Swallowed Star 2: Land of Origin

The four super limit level exchanged glances.

To save their lives, they had to let their armies share some of the burden!

"If the four armies focus on escaping without harming the cultivators, given Luo Feng's coordination with the Heaven and Earth Array, he might break us down one by one and eliminate us all." The four super limit level were very aware of this point.

Even with four against one, they were already at a disadvantage, and this was without the formation being fully set up.

With the formation's support, even if the four of them focused solely on survival, they wouldn't last long.

"Once the four armies start slaughtering the cultivators, their destructive power will far exceed ours, forcing Luo Feng to save the cultivators." They understood well the mindset of their armies.

...

The divine emperor perfection level members of the four armies were each leaders of their respective units, following the 'kings' in the hope of capturing the city.

"From the moment we entered the city, I've wanted to slaughter! But the king forced us to first destroy the core area, and now we've ended up in defeat!"

"We've held back for so long, it's time to kill, kill to our heart's content. Maybe if we kill enough cultivators, we can regain our freedom!"

"We'll retreat while slaughtering, but the retreat speed will be slowed by 30 to 40 percent, and the casualties will be severe!"

"The king wants us to slaughter to lure the cultivators!"

"In the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm, we've always barely survived. With freedom right before us, why not fight for it?"

"This might be our only chance to break through a cultivator city! We'll regret it if we don't slaughter this time!"

The divine emperor perfection level members communicated their thoughts rapidly.

Within a breath's time, the divine emperor perfection level members of the four armies quickly reached a consensus.

They all decided to... retreat while slaughtering!

Though it would affect their escape speed, it also gave them hope for 'freedom'! Even if they couldn't regain their freedom, their bloodlines might advance further!

In fact, when they first entered the city, these armies already wanted to slaughter. But back then, according to the king's orders, they couldn't waste any time and aimed to destroy the core area! They even wanted to completely annihilate Luo Feng's avatar.

Only as the situation continued to evolve did they end up in this current state.

At this moment, the four armies, after being subtly guided by the four super limit level, all chose the same path!

"Retreat!"

"Retreat!"

The four armies all fled towards the city outskirts along the nearest path.

But as the mighty armies fled, they suddenly dropped their flying altitude and simultaneously focused on mass attacks. Thunder, various flames, black wind, curse killings, poisons, and other forces descended, breaking through the obstruction of the 'cyan-black mist' and forcibly affecting numerous cave mansions below!

Luo Feng's Heaven and Earth Array was a large-scale suppression and erosion. These armies, concentrating their power, naturally could break the cyan-black mist.

"Ah——"

"No!"

The cultivators in the cave mansions, already anxious while watching the high-altitude battle, became extremely tense seeing a vast low-level primordial life army directly overhead.

But when the powers indeed swept down, what they felt inside was only despair.

The cyan-black mist had already exerted itself to block, but it could only block part of the power, with the remaining terrifying power still sweeping over them.

"The path of cultivation is full of various calamities. Cultivators fight and kill each other, become entrapped in bottlenecks while comprehending the Great Dao, risk crises while hunting low-level primordial life... Now, it's a heaven-sent catastrophe, the army breaking through the city..." said a middle-aged man sitting there, looking up at the descending power.

He was a cultivator who had come from countless worlds, and this was his true body, having no avatars.

"But, this path of cultivation, it attracts me too much."

The middle-aged man smiled.

From the lowest level of a weak world, he had become infatuated with cultivation as soon as he came into contact with it. Training the physical body, training the mind, practicing swordsmanship... He evolved continuously, encountered more, and even outlived an entire cycle of his hometown world.

He had traveled to other worlds too, entered even higher-level worlds. He kept gaining more cultivation knowledge and constantly strengthened himself.

"On this path, I, Cang Yu, have no regrets!" Under the terrifying power, the middle-aged man was instantly reduced to dust. Even at the moment of becoming dust, he faced it with a smile.

Boom——

Enormous power swept over numerous cave mansions, killing all the cultivators within.

At this moment, within Yulan City, the four armies retreated simultaneously. While fleeing, they sent out part of their forces to slaughter! Their powers varied, cutting off every possibility of the cultivators' escape.

The cultivators who could reach the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm each had experiences that could be described as legendary!

But at this moment, in the face of this calamity, one by one, they were annihilated.

Such is the path of cultivation!

Besides conflicts and fighting among companions, besides facing bottlenecks in cultivation, one might also encounter external cataclysms!

For example, a Source World getting devoured, a Holy Realm being completely obliterated, even entire worlds dedicated to training Divine Emperors being wiped out... In the face of such cataclysms, individuals are powerless.

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"The four low-level primordial life armies have started slaughtering." The array of elders watched with changing expressions.

As the City Lord, Luo Feng keenly sensed the situation throughout the city.

At the moment the city fell, Luo Feng had already foreseen this scene.

If the defensive system of Yulan City had stopped all the low-level primordial life armies outside, the losses within the city would have been negligible.

But the city fell!

The low-level primordial life army entered, and once they started slaughtering, the cultivators naturally died in droves.

Earlier, the low-level primordial life focused on winning, aiming to quickly kill their way to the core area. But now, everything had changed!

"All elders, go all out and suppress the four armies." Luo Feng commanded from afar.

"Yes!"

