## Chapter 265: Episode Six – Victory or Defeat

Luo Feng was left with no other choice. Under the influence of those nine bizarre powers, he simply couldn’t unleash much of his true strength. Without utilizing a secret treasure, he wouldn’t have even a sliver of a chance to win the duel against Thunder Ancestor.

Now, shielded by the Star Tower, he could more easily contend with his opponent.

Of course, simply hiding inside the tower without retaliating would still be considered a loss! He had to engage in head-on combat and gain the upper hand to secure victory in this bet.

“Is that the nine-layered tower?” Thunder Ancestor knew of Luo Feng’s clash with Emperor Qing and was aware of the existence of this nine-layered pagoda.

“Thunder Ancestor, in this duel, I can only rely on a secret treasure to have even a glimmer of hope,” Luo Feng announced. “Be careful.”

“I’ve cultivated for several eras longer than you; it’s inherently unfair to begin with,” Thunder Ancestor replied with a smile. “Feel free to unleash any secret treasures you possess. As long as you gain even the slightest advantage, I will concede defeat.”

*Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!*

In an instant, Luo Feng’s body transformed into an endless river of blood. The most basic unit of life in this endless blood river remained the “multi-hoofed clawed creature” form. Only its external appearance had changed, becoming a river of blood.

The blood river instantly enveloped Thunder Ancestor.

“Hmm?” Thunder Ancestor could sense that the river water was incredibly heavy, forming a spatial cage that sought to imprison him. Furthermore, there was a power attempting to penetrate his body, seeking to tear it apart.

Thunder Ancestor stood motionless, only an invisible force flowing around his body’s surface. His physique was perfectly complete, impenetrable to any external force, unshakeable.

Luo Feng had once, single-handedly, suppressed the combined might of eight Emperors!

Compared to that time, the most fundamental energy composing the blood river had evolved from the “twenty-four phase form” into the “multi-hoofed clawed creature” form. Luo Feng’s realm had also advanced significantly.

“Interesting,” Thunder Ancestor remarked, playfully splashing at the blood river. The entire endless river trembled violently, beginning to shatter in numerous locations.

“Go!”

Luo Feng, still transformed into the endless blood river, instantly released the Star Tower, unleashing his killer move.

After obtaining the Eye of Creation and Destruction, Luo Feng had gained a deeper understanding of the twelve-colored “blood-colored scales” at the edge, finally comprehending the nine-branched secret technique of the Dao of Creation and Destruction, named “Meteor”! By utilizing the Star Tower’s secret patterns, he could elevate this move to an extremely terrifying level.

*Boom!*

The Star Tower was like a meteor, instantly streaking across the void of the Universe Ocean.

“Hmm?”

Thunder Ancestor and Flamewind Ancestor, who was watching from afar, both had a change in expression! Their experience and insight were extraordinary. The scene of the Star Tower streaking across the void of the Universe Ocean like a meteor… Time was frozen, and space was naturally separated.

At this moment, the Star Tower was indestructible.

Thunder Ancestor couldn’t avoid this attack either, because the instant he saw this meteor, it had *simultaneously* struck his body.

*Rumble, rumble, rumble!* Thunder Ancestor staggered back a few steps after taking the blow. The power restriction of the Supreme Rules was like shackles, completely binding his strength.

Of course, the Star Tower’s power was similarly heavily restricted.

With equalized power, the Star Tower had knocked him back.

“An incredibly powerful secret treasure! It must be a top-tier secret treasure!” Thunder Ancestor was now absolutely certain. “This attack froze time, separated space, and condensed matter to its absolute limit, making it virtually indestructible! It must be a precious treasure crafted by Senior Yuan and the others.”

“To be able to knock back Thunder despite such a large difference in realm, relying on a secret treasure… it must be worth over 100,000 reward points in the Infinite Space,” Flamewind Ancestor thought similarly.

Only a treasure of that caliber could create such miracles.

“Hahaha…”

Thunder Ancestor laughed heartily. From far away in all directions, thunderous figures began to materialize, a total of eight Thunder clones.

