Chapter 425 : Volume Eleven: Sharpening the Blade (Part 2)
Chapter 425: Volume Eleven: Sharpening the Blade (Part 2)
Infinite Serpent Ancestor was also confident. By borrowing the power bestowed by the Infinite World, it could achieve complete intangibility. In the state of Absolute Intangibility, no material or energy could harm it in the slightest! Of course, while in that state, it likewise could not harm its opponent.
This state of "Absolute Intangibility" was a unique ability possessed only by the mysterious land, the Infinite World.
Relying on this ability, Infinite Serpent Ancestor had the confidence not to fear Luo Feng.
"Boom!" "Boom!"
Neither Infinite Serpent Ancestor nor Luo Feng held back in the slightest. The moment they made a move, both fought with their full strength.
This layer of the Destruction World instantly transformed into a Space-Time Maze. Infinite Serpent Ancestor merged with the entire Space-Time Maze as though they were one, appearing and disappearing unpredictably, launching relentless assaults against Luo Feng.
……
This battle attracted even more attention throughout the Infinite Chaotic Origin Space! Everyone knew that the Cultivator Faction and the Naturally Born Chaotic Origin Faction were mortal enemies. The two sides had fought one another for far too long.
The Initial Land.
Yuan, Jin, Wu Lan, Minghuang Lord, Naigu, Star Light Lord, and Momang Lord—the seven Lords—were also watching the battle. They were all paying close attention to the growth of their companion, Luo Feng. Judging by Luo Feng's speed of breaking all techniques through sheer force, they estimated that it would not be long before Luo Feng mastered a second Primordial-level Dao. They all looked forward to that moment!
"Although Luo Feng's blade techniques are fierce and overbearing, Infinite Serpent Ancestor is too elusive. None of Luo Feng's attacks can touch it," Minghuang Lord said with a frown.
"Brother Luo Feng has unleashed over a hundred strikes. Every strike is terrifying, yet none of them can hit Infinite Serpent Ancestor." Wu Lan also gently shook his head. "Across the entire Infinite Chaotic Origin Space, in terms of mastery over space-time, Infinite Serpent Ancestor is second only to Star Light."
Star Light Lord nodded in agreement. "Infinite Serpent Ancestor hasn't even used its 'Absolute Intangibility' ability yet. Merely relying on its control over space-time, it has already avoided every one of Luo Feng's attacks."
Under its control over space-time, every place where Luo Feng's blade light descended was diverted far away.
"Hm?"
Yuan and the others' eyes lit up.
Luo Feng's blade techniques had changed. Their power had weakened considerably, but after every blade was unleashed, it flew as though it possessed intelligence. With a flash, it traced a bizarre arc, pierced through layer after layer of space-time barriers, and forcefully struck Infinite Serpent Ancestor hidden within the Space-Time Maze.
Every strike landed without fail!
There was nowhere to dodge!
No matter how profound Infinite Serpent Ancestor's mastery over space-time was, it could not evade them.
"Absolute Hit?" Yuan smiled.
Minghuang Lord, Jin, and Momang Lord all nodded. The three of them all possessed Absolute Hit abilities.
"Luo Feng is still rather inexperienced. While maintaining Absolute Hit, each strike cannot unleash its full power." Jin laughed. "He should learn from me."
"Each of Luo Feng's strikes isn't particularly powerful, but he attacks incredibly fast." Momang Lord sighed.
Indeed.
The blade lights flowed together in dense succession, every one of them flying with intelligence, splitting into several streams before ultimately piercing through every space-time barrier and landing upon Infinite Serpent Ancestor.
The continuous assault of countless blade lights rapidly depleted Infinite Serpent Ancestor's body, forcing it to rely upon the energy supplied by this layer of the Destruction World to remain at its peak state.
"Hmph."
Infinite Serpent Ancestor disdained relying on the Destruction World's energy supply. After all, in the outside world, there would never be such an abundant supply of energy.
It immediately entered the state of Absolute Intangibility!
When Luo Feng's river-like torrent of blade lights all landed upon Infinite Serpent Ancestor, the latter had already become completely intangible, suffering not the slightest injury.
