Chapter 505: Victory Without Honor

Shi Fengxiong, his master was the World Lord (Boundary Lord-level) “Si Yong”, who controlled a range of one billion kilometers around.

Even in the Blood Luo World, where powerful warriors were numerous, a Boundary Lord was still a terrifying existence. Shi Fengxiong had become a disciple under Si Yong and had a much broader perspective. He immediately recognized that this mysterious expert before him was a genius who had achieved great mastery in the fundamental laws of space, capable of manifesting over a hundred phantom bodies!

“Just at the ninth stage of the Cosmic level, he is already this formidable. It’s simply…” Shi Fengxiong understood that if such a genius were discovered by the ‘Immortal Temple’, he would be cultivated as an absolute elite.

“Unfortunately, he is an enemy!”

“The more terrifying the enemy, the earlier he must be eliminated.” Shi Fengxiong stood still, holding twin hammers without moving.

Meanwhile, Luo Feng, who had activated the close-combat secret technique ‘Chaos Kill’, couldn’t help but feel surprised: “He is a Domain Lord of the second stage. Relying solely on the speed of a sudden burst of raw energy, he should have a good chance of surviving my attack. Why is he not moving at all?” While puzzled, Luo Feng also felt a rising sense of caution deep in his heart.

Hua! Hua! Hua! Hua! Hua! Hua!

Over a hundred phantom sword techniques were cold and strange, combined with the golden domain spreading outwards. The entire space seemed to dance along with the sword techniques. In an instant, streaks of blade light, like the framework supporting the entire space, lifted and directly compressed the space toward Shi Fengxiong. As the space was compressed, it began to shrink, with each blade light also narrowing.

When Shi Fengxiong was trapped!

It was as if he had been locked inside a small house, being torn apart by countless blade lights.

The secret technique from ‘Notes on Time and Space’ had no name; ‘Chaos Kill’ was a name Luo Feng himself had given it.

“Hahahaha…” A loud laughter rang out. Shi Fengxiong stood still, as if appreciating Luo Feng’s performance.

“Rise!”

A faint smile appeared on Shi Fengxiong’s lips, and at the same time, countless curved projectiles floated around his body. At least thousands of projectiles surrounded him densely, each gleaming coldly in the lightning’s glow, their curved blades chilling to behold.

“What!” Luo Feng’s expression changed drastically. He had intended to kill his opponent with speed, but how could he compete with a mentalist’s weapons in terms of speed? That was suicide!

“Go!”

With a wave of Shi Fengxiong’s hand, a sky filled with countless curved projectiles shot out in all directions. Although the ‘Hundred-Lines Ryu’ movement technique was astonishing, making it impossible to determine the true body’s exact position, when countless projectiles were flying wildly, it became a disaster. Although their sheer number reduced their individual power.

But the opponent was a Domain Lord of the second stage—each projectile could kill a ninth-stage Cosmic-level warrior with ease.

“Clang!” “Clang!” Luo Feng’s figure was ethereal and strange, but the sheer number of projectiles made it hard to avoid. Holding his hexagonal shield, he blocked dozens of projectiles in succession. Although he managed to deflect most of the force, it still affected his movement technique.

“Hahaha…” Shi Fengxiong’s laughter had not yet faded when all the other flying projectiles immediately turned direction, rushing toward Luo Feng with a howl. Thousands of mental-force projectiles shot forward, shaking and cracking the air. Luo Feng’s expression darkened as he cast a cold gaze at Shi Fengxiong.

An invisible mental pressure suddenly struck Shi Fengxiong’s consciousness.

“Hmm?” Shi Fengxiong felt a sudden pain in his head. The thousands of projectiles he had been controlling with his mind instantly lost control. Without mental-force support, those projectiles quickly weakened under the strong air resistance and incredible gravity. However, these projectiles still flew forward by inertia, allowing Luo Feng to easily evade.

Projectiles that could change direction at will were one thing, but projectiles blindly flying in a single direction were much easier to dodge!

Whoosh! Luo Feng dodged the projectiles.

Whoosh! Luo Feng charged toward Shi Fengxiong.

“Die!” Luo Feng had already arrived before Shi Fengxiong, his blood-red war blade in hand transforming into an incredibly brilliant blade of light, directly slashing toward Shi Fengxiong’s chest.

Killing a Cosmic-level warrior and killing a Domain Lord were two completely different concepts.

From apprentices to Cosmic-level warriors, their souls were always located in the consciousness sea, so chips could be implanted to control even Cosmic-level warriors. The highest level of slave trade involved Cosmic-level slaves.

But for Domain Lords, their souls resided in ‘singularities’, also known as ‘life cores’.

For example, Luo Feng’s singularity had fused completely with his primal core, making his ‘primal core’ incredibly solid, which would make it extremely difficult for him to break through its constraints in the future.

To kill a Domain Lord, one must destroy that life core… but the life core could exist in any part of the body—it could be in the consciousness sea of the head, in the dantian, or even in the arms, chest, or any other location. Therefore, killing a Domain Lord first required determining where the life core was located!

The previous mental strike had allowed Luo Feng to confirm its position.

“Clang!” A golden streak of light struck Luo Feng’s blade.

“Bad.” Luo Feng’s expression changed. He saw Shi Fengxiong, dark and furious, charging toward him. His consciousness was at the peak of the Domain Lord level, while Shi Fengxiong also had Domain Lord-level consciousness. Although it was much weaker than his own, both were still ‘Domain Lords’, and a single mental-pressure clash only had an instantaneous effect.

