Taking in two Early-tier Fourth Source experts of the Saint Realm gave Luo Feng two more powerful allies. At this stage, two Four-Origin Saint Realm experts would be a great help.
A thought suddenly struck Luo Feng. Wouldn't it be even better to build an army of servants of his own?
Kadir and Kakelong were the beginning of that army.
"During the fight, I sensed several divine senses watching us. The other Saint Realm experts probably know what happened here, so I doubt they'll dare come looking for trouble. Next, we'll take the initiative and capture them one by one. We need enough power to make everyone on Floating Sand Island think twice before crossing us," Luo Feng said slowly, looking over his servants.
Luo Feng had ambitions of his own.
If he could do it, why wouldn't he?
He had faced too many restrictions in the You Mountain Empire. Here, he could build his strength as quickly as possible. Only with enough strength could he hold on to everything he now possessed.
Whether it was his status as the Shadow God King's disciple, the God King Level Star Tower and Blood Shadow Blade, or the World Beast King, any one of them could become a ticking time bomb. If word got out, danger would follow. Only sufficient strength would let him face those lurking threats.
"Master, within the surrounding ten light-years, there's only one person we need to watch out for: the Six-Armed Spear King, Tablo," Kadir said. "He's extraordinarily strong. He's mastered the mysteries of metal, fire, space, time, and light. Even together, my brother and I are no match for him. He never had much desire to kill us. Otherwise, the four of us around him would have died beneath his spear long ago."
"The Six-Armed Spear King, Tablo?" Luo Feng committed the name to memory.
With strength approaching Sixth-Origin, someone like that would generally have well-rounded defenses. If Tablo also had a Saint-level soul Supreme Treasure, even Luo Feng's supreme secret technique, the Lie Yuan Technique, would not necessarily work.
A Saint-level soul Supreme Treasure combined with peak Saint-level will would greatly diminish the Lie Yuan Technique's power.
"What about the other three? How strong are they, and what are they good at?" Luo Feng was more interested in the other Saint Realm experts.
"Master, two are Mid-tier Fourth Source, and one is High-tier Fourth Source."
"The two Mid-tier Fourth Source experts are Holy Master Yimen and Tuo Zezi. Holy Master Yimen has comprehended the mysteries of wood, water, space, and wind. He comes from the Azure Hill Kingdom and is exceptionally skilled in Soul Illusion. Tuo Zezi wields twin hammers and has comprehended the mysteries of earth, metal, water, and space. His hammers strike with tremendous force, and his secret techniques are integrated with the mysteries of earth more deeply than anyone else's I've seen."
"The High-tier Fourth Source expert is Fan Gao, known as the Iron Fan Prince. He has comprehended the mysteries of metal, wind, time, and space. He's said to be a member of the Songlin Kingdom's royal family and possesses a great many treasures. Tablo has fought him before but couldn't do anything to him." Kadir shared everything he knew.
"Holy Master Yimen, Tuo Zezi, Fan Gao." Luo Feng nodded slightly. Fan Gao was the only one who seemed troublesome: a royal of the Songlin Kingdom with treasures to spare. "Fan Gao is a walking treasure vault. If I could kill him, Morosa could probably nurture quite a few more Saint-level Warriors."
Luo Feng muttered to himself. He was certainly tempted, though Fan Gao's powerful connections gave him pause.
"We'll split into two groups. First, we'll deal with Holy Master Yimen and Tuo Zezi. Then we'll see whether we can handle Fan Gao as well. Tie Nanhe, go after Tuo Zezi with Kadir and his brother. Remember, you must take him alive." Luo Feng had made up his mind, and there was no reason to delay.
"Yes!" Tie Nanhe, Kadir, and Kakelong answered at once.
With the decision made, Luo Feng took Morosa toward Holy Master Yimen, while Tie Nanhe went with Kadir and his brother to find Tuo Zezi.
Holy Master Yimen, Tuo Zezi, and the others had watched the earlier battle closely. Once they saw that even Kadir and his brother had been captured alive, they naturally regarded Luo Feng's group as a major threat. Tablo and Fan Gao alone did not take it too seriously. One had overwhelming strength; the other had both strength and abundant treasures. Neither was afraid.
What none of them expected was that the moment they stopped watching, Luo Feng's group set out again—this time for Holy Master Yimen and Tuo Zezi.
Holy Master Yimen was cultivating in his residence, unaware that the human who had just finished fighting was on his way.
Until...
A faint spatial ripple appeared.
"Who's there?" Holy Master Yimen instantly appeared above his residence, his gaze locking onto Luo Feng and Morosa.
"You two!" Holy Master Yimen's expression shifted.
"That's right." Luo Feng studied him. Holy Master Yimen looked somewhat human, though he resembled a foxman. He was strikingly handsome, and his eyes held a natural allure. Someone with weaker willpower would probably have taken an immediate liking to him.
"What? Capturing Kadir and his brother wasn't enough? You want to enslave me too?" Holy Master Yimen watched Luo Feng and Morosa warily, though a trace of disdain curled his lips. "Do you think I'm as stupid as those two fools from the Three-Handed Race? If you think you can deal with me, dream on!"
The moment he finished speaking, Holy Master Yimen turned into a streak of light and fled without hesitation.
How could he not run?
