Integration as One

At the 17th level of the Abyss of Destruction, the Feather Emperor stood there, calmly watching the crimson-robed figure descend from above.

"Lord Luo Feng." The Feather Emperor looked at him.

"Feather Emperor." Luo Feng studied him as well. Every existence ranked among the top ten had their own methods. Kav Xiu excelled at direct combat and belonged to the same type as Luo Feng, but he had been utterly suppressed by Luo Feng in the area where he excelled most.

The Feather Emperor's style, however, was completely different.

"I know you want World Envoys to assist your cultivation." The Feather Emperor looked coldly at Luo Feng. "Defeat me, and I can arrange for World Envoys to cooperate with you."

Having once been ganged up on by Moman, Jin, and Naigu, he had been thoroughly embarrassed that time. Naturally, he had transferred some of that resentment onto the other lords of the Cultivator Faction.

"Please." Luo Feng replied politely.

This battle was not a malicious contest for this level's Destruction World, but a sparring match between the two! The Feather Emperor did not summon World Envoys to aid him either.

Boom!

Standing there, the Feather Emperor suddenly erupted with brilliant light. Endless radiance illuminated every corner of this level's Destruction World. Luo Feng was also bathed in that light and felt it transform into countless threads that entangled, restrained, and suppressed him.

The Feather Emperor's large-scale domain was extremely terrifying. It combined the power of feathers and the power of light, further bolstered by the power of the mysterious Feather Realm. The might of this domain was enough to reduce an ordinary Ancestor's strength by more than half.

Boom— Luo Feng moved. His entire body transformed into a streak of blade light, tearing through every obstruction of light in an instant and sweeping past where the Feather Emperor stood, as though cleaving him cleanly in two.

The Feather Emperor appeared to remain where he was, yet he had also appeared elsewhere, completely unharmed.

In terms of movement techniques, he was omnipresent, on the same level as the Endless Ancestor! Even with the power of Blood Crane Territory empowering him, Luo Feng could not hope to touch the Feather Emperor at all.

"His movement breaks through the restrictions of time." Luo Feng frowned. So-called omnipresence meant that at the same point in time, one could exist at any of numerous locations! His position could shift entirely at will.

The Endless Ancestor had once been able, during the war between the Two Great Camps, to rescue a great many Ancestors even under Xingmang's spacetime suppression.

"There's only this move left." Luo Feng drew his blade in an instant.

The Sky-Rending Blade in his hand slashed out, and streak after streak of blade light followed the lock onto vitality and cleaved forth! In an instant, tens of thousands of blade lights shot out, crisscrossing heaven and earth, even passing through spacetime as they locked onto all the Feather Emperor's energy in the surrounding area.

Every trace of "light" was attacked by those blade lights! Luo Feng continued to unleash terrifyingly condensed blade lights without pause!

In merely two or three breaths, more than a hundred thousand enormous blade lights existed simultaneously throughout the Destruction World! Those immense blade lights occupied a third of the Destruction World's territory, hunting everywhere above and below!

Luo Feng's Primal Chaos Blade Path had yet to reach completion. Combined with the Primal Chaos Life-Death Path's "vitality lock," the energy within each slash was not particularly strong! When dealing with Kav Xiu, a single strike from Luo Feng could contain one-tenth of his energy reserves.

But while maintaining the vitality lock, the blade lights were far weaker in power. Even so, they rivaled some of Moman and Jin's ordinary moves! The key was that Luo Feng had unleashed far too many blade lights!

The quantity was simply overwhelming!

Luo Feng was completely crushing him with sheer power! His energy reserves were too vast. The energy he recovered every breath exceeded the Feather Emperor's entire bodily energy reserves.

"There's no need to continue." The Feather Emperor looked at the densely packed blade lights filling heaven and earth. Every blade light was enormous and filled with spirituality, pursuing and killing all "light." If he did not release his domain, they would lock onto his true body. He spoke, "I never expected that even I would be unable to evade Lord Luo Feng's blades."

Within the Abyss of Destruction, with an endless supply of energy, he could wear Luo Feng down.

But in the outside world, he would probably have to flee within ten breaths!

"If the Feather Emperor wished to flee, he could escape the range of my blade technique with a single thought." Luo Feng knew his own weakness as well. His blade-light pursuit had a limited range! The Feather Emperor and the Endless Ancestor could cross vast stretches of spacetime in a single step, leaving Luo Feng far behind.

