempted exploring the Dream Domain’s depths! Even an ordinary creature here possessed the strength of a Gui Xu Emperor, and some leaders were even at the Emperor level, with dangers lurking everywhere.

“Hmm? The Wanfa Tower Lord has also come looking for me?” Luo Feng paused, temporarily halting his advance.

……

The Food Country territory war had thoroughly proven Luo Feng’s strength! Although the Origin Continent was filled with experts, Luo Feng’s publicly displayed power already placed him among the strongest below the Emperor level.

Following the Old Devil of Space-Time, the Wanfa Tower Lord personally came to see Luo Feng, offering similar conditions.

“The Wanfa Tower Lord is truly as rumored, quite friendly towards us native cultivators,” Luo Feng thought. Of the three alien races, the Palace Lord of Two Realms was tyrannical, the Old Devil of Space-Time was unscrupulous, and the Wanfa Tower Lord was benevolent and compassionate.

The Wanfa Tower Lord was even willing to teach many God Kings how to cultivate.

“Of the four treasures, they value the first two the most: special lifeform remains and secret methods,” Luo Feng mused. After chatting with the Wanfa Tower Lord, his avatar in the Dream Domain continued onward.

“Special lifeform remains exist in only two places! The Dream Domain’s dark region and the deepest part of the Sky Pillar Realm. The Sky Pillar Realm is completely sealed off, so to find special lifeform remains…the only possibility is the Dream Domain’s dark region.”

The Sky Pillar Realm was heavily guarded by the two great ancient nations, and Luo Feng lacked the confidence to confront both nations alone.

Sealing off the Sky Pillar Realm must have been a joint decision made by the ancestors of both ancient nations.

Hoo.

After a long time, Luo Feng finally reached the end of the Dream Domain’s deep region.

“Ahead lies the dark region.” Luo Feng gazed at the darkness before him, where only mental consciousness could penetrate and explore.

“Enter.”

With a thought.

The weak avatar entered first, followed by the strong avatar after a short delay.

Within the dark region, an invisible, terrifying force enveloped Luo Feng’s mental will, constantly dragging it down. If he couldn’t resist, he would completely sink into a dream and fall asleep forever.

“I need to allocate about fifty to sixty percent of my mental strength to resist the dark region’s influence,” Luo Feng thought.

His mental consciousness probed the surroundings.

The surrounding darkness was incredibly heavy. Even with Luo Feng’s mental consciousness, which surpassed the God King level, he could only perceive a range of ten thousand kilometers.

“Pfft.”

The weak avatar exploring the path ahead was suddenly struck by a flash of light and instantly pierced through.

Luo Feng’s weak avatar instantly disintegrated. However, with the extraordinary vitality of the Twenty-Four Phase Form World Lifeform, it recovered from the void. But just as it began to recover, the light flashed again, annihilating Luo Feng’s weak avatar once more.

“I saw it.” As Luo Feng’s weak avatar recovered, he saw the appearance of the “light.”

It was a weapon resembling a silver shuttle.

It was simply too fast. Within Luo Feng’s ten thousand kilometer range, the light would flash, and Luo Feng would inevitably be hit.

“That silver shuttle-like weapon attacked twice, and my weak avatar was completely gone?” Luo Feng was shocked. “Although this weak avatar has very little energy, it is still in the Twenty-Four Phase Lifeform form. Compared to the Ten Direction World Form’s powerful avatar, it’s not that much weaker. Even an Emperor should be able to withstand two or three blows.”

Luo Feng carefully continued forward.

He no longer sent out weak avatars, as discovering the “enemy” within the ten thousand kilometer range meant certain death.

“Hoo.”

Within the dark region, as Luo Feng explored, the land was forged from strange black metal with countless secret patterns.

Walking on this black metallic ground, Luo Feng searched for the “special lifeform remains.”

“Hmm?” Luo Feng suddenly felt a jolt.

At the edge of his ten thousand kilometer range, a flash of light suddenly struck him, piercing through Luo Feng’s body! The speed was so great that Luo Feng had no time to react.

However, this avatar contained one percent of the total energy, equivalent to thirty percent of a perfect divine body’s reserves! The energy was abundant! The body was tough!

Although the light pierced through Luo Feng’s body, it quickly began to recover.

“One strike annihilates approximately one ten-thousandth of my energy reserves?” Luo Feng thought. His robes extended like a vast river, transforming into a mighty silver stream.

The Silver River flowed grandly, enveloping the surroundings.

Luo Feng stood at the center of the Silver River.

“Shu.”

A silver light flashed, attacking from beyond the edge of Luo Feng’s observed range! In a flash, it pierced through the obstruction of the flowing Silver River and then Luo Feng’s body, flying out the other end of the observed range.

“I can’t resist, I can’t entangle it; I can only take the hits,” Luo Feng realized the disparity. “It’s too fast; the moment it attacks, time seems to pause.”

The silver light crossed tens of thousands of kilometers in the instant that time paused.

“I want to influence the surrounding laws of heaven and earth.”

“Even obstructing it with my powerful body is useless.”

Luo Feng was momentarily helpless.

The native creatures of the Dream Domain were immune to all mental will attacks, and Luo Feng’s mental will attacks had no effect on the “silver shuttle.”

His most powerful move, the Great Extinction, had no time to activate before the opponent’s light flashed, traversing from one end of his observed range to the other! Luo Feng couldn’t even lock onto a target.

“How can I fight?” Luo Feng was somewhat bewildered.

The silver shuttle’s attack seemed simple, just one move back and forth. But it was even more terrifying than most Emperors.