The nine Thunder Ancestors naturally formed a massive formation. The formation spun, rapidly suppressing the operation of time, space, matter, life, and many other Great Daos! Luo Feng’s endless blood river also became much calmer. Only the “Star Tower,” transformed into a meteor, continued to tear through the formation, repeatedly slamming into Thunder Ancestor’s true form and clones.

However, under the formation’s suppression, the Star Tower’s counterattacks had become significantly weakened.

“Even without using a treasure, I can’t suppress this nine-layered tower.” As the nine Thunder Ancestors watched the Star Tower repeatedly tear through the formation and charge toward them, a hint of greed flickered in the depths of their eyes.

He craved such a treasure. Unfortunately, he knew that Galaxy Lord wouldn’t give him the chance to bring this pagoda out of Origin Continent.

Thunder Ancestor waved his hand, throwing out an ancient, unadorned stone pillar.

The stone pillar became the core of the entire formation, making the formation formed by the nine Thunder Ancestors even stronger. The suppression of time, space, matter, life, and numerous other Great Daos became even more terrifying.

At this moment, Luo Feng himself was completely suppressed. Although the Star Tower could still charge forward, it was already lost within the formation, unable to touch Thunder Ancestor.

“To actually force Thunder to use a secret treasure,” Flamewind Ancestor watched from afar, quite astonished. Thunder Ancestor was a half-Primal Chaos lifeform. Even without using any treasures, he should have been able to suppress this Galaxy Lord.

But to be forced to use a secret treasure!

This showed how special that nine-layered tower was…

“The difference between them is too great,” Emperor Qing observed. “Even with the nine-layered tower, Brother Galaxy won’t be able to win. To force Thunder Ancestor to use a secret treasure is already remarkable enough.”

…

“Galaxy, do you have any other tricks up your sleeve?” Thunder Ancestor asked. “If you don’t, just concede.”

The endless blood river instantly coalesced into Luo Feng, who looked at Thunder Ancestor with admiration. “Thunder Ancestor, your realm is indeed much higher than mine. Therefore, I must use a forbidden technique.”

“A forbidden technique?” Thunder Ancestor exclaimed in surprise, then laughed. “Feel free to unleash any forbidden technique you have.”

Luo Feng nodded, but his consciousness entered the interior of the Star Tower. At this moment, the Eye of Creation and Destruction on Luo Feng’s forehead opened!

He peered at the “twelve-colored blood-colored scales” inside the Star Tower. As Luo Feng gazed upon them, he couldn’t see any weaknesses or points of destruction. He only felt that they were perfectly complete and powerful.

However, Luo Feng could see the point of greatest vitality within these blood-colored scales. He had attempted this over the long years before.

“Although I don’t fully understand it, with the help of the Eye of Creation and Destruction, I can mobilize a trace of the true, terrifying power of these blood-colored scales.” Under the observation of his Eye of Creation and Destruction, Luo Feng rapidly activated the secret patterns in the deepest regions of the Star Tower. Previously, he had only been able to activate the shallow patterns, as he didn’t understand the deeper ones.

But with the Eye of Creation and Destruction revealing the location of greatest vitality, and through countless attempts over the years, Luo Feng had finally figured out a method to mobilize a trace of this power. This was the reason he dared to bet against Thunder Ancestor.

*Buzz.* As he mobilized the power, a trace of blood color extended from the “twelve-colored blood-colored scales” and began to taint the entire Star Tower.

The Star Tower was now a blood-colored pagoda.

“Hmm?”

From afar, Thunder Ancestor and Flamewind Ancestor saw the change in color of the nine-layered pagoda and felt a faint sense of suppression in their hearts.

“I’ve heard that some treasures worth over 100,000 reward points are crafted from the materials of world-level Primal Chaos lifeforms, while others are even made from the corpses of Primal Chaos Ancestors.” Looking at the current Star Tower, Thunder Ancestor recognized that its terrifying aura contained a trace of something even more terrifying than the Primal Chaos shackles. “This pagoda must be such a treasure.”

