"If this is all you've got, then..." Luo Feng took a light step forward. The space beneath his feet rippled, and he appeared directly above the Three-Eyed Flame Serpent. "You're a real disappointment."
The Blood Shadow Battle Blade came down.
This strike contained the essence of the Sky-Rending Claw.
In all these years, Luo Feng had never neglected close combat even as he studied the laws of space.
The blade's radiance had been honed to its utmost. A faint, almost imperceptible spatial rift traced the blade's edge, and the space it passed through seemed to collapse slightly.
The Three-Eyed Flame Serpent had only enough time to contract all three of its vertical pupils. Its body instinctively tried to twist away.
But the moment Luo Feng brought down his blade, the space around it suddenly grew as viscous as mercury.
The laws of space—confinement!
Luo Feng had yet to comprehend even one of the Rainstorm Diagram's essences, but simple suppression and confinement were already enough to crush the struggles of an ordinary World Lord Level Monster Race warrior.
The blade flashed past the serpent's vital point, and its crimson radiance split the giant snake in two from head to tail.
The Three-Eyed Flame Serpent's enormous body froze in midair for an instant, then crashed to the ground, gouging out a crater several kilometers deep.
One strike, one kill!
"One World Lord Level beast. That's a hundred thousand points."
Before the words had even left his mouth, the ground split open again.
An even larger giant beast crawled out from beneath the earth, its entire body covered in deep gray, sawtoothed armor.
The Sawtooth Armored Beast was about three hundred meters long. Its limbs were short and thick, yet immensely powerful, and dozens of bone spikes, each tens of meters long, jutted from its back. Their tips glinted coldly. Seeing its companion killed, it let out a deafening roar and dug in its four hooves.
Its body charged toward Luo Feng like a moving mountain range. The earth churned beneath it, rocks shattered, and even the air was struck into a visible white shock wave by its immense force.
Luo Feng only smiled. He didn't retreat. Instead, he tightened his grip on his War Blade and met the beast head-on.
A Ninth-Stage Domain Lord human was going toe-to-toe with a Third-Level World Lord giant beast.
To anyone watching, it would have looked like a death wish.
But Luo Feng's body had been strengthened by the First Tribulation of the Nine Tribulations Manual. With the Xueluo Power bolstering him and the Golden Horned Beast continuously supplying him with pure Origin Force, a three-way resonance had formed within his Internal World... He swung his blade, striking the Sawtooth Armored Beast squarely on its hardest point: its skull.
A metallic clang reverberated through the skies.
The Sawtooth Armored Beast's charge abruptly halted.
A crack several meters deep appeared in its skull, and dark green blood gushed out.
Luo Feng merely swayed slightly before swinging his blade again.
One strike, two strikes, three strikes!
Each landed precisely on the same wound. The crack grew wider, and the dark green blood flowed faster and faster.
The Sawtooth Armored Beast struggled frantically, its bone spikes shooting out in all directions. But when the spikes—each capable of tearing through a World Lord's defenses—hit the layer of Mosha Race armor covering Luo Feng's body, they veered off in a strange manner. Rather than being deflected, they sank into a slightly distorted fold of space, then skewed down and stuck in the ground.
That was the terrifying part of infusing one's comprehension of the laws into every detail of offense and defense.
When Luo Feng delivered his seventeenth strike, the Sawtooth Armored Beast's skull shattered with a crash. Its massive body toppled like a mountain, crashing to the ground.
"The second one. That's two hundred thousand points."
Luo Feng lowered his blade and breathed slightly harder.
Killing two World Lord Level beasts in succession had consumed a considerable amount of his Origin Force.
Fortunately, his Earthling Main Body had the Internal World continuously supplying it with Origin Force, allowing him to recover at an astonishing speed. Luo Feng cut the most valuable materials from the giant beasts' corpses, then swept his gaze toward the low-level Monster Race warriors trembling in the distance.
"There are still more than sixty," Luo Feng murmured. He straightened, and with a flash, vanished from where he stood, leaving behind a ruined battlefield and the two enormous corpses of World Lord Level beasts.
The cleanup that followed became a long hunt.
The Blood Stone Galaxy wasn't large, but it was a complete star system. Its six planets and two asteroid belts held tens of thousands of Monster Race nests scattered throughout.
Luo Feng didn't recklessly challenge multiple World Lord Level Monster Race warriors at once.
Even if an ordinary World Lord posed no threat one-on-one, their size and experience still mattered. If a dozen or two dozen swarmed him and combined their different laws, even he couldn't guarantee he'd escape unscathed.
So Luo Feng chose to take them on one at a time.
The Mosha Race clone's innate abilities were put to full use in this battle.
Shifting into countless forms, blending into space, launching sneak attacks and assassinations...
Luo Feng wielded the Mosha Race clone's abilities with consummate skill.
