After refining the City-Building Seal, Luo Feng returned to his cave dwelling’s quiet room to cultivate with all his might!

Although he still maintained a sliver of thought to control the “Life-Death Grand Array” and dispatched a clone to the core area to help intercept the lurking teams, under the effect of the “Hundred Pondering Marrow” which boosted his thinking speed by three thousand times, Luo Feng still devoted over ninety-nine percent of his attention to cultivating the integration of life and death.

Luo Feng’s mind was rapidly deducing and perfecting his insights. However, as an integrated grand dao that had reached its current level, it was already more vast than an ordinary half-Origin-level dao. Pushing it further for a qualitative leap in integration was terrifyingly difficult. Luo Feng had only dared to attempt a breakthrough within a single day, relying on a treasure, because he was already on the verge of success. Yet, perfecting it completely within one day was still too challenging. If he had a few more days, his confidence would be much greater. Luo Feng knew time was tight, so he could only continue to perfect it at the fastest possible speed.

Suddenly—

“Luo Feng, since you refined the City-Building Seal, Rain-Ripple City has lost another 15 elders!” Hall Master Yuan Xiang sounded somewhat helpless. “Rain-Ripple City’s defense system is about to collapse. Your array also needs to help defend the city!” “It’s that serious?”

Luo Feng’s heart trembled. Although the elder teams were fighting together, and Luo Feng’s clones were also eliminating lurking teams, the Super-Limit Mind-Bewildering Worm and the five leader-level true bodies were assassinating the elders one by one. Their mental attacks naturally targeted the elders, and all clones in the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm were wiped out. “We must block the external army. If we can’t stop them from breaking in, it’s over!” Hall Master Yuan Xiang messaged. “Your array must also help resist the external attacks!”

“Understood!” Luo Feng realized. The army had to be blocked outside. If they entered, they could quickly kill the elders, causing Rain-Ripple City’s defense system to collapse rapidly. At that point, the entire city would be at their mercy.

With a single thought, Luo Feng controlled the Life-Death Array and began to apply it to Rain-Ripple City’s defenses. Luo Feng’s array, combined with the efforts of forty to fifty elder arrays, instantly alleviated the defensive pressure on Rain-Ripple City.

“The Hall Master’s arrays are forced to resist the external army,” the elders lamented. “The lurking teams inside the city can only be intercepted by our elder teams!” The elders felt somewhat helpless.

“Hahaha…” The leader-level lurkers were overjoyed to see the Life-Death Array fully resisting the external leaders.

“All lurking teams, reassemble and kill those elders,” the King’s command came down again. The eighteen elite lurking teams, originally dispersed and hidden, quickly gathered. With no arrays targeting them from high above, and their absolute speed advantage against the intercepting elder teams, they all felt victory drawing closer.

“Kill!” The most ferocious entity within Rain-Ripple City was the King’s true body. As a Super-Limit existence, the King’s strength was terrifying. With Rain-Ripple City’s defense system mostly occupied resisting the external army, it was utterly powerless against this King! Rain-Ripple City could only try to stall. Unable to kill the King, it could launch repeated attacks. Its techniques were too advanced; even with the elders carefully defending together, some would still fall victim. The efficiency of killing elders was comparable to five leader teams combined! Each leader team consisted of six true bodies. Without the three Hall Masters appearing or any formidable array attacks, the leader teams were essentially unthreatened.

“Stop!” One of Luo Feng’s clones instantly transformed into a sea of blood, intercepting a leader team.

“It’s Luo Feng!” “We ignored him, but he came looking for us!” “Let’s join forces and eliminate him!”

These leaders were annoyed. They didn’t want to waste time on Luo Feng, who wasn’t even an elder. However, Luo Feng transformed into an endless sea of blood, large enough to envelop them all.

