Chapter 337: Cultivation Squad

“Once the Bewitching Heart Worm Clan produces a Transcendent Limit existence, the threat becomes far too great.” Hall Master Yuan Xiang said, “The most critical reason Rainlan City fell this time was precisely that Transcendent Limit existence.”

Luo Feng agreed.

For a city to be breached from the outside—the possibility was minuscule.

To break it from within required a Transcendent Limit existence capable of infiltrating the city! One of Hall Master Wei Yang and Hall Master Gai Tao died while the other fled, all because of that ‘Transcendent Limit’ Bewitching Heart Worm.

“So this Cultivation Squad will still head to Rainlan City. And by relying on the causality between us and that Bewitching Heart Worm, they will determine its whereabouts.” Hall Master Yuan Xiang said, “It must be eliminated as soon as possible.”

Luo Feng smiled faintly. “My clone is already hunting that Bewitching Heart Worm. I estimate… the task will be completed soon.”

Hall Master Yuan Xiang was slightly startled, then smiled.

With Luo Feng’s strength—able to completely suppress four opponents alone—hunting a single Transcendent Limit Bewitching Heart Worm was indeed not difficult.

“Even if you kill that Transcendent Limit Bewitching Heart Worm, I suspect this Cultivation Squad will still make a trip to Rainlan City.” Hall Master Yuan Xiang said.

“Oh?” Luo Feng was somewhat surprised.

“They’re probably far more interested in you than in that Bewitching Heart Worm.” Hall Master Yuan Xiang smiled faintly. He understood quite well the mindset of existences at that level.

******

The vast heavens and earth stretched endlessly.

The Transcendent Limit Bewitching Heart Worm transformed into an illusory form, fleeing at extreme speed.

“It’s over.”

Though the world was vast, despair filled its heart.

“The offspring worms I scattered to escape have all been killed by Luo Feng’s clone. He’s been tracking me from behind the entire time—I can’t shake him at all.” It had no solution. In terms of flight speed, even its mental-body form could not match Luo Feng’s short-distance spatial traversal.

Its offspring worms were instantly annihilated before Luo Feng’s clone. Only the mother worm could withstand Luo Feng’s pursuit.

“Once his clone carrying a Secret Treasure arrives, I’m doomed.”

At this moment, it felt utterly powerless.

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

“The Low-Rank Primordial Lifeform Legion in the surrounding area—only a few survived. They can’t stop that Luo Feng either.”

“I knew it—an Infiltration Assassination Operation only has one chance. Once it fails, it’s over.”

“Not good!”

Its heart trembled.

It sensed that the ‘Luo Feng’ behind it had suddenly surged in speed, rapidly closing the distance.

It stopped fleeing. The gap in speed was too great—it could not escape.

Whoosh!

From afar, it saw a black-robed, black-haired figure stepping out from a fissure in space, already arriving before it.

“Transcendent Limit Bewitching Heart Worm.” Luo Feng looked at it.

“Luo Feng, is this your strongest clone?” the Bewitching Heart Worm asked, making a guess.

Luo Feng nodded.

“Can you spare my life?” The Bewitching Heart Worm looked at Luo Feng. “I was captured and brought into the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm by terrifying existences among your Cultivators. Everything I’ve done was forced by those terrifying Cultivator existences.”

Luo Feng looked at it expressionlessly and simply pointed a finger.

That finger caused heaven and earth to split apart. It pierced through space and instantly appeared before the Bewitching Heart Worm. Luo Feng’s index finger transformed into a furry sharp claw, instantly piercing through its body and striking directly onto its Life Core.

“Buzz.”

At the moment Luo Feng attacked, his soul also suffered an invisible assault, attempting to distort his cognition.

“Not even a trace of hesitation?” The Bewitching Heart Worm was unwilling even at the moment of death. Its plea for mercy had been meant to shake Luo Feng’s mind, working in tandem with its secret technique of Heart Bewilderment to alter his perception.

If Luo Feng had truly wavered, under the influence of the technique, he might have genuinely felt that ‘this Bewitching Heart Worm is innocent, pitiful, and not worth killing.’

The innate secret technique ‘Heart Bewilderment’ could indeed influence one’s thoughts and perceptions to a certain extent.

But Luo Feng’s heart did not waver in the slightest. He gave it no opportunity.

“Hu.” After killing the Bewitching Heart Worm, Luo Feng waved his hand and stored the corpse.

“Mercy?”

Luo Feng’s gaze was cold.

He knew very well when mercy was appropriate. Showing mercy to all ‘targets’ in life-and-death combat was an extremely foolish thing.

Cultivators and naturally born Primordial Lifeforms were two opposing camps, each seeking to completely annihilate the other.

Some terrifying existences among the naturally born Primordial Lifeforms even aimed to devour the Source World itself! Thus, the two camps… were absolutely opposed.

When two sides were absolutely opposed and intent on destroying each other completely—showing mercy would make it impossible to reach one’s current level of cultivation.

“Many Cultivators have died at the hands of the Bewitching Heart Worm.” After collecting the corpse, Luo Feng also discovered numerous spoils of battle it carried, likely from Hall Master Wei Yang and other Elders.

“With the Bewitching Heart Worm dealt with, the other three will be much easier.” Luo Feng turned to look toward the other three directions.

For the other three Transcendent Limit existences, Luo Feng had also sent clones to track them from afar.

……

A vast, boundless Blood Sea enveloped the wide expanse of heaven and earth, as well as the black, winding mountain-like creature within it.

