Chapter 209: The Secret Method of the Second Level Realm of the Path of Birth and Destruction

Inside the City Lord's Mansion in Huyang City, Luo Feng was drinking alone in the pavilion, his brow furrowed, clearly troubled.

"That foolish boy Qingyan has finally comprehended another Chaos Realm secret technique. His foundations are now a bit more solid," Moluosa mused as he walked through the mansion, in high spirits. Regardless, Mo Yu Qingyan was now closer to the Chaos Realm. Though Xin Yu, the second disciple of the Dao River Sect, was far more talented, no other disciple, however excellent, could compare to his own. Moluosa looked up and saw Luo Feng in the distant pavilion.

"Strange," Moluosa thought, feeling puzzled. "Master isn't himself..." With a whoosh, Moluosa quickly arrived at the pavilion. He cautiously approached the corridor at the foot of the stairs and said, "Master."

Luo Feng glanced at Moluosa. "Something wrong?"

"Master, are you troubled?" Moluosa asked, observing Luo Feng's expression. "I wonder if I can be of any help?" Moluosa believed he had reached the second tier of God King, surpassing his master in all aspects! Perhaps he could even solve his master's troubles.

"You can't help," Luo Feng shook his head.

"Master, why don't you tell me about it?" Moluosa inquired.

Luo Feng smiled. "I've encountered a great terror, and an uncontrollable fear keeps growing in my heart! This has greatly affected my cultivation." While fully employing the *Great Annihilation Heart Refining Art* could indeed crush all distracting thoughts and make his mind pure and empty, it also dispersed too much mental energy. This significantly slowed Luo Feng's thought process, drastically reducing the efficiency of his cultivation and comprehension to less than half of his optimal state.

How could Luo Feng be in a good mood carrying such a negative influence for so long? He was contemplating how to resolve this problem!

"Encountered a great terror? Fear growing?" Moluosa was confused. "What in this Origin Continent could make Master afraid?" Luo Feng merely smiled.

"Could it lead to Master's complete death? Or even affect his clan?" Moluosa asked, suspecting his master had encountered a terrifyingly powerful force.

"It won't be a risk to my life," Luo Feng said. "It merely affects my cultivation."

"If it won't kill you, what's there to be afraid of?" Moluosa asked.

Luo Feng shook his head. "I can't control my inner self; fear naturally arises."

"Just control your mind, isn't that enough?" Moluosa looked at Luo Feng, puzzled.

"Control it?" Luo Feng was slightly stunned. He was a God King, possessing even an Ultimate God King Will! Yet, facing that giant eye in his memory, a primal fear arose.

"Yes, it's merely memory contamination. It's even less threatening than will contamination. What's there to be afraid of?" Moluosa continued. "Instinctive fear? Then I'll control my instincts."

"All fear stems from the mind." "If I can control my mind, I can control my instincts." With a whoosh, Luo Feng vanished, leaving Moluosa in the pavilion, somewhat puzzled.

"What terrifying thing did Master encounter?" Moluosa wondered, bewildered.

In a chamber within the Star Tower, Luo Feng sat cross-legged. He had stopped the *Great Annihilation Heart Refining Art*. The giant eye from his memory seemed to gaze at him, to look down upon him, across boundless space-time. Fear surged in his heart once more! His very soul trembled! Fear, submission, dread!

"Steady! It's just a segment of memory from a dream; it can't threaten me. Why should I be afraid? Don't be afraid, face it! Face it directly!" Luo Feng repeatedly tried to convince himself. But knowing was one thing! The primal instinct of life was another!

Fear continued to grow, to spread. The terror brought by this giant eye burrowed deeper and deeper into Luo Feng's heart.

"Face it directly!" "It's just a memory!" Luo Feng forced himself to confront it. Time flowed, and the fear continually permeated him, affecting him more and more deeply. In the end, Luo Feng could only resort to the *Great Annihilation Heart Refining Art* to obliterate all distracting thoughts, allowing his mind to return to a pure and empty state. After crushing the thoughts, Luo Feng would stop using the *Heart Refining Art* and continue to confront it directly.

"Control my mind, control my instincts." Luo Feng actively kept facing it.

Initially, he had to employ the *Great Annihilation Heart Refining Art* to eliminate distracting thoughts every three to five days. Slowly, this stretched to dozens of days, then thousands of days. As he observed it for longer, Luo Feng gradually became accustomed to the terror brought by this giant eye, and his control over his mind grew stronger. This continued for over half an epoch!

"The fear of facing it is already quite weak." Even without the aid of the *Great Annihilation Heart Refining Art*, Luo Feng could confront this giant eye for extended periods.

God Kings who cultivated primordial bloodlines did the same, repeatedly contending with and suppressing their bloodline will! This was also a form of tempering, much like how God King Yuntian achieved "Ultimate God King Will" through such arduous training. Luo Feng's mind also underwent a transformation during this half-epoch.

"Is this giant eye the real eye of some terrifying entity? Or is it merely an illusion from a dream?" Luo Feng was quite curious. It was the most terrifying existence he had ever seen, even if only in a dream.

"I can try to create a secret technique of great terror," Luo Feng thought, feeling an inspiration for creating a secret technique. In previous years, he had already comprehended all nine branches of the Path of Life and Death.

"Using the nine branches of the Path of Life and Death, I can try to create this technique." Luo Feng continued to confront the giant eye, ignoring the slight feelings of fear that arose, and attempted to create the secret technique.

