Swallowed Star 2: Origin Continent-Chapter 297 : Late-Stage God Emperor Prey
Chapter 297: Late-Stage God Emperor Prey
Whoosh!
The Black Flying Boat advanced rapidly, passing through thick layers of clouds and moving farther and farther away from Rainlan City.
“According to the map, we’ve already entered the Elders’ hunting region,” Emperor Qing said nervously. He did his utmost to probe the vast surrounding void. “In this area my strength is too weak. I’ll have to rely on you, Brother Luo Feng.”
“Don’t worry.”
The Simulated Eye of Life and Death opened on Luo Feng’s forehead. At the same time, the Profound Azure Heaven Annihilation Formation Diagram inside his body began operating. Centered on the flying boat, a faint formation domain covered the surrounding region, guarding against ambush.
“You already know the hunting rules, Brother Luo Feng,” Emperor Qing said quietly. “But I’ll say one thing: the first time entering the Elders’ hunting region, you must maintain the highest level of vigilance.”
Rainlan City sold intelligence about hunting experience and rules, so Luo Feng naturally knew them.
But turning others’ experience into one’s own still required repeated trials.
Rustle… rustle…
While Luo Feng and Emperor Qing piloted the Black Flying Boat forward slowly, a phantom creature resembling a hundred-legged centipede was drifting nearby.
This phantom creature had completely concealed itself. Even Luo Feng’s Simulated Eye of Life and Death detected nothing.
It was known as the Blood Demon Elysis.
The Blood Demon Elysis race was a relatively large and famous race among Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms, renowned for concealment and terrifying poison. Cultivators were extremely wary of them.
Rustle… rustle…
This Blood Demon Elysis slowly moved while staring at the distant Black Flying Boat. It could see that a formation domain surrounded the vessel.
“Two cultivators dare venture this deep? But judging by their appearance, they are not Elders of Rainlan City.”
As a Late-Stage God Emperor Blood Demon Elysis, it held some status within its race and had learned certain information about Rainlan City’s Elders.
However, the intelligence it possessed was very outdated.
Under normal circumstances, Rainlan City’s Elders changed very little over long periods of time.
“I’ll test them first.”
After observing for a moment, the Blood Demon Elysis decided not to wait any longer.
Delays could lead to complications.
If too much time passed, other members of its race might discover these two cultivators. Then these two pieces of “meat” might be eaten by its kin instead.
Cultivators hunted Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms.
But likewise, Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms longed to hunt cultivators.
Evolution of bloodlines, improvement of strength, even complete freedom—if they killed enough cultivators, they could obtain all sorts of benefits.
“These are my prey!”
The Blood Demon Elysis suddenly lunged.
At this moment, Luo Feng and Emperor Qing were piloting the Black Flying Boat with maximum vigilance. Luo Feng maintained the operation of the Profound Azure Heaven Annihilation Formation Diagram inside his body at all times.
But they still did not detect the Blood Demon Elysis.
Rip—
A terrifying fluctuation instantly pierced through the Profound Azure Heaven formation domain.
Luo Feng’s expression changed drastically.
“Not good!”
Only when the powerful enemy penetrated the formation domain did Luo Feng sense the twisted creature covered in countless legs, like a centipede. The mere act of sensing it made Luo Feng feel nausea, dizziness, and a sense of heaven and earth spinning.
“It’s the Blood Demon Elysis!”
Luo Feng instantly identified the opponent.
At the same moment, his Immortal Blood Sea Body erupted completely.
Rumble—
The boundless Blood Sea surged outward in all directions, colliding with the attacking Blood Demon Elysis.
The endless Blood Sea operated with the Profound Azure Heaven Annihilation Formation Diagram as its core, generating terrifying power and forcefully blocking the Blood Demon Elysis’s attack.
“I’ll store you away first!”
Luo Feng unleashed the Immortal Blood Sea Body primarily to protect Emperor Qing.
At this moment, Emperor Qing was already swaying unsteadily.
Just looking at a Blood Demon Elysis could cause poisoning.
If touched, the effect would be hundreds or even thousands of times worse.
Whoosh.
While transmitting a message, Luo Feng directly stored Emperor Qing away.
The poison of the Blood Demon Elysis was too terrifying. Even a Late-Stage God Emperor Comprehender with a slightly weaker body could be poisoned to death instantly.
Emperor Qing absolutely could not touch it.
After storing Emperor Qing, Luo Feng could finally fight the Blood Demon Elysis with his full strength.
“This poison…”
The endless Blood Sea blocked the Blood Demon Elysis but inevitably made contact with it. The terrifying poison contained in the Blood Demon Elysis immediately spread into the Blood Sea and began rapidly permeating it.
“Die.”
The Blood Demon Elysis was extremely confident in its poison.
Even though they were Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms, they were born Primordial beings—creatures that had naturally escaped the Prison Cage.
Its poison was especially terrifying.
Sometimes, poison alone was enough to repel or even kill a Late-Stage God Emperor Comprehender.
Whoosh—
Luo Feng’s Immortal Blood Sea Body was massive. Without hesitation, he struck back with a claw.
The gigantic furry claw was simply enormous. As soon as it moved, it covered a vast area.
The Blood Demon Elysis had nowhere to dodge and was forcibly torn apart by the claw.
The moment it was struck and torn, the Blood Demon Elysis naturally split apart.
It divided into hundreds of millions of pieces—tiny centipede-like bodies scattered throughout the endless Blood Sea.
“One strike shattered my true body!”
The Blood Demon Elysis was shocked.
“So fierce?”
The power of that claw was too terrifying to resist, so it could only split apart to survive.
Hiss… hiss…
Heaven and earth spun.
