Volume Eight: Defeated

The Rain Ripple City elders controlled one formation after another, doing everything they could to hold back the legions converging from all directions.

"This is bad. The nearest legion is almost at the core district."

"Over 800 God Emperor Completion-Level fighters and over 12,000 God Emperor Late-Stage fighters—we simply can't stop a legion like that. Even City Lord Luo can't!"

The elders all felt powerless.

A single God Emperor Completion-Level Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform was equivalent to a hall master-level existence without a Weapon Secret Treasure! At this moment, it was as though over 800 hall masters and 12,000 elders were charging at them together. The might of their combined attacks was enough to destroy every obstacle in their path!

"Our avatars may die, but the final victory in this battle will certainly belong to our Cultivator Faction!"

"Once City Lord Luo completes the formation engraving, his formation will be stronger than all the elders joining forces! It will be enough to drive back these Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform legions!"

"It's just unclear what fraction of the cultivators in the city will die."

Compared with being completely massacred, the elders already considered it quite good if more than half the city's inhabitants could survive.

The elders were fairly calm. They had already done everything they could. Besides, even if they died, these were merely avatars. As long as they won in the end, they could preserve most of their resources in Rain Ripple City.

In the core district, within Luo Feng's cave residence.

Emperor Qing, Emperor Lord Ming, and Di Fu looked up. They saw Luo Feng's figures stationed in the distance, as well as the vast Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform legions flying in from even farther away.

"Brother Luo first killed an Overlimit-Level existence." Emperor Qing was deeply shaken. "Now, he's even suppressing four Overlimit-Level existences by himself."

Overlimit-Level beings were already the most powerful of the Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeforms. Yet Luo Feng could fight four of them alone.

It could be said that, having reached this level...

Even if Luo Feng went to the Dark Holy World, where it was more dangerous, where Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeforms were far more numerous, and where the overall strength was vastly greater, the threat they posed to him would still be exceedingly low.

"Brother Luo is already a peak-level existence even in the Dark Holy World," Emperor Qing murmured.

"He's much stronger than the two Ancestors, isn't he?" Di Fu sighed.

"Of course! The Ancestors are only one level above me, equivalent to the Rain Ripple City elders. Before Brother Luo as he is now, they couldn't withstand even a single move." Emperor Qing watched on. "When I learned that he had cultivated from an Eternal True God to the strongest level on the Origin Continent in just over a thousand eras, I guessed that he would still shine brilliantly beyond the Source World. But who could have imagined that he would be even stronger than I expected?"

"I only teamed up with him a few times, yet he's already become the lord of Rain Ripple City!" Emperor Qing lamented.

Emperor Lord Ming also looked up. "Perhaps only potential like Brother Luo's gives one hope of breaking free from the cage."

"Breaking free from the cage and becoming a true Primal Chaos Lifeform." Di Fu's heart surged. "If he truly succeeds, then we can say we knew a friend who broke free from the cage."

"It's not so easy to break free from the cage." Emperor Qing said, "In the Dark Holy World, those who break free are legends. Brother Luo will probably have to endure some hardship as well."

They chatted among themselves.

Emperor Qing and Di Fu both had avatars, so they did not fear death. Emperor Lord Ming had gone from despair to seeing a hope of survival, and he was now far more composed.

The three of them were relatively calm, but many cultivators in the core district were growing anxious.

"The army is here!"

"God Emperor Luo must hold them back!"

"Everything depends on City Lord Luo." Many of those able to live in the core district were God Emperor Mid-Stage Enlightenment Seekers, along with cultivators at even higher levels. The vast majority were their true bodies.

They had too many desires, too many pursuits. Having walked the path of cultivation this far, how could they be willing to die here?

"A full legion is attacking. City Lord Luo won't be able to stop them." Some cultivators saw the situation clearly and sighed as they watched death approach.

As the army drew near, every Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform was wildly excited. They seemed to see themselves destroying elder cave residences one after another, crushing Rain Ripple City's final resistance, and slaughtering to their hearts' content.

"Haha, we're almost there."

"We still have hope of massacring the cultivators and escaping afterward." As the four Overlimit-Level beings fought Luo Feng, they grew even more excited. Though the four of them were at a disadvantage, the situation would soon change!

Before long, Luo Feng would have to go all out to block those Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform legions. After all, the destructive power of the legions was far greater than that of the four Overlimit-Level beings.

Suddenly—

The sky brightened!

The sky over Rain Ripple City became completely bright!

All the Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeforms and all the cultivators noticed it. They instinctively looked toward the heavens. The former overcast sky vanished, and even the fine rain and mist within Rain Ripple City dispersed.

The sky shone brilliantly! It was azure, like an enormous piece of green jade, radiant and brimming with boundless vitality.

"This is—"

At the same time, the ground of Rain Ripple City turned pitch-black. Endless blackness, like mist and ink, clung to the earth.

At this moment!

Azure heavens! Black earth!

At the ends of heaven and earth, the azure sky and black land joined together.

