The Seventh Volume: Return (Happy New Year)

A vast expanse of heaven and earth has been distorted, and a new world has evolved within it.

Inside this new world, birds sang and flowers bloomed, yet a colossal creature, its entire body seemingly forged from ice, shone brilliantly in the light. This enormous icy creature spewed out endless mist, filling most of the Three Thousand Worlds, yet it couldn't touch any Xing Zhe at all.

It is the Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform 'Frost Nightmare Envoy'.

"Where is the Xing Zhe? Where is he?" The Frost Nightmare Envoy was quite anxious. It was skilled in ice-based techniques and a few soul-based techniques, but this time the Xing Zhe was far away, so it was enveloped by a terrifying array.

"Three Thousand Worlds, heaven and earth murderous intent!"

A cold, clear voice rang out.

Instantly, billions of sword lights appeared in this world. The countless sword lights seemed to be turning like gears, making the entire formation work together in a mysterious way and its power increased dramatically, to the point that the Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform 'Frost Nightmare Envoy' was driven to despair.

"No—" The Frost Nightmare Envoy watched in despair as the torrent of sword light enveloped it, finally tearing its body apart and splitting open its core.

It was powerless against absolute force.

Its mangled body fell to the ground.

Emperor Qing then appeared and waved his hand to collect the enormous corpse.

Although the sword light cut through the corpse, the damage to the corpse itself was minimal, and it could still be sold for a high price.

"Impressive." Luo Feng appeared beside him and praised, "Brother Emperor Qing, you are much more decisive than me! And this Three Thousand Killing Formation... is also much more profound than when we sparred before."

When they sparred on the Origin Continent, Emperor Qing also used the Three Thousand Killing Formation, but it wasn't as mysterious back then.

"I brought with me a secret treasure array diagram. I spent five million Primal Chaos Crystal to purchase this array diagram, which is Half Primal Chaos level array diagram," Emperor Qing said with a smile. "With this array diagram, the Three Thousand Killing Formation can become even stronger. I only just happened to be able to restrain this Frost Nightmare Envoy."

Luo Feng nodded.

Emperor Qing, after all, was Enlightenment Seeker had one foot in the God Emperor Mid-Stage. His cultivation was more profound, and he had a suitable secret treasure array diagram. The power he unleashed was indeed greater than mine.

"Boom—"

A massive Thunder flashed wildly and roamed everywhere.

Luo Feng's World Clone tried its best to entangle him, but this time the terrifying and enormous Thunder did not fight with Luo Feng at all. Instead, it was focused on escaping and forced its way through the edge of the Three Thousand Worlds, disappearing in a flash.

"It was my mistake." Emperor Qing appeared to the side and shook his head. "Brother Luo Feng, you used your Secret Method of willpower to force this 'Thunder Leopard' to reveal its true form, but I still couldn't kill it in one blow. It instantly regained its senses and immediately fled."

"We all did our best." Luo Feng had also learned a lot.

Only by unleashing a combination of forbidden spells and Lie Yuan Art could a bolt of Thunder hidden within the clouds be blasted into its true form, revealing a small, seemingly insignificant beast called a 'Thunder Leopard'. However, the Thunder Leopard's survival abilities were clearly exceptional. Even somewhat dazed and confused, after withstanding a full-force attack from Emperor Qing's array, its life form still managed to absorb ninety percent of the power and forcibly escape the Three Thousand Worlds Array.

"What a pity. Although this Thunder Leopard is also Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform at the God Emperor Early-Stage, the profound mysteries of Thunder it contains are quite extraordinary, and its value is around three million Primal Chaos Crystal. But it's just too difficult to kill." Emperor Qing was also quite helpless.

Luo Feng nodded.

Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform, after all, are born to break free from their Cage and possess many special talents.

Some individuals with exceptionally special talents can even sneak into cities like 'Rain Ripple City,' which is protected by numerous elders and palace masters. Therefore, it is not uncommon for Xing Zhe to be attacked and killed by Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform within Rain Ripple City.

However, the Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform dared not act too recklessly in such stealthy attacks, because an attack within the city could provoke a group of elders to take action at any time.

Luo Feng Emperor Qing hunted together, and their teamwork improved day by day.

Luo Feng's Karma Clone, when using the 'Heaven Severing Curse' in conjunction with the 'Lie Yuan Art,' achieved excellent results, generally stunning Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform beings in the God Emperor Early-Stage. This gave them a very short opportunity to unleash their killing moves.

Luo Feng engaged in close combat, while Emperor Qing surrounded and killed him with his Three Thousand Killing Formation.

The Three Thousand Killing Formation... is more than ten times more powerful than Luo Feng's Heaven-Earth Clone combined with the World Projection.

