Chapter 373: World-class Hunyuan 'Tianlang Ke'

By a dim lake in the Land of Origin, seven Lords sat cross-legged on the ground, exchanging information.

"Thirteen Ancestors, led by Ancestor Yanhuo, suddenly erupted, tying down Wulan and injuring Jin, Minghuang, and Moman!" said Lord Naigu. "Fortunately, Yuan's formation stabilized the situation, or else the seven of us would have had to flee for our lives just now!"

"Without your deterrent, these Ancestors would be even more reckless!"

"That was indeed very dangerous just now!" Wulan nodded.

Although his own body was formidable, the various supreme-level powers wielded by the Ancestors were all very troublesome!

When Ancestor Yanhuo erupted just now, his reputation as one of the top Ancestors among the Born Source Life faction, known for his immense power, spread far and wide. In the Land of Eternity, he also held a seat, an immortal and indestructible existence. He was an absolute warmonger within the Born Source Life faction. Just now, he instantly swallowed Lord Wulan's massive combat avatar. Although it only held him for a single breath, Lord Wulan tore through Ancestor Yanhuo's body and burst out, but it also created a vulnerability in their previous coordination!

Although Ancestor Yanhuo was torn apart, his endless flames instantly reassembled and restored him! At that moment, with the twelve erupting Ancestors plus dozens of others, Lords Jin, Minghuang, and Moman were instantly severely wounded. If not for the help of other Lords, their combat avatars might have been obliterated!

No Lord feared a one-on-one fight! However, when facing a siege, even a combat avatar could be destroyed. The delay strategy required some sacrifice!

"I must divert some of my power to attack the armies of the Born Source Life faction to instill fear in the World-level Source beings, significantly slowing their assault on the Origin Worlds," said Xingmang. "As for dealing with the Ancestor-level beings, based on my observations of the future, as long as we follow Yuan's lead, we can endure!"

"Enduring once or twice... perhaps even ten or a hundred times, but I know the future is uncertain!" Lord Naigu gently shook his head. "We cannot blindly trust visions of the future!"

"You're right!" Xingmang nodded.

"Naigu!" Lord Jin frowned and rebuked, "Your vitality is stronger than many Ancestors. None of us are afraid, so what are you scared of?"

"I'm not scared; I'm concerned about the delay strategy failing. After all, once our seven Lords collapse, those Ancestors can freely attack the Poxun World Group, and the Bozui World Group might fall even faster!" said Lord Naigu.

"Xingmang, raise your combat avatar's power to ninety percent, and use the remaining ten percent to strike at those World-level Source beings! They are already terrified of you... there should be far fewer who dare to recklessly attack the Origin Worlds now! Your ten percent power is already enough to deter them!"

"I agree with Naigu!" Lord Moman nodded.

Xingmang smiled, "My combat avatar has already recovered to ninety percent!"

Naigu was startled, and Jin, Minghuang, Moman, Yuan, and Wulan were all somewhat surprised!

"It was so dangerous just now, and you were still holding back your power?" Wulan asked.

"It only *seemed* dangerous just now!" Xingmang replied with a slight smile. "I was waiting for an opportunity—an opportunity to truly hurt them!"

"Calculating and strategizing, let's just hope the seven of us don't end up falling in the end!" Lord Naigu remarked.

With multiple Ancestors joining forces, the Lords were under immense pressure!

"Trust Xingmang!" Yuan said. "Xingmang occasionally gazes into the future. When does he predict Luo Feng will break through?" Lord Minghuang asked.

The other five Lords also looked at Xingmang.

"Luo Feng has already touched upon the profound mysteries of supreme-level power by comprehending those Source bloodlines!" Xingmang said with a slight smile. "He is currently attempting to create a Source-level path. It has only taken him a few tens of epochs, and the path he created on his second attempt has already reached the near-path level!"

"Near-path? So quickly?"

"When I first became a World Master of the Origin World, it took me three hundred billion epochs to reach the near-path level!" Jin said. "After sensing the pull of supreme-level destructive power, it took me another five thousand epochs to truly grasp the Source Destruction Path!"

"Once you reach the near-path level, comprehending the path becomes certain. Given that Luo Feng's actual cultivation time since being brought here is only 1.5 billion epochs, achieving the near-path so quickly suggests that he will certainly attain the path within a few billion, or at most a few hundred billion, more epochs!"

These Lords were all quite expectant! According to the experience of the Cultivator faction, sensing the pull of supreme-level power indicated great proximity to mastery. The next step was a slow, meticulous process of accumulation and refinement, leading eventually to complete grasp. Since it was already within reach, given their talent, achieving it was certain with a bit more time.

"His current cultivation dwelling has a time acceleration of hundreds of millions of times, so we estimate a new Lord will be born in about a hundred epochs!" Xingmang smiled slightly. "The situation will change then!"

Everyone present nodded. Eight Lords cooperating would boost their overall strength by at least twenty to thirty percent compared to seven Lords.

