[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-devouring-the-starry-sky-2-the-origin-continent":3,"chapter-devouring-the-starry-sky-2-the-origin-continent-devouring-the-starry-sky-2-the-origin-continent-chapter-216":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Devouring the Starry Sky 2: The Origin Continent",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2332844,4561,"Chapter 216: The Emperor Lords","devouring-the-starry-sky-2-the-origin-continent-chapter-216",216,"\u003Cp>This mission’s merit is 50 million, which is rather little. The task has high thresholds and is grueling—only this much merit after three thousand cycles? Even casually gathering treasures in the Dream Realm would earn more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This mission was assigned to me after deliberation by multiple Emperor Lords? Which Emperor Lords?” Luo Feng frowned slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before completing the Twenty-Four Phases form of a World Lifeform, he had no desire to provoke major conflict with the Emperor Lords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master, I’ve received a mission assignment.” Luo Feng immediately sent a message, transmitting the full mission details to his master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Refuse it,” Emperor Chu immediately ordered. “Cultivating a Primordial Bloodline beast egg is extremely troublesome—you must divide your attention among 192 aspects simultaneously, tend to it with utmost care, and remain under constant puppet surveillance. You cannot afford the slightest negligence. Three thousand cycles… will severely hinder your cultivation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is a backbreaking task. Only those Divine Kings of the Second Realm whose cultivation has stalled and who excel at splitting into avatars take this mission to curry favor with certain Emperor Lords. You have no need to accept it,” Emperor Chu instructed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, Master.” Luo Feng had no intention of accepting it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He already possessed the materials for the Twenty-Four Phases form of Primordial Bloodline. To obtain stronger Primordial Bloodline materials, only “Ultimate Realm Primordial Bloodline” biological materials would suffice—but both ancient imperial clans strictly forbade their export.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Luo Feng’s understanding, the Ancestor’s incarnations would all be watching. Even if assigned as guards, one could not profit privately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“From what I know of them, once you refuse, they’ll have a backup plan,” Emperor Chu instructed. “Don’t care how they threaten or entice you—refuse them all. Leave the rest to me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I understand, Master.” Luo Feng thought inwardly: Refused… and still a backup plan?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Yang City, Governor’s Mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng sat atop a high pavilion, sipping fruit wine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My Life Path has finally reached the Second Realm of Divine King.” Luo Feng felt unusually at ease. After the Life Lotus took root within his inner world, he became perfectly attuned to the Dao of Life; studying the Life Secret Patterns of the Star Tower greatly aided him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Life-related Secret Patterns of the Star Tower constituted the largest proportion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tonight, the three branches—Life Spirit, Life Body, and Life Source—perfectly merged, elevating his realm further and allowing smoother comprehension of the Twenty-Four Phases form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Merely revealing my Second Realm Divine King power, and the Emperor Lords have begun noticing me.” Luo Feng held his wine cup. Previously, he had publicly claimed only to be invincible in First Realm Divine King, relying on multiple avatars to entangle the Skywhale Sovereign—ignored entirely by the Emperor Lords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, each one was paying attention—even scheming against him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng sensed subtle karmic threads beginning to entangle him. These karmic lines were faint, yet obscure and profound—he struggled to trace where they connected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Precisely because he could not detect their connections, he could deduce the outcome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“At my realm, even my spiritual will cannot detect who these obscure karmic threads connect to. That means they must belong to Emperor Lords or Sovereigns. Ultimate Realm lifeforms are self-contained, complete, and shielded from all karmic probing—I naturally cannot see them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surrounding temperature rose. Invisible white flames began to sprout.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm?” Luo Feng’s expression changed slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fundamental rules of the surrounding heavens and earth shifted—transforming into rules of flame. Within the spreading white flames, a woman’s face of fire appeared, gazing coldly at Luo Feng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing her, Luo Feng immediately rose and bowed respectfully: “Luo He bows before the Emperor Lord.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only woman on the Origin Continent who wielded such terrifying flames was Emperor Wu of the Yan Feng Ancient Nation—the very one who bore a mortal grudge against his master, Emperor Chu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Quickly accept the mission to cultivate the Primordial Bloodline beast egg,” the woman’s face ordered coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Emperor Lord, I cannot accept it,” Luo Feng shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman’s gaze instantly grew colder. Invisible white flames surged and corroded Luo Feng’s body. His World Lifeform felt excruciating pain—hiss, hiss, hiss—instantly his body was burned to near-ethereal form, then began to regenerate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The terrifying flames deliberately restrained their power, scorching Luo Feng’s body to the brink of annihilation without fully destroying it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A World Lifeform at merely the entry level is still far too weak before an Emperor Lord,\" Luo Feng now felt the immense gap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is it because you’ve taken Emperor Chu as your master that you dare refuse me?” The woman’s face stared coldly. “You must accept this mission. Dare to refuse again—and every disciple of your sect, Dao River Sect, shall be reduced to ashes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng’s face darkened: “Emperor Lord!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An Emperor Lord, utterly unconcerned with dignity, threatening him with the lives of an entire sect?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Answer: accept, or refuse?” The woman’s face stared coldly at Luo Feng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Emperor Wu, are you threatening my disciple?” A dark, terrifying aura descended, freely devouring the surrounding white flames. The dark aura coalesced into a towering figure, fixing its gaze on the woman’s face. “If you dare destroy every disciple of Dao River Sect, I’ll kill one more of your children. Guess this time, which one will I kill?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman’s face stared at him, her eyes brimming with murderous intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had five children.