"If this is all you are capable of, then..." Luo Feng took a light step, the space beneath his feet rippling slightly, and he appeared directly above the Three-Eyed Flame Serpent. "It is far too disappointing."
The Blood Shadow Battle Blade descended.
This strike contained the essence of the Sky-Rending Claw.
Over these years, while comprehending the Laws of Space, Luo Feng had never abandoned his study of close-quarters combat.
The blade's glow was condensed to the extreme, with a faint, imperceptible spatial rift tracing the edge of the steel. Wherever the blade passed, space itself collapsed slightly.
The Three-Eyed Flame Serpent only had time to constrict its three vertical pupils simultaneously, its serpentine body instinctively attempting to twist and evade.
But the moment Luo Feng brought his blade down, the space surrounding the beast suddenly became as viscous as mercury.
Spatial Law Imprisonment!
Although Luo Feng's current comprehension of the Laws of Space had not yet fully grasped any essence of the Rainstorm Diagram, simple "suppression" and "imprisonment" were already enough to crush the struggles of an ordinary World Lord-level Monster Race.
The blade light swept across the serpent's seven-inch mark, and the blood-red glow cleaved the giant snake in two from head to tail.
The massive body of the Three-Eyed Flame Serpent stiffened in mid-air for an instant before crashing to the ground, creating a giant crater several kilometers deep.
Killed in one strike!
"One World Lord-level, one hundred thousand points secured."
Before the words had even faded, the earth split open once more.
A giant beast, even larger than the Three-Eyed Flame Serpent, crawled out from the ground, its entire body covered in dark gray, jagged armor.
The Sawtooth Armored Beast was about three hundred meters long, its limbs thick and short but possessing immense strength. Dozens of bone spikes, each tens of meters long, grew from the armor on its back, their tips glinting with a cold light. Seeing its companion killed, it let out a heaven-shaking roar and kicked off the ground with all four limbs.
Its entire body charged at Luo Feng like a moving mountain range. Wherever it passed, the earth churned and rocks shattered; even the air was pushed into visible white shockwaves by this immense force.
Luo Feng, however, smiled. He did not retreat, but instead gripped his battle blade and met the charge head-on.
A Domain Lord-level ninth-stage human, clashing head-on with a World Lord-level third-stage giant beast.
To anyone else, this would be seeking one's own death.
But with his body strengthened by the first volume of the Nine Tribulations Manual, the augmentation of the Xueluo Power, and the pure Origin Energy continuously pumped into him by the Golden Horned Beast, a triangular resonance was established within his internal world... He swung his blade, the edge landing squarely on the hardest part of the Sawtooth Armored Beast's skull.
A thunderous sound, like metal striking metal, echoed through the heavens.
The charge of the Sawtooth Armored Beast came to an abrupt halt.
A crack several meters deep instantly appeared on its skull, and dark green blood gushed out.
Luo Feng's figure merely swayed slightly before he swung his blade again.
One strike, two strikes, three strikes!
Each strike landed precisely on the same wound; the crack grew larger, and more dark green blood flowed out.
The Sawtooth Armored Beast struggled frantically, the bone spikes on its armor shooting out repeatedly. However, those spikes—capable of tearing through the defenses of World Lord-level powerhouses—strangely deflected upon touching the layer of Mosha Race armor on Luo Feng's body. They were not bounced away, but rather pierced into a slightly distorted spatial fold, pinning crookedly into the ground.
This was the terrifying aspect of weaving one's law comprehension into every detail of offense and defense.
When Luo Feng delivered the seventeenth strike, the skull of the Sawtooth Armored Beast shattered with a boom, and its massive body collapsed like a falling mountain.
"The second one, two hundred thousand points secured."
Luo Feng sheathed his blade, breathing slightly heavily.
Having killed two World Lord-level Monster Race beasts in succession, his internal Origin Energy had been significantly depleted.
Fortunately, his Earthling main body had an internal world that continuously supplied Origin Energy, and his recovery speed was astonishingly fast. Luo Feng carved out the most valuable materials from the beast's carcass, his gaze sweeping toward the low-level Monster Race creatures shivering in the distance.
"Sixty-some left," Luo Feng muttered. He stood straight, his figure flashing and disappearing from the spot, leaving behind only a devastated battlefield and two massive World Lord-level beast corpses.
The subsequent cleanup was a long hunt.
The Blood Stone Galaxy was not large, but it was still a complete star system, with six planets and two asteroid belts; there were tens of thousands of Monster Race nests scattered throughout.
Luo Feng did not rashly challenge multiple World Lord-level beasts at once.
Even though an ordinary World Lord was not much of a threat one-on-one, their size and experience were significant. If a dozen or twenty of them swarmed him, coordinating different law attributes, even he could not guarantee he would escape unscathed.
Therefore, Luo Feng chose to defeat them one by one.
The talent of his Mosha Race clone was utilized to its fullest in this battle.