Mental pressure only had significant effects when there was a large difference in levels.

“Hmph!” Shi Fengxiong glared at Luo Feng furiously, and three golden streaks of light surrounded his body, attacking Luo Feng simultaneously.

“It’s really painful. Fighters naturally have the disadvantage when facing mentalists, especially when facing a mentalist several stages higher than oneself,” Luo Feng realized he had little chance of winning. No matter how profound his comprehension of the laws, or how formidable his movement technique, under a sky filled with mental-force weapons, perhaps there was still hope of victory.

But if the opponent was several stages higher, how could one fight?

Even the Gold-Horned King Beast, before cultivating various secret techniques like ‘Heaven and Earth of the Original Body’, could only rely on his innate talent to fight against third-stage high school students, and dominate second-stage human warriors.

Xiu! Xiu! Xiu!

The three golden streaks of light were as fast as lightning. No matter how fast Luo Feng was, he couldn’t evade them. One golden streak pierced through Luo Feng’s throat instantly, completely penetrating it. The fierce energy instantly turned his head into a pulp.

Plop!

Luo Feng fell.

“What terrifying consciousness! He… who is he exactly? His consciousness is even stronger than mine, and his comprehension of the laws is also this high,” Shi Fengxiong approached the corpse, gazing at it in amazement. “A pity, a ninth-stage Cosmic-level warrior dares to kill me. He truly deserves to die. Let me see who he is!”

Then, with a thought, he activated the helmet’s faceplate, lifting it upward to reveal the face of a young man.

“Hello!” The young man suddenly opened his eyes, a hint of apology in his gaze.

“Eh!”

Shi Fengxiong widened his eyes and looked down. A war blade had already pierced his chest, directly stabbing into his life core. Unfortunately, his life core was only an ordinary human’s… nothing like the monstrous life core of the Gold-Horned King Beast. In fact, the life cores of countless humans were very fragile; how could they compare to the Gold-Horned King Beast, which naturally possessed an ‘inner world’?

When a Gold-Horned King Beast reached the Domain Lord level, its inner world would already be over 100,000 kilometers in both length and width—far larger than Earth.

But ordinary human Domain Lords had only just begun to cultivate their inner worlds. The true formation of an inner world would not occur until the Boundary Lord level.

Could the primal core not be tough when it had to support such a massive inner world?

A sixth-stage Domain Lord Gold-Horned King Beast had a primal core so tough that even a sixth-stage Domain Lord warrior would find it hard to break through! Just like when Hong and Thunder had entered the body of the Gold-Horned King Beast, burning their souls and attacking the primal core with spears and war blades, but still failed to break it.

Even at the peak of the Boundary Lord level, the Gold-Horned King Beast remained an unrivaled powerhouse among Boundary Lords… but no matter how many innate secret techniques it had, no matter how much inherited knowledge it possessed, Heaven would always set obstacles for even the most favored. This was why generation after generation of Gold-Horned King Beasts often became stuck at the peak of the Boundary Lord level, unable to break through.

“You—” Shi Fengxiong widened his eyes, and his entire body suddenly softened and collapsed to his knees, blood gushing from his chest.

“You stood before me with no caution at all. In an instant, I struck with my blade, and you didn’t even have time to react,” Luo Feng stood up, his throat now completely unscathed. He quickly pulled his faceplate down, fearing that revealing his identity might affect ‘Nabu’ and ‘Nake,’ father and son. His eyes, visible through the faceplate, gazed coldly at Shi Fengxiong’s corpse. “Don’t blame yourself. Probably very few people could ever imagine… a Cosmic-level warrior, whose consciousness sea had been completely destroyed, could still survive!”

Luo Feng looked at the corpse before him and shook his head slightly.

Originally, he had not intended to use special abilities to kill his opponent. He had wanted to fight at the level of a ninth-stage Cosmic warrior. However, he hadn’t expected this ‘Shi Fengxiong’ to be a mentalist. His final assassination felt somewhat ‘unworthy of victory’.

“Pity, I didn’t bring the Yian Weapon with me!”

“If the Yian Weapon were in my hands, my strength would surge several times over, and I would have a real chance of killing him.” Luo Feng shook his head. “Indeed, my Earthling main body is not suited for close combat!”

Then Luo Feng crouched down and quickly searched Shi Fengxiong’s corpse, seeking his target—a space-storing artifact.

“That’s it!”

Luo Feng instantly noticed a decorative pendant embedded in Shi Fengxiong’s belt. He immediately took the pendant. This metal pendant was indeed a space-storing artifact.

“I hope there are Blood Luo Crystals, the more the better!” Luo Feng’s mental force instantly surged into it, exploring its contents.

At this moment…

Within a one-kilometer radius around the palace, the area was in ruins. The palace was shattered, the surrounding corridors broken, and countless pavilions reduced to rubble. In the very center lay a corpse—Shi Fengxiong’s body—and beside it stood a black-armored warrior, coldly holding the pendant he had taken from the corpse.

“Not bad,” Luo Feng’s face showed a faint smile. “There are two Blood Luo Crystals!”

Shi Fengxiong had once fused with one Blood Luo Crystal. He had managed to obtain two more, hoping one day to become a ‘Blood Warrior’. Later, he had accidentally acquired an additional one, which he gave to his younger brother, Shi Fengzhan.

“Killing and looting—how ruthless!”

A cold voice echoed through the sky.

Luo Feng turned to look.

In midair stood two figures clad in silver-gray battle armor. Both of their faces were extremely grim.