Victory and Defeat (Part 2)

In a decisive battle between two sides, they naturally had to send out Ancestors with sufficiently powerful killing abilities.

Of the eighty-nine Ancestors this time, thirty-nine specialized in survival, which was already quite a large number. The remaining fifty Ancestors specialized in various killing techniques, but most had to rely on their companions for survival.

The Eight Lords' first strike targeted the Ancestor who was easiest to kill, stirring some unrest within the Innate Primal Chaos Faction.

Dark Peng Progenitor had been killed instantly? Would they be next?

"Our formation's protective capabilities are still not perfect enough." Some Ancestors began transmitting messages.

Infinite Serpent Ancestor's heart jolted.

It understood...

When they had gathered the Ancestors, everyone had believed that the battle formation's coordination this time was sufficiently perfect—at the very least, its survival capabilities were extremely strong. Only then had the Ancestors agreed one by one to participate in battle. But if sudden deaths occurred one after another, the Ancestors might split apart again.

"We can't drag this out! Use our killing move immediately!"

Infinite Serpent Ancestor immediately transmitted the order.

Logically speaking, when the Two Great Camps fought, it was perfectly normal for the battle to last hundreds or thousands of epochs. The original plan had been to learn more about the Eight Lords' capabilities before using their killing move. Using it hastily might not produce such good results.

But the situation was changing too quickly. There was no time to worry about that!

Whoosh!

Infinite Serpent Ancestor instantly transformed into an enormous phantom. In its completely ethereal state, no one could stop it. Its immense body enveloped all the Ancestors—and also enveloped the Eight Lords.

Then, the ethereal Infinite Serpent Ancestor instantly solidified! Its enormous snake body naturally wrapped around Yuan.

Yuan was trapped within the snake's belly.

First becoming ethereal, then solidifying! This was one of Infinite Serpent Ancestor's killing moves for trapping enemies. Across the Infinite Primal Chaos Space, only a handful could escape its enemy-trapping technique.

"Hm?"

The expressions of Luo Feng and the other seven Lords shifted slightly.

Yuan had suddenly been trapped within Infinite Serpent Ancestor's body! And terrifying fluctuations suddenly erupted from within it.

"Endless Light! Endless Might!"

This attack was a combined killing move by Infinite Serpent Ancestor and Endless Ancestor! Ever since Endless Ancestor had broken through to become undying and indestructible, it too had comprehended an explosive technique similar to Luo Feng's Primal Chaos Great Destruction.

Only those who had attained undying and indestructible dared use such explosive techniques.

It was everywhere!

As long as Infinite Serpent Ancestor did not stop it, it could naturally appear instantly inside Infinite Serpent Ancestor's body, close to Yuan.

Inside the snake's body.

Yuan could not escape. He could only watch helplessly as Endless Ancestor, the instant it appeared, transformed into incomparably dazzling light! That brilliant light tore apart and destroyed everything. Even with the formation blocking it, at such close range, Yuan was still shredded to pieces, his body crushed and annihilated.

"Among the Cultivator Faction's Eight Lords, Yuan and Luo Feng are the key points! Without Yuan, their coordination will be far worse and their strength will plummet. They simply won't be able to withstand our attacks. Without Luo Feng, their threat level will sharply decline."

The Innate Primal Chaos Faction had long understood this. To defeat the Cultivator Faction, the first key was Yuan, the second was Luo Feng, and only the third was Xingmang. As long as they eliminated one of the three, they could win the frontal war.

Boom—

As Yuan's body was annihilated, the massive battle formation attacks of the other Ancestors from the Innate Primal Chaos Faction also swept over!

At Luo Feng's side, while Yuan was trapped inside Infinite Serpent Ancestor, a wisp of Yuan's consciousness transformed into a weak avatar beside Luo Feng. Supplied by Luo Feng's power, it rapidly grew!

Even as his main battle avatar was destroyed, Yuan's avatar had already rapidly grown to thirty or forty percent of its energy reserves. As it grew, it also burned power to maintain the formation.

Rumble rumble rumble~~~

Although the battle formation had weakened slightly, with Wulan, Luo Feng, and Xingmang supporting it, they forcibly held steady for an instant, allowing Yuan's avatar to rapidly rise to sufficient strength.

