Chapter 93: Chaotic Realm (Part 2)

Days passed one by one.

Inside a pavilion atop the city lord’s wall, Luo Feng cultivated in silence, while Mo Luo Sa monitored all external movements. With his Chaotic Realm power, not a single stir from the Heart Shadow Sect could escape him.

“Luo He Brother, I’m fully prepared,” a voice echoed in Luo Feng’s ear.

Luo Feng opened his eyes.

“The Marquis has agreed. We launch the attack today,” Yue Wu continued, whispering, “Luo He Brother, are you ready?”

“I can strike at any moment,” Luo Feng replied.

“Good.”

Yue Wu held Luo He Shenjun in high regard: partly because he believed Luo He Shenjun would one day reach the Chaotic Realm, and partly because, in this war, Luo He Shenjun was the most critical factor.

Luo Feng rose to his feet. Mo Luo Sa immediately asked, “Are we moving?”

"Follow our plan. Just cooperate with me," Luo Feng said. The Chaotic Realm-level 'Jie Shou' should remain discreet.

“Rest assured, I’ll cooperate perfectly,” Mo Luo Sa said.

Luo Feng gazed through the window. The Heart Shadow Sect’s grand array, which had once shrouded the entire Chaotic Armor Zone, had been dismantled. After the failure of the ‘Ambush Array Master Plan,’ the sect had retreated its headquarters and strengthened its defenses.

Only moments passed.

The Nine Jiang Marquis’s army was fully mobilized, all ready for battle. Some warriors burned with battle lust; others trembled with anxiety. Open combat would surely bring heavy casualties. But as soldiers under the Nine Jiang Marquis, there was no retreat now.

“It’s time to fight to the death,” said Gao Wu Shui, commanding a unit of mechanical treasures, his expression solemn. Seeing Luo He Shenjun at the front of the formation, his confidence steadied slightly.

Suddenly—

“Boom—boom—boom~~~”

The entire Hu Yang City seemed to awaken. One by one, terrifying arrays rose into the sky—thirteen-nine arrays in total, varying in strength, yet perfectly synchronized, forming a unified whole.

As the arrays activated, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!! The key nodes of the Heart Shadow Sect’s three original sect arrays shattered outright.

“No!”

“The arrays are broken!”

Heart Shadow Sect disciples guarding the city cried out in alarm—they too saw the dark array that had enveloped Hu Yang City vanish. In its place stood the thirteen-nine fused arrays.

Heart Shadow Sect disciples scattered across the city were instantly bound by the arrays’ overwhelming power, immobilized. They were teleported en masse into the city lord’s mansion and imprisoned.

“Yue Wu’s array mastery is truly beyond comprehension.”

In the Heart Shadow Sect’s headquarters, the sect master and the eighteen Elders, along with Qiu Yi, looked up at the dazzling, multicolored arrays. Their overwhelming might sent chills through them.

“Prepare to fight!” ordered the Heart Shadow Sect master.

Boom—boom—boom~~~

A warship from the Yan Feng Ancient Nation appeared. Most of the ordinary disciples now stood within it.

Two terrifying arrays enveloped the warship: the Dark Prison World Array and the Great Annihilation Array, merging into one. Within them, faint outlines of colossal mechanical treasures could be seen.

“Settle!” From high above, the multicolored arrays descended with crushing force. The Dark Prison World Array, covering the largest area, actively resisted this overwhelming pressure.

“After the Hu Yang City arrays activated, they’re this strong?” The Eternal True Gods of the Dark Prison World Array strained to hold back the pressure, utterly exhausted—no energy left to deal with any other enemy.

……

The Nine Jiang Marquis’s army also flew out of the city lord’s mansion, resembling a vast whirlpool of water and fire. Its surface shimmered with multicolored light, carrying the might of Hu Yang City against the enemy.

