Swallowed Star 2: Land of Origin: Volume 10: Chapter 23 (385): [Truce]

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Swallowed Star 2: Land of Origin
Volume 10: [Breaking Through with Force]
Chapter (385): [Truce]
(23rd of Volume 10)
Translator: Shadow Knight AK
Editor: Shadow Knight AK
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The Giant God Emperor, with the aid of his two companions, has initially succeeded in restraining Luo Feng.

But suddenly, Luo Feng vanished- transforming into 1.8 billion origin cores,each shining like a brilliant star, naturally forming an intricate formation.

This is one of Luo Feng's Three Forbidden Techniques: "Origin Destruction".

Each of these three forbidden techniques requires specific conditions to achieve their maximum effect- and are labelled "Forbidden" precisely because they requires an extraordinary price to unleash.

"Boom-"

A formation of 1.8 billion origin cores triggered a chain reaction, instantly transforming into an energy storm annihilating everything in its path.

Space and time were torn apart under its overwhelming force, reduced to pure energy.

Even the colossal body of the "Giant God Emperor" could not escape- his abdomen, closest to the storm, was instantly pierced and torn through, his massive form split in two.

"Not good!" the Giant Emperor roared in fury.

"Get out of here!" The Hunyuan Beast Ancestor and the Black Tide Hunyuan Ancestor, who had been maintaining their dual domain, were the first to bear the brunt of the endless energy shockwave.

Though their combined domain was formidable, under such absolute power, even the closest layers of their defenses were obliterated and assimilated into the storm, only amplifying its destructive force.

A radiant, jade-like disk of energy erupted from the Giant Emperor's abdomen, tearing through his body, piercing the dual domain, and surging outward with even greater intensity.

"Boom!"

When the energy surpassed a certain threshold, it triggered a unique reaction.

The surrounding space collapsed instantly, transforming into a blinding sphere of light.

The dozens of nearby Hunyuan Ancestors had no time to react before they were completely engulfed by the storm.

"How could this happen?!" the Giant Emperor bellowed in rage.

The dual domain of the Hunyuan Beast Ancestor and the Black Tide Hunyuan Ancestor managed to partially shield the Giant Emperor's legs and upper torso.

Even at the epicenter of such devastation explosion, with their protection, only a third of the Giant Emperor's body was destroyed.

The remaining parts fused together under the shelter of the dual domain.

"Thankfully, you two were here- otherwise, I would have perished this time," the Giant Emperor said, still shaken.

Unlike Luo Feng and Lord Wu Lan, who had refined their own bodies to perfection, the Giant Emperor is a natural-born entity of the Infinite Hunyuan Space.

Though his physical power is unmatched among the Nine Sovereigns, his resilience is far inferior.

His energy density couldn't compare to Wu Lan or Luo Feng's. If his two companions had not been present today, he truly would have been annihilated.

"This Luo Feng actually had such a move... It cost me a tenth of my body," the Hunyuan Beast Ancestor muttered in shock.

After all, his physical form is the strongest domain in the entire Infinite Hunyuan Space.

"I lost nearly a tenth as well," the Black Tide Hunyuan Ancestor added. Though his domain was on the outermost layer, the damage is similar to that of Hunyuan Beast Ancestor.

The Giant Emperor and his two allies had suffered greatly and now observed the battlefield with caution.

The shockwave had ravaged the dozens of Hunyuan Ancestors nearby.

Their survivability is far below that of the Giant Emperor's trio. Even those farther away, facing slightly weaker impacts, are still grievously wounded.

Twenty-six Hunyuan Ancestors are left severely injured.

"Perish!"

At that moment, twenty-six blinding golden thunderbolts descended!

The Lord Minghuang did not hesitate- burning his combat clone, he unleashed these unavoidable strikes upon the wounded Hunyuan Ancestors.

"Ah-!"

"No-!"

"Save me!"

The twenty-six Hunyuan Ancestors, already critically injured, could only scream in terror.

Despite their companions' attempts to intervene, the golden lightning thunders still struck them.

Five of the most heavily wounded Hunyuan Ancestors failed to protect their life core under the golden thunders, and shattered under the attack.

They died on the spot.

The remaining twenty-one were left in even worse condition, their panic palpable.

"Retrieve them!"

A boundless light swept over, rescuing the survivors.

But the corpses of the five fallen Hunyuan Ancestors had already been silently whisked away by space-time.

"Five Hunyuan Ancestors... dead?"

The remaining Hunyuan Ancestors stood in stunned silence, struggling to accept what had just happened.

In past battles, deaths had occurred-but only after prolonged warfare, and only among the weakest.

This time, it was sudden. Twenty-six severely wounded in an instant, five dead immediately after.

