Swallowed Star 2: Land of Origin

Luo Feng's avatar in the Dream Domain usually stayed in its outer layer, where the impact on the Spiritual Will was weakest.

At the moment, a weaker avatar scouted ahead while a more powerful avatar followed behind. This powerful avatar possessed one percent of the energy reserves of a "World-lifebody'sTrueBody."

"Phew." Luo Feng's two avatars silently hastened through various independent spaces and finally reached the deeper areas of the Dream Domain.

"The deep layer of the Dream Domain."

Luo Feng became even more cautious.

In previous long years, Luo Feng had already explored the deep layer of the Dream Domain! Here, even an ordinary life form possessed the strength of Emperor Gui Xu, and some leaders were even at the Emperor's level, making crises common.

"Huh? The Wanfa Tower Master is also looking for me?" Luo Feng paused, momentarily stopping his advance.

...

The battle for the territories of the Shi Kingdom thoroughly proved Luo Feng's strength! Although Land of Origin was full of strong individuals, the power Luo Feng had publicly displayed was already one of the strongest below the Emperor level.

Following the Time-Space Demon, the Wanfa Tower Master also personally visited Luo Feng, offering similar terms.

"The Wanfa Tower Master is truly as rumored, quite friendly towards us native cultivators," thought Luo Feng. Among the three alien races, the Two Realms Palace Master was domineering, the Time-Space Demon was unscrupulous, and the Wanfa Tower Master was compassionate and merciful.

The Wanfa Tower Master was even willing to instruct many Godly Kings in their cultivation.

"The four treasures, they value the first two the most: Special Life Remnants and Secret Techniques," thought Luo Feng after talking with the Wanfa Tower Master, as his avatar in the Dream Domain continued to move forward.

"Special Life Remnants, there are only two places where they exist! The Dark Area of the Dream Domain and the deepest part of the Heavenly Pillar Realm. Since the Heavenly Pillar Realm is completely sealed, finding Special Life Remnants... is only possible in the Dark Area of the Dream Domain."

The Heavenly Pillar Realm was heavily guarded by the two Ancient Countries, and Luo Feng had no confidence in confronting these two great powers alone.

The sealing of the Heavenly Pillar Realm must have been a joint decision by the ancestors of the two Ancient Countries.

Sigh.

After a long time, Luo Feng finally arrived at the very end of the deep layers of the Dream Domain.

"Up ahead is the Dark Area." Luo Feng looked at the expanse of darkness ahead, where only his Spiritual Wil could probe.

"Enter."

With a thought,

the weaker avatar entered first while the powerful avatar waited a while before following.

In the Dark Area, an invisible, terrifying force enveloped Luo Feng's Spiritual Will, continuously dragging at his Spiritual Will. If Luo Feng could not resist, he would completely sink into a dreamy slumber.
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"I need to use about fifty to sixty percent of my Heart Force to resist the influence of the Dark Area," thought Luo Feng.

His Spiritual Consciousness explored the surroundings.

The surrounding darkness was incredibly oppressive; even Luo Feng's Beyond God King Level Spiritual Consciousness could only probe around tens of thousands of kilometers.

"Puff."

The weaker avatar scouting ahead suddenly flashed with a beam of light, instantly piercing through the avatar.

Luo Feng's weaker avatar was obliterated in an instant. However, thanks to the super-strong Life Force of the 'Twenty-four Forms Life Form,' it was momentarily restored from nothingness, but just as it was regaining some form, the light flashed again and once more obliterated Luo Feng's weaker avatar.

"I saw it," said Luo Feng's weaker avatar upon recovering when it clearly saw the appearance of the 'light.'

It was a weapon resembling a Silver Shuttle.

It was just too fast; within Luo Feng's probing range of tens of thousands of kilometers, a flash of light meant an inevitable hit.

"So that Silver Shuttle-like weapon attacks twice, and my weaker avatar is gone?" Luo Feng was shocked, "This weaker avatar of mine, although low in energy, is still a Twenty-four Forms Life Form. Compared to the powerful avatar in the 'Ten Directions World Form,' it isn't much weaker. Even an Emperor should be able to withstand two or three strikes."

Carefully, Luo Feng proceeded forward.

