Chapter 257: Sixth Episode, Second Realm of the Great Dao of Life and Destruction

Luo Feng comprehended the profound secret patterns within the Star Tower. Countless patterns spiraled and delved deeper, until even time began to stagnate as he peered into the deepest recesses. Beyond that, the patterns began to glow with iridescent colors.

These colored patterns spiraled towards a place where a blood-red scale, edged with twelve colors, lay.

This single blood-red scale was like a supreme law.

It was supreme and unparalleled.

It was indestructible through countless eons, eternally unyielding.

“The Star Tower’s secret patterns… their core essence is the ‘profundity, solidity, and eternal permanence of life’.” Luo Feng had observed it countless times. Directly confronting the blood-red scale exerted constant, polluting pressure upon his mind and will.

Luo Feng temporarily withdrew from his observation and began to circulate his own power.

“嗡.”

A phantom tower emerged, a triangular pyramid in shape, gradually solidifying as its surface swirled with secret patterns.

Hua!

Suddenly, the phantom tower collapsed.

“To create a ‘nine-branch fusion secret art’… why is it so difficult?” Luo Feng sighed softly.

It was like an ordinary Godking in the second realm; creating some peak Godking second realm secret arts wasn’t hard, but to create an ‘Ultimate Realm secret art,’ the difficulty spiked immediately! Like Emperor Gui Xu, Godking Wu Xin, some Emperors of the Yanfeng Ancient Kingdom, and the monarchs of the Thunder Ancient Kingdom – after spending endless years, they had only created a few Ultimate Realm secret arts.

The same principle applied.

Regarding the eight-branch fusion techniques of the Great Dao of Life and Destruction, Luo Feng had created nine secret arts thus far.

Like the previous ‘Great Extinction Strike,’ ‘Heavenly Light Silver Shuttle,’ ‘Dark Light Stealth Technique,’ ‘Blood Drop,’ and ‘Cage’ – these five moves had also been perfected to the eight-branch fusion level.

“Eight-branch fusion is already easy for me; I’ve created nine secret arts. But nine-branch fusion techniques… I can’t create even one.” Luo Feng shook his head lightly.

A nine-branch fusion technique of the Great Dao of Life and Destruction was an Ultimate Realm technique of that Great Dao. The difficulty was far greater than that of eight-branch techniques.

Conversely, the Great Daos of Life and Destruction were easier because of accurate Great Dao guidance. Luo Feng had also exchanged for a Destruction Scale and Lotus Heart Seed, and could now create Ultimate Realm secret arts in those areas.

“Pure Great Daos of Life and Destruction… their Ultimate Realm secret arts don’t feel that difficult.”

“The fused Great Dao of Life and Destruction, nine-branch fusion… it’s extremely difficult.”

Luo Feng attempted to condense a phantom Star Tower with his own power.

The phantom Star Tower would protect him, pursuing the ultimate in defense!

“Why is the phantom Star Tower I condense triangular pyramid-shaped, and not in the form of a nine-story pagoda?” Luo Feng realized he was still far off; even a true nine-branch fusion was only a superficial understanding of the Star Tower.

Luo Feng could only calm his mind and focus on cultivation.

“Where is the problem with the phantom Star Tower? Why can’t it stabilize?” Luo Feng carefully studied the mysteries of the secret patterns, as days passed.

Suddenly, one day…

Long-term comprehension accumulated and resulted in qualitative change.

Within Luo Feng’s mind, four branches of the Great Dao of Life and Destruction – the ‘Heavenly Light Branch,’ ‘Blood Drop Branch,’ ‘Traveler Branch,’ and ‘Eternal Branch’ – suddenly fused perfectly, without a trace of confusion remaining.

The Great Dao of Life and Destruction thus entered the Godking second realm!

From then on, Luo Feng was in the Godking second realm on all three paths of Life, Destruction, and Life and Destruction. Of course, the first two paths were much easier, and he had created several Ultimate Realm secret arts on them.

