Chapter 503: The Marvel of Blood-Net Crystals

Night wind howled like knives across the endless wilderness, flattening the weeds, faintly revealing a human figure.

His robes had been torn into rags, yet beneath the tattered cloth, his powerful body skin faintly exuded swirling white vapor. “Inhale!” Luo Feng sat cross-legged, drawing in a deep breath. His chest caved in while his abdomen bulged outward, as if a large balloon had formed there. Then the balloon slowly moved upward. His abdomen caved in again, while his chest bulged outward powerfully.

After that, the massive bulge split into four parts, shifting toward Luo Feng’s arms and legs.

His skin rose and fell in strange undulations.

“Hu!” Luo Feng slowly exhaled and opened his eyes.

“Finally made it through.” Luo Feng couldn’t help but exclaim.

Pain?

No matter how extreme the physical pain, Luo Feng could easily endure it. However, the sensation of fusing with the Blood-Net Crystal just now had truly unsettled him. Because aside from the extreme agony, the most unpleasant part was that he discovered his soul consciousness had completely lost control over his body!

Such a loss of bodily control was an entirely new experience.

“Anyway, that unpleasant sensation is finally over.” Luo Feng tore off the rags on his body and carefully examined himself. No matter how closely he looked, externally he seemed exactly the same as before fusing with the Blood-Net Crystal. The earlier violent bodily mutations during the fusion seemed never to have occurred.

“This shouldn’t be right.” Luo Feng frowned.

“Let me test it!”

He turned his gaze to the distance. “Telekinesis!”

Boom~~~A massive section of land in the distant wilderness, weighing millions of tons, including an entire hill, suddenly levitated into the air. Every grain of soil and sand was completely enveloped by his telekinetic force, not leaking a single particle. Under Luo Feng’s control, this entire hill soared through the air, circling in continuous flight.

“No difference.”

“Penetrating, ethereal, soft, and resilient—my telekinesis is exactly the same as before. My consciousness and willpower haven’t changed either.” Luo Feng shook his head. The hill spinning in the night sky above him suddenly plummeted, crashing down into the massive crater it had previously vacated with a thunderous boom.

“No effect on the soul? Could it be my body then?” Luo Feng furrowed his brow. Suddenly, he threw a casual punch.

Boom! The punch released a high-pressure shockwave that exploded the air itself. The terrifying blast wave tore away the grass covering the wilderness, exposing a bald expanse of soil spanning several kilometers.

“No change?” Luo Feng narrowed his eyes. His entire body’s skin rippled like waves, every muscle and sinew channeling their power instantly to his right hand—his fist! Then, Luo Feng unleashed his full strength in a single explosive punch, which struck the air with an ear-splitting explosion.

“I felt it! I felt it!”

“My cells… something deep within them has changed!” A glimmer of joy appeared in Luo Feng’s eyes. “This… this is a leap in life itself?”

For bloodline-based life forms, each major breakthrough triggers a leap.

Advancing to Stellar Stage, to Star-Lord Stage, to Cosmic Stage… other times are merely quantitative accumulations.

“My body is still at the ninth tier of Cosmic Stage—it hasn’t broken through any major threshold. Yet my tendons, muscles, internal organs—every single cell—has undergone a transformation.” Luo Feng felt both excited and anxious. Life-form leaps beyond the five major thresholds from Stellar Stage to Domain Lord Stage are never ordinary.

Books describe it as miraculous, and they don’t exaggerate.

But…

Even Luo Feng’s telekinetic senses couldn’t fully detect the deepest changes within his cells.

“There’s no other way. I can only gradually adapt, sense, and understand its changes.” Luo Feng muttered to himself. Then he looked up at the night sky and shot straight upward, instantly piercing through the clouds to the twelfth layer.

“I’ll uncover the secrets of my body’s transformation right here among the clouds.”

Luo Feng drew the Blood Shadow Blade and began training amidst the clouds.

…

At the Feiyun Pavilion in Yangang City, Luo Feng’s residence.

Though he had recently slain two major figures in Yangang City, Luo Feng was calmly cultivating at home. To avoid damaging the pavilion, he specifically used his telekinesis to form a protective barrier around himself, practicing within it. The shockwaves from his punches were entirely contained by his mental force. This allowed him to train both his mental strength and practice freely.

“Marvelous.”

“Truly marvelous.” Luo Feng, who had just begun to sense the Blood-Net Crystal’s wonders, was filled with excitement.

Suddenly, Luo Feng stopped and looked out the window. Two figures were approaching—Nabu and Nake, father and son.

“Time for a break.”

In a cheerful mood, Luo Feng descended to the first floor as Nabu and Nake arrived at the courtyard’s edge.

“Lord Feng.”

“Come in.” Luo Feng smiled and sat down, pouring himself a glass of local fruit wine from the Blood-Net World. Taking a sip, the icy chill coursed through his body, making him sigh in satisfaction. “What brings you two here so early?”

