Chapter 422 : Volume Eleven: The Longing Within the Heart
Chapter 422: Volume Eleven: The Longing Within the Heart
Time flowed on.
Luo Feng, dressed in black, walked through the Infinite Chaotic Origin Space. Looking into the distance, his gaze fell upon a Source World. Within the Chaos Sea of that Source World, hundreds of millions of miniature universes were being nurtured, and within every miniature universe were countless Plane Worlds.
Luo Feng's gaze settled upon one of those Plane Worlds because humans also flourished there, bearing an eighty to ninety percent resemblance to the humans of Earth.
The humans of that Plane World generally lived no more than a hundred years.
"The culture is also seventy to eighty percent similar to Earth's." Among the countless civilizations throughout the innumerable Source Worlds, even Luo Feng rarely encountered one so similar to his home planet.
The people of this world faced the threat of the "Phantom Demons."
Generation after generation, humanity's struggle against the Phantom Demons had gradually formed a unique cultivation system.
"What is real? What is false? Is your power false?"
"Even by borrowing the false, one can cultivate the true!"
Within this world, a master was teaching his disciple.
"Master, is there a way to completely eliminate the Phantom Demons?" the disciple asked.
"There is." The master looked at his disciple.
"But generation after generation, the final fate of us cultivators has always been to perish at the hands of the Phantom Demons." The disciple felt only helplessness. Ever since he embarked upon the path of cultivation, he had learned the truth of this world.
No matter which sect they belonged to, generation after generation of disciples continued to die!
"What could not be accomplished in the past does not mean it cannot be accomplished in the future." The master smiled faintly before raising his head. "I have already passed the teachings to you. It is now time for your master to do what he must."
The disciple was stunned. He had only just entered the sect.
"Wolf Demon Mountain has brought disaster upon the thirteen northwestern cities. I cultivated solely to eradicate Wolf Demon Mountain. Now that the inheritance of the Zhuo Mountain Lineage has been passed on, I have no more attachments." The master smiled as he gently patted the disciple's head before turning and departing.
Whoosh!
In an instant, he streaked across the sky, leaving behind a trail that tore through the heavens as he flew straight toward Wolf Demon Mountain.
"Master."
The disciple knelt down, tears streaming down his face as he watched everything unfold.
Wolf Demon Mountain was an Earth-Class Catastrophe, second only to a Heaven-Class Catastrophe in the entire world. An Earth-Class Catastrophe referred to a region where the power of the Phantom Demons shrouded an entire province.
A terrifying battle erupted within Wolf Demon Mountain.
With extraordinary talent, the master sacrificed more than half his life and finally managed to kill the Phantom Demon of Wolf Demon Mountain. Just as he watched the Phantom Demon die with immense satisfaction, a stream of power suddenly descended upon its corpse. After absorbing that power, the "Wolf Demon" not only revived but its strength skyrocketed.
"Rumble~~~"
The area influenced by Wolf Demon Mountain rapidly expanded.
"Haha! Because of you, I broke through in the midst of certain death. From this day onward, Wolf Demon Mountain shall become a Heaven-Class Catastrophe."
The Wolf Demon laughed loudly.
"A Heaven-Class Catastrophe?"
The heavily injured master stared in disbelief.
How could this happen?
"A Heaven-Class Catastrophe will bring disaster upon half the nation. I am a sinner... a sinner."
At that moment, the master could not accept what stood before him. He had cultivated for thirty years for this single opportunity to eliminate the Wolf Demon. Who would have imagined that he would instead help the Wolf Demon become even stronger?
This world had already suffered immeasurably.
And now there was another Heaven-Class Catastrophe?
"What utter helplessness..."
The master watched as the Wolf Demon's enormous maw covered the heavens and swallowed toward him.
After its transformation, the Wolf Demon had become something he could no longer resist.
He could only face death.
At that very moment—
Far away within the Infinite Chaotic Origin Space, Luo Feng looked across endless space-time toward this universe among the countless universes within the Chaos Sea of that Source World, watching everything unfolding within that Plane World.
"This is the arrangement of a World-Level Primordial Lifeform. How could little ones like you possibly resist it?"
Luo Feng gently shook his head.
Within this Source World, there was an incarnation descended by a World-Level Primordial Lifeform. That incarnation also maintained strength at the upper limit of the Chaos Realm.
With only the upper limit of the Chaos Realm, it was sufficient to secretly orchestrate everything and bring calamity upon countless universes!
The power within this Source World was far too dispersed. Every universe was less than one ten-thousandth the size of a Primal Universe. The strongest native cultivator born there had not even reached the True God level. Naturally, that incarnation of the World-Level Primordial Lifeform could manipulate everything with ease.
Every life continuously generated intense fear, despair, anger, hatred, and other negative emotions.
Although their lifespans lasted only several decades, because they possessed sufficient intelligence, sufficiently intense emotions, and existed in enormous numbers, they remained "food" that the World-Level Primordial Lifeforms longed for immensely! After all, the accumulated intense emotions produced by such vast numbers far exceeded the emotions generated by the comparatively tiny population of Naturally Born Primordial Lifeforms.
Even across endless space-time, a single thought from Luo Feng allowed an incarnation to descend into that Source World.
Luo Feng's incarnation likewise possessed strength at the upper limit of the Chaos Realm.
However, this incarnation used its hand as a blade and casually swung it.
"Perish!"
Luo Feng's incarnation softly uttered a single word.
His words became reality!
The blade light followed the Life Aura, slaying the incarnation of the World-Level Primordial Lifeform! It also eradicated the numerous "forces of calamity" throughout that Source World. The Wolf Demon was merely one component among those countless calamities and naturally vanished completely.
"Hm?"