“Even if you’ve brought reinforcements, this battle still ends in victory for the Heart Shadow Sect,” boomed the massive warship as it charged straight into the swirling vortex.

Boom—boom—boom~~~

As it crashed into the vortex, they finally saw Luo Feng and his servant at the front of the formation.

“Stop Luo He!”

Swoosh! Swoosh!

A black flying bird and a black figure moved with blinding speed, lunging straight at Luo Feng.

Luo Feng casually swung his Blood Shadow Blade. A brilliant arc of light cut through the void, halting Xin Mo Yuan and the Heart Shadow Divine General. Both felt the vast gap in technique the moment they clashed.

“After controlling the Heart Shadow Divine General, my raw power rivals Luo He’s. But in terms of subtlety, I’m far behind,” Qiu Yi thought. He had only just mastered five Chaotic Realm techniques. Even two-on-one, Luo Feng handled them both with ease.

As Luo Feng blocked with one strike, Mo Luo Sa seized him and vanished into the void, slipping into the Dark Prison World Array.

“Luo He’s servant can teleport through void.”

“Even amid the clashing arrays, he still managed to teleport?”

Both armies were stunned.

Some elites among them could teleport under normal large-city suppression. But now, with two armies clashing and arrays colliding, the spatial turbulence had intensified a thousandfold.

To teleport through void under such conditions meant mastery of void principles far beyond comprehension.

“He’s mastered at least several Chaotic Realm void techniques. No wonder he became Luo He’s guardian. With him escorting, even large armies can’t threaten master and servant below the Chaotic Realm.”

The Heart Shadow Sect’s Eternal True Gods felt a chill.

“He’s going to destroy the Dark Prison World Array. Stop him!” The Dark Prison World Array was already strained, bearing the full weight of Hu Yang City’s hundred-plus arrays. It had little energy left to counter Luo Feng, and its self-defense was severely weakened—Luo Feng and his servant could easily break through.

“His servant teleports too fast—we can’t stop him!”

“The Great Annihilation Array abandon offense. Join the Dark Prison World Array to contain Luo He.”

Instantly, both arrays now struggled to resist Hu Yang City’s hundred-plus arrays while also suppressing Luo Feng—neither could engage the Nine Jiang Marquis’s army.

The Yan Feng Ancient Nation warship crashed through the battlefield, its hundred-plus colossal mechanical treasures coordinating as one, clashing with the Nine Jiang Marquis’s formation.

……

A figure of crimson flame stood far outside the city, watching the battle.

“Useless. Yue Wu and Luo He have tied up our two most critical arrays,” said Liu Yin Hou, shaking his head. Without those two colossal arrays, the Heart Shadow Sect had lost more than half its strength.

Yue Wu’s formation moved as one unified whole.

The warship, Xin Mo Yuan, the Heart Shadow Divine General, and the hundred-plus colossal mechanical treasures—all seemed powerful, yet were disjointed, scattered. They would be picked off one by one by Yue Wu’s formation.

“Yan, act now,” Liu Yin Hou ordered from afar.

!.

“Yes, Father.”

Inside the Yan Feng Ancient Nation warship, among the ordinary disciples, was a black-armored general dispatched by Liu Yin Hou, tasked with oversight.

“Sect Master, by the Marquis’s command, we come to assist you in breaking the array,” said the black-armored general. Instantly, a new army materialized beside him—its leader, a young man in blood-red robes.

“Young Master Yan?” The Heart Shadow Sect master’s eyes lit up with joy.

Having served under Liu Yin Hou for so long, he knew the strongest among his subordinates was this ‘Liu Yin Yan.’ Liu Yin Hou raised his children with brutal rigor and spared no resources.

Liu Yin Yan was Liu Yin Hou’s most outstanding child. And Liu Yin Hou had spared no cost, sending him to study under the ancient Shenwang ‘Snow Realm Ancestor,’ becoming his direct disciple.

