179: Withered Feast, Withered Heart
Dragon Pavilion, highest conference hall.
On the light screen, the gray withering torrent and the even more condensed withering orb were about to collide!
“It’s here! It’s Fei’s ‘Calamity Breath’!”
An old man, responsible for analyzing ancient Vicious Beast archives, said nervously, “This move can instantly corrode the steel defenses of a city, leaving a hundred-mile radius barren! It’s its strongest long-range attack method!”
“But what Lin Feng threw out was also withering power!” Another young member’s face was filled with confusion, “Using the same energy to collide… will it be effective? Shouldn’t they just cancel each other out?”
In the cognition of all conventional Transcenders, energy confrontation follows the most basic laws of physics.
Unless one side has an absolute overwhelming advantage in ‘quantity’ when similar energies collide, the ultimate result will only be mutual annihilation and a lose-lose situation.
“No…”
The Pavilion Master stared intently at the screen, a hint of greed, exactly like Lin Feng’s, appearing in his ancient, unmoving eyes.
He seemed to see, through Lin Feng, another Dao leading to supreme power, full of taboos and temptations.
“You… still don’t understand…”
He said in a hoarse voice, as if every word weighed a thousand jin.
“For conventional Transcenders, energy is a tool that needs to be controlled and utilized.”
“But for him…”
“Energy is just raw Materials that can be kneaded, purified, compressed, and then given stronger offensive properties at will.”
“The withering orb he threw, although its Origin is the same as Fei’s, its ‘energy density’ and ‘structural stability’ have been enhanced by his Talent by more than a hundredfold!”
“So, this is not a head-on collision of equal strength at all.”
The Pavilion Master slowly closed his eyes, as if he couldn’t bear to watch the upcoming scene.
“This is a collision of steel and tofu.”
...Shennongjia, Great Desolation Valley.
Boom—!!!
The gray withering orb and the massive calamity torrent violently collided in mid-air!
There was no stalemate, no confrontation.
The result was determined at the very first moment of contact!
The calamity torrent, which seemed capable of destroying the world, instantly collapsed and disintegrated upon hitting the small but extremely dense withering orb, like a wave crashing against a reef!
And the withering orb, unstoppable, its momentum undiminished, pierced through the collapsing energy torrent with an unrivaled stance, accurately shooting into Fei’s enormous white single eye!
“Oww…”
Fei’s roar abruptly stopped.
Its massive body suddenly stiffened.
Immediately after, a scene that made everyone in the Dragon Pavilion’s scalp tingle occurred.
Centered on its gigantic single eye, gray cracks filled with the aura of death began to spread madly!
Crack… crackle… Wherever the cracks passed, its hard fur, comparable to alloy, rapidly withered!
Its explosive muscles rapidly decayed!
Its bones, supporting its massive body, rapidly weathered!
This beast of calamity, which had existed since ancient times, was being completely disintegrated from within by its own proudest power of “withering”!
Its life, its existence, everything about it was being mercilessly devoured by its own power!
“Roar… ugh…”
Fei let out its last mournful cry, filled with unwillingness and pain.
Its mountain-like massive body could no longer support itself, crashing down and stirring up a sky full of grayish-white dust.
But, before its corpse fully hit the ground.
Amidst the dust, a black-gold figure appeared like a ghost above its head!
It was Lin Feng!
He didn’t even wait for the battle to completely end!
He was already eager to begin his most core work!
His Divine-Demonic Pupils, one pitch black and one golden, looked down at the rapidly collapsing massive body, with no pity or sympathy on his face.
He slowly extended his hand and aimed it at Fei’s huge single eye, which had completely lost its luster.
Talent—[All Things Collection]!
Core ability—[Origin Plunder]!
He wanted to plunder all the most core and valuable things from Fei’s corpse before it was completely “weathered” into nothingness by its own power!
Buzz—!!!
An invisible yet extremely greedy plundering power, transformed into an invisible giant hand, fiercely delved deep into Fei’s collapsing corpse!
[Ding! You are performing the final Origin Plunder on the corpse of S++ grade infected body [Fei]!]
[Ding! Target is dead, unable to resist! Plunder efficiency increased by 1000%!]
[Ding! You have gained a massive amount of experience! Congratulations on your Rank increase to LV.40!]
Whoosh!
An incomparably brilliant golden light of Breakthrough erupted from Lin Feng’s body!
But this was just the beginning!
[Ding! You are extracting Fei’s Life Origin...]
[Ding! You have gained permanent Strength +60, permanent Physique +90!]
[Ding! You are extracting Fei’s Calamity Origin...]
[Ding! Your Body of Gods and Demons has become stronger after absorbing ‘Withering Origin’, your resistance to all “curse” and “plague” type attacks has permanently increased by 80%!]
Along with the frantically scrolling System prompts, Fei’s massive corpse was rapidly weathering at a visible speed!
And Lin Feng’s aura was skyrocketing at a terrifying rate!
“Not enough!”
Lin Feng’s eyes were cold and persistent!
His target was the most important trophy hidden deep within the corpse!
He pushed the power of [All Things Collection] to its limit!
Finally!
Just before his plundering power was about to completely drain the entire corpse!
A grayish-white, irregular crystal, emitting a faint aura of withering and decay, was forcibly extracted by him from the core of the corpse, which had already turned to dust!
That was precisely the sixth [heart of the earth (Withered)]!
The moment this Origin fragment was completely stripped away, Fei’s massive corpse finally reached its end, completely turning into a sky full of grayish-white dust that scattered with the wind.
As if it had never existed in this World.
Lin Feng quietly floated in mid-air, carefully putting away this hard-won fragment, and finally had time to examine his “epic” huge harvest.
He opened his character panel.
[Name: Lin Feng]
[Rank: LV.40]
[Profession: World Devourer (Second Advancement)]
[Status: Can perform Third Advancement]
[Title: sky ripper]
[Talent: All Things Collection (Origin Grade)]
[Attributes]:
Strength: 940
Physique: 1265
Agility: 685
Spirit: 1025
[Free Attribute Points: 10]
Looking at the attribute panel that had once again skyrocketed and completely Breakthrough, Lin Feng’s face revealed a satisfied smile full of ferocity.
He didn’t hesitate to add 10 free attribute points to [Agility], making up for his only “shortcoming.”
After doing all this, he finally turned his gaze to the System panel, to the Third Advancement quest that had been waiting for a long time.