At times, he would slip into the depths of a Monster Race nest and turn into an inconspicuous patch of shadow, waiting until his target was alone before suddenly striking and killing it with a single slash.
At other times, he would hide behind a small asteroid and use long-range telekinetic attacks to lure a World Lord Level beast away from the others, then finish it off in space.
When he couldn't lure a beast away on its own, he used his speed advantage to kite it. Domain Lords could already fly through the air and cross the stars with their physical bodies, and even among World Lords, some were faster than others.
Several cumbersome, rock-element World Lords were led on a chase through the asteroid belt for three days and three nights, until Luo Feng wore them down and killed them.
"Eleventh one."
"Nineteenth one. Their gregarious nature has actually helped me a lot. Their alertness has a delay of half a second."
"Forty-third one. This Second-Level World Lord Rock Armored Beast was pretty interesting. Its comprehension of the earth laws wasn't bad, and its hide was as tough as E-grade alloy. Too bad it was slow. I hacked at it a hundred times before I finally broke through its defenses."
Every so often, Babata updated the kill count.
His tone gradually shifted from nervousness at the start to excitement, then eventually to numbness.
"Fifty-ninth one. The last three are together on the moon of that gas giant to your left."
Luo Feng nodded, then vanished as he traveled through the Dark Universe.
When the last glimmer of blade light swept across the silent void, every World Lord Level beast in the Blood Stone Galaxy had been killed.
Luo Feng stood in the rings of the gas giant, looking down at the star system he had just completely cleared.
More than sixty World Lord Level Monster Race warriors might be nothing in the eyes of true powerhouses, but for a young genius at the Ninth Stage of the Domain Lord level, it was a record to be proud of.
Even for a genius from the Core Secret Realm of the Virtual Universe Company!
What pleased Luo Feng even more was that throughout the hunt, his practical combat experience had rapidly improved, and his understanding of the laws had continued to deepen.
Meanwhile, at the edge of the Demon Ancestor Secret Realm, in a desolate starfield.
"Reporting to the Alliance Master. The cleanup force has sent in its latest report. Sixty-seven days ago, a human acting alone swept through the Blood Stone Galaxy. Today, we confirmed that every World Lord Level Monster Race warrior in the system has been wiped out. The hunter was a Domain Lord Level genius from the Primal Secret Realm of the Hong Alliance. His name is Luo Feng."
The Beast Ancestor opened his scarlet eyes and accepted the report his subordinate had brought him. He lightly tapped his fingers on the armrest. "The Blood Stone Galaxy... I remember that there were more than sixty World Lords stationed there. He killed them all by himself? Without any outside help?"
"He did it alone. Judging by the traces left behind, he specializes in the laws of space, alternating between direct assaults and assassinations. His fighting style is extremely seasoned. And he didn't spare a single one of the Monster Race warriors he killed. He showed no mercy."
The Beast Ancestor fell silent for a moment, then snorted coldly. "The humans have produced quite an extraordinary youngster."
He set the report aside and turned to look at the star chart.
After the humans took over half the Monster Race Territory, their influence had soared. The Beast Ancestor knew that clashing with them in the short term would be unwise.
He ordered the Demon Beast Alliance to halt its expansion and focus its forces on several training planets he had secretly set up years ago, searching with all its might for World Lord Level geniuses with exceptional bloodlines and strong wills.
In the Zerg Territory, the Zerg Queen's vast mental network was constantly sifting through memories from the Mother Emperors of her various races.
That day, a Universe Level Zerg Warrior sent back what it had witnessed.
It had been dormant on a planet on the outskirts of the Blood Stone Galaxy when, by chance, it witnessed Luo Feng single-handedly tear apart two World Lord Level beasts. The Queen projected the memory into the mental network and shared it.
"Interesting. He's at the Ninth Stage of the Domain Lord level, yet his Gene Level clearly exceeds that of an ordinary human. He has secrets."
The Queen stroked the smooth surface of the Eternal Pearl, dangerous light rippling through her beautiful eyes. "But now isn't the time to deal with him. The Genius Ranking is less than a million years away. The most urgent matter is nurturing peerless geniuses for the Insect Race. No matter how monstrous human geniuses are, we can't kill them all."
Only a few light-years from the battlefield, a towering figure more than nine hundred meters tall sat cross-legged atop a mountain formed by the Jin King Palace. Transparent horns protruded from his forehead.
Yang Yu casually brushed aside folds of space stretching hundreds of thousands of li ahead of him, watching the battlefield below.
Even the nearby human Immortals on patrol hadn't noticed him. It was as if he and this universe existed on entirely different planes.
Yang Yu watched the entire process as Luo Feng hunted the sixtieth World Lord Level beast alone, from the moment Luo Feng secretly used his Mosha Race clone to set up a spatial cage to the final strike, when he used the Xueluo Power to split open the beast's skull. Not a single detail escaped his eyes.
