Chapter 325: Episode 8: Refining

Luo Feng was quite surprised: "At such a close distance, I didn't notice anything at all?"

In terms of realm and investigative secret techniques, Luo Feng considered himself sufficiently brilliant.

"I was in the Dark Sacred Realm and purchased a secret treasure to conceal and hide myself in advance, which is the only reason I escaped the sensing of the Over-Limit Heart-Bewitching Worm," Marquis Yuanxiang said solemnly. "Luo Feng, the situation is dire now; that Over-Limit Heart-Bewitching Worm and a group of leaders are constantly hunting down the Elders! You must quickly refine this 'City-Building Seal'."

A large black seal appeared in Hall Master Yuan Xiang's hand.

Luo Feng's heart shook.

Killing low-level Using Hunyuan lifeforms could accumulate battle merits. Sufficient battle merits could be exchanged for 'World-level Using Hunyuan lifeform materials', 'complete high-level Using Hunyuan lifeform corpses', 'secret treasures', 'rare treasures', and other items.

Treasures comparable to the Star Tower and the Life and Death Eye could also be exchanged.

Among them, 'building a city', according to Luo Feng's knowledge, required a full 2 million merits to exchange, which could be used to build a stable city.

At the same time, a City Founder also needed to win over enough Elders to build the city together.

"Even at the most common acquisition price, one battle merit counts as 10,000 Using Hunyuan crystals, so 2 million battle merits would require 20 billion Using Hunyuan crystals. Not to mention... it is very difficult to acquire such a huge amount of battle merits." Luo Feng felt that this City Founder's Seal was too hot to handle.

Generally, a City Founder would not give the City Founder's Seal to other cultivators.

"Don't hesitate! While you are hesitating, another Elder has been killed." Hall Master Yuan Xiang urged, "Once the city is broken and Yulan City is slaughtered, then everything will be for nothing."

Hearing this, Luo Feng immediately reached out and took the large black seal.

"Refine it quickly." Hall Master Yuan Xiang urged.

Holding the large black seal, Luo Feng began to refine it.

Seeing this, Hall Master Yuan Xiang felt much more relaxed, as if a heavy burden had been lifted.

"Luo Feng." Hall Master Yuan Xiang watched Luo Feng refining the City Founder's Seal and said, "I have cultivated all the way, and even stood in the ranks of the peak in the Dark Sacred Realm, accumulating massive battle merits and numerous treasures over long years! But after my soul was polluted... I only had one goal: for my mental will to jump out of the cage!"

"Only when the mental will jumps out of the cage can one ignore this pollution."

"I built the city also wanting to change to a different kind of cultivation life, thinking it could be helpful to my mental will."

"Since the establishment of Yulan City, my mental pollution has become more and more serious, and I even find it very strenuous to bear the array." Hall Master Yuan Xiang looked at Luo Feng. "But I also have feelings for Yulan City."

"Only today have I found a successor. I believe you are more suitable than me to protect this Yulan City." Hall Master Yuan Xiang said, "I will continue to control the array until this battle of Yulan City is completely over. Then I will let go completely. From then on, all my energy will be used to fight the pollution."

"Hall Master. On the path of cultivation, as long as one is alive, there is hope." Luo Feng said.

"You have succeeded in refining it?" Hall Master Yuan Xiang noticed and revealed a look of joy.

Luo Feng nodded slightly: "After refining the City Founder's Seal, I feel that I can mobilize a very huge amount of energy from the entire Yulan City to bless myself."

"The City Lord, Hall Masters, and Elders can all mobilize the city's energy. It's just that the proportion they can mobilize is different." Hall Master Yuan Xiang said, "Over ninety-nine percent of my mental effort is spent on fighting the pollution, and even maintaining the array is strenuous, so mobilizing the city's energy is naturally even more strenuous."

After refining the City Founder's Seal, Luo Feng naturally understood many secrets.

"Familiarize yourself well with the City Founder's Seal and quickly set up your own array." Hall Master Yuan Xiang urged.

"It is already being set up." Luo Feng was currently in the state of consuming the Hundred Tribulations Heart Marrow, and even if he spared a tiny bit of thought, his state was excellent.

……

After Luo Feng refined the City Founder's Seal, a single thought perfectly merged with the entire Yulan City.

Yulan City was a secret treasure like a fortress! Inside this secret treasure, there were various complex secret patterns, and it carried multiple powerful array diagrams itself! It was just that these array diagrams were all too complex, and the difficulty of comprehending and driving them was extremely great.

Like the 'Star Cluster Array Diagram', it was one of the very few array diagrams that the Elders of Yulan City could drive.

"Hum." Yulan City naturally absorbed the endless power of heaven and earth, and Yulan City's energy was vast and mighty, also supplying countless cultivators in the city to absorb.

As the City Lord, Luo Feng could mobilize 'one-tenth' of the energy in the city for his own use! It was just that the requirements for the realm and the burden on mental effort were also very great.

If it were a Hall Master, they could mobilize at most 'one-thousandth' of the city's energy.

If it were an Elder, they could mobilize at most 'one-ten-thousandth' of the city's energy.

"No wonder, every Elder of Yulan City manages a defense system, and hundreds of defense systems can perfectly cooperate." Luo Feng discovered this point when setting up the array.

The core array diagram layer of Yulan City had one thousand blank layers.

Each blank layer did not interfere with the others.

The City Lord, Hall Masters, and Elders each only chose one 'blank layer' and could set up arrays to their heart's content! No materials were needed; as long as the array was engraved, Yulan City could perfectly exert the array's power.

"Because it is set up by oneself, every Elder can perfectly and easily drive the array." Luo Feng was also setting it up rapidly.

