Chapter 417: Victory Without Honor

The Nine-Headed Great Serpent, coiling across the entire landmass of Mount Destruction, observed Luo Feng.

"What a massive size," Luo Feng thought, secretly astonished. Size wasn't always better; for instance, the Infinite Serpent Ancestor could enlarge its body to rival a cluster of worlds, but at that size, it possessed no destructive power itself. Energy reserves were limited. Every lord and ancestor had an optimal combat form. Deliberately increasing one's size would only lead to weakness.

"Its energy reserves are far stronger than the Infinite Serpent Ancestor's," Luo Feng could sense.

Boom!

Without warning, it was as if the entire world had slammed into Luo Feng. The terrifying force sent him abruptly flying backward, plowing long furrows across the ground! Luo Feng's protective energy shield vibrated and twisted, and his blood-colored robe even showed some cracks.

"What immense power! This is the strongest opponent I've ever faced," Luo Feng marveled silently. He also realized he had been hit by the serpent's body.

Boom!

Unable to detect or defend, Luo Feng was struck again! It was the serpent's tail lashing out at Luo Feng, a force so powerful it was equivalent to the combined attack of twenty or thirty ordinary ancestors. Luo Feng was blasted backward!

On the vast landmass at the foot of Mount Destruction, the Nine-Headed Great Serpent was immensely large, while Luo Feng was comparatively small. Yet, Luo Feng was repeatedly struck! He had no time to defend or dodge.

"Its power is immense, but it seems somewhat direct?" Luo Feng noted. "The Nine-Headed Great Serpent's methods are very similar to those of the Infinite Great Serpent race," Luo Feng mused to himself. "It's practically the most perfect form of the Infinite Great Serpent race."

"What stands before me is the Nine-Headed Great Serpent. Moreover, the secret patterns on its body are even more perfect than those of the ancestor-level 'Infinite Great Serpents'! Its aura is stronger than even the 'Infinite Serpent Ancestor'!" During the wars between the two factions, Luo Feng had encountered multiple ancestor-level 'Infinite Great Serpents' and was very familiar with this primary race of the naturally born Origin Realm faction.

According to intelligence, Infinite Great Serpents of comparable strength could merge with each other! For example, three world-level Origin Realm perfect 'Infinite Great Serpents' could merge into a 'Three-Headed Great Serpent'. For 'Infinite Great Serpents' at the higher Origin Realm level, due to their vast numbers, there had once been instances where nine Infinite Great Serpents merged into a 'Nine-Headed Great Serpent', which was the limit of the Infinite Great Serpent race's fusion.

"It's a more perfect Infinite Great Serpent than the 'Infinite Serpent Ancestor'," Luo Feng surmised.

However, Luo Feng's defensive capabilities were formidable. After the Nine-Headed Great Serpent's terrifying power was weakened by his protective energy shield and blood-colored robe, it could no longer harm him. Luo Feng, having endured hundreds of strikes, remained completely unharmed. Luo Feng allowed himself to be struck, showing no urgency. Therefore, Luo Feng highly valued this opponent, the 'Nine-Headed Great Serpent'!

With his current strength, finding a comparable opponent in the entire boundless Origin Realm was extremely rare! Especially with the 'statues'—once he defeated one, he could only challenge a stronger one next time. Once he unleashed his power, he could directly and forcibly defeat this Nine-Headed Great Serpent.

Completely restrained and unable to move, Luo Feng had no other choice! "Slash!!!" Standing his ground, Luo Feng showed no mercy, unleashing streaks of blade light. Each blade light possessed the terrifying power of 'cutting through anything', severing the sprawling, immense body into dozens of sections. However, the dozens of serpent sections quickly merged back into one, with negligible energy loss! The Nine-Headed Great Serpent instantly vanished, hiding deep within the void.

"Interesting."

Luo Feng realized the Nine-Headed Great Serpent only used such direct moves.

Suddenly, Luo Feng felt the surrounding space change. He was trapped inside the 'Nine-Headed Great Serpent's' body. As the serpent's body began to shrink, space started to collapse, relentlessly crushing and attempting to shred Luo Feng. This forced him to exert his full strength! The Nine-Headed Great Serpent used its body as a cage, like a world-prison, binding and strangling Luo Feng. However, Luo Feng's body was immensely strong, allowing him to forcibly withstand all the strangulation.

Luo Feng no longer held back. Instantly drawing his blade, he unleashed an incredibly dazzling streak of blade light. The blade light severed all obstacles, as if splitting heaven and earth in two! Nothing could stand in its way! Swish, swish, swish—it naturally severed that section of the serpent's body! Only the 'Nine-Headed Great Serpent' was ensnared; even the void around it was crushed, making it impossible to hide. Its massive, winding body also couldn't withstand the terrifying blade light, shattering into millions of pieces! Although it merged back together repeatedly, under the continuous strangulation of the blade array, it finally reached its core.

"Although the Nine-Headed Great Serpent's methods are direct, its power is immense, and its moves can rival the combined force of seventy or eighty ancestors. Its body is also incredibly resilient; besides me, perhaps only the Sandboat could tear its body apart," Luo Feng thought.

"Now!"

