Chapter 4886
The Power of the Ancestral Vein!
boom!
Rumble!
The River of No Return roars like thunder.
Xi stood on the precipice-like riverbank, his golden eyes fixed on the churning, murky waters ahead, silent for a long time. The strong wind from the riverbank ruffled his tattered clothes, and also stirred the pain and hatred that had been dormant in his heart for countless years.
Ling Feng stood beside him, silent.
He knew that a proud and powerful person like Ruxi didn't need comforting words.
All I had to do was quietly stay by his side and wait for him to finish licking his wounds.
"Xiaofeng."
After a long while, Xi finally spoke, his voice regaining its usual calm, but beneath that calm lay a storm suppressed to the extreme.
Are you ready?
"Ready."
Ling Feng nodded emphatically, his gaze resolute. "We will avenge our godfather and godmother together!"
Upon hearing the words "adoptive mother," Xi's pupils contracted slightly, then a relieved smile appeared on his face.
He raised his hand and patted Ling Feng's shoulder forcefully: "Good! Your words have comforted me greatly. However, you must remember, revenge is not the point. Cross this river, climb that giant mountain, we must get out! We must get out of this hellhole!"
"Ok!"
Ling Feng nodded emphatically.
Xi took a deep breath, fixed his gaze on Ling Feng, and said in a deep voice, "Now, let's get ourselves into peak condition before crossing the river!"
The two said no more and each found a relatively clean rock to sit cross-legged.
Ling Feng closed his eyes and concentrated, circulating his cultivation technique. More than two thousand star veins in his body slowly lit up with a silvery-white light, like a galaxy flowing through his body.
Xi's breathing became even deeper. There were no obvious abnormalities around him, but those with keen senses could see that the space around him was slightly distorted, and the light seemed to be absorbed by his body, making it appear particularly dim.
That was the faint gravitational field generated by the natural operation of the nearly 80 million star veins in his body. Even though the power of creation was sealed, its profound foundation was still awe-inspiring.
About half an hour later, the two opened their eyes almost simultaneously.
Their eyes met, and they both saw a resolute look in each other's eyes.
"go!"
Xi let out a low shout and was the first to leap off the cliff.
Without using any movement techniques, he simply plummeted straight down into the churning black river.
Ling Feng followed closely behind, his stellar energy surging within him, forming a silver-white protective shield around his body. Just before touching the river water, he adjusted his posture, bringing his feet together and extending his hands in prayer position, like a sharp sword piercing into the viscous darkness.
puff!
A dull thud followed, then an endless pressure from all directions!
Ling Feng felt as if he had jumped into a pot of boiling mud, but it was mixed with a lot of iron filings and glue. When it hit his body, Ling Feng grimaced in pain.
The river water was incredibly heavy, and it carried a chilling, foul energy that relentlessly eroded the protective aura around the body.
There is no doubt that swimming in such river water would require significantly more physical exertion.
Then, a wave crashed over him, and Ling Feng felt a sudden darkness before his eyes, as if an ancient divine mountain had smashed directly onto his forehead, shoving him underwater. All he could hear was the muffled roar of the water and countless tiny, eerie whispers that frantically drilled into his brain.
Similar to the feeling in the black water of the mountain stream, but the whispers of the River of No Return seemed even more eerie, as if they could always stir up the negative and repressed emotions hidden deep in one's heart.
Fortunately, a faint, warm sensation came from his chest, which was where he kept the nine-colored glass pearl close to his body.
That warm and gentle aura firmly protected his soul, keeping out the spiritual erosion.
It's really a great product!
Ling Feng secretly praised him, took a deep breath, and then raised his head to emerge from the water.
"call……"
He exhaled a breath of stale air. He was in the River of No Return, and the surrounding environment became strange and distorted. The floating mist above transformed into hideous and terrifying ghost faces, which was even more chilling.
Ling Feng suppressed his distracting thoughts and looked ahead. Not far away, a golden light shone stubbornly in the darkness, like a lighthouse.
It was Xi.
"Xiaofeng, stay close to me!"
Xi's voice came through the water, "Conserve your energy for the first half, I'll clear the way!"
After all, once they reached the whirlpool area in the middle of the River of No Return, even he couldn't help Ling Feng; Ling Feng had to rely on himself.
Therefore, Ling Feng must make the most of every bit of his energy during the first half of his journey through the River of No Return.
"understand!"
Ling Feng vigorously swung his arms, following behind that golden light.
The two of them, one in front of the other, moved slowly toward the roughly opposite bank, like worms struggling to crawl through thick asphalt.
With Youxi breaking through the water ahead and Lingfeng following closely behind, it was indeed much less strenuous for them.
