## Chapter 280, Episode Seven: The Great Dao of Life and Death, the Ultimate Realm

Luo Feng sat cross-legged, the “Eye of Simulated Life and Death” on his brow opened, observing a thick bone before him. Although the Eye of Simulated Life and Death couldn’t match the observational abilities of a High-Level Primordial Lifeform, it was still an extremely formidable observation secret art at the God Emperor level.

“The mysteries of life can be utilized in such a way.” As Luo Feng watched the secret patterns within the thick bone, he felt suddenly enlightened, gaining new understanding.

Luo Feng had purchased over three hundred fragments of Low-Level Innate Primordial Lifeforms. Some were of the life category, others of the destruction category, and still others were combinations of life and destruction. Moreover, these mysteries all surpassed the level of a Complete Dao.

“These are exactly what I need.” Luo Feng completely immersed himself, focusing all his attention on comprehension.

Low-Level Primordial Lifeform, High-Level Primordial Lifeform, World-Class Primordial Lifeform, Primordial Ancestor. Each step forward was a massive transformation of the essence of life. The complexity of the secret patterns contained within also underwent a qualitative change.

Luo Feng realized…

His best method of comprehension should be from low to high, studying the mysteries of each level and laying a sufficiently solid foundation! In this way, the difficulty of comprehending the blood-colored scale on the ‘Star Tower’ would also be greatly reduced.

“A tower of ten thousand zhang begins with a level ground. These fragments of Low-Level Primordial Lifeforms are the foundation of that tower.” Luo Feng patiently absorbed all kinds of knowledge.

Comprehending these secret patterns, Luo Feng’s ‘Dao of Destruction’ naturally broke through, reaching the Ultimate Realm.

Having arrived in the Nine Rivers Holy World for only half a Ji, the Dao of Destruction had officially reached its Ultimate! Of course, this was also because the Dao of Destruction was already on the verge of a breakthrough.

Time flowed by.

Finally, Luo Feng had comprehended all 300-plus fragments once.

“That was a superficial comprehension,” Luo Feng said, somewhat surprised. “Has it actually been thirty-six Ji?”

“Begin consuming Primordial Crystals.”

He hadn’t consumed any treasures during the first round of comprehension.

Now, as Luo Feng consumed Primordial Crystals, his state greatly improved. He began to sort through the knowledge he had gained during the first round, organizing it and integrating it into his own cultivation system.

Merely sorting and thinking took Luo Feng another fifteen Ji.

“If I hadn’t come to the Nine Rivers Holy World and encountered so many fragments of Low-Level Primordial Lifeforms, relying solely on my own closed-door cultivation, when would I have been able to comprehend so many mysteries?” Luo Feng was quite pleased.

The blood-colored scale of the Star Tower was like a beacon at the furthest reaches of the path of cultivation.

It was too far away from Luo Feng.

Like a mortal, able to see a star in the distance. But could he ever reach it? The dark path was too far, filled with danger.

Therefore, more resources were needed to overcome the layers of obstacles.

“Begin the second round of comprehension.”

This time, Luo Feng was in a state of enhanced comprehension, meticulously studying the fragments while consuming Primordial Crystals.

This round of comprehension was clearly much faster, taking only twelve Ji. Another six Ji were spent integrating it into his own knowledge system. In the process, the Ultimate Realm secret arts of the Dao of Life and Death naturally emerged for Luo Feng to create.

Once enough was accumulated, creating secret arts was a simple matter.

“Begin the third round.”

Luo Feng picked up a nearby bottle. Inside were three pills, the ‘Heaven and Earth as One Pills,’ extremely cost-effective cultivation treasures in his weaker stage, each costing thirty thousand Primordial Crystals.

This was much more extravagant than consuming Primordial Crystals, but the effect was also far greater.

The Heaven and Earth as One Pill was a cyan sphere, radiating a faint white light and stimulating the fluctuations of many rules and mysteries, as if it wanted to merge into the rules of heaven and earth at any moment. Luo Feng used a strand of power to control it and immediately swallowed it.

The pill entered his mouth.

“Boom!”

Luo Feng felt his entire body, even his soul, become one with the rules of heaven and earth. The speed of his thoughts soared. Looking around, inspirations flashed in his mind. His state was incredibly wondrous!

“Comprehend these fragments for the third time.” Luo Feng began his comprehension.

With the foundation of the previous two rounds, and aided by the ‘Heaven and Earth as One Pill,’ Luo Feng’s comprehension went straight to the essence, understanding the deeper mysteries of life and destruction.

“Life, destruction…”

Time passed, and Luo Feng was immersed in it.

The joy of seeking the Dao overflowed in his heart.

Unknowingly, the pill’s effects wore off, and Luo Feng immediately consumed the second, completely immersed in comprehension.

While the effects of the second pill were still ongoing, Luo Feng completed the third round of comprehension. Afterward, he began to sort and integrate.

“Boom.”

In the process, his understanding of the Dao of Life and Death constantly improved, and he naturally comprehended the complete ‘Dao of Life and Death.’ Luo Feng didn’t stop; he even consumed the third pill and continued to comprehend.

The knowledge of life and death constantly collided and merged.

“Hmm?”

Luo Feng suddenly felt his brain become sluggish and suffered violent fatigue and stinging pain. His condition became extremely poor.

“The effects are gone?” Luo Feng finally stopped his cultivation.

