Mental Transformation (Part 2)

Inside a majestic palace, in a quiet room.

Jiu Ye God King revealed his true form—a massive bird of prey! Ink-dark mist rose from the feathers covering his body, a patch of blood-red marked the top of his head, and his icy eyes were half-open.

He had been born in an Original Universe and traversed the Reincarnation Passage to reach the Origin Continent.

In the Original Universe, he had been a special lifeform, born as a savage bird of prey! He delighted in devouring living beings... In that Original Universe, he had been a nightmare-like existence, wiping out one race after another.

In the end, he became the most terrifying existence in the territories surrounding that Original Universe. Every living being within it had been devoured. Only after he passed through reincarnation did the newly born creatures of that region finally get a chance to breathe.

Yet after arriving on the Origin Continent, his strength had continued to rise. Later, he had even taken control of that Original Universe of his homeland! His Divine Power Clones casually devoured living beings as well.

"On the Origin Continent, I'm still not strong enough. I have to endure." Jiu Ye God King had been born with a love for devouring living beings, but now he could only 'whet his appetite' a little within his own territory.

The children he had raised on the Origin Continent possessed extraordinary bloodlines and were born powerful. Most of them also enjoyed devouring living beings.

"When will I become truly invincible on the Origin Continent? Then I can turn the entire Origin Continent into my hunting ground." Anticipation filled Jiu Ye God King's icy eyes. "That would be true exhilaration, true freedom."

Suddenly—

An invisible attack descended.

Without a sound, Jiu Ye God King turned into nothingness.

It was as though an eraser had wiped him away! Just like that, he was gone.

His weapons, secret treasures, and other items fell to one side, completely untouched.

"Hm?"

Luo Feng, dressed in black, appeared within the quiet room.

"Too weak." Luo Feng gently shook his head. "My Great Extinction Style had only just begun to penetrate, and he was already gone."

The Great Extinction Style had been formed by fusing the six branches of the Life-Death Great Path. It possessed the characteristics of a curse-killing technique and could affect all of an opponent's clones! Of course, Jiu Ye God King had no clones. At the instant of his death, his resurrection vessel was affected as well.

A resurrection vessel could be a drop of blood, a feather... Its resistance was far inferior to that of a clone.

Under the Great Extinction Style, it was naturally annihilated in an instant.

Because he had died too quickly, Jiu Ye God King had not even had time to use a reincarnation secret technique.

"You're the first God King to die beneath the Great Extinction Style." Luo Feng was very satisfied with the power of this move. It was worthy of being a technique he had spent more than thirty epochs creating, with the dream's memory images as reference.

"Perish." With a thought from Luo Feng, a wisp of black smoke instantly crossed an immense distance and descended upon Jiu Ye God King's seven children. Aside from one daughter, who despised devouring living beings and had become the disciple of another God King, the other seven children were like Jiu Ye God King, enjoying the long-term devouring of countless living beings.

With Jiu Ye God King's death, the Original Universe under his control regained its freedom.

"Buzz." Outside the Original Universe, that slightly smaller massive Small Universe began to collapse as well.

"The holy land is collapsing? The Ancestor is dead?"

"Impossible! How could the Ancestor possibly die?"

Within that Small Universe, some of Jiu Ye God King's descendants were terrified beyond measure.

But within the Original Universe, the powerful beings of the many Small Universes erupted in cheers! Living beings from one reincarnation era after another had lived beneath Jiu Ye God King's shadow, with even the Original Universe under his control.

They had once been Jiu Ye God King's food, left for him to select and devour at will, utterly incapable of resistance.

Only today, with Jiu Ye God King finally perished, had they achieved great liberation!

Jiu Ye God King's death drew the attention of some factions on the Origin Continent, but none of them thought much of it.

After all, ordinary God Kings in the First Realm often fell. Even if they were destroyed due to insufficient strength, they generally had time to reincarnate! Using reincarnation to evade disaster was something ordinary God Kings often did.

Though Jiu Ye God King had been weak, before Luo Feng comprehended the Great Extinction Style, he had also been unable to prevent Jiu Ye God King from reincarnating.

The power of the Primal Chaos Undying Light could not instantly destroy Jiu Ye God King and his resurrection vessel.

Even with the will of the God King Ultimate Realm combined with the Lie Yuan Art, Luo Feng had not been certain he could thoroughly kill Jiu Ye God King. After all, Jiu Ye God King had made his way here from an Original Universe; he was not a God King artificially created through external means like those of the Shadow Sky World.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~~~"

After Luo Feng sent his disciple An Fengya back to Huyang City, he continued traveling across the Origin Continent.

The Skypeak Ice Field had a harsh environment, and the deeper one went, the colder it became.

"This place..." Luo Feng arrived at a vast territory that was warm and comfortable. There was no wind or snow here, countless plants grew luxuriantly, and many tribes lived in the wilderness.

The environment here was pleasant, and the number of cultivators had increased greatly.

"This is the Fire Ancestor World."

Fire Ancestor resided in Fire Ancestor City year-round, ruling over the incomparably vast surrounding territories. Because of his presence, this enormous region had become warm and suitable for life.

This region occupied less than a tenth of the Skypeak Ice Field, yet more than half of the living beings in the Skypeak Ice Field lived here.

"There are five independent cultivators at the God King Second Realm with Emperor-level strength. Among them, the Wind Capital Empress and Fire Ancestor stand apart."

"The reason he stands apart is because he does not contend."

Fire Ancestor lived in the remote Skypeak Ice Field and had joined no faction. He was almost never seen in any Treasure Land, yet his strength was incomparably great.

