Jie Beast Bedi crossed into the fifth rank. The already present crimson markings on its pitch-black skin began to shift and crawl across its surface as Bedi roared and unleashed its strongest technique, "Annihilation." Soon, these crimson threads lifted away from its body, hovering behind it.
A massive diagram of crimson markings floated behind Bedi.
Not a trace of crimson marking remained on Bedi’s body surface.
“Roar~” A bellow erupted, sounding as if torn from the deepest, most distant past. The colossal crimson diagram behind Bedi burst forth with blinding light. This diagram acted as a skeleton, and the light it emitted was like flesh and sinew, rapidly coalescing to form a gigantic phantom image of a two-headed Jie Beast.
The form of the Jie Beast, structured around the crimson diagram as its bone.
Radiating endless, dazzling brilliance.
“Annihilation!” Jie Beast Bedi roared.
“Annihilation!” The massive, luminous Jie Beast behind it roared in unison. The resonating cries caused even Luo Feng, observing from the void accessible through a mere thought, to feel a tremor in his soul.
Bedi’s right hand shot out abruptly.
The colossal luminous Jie Beast behind him extended its right hand simultaneously.
“Whoosh!” As its five fingers moved subtly, the very fabric of spacetime was agitated. Rumble~~ A vast, infinitely dazzling vortex channel of pure white materialized out of thin air, its brilliance millions of times more intense than that of a true star.
“Go!” Bedi’s right hand pushed forward forcefully.
The luminous Jie Beast behind it also pushed.
This dazzling white vortex channel spun violently as it charged forward, shredding everything in its path.
“Aaaang~~” While advancing, the vortex channel continued to spin, the centrifugal force capable of tearing anything apart.
“Peng!” The endlessly resilient wall of branches and leaves was instantly shredded and dispersed. The colossal sphere composed of countless contracting vines and foliage, spanning billions of kilometers, dissolved instantly, retracting back into the dark-green botanical treasure known as the ‘Thousand Silk Marsh.’
The vortex channel appeared slow.
But that was an effect caused by time nearly freezing; in reality, it was moving with absolute speed. Having pierced the restraints of the Thousand Silk Marsh, it hurtled directly toward Luo Feng in the distance. Luo Feng was already inside the Star Tower, which rested upon golden billows of energy.
Though confident in his ability to withstand the strike head-on, Luo Feng dared not be rash.
“Die!” Jie Beast Bedi fixed its gaze on Luo Feng from afar, expectation shining in both its singular eyes.
Inside the Star Tower, Luo Feng watched the dazzling, unparalleled vortex channel impact with burning intensity.
“Annihilation? Is this Annihilation? The strongest offensive technique across the six stages of a Jie Beast, imbued with a fragment of the Origin of Annihilation?” Luo Feng was shaken. A True God of lesser ability might only perceive the incredible might of this move, failing to see the profound secrets it contained.
But Luo Feng could perceive some of the mystery!
Although he was a True God, Luo Feng could actually create peak-level techniques of the eleventh rank. It could be said that his comprehension level was no less than that of an average Void True God! If he wished, he could cause his own miniature universe to rapidly evolve to a higher tier, thereby becoming a Void True God himself.
Becoming a Void True God was difficult, yet not insurmountable.
Simply reaching the ability to create peak-level techniques of the tenth rank was sufficient to ascend to the rank of Void True God.
The Primal Ancestor was an example of this progression!
Yet beings like the True Master of the Divine Eye, the Primal Chaos True God, and the City Lord of Chaos could only create peak-level techniques of the ninth rank.
Breaking through past that point was as difficult as ascending to the heavens!
It was similar to how Universe Masters who created peak-level techniques of the fifth tier found advancement nearly impossible.
Luo Feng became a True God upon reaching a physical divine body strength of one hundred thousand times the norm—a far greater feat than becoming an Eternal True God. Combined with his already lofty foundation, his insights into the evolution of the primordial chaos naturally yielded immense rewards. However, though he could now create peak eleventh-rank techniques, did Luo Feng dare to become a Void True God? He dared not!
Because once he became a Void True God, he would have to immediately venture into the cycle of reincarnation within a short timeframe.
He would lose any opportunity to confront the Jie Beasts. While he was undergoing reincarnation, the Jie Beasts would descend to devour his miniature universe, annihilating everything. The Original Universe would shatter, the Human Race would be wiped out, and Luo Feng’s lineage on Earth, along with his loved ones, would perish. Would Luo Feng permit this? Therefore, regardless of how high his comprehension level reached, he dared not break through, preferring to remain at the True God level indefinitely.
Only this way…
Could he secure sufficient time to battle the Jie Beasts.
“This is the Origin of Annihilation? And the Original Universe is the Origin of Life?” Luo Feng was utterly captivated by this technique. “A vortex channel representing a fragment of the Origin of Annihilation—it’s this blindingly spectacular?” The dazzling white vortex channel, rushing toward him at incredible speed, was mirrored in Luo Feng’s eyes. The secrets of this vortex channel were being uncovered piece by piece by Luo Feng, while far away in the ‘Black-Patterned Stone Pillar Space,’ his divine power avatar, operating under ten-million-fold time acceleration, tirelessly analyzed and comprehended, striving to elevate his own realm.
“Annihi…”
Having never encountered the Origin of Annihilation before, this was his first true exposure.
As a lifeform nurtured by the Original Universe, Luo Feng was completely immersed in studying this move.
“Boom!!!” Under the near-stoppage of time, the infinitely dazzling vortex channel struck the nine-story tower with a deafening roar, causing the entire Star Tower to shudder and be knocked backward.
