Perfection (Part 2)

"How is that possible?" Luo Feng was astonished. In his view, even if the Lava Prisoner's strength increased severalfold, it should not have been able to escape the pill furnace.

Yet the resisting force contained within the pill furnace now shocked Luo Feng. He suppressed it with all his strength, but that resistance surged explosively in just a few breaths.

Bang!

The pill furnace's lid was blasted open. A terrifying, dazzling figure shot out. The Lava Prisoner had shrunk somewhat, and a layer of golden streaming fire covered its body. That golden fire even gave Luo Feng a sense of mortal danger.

"Something's wrong." Luo Feng looked up at the figure.

"You lowly cultivator, feel the true power of a High-Tier Primal Chaos Lifeform." The Lava Prisoner grinned and instantly transformed into a golden afterimage as it charged at Luo Feng.

Luo Feng faced it solemnly. With a stretch of his right hand, a blue-gray spear appeared in his grasp. The spear thrust out in an instant, carrying the mysteries of life and death.

"Extinguish."

The Lava Prisoner threw a direct punch. Its fist carried the might to shatter heaven and earth as it struck the spear. The force traveled along the shaft and into Luo Feng's entire body, making him tremble. The right hand gripping the spear silently disintegrated into powder, while his arm cracked and snapped in multiple places.

"Even through a secret treasure, it can break my arm? Is this the true power belonging to a High-Tier Primal Chaos Lifeform?" Luo Feng immediately made a guess. After all, he had studied many High-tier Primal Chaos Bloodlines and gained deep insight into them.

Luo Feng had also deduced in his heart what sort of power a High-Tier Primal Chaos Lifeform ought to possess.

"The previous Lava Prisoner had its strength completely sealed! It moved slowly and could only use clumsy, stupid force. But now, it has drawn upon a thread of true High-Tier Primal Chaos Lifeform power."

Luo Feng could also tell that the opponent had only used a single thread of it! If it had used much more, he would have been finished in a single exchange.

"The ways their powers manifested were fundamentally different."

"Before it, there is no distance, no strength or weakness. All power 'beneath High-Tier Primal Chaos' will be annihilated." With a thought, Luo Feng's body merged into the Boundless Blood Sea, and the Blood Sea Formation began operating at full force.

Boom—

Golden fire burned across the Lava Prisoner's body like a sun as it plunged directly into the Boundless Blood Sea.

The seawater was rapidly corroded and annihilated! Though the Boundless Blood Sea was vast and endless, though it had the Undying Heart's enhancement and formed an enormous formation, it was still visibly being annihilated without cease.

When Luo Feng encountered the Lava Prisoner, it was like a continent of ice encountering a sun!

Luo Feng's continent of ice was incomparably vast and boundless. Yet the Lava Prisoner's "sun" was tiny, like a miniature sun. But the miniature sun's power would never run dry, and it could continuously burn away that continent of ice.

"There's no way to fight it head-on!"

"In direct combat, even with secret treasures, my arm gets broken. In perhaps eight or ten moves, my body will be torn apart."

"If I use the Boundless Blood Sea Formation to resist, it will still be continuously burned away."

At this moment, Luo Feng could not think of any way to defeat the opponent.

Was escape his only option?

With a single thought, he could split the Blood Sea into countless avatars and flee through the cracks between heaven and earth.

"Why should I flee?"

"Having cultivated to my current realm, what I need is a sufficiently powerful opponent! Even if this body is completely annihilated, the avatar within the Large Primal Chaos Hall can rapidly recover its 1.2 billion-fold energy reserve. This battle—either victory or death!" Battle intent surged within Luo Feng.

An avatar dying in battle, losing a dozen or so Life-Death Secret Treasures? Luo Feng did not care!

What he sought was true mastery of the Half Primal Chaos Life-Death Path!

Once the Path was achieved, a few secret treasures would not be worth mentioning.

"Come!"

