Swallowed Star 2: Land of Origin: Volume 12: [Lord Luo Feng]: Chapter 21 (446): [A Minor Wound to the Chu Shi Hunyuan Ancestor]

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Swallowed Star 2: Land of Origin
Volume 12: [Lord Luo Feng]
Chapter (446): [A Minor Wound to the Chu Shi Hunyuan Ancestor]
(21st of Volume 12)
Translator: Shadow Knight AK
Editor: Shadow Knight AK
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"What should we do?"

"Next time, they'll likely target us again."

The most panicked were the three experts in soul techniques: the Ten-Thousand-Tentacled Dragon Matriarch, the Xingluo Hunyuan Ancestor, and the Dreamweaver.

Mo Gu Si was Immortal, and the Nirvana Hunyuan Ancestor was also one of the Nine Sovereigns.

But the Ten-Thousand-Tentacled Dragon Matriarch, the Xingluo Hunyuan Ancestor, and the Dreamweaver had much weaker physical bodies, only slightly stronger than the two who had already fallen.

"Among Eight Practitioner Lords, only two have weak spiritual will: Lord Jin and Lord Naigu," Mo Gu Si said, his confidence shaken after two consecutive defeats, "This time, we'll target the weaker ones."

His previous overconfidence, coupled with his deep understanding of Yuan, had led him to prepare a killing technique specifically for him.

This technique would be less effective against the other Lords.

The Lords' formation relied heavily on Yuan and Luo Feng, which was why they had targeted these two first.

Yuan was also hit, temporarily losing his ability to resist. Though he recovered very quickly that left Mo Gu Si puzzled.

But Luo Feng... remained completely unaffected, greatly diminishing Mo Gu Si's confidence.

"Target Lord Jin."

Mo Gu Si and his four allies unleashed their combined attack.

The soul technique silently enveloped Lord Jin.

The Eight Lords were holding off the overwhelming attacks, waiting for Lord Moman to recover before unleashing the Curs-Killing Calamity Formation.

"Hmm?" Lord Jin's expression suddenly shifted, his eyes glowing blood-red as he became immersed in a vast illusionary realm.

Lord Jin's temperament differed greatly from Yuan's. While Yuan had long suppressed his true nature, Lord Jin acted recklessly.

With Nightmare Hunyuan Ancestor and Thousand Eyed Hunyuan Ancestor already slain, the power of Mo Gu Si's soul techniques had further diminished.

"Troublesome subconscious fragments have emerged," Lord Jin said, maintaining his clarity.

His blood-red eyes swept the surroundings as he transmitted, "Everyone, I'll need to divert some attention to suppress these fragments. My effectiveness will be reduced to about sixty percent."

"Mo Gu Si's team is indeed the greatest threat," Luo Feng and the others agreed, having already devised strategies to eliminate them.

"Jin, you can rest for a moment. The four of us will handle this," Yuan transmitted immediately.

Lord Moman, Luo Feng, Lord Xingmang, and Yuan, the four Lords, resumed their coordinated attack with the Curs-Killing Calamity Formation.

Although Lord Jin's absence seemingly weakened their combined power only slightly, but sometimes annihilating a Hunyuan Ancestor required every last shred of strength.

"Buzz."

The Curse-Killing Calamity Formation descended upon the Ten-Thousand-Tentacled Dragon Matriarch, who remained protected by layers of defensive formations.

The Ten-Thousand-Tentacled Dragon Matriarch sensed the annihilation along the timeline, the vitality of her Life Core being extinguished, and violent fluctuations within it. Her countless tentacles twisted in agony, but she stubbornly endured.

Her life force was inherently stronger than that of Nightmare Hunyuan Ancestor and Thousand Eyed Hunyuan Ancestor!

Moreover, the power of the Curse-Killing Calamity Formation was insufficient to completely overwhelm her.

As long as she could withstand that instant, the massive influx of life force from her companions swiftly restored her to her peak.

"I endured it! I endured it!" the Ten-Thousand-Tentacled Dragon Matriarch rejoiced.

The Infinite Serpent Hunyuan Ancestor, Bingfeng Hunyuan Ancestor, Shazhou, and numerous other Hunyuan Ancestors all felt a surge of relief.

If even the physically frail Ten-Thousand-Tentacled Dragon Matriarch couldn't be killed, the pressure on the other Hunyuan Ancestors with even more formidable physical bodies would be significantly reduced.

"A killing technique that ignores all obstacles still has its limits," the Infinite Serpent Hunyuan Ancestor transmitted to all, "Under the relentless attacks of our soul techniques, the Practitioner Lords' strength will gradually wane. Eventually, they will be unable to withstand us."

