Chapter 336: Episode 8: The Cultivator Team

"The Mind-Beguiling Worm race has birthed a Transcendent-level, which is too great a threat," Marquis Yuanxiang said. "The fall of Yulan City this time was primarily due to that Transcendent-level."

Luo Feng agreed.

The possibility of a city being breached from the outside was extremely slim.

Breached from within? That would require a Transcendent-level capable of lurking inside the city! The fact that Palace Master Weiyang died and Palace Master Gai Tao fled was precisely because of that 'Transcendent-level' Mind-Beguiling Worm.

"Therefore, this cultivator team will still arrive at Yulan City. And by utilizing the karma between us and that Mind-Beguiling Worm, they will pinpoint its trail," Marquis Yuanxiang said. "It must be eliminated as soon as possible."

Luo Feng smiled slightly: "My avatar is already hunting that Mind-Beguiling Worm. I estimate it will be finished soon."

Marquis Yuanxiang was slightly startled, then laughed.

With Luo Feng's strength, which completely suppressed four opponents at once, hunting down a single Transcendent-level Mind-Beguiling Worm was indeed not a difficult task.

"Even if you kill that Transcendent-level Mind-Beguiling Worm, I suspect this cultivator team will still make a trip to Yulan City," Marquis Yuanxiang said.

"Oh?" Luo Feng was somewhat surprised.

"Their interest in you is likely far greater than their interest in the Mind-Beguiling Worm," Marquis Yuanxiang smiled slightly. He understood the thoughts of those at the same level very well.

The world was vast and desolate.

The Transcendent-level Mind-Beguiling Worm turned into an illusion, fleeing at ultra-high speed.

"It's over."

Though the world was vast, this Transcendent-level Mind-Beguiling Worm felt despair in its heart.

"The sub-worms I scattered to escape have all been killed by Luo Feng's avatar. He has been tracking me from behind; I simply cannot shake him off." It had no other choice. In terms of flight speed, although its soul-body was fast, it could not keep up with Luo Feng, who could shuttle through space over short distances.

The strength of its sub-worms was instantly annihilated before Luo Feng's avatar. Only the mother worm could withstand Luo Feng's pursuit.

"Once his avatar carrying the secret treasure arrives, I am dead for sure."

At this moment, it felt utterly powerless.

Even though it could sense the enemy following right behind, it had no way to deal with it.

"The low-level Using Hunyuan lifeform legions in the surrounding area that managed to survive are few and far between, and they cannot stop that Luo Feng either."

"I knew it. There was only one chance for a lurking ambush. Once it failed, it was over."

"Oh no!"

Its heart trembled.

It sensed that the 'Luo Feng' behind it had surged in speed, rapidly closing the distance between them.

It stopped fleeing; the difference in their escape speeds was too great, and it could not get away.

Whoosh!

It saw from afar a black-clothed, black-haired figure walking out from a rift in the world, already close at hand.

"Transcendent-level Mind-Beguiling Worm," Luo Feng looked at it.

"Luo Feng, is this your strongest avatar?" The Mind-Beguiling Worm guessed.

Luo Feng nodded.

"Can you spare my life?" The Mind-Beguiling Worm looked at Luo Feng. "I was captured and brought to the Jiuhe Sacred World by a terrifying existence among you cultivators. Everything I did was forced by that terrifying existence."

Luo Feng looked at it, but his expression remained blank as he reached out and pointed.

Luo Feng's finger split the heavens; the finger pierced through space and instantly appeared before the Mind-Beguiling Worm. Furthermore, Luo Feng's index finger transformed into a furry, sharp claw, instantly piercing the Mind-Beguiling Worm's body and striking its life core.

"Hum."

At the same time Luo Feng struck, his soul was also subjected to an invisible attack, attempting to confuse Luo Feng's cognition.

"Not even a moment of hesitation?" The Mind-Beguiling Worm was unwilling to accept this at the moment of death. Its plea for mercy was meant to shake Luo Feng's inner heart, while simultaneously coordinating with its secret mind-beguiling technique to alter Luo Feng's perception.

If Luo Feng had truly been shaken, under the influence of the secret technique, he might have genuinely felt that "this Mind-Beguiling Worm is innocent and pitiful, there is no need to take its life."

The innate secret technique "Mind-Beguiling" was exactly like that; it influenced one's thoughts and ideas to a certain extent.

But Luo Feng's heart did not waver in the slightest; he did not give it a single chance.

"Whoosh." After killing the Mind-Beguiling Worm, Luo Feng waved his hand to collect the corpse.

"Compassion?"

Luo Feng's eyes were cold.

Luo Feng knew very well when to show compassion. If one were compassionate toward every "target," it would be an incredibly foolish thing to do during a life-and-death struggle.

Cultivators and natural Using Hunyuan lifeforms were two opposing camps, both wanting to completely annihilate the other.

Some terrifying existences among the natural Using Hunyuan lifeforms even wanted to devour the Origin World! Therefore, the two camps... were absolutely opposed.

Two camps that were absolutely opposed and wanted to completely annihilate each other. If one were compassionate in such a situation? One would never have reached today's realm of cultivation.

"Many cultivators have died at the hands of the Mind-Beguiling Worm." After collecting the Mind-Beguiling Worm's corpse, Luo Feng also discovered the many spoils it carried, which likely came from Palace Master Weiyang and some of the elders.

"The Mind-Beguiling Worm is resolved; the other three will be much easier." Luo Feng turned to look in the other three directions.

Luo Feng also had avatars following the other three Transcendent-levels from afar.

A vast, boundless sea of blood shrouded the expansive world, also enveloping the black, winding mountain-like creature within it.

