Swallowed Star 2: Land of Origin: Volume 10: Chapter 7 (369): [To Have Both!]

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Swallowed Star 2: Land of Origin
Volume 10: [Breaking Through with Force]
Chapter (369): [To Have Both!]
(7th of Volume 10)
Translator: Shadow Knight AK
Editor: Shadow Knight AK
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"Master, what have you realized?" Morosa, who was attending nearby, heard his master's soft whisper.

Feeling somewhat confused, unable to suppress his confusion, Morosa could also see that his master was immersed in a certain state of enlightenment.

He did not dared to disturb him, he stood by guarding carefully, ensuring no other creatures approaches in order to avoid disrupting his master!

At this moment, Luo Feng's Bionic Eye of Destruction between his brows observed the Origin Core of the Origin World!

In his mind, the secret patterns of the 31 Hunyuan Ancestor corpse materials also emerged for comparison.

'No wonder once the world-class Hunyuan lifeforms, gains control of an origin world, could face a Hunyuan Ancestor in one-on-one battle without fear!'

'It is only possible because an origin world and a Hunyuan Ancestor are existences of the same level!'

Luo Feng understood!

An ordinary origin world is like a colossal body without a soul- only when it gains a master does it acquire a soul!

Thus, even in one-on-one battle, a Hunyuan Ancestor could do nothing against it!

"I finally understand why all Innate Hunyuan lifeforms possess a life core, even the Hunyuan Ancestor level ones have life cores!" Luo Feng thought.

For Innate Hunyuan lifeforms, everything else can be discarded- only the life core is absolutely essential.

Once the life core shatters, it means complete annihilation!

"I once believed that the life core is a huge weakness of Innate Hunyuan lifeforms, an imperfection in their natural creation!"

For a long time, Luo Feng had held this view.

The Practitioners who comprehend the Dao, they have no life core, and they don't have this huge weakness either.

For Innate Hunyuan lifeforms, the life core is their fatal flaw. Even some Hunyuan Ancestors have fallen due to this vulnerability!

"The life core is actually the reason for their limitless potential!" Luo Feng now realized.

The life core is another form of Origin.

These Innate Hunyuan lifeforms are each born with their own Origin.

Luo Feng also understood why practitioners on the bloodline path require special resources!

For practitioners to become high-level Hunyuan lifeforms, they must refine high-level Hunyuan bloodlines.

To become world-class Hunyuan lifeforms, they must refine world-class Hunyuan bloodlines!

But what about Innate Hunyuan lifeforms?

It is extremely difficult for them to obtain higher-level bloodlines. Receiving a single drop of blood from a higher-level existence is already a rare opportunity for them.

Even without access to higher-level blood, simply by consuming and absorbing, some Innate Hunyuan lifeforms can advance naturally- some even reach the Hunyuan Ancestor level by devouring the Origin Core of the Origin world!

"The Practitioners on the bloodline path prioritize Hunyuan bloodlines and have developed many methods to extract them, though they cannot extract the complete bloodline of an Hunyuan Ancestor!"

"But for Innate Hunyuan lifeforms, their core is not the bloodline- it's the life core! The growth of the life core drives the evolution of their lifeform. Each step of the life core's growth triggers an advancement in their bloodline!"

"That's why a God Emperor's early-stage strength differs from their mid-stage strength, and why their Hunyuan bloodline manifests differently!" Luo Feng understood it completely now.

The life core is the foundation, while the bloodline is merely the external manifestation of lifeform's level!

Practitioners cannot truly utilize the life core- they can only extract and make use of the external Hunyuan bloodline.

Luo Feng sighed inwardly.

Innate Hunyuan lifeforms are truly the favoured child of the Infinite Hunyuan Space, born with a "life core" that can grow continuously under various opportunities, eventually reaching a level comparable to the Origin Core of an origin world.

At that stage, they become Hunyuan Ancestor-level existences!

"This is the secret of the highest-level lifeforms!"

Hunyuan Ancestor-level lifeforms and origin worlds both possess an Origin Core- and Lords must also have an Origin Core!

For the innate Hunyuan Lifeforms, the Origin Core manifests physically!

For Lords, their Origin is the Dao at the Hunyuan Realm- indestructible and eternal.

A lord will never die, if the Dao is not destroyed!

Thus, any Lord-level lifeform is truly immortal!

Luo Feng understood the difference between them.

The Hunyuan Ancestors' Origin Cores are their life cores- a clear and obvious weakness!

The Lords' Origin cores are the Dao- formless, untouchable, and indestructible!

The Lords like Yuan also have weaknesses.

From the intelligence Luo Feng had gathered, he knew the distinction between Hunyuan Ancestors and practitioner Lords.

The Hunyuan Ancestors generally have massive bodies, while Lords tend to be smaller in size- though this is just the average level.

The Hunyuan Ancestor-level physical bodies are typically far larger than Lord-level ones!

The life core is a physical existence! It can endlessly accumulate power, sustaining an enormous physical form!

While the Lords lack a physical Origin Core- their capacity to accumulate power is limited, so their size is generally smaller!

If given the choice, Luo Feng believed those Hunyuan Ancestors would prefer smaller bodies without the vulnerability of a life core, achieving true immortality!

"My Dao of Life and Death is primarily focused on life, with destruction as secondary."

"Now that I have glimpsed the highest mysteries of life, if I can fully comprehend its essence, even if the other seven Lords were to observe it, they would struggle to discern how the profundities of a dozen or even dozens of different Daos could converge into a single Origin!"

'Each has their own expertise.'