The fallen five were not the weakest among them- they had simply been unlucky, standing too close to the Giant Emperor's trio when the explosion hit.

"Bad luck?"

"Just... too close?"

The Hunyuan Ancestors could not accept this reason.

They could only accept dying in battle if they are weak- but dying due to sheer misfortune?

If five had fallen this time, who would be next?

"Die!"

"Perish, all of you practitioner lords!"

"All of you, DIE!!"

With five Hunyuan Ancestor dead and twenty-one severely wounded Hunyuan Ancestor taken away by the Wu Jin Hunyuan Ancestor, the remaining seventy-plus Hunyuan Ancestors erupted in fury- and with a hint of fear. They attacked without restraint.

At this moment, the practitioner lords' formation, now without Lord Wu Lan and Luo Feng, had no hope of resisting.

Seventy Hunyuan Ancestors struck at full force, joined by the enraged Giant Emperor and his companions.

"Labyrinth of Space and Time!" Lord Xingmang attempted to warp away the attacks with space-time, but the Infinite Serpent Hunyuan Ancestor- temporarily released his suppression of Lord Wu Lan- and let the Yanhuo Hunyuan Ancestor and the Nirvana Hunyuan Ancestor to take over for a short time.

Now free, the Infinite Serpent Hunyuan Ancestor seized control over the void, preventing any formation of space-time maze from forming.

"Boom-!"

"Boom-!"

A myriad of supreme-level forces intertwined, surging forward in an overwhelming tide.

"Go!" Lord Xingmang instantly burned a portion of his main combat clone, forcibly teleporting away thirty percent of the incoming attacks despite the Infinite Serpent Hunyuan Ancestor's space-time interference.

"Nai Gu!" Yuan's formation also strained to block another portion of the attack.

Lord Nai Gu, meanwhile, transformed into a colossal beast with nine massive heads, his enormous body actively devouring and absorbing the destructive energy. Even as his form cracked and shattered under the strain, it rapidly regenerated.

Comprehending several Hunyuan Ancestors' bloodlines, Lord Nai Gu is a versatile combatant. Before Luo Feng became a lord, he had been assisting Lord Wu Lan in withstanding external attacks.

Yet, even after multiple layers of weakening, the combined might of over seventy Hunyuan Ancestors was still devastating.

Within moments, Lord Nai Gu's body was torn apart.

"Fall-"

Luo Feng's one billion and eighty million origin cores had already unleashed their Destruction storm, his power now weakened after traveling such a vast distance.

Then, suddenly, the dispersed energy contracted.

In the blink of an eye-

Within the practitioners' lord formation, the remnants of the storm coalesced into a towering figure- a black-clad, black-haired man.

He stood before Lord Nai Gu, shielding him from the remaining onslaught of supreme-level attacks.

"Nai Gu, leave this to me," Luo Feng's voice rang out.

Lord Nai Gu, his body in tatters, grinned at Luo Feng's reappearance.

"Just one breath of time, and I was nearly obliterated!"

The eight lords are well aware of each other's abilities.

They knew that Luo Feng's forbidden technique, Origin Destruction, unleashed all his power in a single devastating burst- but his energy, infused with unparalleled vitality, could still recover from the void itself.

Once the destruction subsided, his scattered essence gathered once more.

"There is still two percent energy reserves left," Luo Feng assessed his condition.

Though his body appeared intact, the newly reformed origin cores within him are very weak.

In this weakened state, his energy absorption speed is drastically reduced.

The stronger his energy reserves, the faster he recovers.

The weaker he is, the slower the absorption.

If this had been a mere clone condensed by a thought, even an entire day of absorption wouldn't have restored even one percent of energy reserves.

"My recovery speed is only a tenth of my peak now," Luo Feng confirmed.

But the Hunyuan Ancestors didn't know that.
All they saw was Luo Feng standing before Lord Wu Lan, effortlessly enduring the residual energy bombardment.

"He... recovered?"

"Didn't he just dissolve into an energy storm? How is he back?"

Unease spread among the Hunyuan Ancestors.

"Is there even a point to continuing this battle?" One Hunyuan Ancestor's furious voice echoed in his comrades' minds.

"This Luo Feng's strength is completely unpredictable. First, he turned into a storm and killed five of us. Who knows what else he has?"

"I can sense his energy reserves- only about twenty percent is remaining. We can crush the lords now."

"And then what? The eight lords are immortal! Once they restore their clones, they'll just return!"

"This battle is meaningless."

"The entire Infinite Hunyuan Space knows the only reason for this truce is the birth of a new lord. Even if we 'win' now, it changes nothing."

"Should more of us die just for pride's sake?"
Many Hunyuan Ancestors had opposed the war from the start.

