Swallowed Star 2: Land of Origin

Luo Feng was quite surprised: “At such a close distance, I didn’t notice anything?”

In terms of realm and secret techniques for detection, Luo Feng considered himself to be quite advanced.

“I bought a secret treasure to hide myself in the Dark Sacred Realm, so I could escape the perception of the Super Limit Level Enchanting Heart Worm,” Yuan Xiang Palace Master said solemnly, “Luo Feng, the situation is grave now. That Super Limit Level Enchanting Heart Worm and a group of leaders are continuously attacking and killing the elders! You need to quickly refine this ‘City Building Seal’.”

Yuan Xiang Palace Master produced a black seal from his hand.

Luo Feng’s heart trembled.

Killing low-level Primordial Life forms can accumulate battle merit. Sufficient battle merit can be exchanged for ‘World Level Primordial Life Materials’, ‘complete High-Level Primordial Life corpses’, ‘secret treasures’, ‘rare treasures’, and other items.

Some treasures equivalent to the Star Tower and Eye of Life and Death can also be exchanged.

According to what Luo Feng knew, building a city requires at least 2 million merit points to exchange, which can build a stable city.

Additionally, a City Builder needs to recruit enough elders to help build the city.

“Even at the most common acquisition price, one merit point is equivalent to 10,000 Primordial Crystals, so 2 million merit points would need 20 billion Primordial Crystals. Not to mention it’s very difficult to acquire such a vast amount of battle merit,” Luo Feng felt the City Building Seal was too hot to handle.

Usually, a City Builder wouldn’t give the City Building Seal to other cultivators.

“Stop hesitating! While you hesitate, another elder has been killed,” Yuan Xiang Palace Master urged, “Once the city falls and Yulan City is massacred, everything will be for naught.”

Upon hearing this, Luo Feng immediately reached out to take the black seal.

“Quickly refine it,” Yuan Xiang Palace Master urged.

Holding the black seal, Luo Feng began to refine it.

Yuan Xiang Palace Master felt relieved observing this process, feeling a heavy burden lifted from his shoulders.

“Luo Feng,” Yuan Xiang Palace Master said as he watched Luo Feng refine the City Building Seal, “In my cultivation journey, I even stood at the pinnacle in the Dark Sacred Realm, accumulating massive amounts of battle merit and numerous treasures over the long years! But after my soul was polluted, I only had one goal, which was for my spiritual will to break free from the braided cage!”

“Only by breaking free from the braided cage can I ignore this pollution.”

“I also wanted to build a city, hoping for a different cultivation life to help my spiritual will.”

“Since the establishment of Yulan City, the pollution of my soul has worsened, and even maintaining the formation has become strenuous,” Yuan Xiang Palace Master said to Luo Feng, “But I have feelings for Yulan City too.”

“Today, I have found my successor. I believe you are more suitable to protect this Yulan City than I am,” Yuan Xiang Palace Master said, “I will continue to control the formation until this battle for Yulan City is completely over. Then, I will completely let go and devote all my energy to fighting the pollution.”

“Palace Master. As long as one is alive, there is hope in the path of cultivation,” Luo Feng said.

“Have you successfully refined it?” Yuan Xiang Palace Master noticed with joy.

Luo Feng nodded slightly: “After refining the City Building Seal, I feel that I can harness a vast energy within Yulan City to strengthen myself.”

“As the City Lord, Palace Master, and Elder, you can all mobilize the city’s energy. It’s just that the proportions differ,” Yuan Xiang Palace Master explained, “I am using more than ninety-nine percent of my heart force to combat the pollution, even maintaining the formation is strenuous, so mobilizing the city’s energy is naturally more difficult.”

By refining the City Building Seal, Luo Feng naturally learned many secret details.

“Familiarize yourself with the City Building Seal and quickly set up your formation,” Yuan Xiang Palace Master urged.

“I am already doing it,” Luo Feng, in the state of consuming Hundred Tribulations Heart Essence, allocated a small part of his mind, maintaining an excellent state.

…

After refining the City Building Seal, Luo Feng instantly merged with the entirety of Yulan City.

Yulan City, resembling a fortress, is a secret treasure! Within this treasure, numerous intricate secret patterns are embedded, carrying multiple powerful formation diagrams! However, these formation diagrams are too complex, making comprehension and manipulation extremely challenging.

The ‘Star Array’ is one of the few formation diagrams that elders in Yulan City can manipulate.

“Buzz.” Yulan City naturally absorbed the infinite power of heaven and earth, its energy vast and boundless, also supplying countless cultivators within the city to absorb.

As the City Lord, Luo Feng could mobilize ‘one-tenth’ of the city’s energy for his own use! However, the requirements for his realm and the burden on his heart force were substantial.

If he were the Palace Master, he could mobilize a maximum of ‘one-thousandth’ of the city’s energy.

If an elder, they could mobilize a maximum of ‘one-ten-thousandth’ of the city’s energy.

“No wonder each elder in Yulan City manages a defensive system, with hundreds of defensive systems perfectly coordinating,” Luo Feng noted while setting up his formation.

The core formation layer of Yulan City has a thousand blank layers.

Each blank layer does not interfere with the others.

