Chapter 230: Dream Domain, Dark Region

Luo Feng's avatar in the Dream Dimension usually stays in the outer layers, where the impact on one's spiritual will is weakest.

At this moment, a weaker avatar was scouting ahead, while a powerful avatar followed behind.

This powerful avatar held one percent of the energy reserves of his "World Lifeform True Body."

"Whoosh."

Luo Feng's two avatars traveled quietly, passing through independent spaces until they finally reached the deep regions of the Dream Dimension.

"The deep regions of the Dream Dimension." Luo Feng became even more cautious.

Over the long years prior, Luo Feng had already attempted to explore the deep regions of the Dream Dimension! Even ordinary creatures here possessed the strength of a Guixu Emperor, and some leaders were at the Emperor level, making danger pervasive.

"Hm? Even the Lord of Ten Thousand Laws has come to find me?" Luo Feng was startled and temporarily halted his advance.

The battle for the territory of the Food Nation had fully proven Luo Feng's strength! Although Origin Continent was teeming with powerful beings, Luo Feng's publicly demonstrated power was already among the strongest below the Emperor level. After the Old Demon of Time and Space, the Lord of Ten Thousand Laws also personally met Luo Feng, offering similar conditions.

"The Lord of Ten Thousand Laws truly lives up to his reputation of being quite friendly to us local cultivators," Luo Feng thought. Among the three alien races, the Palace Lord of Two Realms was domineering, the Old Demon of Time and Space was ruthless, and the Lord of Ten Thousand Laws was benevolent and compassionate. The Lord of Ten Thousand Laws was even willing to teach many God Kings how to cultivate.

"Of the four treasures, they value the first two the most: special lifeform remains and secret techniques." After concluding his conversation with the Lord of Ten Thousand Laws, Luo Feng's avatar in the Dream Dimension resumed its journey.

Special lifeform remains could only be found in two locations: the dark regions of the Dream Dimension and the deepest parts of the Sky Pillar Realm.

"The Sky Pillar Realm is completely sealed off, so to find special lifeform remains... the dark regions of the Dream Dimension are the only possibility." The two great ancient nations had fully blockaded the Sky Pillar Realm, and Luo Feng was not confident he could contend with them alone. The decision to blockade the Sky Pillar Realm was likely a joint one by the ancestors of both great ancient nations.

After a long time, Luo Feng finally reached the end of the deep regions of the Dream Dimension.

"Ahead lies the dark region." Luo Feng gazed at the expanse of darkness before him, into which only his spiritual consciousness could penetrate and observe.

"Enter."

With a thought, the weaker avatar entered first, followed by the powerful avatar after a short wait.

In the dark region, an invisible, terrifying force enveloped Luo Feng's spiritual will, constantly dragging it. If he couldn't resist, he would fall into a deep, dreamlike slumber. "I need to dedicate about 50 to 60 percent of my mental power to resist the influence of the dark region," Luo Feng thought.

His spiritual consciousness explored the surroundings. The darkness around him was incredibly dense; even Luo Feng's spiritual consciousness, which surpassed the God King level, could only perceive an area of about ten thousand kilometers.

"Whoosh." Suddenly, a flash of light pierced through the weaker avatar scouting ahead. Luo Feng's weaker avatar was instantly annihilated. However, thanks to the immense vitality of the 'Twenty-Four Manifestations World Lifeform,' it recovered from nothingness. Yet, as soon as it partially recovered, another flash of light instantly annihilated Luo Feng's weaker avatar again.

"I saw it." As Luo Feng's weaker avatar recovered, he clearly saw the form of the 'light'. It was a weapon resembling a silver shuttle. It was simply too fast; within the ten-thousand-kilometer range Luo Feng could perceive, a single flash of light meant Luo Feng would inevitably be hit.

"That silver shuttle-like weapon annihilated my weaker avatar in just two attacks?" Luo Feng was astonished. "Though this weaker avatar has little energy, it is still a 'Twenty-Four Manifestations' lifeform. It's not much weaker than the powerful avatar in 'Ten Directions World Form.' Even an Emperor should be able to withstand two or three blows."