“Hahaha, I had to create nine types of ‘eight-branch fusion techniques’ before the Great Dao of Life and Destruction entered the Godking second realm. Without accurate Great Dao reference, the accumulation required is indeed far too high.” Luo Feng was in a good mood. “I wonder how high a reward Infinite Space will give.”

Infinite Space placed great emphasis on willpower and the creation of new Great Daos.

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Infinite Space.

On a heart-shaped island in a lake, there were no mental lifeforms, only a clone of Luo Feng. Mist spread, obscuring most of the lake.

“Great Dao of Life and Destruction, second realm.” Luo Feng sat cross-legged on the island’s shore, looking at the lake before him. With a thought, he began to display the mysteries of the Great Dao.

Hu.

A wisp of power detached from Luo Feng and flew out, drawing a trajectory in the air, easily cutting through all the layers of space and even creating black cracks in the fundamental membrane of Infinite Space. Afterwards, that wisp of power condensed into a drop of blood.

This drop of blood transformed into a star, slowly rolling across the heavens and earth, causing the world to tremble.

Then, this tiny star transformed into a dark abyss, naturally devouring all directions.

The dark abyss then collapsed, turning into a point of light. As soon as the light point formed, a terrifying domain spread in all directions.

…

With just a wisp of power, he fully displayed the many mysteries of the four branches of the Great Dao of Life and Destruction: the ‘Heavenly Light Branch,’ ‘Blood Drop Branch,’ ‘Traveler Branch,’ and ‘Eternal Branch.’ Only by fully comprehending the mysteries could he be so unrestrained, freely fusing and transforming the four branches at will.

Finally…

“嗡.”

An imprint on Luo Feng’s palm transmitted a message.

“Trial-taker: Luo Feng of the Origin Continent”

“Using the Great Daos of Life and Destruction as a foundation, you have pioneered a new Great Dao. Evaluation of the new Great Dao: Special Grade. Reward: 100,000 points. On this new Great Dao, you have finally taken the second step. You must continue to work hard to completely master this Great Dao.”

“Before mastering a complete Great Dao, your willpower successfully broke through the limits of Godking. Willpower Evaluation: Special Grade. Reward: 100,000 points. Your willpower is excellent. Perhaps, you can go even further?”

“Reminder: It is forbidden to kill any mental lifeforms. Violators will be completely expelled from Infinite Space.”

“Total reward points: 184,193.03 points.” Luo Feng understood the message’s content and was quite excited.

Pioneering a new Great Dao and reaching the Godking second realm had earned him 100,000 points! Adding the 100,000 points gained when his willpower exceeded the Godking level, this massive 200,000 points was his greatest fortune yet.

Having been in Infinite Space for so long, Luo Feng had always been cautious in spending his reward points.

His major expenditures had been primarily on the Lotus Heart Seed and the Destruction Scale!

As for exchanging for inheritances, he mainly focused on inheritances for the Godking first and second realms! He still hadn’t been willing to exchange for those extremely expensive inheritances.

“I can’t kill any mental lifeforms, so the only way to get reward points… is to pioneer Great Daos and continue to improve my willpower.” Luo Feng thought.

“According to the information description, completely mastering the ‘Great Dao of Life and Destruction’ should give a reward.”

But Luo Feng also understood one thing.

Great Daos like Time, Space, Life, Boundless, Destruction, etc., already existed within the Supreme Rules. Even so, in the Origin Continent’s long history, in this era, only Emperor Qing and the Myriad Realms Country Lord were able to comprehend a complete Great Dao on their own!

The Great Dao of Life and Destruction had no reference! To comprehend a complete ‘Great Dao of Life and Destruction’… the difficulty was imaginable.

“Ordinary Great Daos have guidance. Those Emperors and Monarchs can comprehend five or six types of Ultimate Realm secret arts, but may still not be able to comprehend the Great Dao. From this, one can infer that the Great Dao of Life and Destruction has no guidance, so one must probably comprehend at least ten types of Ultimate Realm secret arts before hoping to comprehend the Great Dao.”

