“Hunyuan City is the first city in the entire Dark Sacred Realm, and the Large Hunyuan Hall also possesses countless resources,” Bo Xiu said with a smile. “Brother Luo Feng, you have enough merit points, so you can exchange for even more resources there.”

The red-robed youth, Chi Zheng, said, “Brother Luo Feng, you are carrying trillions of Hunyuan Crystals. Once we leave Chengfeng City, you’re very likely to be robbed! Even if the three of us team up with you, we might not be able to handle the danger.”

“It would be best to gather more than ten peak-tier existences,” Bo Xiu suggested. “Brother Luo Feng, you already possessed peak-tier strength before even arriving in the Dark Sacred Realm. It should be easy to gather some peak-tier existences in Chengfeng City who are willing to help.”

“No need.” Luo Feng gently shook his head. “There’s no need for such trouble. Asking peak-tier existences for escort means owing them favors, and debts of favors must be repaid!”

“The three of you can simply depart with me,” Luo Feng said.

“Us?” Bo Xiu and Chi Zheng were both somewhat startled.

Liulong God-Emperor couldn’t help but add, “Brother Luo Feng, we mentioned earlier that the faction led by Secret Ruin God-Emperor, as well as the Eight Friends of Tianlang, are potential robbers. We won’t be able to stop their plundering!”

Bo Xiu nodded. “The Eight Friends of Tianlang received a gift from the Tianlang Guest. Although their temperament changed drastically, their strength has increased. Once all eight of them team up… the three of us won’t last many moves.”

“Secret Ruin God-Emperor and his fifteen God-Emperors, when they combine their methods, are even stronger than the Eight Friends of Tianlang. We also won’t be able to hold them off.”

“We truly need some help.” Bo Xiu was very aware of the might of Chengfeng City’s three major forces.

Luo Feng smiled and gently shook his head. “If we encounter robbers, I can handle it myself.”

Bo Xiu, Chi Zheng, and Liulong God-Emperor were all somewhat stunned.

“You can handle it yourself?”
“We, of course, understand what that statement implies!”

“Secret Ruin God-Emperor and their seventeen God-Emperors working together, their coordination isn’t qualitatively different,” Liulong God-Emperor said, looking at Luo Feng. “Unless one possesses invincible-tier strength, they won’t be defeated by us.”

“Since you put it that way, I’m rather looking forward to them making a move,” Luo Feng said with a smile. “Get ready, and we’ll depart once prepared! If the three of you are uneasy or unwilling to go, I’ll simply go alone!”

“No, no.”
“We are certainly willing to accompany Luo Feng.”
“We’ll make some preparations and can depart shortly.”
Bo Xiu, Chi Zheng, and Liulong all said.

Luo Feng nodded and turned to leave.

Watching Luo Feng’s departing back, Bo Xiu, Chi Zheng, and Liulong felt a surge of emotions.

“Does Liulongcai mean he has the confidence to deal with the seventeen God-Emperors of Secret Ruin working together?” The red-robed youth, Chi Zheng, was somewhat incredulous.

“You heard right, that’s exactly what he meant!” Bo Xiu nodded heavily.

“Is Liulongcai already at the invincible tier?” Liulong God-Emperor wondered. “But if one reaches the invincible tier, shouldn’t Yuan Ancestor and his group come to guide them?”

Bo Xiu frowned and said, “When Luo Feng came out of seclusion before, that terrifying pressure instantly receded. But that pressure… I felt it very clearly. Luo Feng must have made a big breakthrough in this seclusion! I guess, even if he can’t defeat Secret Ruin God-Emperor and his group, he should at least be able to protect himself and escape.”

“Hmm.” Chi Zheng and Liulong nodded slightly.

Defeating Secret Ruin God-Emperor and their seventeen members requires invincible-tier strength. But merely protecting oneself and escaping is much easier.

That day, Liulong, Bo Xiu, and Chi Zheng, accompanying Luo Feng, piloted a warship and departed from Chengfeng City.

“Bai Yin God-Emperor has finally left the city! He’s only accompanied by Bo Xiu and those three,” reported a spy from Secret Ruin God-Emperor’s faction, who had been constantly monitoring movements within Chengfeng City. They used karmic sensing to lock onto them, confirming the departure of Luo Feng and his companions at the first opportunity.

“Bai Yin God-Emperor has been in this realm for thousands of epochs, bought many treasures, and exchanged eighty million merit points. He is now estimated to be carrying nearly eight hundred billion Hunyuan Crystals! Should we make a move?”

