Chapter 297: The Late God Emperor's Prey

Science Fiction Novel

The black spaceship sped forward, piercing through thick clouds, moving further and further away from Yulan City.

"According to the map, we have officially entered the Elder Hunting Zone," Di Qing said, growing tense. He thoroughly scanned the vast void around them. "In this area, my power is too weak. I'll have to rely on you, Brother Luo Feng."

"Don't worry," Luo Feng replied, opening the Eye of Bio-Annihilation on his forehead. Within him, the 'Profound Sky Annihilation Array' also began to circulate. Centered around the spaceship, a subtle array field quietly unfolded, like an invisible net, shielding them and constantly guarding against potential sneak attacks.

"Brother Luo Feng, you must already know the hunting rules," Di Qing said in a hushed, serious tone. "Just one more reminder: this is our first time entering the Elder Hunting Zone, so we must be extremely vigilant!" Yulan City sold specialized intelligence regarding hunting experience and rules, which Luo Feng naturally knew. However, for others' experience to truly become one's own, countless real combat trials were necessary.

"Rustle, rustle, rustle~" As Luo Feng and Di Qing slowly piloted the black spaceship forward, an ethereal creature resembling a centipede silently glided into view. This mysterious creature was so completely hidden that even Luo Feng, with his Eye of Bio-Annihilation, detected no sign of its presence. It was the dreaded Bloodfiend Erlisi. The Bloodfiend Erlisi were a large and renowned race among lower-tier Chaotic Source beings, known for their mastery of stealth and potent venom, making cultivators wary of them.

"Rustle, rustle, rustle~" The Bloodfiend Erlisi fixed its gaze on the distant black spaceship, keenly sensing the array field surrounding it. "Two cultivators dare to venture this deep? But from their appearance, they don't seem like Yulan City elders." As a Bloodfiend Erlisi at the late God-Emperor level, it held a certain status within its kin and had some knowledge of Yulan City's elders, though its information was somewhat outdated. However, elders of Yulan City typically did not change much over long periods.

"I'll test them first." After a moment of observation, the Bloodfiend Erlisi hesitated no longer. It understood the risk of delay; the longer it waited, the more likely other kin would discover the two cultivators, and then these "fat targets" would fall into someone else's jaws. While cultivators were keen on hunting lower-tier Chaotic Source beings, these beings likewise coveted cultivators. By hunting enough cultivators, they could achieve bloodline evolution, power enhancement, and even break free from their constraints to regain complete freedom, among many other benefits. "These are my prey!" The Bloodfiend Erlisi lunged forward.

At this moment, Luo Feng and Di Qing piloted the black spaceship with the utmost vigilance. Luo Feng continuously maintained the operation of the 'Profound Sky Annihilation Array' within him, ensuring the array field constantly enveloped their surroundings. However, they genuinely failed to detect the Bloodfiend Erlisi's approach. "Tear—" A terrifying ripple instantly pierced through the Profound Sky Array field like lightning, and Luo Feng's face turned instantly pale.

"Oh no!" The instant the powerful enemy breached the array field, Luo Feng finally perceived a grotesque, centipede-like creature with countless claws. Just sensing its presence made Luo Feng feel intense nausea, his consciousness began to spin, as if the world were turning upside down. "It's a Bloodfiend Erlisi!" Luo Feng instantly recognized its identity. Simultaneously, his Undying Blood Sea Body erupted with full force.

Boom! The boundless Blood Sea, like surging tides, crashed outward in all directions, directly colliding with the lunging Bloodfiend Erlisi! The boundless Blood Sea, with the 'Profound Sky Annihilation Array' at its core, operated furiously with astonishing power, forcefully blocking the Bloodfiend Erlisi's fatal lunge. "I'll store you away first!" Luo Feng unleashing his Undying Blood Sea Body was largely to protect Di Qing. Di Qing was already tottering. The Bloodfiend Erlisi's venom was terrifying; merely glimpsing it could cause poisoning, and accidental contact would worsen the poisoning a thousandfold.

