Chapter 131: Spar (or… Beat Down)!
"Senior Brother, you anticipated this?"
"Haha, it's just an issue of compatibility. For most people, even if the attributes don't match perfectly, using the Blood Luo Crystals still yields great results. But for me? Not at all."
Jiang Zhe made a vivid analogy.
"For others, even at the King level, using Blood Luo Crystals is like dripping a drop of ink into a bowl of clear water. But for me, it's like dripping a drop of clear water into a bowl of ink."
Luo Feng was stunned.
"There are attribute requirements for Blood Luo Crystals?"
Suddenly, he remembered how the Golden-Horned Beast was extraordinarily compatible with the Blood Luo Crystals — even more so than the Blood God Baqi's golden-armored beasts.
That's right — metal attribute!
It had to be the metal attribute!
Luo Feng's heart raced with excitement.
He suddenly felt like destiny's chosen one. This opportunity was practically tailored for him!
"Senior Brother, so its attribute is...?"
"You already know the answer, don't you?" Jiang Zhe smiled mischievously.
"It's a Metal-Sky Blood Luo Crystal, drawn from the blood of a beast that had mastered the Metal Sky Dao. That beast and your Golden-Horned Beast—"
He stopped abruptly at the critical point.
Luo Feng's eyes widened. He almost wanted to pound his chest in frustration but could only smile bitterly.
"Senior Brother, don't keep me in suspense. My heart can't take it."
"Haha. That beast was called the Golden Beast God, basically the ancestor of your Golden-Horned Beast. You've arrived at the place where it perished — make sure you seize this opportunity."
"Golden Beast God…" Luo Feng licked his dry lips, eyes burning with ambition.
"Senior Brother, how powerful was this Golden Beast God?"
"When they hunted it down, even the Chaos City Lord intervened. What do you think?"
Luo Feng thought of the three ancient images he'd seen in the Killing Aura Pit — the giant lizard and the hand descending from the sky.
If one day his Golden-Horned Beast could be as mighty as its ancestor… his heart surged with excitement, and he became even more eager to explore the treasures of the Blood Luo World.
At the same time, he felt a bit uneasy. Casting a hopeful look at his omnipotent Senior Brother, he asked,
"Senior Brother, roughly how many Blood Luo Crystals will my Golden-Horned Beast and I need?"
"The power gained by fusing Blood Luo Crystals is called gene amplification. Whenever gene amplification is involved, the cosmic limit is 100 times. So at most, around 2,000 crystals will get you to the ceiling."
Luo Feng let out a sigh of relief. His current haul was enough; he didn't have to worry about awkward situations in the future.
But Jiang Zhe continued,
"Still, Blood Luo Crystals are the kind of thing where the more, the better."
"If you can't use them all now, once you reach a high enough status that the race can't control you, you can give the extras to your teacher, your son, or your disciples. At the top-tier auctions of the human race, these are hot commodities — strictly controlled by the race."
Luo Feng's heart skipped a beat as he carefully mulled over all the hidden implications in his Senior Brother's words.
"All right. You've been in the Blood Luo World for over sixty years. You must have a detailed map by now?"
"Send me a copy. Also mark the major cities you've already raided. It's about time I went down there to plunder a bit myself."
"Oh — right, sure. Just a moment, Senior Brother." Luo Feng snapped out of his thoughts.
"Babata, get to work."
Soon, Jiang Zhe received a map in his virtual universe inbox.
It was quite rough. Out of the millions of cities, not all were marked, and there weren't many prominent landmarks either.
Understandable.
Unless one accessed the Immortal Shrine, it was nearly impossible to find a complete, detailed map of the Blood Luo World.
The continent was one light-year across — about 9 trillion kilometers in diameter — with a depth close to 100 billion kilometers. A world lord trying to traverse it all would probably need thousands of years.
And remember: you couldn't accelerate to lightspeed within the Blood Luo Continent.
Jiang Zhe had Orianna process the map and then sent it back to Luo Feng, now divided into two halves.
Luo Feng glanced at the modified map and looked at his Senior Brother in confusion.
There was no need for them to split territories so precisely, was there?
His Senior Brother wasn't a petty man — otherwise, he wouldn't have let Luo Feng seize the chance to possess the Golden-Horned Beast in the first place.
Without the Golden-Horned Beast, he'd probably still be playing "house" in the Black Dragon Mountain Empire.
Jiang Zhe explained,
"The cities on the left side — you haven't been there yet. Go rob Blood Luo Crystals there."
"I'll be on the right side, hunting world lords and seizing their Blood Luo Crystals. That's going to stir up a huge storm and likely draw out immortals. What was merely a high-risk mission will instantly become a desperate survival one. Better your Demon Killer Clan avatar stays out of that mess."
Luo Feng's eyes went wide.
"Hunt world lords? Senior Brother, you're at the peak of the universe level, and you're going to hunt world lords?"
He himself had to flee from just one world lord. Even now, with his Demon Killer avatar at domain lord level nine, he couldn't say he had absolute confidence in defeating one.
