Chapter 328: Chapter Eight: Division in Four Directions

Di Qing, Di Fu, and Di Ming suddenly felt a terrifying aura erupt from within the cave dwelling, and a figure shot straight into the sky—they instantly recognized it as Luo Feng.

Luo Feng stood above the cave dwelling.

Whoosh! In an instant, he split into twenty-three clones!

The twenty-three Luo Fengs surveyed all directions.

“Di Qing, stay inside the cave. Don’t go out.”

Luo Feng gave the order, and the twenty-three clones instantly flew off in all directions.

“This… this…”

“Why is Brother Luo Feng splitting into so many clones?”

“The more clones, the more mental focus each requires, and the weaker their energy reserves become.” Di Qing, Di Fu, and Di Ming were all puzzled. Even if Luo Feng possessed power rivaling three Hall Masters, splitting into so many clones would drastically weaken him—useless against the vast army now storming the city.

Di Ming chuckled: “Perhaps Brother Luo Feng feels that, rather than wait to die, he’d rather fight to the death. I’d love to fight to the death too—but alas… I can’t even defeat the weakest Low Origin Life. I don’t even have the right to die fighting.”

Di Ming had already accepted death.

“That’s not Brother Luo Feng’s nature,” Di Fu frowned, watching the twenty-three clones vanish into the distance. “I’ve watched him grow. Whenever he acts, he always has some confidence behind it.”

Di Qing fell into thought.

At this moment, Luo Feng’s clone guarding the Elixir Tower, along with his patrol clones, had all split again—adding eleven more clones.

“Huh.”

Thirty-four clones scattered and flew toward different locations within the core zone of Yulan City.

“These thirty-four clones will guard the entire core zone,” Luo Feng had planned this long ago.

Of these thirty-four clones, only the strongest possessed five hundred times the energy reserve of a perfect divine body, carrying the “Indestructible Heart” and the “Palm Realm.” The other thirty-three each had only a hundredfold energy reserve.

These were all the energy reserves Luo Feng possessed right now—he had gone all out!

…

The core zone of Yulan City was the most prosperous area, filled with Elder cave dwellings. Even now, the Elders maintained the city’s countless arrays, trying desperately to resist the Low Origin Life legions.

“It’s over.”

“The Low Origin Life legions are all rushing toward the core zone.”

When they saw four Transcendent-level beings leading over two thousand Divine Emperor Perfects and tens of thousands of Divine Emperor Late-stage Low Origin Lives surging toward the core zone, every Elder felt their hearts tremble with despair.

They had only been holding out thanks to Yulan City’s defenses.

Without the city’s advantage, the gap between them and the enemy was too vast.

This was still a hasty assault! Otherwise, the army’s numbers would have doubled! Under simultaneous attacks from within and without, Yulan City would fall in moments—with no chance of resistance.

“According to our estimates, the Low Origin Lives around Yulan City numbered only about two to three hundred Divine Emperor Perfects and a few thousand Divine Emperor Late-stage. Yet now… so many have come!”

The Elders stared in silence.

Inside the city, there had been three Hall Masters and over seven hundred Divine Emperor Late-stage Dao-seekers. Without Yulan City’s defenses, none could stand against two to three hundred Divine Emperor Perfects and thousands of Divine Emperor Late-stage Low Origin Lives.

Now, there were two to three thousand Divine Emperor Perfects! Tens of thousands of Divine Emperor Late-stage! And counting hidden infiltrators, a full five Transcendent-level beings!

How could they possibly resist?

“Hahaha… we’ve won!”

“We’ve won!”

The five leader squads within the core zone erupted in ecstatic frenzy. Though they’d launched this assault hastily and felt some unease, though many core clan members and two leaders had perished, they had still survived to the end!

The city had fallen—the army had entered! Soon, they would feast upon the most sumptuous banquet.

“Kill these Elders, and we can feast freely on hundreds of millions of cultivators!” The leaders were delirious with greed.

Suddenly—

One of Luo Feng’s clones, scattered across the core zone to guard it, approached one of the leader squads.

“Boom—”

That clone instantly transformed into a vast, roaring sea of blood, which swallowed the entire leader squad in an instant.

“Again, Luo Feng?”

“The city’s fallen—how dare he interfere with us? Let’s unite and crush him first!”

The six leaders of that squad were furious. Their bodies solidified into their true forms, unleashing the overwhelming power of Divine Emperor Perfects, trying to tear apart the blood sea. But they felt the sea’s weight as endless—they could barely roll, let alone move.

“Suppress!”

The vast blood sea, at Luo Feng’s thought, formed an array.

His array revolved around the Divine Emperor Late-stage Dao of Life and Death, forcibly suppressing the six leaders. Trapped in the array, they could only struggle weakly, their movement slower than crawling turtles.

“Destroy.” Luo Feng suppressed them with the array while channeling its power to concentrate on annihilating one leader’s true body.

“Ssshhhh.”

Under the array's suffocation, the Divine Emperor Perfect-level Delusion Worm's body rapidly eroded, its vitality fading. Soon, its mighty form was torn apart, the array's force seeping into its core, nearing its life nucleus.

“No—” The Divine Emperor Perfect Delusion Worm couldn’t believe it—its formidable life force was completely suppressed, unable to recover even a fraction. Each erosion took away more, and the blood sea array’s destruction was swift—the worm’s death drew near.

“Help! Help!” It immediately cried out to its companions.

“Lord, save me, save me!” It also screamed in terror toward its Lord.

“Hmm?”

In another part of the core zone, the Lord in the form of Wei Yang Hall Master gazed over. He saw a blood sea hovering, suppressing six leaders—one of them desperately begging for mercy.