“Go.”

The Star Tower streaked across the void of the Universe Ocean once more.

This time, everything in its path was pierced through. Space-time and formations were all pierced through, instantly striking Thunder Ancestor’s true form and sending him flying backward in a disheveled state.

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“Thunder World, Ten Absolutes Grand Formation!” Thunder Ancestor could no longer hold back, and threw out his most powerful formation.

As a practitioner from the Origin World, if his clones fighting abroad were killed, he could always send out more clones!

Therefore, he had kept many of his most precious treasures in his Origin World. For example, Thunder Ancestor had two copies of his most powerful “Thunder World Ten Absolutes Grand Formation.” One set was carried with him, while the other was stored in his Origin World for backup.

He couldn’t afford to hold back any longer, and went all out.

He never imagined that he would be forced to use his most powerful formation in the Origin Continent.

*Rumble, rumble, rumble!*

Ten thunderous figures appeared around him, each controlling a grand formation. The ten grand formations merged perfectly into one, transforming into a Thunder World. The Thunder World naturally had operating rules that suppressed all foreign powers.

“Suppress!” Thunder Ancestor went all out, wanting to suppress the Star Tower.

*Rumble, rumble, rumble!*

The blood-colored Star Tower still forcefully pierced through the formation. The formation could not suppress it.

“These ten formations are simply a maze.” Luo Feng frowned slightly. The Star Tower charged wildly, bursting from one formation into another, but couldn’t touch Thunder Ancestor at all.

“The difference in realm is too great. Even if the Star Tower is strong, it can’t touch him,” Luo Feng thought.

Immediately, his Eye of Creation and Destruction carefully observed the Thunder World.

Under the gaze of the Eye of Creation and Destruction, the space-time structure, energy circulation, and the combination of the ten formations became much clearer. Luo Feng immediately spotted dozens of weaknesses in the formation’s operation.

As the formation operated, these weaknesses were constantly changing.

“Go.”

Luo Feng’s Eye of Creation and Destruction had seen through the formation, and his will moved.

The Star Tower flashed.

Instantly, it followed the formation’s weaknesses, piercing through numerous spatial obstructions, and slammed into Thunder Ancestor’s body, who was hiding in the depths of the Thunder World, sending him staggering and flying backward.

“How is this possible? How could he find me?” Thunder Ancestor couldn’t believe it.

Although he was a Primal Chaos bloodline practitioner, this formation had been crafted by a half-Primal Chaos Dao Comprehender that he had requested. Breaking through this formation was no easy feat.

Thunder Ancestor took a step and immediately hid in another part of the Thunder World.

*Whoosh.*

Resisting the Thunder World’s suppression, the Star Tower once again pierced through the formation’s weaknesses and struck Thunder Ancestor’s body.

Once, twice, three times.

He was struck repeatedly.

Under the power restrictions of the Origin Continent, neither could truly injure the other. Therefore, the bet was over who gained the upper hand. And now, the situation was very clear.

“I’ve lost,” Thunder Ancestor declared, dispelling the formation and looking at Luo Feng with complex emotions.

He had said that Galaxy Lord had a glimmer of hope, but deep down, he didn’t believe he would lose! In his view, even with a super-powerful secret treasure, Galaxy Lord couldn’t win against him.

“A junior who hasn’t left the Origin World can actually suppress me with the help of a secret treasure?” Thunder Ancestor’s mood was complex.

“The Origin Continent restricts power. Only with power equal to the Ancestor’s can I gain a slight advantage,” Luo Feng said. “If we were outside, I’m afraid I wouldn’t even have the ability to retaliate.”

One force defeats ten skills.

Luo Feng knew very well that if the power difference were too great, the Star Tower might even be snatched away.

“A win is a win,” Thunder Ancestor shook his head lightly. “I can afford to lose! Lan Duo, I will personally deal with him.”

With those words, Thunder Ancestor took a step and departed.

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