“What a marvelous technique,” Luo Feng marveled internally. “Bedi doesn't even possess treasures like the Wū Qǐ God, the Shì Wú Wings, or the Blood Shadow Saber; he attacks purely with his physical form, yet unleashes such power. If I didn't have the Star Tower, though I could still block it, I would undoubtedly be at a severe disadvantage.”
As the vortex channel impacted the Star Tower,
Luo Feng clearly sensed the immense power of the attack. He quickly judged that he could resist it, but only while being absolutely disadvantaged.
The prerequisite for resistance was possessing the Wū Qǐ God and the Blood Shadow Saber!
“If you have the guts, keep hiding inside the Star Tower!” Jie Beast Bedi snarled fiercely. The colossal luminous Jie Beast behind him had already dissipated, and the crimson diagram had fused back into his skin.
Swish!
Jie Beast Bedi turned and fled at high speed.
He was not foolish.
If Luo Feng could effortlessly withstand his Annihilation while shielded by the Star Tower, why should he continue the fight?
“Bedi, you are the strongest Jie Beast, yet you flee just like that?” The Star Tower flew rapidly from behind him.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh~~~
The ‘Golden Sea Bead’ and the ‘Shì Wú Wings’ manipulated golden waves and nearly solidified spacetime, furiously binding Bedi. Luo Feng’s maximum burst speed was already terrifyingly fast, and with Bedi further restricted, the distance between them inevitably shrank.
“Damn it.” Bedi’s face contorted with fury, grinding its teeth.
It dared not decompose its body.
It knew that if it split into its ninety-nine avatars, they would be powerless against the Star Tower’s absorption.
Whoosh! The Star Tower rapidly pursued, closing in on Bedi.
“Bedi!” As Luo Feng’s cold shout rang out, a surging wave of divine power erupted like a tide, enveloping the fleeing Jie Beast. Although divine power itself offered little restraint, it acted like molten steel hitting water. As the wave of divine power washed over Jie Beast Bedi, hiss hiss hiss~~~ the divine power and the Jie Beast’s power frantically depleted each other.
Bedi thrashed like a madman.
From birth until this moment, it had never felt so stifled. It now understood that this Lord of the Galaxy’s reserve of divine power must far exceed its own, which was why he dared to employ this tactic.
“Do you think you can kill me with just this one move?” Bedi looked toward the Star Tower with both heads, roaring in anger. “Show some courage and step out here to fight me!”
“Very well.”
A silver-white figure flew directly out of the Star Tower.
Bedi was instantly stunned; it hadn't expected the Lord of the Galaxy to actually dare step out of the Star Tower.
“Is he not afraid I will kill him?” Bedi was immensely confused. When pushed to such a desperate situation earlier, it had nearly decided to use the ‘Jie Light Channel’ to escape—the ultimate escape method. However, activating it required burning the ‘Jie’ token within its body, forcing its level to drop by at least one tier.
As a fifth-rank Jie Beast, using the Jie Light Channel would regress it to at least the fourth rank, and it would then need to consume the equivalent of thirty fourth-rank Jie Beasts just to return to the fifth rank.
It would never willingly take such a desperate measure unless pushed to the absolute brink.
“Bedi!” Luo Feng approached, wielding the Blood Shadow Saber, cutting through the void. “I respect you, allowing you to die in battle.”
“Arrogant!” Bedi grew even angrier.
Instantly, the crimson markings on its surface reappeared, swirling around its divine body before floating behind it, beginning to emit dazzling light. The light rapidly coalesced, using the ‘crimson diagram’ as its framework, forming a radiant, luminous Jie Beast. Bedi and the luminous Jie Beast performed the exact same motion, simultaneously extending their right hands.
“Annihilation!”
Bedi unleashed its strongest move once more. Although executing this technique drained energy excessively, it was not as brutally punitive as the Jie Light Channel, which mandated demotion.
“Excellent.”
Luo Feng’s eyes were fixed on the intensely brilliant, dazzling vortex channel as he strove to study it.
Why step out to fight?
It was precisely to witness this technique, ‘Annihilation.’ Because this move contained a fragment of the Origin of Annihilation, there was virtually no other opportunity to comprehend it outside of facing a Jie Beast.
“It’s like this…” Luo Feng observed, while his divine power avatar, under millions of times time acceleration, meticulously dissected the mechanism.
“Die.”
Bedi glared at Luo Feng, teeth gnashing.
Boom~~~
The dazzling vortex channel crushed everything in its path, slamming into Luo Feng. Everywhere it passed, things were shredded. Nothing could withstand this vortex channel representing ‘Annihilation,’ yet Luo Feng stood motionless, holding the Blood Shadow War Blade, his entire focus locked onto the vortex.
“Light Wings.” At the very last moment, Luo Feng swung the Blood Shadow Blade in his hand.
The blade flashed, instantly forming an equally brilliant and colossal white light dragon, adorned with massive wings. This radiant light dragon stretched for billions of kilometers. Each individual white scale was more dazzling than a star, and the eyes of the entire white light dragon radiated cold indifference. With a single powerful beat of its massive wings, it lowered its head and charged headlong into the vortex channel.
Boom boom boom!!!
The vortex channel and the light-winged dragon collided violently.
In terms of comprehension, Luo Feng rivaled a Void True God. Augmented by the Wū Qǐ God, the Blood Shadow Saber, and the Blade of Annihilation, this single strike was comparable to the pinnacle attack of a top-tier Void True God! It possessed the destructive power capable of annihilating a miniature universe.