One after another, Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform at the 'God Emperor Early-Stage' level were hunted down by Luo Feng and his companion.

"Call."

The Black Flying Boat flew silently. Luo Feng opened the Imitation Life-Death Eye his brows, carefully observing his surroundings. Emperor Qing also used his detection method; their detection Secret Method differed, each with its own strengths.

Not far from the Black Flying Boat, there was a colossal creature that had merged into the void.

This colossal creature is like a part of the void. It has tens of thousands of long limbs, which are like a loom, weaving the void and turning the endless expanse into a 'net' it has woven.

Luo Feng and his group's Black Flying Boat had already flown into the net.

At this moment, Luo Feng and Emperor Qing were still completely unaware of the arrival of the others, and were still carefully exploring their surroundings.

"Buzz".

The void weaves a net, layer upon layer, enveloping everything in its path.

"Something's not right," Emperor Qing suddenly frowned.

"What's wrong?" Luo Feng was still completely unaware; his spatial perception was far inferior to Emperor Qing's.

"Hurry up."

Although Emperor Qing couldn't be certain, he vaguely sensed a great terror lurking in the void!

Whoosh!

He immediately steered the Black Flying Boat, unleashing its maximum speed, and as the Black Flying Boat suddenly shot forward—

The layers upon layers of the void net between heaven and earth finally emerged completely, enveloping the Black Flying Boat.

"It's the Void Weaver!" Emperor Qing and Luo Feng both recognized it. They saw the Void Weaver bursting with aura, and its enormous size and terrifying aura allowed them to deduce its approximate strength.

"Void Weaver in the God Emperor Late-Stage!"

"Escape!"

Luo Feng and his companion did not hesitate at all. Faced with such Void Weaver, even God Emperor Mid-Stage Enlightenment Seeker flee without hesitation, but the two of them had no desire to fight.

Emperor Qing put away the Black Flying Boat, which was now useless. Luo Feng's Time Clone then took Emperor Qing into the 'future timeline'.

Call.

In a future timeline, the Time Clone helps Emperor Qing escape.

Luo Feng Emperor Qing had already discussed various ways to escape. Since Luo Feng carried relatively inexpensive treasures and was tough and skilled in close combat, he naturally took the lead in covering Luo Feng Emperor Qing's retreat.

After all, the secret array diagrams, Black Flying Boat, and life-saving items that Emperor Qing carried with him totaled over ten million Primal Chaos Crystal. Moreover, the six Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform forms that Luo Feng and his group had acquired this time were also temporarily kept by Emperor Qing.

"Um?"

While traveling through the future timeline, the Time Clone Emperor Qing sensed that strands of void energy were penetrating into the future timeline and enveloping them.

"This Void Weaver not only controls the void, but also has such a profound influence on time?"

Luo Feng had no choice; his Time Clone were a gift of an "Ultimate Realm Hunyuan Primal Chaos Bloodline Creature," allowing him to simultaneously travel through the past, present, and future. Those who could reach the God King Second Realm in the Great Dao of Time possessed similar abilities.

For those who don't understand time and the path of life, Luo Feng's ability to escape is quite formidable.

However, Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform are, after all, freed from their Cage. As their strength increases, they can naturally manipulate and influence many aspects such as time and causality.

"Heaven Severing Curse! Lie Yuan Art!"

The Heaven Severing Curse is a forbidden technique of the Life-Death Path. It is performed by Karma Clone, which also affects the Void Weaver.

Before mastering the complete Great Dao, Luo Feng's Mind Will had already reached the level of a God Emperor. Even during his long years of cultivation in the Dream Domain, his Mind Will surpassed the upper limit of the Origin Continent.

Later, he mastered the three great paths of life, destruction, and birth and death! His Mind Will improved time and again, and he unknowingly reached the God Emperor Late-Stage. This is the reward of enlightenment.

Of course, for God Emperors, as their cultivation level deepens, their Mind Will gradually reaches a limit. Want to break through again? That requires their Mind Will to break Cage! It requires their Mind Will to reach a level comparable to High-Tier Primal Chaos Lifeform.

This breakthrough in my mind was more difficult than any previous breakthrough in overcoming a bottleneck.

Therefore, even outside the Source World, where billions of powerful beings from countless worlds gather, those Mind Will can reach the level of High-Tier Primal Chaos Lifeform form are still extremely rare.

"Boom."

The Heaven Severing Curse accounts for 30% of the power, Lie Yuan Art accounts for 70%.

This slightly eased the Void Weaver's pursuit.

"Hoo." With this pause, Luo Feng's Time Clone, carrying Emperor Qing, quickly moved far away in the future timeline, beyond the Void Weaver's pursuit range.

Void Weaver, after all, don't have a very strong impact on time.