The nine branches of the Path of Life and Death were: the initial six branches he comprehended—Droplet Blood, Crimson Sun, Nirvana, Eternity, Black Smoke, and Wanderer—followed by the successive comprehension of Heaven's Light, Void, and Reincarnation. These nine branches encompassed the core essence of the Path of Life and Death. Each branch drew upon some of the mysteries of the six branches of life and the six branches of destruction, and each was extremely powerful.

"That giant eye should be centered on the Eternity, Droplet Blood, and Reincarnation branches," Luo Feng thought. Having faced it for so long, he already had a direction for the secret technique in mind.

"Then, with the Crimson Sun, Black Smoke, and Void branches as auxiliary."

"The fusion of six major branches! A perfected technique formed by this fusion should capture some of the essence of that eye." Luo Feng began to ponder.

The artistic conception of this technique was too profound, making its creation more difficult than Luo Feng had anticipated. Whenever he encountered a problem, Luo Feng would confront that giant eye directly, carefully observing and studying why it invoked such great terror. He searched for inspiration, constantly refining the technique.

Completely focused on creating the secret technique, Luo Feng had no mind for other matters. When Reincarnation Small Tower invited him on an expedition, he temporarily declined, stating he was in secluded cultivation and not in the mood to venture into treasure grounds.

"This giant eye can no longer make me feel fear," Luo Feng observed. After over ten epochs of studying this giant eye and trying to create a secret technique, no matter how long he faced it, he felt no fear. Without the fear, the giant eye's aid to his cultivation also diminished.

"The *Seven Emotions Heart Refining Art* will enhance my perception." Luo Feng began to circulate the *Seven Emotions Heart Refining Art*. In this state, emotions like joy, anger, worry, thought, sorrow, fear, and shock would be far more intense; even slight emotions could stir up monstrous waves in his mind.

With a rumble—

As soon as he activated the *Seven Emotions Heart Refining Art*, that giant eye once again triggered Luo Feng's fear, and the fear was extremely powerful, as if he were facing it for the very first time, his mind trembling with terror.

"Excellent, excellent, this is the feeling!" Luo Feng was overjoyed and resumed perfecting this secret technique. The technique was gradually nearing completion.

Epoch after epoch passed!

Finally, after thirty-four epochs of Luo Feng confronting this giant eye, "It's done!" Luo Feng exclaimed, immensely excited, within the Star Tower. The sense of accomplishment from successfully creating a secret technique after years of diligent study filled Luo Feng with great satisfaction.

"I have finally created this secret technique! It was incredibly difficult! Far more difficult than the *Chaos Undying Light*," Luo Feng said, thrilling with excitement. "This segment of memory from the dream wasn't a curse; it was a blessing!"

Now, even while maintaining the *Seven Emotions Heart Refining Art*, that giant eye could no longer instill fear in Luo Feng. He had studied it too deeply. With so much understanding, the mystery was gone, and naturally, the sense of terror vanished. After all, it was merely an image from a dream memory.

"What I've been studying is merely an image from a dream. If it truly exists, I can't imagine how terrifying it would be," Luo Feng thought.

"All things considered, this secret technique I've just created is, strictly speaking, a second-tier secret technique of the Grand Path of Life and Death!" Luo Feng's smile was brilliant; with the *Seven Emotions Heart Refining Art* active, his excitement intensified even further.

The *Chaos Undying Light*, which he had perfected previously, was actually a fusion of five major branches: two from the Path of Life and three from the Path of Destruction. This time, it was a complete fusion of six of the nine branches of the Grand Path of Life and Death, making it a genuine second-tier secret technique of the Grand Path of Life and Death. Although he hadn't tested it yet, Luo Feng could already tell that the power of this new secret technique far surpassed the *Chaos Undying Light*.

"It took me over two hundred epochs as a God King, and with the aid of this dream memory, I finally created this technique." Luo Feng knew clearly that it would have been extremely difficult to create such a technique in a short time with his own accumulated knowledge. This time, it was entirely due to the influence of that dream memory, which gave him a clear direction, and it still took him over thirty epochs to create it.

"Each branch of this secret technique is extremely powerful. Will the fusion of these six branches allow its power to rival an 'ultimate-tier secret technique'?" Luo Feng was curious. Emperor Guixu and God King Wuxin, among others, possessed ultimate-tier secret techniques. While his individual branches were powerful, Emperor Guixu and God King Wuxin's ultimate-tier secret techniques were formed by uniting *all* branches into a perfect whole, achieving a qualitative leap. Only then could they be called ultimate-tier.

"Let's try it." This secret technique could be cast using his body or different weapons. As a saber technique, it would be a terrifying saber art; with a great axe, an axe technique; with a hammer, a destruction hammer art.

Luo Feng stretched out his hand. His right hand instantly became shrouded in profound darkness, as if it were the core of the entire universe! Even if heaven and earth perished, this hand would remain unharmed. Infused with boundless terror, Luo Feng's large palm, with its five fingers, struck out directly.

With a thunderous roar—

His five fingers instantly shone brilliantly, forcibly destroying everything. The invisible membrane of the Origin World itself was shattered and torn open, creating a trench a full zhang long. Outside the Origin World's membrane, turbulent black currents surged in through the rift.

"This technique shall be known as the Grand Extinction Form!" Luo Feng declared, quite satisfied with the scene before him.