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“Fifth Brother.”

“Fifth Brother!!!”

“Captain!” From a distance, human cosmic warriors who witnessed the scene cried out in anguish and urgency. Over the years, Nuolanshan had indeed forged many bonds of life and death.

“Bastards.”

“Ugly creatures, die!” The grief-stricken cosmic warriors fought even more ferociously against the scaled creatures. They believed Nuolanshan had been caught in the ‘aftermath of an Immortal God’s battle.’ Ordinary shockwaves couldn't kill a Realm Lord, but a single sword qi sweep would be fatal even for a peak Realm Lord, let alone a Third-tier Realm Lord like Nuolanshan.

“Kill!” The human cosmic warriors slaughtered the Qiushi Tribe, and the Qiushi Tribe warriors roared back, killing humans.

A chaotic melee ensued!

...

Nuolanshan’s death was indeed a result of Luo Feng’s covert machinations.

The Immortal Qiushi Tribe member Luo Feng was fighting was a Spirit Reader, controlling nine sharp swords! As Luo Feng manipulated the Beast God Weapon to block these nine sword attacks, in the midst of their desperate struggle, the Immortal Qiushi Tribe member’s sword collided with the Beast God Phantom’s claw. The sword was knocked askew, and the sword qi naturally deflected. The Beast God Phantom, while defending, subtly adjusted its direction, causing the deflected sword qi to shoot out precisely in the direction Luo Feng had calculated.

The Beast God Phantom’s claw strike, the angle of the claw when blocking...

Even the most stringent military system couldn't possibly determine that Luo Feng had intentionally killed him, as Luo Feng was merely defending against an opponent's attack.

And so...

Nuolanshan died! He thought he was absolutely safe within the army, but he didn't know that rules could have loopholes. Thus, he silently perished on the Outer Territory Battlefield, becoming one of countless fallen humans.

...

“Back then, Nuolanshan pushed me to such an extent, facing despair multiple times. At the time, he felt like an insurmountable colossus. But now... even after four millennia of life-and-death tempering, his strength has greatly advanced, yet before me, he is still like an ant. Killing him was effortless, like stepping on an ant, very ordinary.” Luo Feng mused, “Strength, this is true strength.”

“The Outer Territory Battlefield is a crucible of life and death.”

“Tempering, more importantly, is about improving strength, not just countless battles. It’s about constantly reflecting and pondering after each fight, gaining experience—that’s what’s crucial.” After subtly orchestrating Nuolanshan’s death, a powerful yearning erupted within Luo Feng.

To become a powerhouse!

To become a true powerhouse, possessing the ability to protect oneself, a powerhouse that no entity could casually trample upon.

...

“Go!” Luo Feng, stepping on Luofu’s Disk, pointed towards the Immortal Qiushi Tribe member in the distance.

“Roar~~~” A faint, as if traversing time and space, roar echoed. The Beast God Phantom, radiating domineering pressure, pounced again, completely compressing the surrounding space with its charge, bearing down on the unfortunate and battered Immortal Qiushi Tribe member. The Immortal Qiushi Tribe member roared, manipulating nine sharp swords to defend.

Rip!

The thick, powerful hoof-claw snatched, directly batting away the nine defending swords, then brutally grabbed towards the Immortal Qiushi Tribe member’s body.

“Bang!” Its body shattered, flying away.

The shattered body rapidly re-coalesced in mid-air. The Immortal Qiushi Tribe member roared, glaring at Luo Feng in the distance, uttering a harsh phrase in human common language: “Human Realm Lord, I refuse to believe I can’t kill you!” The nine sharp swords instantly transformed into nine streaks of light in mid-air, directly piercing towards Luo Feng himself!

“Whoosh!”

The Beast God Phantom’s massive scaled tail swept fiercely, batting away seven streaks of light. The remaining two streaks pierced directly towards Luo Feng.

“No matter what, you’re just a Realm Lord. Your body definitely can’t withstand my attacks,” the Immortal Qiushi Tribe member gritted out.

“Boom.”

Luo Feng held the Beast God Weapon shield, casually blocking. With the power imbued by the ‘combat armor’ that rivaled an initial Marquis-level Immortal God, combined with the Beast God Weapon shield’s inherent material, he easily repelled the two sharp swords.

“So hard to kill. A peak Immortal General is this difficult to kill. I’ve torn his body apart seven times, but each time he re-coalesces... but it seems he’s greatly weakened.” Luo Feng frowned, “Without the Star Devouring Plant, killing a peak Immortal General with just the Beast God Weapon... is tough.”

“Boom!”

In another direction, with a deep rumble, that Immortal scaled creature fell.

“Yang, Yang.”

From a distance, Shu Fan and Bo Yezhu, seeing Luo Feng still fighting, Shu Fan couldn't help but transmit, “This scaled lifeform seems to be an energy-based lifeform, more adept at body re-coalescence than normal flesh-and-blood lifeforms! Even without cultivating an undying body, if the strength gap isn’t too large, you might have to blast him apart dozens of times before he’s finished. Yang, use your Immortal plant lifeform to assist... first blast him apart, then immediately have the plant lifeform devour his shattered body, completely consuming it. He’ll naturally die. That’s the quickest way.”

“I understand.” Luo Feng transmitted, “I want to use him to practice a bit, wait a moment.”

Shu Fan and Bo Yezhu exchanged glances from afar, not daring to say more, and immediately went to dispatch the army to quickly deal with the Qiushi Tribe army.

“Run!”

“Escape!”

