Chapter 281: First Kill

Luo Feng’s fingers were like sharp blades, imbued with the aura of creation and destruction, incredibly keen. After piercing through the scaled hide and flesh of the three-faced grey-winged beast's chest, Luo Feng's hands abruptly slashed downwards, cutting along the wound. The incision rapidly widened, and purple blood spurted out.

“This scaled hide isn't just tough; it’s incredibly resilient,” Luo Feng thought, feeling immense resistance even with his treasured gloves as he widened the wound. He secretly rejoiced, grateful that his forbidden techniques, incantations, and elemental array術 had prevented the three-faced grey-winged beast from putting up any resistance, allowing it to take his full-power strike head-on. Only then could he achieve such a result.

Severely wounded, the three-faced grey-winged beast was now fully conscious. Ignoring the gaping wound on its chest, its front face suddenly opened its mouth, and a grey light pillar enveloped Luo Feng.

“Go!” Luo Feng’s body shrank, and like a streak of light, he shot into the massive wound in the beast’s chest and abdomen, burrowing deep inside its body. The grey light pillar barely grazed Luo Feng’s back.

The graze made a portion of his robe and a small amount of skin on his back vanish, but they regenerated in an instant. “That grey light pillar is quite powerful,” Luo Feng thought. The moment he entered the three-faced grey-winged beast’s body, he felt the surrounding flesh heavily compress him. Furthermore, the purple blood, shimmering with a grey luminescence, possessed an extremely potent corrosive effect, immediately beginning to corrode Luo Feng’s white robe.

This was his Heavenly Light avatar, and although the white robe began to show numerous marks, it rapidly healed. “Where is its life core?” Luo Feng tore with both claws, ripping open more flesh and bone as he burrowed deeper into the three-faced grey-winged beast’s body.

“Roar!” The three-faced grey-winged beast roared in pain, sensing the cultivator drilling and wreaking havoc within its body.

From the black flying vessel in the distance, Di Qing watched the battle clearly. “Brother Luo Feng’s strength?” Di Qing was somewhat astonished. Everyone knew that even low-level Chaos Beings in the early God-Emperor stage possessed incredibly formidable physical bodies, yet Luo Feng was directly confronting and even gaining the upper hand.

“He tore open the three-faced grey-winged beast’s chest and abdomen in a single exchange, even burrowing entirely inside. Truly ferocious!” Di Qing observed with delight, knowing that the more formidable a close-combat expert was, the better. “However, low-level Chaos Beings aren’t easy to kill,” Di Qing, being experienced, knew the beast’s tricky nature. Hunting teams in Yulan City usually required early God-Emperor stage enlightened ones to join, and a team typically consisted of three to five members working together. Killing a low-level Chaos Being in a one-on-one fight? Extremely difficult. Di Qing dared to venture out with Luo Feng because he himself was strong enough, having already stepped one foot into the mid-God-Emperor stage.

Luo Feng resisted the blood's corrosion. While searching for the life core within the three-faced grey-winged beast, suddenly—

“Buzz.” The three-faced grey-winged beast’s eyes turned cold, and it silently transformed into a vast expanse of grey mist. While changing from a flesh-and-blood form to a mist form weakened its defensive resilience and explosive power, it significantly enhanced its survival, escape, and sneak attack capabilities.

At this moment, endless grey mist enveloped Luo Feng from all directions. The mist’s corrosiveness was even more terrifying than the blood’s, causing Luo Feng’s white robe to begin tearing. However, the white robe possessed immense vitality and continuously regenerated. “Puff!”

“Puff!”

“Puff!” Sharp claws also struck from within the grey mist, digging into Luo Feng’s chest, back, and legs. Numerous attacks landed consecutively, some even tearing through the white robe. However, his World Avatar, with its 300-fold energy reserves, was incredibly tough. To Luo Feng, these were merely superficial injuries; the minor scratches healed instantly.

“This cultivator’s physical body is even harder to deal with than mine?” The vast grey mist was astonished. Its sharp claws, after tearing through the white robe’s thick skin, could at most barely scratch a little flesh, which would then instantly recover due to the World Avatar’s regeneration. It was commonly said that low-level Chaos Beings had formidable physical bodies and immense vitality.

Yet at this moment, it felt that the cultivator before it surpassed it in physical strength and vitality. The cultivator’s techniques were also more profound, and he wielded powerful secret treasures. How could it possibly fight?

“Escape!” Unwilling to prolong the struggle, the vast grey mist fled into the distance.

“Trying to escape? Witness my forbidden technique—World in Palm.” With a single thought, Luo Feng’s Heavenly World avatar, which had merged with the vast world domain around them, unleashed its forbidden technique. This technique, created by Luo Feng based on his Heavenly World avatar’s innate talent, used the Dao of Creation and Destruction as its foundation, mimicking the innate treasured ‘World in Palm’. This forbidden technique was comprised of eight ultimate-level secret methods from the Dao of Creation and Destruction, making it perfectly suited for his Heavenly World avatar.

“Rumble!” An incredibly enormous phantom hand appeared, containing a world within its palm, and inside that world was the grey mist.

Under the suppression of the World in Palm, the endless grey mist’s escape speed immediately slowed drastically. “Hm?” Seeing this, the endless grey mist knew it was in trouble and immediately split into nine parts. These nine wisps of mist frantically fled in all directions.

“Forbidden technique—Time Walker.” The Time Avatar launched attacks simultaneously from the past, present, and future.

