Chapter 256: The Second Realm of Birth and Destruction Great Dao

Luo Feng comprehended the deep secret patterns of the Star Tower. Countless secret patterns spiraled deeper, and as he peered into the extreme depths, time itself began to halt. Then, even deeper secret patterns started to glow with color.

The colorful secret patterns spiraled towards their end: a blood-red scale with a twelve-color edge.

This blood-red scale was like the supreme rule.

It was supreme.

It was indestructible through countless eons, eternally imperishable.

"The core of the Star Tower's secret patterns is 'the profundity, solidity, and eternal imperishability of life'." Luo Feng had viewed it too many times; directly gazing at the blood-red scale would constantly impact and pollute his spiritual will.

Luo Feng temporarily stopped observing and began to circulate his own power.

"Buzz."

A phantom tower, triangular cone-shaped, appeared. It gradually condensed, with secret patterns flowing on its surface.

Suddenly, this phantom tower collapsed.

"To create a nine-branch fusion secret technique, why is it so difficult?" Luo Feng sighed softly.

For an ordinary God King of the Second Realm, creating some peak God King Second Realm secret techniques isn't difficult. However, creating "Ultimate Realm secret techniques" immediately skyrockets the difficulty. For instance, Emperor Guixu, God King Wuxin, some emperors of the Blazing Wind Ancient Kingdom, and monarchs of the Thunder Ancient Kingdom spent endless years just to create a few Ultimate Realm secret techniques. The same principle applies here.

As of now, Luo Feng had created nine secret techniques for the Eight-Branch Fusion techniques of the Dao of Birth and Destruction.

Previously, techniques like 'Great Annihilation Style', 'Sky-Light Silver Shuttle', 'Black-Light Evasion Technique', 'Blood Drop', and 'Cage' had all been perfected to the Eight-Branch Fusion level.

"Eight-branch fusion is already very easy for me; I've created nine secret techniques. But for nine-branch fusion techniques, I can't create even one," Luo Feng gently shook his head.

The nine-branch fusion techniques of the Dao of Birth and Destruction were considered Ultimate Realm techniques for that Dao. Their difficulty was far greater than the eight-branch techniques.

In contrast, for the Dao of Life and the Dao of Destruction, Luo Feng could now create Ultimate Realm secret techniques because he had accurate Dao guidance and had also exchanged for Scales of Destruction and Lotus Heart Seeds.

"The Ultimate Realm secret techniques for the pure Dao of Life and Dao of Destruction don't feel that difficult."

"But for the fused Dao of Birth and Destruction, specifically nine-branch fusion... that's extremely difficult."

Luo Feng tried to condense a phantom Star Tower using his own power, aiming for the ultimate defense to protect himself. "Why is the phantom Star Tower I condensed triangular cone-shaped instead of a nine-story high tower?" Luo Feng realized he was still far from his goal; even a true nine-branch fusion would only grant him a superficial understanding of the Star Tower.

Luo Feng could only compose himself and immerse himself in cultivation.

"What exactly is wrong with the phantom Star Tower? Why can't it stabilize?" Luo Feng carefully studied the mysteries of the secret patterns as time passed day by day.

Then, one day –

Long-term comprehension and accumulation led to a qualitative change.

In Luo Feng's mind, four branches of the Dao of Birth and Destruction – the Sky-Light Branch, Blood Drop Branch, Walker Branch, and Eternal Branch – suddenly perfectly fused into one, without the slightest impediment.

The Dao of Birth and Destruction thus entered the God King Second Realm!

From then on, Luo Feng was a God King of the Second Realm in all three paths: Life, Destruction, and Birth and Destruction. Of course, the first two paths were much easier; he had already created several Ultimate Realm secret techniques for them. "Hahaha, I created nine types of eight-branch fusion techniques, and only then did the Dao of Birth and Destruction enter the God King Second Realm. Without accurate Dao references, the accumulation requirements are indeed too high." Luo Feng was in an excellent mood. "I wonder what kind of reward the Infinite Space will give."

Infinite Space highly valued spiritual will and the creation of Daos.

Infinite Space.

On a lake island, where there were no spiritual beings, only one of Luo Feng's clones resided, with mist spreading to cover most of the lake.

"The Dao of Birth and Destruction, Second Realm," Luo Feng murmured. He sat cross-legged on the island shore, looking at the lake before him, and with a thought, began to display the profound mysteries of the Dao.

A wisp of power detached from Luo Feng and flew out, tracing a trajectory in mid-air. It easily cut through all layers of space, even carving black cracks into the fundamental membrane wall of Infinite Space. Only then did this wisp of power condense into a drop of blood. This drop of blood transformed into a star, slowly rolling between heaven and earth, causing everything to tremble.

This tiny star then transformed into a dark abyss, naturally beginning to devour everything around it.

The dark abyss, however, collapsed, turning into a speck of light. As soon as the speck of light formed, a terrifying domain spread in all directions.

Just a wisp of power, it fully displayed the many mysteries of the four branches of the Dao of Birth and Destruction: the Sky-Light Branch, Blood Drop Branch, Walker Branch, and Eternal Branch. Only by thoroughly comprehending these mysteries could one freely and spontaneously allow the four branches to fuse and transform.

"Beep."

A message came from the imprint on Luo Feng's palm.

"Trialist: Luo Feng of Origin Continent"

"Using the Daos of Life and Destruction as your foundation, you have pioneered a new Dao. New Dao evaluation: Special Grade. Reward points: 100,000. On this new Dao, you have finally taken the second step. You still need to work hard to completely master this Dao."

