Chapter 1844: Clearing the First Level

After evolving, Xiao Bao had a lot to say; he must have been holding back his frustration for about half a year, and along the way he kept chattering nonstop with Xiao Feng.

Xiao Feng, who was bored, naturally welcomed another chat companion.

During the cheerful chatter, each heart-demon incarnation was killed and dissipated by him.

Unbeknownst to him, eight hours of climbing had passed; the mist ahead refused to dissipate, reducing visibility to about two meters, with thick fog everywhere, almost making it impossible to see his own hand.

In this situation, Xiao Feng had to count down and predict the respawn time of the heart-demon incarnations, lest, while he couldn't see, a heart-demon incarnation instantly kill Feng Feng Shi in one move, wasting all previous effort.

"57, 58, 59... here it comes."

He silently chanted; when the time came, he dispersed his divine power to protect Feng Feng Shi, and at the same time predicted her position and moved to stand in front of her.

Whoosh~

There was a wind sound ahead; when the wind sound rang out, the skill had already struck his body.

-15.7 billion (critical hit)

This damage must be from Feng Feng Shi's incarnation.

Xiao Feng raised his hand and waved, and over two hundred source needles poured down like a heavenly curtain.

Battle information scrolled down, indicating he had slain Feng Feng Shi's heart-demon incarnation, very smoothly.

"Let's go, it's safe."

He said that, and continued forward.

Feng Feng Shi has little blood, her incarnations are easy to kill, unlike his own which take several seconds to defeat.

Feng Feng Shi walked behind him, unable to help feeling wistful.

Although the heart-demon incarnations have hardly any skills, their stats are exactly the same as hers, at most lacking a little in damage-reduction passive and the Supreme Treasure.

Xiao Feng can blindly strike and kill an incarnation within one second, meaning that if they fought outside, she might not last more than one second either.

Back in the Primordial World, the two could still be compared, but now they are completely incomparable.

"56, 57, 58... here it comes again."

About a minute later, Xiao Feng readjusted his stance, preparing for battle.

However……

This time, the anticipated attack did not arrive.

He waited three seconds, with no attack coming from any direction; Feng Feng Shi was unharmed, and he himself was unharmed.

"Huh, what's going on?" he said, a little surprised.

Feng Feng Shi was also somewhat surprised, looking around and feeling the mist like a curtain, seeing nothing.

She said: "We should be arriving soon; nearing the pass, the heart-demons no longer appear."

"That's great; finally out, I thought tomorrow's cultivation would be delayed." Xiao Feng let out a sigh of relief.

Climbing for eight hours wasn't too exaggerated for him, who used to travel twelve hours a day.

But here it's different from his usual travel; there's no way to quit midway and continue later.

If he quit and came back, he'd have to start over at the mountain base, making those eight hours wasted.

Good thing the pass is almost cleared!

He told Feng Feng Shi: "Let's speed up!"

Then he hurried forward.

Feng Feng Shi followed closely behind him, keeping their distance within two meters so they could still see each other.

Woo!

Just then, a tearing-through-the-air sound suddenly came from behind!

"Ah~"

Feng Feng Shi cried out in pain, her health bar dropped straight to empty, leaving only a thread!

Woo! Woo! Woo!

Then several more sounds came from the sides, with enemies attacking from all four directions at once!

Xiao Feng, who had just relaxed, was suddenly startled, his mind tensing.

"Xiao Bao!"

He let out a low shout, and the Supreme Treasure pouch at his waist instantly opened, swallowing Feng Feng Shi inside.

Feng Feng Shi resisted slightly, then realized he was saving her and obediently let herself be taken in.

Poof poof poof

-92.3 billion (critical hit)

-16.7 billion (critical hit)

-15.3 billion (critical hit)

Three damage numbers popped up above his head.

"Two Feng Feng Shi incarnations, two of my incarnations!" Looking at the damage, Xiao Feng immediately understood the enemy's identity.

The one that just attacked Feng Feng Shi was his incarnation; with her low defense, she lost 2600 billion health in one hit, leaving her with less than 400 billion, almost dying.

The other three attacks on him were not too terrifying.

The enemy struck simultaneously from the four directions front, back, left, and right; the mist blocked vision and Divine Sense probing, so he instinctively launched a source-needle attack toward the Feng Feng Shi incarnation ahead that had lower damage.

However…… he struck empty!

His habitual attack distance and position had deviated; the heart-demon incarnation wasn't there, rendering all his attacks meaningless.

Bang bang bang bang!

Fireballs and sound blades flew out of the mist, inflicting several more hits on Xiao Feng, reducing his health.

"This final trial is still a bit difficult..."

He secretly thought.

To avoid complications, he clenched one hand and directly condensed a Dao Mark Scar.

At present with only one ten‑thousandth of his normal attributes, he cannot unleash that high‑cost skill, the Heart Sword.

Although the Dao Mark Scar is also strong, its consumption of divine origin power is only 100,000 points—very cost‑effective.

Xiao Feng flicked his palm from afar, throwing the Dao Mark Scar straight onto the forward slope.

"Boom!"

The Dao Pattern flew out about ten meters, whereupon he directly detonated this exclusive Dao Mark Seal of his.

Boom—

Instantly, a terrifying energy storm swept out in all directions.

The ever‑present mist was instantly dispersed by the mighty power.

Four figures attacking from 200 meters away could not escape the sweep of the Dao Mark Scar and were instantly annihilated into nothing.

-1.975 septillion (critical hit)

-1.9932 septillion (critical hit)

-1.9804 septillion (critical hit)

-1.9812 septillion (critical hit)

The four terrifying damages slowly drifted upward.

The damage and attributes of the Dao Mark Scar and Heart Sword are unrelated; their strength depends solely on his willpower and depth of comprehension of the material law.

Now Xiao Feng is far stronger than when he first grasped the Dao Mark Scar; a single Dao Mark Scar's damage already exceeds the unit septillion, enough to instantly kill any primordial god and threaten the safety of the lowest venerable.

Just after the four avatars were slain, he released Feng Feng Shi again, unwilling to keep her sealed too long lest it affect the judgment of this place's challenge.

When Feng Feng Shi emerged she was still low on blood; she quickly scanned the surroundings with her Divine Sense, noticing that the visible range had greatly expanded, and thus realized that Xiao Feng had just unleashed an extremely powerful skill.

"Is it over?" she asked.

"Probably." Xiao Feng himself wasn't entirely sure.

Behind him appeared a splendid divine seal of the law of life; he gave Feng Feng Shi a mouthful of milk.

This all‑round feeling of being tank, damage dealer, and healer made him quite enjoy it.

The two continued forward along the mountain path.

The surrounding mist quickly gathered again, turning hazy once more and making people feel oppressed.

However, the oppression didn't last long; after advancing about two hundred steps, the path ahead suddenly ended.

To be precise, there was no lack of a road—there were simply no steps.

They arrived at a platform; the steps had ended; the surroundings resembled a plaza, everywhere flat, but the mist shrouded everything beyond two meters, making it impossible to see far and hard to judge the size of the surrounding platform.

【Congratulations on passing the first stage challenge of the Origin Secret Realm!】

At that moment, the system prompt tone rang in their ears.

The content of the first stage challenge has finally officially ended.