Chapter 4893
Forward or Backward?
"clang!"
The sword slashed down, striking the three-headed dog's forehead with great force, but the blade passed right through the monster's body without causing any damage.
Ling Feng's eyelids twitched suddenly. Could this monster be immune to the singularity?
Just as Ling Feng was distracted, the three-headed dog roared and pounced.
Three enormous heads simultaneously opened their blood-red maws, one biting at Ling Feng's head, while the other two bit at Ling Feng's shoulders respectively.
A foul-smelling storm swept in, and then a pair of steady, powerful claws pressed down on Ling Feng's chest. The violent force surged and almost knocked Ling Feng to the ground.
Damn it!
Ling Feng's expression changed, and he quickly withdrew the Ten Directions Annihilation.
Since the singularity's attack was ineffective and the power of creation could not be used, the only option left was to use brute force to confront it head-on.
boom!
It's too late to say, then soon!
The three-headed hound's claws slammed heavily onto Ling Feng's left shoulder.
Ling Feng sidestepped, grabbed one of the strange dog's front paws, and without even pausing for the pain, let out a roar and threw the strange dog heavily away with an over-the-shoulder throw.
"Roar!"
The strange dog let out a low growl, its body suddenly twisting in mid-air. Its pair of scarlet eyes stared intently at Ling Feng, and with a roar, it pounced again.
Ling Feng moved his left shoulder; the wound was pulling on his body, and half of his body was almost numb.
"hiss!"
Ling Feng gasped, and faced with the charging monster, he no longer chose to confront it head-on.
In an instant, Ling Feng shifted his feet and slid to the side like a ghost, perfectly avoiding the monster's attack.
At the same time, he clenched his right fist, the power of his star veins surged within him, and a faint silver-white light covered his fist. Without any fancy moves, he punched the monster in the side!
The saying goes, "A head of bronze, bones of iron, and waist of tofu." This monster looks like a dog, so it probably has similar weaknesses.
However, there was a loud bang!
The fist slammed solidly into the monster's abdomen, producing a dull thud.
Beneath the monster's fur was a layer of hard carapace!
"What kind of monster is this?!"
Ling Feng cursed under his breath, and his fist cracked open, with the knuckle of his middle finger sinking deep into the ground.
The strange dog let out a painful howl, and was sent rolling sideways by the immense force contained in Ling Feng's fist, plowing a deep furrow in the ground.
But it quickly got up, shook its head, and seemed not to have been seriously injured.
However, its three heads stared at Ling Feng, emanating a chaotic and violent mental fluctuation.
Clearly, they also felt a bit wary of Ling Feng's power.
"It seems that although the singularity is no longer effective, the power of the stellar veins is still useful."
Ling Feng shook his right fist, then clenched it again. It seemed he would have to use some real skill to deal with this monster.
In a flash, the monster roared again, pushed off the ground with its limbs, and pounced once more.
In an instant, the strange dog opened its three huge mouths filled with sharp teeth, and then three dark red pillars of magma shot out, heading straight for Ling Feng's face and chest!
"Humph!"
Ling Feng snorted coldly and stopped holding back.
With a thought, the nascent ancestral vein in his dantian flashed with golden light, and he suddenly activated the power of the ancestral vein.
The next moment, he pointed his fingers like a sword, and a point of deep golden light suddenly burst forth from his fingertips!
"Starfall Sword Finger, Break!"
laugh!
A golden light, condensed to its extreme and carrying a penetrating sharpness, instantly tore through the void, arriving first despite being delayed, and shot straight towards the monster's gaping maw!
After successfully forming the rudimentary ancestral vein, Ling Feng was qualified to cultivate the "Ancestral God Technique".
The most fundamental of these is the Starfall Force.
Previously, Ling Feng had only learned how to use the Star Meridian to apply the Starfall Force through his battle with He Xi.
But at this moment, with the ancestral veins opened, the power was continuous. With Ling Feng's powerful foundation of nearly a million star veins, even a casual strike was comparable to a black obsidian formed from hundreds of singularities!
Moreover, the power that erupts from the star veins is something that the strange dog cannot be immune to.
laugh!