"Before mastering a complete Dao, your spiritual will successfully broke through the God King limit. Spiritual will evaluation: Special Grade. Reward points: 100,000. Your spiritual will is exceptionally excellent. Perhaps you can go even further?"

"Reminder: It is forbidden to kill any spiritual beings. Violators will be completely expelled from Infinite Space.""Total reward points: 184,193.03."

Luo Feng was quite excited upon understanding the message.

Pioneering a new Dao and reaching the God King Second Realm earned him 100,000 points. Adding the 100,000 points he received when his spiritual will surpassed the God King level, these full 200,000 points represented his largest fortune.

Having been in Infinite Space for so long, Luo Feng had always been very cautious with his reward points.

His major expenditures had primarily been for Lotus Heart Seeds and Scales of Destruction. As for exchanging for inheritances, he had mainly focused on those for the God King First Realm and God King Second Realm.

He hadn't brought himself to exchange for overly expensive inheritances to this day.

"I can't kill any spiritual beings, so the only way to get reward points is to continue progressing in pioneering Daos and spiritual will," Luo Feng thought.

"According to the information, completely mastering the Dao of Birth and Destruction should yield a reward."

But Luo Feng also understood one crucial point.

Daos like Time, Space, Life, Immeasurable, and Destruction existed within the supreme rules. Even so, in the long era of the Origin Continent, only Emperor Qing and the Sovereign of Ten Thousand Realms were able to comprehend complete Daos on their own.

The Dao of Birth and Destruction had no reference! To comprehend a complete "Dao of Birth and Destruction"... the difficulty was unimaginable.

"Ordinary Daos have guidance; even those emperors and monarchs who comprehended five or six Ultimate Realm secret techniques might not necessarily comprehend a Dao. From this, it can be inferred that since the Dao of Birth and Destruction has no guidance, it would probably require comprehending at least ten Ultimate Realm secret techniques to have a chance of comprehending the Dao."

"What is this 'further step' for spiritual will?" Luo Feng wondered, feeling confused.

Before mastering a Dao, his spiritual will had reached the God Emperor level and was rated Special Grade.

So, how could he go even higher?

"Never mind."

Luo Feng began to check the Infinite Space treasury.

"Hmm?" Luo Feng was a bit surprised. "I still can't see the 'God King Ultimate Chapter' of the Perfect Grade inheritance?"

A Perfect Grade inheritance, God King Second Realm Chapter, generally cost 10,000 reward points. But the Ultimate Chapter?

Luo Feng's current reward points didn't even qualify him to see it.

According to Infinite Space's pricing model, the Ultimate Realm Chapter was generally 20 times the price of the God King Second Realm Chapter.

"Both of my evaluations are Special Grade, yet I'm not even qualified to see the 'Ultimate Realm Chapter of the Perfect Grade inheritance'." Luo Feng secretly sighed with emotion, "What kind of genius does it take to be qualified to learn the Ultimate Chapter of the Perfect Grade inheritance?"

"With the help of Formless and Faceless, the ultimate realm primordial bloodline creatures in the Origin Continent are the limit of my transformations," Luo Feng thought. "I don't cultivate the Dao of Material Origin, so there's no need to exchange for the Ultimate Realm Chapter of 'World Life Form'."

These reward points must be used wisely.

Luo Feng carefully examined the information of each inheritance.

"Let's check the treasure information."

Luo Feng was very interested in those treasures because, according to Emperor Qing, items starting at 100,000 reward points were all somewhat helpful for "escaping the cage" and were highly coveted by external cultivators.

The top-ranked treasure, a sword, required 180,000 reward points.

This sword, crafted from the corpse material of a Primordial Ancestor, was suitable for practitioners of the Thunder, Destruction, and Material paths. Comprehending it offered hope of escaping the cage.

Reminder: Such treasures are suitable for comprehension within the source world. They must not be taken out of the source world, or there will be endless troubles!

The second-ranked treasure, the Space-Time Mirror, required 180,000 reward points.

This was a precious mirror refined from rare treasures collected from the Primordial Space. With this mirror, one could retain memories and reincarnate into any source world, without being rejected by any source world's supreme rules.

Cultivating in different source worlds under different supreme rules greatly aided cultivation.

Reminder:1. This treasure is suitable for practitioners of the Time or Space paths. Practitioners of other paths will gain less from exchanging for it.2. This treasure must not be taken out of the source world.

One treasure after another left Luo Feng dumbfounded.

"Even if I receive Special Grade evaluations in both pioneering Daos and spiritual will, exchanging for just one of these treasures would leave me with very few reward points." Luo Feng realized how high the threshold was for acquiring such items.

According to Senior Yuan's arrangements, even incredibly dazzling peerless geniuses could only exchange for one such treasure.

"Only with high enough talent would one not waste such a treasure," Luo Feng thought as he continued to browse.

Suddenly –

The 34th ranked treasure, the Eye of Birth and Destruction, required 120,000 reward points.

This was an eye, the Eye of Birth and Destruction, refined from the complete corpse of a world-level Primordial life form, the 'Birth and Destruction Eye Beast'. With this eye, one could peer into the "vitality" of all things and also perceive the "destruction weakness" of all things. It was suitable for practitioners of the Life and Destruction paths, as it could be used to comprehend the mysteries of life and destruction, helping one to escape the cage.

Reminder: This treasure must not be taken out of the source world.

"What a good treasure," Luo Feng thought, his heart burning with eagerness.

Other highly ranked treasures also included those suitable for either destruction or life.

The Eye of Birth and Destruction, however, was suitable for both life and destruction simultaneously.