The Boundless Blood Sea raised towering waves. Even as the seawater was annihilated, it still unleashed one terrifying assault after another, besieging the Lava Prisoner.

"Hahahaha!!!" The Lava Prisoner could now stand suspended in the air. Whether seawater transformed into a dragon to lash at it or chains to imprison it, it did not care in the slightest!

All seawater was burned away by the golden fire.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle~~~~

Across the endless sea surface, a thin layer of golden flame covered part of the region. The golden flames burned upon the surface, and vast quantities of Blood Sea water were continuously annihilated.

In the course of that annihilation, the golden flames not only suffered no depletion, but the annihilated "Blood Sea Power" was naturally absorbed by them! It was only due to the sealing and suppression that the Lava Prisoner could use merely a thread of its fundamental power.

"Heh heh, High-Tier Primal Chaos is a difference in essence compared to cultivators like you within the Cage. Though this is only a thread of power, your body is large enough. It will merely take a little more time." The Lava Prisoner stood in the air.

The golden flames corroded and seeped through, contaminating the Boundless Blood Sea as well.

"My Undying Blood Sea Body has been annihilated by 0.3% and contaminated by 2.1%." Luo Feng knew his current condition clearly. Faced with contamination from High-Tier Primal Chaos power, he had no way to resist.

Once contaminated, not only would he be unable to mobilize that portion of Blood Sea Power, it would instead affect the performance of his entire body.

"Did we go too far?" High in the sky, the silver-haired man Qiuguo frowned slightly. "The Primal Chaos Prisoner can mobilize a thread of fundamental High-Tier Primal Chaos power. Even Luo Feng cannot withstand it."

The woman in fiery-red robes, Yifeiya, also frowned as she watched the battle.

The fight was completely one-sided!

Though Luo Feng's body was enormous, he could not threaten the opponent in the slightest.

"Without this thread of High-Tier Primal Chaos power, the Primal Chaos Prisoner would be no match for Luo Feng at all," Yifeiya said. "Luo Feng has already reached an extremely terrifying level within the Cage. We must use 'High-Tier Primal Chaos power' to threaten him. Our choice was not wrong."

"It is only power contamination in the end." Qiuguo nodded as well. "Even if Luo Feng fails, we can easily help him expel the power contamination."

They had no solution whatsoever for soul contamination.

Thus, they had sealed all of the Lava Prisoner's powerful methods—its soul, Life Core, and more. Now they had only released a thread of fundamental High-Tier Primal Chaos power with extreme caution. Yet with just this thread, Luo Feng was already unable to withstand it.

"The Primal Chaos Prisoner can fly?"

"It has become stronger."

The more than a thousand cultivators watching from afar were somewhat stunned. Throughout the long years, they had dared to besiege the Primal Chaos Prisoner only because it was relatively slow and unable to fly.

But now it could fly, and its flying speed was even extremely fast! That meant it could threaten many cultivators.

"God Emperor Luo Feng is doing his utmost to deal with it. We hope God Emperor Luo Feng can successfully slay that prisoner." The cultivators looked on in anticipation, while also transmitting the news back.

At this moment, some cultivators were already on their way. After all, the battle between Luo Feng and the Primal Chaos Prisoner had drawn many cultivators' attention. Even Dragon Nine Daoist and God Emperor Jike were hurrying over. But traveling still required time.

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The Boundless Blood Sea returned to calm and ceased its attacks.

"Hahahaha, you stopped? Given up?" The Lava Prisoner stood in midair, looking down at the Boundless Blood Sea. Strands of golden flame burned across the sea surface.

In the depths of the Blood Sea.

Luo Feng sat cross-legged, ignoring the Primal Chaos Prisoner.

"My body has been annihilated by 3.1%. The proportion is not high. But the contaminated portion has already reached 59%." Luo Feng sensed that the Boundless Blood Sea was beginning to slip out of control and resist him.