The Two Great Ancient Nations also liked such powerful experts!

"He did not contend, yet he sheltered more than half the living beings of the Skypeak Ice Field." As Luo Feng traveled, he witnessed the prosperity throughout the Fire Ancestor World. Countless living beings here revered the Fire Ancestor beyond measure.

Luo Feng also caught sight of Fire Ancestor City from afar.

Fire Ancestor City was like a warm source, with invisible rules in operation that naturally spread across the vast territory.

"Though he does not contend, he still does all he can to shelter countless living beings."

"Admirable."

Respect arose in Luo Feng's heart as well. Among the powerhouses of the Origin Continent, there were very few he admired. The Fire Ancestor was one of them.

Whoosh~~~~

Luo Feng continued onward.

"Luo He?" Within Fire Ancestor City, a simply dressed red-haired figure gazed at Luo Feng from afar and smiled. "Another formidable existence is about to emerge on the Origin Continent."

So long as someone entered the Fire Ancestor World, the Fire Ancestor could sense them.

The Fire Ancestor then closed his eyes. His mind merged with the countless flames between heaven and earth. Some of those flames cooked food, some refined pills, and some forged weapons...

Luo Feng also arrived in the Eastern Domain, located in the most remote and desolate region of the Origin Continent.

"The Eastern Domain Progenitor shelters this place, and the Wind Capital Empress also came from here." As Luo Feng traveled through this vast territory, he found the power of heaven and earth noticeably thinner here, and Heaven and Earth Treasures were scarce as well.

Yet the environment here was pleasant, and all kinds of fruits and melons were common.

These native beings were generally burly and massive. They rarely used refined Weapon Secret Treasures, casually wielding stone clubs, wooden clubs, and similar objects as weapons instead. Their food was equally simple—ordinary fruits and melons.

They worshipped heaven and earth. Many native beings sensed heaven and earth, comprehending its mysteries.

Once they fought, however, they were equally brutal and frenzied.

"Native beings do not care for external things. They seek more from within."

"Yet many God King-level existences have likewise arisen among them, even figures on the level of the Wind Capital Empress. Who could say their path is wrong?" Luo Feng understood their path.

Abandoning all external things, focusing on oneself, focusing on the Great Dao! That was the path of the native beings.

Luo Feng reached the end of the Origin Continent and looked ahead. Before him lay the boundless Cosmic Sea.

The Chaos Qi Flow surged violently, an expanse of darkness with no end in sight.

"Whether it is the Original Universe or the Origin Continent, this world is truly wondrous." Luo Feng sat cross-legged at the continent's edge, gazing at the Cosmic Sea. "Yet many ancient God Kings regard countless living beings as mere resources for cultivation."

"Every one of them possesses immense wisdom and has seen through some of the mysteries behind the Great Dao's workings."

"But they do not care about the joys, sorrows, anger, or happiness of ordinary living beings. What they care about is their own strength! Whether they can reach the Ultimate Realm! Whether they can transcend the Source World!"

Thus, those Ancient Existences schemed with painstaking care, one after another.

"Perhaps this, too, is part of the rules governing heaven and earth."

Luo Feng understood this as well.

The workings of heaven and earth were composed of nine complete Great Daos.

The strong devouring the weak... was merely one aspect of it, yet it drove countless living beings to compete and strive.

Emotional resonance... was a trait of living beings. Luo Feng also understood that his pity for the weak was the "compassion" aspect of his own emotions.

The workings of heaven and earth—where the strong devoured the weak, emotions, order, destruction and cleansing, hope... all aspects intertwined, bringing about the operation of the world.

"All things have their Dao, and each has its own destiny."

"However..."

"I have my own Dao!"

"A cultivator overcomes heaven and earth through the strength of the self!"

"With my own Dao, I will surpass the Dao of heaven and earth and completely transcend the Source World." Luo Feng's gaze was calm. "At that time, I will be able to decide how all things operate! So-called order and destiny will be decided by me!"

"This is cultivation!"

Following the will of heaven was for the mediocre.

Overcoming heaven and earth through one's own strength was what cultivators pursued, and it was also the hope behind the Supreme Rules giving birth to countless living beings—the hope that the beings it nurtured... could surpass it!

At this moment, Luo Feng's mind underwent another transformation.

More than two hundred epochs had passed since he became a God King. With his powerful soul foundation, cultivation in the Dream Domain, cultivation in Infinite Space, the aid of treasures such as the Five-Colored Treasure Medicine and Destruction Scale, confronting dream memories to create the Great Extinction Style, and tempering his heart through the seven emotions as he traveled the Origin Continent...

Transformation after slow transformation, until at this moment, quantitative change finally gave rise to qualitative change.

"Strength can overcome heaven!"

Luo Feng's Mind Will formed a distinct humanoid figure with the same face as Luo Feng.

The clear figure enveloped Luo Feng. Its terrifying will was completely condensed as it surveyed all directions, its might utterly fearsome.

"A Mind Body?"

His Mind Will had become so powerful that it could already separate from the flesh and form an illusory body.

"I feel that this Mind Body... is even stronger than my physical body." His Mind Will, having surpassed the God King level, was overwhelmingly powerful. Before it, the wills of all God Kings would be suppressed or even destroyed.

From God King-level will to will beyond the God King level—breaking through this bottleneck was the most difficult bottleneck on Luo Feng's path of Mind Will.

This bottleneck had also trapped numerous God Kings.

On the Origin Continent, those capable of taking this step could be counted on one's fingers. And now, Luo Feng was one of them.