Chapter 360: Perfection (Part Two)

“How is that possible?” Luo Feng was greatly shocked. In his view, even if the Lava Prisoner’s strength increased severalfold, it should have been impossible for it to escape from the furnace.

Yet at this moment, the resisting force contained within the furnace astonished Luo Feng. He suppressed it with all his strength, but the resistance surged sharply—in just a few breaths.

Bang!

The furnace lid was blasted open directly. A terrifying, dazzling figure burst out from within. The Lava Prisoner’s body had shrunk slightly, and its surface was covered with a layer of golden flowing flames. These golden flames even gave Luo Feng a sense of mortal danger.

“Something’s wrong.” Luo Feng raised his head and looked at that figure.

“You lowly cultivator, feel the true power of a High-Rank Primordial Lifeform.” The Lava Prisoner grinned, instantly transforming into a golden afterimage as it charged toward Luo Feng.

Luo Feng responded solemnly. With a stretch of his right hand, a cyan-gray long spear appeared in his grasp, thrusting out in an instant, containing the profound mysteries of Life and Death.

“Annihilate.”

The Lava Prisoner smashed out a punch directly. The fist carried the might of destroying heaven and earth, striking the long spear. The power transmitted along the shaft into Luo Feng’s entire body, causing his body to tremble. Luo Feng’s right hand holding the spear silently disintegrated into powder, and his arm shattered in multiple places with cracking sounds.

“Even through a secret treasure, it can break my arm? This is the true power of a High-Rank Primordial Lifeform?” In an instant, Luo Feng made a judgment. After all, he had studied multiple High-Rank Primordial Bloodlines and had deep comprehension of them.

He had already made deductions in his mind about the power that a High-Rank Primordial Lifeform should possess.

“The previous Lava Prisoner had all its strength completely sealed! Its movements were slow, and it could only use clumsy brute force. But now, it is using a trace of true High-Rank Primordial power.”

Luo Feng could also confirm that what the opponent used was only a trace! If it were any more, he would have been dead in a single exchange.

“The manifestation of power between the two sides is fundamentally different.”

“Before it, there is no distance, no strength or weakness—everything below the High-Rank Primordial level is annihilated.” With a thought, Luo Feng’s body merged into the endless Blood Sea, and the Blood Sea Formation fully activated.

Boom—

Golden flames burned across the Lava Prisoner’s body like a sun as it charged directly into the endless Blood Sea.

The sea water was rapidly eroded and annihilated! The vast, boundless Blood Sea—even with the augmentation of the Undying Heart, even forming a massive formation—was visibly being annihilated continuously.

When Luo Feng faced the Lava Prisoner, it was as if an icy continent had encountered a sun!

Luo Feng’s icy continent was incomparably vast and boundless. The Lava Prisoner’s “sun” was extremely small, like a miniature sun. Yet this miniature sun’s power was inexhaustible, able to continuously burn away the icy continent.

“There’s no way to fight this head-on!”

“In direct combat, even with secret treasures, my arm is shattered. In ten moves at most, my body will be torn apart.”

“Even using the endless Blood Sea Formation to resist, it will still be continuously burned away.”

At this moment, Luo Feng could not think of any way to defeat the opponent.

Was escape the only option?

With a single thought, he could split the Blood Sea into countless clones and escape through spatial fissures.

“Why should I run?”

“I’ve cultivated to this level precisely for a sufficiently powerful opponent! Even if this body is completely annihilated, the avatar in the Large Hunyuan Hall can quickly recover to 1.2 billion times energy reserves. This battle—either victory or death!” Luo Feng’s battle intent surged.

If this avatar died, losing over ten Life-and-Death secret treasures? Luo Feng did not care!

What he sought was true mastery of the Half-Primordial Life-and-Death Path!

Once the Path was completed, a few secret treasures were insignificant.

“Come!”

The endless Blood Sea surged with towering waves. Even as the seawater was annihilated, it still unleashed terrifying attacks, besieging the Lava Prisoner.

“Hahaha!!!” The Lava Prisoner now stood suspended in the air, completely indifferent as the seawater transformed into a dragon striking it, or into chains attempting to bind it.

All seawater was burned and annihilated by the golden flames.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle~~~~

Across the endless sea surface, a thin layer of golden flames covered parts of the area. These flames burned atop the sea, continuously annihilating vast amounts of Blood Sea water.

During the annihilation process, the golden flames not only suffered no loss, but instead absorbed the annihilated Blood Sea power! It was only due to sealing suppression that the Lava Prisoner could use merely a trace of its fundamental power.

“Hmph, High-Rank Primordial… to cultivators like you trapped within the Cage, it is a fundamental gap. Even if it’s just a trace of power, your body is large enough—but it will only take a bit more time.” The Lava Prisoner hovered in the air.

Golden flames eroded and seeped through, contaminating the endless Blood Sea.

“My Immortal Blood Sea Body has been annihilated by 0.3%, and 2.1% has been contaminated.” Luo Feng clearly sensed his condition. Against the contamination of High-Rank Primordial power, he had no means of resistance.

Once contaminated, the Blood Sea power could not be controlled—and would instead hinder the performance of his entire body.

……

“Did we go too far?” High in the sky, the silver-haired man Qiugē frowned slightly. “A Primordial Prisoner can mobilize a trace of true High-Rank Primordial power. Even Luo Feng cannot resist it.”

