Swallowed Star 2: Origin Continent

In the Chu Capital, inside Luo Feng’s residence in the meditation chamber, within one of the layers of the Star Tower.

Luo Feng looked at the three pieces of perfect Chaos-level biological materials before him: a large rock, three silver scales, and a broken, massive branch.

“Perfect Chaos-level biological materials are truly hard to collect,” Luo Feng sighed to himself. “One piece for 10 billion Cosmos Sand, and I’ve only managed to collect three after all this time.”

It made sense when he thought about it. These perfect Chaos-level beings had all been captured by the pinnacle existences on the Origin Continent. Those beings wouldn’t care for 10 billion Cosmos Sand, but their direct disciples or children might be tempted and find a way to obtain some materials.

“Let’s take a look.”

Luo Feng’s hand moved like a blade, gently cutting the rock into powder, the scales into fragments, and the leaf into pieces. He then began analyzing each one, examining their most fundamental structure.

“Hmm?”

Luo Feng saw it.

The fundamental structure of the rock powder was also a trinity form. A single gray particle contained Chaos law secret patterns, with two fused gray particles inside it.

“Although both are trinity forms, the Golden Feather Divine Bird is more agile, while the rock’s trinity form is much more solid,” Luo Feng reflected.

The three new materials all exhibited a ‘trinity form,’ but each had subtle differences. These tiny differences resulted in drastically different final forms.

As Luo Feng studied them, his understanding of the trinity form gradually improved.

“It’s too complex.” Even though Luo Feng’s Life Spirit branch had reached the peak of the Chaos Realm and his Life Body branch had reached the pinnacle of the Chaos Realm, he still found the trinity form incredibly profound. It felt like a perfect creation of the universe, and comprehending its essence was extraordinarily difficult.

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In a mysterious palace, which did not exist in the real world but was a building within an illusion.

Thoughts gathered here.

“Chaos Realm Transcendent ‘Luo He’ has been collecting perfect Chaos-level biological materials lately. Could these materials have some unknown special use?” One thought asked.

“I have a perfect Chaos-level being and studied it closely. Its body structure is just somewhat unique, containing aspects of the Origin Path of Life and the Origin Path of Matter,” another thought replied.

“Luo He created his own body-refining secret technique. His technique has some similarities to Chaos-level beings. He’s likely practicing both the Origin Path of Life and the Origin Path of Matter to refine his body. His blade technique must also incorporate the Origin Path of Destruction,” yet another thought said.

Their conjecture was fairly accurate. Luo Feng had been using the Origin Path of Life to study the structure of perfect Chaos-level beings, then using his ‘Formless and Faceless’ ability to transform.

Without the ‘Formless and Faceless’ ability, he would have needed to study the Origin Path of Matter and use material transformation.

“A Chaos Realm being practicing three Origin Paths? This kid is quite bold.”

“It’s certain that his collecting these materials doesn’t have any special significance. Next piece of intel, the Snow Realm Ancestor has exchanged a ‘Tuoshan Beast’ corpse at great cost.”

“The Tuoshan Beast is a special lifeform cultivated by the Flame Wind Ancestor using primordial bloodlines. It contains a very thin primordial bloodline. The Snow Realm Ancestor has mastered all six branches of the Origin Path of Life, reaching the ‘Blood Boundary’ level. However, he hasn’t been able to break through to the second stage of Divine King, and he’s probably trying to use the primordial bloodline for his cultivation.”

“Keep observing! If he really can break through using the primordial bloodline, we might invite him to join us.”

“Next piece of intel, the ‘Snow Demon Divine King’ of the Ancient Thunder Kingdom has gone out of control and devoured Divine King Lei Sha’s true body. Divine King Lei Sha lost his true body and an ultimate Divine King weapon, suffering enormous losses. He won’t let this go…”

They continued exchanging information.

These ancient beings silently observed the Origin Continent.

Any precious opportunities or powerful treasures would attract the attention of the ancient beings, and they might even move to snatch them.

Of course, Luo Feng was merely collecting some perfect Chaos-level biological materials for now, which these ancient beings didn’t care about! Moreover, Luo Feng was in the Chu Capital, and these ancient beings wouldn’t dare provoke Emperor Chu by causing trouble there.

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Focused on his cultivation, time passed quickly.

Occasionally, Luo Feng would take on some tasks to earn merit.

Bounty missions, guarding missions, and treasure-hunting missions— the latter two were quite troublesome, either taking a long time or requiring significant effort. Only bounty missions were relatively simple for Luo Feng, who had mastered the Lieu Yuan Technique.

“This one.”

Luo Feng didn’t want to cause too much commotion on the Origin Continent, so he only occasionally took on a bounty mission.

This time, the target of the bounty was the peak Chaos Realm expert ‘Great Sage Black Mist,’ with a bounty of 100,000 merit points.

“This Great Sage Black Mist practices the Origin Path of Causality,” Luo Feng thought as he used his traveling transformation technique to reach Black Mist’s territory.

It was a relatively remote region, most of which was shrouded in black mist.

Within this territory, there were also over a hundred ordinary cities.

Under the black mist, each city was like an isolated island.

“Those returning to the city must be thoroughly inspected. Don’t let any evil objects in,” at the city gate of an ordinary city in Black Mist’s territory, multiple layers of formations thoroughly inspected every returning cultivator.

The cultivators quietly submitted to the inspection.

Suddenly, one of the cultivators under the formation’s careful scrutiny had blood-colored marks appear on his skin.

