Episode Eight: Refinement

Luo Feng was quite surprised. "How could I not have noticed at such close range?"

In terms of skill level and the ability to detect Secret Method, Luo Feng believed he was already quite advanced.

"I purchased a secret treasure in the Dark Holy World in advance to conceal myself, which allowed me to escape the detection of the Overlimit-Level Bewitching Heart Worm," the Hall Master Yuan Xiang said solemnly. "Luo Feng, the situation is dire. That Overlimit-Level Bewitching Heart Worm and a group of leaders are constantly attacking the elders! You must quickly refine this 'City-Building Seal'."

A large black seal appeared in the hand of the Hall Master Yuan Xiang.

Luo Feng's heart skipped a beat.

Killing Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform can accumulate Merit Points. Sufficient Merit Points can be exchanged for items such as 'World-Level Primal Chaos Lifeform Materials', 'Complete High-Tier Primal Chaos Lifeform Corpses', 'Secret Treasures', and 'Rare Treasures'.

Treasures comparable to the Star Tower and the Life-Death Eye can also be exchanged.

As far as Luo Feng knew, building a city required a full 2 million merit points to exchange for, which could be used to build a stable city.

At the same time, the City Builder also need to win over enough elders to work together to build the city.

"Even at the most common acquisition price, one Merit Points is worth 10,000 Primal Chaos Crystal, so 2 million Merit Points would require 20 billion Primal Chaos Crystal. What's more... it's very difficult to acquire such a large amount of Merit Points." Luo Feng felt that the City-Building Seal was too hot to handle.

Generally, City Builder will not give the City-Building Seal to other Xing Zhe.

"Don't hesitate! While you hesitate, another elder will be killed." The Hall Master Yuan Xiang urged, "Once the city falls and Rain Ripple City is slaughtered, everything will be in vain."

Upon hearing this, Luo Feng immediately reached out and took the large black seal.

"Refine it quickly," the Hall Master Yuan Xiang urged.

Luo Feng held the large black seal and began to refine it.

Seeing this, the Hall Master Yuan Xiang felt much more relaxed, as if a heavy burden had been lifted from his shoulders.

"Luo Feng." The Hall Master Yuan Xiang watched Luo Feng refine the City-Building Seal and said, "I have cultivated all the way, and even stood at the peak in the Dark Holy World. Over the long years, I have accumulated a huge amount of Merit Points and many treasures! But after my soul was corrupted... I only have one goal left: to break free of the Cage of my Mind Will!"

"Only Mind Will break free from their Cage can one ignore these pollutants."

"I built this city because I wanted to change my spiritual life and think it would help my Mind Will."

"Since the establishment of Rain Ripple City, my mind has become increasingly polluted, and I even find it difficult to maintain the array." The Hall Master Yuan Xiang looked at Luo Feng, "But I also have feelings for Rain Ripple City."

"Only today have we found a successor. I believe you are more suitable than I to protect this Rain Ripple City," said the Hall Master Yuan Xiang Palace. "I will continue to control the formation until the battle for Rain Ripple City is completely over. Then I will relinquish it completely, and from now on, all my energy will be devoted to fighting the pollution."

"Palace Master. On the path of cultivation, as long as you are alive, there is hope," Luo Feng said.

"You've successfully refined it?" The Hall Master Yuan Xiang noticed and revealed his joy.

Luo Feng nodded slightly. "After refining the City-Building Seal, I felt that I could mobilize a very large amount of energy from the entire Rain Ripple City to empower myself."

"The city lord, the palace master, and the elders can all mobilize the city's energy. It's just that the proportion they can mobilize is different," said the Hall Master Yuan Xiang. "More than 99% of my mental energy is spent fighting against pollution. I'm even struggling to maintain the formation, so mobilizing the city's energy is naturally even more difficult."

Luo Feng refined the City-Building Seal, and naturally learned many secrets.

"Familiarize yourself with the City-Building Seal and quickly set up your own formation," the Hall Master Yuan Xiang urged.

"It's already being arranged." Luo Feng was currently in a state of optimal condition after consuming the Hundred Tribulations Marrow Essence, and even a slight thought from him was in excellent form.

After refining the City-Building Seal, Luo Feng's thoughts became perfectly integrated with the entire Rain Ripple City.

Rain Ripple City is a treasure as fortress-like as a fortress! This treasure contains all sorts of intricate runes and carries many powerful array diagrams! However, these array diagrams are all too complex, and it is extremely difficult to comprehend and control them.

The 'Array of Stars' is one of the very few array diagrams that the elders of Rain Ripple City can control.

"Buzz." Rain Ripple City naturally absorbs the endless power of heaven and earth. The energy of Rain Ripple City is vast and boundless, and it also supplies the countless Xing Zhe within the city with its energy.

As the city lord, Luo Feng is able to mobilize one-tenth of the city's energy for his own use! However, this requires a high level of cultivation and places a heavy burden on his mental strength.

If one is the temple master, one can only mobilize 'one-thousandth' of the city's energy at most.

If you are a veteran, you can mobilize at most one ten-thousandth of the city's energy.

"No wonder, each elder in Rain Ripple City is in charge of a different defense system, and hundreds of defense systems can work together perfectly." Luo Feng discovered this when he was setting up the formation.

The core array layer of Rain Ripple City has a thousand blank layers.

Each blank layer is independent of the others.

The city lord, the palace master, and the elders each chose only one 'blank layer' to freely arrange the formation! No materials are needed; as long as the Law Seals imprinted, Rain Ripple City can perfectly unleash the power of the formation.