"Yes. I can only flee." The Feather Emperor gently shook his head.

Naigu, Moman, and Jin could join forces to gang up on him.

But Luo Feng alone had forced him into fleeing.

"I'll arrange for World Envoys to besiege you." With a single thought, the Feather Emperor summoned the two hundred World Envoys of this level's Destruction World to attack Luo Feng together.

At that moment, the Endless Ancestor on the 18th level had clearly witnessed the entire battle.

"I'm slightly stronger than the Feather Emperor, but even against Luo Feng's pursuit by more than a hundred thousand blade lights, I still have no way to break it." The Endless Ancestor was deeply troubled. Within a Destruction World, he could replenish his energy and wear Luo Feng down, but he understood very well that what they were comparing was combat in a normal environment!

If Luo Feng truly acted without restraint, he could simply ignore them, cut through every obstacle, and leave his mark upon the Primal Chaos Shadow, thereby taking control of a level of the Destruction World.

No matter how well they could evade, they could not stop Luo Feng, who had chopped away eighty percent of Kav Xiu's body in three strikes! Only because Luo Feng could not be bothered to compete for Destruction Worlds could they spar so amicably.

"How can I break it?" The Endless Ancestor began to ponder deeply.

However, after more than One Epoch, Luo Feng arrived at the 18th level.

The two had a sparring match.

The Endless Ancestor still lost!

His style was similar to the Feather Emperor's. His sole advantage was Infinite Might! His explosive power was stronger, but Luo Feng possessed a formidable body capable of withstanding the combined assault of dozens of Ancestors, and now he also had the power of Blood Crane Territory empowering him. The Endless Ancestor's attacks could do nothing to Luo Feng.

Luo Feng's blade lights blanketed heaven and earth! Locked onto vitality, they pursued and killed all of the Endless Ancestor's energy.

The Endless Ancestor straightforwardly admitted defeat as well!

The various factions and many Ancient Existences were all closely watching Luo Feng's battles. His successive defeats of the Feather Emperor and the Endless Ancestor had also been within their expectations.

After all, in their hearts, they had already recognized Lord Luo Feng as belonging to the highest tier of combat power.

The 19th level of the Abyss of Destruction.

Luo Feng arrived here.

"Luo Feng." Yuan grinned broadly, his smile full of joy. From the Cultivator Faction's weakest days, he had led the entire faction to where it stood today! He had endured too much humiliation and suffered too much. With one more lord at the "highest combat power tier" within the faction, Yuan could not have been happier.

The stronger the Lords became, the brighter their faction's future would be.

"Impressive, Luo Feng. You can defeat Kav Xiu, the Feather Emperor, and the Endless Ancestor head-on," Yuan said with a smile. "Even I'm not confident I could defeat the Endless Ancestor."

"The Endless Ancestor is everywhere. At present, I can only deplete his energy reserves." Luo Feng understood this clearly. He had only grasped one form of the highest-level Destruction Power, and even when paired with Life Locking, the strength he could unleash was limited.

If he had a complete Primal Chaos Blade Path to complement the Primal Chaos Life-Death Path, he would have far more methods at his disposal.

"You've only been a Lord for such a short time. You're already remarkable," Yuan said with a smile. "Should I arrange for the World Envoys to besiege you now?"

"I'll trouble you, Brother Yuan." Luo Feng nodded.

Very soon, all 150 World Envoys on this level appeared and began besieging Luo Feng. Once again, Luo Feng carefully experienced this newest type of Destruction Power, sensing the mysteries of destruction within it.

Of the nineteen highest-level types of Destruction Power he had experienced so far, the vast majority had not fused with the mysteries of life. Yet stones from other hills could be used to polish jade; by studying the mysteries of destruction within them, Luo Feng still improved his accumulation in the aspect of destruction.

Luo Feng felt that his choice had been correct.

When his comprehension of the Primal Chaos Blade Path encountered a bottleneck, coming to the Abyss of Destruction to increase his "accumulation in destruction" was indeed highly efficient.

"I can sense that my accumulation in destruction should already be sufficient." Luo Feng had such an instinctive judgment.

"No rush. You can never have too much accumulation."