In an instant, the power of the Starfall Sword Finger shot directly towards the head in the middle of the strange dog.
The monster seemed to sense the danger and tried to shut up and hide, but it was too late.
The black beam of light pierced its gaping maw with perfect precision, and then emerged from the back of its head!
puff!
Dark red blood, like magma, mixed with brain matter, spurted out.
The strange dog's attack suddenly froze, and its three pairs of pupils dimmed almost simultaneously. The next moment, its massive body crashed to the ground, twitched a few times, and then lay still.
dead!
"call!"
Ling Feng breathed slightly, looking at the monster's corpse on the ground, but felt little joy.
It seems that although this strange dog has amazing external defenses, destroying its brain directly from the inside can cut off its life force.
Putting aside its ability to be completely immune to singularities, this monster's strength is not particularly great.
It's roughly comparable to Thunder Emperor Tyrant Bear.
Moreover, its attack methods are relatively simple. As long as it does not rely too much on the singularity's attacks, defeating it is not difficult.
only……
Ling Feng frowned. Where exactly was this place?
How did I suddenly end up here?
Just as Ling Feng was filled with doubts, the scene before him blurred and distorted again without warning.
The familiar feeling of weightlessness returned.
The next moment, his vision blurred.
The desolate, crimson land and the monster's corpse had all vanished.
He looked around and found himself back in the same spot.
It's right on the same steps as before!
It's as if...
The battle just now was just a realistic illusion.
Do not!
The next moment, Ling Feng shook his head. The battle just now was definitely not an illusion.
The power he lost was real, and the pain from his fist was real too.
He raised his fist, and the wound on it was real.
This explains that he had indeed just fallen into a battlefield and had a great battle with the three-headed monster dog.
And that surprised him...
No, it should be called a surprise!
After that battle, the primordial energy surging within my star veins seemed to have undergone some subtle changes.
It could even be said to be negligible, but Ling Feng still noticed it thanks to his keen perception.
Not long ago, under the infusion of Xi's ancestral vein source power, Ling Feng successfully opened up the rudimentary form of the ancestral vein.
As a result, a trace of the ancestral spiritual energy belonging to Xi appeared in his body.
At this moment, Ling Feng's own aura of creation was actually showing a faint tendency to transform into spiritual energy.
Ling Feng was 100% certain that this change occurred after the battle they had just fought.
"So, this is... a reward after the battle?"
Ling Feng narrowed his eyes, seemingly lost in thought.
His gaze shifted downwards, landing on the stone step where he had just stood. Suddenly, his pupils contracted slightly.
The color of the stone steps...
changed!
What was originally a dark brown has now turned into a light blue!
The steps above and below remained unchanged, making this touch of blue particularly striking.
"Could it be..."
Ling Feng's mind raced, and some guesses began to form in his heart.
After a moment, he finally made a decision.
Taking a deep breath, Ling Feng lifted his foot again and took a step up, landing on the 501st stone step.
Then he stopped and waited quietly.
One breath, two breaths, three breaths...
Just as he silently counted to about five breaths in his mind.
That familiar feeling of weightlessness during spatial transitions came rushing back again!
The scene before my eyes changed in an instant!
This time, it was no longer a desolate, crimson land, but a valley filled with jagged rocks and shrouded in gray mist.
A rustling sound came from within the mist.
Immediately afterwards, two dark figures emerged from the mist, one on the left and one on the right, like ghosts!
This time, there were two monsters covered in dark red armor, each with a different appearance.
It resembled an enlarged version of a scorpion, with a venomous stinger at its tail that gleamed with a chilling blue light.
The other one resembles an upright-walking crocodile, with exceptionally well-developed forelimbs and a pair of sharp claws as razor-sharp as the Grim Reaper's scythe.
Their auras seemed to be a bit stronger than those of the three-headed monster dogs from before.
"really!"
A glint flashed in Ling Feng's eyes; he was not surprised but rather delighted.
In other words, the reason he hadn't triggered anything unusual before was simply because he was walking too fast.
Only by staying on the steps will one fall into the battlefield space.