"I need to figure out how to escape now."

Emperor Qing escaped.

Looking at the towering and enormous Void Weaver, Luo Feng roared and World Clone into three. Each World Clone had a hundred times the energy reserves and was strong enough to kill in different directions!

"World projection! Heaven and earth as one!"

"Heaven and Earth Escape".

"Kill."

The three majestic World Clone, incredibly fierce, charged towards the Void Weaver.

Inside the Black Flying Boat.

"How is it?" Emperor Qing asked Luo Feng.

"The Void Weaver is too powerful." Luo Feng shook his head slightly. "Only the Heaven-Earth Clone managed to escape in the chaos."

Only through the frenzied battles of the Karma Clone, the World Clone, and the Heaven Light Clone could the Heaven-Earth Clone have a chance to escape.

The Heaven-Earth Clone covered a vast area, and once it moved, it could escape extremely quickly. The Heaven-Earth Clone escaped with Luo Feng's only Secret Treasure Gloves.

"We've lost a lot of energy reserves." Luo Feng also felt a pang of regret. Such energy reserves would take hundreds of epochs to absorb on the Origin Continent! In Rain Ripple City, although the energy is more abundant, without the assistance of Small Universe, the current energy absorption speed is even slower.

Perhaps when one reaches a higher level, the absorption speed will be faster.

"If you cover my rear, I can escape," Emperor Qing said with a smile. "I won't need to use anything to save my life."

In the Nine Rivers Holy World, those with great strength generally place great importance on items that can protect their lives.

Especially those powerful beings in the billions of worlds, who have no clones, spare no expense when it comes to life-saving items. These life-saving items may even allow them to escape from beings at the Half Primal Chaos level.

Of course, the cheapest life-saving items cost at least a million Primal Chaos Crystal, and there's no upper limit to how much more valuable they can be. Some Innate Treasure and life-saving treasures exchanged from the Infinite Space Treasure Trove are even more valuable.

"You've lost so many clones and so much energy reserves, so let's call it 500,000 Primal Chaos Crystal," Emperor Qing said.

"The six corpses of Primal Chaos Lifeform forms we harvested this time are worth approximately 6.5 million Primal Chaos Crystal. I estimate you will receive 3.5 million Primal Chaos Crystal and I will receive 3 million Primal Chaos Crystal," Emperor Qing said.

"Okay." Luo Feng nodded.

Before forming the team, they set some rules.

The spoils were divided equally.

In the event of a crisis, in order to protect their spoils and escape, the party that suffers greater losses will use shared spoils to make up for the losses first.

Luo Feng losing hundreds of times the Perfect Divine Body Energy Reserve is a minor matter; he can recover after cultivating for several hundred epochs. However, if Emperor Qing uses a life-saving item, it would cost two million Primal Chaos Crystal.

Of course, this was the only life-saving item that Emperor Qing possessed. After all, he was a being from the Source World and had the Clone Technique, so he was unwilling to spend too much on a life-saving item.

"We've had a good haul, it's time to head back," Emperor Qing said. "The more prey we kill, the more likely unexpected things are to happen."

Although the majority of beings in the God Emperor Early-Stage are Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform, with repeated hunts, it's still possible to encounter powerful ones. This time, it was merely Void Weaver in the God Emperor Late-Stage; what if we encountered a God Emperor Completion-Level?

With Emperor Qing's life-saving item worth only two million Primal Chaos Crystal, whether he can escape is another matter entirely.

"It's time to go back." Luo Feng nodded.

His clones have been greatly depleted, and his strength has been significantly reduced; it's time for him to return to Rain Ripple City. Of course, his clones still have plenty of energy reserves within Rain Ripple City.

"With over three million Primal Chaos Crystal, I'll have to study the exchange system of the Infinite Space Treasure Trove carefully when I get back this time." Luo Feng thought to himself, since he has mastered the Life-Death Great Path, he can naturally obtain even higher rewards from the Infinite Space.

"Call."

The Black Flying Boat carefully returned.

On the return journey, the closer they got to Rain Ripple City, the more likely they were to be robbed by Xing Zhe! Emperor Qing was very experienced. He piloted the Black Flying Boat in a large circle and, with the help of Luo Feng's Imitation Life-Death Eye, managed to narrowly avoid the robbery and successfully return to Rain Ripple City.

"I'm back."

Luo Feng Emperor Qing breathed a sigh of relief when the Black Flying Boat flew into the city gate.

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Tomato wishes everyone a Happy Year of the Snake! May you all be happy and have all your wishes come true in the new year!

During the Chinese New Year, Tomato also needs to visit relatives and take a break.

Tomato will be taking a break from tomorrow, Lunar New Year's Eve, to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. Updates will resume on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year!