The contaminated 59% of his body rebelled wildly, greatly reducing the efficiency with which Luo Feng could control the power of his remaining body.

His strength had plummeted, so Luo Feng stopped attacking the Lava Prisoner. Attacking would have been useless anyway.

"The contamination is rapidly rising."

"If this continues, this avatar will be finished."

This was an enormous avatar carrying many Life-Death-type secret treasures and possessing a 1.2 billion-fold Perfect Divine Body Energy Reserve. Not much of its body had been annihilated yet, but the contamination ratio was far too high, and it was still rapidly rising.

Even if it was merely a thread of High-Tier Primal Chaos power!

Even with a full 1.2 billion-fold Perfect Divine Body Energy Reserve, his power within the Cage had still been contaminated so severely in such a short time!

"According to legend, newly ascended High-Tier Primal Chaos Lifeforms have no seals on their power, and their contamination is far more severe. It can even contaminate the soul and consciousness." Luo Feng pondered. "But as long as Mind Will breaks free of the Cage, it can suppress the contamination and even expel all contamination."

Hall Master Yuan Xiang had once encountered a newly ascended High-Tier Primal Chaos Lifeform, and even his soul consciousness had been contaminated!

"This is only contamination from a trace of High-Tier Primal Chaos power!"

"It should be easier to expel. Suppress it! Drive it out!"

Luo Feng ignored the Lava Prisoner. All his mental power condensed into one, his sole thought directed at the contamination.

The contamination continued, while the golden flames burned away portions of his life force...

"Suppress! Drive it out!"

Under the dual threat of contamination and annihilation, at the moment Luo Feng condensed all his mental power to resist, he vaguely sensed a trace of change within the entire Mind-Consciousness System!

Life possessed instincts of existence!

Every life unit within Luo Feng's enormous body possessed extraordinarily powerful Life Spirituality, and its life instincts were even stronger.

At this moment, under the threat of contamination and annihilation, the life instincts of countless life units overwhelmed all their other instincts! This allowed them to unite more perfectly, causing a trace of change in the operation of the Mind-Consciousness System.

Luo Feng naturally sensed this trace of change in an instant.

"I found it!"

The slight change in the Mind-Consciousness System under immense threat allowed Luo Feng to glimpse a more profound mode of operation.

What Luo Feng had been searching for all along was a trace of mental inspiration—an inspiration that could allow the mental system to operate more perfectly.

Once he experienced such an inspiration even once, with Luo Feng's realm, he could firmly remember the profound and complex operation of the entire Mind-Consciousness System in "that state."

"Boom—"

At this moment, Luo Feng actively drove the Mind-Consciousness System according to that mode of operation.

The instant he drove it!

Luo Feng could feel that the mental power of every life unit in the Boundless Blood Sea was integrated more efficiently. The enormous web of consciousness rapidly expanded, linking layer upon layer. Every thread of consciousness became incomparably powerful, finally forming a complete mind-consciousness that had grown to an unprecedented extent.

Boom!

Luo Feng's Mind Will suddenly broke through that layer of the Cage!

Breaking free of the Cage, attaining great freedom!

His Mind Will, having broken free of the Cage, felt utterly exhilarating and unrestrained!

The Mind Will that had broken free of the Cage naturally spread through his entire body, perfectly controlling all of it! The contamination carried by that trace of golden fire power was relatively weak. Before a will that had broken free of the Cage, all contamination was expelled, unable to leave behind even a trace.

"Hahaha..."

Endless joy filled Luo Feng's heart.

At this moment, the Mind-Consciousness System perfectly governed his enormous Blood Sea body.

His Mind Will, having broken free of the Cage, found governing his entire body effortless, as though only a tenth or twentieth of his mental power was needed. While controlling such a body to execute subtle techniques, he estimated that he could still fully activate seven or eight secret treasures.

"My Life-Death Path has finally reached perfection beneath the Cage." Luo Feng smiled, feeling incomparably exhilarated.

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