Chapter 370: “Both Are Required!”
“What has Master understood?” Morosa, who was attending nearby, heard his master’s soft murmur and could not help but feel puzzled.
Morosa could also tell that his master had immersed himself in a certain state of Dao comprehension. He did not dare disturb him and instead carefully stood guard at the side, strictly forbidding any other lifeforms from approaching, lest they affect his master’s current state.
The Simulated Eye of Life and Death at Luo Feng’s brow observed the Source World Origin. Within his mind, the secret pattern diagrams of the corpse materials of the thirty-one Primordial Ancestors surfaced for comparison.
“No wonder once a World-level Primordial Lifeform controls a ‘Source World,’ relying on the Source World, it does not fear a Primordial Ancestor in one-on-one combat at all.”
“Because the Source World and a Primordial Ancestor are, to begin with, existences of the same level.”
Luo Feng understood.
An ordinary Source World was like an enormous physical body without a ‘soul’!
Once it had a master, it also had a soul. In a one-on-one situation, even a Primordial Ancestor could do nothing to it.
“I finally understand why all Innate Primordial Lifeforms possess a Life Core. Even those at the Ancestor level have a Life Core,” Luo Feng thought.
For Innate Primordial Lifeforms, everything else could be discarded—only the ‘Life Core’ was the most crucial! Once the Life Core shattered, it meant complete annihilation.
“I previously believed that the Life Core was a massive weakness of Innate Primordial Lifeforms, an imperfection in their natural birth.” For a long time, Luo Feng had thought this way.
Cultivators comprehended the Dao on their own! They had no Life Core and no such fatal weakness.
Innate Primordial Lifeforms, however—their Life Core was their vital point!
Even some Primordial Ancestors had fallen, all due to this vital weakness of the Life Core.
“The Life Core is precisely the reason their potential is limitless!” Luo Feng now understood.
“The Life Core is also another form of Origin!”
“Every one of these Innate Primordial Lifeforms is born with an Origin.”
Luo Feng also understood why Bloodline Path cultivators required certain special resources.
For cultivators to become High-Rank Primordial Lifeforms, they generally needed to refine High-Rank Primordial Bloodlines! To become World-level Primordial Lifeforms, they needed to refine World-level Primordial Bloodlines.
But what about those Innate Primordial Lifeforms?
It was extremely difficult for them to obtain a higher-level bloodline! Even receiving a single drop of blood bestowed by a higher existence was already rare.
Even without obtaining higher-level blood, simply by eating and growing, some Innate Primordial Lifeforms would naturally evolve! Some could even consume the Source World Origin and become Primordial Ancestors.
“For cultivators on the Bloodline Path, the most important thing is the Primordial Bloodline. They have also developed many methods to extract Primordial Bloodlines, but they cannot extract a complete Ancestor-level bloodline.”
“But for Innate Primordial Lifeforms, their core is not the bloodline, but the Life Core.”
“The growth of the Life Core drives the growth of the lifeform.”
“Each stage of Life Core growth causes the bloodline to evolve. That is why Primordial Bloodlines at different strengths—Early-Stage God Emperor, Mid-Stage God Emperor…—manifest differently.”
Luo Feng completely understood.
“The Life Core is fundamental! The bloodline is merely an external manifestation of life level.”
“Cultivators cannot truly utilize the Life Core. They can only extract and use the externally manifested ‘Primordial Bloodline.’”
Luo Feng felt a sigh of emotion.
Innate Primordial Lifeforms were truly the favored children of the Infinite Source Space! From birth, they possessed a ‘Life Core.’ Under various opportunities, the Life Core would continuously grow, eventually reaching a level comparable to the Source World Origin. Upon reaching that level, they became Ancestor-level existences.
“This is the mystery of the highest level of life.”
“Ancestor-level lifeforms and Source Worlds both possess an Origin. Lords likely possess one as well.”
“The former two have their Origins manifested in tangible form. As for Lords, their Origin is the ‘Primordial-level Path.’ As long as the Path does not perish, they themselves do not perish. Thus, every Lord is truly immortal.”
Luo Feng understood the difference between the two.
The Origins of the Primordial Ancestors were their Life Cores—tangible and possessing clear weaknesses.
The Origin of a Lord was the Path—invisible and intangible, undying and indestructible.
“Lords also have weaknesses!”
Luo Feng had learned some intelligence and knew the difference between Primordial Ancestors and Cultivator Lords. “Primordial Ancestors generally have enormous bodies! Lords, on average, have smaller bodies.”
Of course, this was only an average.
Ancestor-level physical bodies were generally far larger than those of Lords.
“The Life Core is a tangible existence. It can continuously accumulate power and sustain an extremely massive body.”
“Lords do not have a tangible Origin. Their stored power is limited, so their bodies are generally smaller.”
If given a choice, Luo Feng believed those Primordial Ancestors would rather have smaller bodies without the weakness of a Life Core, achieving true immortality.
“My Path of Life and Death takes life as the primary and destruction as the secondary. Now that I have glimpsed the ultimate mystery of life, if I fully comprehend its essence, I can construct billions of Origins within my body!”
Those Primordial Ancestors were born with Life Cores.
But if Luo Feng comprehended the ‘Dao’ behind it and grasped its essence, he could create Origins postnatally.
Just like opening countless internal worlds within the body—by the same principle, he could also create billions of Origins.
“On one hand, I must eliminate the fatal weakness of ‘Origin.’ Even if I lose thousands or millions of Origins, the impact on me should remain minimal.”
