Chapter 331: Book Eight: One Against Four

Luo Feng gazed at the vast legions of low-level Hunyuan lifeforms surging toward him from all directions.

In his eyes, he could withstand the four transcendent beings—but whether it was over 2,600 Divine Emperors at the peak of their realm or tens of thousands of late-stage Divine Emperors, once they closed in and launched a coordinated strike, even his thirty-four clones would not hold. He could only escape by relying on his movement technique.

“I must set up the array before the army reaches the core zone! Once they arrive, they’ll utterly destroy the core region—most of the Elders there won’t survive.” Luo Feng understood this clearly. “Without the Elders’ aid, even if I use arrays to repel this army, the casualties within the city will be catastrophic.”

To reduce casualties, he must protect the Elders.

Only when the Elders’ arrays combine with his own can defensive power be maximized.

“Deploy the array!”

Luo Feng stood still, his entire focus concentrated on the core array layer of Yulan City, rapidly imprinting the array structure.

Huh~~~ Huh~~~ Huh~~~

The massive army attacked from all four directions; the four transcendent beings dared not approach, having already converged at a distance.

“The four of us must work together to disrupt Luo Feng! If he fights us, he’ll split his attention… That’ll slow his array deployment drastically.”

“Once the army reaches the core zone, obliterate every Elder residence! Without nearly two hundred Elders to aid him, Luo Feng alone cannot suppress us—we’ll kill enough cultivators and escape successfully!”

The four transcendent beings understood the situation perfectly.

The city’s fall was their advantage.

Luo Feng moves too swiftly—he is untouchable by the low-level Hunyuan life army! But they can annihilate the remaining two hundred Elders—this is severing one of Luo Feng’s arms.

Otherwise, if Luo Feng commands all the Elders in unison, their combined deterrent power could double.

“An array built on two and a half levels of Hunyuan Dao is bound to be vast and intricate—it will take time to establish.”

“Let’s stall longer. No matter what, the army will reach the core zone in time.”

After calculating, all four transcendent beings believed their chances were high!

First eliminate the Elders to weaken Yulan City’s deterrent power, then slaughter the cultivators, and finally lead the entire army to flee! This was their plan. Even if the army suffered heavy losses, the four transcendent beings would survive.

Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh!

The four transcendent beings surged forward at full speed, converging on Luo Feng.

“Four transcendent beings?”

“Can Lord Luo Feng hold his ground against all four?”

The Elders and many cultivators inside the city looked up, seeing the four colossal figures.

The transcendent Huoxin worm fully revealed its true form, its ethereal body flickering in and out of visibility.

A black, serpentine mountain-like entity, its surface wreathed in black flames, fixed its blazing eyes on Luo Feng.

Another massive thunder creature, its body covered in countless tentacles, also observed Luo Feng.

A giant bird radiating endless destruction, its wings spread wide, seemed to blot out half the sky.

“Four transcendent beings! Even in my prime, with powerful artifacts, I could barely escape alive against four.” The Master of Yuanxiang Hall looked up. One-on-one versus one-on-four made a world of difference.

The four transcendent beings could coordinate, striking from multiple planes simultaneously—threat level skyrocketed.

“Luo Feng! Do you dare fight us?” The transcendent Huoxin worm’s voice echoed in Luo Feng’s mind. “Of course, you may flee—we’ll slaughter every Elder in the core zone.”

Luo Feng stared at the four figures.

“One-on-one, you tremble. One-on-four, you’re suddenly confident.” Luo Feng’s thirty-four clones guarded all positions. “I’ll oblige you.”

Huh!

Luo Feng’s strongest clone moved first, stepping forward, walking through the blurred rifts between heaven and earth, heading straight for the four transcendent beings.

If they were to fight, he must avoid the core zone.

Though the battle might spill over and harm some innocent cultivators, there was no choice—war demanded sacrifice. Saving one Elder might indirectly save a million cultivators.

“Here he comes.”

All four transcendent beings fixed their gaze on the black-clothed, black-haired figure stepping from the rifts, taking two strides to stand before them.

A psychic surge instantly struck Luo Feng—the transcendent Huoxin worm immediately unleashed its innate technique, “Mind Confusion.” Though Luo Feng could withstand it, he still had to divert mental energy to resist using methods like the Lie Yuan Technique.

“Hmph.”

The instant Luo Feng drew near, an endless sea of blood erupted beneath him, churning violently, threatening to drown the four transcendent beings.

Beneath Luo Feng, countless cave dwellings housed cultivators who now looked up, watching the vast, roiling blood sea and the four transcendent beings above.

“Hope it doesn’t reach us.”

“At this level of combat, if the shockwave touches us, we’re dead.”

These cultivators trembled, activating their cave arrays to the utmost, bracing for any possible “aftereffects.”

Luo Feng would try his best to shield these weaklings during battle.

But at the transcendent level, even Luo Feng couldn’t guarantee complete protection for cultivators amid the chaos.

“Boom—”

Within the endless blood sea, a colossal black serpentine mountain form erupted in terrifying flames, igniting the blood sea everywhere, burning it—and Luo Feng’s soul.