'The current seven Lords specialize in the Dao of Destruction, the Dao of Thunder, the Dao of wave... but none excel in life.'

'Yet the Origin is the highest mystery of life- without sufficient accumulation in this aspect and without monstrous comprehension, it is fundamentally impossible to even see this path!'

Luo Feng's Semi-Hunyuan Realm Dao of Life and Death is built upon a foundation of studying over fifty million low-level Hunyuan bloodlines, more than thirty million high-level Hunyuan bloodlines, and over two thousand world-class Hunyuan bloodlines, along with the materials from the corpses of thirty-one Hunyuan Ancestors.

Only with such profound accumulation and his supreme comprehension did he manage to glimpse this path.

Thus, Luo Feng now possessed the possibility of becoming a Lord.

No wonder every Hunyuan Ancestor's body contains at least 10% of life's mysteries- because the core of their life cores is primarily composed of life's profound mysteries!

Luo Feng also felt fortunate.

His focus on the Dao of life had allowed him to glimpse the mysteries of the Origin.

If he had focused on destruction, the difficulty of breaking through by force would have been drastically higher.

Breaking through by force also requires luck.

Luo Feng pondered.

For him, comprehending the Semi-Hunyuan Dao of Life and Death had only encountered minor bottlenecks, and it hadn't felt overwhelmingly difficult. The entire process had taken less than ten thousand epochs to succeed.

However, when it came to breaking through by force, even just glimpsing the path, Luo Feng had a sense that luck would play a significant role.

"In the future, I can construct countless origin cores within my body."

"The Hunyuan Ancestors' life cores are innate, but if I fully comprehend the underlying principles, I can artificially create Origin cores- just as one might open countless pocket dimensions within the body. By the same logic, I can manifest billions of Origin cores!"

"On one hand, I must eliminate the fatal weakness of the Origin Core- even if thousands of origin cores are destroyed, the impact on me will still remain minimal."

"On the other hand, I must leverage the advantages of the Origin Core- billions of Origin cores can accumulate boundless energy, granting me an incomparably powerful physical form!"

"Only by comprehending the Dao of life's essence can I achieve this- balancing both the Dao and the form."

"If a Lord were to comprehend the Hunyuan Life Dao, their body would become the largest, most vibrant, and most indestructible existence in the entire Infinite Hunyuan Space."

Luo Feng's Hunyuan Life and Death Dao was, after all, primarily focused on life.

His path embodied the characteristics of life more prominently, while the aspect of destruction was comparatively weaker.

In the quiet chamber of the cave dwelling, atop of the towering mountain of Hunyuan Island in the Land of Origin...

The vast secret patterns of the thirty-one Hunyuan Ancestor-level materials hovered before Luo Feng.

His Eye of Life and Death opened, scrutinizing them intently.

"I have seen the path, but the path must still be walked. Only by reaching its end can I truly grasp its Dao."

Luo Feng understood clearly just how difficult it was to both eliminate the Origin core's fatal weakness and harness its ability to accumulate infinite energy. Yet this was the direction he truly sought.

Though the secret patterns appeared scattered, the Hunyuan Life and Death Dao unified them.

Beyond the original systems- the spiritual will and consciousness system, the life system, the destruction system, the Hunyuan Power system, and the physical body system- there was now a sixth system: 'the Origin system'.

The Origin system is the core.

Luo Feng immersed himself in studying the secret patterns of the thirty-one Hunyuan Ancestor corpses, seeking to understand how the origin core is formed.

After all, his future self would merge the profound mysteries of life and destruction.

While these Hunyuan Ancestors had combined the mysteries of countless Daos.

He could not simply imitate them- he had to comprehend the underlying essence.

After all, observing the same thing from different angles yielded different insights.

Luo Feng now began to observe the secret patterns of the thirty-one Hunyuan Ancestor materials from the perspective of the Origin system, Luo Feng gained entirely new understanding.

His Origin system was like a seed, absorbing nourishment from these Hunyuan Ancestors and beginning to flourish.

This time, Luo Feng spent even longer, studying the patterns over and over.

He observed different materials from the thirty-one Hunyuan Ancestors, losing track of time as his accumulation deepened in all aspects.

Gradually, the framework of the Origin system began to take shape.

It's almost time.

Then, one day, Luo Feng stopped.

He had studied these Hunyuan Ancestor materials too much- they were all too familiar now.

"My six major systems in the Hunyuan Life and Death Dao have all reached profound depths."

Though he had yet to formally create the Hunyuan Life and Death Dao, the six systems naturally integrated in his mind.

He even had a vague outline of the Hunyuan Life and Death Dao itself.

"Although I have comprehended these Low-level Hunyuan bloodlines and High-level Hunyuan bloodlines!"

"But from the 2,729 world-class Hunyuan bloodlines, I've only comprehended forty-three. After studying the Hunyuan Ancestor materials for over a billion epochs, let's see how many more I can decipher now."

Luo Feng retrieved a previously unobserved world-class Hunyuan bloodline and supplementary materials.

After less than a day of examination-

"Fascinating."

With his current insight, Luo Feng discovered new mysteries within the world-class Hunyuan bloodlines.

A smile appeared on his face.

"Even at the world-class Hunyuan stage, the secret patterns within their bodies were already beginning to form an origin core."

"It's just that the origin core formed by the secret patterns in their bodies is incomplete."

"While the Hunyuan Ancestor-level patterns form a complete Origin core, comparable to that of a origin world. The world-class patterns also form an Origin core, but it's so fragmented that it's nearly impossible to detect."

Luo Feng was able to perceive this truth only after accumulating enough understanding of the Origin system!

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