"Luo Feng, I am no longer any threat to you; why won't you give me a chance at survival?" The black, winding mountain creature roared. It struggled, but under the suppression of the blood sea array, its struggles grew weaker and weaker.

"If you do something, you must pay the price!" The super-giant claw within the blood sea, after dozens of ambush strikes, finally discovered the life core within that massive body and crushed it.

This massive existence, like a black mountain, was also the one with the most formidable physical body among the four Transcendent-levels.

"Die—"

Within a sea of blood, a massive ball of thunder erupted, its power overwhelming, even breaking through the blood sea and exploding completely.

The vast blood sea condensed into Luo Feng's figure.

"Dead?" Luo Feng was puzzled. He opened the bionic Eye of Annihilation between his brows to carefully observe all traces of karma. The karma between himself and this thunder-tentacle creature had become incredibly weak, yet it still remained.

"A trace of karma still remains."

"It hasn't completely died."

"I vaguely feel that its current location is very, very far from me. And it is erratic, making it impossible to lock onto its exact location." Luo Feng was somewhat surprised.

The distance was so great, it felt like it was at the edge of the world!

Furthermore, there were layers of concealment, and this remaining trace of the karmic line was too blurred to determine.

"This thunder-tentacle creature must have left behind a contingency plan before the war," Luo Feng thought. "Now that it has triggered its contingency, I wonder which race this life-saving method belongs to."

Breaking through from the God Emperor Perfection level to the Transcendent level.

Some low-level Using Hunyuan lifeforms would have their life forms altered, and they would possess innate abilities that leader-level ones did not have! This made it difficult for cultivators to even determine their original race.

"Forget it." Luo Feng gave up.

The Jiuhe Sacred World already had some Transcendent-levels. Since there was no way to track it, Luo Feng did not dwell on it.

"Leave it for future cultivators to resolve." Luo Feng continued his pursuit of the last one, the Bird of Destruction.

The Bird of Destruction could transform into boundless destructive aura, but all its aura was suppressed into the Eye of the Blood Sea within Luo Feng's boundless blood sea!

The Eye of the Blood Sea was inside Luo Feng's secret treasure, the "Heart of Immortality." With the Bird of Destruction trapped within, it could not escape.

"A bit strange."

Luo Feng looked at the vast destructive aura suppressed within the Eye of the Blood Sea inside the Heart of Immortality.

"A Transcendent-level existence has completely turned into a ball of aura."

"I didn't expect its physical body to be the hardest to annihilate. After taking dozens of my claw strikes, it's still this strong." If Luo Feng spent hundreds of claw strikes, he could naturally annihilate this Bird of Destruction completely, but Luo Feng was in no rush.

"Its talent on the path of 'Destruction' is somewhat interesting."

Luo Feng transformed into human form and temporarily suppressed the Bird of Destruction within the Eye of the Blood Sea of the "Heart of Immortality."

"I'll study its path of Destruction first; once I'm done studying, I'll annihilate it," Luo Feng thought. He had already reached the God Emperor Late-stage Life-Death Path, and naturally, he had to start attempting to reach the "Half-Using Hunyuan Layer" in both the Life and Destruction paths.

This Bird of Destruction was worth contemplating.

Whoosh!

Luo Feng set off on his return journey.

In this Battle of Yulan City, he encountered five Transcendent-levels in total; one was killed inside the city, and three were killed outside. The thunder-tentacle creature should still be alive.

A large, ancient warship was flying through the heavens of the Jiuhe Sacred World, its flight speed extremely fast.

Inside the warship.

Three figures sat there, chatting leisurely.

"The latest news." A winged woman sat there, her wings pure white without a single speck of color. She smiled and said, "Marquis Yuanxiang said that the new City Lord of Yulan City, 'Luo Feng,' has already killed that Transcendent-level Mind-Beguiling Worm."

"It seems our mission is already complete." An old man flipped through the book in front of him and said with a smile, "Although we didn't take action, since we accepted the mission and the Transcendent-level Mind-Beguiling Worm did indeed die within three days, we can still receive half of the battle merits."

Regardless of the reason, since the target died within three days, their team at least had the credit of hard work.

If it had died after three days and they hadn't killed it, they would have had no credit at all.

"This Luo Feng is quite formidable. He broke through at a critical moment; even though the city was breached, he was able to turn the tide," a red-robed youth sighed. "I heard he fought one against four and could hold the upper hand against four Transcendent-levels. This strength is even greater than mine!"

"I couldn't do it either. Fighting four Transcendent-levels, I could at most maintain a balance," the old man said.

"Very formidable." The winged woman also marveled, "To be this strong just after breaking through, and the key is that he hasn't even been to the Dark Sacred World."

"To be this strong without training in the Dark Sacred World and without the benefit of some special resources from the Dark Sacred World," the old man exclaimed. "Once he reaches the Dark Sacred World, he might be able to reach the Invincible Layer."

The red-robed youth had envy in his eyes: "Every Invincible Layer existence will receive an invitation from Senior Yuan and the others."

"I heard that after Invincible Layer existences are invited away, most of them can jump out of the cage. That is an existence of another layer," the old man also envied.

They were all existences who had mastered two Half-Using Hunyuan Layer paths, and their own cultivation had reached a very perfect stage, but they could not be called "Invincible," nor were they qualified to be invited by Yuan and the others.

"Are you returning?" The winged woman smiled. "I intend to go to Yulan City to meet this Luo Feng. If I wait until he becomes an Invincible existence, I'm afraid I won't have the chance to see him."

"To have such strength without going to the Dark Sacred World, it is worth a visit," the old man and the red-robed youth both nodded.

They were naturally willing to befriend an existence who had the potential to jump out of the cage.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 337 =====