“Impossible. The city’s fallen—how could there still be power here threatening a leader squad?” The Lord refused to believe it.

“Save me, save me—no—”

The desperate, agonized cry echoed in the Lord’s mind, and in the minds of the other leaders.

One Divine Emperor Perfect-level Delusion Worm was dead.

Whoosh!

Above the blood sea, Luo Feng’s figure coalesced.

Luo Feng frowned slightly, staring at the lifeless corpse in the blood sea—its life nucleus already cracked.

“My Dao of Life and Death has reached Divine Emperor Late-stage, yet even destroying one leader squad was this difficult.” Only after acting did Luo Feng realize how extraordinarily resilient these leaders’ true bodies were.

“This clone has no powerful treasures, insufficient energy reserves, and no strong techniques.” Luo Feng understood this well.

With only a hundredfold energy reserve, at his level, even his casual moves carried the Divine Emperor Late-stage Dao of Life and Death. The weapons and treasures sold on the market were far inferior to his own techniques—useless to him now.

Only treasures like the Indestructible Heart and the Palm Realm—crafted beyond the confines of this world—held any value for him.

But such treasures were exceedingly rare, and even rarer were those suited to him.

As Luo Feng pondered, the leader squad under his blood sea array lost its second leader. As numbers dwindled, the remaining leaders grew weaker, dying faster.

“No—”

“Lord, Lord!”

The leaders were utterly desperate—trapped under the blood sea array, they couldn’t move at all.

The later ones died quicker—until all six leaders were dead.

“Ten breaths to destroy one squad,” Luo Feng gazed into the distance.

“Beware of Emperor Luo Feng.”

“Luo Feng destroyed a leader squad.”

The other four leader squads were now terrified—but Luo Feng’s clones were scattered across the core zone, and one clone swiftly approached another leader squad. That squad panicked and fled immediately.

“Run! Flee now!”

“We’re faster—we’ll outpace him.”

The squad turned ethereal, pouring all its power into escape.

Suddenly—

Whoosh!

As Luo Feng flew, he seemed to tear open heaven and earth—a fissure appeared! The fleeing leaders were stunned.

Dressed in black, hair black, Luo Feng walked through the celestial fissure. After only three steps, a vast blood sea engulfed the fleeing squad.

“How is this possible? His speed exceeds ours?”

“Did he just teleport short distances?”

“The Jiuhe Sacred Realm suppresses space so strongly—how could he traverse it?”

The squad felt utter despair—still unable to accept being swallowed by the blood sea.

Luo Feng smiled faintly.

“Finally, I’ve created a flight technique centered on the Divine Emperor Late-stage Dao of Life and Death.” Luo Feng thought. He’d rushed out to fight immediately after breaking through—too hasty. He hadn’t had time to create numerous techniques based on the Dao of Life and Death.

Techniques born from the Divine Emperor Late-stage Dao of Life and Death were all extraordinary—but they required time to develop.

Luo Feng now had thirty-four clones, guarding the core zone.

In truth, after consuming the “Hundred Trials Heart Marrow,” his mental processing speed reached three thousandfold, so the burden of controlling clones was minimal. His mental focus was devoted to two tasks.

First: using the “City-Building Seal,” he reconfigured the arrays within Yulan City’s core defense layer. His original arrays were too weak—he now needed to rebuild them using the Dao of Life and Death. Only by leveraging Yulan City’s structure could his arrays, despite the Jiuhe Sacred Realm’s suppression, still cover the entire city and wield overwhelming power capable of threatening the entire Low Origin Life army.

Second: Luo Feng was refining his techniques.

Simple techniques—flight, evasion, killing—were easy for him to create.

The hardest was the technique “Indestructible Blood Body,” crafted with the Star Tower’s Blood Scale as the core and the Indestructible Heart as reference. Perfecting it to a higher level was impossible in the short term. The “Simulated Dao of Life and Death Eye” also required immense time.

So for now, Luo Feng was only creating simple techniques.

Yet…

What he considered simple, other cultivators found inconceivable!

…

Ordinary cave dwellings in the outer district.

The Lord of Yuanxiang Hall could still observe all activity in the city; he now stared dumbfounded, especially at Luo Feng as he flew, forcibly tearing open heaven and earth, leaving gaps in the fabric of the cosmos.

“In the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm, one can actually tear open heaven and earth while flying, achieving short-range void traversal?” The Lord of Yuanxiang Hall’s eyes lit up. “A single avatar can suppress an entire leader squad—he’s mastered two and a half Hunyuan-level Dao paths?”

In the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm, spatial traversal is nearly impossible. Yet some escape artifacts still allow brief void traversal.

Where do those escape artifacts come from?

They are crafted at great cost by powerful beings like Luo Feng right now, or by the Lord of Yuanxiang Hall in his prime—usually one-time-use treasures.

“There’s hope, there’s hope,” the Lord of Yuanxiang Hall exclaimed, excited. “If he masters two and a half Hunyuan-level Dao paths and carves his array into Yulan City, using the city’s foundation, perhaps there will be heavy casualties—but there’s still a chance to save countless cultivators in Yulan City.”

The Lord of Yuanxiang Hall did not yet know that Luo Feng did not master two and a half Hunyuan-level Dao paths—he had broken through with one complete Divine Emperor Late-Stage “Dao of Birth and Death.”

Two separate Dao paths require precise coordination—only with exquisite harmony can one reach the threshold of a higher level!

A complete Dao, the moment it is first broken through, is already at a higher level.

Luo Feng, the moment he broke through, was already stronger than the Lord of Yuanxiang Hall at his peak! After all, no matter how perfectly coordinated, two separate paths can never match a single, unified whole!

(End of Chapter)