"Phew." Luo Feng, while transmitting a message, waved his hand and immediately stored Di Qing away. The Bloodfiend Erlisi's venom was so dreadful that even a late God-Emperor realm enlightened one with an insufficiently strong physique could be directly poisoned to death. Di Qing, naturally, could not risk touching it. After securing Di Qing, Luo Feng could finally engage the Bloodfiend Erlisi in a no-holds-barred, life-or-death battle.

"This venom..." Luo Feng blocked the Bloodfiend Erlisi with his boundless Blood Sea, but he unavoidably made contact with it. The Bloodfiend Erlisi's chilling venom instantly surged into the Blood Sea upon contact, spreading and permeating like wildfire. "Die!" The Bloodfiend Erlisi was confident in its venom. Even as lower-tier Chaotic Source beings, they were special existences inherently born outside the cage, and their venom was their lethal weapon. Sometimes, with just this venom, they could repel or even kill enlightened ones at the late God-Emperor level.

"—" Luo Feng's Undying Blood Sea Body was immeasurably vast; at this moment, he paid no heed to anything else, striking with a reverse claw. A colossal, furry claw instantly extended, blotting out the sky and covering a vast area with a single strike. The Bloodfiend Erlisi had nowhere to hide and was brutally torn apart by the furry claw. The moment it was touched and torn by the claw, the Bloodfiend Erlisi instantly fragmented into hundreds of millions of pieces, countless tiny "centipedes" rapidly dissolving into the boundless Blood Sea. "A single strike shattered my true form!" The Bloodfiend Erlisi was terrified by the claw. "How can this guy be so powerful?" The power of that claw was truly terrifying, utterly impossible to withstand head-on. It could only fully split apart to protect itself.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss!" Heaven and Earth seemed to invert amid the fierce battle, and the Blood Sea surged even more violently. "Profound Sky Annihilation!" The Profound Sky Annihilation Array within Luo Feng operated at full power. The boundless Blood Sea, like a colossal net, enveloped all hundreds of millions of tiny "centipedes" in this area, drawing them entirely into the Eye of the Blood Sea.

Inside the Eye of the Blood Sea, the array diagram rotated rapidly, and a spatial cage quickly formed, imprisoning hundreds of millions of tiny Bloodfiend Erlisi. The countless tiny Bloodfiend Erlisi struggled and counterattacked wildly, causing the spatial cage to violently tremble as if it could shatter at any moment. "Undying Heart, suppress!" At this critical juncture, a cerulean orb suddenly appeared. Guided by the cerulean orb, countless meridians, with it as their core, spread into Luo Feng's physical body and the boundless Blood Sea.

With the augmentation of these meridians, the boundless Blood Sea's power instantly surged several times over, and its resilience skyrocketed dozens of times, subtly acquiring a hint of immortality. The Eye of the Blood Sea, the core of the "Undying Blood Sea Body," now integrated into the cerulean orb itself. With the powerful augmentation of the "Undying Heart," the stability of the Eye of the Blood Sea rapidly soared, and the spatial cage's solidity greatly increased, finally forcibly suppressing the hundreds of millions of tiny Bloodfiend Erlisi.

"Hiss~" Inside the Eye of the Blood Sea, rolling blood waves quickly condensed into a furry claw. This claw, with astonishing power, moved to crush the tiny Bloodfiend Erlisi. One claw, two claws, three claws... With each swing, large numbers of Bloodfiend Erlisi were crushed into dust. "No, no!" "How is this possible? He's not even on Yulan City's elder list, how can he be this strong?" The hundreds of millions of tiny Bloodfiend Erlisi were continuously crushed in despair. They resisted frantically but could neither escape nor withstand the terrifying claws unleashed by the vastly empowered "Undying Blood Sea Body." After just six claw strikes, Luo Feng successfully tore apart the Bloodfiend Erlisi's life core hidden within. The moment the life core shattered, all the Bloodfiend Erlisi instantly merged back into one, revealing its original form. "I..." At the moment of its death, the Bloodfiend Erlisi still couldn't believe that its path of growth had come to such an abrupt end.