He didn't deploy another weaker avatar, for within the range of tens of thousands of kilometers, discovering an 'enemy' meant a sure hit.

"Phew."

In the Dark Area, as Luo Feng continued his exploration, the ground was made of a strange black metal endlessly encrusted with Secret Patterns.

Walking on this black metallic ground, Luo Feng continued to search for the 'Special Life Remnants.'

"Huh?" Luo Feng suddenly shuddered.

At the boundary of the tens of thousands of kilometers his Spiritual Will could observe, a light flashed suddenly, and that light had already pierced through Luo Feng's body! The speed was too fast for Luo Feng to respond in any other way.

However, this avatar contained one percent energy reserves, equivalent to thirty percent of a Perfect Divine Body reserve! The energy was vigorous, and the body was resilient!

This beam of light, though it pierced through Luo Feng's body, his body rapidly recovered.

"One strike, obliterating about one ten-thousandth of my energy reserve?" Luo Feng thought, as his robe spread out into a massive river, transforming into a vast, surging Silver River.

The vast Silver River enveloped the surroundings.

Luo Feng stood at the center of the Silver River.

"Swoosh."

The silver light flashed; it attacked from beyond the boundary of Luo Feng's observation range! In a flash, it pierced through the obstructing vast Silver River and also through Luo Feng's body, then flew out from the other end of the observation boundary.

"No way to block, no way to entangle, I can only take the hit," Luo Feng realized the disparity, "It's too fast; so fast that at the moment it's launched, time seems to stop."

This silver light, in a moment when time stopped, crossed tens of thousands of kilometers.

"I want to influence the surrounding celestial rules."

"Even using a bulky body to obstruct is impossible."

In an instant, Luo Feng was at a loss.

The native life forms of the Dream Domain were immune to all attacks on the Spiritual Will, and Luo Feng's Spiritual Will attack had no effect whatsoever on this 'Silver Shuttle.'

His most powerful move, "Great Extinction Style," hadn't even started before the opponent's light attacked, crossing from one end of the observation boundary to the other! Luo Feng couldn't even lock onto the target.

"How to fight?" Luo Feng felt befuddled.

This Silver Shuttle, although it seemed to use a simple maneuver—moving back and forth with just one move—it was more terrifying than most Emperors.

"Thank goodness my body has a strong recovery ability," Luo Feng thought. Each time one ten-thousandth of his energy reserve was eradicated, the eradicated energy would quickly reintegrate and recover most of it.

"Swoosh." "Swoosh." "Swoosh." "Swoosh." "Swoosh." "Swoosh."

Suddenly, six beams of light flashed and instantly traversed the area Luo Feng was crossing. During this attack, the Silver Shuttle creatures did not pause; they continuously shuttled back and forth, ferociously slaughtering.

"Six Silver Shuttle creatures?" Luo Feng's face changed, and he immediately turned and fled without hesitation.

However, in terms of speed, he was far slower than these eerie Silver Shuttles.

Luo Feng had barely sprinted for over a dozen breaths of time.

The six Silver Shuttle creatures had madly besieged and slaughtered him over twenty thousand times.

"Phew."

Luo Feng narrowly escaped from the Dark Area and returned to the deeper area. The six Silver Shuttle creatures did not chase him any further.

"This avatar of mine now has only one-third of its energy reserve left," Luo Feng said somewhat fearfully, clearly concerned about his energy reserves. Even if a Small Universe was fully absorbing energy, it would only manage to absorb the energy reserve of a Perfect Divine Body in about one Era.

The energy lost this time would approximately take two-tenths of an Era to recover.

This was also the reason why Luo Feng was reluctant to use his True Body.

The environment in the Dream Domain was so harsh.

The stronger the avatar, the greater the cost of its death. Monarchs and Emperors without avatars dared not venture into dangerously treacherous environments.

"Dark Area, I just entered and encountered six Silver Shuttle Creatures? Each Silver Shuttle possessed Emperor Level strength," Luo Feng thought to himself. Six Emperors joining forces in a mad onslaught was terrifying even without understanding formations.

"Let's try a different entrance."

Luo Feng thought for a moment.

The powerful avatar immediately started heading back to replenish its energy.