His Dao of Life and Death, life, destruction... his accumulation was already incomparably deep. The Dao of Life and Death was close at hand to the 'late God Emperor stage', and with such deep accumulation, the array Luo Feng set up was naturally extremely vast and powerful.

"In the entire Yulan City, the Hall Masters and Elders have set up hundreds of arrays, among which Hall Master Yuan Xiang's array is absolutely number one. It is even stronger than my current array." After refining the City Founder's Seal, as the City Lord, he could naturally see every layer of the array.

Hall Master Yuan Xiang was, after all, a Daoist who had mastered two-and-a-half Using Hunyuan-level Daos, and the array he set up far surpassed Hall Master Wei Yang and Hall Master Gai Tao.

However...

Hall Master Yuan Xiang could no longer exert ten percent of the array's power. For such a grand array, Hall Master Yuan Xiang would have to spend at least one or two percent of his mental effort to drive it.

But at this moment, Hall Master Yuan Xiang could only exert a small amount of his own array's power! Compared to Hall Master Wei Yang and Hall Master Gai Tao, he had no advantage at all. Even in the ranking of God Emperors in the city, Hall Master Wei Yang was ranked first.

"My pollution has reached the limit. Those leader-level mental-type low-level Using Hunyuan lifeforms, I fear that if they just look at me from afar, they can feel the terrifying pollution I have suffered." Hall Master Yuan Xiang sighed.

At every moment now, he felt like a drowning person, as if he might drown at any time, and he was struggling to hold on.

His weakness made Hall Master Wei Yang prepare, wanting to obtain the City Founder's authority.

His weakness also caused the newly born 'Over-Limit Heart-Bewitching Worm' to set its sights on Yulan City, deeming it the city with the lowest difficulty to breach.

"The hundreds of millions of cultivators in Yulan City."

"I chose Luo Feng as the City Lord for you. He is rising rapidly, and he is much more suitable than me." Hall Master Yuan Xiang, in a trance, saw the existence in the image of a golden-scaled woman.

That high-level Using Hunyuan lifeform broke through in front of him, and her pollution went deeper and deeper into every part of his soul.

"Compared to a high-level Using Hunyuan lifeform, the gap is too big." Hall Master Yuan Xiang sighed silently.

God Emperors and high-level Using Hunyuan lifeforms were two levels of life.

No matter how many God Emperors there were, even if there were a hundred million, ten billion, a trillion... in front of a high-level Using Hunyuan lifeform, they would all be crushed to death with one kick.

Of course, in the Dark Sacred Realm, there were some imprisoned high-level Using Hunyuan lifeforms! They couldn't exert their strength, nor could they transmit any pollution, but they could be left for cultivators to observe, study, and even dissect.

But if it were a high-level Using Hunyuan lifeform that wasn't imprisoned and could exert its strength normally, that would be the nightmare of every God Emperor.

"Hmm?"

Hall Master Yuan Xiang's expression suddenly changed.

He had now given the City Founder's Seal to Luo Feng, and his own authority had been lowered, but he had left a backup plan; he was still a 'Hall Master'! He was waiting for this war to end before leaving completely.

Relying on the Hall Master's authority and the array he controlled himself, Hall Master Yuan Xiang still understood all the movements inside and outside the city.

"Another low-level Using Hunyuan lifeform legion has come?" Hall Master Yuan Xiang could see it.

A vast and mighty legion arrived outside the South City Gate.

Rumble!!!

The new legion arrived, and various joint attacks significantly increased the pressure on the entire Yulan City!

……

"Yuanyan! You've come!" Among the low-level Using Hunyuan lifeform legions surrounding Yulan City from all directions, there were also three terrifying auras. These three terrifying auras were all paying attention from afar to the existence that had just arrived.

"Knowing that the operation was launched ahead of schedule, I brought my subordinates and rushed as fast as I could, and finally arrived." A black, winding figure like a mountain range, this figure contained endless heat, and flames were rising on the surface of its body. "But for the other Kings to rush over, I fear it won't be that fast."

"This launch was very hasty, but Shadow is leading the Heart-Bewitching Worm clan and the Soul-Devouring Snake clan under its command to go all out within the city to hunt down those Elders. Yulan City's defensive capability is slowly declining. If this continues, I believe the city will be breached soon."

"It's been a long time since we broke a city." The winding mountain range figure looked at Yulan City, its eyes burning.

The four 'Kings' outside the city and a large number of low-level Using Hunyuan lifeforms were all filled with killing intent, and they all longed for the moment the city was broken. At that time, they would slaughter the cultivators to their heart's content to gain evolution and gain freedom.

……

"Another legion, another King." Hall Master Yuan Xiang frowned. "The pressure is too great, and the Elders in the city are being killed one by one. So far, 35 Elders have been lost."

"The Elders are constantly decreasing, and the attacks outside the city are getting stronger." Hall Master Yuan Xiang looked at Luo Feng beside him. "Even if Luo Feng joins in, he won't be able to hold on for too long."

This new legion required dozens of Elders' arrays to resist, completely offsetting the assistance Luo Feng brought.

"Although the Elders in the city and other Elder-level powerhouses have formed teams to intercept and kill the infiltrators everywhere. But it only slows down the deterioration of the situation."

"I estimate it won't last half a day."

Hall Master Yuan Xiang was very anxious.

He had tried everything, but according to his judgment, Yulan City was likely to be broken!

At this moment, while Luo Feng was setting up the array, he also perceived the situation inside and outside the city. The situation was getting worse and worse, and he also felt anxious.

"Done."

Finally, Luo Feng completely engraved a complex Life and Death Array into Yulan City's core array layer.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 326 =====