Swallowed Star 2: Land of Origin

"Perfect Primal Chaos Layer Creature materials are really hard to collect," Luo Feng mused in the dark, "A hundred billion Cosmic Sand for each, and I\'ve only managed to collect three sets over such a long time."

It\'s understandable when you think about it—those perfect creatures of the Primal Chaos Layer would be captured by the pinnacle existences of the Land of Origin! These peak beings wouldn\'t even bat an eye at a hundred billion Cosmic Sand. Only their Direct Disciples and offspring might be tempted and would try to acquire some materials.

"Let\'s take a look."

Luo Feng\'s palm was like a blade as he lightly swiped, easily slicing the rock into powder, the scales into dust, and the leaf into fragments. He then proceeded to dissect and analyze the fundamental composition of each material.

"Hmm?"

Luo Feng saw it.

The fundamental structure of the rock powder was a trinity form as well, containing a grey particle enshrouded with the Law\'s Secret Patterns of Primal Chaos and enclosing two merging grey particles.

"They all share the trinity form. The Golden Feathered Bird is more agile, while this rock\'s trinity form is much heavier," Luo Feng studied and comprehended.

The three new forms of materials were all \'trinity form\', yet they had slight distinctions. These minute differences... resulted in entirely different final forms.

As Luo Feng contemplated, his understanding of the trinity form slowly increased.

"It\'s too complicated." Even as Luo Feng had reached the pinnacle of the Primal Chaos Realm within the Life Spirituality Lineage and the peak within the Body of Life Lineage, he still found the trinity form too esoteric, almost like a perfect creation of heaven and earth! Grasping its nature was extremely difficult.

...

In a mysterious palace, which doesn\'t exist in the real world but rather as a construction within an illusion.

Thoughts converged there.

"The \'Luo He\' of the Transcendence of Primal Chaos Realm has recently been collecting perfect Primal Chaos Layer Creature materials. Could there be some special purpose for these materials that we don\'t know about?" one thought voiced.

"I possess a perfect Primal Chaos Layer Creature and have studied it closely. It\'s only slightly unique in its physical structure, imbued with some mysteries of the Origin Great Dao of Life and the Origin Dao of Matter," another thought spoke.

"This Luo He has created his own Body Refining Secret Technique, which has similarities with the bodies of Primal Chaos Layer Creatures. He must be cultivating both the Origin Great Dao of Life and the Origin Dao of Matter for his body refinement. Moreover, his Blade Technique must also encompass the Great Dao of Destruction Origin," another thought added.

In fact, his deduction was quite precise. Luo Feng was using the Origin Great Dao of Life to understand the composition of perfect Primal Chaos Layer Creatures, then changing directly with the ability of being \'Formless and Intangible\'.

Were it not for the \'Formless and Intangible\' capability, one would need to study the \'Origin Dao of Matter\' and also require material transformation.

"A cultivator of the Primal Chaos Realm, studying three types of Origin Great Daos? This young one is certainly bold."

"It can be confirmed, there\'s nothing special about his collection of perfect Primal Chaos Layer Creature materials. Moving on to the next piece of intelligence, the Ancestral God of the Snow Realm has exchanged at great cost the corpse of a \'Tuo Mountain Beast\'."

"The Tuo Mountain Beast is a special lifeform cultivated by the Primogenitor Yan Feng from the Primordial Bloodline. Even the Tuo Mountain Beast houses a very faint trace of the Primordial Bloodline. The Ancestral God of the Snow Realm, who practices the \'Blood Dripping Scripture\', has comprehended all six branches of the Origin Great Dao of Life, reaching the state of \'Blood as the Boundary\'.

Yet, he has been unable to break through to the Second Realm of Godly King. It\'s likely that he\'s planning to cultivate using the \'Primordial Bloodline\'."

"Continue observing! If he really can master a breakthrough using the Primordial Bloodline, then we could invite him to become one of us."