The City Lord, Palace Master, and elders each choose a ‘blank layer’ to set up their formation! No materials are needed, as long as the formation is inscribed, Yulan City can perfectly unleash its power.

“Because they set it up themselves, every elder can perfectly and effortlessly drive the formation,” Luo Feng swiftly arranged his formation.

His Life and Death Dao, Life, and Destruction… had already accumulated immense depth. His Life and Death Dao was nearing the ‘Late Stage Divine Emperor,’ and with such profound accumulation, the formations he arranged were naturally vast and powerful.

“Throughout Yulan City, among the hundreds of formations set up by the Palace Master and elders, Yuan Xiang Palace Master’s formation is the absolute strongest. Stronger than my current formations,” Luo Feng noted, able to see each formation layer as the City Lord after refining the City Building Seal.

After all, Yuan Xiang Palace Master, who had mastered two and a half Primordial Level Paths, arranged formations far surpassing Wei Yang Palace Master and Master Gai Tao.

However…

Yuan Xiang Palace Master could no longer unleash the full power of the formation. Such a grand formation required at least one or two percent of his heart force to drive it.

But now, Yuan Xiang Palace Master could only exert a small fraction of his formation’s power! Compared to Wei Yang Palace Master and Master Gai Tao, he no longer had any advantage. Within the city, Wei Yang Palace Master even ranked first among the Divine Emperors.

“My pollution has reached an extreme. Those leader-level mind-type low-level Primordial Life forms likely can sense my terrible pollution from afar,” Yuan Xiang Palace Master sighed.

At this moment, he felt as if he was constantly on the verge of drowning, barely hanging on.

His frailty led Wei Yang Palace Master to prepare to seize City Builder authority.

His weakness also made the newly emerged ‘Super Limit Level Enchanting Heart Worm’ target Yulan City, considering it the easiest city to breach.

“The hundreds of millions of cultivators in Yulan City.”

“I chose Luo Feng as the City Lord for you. He is rising fast and is much more suitable than me,” Yuan Xiang Palace Master, in a daze, saw the image of a golden-scaled female figure.

That high-level Primordial Life broke through in front of him, and her pollution was increasingly infiltrating every part of his mind.

“The gap with high-level Primordial Life is too vast,” Yuan Xiang Palace Master silently sighed.

Divine Emperors and high-level Primordial Life belong to two different life levels.

No matter how many Divine Emperors there are, be it a billion, ten billion, or a trillion… they will all be trampled to death by a single high-level Primordial Life.

Of course, there are some imprisoned high-level Primordial Life forms in the Dark Sacred Realm! They cannot exert their power or transmit any pollution, so cultivators can observe, study, and even dissect them at will.

But if not imprisoned and able to exert their full strength, each high-level Primordial Life is the nightmare of every Divine Emperor.

“Hmm?”

Yuan Xiang Palace Master suddenly changed his expression.

Having given the City Building Seal to Luo Feng, his own authority had decreased, but he had left a backup plan and still held ‘Palace Master’ authority! He intended to leave only after this war ended.

Relying on his Palace Master authority and the formation he controlled, Yuan Xiang Palace Master could still perceive everything inside and outside the city.

“Another low-level Primordial Life army is coming?” Yuan Xiang Palace Master could see it.

A mighty army approached the South Gate.

Rumble!!!

The new army arrived, and various combined attacks significantly increased the pressure on Yulan City!

…

“Yuan Yan, you’ve come!” The vast, low-level Primordial Life army surrounding Yulan City also had three terrifying auras. These three terrifying auras were all paying close attention to the newly arrived figure from afar.

“Knowing the action started early, I led my subordinates to hurry, and we finally arrived.” A black serpentine figure, resembling a mountain range, this figure contained endless heat, flames rising on its surface, “But it won’t be so quick for other Kings to arrive.”

“This attack was launched in haste, but Shadow leads the Enchanting Heart Worms and Soul-devouring Snakes to attack the elders with all their might in the city. Yulan City’s resistance is gradually weakening. If this continues, I believe we will soon breach the city.”

“It’s been a long time since we breached a city.” The serpentine mountainous figure looked at Yulan City, its eyes burning with passion.

Outside the city, the four ‘Kings’ and numerous low-level Primordial Life forms exuded a deadly killing intent, all yearning for the moment of breaching the city to slaughter cultivators for evolution and freedom.

…

“One more army, one more King.” Yuan Xiang Palace Master frowned, “The pressure is immense, and elders inside are being killed one by one. We’ve already lost 35 of them.”

“With the decreasing number of elders, attacks from outside are getting stronger,” Yuan Xiang Palace Master looked at Luo Feng beside him, “Even with Luo Feng joining, it’s not enough to hold for long.”

This new army required dozens of elders’ formations to resist, completely negating the assistance Luo Feng provided.

“Though elders inside, along with some elder-level experts, form teams to hunt down lurkers, it only slows the deterioration of the situation.”

“I estimate, we won’t hold for another half a day.”

Yuan Xiang Palace Master was anxious.

He had tried everything, but according to his judgment, Yulan City would inevitably fall!

At that moment, while setting up formations, Luo Feng could also sense the worsening situation inside and outside the city and felt the urgency.

“Done.”

Finally, Luo Feng completely inscribed a complex Life and Death Array into the core formation layer of Yulan City.