Novelink Chapter 368 : A Bit of Progress
Chapter 368 : A Bit of Progress
Origin Land, at the Peak of the High Mountain on Primordial Island.At this moment, Luo Feng sat by the cliff, with a wine flask placed beside him. The Eye of Life and Death at his brow was open, allowing him to clearly observe the lives of those ‘Invincible Level’ existences within Primordial Island, and also to gaze upon more than half of the Origin Land.
“Quiet. Peaceful.” Luo Feng looked at the Origin Land. “It can even be called absolutely safe.”
The Origin Land was originally a treasure land nurtured by the Infinite Source Space, and later refined and reinforced by multiple Primordial Lords. Afterward, Lord Starlight had relocated the Origin Land to this special space-time, making it impossible for many Primordial Ancestors to find it.
“But in contrast, the entire Cultivator Territory is being attacked on all fronts. I’ve heard another World Cluster has fallen—the Jade River World Cluster.”
For cultivators within the Cage of the World, it was difficult to clearly learn news of fallen World Clusters.
But in the Origin Land, whenever a World Cluster fell, the World-level Primordial Lifeforms and High-Rank Primordial Lifeforms here would quickly spread the news! After all, each World Cluster required a large number of High-Rank Primordial Lifeforms to guard it. When their clones died in battle, such news simply could not be concealed.
“The Cultivator Territory once reached as many as 3,600 World Clusters.” Luo Feng knew this was only nominal control. Some border regions had always been under attack by the Innate Primordial Lifeform Faction.
For example, the Dark World Cluster was part of the core hinterland and was relatively safe.
But the World Clusters in the border regions had been continuously falling.
“Now only 2,922 World Clusters remain.”
“Although during this process, the Cultivator Faction also killed three Primordial Ancestors, along with numerous World-level Primordial Lifeforms and countless High-Rank Primordial Lifeforms.” Luo Feng thought, “But the situation is obvious! The Innate Primordial Lifeform Faction is willing to trade heavy losses for damage. With their deep reserves, they do not fear attrition… more World Clusters will continue to fall.”
“Lord Yuan also said that the worst outcome would be that all territories fall.”
Luo Feng understood.
The seven Primordial Lords had no way to reverse the situation. After all, the opponent’s overall strength was immense.
According to what he had heard, the Innate Primordial Lifeform Faction was so vast that even in this war, only most of their forces had been unified. Some forces—and some Primordial Ancestors—were unwilling to participate.
“Will my home Source World also fall?”
This was Luo Feng’s first time coming out of seclusion in the Origin Land, and he had just learned of the fall of the Jade River World Cluster. Naturally, his mood was poor.
He worried about his homeland—his closest relatives, his dear friends, and the human race of his home. There were too many innocent and weak beings. Once a World Cluster fell and a Source World was destroyed, all living beings would be annihilated.
Even if there were migration plans, the journey from his home Source World to the distant Origin Land was long. And the Origin Land itself was limited in size—how many migration slots could he possibly secure?
“The birth of new World-level Primordial Lifeforms means nothing to the war between the two factions. Only the emergence of a Primordial Lord can influence the situation,” Luo Feng thought.
“To become a Primordial Lord…”
From his first seclusion, Luo Feng had gained greatly.
But compared to a Primordial Lord, he was still unimaginably far away.
“This seclusion was my longest one yet, lasting over 3.7 million Epochs.”
Among that, comprehending more than 56.03 million Low-Rank Primordial Bloodlines took him about 900,000 Epochs. Comprehending over 320,000 High-Rank Primordial Bloodlines took more than 2.8 million Epochs.
In total, over 3.7 million Epochs.
Because this Cave Dwelling Quiet Chamber—reserved for Fusion Path Cultivators—had a Time Acceleration Formation that could reach a millionfold speed, only a little over three Epochs had actually passed in the outside world.
Though little time had passed externally, Luo Feng felt somewhat mentally fatigued. That was why he came out to view the scenery of the Origin Land.
“Lord Starlight walked the path of Breaking All Techniques with Strength and spent an incomparably long time. What does my bit of cultivation time amount to?” After learning of the fall of the Jade River World Cluster, Luo Feng now only felt burning fighting spirit.
He stood up and returned once more to the Cave Dwelling Quiet Chamber.
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Inside the Cave Dwelling Quiet Chamber.
Luo Feng sat cross-legged. The Split Sky Blade was inserted into the ground beside him. The observation ability of the Origin Land could project more than eighty percent of the mysteries contained within the Split Sky Blade, and these projected mysteries were fully displayed within the chamber.
“I can understand part of the mysteries of the Split Sky Blade.”
“My current accumulation is ten to a hundred times stronger than before Ascension Guidance.” Luo Feng could feel his own progress. After all, what he had been comprehending were Primordial Bloodlines encompassing life, destruction, and life-and-death.
His accumulation in life and destruction had naturally increased greatly.
Even in the system of mental consciousness, because he had comprehended over 320,000 High-Rank Primordial Bloodlines—among which more than ten thousand contained aspects of the mental consciousness system—his system rapidly became enriched, undergoing a qualitative transformation.
His Mental Will, compared to before Ascension Guidance, was at least ten times stronger.
Although his physical body and soul had not yet escaped the Cage of the World, in terms of ‘Mental Will’ alone, he already ranked at the top among High-Rank Primordial Lifeforms.
“Most importantly, I have newly comprehended the Primordial Power system!”
This was what Luo Feng considered the greatest gain from his first seclusion. In the Infinite Source Space, all things, all existence, and all life originated from Primordial Power!
Primordial Power was the soil of everything!
By comprehending a vast number of Low-Rank and High-Rank Primordial Bloodlines, Luo Feng had gradually grasped their commonality—the source of these lives was Primordial Power.