“Destroy!” The six leaders each unleashed their mental techniques. This clone of Luo Feng didn’t possess the “Heart of Immortality” or the “Palm World.” However, as the City Lord, Luo Feng could still mobilize Rain-Ripple City’s power to protect himself. He also employed the “Array Element Art”; as his cultivation advanced, his understanding of it deepened. The six types of mental attack nets, weakened by Rain-Ripple City’s power, were forcibly withstood by Luo Feng. Luo Feng felt various illusions shrouding him, attempting to confuse his perception. Yet, under the resistance of the Array Element Art secret technique, Luo Feng remained clear-headed, still distinctly remembering who he was.

Even six Divine Emperor Completion-level low-level Origin-Core lifeforms specializing in mental attacks couldn’t overcome Luo Feng, though they grew wary. If Divine Emperor Completion-level was this powerful, what about Super-Limit level? The impact on the mind would be a qualitative change!

“Get lost!” “Break!” The six leader true bodies, capable of being real or illusory, erupted into terrifying physical forms after their mental attacks were resisted. Their combined might was far more terrifying than that of Hall Master Weiyang or Hall Master Gai. They instantly shattered the endless sea of blood!

*Boom!* The six leader teams broke free from the endless sea of blood and swiftly departed, unwilling to waste time entangled.

“This Luo Feng must possess powerful secret treasures and strong mental defenses. His strength is probably among the top ten in Rain-Ripple City!” These leaders made their assessment, naturally unaware that this was merely one of Luo Feng’s ordinary clones. These true body leaders were evenly matched, and indeed, they were formidable when acting together! Luo Feng watched them quickly vanish into illusion. Even if he used the Heart of Immortality and Palm World to increase his strength several times, he could at most be their equal.

“If I can’t defeat a leader-level team, the other elders certainly can’t,” Luo Feng could already foresee the coming developments. Many elders anticipated this, but what could they do? They could only watch everything unfold.

The number of elders continued to dwindle, and the resistance grew steadily weaker. It was becoming difficult for the elders to even eliminate a single elite lurking team. “There are fewer and fewer elders!”

Within a large group of elders, led by the Master of the Ghostly Market, there were seventeen elders in total, including the Evergreen Pavilion Master. They looked up at the sky, seeing Rain-Ripple City’s defenses. Fifty to sixty defensive arrays were gone, and the remaining arrays were struggling more and more to resist the external army’s attacks! Rain-Ripple City could be breached at any moment! The Master of the Ghostly Market looked up, hissing.

Although the fighting seemed long, less than half a day had actually passed. Rescue from the Dark Sacred Realm wouldn’t arrive in time. The only variable now was the Hall Master. “After all, the Hall Master is an enlightened one who grasps two half-Origin-level daos. Even if corrupted, perhaps he’ll fight desperately!” The Master of the Ghostly Market thought. “If the Hall Master creates a miracle, Rain-Ripple City might still hold out until rescue arrives. Apart from Hall Master Yuan Xiang, there’s no hope for Rain-Ripple City!”

“Rain-Ripple City!” Hall Master Yuan Xiang, in an ordinary cave dwelling in the outer city, looked up and sighed softly. “All the elders expect me to have a solution, but I know very well that I have no options left! It’s too difficult! Even that Life-Death Array is controlled by Luo Feng!” “I’ve done my best!” “I’m sorry, cultivators of Rain-Ripple City!” Hall Master Yuan Xiang sighed.

*Boom!* Outside the city, low-level Origin-Core lifeform armies in all four directions suddenly erupted. They had sensed that Rain-Ripple City’s defense system was already on the verge of collapse. Under a unified command, they now unleashed their power without reservation, pushing their limits! Even the four “Kings” erupted with all their might! Instantly, endless attacks overwhelmed Rain-Ripple City’s defensive arrays, exceeding their capacity. A huge breach was immediately torn open. Large numbers of low-level Origin-Core lifeforms in the sky above the city almost instantly poured through the breach!

“Haha!” “The city is breached!” “The city is breached!” The low-level Origin-Core lifeforms surged in frantically. As they poured in, Rain-Ripple City’s elders grew anxious, controlling arrays to fully intercept and slay these low-level Origin-Core armies, which included many Early and Middle Divine Emperor stages. Under the crushing power of the massive arrays, large numbers of these weaker low-level Origin-Core lifeforms died. “First, wipe out Rain-Ripple City’s elders! Eliminate them!”