“Fortunately, my body’s recovery ability is extremely strong,” Luo Feng thought. Each attack annihilated one ten-thousandth of his energy reserves, but each depleted portion was quickly integrated and restored, regaining most of its strength.

“Shu.” “Shu.” “Shu.” “Shu.” “Shu.” “Shu.” Suddenly, six lights flashed, instantly piercing through Luo Feng’s observed range. This time, the silver shuttle creatures didn’t pause but relentlessly shuttled back and forth, launching a frenzied assault.

“Six silver shuttle creatures?” Luo Feng’s expression changed, and he turned to flee without hesitation.

However, in terms of speed, he was far inferior to these strange silver shuttle creatures.

Luo Feng only managed to flee for a dozen breaths.

The six silver shuttle creatures had already attacked and killed him over twenty thousand times.

“Hoo.”

Luo Feng barely escaped the dark region’s range, returning to the deep region. The six silver shuttle creatures didn’t pursue him further.

“This avatar only has one-third of its energy reserves remaining.” Luo Feng felt some lingering fear. He valued energy reserves greatly because even a full-power absorption from a miniature universe over an entire Era only yielded the energy reserves of approximately one perfect divine body.

The energy he had lost this time would take about two-tenths of an Era to recover.

This was also why Luo Feng didn’t easily use his True Body.

The Dream Domain was such a harsh environment.

The more powerful the avatar, the greater the cost of death. Those Emperors and Monarchs without avatars dared not enter such dangerous environments.

“I encountered six silver shuttle creatures as soon as I entered the dark region? Each silver shuttle creature must be at the Emperor level,” Luo Feng thought. Six Emperors working together in a frenzied attack, even without understanding formations, were still terrifying.

“Let’s try a different entrance.”

Luo Feng pondered.

Immediately, this powerful avatar began to retreat to replenish its energy.

Afterward, still with a powerful avatar containing one percent of his energy reserves, he entered the dark region from another location in the Dream Domain’s deep region.

……

In just a moment.

“Good heavens.”

This time, Luo Feng’s powerful avatar failed to escape.

“The creature I encountered in the dark region this time was too powerful! Much stronger than the previous silver shuttle creatures.” Luo Feng felt a chill. It was a massive creature wreathed in flames with a black metal body.

The massive creature was so large that Luo Feng could only see a portion of its head within his ten thousand kilometer range.

One pounce, and Luo Feng had no escape.

Its collisions and tearing claws only inflicted severe injuries on Luo Feng.

But when it swallowed Luo Feng whole!

The grinding and annihilation within its body caused Luo Feng’s avatar to completely disappear within mere breaths.

“After being swallowed, it’s like entering a giant cage with no escape. One can only wait to die. This already surpasses the strength of normal Emperors and Monarchs.” Luo Feng was speechless.

Two entries.

One encounter involved six silver shuttle creatures, each at the Emperor level.

The other encounter involved a dark flame creature that was much stronger than the six silver shuttle creatures combined.

“How can I explore the dark region? It’s impossible!” Luo Feng understood that even if his True Body entered, encountering the dark flame creature would result in significant energy reserve losses, if not death. “My strength is still insufficient.”

“I only have one move that barely qualifies as an Ultimate Realm technique, the Great Extinction, and I dare not bring ultra-powerful treasures in! Purely relying on physical power, its power doesn’t even match the native creatures. Other aspects are even worse.”

“I need to be more comprehensive!”

“I need more Ultimate Realm techniques, more comprehensive skills in movement, defense, the domain… only then will I be qualified to explore the dark region.” Luo Feng pondered, suddenly feeling puzzled.

“Since these three alien races know that special lifeform remains exist in the dark region, then it means they must have experts who obtained them from the dark region before.”

At that moment, Luo Feng realized there were always people stronger than him.

Even on the Origin Continent, there were still many stronger than him.

“With my current strength, going to the dark region is a death wish. I should explore the deep region instead. The natural treasures there should be much more abundant than in the middle region,” Luo Feng thought.

The value of “special lifeform remains” in the dark region was extremely high, but he currently lacked the ability to obtain them.

He should lower his sights and explore the deep region first.

“After all, the experts of the Origin Continent mainly explore the middle region. Some natural treasures can be worth millions of merits. The treasures in the deep region are even more valuable.”

“Maybe I can find a treasure worth over a billion merits.”

Treasures worth over a billion merits were also coveted by the three alien races and the two ancestors, who constantly purchased them.

With such treasures, he should be able to exchange for what he needed.

“Dark region… someday, I will come and thoroughly explore your secrets.” Luo Feng’s avatar in the Dream Domain began carefully exploring the deep region! The danger level of the deep region was significantly lower.

Most creatures here were at the Gui Xu Emperor level.

Even the more powerful leaders were at the Emperor level and acted alone, allowing Luo Feng’s powerful avatar to escape.

Of course, encountering extremely powerful clans or terrifying leaders still posed the risk of avatar annihilation.

……

In the days that followed, Luo Feng occasionally explored the Dream Domain’s deep region, focusing primarily on cultivation.

Exploring the Dream Domain was not without risk.

Each death meant losing an avatar with “one percent of his energy reserves,” requiring slow cultivation to recover. Naturally, he needed to control the number of explorations. Furthermore, he needed to make his True Body even larger so that the miniature universe’s absorption of energy would exceed the consumption rate of Dream Domain exploration.

Luo Feng would store the treasures he obtained from the Dream Domain with his outer layer avatar.

When the Reincarnation Small Building team came to the Dream Domain, Luo Feng would take the opportunity to send a powerful avatar in and then have the team take his accumulated treasures out with them when they left the Dream Domain.