Chapter 329: Division Across the Four Directions

Emperor Qing, Emperor Fu, and Emperor Ming suddenly sensed a terrifying aura erupt from inside the Cave Dwelling. A figure instantly shot into the sky, and they recognized him at a glance—it was Luo Feng!

Luo Feng stood above the Cave Dwelling.

Whoosh! In an instant he divided, splitting into a full twenty-three clones!

Twenty-three Luo Fengs observed the surroundings.

“Emperor Qing, all of you stay inside the Cave Dwelling. Don’t go out.”

After giving the order, the twenty-three clones immediately flew toward all directions.

“What…?”

“Why would Brother Luo Feng split into so many clones?”

“The more clones there are, the more mental focus is needed to control them, and each clone’s energy reserve becomes weaker.” Emperor Qing, Emperor Fu, and Emperor Ming were all puzzled. Even if Luo Feng possessed strength comparable to the three Hall Masters, dividing into so many clones would greatly reduce each clone’s strength. Facing the vast army currently breaching the city, it seemed meaningless.

Emperor Ming laughed instead. “Perhaps Brother Luo Feng thinks that instead of waiting to die, it’s better to fight desperately. I would also like to fight to the death… but unfortunately, I can’t even defeat the weakest Low-Rank Primordial Lifeform. I don’t even qualify to risk my life.”

Emperor Ming had already accepted death.

“That’s not Brother Luo Feng’s temperament.” Emperor Fu frowned as he looked toward the twenty-three departing clones. “I’ve watched him grow to this point. Whenever he acts, he always has some confidence.”

Emperor Qing seemed thoughtful. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

At this moment, Luo Feng’s stationed clone at the Yun Dan Tower, as well as the clone patrolling outside, both split again—adding another eleven clones.

“Hu.”

Thirty-four clones scattered in flight, heading toward different positions throughout the Core Region of Rainlan City.

“These thirty-four clones of mine will guard the entire Core Region.” Luo Feng had long planned this.

Among these thirty-four clones, only the strongest clone possessed a five-hundred-fold Perfect Divine Body Energy Reserve and carried the Heart of Immortality and the Palm World. The other thirty-three clones each had only a hundred-fold energy reserve.

This was also all the energy Luo Feng currently possessed. At this moment, he was going all out.

…

The Core Region of Rainlan City was the most prosperous area. Elder Cave Dwellings stood throughout it. Even at this moment, the Elders still maintained the various formation arrays of Rainlan City, trying to resist the Low-Rank Primordial Lifeform Legion.

“It’s over.”

“The Low-Rank Primordial Lifeform Legion is charging toward the Core Region.”

When they saw four Transcendent Limit Level existences leading more than two thousand God Emperor Perfection–level and tens of thousands of Late-Stage God Emperor Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms surging toward the Core Region, all the Elders felt their hearts tremble with despair.

They had only been able to resist the legion because of Rainlan City’s defenses.

Without the city’s advantage, the disparity between the two sides was simply too great.

And this was only a hastily launched attack! Otherwise, the legion’s numbers would have been doubled! With simultaneous assaults from both inside and outside, Rainlan City would have been breached in an extremely short time—there would be no possibility of resistance.

“According to estimates, the Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms around Rainlan City should only have about two to three hundred at God Emperor Perfection level and several thousand at Late-Stage God Emperor. But this time… so many have come!”

The Elders all watched.

Inside the city there were originally three Hall Masters and more than seven hundred Late-Stage God Emperor Seekers. Without Rainlan City’s defenses, they would not have been able to defeat two or three hundred God Emperor Perfection and several thousand Late-Stage God Emperor Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms.

Now there were two to three thousand God Emperor Perfection and tens of thousands of Late-Stage God Emperor. Including the infiltrators, there were even five Transcendent Limit Level existences.

How could they possibly resist?

“Hahaha… We’ve won!”

“We’ve won!”

The five Leader squads in the Core Region were ecstatic. Because the operation had begun hastily, they had felt uneasy. Although many Core Clan Members had died and two Leaders had fallen, they themselves had survived to the end.