"Each level of the Destruction World only takes one or two One Epochs. I'll finish traversing the Abyss of Destruction first." Luo Feng was in no hurry to leave the Abyss of Destruction. It would not be too late to return to the cultivator territory after exploring it fully.

"Come to think of it, it's strange. I've already reached the nineteenth level, yet I haven't encountered any opportunities at all." This thought flashed through Luo Feng's mind, but he did not dwell on it.

Unlike the other existences, who searched every level carefully, he had come to each level solely to fight the World Envoys. Naturally, his chances of encountering an opportunity were much lower.

No matter what, his greatest purpose in coming to the Abyss of Destruction had already been accomplished.

His accumulation was sufficient! The next step was to fuse all his accumulated insights into one whole! Then, he would need to achieve "the heart and the Dao as one," perfectly merging his mind into the Dao, before he could attain the Primal Chaos Blade Path.

"Fusing into one whole, and the heart and the Dao as one. Those are the next two great thresholds."

Before coming to the Abyss of Destruction, Luo Feng had not known what obstacles stood between him and the Primal Chaos Blade Path. But now, he could determine with absolute clarity that only these two obstacles remained.

"Brother Yuan, withdraw these World Envoys," Luo Feng said after more than one One Epoch had passed.

With a thought, Yuan immediately withdrew them, smiling as he asked, "Preparing to go to the next level?"

"I'll enter seclusion on this level for a while first," Luo Feng said. He felt that his accumulation was ample enough, so he would first try to fuse his insights into one whole. Even if he failed, he could continue accumulating on the twentieth and subsequent levels before trying again.

Different accumulations would surely bring different insights when he attempted to fuse them into one whole.

Yuan watched happily as Luo Feng constructed a cave residence and began cultivating in seclusion.

"I'll continue cultivating as well." Yuan immediately returned to his own cave residence and completely immersed himself in cultivation. He too was comprehending the Origin System of the "Path of Primal Chaos Rule Operation."

"Hm? He didn't come to the twentieth level?"

The Ice Peak Progenitor was on the twentieth level. He had prepared himself for Luo Feng's challenge, yet after Luo Feng remained on the nineteenth level for more than one One Epoch, withdrew the World Envoys, and unexpectedly began cultivating in seclusion, the Ice Peak Progenitor secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Because he knew that he was no match for Luo Feng!

But as the leader of the Ice Peak Faction, he was unwilling to let Luo Feng build his reputation by stepping over him. Yet he had no way to stop it from happening.

He had already thought of various ways to preserve his dignity even in defeat! Who would have thought that after he had made all the necessary mental preparations, Luo Feng would temporarily not come after all?

Luo Feng cultivated in seclusion within his cave residence on the nineteenth level.

He had dealt with those World Envoys with ease, attacking casually and sometimes even directly enduring their attacks. But now that he was trying to fuse his insights into one whole and completely form the Primal Chaos Blade Path, he needed to repeatedly test powerful moves.

Boom. With a casual flick of his finger, Luo Feng released a sharp blade light that tore through heaven and earth.

After frowning in thought, he lightly clenched his five fingers, and five terrifying blade lights descended, forming a blade array that annihilated all enemies within it.

Through this process of contemplation, organization, and experimentation, the Primal Chaos Blade Path became increasingly clear in Luo Feng's mind.

Luo Feng lightly tapped with one finger.

A point of blade light instantly pierced through the spacetime barriers of the entire nineteenth-level Destruction World, even penetrating into the twentieth level below and startling the Ice Peak Progenitor.

Suddenly—

A ripple of spacetime appeared. It swept over Luo Feng, and the cross-legged Luo Feng vanished.

"Hm?" Yuan, the master of the nineteenth level, was startled. "A sudden spacetime fluctuation, and Luo Feng disappeared?"

"Luo Feng, what happened?" Yuan immediately contacted Luo Feng's other avatars.

"I think I encountered an opportunity," Luo Feng replied.

"An opportunity?"

Yuan was taken aback.

He remembered that long ago, Kav Xiu had also encountered an opportunity while exploring the nineteenth-level Destruction World. He had entered a hidden spacetime and obtained the suit of armor that had accompanied him through endless years.

"Kav Xiu and Luo Feng both merely passed through this place, staying only briefly, yet both obtained opportunities. I've lived here all along! I even control this level, so why have I never encountered an opportunity?" Yuan felt rather bitter at that moment.