The Blackfire Demon Lord put away the jade bottle and once again urged, “Luo He, you should also know that taking out part of the corpse of a Primordial Bloodline creature goes against the rules. This matter must be kept strictly confidential. These corpse materials must never be leaked!”
“Don’t worry, I’ll never leak it,” Luo Feng responded.
The Blackfire Demon Lord nodded and then disappeared.
Luo Feng, holding the cloth bag in his hand, didn’t need the reminder. He already understood the difficulty of obtaining even one-tenth of this corpse. After all, over hundreds of eras, he had put effort into pushing for this in both the Ancient Flame Kingdom and the Ancient Thunder Kingdom. Although he failed, he still understood many of the blockades involved.
Creatures of this level of Primordial Bloodline were guarded by Emperors and Monarchs.
It was said that the most powerful Ultimate Divine King-level Primordial Bloodline creatures were even guarded by incarnations or clones of the two great Ancestors! They feared these Primordial Bloodline creatures would escape and cause great disasters.
Luo Feng took one step and traversed the void, returning to the quiet room and entering the Star Tower.
In one of the spatial layers of the Star Tower, Luo Feng emptied the contents of the cloth bag.
The overwhelming aura made Luo Feng hold his breath.
“A body exhibiting the Twenty-Four Phases Form, this Primordial Bloodline creature... Though its strength is at the Second Stage Divine King level, it was probably top-tier even among them,” Luo Feng observed. “Low intelligence, low realm, yet it could still unleash such power. This physical body is likely very close to that of an Ultimate Divine King-level lifeform.”
From the corpse, a massive illusory shadow faintly gathered. It was a towering upright figure staring at Luo Feng, letting out a furious roar.
“Bloodline will,” Luo Feng understood.
This bloodline will was not the consciousness of the dead Primordial Bloodline creature. Rather, it came from the very origin of the Primordial Bloodline—a remnant will of a true Primordial Lifeform! Even after countless generations of dilution, its will could still be transmitted through the bloodline, possessing a powerful corruptive effect.
Walking the path of the Primordial Bloodline first required the ability to resist this corruption! Though this path was riddled with flaws and dangers, if one overcame all its weaknesses and calamities, it could still lead to great achievements—just like the Thunder Ancestor.
The Thunder Ancestor and Flame Wind Ancestor had once captured true Primordial Lifeforms, using their bloodline to reproduce generation after generation on the Origin Continent, thereby diluting the bloodline.
“Marvelous.” Luo Feng ignored the illusory will’s impact and reached out to touch the scales, examining the dark yellow talons on the hoof-claw. His consciousness seeped in, probing the interior of the materials.
As he examined it, the substance was magnified billions of times, allowing him to see the minutest details.
Every ten particles were fused tightly together, inseparable, naturally forming a Phase.
Two hundred and forty particles were divided into twenty-four groups. The twenty-four groups were entangled and rotating, forming twenty-four spatial structures! These twenty-four spaces resembled a formation, intricately connected and constantly rotating.
Luo Feng studied carefully.
Although the two Top-Tier Inheritances had provided detailed explanations, those were like three-dimensional blueprints. Now, with the living materials of a Twenty-Four Phases Form right before his eyes, the impact was overwhelmingly intense.
“Perfect, such a perfect lifeform. Every basic unit of life contains twenty-four spaces, and these twenty-four spaces are interlocked as if they were a single formation. Destroying such a structure... would be exceedingly difficult,” Luo Feng realized just by observing.
The Ten Directions World Form could only be considered the entry-level of the World Life Form path.
The Twenty-Four Phases Form truly revealed a glimpse of the terrifying nature of the World Life Form.
The path of the World Life Form was extremely formidable, but the Top-Tier Inheritance titled World Life Form could only be exchanged up to the Ultimate Divine King chapter in the Infinite Space. Moreover, Luo Feng was only able to utilize this inheritance effectively due to his “Formless and Phaseless” ability. However, the “Formless and Phaseless” could only transform matter born from the Origin Continent—and the Origin Continent could not produce materials above Ultimate Divine King-level.
If he became an Ultimate Divine King, he would eventually have to switch paths.
But that was something to consider in the future! First, he had to gain a strength that feared nothing on the Origin Continent.
“Each of the twenty-four phases is a flawless fusion of the Six Major Branches of Life.” Immersed in study, Luo Feng researched for over ten thousand days. Then, a spark of insight lit up in his mind—one complete Phase naturally emerged.
“Theory from scrolls is always shallow! Seeing actual living materials, I finally broke through the final bottleneck and comprehended the first phase of the Twenty-Four Phases Form!” Luo Feng laughed heartily.
The first phase of the Twenty-Four Phases was the hardest to comprehend.
Because every phase had a similar level of difficulty, once the first phase was understood... the second, third, and so on would become progressively easier.
Comprehending the first phase was already half the battle won for this lifeform structure.
“I can feel it—if I dedicate a bit of effort to comprehend and study, within ten eras, I will be able to advance the Origin Path of Life to the Second Stage Divine King,” Luo Feng sensed instinctively.