"A single wisp of his weak avatar rose to the level of his main battle avatar so quickly?" The Ancestors of the Innate Primal Chaos Faction felt their hearts turn cold.

The Cultivator Faction's key figures were Yuan, Luo Feng, and Xingmang, in that order!

Luo Feng already possessed exceptionally strong defensive capabilities and unmatched combat power! Infinite Serpent Ancestor and Endless Ancestor's combined killing move had no confidence at all in being able to do anything to Luo Feng. Infinite Serpent Ancestor was not even confident that its body could trap Luo Feng's blade!

As for Xingmang? For now, they had not even discovered a way to trap him.

Thus, among the three, Yuan was relatively easier to target.

"Second strike!"

Yuan swiftly recovered to his peak, and the Eight Lords immediately joined forces to unleash their second strike without hesitation.

With his companions' power augmenting him, Luo Feng controlled the blade in his hand and easily cleaved through the battle formation formed by the many Ancestors! Initial Progenitor even tried to use its body to directly withstand Luo Feng's blade.

Luo Feng was interested in finding out whether his blade or Initial Progenitor's body was stronger—the spear or the shield. But at this crucial moment, he could not afford to waste a battle opportunity.

With a flash of blade light, he easily bypassed Initial Progenitor.

Initial Progenitor's enormous spherical body moved extremely slowly. It simply could not block Luo Feng's blade light!

"NO—"

Another Ancestor was struck. It was Wind Devouring Progenitor.

At the instant the blade light struck, multiple powers erupted. Wind Devouring Progenitor had already split its power into hundreds of millions of streams, and hundreds of millions of winds scattered in flight. So long as even one gust escaped, it could survive.

Yet invisible fluctuations spread out, instantly extinguishing ninety-nine percent of its power.

Lightning, annihilation, space-time, Severing Life, and other powers simultaneously followed their connection to destroy every fleeing gust of wind.

Not a single one of the hundreds of millions of winds could endure even an instant.

All were annihilated!

After verification through the Lords' Years Killing Formation, Wind Devouring Progenitor ranked among those with relatively weak survival abilities. It was completely countered by the Lords' combined methods.

With just one move, it was annihilated. The other Ancestors did not even have time to save it.

"Wind Devouring Progenitor is dead too." These Ancestors began to panic.

"Third strike—"

Luo Feng and the others mercilessly unleashed their third strike.

But the third strike failed. That Ancestor's vitality was even greater than expected. It forcibly held on for an instant and received the rescue of the other Ancestors. Five highest-level life powers rescued it simultaneously, and the Ancestor was rapidly growing stronger.

The fourth strike succeeded.

The fifth strike failed...

Luo Feng and the Eight Lords consecutively unleashed eight strikes! Every strike cleaved through layers upon layers of defensive formations. Though weakened by those formations, the remaining blade light was still terrifying.

In the end, three Ancestors from this group were slain in battle.

"We underestimated Luo Feng's blade!"

"We have a full thirty-nine Ancestors skilled in survival working together, with all sorts of life-preserving powers combined, yet his blade still cleaved through them." Mother of Space-Time said, "From the small fragments of the future I observed, I could not see Luo Feng's figure. I had thought... that with such defensive coordination, we had absolute confidence in blocking the Lords' combined killing moves."

"Luo Feng's blade is somewhat unusual!" Nirvana Ancestor transmitted. "I can faintly sense that blade seems to be the incarnation of the Abyss of Destruction."

Nirvana Ancestor was the most sensitive to Death Crisis.

From that blade, Nirvana Ancestor sensed the threat of death. It felt as though it was about to return to great nirvana.

"His blade makes even me feel a trace of threat," Initial Progenitor said.

The other Eight Sovereigns were all startled.

Who was Initial Progenitor? The only being in the Infinite Primal Chaos Space capable of crossing the Wall of Fiery Hell. It could withstand every flame of the Wall of Fiery Hell head-on. Yet it actually felt a trace of threat from Luo Feng's blade.

"His blade can break through every obstruction from the formations and strike the Ancestors' bodies."

"Once he understands more of our formation's secrets, perhaps more Ancestors will die."

