[{"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-221":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},2332849,4561,"Chapter 221: The Death of the Food Nation","devouring-the-starry-sky-2-the-origin-continent-chapter-221",221,"\u003Cp>Wang Capital, deep within the palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh.” The Tiankun Marquis descended and sat upon the grand throne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yi Xiu, prepare a large portion of food.” The Tiankun Marquis immediately sent a mental command—he had endured for an entire eon serving Di Yan, dared not devour countless lives, and had long been starving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, Marquis.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, Yi Xiu the Great Sage, the Tiankun Marquis’s most loyal subordinate, presented the prepared food: within a transparent bottle, billions upon billions of living beings were imprisoned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a Chaos Realm cultivator, Yi Xiu the Great Sage, due to his unwavering loyalty and diligent service, was entrusted with the regular task of harvesting countless lives. He commanded a secret army dedicated solely to capturing living beings alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Marquis, here is a large portion: approximately three thousand Eternal True Gods, fifty million Void True Gods, five trillion True Gods, and another three trillion beings below the True God level—all contained within this food bottle.” Yi Xiu the Great Sage spoke respectfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Tiankun Marquis gazed at the eighty thousand billion living beings inside the transparent bottle and nodded in satisfaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even ruling a vast Food Nation, accumulating a single large portion was no easy feat. Tribes dwelling in the wilds of the Food Nation scurried to the most remote corners, and Eternal True Gods were often the core pillars of major cities. To capture so many on such a scale—even quietly across the entire Food Nation—was exceedingly difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Excellent.” The Tiankun Marquis stared at the transparent bottle, feeling his primordial bloodline boiling, yearning for countless lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the eighty thousand billion beings inside the bottle remained utterly unaware that a terrifying entity outside was about to devour them entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Tiankun Marquis reached out and seized the bottle—suddenly—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Tiankun Marquis felt everything before him vanish; all physical sensations vanished, and all he saw was a vast, immense star coalescing! This colossal star rotated, and he could perceive every detail of its formation—but he had no way to evade it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed slow, yet in truth it was faster than a single thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the blink of a thought, there was no time to dodge, no time to activate his reincarnation secret art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing he could do was endure!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Survive it, and live!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fail to endure, and die!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rolling star was too terrifying—more terrifying than Di Yan, whom he had served. It was the most terrifying power the Tiankun Marquis had ever witnessed in his long existence. Before he could even resist, a primal sense told him—he could not withstand it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The star rolled forward, crushing his mind and will. His consciousness shattered instantly, reduced to nothing, not even a speck remaining under the star’s sweeping force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, his mind and will were utterly annihilated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dominant force of the Origin Continent, the famed “Tiankun Marquis,” had become a corpse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dead so suddenly, with not a single chance to resist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the grand hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Tiankun Marquis still sat there, hand outstretched, gripping the transparent bottle—but the fiery intensity in his eyes had vanished completely, his gaze utterly dimmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boom—boom—boom~~~” At the instant of death, his body naturally began to reveal its true form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An invisible ripple swept through, collecting the Tiankun Marquis’s corpse, Yi Xiu the Great Sage’s corpse, and the transparent bottle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under Luo Feng’s terrifying will, even a slight ripple affected Yi Xiu the Great Sage—his consciousness was erased without a trace! First, if Yi Xiu had lived, witnessing the Tiankun Marquis’s death might have allowed outsiders to deduce too much. Second, as the Tiankun Marquis’s henchman, Yi Xiu had long been responsible for capturing countless lives; Luo Feng had no intention of mercy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Tiankun Marquis was not as insane as the Snow Realm Primogenitor, he ruled a vastly larger Food Nation, and the number of lives he claimed was likely far greater than that of the Snow Realm Primogenitor. The eighty trillion beings inside the transparent bottle made Luo Feng acutely aware of just how devastating the devastation caused by a peak existence on the Origin Continent could be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stronger one’s power, the more lives even a small portion of their domain would yield—numbers many times greater than the Snow Realm Primogenitor’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My current strength is already enough to alter part of the Origin Continent.