Chapter 300: Between Birth and Destruction

"Boom—"

Too fierce!

Luo Feng tried his best to dodge but was still grazed by the enormous body of the Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader. It was just a 'graze'! Yet, Luo Feng felt a terrifying power surge through his entire body. His body possessed over a thousand times the energy reserves of a perfect divine body, and with the 'Heart of Immortality' boosting it, his defensive capabilities had sharply increased. The secret treasure, 'Heart of Immortality,' only enhanced power and other aspects by several times. More powerful Half-Primal Chaos-level secret treasures could also achieve this. However, its greatest strength lay in the words "immortal." This secret treasure merged the profound mysteries of life and destruction, naturally making its life-saving abilities extremely potent.

"Boom." After being grazed, Luo Feng was instantly sent flying backward. Yet, his body remained completely intact, without any injuries.

The Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader, charging fiercely, slightly turned its head, its eyes fixed on Luo Feng. When it realized that Luo Feng had actually withstood its "graze," an excited look appeared in its eyes. Immediately after, its hoof, quick as lightning, stomped out forcefully! The hoof contained the power of thunder. At such close range, Luo Feng had no time to react and was struck by the hoof. The Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader's hoof was simply too enormous; in comparison, Luo Feng appeared exceptionally tiny.

"Bang!" The stomping force of this hoof was more than ten times fiercer than the previous "graze." Its terrifying might made Luo Feng inwardly shocked. His "Immortal Blood Sea Body" could no longer withstand such an attack, making it difficult to maintain his physical form. Under this stomp, Luo Feng could only allow his body to burst apart, transforming into an endless sea of blood. Only in this way could he unload as much of this dreadful stomping force as possible. "Even with the Heart of Immortality's blessing, I couldn't withstand the Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof's stomp." While Luo Feng was stunned, it was also within his expectations. This race was called the "Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof race" precisely because their stomps were their most terrifying move. Possessing one of the top physical bodies among their peers, the stomping might of a Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof reached an astonishing degree. A Late-stage God-Emperor Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof's stomping power could reach the threshold of a Peak God-Emperor Dao Comprehender. If it were a Peak God-Emperor Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof, its stomping power would be even more terrifying; Luo Feng's Immortal Blood Sea Body would be stomped to smithereens, unable to maintain its physical form.

Given Luo Feng's strength, combined with the Heart of Immortality and World in Hand, he should, in theory, find it relatively easy to save his life even if he couldn't defeat a Peak God-Emperor low-tier Primal Chaos lifeform. However... he had encountered the Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader!

"He actually withstood one of my stomps?" The Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader was somewhat surprised. In Rain Ripple City, only three Palace Masters could face it directly; ordinary elders wouldn't dare to confront it and could only rely on various secret arts to escape.

Luo Feng had transformed into a vast, endless blood sea. Within the blood sea, the "Heart of Immortality" and "Profound Azure Sky Extinction Diagram" simultaneously bolstered him, making the blood sea's defensive resilience extremely strong.

"With the immense scale and resilience of my Immortal Blood Sea Body, a single stomp still cost me two percent of my energy reserves?" Luo Feng was greatly alarmed. "Whoosh."

Just as Luo Feng was shocked, he also launched a counterattack.

A furry claw suddenly extended from the blood sea without warning. By the time it appeared, it was already beneath the abdomen of the Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader.

"Rend!"

Luo Feng fully unleashed his understanding of life and death, employing the ultimate move of his natural secret treasure, "World in Hand." He didn't use world suppression, as he knew it couldn't possibly suppress the Leader; instead, he harnessed the claw's tearing and destructive power. This claw was incredibly sharp. Enhanced by the power of the "Immortal Blood Sea Body" and activating the profound runic patterns on the claw, this was the strongest attack Luo Feng could unleash! Luo Feng even felt that this strike might pose a significant threat to Half-Primal Chaos level powerhouses.

This claw, emerging from the blood sea, was simply too sudden and incredibly fast. The massive Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader had no time to dodge, or perhaps it simply disdained dodging this move.

"Rip—"

Luo Feng felt his claw, with its five blade-sharp tips, pierce into the light-colored scales on the Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader's abdomen. According to some corpse materials from the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm, the Abyssal Wasteland Hoof race's scales typically numbered in the hundreds of layers across their entire body. "Hiss." Luo Feng's full-power claw strike barely penetrated, only managing to pierce two layers of scales.

"Its scales number in the hundreds, yet I only managed to pierce two layers with my full effort?"

Only at this moment did Luo Feng truly understand what it meant for a "low-tier Primal Chaos lifeform" race, born as Primal Chaos lifeforms, to possess one of the most formidable physical bodies among them!

"Hmm?"

Suddenly taking this claw strike, the Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader was somewhat surprised; faint cracks appeared on its surface scales. However, invisible lightning flowed over, and the scale cracks quickly healed. "Roar!!!" The Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader suddenly roared in fury.

This roar, like thunder, pulsed outwards in all directions, causing the endless blood sea to churn and ripple, even annihilating some of the surface blood sea.

The roar also directly impacted Luo Feng's mental will. Of course, after Luo Feng's mental will reached the early God-Emperor stage in the Path of Life and Death, it naturally ascended to the "Peak God-Emperor" level, though not yet reaching its limit. But with such a level of mental will, combined with the Elemental Arrangement Art and the Heart of Immortality's blessing, Luo Feng was still able to resist its effects in the face of this roar. "Boom, boom, boom."

