Dao Intent Overlord Body Perfected

However, the Star Tower had now completely returned to Luo Feng's control. It returned to his body and transformed into the Star Tower Battle Armor, combining with the Dao Intent Overlord Body. Even attacks comparable to the power of one of his strikes found it difficult to seriously injure him.

"Endless Sea, I entered only to retrieve my treasure. Withdraw your power at once, or we can only fight." Luo Feng spoke sharply, his eyes fixed on the omnipresent void. He knew this will could sense him; it depended on whether it was smart enough.

But wills were inherently not intelligent. Anyone who entered this place was a threat to it.

Luo Feng's words were useless. The surrounding power remained unchanged, and the area he stood in had already been enclosed into a cage by streams of power. Immediately afterward, icy blue fire pythons charged toward him, seeking to blast him into nothingness.

Luo Feng continuously dodged, frantically avoiding those attacks.

For those he could not evade, he could only block them head-on.

Every attack was as powerful as one of his own strikes. Blocking one or two was manageable, but faced with such a dense barrage, even he was left in a sorry and uncomfortable state.

At this point, Luo Feng's expression darkened. All his Dao Intent Power gathered into his body, and the sharpness radiating from him grew increasingly intense. At the same time, the Dao Intent Power continuously shaped his body, forging the Dao Intent Overlord Body.

This body-refining technique, the Dao Intent Overlord Body, had not yet truly reached the perfected state Luo Feng had envisioned. The main reason was that its internal power was too sharp and fierce; his current divine body could not support it.

Luo Feng had never encountered an opponent as powerful as this source. Even the Infinite Old Serpent summoned through the Ouroboros Reincarnation Ring had not given him such pressure.

"Right now, the most important thing is to break out of here first."

"Since you insist on stopping me, there's nothing more to say."

Looking at the omnipresent source phantoms, Luo Feng's speed was vastly greater in the Dao Intent Overlord Body state. Moreover, in this battle, he had nothing left to hide. The Eternal Leaf became his blade, and every slash possessed inconceivable might.

Luo Feng's figure became a dim streak of light. After rapidly evading several fire python assaults, he charged directly at the cage formed from countless pillars of light and slashed out.

That slash instantly stirred terrifying Dao Intent Power and struck the energy of the cage. Amid a thunderous roar, sharp and condensed Dao Intent Power erupted, dazzling golden light flaring as the force formed from the Water Source was directly severed apart.

However, a terrifying force struck him at that moment. As Luo Feng blocked it, the impact shifted his body's trajectory. Another attack came crashing in, brushing past the edge of his clothes. It was incomparably cold, and even the corner of his garment formed from divine power was erased.

At that moment, Luo Feng used the impact to borrow force and seized the opportunity to rush out.

Yet behind Luo Feng, dark blue fire pythons continued their pursuit, while fire pythons from every other direction charged at him as well.

At this moment, Luo Feng was besieged on all sides. The impact of every fire python was likely comparable to one of his attacks.

From the time he had entered from outside until now, only a short time had passed. The two sides had not even had the chance to truly clash, yet this source will was already controlling endless power to seal him off. Numerous attacks descended at once. Some Luo Feng could avoid, but others were impossible to evade.

Fortunately, the Eternal Leaf had greatly increased his speed while also granting him a considerable boost in power.

One strike hit a fire python. As it shattered and bloomed with dark blue radiance, Luo Feng felt terrifying power penetrate his body. After being weakened by the Star Tower Battle Armor and the Dao Intent Overlord Body, the damage that truly reached his divine body was negligible.

Luo Feng also used the force of that attack to shift aside, then continued charging outward.

Although this source will was a rare opponent, the closer he got to the Source Space, the more terrifying its attacks became. Luo Feng was confident, but not arrogant. One careless mistake here could see him suppressed.

Thus, Luo Feng continued rushing outward while dark blue streams of light relentlessly encircled him. Faced with the dense barrage of charging fire pythons, even with his current strength placing him among the absolute strongest Lords, he still looked rather bedraggled.

Fortunately, he had escaped the region at the very core. If the battle had dragged on any longer, he might truly have been suppressed inside by that will.