The city had been breached. The army had entered the city. Soon they would enjoy the most sumptuous feast.

“Kill these Elders, and then we can feast on hundreds of millions of cultivators!” The Leaders were completely crazed.

Suddenly—

Among Luo Feng’s many clones scattered across the Core Region to guard it, one clone approached a Leader squad.

Boom!

That clone instantly transformed into a vast Blood Sea, which in a single moment submerged the entire Leader squad.

“Luo Feng again?”

“The city is already breached, and he still dares obstruct us. Let’s join forces and destroy him first!”

The six Leaders of that squad were furious. Their bodies manifested into tangible forms, and their powerful God Emperor Perfection bodies erupted with strength, attempting to tear apart the Blood Sea. Yet the six of them felt the Blood Sea was endlessly heavy—they could barely even roll within it.

“Suppress!”

Within the surging Blood Sea, Luo Feng formed a formation array with a single thought.

His formation operated with the Late-Stage God Emperor Life-and-Death Path as its core, forcibly suppressing the six Leaders. Under the suppression of the Blood Sea formation, they could barely move, and their speed was as slow as crawling turtles.

“Destroy.”

While suppressing them with the formation, Luo Feng concentrated the formation’s power to strangle one Leader’s True Body.

Chi—chi—chi.

Under the formation’s annihilation, the body of that God Emperor Perfection Bewitching Heart Worm was rapidly eroded. Its vitality dissipated, and its powerful body was torn apart as the formation’s power penetrated inward toward its Life Core.

“No—!” The Bewitching Heart Worm could not believe it. Its powerful vitality was completely suppressed and could not recover in the slightest. Every bit of erosion was permanent. Under Luo Feng’s Blood Sea formation, the erosion speed was terrifying. Death rapidly approached it.

“Help! Help!” It immediately cried to its companions.

“King! Save me! Save me!” It also sent a terrified plea to the King.

“Hm?”

Elsewhere in the Core Region, the King in the form of Hall Master Weiyang looked over from afar. He saw the Blood Sea floating in the air, suppressing six Leaders while one begged in terror.

“How is this possible? The city has already fallen—how could there still be power inside capable of threatening a Leader squad?” The King could not believe it.

“Save me! Save me! No—!”

With an unwilling and shrill cry echoing in the King’s mind and in the minds of the other Leaders—

A God Emperor Perfection Bewitching Heart Worm died just like that.

Whoosh!

Above the Blood Sea, Luo Feng’s figure condensed.

Yet Luo Feng frowned slightly as he looked at the lifeless corpse in the Blood Sea. Its Life Core had already cracked.

“My Life-and-Death Path has already reached Late-Stage God Emperor, yet destroying a single Leader squad is still this troublesome.” Only after fighting did Luo Feng realize how terrifying the vitality of these Leader True Bodies truly was.

“This clone lacks powerful secret treasures, its energy reserves are limited, and my secret techniques are not particularly strong.” Luo Feng understood this clearly.

With only a hundred-fold energy reserve, at his current realm even his casual attacks already contained the Late-Stage God Emperor Life-and-Death Path. The weapon secret treasures sold outside were far inferior to his own techniques and had no meaning for him anymore.

Only secret treasures nurtured and refined by existences that had escaped the prison cage—such as the Heart of Immortality and the Palm World—were useful to him.

But such treasures also had to suit him, so they were naturally extremely rare.

While Luo Feng was thinking, the Leader squad trapped in the Blood Sea formation lost another Leader. As their numbers decreased, the remaining Leaders’ resistance grew weaker, and they died even faster.

“No—!”

“King! King!”

The Leaders were utterly despairing. Under the suppression of the Blood Sea formation, they could not move at all.

The later ones died even faster.

Soon all six Leaders were dead.

“In a little over ten breaths, one squad eliminated.” Luo Feng looked into the distance.

“Beware of God Emperor Luo Feng!”

“He’s already destroyed one Leader squad!”