"Next piece of intelligence, the \'Snow Demon Godly King\' of the Thunder Ancient Country has lost control and devoured the True Body of the Lei Sha Godly King. Lei Sha Godly King has lost his True Body and an Ultimate Realm of God King weapon. His loss is substantial. Lei Sha Godly King won\'t let this go..."

They exchanged this intelligence.

These ancient existences quietly observed the Land of Origin.

Any precious opportunity or powerful treasure would catch the attention of the ancient existences, who might even take direct action to seize it!

Of course, for the current Luo Feng, merely collecting some perfect Primal Chaos Layer Creature materials, those ancient existences wouldn\'t even bother. Moreover, Luo Feng was in \'Chu Capital\', and these ancient existences dared not venture into Chu Capital to provoke Emperor Chu.

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Focused on cultivation, time flew by rapidly.

Apart from cultivating, Luo Feng occasionally accepted missions to earn Merit Points.

Bounty tasks, garrison tasks, treasure-hunting tasks; the last two were quite troublesome, requiring either a long time or much thought. Only \'bounty tasks\' were relatively simple for Luo Feng, who possessed the Lie Yuan Technique.

"It\'ll be him."

Luo Feng didn\'t want to stir up too much trouble in the Land of Origin, so he only took on bounty tasks occasionally.

This time, the bounty target was a top Prime Chaos Realm strong being named \'Black Mist Great Saint\', with a reward of a hundred thousand Merit Points.

"This Black Mist Great Saint practices the Origin Dao of Causality," Luo Feng said, using the Tunneling Transformation Technique to arrive at Black Mist Great Saint\'s territory.

This was a relatively remote region, mostly shrouded in black mist.

Within this territory, there were over a hundred ordinary cities.

Under the cover of the black mist, each city was like an isolated island.

"Everyone returning to the city must be thoroughly checked. Make sure not to carry any evil objects with you," at the gate of one ordinary city within the Black Mist Territory, multiple formations carefully inspected every returning cultivator.

The cultivators all obediently submitted to the inspections.

Suddenly, one cultivator, under the careful scrutiny of the formation, saw blood marks emerge on the surface of his skin.

"Impossible, when did I pick that up?" The cultivator showed a look of despair as his body silently dissolved into nothingness.

"Not good," the cultivators in charge of receiving and inspecting each changed color drastically.

"All who have seen the blood-colored marks must undergo a second investigation to ensure they are not contaminated," a voice came, and even the guards who hid in relatively safe regions had to be inspected once.

Otherwise, once it spreads into the city, the whole city will be engulfed in a great catastrophe.

At this moment—

Luo Feng appeared high in the sky, watching this scene.

"The Catastrophe Beast of the black mist has brought down the \'Tribulation of Causality\', causing countless cultivators within his territory to live forever in panic. These Karmic Marks spreading... causing countless cultivators to be in utter terror, creating stronger karmic ties."

"Cultivating through the causality of all beings, comprehending the Origin Dao of Causality."

"Should the ties of causality become too deep, he would bring down a calamitous tribulation, causing all cultivators within the city to be wiped out, thus completely eradicating causality."

Luo Feng had long known about the intelligence on this Catastrophe Beast of the black mist.

Complete annihilation is the simplest way to eliminate causality. Indeed, the countless cultivators in these cities are deeply entangled with the Catastrophe Beast of the black mist. But in the end, they all head towards destruction.

Hu.

Luo Feng walked above city after city, seeing the countless cultivators within them living in constant dread, with each outburst of the Tribulation of Causality meaning the death of many creatures.

"Found it." Luo Feng sensed an aura of the Primal Chaos Realm, belonging to a merchant living within one of the cities.

The merchant was smiling and running his business, warmly dealing with some regular customers. These city-dwelling cultivators had no idea... that this merchant was the source of the endless evil catastrophe.

"Hmm?" The merchant sensed something and looked up at Luo Feng.

In the moment he saw it, the merchant felt as if everything else disappeared from his sight except for a tremendously majestic star! This formidable star, rolling in, was already crushing the merchant\'s Spiritual Will.