Changing into a thousand forms, merging with space, ambushing and assassinating...
Luo Feng applied the characteristics of the Mosha Race clone with masterful skill.
Sometimes he would sneak deep into a Monster Race nest, transforming into an inconspicuous shadow, and strike with a single lethal blow the moment a target was isolated.
Other times, he would hide on the far side of an asteroid, using long-range telekinetic attacks to lure a single World Lord-level beast away and finish it off in the vacuum of space.
For those that truly could not be lured out alone, he used his speed advantage to kite them. A Domain Lord-level could already traverse the starry sky with their physical body, and even among World Lords, there were differences in speed.
Those few heavy, rock-attribute World Lords were led on a chase through the asteroid belt by Luo Feng for three days and three nights, until they were worn down to death.
"The eleventh one."
"Nineteenth. Their pack behavior actually did me a huge favor; there is a half-second delay in their alert range."
"Forty-third. This sector lord level two Rock Armored Beast is actually quite interesting. Its comprehension of the Earth Laws is not low, and its hide is no less durable than E-grade alloy. It's a pity it's too slow; after I landed a hundred consecutive strikes, its defense finally shattered."
Every so often, Babata would update the kill count.
The tone shifted from initial tension to excitement, and finally to numbness.
"Fifty-ninth. The last three are gathered together, on the moon of that gas giant to your left."
Luo Feng nodded, his figure vanishing into the Dark Universe transit.
When the final streak of blade light swept across the silent space, every single sector lord level monster in the Blood Stone Galaxy had been slaughtered.
Luo Feng stood on the rings of the gas giant, looking down at the galaxy he had just completely cleared.
More than sixty sector lord monsters—while insignificant in front of true powerhouses—was a record to be proud of for a young genius at the domain lord level nine.
Even for a genius hailing from the core secret realms of the Virtual Universe Company!
What satisfied Luo Feng even more was that throughout the entire hunt, his practical combat experience had skyrocketed, and his understanding of the laws had continuously improved.
Meanwhile, in a desolate star field on the outskirts of the Demon Ancestor Secret Realm.
"Reporting to the Alliance Master, the latest intelligence from the cleanup troops: the Blood Stone Galaxy was swept by a single human sixty-seven days ago. Today, it is confirmed that all sector lord level monsters within the galaxy have been wiped out. The cleaner is a domain lord level genius from the human Hong Alliance's Primal Secret Realm, named Luo Feng."
The Beast Ancestor opened his scarlet eyes, took the intelligence presented by his subordinate, and tapped his fingers against the armrest. "Blood Stone Galaxy... I recall there were over sixty sector lords left in that galaxy. He killed them all by himself? Without external aid?"
"All by himself. Based on the residual combat traces, this person excels in Space Laws, using a combination of frontal assault and assassination. His combat style is extremely seasoned. Furthermore, not a single monster he killed was spared; he was utterly ruthless."
The Beast Ancestor fell silent for a moment, then let out a cold snort. "The humans have certainly produced a remarkable little fellow."
He tossed the intelligence aside and turned to look at the star map.
With the humans' power at its zenith after taking over half of the Monster Race's territory, the Beast Ancestor knew that clashing with them in the short term would be unwise.
He ordered the Demon Beast Alliance to shrink its expansion, concentrating his forces on several cultivation planets he had secretly established years ago, searching with all his might for sector lord level geniuses with superior bloodlines and formidable willpower.
In the Zerg territory, the Zerg Queen's massive mental network was constantly filtering through the memories of the broodmothers from every sub-race.
On this day, a universe-level Zerg warrior transmitted back what it had witnessed.
It had been dormant on a planet on the periphery of the Blood Stone Galaxy and happened to witness the thrilling moment Luo Feng single-handedly tore two sector lord level monsters to shreds. The Queen projected this memory into the mental network to share.
"Interesting. Domain lord level nine, yet his gene level is clearly beyond that of a normal human. He has secrets."
The Queen stroked the smooth surface of the Eternal Pearl, a dangerous light flickering in her beautiful eyes. "But now is not the time to move against him. There is less than a million years until the Genius Ranking; cultivating peerless geniuses for my Zerg race is the top priority. No matter how monstrous human geniuses are, they can never be killed off entirely."
In a void just a few light-years away from the battlefield, a towering figure over nine hundred meters tall, with transparent horns on his forehead, sat cross-legged atop a mountain peak manifested by the Jin King Palace.
Yang Yu flicked his fingers, intentionally or otherwise, parting the spatial folds hundreds of thousands of miles ahead as he overlooked the battlefield below.
This scene went completely unnoticed by the human immortals patrolling nearby, as if that person and this universe were not even on the same plane.
Yang Yu watched the entire process of Luo Feng hunting the sixtieth sector lord level monster from start to finish, from the moment Luo Feng secretly laid a spatial cage with his Mosha Race clone to the final moment he used the Xueluo Power to burst forth and cleave the monster's skull—not a single detail escaped his eyes.