Luo Feng cautiously continued forward. He did not send out another weaker avatar, knowing that within the ten-thousand-kilometer range, spotting an enemy meant being hit.

"Whoosh." As Luo Feng explored the dark region, he found the ground was made of strange black metal, inscribed with countless secret patterns. Walking on this black metallic ground, Luo Feng continued his search for 'special lifeform remains'.

"Hm?" Luo Feng suddenly stiffened. At the edge of the ten-thousand-kilometer range his spiritual will observed, a light suddenly flashed, and it had already pierced through Luo Feng's body! The speed was so immense that Luo Feng had no time to react.

However, this avatar contained one percent of his energy reserves, equivalent to thirty percent of a perfect divine body's reserves! Its energy was vast, and its body was tough! Although the light pierced through Luo Feng's body, it quickly recovered.

"One strike annihilated about one ten-thousandth of my energy reserves?" With a thought, Luo Feng's robe spread out into numerous flowing rivers, transforming into a vast, surging silver river. The mighty silver river enveloped the surroundings, with Luo Feng standing in its center.

"Whoosh." A silver light flashed, striking from beyond the boundary of Luo Feng's observation range! In a single flash, it penetrated the obstruction of the surging silver river and then Luo Feng's body, subsequently flying out from the other end of the observation boundary.

"I can't defend, I can't entangle it; I can only take the hits." Luo Feng realized the disparity. "It's too fast; the moment it attacks, time seems to pause."

This silver light traversed tens of thousands of kilometers in an instant, as if time had paused. "I wanted to influence the surrounding rules of heaven and earth," Luo Feng thought. "Even trying to obstruct it with my formidable body was impossible." Luo Feng was helpless in that instant.

Native creatures of the Dream Dimension were immune to all spiritual will attacks, so Luo Feng's spiritual will attacks had no effect whatsoever on this "silver shuttle." His most powerful technique, the Great Extinction Style, couldn't even be initiated; in a flash of light, the opponent had already moved from one end of his observation range to the other! Luo Feng couldn't even lock onto the target.

"How can I fight this?" Luo Feng was somewhat bewildered. The silver shuttle's technique seemed simple, just one move repeated over and over. Yet, it was more terrifying than most Emperors.

"Fortunately, my body's recovery ability is extremely strong," Luo Feng thought. Each time a ten-thousandth of his energy reserves was annihilated, that dissipated energy rapidly reintegrated and recovered, often recovering more than half.

"Whoosh." "Whoosh." "Whoosh." "Whoosh." "Whoosh." "Whoosh." Suddenly, six flashes of light instantly pierced through Luo Feng's observation range. This time, the silver shuttle beings attacked without pause, continuously shuttling and wildly slaughtering.

"Six silver shuttle beings?" Luo Feng's expression changed, and he immediately turned to flee without hesitation. However, in terms of speed, he was far inferior to these strange silver shuttle beings.

Luo Feng only managed to flee for a mere ten-odd seconds. In that time, the six silver shuttle beings had wildly attacked and crushed him over twenty thousand times.

"Whoosh." Luo Feng narrowly escaped the dark region and returned to the deep areas; the six silver shuttle beings did not pursue him further.

"This avatar still has one-third of its energy reserves left." Luo Feng felt a chill of fear; he valued his energy reserves greatly! Because even if his miniature universe absorbed energy at full capacity, it would only accumulate enough energy for one perfect divine body over an entire era. The energy lost this time would take about two-tenths of an era to recover. This was also why Luo Feng did not easily use his true body.

Given the harsh environment of the Dream Dimension, the stronger an avatar, the greater the cost of its demise. Emperors and Lords without avatars simply dared not enter such dangerous environments.

"In the dark region, I encountered six silver shuttle beings as soon as I entered? Each silver shuttle being definitely possessed the strength of an Emperor." Luo Feng thought, six Emperors collaborating in a frenzied assault, even without understanding formations, was terrifying enough.

"I'll try another entrance." Luo Feng pondered. Immediately, this powerful avatar began to return to replenish its energy. Afterwards, still with one percent of his energy reserves, the powerful avatar entered the dark region from another point in the deep areas of the Dream Dimension.