After defeating the alien beasts on the battlefield, the primordial energy within one's body will undergo a transformation.
Doesn't that mean I wasted all the opportunities I had on those 499 steps?
Moreover, judging from the comparison between this monster and the previous three-headed dog, the monster's strength increases with each level it ascends!
Damn!
Why did I just miss out on the easier levels earlier, the areas where I could have accumulated "quantitative change"?
Before I could think, the two monsters had already pounced on me.
The scorpion's tail pierced straight into Ling Feng's back with a shrill whooshing sound, while the crocodile claws tore through the gray mist, reaching for his head.
"court death!"
Ling Feng was already in a bad mood when he saw two ignorant monsters attacking him. He immediately roared and advanced instead of retreating.
This time, he didn't test him again and directly used the power of the nascent ancestral vein.
A wisp of pale golden spiritual energy flowed through his body, and his speed, strength, and reaction time suddenly increased to a higher level.
Her footwork was mysterious, like a butterfly flitting among flowers, slipping through the gap between the scorpion's tail and the crocodile's claws at the last second.
The next moment, Ling Feng extended both hands simultaneously, his right hand forming a sword-like gesture, the Starfall Sword Point, aiming at the weak point where the scorpion monster's carapace was connected.
With his left fist clenched, he unleashed the Starfall Crushing Fist, a powerful and unstoppable force, slamming it into the crocodile monster's chest.
boom!
boom!
Two muffled thuds, almost simultaneously.
The scorpion monster, its abdomen pierced by obsidian, emitted a piercing hiss, its venomous stinger drooping limply.
The crocodile monster was punched in the chest by Ling Feng, and its hard shell was dented in a large chunk. Its huge body flew backward, smashing through several strange rocks.
Enraged, Ling Feng launched a full-scale attack, instantly killing both monsters.
Oh no, that crocodile monster was clearly more resilient; it struggled a few times amidst the rubble and tried to get back up.
Whoosh!
With a flash of light, Ling Feng appeared directly above the crocodile monster. He snorted coldly and crushed the monster's head with a single stomp.
In an instant, the scene before my eyes blurred and distorted once again.
A feeling of weightlessness came over me.
The next moment, he was back on the steps.
He immediately looked down.
The color of the 501st step beneath my feet has changed from brown to a light blue.
Within his body, the breath of creation underwent another transformation.
He even vaguely sensed that the nascent ancestral vein in his dantian seemed to have solidified a bit!
If the nascent ancestral vein were to fully evolve into the ancestral vein, it would be equivalent to ten million star veins!
"Killing monsters allows the Breath of Creation to transform into Spiritual Breath, and it can also temper the ancestral vein! Good heavens, this is an incredible opportunity!"
A sharp light flashed before Ling Feng's eyes.
He seemed to understand what the test on this long staircase was all about.
Each step allows one to "refine" their own creative energy, transforming it into spiritual energy.
If you can clear all the levels, your strength will naturally increase.
but……
Ling Feng's expression changed.
Before he entered the Eternal Ruins, the Holy Guard Captain named Cliff had said that in the history of the Star Hunter Clan, there were indeed several predecessors who had come out of the Eternal Ruins.
But they either become idiots or commit suicide.
If walking up this long stairway to godhood could make one continuously stronger, that seems rather illogical.
Perhaps he could deceive himself by saying that those star hunters may have left through other exits.
Or perhaps he is different from them; he possesses the aura of a creator god and is the chosen one.
But Ling Feng didn't believe that such a good thing would happen to him.
Perhaps the breath of the creator god does indeed make him seem relatively special.
But this long staircase is probably not as "kind" as I thought!
He took a deep breath and looked back at the five hundred steps below.
If you continue upwards, you will miss the next 499 opportunities to refine the Breath of Creation.
The monsters he will face next will only get stronger. If he misses these opportunities, can he really make it to the end?
But if he turns back, he doesn't know if it will trigger any other special "punishment".
If things go wrong, will I end up like my predecessors in the Star Hunter Clan?
Ling Feng clenched his fists. Should he advance or retreat?
What should I choose?
That's a problem! (End of Chapter)