Chapter 375: Survival Capability |
“I admit, I couldn’t find any flaws in these ‘fifteen clones’ myself.” Luo Feng nodded slightly. “Then let’s begin the next step.”
Luo Feng had long heard of how many endless years Starlight had spent on Breaking All Techniques with Strength, so he had already prepared himself for an infinitely long passage of time. His cultivation plan was also divided into many steps.
The first step was to comprehend all Primordial Bloodlines and materials, the second step was to create a Path, and the third step was practice.
“Focusing solely on comprehension, I’ve already reached a point where I can no longer find flaws. The next step… is practice!”
“The first phase of practice is to test survival capability!”
Luo Feng thought, “My Primordial Life-and-Death Path is centered on life. It pursues an extremely विशाल body and extremely strong survival capability. Then let’s see just how strong the survival capability of these fifteen clones is.”
Inside Luo Feng’s Cave Dwelling Quiet Chamber, the internal space-time range was extremely vast. Within it, a gigantic formation appeared.
All fifteen clones flew into this formation.
“These fifteen clones are each at one-tenth of their extreme state. Comparing them with one another is fair enough.” If all these clones maintained their absolute peak state, the burden on the soul would be immense—Luo Feng could not sustain fifteen peak clones simultaneously.
“Begin simulating attacks from Innate Primordial Lifeforms,” Luo Feng said. “Gradually increase from the strength of High-Rank Primordial Lifeforms, and apply equal-intensity attacks to these fifteen clones.”
“Cultivator Luo Feng, attack intensity will begin at the ‘Early Stage High-Rank Primordial Lifeform’ level.” A gentle voice sounded.
Immediately, deep blue flames descended out of thin air within the vast formation, burning each clone.
With the capabilities of the Origin Land, it could easily sustain power up to the Complete Stage World-level Primordial Lifeform level. Going beyond that was also possible—only requiring an enormous amount of Reward Points.
The fifteen Luo Feng clones all sat cross-legged, allowing the deep blue flames to burn them, feeling completely at ease.
Soon after, the deep blue flames suddenly transformed into deep blue frost. Extreme cold seeped into each clone. At the same time, space trembled slightly, and countless spatial blades enveloped the clones…
All kinds of attacks descended, yet the fifteen clones remained completely unharmed.
“Power increased to the ‘Mid Stage High-Rank Primordial Lifeform’ level.” The gentle voice sounded.
“Power increased to the ‘Late Stage High-Rank Primordial Lifeform’ level.”
…
The power gradually increased.
Some clones began to show surface damage, but even the slightest injury was instantly restored under their overwhelming vitality.
“Power increased to the ‘Early Stage World-level Primordial Lifeform’ level.”
Waves of fluctuations covered all fifteen clones within the formation. From the Complete Stage High-Rank Primordial Lifeform to the Early Stage World-level Primordial Lifeform, the power underwent a clear qualitative transformation! The fifteen clones, which had previously been at ease, were now all heavily injured.
“Huā~~”
The most severely damaged clone had silver-white scales covering its surface. At this moment, under invisible fluctuations, all those silver-white scales shattered. The layers of flesh, skin, and membranes within rapidly collapsed and disintegrated—only black-gold bones remained, barely resisting.
This clone was reduced to a skeleton, whose remaining strength still protected over a hundred Internal Origins within the body.
As the power gradually increased, cracks began to form in the skeleton, and one Internal Origin after another started to collapse.
In just a few breaths of time—
The skeleton completely turned into powder, all origins dissipated, and only fourteen clones remained in the formation.
“Clone Number Two collapsed first.” Luo Feng watched this scene with delight. “Its Mental Consciousness System path is wrong!”
Previously, he hadn’t noticed it. But under attack, by comparing the states of the fifteen clones, Luo Feng immediately discovered the major flaw in Clone Number Two’s path.
“In pursuit of an extremely massive physical body, I reduced the strength of mental consciousness control. But the result is that although the body became larger, the defensive capability of flesh, muscles, and bones weakened.”
The Mental Consciousness System pursued perfect control over every portion of power-consciousness. As the body grew larger, the demands on this system became higher.
Clone Number Two’s approach was to slightly lower these requirements.
With reduced mental control precision, it could more ‘coarsely’ control a body several times larger. But the result was… under attacks of the same level, although the body was larger, it was the first to collapse.
“Boom—”
Within the formation, in addition to terrifying fluctuations, frost energy appeared, attempting to freeze Luo Feng’s clones. The violent vibrations sought to tear apart every portion of their bodily power.
The remaining clones’ injuries rapidly worsened.
“Clone Number Nine is about to fail.” Luo Feng carefully observed.
Clone Number Nine was covered in deep cyan armor-like scales. These scales were extremely tough—under the terrifying freezing and frost, only slight cracks appeared. However, internally, its muscles, bones, and flesh had already begun to collapse and disintegrate.
Its surface defenses were strong, but internally it was fragile, and its origins also began to dissipate.