“Luo Feng, I no longer pose any threat to you—why won’t you give me a chance to live?” the black, winding mountain-like creature roared, struggling. Yet under the suppression of the Blood Sea Formation Array, its resistance grew weaker and weaker.

“You must pay the price for what you’ve done!” Within the Blood Sea, a super-gigantic claw launched dozens of assassination strikes, finally locating the Life Core within that massive body and shattering it with a single strike.

This mountain-like creature had the most powerful physical body among the four Transcendent Limit existences.

……

“Die—”

Within a Blood Sea, a massive cluster of lightning erupted, its might overwhelming, even breaking through the Blood Sea as it exploded completely.

The vast Blood Sea condensed into Luo Feng’s figure.

“Dead?” Luo Feng was puzzled. The Simulated Eye of Life and Death on his forehead opened, carefully observing all causal traces. The causality between him and the lightning tentacle creature had become extremely faint, yet it still remained.

“A trace of causality still remains.”

“It hasn’t completely died.”

“I can vaguely sense its current position—it’s extremely far away from me. And it’s erratic, impossible to lock onto precisely.” Luo Feng was somewhat surprised.

The distance was so vast, it felt as though it lay at the edge of the heavens!

Moreover, there were layers of concealment—the remaining causal line was blurred and indeterminable.

“This lightning tentacle creature must have prepared a backup long before the war began,” Luo Feng thought. “Now that it has activated that contingency… I wonder which race it belongs to.” 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

When some Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms broke through from God Emperor Perfection to the Transcendent Limit level, their lifeforms could change, and they could gain innate abilities not possessed at the Leader-Level. This made it difficult for Cultivators to determine their original race.

“Forget it.” Luo Feng gave up.

There were already some Transcendent Limit existences within the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm. Since it could not be tracked, Luo Feng did not insist further.

“I’ll leave it for future Cultivators to deal with.” Luo Feng then continued pursuing the final target—the Bird of Destruction.

……

The Bird of Destruction could transform into endless destructive aura, but all of its aura was suppressed within the Blood Sea Eye of the boundless Blood Sea!

The Blood Sea Eye, located within Luo Feng’s Secret Treasure “Heart of Immortality,” trapped the Bird of Destruction completely, leaving it unable to escape.

“Something feels off.”

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

“A Transcendent Limit existence has completely transformed into a mass of aura.”

“I didn’t expect its body to be the hardest to annihilate—even after taking dozens of my claw strikes, it can still maintain such strength.” If Luo Feng used several hundred strikes, he could completely annihilate the Bird of Destruction, but he was not in a hurry.

“Its talent in the Path of Destruction is quite interesting.”

Luo Feng returned to human form, temporarily suppressing the Bird of Destruction within the Blood Sea Eye of the Heart of Immortality.

“I’ll study its Path of Destruction first. After that, I’ll kill it.” Luo Feng thought. He had already reached the Late-Stage God Emperor Path of Life and Death, and naturally, he would begin attempting to elevate both the Path of Life and the Path of Destruction to the Half-Primordial level.

This Bird of Destruction had research value.

Whoosh!

Luo Feng set off on his return journey.

In this Battle of Rainlan City, he encountered five Transcendent Limit existences in total—one killed within the city, three killed outside. The lightning tentacle creature likely still survived.

******

A large, ancient warship flew through the heavens of the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm at extremely high speed.

Inside the ship—

Three figures sat together, chatting leisurely.

“The latest news.” A winged woman sat there, her wings pure white without a trace of impurity. She smiled and said, “Yuan Xiang said that the new City Lord of Rainlan City, ‘Luo Feng,’ has already killed that Transcendent Limit Bewitching Heart Worm.”

“It seems our mission is already complete.” An old man flipped through a book in front of him and smiled. “Although we didn’t take action, since we accepted the mission and the Transcendent Limit Bewitching Heart Worm did indeed die within three days, we can still receive half the war merits.”

Regardless of the reason, if the target died within three days, their squad would still receive partial credit.

If it died after three days and not by their hands, they would receive no credit at all.

“This Luo Feng is quite impressive—he broke through at a critical moment. Even after the city was breached, he managed to turn the tide.” A red-robed youth sighed. “I heard he fought four Transcendent Limit existences alone and still held the upper hand. That’s stronger than me!”

“I couldn’t do that either. Fighting four Transcendent Limit existences, I could at most maintain a balance.” the old man said.

“Very impressive.” The winged woman also praised him. “He’s this strong right after breaking through. The key is, he hasn’t even been to the Dark Sacred Realm.”

“To be this strong without training in the Dark Sacred Realm or receiving its special resources…” the old man marveled. “Once he goes there, he might reach the Invincible level.”

The red-robed youth showed envy. “Every Invincible-level existence gets guided by Senior Yuan and the others.”

“I’ve heard that after being guided away, most Invincible-level existences manage to Escape the Prison Cage. That’s an entirely different level of existence.” The old man was also envious.

They had both mastered two Half-Primordial Paths, reaching near perfection in their cultivation, yet they could not be considered ‘Invincible,’ nor were they qualified to receive guidance from Senior Yuan and the others.

“Are you two returning?” the winged woman smiled. “I plan to go to Rainlan City and meet this Luo Feng. If we wait until he becomes an Invincible existence, we might not have the chance.”

“He’s this strong without even going to the Dark Sacred Realm—he’s worth meeting.” The old man and the red-robed youth both nodded.

A being who might Escape the Prison Cage was naturally worth befriending.