Chapter 229: Dream Domain, Dark Region
Luo Feng’s clone in the Dream Domain usually stayed in the outer layer of the Dream Domain, where the influence on mental will was the weakest.
At this moment, a weaker clone scouted the way ahead, while a stronger clone followed behind. This stronger clone carried one percent of the energy reserves of the ‘World Life Form True Body’.
“Hu.” Luo Feng’s two clones quietly advanced, passing through one independent space after another, until finally they arrived at the deep region of the Dream Domain.
“The deep region of the Dream Domain.”
Luo Feng grew even more cautious.
In the long years before, Luo Feng had already tried the deep region of the Dream Domain! Here, even an ordinary native creature possessed the strength of an Emperor Guixu, and some leaders were at the Emperor-level. Danger was everywhere.
“Hm? The Pavilion Master of Ten Thousand Laws also came to see me?” Luo Feng was startled and momentarily stopped moving forward.
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The territorial war in Shiguo had thoroughly proven Luo Feng’s strength! Although the Origin Continent was full of powerful beings, the strength Luo Feng had displayed publicly already made him one of the strongest below the Emperor level.
After the Old Devil of Time and Space, the Pavilion Master of Ten Thousand Laws had also personally come to see Luo Feng, offering similar terms.“The Pavilion Master of Ten Thousand Laws truly is, as the rumors say, rather kind toward us native cultivators.” Luo Feng thought. Among the three foreign races, the Master of Two Realms was domineering, the Old Devil of Time and Space was ruthless, and the Pavilion Master of Ten Thousand Laws was merciful and compassionate.
The Pavilion Master of Ten Thousand Laws was even willing to instruct many Divine Kings in cultivation.
“Of the four treasures, the ones they value most are still the first two: special life remnants and secret arts.” After his conversation with the Pavilion Master of Ten Thousand Laws, Luo Feng’s clone in the Dream Domain continued forward once again.
“Special life remnants can only be found in two places! The Dark Region of the Dream Domain, and the deepest part of the Heavenly Pillar Realm. The Heavenly Pillar Realm is completely sealed off, so to find special life remnants… the Dark Region of the Dream Domain is the only possibility.”
The Heavenly Pillar Realm was completely sealed by the joint efforts of the two Ancient Kingdoms, and Luo Feng did not have the confidence to face them alone.
The sealing of the Heavenly Pillar Realm should have been a joint decision by the Ancestors of the two Ancient Kingdoms.
Hu.
After a long while, Luo Feng finally reached the end of the deep region of the Dream Domain.
“Up ahead lies the Dark Region.” Luo Feng looked at the darkness before him, which only his mental awareness could pierce.
“Enter.”
At his thought.
The weaker clone entered first, while the stronger clone followed after waiting for a while.
In the Dark Region, an invisible and terrifying force enveloped Luo Feng’s mental will, constantly dragging at it. If he failed to resist, he would completely fall into slumber within a dream.
“I need to dedicate about fifty to sixty percent of my mental strength just to resist the influence of the Dark Region.” Luo Feng thought.
His mental awareness scanned the surroundings.
The surrounding darkness was incomparably heavy. Even with Luo Feng’s mental awareness that surpassed the Divine King-level, he could only probe within a range of ten thousand kilometers.
“Pu.”
The weaker clone scouting ahead was suddenly pierced by a flash of light.
Luo Feng’s weaker clone was annihilated in an instant. Yet, relying on the powerful vitality of the ‘Twenty-Four Phases Form World Life Form’, it revived from nothingness once more. But just as it barely reformed, the light flashed again, and the weaker clone was annihilated once more.
“I saw it.” When Luo Feng’s weaker clone revived, he caught sight of the form of that ‘light’.
It was a weapon shaped like a silver shuttle.
It was simply too fast—so fast that within Luo Feng’s ten-thousand-kilometer observation range, a single flash guaranteed a hit.