"Hitting the target doesn't mean you can injure the opponent." Yuan watched quietly. "It's just like Ancestor Origin. No matter how enemies attack him, they can still hit him, yet they cannot threaten him in the slightest."
Although Infinite Serpent Ancestor's Absolute Intangibility was not as flawless as Ancestor Origin's, its level of difficulty was still among the highest.
"There's nothing that can be done." Minghuang Lord shook his head.
"None of Luo Feng's techniques can threaten Infinite Serpent Ancestor," Naigu said as he watched.
At this moment, Luo Feng's blade techniques swept across the battlefield with unstoppable force, tearing apart the entire Destruction World. He even unleashed a Blade Formation. Fifteen terrifying blade lights formed into a Blade Formation, shredding every corner of the Destruction World.
Yet Infinite Serpent Ancestor, in its state of Absolute Intangibility, calmly watched everything, occasionally seizing an opening to launch a sneak attack.
"Absolute Hit can threaten the overwhelming majority of Ancestors. But against certain Ancestors, even landing a hit is useless." Luo Feng freely experimented with one technique after another against Infinite Serpent Ancestor. During the process, the Primordial Blade Dao within his heart gradually became more complete.
Suddenly—
Luo Feng swung his blade.
This swing produced no visible blade light.
It could not be perceived.
Yet while in its state of Absolute Intangibility, several scales on Infinite Serpent Ancestor's body silently disintegrated.
Infinite Serpent Ancestor froze.
"Severing Vitality works." Luo Feng's eyes lit up.
It did not sever the body.
It did not sever the soul.
It severed only vitality!
Only after mastering the Primordial Life-and-Death Path was Luo Feng capable of accomplishing such a feat.
"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle."
Standing where he was, power surged across Luo Feng's body. At the same time, over a hundred Severing Vitality blade lights erupted.
These blade lights could not be perceived.
They severed only vitality.
More and more of Infinite Serpent Ancestor's scales disintegrated, and even its muscles and flesh began to vanish.
"How is this possible?" Infinite Serpent Ancestor was beginning to panic. Hidden within the Space-Time Maze and protected by Absolute Intangibility, it was still being injured?
This scene also shocked many Ancestors.
"We absolutely cannot act alone and allow our true bodies to appear before Luo Feng."
Although every Ancestor possessed astonishing vitality and had developed numerous life-preserving secret techniques, Luo Feng's current methods were obviously far more terrifying.
None of them dared to gamble.
If they lost...
They would die completely.
"Previously, because of the power of the Origin Great Destruction Explosion, I made the Great Destruction System the core of my Primordial Blade Dao. That decision wasn't wrong."
"But I underestimated the value of Severing Vitality."
This was a method Luo Feng only possessed after mastering the Primordial Life-and-Death Path!
When he had first become a Lord, because his methods of killing enemies had still been relatively weak, the true effectiveness of Severing Vitality had never been displayed. It had only been suitable for dealing with World-Level Primordial Lifeforms.
However, after the gradually perfected Primordial Blade Dao greatly enhanced the power of the Severing Vitality technique, this move finally revealed its terrifying nature.
It...
was an attack that could not be evaded.
Omnipresence?
Absolute Intangibility?
As long as one was alive, one could not evade Severing Vitality!
"This technique follows the transmission path of vitality, but the amount of energy it can transmit has an upper limit." Luo Feng pondered.
Life Aura Sensing was like a passageway.
It could transmit blade light.
But the amount of energy that passageway could bear had a fixed upper limit. That upper limit was determined by Luo Feng's mastery over vitality.
He was already the being with the highest attainments in Life throughout the Infinite Chaotic Origin Space.
That upper limit could no longer be increased.
"If I can't increase the energy limit, then I'll find ways to increase my attack speed, study the profound mysteries of blade techniques, and continue increasing their power," Luo Feng thought.
Once the Blade Dao reached complete perfection in the future, its power would surely rise even further.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—"
While contemplating, Luo Feng continued experimenting with different variations of his blade techniques.
Faced with such an excellent opponent, he naturally intended to thoroughly test every technique he had theorized.