The power of the forbidden technique instantly shattered one wisp of mist. Although splitting into nine parts was more conducive to escape, each wisp’s frontal combat strength was greatly reduced, making them utterly incapable of resisting the forbidden technique of the Dao of Creation and Destruction unleashed by Luo Feng’s Time Avatar. Pop, pop, pop—it was as if they were being defeated one by one, yet also simultaneously attacked.

Of the nine grey mist wisps, seven were struck down by the Time Avatar. When the seventh wisp dispersed, a rapidly spinning sphere of flesh appeared. “The life core!” Luo Feng’s eyes lit up; he had finally found it.

This life core was precisely hidden within the seventh wisp of mist, serving as the true core of the entire low-level Chaos Being.

Although the power of Luo Feng’s Time Avatar’s forbidden technique reached the life core, it couldn’t breach the majestic World Avatar, ‘Annihilation’. With the help of the World in Palm, Luo Feng took a single stride and caught up to the fleshy life core. Luo Feng’s right hand lashed out like lightning, his five fingers like hiltless blades.

Thanks to his treasured gloves, there was no need for any forbidden techniques; simply activating the mysterious runes within the gloves granted power that already surpassed forbidden techniques. This was the advantage of treasured artifacts: they could significantly enhance a cultivator’s strength.

“No—!” The fleeing sphere of flesh shrieked.

“Slash!” Luo Feng’s five blade-like fingers flashed past the sphere, leaving three gaping gashes. At that moment, the fleeing grey mist halted, naturally coalesced, and transformed into a colossal, heavily scarred corpse of a three-faced grey-winged beast, which plummeted to the ground with a thunderous crash, shaking the earth slightly.

Luo Feng exhaled in relief, a smile on his face.

“Finally, I’ve taken down this low-level Chaos Being.” Luo Feng descended, gazing at the enormous corpse of the three-faced grey-winged beast before him, feeling it had been a considerable effort. He had truly given his all this time. If not for the immediate use of his incantations and elemental array術, the battle would have been much more troublesome.

He had unleashed all the forbidden techniques he specifically created based on the Dao of Creation and Destruction, utilizing his Karma Avatar, Time Avatar, and Heavenly World Avatar. It was only by relying on the power of his treasured gloves that he managed to eliminate this weakest type of low-level Chaos Being. “This is just the weakest kind of low-level Chaos Being in the early God-Emperor stage, and it took everything I had,” Luo Feng mused. Just then, the black flying vessel appeared alongside him, and Di Qing stepped out, looking at Luo Feng with disbelief.

“Brother Luo Feng, in that head-on battle, you completely suppressed this low-level Chaos Being!” Di Qing exclaimed in awe. Even if the initial strike was considered a sneak attack, when the three-faced grey-winged beast transformed into mist and assaulted Luo Feng’s physical body in various forms, Luo Feng’s World Avatar clearly withstood them with ease, demonstrating superior physical strength.

“And you even killed it one-on-one!” Di Qing couldn’t help but add, “Among early God-Emperor stage enlightened ones, very few can kill a low-level Chaos Being in a solo fight. Your strength is truly top-tier among early God-Emperor stage enlightened ones.” Di Qing sighed with admiration.

He had initially thought Luo Feng’s strength was merely that of a typical early God-Emperor stage enlightened one, especially assuming his power might be weaker without treasures like the nine-story pagoda. However, Luo Feng’s displayed strength this time delighted Di Qing; it was significantly greater than he had anticipated. Their combined efforts would be more than enough to handle greater dangers, and their hunting yields would also be much better.

“Low-level Chaos Beings have diverse innate abilities. I merely happened to counter this three-faced grey-winged beast. If I encountered other low-level Chaos Beings, I might be left helpless,” Luo Feng said with a smile. “That’s why we need to team up!” Di Qing chuckled. “Alright, quickly put away your prey. This is your very first low-level Chaos Being kill.”

Luo Feng nodded, looking at the massive corpse before him—his very first low-level Chaos Being kill.

“Whoosh.” Luo Feng waved his hand, collecting the corpse. “You hunted this low-level Chaos Being by yourself, so it’s yours,” Di Qing stated.

Luo Feng shook his head. “There’s no need for that. Since we came out as a team, we should stick to our prior agreement: we split the prey fifty-fifty.”

Previously, Di Qing had suggested splitting it fifty-fifty with the intention of helping Luo Feng, as he had been established in Yulan City for a long time and was far wealthier than Luo Feng, so he didn’t mind the small difference. However, Di Qing now realized that a fifty-fifty split wouldn’t be Luo Feng taking advantage.

Although Di Qing’s sword array surpassed Luo Feng’s in terms of explosive power, cultivators with such formidable physical bodies, capable of engaging low-level Chaos Beings in close combat, were the most welcomed members of any hunting team in Yulan City. This was especially true among the billions of world experts, who, lacking avatar techniques, were even rarer when it came to engaging in close-quarters combat.

“Alright,” Di Qing didn’t dwell on it. He clearly understood that with the two of them teamed up, a single low-level Chaos Being was no longer a significant prize.

“By the way, Brother Di Qing, how much is this low-level Chaos Being worth?” Luo Feng asked. “This is an ‘early God-Emperor’ level low-level Chaos Being. Based on my experience, its value is around 800,000 Chaos Crystals,” Di Qing replied.

Luo Feng nodded. If it were a mid-God-Emperor level low-level Chaos Being, the price would be much higher, but killing a Chaos Being of that level, even if Luo Feng and Di Qing teamed up, would be nearly impossible, though they might be able to suppress it somewhat. “Let’s continue hunting.” Di Qing’s fighting spirit was now ablaze; he was already looking forward to the spoils of their first hunt together.