“That silver shuttle-like weapon, with just two strikes, completely destroyed my weaker clone?” Luo Feng was shocked. “Even though my weaker clone had little energy, it was still a Twenty-Four Phases Form Life. Compared to the stronger clone of the ‘Ten Directions World Form’, it was not much inferior. Even an Emperor should be able to withstand two or three strikes.”
Luo Feng cautiously pressed forward.
He no longer split off weaker clones. Within ten thousand kilometers, once an ‘enemy’ appeared, he would certainly be struck.
“Hu.”
In Luo Feng’s probing, the Dark Region’s ground was a strange black metal, inscribed with countless secret patterns.
Walking upon this black metallic land, Luo Feng searched for ‘special life remnants’.
“Hm?” Luo Feng suddenly shivered.
At the edge of his ten-thousand-kilometer observation range, a flash of light streaked through, piercing Luo Feng’s body! The speed was so fast that he had no time to react.
Yet this clone contained one percent of his energy reserves—equivalent to thirty percent of a Perfect Divine Body’s reserves! Its energy was abundant, and its body was resilient!
Though the flash pierced through his body, it rapidly healed.
“One strike annihilated about one ten-thousandth of my energy reserves?” Luo Feng thought. At his will, his robe unfurled into countless streams, forming a vast silver river.
The Milky Way surged, covering the surroundings.
Luo Feng stood at the center of the galaxy.
“Xiu.”
A silver flash struck, coming from beyond the edge of his awareness! In a blink, it pierced through the vast galaxy and through Luo Feng’s body, then shot out from the other side of his range.
“Impossible to block, impossible to tangle with—I can only take the hits.” Luo Feng realized the gap. “It’s too fast. At the instant it strikes, time itself pauses.”
This silver light struck in the moment time was frozen, spanning tens of thousands of kilometers in an instant.
“I want to affect the rules of heaven and earth around me.”
“But even using my powerful body to obstruct it is impossible.”
Luo Feng was momentarily at a loss.
The native beings of the Dream Domain were immune to all mental will attacks, and Luo Feng’s mental will attacks had no effect on this ‘silver shuttle’ at all.
Even his most powerful ‘Great Annihilation Form’—before he could even activate it, the opponent’s flash had already crossed his entire observation range. He could not even lock onto a target.
“How can I fight this?” Luo Feng was somewhat dazed.
This silver shuttle’s moves looked simple, back and forth with one attack, yet it was more terrifying than most Emperors.
“Fortunately, my body’s recovery ability is extremely strong.” Luo Feng thought. Each strike annihilated one ten-thousandth of his energy reserves, but each time, the consumed energy quickly reintegrated, restoring much of it.
“Xiu.” “Xiu.” “Xiu.” “Xiu.” “Xiu.” “Xiu.”
Suddenly, six flashes appeared, instantly piercing through his observation range. This time, the silver shuttle creatures did not pause, but continuously shuttled, slaughtering madly.
“Six silver shuttle creatures?” Luo Feng’s expression changed. Without hesitation, he turned and fled.
But in terms of speed, he was far inferior to these strange silver shuttle creatures.
After only a dozen breaths.
The six silver shuttle creatures had already attacked over twenty thousand times.
“Hu.”
Luo Feng barely managed to rush out of the Dark Region and back into the deep region. The six silver shuttle creatures did not pursue.
“This clone of mine has only one-third of its energy reserves left.” Luo Feng felt a lingering fear. He cared greatly about his energy reserves! Even if a Small Universe devoured energy at full force, it would take an entire era just to absorb enough for one Perfect Divine Body.
The energy he had lost this time would take nearly one-fifth of an era to recover.
This was why Luo Feng rarely risked using his true body.
The Dream Domain was such a harsh environment.
The stronger the clone, the greater the price of death. Emperors and Monarchs who had no clones would never dare enter places so dangerous.
“In the Dark Region, I ran into six silver shuttle creatures right away? Each one had Emperor-level strength.” Luo Feng thought. Six Emperors joining forces for a frenzied attack, even without a Formation Array, was terrifying.
“Let’s try another entrance.”
Luo Feng considered for a moment.