The other four Leader squads were filled with fear. Luo Feng’s clones were scattered throughout the Core Region, and one clone quickly approached another Leader squad. That squad immediately fled in panic.

“Run! Hurry!”

“We’re faster—shake him off!”

Their squad turned into illusory forms and fled at full speed.

Suddenly—

Whoosh!

As Luo Feng flew, it seemed as though heaven and earth were torn apart in an instant, and a crack appeared in the world itself. The fleeing Leaders were stunned by the sight.

Dressed in black robes with black hair, Luo Feng walked within the fissure of heaven and earth. In only three steps, the vast Blood Sea beneath his feet engulfed the fleeing Leader squad.

“How is this possible? His speed is faster than ours?”

“Did he just perform short-range spatial travel?”

“The suppression of the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm is so strong—how could he possibly travel through space?”

The Leader squad felt despair as they were swallowed by the Blood Sea. They still could not accept what had happened.

Luo Feng revealed a faint smile.

“At last, using the Late-Stage God Emperor Life-and-Death Path as the core, I’ve created a movement secret technique.”

He had just broken through and immediately rushed into battle—it had all been too rushed. He had not yet had time to create many secret techniques using the Life-and-Death Path.

Secret techniques derived from a Late-Stage God Emperor Life-and-Death Path were extraordinary, but they all required time to create.

Luo Feng had now divided into thirty-four clones guarding the Core Region.

In reality, after consuming the Hundred Tribulations Heart Marrow, his thinking speed had reached three thousand times normal speed. Controlling clone battles placed very little burden on his mind. Most of his mental effort was focused on two things.

The first task was to use the City Founder Seal to redeploy formation arrays within the Core City Formation Diagram of Rainlan City. His previous formations were too weak. Now he needed to rebuild them using the Life-and-Death Path. Only by relying on Rainlan City could his formations, even under the suppression of the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm, cover the entire city and possess power strong enough to threaten the entire Low-Rank Primordial Lifeform army.

The second task was improving his secret techniques.

Simple techniques for movement, evasion, and killing enemies were easy for Luo Feng to create.

The most difficult was the secret technique Immortal Blood Sea Body, created with the Star Tower Blood Scales as the core and referencing the Heart of Immortality. Elevating it to a higher level was impossible in the short term. The Simulated Eye of Life and Death would also require a very long time.

Thus Luo Feng was currently only creating simpler secret techniques.

However…

What he considered simple secret techniques were utterly inconceivable to other cultivators.

…

In an ordinary Cave Dwelling in the Outer City.

Hall Master Yuanxiang could still observe the entire city. At this moment he stared blankly at the scene—especially when Luo Feng flew and forcibly tore apart heaven and earth, creating a crack in the world.

“In the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm, he can actually tear apart heaven and earth to fly, achieving the effect of short-range void travel?” Hall Master Yuanxiang’s eyes lit up. “One clone can suppress an entire Leader squad. Has he mastered two Half-Primordial Level Paths?”

Within the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm, spatial travel was almost impossible. Yet there were still some escape treasures capable of short-range void travel.

Where did those treasures come from?

They were refined by experts like Luo Feng now—or like Hall Master Yuanxiang at his peak—usually at great cost and typically as one-time treasures.

“There’s hope. There’s hope!” Hall Master Yuanxiang was excited. “If he has mastered two Half-Primordial Level Paths and engraves formations into Rainlan City, then by relying on the city… even if casualties are heavy, there may still be hope to save countless cultivators.”

At this moment, Hall Master Yuanxiang did not know that Luo Feng had not mastered two Half-Primordial Level Paths.

He had mastered one complete Late-Stage God Emperor Life-and-Death Path.

Two Paths required extremely precise coordination to reach a higher threshold.

A complete Path had already reached that higher level the moment it broke through.

The newly-broken-through Luo Feng was already stronger than Hall Master Yuanxiang at his peak—because no matter how perfect the coordination of multiple Paths, it could never surpass a single, complete Path.