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course, for now, only part.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To fully reshape it, to establish my own rules—I must become even stronger!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng knew this path was difficult: under the Supreme Rule, the power of techniques was capped at the Ultimate Realm limit! No matter how powerful he became, his techniques could not surpass that ceiling, meaning the constraints on Emperor and Sovereigns were limited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperors and Sovereigns dictated the entire order of the Origin Continent. To change that order, many of the two Ancient Nations’ Emperors and Sovereigns would surely not tolerate him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A cultivator’s strength must surpass heaven and earth!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To alter the fate of countless beings on the Origin Continent is part of my cultivation. If I cannot do this, what right have I to claim superiority over heaven and earth?” Seeing the eighty thousand billion beings in the bottle and all the darkness he had witnessed wandering the Origin Continent, Luo Feng’s resolve had become unshakable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When strength is insufficient, conceal claws and fangs for now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When strength is sufficient, reveal them—and tear apart this curtain of darkness!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Wuxiang City and Dao Mo City of the Food Nation were simultaneously attacked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To ensure the death of the Tiankun Marquis was absolutely certain, Luo Feng had first devoted all his strength to eliminating him. After all, the other two—Wu Xiang the Old Ancestor and Dao Mo the Ancestor—were merely Divine Kings of the First Layer; even with curse techniques, Luo Feng was confident he could annihilate them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the very moment the Tiankun Marquis died, Luo Feng’s two other avatars struck simultaneously. Wu Xiang the Old Ancestor and Dao Mo the Ancestor had no time to react—they perished instantly under Luo Feng’s terrifying will, without resistance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Collect.” Luo Feng also retrieved the corpses of these two Divine Kings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Yang City, Lord’s Mansion, silent chamber, inside the Star Tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng and Zuo Shan Ke had arrived in one level of the Star Tower, where the true bodies of the three Food Nation Marquises lay—each corpse intact, their consciousness utterly extinguished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They’re dead.” Zuo Shan Ke examined the corpses closely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Tiankun Marquis’s corpse was immense—hundreds of trillions of kilometers long, scales tough and thick. He cultivated the Primordial Matter Dao, unlocking the potential of his primordial bloodline; his body was far tougher and more terrifying than Luo Feng’s early “Ten Directions World Form World Life,” even surpassing what most Emperors or Sovereigns could withstand—normally, he would have time to activate his reincarnation secret art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time, he had no time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A secret art targeting the mind and will alone—his mighty body could not save him! Only a lifeform reaching the Ultimate Realm, self-complete and perfected, could resist even partial mental-will attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for artifacts surpassing Divine King level, the Tiankun Marquis had no means to obtain them. Such artifacts were exceedingly rare on the Origin Continent; lacking sufficient strength to wield them only invited disaster. Even Emperor Gui Xu, with his power, had suffered great calamity in his past life for possessing such an artifact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without reaching Ultimate Realm lifeform status, without a Divine King–surpassing artifact to resist mental-will attacks… he had no defense against Luo Feng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Divine King–surpassing will, combined with the use of the “Lie Yuan Technique”!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They couldn’t reincarnate?” Zuo Shan Ke couldn’t help asking, “Not even Tiankun?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m certain.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng nodded. “The instant I activated my will technique, he died. He had no time to reincarnate.” “Will technique?” Zuo Shan Ke nodded slightly—he had never hidden his power from Luo Feng; the will Luo Feng had displayed before was vast and overwhelming, its mere aura enough to crush Divine Kings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good, good.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zuo Shan Ke touched the scales of the Tiankun Marquis’s massive corpse, then glanced at the corpses of Wu Xiang the Old Ancestor and Dao Mo the Ancestor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that moment, Zuo Shan Ke seemed to see those familiar figures again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A Jin!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sister!” The young boy, upon first meeting the dazzling genius sister of his sect, had been nervous and trembling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A Jin, Master has ordered: from now on, you’ll follow me. I’ll teach you in his stead.