……
"How is this possible? Even I can't injure Infinite Serpent Ancestor in its state of Absolute Intangibility." Jin stared in disbelief. "How can Luo Feng hurt it?"
In terms of attainments in Destruction, Jin far surpassed Luo Feng.
"It's vitality."
Lord Jin also possessed considerable attainments in Life and quickly discovered the key. "Simply by following Life Aura Sensing, he can unleash blade light to sever vitality? Sever vitality? How can vitality itself be severed?"
Jin could understand Life Aura Sensing.
He could understand Life Aura Lock-On.
But he could not understand how Severing Vitality was accomplished.
That already far exceeded his own accumulation in the Dao of Life.
"Vitality itself can be severed?"
Among the three Lords who had escaped from the Blood Crane Territory, Blood Lord had mastered the Highest-Level Power of Life—the Power of Blood. His control over vitality was equally profound.
Even he found it difficult to comprehend.
"By relying on Life Aura Sensing, I can barely transmit a trace of energy. Perhaps it could seriously injure a World-Level Primordial Lifeform. But that tiny amount of transmitted energy... is completely insignificant against an Ancestor of the same level!"
The deeper one's understanding of Life, the more one understood how difficult this technique truly was.
"The fusion of these two Daos is finally beginning to reveal its power." Star Light watched with satisfaction. "Life and Destruction... when these two Daos are combined... they become the greatest means of destroying life itself!"
After observing countless future timelines, Star Light had long understood this.
The combination of these two Primordial-level Daos—Life and Destruction—complemented one another perfectly.
The threat they created together was unimaginably terrifying.
He had long believed that Luo Feng would become the most terrifying combatant in the future.
He would become the core force on the Cultivator Faction's frontal battlefield!
Luo Feng's blade...
would become the sharpest blade of the entire Cultivator Faction,
cleaving through every obstacle!
"The second Dao is gradually taking shape. Soon... very soon." Star Light's eyes gazed once more into the future.
He saw it.
Luo Feng's Primordial Blade Dao...
could take shape at any moment.
……
None of Luo Feng's other methods could threaten Infinite Serpent Ancestor.
Only by relying on the faint connection provided by Life Aura Sensing could he continue using the Severing Vitality technique.
Again and again, Luo Feng employed it.
Empowered by the power of the Infinite World, Infinite Serpent Ancestor struggled desperately to resist it, even doing everything possible to conceal its vitality.
Such a formidable opponent allowed Luo Feng to perfect the Severing Vitality technique time and time again.
As the Severing Vitality technique became increasingly refined, the Primordial Blade Dao as a whole also became increasingly complete.
Gradually, however, Infinite Serpent Ancestor no longer posed any challenge.
Luo Feng had already become thoroughly familiar with all of its methods of evasion.
"Infinite Serpent Ancestor, release the World Envoys," Luo Feng said.
"You want me to cooperate with you?" Infinite Serpent Ancestor sneered. Although Severing Vitality continuously annihilated its body, if this had been the outside world, it would already have been forced into a miserable retreat. But here in the Destruction World, it could continuously absorb energy and remain at its peak.
"Hmph."
Luo Feng snorted coldly.
His entire body instantly transformed into a terrifying blade light that tore through the heavens, charging directly toward the Source Phantom of this layer of the Destruction World.
Since Infinite Serpent Ancestor refused to cooperate,
he would simply seize this layer of the Destruction World!
"...Fine!" Infinite Serpent Ancestor's voice echoed. There was a trace of helplessness in it. Losing to Lord Luo Feng was hardly disgraceful. Perhaps even Shazhou was no longer a match for Lord Luo Feng.
With a sigh from Infinite Serpent Ancestor, Luo Feng, who had originally been charging straight toward the Source Phantom, suddenly found one hundred World Envoys condensed before him.
Each of these World Envoys burned with blue flames as they attacked Luo Feng together.
"Your words are stubborn, but your actions are quite honest."
Luo Feng exchanged only a few breaths' worth of blows with the World Envoys. Comparing the profound mysteries he had witnessed on Destruction Mountain with actual combat, the World Envoys had already become useless to him.
(End of Chapter)