Swallowed Star 2: Origin Continent

Chapter 104: Deciding the Outcome

“Seclusion in Huyang City?” The massive face in the sky looked incredulous.

On the Origin Continent, not every Chaos-level being was willing to join a nation and accept a fiefdom. While a fiefdom provided a steady stream of resources, it also entangled one in countless matters. The more one desired, the more one would be bound by the chains of karma.

Many Chaos-level beings preferred to occupy a remote area, focusing solely on their cultivation. Great Saints like the Nine Origins and the Awakening Wind followed this path. They gave up many resources but also avoided many troubles.

Some Chaos-level beings went even further, living in complete seclusion, disguising themselves as ordinary cultivators, quietly seeking the ultimate enlightenment to ascend to the Divine King level.

“Attacking Jiugang Chaos State, and I run into a reclusive Peak of Chaos?” Marquis Liu Yin couldn’t believe his rotten luck. “And he even offered his services for a mere 2 billion Cosmos Sand.”

Had he known this was a reclusive Peak of Chaos, Marquis Liu Yin would have gladly paid 20 billion Cosmos Sand, not just 2 billion, to hire him.

But now, it was too late!

The situation had escalated to the point where this reclusive Chaos-level being, Luo He, had become a complete adversary.

“This Brother Luo He is actually a Peak of Chaos?” Jiugang Marquis, who had escaped to the City Lord’s Mansion, was overjoyed.

He had managed to hire a Peak of Chaos for just 1 billion Cosmos Sand?

What kind of luck was this?
“Luo He!”

The giant face in the dark red sky stared at Luo Feng. “You, a reclusive Chaos-level being, insist on meddling in my conflict with Jiugang Marquis?”

“I had no intention of intervening. Your dispute over fiefdoms has nothing to do with me,” Luo Feng shook his head lightly. “But your subordinates kept slaughtering innocents, and it happened in the city where I was in seclusion. How could I tolerate that?”

Marquis Liu Yin’s thoughts spun rapidly.

It was indeed so!
Xue Yun had slaughtered wantonly, leading Luo He to chase him out of the city and kill him.

When the Heart Shadow Sect entered the city, Luo He initially tolerated it. But when they began to plunder and massacre the entire city, Luo He acted.

When the two armies clashed, Luo He displayed the strength of a powerful Eternal True God from start to finish, performing his duty for the 1 billion Cosmos Sand he had been paid. But when Liu Yin Yan attempted to seize hundreds of billions of blood sacrifices, Luo He intervened.

“A bunch of idiots have caused me big trouble,” Marquis Liu Yin thought, looking down at Luo Feng. Though he knew the situation had taken a turn for the worse, he remained confident in himself.

“Luo He, regardless of your reasons, since you’ve intervened, let’s see if you have the strength to back it up,” Marquis Liu Yin’s voice boomed across the sky.

Buzz~~~
The sound carried a strange willpower attack, descending in an instant.

As a Peak of Chaos, Marquis Liu Yin had honed his mental willpower over the eons to the threshold of the Divine King level. Knowing that Luo He was formidable, he was now going all out.

“Your willpower technique sounds like an annoying insect buzzing,” Luo Feng frowned slightly. “It’s really unpleasant!”

“His willpower is on par with mine, completely unmoved,” Marquis Liu Yin thought, becoming more convinced that this was an ancient cultivator who had honed his mental willpower to a terrifying level over countless years.

“If you have no other moves, then get lost.”

Luo Feng flicked his sleeve.

The eight thousand blade lights, like a vast galaxy, swept through the heavens, clearing away all the blood fire, leaving only a chaotic stream.

But the blood fire world, the incarnation of Marquis Liu Yin, was vast in scope. The range of Luo Feng’s eight thousand blades barely covered a tenth of it. Having seen Luo Feng’s moves, Marquis Liu Yin had withdrawn his divine power to a much more distant place. The damage this time was much less than the first time.

As the layers of space naturally healed, the world returned to calm, and the blood fire world once again spread out.

“Hmph.” A cold snort echoed across the sky.

Blood fire began to burn on Luo Feng’s body. He felt as if he had become the ‘enemy’ of a vast world, with endless malice converging on him, and the blood fire burning and corroding him.

“No traces at all, and yet it’s corroding my body out of thin air?” Luo Feng was surprised. “Compared to my simple eight thousand blades, Marquis Liu Yin’s moves are indeed much more sinister.”

“Not working?” Marquis Liu Yin, incarnated as the blood fire world, noticed that the blood fire could hardly harm Luo Feng’s body.

Rumble~~~~
Suddenly, the entire blood fire world rumbled. The world’s power nearly converged at a single point, manifesting before Luo Feng as a dark red armored figure.

As soon as the dark red armored figure appeared, it slashed at Luo Feng’s shoulder! Luo Feng reacted quickly enough to prevent the blade from striking his head.

“This is the World Body?” Luo Feng, having learned about Marquis Liu Yin’s detailed information from Di Chu Yu, knew that this dark red armored figure wasn’t Marquis Liu Yin’s true form but a ‘World Body’ formed by the power of the blood fire world.

The World Body, gathering the power of a world, was immensely powerful and formidable in close combat. Even if it were defeated, it would dissolve back into world power, leaving Marquis Liu Yin unharmed.

“What a powerful strike, and it appeared so suddenly that it was hard to avoid,” Luo Feng continued hovering in the air, looking at the blade resting on his shoulder.

The dark red armored figure was also shocked.

Because…

The blade hadn’t even managed to cut through Luo Feng’s black robe, let alone his skin.

