Chapter 292: Early God Emperor The Path of Birth and Destruction

Rainwave City remained bustling in the dark of night. Luo Feng watched the golden-armored figure fly away, sensing its unconcealed malice. In the view of that golden-armored figure, Qiu Yike, Luo Feng's future days would be miserable.

"They tried to rob me outside the city, failed, and now want me, the victim, to compensate them? Ghost Market is truly overbearing." Luo Feng gently shook his head. "As for Elder Tian He? I'd like to see what he can do to me!" Luo Feng smiled faintly and continued browsing at the next merchant.

Meanwhile, in Di Qing's cave mansion.

Luo Feng's clone there had immediately summoned his companions. "What happened?" Di Ming had been in secluded cultivation recently and wasn't thinking about hunting. However, he hadn't blocked communications from Luo Feng and Di Qing, even while cultivating.

"Brother Luo Feng, what happened?" Di Fu was currently working at the Nine Ring World Tower in the city. Of course, he cultivated spatial pathways, so he also had a clone in his cave mansion.

"It's Ghost Market," Di Qing, sitting nearby, had already guessed. "Yes."

Luo Feng looked at his three companions and nodded. "Just now, Elder Tian He, the Deputy Head of Ghost Market, sent his subordinates to see me. He demanded I pay 50 million Chaos Crystals for the failed robbery and counter-kill. I directly refused."

"Robbery and counter-kill? You were robbed outside?" Di Ming and Di Fu only then realized that the two powerful figures they relied on had gotten into serious trouble outside.

Di Qing explained, "Brother Luo Feng and I were ambushed by a Ghost Market team on our way back from hunting. That team had five powerful individuals at the God-Emperor Mid-Stage Enlightened level. Five strong individuals surrounded us... Brother Luo Feng killed one of them named Ku Mo, and the other four became apprehensive!"

"Two against five, and he counter-killed one at the God-Emperor Mid-Stage Enlightened level?" Di Ming and Di Fu were shocked. Di Fu was still working hard to achieve the God-King Ultimate Realm.

Di Ming was only at the God-Emperor Early-Stage in the Chaos Bloodline path. He knew very well that God-Emperor Mid-Stage Enlightened corresponds to God-Emperor Late-Stage Bloodline practitioners. Practitioners at that level are only a step away from the Half-Chaos level, and yet, besieging Luo Feng led to a counter-kill. "Ghost Market is threatening me," Luo Feng said, looking at Di Ming and Di Fu. "I'm not afraid of them, but you two need to be careful."

"Ghost Market's retaliation will come quickly. Within the city, there are legal restrictions, so they wouldn't dare..." Di Qing nodded from the side, "...act openly. They can't do anything to Brother Luo Feng and me, but your strength is too low. Even some covert methods would be enough to deal with you two."

"I haven't gone out recently," Di Ming said. "Any clones that went out were very poor ones."

"I have many clones," Di Fu chuckled. Luo Feng and Di Qing then nodded.

"Rainwave City has strict laws. Although some elders act ruthlessly in secret, on the surface, layers of formations cover the entire city, preventing them from openly violating the laws." Di Qing looked at Luo Feng. "Even if they resort to foul play, they'll use covert methods. Covert methods won't affect you or me." Luo Feng agreed.

Given his Undying Blood Ocean body, even if Elder Tian He attacked openly and they fought, Elder Tian He would likely need to employ several techniques to destroy one of Luo Feng's Undying Blood Ocean bodies.

"It's still safe within the city," Di Qing said. "The Insect Nest, Myriad Shadow Mansion, and Ghost Market all operate ruthlessly. Their retaliation primarily takes place outside the city. Unless we are absolutely confident, let's not go out hunting for now."

"Agreed," Luo Feng also assented. "Let's rest properly for a while."

Di Qing had just reached God-Emperor Mid-Stage and was unlikely to break through for a long time. He needed extensive accumulation. Now that he had offended Ghost Market, he wasn't eager to take risks. Luo Feng had acquired a large amount of spoils this time and also wanted to thoroughly assimilate these treasures.

Ghost Market's retaliation came swiftly.

Just two days later, Di Fu lost his job at the Nine Ring World Tower. Furthermore, on his way back from the tower, he was silently annihilated! No one could even determine how the attacker struck. "Ghost Market truly has no bottom line, attacking you like that," Luo Feng and Di Qing were quite angry, even though they had anticipated it.

An organization like Ghost Market had absolutely no regard for dignity.

"It was just a menial job, nothing to speak of," Di Fu chuckled. "I guess Ghost Market simply passed a message to some mid-level manager at the Nine Ring World Tower, and with one word, my job was gone. After all, my status was too low; I was at the very bottom of the Nine Ring World Tower."

"The sneak attack on you involved karmic methods," Di Qing said from the side. "Fortunately, the entire Nine River Sacred Realm greatly suppresses karma, and my cave mansion's formation also has an isolating effect. That's why it couldn't harm your clone inside the cave mansion."

"If my clone in the cave mansion had died too, I would have had to travel all the way from the Origin Continent again," Di Fu laughed. "I never thought someone at the bottom of Rainwave City like me would have the 'privilege' of being targeted by Ghost Market."

"You were implicated because of me," Luo Feng said. "Di Fu, you lost this job because of me! I owe you. Before long, I will give you a better job."

"Haha, then I'll make a huge profit," Di Fu laughed. "For now, I can also go into secluded cultivation and properly study some of the insights I gained at the Nine Ring World Tower."