"Not bad."
"He's fully mastered the power of the First Tribulation of the Nine Tribulations Manual, and he's gained some finesse in applying the laws of space. He knows to alternate between his Mosha Race clone and his Internal World to recover, getting the best results with the least expenditure. He didn't foolishly rely on brute strength to fight head-on."
Yang Yu watched the black-haired young man in the distance sheath his blade. His movements were crisp and decisive, already bearing some of the bearing of a powerhouse.
Approval shone in Yang Yu's eyes, though he couldn't help murmuring with a hint of regret, "Of course, his understanding of the laws is still a little immature. Of the Rainstorm Diagram's seventy-two essences, he hasn't comprehended even one. Hiding that fragment on Earth was too early, but it's probably for the best. Building a solid foundation at the Domain Lord level is better than having to make up for it at the World Lord level."
He took a sip of wine, his gaze piercing through layers of spacetime to a hidden corner of the Universe Ocean. Then he looked back at the young figure in the starry sky, a meaningful smile flickering in his eyes.
"Go on and kill. Grow stronger through blood and fire. The day you can break through the Star Tower, I'll stand before you."
Yang Yu waved away the star chart projection in front of him and turned his attention back to the obscure, complex Fire Dao within his body.
The transformation wrought by the Hunyuan Void Fire Spirit Fruit was far from complete. Every inch of his divine kingdom was quietly rebuilding itself.
During the days he had spent keeping an eye on Luo Feng's growth, a bottleneck had already cracked open, almost imperceptibly.
The God King Second Level was beckoning to him.
The news that the humans had taken over half the Monster Race Territory spread throughout the entire Primal Universe in just a few days.
In the Zerg Territory, at the Queen Palace.
The peerlessly beautiful Zerg Queen lounged on her crystal throne, her slender fingers turning the translucent Eternal Pearl. Her face was as calm as still water, but the biting killing intent around her chilled the great hall to the bone.
"Humans... Giant Axe..." she murmured. Her voice was melodious, yet contained an unmistakable chill. "With a single move, they forced the Monster Race to surrender half its territory and hand over the Dream Scale Armor and the Gold-Shattering Spear. Zhen Jiao and Meng Cha are both useless fools, but the humans' appetite is a little too large."
Below her, a Zerg Mother Emperor dressed in black gauze spoke cautiously. "Your Majesty, the Monster Race has been badly weakened. It has only half its former territory left, and Tremor Demon Ancestor and Dream Demon Ancestor have lost two Supreme Treasures, greatly reducing their strength. If we were to attack now..."
"Attack?" The Zerg Queen narrowed her beautiful eyes, a knowing smile curling her lips. "Of course we should attack, but not the humans."
She rose slowly, the translucent gauze flowing like water over her graceful figure. The Eternal Pearl shone with hazy starlight in her palm, making her already breathtaking face seem even more unreal.
"Humanity is at its peak right now. With Giant Axe's God-Slaying Axe and Divine Power Burning Secret Technique, I have no chance of winning in a direct confrontation. But we can't let the humans swallow the other half of the Monster Race Territory all by themselves. Last time, we took only a small part of their territory before withdrawing. This time..." Her voice turned abruptly cold. "Send the order. Assemble all the Universe Masters from our subordinate races and set out within three days. Our target is the remaining half of the Monster Race Territory."
"Yes!"
At almost the same moment, in the Ancestral Hall of the Demon Beast Alliance.
The Beast Ancestor sat on the Alliance Master's throne, his dark golden scales gleaming coldly in the dim light.
He had just heard his subordinate's report on the humans' progress in taking over the Monster Race Territory. His scarlet eyes were clouded with gloom.
"The humans made a fortune this time." Lord Juefeng's nine heads swayed in unison, his voice filled with resentment. "We fought for so long and took only a few thousand light-years of the Monster Race's territory. The humans acted just once and forced Zhen Jiao to hand over half, while also getting two Supreme Treasures. The difference..."
"Silence." The Beast Ancestor shot him a cold glance.
Lord Juefeng immediately fell quiet.
The great hall fell silent for a moment. The Beast Ancestor tapped his fingers against the armrest, each dull knock echoing through the chamber.
He knew that Lord Juefeng was telling the truth. The Demon Beast Alliance had seventy-two Universe Masters, but when it came to high-level combat power, even the Beast Ancestor himself couldn't match Giant Axe wielding the God-Slaying Axe.
Last time, at the edge of the Ethereal Alliance's territory, Giant Axe had merely stood there, and the Beast Ancestor had been forced to withdraw in disgrace. The humiliation had still not gone down.
But no matter how hard it was to swallow, he had to. A direct clash with the humans would only bring misery.
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