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A Jin, you’ve reached Chaos Realm! Faster than me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sister, will you walk the cultivation path with me?” The young man, now a Chaos Realm cultivator, voiced what he had long desired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sister smiled joyfully, tears in her eyes as she nodded: “From now on, we’ll walk the cultivation path together.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Jin Nation was founded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though a backwater third-rate kingdom, it was still an unprecedented achievement for the entire sect! Jin the Divine King, famed for his artifact-crafting skills, became renowned far and wide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A Jin has become a Marquis!” the sister was proud. “You’ve surpassed every ancestor of our sect.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin the Divine King smiled faintly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still wished to grow stronger, to walk farther on the cultivation path with his sister. He wished to lead his junior disciples and fellow sect members, to carry the sect farther still.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zuo Shan Ke faintly saw those familiar figures—the disciples who once revered him, his lifelong beloved. That was the world he had dreamed of, the world he had longed for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve avenged you. I’ve avenged you all.” Zuo Shan Ke whispered softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He fled into the Cosmic Sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carrying boundless hatred, boundless resentment, he entered the depths of the Cosmic Sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forced to reincarnate within the Primitive Universe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless eons passed…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until today!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zuo Shan Ke stared at the three massive corpses before him, suddenly feeling dazed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The goal he had pursued for so long was achieved—but now he did not know what path to take next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How I wish I could return to the past.” At this moment of revenge fulfilled, Zuo Shan Ke felt no triumph—only endless longing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng watched silently beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sensed the turmoil and transformation in his Master’s emotions—even with his Master’s formidable will, time was needed to adapt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, Zuo Shan Ke calmed completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned to look at Luo Feng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Luo Feng, thank you.” Zuo Shan Ke smiled faintly. “Now, I have no regrets.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master, you’ve helped me countless times—I should be the one thanking you.” Luo Feng said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zuo Shan Ke pointed to the three massive corpses: “The other two are negligible, but the Tiankun Marquis was famed far and wide. His sudden death will draw attention and investigation. These three corpses must be destroyed utterly—otherwise, even their remains could reveal too much.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I know.” Luo Feng nodded. These three corpses would never leave the Star Tower!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Killing them was satisfying, but there will be many investigations afterward. Especially since the Tiankun Marquis had close ties with several Emperors of the Yan Feng Ancient Nation—be careful.” Zuo Shan Ke warned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve prepared everything.” Luo Feng nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your strength far exceeds mine—you’ve surely thought more carefully than I could.” Zuo Shan Ke smiled and nodded. “Alright, I should go now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are you going back? Back to the Thunder Ancient Nation?” Luo Feng asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“From now on, I’ll focus on refining artifacts and studying the Primordial Bloodline, living my quiet life,” Zuoshan Ke looked at Luo Feng. “If you ever need anything, just call out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mm.” Luo Feng nodded. “Let me see you out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng personally escorted Zuoshan Ke out of the Star Tower, all the way to the border of the Thunder Ancient Nation, then watched him depart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master…” Luo Feng sensed Zuoshan Ke’s change. The old Zuoshan Ke had always carried a powerful spiritual obsession; today, that obsession was gone, utterly at peace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This great karmic thread had entangled Master for countless ages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This great karmic thread also shaped me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master, I hope your days ahead are joyful,” Luo Feng whispered silently. He also decided he would no longer disturb Master’s peaceful life unless absolutely necessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of this volume)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tomorrow, Fanqie will pause for one day to prepare the next storyline; updates will resume the day after.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of this chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",2058,"2026-06-20T20:45:00.697Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","8f38098f7520a372fc5b808e9b0d1f5d8e035caad0d7d2305de5194ddae4b143","devouring-the-starry-sky-2-the-origin-continent-chapter-222","devouring-the-starry-sky-2-the-origin-continent-chapter-220",340,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdevouring-the-starry-sky-2-the-origin-continent-cover.jpg"]