Chapter 267: Finally Comprehend the Great Dao

The Origin Continent is entering its final stages, estimated to fall into oblivion in billions of epochs. These Emperor Lords and Monarchs, unable to fully comprehend the Grand Dao, must leave the Origin Continent before its destruction.

Now, to compete for resources, they are becoming even more blatant.

It was Luo Feng who pushed for the rule, 'Great Sinners must die.' Otherwise, the God Kings on the Origin Continent who cultivate Chaos Origin bloodlines, in order not to perish with the Origin Continent, would likely increasingly devour billions of living beings.

“The guardianship of Sky Pillar Realm, Luo He’s term has ended,” the reigning Imperial Consort smiled. “Naturally, we need to choose a new Guest Official. Everyone, please state whom you would like to recommend.”

The Imperial Consort could make direct appointments, but for good tasks within the imperial family, the number of times the Imperial Consort could forcefully appoint was limited.

This time, the Imperial Consort clearly put forth the Sky Pillar Realm task to allow other factions to contend for it.

In the end, this task still fell into the hands of Di Yan and his group. Di Yan, Di Xi, and Di Wu had joined forces.

Considering that Di Yuan was already dead and Di Qing did not interfere, and with the reigning Imperial Consort not participating in the competition, Di Yan’s small faction was the most competitive.

These nine individuals, including Di Kong, Di Xuan, Di Jiufeng, Di Wu, Di You, Di Ming, and Di Chu, were all somewhat independent.

“The next task is guarding the treasure ground, ‘Heaven and Earth Maze’,” the Imperial Consort continued, and one task after another was confirmed.

“The next task is guarding ‘Fire Hell Realm’,” the Imperial Consort said. “Fire Hell Realm cultivates various Chaos Origin bloodline creatures with God King of the Second Tier strength. Whoever takes on the guardianship must at least be a God King of the Second Tier. Does anyone want this task?”

“I’ll take the task of guarding Fire Hell Realm,” Di Chu stated.

“The one from your Di Chu lineage suitable for this task is Luo He, isn’t it?”

Di Yan frowned and said, “He just finished his guardianship of Sky Pillar Realm. Now he’s going to Fire Hell Realm? All the good things go to him? Our imperial family must have rules for managing these Guest Officials. They must accrue sufficient merits and hard work before being granted appropriate benefits.”

Di Chu wondered, “Isn’t guarding Fire Hell Realm just a tedious task?”

“It is widely known that Luo He cultivates the path of life,” Di Yan said. “The method of cultivating Chaos Origin bloodline creatures within Fire Hell Realm contains many mysteries of life. How can we let him easily glimpse them?”

Ancestor Yanfeng cultivates Chaos Origin bloodline creatures, and can only consistently produce Chaos Origin bloodline creatures with God King of the Second Tier strength. Occasionally, individual Ultimate Realm Chaos Origin bloodline creatures may appear.

“I’ll take this task,” Di Wu also stated. “I plan to personally guard Fire Hell Realm and thoroughly study the mysteries of life.”

He cultivated the path of life, but had never fully comprehended the Grand Dao.

As soon as Di Wu spoke, all sides had no choice but to back down. When contending for tasks, Emperor Lords definitely had priority.

A moment later, all tasks for this round were allocated, and the Emperor Lords departed one by one.

“Di Yan.” The Imperial Consort detained Di Yan.

“What is it?” Di Yan looked at his old friend.

“Di Yan, you’re targeting Luo He like this,” the Imperial Consort said. “Di Chu will surely tell his disciple. You’re building enmity with Luo He.”

Di Yan calmly replied, “We’ve long had enmity.”

The three Emperor Lords had banded together, and their poor relationship with Di Chu had long implicated Luo He.

“Furthermore, the resources of the entire Origin Continent are limited,” Di Yan calmly said. “Luo He’s talent is too high! If we don’t suppress him, he might advance even more fiercely and seize resources that should belong to us.”

“You couldn’t tolerate Zong Fu back then,” the Imperial Consort gently shook his head. “Now you can’t tolerate Luo He.”

“We are going to venture outside the Source World; we must be vigilant in everything!” Di Yan’s gaze was cold. “To improve our own strength, we naturally must suppress these powerful opponents.”

“If you do this, you might face karmic backlash,” the Imperial Consort warned.

“Since we must contend, why fear backlash?” Di Yan sneered, then departed.

The Imperial Consort said nothing more.

“Based on detailed observations over these five hundred epochs,” the Imperial Consort secretly sighed, “I can almost confirm that Luo He is the Galaxy Lord. Di Yan, your methods are ruthless, but this time you’ve hit a formidable obstacle.”

Di Yan and his group had made their moves repeatedly. God King Zong Fu, God King Gui Xu, and other God Kings—some of these God Kings had their entire clans wiped out! Others barely managed to survive in small numbers.

Why did God King Zong Fu and God King Gui Xu constantly radiate intense killing intent? It was precisely because all their loved ones were gone.

Luo Feng had risen too quickly, and without any conspicuous secret treasures on display, Di Yan and his three allies had not acted.

***

Sky Pillar Realm.

In front of a majestic sky pillar, Luo Feng stood, observing carefully.

His observation was multi-faceted: on one hand, long-distance observation with his Eyes of Life and Death; on another, penetration and perception with his mind and consciousness; and on still another, observation from the perspective of life within an ordinary cage. These multiple angles of observation mutually reflected and confirmed each other.

“Rumble!”

Luo Feng’s Eyes of Life and Death ‘saw’ a surging, turbulent black river. This black river was incredibly tumultuous, sweeping everything away indiscriminately.