The Nine Sovereigns all understood this.

In their first clash, neither side had understood the other's formations too deeply, yet three Ancestors had already been slain. If the fighting continued for a long time... perhaps another two or three Ancestors could be killed.

"Are you confident you can break the Lords' battle formation?" Endless Ancestor asked.

"I see no hope," Mother of Space-Time said. "Even if one of the Lords suffers heavy injuries, Luo Feng can make that companion's avatar rapidly recover to its peak."

The Nine Sovereigns all understood this.

Yuan and Luo Feng were the key points!

They had already tried targeting Yuan. As for Luo Feng, they did not even entertain the thought of trying!

The remaining eighty-six Ancestors suddenly retreated slightly, completely withdrawing their power. The Nine Sovereigns stood at the very front.

The Eight Lords also temporarily withdrew their power.

Both sides temporarily ceased fighting.

The distant Ancestors of the various factions witnessed this scene, and they too sighed inwardly.

"In this clash, the Innate Primal Chaos Faction lost."

"It can't entirely be considered a loss. The three Ancestors who died had weak survival abilities. The remaining eighty-six Ancestors... the Cultivator Faction cannot do anything to them either, can they? And the Innate Primal Chaos Faction still has more than thirty Ancestors who did not participate."

"Most of the Ancestors who did not participate are rather weak."

All sides discussed it fervently.

No matter what, in the initial clash of this war, the Cultivator Faction held the upper hand.

The many Ancestors led by the Nine Sovereigns faced the Eight Lords from afar.

"Eight Lords of the Cultivator Faction." Infinite Serpent Ancestor's voice boomed. "Speak. What exactly do you want? Are you still not satisfied after forcibly occupying the Southern River Domain? Do you still want to continue expanding?"

"Even if we occupy the Southern River Domain, we will only hold twenty percent of the Infinite Primal Chaos Space," Yuan said. "And even without the Southern River Domain, you still occupy forty percent of the territory—still fully twice as much as us."

"Yuan."

Giant God Emperor spoke. "After all, we have more than a hundred Ancestors, and there are countless World-Level Primal Chaos Lifeforms and High-Tier Primal Chaos Lifeforms. Yet you cultivators have only eight Lords, while your World-Level and High-Tier Primal Chaos Lifeforms are also very scarce... You simply do not need so many resources. Why must you contend with us?"

Giant God Emperor had originally been against the war, but for the enormous resources required by the Giant God Clan, it had to step forward.

"I can make the decision to give the Southern River Domain to your Cultivator Faction." Giant God Emperor looked at Yuan. "But you must promise that you will never expand again from this day onward."

Infinite Serpent Ancestor, Yanhuo Progenitor, and the others remained silent, clearly indicating that this had been part of their plan as well.

If they could not win through battle, they would yield the Southern River Domain!

"You want us to promise never to expand?" Yuan gently shook his head.

"At least do not invade the territory of our Innate Primal Chaos Faction again," Giant God Emperor said. "As for you and the Ice Peak Faction, or other factions, that is naturally beyond our control."

Yuan, Luo Feng, Xingmang, and the others exchanged looks.

"In the endless years to come, our Cultivator Faction may produce a ninth Lord, a tenth Lord, or even more," Yuan said. "For just one Southern River Domain, you want us to promise never to expand toward you? The Southern River Domain is already ours, and you want to use our own territory to force us into making a promise?"

"What do you want?" Infinite Serpent Ancestor asked in a low voice. It could tell that the Cultivator Faction was willing to negotiate; they merely wanted more.

Yuan said calmly, "Our need for resources indeed is not so great, but all living beings of the Source Worlds are our kin. We have only one demand!"

"From this day onward, every Source World within your territory must forever belong under the rule of our Cultivator Faction."

"As long as you agree, we can promise never to invade your Innate Primal Chaos Faction."

Luo Feng, Xingmang, Wulan, Minghuang, Jin, Naigu, Moman, and the other seven Lords all nodded slightly.

This was their joint decision.

"All Source Worlds?"

The Nine Sovereigns and the many Ancestors were all startled.

"Wishful thinking!" Infinite Serpent Ancestor could no longer restrain itself.

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