Luo Feng sheathed his blade, then extended both hands!

"Ten Directions Annihilation!"

His 1.08 billion origins instantly burned seventy percent of their energy reserves, unleashing an endless torrent of erupting energy. These energies, guided by Luo Feng's mental will, transformed into ten incredibly fierce 'blade lights', which shot out from Luo Feng's ten fingers. The ten blade lights streaked across the boundless void, forming a Ten Directions Blade Array, completely sealing off all space and sky within the vicinity of 'Mount Destruction'.

Annihilating everything!

Rumble~~~

Under the strangulation of the Ten Directions Blade Array, dense black mist circulated on the surface of Mount Destruction, resisting all attempts at annihilation. Even the other seven motionless statues remained completely unharmed by the blade array's assault. The Nine-Headed Great Serpent directly dissipated, re-forming into a statue at its original location! Luo Feng could see with his own eyes that the black mist's density was rapidly increasing, and the suppression and restraint on him were soaring.

The endless mist suddenly began to contract. Its range grew smaller and smaller, and the binding pressure grew stronger and stronger! Luo Feng could no longer move; the black mist had shrunk into a stream of water, strangling Luo Feng!

"What?" Luo Feng was surprised. He had at least been able to move and wield his blade just a moment ago.

Boom—

"A mist domain? And one stronger than the Origin Beast Ancestor's domain?" Luo Feng was very surprised. The Origin Beast Ancestor was the strongest ancestor in terms of domain within the boundless Origin Realm, yet the black mist formed by the third statue had a domain suppression power that was a whole major level stronger.

"I can't move." Luo Feng felt the binding force was terrifying. Weaker bodies would likely have been shredded to dust, but his own body was inherently resilient, and with the 'Shadow Power' and 'Indestructible Power' from the Blood Crane Domain's force, he forcibly resisted the dreadful erosion and strangulation. Luo Feng couldn't even wield his blade. Instead, his 1.08 billion origins burned within him, unleashing dazzling blade lights that shot out from his body's surface! These blade lights barely traveled a short distance within the mist before being completely worn away. The energy from the dissipated blade qi was swallowed by the black mist, which remained immensely vast, with its energy showing no signs of weakening. Furthermore, within this black mist domain, the Ten Directions Blade Array couldn't even be deployed! Blade lights would be completely eroded in a short time.

"It's impossible to fight!" Luo Feng felt quite helpless. He prided himself on the immense power of his techniques, yet he couldn't even shake the black mist. And this was only the third statue. Under the shroud of black mist, Luo Feng repeatedly launched attacks, even using some newly explored techniques. But the black mist was incredibly resilient, easily eroding Luo Feng's blade lights. He hadn't expected that merely the third statue would push him to this extent; none of his direct combat blade techniques or killing moves could affect this reclusive statue.

"No need to continue."

Luo Feng had a thought!

Boom!

"There are no other moves."

Luo Feng's physical body transformed into energy, merging with his 1.08 billion origins. The 1.08 billion origins, like dazzling star clusters, formed an array! The array formed by the 1.08 billion origins instantly transformed into energy capable of destroying everything. When pure energy surpassed a certain limit, it created a special reaction, annihilating all space-time and matter. The energy from this annihilation would then merge with the self-destructing energy, making the power even more terrifying.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Rumble!!! The aftermath of the explosion swept across the entire landmass of Mount Destruction. It was too close! It had completely restrained Luo Feng, so they were too close. This caused the terrifying power to be unleashed at the closest range, enduring the most horrific impact. Following its instinct, a trace of astonishment appeared in the 'black mist stream' that was restraining Luo Feng. Crack, crack, crack... Even its formidable resilience was torn and destroyed. Its energy core was struck, and at the very instant it was hit—the black mist stream naturally annihilated itself.

"I... I won?" Luo Feng looked at the third statue forming in the distance, a little bewildered.

The energy from the explosion, guided by an unseen will, re-converged, forming the appearance of Luo Feng in white robes! He used his connection to the mysterious 'Blood Crane Domain', receiving a continuous flow of new Blood Crane Domain power, which formed a new blood-colored robe on his body. Winning against the third statue felt a bit unfair.

"This Mount Destruction also absorbs killing intent, hatred, and intense emotions from the boundless Origin Realm," Luo Feng mused. Earlier, when he touched the surface of Mount Destruction, he had felt immense impacts. This mysterious place, the Abyss of Destruction, made Luo Feng increasingly curious.

The newly formed statue gazed at Luo Feng.

"These seven statues on Mount Destruction all have some origin," Luo Feng thought. Did each statue seem to have an original prototype? The third statue resembled the 'Hermit'. The fourth statue was a black star. Some ancestors were star-shaped, and even some mysterious places appeared as stars... The fifth statue was a massive cube made of 125 smaller cubes, bearing a strong resemblance to the 'Demon Ruin'.

According to intelligence, the first statue changed according to external variations. "Perhaps the first statue has always been changing," Luo Feng thought. The first statue contained all powerful beings who controlled the world of destruction, apart from the 'challenger', like the Infinite Ancestor who was at a higher level than Kaxiu. It was important to note that the Infinite Ancestor surpassing Kaxiu was a recent event.