Luo Feng had created "First Arrival," but only a year and two months had passed outside. Counting the time in the Inheritance Space, he had spent roughly twelve thousand years on it.
Luo Feng was far from satisfied with Fifth Order Peak.
The fifth order of Eternal True God was merely average by Eternal True God standards. Most Eternal True Gods could reach that level.
"First Arrival" was an advanced version of the Blade Technique "Nirvana Rebirth."
Luo Feng intended to fuse more laws into "Nirvana Rebirth," "Light of Water and Fire," "Path of Nine Heavens," "Gate of Life," "Radiant Guardian," and "Light of Hope," evolving them all to the Eternal Level. "Gate of Life," meanwhile, was a perfected version of the Blade Technique "Curved Blade."
"Light of Water and Fire" centered on the Law of Water and the Law of Fire. The two complemented each other, and once other laws were incorporated, its power became terrifying.
Luo Feng studied "Light of Water and Fire," but he could not follow its approach completely.
Using "Light of Water and Fire" as a foundation, he made water and fire the core and fused in other laws. Fire would be the spear, water the shield: fire's violence and water's unbroken flow brought to the fore. Such a move would be ideal for a defensive offense. It could also trap enemies without sacrificing explosive power.
Of course, the most powerful element remained the Destruction Origin.
The Destruction Origin was the foundation of Luo Feng's current strength. It countered every kind of power; unless the opposing force overwhelmed it completely, the Destruction Origin would gain the upper hand.
Without the Destruction Origin fused into it, "First Arrival" might have been only an ordinary fifth-order Eternal True God Blade Technique. With it, the technique reached Fifth Order Peak. The gap was enormous.
Drawing on his own insights, the Primordial Boundary Tablet, and the ultimate techniques of past Duan Dong River inheritors, Luo Feng kept incorporating what he learned into his Blade Technique. He fought those predecessors again and again, constantly refining it...
"It lacks the essence of the Law of Water."
"Too violent."
"The blade isn't fast enough. It lacks power."
"..."
Luo Feng kept analyzing each failure, learning from it, refining the technique, then fighting again.
Years passed.
Before he knew it, more than thirty years had gone by outside.
In the Universe Ocean, at the Sitting Mountain Holy Land Universe...
Crack!
Without warning, the universe membrane fractured across a vast area, breaking off in sheets. The Primal Chaos Currents of the Universe Ocean no longer seeped steadily through the membrane to be absorbed. They surged violently inside.
At the same time, every living being still within the Miniature Universe died without a sound.
No longer sustained by the Universe Origin, continents, star systems, and planets instantly slipped from their former paths. Violent Primal Chaos Currents swept through them, bringing devastation like the end of the world.
Everything fell deathly still.
Vast stretches of land, fragments of celestial bodies, and the corpses of living beings drifted through the void.
And at the very moment the Sitting Mountain Holy Land Universe's membrane fractured, a strange phenomenon played out once more across the Universe Ocean.
"Lord Qiu Dan, I truly envy you. Who would've thought you'd become effectively eternal in the blink of an eye? If I'd listened to you back then and led my race to join Mountain Guest, we'd have had nothing to worry about for the rest of our days." In the outer reaches of the Universe Boat, three Universe Masters sat chatting leisurely as they waited for treasures to appear.
"Hahaha, it was just luck." The Universe Master called Lord Qiu Dan smiled. When the Primal Universe had neared the Great Annihilation, he had sought refuge everywhere and been turned away. In the end, Mountain Guest had taken him in. Then Mountain Guest had achieved Transcendence of Reincarnation and created the Universe Ocean's Fourth Holy Land Universe. Many of Lord Qiu Dan's friends envied him for it.
To reside within a Sacred Land Universe was to exist forever.
If Luo Feng had not attacked the Purple Moon Holy Land, every expert in the Universe Ocean would have agreed that it could never be destroyed.
"I don't have your kind of lu—"
Another Universe Master had barely begun to speak when he saw Lord Qiu Dan collapse silently beside him. His eyes widened in terror. Lord Qiu Dan's life aura had vanished, yet his divine body was completely intact.
"Lord Qiu Dan!"
"Lord Qiu Dan!"
The other two Universe Masters rushed to his side and discovered, to their horror, that Lord Qiu Dan was dead.
At the same time, several other Universe Masters whose lives were bound to Mountain Guest's Sacred Land Universe silently collapsed in other parts of the Universe Ocean, their life auras gone.
Everyone traveling alongside a Universe Master from the Sitting Mountain Holy Land Universe was horrified by the sight.
For someone to collapse so silently, either one of their avatars had suffered Soul Annihilation, killing every avatar, or something had happened to the universe sustaining their lives.
But some of those who died while exploring had no avatars.
Lord Qiu Dan, for one, had none.
Three Universe Masters had been in the same area. The other two were unharmed; only Lord Qiu Dan had died. It made no sense.
"Lord Qiu Dan is dead. Could something have happened to the Sitting Mountain Holy Land Universe?" The other two Universe Masters could hardly believe it. They had never heard of a Sacred Land Universe being destroyed after its creator achieved Transcendence of Reincarnation.
"Lord Banshe, were you with Lord Qiu Dan?" Not long after Lord Qiu Dan's death, Lord Banshe, the Universe Master who had been with him, received a message.
"Yes," Lord Banshe replied. "But he's dead."
The sender fell silent for a moment, then replied, "Lord Taman is dead too."