Immediately, this stronger clone began to return to replenish energy.
Afterward, still carrying one percent of energy reserves, a stronger clone entered the Dark Region again, this time from another place in the deep region of the Dream Domain.
……
In only a moment.
“My heavens.”
This time, Luo Feng’s stronger clone did not manage to escape.
“The creature I encountered in the Dark Region this time was far too strong! Much stronger than the silver shuttle creatures.” Luo Feng’s heart trembled. It was an enormous creature with a black metallic body, wreathed in flames.
The creature was so massive that even within his ten-thousand-kilometer awareness, Luo Feng could only see part of its head.
With one pounce, Luo Feng had no way to escape.
Its collision and claw strikes merely left Luo Feng heavily wounded.
But when it swallowed him whole!
Inside its body, the tearing annihilation instantly destroyed Luo Feng’s clone within mere breaths.
“Once swallowed, it was like entering a massive prison cage. No way out. Only death awaited. This was already beyond the power of ordinary Emperors and Monarchs.” Luo Feng was speechless.
Two attempts.
The first time, six silver shuttle creatures, each at the Emperor-level.
The second time, a fiery Dark Creature, far stronger than the six silver shuttle creatures combined.
“How can the Dark Region even be explored? It’s impossible!” Luo Feng realized. Even if his true body came, encountering that fiery Dark Creature would mean losing at least half of his energy reserves, if not dying outright. “My strength is still not enough.”
“I barely have one move at the Ultimate Divine King level—the Great Annihilation Form. And I don’t dare bring ultra-powerful treasures in here! Relying purely on my physical body, in terms of raw might I can’t match these natives, let alone in other aspects.”
“I need to be more complete!”
“I need more Ultimate-level moves—movement techniques, defensive techniques, domain techniques… only when I am more well-rounded will I qualify to explore the Dark Region.” Luo Feng thought, but then frowned slightly.
“These three foreign races… since they know the Dark Region contains special life remnants, it must mean that someone has indeed obtained them from here before.”
At that moment, Luo Feng understood the saying: there were always stronger beings beyond oneself.
Even on the Origin Continent, there were still many stronger than him.
“With my current strength, entering the Dark Region means certain death. Better to explore the deep region. The heavenly treasures there should be far more abundant than in the middle region.” Luo Feng decided.
Though the value of ‘special life remnants’ in the Dark Region was unimaginably high, he did not yet have the ability.
So he lowered his goal—to first explore the deep region.
“After all, the strong of the Origin Continent mainly explore the middle region. Some treasures there are worth tens of millions of merits. Treasures in the deep region should be worth even more.”
“Perhaps I may even find a treasure worth over a billion merits.”
Treasures worth over a billion merits were exactly what the three foreign races and the two Ancestors constantly sought and purchased.
With such treasures, Luo Feng should also be able to exchange for what he needed.
“Dark Region… one day, I will return to probe your mysteries.” Luo Feng’s clone in the Dream Domain began carefully exploring the deep region! The danger level here was clearly much lower.
Most of the creatures here were at the Emperor Guixu level.
Even stronger leaders were at the Emperor-level, but they usually acted alone, so Luo Feng’s stronger clone could still escape.
Of course, encountering too powerful a group or a terrifying leader still carried the risk of clone annihilation.
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In the days that followed, Luo Feng occasionally explored the deep region of the Dream Domain, but mainly focused on cultivation.
Because exploration of the Dream Domain carried risks.
Every death meant the loss of a ‘one percent energy reserve’ clone, which required slow training to recover. Naturally, he had to control the number of expeditions. Moreover, he needed to keep expanding his true body—his Small Universe’s energy absorption speed needed to surpass his rate of consumption within the Dream Domain.
Each time Luo Feng collected heavenly treasures from the Dream Domain, he stored them with his outer-layer clone.
When the Wheel Reincarnation Pavilion’s teams came to the Dream Domain, Luo Feng would take the chance to send in his stronger clone, and when the team left, he would have them carry his accumulated treasures out as well.