“For this Clone Number Nine, I adopted a ‘dual-parallel’ creation approach. I admired the ‘Undying’ effect of the Star Tower’s blood scales. So for this clone, I used both the Origin System and the blood scale system as dual cores, possessing both simultaneously. But the result is that its survival capability became weaker. Among the fifteen clones, it was the second to collapse.”
Time passed. Under the power of the Early Stage World-level Primordial Lifeform level, as the power continued increasing, one clone after another was annihilated.
“Among the fifteen clones, the three that followed the dual-parallel approach have all been annihilated.”
“This proves that the dual-parallel path is wrong. Trying to have both results in neither being strong enough.”
…
As the power slowly increased, one clone after another was destroyed.
“Power increased to the ‘Mid Stage World-level Primordial Lifeform’ level.” The gentle voice sounded again.
At this moment, the power within the formation was terrifying to the extreme. Ordinary High-Rank Primordial Lifeforms would turn to ashes the instant they entered. Even newly advanced World-level Primordial Lifeforms, whose methods were not yet perfected, would not last long inside.
At this point, Luo Feng still had three clones resisting.
The previous twelve clones had all collapsed during the Early Stage World-level Primordial Lifeform phase. Luo Feng had also discovered each of their respective flaws, gaining tremendous insights.
“Boom—”
Space within the formation had already begun to distort. Strands of black flames burned throughout every corner of space, while poisonous mist covered the surfaces of Luo Feng’s three clones, eroding their flesh, muscles, and bones. The situation of all three clones became extremely dire.
Of these three, one was Clone Number Seven—the smallest among the fifteen. Though small, its entire body was like a weapon, still holding on.
Another was Clone Number Twelve—the largest among the fifteen. Under the control of its Mental Consciousness System, its entire body jointly resisted and distributed the incoming attacks.
The third was Clone Number Eleven! Its size was second only to Number Twelve.
In other words, among the fifteen clones, the two largest and the smallest lasted until the end.
“This Clone Number Eleven…” Luo Feng was astonished. “To pursue a massive body, I used the same approach as Clone Number Two—reducing the control level of the Mental Consciousness System. Clone Number Two was eliminated first, yet Clone Number Eleven has lasted until now!”
Boom—
The three clones’ physical bodies almost simultaneously completely collapsed.
At the moment of collapse, the first two clones were utterly annihilated—nothing remained.
Only Clone Number Eleven, even after its physical body was destroyed, still had one hundred thousand origins floating in place.
Under the terrifying attacks, these “one hundred thousand origins” formed something like a stellar formation, interconnected, jointly resisting the external attacks. Their ability to resist external assaults was even stronger than their previous flesh, muscles, and bones.
“This Clone Number Eleven… its origins have stronger survival capability than its physical body?” Luo Feng was astonished, staring at the one hundred thousand origins with excitement.
This was unbelievable.
For those Innate Primordial Lifeforms, their physical bodies were far stronger than their Life Core. Once the body failed to withstand attacks, the Life Core would be easily destroyed.
But this Clone Number Eleven—its body had collapsed, yet its one hundred thousand origins could still endure!
As the power continued to rise, bolts of lightning struck down.
Under the furious lightning strikes, some of the origins began to dissipate, but others continued resisting.
Each origin possessed extremely strong survival capability. They forcefully endured for over a hundred breaths of time. As their numbers decreased, their collapse accelerated, until they were finally completely annihilated.
“Hahaha…”
Outside the formation, Luo Feng was wildly ecstatic. “I understand! I understand!”
“This Clone Number Eleven used the approach of ‘reducing Mental Consciousness System control,’ which is a major mistake—it weakened the body’s defensive capability. But it has a huge advantage.”
“It was created using the ‘Origin-Core Creation Method,’ forming the most perfect version.”
“In creating the Primordial Life-and-Death Path, I always believed that using the Half-Primordial Life-and-Death Path as a seed and building step by step—like constructing a house from its foundation upward—was the correct approach. But this Clone Number Eleven first constructed the Origin System, then built other systems around it. It didn’t rely on the Half-Primordial Life-and-Death Path at all.”
“Haha… this is correct.”
“This is what suits me best.”
Luo Feng completely understood.
“The final Primordial Life-and-Death Path has only one core—that is the Origin Core! Everything is built around it.”
“As for the Half-Primordial Life-and-Death Path, all my insights and profound mysteries originate from it. It is merely a seed—one that has already blossomed within me, allowing me to comprehend the six major systems.”
The six major systems all originated from the Half-Primordial Life-and-Death Path.
When constructing the Path, there was no need to rigidly use it as the starting point—doing so would instead become a constraint.
“The Path has a core.”
“The Origin is the core, and everything else revolves around it.”
“Begin.”
Luo Feng absorbed the experiences from the fifteen clones—the successes and the failures. At this moment, he was confident in creating an even more perfect version of the Primordial Life-and-Death Path.
With a single thought, Luo Feng first reconstructed the three clones that had lasted the longest. Using them, he greatly enhanced his mental thinking speed and comprehension ability. Only then did he begin creating the Path.
“Hu.”
A Secret Pattern was drawn in the void. This time, from the very beginning, Luo Feng started by constructing the Origin System.