Even so, just swimming in this river was already quite strenuous.
"This godforsaken place..."
Ling Feng felt a chill run down his spine; this was only the beginning, and they hadn't encountered any river monsters yet.
No wonder Xi had repeatedly warned himself beforehand that with his strength at the time, trying to cross the River of No Return alone would be tantamount to suicide.
Without Xi, the first half alone would probably have exhausted him, let alone the Death River in the middle and the strange "invincible monster" at the end.
Just as the two were getting further and further away from the riverbank until they could no longer see the riverbank at all, the current suddenly began to surge violently.
Splash!
In an instant, countless dark shadows, like ghostly hands suddenly emerging from the mud at the bottom of the river, surged toward the two of them in a dense, overwhelming manner!
The shadowy figures were twisted and unpredictable, some resembling leeches magnified billions of times, covered in suckers, while others looked like monsters pieced together from countless broken limbs.
Some were simply swollen, fleshy tumors with embedded, deathly white eyeballs...
These monsters, all exuding a chilling stench of filth, stared wide-eyed at Ling Feng and his companion with their various shapes and sizes.
Those eyes were filled only with the desire to be devoured by the river of greed.
Whoosh!
The next moment, countless river monsters shot out, moving with incredible speed in the muddy, viscous river water, completely unaffected by the water in the quiet room.
Damn it!
Ling Feng cursed under his breath. He and Xi's massive bodies were practically sitting ducks in the river!
"Humph!"
Just as Ling Feng was about to make a move, Xi snorted and shouted, "Little Feng, don't make a move, let me handle it!"
hum-
The next moment, countless tiny black dots of light appeared out of thin air centered on his body and then spread outwards.
Immediately afterwards, the black light stretched and deformed rapidly, and in an instant, tens of thousands of pitch-black flying knives began to spin wildly around the two of them!
Hiss hiss hiss hiss!
The sound of blades cutting through water was as dense as rain, forming an impenetrable wall of death.
The moment the river monsters rushed into the wall of blades, they were sliced and shredded by countless flying blades, turning into wisps of murky black mist that merged into the river water.
Xi didn't even need to deliberately control them; these flying knives, formed from his singularity, seemed to possess sentience and autonomously formed a combined offensive and defensive strangulation formation.
Even though those river monsters are immortal, it wouldn't be easy for them to penetrate this wall of blades.
"Amazing!"
Ling Feng was utterly shocked. Was this the true power of Xi, a powerful figure with 79 million star veins? With every gesture, singularities condensed into blades, unleashing ten thousand swords simultaneously, each forming its own blade domain.
Any random throwing knife would likely be far more lethal than his full-force "Obsidian Sky-Splitting Slash".
"This is the power of the ancestral vein!"
Xi's voice came from beside my ear, "Star veins can only serve as containers for the breath of creation, but ancestral veins have the potential to transform the breath of creation into divine breath."
"this!"
Ling Feng's eyelids twitched suddenly. He had condensed his ancestral veins and was actually able to refine the aura of the Creator God on his own.
"Of course, I only have eight ancestral veins. With my abilities, I can only condense spiritual energy that is between the breath of creation and the breath of the creator god. Only the singularity condensed from spiritual energy has spiritual consciousness and can form a sword domain like mine."
After saying that, he turned back to look at Ling Feng again, "It's a pity that you can't cultivate the Ancestral God Technique within this Eternal Ruins Realm, so I will definitely send you out!"
"No, Godfather, we should go out together!" Ling Feng gritted his teeth, a strange unease rising in his heart.
"Ha ha!"
Xi Lang laughed, "Yes, yes, let's go out together! We should go out together!"
shhhhhh!
Countless throwing knives continued to dance wildly, but under Xi's impenetrable "wall of knives," Ling Feng hardly needed to make a move, greatly reducing the pressure on him.
And so, the father and son continued to move forward within the wall of knives.
Time loses its meaning here; only the eternal roar of the flowing water, the sound of blades cutting, and the eerie howls of river monsters being strangled remain.
one day……
Two days...
Three days...
Finally, the water flow ahead began to change noticeably.
The roar grew deeper and louder, as if countless giant beasts were howling underwater. The flow of the water also became chaotic and disordered, churning into huge whirlpools.
This place is clearly the dead zone in the middle section of the River of No Return that Xi mentioned.
Ling Feng also clearly noticed that the closer he got to the whirlpool area, the more the river monsters that were originally dense around him began to disappear.
However, Xi's expression did not relax; instead, it became even more serious.
"We're almost at the middle."