“On the other hand, I must exploit the advantages of ‘Origin.’ Billions of Origins can store incomparably vast energy, granting me an immensely powerful body.”
Both are required!
Only by comprehending the Dao of life’s essence could one achieve this.
If a Lord were to comprehend the ‘Primordial Life Path,’ their body would become the largest, most vibrant with vitality, and hardest to destroy existence in the entire Infinite Source Space.
Luo Feng’s ‘Primordial Life-and-Death Path’ was ultimately centered on life. His path reflected more characteristics of life, while the destruction aspect was relatively weaker.
……
In the Origin Land, at the peak of the high mountain on Primordial Island, inside the Cave Dwelling Quiet Chamber.
The immensely vast secret pattern diagrams of the thirty-one Ancestor-level materials floated in the air. The Eye of Life and Death at Luo Feng’s brow opened as he carefully observed.
“I have seen the path.”
“But the path must still be walked by myself.”
“Only by reaching its end can I truly grasp its Dao.”
Luo Feng knew very well how difficult it was to both eliminate the fatal weakness of Origin and simultaneously exploit its advantage of storing endless energy. Yet this direction was precisely what he had always pursued.
“These seemingly scattered secret patterns are, in truth, one unified whole.”
Even if the other seven Lords were to observe, it would be difficult for them to discern how the mysteries of over a dozen or even dozens of different Paths combined to form an Origin.
Each field has its own specialization!
The current seven Lords specialized in Destruction, Thunder, Waves… none excelled in life, yet ‘Origin’ represented the highest-level mystery of life.
Without sufficient accumulation in this area and without terrifying comprehension, it was simply impossible to perceive this path.
Luo Feng had comprehended the Half-Primordial Life-and-Death Path as a foundation, thoroughly understood over fifty million Low-Rank Primordial Bloodlines, more than three hundred twenty thousand High-Rank Primordial Bloodlines, and studied over two thousand World-level Primordial Bloodlines along with the corpse materials of thirty-one Primordial Ancestors. His accumulation was sufficiently deep. Coupled with his extraordinary comprehension, he finally glimpsed this path.
By glimpsing this path, Luo Feng now possessed the possibility of becoming a Lord!
“No wonder any Primordial Ancestor has at least ten percent life mysteries within their body. The formation of the Life Core primarily revolves around life mysteries,” Luo Feng felt fortunate.
Because he focused on the path of life, he had the chance to glimpse the mystery of ‘Origin.’
If he had focused on destruction, the difficulty of Breaking All Techniques with Strength would have increased dramatically!
“Breaking All Techniques with Strength also requires luck,” Luo Feng thought.
For him, comprehending the Half-Primordial Life-and-Death Path had not felt too difficult. Although he encountered some bottlenecks, it had taken less than ten thousand epochs in total.
However, for Breaking All Techniques with Strength, merely glimpsing the path already gave Luo Feng the feeling that luck was required.
“In the future, my ‘Primordial Life-and-Death Path,’ besides the existing systems of mental consciousness, life, destruction, Primordial Power, and physical body, will have a sixth system—the Origin System!”
“And the Origin System will be the core.”
Luo Feng focused on studying the secret patterns within the corpse materials of the thirty-one Primordial Ancestors, researching how Origins were formed through combination.
After all, his future path would combine the mysteries of life and destruction.
These Primordial Ancestors, however, combined numerous Dao mysteries. He could not imitate them—he had to understand their essence.
……
The same thing, observed from different perspectives, yielded different insights.
Now, observing from the perspective of the Origin System, Luo Feng gained entirely new understanding of the secret patterns of these thirty-one Ancestor-level materials. His ‘Origin System’ was like a seed, absorbing nourishment from the thirty-one Primordial Ancestors and beginning to grow robustly.
This time, Luo Feng spent even longer.
Careful comprehension!
Again and again!
He utilized different materials from the thirty-one Primordial Ancestors, pondering them meticulously. He forgot time itself, only feeling his accumulations improving in every aspect, while the Origin System gradually took shape.
“Almost there.”
One day, Luo Feng suddenly stopped.
He had studied the various corpse materials of the thirty-one Primordial Ancestors too many times—he was already extremely familiar with them.
“The six major systems of my Primordial Life-and-Death Path all have deep accumulation.” Although Luo Feng had not yet begun formally creating the Primordial Life-and-Death Path, the six systems were naturally integrating within his mind.
A vague outline of the ‘Primordial Life-and-Death Path’ had already formed.
“These Primordial Bloodlines—Low-Rank and High-Rank—I have fully comprehended them. But among the 2,729 World-level Primordial Bloodlines, I have only understood 43.”
“I have spent over a billion epochs studying Ancestor-level materials. Now, let me see how many of the 2,729 World-level Primordial Bloodlines I can comprehend.”
Luo Feng brought out one World-level Primordial Bloodline he had not yet understood, along with auxiliary materials.
After observing for less than a day—
“Interesting.”
With his current perspective, when Luo Feng reexamined World-level Primordial Bloodlines, he discovered a secret. A smile appeared on his face.
“So at the World-level Primordial stage, the secret pattern mysteries within their bodies are already gradually forming an Origin.”
“It’s just that the Origin formed by their internal secret patterns is incomplete.”
At the Ancestor level, the Origin formed by secret patterns was complete—comparable to the Source World Origin.
World-level secret patterns were also forming an Origin, but it was incomplete and extremely difficult to detect. Only after Luo Feng’s accumulation in the Origin System had reached sufficient depth could he perceive this point.