Once he reached the ordinary sea region, although it was still entirely within the domain of the Endless Sea's source will, the power here was no longer the source power of the Source Space. Pure Endless Sea divine power was much weaker in might, making it far easier for Luo Feng to deal with.

One slash was enough to shatter an incoming attack.

Luo Feng deliberately remained in this region, waiting for the Endless Sea will's attacking power.

"I've always had an idea. The Dao Intent Overlord Body works from the inside out, but the 'inside' is too excessively sharp. Under such circumstances, it is difficult to achieve balance. Perhaps through battles like these, under the crushing pressure of external force, I can try to refine the technique into a perfected state and allow my body to develop an adaptation."

If he wanted to use this place to temper his blade and forge his body, it might be an excellent choice, just as when Hegus had sought him out.

For this, Luo Feng even put away the Eternal Leaf.

Logically speaking, this method was entirely feasible.

Boom!

Luo Feng allowed the Endless Sea's power to strike his body. Under the collision of surging force, he only felt terrifying power penetrate him. The Dao Intent Overlord Body was his first layer of force dissipation, followed by the Star Tower Battle Armor. Although the impact did not inflict fatal injuries, as his Divine Soul trembled and roared, he found that this force actually showed signs of breaking apart his Dao Intent Overlord Body, while part of his divine body was annihilated.

Luo Feng's face turned pale, but his heart stirred with excitement.

At the same time, he hurriedly seized the instant before it collapsed, urging the Dao Intent Power within his body to surge and using it to repair the Dao Intent Overlord Body.

At this moment, Luo Feng could feel that the Dao Intent Overlord Body had become more complete than before. This meant the method was entirely viable.

"It worked. Again." Luo Feng was delighted inwardly. Not only did he disregard the impact's effect on him, he allowed his body to be swept along by the force without any intention of stabilizing himself. Then another blast struck, hitting his head directly. Amid the rumble, Luo Feng felt sensations similar to the previous round—his Divine Soul shook, his body was battered by immense force, and the Dao Intent Overlord Body loosened again. Luo Feng used this to continuously repair his body.

And so it continued.

Luo Feng deliberately endured such attacks again and again.

After taking tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of attacks in succession, his body had suffered some injuries, but his Dao Intent Overlord Body grew stronger and stronger. A powerful feeling surged into Luo Feng's heart. Then, when he no longer wished to endure those bombardments, he shattered an incoming attack with a single punch using only the power of his fist.

By then, the attacks here could almost no longer harm him.

More importantly, Luo Feng had yet to feel any swelling or discomfort in his body. Before this, his divine body would have been unable to bear such Dao Intent Power; his divine power would have been annihilated first.

"It's close to the perfected state." Luo Feng could feel it clearly. Even faint but distinct runes had begun to appear on his body.

Luo Feng looked deeper into the Endless Sea. "Let's see whether I can bring this body-refining technique to the perfected state."

With that thought, Luo Feng turned and plunged back into the seabed region, allowing the attacks to fall upon his body. Their force could not stop him from descending deeper. Blasts struck him one after another, while he silently endured them and continuously refined Dao Intent Power into his divine body through the technique.

Soon, as Luo Feng approached the region of the Source Space again, the attacks here were already comparable to the power of one of his slashes. Such attacks could now injure him. If not for the dual reduction of the Dao Intent Overlord Body and the Star Tower Battle Armor, Luo Feng would not dare play around like this.

At that moment, Luo Feng refined the final layer of Dao Intent Power into the technique. Suddenly, he felt an indescribable sense of perfection. Golden light began to shine from his body, and golden secret markings flashed across him. These markings resembled the Taboo Secret Markings on the Eternal Leaf. Luo Feng did not know what they were, but they were at least of the same kind. This should have been a sign.

When the Dao Intent Overlord Body reached its perfected state, Luo Feng also felt a sense of immense strength welling up from his body. He completely ignored the external attacks, and even the attacks here could no longer injure him. Even he had not expected that the Dao Intent Overlord Body would become so much stronger upon reaching perfection. In terms of physical outer defense alone, Luo Feng felt it was already approaching the level of the Star Tower.

If that was the case, wouldn't its defense be comparable to the Infinite Great Serpent's?