"Focus on Naigu!" Mo Gu Si's confidence grew. The soul techniques of Mo Gu Si and his four companions once again descended upon their target.

In past encounters, Lord Naigu and Lord Jin had already suffered losses when facing spiritual attacks!

Although their Spiritual will was considered exceptionally strong, among the Eight Lords, they were still the two with the weakest spiritual will.

They were targeted once again!

"Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle."

Lord Naigu's gaze turned colder.

He slightly twisted his neck, and one head after another sprouted from his neck - nine new heads in total.

"Naigu, are you alright?" Lord Wu Lan asked worriedly, and the other Lords turned to look at Lord Naigu.

"My strength remains unaffected," Lord Naigu said calmly, "Fortunately, the power of this technique has been weakened by the deaths of the two Hunyuan Ancestors. The awakened Heterogeneous Bloodline Will isn't too strong. I can slay it with the Heart-Slaying Technique."

"Heart-Slaying Technique?" Yuan's eyes widened.

Luo Feng also frowned.

They had both studied Lord Naigu's Inheritance Manual and knew that the Heart-Slaying Technique involved voluntarily creating multiple sub-consciousnesses while still maintaining perfect control over them.

This was somewhat similar to the "Cluster Consciousness" technique, where there was a main consciousness and multiple sub-consciousnesses.

However, this path was ultimately less pure than a single main consciousness.

Lord Naigu's path was the "Hunyuan Bloodline Path," and one of the key challenges in controlling a Hunyuan Ancestor Bloodline was the residual Bloodline Will.

Lord Naigu had created the Heart-Slaying Technique long ago, but he had never needed to use it until now.

This time, the residual Bloodline Will within Lord Naigu's multiple Hunyuan Ancestor Bloodlines had been greatly amplified, making it impossible for him to suppress.

He was forced to employ the Heart-Slaying Technique, causing his Subconscious to split off one by one.

Though Lord Naigu appeared to have suffered no immediate loss of power, his cultivation path had fundamentally changed.

By moving from a single main consciousness to the Heart-Slaying Technique, the more Subconscious he created, the greater the collective consciousness would influence his main consciousness.

The other seven Lords were left helpless.

Lord Jin's situation was far better than Lord Naigu's. Having just been affected, he could still maintain sixty percent of his strength.

With more time, he might even recover to eighty or ninety percent!

This trial might even strengthen his spiritual will.

But Lord Naigu's cultivation foundation had fundamentally changed! Though he suffered no immediate loss of power, what about the future?

"This is the cost of war," Lord Xingmang transmitted, "Find a way to kill Ten-Thousand-Tentacled Dragon Matriarch, Xing Luo, and Dreamweaver."

"Kill our way into the formation," Yuan transmitted.

The Curse-Killing Calamity Formation couldn't even kill the Ten-Thousand-Tentacled Dragon Matriarch, so it had no hope of dealing with other Hunyuan Ancestors.

The Eight Lords wasted no time, immediately unleashing another killing technique: the Heaven-Severing Blade Formation.

The Heaven-Severing Blade Formation harnessed the Blood Shadow Blade's ability to slay all matter and energy.

The Eight Lords combined their power to control it, with Luo Feng even burning his Main Combat Clone, channeling thirty percent of his energy reserves into this single strike.

The thirty percent of Luo Feng's energy reserves he had tapped into far surpassed the energy burned by Lord Moman, Lord Jin, Lord Minghuang, and the others when they sacrificed their Main Combat Clones.

"Boom!"

The Eight Lords, fused with the Blood Shadow Blade, transformed into an overwhelmingly dazzling blade of light.

This blade was so radiant that even the Hunyuan Ancestors found it blinding.

The moment the blade appeared, it struck terror into the hearts of all the Hunyuan Ancestors.

"It can't be blocked."

"There's no way to block it!"

Every Hunyuan Ancestor shared this primal understanding.

The blade shone with blinding brilliance, as if patrolling the Endless Time-Space.

Wherever it passed, it silently sliced through layers of Highest-level Power obstacles and pierced into the depths of the Hunyuan Ancestors' layered formations.

These formations, composed of multiple combined Highest-level defensive forces, were meant to be impenetrable.

Yet the blade effortlessly cleaved through them all.

"Focus on Minghuang!" Mo Gu Si, the Nirvana Hunyuan Ancestor, the Ten-Thousand-Tentacled Dragon Matriarch, Xing Luo, and the Dreamweaver swiftly unleashed their soul techniques once more.

After having already dealt with the mentally weaker Lords Naigu and Jin, the remaining Lords possessed exceptionally strong spiritual wills.

"I'm fine."

Lord Minghuang endured the strike without a flicker of expression.