They had only joined because, with the Nine Sovereigns united and over a hundred Hunyuan Ancestors allied, victory seemed certain.

But now, seeing how "bad luck" could mean instant death, the number of dissenters swelled.

"This isn't good." The Infinite Serpent Hunyuan Ancestor sensed the growing opposition.

Even some of their staunchest companions were now calling for retreat.

The deaths of those five Hunyuan Ancestors had been too senseless. Reaching their level of power was no small feat- under normal circumstances, they were nearly unkillable.

"This time, we were caught off guard by Luo Feng's abilities," the Infinite Serpent Hunyuan Ancestor communicated mentally.

"We'll withdraw for now. When we fully understand his limits, we'll strike again- with absolute certainty."

With over thirty Hunyuan Ancestors now refusing to fight, even the Infinite Serpent Hunyuan Ancestor had no choice.

Whoosh-

As the Infinite Serpent Hunyuan Ancestor, the Nirvana Hunyuan Ancestor, and the Yanhuo Hunyuan Ancestor released their suppression, Lord Wu Lan was freed and immediately returned to the lord formation.

"Hm?"

"The Hunyuan Ancestors... stopped?"

The eight lords- Yuan, Xingmang, Luo Feng, Jin, Wu Lan, Minghuang, Nai Gu, and Moman watched cautiously.

Though Luo Feng's recovery is sluggish, he ensured his comrades are restored to full strength first.

His own energy reserves, now at twenty percent, slowly replenished.

The Infinite Serpent Hunyuan Ancestor stared at these troublesome lords, realizing that with Luo Feng's rise, their original plan to eradicate the practitioners' territories had failed.

The practitioners' foundation is now stronger than ever- destined to be their greatest rivals in the endless conflict to come.

"To think that in the face of annihilation, a new lord emerged from you practitioners' faction," the Infinite Serpent Hunyuan Ancestor spoke coldly, his countless eyes locked onto Luo Feng.

"It was a close call," Yuan admitted.

"Without Luo Feng's breakthrough, we would have lost everything."

In their previous battles, the seven lords had suffered defeat after defeat.

They could only delay the inevitable, unable to stop the loss of their territories.

"This battle ends here," the Infinite Serpent Hunyuan Ancestor declared.

"Next time, we will settle it."

Yuan nodded.

"Next time, we will settle it."

He, too, had confidence- if another lord arose in the future, their position would only grow stronger.

"Let's go."

Under the Hunyuan Ancestor of Time and Space's space-time manipulation, the Hunyuan Ancestors vanished.

The eight lords watched them leave.

"A temporary truce," Yuan said.

"The Hunyuan Ancestors still outmatch us overall," Moman thought.

"Jin, Minghuang, and I burned our clones to strike back, but this time, they were prepared. Luo Feng's forbidden technique was what turned the tide."

"Separating me from the formation gave me the opening I needed," Luo Feng smiled.

Lord Xingmang added, "Absorbing the essence of origin worlds or Death threat can trigger evolution in Hunyuan Ancestors. After this war, some may break through."

The lords would grow stronger- but so would their enemies.

Comprehending supreme-level power is not the Hunyuan Ancestors' limit. They could evolve further, reaching the level of the Infinite Serpent Hunyuan Ancestor or the Chu Shi Hunyuan Ancestor- true immortals, unkillable in their domains.

"But no matter how much they grow, they'll never surpass us practitioners," Lord Minghuang said confidently.

This is the fact that the history itself had proven it- from overwhelming disadvantage, they had narrowed the gap step by step.

"Let's return to the Origin Land and study those Hunyuan Ancestor corpses," Yuan said with a grin.

"Whatever the case, this war is over!"

"We held off over a hundred Hunyuan Ancestors. Dealing with other factions will be much easier now," Lord Wu Lan remarked.

"At least we'll have some breathing room," Lord Jin laughed.

"Luo Feng, you promised to explore the Abyss of Destruction with me after the war."

"Our territories still have world clusters occupied by other factions. Reclaim them first, then you two can go on adventures," Yuan interjected.

"Fine, I can wait," Lord Jin said, still grinning.

Luo Feng raised an eyebrow.

"Where exactly are we going, Jin?"

"The Abyss of Destruction!" Lord Jin replied.

"I've been there many times, but never with a companion strong enough. I'll send you the details."

As they conversed, the eight lords made their way back to the Origin Land.

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(End of Volume 10)

Author's Note: Taking a break tomorrow. Next volume will continue from the day after.

"The college entrance exams have begun."

"To all students taking the exams- may your pens flow like blossoms, and your names grace the golden list! Twelve years of diligent study will bear fruit. Keep striving, young ones!"

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