Merit

In the Chu Capital, in the Quiet Room of Luo Feng's cave abode, on one of the floors of the Star Tower.

Luo Feng looked at the three perfect Chaos Layer biological materials in front of him: a huge rock, three silver scales, and a broken huge branch.

"Perfect Chaos Layer biological materials are really hard to collect." Luo Feng sighed inwardly. "One hundred billion units of Universe Sand are required, and we've only managed to collect three units in all this time."

It's understandable, really. These perfect Chaos Layer creatures were all captured by the most powerful beings on the Origin Continent! These most powerful beings wouldn't even look at 10 billion Universe Sand. Only their Direct Disciple and children might be tempted and try to get some materials.

"Take a look."

Luo Feng's palm was like a knife; with a gentle slice, he cut away rock powder, scale fragments, and leaf pieces. He then dissected each piece to study its most fundamental composition.

"Um?"

Luo Feng saw it.

The most basic composition of rock powder is also Trinity Form: a gray particle contains the secret patterns of Chaos Law, and inside it wraps two fused gray particles.

"Both are Trinity Form, but the Golden Feather Divine Bird is more agile, while the triune form of this rock is more substantial," Luo Feng pondered.

The three newly acquired materials are all in a ' Trinity Form, yet they differ in subtle ways. These subtle differences... make the final complete form completely different.

As Luo Feng pondered, his understanding of the Trinity Form slowly improved.

"It's too complicated." Even though Luo Feng's Life Spirituality lineage had reached the peak of the Chaos Realm and his Life Body lineage had reached the top of the Chaos Realm, he still felt that the Trinity Form was too mysterious, just like a perfect creation of heaven and earth! It was too difficult to understand its essence.

A mysterious palace that does not exist in the real world, but is a fictional building.

A series of thoughts converge here.

"The Chaos Realm Transcendence 'Luo He' has recently been collecting biological materials from the Perfect Chaos Layer. Could these Perfect Chaos Layer biological materials have some special uses that we don't know about?" a thought asked.

"I have a perfect Chaos Layer creature that I have studied carefully. Its only difference is that its body composition is slightly special, containing some of the mysteries of the 'Life Origin Great Path' and the 'Material Origin Great Path'," another thought said.

"Luo He created his own body-refining Secret Method, which is somewhat similar to that of the creatures in the Chaos Layer. He must have cultivated Life Origin Great Path and the Material Origin Great Path to refine his body. Furthermore, his swordsmanship should also incorporate the Destruction Origin Great Path," another thought said.

In fact, his deduction was quite accurate. Luo Feng used the Life Origin Great Path to comprehend the composition of perfect Chaos Layer creatures, and then directly changed it with the ability of 'Formless and Faceless'.

If one does not possess the ability of 'Formless and Faceless', then one needs to study the 'Material Origin Great Path' and also needs to transform matter.

"A Chaos Realm who cultivates three fundamental Daos simultaneously? This kid is quite arrogant."

"It can be confirmed that there is nothing special about his collection of perfect Chaos Layer biological materials. The next piece of information is that the Snow Realm Forefather spared no expense to exchange for a 'Tuo Mountain Beast' corpse."

"The Tuo Mountain Beast is a special life form cultivated by the Yan Feng Ancestor using Primal Chaos Bloodline. This Tuo Mountain Beast also contains an extremely rare Primal Chaos Bloodline. The Snow Realm Forefather cultivates the Blood Drop Scripture and has comprehended all six branches of the Life Origin Great Path, reaching the 'Blood Drop as Realm' realm. However, he has been unable to break through to the God King Second Realm, so he probably intends to cultivate using the 'Primal Chaos Bloodline'."

"Continue to observe! If he can truly break through with the help of the Primal Chaos Bloodline, we can invite him to become one of us."

"Next intelligence: The 'Snow Devil God King' of the Thunder Ancient Nation has gone out of control and devoured the true form of the Thunder Sand God King. The Thunder Sand God King has lost his true form and a weapon at the God King Ultimate Realm, suffering a great loss. The Thunder Sand God King will never give up..."

They exchanged intelligence.

These ancient beings silently observe the Origin Continent.

Any precious fortuitous opportunity or powerful treasure will attract the attention of ancient beings, who may even directly try to seize it!

Of course, Luo Feng's current collection of perfect Chaos Layer biological materials is beneath the notice of these ancient beings! Furthermore, Luo Feng is also in 'Chu Capital', and these ancient beings don't dare to go to Chu Capital to provoke Emperor Chu.

******

When you're focused on your practice, time flies.

In his spare time from cultivation, Luo Feng would occasionally take on some missions to earn merit.

Bounty missions, garrison missions, and treasure hunt missions—the latter two are quite troublesome, either taking a long time or requiring a lot of thought. Only the 'bounty missions' are relatively simple for Luo Feng, who possesses the Lie Yuan Art.

"He's the one."

Luo Feng didn't want to cause too much trouble in the Origin Continent, so he only accepted bounty missions occasionally.

This time, the target of the bounty mission is the top expert in the Chaos Realm, 'Great Sage Black Mist', and the reward is a full 100,000 merits.

"This Great Sage Black Mist cultivates the Karma Origin Great Path." Luo Feng used the Fleeing Transformation Method to arrive at the Great Sage Black Mist's territory.

This is a relatively remote area, and most of the place is shrouded in black fog.

Within this territory, there are also hundreds of ordinary cities.

Under the cover of black fog, each city resembled an isolated island.

"Those returning to the city must be thoroughly investigated. Make sure they don't come into contact with anything evil." Within the Black Mist Territory, at the gate of an ordinary city, multiple arrays carefully examined every Xing Zhe returning to the city.

