Chapter 25: Shattering Like Dry Grass and Rotten Wood

It was daytime, and the exterior of the Blood Serpent Guild headquarters was bustling with activity; numerous True Gods flew across the sky using flight artifacts or walked along the ground streets, yet all deliberately kept their distance from the headquarters.

“That’s the Blood Serpent Guild headquarters!”

“The Dark Force—Blood Serpent Guild!”

Many True Gods passing by looked at the towering, vast Blood Serpent Guild headquarters with reverence.

Suddenly, they noticed an overwhelming darkness completely engulfing the entire Blood Serpent Guild headquarters. This scene left all the multiracial cultivators passing by stunned.

After all, it was daytime, and many tribal True Gods had entered the city—they all clearly witnessed this.

“What’s going on? Darkness has swallowed the entire Blood Serpent Guild headquarters! We can’t see inside or hear any sound!”

“That’s a miniature universe domain! The Blood Serpent Guild headquarters must be facing a formidable enemy!”

“This has escalated!”

The multiracial cultivators surged in a crowd, immediately pulling back to a safe distance and watching from afar. Among them stood Mo Luo Sa and Mo Yu Qingyan.

“Lord Luo Sa, is our master…?” Mo Yu Qingyan was no fool—he immediately sensed something was wrong.

“Just watch.” Mo Luo Sa smiled calmly.

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Only the Flame Wind Lodge knew that Luo Feng had accepted the bounty mission, and the lodge would never publicly disclose it.

There were no restrictions on accepting missions—even multiple powerful cultivators could take the same mission; whoever completed it first claimed the reward!

“Director, Luo He has accepted the assassination mission targeting Blood Serpent Guild’s leader, Mu Yang.” The gray mist figure immediately reported to the director.

“Luo He and Blood Serpent Guild’s leader Mu Yang?” The Flame Wind director lightly tapped his finger, and before him appeared the scene of the Blood Serpent Guild headquarters—now entirely swallowed by darkness, utterly obscured. “This Luo He is direct—he’s stormed right in!”

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“The Blood Serpent Guild headquarters has been suddenly enveloped by a miniature universe domain—and an overwhelming surge of energy has erupted!” The officials in the City Lord’s mansion responsible for monitoring the entire city were immediately shocked.

“Report to the City Lord at once.”

They understood the gravity—the situation was clear: a powerful cultivator had directly attacked the Blood Serpent Guild headquarters!

Luo Feng knew that even after accepting the mission, the Flame Wind Lodge would never reveal it. But Luo Feng always believed one thing: the more people who know a secret, the more likely it is to be exposed. Even toward the Flame Wind Lodge, Luo Feng did not place absolute trust.

The instant Luo Feng activated his miniature universe domain to engulf the Blood Serpent Guild headquarters, he moved.

“Hmph.” Luo Feng extended his right hand into a claw, his arm violently elongating, his five fingers rapidly growing longer and larger. The five fingers resembled five celestial pillars, warping spacetime as they forcibly gripped the headquarters’ formation.

As a dark force, the Blood Serpent Guild headquarters frequently clashed with other factions, so its formation was naturally powerful—and had cost a great deal to establish.

But when Luo Feng’s celestial-pillar fingers descended, “Boom! Boom! Boom~~~” A series of explosions erupted as multiple formation foundations shattered, and the entire formation was ripped apart.

“Bad!”

“A formidable enemy!”

Inside the Blood Serpent Guild headquarters, numerous members looked up and saw the great formation torn open—they were instantly thrown into panic, with not a single thought of resistance. After all, seeing a miniature universe domain envelop them and the formation destroyed, they knew their attacker was an extremely powerful Eternal True God.

These ordinary members were fine at collecting fees and extorting tribute, but before a truly terrifying presence, they would be reduced to dust with a single touch. Each one frantically fled, hiding in obscure corners of buildings, hoping only not to be caught in the crossfire.

“Already acting so quickly?” In the meditation hall, Blood Serpent Guild’s leader Mu Yang looked up, his gaze piercing through layers of obstruction to see the hand tearing through the formation. “Who in Huyang City dares attack me?”

“Bad!” Elsewhere, Deputy Leader Lai Mo and Deputy Leader Mu Lin felt the terrifying disturbance as the entire formation shattered—their faces turned pale.

“To shatter the formation instantly—this power must be on par with the leader’s, far surpassing us both.” Lai Mo and Mu Lin trembled; they were vastly weaker than the leader.

“Hahaha… You Blood Serpent Guild have committed countless evils—now retribution has come!” A tormented Void True God let out a mad laugh. “Today, I’ll avenge my Qimo clan’s three thousand seven hundred kin!”

This Void True God was one of the Blood Serpent Guild’s victims.

Lai Mo and Mu Lin no longer cared about tracking down the Qimo clan’s hidden treasures. Lai Mo merely glanced at the tormented Void True God—and the man instantly vanished.