“We heard you had been captured by General Shi Feng and locked up, and young Kake here nearly jumped out of his skin with worry. Later, I accompanied him to visit you in prison, only to learn you had already been released.” Silver-haired Nabu chuckled. “So we came to visit you first thing today. Lord Feng, if you have any minor troubles or inconveniences, feel free to ask. While I may not be able to handle major affairs, I can smooth over most issues here in Yangang City.”

“Thank you.”

Luo Feng smiled. “But I don’t have anything pressing right now. Hmm? Nake?”

“Here.” Nake responded, though his expression was rather gloomy.

“What’s wrong?” Luo Feng asked with a smile.

Nabu could tell the mysterious expert was in a good mood today and explained with a chuckle. “Kake here has run into a little trouble with a girl, so he’s sulking.”

“Romantic trouble?” Luo Feng laughed. “Nake, did you get rejected?”

“What’s ‘rejected’?” Nake looked up at Luo Feng.

“It means you like someone, but they don’t like you back.” Luo Feng raised his wine glass, sipping contentedly.

“Exactly.” Nabu chuckled, patting his son’s head. But his son, Nake, irritably dodged away. Nabu continued, “She just didn’t fancy him. Actually, if you ask me, Kake did her a great favor once… Thinking about these two kids always makes me laugh.”

“A great favor?” Luo Feng was surprised.

“Dad,” Nake protested unhappily.

Nabu smiled and explained. “My son has always had a kind heart. He liked to visit taverns and other chaotic places with his guards, often hearing tales of great heroes. Naturally, my son became enamored with these heroes. So he started imitating one—some heroes rob the rich to help the poor, so he secretly gave away our family’s money to the poor. There was one poor family with only a mother and daughter. My son Kake secretly helped them for years. As the girl grew up, so did Kake. Somehow… my son fell for that poor girl.”

“Ah?” Luo Feng’s eyes widened.

Helping the poor, only to fall for the girl he was helping.

Nake’s face turned red.

“And that’s not all! My son kept giving money to the girl’s mother in secret, always behind the girl’s back,” Nabu shook his head. “When the girl wanted to cultivate and join a sect in our city, my son immediately gave a large sum of money to the girl’s mother in secret. Because of this, that poor little girl became a genius martial artist within the sect! Behind her back, my son secretly supported her family for twelve years!”

“And then?” Luo Feng asked curiously.

“My son secretly fell in love with the girl, so he joined the same sect,” Nabu shook his head. “Unfortunately, yesterday, when my son finally confessed his feelings, he was rejected.”

“Oh?” Luo Feng laughed even more heartily.

Nake glared angrily at his father.

“You can’t let me have a few words with Lord Feng?” Nabu glared at his son.

Nake could only lower his head, his ears burning red.

“There’s more!” Nabu continued excitedly. “If that wasn’t interesting enough, just as my son was rejected and walking out in a daze, the girl’s mother came to the sect to visit her daughter and met my son… That’s when it got really interesting. The girl’s mother grabbed my son, overjoyed, and called him her savior.”

“Really?” Luo Feng’s eyes lit up.

“The girl ran over, confused, and asked her mother who the savior was. Her mother honestly told her—the one who had been helping their family all along was my son.” Nabu laughed heartily. “At that moment, the girl was stunned, unable to believe it. She said Kake was barely twenty, yet the support had started over a decade ago.”

“The mother said that back then, it was just a rich kid, protected by guards, secretly giving money to poor families. She had watched that rich kid grow up before her very eyes,” Nabu sighed. “Never would I have imagined that a child’s playful act would lead to such a scene.”

“What happened next?” Luo Feng asked curiously with a smile. “How did the girl react to Nake?”

“The girl is also strong-willed and grateful,” Nabu said. “She directly told my son… you’ve done my family a great favor. I’m willing to serve you as a servant or even marry you if you wish.”

“Oh? Sounds like a happy ending.” Luo Feng smiled.

“It’s not over yet.”

Nabu laughed heartily. “My son, in a dignified manner, asked her, ‘Do you like me?'”

“The girl replied, ‘My heart belongs to martial cultivation. I have no romantic feelings for anyone. But you’ve done my family a great favor, and I have no way to repay it.'” Nabu continued. “After she said that, my son immediately said… I, Nake, will never force anyone. If you don’t like me, I won’t force you. Then, my son turned around and left with his guards. Haha…” Nabu couldn’t help laughing again after finishing his story.

“Funny, very funny.” Luo Feng also laughed.

“Dad!” Young Nake’s face turned bright red, filled with embarrassment and anger.

“Good, Nake, good.” Luo Feng praised him with a smile.

Nake clenched his fists and declared earnestly, “I won’t force anyone, but one day, I will make her fall for me!” He lifted his head proudly, filled with determination.

“Great ambition!” Luo Feng couldn’t suppress his laughter any longer and, like Nabu beside him, burst into hearty laughter.