The Elders of Rainlan City controlled the formations one by one, doing their best to block the legions rushing in from all directions.
"This is bad, the nearest legion is almost at the core area."
"A legion with over 800 at the God Emperor Perfection rank and more than 12,000 at the Late God Emperor stage… we can't stop them at all, and neither can City Lord Luo Feng!"
The Elders felt a sense of powerlessness.
A single God Emperor Perfection-level Low-Rank Primordial Lifeform already surpassed the vast majority of Elders. Now, with an entire legion descending upon them, the Heaven-and-Earth Formation alone could not completely hold the line.
"Hold on! City Lord Luo Feng is still fighting the four Transcendent Limit-level beings. We must buy him ti!" Elder Yuan Xiang roared.
The nearly two hundred Elders gritted their teeth and poured everything into their formations. Streams of formation energy surged from every corner of Rainlan City, weaving into an enormous net that slowed the advancing legions.
But it was still not enough.
The four great legions were too powerful. Like floods breaking through a dam, they pushed forward relentlessly, shattering barrier after barrier.
"The second line of defense is broken!"
"The third formation layer is collapsing!"
Reports ca in one after another. The Elders' faces grew pale. They could feel the Heaven-and-Earth Formation trembling under the imnse pressure—it was being consud at a terrifying rate.
In the sky above Rainlan City—
Luo Feng's strongest clone stood at the center of the churning Blood Sea, facing the four Transcendent Limit-level beings simultaneously. His mind split into dozens of threads, each operating independently. One part maintained the Heaven-and-Earth Formation across the entire city. Another part guided his thirty-four clones stationed throughout Rainlan City. And the largest part of his focus was dedicated entirely to the battle at hand.
Four against one. Even for Luo Feng, this was no easy feat.
The destruction bird's dark wings swept through the Blood Sea again, layer after layer of annihilation energy corroding his soul. The Bewitching Heart Worm's 'Heart Bewildernt' technique continuously invaded his consciousness like an invisible needle. The mountain-like black entity burned with black flas that incinerated the very fabric of the Blood Sea. The thunder-tentacled creature bombarded from every direction with ceaseless lightning.
More than ten types of attacks struck simultaneously.
Any single one of these attacks could gravely wound a Hall Master-level cultivator. Combined, their power was extraordinary.
Yet Luo Feng stood firm.
His soul, forged through countless tribulations, was incomparably resilient. The Lieu Yuan Technique circulated continuously, neutralizing the ntal erosion. The Blood Sea churned and regenerated, absorbing and dispersing the physical bombardnt.
It is manageable, Luo Feng thought calmly. But I cannot end this quickly.
The four Transcendent Limit-level beings were not fighting to kill him. They were fighting to delay him.
Luo Feng understood this perfectly.
Every second he spent here was a second the legions had to advance deeper into the city.
"City Lord!" An Elder's desperate voice reached him through the formation's feedback. "The northeastern sector has fallen! Elder Moran and eleven others have been killed!"
Luo Feng's expression did not change, but deep within, sothing tightened.
Eleven Elders.
Each Elder represented decades, centuries, even millennia of cultivation. Each had clawed their way up from countless worlds below, surviving bottlenecks and dangers that would have destroyed lesser cultivators. And now, eleven of them were gone in an instant.
The four Transcendent Limit-level beings sensed Luo Feng's montary distraction and imdiately pressed the attack. The destruction bird folded its wings inward, concentrating all its annihilation energy into a single focused beam that lanced directly toward Luo Feng's soul.
"Hmph."
Luo Feng's eyes snapped back to the battle. The Blood Sea surged upward like a tidal wave, intercepting the beam. Simultaneously, beneath his feet, a complex formation diagram flickered to life—additional layers of soul defense woven directly into the Heaven-and-Earth Formation structure.
The beam shattered against the Blood Sea.
"He's still focused," the Bewitching Heart Worm communicated to the others through their shared will channel. "But the city is falling apart. We just need to hold a little longer."
"Agreed. The legions are already tearing through the Elder residential zones."
"Once the Elders are gone, his formation's power drops by more than half. Then we finish this."