While roaring, the Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader began to charge, each hoof savagely stomping the endless blood sea. Although the current stomping power was not as strong as the initial charged stomp, with the continuous stomps currently only reaching about fifty to sixty percent of the previous power, the advantage lay in their incessant nature.

"Rumble." This entire world vibrated and shattered, and the faint outlines of the secret runes of the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm's chain seal also became visible.

Under the Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader's charge and continuous stomping, Luo Feng's endless blood sea energy rapidly depleted. In just a few breaths, thirty percent was consumed.

"Blood Sea Heaven and Earth!" Suddenly, the entire blood sea's power erupted, a misty crimson shrouding the world. At this moment, it was difficult to distinguish directions; this crimson world was already evolving into a "Profound Azure Sky." The Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader, trapped within the Profound Azure Sky, couldn't see anything outside of it.

"Escape quickly!"

The moment Luo Feng used a portion of the blood sea to transform into the Profound Azure Sky, trapping the Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader, he unhesitatingly split into three clones. Each of the three clones utilized a secret technique, accelerating their speed to the extreme, and fled in different directions.

"Hmph!" The Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader let out a sudden cold snort. Its body instantly became incredibly massive, nearly half the size of the Profound Azure Sky! On its colossal head, two blade-like curved horns gently swayed.

Rip—

Everything was sliced apart by the two curved horns! Even the Profound Azure Sky shattered before this terrifying might.

The Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader's gaze pierced through the void, immediately locking onto the three fleeing clones.

"Flee?"

The Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader became utterly furious.

Rumble!!! Three extremely powerful bolts of lightning instantly coalesced in the heavens and earth, each locking onto one of Luo Feng's three clones that had fled to extreme distances! The thunderbolts instantly struck the clones; two of them couldn't withstand the impact at all and were directly annihilated. Only one clone managed to resist the lightning and fled even faster.

"Whoosh." The sole surviving clone suddenly piloted a flying vessel, making its escape speed even greater!

The Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader opened its mouth and spewed forth electrical plasma. This thunderous plasma rampaged in all directions, annihilating the surrounding blood sea that had trapped it. This portion of the blood sea was roughly one-tenth of Luo Feng's energy reserves. Under the Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader's all-out attack, disregarding its own consumption, it was all reduced to nothing. Beneath the lightning, the blood sea ceased to exist.

"He left a weaker clone," the Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader abruptly charged out, swiftly pursuing the clone piloting the flying vessel.

Luo Feng piloted the flying vessel, fleeing rapidly. However, the Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader had locked onto his aura and was pursuing him from afar. The Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader was too fast, transforming into a bolt of lightning as it chased. In just over ten breaths, it had completely caught up.

"There's no escape," Luo Feng thought, piloting the flying vessel and watching the scene unfold before him. "Die."

The Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader's hoof was already sweeping over him.

"It's over," Luo Feng watched the scene helplessly.

At the location where the Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader and Luo Feng had first engaged in battle, the chaotic world gradually returned to calm, and the energies between heaven and earth slowly subsided. Suddenly, the boundless energy in the surroundings coalesced and transformed, taking the form of a human male—it was Luo Feng.

Luo Feng, relying on the secret treasure 'Heart of Immortality,' had entered a state of "Between Life and Death." The Heart of Immortality merged the profound mysteries of life and destruction, making its life-saving ability extremely potent. Typically, those proficient in the path of life, if blasted into nothingness, would regenerate spiritual essence from the void, recovering a portion of their life form. Relying on the "Heart of Immortality," when attacked and reduced to nothingness, Luo Feng had instinctively transformed more of his blood sea into nothingness, allowing its energy to merge into the world. This enabled him to maintain this state for a short period. After some time, he would then restore his life form. This state of "neither life nor death" was also referred to by Luo Feng as "Between Life and Death." In this state, his own energy indeed transformed into nothingness, with only his mental consciousness integrating with the world—this was the vulnerability! If an enemy was strong enough to detect Luo Feng's mental consciousness, they would not be deceived.

Luo Feng's mental consciousness, aided by the "Heart of Immortality," almost perfectly concealed all life fluctuations, maintaining the state of neither life nor death for ten breaths of time. Afterward, he recovered his life form from nothingness.

"Finally, I tricked that Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader," Luo Feng muttered. He immediately summoned the Grand Void Nether Eye Vessel and, piloting it, instantly disappeared into a void rift with incredible speed. The Grand Void Nether Eye Vessel's speed was far superior to the teardrop-shaped flying vessel piloted by his other clone. "Rip."

As its hoof completely pulverized Luo Feng's clone, the Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader looked with confusion at the single remaining teardrop-shaped flying vessel before it. It gently nudged it, carefully examining its interior.

The inside of the vessel was empty; there wasn't a single treasure.

"Just a late-stage God-Emperor flying vessel, with no other treasures? Not even the corpses of low-tier Primal Chaos lifeforms it hunted?" At this moment, the Primal Chaos Wasteland Hoof Leader realized, "He still escaped!" "These cultivators are too cunning!" Of all the elders it had encountered, none could withstand more than a few of its moves head-on, yet some still managed to escape using various bizarre secret techniques.