Several more Universe Masters soon contacted Lord Banshe to confirm what had happened.
Every Universe Master from the Sitting Mountain Holy Land Universe had died in the same way. No matter how unwilling they were to believe a Sacred Land Universe could be destroyed, it had happened.
"Get to the Sitting Mountain Holy Land Universe at once. Sweep up its treasures."
Once they judged that the Sitting Mountain Holy Land Universe had likely been destroyed, the Universe Masters who learned of it first either rushed there themselves or alerted the Universe Masters and strongest experts of their races.
The explosive news swept across the Universe Ocean like a hurricane.
When people reached the Sitting Mountain Holy Land Universe and confirmed it, those who had doubted the news were stunned.
"A Sacred Land Universe can be destroyed?"
The Purple Moon Holy Land Universe had been destroyed by Luo Feng. That was entirely different from a universe collapsing on its own.
No race in the Universe Ocean knew how many reincarnation cycles the Purple Moon Holy Land and East Emperor Holy Land had endured. They knew only that the two Sacred Land Universes had existed through countless cycles and were eternal.
The destruction of the Sitting Mountain Holy Land Universe shattered that belief.
Sacred Land Universes were not eternal!
Every race was shaken. Some sighed, some were secretly relieved, and others took pleasure in the misfortune.
When Mountain Guest had first made his breakthrough, the races had tried every means to get close to him, hoping he would grant their people a place in his Sacred Land Universe. Yet barely thirty years later, it had been destroyed. If Mountain Guest had accepted them back then, they too would have perished.
Whoosh!
An enormous figure teleported outside the Sitting Mountain Holy Land Universe.
Seeing endless Primal Chaos Currents pour through the cracks in the universe membrane, he wept.
It was Puti, a True God.
"Teacher..." For a time, Puti could not accept it. His thoughts were in turmoil.
Memories surfaced one after another...
"Teacher..." Puti murmured.
At the same time...
The Flame Emperor of the Flame God Race appeared outside Mountain Guest's Sacred Land Universe. At the sight of the fractured membrane, he burst into wild laughter.
Unlike Puti, the Flame Emperor was almost delirious.
"Hahaha! You biased old fool! So you could die after all. What good did Transcendence of Reincarnation do you? You still died, while I'm alive and well! Hahaha..." The Flame Emperor's frenzied laughter rolled through the endless Primal Chaos Currents.
How satisfying!
The Flame Emperor felt an overwhelming sense of release.
He had feared Mountain Guest. Despite Mountain Guest's favoritism, he had never dared defy him and could only do as he wished. Now that Mountain Guest was dead, all the resentment buried deep inside him came pouring out.
"Ungrateful wretch!"
Far away, Puti heard the Flame Emperor and saw him laughing wildly. He could no longer contain his killing intent.
Boom!
His divine power ignited. Puti teleported in front of the Flame Emperor and swung a simple-looking staff down at him with all his might.
Enhanced by the Reincarnation Armor, the staff strike had reached the peak of the tenth order—the limit for a True God.
"What?!"
"You old bastard!" The Flame Emperor's face went pale. He had no time to react.
The attack came too suddenly, filling him with instinctive terror. Even if it had not been an ambush, he was unsure he could withstand a blow that powerful head-on.
Bang!
The staff struck the Flame Emperor and sent him flying like a cannonball.
"What? I lost thirty-one percent of my divine body in an instant!" The Flame Emperor was terrified. "When did that old bastard get so strong? That blow was among the strongest attacks in the entire Universe Ocean."
For a moment, he felt Puti was an enemy he could not defeat.
The Flame Emperor loved to fight, but he feared death too!
Puti clearly meant to kill him. A single blow had already left him gravely wounded.
Run.
The Flame Emperor made his decision at once. He summoned a palace-type True God Supreme Treasure and hid inside it.
Puti had locked down the surrounding space. Unable to teleport, the Flame Emperor could only fly away slowly inside the Palace-type Supreme Treasure.
Puti also had a palace-type True God Supreme Treasure, but the two were of comparable grade. He could not use his to suppress the Flame Emperor's, so the Flame Emperor did not fear being trapped.
"That old bastard is too strong. He hid it well." Seeing Puti still pursuing him through the Supreme Treasure, the Flame Emperor shuddered. One staff strike had cost him over thirty percent of his divine body. Fewer than four blows might be enough to kill him.
"Ungrateful wretch! You can hide for now, but you can't hide forever!" Puti's killing intent was boundless.
He swung his staff again, sending the Flame Emperor's tower-shaped Supreme Treasure flying.
Unharmed inside it, the Flame Emperor breathed a sigh of relief.
"You think you can kill me, old bastard?" Though furious, the Flame Emperor sneered to himself. There's no dangerous region nearby. I have nothing to fear from him. Let him keep hitting it.
Puti struck several more times. When he found he could do nothing to the Flame Emperor inside the Supreme Treasure, he had no choice but to stop.
"Hmph. You ungrateful wretch. You'd better hope I never find you in a dangerous region. That will be the day you die." Puti's voice thundered through the void. In a dangerous region, he was confident he could kill a True God even if the man possessed a supreme palace-type Supreme Treasure.
After all, Luo Feng had killed the Haolei Star Lord in just that way.
"You?" The Flame Emperor scoffed. But when he sensed the Space Lockdown lift, his fear of death won out. He teleported away at once, afraid Puti might change his mind.