“Impossible! When did I get infected?” The cultivator’s face turned to despair as his body silently disintegrated into nothingness.

“Oh no.” The other cultivators undergoing inspection turned pale with fear.

“Anyone who saw the blood-colored marks must undergo a second inspection to confirm they aren’t infected,” a voice called out. Even the guards, who were in a relatively safe area, had to submit to an inspection.

If this infection spread into the city, it would cause a catastrophe.

At that moment—

Luo Feng appeared in the sky, watching the scene.

“Great Sage Black Mist descends the ‘Causal Calamity,’ forcing the countless cultivators in his territory to live in perpetual fear. These causal marks spread, causing widespread panic, which generates even more powerful causality.”

“He cultivates through the causality of all living beings, comprehending the Origin Path of Causality.”

“If the causal entanglements become too deep, he descends the Causal Calamity, wiping out all the cultivators in a city to completely eliminate the cause.”

Luo Feng already knew the intel on Great Sage Black Mist.

Completely wiping out cultivators was the simplest way to erase causality. The countless cultivators in these cities were deeply entangled with Great Sage Black Mist, and they would all eventually face extinction.

Whoosh.

Luo Feng moved through the skies above the cities, seeing the endless fear in the eyes of the cultivators below. Every time a Causal Calamity broke out, a large number of lives were lost.

“Found him.” Luo Feng sensed a Chaos Realm aura coming from a merchant in one of the cities.

The merchant smiled as he did business, warmly greeting some of his regular customers. None of the cultivators in the city realized that this merchant was the source of the endless evil calamity.

“Hm?” The merchant felt something and looked up at Luo Feng.

In that instant, the merchant saw all other things vanish, and all that remained was an immense, towering star. This immense star rolled forward, crushing down on the merchant’s mental will.

Poof!

In a flash, the merchant’s mental will was obliterated, and Great Sage Black Mist was utterly destroyed.

Luo Feng had been cautious, worrying that Great Sage Black Mist might use a causal escape technique. But in reality, Great Sage Black Mist had only mastered one branch of the Origin Path of Causality and wasn’t skilled in causal escape techniques.

Luo Feng had arrived with his ultimate move, the Lieu Yuan Technique, and directly crushed the merchant’s mental will with his overwhelming mental power. Not even a trace of consciousness remained, and he didn’t have time to use any reincarnation techniques.

Boom.

The merchant, still smiling, collapsed to the ground.

At that moment, across the entire Black Mist territory, in over a hundred cities, countless cultivators were unaware that the Causal Calamity had completely ended.

“Collect.” Luo Feng waved his hand, collecting Great Sage Black Mist’s corpse. “At last, Morosa will have something to eat again.”

Luo Feng immediately left.

…

The complete death of Great Sage Black Mist also attracted the attention of some factions on the Origin Continent.

It was common for Chaos Realm beings to fight and have their true bodies destroyed, but a complete death, with all causality erased, was extremely rare. In just a few epochs, both Great Sage of the North and Great Sage Black Mist had completely died, prompting investigations by those interested.

“Great Sage of the North and Great Sage Black Mist died one after the other within a few epochs. Both of them had committed great

sins. Could it be that a powerful Divine King has taken it upon themselves to kill these great sinners?”

“Great Sage of the North and Great Sage Black Mist were relatively restrained, mainly committing slaughter within their own territories. They didn’t dare spread their destruction too widely. Yet they still provoked a strong person who despises evil?”

This led to much speculation among the factions.

Only a few powerful beings on the Origin Continent could completely kill peak Chaos Realm experts. Divine King First Stage beings generally couldn’t do it, so the speculation focused on powerful entities making a move.

Still, only two had died, so the situation wasn’t causing much commotion.

If ten or eight of them were to die completely, the commotion would be much larger, even causing panic among some Chaos Realm beings.

“100,000 merit points.” As a direct disciple of the Emperor, Luo Feng’s authority to claim merit was higher than that of first-class marquises in the royal family.

He could personally submit tasks to the spirit of the Emperor Chu Palace.

Emperor Chu Palace, Hall of Inheritance.

Luo Feng came here once again.

“I need to view the Shadow of the Tribulation Beast,” Luo Feng said directly to the elder spirit. His mental will had advanced from the bottleneck of the Chaos Realm to the level of a Divine King, largely thanks to the Tribulation Beast Diagram. Naturally, he was interested in the more effective Shadow of the Tribulation Beast.

Just one viewing was equivalent to the inheritance of the first tribulation of the *Eight Tribulations Life Form*, so the cost was very high. It was only now that Luo Feng had accumulated enough merit.

“You want to view the Shadow of the Tribulation Beast?” The elder spirit looked at Luo Feng. “Even a mere image of the complete Shadow of the Tribulation Beast requires a Divine King-level mental will to barely remain conscious. It’s best to wait until your mental will reaches the Divine King Second Stage to view it. With your current Divine King threshold mental will… you’ll mainly just struggle to stay conscious, and you won’t remember much of what you see.”

“Are you sure you still want to continue?” the elder spirit asked, gazing at Luo Feng.

Luo Feng nodded, “Yes, I’m sure.”

Just an image of this beast was so terrifying—what was the origin of the Tribulation Beast?

“Prepare yourself,” the elder spirit nodded, and then he disappeared.

Luo Feng looked ahead into a space of chaos, and suddenly, a faint, colossal figure began to emerge from the void…

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