Just a moment later, "Oh my heavens." This time, Luo Feng's powerful avatar failed to escape.

"The creature I encountered in the dark region this time was too strong! Much more powerful than the previous silver shuttle beings." Luo Feng's heart trembled. It was an enormous creature, ablaze with flames and possessing a body of black metal. The colossal creature was so immense that Luo Feng's ten-thousand-kilometer observation range could only reveal a portion of its head. With a single pounce from it, Luo Feng had nowhere to escape. Its collisions and claw attacks merely inflicted heavy damage on Luo Feng. But when it swallowed Luo Feng whole! The crushing annihilation within its body meant Luo Feng's avatar was completely destroyed within mere seconds of being inside it.

"After being swallowed by it, it felt like entering a giant cage, with no way to escape. I could only wait for death. This creature's power already surpassed that of normal Emperors and Lords." Luo Feng felt somewhat helpless. He had entered twice. Once, he encountered six silver shuttle beings, each at the Emperor level. The other time, he encountered a dark flame creature, which was considerably more powerful than the combined might of the six silver shuttle beings.

"How can the dark region be explored? It can't be explored!" Luo Feng understood that even if his true body entered and encountered the dark flame creature, he would lose more than half of his energy reserves if he didn't die outright.

"My strength is still insufficient." "My only technique that barely qualifies as an ultimate move is the Great Extinction Style, and I don't dare bring super powerful secret treasures in! Relying purely on my physical body, its might isn't even as great as the native creatures, and in other aspects, the disparity is even larger." "I need to be more well-rounded!" "I need more ultimate techniques—movement, defense, domain control... a more comprehensive skill set in many areas to be qualified to explore the dark region."

As Luo Feng pondered, he suddenly felt puzzled. "Since these three alien races know that special lifeform remains exist in the dark region, it means there must have been powerful beings who obtained them from there." At this moment, Luo Feng also realized that there were always people stronger than oneself. Even on Origin Continent, there were quite a few stronger than him. Luo Feng mused.

"With my current strength, going to the dark region would mean certain death. I should stick to exploring the deep regions instead. The rare treasures of heaven and earth in the deep regions should be far more abundant than in the middle regions." The "special lifeform remains" in the dark region were exorbitantly valuable, but he currently lacked the capability to acquire them. So, he decided to lower his goal and explore the deep regions first.

"After all, the powerful beings of Origin Continent primarily explore the middle regions. Some rare treasures can be worth tens of millions of merits. The rare treasures in the deep regions are of even higher value." "Perhaps I could obtain rare treasures worth over a billion merits." Rare treasures exceeding a billion merits were also highly sought after by the three alien races and the two ancestors, who consistently acquired them. With such rare treasures, he should be able to trade for what he needed.

"Dark region... someday, I will return to truly uncover your secrets."

Luo Feng's avatar in the Dream Dimension began cautiously exploring the deep regions! The danger level in the deep regions had clearly decreased dramatically. Most creatures here were merely at the Guixu Emperor level. Even more formidable leaders were still at the Emperor level and typically acted alone, allowing Luo Feng's powerful avatar to escape. Of course, if he encountered an overwhelmingly powerful tribe or a truly terrifying leader, his avatar would still be at risk of annihilation.

In the days that followed, Luo Feng occasionally explored the deep regions of the Dream Dimension, but primarily focused on cultivation. This was because exploring the Dream Dimension carried risks. If an avatar was destroyed, he would lose a "one percent energy reserve avatar," which would require slow cultivation to restore. Therefore, he naturally had to control the frequency of his explorations. Moreover, he needed his true body to grow even larger, and the energy absorption rate of his miniature universe naturally had to exceed the rate of energy consumption during Dream Dimension explorations.

Each time Luo Feng acquired rare treasures in the Dream Dimension, he sent them to his outer avatar for safekeeping. When the Samsara Tower team arrived in the Dream Dimension, Luo Feng would seize the opportunity to send in his powerful avatar, and when the team departed the Dream Dimension, he would take his accumulated treasures out with them.