"Finally, it's dead." Looking at the Bloodfiend Erlisi's massive corpse, Luo Feng let out a long breath. "I had to use two major treasures to slay it." He knew clearly that the Bloodfiend Erlisi could not be trapped by the World in the Palm alone. Only by leveraging the "Undying Blood Sea Body" augmented by the Undying Heart could he fully suppress this difficult opponent, then wound it repeatedly with claw strikes until it was killed. "I suppose I've killed a lower-tier Chaotic Source being at the late God-Emperor level."

Luo Feng was filled with emotions. Among those at the Elder level, very few could kill a late God-Emperor tier lower-tier Chaotic Source being in a one-on-one battle. He also understood that his success was largely due to the power of his treasures. Without the "Undying Heart" and the "World in the Palm," his strength would plummet, making him no match for this Bloodfiend Erlisi. "Huh? It's dead, so why is this venom still permeating?" Luo Feng frowned, puzzled. Within the boundless Blood Sea, the "Undying Heart's" augmentation greatly slowed the venom's corrosive speed, but it only slowed it. The area of venomous corrosion continued to expand without pause, showing no signs of weakening.

"This venom cannot be destroyed at all." Luo Feng made a decisive choice. With a thought, he segmented off all "energy" that had come into contact with the Bloodfiend Erlisi. He knew he had no choice but to painfully discard all tainted parts. Roughly one-twentieth of the boundless Blood Sea's massive volume was thus severed by Luo Feng. The venom ruthlessly corroded, and Luo Feng watched as the severed one-twentieth of the Blood Sea was quickly and utterly consumed, leaving behind only a massive, twisted mass of venom. This venom was entirely dark black, shaped like a sphere approximately three thousand kilometers in diameter, constantly twisting and churning, with countless thread-like substances within.

Suddenly, this sphere of twisted threads rapidly collapsed and shrunk, finally condensing into a fist-sized "black liquid." "I have no way to deal with it," Luo Feng thought, gazing at the black liquid with deep apprehension. He dared not touch this venom easily again. This was the strangeness of lower-tier Chaotic Source beings: born outside the cage, they always possessed special abilities beyond imagination. Some lower-tier Chaotic Source beings hid themselves so deeply that cultivators could barely detect them; others could even penetrate Yulan City's layered defenses and infiltrate directly into the city.

In every epoch, cultivators within the city suffered attacks from these infiltrating lower-tier Chaotic Source beings. Fortunately, Luo Feng lived in the inner district and had not resided there long, so he had not yet encountered such a terrifying incident. "Erlisi's venom can fetch a good price. I'll store it for now." Luo Feng immediately produced a storage treasure and carefully put away the fist-sized black liquid. Storing Erlisi's venom required extreme caution; it must never touch any living thing, as it would immediately permeate and corrode upon contact. Unless one was born outside the cage, their own energy could not destroy this venom.

"Leave quickly, no lingering." Luo Feng instantly transformed into a blood shadow, silently merging with the surroundings, and rapidly departed. The first rule of hunting was: after killing a lower-tier Chaotic Source being, one must immediately leave the battleground. After traveling for some time, Luo Feng released the black spaceship and also brought out Di Qing. Although Di Qing was still somewhat uncomfortable, he was fully conscious.

"We escaped?" Di Qing looked around and quickly warned, "The Bloodfiend Erlisi's tracking ability is very strong. Since its ambush failed this time, it might secretly track us or even summon companions." "Don't worry, it's already dead," Luo Feng said calmly.

Di Qing was stunned for a moment upon hearing this, his face filled with surprise.

"The Bloodfiend Erlisi was indeed very troublesome; I only managed to kill it by putting in my full effort," Luo Feng continued. "Now that we're far from the battleground, we're temporarily safe. Let's continue hunting."

End of Chapter.