“These are some of the mysteries of life within the Chaos Origin Space,” Luo Feng pondered, “far more profound and vast than the ‘Grand Dao of Life’ within the supreme rules.”

The Grand Dao of Life of the supreme rules contains the mysteries of all life within the Origin Continent.

But what about the broader space?

Within the Chaos Origin Space, Source Worlds are countless. There are also billions of other worlds, and massive numbers of innate Chaos Origin life forms, as well as even more mysterious unknowns.

The ‘mysteries of life’ in the Chaos Origin Space are far, far more profound than those within the Origin Continent.

“Thirty-six sky pillars, nine Grand Daos,” Luo Feng thought. “Each Grand Dao has four pillars, pointing in four different directions. Elder Yuan and the others truly put in immense effort. These sky pillars are like lamps lit in the darkness when one is groping around, illuminating the way.”

Each Grand Dao, within Sky Pillar Realm, allows one to glimpse four directions, all of which are directions for those who have escaped their cages.

“Brother Luo He, I have come to take over the Sky Pillar Realm guardianship task.” A gray-robed elder arrived at one of the entrances to Sky Pillar Realm, where he met one of Luo Feng’s guardian avatars.

“The one-thousand-epoch task term has ended; it’s time for the handover,” Luo Feng said, as for him, guarding Sky Pillar Realm or not made little difference. “First, accompany me to meet Emperor Lord Di Xuan.”

His identity as the Galaxy Lord allowed him to freely comprehend the thirty-six sky pillars within Sky Pillar Realm.

“Alright.” The gray-robed elder accompanied Luo Feng to meet Di Xuan first, followed by the official handover. Luo Feng had thus completed a task.

From then on, Luo Feng had only one task remaining in Yanfeng Ancient Kingdom: guarding ‘Xiang Realm City’.

The previous conflict between Luo Feng and Yan Su resulted in Luo Feng being punished to guard Xiang Realm City for a full ten thousand epochs! Currently, he was still far from completing his term.

***

Today, around Huyang City, five continuous mountain ranges have risen. These five mountain ranges, like a vast formation, completely shield Huyang City.

If a powerful entity could glimpse the underground appearance of these five continuous mountain ranges, they would discover that the underground foundations of the five mountain ranges were even larger, and ultimately connected to form a colossal whole, like a massive claw.

“The innate secret treasure, ‘World in Palm’.” In these five hundred epochs, Luo Feng, despite being strong enough and having his Eyes of Life and Death for observation, had only obtained one innate secret treasure from the deep regions of the Dream Realm.

This innate secret treasure was a fuzzy little claw. This claw inherently contained endless mysterious patterns and profound mysteries. Once activated, a realm would naturally form in the palm of the claw. Luo Feng named it ‘World in Palm’.

After Luo Feng refined and mastered it, he arranged the small claw in the Huyang City area. The five continuous mountain ranges visible on the surface were merely the tip of the iceberg.

“Only a few individuals on the Origin Continent can perceive the wonder of innate secret treasures,” Luo Feng thought. “Perhaps through this, they might also guess that I am the Galaxy Lord.”

Luo Feng was not concerned whether this would expose him.

Originally, Luo Feng had planned to purchase a cave-dwelling type formation secret treasure from Di Qing to protect Huyang City and the headquarters of Saber River Sect. However, this innate secret treasure was indeed more suitable.

Luo Feng only needed to activate a fraction of its power to make this innate secret treasure easily reach the power limit of the Origin Continent.

“The Dream Realm is indeed wondrous; it can naturally birth secret treasures,” Luo Feng said. “In comparison, life within the Origin Continent is much simpler.” Luo Feng was walking across a wilderness. He observed the flora and fauna around him and the exotic beasts in the distance.

He instantly saw through these plants and trees. The source of life force for the exotic beasts, he realized, likely came from the Origin Continent’s energy source at all levels, which was absorbed by various beings, allowing them to grow stronger.

“What is cultivation?”

Cultivation is finding ways to absorb more energy to continuously evolve one’s life form. Under the operation of the supreme rules, life forms grow stronger and stronger.

As Luo Feng walked, the surrounding trees and plants rapidly grew. Great trees shot up dramatically.

While climbing hundreds of millions, tens of billions, even trillions of kilometers, these majestic, towering trees began to develop consciousness. They started to think, to comprehend the heavens and the earth.

Flowers and grasses also grew, either rooting themselves in the earth or permeating the void.

The exotic beasts in the distance were also transforming: Void True God level, Eternal God level, Chaos level, God King level—one after another, these exotic beasts transformed directly towards the God King level. However, their consciousness was too weak and their intelligence too low to control such massive physical bodies. Ultimately, they burst apart with a bang.

“I can enlighten them, but the prerequisite is that their mental will is strong enough to control such a physical body.” Luo Feng gently shook his head. “Under my guidance, they can naturally evolve to the ‘God King of the Second Tier peak level’ physical body, but to find such a powerful mental will is extremely difficult.”

“Master.”

The towering great tree condensed into the figure of an old man, respectfully bowing. A plant rooted in the earth also transformed into a woman, respectfully bowing!

A flying exotic beast also condensed into the form of a young man, respectfully bowing. All three of them possessed Chaos Realm strength. Of course, they were all enlightened by external force.

“It’s not easy to enlighten beings to the God King level,” Luo Feng smiled. “The Grand Dao of Life is endlessly profound.”

While collectively enlightening numerous lives, Luo Feng still thoroughly comprehended the Grand Dao of Life.

The operation of the Grand Dao of Life within the supreme rules no longer held any confusion for him.

How does life originate?

How is it formed?

How does it grow stronger?

How does it evolve?

All mysteries were contained within his heart.