However, defense was secondary. What mattered was the increase in strength and speed. The Dao Intent Overlord Body had been created based on the Becoming Devil technique Yuan had given him, and it naturally possessed some of Becoming Devil's traits. Besides enhancing the body, this technique also resembled the Path of Celestial Evolution. Through the body's own construction, it granted greater strength.

Luo Feng tried moving. He was so fast that he instantly dodged the incoming attack, as though he had used the Eternal Leaf, yet he had not used it at all.

With this, his speed had increased by nearly sixty percent compared to before.

"So fast." Luo Feng was startled. Looking at another incoming blast, he clenched his hand into a fist and smashed the dark blue fire python apart with one punch.

"Then perhaps I can now fight barehanded."

With that thought, Luo Feng immediately charged into the azure domain. Here, the Endless Sea source will possessed domain power and could control the source within more effectively, so its strength was naturally far greater. For Luo Feng, this was still quite challenging.

At this time.

The vast Endless Sea churned with raging waves, endless billows rolling... Yet something even stranger was happening. The entire Endless Sea, including its Void Sea region, was undergoing changes. The sea seemed to be expanding amid its turbulence, while the chaotic matter surrounding the Endless Sea surged toward it wildly.

Such a scene might not be noticeable from within the Endless Sea itself, but near its outskirts, it was incredibly obvious. It was as though some earth-shattering secret was unfolding here.

The Endless Sea was simply too vast. This sudden change stirred the chaotic matter across this enormous region.

The three ancestors of the Tuo Mu Race had not gone too far from the Endless Sea. Seeing endless chaotic matter flooding madly toward the Endless Sea, shock filled their eyes.

"What is going on? So much chaotic matter is surging toward the Endless Sea. Is the Endless Sea about to undergo a dramatic change?" The Second Ancestor was utterly bewildered.

Aiersen watched in astonishment. "Very likely. The Endless Sea may truly be undergoing a dramatic change. Since it has developed an independent will, it may evolve into an even greater ocean world. But this is too exaggerated. Why would merely developing a will cause such changes? Even simply absorbing chaotic matter is creating such a disturbance."

"By the way, Big Brother, when we left, wasn't Luo Feng's true body entering it? Could this have something to do with him?" the Fourth Ancestor asked.

"What are you thinking? Only the Endless Sea itself can devour such an immense amount of chaotic matter. It has nothing to do with Luo Feng. However, if he entered, he will certainly be treated as an intruder and suppressed by the source will. The only question is whether he can withstand it." Aiersen said.

When it came to Luo Feng, Aiersen naturally hoped that Luo Feng would be directly suppressed by that will. That would ease the hatred in their hearts.

Unfortunately, they did not know that this newborn will was not only incapable of suppressing Luo Feng, but was instead helping his body-refining technique gradually reach perfection.

At present, it was not only the three of them. Even Primordial Chaos lifeforms and certain Primordial Chaos Ancestors in the nearby regions sensed the situation. Such a massive flow of chaotic matter meant something major had happened. Some reported it to the ancestors behind them, while others headed over directly to investigate.

"What's happening? The Endless Sea has never shown such behavior. Today, it is actually devouring chaotic matter so frantically. This is highly abnormal. Could the treasures within the Endless Sea have changed?"

The two Primordial Chaos Ancestors who sensed the surrounding changes flew toward the Endless Sea.

What they did not know was that, within the Endless Sea at that very moment, a heaven-shaking battle was raging. Luo Feng, who had temporarily raised the Dao Intent Overlord Body to its perfected state through external force, had experienced an enormous surge in strength. For the moment, even though the source will held every advantage of time, place, and circumstance, it could not suppress Luo Feng. Instead, it made his body more accustomed to the perfected Dao Intent Overlord Body.

Luo Feng estimated that after this, his Dao Intent Overlord Body technique would truly reach the perfected state, while his strength would reach the peak of what he could currently attain. To improve further, he could only advance the Eternal Dao or comprehend another Eternal Dao.

New Year's Eve has arrived, and so has the Year of the Dragon. As the old year departs and the new begins, with Luo Feng's Dao Intent Overlord Body reaching perfection, I wish all fellow Daoists a happy family, a wonderful life, success in all things, good health, and abundant wealth in the new year.