He had seen Morosa fight. Morosa's strength was clearly above Mid-tier Fourth Source. That alone did not frighten Yimen, but Luo Feng's attack on Soul Will did. A Soul Attack that could drop Kakelong on the spot was terrifying even to someone skilled in Soul Illusion. Yimen had no confidence he could withstand it, so he chose to flee.
"Morosa, do it!" Luo Feng ordered.
Morosa's World Domain had already sealed off a region one light-year across. Filled with an aura of destruction, it was even stronger than Holy Master Yimen's Chaos Domain.
Morosa possessed only Destruction Origin, but that was no mere mystery of Destruction Origin. It was the true power of Destruction Origin, and its might was terrifying. Even without drawing on that power directly, Morosa had grown strong enough to rival a Mid-tier Fourth Source expert. Dealing with one should have been easy.
"What kind of Chaos Domain is this? How can it be so strong with only one Origin Power?" Only after experiencing it himself did Holy Master Yimen grasp how frightening the domain was. His own Chaos Domain was reinforced by four Origin Mysteries, yet it was still suppressed. He was fleeing far more slowly than Morosa was pursuing him.
"You want to enslave me? Keep dreaming!" Holy Master Yimen laughed. Dazzling light burst from his body, which split apart into a hundred thousand pure-white spirit foxes. Each became a brilliant streak of light and scattered in every direction at over ten thousand times the speed of light.
"Master, even the domain can't hold him!" Morosa said urgently through voice transmission.
Each spirit fox was nearly illusory and had merged completely with Yimen's Chaos Domain. Within it, they moved like fish through water, unbelievably fast. No matter how Morosa tried to suppress them, it seemed to have no effect.
"Impressive!" Luo Feng exclaimed. He could tell the spirit foxes were being suppressed, yet they were still moving this fast. Catching them was impossible.
It was somewhat like Donghua. If Luo Feng used Donghua, a Saint Realm expert's Chaos Domain would not be able to stop him either.
"Forget it. We'll let him go for now and meet up with Tie Nanhe." Luo Feng had no answer for an escape technique like this.
"Yes, Master." Morosa immediately withdrew his World Domain.
"Hmph!"
With the suppression gone, every spirit fox accelerated to tens of thousands of times the speed of light. When they gathered back into one, Holy Master Yimen snorted at Luo Feng, then vanished with a teleport.
"Let's go!" Luo Feng paid him no further mind.
Morosa wrapped Luo Feng in divine power and teleported away. When they reappeared, they were already in Tuo Zezi's territory.
Luo Feng's gaze fell on Tuo Zezi in the distance, wielding his twin hammers against Tie Nanhe and the two brothers.
Tuo Zezi really is formidable. He's holding off all three of them with just those hammers. As Luo Feng watched, he saw that Tuo Zezi had mastered his weapons to an extraordinary degree. His hammer techniques were fully integrated with the Origin Mysteries he had comprehended. Even against all three opponents, he was merely at a disadvantage.
Tie Nanhe was even clinging to him without fear of injury, creating openings for Kadir and Kakelong. Yet Tuo Zezi still withstood the brothers' attacks.
"You damned human! You sent them to surround me. Are you trying to enslave me too?" Tuo Zezi sensed the spatial disturbance and spotted Luo Feng and Morosa outside the Space Lockdown. He glared at Luo Feng.
"Morosa, do it." Luo Feng ignored him.
In an instant, the World Domain descended, reinforcing Kadir and Kakelong's Chaos Domain.
"What?!" Already at a disadvantage, Tuo Zezi was shocked and furious. Under the increased suppression, he could not bring even half his strength to bear.
"Damned human!" Tuo Zezi panicked. He did not want to die, but he wanted enslavement even less.
Morosa ignored Tuo Zezi's struggle. He became a streak of light and charged straight at him.
"Despicable human! You'll never enslave me!" Tuo Zezi would never accept being someone's slave. His dignity mattered more than anything. He bared his teeth, madness filling his face. "Even if I die, one of you is coming with me. Since you're not afraid of death, it'll be you!"
Tuo Zezi went berserk, burning his divine power to its limit. He abandoned all defense and locked his legs and arms around Tie Nanhe instead.
"Come on! We'll die together! Explode!" Tuo Zezi roared. Then—
A sphere of light as dazzling as the Sun Star flared where Tuo Zezi stood, followed by an earthshaking blast that rang across the heavens—
BOOM!
Luo Feng had never experienced a Saint Realm expert self-destructing.
The blinding light, the deafening sound, and the violent shock wave far surpassed any self-destruction Luo Feng had witnessed. He had known a Saint Realm expert's self-destruction would be powerful, but not to this extent. Despite the vast distance between him and the center of the blast, the force that reached him felt comparable to an eighth-rank Eternal True God's power.
And Luo Feng was nearly a light-year from the center. The shock wave had also been weakened by layer after layer of the Triple Domain.
By Luo Feng's estimate, the blast was at least two and a half levels stronger than Tuo Zezi at his peak.
That meant its power had reached the Five-Origin High-Grade Saint Realm at a minimum, perhaps even higher.
Tie Nanhe took the brunt of the blast, followed by Kadir and Kakelong. The brothers protected themselves the instant the shock wave hit, yet they found that each of their divine bodies had lost nearly ten percent.
Their greatest concern, of course, was Tie Nanhe. He had been at the center of the explosion. With that kind of power, even they would have suffered devastating damage to their divine bodies if they survived at all.
"Tie Nanhe!" But when they saw him, they froze and cried out, "H-how is that possible? Not a scratch?"