"Haha, don't worry about me. In my last training world, I even took down an immortal deity by trickery. Going after some fourth- or fifth-tier local world lords is child's play."
Luo Feng gave him a weird look, then eyed the empty bottle of "Ye Hua Wine" on the table, half-suspecting his Senior Brother was drunk.
"You don't believe me?"
Luo Feng shook his head.
"Then let's spar. Use your Demon Killer avatar, go all out, try to kill me." Jiang Zhe smiled.
"You know I have other bodies. My Primal Core isn't even in this one. Don't hold back."
Luo Feng's fighting spirit flared.
This might be the only chance in his life to beat his Senior Brother!
Never mind domain lord nine versus universe level nine. The only thing that mattered was whether he could actually beat him.
"Senior Brother, watch out!"
Before he even finished speaking, the black-robed Luo Feng's figure blurred strangely.
The next instant, the nearly 200-square-meter ship hall was practically filled with countless copies of Luo Feng, surrounding the still-seated Jiang Zhe from all sides.
Though they were brothers, Luo Feng couldn't help but find Jiang Zhe's relaxed posture a bit irritating — it made him want to grin.
"Shadow Phantom!"
All around, countless spatial phantoms shimmered and shifted unpredictably, seemingly ready to strike from any direction.
Jiang Zhe stayed seated, body loose and smiling, his eyes roaming as if urging Luo Feng to hurry up and attack.
Suddenly, one of those blurry shadows practically teleported to his side, hand formed into a knife strike.
"Burial!"
The Demon Killer avatar's strongest move —
Shadow Phantom's Seven Deadly Blades: Burial!
Even though Jiang Zhe had intervened before, Luo Feng still ended up learning the Shadow Phantom Codex.
His Demon Killer avatar had no inherited memories, and this was the perfect secret technique for it, fully unleashing the Demon Killer's power.
Over the years, his Golden-Horned Beast had made tremendous strides in studying the "Sky-Rending Claw."
"Burial" and "Sky-Rending Claw" were quite similar — training them together had pushed "Burial" to become the strongest of the Seven Deadly Blades.
Burial —
true to its name, was a savage, all-out strike, risking self-destruction to land the most ferocious blow!
Fueled by irritation, Luo Feng unleashed everything, determined to show his Senior Brother just how far he'd come.
Boosted by Shadow Phantom, he got right up beside Jiang Zhe's left side.
His hand, formed like a knife, carried a terrifying, ruthless aura as it chopped down at Jiang Zhe's neck.
At that instant, Jiang Zhe finally moved — but somehow still struck first.
He casually raised his left arm, a thick layer of black energy wrapping his fist, swelling to the size of a washbasin. Like a shield, he smashed it up to meet Luo Feng's blade hand.
Luo Feng's eyes widened in shock.
Just now, it felt like his sense of time had become completely distorted.
His own movements were slowed to a crawl, while his Senior Brother's were sped up.
His chopping arm moved at a snail's pace, helplessly watching as Jiang Zhe easily blocked with his giant fist.
"Spatial phantoms? Luo Feng, in my eyes, they're meaningless."
"I've already mastered all 108 types of time and space origin laws, and begun merging them to touch on complete 'time' and 'space'."
"In the path of space, I'm studying various sub-branches under spatial strangulation and spatial sealing, focusing on controlling the entirety of space."
"My spiritual force fills this space like a web. I'm like a spider waiting in its net — any tiny bit of spatial law you use lights up like a beacon to me. You're utterly exposed."
"Even if you're a Demon Killer, born of space, here I'm the emperor ruling this space!"
He spoke lightly, but with killing intent beneath his words.
Luo Feng's expression changed drastically.
It wasn't that he didn't want to retreat while Jiang Zhe was talking — he simply couldn't.
The black energy-wrapped, washbasin-sized fist had become like a black hole.
After blocking his slash, it locked onto his entire right arm, and the surrounding space turned thick like mud. He couldn't move at all!
Jiang Zhe gave a light shout:
"Ninefold Refining Fist!"
All Luo Feng could do was watch as Jiang Zhe pulled his elbow back, gathered force, then launched his fist like a cannonball into Luo Feng's chest.
Boom!
Luo Feng exploded like a blossom of blood and bone.
Hiss—
A field of dark purple lightning erupted.
Dancing arcs of electricity landed on the scattering pieces of flesh and bone, stripping them down to black wisps that were completely annihilated.
"Hey, don't simulate it that vividly. I'd rather not have to buy a new ship," Jiang Zhe grumbled as he dispersed the black energy from his fist and flipped his hand to catch a 10,081-faceted life crystal.
"Senior Brother, you win. I admit defeat."
Came Luo Feng's bitter voice from inside the life crystal.
Only then did Jiang Zhe smile and let go.
The crystal flew out, bursting with black currents that once more formed the shape of the black-robed Luo Feng.
(End of the Chapter)
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