A colossal Super-Limit entity, like a winding mountain range, charged into the city. With its command, over a thousand Divine Emperor Completion-level low-level Origin-Core lifeforms that had broken in with it all rushed towards Rain-Ripple City’s core area, intending to destroy the city’s last vestiges of resistance!

“Seal off Rain-Ripple City! Don’t let a single cultivator escape!” Outside the city, armies were also ordered to establish a blockade.

“It’s over!” “Rain-Ripple City is finished!” The elders watched this scene. Having clones, the elders could face this calmly. They simply felt that their efforts to defend the city had ultimately failed. On one hand, they lost the resources accumulated within the city, and on the other, they felt a sense of defeat, as a “massacre” was about to unfold.

“No, it can’t be… The hundreds of millions of cultivators within the city, their strength is too weak to participate in the defense!” Yet, they had been nervously watching the war unfold, and when Rain-Ripple City’s defense system was breached, they all felt despair! Over ninety-nine percent of them were true bodies; death meant complete annihilation.

“How could Rain-Ripple City fall? Where were the three Hall Masters? Why didn’t they defend it?” Many cultivators couldn’t accept this. Some cultivators, however, looked at the terrifying Super-Limit entity in the sky and the leader-level entities, and smiled. “Hahaha, I’ve cultivated to this point, even transcending my home world and gathering here with billions of powerful cultivators from other worlds! Who would have thought such a catastrophe would strike? Hundreds of millions of cultivators walking towards death together—this is the end of my cultivation path!” “My cultivation ends here!”

Many cultivators faced it calmly; they had been prepared for death since embarking on this path. This day had finally arrived!

“The city is breached.” Inside Luo Feng’s cave dwelling, Di Qing, Di Ming, and Di Fu all looked up. Di Qing and Di Fu had clone techniques, but Di Ming did not. “Although I have life-saving treasures, I fear I won’t be able to escape under the blockade of the low-level Origin-Core lifeform army!” Di Ming looked up at the sky, having long known that outside the Origin World was extremely dangerous.

“The day I left the Origin Continent, I was prepared for death, but I didn’t expect it to come so soon!” Di Qing and Di Fu looked at Di Ming, both powerless.

“Why is Brother Luo Feng still in seclusion at this moment?” Di Qing looked towards Luo Feng’s quiet room. Through a faint karmic connection, he could confirm that one of Luo Feng’s clones was still in seclusion and hadn’t come out! The city was breached, and he was still cultivating in seclusion!

Inside the quiet room, as the City Lord, Luo Feng naturally knew everything happening in Rain-Ripple City at that moment. He saw the low-level Origin-Core lifeform army had already entered the city, and the “slaughter” had begun! “The city is breached, and I still haven’t broken through!” Luo Feng’s eyes reddened. At this moment, his heart was filled with intense anxiety. “Faster, faster!”

“It’s too late.” Under the effects of the Hundred-Pulse Marrow, he already felt as if he was experiencing life and death, and his soul was suffering greatly. But now, under Luo Feng’s strong will and intense emotions, desiring to comprehend faster, with willpower infused—

*Boom!* His soul vibrated violently, and at that moment, the pain vanished! Luo Feng felt an extreme sense of comfort. His soul’s thought process and comprehension were far faster than the original thousand-fold increase in mental speed from his enlightenment, and his insight reached an unprecedented level! Inspiration constantly emerged. In this mysterious state, Luo Feng’s efficiency in perfecting the Path of Life and Death soared. He seemed to instinctively know the correct way forward, eliminating the need for trial and error, and rapidly improving. In just over ten breaths of time—

*Boom!* A completely transformed “Path of Life and Death” emerged in Luo Feng’s mind!

“Success!” Luo Feng’s heart surged with excitement at achieving the Path of Life and Death at the late Divine Emperor stage. But immediately after, his soul detached from that mysterious state, and an even stronger pain than before spread through his being! “There’s still time!” Luo Feng utterly disregarded the pain; his eyes were filled with madness! Luo Feng instantly rushed out of his cave dwelling’s quiet room!