"Because it was set up by ourselves, each elder can drive the formation perfectly and easily." Luo Feng was also setting up quickly.

His accumulation of the Life-Death Path and Death, life, destruction... was already incredibly profound. His Life-Death Path and Death was even closer to the 'God Emperor Late-Stage'. With such a profound accumulation, the formation that Luo Feng set up was naturally extremely vast and powerful.

"Throughout Rain Ripple City, the Palace Master and Elders have set up hundreds of arrays, among which the array of Hall Master Yuan Xiang is absolutely number one. It is even stronger than my current array." Luo Feng refined the City-Building Seal, and as the City Lord, he could naturally see every layer of the array.

The Hall Master Yuan Xiang, after all, was Enlightenment Seeker had mastered two and Half Primal Chaos Origin Dao. The array he set up far surpassed those of the Hall Master Wei Yang and the Hall Master Gai Tao.

But...

The Hall Master Yuan Xiang of Hall Master Yuan Xiang is no longer able to unleash the full power of the formation. Such a large formation requires at least one or two tenths of his mental energy to operate.

At this moment, the Hall Master Yuan Xiang could only unleash a small portion of the power of his formation! Compared to the Hall Master Wei Yang and Hall Master Gai Tao, he had no advantage whatsoever. In fact, the Hall Master Wei Yang within the city.

"My contamination has reached its limit. Those Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform of the leader level could probably sense the terrifying contamination I have suffered just by looking at me from afar," sighed the Hall Master Yuan Xiang.

Every moment now, he feels like a drowning person, seemingly on the verge of drowning, struggling to stay afloat.

His weakness made Hall Master Wei Yang prepare himself to obtain the authority of the City Builder.

His weakness also attracted the attention of the newly born 'Overlimit-Level Bewitching Heart Worm' to Rain Ripple City, which they considered to be the easiest city to conquer.

"Hundreds of millions of Xing Zhe in Rain Ripple City."

"I have chosen Luo Feng as your city lord. He is rising rapidly and is much more suitable than me." In a daze, the Hall Master Yuan Xiang saw the image of the golden-scaled woman.

That High-Tier Primal Chaos Lifeform broke through before him, and her contamination penetrated deeper and deeper into every part of his soul.

"The gap between them and High-Tier Primal Chaos Lifeform is too great." The Hall Master Yuan Xiang sighed silently.

The God Emperors and the High-Tier Primal Chaos Lifeform are on two different levels of life.

No matter how many God Emperors there are, even if it's a hundred million, a hundred billion, or a trillion... they can all be crushed with a single step in front of High-Tier Primal Chaos Lifeform.

Of course, there are also some High-Tier Primal Chaos Lifeform imprisoned in the Dark Holy World! Unable to exert their strength or transmit any pollution, they can be observed, studied, and even dissected by Xing Zhe.

However, High-Tier Primal Chaos Lifeform that can exert its full strength without being imprisoned or restrained is every God Emperor's nightmare.

"Um?"

The Hall Master Yuan Xiang suddenly changed his expression.

He City-Building Seal to Luo Feng, and his own authority has been reduced, but he has already made a backup plan, and he still retains the authority of 'Palace Master'! He will not leave completely until this war is over.

With his authority as the Palace Master and the array he controlled, Hall Master Yuan Xiang was still able to know everything Inner City.

"Another Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform Legion has arrived?" The Hall Master Yuan Xiang could see it.

A massive army arrived South City Gate.

Rumble!!!

The arrival of a new legion and various combined attacks have significantly increased the pressure on the entire Rain Ripple City!

"Yuan Yan! You've arrived!" Within the densely packed army of Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform surrounding Rain Ripple City, three terrifying auras also emerged. These three terrifying auras were all watching the newly arrived being from afar.

"Knowing the operation was launched ahead of schedule, I led my men on a whirlwind journey and finally arrived." A black, winding figure, resembling a mountain range, exuded boundless heat, with flames rising from its body. "But it may not be so quick for the other kings to arrive."

"This attack was launched hastily, but Shadow is leading his Bewitching Heart Worm Race and Soul Devouring Snake Race in a full-scale attack on the elders within the city. Rain Ripple City's resistance is slowly weakening. If this continues, I believe we will be able to breach the city soon."

"It's been a long time since we've breached a city." The figure of the winding mountain range looked at Rain Ripple City with burning eyes.

The four 'kings' outside the city, along with a large number of Lowly Primal Chaos Lifeform, were all filled with murderous intent, eagerly awaiting the moment the city would be breached. They would then slaughter Xing Zhe to gain evolution and freedom.

"There's an extra legion, and an extra king." The Hall Master Yuan Xiang frowned. "The pressure is too great, and the elders in the city are being killed one by one. So far, 35 elders have been lost."

"The number of elders is decreasing, and the attacks from outside the city are getting stronger." The Hall Master Yuan Xiang looked at Luo Feng beside him. "Even if Luo Feng joins us, we won't be able to hold out for long."

This new legion required dozens of elders to form a defensive array, completely negating the assistance brought by Luo Feng.

"Although the elders and other powerful elders in the city have formed teams to intercept and kill the lurking individuals, it has only slowed down the deterioration of the situation."

"I estimate it won't last half a day."

The Hall Master Yuan Xiang was very anxious.

He had tried everything he could, but according to his judgment, Rain Ripple City was bound to fall!

At this moment, while Luo Feng was setting up the formation, he also sensed the situation Inner City. The situation was getting worse and worse, and he felt anxious.

"It's done."

Finally, Luo Feng completely imprinted a complex Life and Death Array into the core array layer of Rain Ripple City.