The faint subconscious thoughts that arose within her were instantly annihilated by her terrifying spiritual will, manifesting as golden lightning.

"It's utterly useless!" The Ten-Thousand-Tentacled Dragon Matriarch, Xing Luo Hunyuan Ancestor, and Dreamweaver all panicked, transmitting their voices urgently.

"The Eight Lords are closing in! We need to hide immediately!"

"Stay calm," the Nirvana Hunyuan Ancestor replied telepathically, "They'll have to break through layers of formations. The Chu Shi Hunyuan Ancestor is right here; he can absorb you into his body instantly."

"Let's focus on Moman first."

Based on past experience:

Lord Wu Lan was the most defensively formidable Lord, his spiritual will as solid as unyielding matter, impervious to any disturbance.

Lord Xingmang - Mo Gu Si and his companions couldn't even lock onto him;

Yuan and Luo Feng had already broken through from the soul technique.

Even the relatively weaker Lord Jin and Lord Naigu had endured it.

Only Lord Minghuang and Lord Moman remained viable targets for further attempts.

"Buzz."

A soul technique at full power might have posed a threat to Lord Minghuang and Lord Moman.

But now, reduced to merely sixty to seventy percent of its original power, Lord Moman easily withstood it.

As a pure embodiment of the Hunyuan Wave Dao, his main consciousness, like a fluctuation itself, effortlessly crushed any derivative subconscious thoughts.

"Kill!" The Eight Lords, having overcome countless obstacles, had finally reached the core, closing in on the trio of Ten-Thousand-Tentacled Dragon Matriarch, Xing Luo, and Dreamweaver.

"They're here," the three Hunyuan Ancestors thought. Unwilling to fight any longer, they each rushed toward the Chu Shi Hunyuan Ancestor, who silently absorbed them into his body, hiding them within the Absolute Sphere.

Only within this Absolute Sphere did Ten-Thousand-Tentacled Dragon Matriarch, Xingluo Hunyuan Ancestor, and Dreamweaver feel safe.

"We shouldn't have entered the fray with our frail bodies," Dreamweaver lamented.

Tempted by the Innate Hunyuan Lifeform Faction and Ice Peak Faction's dual tactics of coercion and resource promises, they had joined the conflict.

But who could have imagined that even the formation of Hunyuan Ancestors couldn't withstand the Eight Lords?

"Whoosh!"

Suddenly, a terrifying blade of light sliced through the Absolute Sphere's interior space.

The three Hunyuan Ancestors watched in horror as the blade appeared, instantly sweeping past them and carrying their dismembered bodies away in its wake.

..........

"What?"

The Chu Shi Hunyuan Ancestor stared in shock and fury at the scene unfolding before him.

The terrifying blade light, controlled with full force by the Eight Lords, had actually sliced deep into the Chu Shi Hunyuan Ancestor's body! Though the wound was incredibly thin, it had still managed to penetrate halfway through.

"Even working together, we couldn't even split him in two?" The Eight Lords, including Luo Feng, were astonished.

Even splitting a Hunyuan Ancestor in two usually didn't cause serious damage or consume much energy. A true slaying required completely annihilating the entity, including its Life Core.

A mere crack?

And only halfway through?

It was barely a superficial wound.

The Chu Shi Hunyuan Ancestor instantly healed completely.

"If the Eight Lords together can only slice this deep, I alone would barely scratch the surface," Luo Feng realized.

Yet this scene shattered the morale of the Hunyuan Ancestor's forces.

The Chu Shi Hunyuan Ancestor's injuries were merely superficial.

Yet even those hiding within his body had been slaughtered.

"There's no way we can win."

"This is hopeless."

"Retreat! Retreat!"

Panic gripped the assembled Hunyuan Ancestors.

More than half of them transmitted messages demanding withdrawal.

The fourteen Immortal Realm entities, including the Infinite Serpent Hunyuan Ancestor and the Bingfeng Hunyuan Ancestor, watched as the Chu Shi Hunyuan Ancestor's body was cleaved nearly in two.

Who among the non-immortal dared claim they could withstand such a blow?

In that moment, all fighting spirit vanished.

In that moment, they all understood: this battle was utterly lost.

They would never again be able to gather so many Hunyuan Ancestors for a desperate charge.

"Retreat," the Infinite Serpent Hunyuan Ancestor transmitted reluctantly, his willpower burning with reluctance.

"Retreat," the Bingfeng Hunyuan Ancestor also ordered.

In truth, the turning point of this battle had come when the Yuan, after being struck by the Mo Gu Si Team's ultimate soul attack, had unexpectedly recovered.

From that moment on, the balance had shifted in favor of the Practitioners.

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