"Not bad."
"He has mastered the power of the first tribulation of the Nine Tribulations Manual, and his application of the Space Laws has gained a touch of intuition. He knows how to use the alternation between his Mosha Race clone and his internal world to recover, achieving the optimal kill with minimal consumption, instead of being foolish enough to rely on raw strength for a head-on clash."
Yang Yu studied the black-haired youth's movement of sheathing his blade in the distance; the action was clean and decisive, even possessing a hint of a powerhouse's demeanor.
A look of approval appeared in Yang Yu's eyes, though he then muttered to himself with a touch of regret, "Of course, his understanding of the laws is still a bit green. He hasn't even comprehended one of the seventy-two essences of the Rainstorm Diagram yet. It was still too early to hide that fragment on Earth, but that's fine—building a solid foundation at the domain lord level is better than playing catch-up at the sector lord level."
He took a sip of fine wine, his gaze piercing through layers of time and space toward a hidden corner in the depths of the Universe Ocean, before returning to the young figure in the starry sky, a cryptic smile flashing in his eyes.
"Kill. Grow stronger through the tempering of blood and fire. The day you can clear the Star Tower, I will be standing right in front of you."
Yang Yu waved his hand to brush away the star map projection, refocusing his attention on the obscure and complex Fire Dao within his body.
The transformation brought about by the Hunyuan Void Fire Spirit Fruit was far from over; every inch of his internal Divine Kingdom was quietly restructuring.
In the days he had been distracted by watching Luo Feng's growth, his bottleneck had silently cracked open an imperceptible fissure.
The second stage of the God King realm was beckoning to him.
The news of the humans taking over half of the Monster Race's territory spread throughout the entire Primal Universe in just a few days.
Zerg territory, Queen Palace.
The stunningly beautiful Zerg Queen lay on her crystal throne, her slender fingers toying with the crystal-clear Eternal Pearl. Her expression was as calm as water, but the biting killing intent permeating her surroundings dropped the temperature in the hall to freezing.
"Humans... Giant Axe..." she whispered, her voice melodious and enchanting, yet containing a coldness that could not be concealed. "With just a single move, they forced the Monster Race to cede half their territory and even hand over the Dream Scale and the Gold-Shattering Spear. While those two idiots, Zhen Jiao and Meng Cha, are useless, the humans' appetite is simply too large."
Below, a Zerg broodmother dressed in black gauze spoke cautiously: "Your Majesty, the Monster Race is now severely wounded, left with only half their original territory, and the Tremor Demon Ancestor and Dream Demon Ancestor have lost two supreme treasures, their strength greatly diminished. If we were to send troops now..."
"Send troops?" The Zerg Queen's beautiful eyes narrowed, her red lips curling into a meaningful smile. "Of course we must send troops, but not to fight the humans."
She rose slowly, her translucent gauze flowing like water over her graceful body. The Eternal Pearl in her palm emitted a hazy starlight, making her already exquisite face appear even more unreal.
"The humans are at their zenith right now. With Giant Axe's God-Slaying Axe and his Divine Power Burning Secret Technique, I have no chance of winning in a head-on confrontation. But the other half of the Monster Race's territory must not be swallowed by the humans alone. Last time we only took a small star sector from the Monster Race and retreated, but this time..." Her voice turned abruptly cold. "Pass the order: assemble all the Universe Masters of our vassal races. Set out within three days. The target is the remaining half of the Monster Race's territory."
"Yes!"
At almost the same moment, in the Demon Beast Alliance, Ancestral Hall.
The Beast Ancestor sat upright upon the Alliance Leader's throne, his dark golden scales shimmering with a cold light in the dim surroundings.
He had just finished listening to his subordinate's report on the progress of the humans taking over the Monster Race's territories, his scarlet eyes filled with gloom.
"The humans have made a killing this time." Lord Juefeng's nine heads swayed in unison, his tone laced with resentment. "Back then, we fought for so long just to occupy a few thousand light-years of the Monster Race's star territory. The humans only had to make a move once to force Zhen Jiao to cede half of it, and they even walked away with two Supreme True Treasures. The gap between us..."
"Shut up." The Beast Ancestor swept a cold glance at him.
Lord Juefeng immediately fell silent.
The great hall descended into a brief silence. The Beast Ancestor's fingers tapped rhythmically against the armrest, producing a dull, thudding sound.
He knew that what Juefeng said was the truth. Although his Demon Beast Alliance possessed seventy-two Universe Masters, when it came to high-end combat power, no matter how strong he was alone, he could not compare to Giant Axe, who wielded the God-Slaying Axe.
Last time, at the edge of the Ethereal Alliance's territory, Giant Axe had merely stood there, and he had been forced to retreat in disgrace. That stifling sense of humiliation had yet to be swallowed even to this day.
But even if he couldn't swallow it, he had to; a direct confrontation with the humans was simply asking for trouble.