The four Transcendent Limit-level beings coordinated seamlessly, each attacking a different aspect—material, spiritual, causal, elental—ensuring Luo Feng could never fully relax.
Inside the city, the slaughter continued.
Legion after legion poured through the broken defensive lines. The Low-Rank Primordial Lifeforms, suppressed for so long under the Kings' orders to advance quickly, now unleashed their pent-up ferocity. They did not yet begin the full slaughter—their priority was still the Core Region, the Elder residential zones.
"The Core Region's outer wall is breached!"
This report hit the Elders like a physical blow.
"All Elders, fall back to the inner formation nodes!" Elder Yuan Xiang commanded. "Concentrate! Do not scatter!"
The surviving Elders—roughly 180 of them now—rapidly repositioned, abandoning the outer layers and consolidating around the inner core formation nodes. By sacrificing the outer zones, they could concentrate their remaining power.
It was a painful decision.
Countless cultivators lived in those outer zones.
But there was no other choice.
In the sky, Luo Feng processed this information through the formation's feedback in an instant. His expression remained calm, but his mind was already calculating at extraordinary speed.
At this rate, the Elders will be whittled down to fewer than a hundred within the next period. Once that happens, the Heaven-and-Earth Formation will weaken significantly. The four Transcendent Limit-level beings will then be able to break free and join the legions in the slaughter.
I must end this faster.
But how?
Fighting four Transcendent Limit-level beings simultaneously while also protecting a besieged city was an equation with no clean solution. Even Luo Feng, with his two Half-Primordial Paths and thirty-four clones, was being stretched to his limits.
Then I will simply have to exceed those limits.
Sothing shifted in Luo Feng's eyes.
The Blood Sea, which had been churning defensively, suddenly reversed. Instead of dispersing the attacks, it began absorbing them—drawing in the flas, the lightning, the annihilation energy—feeding it all back into its own structure.
The four Transcendent Limit-level beings felt it imdiately.
"What is he doing?"
"The Blood Sea is changing—"
"Be careful!"
The Blood Sea compressed. What had been a vast, sprawling ocean condensed rapidly into a dense, churning sphere of absolute crimson—concentrated to perhaps one-tenth of its original volu, but ten tis as dense, ten tis as lethal.
And then Luo Feng released it.
Not as a wide suppression. But as a single, focused detonation aid directly at the destruction bird—the one among the four that posed the greatest threat to his soul.
BOOM——
The explosion was catastrophic.
The destruction bird's dark wings, which had withstood everything thrown at them so far, buckled under the impact. Layers of its protective energy shattered. Its massive body was flung backward, crashing through several cloud layers before stabilizing.
It was not dead. But it was heavily wounded.
The remaining three Transcendent Limit-level beings were stunned.
For a single breath, the pressure on Luo Feng dropped dramatically.
He used that breath.
Thirty-four clones, spread across Rainlan City, simultaneously activated. Complex formation diagrams blazed to life across the entire city—not just defensive formations, but trapping formations, layered over the paths the legions were using to advance.
The legions, charging toward the Core Region, suddenly found their movents sluggish. The black-cyan mist thickened around them, slowing every step.
"The formation changed!"
"It's a trap—"
"Break through! Break through now before it fully activates!"
But it was too late.
The trap formations locked into place.
And from within the black-cyan mist, four enormous super-gigantic claws—each wielded by one of Luo Feng's strongest clones—plunged into the heart of the nearest legion simultaneously.
The screams began.
Above, the three remaining Transcendent Limit-level beings hesitated. The destruction bird was struggling to recover. Without its annihilation energy suppressing Luo Feng's soul, the balance of the fight had shifted.
"Retreat?" one of them communicated.
"...Not yet. If we retreat now, the legions are finished."
"If we don't retreat now, we might be finished."
They looked at Luo Feng.
He stood calmly in the sky, the Blood Sea already reforming around him, larger than before. His eyes were steady. Unhurried.
As if defeating four Transcendent Limit-level beings while simultaneously protecting an entire city from four invading legions was simply another problem to be solved.
The three Transcendent Limit-level beings made their decision.
"Signal the legions. Begin the slaughter and retreat simultaneously."
"We cut our losses here. Survival first."
The signal went out across all four legions.
And the nature of the battle changed entirely.
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