Comprehending the first phase had given Luo Feng immense experience in fusing the Six Major Branches of Life.
“No wonder the inheritance records state that the Twenty-Four Phases Form is theoretically the highest level of life form a First Stage Divine King can comprehend. But once you comprehend three or four phases, a breakthrough will come naturally.” Luo Feng was in high spirits.
It was still a difficult leap from First Stage Divine King to Second Stage Divine King.
Many Divine Kings were stuck at the first stage and ultimately chose to cultivate the Primordial Bloodline!
Even someone as proud as Divine King Jiayin, who didn’t cultivate the Primordial Bloodline, had become invincible within the First Stage Divine King. Yet even she found it extremely difficult to break through on her own to the Second Stage Divine King.
“When I had just become a Divine King, I had already grasped the Six Major Branches of Life, and my cultivation has gone smoothly because of this mastery.”
“Continuously observing the complete Origin Path of Life, coupled with the guidance of two Top-Tier Inheritances, in just over a hundred eras, I’ve touched the threshold of the Second Stage Divine King.” Luo Feng was quite satisfied. Of course, he wouldn’t be short-sighted and rush into a breakthrough.
Every step of cultivation had to be solid, constantly tempering one’s comprehension.
If shortcuts were taken early on, how would one comprehend the complete Origin Path later? And without a reference path, how could one comprehend what lies beyond the Divine King? By then, it would be too late for regrets.
“Compared to the Origin Path of Life, my accumulation on the Origin Path of Destruction is much slower. So far, I don’t sense a possibility of breaking through to the Second Stage Divine King any time soon,” Luo Feng reflected silently.
Although he had consumed two Five-Colored Elixirs, which greatly advanced his progress on the Path of Destruction...
The Path of Life, however, had the advantage of continual observation of the Origin Path, always progressing steadily.
“Now with Twenty-Four Phases Life Materials as a reference, my comprehension of the Twenty-Four Phases Form will be even smoother. It seems I’ll break through to the Second Stage Divine King first on the path of life.” Luo Feng looked at the massive corpse materials before him, then acted with a thought to begin collecting samples.
A few scales, flesh, bones, blood, the membrane on the tail, and the shortest talon.
The materials Luo Feng gathered made up less than one-thousandth of the entire batch.
After placing the samples aside, Luo Feng began telepathic communication: “Morosa, come to the Star Tower immediately.”
Ever since his master said “Good news will come soon,” Morosa had been restless, always awaiting the summon.
“To the Star Tower?” Morosa heard the telepathic message and was overjoyed.
Normally, his master didn’t summon him to the Star Tower.
Morosa skillfully arrived at the quiet chamber of the City Lord Residence and saw the towering Star Tower. With no obstruction, he entered it smoothly.
“Master.” Morosa had just spoken when he saw the towering Primordial Bloodline corpse materials nearby—especially that massive hoof-claw, which made his eyes light up.
“This... this is?” Morosa’s voice trembled with excitement.
Swallow it! Swallow it!
As a Realm Beast, his instincts craved it—he desperately wanted to devour the colossal corpse material before him.
“This is about one-tenth of a Primordial Bloodline creature’s corpse,” Luo Feng said. “Its physical strength far surpasses that of an ordinary Second Stage Divine King, and it even exhibits some traits of an Ultimate Divine King-level lifeform.”
“I can feel it…” Morosa gazed at it and murmured, “As long as I swallow it, I will definitely break through! I’ll become much stronger!”
“I spent nearly all the treasures I accumulated since coming to the Origin Continent, and even owed some favors, just to obtain this part of the corpse,” Luo Feng looked at Morosa and smiled. “Morosa, I’ve sacrificed a lot for you.”
Luo Feng was half-joking.
His massive effort was primarily to aid his own cultivation in the Twenty-Four Phases Form. In truth, he had only taken some scraps from the one-tenth corpse—the bulk of it was given to Morosa.
“Mm mm! Thank you, Master. You’re so good to me,” Morosa said eagerly, his desire blazing—he could hardly hold back.
Luo Feng asked, “Are you sure you can break through to the Second Stage Divine King this time?”
“Absolutely! I can feel it. This portion of the corpse is far more helpful than ten Second Stage Divine King corpses combined,” Morosa affirmed. “I’ll likely build a deep foundation at the Second Stage.”
“Good. Once you break through, I want to see what a Second Stage Divine King Realm Beast is truly capable of,” Luo Feng said, waving his hand. “Go to your designated spatial layer and slowly absorb it.”
The massive corpse materials, along with Morosa, were transported to his exclusive space.
“I’m getting closer to the Ultimate Divine King.” Morosa looked at the enormous corpse materials and immediately opened his gaping maw. First came countless streams of blood flowing into his mouth.
Although the bloodline will was roaring, Morosa didn’t care. He wasn’t merging bloodlines—he was devouring it with the ‘realm’ within his body, breaking it down completely.
With just the massive influx of blood into his internal realm, Morosa felt his realm had received immense nourishment, and its growth accelerated drastically.