Luo Feng knew very well that Di Fu seemed indifferent, but he actually cherished that job at the Nine Ring World Tower. They had celebrated when he finally secured it. How could Di Fu not feel pained or lost after losing his job now? "Ghost Market, Elder Tian He!" Luo Feng's eyes turned colder.

An official flying vessel passed through Rainwave City. Luo Feng, using his Formless and Shapeless technique to change his appearance and aura, boarded the vessel very discreetly.

Afterwards, he used the lake at the foot of the sacred mountain to teleport through the Infinite Chaos Space, returning to the Origin Continent. He arrived in Huyang City, at the City Lord's Mansion.

"I'm back!"

From a high-rise in the City Lord's Mansion, Luo Feng looked at the massive furry palm supporting the entire Huyang City. This huge furry palm was precisely the innate secret treasure 'World in Hand' controlled by Luo Feng. "'World in Hand' is quite similar in value to the 'Heart of Immortality'," Luo Feng thought. "However, truly unleashing its power is more difficult than with the Heart of Immortality."

The Heart of Immortality was a secret treasure Luo Feng had specifically chosen from the Infinite Space Treasury, as it best suited him. Being centered on the paths of 'Life and Destruction', it was naturally the easiest to wield.

The innate secret treasure 'World in Hand', according to Ancestor Yan Feng's judgment, was originally an offspring of a high-level Chaos lifeform. It had been nurtured for a long time within the dream realm's World-level Chaos lifeform, eventually forming this innate secret treasure. It possessed very distinct life characteristics, similar to the blood-colored scale from the Star Tower, primarily focusing on life but also containing many other paths.

The same was true for the innate secret treasure 'World in Hand'. Life was its core, but it also contained numerous mysteries such as world, destruction, space, matter, and immeasurable. Therefore, for Luo Feng to unleash its full power, the difficulty naturally increased greatly.

With a step, Luo Feng immediately returned inside the Star Tower.

One of the cultivation spaces within the Star Tower stored a large quantity of low-level Chaos lifeform materials.

At this moment, Luo Feng waved his hand, and materials with even stronger auras descended. "There are 800 portions of materials from low-level Chaos lifeforms at the God-Emperor Late-Stage, each averaging 38,000 Chaos Crystals. I've gathered about 70% of the suitable low-level Chaos lifeforms at this level in the Nine River Sacred Realm."

"For God-Emperor Peak-level low-level Chaos lifeforms, there are 80 portions of their materials, each averaging 390,000 Chaos Crystals. I also purchased three portions of 'Transcendence-level' low-level Chaos lifeform materials, spending a total of 10.2 million Chaos Crystals."

Luo Feng had invested most of his wealth into materials. Low-level Chaos lifeforms were divided into various races. Within the same race, weaker individuals might be at the God-Emperor Early-Stage, while powerful ones could be at the God-Emperor Peak-level.

Just like among practitioners, some possess exceptionally formidable strength, far surpassing others at the same level.

Among low-level Chaos lifeforms at the God-Emperor Peak-level, there were also a very few exceptionally brilliant ones whose strength far exceeded their peers. In the Nine River Sacred Realm, these were called 'Transcendence-level'. In a one-on-one fight, even the three Great Palace Lords of Rainwave City generally couldn't defeat them.

The so-called 'Transcendence-level low-level Chaos lifeform' corpse materials in the Nine River Sacred Realm were usually transported from the Dark Sacred Realm, where the intensity of combat was much higher, making it relatively easier to obtain corpses of that level.

Transcendence-level corpse materials, even scraps, were worth at least several million Chaos Crystals per portion. "Each of these low-level Chaos lifeform materials contains the mysteries of 'Life and Destruction'," Luo Feng said with considerable delight. "This time's haul is far greater than before. Plus, I bought quite a few rare treasures to aid my cultivation."

"This time, the Path of Life and Destruction is surely going to break through."

Luo Feng's Eye of Life and Destruction on his brow opened, and he began to meticulously study the newly acquired materials, commencing his cultivation. For God-Emperor level cultivation, a single period of secluded cultivation lasting hundreds or even thousands of eras was common. This time, even Di Qing had decided to enter a long period of secluded cultivation, and Luo Feng was also prepared for an extended retreat.

However, Luo Feng had acquired too many low-level Chaos lifeform materials this time, and many were systematic. For example, he bought all stages—God-Emperor Early, Mid, Late, and Peak—from the same race. By comparing and contemplating them, Luo Feng's gains were naturally much greater. Luo Feng studied the materials, not even finishing the first pass! After only studying about 70% of them, which took nearly two hundred eras, the 'Path of Life and Destruction' naturally completed itself through slow accumulation, undergoing a qualitative transformation.

"Hmm."

Sitting cross-legged inside the Star Tower, Luo Feng habitually comprehended, researched, analyzed, and integrated, but then naturally integrated a complete "God-Emperor Early-Stage Path of Life and Destruction" within his mind. Luo Feng was first stunned.

Then came overwhelming joy.

The joy of enlightenment was what practitioners found most captivating.

Many God-Emperors were already invincible in their original home worlds, able to enjoy everything imaginable. Yet, they still ventured one by one into the Nine River Sacred Realm, risking death, to continue striving and exploring. They sought to pursue higher-level paths and witness more wonders.

"It's been nine hundred eras since I came to Rainwave City! The Path of Life and Destruction has finally advanced from God-King Ultimate Realm to God-Emperor Early-Stage."

Luo Feng smiled and murmured.