“What a great pill. These Heaven and Earth as One Pills can be consumed up to ten times in a row. But after consuming ten, the soul will be injured and require several Ji of rest with the aid of certain treasures. If it’s only three or five, it’s just extreme fatigue.” Luo Feng smiled.

“This closed-door cultivation lasted eighty-seven Ji.”

“The effect is better than two thousand Ji of comprehension in the Origin Continent,” Luo Feng was certain. With the help of so many resources, the effect was indeed dozens of times greater. The key was that in the Origin Continent, he couldn’t come into contact with enough fragments of Low-Level Primordial Lifeforms, which could lead to a bottleneck.

New knowledge could cause his mind to flash with inspiration and break through the bottleneck.

“The Dao of Life and Death has reached the Ultimate Realm.” Luo Feng was not surprised at all.

In the Origin Continent, he had already comprehended eight ‘Ultimate Realm’ secret arts of the Dao of Life and Death. Accumulating more than a dozen more was enough to break through. This time, merely comprehending the knowledge of the fragments allowed him to naturally break through.

“Life, destruction, and life and death…I’m certain about the future direction of these three paths as well.” Luo Feng smiled.

In terms of high-level insights, there was the Star Tower, the Eye of Life and Death, and the fragments of two kinds of special lifeforms.

In terms of basic secret patterns, there were also a large number of fragments of Low-Level Primordial Lifeforms.

With enough knowledge, Luo Feng became more and more certain about the future.

“My path of life, the future direction, is to pursue ‘the larger the life, the better, the more powerful the source of life, the better’.” Luo Feng confirmed.

Big is good.

As vast as the Origin World.

Even vaster than the Origin World.

“My life, no longer limited! The bigger the better, as long as I can control it, I will pursue the ultimate size,” Luo Feng thought.

Other cultivators would not dare to do so.

A purely large lifeform had many shortcomings. For example, its killing ability, escape ability, and many other aspects would be weak, easily targeted by enemies.

“The path of destruction, the pursuit is extreme killing means, no need to care about anything else, just killing!”

These two paths were going to extremes.

Normal cultivators would not do this; there were too many flaws.

Luo Feng also had the ‘Dao of Life and Death’ to fuse the two.

“My path of life and death is to fuse the two into one.”

Luo Feng was very clear.

All three directions were difficult for him. The more extreme the paths of life and destruction became, the more difficult it would be to fuse the two extremes together.

But Luo Feng faintly saw such a path in the ‘blood-colored scale’ of the Star Tower. That blood-colored scale made Luo Feng feel an endless, vast, terrifying lifeform. But the ‘killing’ aspect of that terrifying lifeform was still weak.

Luo Feng felt that both were indispensable.

To bring out the most powerful aspects of the ‘blood-colored scale’ and make up for its weaknesses, that was his path.

“This path is very difficult, I’m only just beginning.” Luo Feng was still very excited because he finally had a vague plan for his ‘escape from the cage.’

He was also aware that the vague plan would surely encounter many obstacles in the process of moving forward.

One step at a time.

“Now, I need more fragments of Low-Level Primordial Lifeforms,” Luo Feng thought.

Low-Level Primordial Lifeforms ranged in strength from God Emperor Early-Stage to God Emperor Peak-Stage. The stronger the lifeform, the deeper the mysteries of the secret patterns. The 300-plus fragments Luo Feng bought averaged around 300 Primordial Crystals, clearly a very cheap category.

“After some more preparation, I’ll go out hunting with Di Qing.”

Luo Feng first consumed Primordial Crystals to recuperate for some time. Afterward, based on the complete ‘Dao of Life and Death,’ he created some secret arts suitable for his five clones.

Comprehending a complete Dao meant that any random move was an Ultimate Realm secret art. He could even combine many moves to create forbidden techniques and killing moves, which could qualitatively change their power.

This was why a ‘God Emperor Early-Stage Dao Comprehender’ was comparable to a ‘God Emperor Mid-Stage Primordial Bloodline Cultivator.’

Unknowingly, another three Ji had passed.

“It’s time to leave seclusion.” Luo Feng felt well-prepared and immediately stood up and walked out of the quiet room.

…

Di Qing knew Luo Feng was in seclusion; he was very patient.

When he first came to the Nine Rivers Holy World, he also purchased many resources to improve his strength before venturing out to hunt.

“Di Ming and Di Fu have gone out again?” Di Qing shook his head slightly. “They are quite diligent in going out.”

When Di Ming and Di Fu went out, they didn’t bring a single Primordial Crystal! Absolutely penniless!

Naturally, they weren’t afraid of being stolen from. They wandered around Yulan City, looking for opportunities.

They even went to some merchants to look at the remains.

Although they could only observe through an independent space and couldn’t examine them closely, they could at least gain something.

“Di Fu is too weak; it’s difficult to find work even in Yulan City. But Di Ming, in terms of his Primordial Bloodline, barely reaches God Emperor Early-Stage strength. He should be able to find a job,” Di Qing thought, “but he seems unwilling.”

Di Qing was too lazy to care about that. Providing free accommodation was already a great help.

Suddenly—

Di Qing sensed Luo Feng walk out of his space.

“Di Qing.” Luo Feng also saw Di Qing in the distance at a glance.

“Out of seclusion?” Di Qing said in surprise. “Why so fast? Coming to the Nine Rivers Holy World for the first time, you still need to comprehend those resources properly.”

“It’s about time.” Luo Feng smiled. “I’m going to buy suitable weapons and secret treasures, and then I can go out hunting.”

“Oh?” Di Qing revealed a look of joy. They could go out hunting?