Volume Six: Life-Death Great Path Second Realm

Luo Feng studied the deep secret markings of the Star Tower. Countless markings spiraled inward. When he peered into the very depths, time itself began to stagnate, and the secret markings farther in started to shimmer with color.

At the end of the path traced by those colored secret markings lay that Blood-Colored Scale, its edges gleaming with twelve colors.

This Blood-Colored Scale was like the Supreme Rules.

It was supreme above all.

It could withstand ten thousand tribulations without eroding, eternal and indestructible.

"The most essential core of the Star Tower Secret Markings is the 'weight, solidity, and eternal indestructibility of life.'" Luo Feng had observed it too many times. Staring directly at the Blood-Colored Scale would also continuously batter and contaminate his Mind Will.

Luo Feng temporarily withdrew from his observation and began circulating his own power.

"Buzz."

An illusory tower emerged, shaped like a triangular pyramid. The phantom tower gradually condensed, secret markings flowing across its surface.

Crash!

The illusory tower suddenly collapsed.

"Why is it so difficult to create a Nine Branches Fusion Secret Method?" Luo Feng sighed softly.

For an ordinary God King Second Realm, creating some peak God King Second Realm secret methods was not difficult. But creating an Ultimate Realm Secret Method caused the difficulty to soar at once! Figures such as Gui Xu Emperor Lord, Wu Xin God King, some Emperor Lords of the Yan Feng Ancient Nation, and the monarchs of the Thunder Ancient Nation had spent endless years creating only a few Ultimate Realm Secret Methods.

The same principle applied here.

As for Eight Branch Fusion Moves of the Life-Death Great Path, Luo Feng had already created nine secret methods so far.

The five moves he had previously created—Great Extinction Style, Sky Light Silver Shuttle, Black Light Escape Technique, Blood Drop, and Cage—had all been perfected to the level of eight-branch fusion as well.

"Eight-branch fusion is already very easy for me. I've created nine secret methods, yet I cannot create even one nine-branch fusion move." Luo Feng gently shook his head.

Nine-branch fusion moves of the Life-Death Great Path were Ultimate Realm moves belonging to the Life-Death Great Path. Their difficulty far surpassed that of eight-branch moves.

On the other hand, because the Life Great Path and the Great Way of Destruction had clear guidance, and because Luo Feng had exchanged for the Destruction Scale and Lotus Heart Seed, he could now create several Ultimate Realm Secret Methods in both.

"The Ultimate Realm Secret Methods of the pure Life Great Path and Great Way of Destruction don't feel all that difficult."

"But the fused Life-Death Great Path, nine-branch fusion... is extraordinarily difficult."

Luo Feng tried to use his own power to condense an illusory Star Tower.

The illusory Star Tower would protect his body, pursuing the ultimate limit of defense!

"Why is the illusory Star Tower I condense shaped like a triangular pyramid, rather than a nine-story tower?" Luo Feng also realized that he was still far from the goal. Even if he truly achieved nine-branch fusion, it would only amount to a tiny scrap of the Star Tower's surface.

Luo Feng could only settle his heart and devote himself to cultivation.

"What exactly is wrong with the illusory Star Tower? Why can't it stabilize?" Luo Feng carefully studied the mysteries of the secret markings as the days passed.

Then, one day—

His long accumulation of comprehension finally brought about a qualitative transformation.

Within Luo Feng's mind, four branches of the Life-Death Great Path—the Sky Light Branch, Blood Drop Branch, Xing Zhe Branch, and Eternal Branch—suddenly fused together perfectly. Not a trace of confusion remained.

The Life-Death Great Path had thus entered the God King Second Realm!

From this day onward, Luo Feng stood at the God King Second Realm in all three paths: life, destruction, and life-death. Naturally, the first two paths had been much easier; he had already created several Ultimate Realm Secret Methods in each.