“Less than half is left!” The original total transaction amount was 1.8 trillion Hunyuan Crystals, but now a large portion was gone.

“Even if much is gone, it’s still worth our action.”
“Who else would carry nearly eight hundred billion Hunyuan Crystals if we miss this chance?”

The peak-tier existences communicated among themselves. They had no fear. Below the invincible tier, they had no concerns.

“Since there’s no feeling, let’s act.” Secret Ruin God-Emperor messaged all parties. “Assemble immediately and pursue them.”

Whoosh! A flying boat quietly departed Chengfeng City.

“Secret Ruin God-Emperor and his group have set off! Their secret treasure flying boat can traverse the void, so they’re faster than us.”

Inside a dark warship, the Eight Friends of Tianlang gathered. A thick, dark aura spread throughout the vessel, filling the interior with gloom and shadows. Only their eight intertwined auras could be felt.

“If Secret Ruin God-Emperor and his group make a move, we won’t get anything.”

“Luo Feng’s group also has four peak-tier existences. As long as they delay them long enough, we’ll arrive. Then we can team up with Luo Feng’s group. Haha, compared to Luo Feng! Secret Ruin God-Emperor and his group are better whetstones.”

“Using Secret Ruin God-Emperor and his group as whetstones, perhaps we can advance further, and our mind and will can break free from their cage, completely escaping the pollution.”

The gift from the Tianlang Guest also came with a certain degree of pollution. However, this was not a conscious pollution; it was a slight contamination naturally accompanying a powerful opportunity. Therefore, the Eight Friends of Tianlang were in a much better situation than the Abyssal Elephant Hall Master. Not only did their strength not decrease, but it even increased slightly.

The Eight Friends of Tianlang were originally peak-tier existences. With such an opportunity for tempering… there was a glimmer of hope for their will to break free from the cage.

“Perhaps this is our chance.”
“For our mind and will to completely break through.”

The Eight Friends of Tianlang understood clearly that it was extremely difficult for their life essence to break free from the cage. For their ‘mind and will’ to break free from the cage, the difficulty was much lower.

The city had only about a hundred peak-tier existences in total. News traveled quickly, and many peak-tier existences dispatched their clones to observe, eager to witness this terrifying battle.

Inside the ancient warship, Bo Xiu, Liulong, and Chi Zheng were somewhat tense.

“I can sense Secret Ruin God-Emperor and their karma; they are rapidly closing in,” Chi Zheng transmitted. “It won’t be long before they catch up.”

“It’s not just Secret Ruin God-Emperor and his group; the Eight Friends of Tianlang are also approaching,” Liulong God-Emperor felt pressure at this moment.

Bo Xiu looked towards the ship’s front cabin. In the front cabin, Luo Feng was alone, gazing out at the scenery of the outside world.

The world was vast and boundless. In one part of the world to the right, all matter had turned into a particle stream. This mighty particle stream flowed like boiling water, constantly surging and emitting diffused energy. Far ahead, a chaotic vortex devoured everything.

The Dark Sacred Realm had many harsh environments; in many places, weaker, lower-tier Hunyuan life forms could not survive.

“What a magnificent view,” Luo Feng said with a smile, quite relaxed. He truly did not put the seventeen peak-tier existences of Secret Ruin God-Emperor or the Eight Friends of Tianlang in his eyes.

Over these thousands of epochs of cultivation, Luo Feng, aided by the ‘Wisdom Book’ and the ‘Eye of Life and Death,’ and having consumed various rare cultivation treasures, had maintained his thought processing speed at least a hundred times faster for an extended period.

“I’ve clearly understood and researched the ‘mind-consciousness systems’ contained within the three high-tier Hunyuan bloodlines countless times,” he mused. “But their three mind-consciousness systems are best suited to themselves. They are not suitable for me.”

The Heavenly Fire Shadow, Abyssal Prison Calamity Beast, and Four-headed Chaos Beast each had distinct mind-consciousness systems. The Heavenly Fire Shadow’s mind-consciousness system permeated every bit of its life force. The Abyssal Prison Calamity Beast was like a prison itself, self-imprisoning layers of life force. Its mind-consciousness system also actively imprisoned and restrained layers of life force. In this form, it could possess an incomparably massive body, though the vast majority was self-imprisoned. Its frontal explosive power wasn’t strong enough, but it could erupt ‘endlessly’. The Four-headed Chaos Beast, however, was divided into four consciousnesses! Each consciousness governed a portion of the body, and the four consciousnesses could develop freely, yet were entangled and influenced each other.