Xi took a deep breath, stared intently at Ling Feng, and said in a deep voice, "The whirlpool area is just ahead. Once we get here, I won't be able to help you cross the river anymore. Everything will depend on you!"
"clear."
Ling Feng took a deep breath, "Father, you've already helped me a lot in the first half, and I've saved up enough energy. I believe we can definitely get through this smoothly!"
Let's hope so!
Xi sighed softly, but her expression grew increasingly serious, clearly not as optimistic as Ling Feng.
After traveling a distance, the scenery ahead suddenly changed.
Although the view was still blocked by the dark and murky river water, the entire area seemed to have become a giant mixer!
Countless vortices of varying sizes overlapped and intertwined, constantly colliding and merging, only to tear apart and separate.
At the center of the vortex was only a bottomless darkness, emanating a terrifying suction force, as if connected to the deepest abyss.
What terrified Ling Feng even more was that, just as they approached the edge of the vortex zone, he noticed that the primordial energy stored within the star vein was uncontrollably dissipating outwards and being absorbed by the nearest small vortex.
"what?!"
Ling Feng was shocked.
He then realized why Xi was so wary of these vortexes. Once the primordial energy within the star veins was drained, it would be equivalent to completely losing all support, and death would be inevitable.
"Xiaofeng, close your meridians! Lock all the star meridians and don't let the breath of creation be drawn away!"
Xi's voice came, and at the same time, the golden light around him fluctuated violently, clearly also affected.
The next moment, Xi Xin had a thought, and the wall of swords surrounding the two of them suddenly collapsed, turning back into countless black light spots that entered his body.
Without the barrier of the wall of blades, the remaining river monsters rushed forward in a frenzy.
Xi grabbed Ling Feng's shoulder with one hand and threw a punch at the same time, blasting those ignorant river monsters away.
The next moment, the two figures flashed and rushed directly into a relatively "calm" gap between the two nearest large vortexes.
The river monsters behind them could only watch the two figures from behind, and dared not cross the line again.
Clearly, even those river monsters were extremely wary of this deadly waterway.
As soon as they entered this area, the strange draining force instantly increased tenfold!
Ling Feng sensed that the primordial energy within the star vein was beginning to stir, about to leave his body.
He hurriedly followed the instructions and activated the "Closed Meridians and Locked Essence" secret technique that Xi had taught him, sealing off all the star veins and barely managing to lock the breath of creation firmly.
However, this meant he could no longer use the power of the Star Pulse and could only rely purely on his physical strength to forcefully break through those terrifying vortexes.
No wonder Xi instructed Ling Feng to conserve his strength.
Because in this area, all that's left to rely on is probably physical strength.
puff!
puff!
The two were like two fallen leaves, tossed about by the chaotic current.
Xi was in slightly better condition. His physical body was incredibly strong, and even without using the power of his star veins, he could withstand most of the tearing force with his physique alone. Moreover, he clearly understood the flow of energy here and could always find a relatively safe path.
Ling Feng was clearly struggling much more. Although his beast spirit body was powerful, it was still far inferior to Xi's.
Once caught in the vortex, there may be no way to turn back.
"Hold on! Xiaofeng, stay close!"
Xi's voice came intermittently.
"Don't worry, Godfather, I can do it!"
Ling Feng chased after Xi's retreating figure, gritting his teeth and persevering.
Once you cross this river, you can climb that giant mountain, and then you will immediately fall into the Ruins.
The way back is so close, how can I be trapped here!
Absolutely not!
One day, two days, three days...
In the vortex zone, the concept of time becomes even more blurred.
Ling Feng felt like a piece of iron being repeatedly hammered, and his consciousness began to blur.
He could only mechanically follow the indistinct figure ahead, desperately paddling and kicking.
Xi's speed also slowed down noticeably. The energy expenditure here was too great; even with his foundation, it would be extremely difficult for him to traverse such a terrifying area using only his physical body.
Around the seventh day, Ling Feng felt he had reached his limit.
But this deadly river basin shows no sign of ending.
His arms felt as heavy as iron, and each stroke seemed to drain the last bit of strength from his body.
Even more critically, the distance between him and Xi was gradually widening.
However, Xi could not stop, much less turn back; otherwise, the combined effect of the several vortexes he had brought back would only make Ling Feng's situation more dire.
"Kid, hang in there! You're the one who gave me hope, which is why I was able to come back here. You absolutely must, you absolutely must hold on!"
He could only slow down as much as possible, hoping that Ling Feng could catch up quickly.
He even regretted it a little; he should have let Ling Feng condense at least ten thousand star veins before setting off.
Everything now depends on Ling Feng himself. (End of Chapter)