“Without Primordial Power, all life would perish.”
“If I want to pursue the most vast and powerful lifeform, the Primordial Power system is indispensable.”
Luo Feng had already begun constructing this system. Even the weakest Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms could absorb Primordial Power. The ‘Primordial Power system’ he was building was continuously being enriched.
“Now, I will begin comprehending ‘World-level Primordial Bloodlines’!” Luo Feng first conducted a selection.
Among more than 30,000 World-level Primordial Bloodlines, there were 2,729 that encompassed life, destruction, and life-and-death.
“Same old rule—the Poor Purchasing Method of Comprehension.”
Luo Feng chose one World-level Primordial Bloodline and began by studying the corresponding twelve materials—these included dark-blue scales, fangs, blood, and so on.
“Materials of World-level Primordial Lifeforms are indeed far more difficult to comprehend.” As soon as he began, Luo Feng encountered numerous difficulties. But he was very patient, carefully pondering and resolving some of them.
In the blink of an eye, a long span of 500,000 Epochs passed.
Luo Feng stared blankly at the materials before him.
“I can’t comprehend them at all, let alone complete the Secret Pattern Completion.” Luo Feng was already in despair. Over these 500,000 Epochs, he had tried everything, yet the secret patterns within these materials contained too many mysteries that completely blocked him.
He didn’t understand!
There was simply too much he didn’t understand! Even if given a hundred times more time, Luo Feng had no confidence in resolving even half of the problems.
“I can’t waste time.” Luo Feng frowned. According to his cultivation plan, a single World-level Primordial Bloodline was only a very small step. He couldn’t remain stuck at this step indefinitely.
“My method of comprehending World-level Primordial Bloodlines must be adjusted slightly.”
“Start with the easy, then move to the difficult.”
“I’ll first select those among the 2,729 World-level Primordial Bloodlines that are more compatible with me.”
Luo Feng had been too confident before.
After all, for Low-Rank and High-Rank Primordial Bloodlines that encompassed life, destruction, and life-and-death, he had comprehended them all.
So he had attempted to conquer all World-level Primordial Bloodlines as well.
But the very first one had completely blocked him.
Now he had woken up.
“Among these Primordial Bloodline corpse materials, there are 73 types that are relatively compatible with me.” Luo Feng made a rough scan—these were ones where, at a glance, he could already understand thirty to forty percent.
Clearly, they suited him well and were likely closer to his own path.
“Let’s begin.”
Luo Feng chose the most compatible one—the corpse materials of a World-level Primordial Lifeform named ‘Starsea Demon Lord.’
This time went relatively smoothly. In less than 100,000 Epochs, Luo Feng had thoroughly studied these materials, completed their Secret Pattern Completion, and cross-referenced them with the Primordial Bloodline.
Very smoothly, Luo Feng’s comprehension of the ‘Starsea Demon Lord’ World-level Primordial Bloodline exceeded seventy percent!
“The Primordial Bloodline of the Starsea Demon Lord contains seventy-five percent life and destruction mysteries. I have nearly comprehended all of it.” Luo Feng revealed a smile. At last, he had successfully comprehended a World-level Primordial Bloodline.
At the very least, with the Starsea Demon Lord’s Primordial Bloodline, he was confident he could immediately become a World-level Primordial Lifeform.
Moreover, since this breakthrough came from bloodline comprehension, with some time, reaching the ‘complete’ level of World-level Primordial Lifeform would not be difficult.
“But what I pursue is Breaking All Techniques with Strength.”
Luo Feng began comprehending a second World-level Primordial Bloodline.
Because he proceeded from easy to difficult, the further he went, the higher the difficulty and the longer the time required.
“Among these 73 World-level Primordial Bloodlines compatible with me, I have comprehended 15.” Luo Feng’s second seclusion had already lasted nearly ten million Epochs. He had finished attempting all of these compatible ones.
But those he had comprehended beyond seventy percent numbered only 15.
However, even when cultivators refined bloodlines, in order to reduce the ‘Will Contamination and Memory Contamination’ within their bodies, the fewer bloodlines they refined, the better—and the higher the comprehension ratio, the better.
Therefore, even if Luo Feng chose the bloodline path, it would be best to select only one bloodline.
Although, in theory, Luo Feng could refine 15 World-level Primordial Bloodlines into his body, making him extremely powerful at the World-level Primordial Lifeform stage, the massive Will Contamination and Memory Contamination would completely distort his path.
If he wanted to comprehend a ‘Primordial-level Path’ afterward? The hope would be nearly extinguished.
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Origin Land.
Lord Yuan sat by a lake, fishing alone.
“Luo Feng has comprehended the 15th World-level Primordial Bloodline.” Information was automatically reported.
The Origin Land paid close attention to Primordial Island, monitoring the cultivation progress of every junior who had not escaped the Cage of the World. Whenever Luo Feng studied Primordial Bloodline mysteries in the quiet chamber, every bit of his progress was recorded.
Comprehending High-Rank Primordial Bloodlines beyond seventy percent was not worth reporting.
But every time a World-level Primordial Bloodline was comprehended beyond seventy percent, it would be reported once.
“Fifteen already?”
Lord Yuan continued fishing, not particularly concerned.
Among Fusion Path Cultivators, those who chose to refine bloodlines into becoming World-level Primordial Lifeforms could usually comprehend several Primordial Bloodlines. About one-third of them could comprehend more than a dozen World-level Primordial Bloodlines.
“Luo Feng’s actual seclusion time is 12 million Epochs. The time spent is relatively short.”
“But only comprehending fifteen is not particularly many.”
Lord Yuan remained calm.
He did not feel the slightest surprise.
This bit of progress from Luo Feng was still far, far away from becoming a Primordial Lord.