Afterward, still maintaining one percent energy reserve, the powerful avatar entered the Dark Area through another entrance in the deeper area of the Dream Domain.

...

Merely moments later.

"My god."

This time, Luo Feng's powerful avatar couldn't escape.

"The life form I encountered in the Dark Area this time was far too strong! It was much more powerful than the previous Silver Shuttle creatures," Luo Feng felt a tremble in his heart. It was an enormous creature burning with flames, possessing a black metallic body.

The colossal creature was so large that, within the tens of thousands of kilometers that Luo Feng could observe, he could only see part of its head.

With one pounce, there was no escape for Luo Feng.

Its collisions and claws slashing, Luo Feng was merely severely wounded.

But when it swallowed Luo Feng whole!

Inside its body, the strangulating obliteration meant that Luo Feng's avatar, existing inside it for just a few breaths of time, was completely gone.

"Once swallowed, it was like entering a huge prison, with no escape. One could only wait for death, this already surpassed the normal strength of Emperors and Monarchs," Luo Feng felt somewhat speechless.

Into the Dark Area twice.

One encounter with six Silver Shuttle creatures, each at Emperor Level.

The next with a Dark Flame creature, yet it was significantly more powerful than the collective force of six Silver Shuttle creatures.

"How to explore the Dark Area? It's unexplorable!" Luo Feng realized; even if his True Body came, encountering the Dark Flame creature would mean death or losing most of the energy reserve, "I am still not strong enough."

"I only have one Ultimate Realm technique that barely counts, the Great Extinction Style, and I dare not bring a Super Secret Treasure in! Relying purely on the physical body, in terms of power, is not on par with the native life forms, and I'm even more deficient in other aspects."

"I need to be more comprehensive!"

"I need more Ultimate Realm techniques, movement techniques, defense techniques, Domain techniques... I need to be well-rounded in many aspects to qualify to explore the Dark Area," Luo Feng thought, suddenly feeling puzzled.

"These Three Alien Clans, knowing that there are Special Life Remnants in the Dark Area, must mean that some powerful beings retrieved Special Life Remnants from the Dark Area at some point."

At this moment, Luo Feng realized that there were always bigger fish.

Even in the Land of Origin, there were quite a few stronger than him.

"With my current strength, going into the Dark Area means certain death. Better to explore the deeper area. The treasures of heaven and earth in the deep area should be much more abundant than in the middle area," Luo Feng thought.

The 'Special Life Remnants' in the Dark Area were outrageously valuable, yet he was currently unable to attain them.

So, he decided to lower his targets and first explore the deeper area.

"After all, the strong cultivators of the Land of Origin primarily explore the middle area. Some treasures are worth tens of millions of Merit Points. The treasures in the deeper area are even more valuable."

"Maybe I can obtain treasures worth over a billion Merit Points."

Treasures worth over a billion Merit Points were also coveted by the Three Alien Clans and the Two Ancestors, who always purchased them.

With such treasures, he should also be able to trade for what he needed.

"Dark Area… One day, I will come and thoroughly explore your secrets," Luo Feng's avatar in the Dream Domain began to cautiously explore the deeper area! The degree of danger in the deeper area had clearly dropped significantly.

Here, the majority of creatures were at the level of Emperor Gui Xu.

Even the more formidable leaders were at the Emperor level and often acted alone, allowing Luo Feng's powerful avatar to escape.

Of course, if he encountered too powerful a tribe or too terrifying a leader, there was still the risk of avatar obliteration.

...

In the days that followed, Luo Feng occasionally explored the deep area of the Dream Domain, mainly focusing on cultivation.

Because exploring the Dream Domain also came with risks.

Once dead, he would lose an avatar with 'one percent energy reserve,' which would need to be slowly recovered through cultivation. Naturally, he had to control the number of explorations. Moreover, he needed to ensure that his True Body grew more massive and that the energy absorption rate of the Small Universe exceeded the rate of energy consumed by Dream Domain exploration.

Each time Luo Feng harvested precious treasures in the Dream Domain, he sent them to be stored with his outer layer avatar.

When the team from the Reincarnation Tower arrived in the Dream Domain, Luo Feng would also take the opportunity to send a powerful avatar in. When the team left the Dream Domain, he also took the treasures he had accumulated out with them.