"He cultivates the Source Life-Death Path, a path that will greatly benefit our entire Cultivator faction!" Yuan said with a smile. The other six Lords were also quite hopeful!

In the boundless Source Space, there were many who had grasped supreme-level power. Beyond the Born Source Life faction and the Cultivator faction, there were other factions. The Lords had encountered beings skilled in life-related aspects and had always yearned for such a companion! Luo Feng was just such a companion!

Inside a typical dwelling's quiet room in the Land of Origin! "I finally did it!" Heavenly Wolf had refined a World-level Source bloodline. As his comprehension reached seventy percent, he integrated it into his body, and within moments, it triggered the evolution of his entire being. Countless white hairs appeared on his body, and he transformed into a colossal beast!

Heavenly Wolf's dwelling was a high-level Source Life dwelling, and the quiet room within it was relatively small. The enormous beast instantly filled the entire space of the quiet room! Heavenly Wolf felt slightly annoyed and reverted to his human form!

"So what if he's a Fusion Path cultivator? I'm still the one who became a World-level Source being first!" Heavenly Wolf smiled. Luo Feng's appearance had put considerable pressure on Heavenly Wolf. After all, it was relatively easy for a Fusion Path cultivator to become a World-level Source being. If Luo Feng became a World-level Source being first, then the Dark World Group might become his.

The Dark World Group was considered his home world group. If two World-level Source beings emerged in one world group, it was a default rule that whoever broke through first would take charge. Heavenly Wolf still hoped to lead his home world group. Thus, when Luo Feng first arrived in the Land of Origin, Heavenly Wolf immediately acquired an auxiliary treasure and pushed forward with all his might, finally succeeding today!

"The Dark World Group will ultimately be under my command!" Heavenly Wolf was in excellent spirits. If Luo Feng had been faster, he, Heavenly Wolf, still at the high-level Source Life stage, would have been assigned to Luo Feng's command and would have had to respectfully pay homage. But now, that was unnecessary! "Becoming a World-level Source being changes everything!" Heavenly Wolf walked out of the quiet room of his dwelling, awaiting a summons from the Lords!

After a while...

"What's going on?" Heavenly Wolf felt confused. "I've become a World-level Source being, so why haven't the Lords summoned me?"

According to the rules of the Cultivator faction, the birth of every World-level Source being was considered a major event. The Lord of the corresponding territory would personally summon them, assign them a position, and arrange for them to lead a world group. Yet, Heavenly Wolf had broken through but was not summoned!

"It's wartime now; the Lords might be in a life-and-death struggle with the Ancestors and temporarily have no time for me!" Heavenly Wolf speculated. "First, I'll go visit the World-level Source beings in the Central Land!"

Now that he was a World-level Source being, his natural connections would be with others of the same level. He also wasn't worried about lacking necessary resources, as long as he had indeed become a World-level Source being before Luo Feng, the Dark World Group would certainly be under his command!

"Heavenly Wolf, that young fellow, has also become a World-level Source being," Yuan naturally knew this. The Cultivator territory was currently divided into seven major domains, with Yuan overseeing one of them. The Dark World Group fell within this territory, so it was naturally up to Yuan to make arrangements for Heavenly Wolf once he became a World-level Source being. "No rush for now!"

"Once Luo Feng becomes a Lord, his territory will need to be re-divided, and the Dark World Group will become his absolute domain!" Yuan thought. This was also a rule set by the Lords: a Lord's home world group was their absolute domain, and other Lords had no right to interfere with its management! As for the numerous other world groups, they were managed according to the general rules of the Cultivator faction, rules jointly decided by the seven Lords! With the birth of a new Lord, territories would be re-divided, with only the home world group remaining unaffected! In the eyes of the seven Lords, the Dark World Group was already tacitly considered Luo Feng's absolute domain.

Inside Luo Feng's dwelling's quiet room, atop a high mountain on Source Island!

"To date, I have attempted to create the Source-level Life-Death Path 38,291,022 times! In over 93% of these attempts, I felt the pull of supreme-level power, sensing it was within reach, yet unable to grasp it!"

Over a billion epochs had passed since he began attempting to create the Source Life-Death Path. Throughout this arduous time, Luo Feng had been in constant agony, as each attempt felt incredibly close, only to end in failure, naturally causing immense torment! Luo Feng had tried every possible approach: creating based on the Half-Source Life-Death Path, even using it as a core to develop an Origin System, and focusing on a consciousness system... All sorts of creative methods had been tested over the long epochs, until today, Luo Feng no longer knew how else to try!

"I have exhausted every possibility!" Luo Feng sat there blankly. Behind him were fifteen avatars, each slightly different in appearance, yet every one of them exuded an incredibly terrifying aura, having already touched the threshold of World-level Source Life! These fifteen avatars represented the fifteen most perfect attempts out of Luo Feng's more than thirty million trials, and Luo Feng himself could find no flaws in any of them!