The Blood Sea surged.
“Profound Azure Heaven!”
The Profound Azure Heaven Annihilation Formation Diagram inside Luo Feng operated at full power.
The endless Blood Sea enveloped the vast region, sweeping up all the hundreds of millions of tiny Blood Demon Elysis fragments and drawing them into the Blood Sea Eye.
Inside the Blood Sea Eye, the formation operated and a spatial cage imprisoned the hundreds of millions of miniature Blood Demon Elysis.
The countless tiny Blood Demon Elysis frantically counterattacked, causing the spatial cage to tremble as if it might shatter.
“Heart of Immortality, suppress!”
A cyan jewel suddenly appeared.
With the cyan jewel as its core, countless veins spread throughout Luo Feng’s body and extended into the endless Blood Sea.
With these veins spreading everywhere, the power of the endless Blood Sea increased severalfold, and its toughness surged dozens of times, gaining a hint of immortality.
The Blood Sea Eye—the core of the Immortal Blood Sea Body—merged into the interior of the cyan jewel.
With the support of the Heart of Immortality, the stability of the Blood Sea Eye soared. The spatial cage became far stronger and forcibly suppressed the hundreds of millions of Blood Demon Elysis fragments.
Hiss—
Inside the Blood Sea Eye, rolling waves of blood condensed into a furry claw.
The terrifying claw crushed down on the miniature Blood Demon Elysis.
One claw. Two claws. Three claws…
Each strike shattered large numbers of Blood Demon Elysis.
“No! No!”
“How is this possible? He isn’t even on Rainlan City’s Elder list—how can he be this strong?!”
The hundreds of millions of Blood Demon Elysis fragments were gradually destroyed.
They struggled desperately to resist.
But they could not escape.
And the Immortal Blood Sea Body, strengthened by the Heart of Immortality, unleashed terrifying power with that claw.
After just six strikes, Luo Feng tore apart the hidden Life Core of the Blood Demon Elysis.
The moment the Life Core cracked, all the fragments naturally fused together, revealing its true form.
“I…”
At the moment of death, the Blood Demon Elysis still could not believe its path of growth would end today.
“Finally killed it.”
Looking at the enormous corpse of the Blood Demon Elysis, Luo Feng let out a breath.
“I had to use both of my major treasures to kill it.”
With the World-in-Palm alone, he wouldn’t have been able to trap the Blood Demon Elysis.
Only the Immortal Blood Sea Body enhanced by the Heart of Immortality could completely suppress it, allowing Luo Feng to gradually injure and finally kill it with repeated claw strikes.
“So I’ve killed a Late-Stage God Emperor Low-Rank Primordial Lifeform.”
Luo Feng felt somewhat emotional.
Even among the Elder level, only a minority could kill a Late-Stage God Emperor Low-Rank Primordial Lifeform in a one-on-one fight.
He also knew he relied heavily on treasures.
Without the Heart of Immortality and the World-in-Palm, his strength would drop drastically. He would have had no way to deal with this Blood Demon Elysis.
“Hm? It’s dead, but the poison is still spreading?”
Luo Feng frowned.
Within the endless Blood Sea, the Heart of Immortality greatly slowed the spread of the poison.
But it only slowed it.
The poisoned area kept expanding every moment without any sign of decreasing.
“This poison can’t be eliminated.”
Without hesitation, Luo Feng separated all the energy that had contacted the Blood Demon Elysis and abandoned it entirely.
Nearly one-twentieth of the entire Blood Sea was cut away.
The poison continued to corrode it.
Luo Feng watched as that separated portion was quickly completely eroded, leaving behind a massive mass of twisted poison.
The poison was pitch black, forming a sphere roughly three thousand kilometers in diameter, constantly writhing and rolling with countless thread-like strands inside.
Suddenly, the sphere collapsed inward rapidly, shrinking until it condensed into a fist-sized mass of black liquid.
“I can’t deal with it at all.”
Luo Feng felt alarmed.
He didn’t dare touch the poison directly.
This was the special nature of Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms.
After all, they were beings born beyond the Prison Cage and possessed incomprehensible traits.
Some could hide so perfectly that cultivators could not detect them at all.
Some could even bypass Rainlan City’s many layers of defenses and infiltrate the city itself. Every era, cultivators within the city were assassinated by such infiltrators.
Fortunately, Luo Feng lived in the inner city and had not stayed long enough to encounter such incidents.
“The poison of Elysis can also be sold for a high price. I’ll store it first.”
Luo Feng placed the fist-sized black liquid into a storage treasure.
Elysis poison had to be stored carefully.
It must not touch any living thing.
Once contact occurred, it would immediately penetrate and corrode.
As long as one had not escaped the Prison Cage, their energy could not eliminate this poison.
“I must leave immediately. I can’t linger here.”
Luo Feng instantly turned into a streak of blood-colored light and silently merged into heaven and earth, departing.
The first rule of hunting:
After killing a Low-Rank Primordial Lifeform, leave the battlefield immediately.
After traveling for a while, Luo Feng released the Black Flying Boat and also released Emperor Qing.
Although Emperor Qing still felt somewhat uncomfortable, he had regained full clarity.
“We escaped?” Emperor Qing looked around and immediately warned, “Blood Demon Elysis have extremely strong tracking abilities. If its assassination failed, it might secretly track us—or even summon companions.”
“Don’t worry,” Luo Feng said. “It’s dead.”
Emperor Qing was stunned.
“The Blood Demon Elysis was very troublesome. I had to go all out and barely managed to kill it,” Luo Feng said. “Now that we’ve moved far from the battlefield, it should be relatively safe. Let’s continue hunting.”