“Hiss, hiss, hiss~~~” Countless black liquids flowed from Luo Feng’s black robe, instantly enveloping the blade and the entire dark red armored figure.

“You want to engage in close combat with me?” Luo Feng shook his head lightly.

Among the fifteen Transformation Techniques Luo Feng mastered, apart from the ‘Galaxy Transformation Technique,’ which excelled at large-scale moves, the others were more inclined towards close combat. Luo Feng had carefully selected five of these Transformation Techniques for regular use.

Thus, in regular combat, the Galaxy Transformation Technique was used for long-range attacks, while the other four Transformation Techniques were for close combat.

Luo Feng’s close combat prowess was far more terrifying than his long-range abilities.

“Hiss, hiss, hiss~~~~”

Under the overwhelming force of the black liquid, the dark red armored figure instantly collapsed and disintegrated, leaving behind only a long blade with blood fire patterns.

“What a fine weapon,” Luo Feng commented as he held the blade.

To ensure that the ‘World Body’ had enough power in close combat, Marquis Liu Yin had naturally equipped it with the best weapon. This blade was among the finest Chaos-level weapons.

“This blade, suitable for a Peak of Chaos, is worth at least 50 billion Cosmos Sand,” Luo Feng praised as he stored the blade into the Star Tower.

Luo Feng looked up at the blood fire world in the sky.

“Marquis Liu Yin, do you have any more moves?” Luo Feng asked calmly.

“How can this be?”

At this moment, Marquis Liu Yin couldn’t believe it. “My World Body, gathering the full power of the blood fire world, is immensely powerful, yet it was completely overpowered by that black liquid?”

The crushing force had instantly shredded the World Body.

The disparity in close combat was enormous.

“No wonder I thought his moves were crude; it turns out he’s a physical powerhouse. His physical strength far surpasses my World Body,” Marquis Liu Yin immediately realized the gap between them.

Every Peak of Chaos had their own specialization.

Marquis Liu Yin’s strength lay in his ability to transform into the blood fire world, making his true form untouchable.

But if someone focused on physical strength and cultivated to the Peak of Chaos, their body would be terrifyingly powerful. Even ancient beings at the Divine King level would find it extremely difficult to completely obliterate a Peak of Chaos with a physical focus.

Such a powerhouse was more suited for imprisonment or sealing. Killing them generally required a long, drawn-out process of attrition.

“Your divine body is indeed strong, but I want to see if it truly has no weaknesses!” Marquis Liu Yin was unwilling to give up easily. The blood fire world surged, and invisible forces continuously descended, attempting to infiltrate Luo Feng’s divine body.

These invisible forces included strange blood, burning flames, and the power of calamity…

Various eerie forces kept trying to penetrate.

Marquis Liu Yin knew that some powerful bodies might seem invincible, but using certain special forces to infiltrate them might succeed in wearing them down.

“You want to wear down my divine body? Hahaha…” Luo Feng suddenly burst into laughter.

Rumble~~~
Luo Feng’s body suddenly expanded to an unimaginable size! He grew so tall that he pierced through countless layers of clouds, his head now touching the edge of the starry sky. When Luo Feng looked up, he could already see countless small universes in the starry sky.

At this moment, one of his fingers was much larger than the entire Huyang City.

His enormous size shocked even Marquis Liu Yin.

“What? He can maintain such a massive divine body?” Marquis Liu Yin was astonished. “He can touch the edge of the starry sky? The Infinite Divine Body can grow and shrink at will, but the larger it gets, the stronger the world’s suppression becomes.”

Standing on the

ground, with his head touching the edge of the starry sky.

And beyond the starry sky, under the supreme rules, it was forbidden to touch anything, preventing damage to those small universes.

At such a height… this was already the maximum size a cultivator could achieve.

“Only an ancient Divine King could have such height. Even a Peak of Chaos focusing on the physical body shouldn’t be able to grow this large,” Marquis Liu Yin knew that sometimes size alone could reveal one’s strength.

To maintain a divine body of such colossal height meant possessing boundless power!

“Begone!” Luo Feng shouted. His hands suddenly covered the entire blood fire world, and with a single motion, he shattered it into chaos.

“Buzz.”

As the blood fire world was obliterated, invisible forces fled far away by leveraging the heavens.

In the distance, they reformed into a blood fire figure, a much more heavily injured Marquis Liu Yin.

“Luo He, if you’re willing to stay out of my conflict with Jiugang Marquis, we can discuss terms,” Marquis Liu Yin called out from afar.

“This place is under my protection,” the towering divine body, as tall as the heavens, looked down at him, its voice thunderous.

Marquis Liu Yin’s expression turned grim.

He knew that he had a fiefdom, numerous subordinates, countless clansmen, and too many attachments.

But what about Luo He? A reclusive Peak of Chaos! His closest companions were just an old servant and a disciple.

Such a Peak of Chaos, with little to no attachments, would be a headache even for a Divine King. They would not want to provoke him lightly.

“Hmph.”

In an instant, Marquis Liu Yin merged with the heavens and disappeared.

…

All the cultivators in Huyang City looked up. Due to the layers of clouds, they could only see the waist of the immense divine body, with a black robe that was overwhelmingly large, giving them an intense sense of oppression.

“A divine body as tall as the heavens?” Jiugang Marquis looked up. He knew that a Peak of Chaos focusing on the physical body was formidable, but facing such an immense divine body directly, the sense of oppression was too strong.

Moyu Qingyan looked up, his eyes dazed, “This… is this my master?”