“I obtained three complete mind-consciousness systems, drawing suitable elements from them to construct my own mind-consciousness system,” Luo Feng thought. “After thousands of epochs of refinement, my mind-consciousness system has also taken preliminary shape, and I can now perfectly control a ‘million times perfect divine body reserve.’”

Luo Feng was quite satisfied with this progress. Compared to before his seclusion, he had improved tremendously.

“However, theoretically, the Half-Hun Yuan Cycle Path should master a 1.7 billion times energy reserve. So I need to go to a large Hunyuan Hall, where my physical body can quickly reach 1.7 billion times,” Luo Feng considered. He needed to greatly enhance his physical body and continuously test his mind-consciousness system.

“They’re here.” Bo Xiu, Liulong, and Chi Zheng instantly appeared beside Luo Feng, all solemnly sensing the surroundings. Through karma, they could confirm that Secret Ruin God-Emperor and their seventeen members had already arrived nearby.

“Seventeen peak-tier existences,” Luo Feng said, his brow opening his ‘Simulated Eye of Life and Death,’ watching the surroundings with interest.

Suddenly—the boundless surrounding area transformed into a profound darkness. Within this endless gloom, there was no sense of direction, nor any light. Luo Feng, Bo Xiu, Liulong, and Chi Zheng could only observe their surroundings using secret techniques.

“What a powerful array,” Luo Feng praised softly. His Simulated Eye of Life and Death could see that within the boundless gloom, it was actually the combined power of seventeen peak-tier existences! Some were scorching hot flames, some were invisible annihilating winds, some were white liquids devouring everything, some were billions of insects gnawing at everything… The powers of seventeen peak-tier existences operated simultaneously, unified by the array, plunging everything into annihilation, twisting and devouring everything back to its origin. The area enveloped by the array seemed to be heading towards its end. Even peak-tier existences would be annihilated in front of such an array.

“It’s the Hunyuan Annihilation Array!” Bo Xiu, Liulong, and Chi Zheng all grew tense. They involuntarily looked at Luo Feng beside them.
What about his promise of ‘I can handle it myself’?

“The Hunyuan rules are at play, everything returning to annihilation… it has a bit of the meaning of a great destruction.” Luo Feng disagreed. “Secret Ruin God-Emperor must have witnessed the great destruction of the Origin World. However, this bit of great destruction is too fragile.” Luo Feng took a step. Whoosh.

He instantly left the warship and appeared in mid-air.

Luo Feng stood in mid-air, perfectly controlling his more than million-times perfect divine body energy reserve. Instantly, with Luo Feng at the center, the vast surrounding space began to collapse and distort. In the Battle of Yu Lan City, Luo Feng’s unleashed power was strong enough to tear apart cracks in space. Now, his life force might was far, far stronger than during the Battle of Yu Lan City. Even with a large-scale eruption, it caused the surrounding hundreds of millions of kilometers of space-time to completely distort and collapse. The closer one was to Luo Feng, the more severe the spatial distortion became, and the faster time flowed.

“What’s happening?”
Secret Ruin God-Emperor and their fifteen peak-tier existences, originally hidden within the array, now felt that the space-time where they were located was collapsing. It was as if a very ‘heavy’ presence was causing space-time to collapse!

“How stable is the space-time of the Dark Sacred Realm? Even short-distance travel is extremely difficult. How could such a massive area of space-time collapse?”
“Did Luo Feng God-Emperor do this?”
“How is that possible?”

The fifteen peak-tier existences could see the black-clothed, black-haired figure standing at the center in the distance. At this moment, one could visually perceive the entire space-time collapsing around ‘Luo Feng’ as its center. His location was the core of the collapse and distortion. The vast surrounding area was distorted and swallowed, and the array was naturally shattered and destroyed. The fifteen of them were carried along by the collapsing space-time, forced to fly towards Luo Feng.

“Space-time is too heavy; I can’t break free!”
“Can’t escape.”
“Within this collapsing space-time, spatial traversal is impossible.”

The seventeen peak-tier existences realized in despair that they didn’t even have the ability to escape. In the face of the vast and mighty collapse of space-time, they could not form an array, could not coordinate. Each could only individually contend with the collapsing space-time! Each was swept along, flying towards Luo Feng.

Luo Feng stood there, calmly watching this scene. He only needed to stand there, and enemies would actively appear before him one by one. He had said that with just a slight move, he was already at the limit of that segment.