The woman in fiery red robes, Yifeiya, also frowned as she watched the battle.

The fight was completely one-sided!

Although Luo Feng’s body was enormous, he posed no threat to the opponent.

“Without that trace of High-Rank Primordial power, the Primordial Prisoner would be no match for Luo Feng,” Yifeiya said. “Luo Feng has already reached a terrifying level within the Cage. Only by using High-Rank Primordial power can he be threatened. Our choice was correct.”

“In the end, it’s only power contamination.” Qiugē nodded. “Even if Luo Feng fails, we can easily help him remove the contamination.”

As for soul contamination, the two of them had no solution.

Thus, they had sealed all of the Lava Prisoner’s powerful methods—its soul, Life Core, and more. At this moment, they only cautiously released a trace of its fundamental High-Rank Primordial power. And just this trace was already enough to overwhelm Luo Feng.

……

“That Primordial Prisoner can fly?”

“It’s become stronger.”

In the distance, over a thousand observing cultivators were astonished. Over endless years, they had dared to besiege it only because the Lava Prisoner was slow and unable to fly.

But now it could fly—and at incredible speed! That meant it could threaten many cultivators.

“God Emperor Luo Feng is doing his best to deal with it. We hope he can successfully kill that prisoner.” These cultivators all held expectations, while also sending the news back.

At this moment, some cultivators were already on their way. After all, the battle between Luo Feng and the Primordial Prisoner had attracted many, including Dao Lord Long Jiu and Divine Emperor Ji Ke. However, travel still required time.

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The endless Blood Sea returned to calm. It stopped attacking.

“Hahaha, stopped? Given up?” The Lava Prisoner stood in midair, overlooking the endless Blood Sea. Strands of golden flames burned across the sea surface.

Deep within the Blood Sea—

Luo Feng sat cross-legged, ignoring the Primordial Prisoner.

“My body has been annihilated by 3.1%, which isn’t too high. But the contaminated portion has reached 59%.” Luo Feng could feel that the endless Blood Sea was beginning to slip out of control—starting to resist him.

With 59% of his body contaminated, it rebelled wildly, drastically reducing his control over the remaining body.

His strength plummeted sharply, so Luo Feng stopped attacking. It would have been useless anyway.

“The contamination is rapidly increasing.”

“If this continues, this avatar is finished.”

This was an enormous avatar carrying many Life-and-Death secret treasures, with 1.2 billion times energy reserves. The annihilated portion was still small—but the contamination ratio was far too high, and it was still rising rapidly.

The power of a High-Rank Primordial—even just a trace!

Even with 1.2 billion times the energy reserves of a Perfect Divine Body, his Cage-bound power was still contaminated so quickly!

“In legends, newly advanced High-Rank Primordial Lifeforms—without any sealing—cause even more severe contamination, even affecting the soul and consciousness,” Luo Feng thought. “But as long as one’s mental will breaks free from the Cage, it can suppress and even expel all contamination.”

Hall Master Yuan Xiang had once encountered such a newly advanced High-Rank Primordial Lifeform—his very soul and consciousness were contaminated!

“And this is only a trace of High-Rank Primordial power.”

“It should be easier to expel. Suppress it! Expel it!”

Luo Feng ignored the Lava Prisoner. All his mental power condensed into one—his sole thought aimed at these contaminations.

The contamination continued, and the golden flames burned away portions of his life force…

“Suppress! Expel!”

Under the dual threat of contamination and annihilation, as Luo Feng fully condensed his mental power to resist, he faintly sensed a subtle transformation within his entire mental consciousness system!

Life possessed instinct!

Every unit of life within Luo Feng’s vast body possessed powerful spirituality and strong instinct.

Under the threat of contamination and annihilation, this instinct overwhelmed all others! It caused them to unite more perfectly, and the operation of the mental consciousness system underwent a subtle change.

This slight change was instantly perceived by Luo Feng.

“I’ve found it!”

Under immense threat, the transformation of the mental system allowed Luo Feng to glimpse a more profound method of operation.

What Luo Feng had always been searching for was precisely this—a trigger within the mind that would allow the system to function more perfectly.

Once experienced even once, at Luo Feng’s level, he could firmly remember the entire intricate operation of the mental consciousness system in this state.

Boom—

At this moment, Luo Feng actively drove his mental consciousness system to operate in this manner.

The moment he did—

He could feel that every unit within the endless Blood Sea had its mental power unified more efficiently. The vast consciousness network expanded rapidly, strengthening layer by layer, each strand of consciousness becoming immensely powerful, ultimately forming a complete mental consciousness that grew to an unprecedented level.

Boom!

Luo Feng’s mental will instantly broke through that layer of the Cage!

Breaking free from the Cage—true freedom attained!

His mental will felt an unparalleled sense of exhilaration!

The liberated mental will naturally spread throughout his entire body, achieving perfect control. The contamination carried by that trace of golden fire power was relatively weak—before this transcendent will, all contamination was expelled, leaving not a trace.

“Hahaha…”

Luo Feng felt boundless joy.

At this moment, the mental consciousness system perfectly governed his vast Blood Sea body.

Even after breaking free from the Cage, controlling his entire body felt effortless—requiring only a fraction of his mental power. Even while executing intricate techniques with such a body, he estimated he could still fully wield eight or ten secret treasures.

“My Life-and-Death Path, within the Cage, has finally reached perfection.” Luo Feng revealed a smile, feeling incomparably free and at ease.