“Roar~~”

The Qiushi Tribe warriors cried out in their native tongue, fleeing in panic in all directions, while the human cosmic warriors naturally seized the opportunity to strike down the stragglers.

And the sole remaining Immortal Qiushi Tribe member suddenly showed a hint of panic in its eyes: “Those two human Immortal Gods are also here. If they team up with this terrifying human Realm Lord, I’m dead. Flee, flee, flee.” Disregarding further resistance, the Immortal Qiushi Tribe member turned and fled.

“Where do you think you’re going?” Luo Feng’s eyes turned cold.

Boom!

The World Projection rapidly increased its binding force. Under the World Projection’s restraint, the Immortal Qiushi Tribe member’s flight speed naturally plummeted, while Luo Feng’s flight speed was boosted, allowing him to quickly catch up.

“Human, don’t push me!” The Immortal Qiushi Tribe member turned, roaring a transmitted message in a harsh human language.

“Planning to self-destruct?” Luo Feng coldly smiled.

The gigantic horned lizard in the sky once again pounced with a roar, pressing down domineeringly. Its right and left hoof-claws continuously struck the Immortal Qiushi Tribe member. The Immortal Qiushi Tribe member was like a block of tofu, repeatedly torn apart by the massive Beast God Phantom’s frenzied attacks... yet it re-coalesced each time. However, each time it was torn apart, it clearly consumed a vast amount of its Immortal God power.

After all, it didn't possess an ‘undying body.’ Each time it was torn apart, it lost a significant amount of Immortal God power.

It couldn't escape!

And it was constantly under attack.

“Ah!” The Immortal Qiushi Tribe member roared, trying to charge at Luo Feng, wanting to self-destruct and drag the human down with it, but it was once again torn apart by a hoof-claw of the ‘Beast God Phantom.’

The Immortal Qiushi Tribe member was filled with grief and indignation.

It couldn't even get close enough to the human to self-destruct!

Driven to desperation, it had previously used soul attacks which failed to harm Luo Feng, and had also tried controlling psychic weapons to attack Luo Feng from a distance, which also failed. Now, it couldn't get close enough to self-destruct, and was repeatedly torn apart by the Beast God Phantom, finally driving it into a hysterical frenzy.

“Tear me apart, tear me apart, you’ll tear too!!!”

“Boom!” The Immortal Qiushi Tribe member actually self-destructed just as the Beast God Phantom tore it apart again.

Boom, rumble~~~~~

The self-destruction caused the surrounding thousands of kilometers of space to instantly collapse. The impact force generated by the self-destruction was a thousand times greater than a ‘peak Immortal General’s’ normal combat power... An Immortal God’s self-destruction was indeed the most ruthless move. Luo Feng’s ‘Beast God Phantom,’ being at close range, was directly shattered by the explosion, and a large number of rhombus-shaped metal fragments scattered. They then curved in mid-air and flew back towards Luo Feng, integrating into the Beast God Weapon shield.

“Killing a peak Immortal General is this troublesome,” Luo Feng shook his head.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Shu Fan and Bo Yezhu flew over from a distance.

“Haha, congratulations, Yang.” Shu Fan laughed, “Being able to kill a peak Immortal General alone is no easy feat. Even for us... it takes two of us working together.”

“It always takes two of you working together?” Luo Feng looked at them.

“Yes.”

Shu Fan nodded, “One-on-one, with comparable strength, it’s very difficult to kill a peak Immortal General. Even if you blast them apart... they can re-coalesce. Although it’s not like an undying body with no energy consumption, a typical Immortal General can maintain at least ten body re-coalescences, that’s not a problem. Especially if they feel they can’t resist, can’t escape, and their comrades can’t rescue them, in their grief and madness, they might choose to self-destruct... One-on-one, if they self-destruct at close range, even the victor might perish.”

“So, it’s usually two people working together.”

“When two people team up, once they gain an advantage and blast the opponent’s body apart, they immediately use their Immortal God power to individually restrain parts of the shattered body. First, they prevent the shattered body from quickly re-coalescing; it must be separated. However, those shattered bodies contain powerful Immortal God power, and their instinctive struggle is intense. Two Immortal Gods must exert their full effort to suppress them, each eliminating parts of the shattered body... Those body fragments are divided into two parts, one person dealing with one part, continuously blasting them, shattering them more and more finely, constantly depleting the enemy’s Immortal God power. In this pulverized state, the enemy also cannot self-destruct... Eventually, their Immortal God power will be exhausted, and they will completely dissipate.”

“If it’s just one person, first blasting and separating the body fragments, and then suppressing the instinctive resistance of those body fragments, unless their strength is significantly higher, it’s very difficult to do...”

“Unless you’re like Yang, using long-range attacks and not fearing self-destruction,” Shu Fan laughed.

Luo Feng nodded.

In the past, when he killed several Immortal Gods, having the Star Devouring Plant as an assistant made it much easier.

“Shu Fan, Bo Yezhu, I think... I should leave,” Luo Feng said.

“Leave?” Immortal Generals Shu Fan and Bo Yezhu were somewhat surprised.

“Now?” Both were eager for Luo Feng to stay in their team, but they knew very well... the probability of Luo Feng adventuring with them long-term was very, very low.

“Haha, you two are the first friends I made on the Yan Ji Continent. We’ll meet again someday,” Luo Feng laughed, “I still have my own plans, so...”

“Everyone has their own pursuits, we won’t force you, Yang. Retire alive,” Bo Yezhu said.

“Retire alive,” Shu Fan also said.

“Same to you, retire alive,” Luo Feng smiled.

Boom!

Luo Feng then transformed into a streak of light and quickly vanished into the distance.