“I’ll help you destroy the Nine Jiang Marquis’s army,” said Liu Yin Yan. Instantly, he took command of his personal guard legion, piloting a snow-white humanoid mechanical treasure.

Swoosh!

The colossal, snow-white humanoid treasure possessed infinite beauty. But when it emerged from the warship into the void, the Nine Jiang Marquis’s army was thrown into shock.

“Is that… the Snow Realm Ancestor’s mechanical treasure, ‘Snow Realm Envoy’?” Yue Wu, commanding the formation, gasped in alarm.

Logically, the Heart Shadow Sect’s ‘Xin Mo Yuan’ and ‘Heart Shadow Divine General’ were also specially forged by a Shenwang, tailored for their disciples. In refinement, they were nearly equal to the Snow Realm Envoy.

But the Heart Shadow Sect’s founding ancestor was long dead. They could barely gather enough disciples to even activate Xin Mo Yuan and the Heart Shadow Divine General.

The Snow Realm Ancestor, however, was an ancient, renowned presence on the Origin Continent. Countless sought to join his sect.

Only those carefully selected could pilot the Snow Realm Envoy—its commander, the thirty-six supporting Eternal True Gods, and the forty-nine thousand Void True Gods—all rigorously chosen to fully unleash its power.

“Wha—” The Snow Realm Envoy’s power surpassed the combined strength of Xin Mo Yuan and the Heart Shadow Divine General.

Wherever it passed, mechanical treasures shattered instantly. The Eternal True Gods, Void True Gods, and True Gods inside them died without exception.

“Luo He Brother, hurry and stop the Snow Realm Envoy!” Yue Wu knew the danger. He could hold his own against Xin Mo Yuan and the Heart Shadow Divine General with array power, but he couldn’t intercept the Snow Realm Envoy.

Swoosh!

With Mo Luo Sa’s teleportation, Luo Feng and Mo Luo Sa appeared beside the Snow Realm Envoy in the blink of an eye.

“Leave it to me.”

Luo Feng studied the Snow Realm Envoy before him. Its skin was pure white and exquisitely beautiful—seven-tenths similar to the true form of a 'Jie Shou.'

“It resembles my true form,” Mo Luo Sa sent a mental message. “But fundamentally different. My essence is the Dao of Destruction. This Snow Realm Envoy’s essence is the Dao of Life.”

“Luo He?” The Snow Realm Envoy turned to Luo Feng, its eyes glowing gold, icy and cold.

“Yes. Its essence is the Dao of Life,” Luo Feng observed.

The Snow Realm Ancestor was an ancient Shenwang who walked the Dao of Life. Yet in slaughter, he ranked among the top ten most wicked demons on the Origin Continent, having slaughtered countless lives.

“Hum.”

The Snow Realm Envoy’s surface glowed with pure white light, naturally resisting array pressure. It fixed its gaze on Luo Feng.

To Liu Yin Yan, if the Snow Realm Envoy could merely hold Luo Feng, its purpose was fulfilled.

“The Dao of Life… yet so murderous…” Luo Feng stared at the glowing surface of the Snow Realm Envoy.

Luo Feng had deep accumulations in both the Dao of Life and the Dao of Destruction. Now, facing this colossal mechanical treasure infused with the Dao of Life, merely observing the shifting patterns on its surface stirred something within him.

That tiny spark of insight, like a single beam of light in darkness, caused all his long-held realizations to rapidly coalesce.

Luo Feng suddenly blinked.

“This… is the Chaotic Law?” The mystery that had plagued him for so long—now, with sufficient accumulation and a single spark of opportunity, he shattered the barrier. Everything became clear.

Filled with joy, Luo Feng carefully sensed the complete Chaotic Law he had just comprehended.

“Luo He, what are you staring at? Why aren’t you attacking?” The Snow Realm Envoy had been ready for battle. He never expected the famed Luo He Shenjun to simply stare at him without moving.

(End of Chapter)