“Go.”

“Meet up with the leader!” The two deputies acted decisively, instantly bursting out of the building.

As they emerged, they found the outside world utterly shrouded in darkness. Within the twisted darkness, a terrifying aura swept over them—and a hazy figure stood right before them. “Luo He!!!” Seeing the hazy figure, Lai Mo’s crimson eyes widened in horror. He had long ago been terrorized to his core by Luo Feng, who had stolen his True God heart with a single strike.

“Luo He?” Mu Lin’s expression also changed.

Their reactions upon encountering Luo Feng were utterly different.

Lai Mo instantly burned his divine power and frantically retreated, desperate to flee as far away as possible.

Meanwhile, the emaciated Mu Lin wore a manic grin—he instantly shattered his body into countless venomous insects, swarming densely; the vast majority surged toward Luo Feng, while a few scattered in all directions.

Luo Feng instantly recognized them—all had silvery-gray shells, incredibly resilient.

“Venomous Insect Body.” Luo Feng’s intelligence from Sheng Tian Yan had been detailed—he knew Mu Lin’s entire power lay in his divine body, cultivated into a notoriously difficult venomous insect form.

Capable of splitting into a million insects, each with unbreakable shells and razor-sharp mouthparts, they could slowly gnaw through and consume even weapon artifacts given enough time.

Their venom could seep into the soul. In terms of threat, Mu Lin was even more troublesome than Lai Mo.

“My countless venomous insects—if they can just delay him for a moment, I’ll escape completely!” Every insect carried Mu Lin’s consciousness.

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“Hmph.”

Luo Feng didn’t pause his steps. With a cold snort, a grayish energy erupted from his divine body, radiating outward from him, naturally engulfing every attacking insect.

These incredibly resilient insects, upon contact with the grayish energy, instantly shattered into fragments.

The grayish energy split into tens of thousands of streams, chasing the fleeing insects—all of them far too slow to match its speed, each one caught and annihilated.

“Puff.” Some grayish energy also caught up with Lai Mo, who had fled far away. Since his power wasn’t scattered, he burned his divine body, swinging a staff to block the grayish energy—then fled even faster in terror: “Mu Lin’s million insects wiped out in one glance? This Luo He is terrifying. Only the leader can stop him.”

Luo Feng kept walking, waving his hand to collect the scattered items left behind by the million dead insects—bracelets, jade vials, and more.

The million venomous insects had been destroyed by Luo Feng’s mastered “Circulation Blade” from the “Nine Cutting Blades of Breaking Realms.” Now, with his divine body refined through one round of cultivation, the energy he unleashed, infused with the “Circulation Blade”’s intent, formed a true “Circulation Blade Domain.”

“My divine body—just a fraction of its released energy is enough to kill ordinary Eternal True Gods.” Luo Feng knew well the sheer strength of his divine body.

When he first arrived on the Origin Continent, his divine body was still growing, far below one hundred million kilometers in height.

Now, at its peak, his true form could maintain a height of eighteen billion kilometers on the Origin Continent—each movement rivaling that of a Bloodline Path Eternal True God at the Tenth Level. And he had undergone one more refinement! His divine body’s strength was simply inconceivable.

The energy bursting from his divine body, combined with the “Circulation Blade” intent to form the “Circulation Blade Domain,” would crush and shred any opponent of Lai Mo or Hei Duo Mo’s caliber if they dared stand firm.

“Even the mere residual force from afar is this terrifying?” Lai Mo frantically burned his divine power, racing toward the leader.

“Leader, save me! Leader, save my life!” Lai Mo frantically sent a mental cry.

“I’ll handle him.” Blood Serpent Guild’s leader Mu Yang’s voice rang out—he had already arrived before Lai Mo.

Lai Mo felt a wave of relief: “Even if the leader is weaker than Luo He, he can at least hold him off for a moment—I’ll have enough time to escape.” This miniature universe domain could trap ordinary Blood Serpent Guild members, but not an Eternal True God like him.

But suddenly, Blood Serpent Guild’s leader Mu Yang’s expression changed as he stared at Lai Mo.

“How is this possible?” Lai Mo looked down at his chest, then turned around.

Luo Feng stood behind him, holding in his hand a glowing True God heart.

Only then did Lai Mo’s body collapse with a crash.

The surface of the True God's heart displayed Lai Mo's face, still filled with disbelief, unwilling to accept it: "How is this possible? Time and space are sealed within Huyang City—only the Huyang Army or Huyang Guard can traverse the void. How did he suddenly appear behind me?"

“You ran pretty fast!” Luo Feng looked at the True God heart.

The face on the True God heart immediately begged: “Lord Luo He, I dared not lift a finger against you. Please spare my life—I’ll give you all my treasures!”

“Kill you, and the treasures are mine anyway!” Luo Feng clenched his right hand—and with a wet *plop*, crushed the True God heart.

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