"Hahaha, only after creating nine Eight Branch Fusion Moves has the Life-Death Great Path entered the God King Second Realm. Without an exact Great Path to reference, the requirements for accumulation truly are far too high." Luo Feng was in an excellent mood. "I wonder how high a reward Infinite Space will grant."

Infinite Space placed immense importance on two things: Mind Will and opening up Great Paths.

Infinite Space.

On a Lakeheart Island, there were no Mind Creatures at all. Only one of Luo Feng's avatars was there, while mist spread out to conceal most of the lake.

"Life-Death Great Path Second Realm." Luo Feng sat cross-legged by the island's shore, looking at the lake before him. With a single thought, he began displaying the mysteries of the Great Path.

Whoosh.

A wisp of power separated from Luo Feng and flew out, tracing an arc through the air. It effortlessly sliced through every layer of space, even cutting black fissures into the most fundamental membrane wall of Infinite Space. Only then did that wisp of power condense into a drop of blood.

That drop of blood transformed into a star, slowly rolling through heaven and earth, making the very world tremble.

Then the tiny star transformed into a dark abyss, naturally beginning to devour everything in all directions.

The dark abyss collapsed in turn, becoming a point of light. The moment that point of light formed, a terrifying domain spread in every direction.

With merely a single wisp of power, he freely displayed the many mysteries of the four branches of the Life-Death Great Path—the Sky Light Branch, Blood Drop Branch, Xing Zhe Branch, and Eternal Branch. Only by thoroughly comprehending those mysteries could he so freely and effortlessly cause the four great branches to fuse and transform at will.

Finally—

"Buzz."

A message came through the imprint on Luo Feng's palm.

Trial participant: Luo Feng of the Origin Continent

Using the two Great Paths of life and destruction as a foundation, you have opened up a new Great Path. Evaluation of the new Great Path: Exceptional. Reward Points: 100,000. Upon this new Great Path, you have finally taken the second step. Continue striving to completely master this Great Path.

Before mastering a complete Great Path, your Mind Will successfully broke through the God King limit. Mind Will evaluation: Exceptional. Reward Points: 100,000. Your Mind Will is exceedingly outstanding. Perhaps you can go one step further?

Reminder: The killing of any Mind Creature is prohibited. Violators will be permanently expelled from Infinite Space.

Total Reward Points: 184,193.03.

After understanding the contents of the message, Luo Feng was greatly invigorated.

Opening up a new Great Path and reaching the God King Second Realm had earned him 100,000 Reward Points! Together with the 100,000 Reward Points he had received when his Mind Will reached beyond the God King level, that was a full 200,000 points—his greatest fortune yet.

Having been in Infinite Space for so long, Luo Feng had always been cautious in spending Reward Points.

His major expenditures had mainly been the Lotus Heart Seed and Destruction Scale!

As for exchanging for inheritances, he had mainly exchanged for God King First Realm and God King Second Realm inheritances. He had never been willing to exchange for inheritances that were too expensive.

"I cannot kill any Mind Creatures, so the only way for me to earn Reward Points... is to open up Great Paths and continue improving my Mind Will," Luo Feng thought.

"Judging from the description, completely mastering the Life-Death Great Path should earn a reward."

But Luo Feng also understood one thing.

Great Paths such as time, space, life, infinity, and destruction existed within the Supreme Rules. Even so, throughout the long years of this era on the Origin Continent, only Emperor Qing and the WanJie Kingdom Master had comprehended a complete Great Path on their own!

The Life-Death Great Path had no reference at all! The difficulty of comprehending a complete Life-Death Great Path... could well be imagined.

"Ordinary Great Paths have guidance, yet those Emperor Lords and monarchs may comprehend five or six Ultimate Realm Secret Methods without necessarily comprehending a Great Path. From this, one can infer that since the Life-Death Great Path has no guidance, I will likely need to comprehend at least ten Ultimate Realm Secret Methods before I can hope to comprehend the Great Path."