These Xing Zhe obediently accepted the probing.

Suddenly, under the careful examination of the formation, one of the Xing Zhe noticed blood-red marks appearing on his skin.

"Impossible, when did I get involved?" The Xing Zhe looked desperate as his body silently vanished into nothingness.

"This is bad." The Xing Zhe were being examined all changed their expressions drastically.

"Anyone who sees the blood-red mark must undergo a second inspection to ensure they are not contaminated." A voice rang out, indicating that even the guards hiding in relatively safe places needed to be inspected.

Otherwise, once the virus spreads into the city, it will cause a catastrophe throughout the entire city.

Now--

Luo Feng appeared high in the sky, watching this scene.

"The Great Sage Black Mist has unleashed the 'Karma Tribulation,' causing countless Xing Zhe within his territory to live in perpetual fear. These causal imprints are being transmitted... causing immense panic among countless Xing Zhe and generating even Great Karma."

"By practicing the cause and effect of all living beings, we can comprehend the Karma Origin Great Path."

"If the entanglement of cause and effect is too deep, he will unleash a calamity of cause and effect, causing the extinction of all Xing Zhe in the city, thereby completely eliminating the cause and effect."

Luo Feng already knew about this Great Sage Black Mist.

Complete annihilation is the simplest way to eliminate karma. The countless Xing Zhe in these cities were indeed deeply entangled with the Great Sage Black Mist. Yet, they all ultimately met their demise.

Call.

Luo Feng walked above the cities and saw countless Xing Zhe living in constant fear. A single Karma Tribulation would result in the death of many lives.

"Found it." Luo Feng sensed a Chaos Realm aura, which belonged to a merchant living in one of the cities.

The vendors conducted their business with smiles, warmly interacting with some of their regular customers. The Xing Zhe within the city had no idea... that these vendors were the source of endless evil calamity.

"Hmm?" The merchant sensed something and looked up at Luo Feng.

The moment he saw it, the merchant felt as if everything else had disappeared, leaving only an endless, majestic star! This majestic star rolled in, crushing over the merchant's Mind Will.

Puff!

His Mind Will were instantly annihilated, and the Great Sage Black Mist perished completely.

Luo Feng was being overly cautious; he worried that the Great Sage Black Mist might be able to use the Karma Escape Technique. But in reality... the Great Sage Black Mist only cultivated one branch of the Karma Origin Great Path and was not skilled in the Karma Escape Technique.

Luo Feng arrived with his killing move, "The Lie Yuan Art," crushing the opponent with his overwhelming Mind Will, leaving them with no consciousness whatsoever, and not even having time to use the Reincarnation Secret Technique.

"Thump." The vendor, still smiling, collapsed to the ground.

At this moment, countless Xing Zhe in hundreds of cities within the Great Sage Black Mist's territory were completely unaware that the Karma Tribulation... had completely disappeared from this moment on.

"Collect." Luo Feng waved his hand, collecting the corpse of the Great Sage Black Mist. "Moluo Sa finally has food again."

Luo Feng left immediately.

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

After all, it's quite normal for the true bodies of those in the Chaos Realm to be destroyed in their battles. But complete death, with the annihilation of all karma, is extremely rare. The fact that the Great Sage Bei Yu and the Great Sage Black Mist died completely in just a few epochs still prompted those with ulterior motives to investigate.

"The Great Sage Bei Yu and the Great Sage Black Mist died one after another within a few epochs. They were both guilty of great sins. Could it be that some powerful god-king intended to kill these Great Sinners?"

"The Great Sage Bei Yu and the Great Sage Black Mist have been relatively restrained, mainly slaughtering within their own territories. They dare not spread their influence too widely. Yet, they have still attracted powerful figures who hate evil as their enemy?"

This has led to speculation from many factions.

Completely killing a top-tier Chaos Realm expert is a feat few in the Origin Continent can accomplish; even God King First Realm typically cannot do it. Naturally, it's speculated that some powerful being intervened.

Of course, only two people died, so it wasn't a big deal.

If ten or eight of them were to die completely, it would cause a much bigger commotion, and might even cause panic among some Chaos Realm.

"Ten thousand merits." As the Emperor's Direct Disciple, Luo Feng's authority to receive merits is now even higher than that of First-Class Marquis of the Imperial Clan.

He himself can submit tasks to the spirit of the Emperor Chu Palace.

The Emperor Chu Palace, the Inheritance Hall.

Luo Feng came here again.

"I need to see the Calamity Beast Shadow once," Luo Feng said directly to the Artifact Spirit Old Man. His Mind Will had been able to advance from the bottleneck of the Chaos Realm to the God King level, largely thanks to the Calamity Beast Diagram. Naturally, he was very interested in the even more effective Calamity Beast Shadow.

Just watching it once is equivalent to inheriting the first tribulation of the "Eight Tribulations Lifeform". The price is too high. Only now has Luo Feng accumulated enough merit.

"Watch the Calamity Beast Shadow?" The Artifact Spirit Old Man looked at Luo Feng. "Even just the image of the Calamity Beast Shadow requires a God-King level of willpower to barely stay awake. It's best to reach the God King Second Realm Mind Will before watching it. The Mind Will at the threshold of God-King level... is mainly used to stay awake. You won't remember much even if you watch the image."

"Are you sure you want to continue watching?" The Artifact Spirit Old Man looked at Luo Feng.

Luo Feng nodded. "Watch."

Even a short video is this terrifying; what is the origin of this Calamity Beast?

"Get ready." The Artifact Spirit Old Man nodded, and then he vanished.

Looking at the chaotic scene before him, Luo Feng suddenly saw a vaguely enormous figure begin to emerge from it...