Yet its soul impact was far weaker than the transcendent Huoxin worm’s “Mind Confusion.”

The thunder tentacle creature summoned boundless lightning, hammering the blood sea relentlessly.

“Destroy.”

The dark destruction bird spread its wings like mist; as they flapped, layers of darkness surged like waves into the blood sea, seeping through every layer, vibrating, twisting, and strangling. It also tracked life signatures, attempting to shake, twist, and strangle Luo Feng’s soul.

“Of the four, the destruction bird inflicts the greatest damage.” At this moment, Luo Feng faced over a dozen attacks.

Material destruction, flame combustion, dark energy corrosion, lightning rampage, invisible binding, tentacle assaults, karmic soul strikes, energy oscillations, universal twisting and strangling…

Any one of these attacks could cripple a Hall Master. Two or three could kill one outright.

Over a dozen forces struck at once! Due to his recent breakthrough, Luo Feng’s life-body techniques were still incomplete. Any ordinary clone would have been instantly erased under such assault.

But with the “Undying Heart” enhancing him, the Undying Blood Sea surged dramatically, becoming truly indestructible.

Both soul and body, this “Blood Sea Body” withstood the four transcendent beings’ full-force assault in an instant, losing only a tiny fraction of its “blood sea water.” Yet the consumption rate was slower than Luo Feng’s absorption of Yulan City’s energy.

“True combat: protect yourself first, then seek to kill.” Luo Feng thought.

Defensive artifacts were too precious. In the Infinite Space Treasury, the only artifact suited to him—balancing life and destruction—was the Undying Heart.

“What?!” All four transcendent beings were stunned. They had unleashed their full power—and the vast blood sea showed no sign of damage.

“Splash—”

From within the blood sea, a furry colossal claw instantly seized the destruction bird—the one causing the most damage.

A piercing, ear-splitting screech rang out!

The destruction bird dissolved entirely into black mist, its massive form faintly taking shape as a bird in midair.

“Boom—” Luo Feng’s furry claw swung backward, engulfing the thunder tentacle creature beside it.

The thunder tentacle creature’s thick tentacles immediately twisted to block the claw.

But the claw’s might was terrifying—it clenched tightly.

“Crack.”

On the other side, the black serpentine mountain’s tail lashed violently against Luo Feng’s claw. The impact was so immense that the claw could no longer hold—allowing the thunder tentacle creature to flee in panic.

…

The vast blood sea churned, binding all directions.

Lightning, flame, dark corruption spread everywhere; a colossal furry claw, terrifying in power, chased after the four transcendent beings. Each transcendent being used their own techniques, coordinating to protect themselves.

“How is Luo Feng this strong?”

“Even our combined assault can’t threaten his defense.”

“His artifact claw can threaten our lives.”

Though unwilling to admit it, in this one-on-four battle, the four transcendent beings were on the defensive.

They couldn’t hurt Luo Feng.

They could only coordinate to survive!

Even at a disadvantage, the four transcendent beings refused to surrender, continuing their coordinated assault. The transcendent Huoxin worm repeatedly activated its innate technique, employing every means possible to disrupt Luo Feng.

“Brilliant.”

“Lord Luo Feng holds the upper hand against four!” The Elders watched, exhilarated. The cultivators beneath the battle zone felt overwhelming gratitude.

Because Luo Feng dominated, he could spare attention to draw energy from Yulan City, dampening the battle’s aftereffects—allowing nearby cave dwellings to survive.

“Fighting four transcendent beings and still holding advantage? Compared to him, Master Wei Yang is utterly insignificant.” The Master of Wan Ying Pavilion watched, regretting his minor conflicts with Luo Feng.

…

As Luo Feng fought, he gazed far off in another direction.

The low-level Hunyuan life army approached the core zone from all sides—some near, some distant. The nearest force advanced from the East City Gate, now perilously close to the core zone.

“Hahahaha, almost there!”

“One army is nearly at the core zone!” The four transcendent beings were thrilled.

“This army has over eight hundred peak Divine Emperors and twelve thousand late-stage Divine Emperors—enough to obliterate the core zone.”

They watched eagerly.

…

In Yulan City’s core array layer, Luo Feng had begun deploying the array the moment he broke through the Dao of Life and Death.

Building an array centered on “late-stage Divine Emperor Dao of Life and Death” naturally made it vast and complex.

“I’ll divide the array into three layers.”

“First, deploy Layer One. The most critical thing about Layer One: speed.”

Even the simplest Layer One array, containing only the most basic principles of late-stage Divine Emperor Dao of Life and Death, required extreme simplification—and with the thousandfold mental acceleration from the Hundred Trials Heart Essence, he had finally completed it.

Array structures can take countless forms.

Luo Feng chose the "Triple Formation" to quickly establish the first layer of the formation, to alter the course of the war and save more cultivators' lives.

Luo Feng sensed the approaching legion of low-level Hunyuan lifeforms while fully deploying the formation, yet still had to divide his attention to fight four ultra-limit beings.

"Done."

Finally, having completed the first layer of the formation, Luo Feng’s eyes glowed with excitement.

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