"What does this so-called further step of Mind Will mean?" Luo Feng was somewhat puzzled.

Before mastering a Great Path, reaching the God Emperor level in Mind Will was rated Exceptional.

So what could be higher still?

"Forget it."

Luo Feng began examining the Infinite Space Treasure Trove.

"Hmm?" Luo Feng was somewhat surprised. "I still can't see the 'God King Ultimate Chapter' of perfect-grade inheritances?"

For perfect-grade inheritances, the God King Second Realm chapters generally required 10,000 Reward Points. As for the Ultimate Chapter? Even with Luo Feng's current Reward Points, he was not qualified to view it.

Based on Infinite Space's pricing structure, an Ultimate Realm chapter generally cost twenty times as much as a God King Second Realm chapter.

"Both my evaluations were Exceptional, yet I'm still not qualified even to view the Ultimate Realm Chapter of a perfect-grade inheritance. What kind of genius does it take to qualify to learn a perfect-grade inheritance's Ultimate Chapter?" Luo Feng inwardly marveled.

"With Formless and Faceless, Ultimate Realm Primal Chaos Bloodline Creatures on the Origin Continent are already the limit of what I can transform into," Luo Feng thought. "And I do not cultivate the Material Origin Great Path, so there is no need to exchange for the Ultimate Realm Chapter of 'World Lifeform.'"

These Reward Points had to be spent where they counted.

Luo Feng carefully reviewed one inheritance after another.

"Let's look at the treasures."

Luo Feng was greatly interested in those treasures. According to Emperor Qing, treasures that started at 100,000 Reward Points could provide some assistance in breaking free from the Cage, which was why outside cultivators so desperately wanted them.

The top-ranked treasure was a sword, requiring 180,000 Reward Points to exchange for.

This sword had been forged from the corpse materials of a Primal Chaos Progenitor. Cultivators of the Thunder Path, Path of Destruction, and material path were all suited to exchange for it. By comprehending it, one might hope to break free from the Cage.

Reminder: Such a treasure is suited for comprehension within a Source World and must never be taken out of a Source World. Otherwise, endless trouble will follow!

The second-ranked treasure was the Space-Time Mirror, requiring 180,000 Reward Points to exchange for.

This was a precious mirror refined from rare treasures collected from Primal Chaos Space. With this mirror, one could reincarnate into any Source World while retaining one's memories, without suffering rejection from the Supreme Rules of any Source World.

Cultivating in different Source Worlds, under different Supreme Rules, would be immensely beneficial to cultivation.

Reminder: 1. Cultivators of the time path or space path are suited to exchange for this treasure. Cultivators of other paths will gain less from it.

2. This treasure must never be taken out of a Source World.

One treasure after another left Luo Feng dumbstruck.

"Even if I received Exceptional evaluations in both opening up Great Paths and Mind Will, exchanging for one of these treasures would leave almost no Reward Points remaining." Luo Feng felt just how high the threshold was for exchanging such treasures.

Under Senior Yuan's arrangements, even the most dazzling peerless genius could exchange for only one treasure of this kind!

"Only those with sufficient talent can be said not to squander such treasures."

Luo Feng continued reading.

Then—

The thirty-fourth-ranked treasure, the Life-Death Eye, required 120,000 Reward Points to exchange for.

This was an eye refined from the complete corpse of a World-Level Primal Chaos Lifeform, the Life-Death Pupil Beast—the Life-Death Eye. With this eye, one could peer into the "vitality" of all things, and also discern the "weaknesses of destruction" in all things.

Cultivators of the life and destruction paths were suited to exchange for it. They could use it to comprehend the mysteries of life and destruction, aiding them in breaking free from the Cage.

Reminder: This treasure must never be taken out of a Source World.

"A fine treasure." Luo Feng's heart burned with eagerness.

Among the other highly ranked treasures, some were suited to destruction, while others were suited to life.

Yet the Life-Death Eye was suited to both life and destruction at the same time.