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In past eons, Emperor Chu had utterly eradicated two—denying them even reincarnation. Now only three remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If all her children died, she’d have no attachments and would fight Emperor Chu to the death. But because three still lived… she had to be cautious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For the sake of one disciple, you threaten me?” The woman’s face snarled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, I am threatening you,” Emperor Chu said, gazing at her. As an Ultimate Realm lifeform of Destruction Dao, aided by powerful artifacts, he could kill her children anytime—none could survive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if hidden within Emperor Wu’s Palace, she could not protect her children from Emperor Chu’s direct curses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fine. Very fine.” The woman’s face sneered. The white flames vanished entirely; she disappeared completely. “Master.” Luo Feng turned to Emperor Chu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now you’ve seen their shamelessness?” Emperor Chu’s dark aura-formed figure chuckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I never imagined an Emperor Lord would threaten me with the lives of an entire sect.” Luo Feng was truly enlightened. To surpass Divine King-level artifacts, one might understand ruthless methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But merely over a single mission, threatening an entire sect?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng felt these so-called Emperor Lords lacked even the basic dignity of ordinary Divine Kings or Chaos Realm cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperor Chu said: “When power has no constraints, one must possess sufficient spiritual fortitude to control oneself.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Absolute power in the hands of a madman was indeed terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Cultivating Primordial Bloodline, the bloodline’s will corrupts the self—they act even more recklessly,” Emperor Chu shook his head. “I must keep her three children alive to restrain her. Should you ever be entangled with Emperor Lords or Sovereigns, immediately contact me—I’ll handle it for you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank you, Master,” Luo Feng said, deeply grateful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But the best solution is still for you to grow stronger yourself,” Emperor Chu smiled faintly, then departed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was already giving his all to comprehend the Twenty-Four Phases form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A vast space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twelve thoughts converged here, manifesting twelve hazy, towering figures—the twelve Emperor Lords of Yan Feng Ancient Nation, excluding Emperor Qing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each exuded terrifying power, like entire Dao paths descending—some apocalyptic, some endless abysses, others brimming with boundless vitality…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This gathering was proposed by Emperor Yan,” Emperor Fu said. “Emperor Yan proposes… stripping Luo He of his Guest status. According to imperial clan rules, stripping a Guest requires at least half the attending Emperor Lords’ approval.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Guest system was established by the Ancestor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stripping a Guest’s status could not be decided by one or two Emperor Lords alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Strip his Guest status?” Emperor Chu laughed. “My disciple Luo He possesses extraordinary talent. He became invincible in First Realm Divine King the moment he reached it. Now, as a Second Realm Divine King… the blade-light he displayed earlier ranks among the pinnacle of Second Realm Divine King standards.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“With such talent, Emperor Yan, you wish to strip him of his Guest status?” Emperor Chu shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Does our imperial clan care about the talent of a lone cultivator? Even the Sovereigns of Ten Thousand Worlds dare not defy Yan Feng Ancient Nation!” Emperor Yan sneered. “The dignity of our imperial clan matters most.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How did this young man offend the dignity of Yan Feng Ancient Nation?” Emperor Chu asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperor Yan coldly replied: “Since becoming a Divine King, Luo He has refused every single mission assigned to him—never accepted one! Yet he leverages his status as an Emperor Lord’s disciple to claim inheritances worth over 200 million merit. Only taking, never giving—a Guest like this is useless to our imperial clan!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The inheritances he claimed were gifts from me,” Emperor Chu said. “An Emperor Lord bestowing inheritances upon disciples is customary.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even if customary, he refuses every mission,” Emperor Yan countered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I personally met him, ordered him to accept the mission… yet he still refused, showing no regard for even me,” the flame-woman Emperor Wu said softly. “If he ignores an Emperor Lord’s command, what use is such a Guest?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You personally spoke to him, and he still refused?” A gray, hazy figure spoke. “If an Emperor Lord personally orders you, you must obey. Such disrespect toward hierarchy—I support stripping his Guest status.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So because you’re noble, he must obey? He has no right to refuse?” Emperor Ming chuckled. “The Ancestor established the rule: Guests have the right to refuse. Yet before you, Emperor Yuan, he supposedly has no such right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In their eyes, even an Emperor Lord’s disciple should be controlled and exterminated at will,” Emperor Xuan said coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperor Fu watched the scene with growing headache.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Gentlemen, let’s vote on Emperor Yan’s proposal,” Emperor Fu urged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The results came quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those agreeing to strip Luo He’s Guest status: Emperor Yan, Emperor Xi, Emperor Wu, Emperor Yuan, Emperor Wu—five.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, Emperor Wu’s personal visit to Luo Feng—and his continued refusal—had angered some Emperor Lords. Many placed great importance on hierarchy! A mere lone cultivator refusing an Emperor Lord’s command deserved punishment! This was precisely why Emperor Yan dared propose stripping Luo He’s status.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Emperor Yan and his two allies had, over long eons, deeply offended several other Emperor Lords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, Emperor Xuan—who also valued hierarchy—immediately sided against them. His disciple, the Return Void Emperor Lord, had been driven to such despair that Emperor Xuan considered it a profound humiliation! Emperor Yan and his allies had shown no regard for Emperor Xuan’s dignity!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperor Kong always opposed Emperor Yan in every vote.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, those opposing: Emperor Chu, Emperor Ming, Emperor Xuan, Emperor Kong, Emperor Jiufeng, Emperor You—six.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperor Fu abstained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Emperor Fu, you abstained?” Emperor Yan was furious. Before proposing, he had judged the odds of success extremely high. He never imagined Emperor Fu—whom he had long favored—would abstain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1850,"2026-06-20T20:45:00.697Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","a75339e857d466bf348b469559de11b42fd1e7d2250951423c65f1cf01e46cda","devouring-the-starry-sky-2-the-origin-continent-chapter-217","devouring-the-starry-sky-2-the-origin-continent-chapter-215",340,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdevouring-the-starry-sky-2-the-origin-continent-cover.jpg"]