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“What does it mean to go a step further with willpower?” Luo Feng was somewhat puzzled.

Before mastering a Great Dao, reaching God Emperor-level willpower earned a Special Grade evaluation.

So what could be a step higher?

“Forget it.”

Luo Feng began to browse the Infinite Space treasure trove.

“Hmm?” Luo Feng was somewhat surprised. “I still can’t see the ‘Godking Ultimate Chapter’ of the Perfect Grade Inheritance?”

Perfect Grade inheritances, Godking second realm chapter, generally required 10,000 reward points. The Ultimate Chapter? Luo Feng’s current reward points weren’t even enough to qualify for a glance.

According to Infinite Space’s pricing model, the Ultimate Realm chapter was generally 20 times the price of the Godking second realm chapter.

“I have Special Grade evaluations in two areas, but I still don’t qualify to see the ‘Perfect Grade Inheritance’s Ultimate Realm Chapter.’ Just how talented does one have to be to qualify to learn the Perfect Grade Inheritance’s Ultimate Chapter?” Luo Feng lamented inwardly.

“Using No Form No Appearance, the limit to which I can transform are the Origin Continent’s Ultimate Realm Primal Chaos Lifeforms,” Luo Feng thought. “I don’t cultivate the Great Dao of Material Essence, so there’s no need to exchange for the Ultimate Realm Chapter of ‘World Lifeform’.”

These reward points had to be used wisely.

Luo Feng carefully read the information on each inheritance.

“Let me look at the treasure information.”

Luo Feng was very interested in those treasures, because according to Senior Yuan, treasures starting from 100,000 reward points offered some assistance in ‘breaking free from the cage,’ something outside cultivators desperately desired.

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The top-ranked treasure, a sword, required 180,000 reward points to exchange.

This sword was crafted from the corpse of a Primal Chaos Ancestor, made for cultivators of the Thunder, Destruction, and Material paths to exchange. Comprehending it offered a chance to break free from the cage.

Reminder: This type of treasure is best left in the origin world for comprehension. Never take it out of the origin world, otherwise, the consequences will be endless!

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The second-ranked treasure, the Space-Time Mirror, required 180,000 reward points to exchange.

This was a precious mirror refined from a unique treasure in the Primal Chaos Space. With this mirror, one could retain memories and reincarnate into any origin world, unaffected by any of the origin world’s Supreme Rules.

Cultivating in different origin worlds, under different Supreme Rules, would be greatly beneficial for cultivation.

Reminder: 1. Time or Space path cultivators are best suited to exchange for this treasure. Other path cultivators will gain relatively less.

2. This treasure must never be taken out of the origin world.

…

Treasure after treasure left Luo Feng dumbfounded.

“Even if one gets Special Grade evaluations in both pioneering a Great Dao and willpower, exchanging for just one of these treasures would leave barely any reward points.” Luo Feng felt how high the threshold was for exchanging for these types of treasures.

In Senior Yuan’s arrangement, even the most dazzlingly talented geniuses could only exchange for one of these treasures!

“One must be talented enough to not waste such treasures.”

Luo Feng continued to look.

Suddenly…

The 34th-ranked treasure, the Eye of Life and Destruction, required 120,000 reward points to exchange.

This was an eye ‘The Eye of Life and Destruction’, refined from the complete corpse of a world-class Primal Chaos lifeform, the ‘Life and Destruction Pupil Beast.’ With this eye, one could discern the ‘life force’ of all things and also discern the ‘destructive weaknesses’ of all things.

Life and Destruction path cultivators are best suited to exchange for this treasure, as it can be used to comprehend the mysteries of Life and Destruction, which helps break free from the cage.

Reminder: This treasure must never be taken out of the origin world.

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“What a treasure.” Luo Feng’s heart burned with desire.

The other higher-ranked treasures also included some suitable for Destruction and some suitable for Life.

But the Eye of Life and Destruction was suitable for both Life and Destruction.