Pu!

With the instantaneous obliteration of his Spiritual Will, the Catastrophe Beast of the black mist was thoroughly erased.

Luo Feng was too cautious, worrying that the Catastrophe Beast of the black mist might be able to execute the Causality Escape Technique. But in reality... the Catastrophe Beast of the black mist only cultivated in one branch of the Origin Dao of Causality and was not adept in the Causality Escape Technique.

The moment Luo Feng arrived, it was the killing move – Lie Yuan Technique – using overpowering spiritual will to directly crush him, not leaving a single trace of consciousness, not even enough time to use the Reincarnation Secret Technique.

"Thump." The merchant\'s face still held a smile as he fell down.

In that moment, within the territory of the Catastrophe Beast of the black mist, the countless cultivators in over a hundred cities had no idea that the Tribulation of Causality... from this moment on, had completely disappeared.

"Collect." Luo Feng waved his hand, collecting the body of the Catastrophe Beast of the black mist,"Morosa finally has some food again."

Luo Feng then left immediately.

...

The complete death of the Catastrophe Beast of the black mist also caught the attention of some forces in the Land of Origin.

After all, conflicts and killings among beings of the Primal Chaos Realm were normal, and the true death of their True Bodies was a common occurrence. But a complete death, total eradication of causality? That was very rare. Over just a few eras, the Great Saint Beiyu and Catastrophe Beast of the black mist had died in quick succession, which prompted those with intentions to investigate.

"The Great Saint Beiyu and Catastrophe Beast of the black mist, both completely perished within a few eras; they both had great sins. Could it be that some powerful Godly King, intending to kill these grave sinners?"

"The Great Saint Beiyu and Catastrophe Beast of the black mist were somewhat restrained, mainly slaughtering within their own territories. They didn\'t dare to affect too great an area. Have they still provoked a righteous and powerful being?"

This made many forces speculate.

Fully killing top beings of the Primal Chaos Realm in the Land of Origin was something very few could do, and usually, beings at the First Realm of Godly King couldn\'t achieve it. Naturally, it was suspected that some powerful beings took action.

Of course, only two have died, so it wasn\'t a big commotion.

If ten or eight were to die completely, that would cause a much bigger stir, and might even incite panic among some beings of the Primal Chaos Realm.

"One hundred thousand merit points." Luo Feng, as a Direct Disciple of the Emperor, now had authority to claim merit points that even surpassed those of the Imperial Clan\'s first-class marquises.

He himself could submit tasks directly to the Artifact Spirit of the Palace of Emperor Chu.

Palace of Emperor Chu, Inheritance palace.

Luo Feng once again arrived here.

"I need to watch the \'Shadow of the Catastrophe Beast\' once," said Luo Feng directly to the Artifact Spirit elder. He had reached the Godly King Level from the bottleneck of the Primal Chaos Realm thanks to the Calamity Beast Diagram, and naturally was very interested in the more effective Shadow of the Catastrophe Beast.

Just one viewing was equivalent to the inheritance of the first calamity of the Eight Tribulations Life Form, too expensive, and only now had Luo Feng saved up enough merit points.

"Watch the Shadow of the Catastrophe Beast?" The Artifact Spirit elder looked at Luo Feng, "Even just looking at a complete Shadow of the Catastrophe Beast, even if it\'s only its image, requires a Godly King\'s Will just to barely maintain consciousness. It\'s best to have the Spiritual Will of the Second Realm of Godly King before watching. The threshold\'s Spiritual Will of a Godly King...

is mainly used to stay conscious, too little will be remembered from the image."

"Are you sure, will you continue to watch?" the Artifact Spirit elder looked at Luo Feng.

Luo Feng nodded, "Watch."

Just a mere image was this terrifying, what then was the origin of this Catastrophe Beast?

"Get ready," the Artifact Spirit elder nodded, then he dissipated.

Luo Feng looked at the Primal Chaos before him, when gradually a vague and huge figure began to emerge from within...