"What's happening?"

Among the vast flying Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform army, some of those on the outer edge suddenly felt incomparably weak. Their vitality rapidly dissipated, and in only one or two breaths, they lost all strength and fell.

When resisting the elders' formations earlier, the Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform army only needed to join forces and form a protective layer. But now, without sensing any attack at all, corpses of Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeforms began dropping from the edges of the army.

On the surface, these Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform corpses bore no injuries whatsoever.

"What's going on?"

"This—"

"It's a formation, a heaven-and-earth formation!"

There were four Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform legions inside Rain Ripple City. To avoid being slain by the elders' formations, they had moved together as a group. Yet before this mysterious formation covering the entire city, their kind kept dying and falling. Naturally, this left them alarmed and enraged.

Whoosh—

Pale azure mist descended from the sky! Black mist rose from the earth!

The azure and black mists swiftly enveloped all the Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform legions, as well as every cave residence and every cultivator in the city.

The cultivators felt no threat whatsoever.

"This black-and-azure mist?" The cultivators in the city watched the intertwined black-and-azure mist and found it utterly ordinary.

But the Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform legions knew just how terrifying it was. They had already formed defensive barriers around the outer edges of their legions, but beneath the shrouding black-and-azure mist, it rapidly corroded and seeped through with a hiss, constantly damaging those barriers.

At some weaker points, the defenses were corroded through in an instant. When the black-and-azure mist touched those Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeforms, it easily corroded their bodies, entered them, and contaminated their Life Cores. The instant it made contact, their Life Cores cracked.

The four Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform legions within the city had many weakly defended points breached. Great numbers of Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeforms died, their corpses falling below.

"Hold the line."

"Hold it! Don't let there be any weak points in the defenses."

The Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform legions all went all out, sparing no power. Layer upon layer of energy surged as defensive barriers frantically protected every area.

Yet no matter how tightly they defended, some weaker Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeforms still died soundlessly.

"There are invisible karmic curse-killing attacks."

"They can still kill our kin through the energy layers."

These Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeforms possessed fairly high intelligence. They detected the invisible attacks, but they could not stop them.

As some Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeforms died soundlessly, weak points naturally emerged in their defenses. The external black-and-azure mist immediately seeped in and corroded them, devouring their vitality.

"What do we do? What do we do?"

The four legions resisted with all their strength, but they were ultimately not skilled in formations. Under Luo Feng's formation attacks from within and without, the black-and-azure mist still broke through certain points, causing casualties.

"Every action taken by cultivators in the Nine Rivers Holy World is suppressed by heaven and earth. But once the formation is engraved into Rain Ripple City, not only am I free of suppression within the city, I can also receive the empowerment of Rain Ripple City's energy. As the city lord, I can mobilize the greatest amount of energy." Luo Feng felt utterly at ease.

All kinds of killing techniques from the Life-Death Path could silently take the lives of those Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeforms!

"This, this—"

The hearts of the four Overlimit-Level beings fighting Luo Feng turned cold.

"Luo Feng has successfully set up the formation! This formation is stronger than all the elders combined." The four Overlimit-Level beings felt as if the sky had collapsed.

"Such a formation can only be set up by an existence who has mastered two Half Primal Chaos-level Paths."

Those who cultivated fusion paths were exceedingly rare. Those who could cultivate them to extremely high realms were even rarer. In the entire Dark Holy World, it was difficult to find even one who could cultivate a fusion path to the God Emperor Late-Stage.

Thus, whether cultivators or Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeforms, they generally assumed—

Above Half Primal Chaos Enlightenment Seekers were usually Enlightenment Seekers who had mastered two Half Primal Chaos Paths.

"How could such a terrifying formation have been set up so quickly?"

"It's far too fast! Much faster than expected!"

The four Overlimit-Level beings were filled with despair.

Even the seemingly simple first layer of Luo Feng's formation was already comparable to the formation Hall Master Yuan Xiang and the others had set up with all their strength.

"King, what should we do?"

"There are invisible karmic attacks. Members of our legion are constantly falling."

"King, the black-and-azure mist covers everything, corroding and destroying it. Our energy is constantly being consumed, yet we cannot replenish it at all. If this continues, we will only grow weaker and weaker."

All four legions panicked. They all sensed death closing in.

The Cultivator Faction could rely on Rain Ripple City for an endless supply of energy. But under Luo Feng's formation, the Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeforms could not absorb any energy whatsoever.

"We've lost."

At this moment, the four Overlimit-Level beings all understood. With nearly two hundred elders working together with Luo Feng, if the four Overlimit-Level beings continued to delay, they likely would not even be able to escape.

"You four legions, flee for your lives separately! Escape the range of Rain Ripple City, and you may yet survive."

"While fleeing, you can massacre cultivators along the way. If you slaughter enough cultivators, then even if you cannot gain freedom, your strength can still transform and advance further!"

A voice rang within the minds of every God Emperor Completion-Level Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform in the four great legions.