Nearly two hundred elders each deployed their formations, in coordination with Luo Feng's Heaven and Earth Array, to suppress the four armies together! Forcing those armies to allocate more power to self-protection, leaving less power for 'slaughtering.'

"Whoosh!"

Luo Feng's strongest avatar ignored the four super limit level and headed straight for the nearest army.

"Luo Feng is no longer paying attention to us."

"His other avatars are coming."

The four super limit level watched as Luo Feng's other avatars stationed in the core area, a total of ten avatars, moved through the gaps in the Heaven and Earth, heading towards them.

Luo Feng's ordinary avatars, though somewhat weaker than the super limit level, were now supported by the formation. Ten avatars were enough to entangle the four super limit level.

"Escape."

"Quickly escape."

The four super limit level didn't dare to hesitate and immediately joined forces to fly away into the distance.

Luo Feng did not push too hard; if the four super limit level fought to the death, madly slaughtering, the cultivators would suffer massive casualties too.

...

This army consisted of over 600 divine emperor perfection level, more than 8000 late-stage divine emperors, and some weaker low-level primordial life forms. While dealing with Luo Feng's Heaven and Earth Array and the formations of the elders, they also allocated part of their power to slaughter.

"Whoosh——"

Very suddenly!

Out of the cyan-black mist appeared a huge furry claw, its power terrifying, piercing through the layered defenses of the army in an instant!

"Not good." The members of the army were filled with shock and anger.

The enormous claw pierced through the defensive layers, sweeping through a large number of late-stage divine emperors and some divine emperor perfection levels, causing numerous casualties.

"Repel it."

"It's Luo Feng's secret treasure claw, repel it."

The army moved and suppressed the enormous claw.

"Protect the entire army." More layers of defense tightly protected the whole army.

They quickly assessed the damage from this claw strike.

"Nineteen leader level have died, along with 126 core lineages." The entire army was a bit agitated; their defenses, initially to resist the formations, now had to deal with this targeted strike!

Bear in mind that the explosive power of Luo Feng's strongest avatar exceeded that of the four super limit level, with an instantaneous burst of power comparable to the combined attack of over a hundred divine emperor perfection level!

"Luo Feng's strength is too formidable. We cannot possibly defend against his attacks everywhere; it's impossible."

"And there's the formation aiding him!"

With combined attacks from nearly two hundred elder formations and the Heaven and Earth Array, the burden was already substantial. Moreover, Luo Feng's concealed presence, aided by the formation, made it impossible for them to pinpoint his location.

"Whoosh——"

Another claw, from the midsection of the army, caused over a hundred more deaths!

The army mainly consisted of leader level and core members, as the vast majority were summoned from other areas of the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm; the lower and middle tiers had not been significantly gathered.

"Whoosh." "Whoosh." "Whoosh."

A massive furry claw attacked from different positions within the cyan-black mist.

"We can't determine his location!"

"He's everywhere!"

The entire army was in panic.

In reality, Luo Feng's strongest avatar had merged into the Endless Blood Sea, integrating with the Heaven and Earth Array, almost covering half of the army's area. The range was so vast that, through causality sensing, it felt like Luo Feng was everywhere around them!

"Run, run, run."

"Quickly escape."

Under the repeated attacks of the enormous claw, this army couldn't spare any effort to slaughter cultivators and immediately began to flee frantically.

They fled at full speed, protecting themselves layer upon layer.

How could their escape speed possibly match Luo Feng's pursuit speed?

Luo Feng delivered several more claws.

"Having killed over 200 divine emperor perfection level and 1500 late-stage divine emperors." Luo Feng stopped. If he continued, aided by the formation, he could completely wipe out this army, ensuring none escaped.

But——

While dealing with this army, the other three armies were still slaughtering the cultivators!

"Whoosh."

Luo Feng's strongest avatar, moving through the gaps in the Heaven and Earth, headed towards another army.

"Luo Feng is no longer attacking us." The heavily damaged army noticed the disappearance of the enormous claw and the cessation of attacks. But after losing a third of their forces, all that remained was panic.

While resisting the combined attacks of the Heaven and Earth Array and the elder formations, members were continuously dying!

"We can't attract Luo Feng back again. If he comes again, we'll be completely finished."

"Quick."

After enduring dozens of claw strikes, the army had no more illusions and made a full-speed escape.

...

"Hahaha, we escaped, we escaped."

The four super limit level rushed out of Yulan City, leaving the range of Luo Feng's Heaven and Earth Array and the elder formations.

There were some troops outside the city initially to prevent the cultivators from escaping. But with the defeat, the external low-level primordial life armies had already fled en masse.

"Luckily, the four armies slaughtered, forcing Luo Feng to stop them." The four super limit level, after escaping Yulan City, didn't slow down and continued flying away. After fleeing far enough, they dispersed and escaped separately.

Concealing their auras, dispersing and fleeing.

The four super limit level fled further and further from Yulan City, planning to leave this area entirely and escape to other regions of the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm.

"Escape?"

On the city wall stood four Luo Feng avatars, each with the Biomimetic Destruction Eye on their foreheads.

"Do you think you can escape?"

The four Luo Feng avatars maintained a sufficient distance from the four super limit level, tracking them with the Biomimetic Destruction Eye, following them from afar!

These four super limit level, once the army inside the city was dealt with, Luo Feng would naturally take care of them one by one!