Within Wolf Demon Mountain, the master watched as the Wolf Demon's enormous maw covered the sky and descended.
Suddenly, the Wolf Demon silently disintegrated.
Every Phantom Demon throughout the entire world vanished.
Indeed, throughout the entire Source World, every force of calamity across every universe disappeared completely, erased without leaving behind the slightest trace.
"What happened?"
The master stood up and stared blankly around him.
He discovered that the sky had become brighter than ever before!
The darkness and gray aura representing the Phantom Demons had completely disappeared. The sky became perfectly clear, and for the first time ever, the sun's light shone unobstructed across the entire world.
Not the slightest trace of Phantom Demon power remained between heaven and earth.
"Is this real... or fake?" Even now, the master could not believe it. "Have I fallen into an illusion?"
Again and again, he verified what was before him.
"It's real."
"This world is real. The Phantom Demons are gone... they're gone."
The master became wildly ecstatic.
"Our world has finally completely eradicated the Phantom Demons."
Although he had told his disciple that there was hope of completely eliminating every Phantom Demon...
He himself had never truly believed it!
All he could do was burn away his own life to make the world just a little better.
Yet today...
A scene he had never even dared dream of had finally become reality.
……
Standing within the Infinite Chaotic Origin Space, Luo Feng watched everything from across endless space-time, and a faint smile appeared on his face.
The joy of those people likewise infected Luo Feng, and he too felt happiness.
"Once, I was just like them. I was one of the most ordinary and insignificant lives within a Source World." Luo Feng watched quietly. "They are weak, but they too experience love and hatred, joy and sorrow. They also have their own hopes and pursuits."
Luo Feng cared about the suffering of those at the very bottom.
He sympathized with the weak.
Because he himself had once been one of them!
Lord Jin, after all, had been born as a Destruction Demon Race. From birth, he had been accustomed to destroying countless lives. Within his race, the law of the jungle prevailed, constantly selecting the strongest members of the Destruction Demon Race.
Lord Jin had no sympathy whatsoever for the weakest.
Because from the moment he was born, he had slaughtered them. How could he possibly sympathize with them?
But Luo Feng sympathized with them.
Because Luo Feng himself had once been one of them.
"What I can do now is still very limited."
Luo Feng watched silently.
The incomparably heavy suffering that countless Source Worlds had experienced in the past, together with the suffering many were still enduring...
Again and again, they told Luo Feng one truth.
Weakness...
Led only to this outcome!
For the sake of his home Source World, so that it would never fall to such a fate!
And also for the sake of those countless weak lives...
A powerful longing naturally arose within Luo Feng's heart.
"One day, I, Luo Feng, will ensure that throughout the entire Infinite Chaotic Origin Space, no living being will ever again dare devour a single Source World," Luo Feng silently vowed.
To achieve that...
He would need incomparably terrifying strength!
He would need to make the Ancestors truly fear him!
"My blade... is still not sharp enough."
Luo Feng continued walking through the Infinite Chaotic Origin Space.
……
Luo Feng's many clones traveled throughout different regions, observing the past and present of one Source World after another. Whenever they encountered a World-Level Primordial Lifeform devouring either the Source World Origin or the living beings within a Source World, Luo Feng casually crushed it to death.
The number of World-Level Primordial Lifeforms that died did not seem large.
But as time passed, the accumulated total steadily grew.
"Don't touch Source Worlds for now."
"Whether it's the living beings inside a Source World or the Source World Origin itself, as long as you try to devour them... that Lord Luo Feng will appear! Once he arrives, we have absolutely no ability to resist. Death is certain."
"For now, stop exchanging for Source World resources."
As Luo Feng crushed one World-Level Primordial Lifeform after another, the news spread.
Before long, nearly every World-Level Primordial Lifeform throughout the Infinite Chaotic Origin Space temporarily no longer dared devour Source World resources.
They no longer even dared send incarnations into Source Worlds, fearing they might provoke Lord Luo Feng!
Thus—
During the period in which Lord Luo Feng's many clones roamed the Infinite Chaotic Origin Space...
The suffering endured by countless Source Worlds suddenly disappeared!
"So even the World-Level Primordial Lifeforms know fear."
"Across the entire Infinite Chaotic Origin Space, there are over 2 million World-Level Primordial Lifeforms." As the creator of the Primordial Life-and-Death Path, Luo Feng could sense the Life Aura of every World-Level Primordial Lifeform with a single thought. Among the Naturally Born Primordial Lifeforms, the proportion reaching the World-Level Primordial Lifeform stage was indeed far higher than among cultivators.
"Among them, the Naturally Born Chaotic Origin Faction alone has over 800,000 World-Level Primordial Lifeforms. Many others also live in extremely remote places."
"I have wandered for merely one hundred eras and have only killed around seven thousand World-Level Primordial Lifeforms in total, yet that alone has frightened every World-Level Primordial Lifeform."
Luo Feng sighed inwardly. In the past, he had believed himself powerless to help the countless Source Worlds beyond the Cultivator Territory.
But after truly taking action, he discovered...
Simply crushing a little over seven thousand World-Level Primordial Lifeforms had greatly improved the circumstances of countless Source Worlds.
"So there are things that must first be attempted."
"Only after acting will there be corresponding results."
Luo Feng looked into the distance.
The distant space-time began to twist, faintly connecting to an extremely remote location. From that distant place, an enormous figure looked toward Luo Feng before stepping directly across space-time and descending into this vast region.
An immeasurably enormous serpent floated in the void.
It was none other than the foremost of the Nine Emperors of the Naturally Born Chaotic Origin Faction—
Infinite Serpent Ancestor.
"Luo Feng, stop!" Infinite Serpent Ancestor looked at Luo Feng.
(End of Chapter)