Swallowing the Stars: Equipment Slots, Starting with a Genius Battle

Ye Feng's white robe fluttered in the chaotic energy flow, his eyes indifferent.

"If that's the case..." The voice was calm, yet carried a judgmental tone.

I'm sorry.

Without using the Vulcan weapon in his spatial ring, Ye Feng simply raised his right hand, his five fingers spread wide, and gently clenched it towards the crushing water world and giant waves!

Om-! ! !

With the will of a Marquis at its peak, he brazenly mobilized one-tenth of the energy of the Burning Star Spirit Vine—a vast primal energy equal to 100 times the power of a peak World Lord!

In an instant, 10081 crimson crystals appeared out of thin air inside Taiyun's proud Water World projection! Each one was like a miniature burning star core, radiating terrifying high temperature! The crystals were connected by mysterious law threads, instantly forming a destructive array containing the fundamental laws of fire and space!

The illusory shadows of vines danced, causing space to twist, burn, and collapse!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no collision of energy beams.

Only absolute laws can crush everything!

The moment the destruction array appeared, Taiyun's water world projection offered no resistance whatsoever, silently crumbling and annihilating inch by inch! The colossal waves, powerful enough to tear apart the continent, were wiped away out of thin air and vanished without a trace!

Tai Yun's pupils shrank sharply, and all color drained from his face! Although the attack just now wasn't at full strength, it still contained about 80% of its energy, yet it was neutralized so easily?

Little did he know that this destruction array was formed by Ye Feng using the immense primal force of the Burning Star Spirit Vine as a foundation, combined with his own insights into the origins of fire and void laws!

Even without using the power of Bloodlust or activating the Fire God Weapon, the power of this grasp easily surpasses 30 times the power of a peak Realm Lord. How could a mere 3rd-tier Realm Lord possibly withstand it!

In the next instant, the destruction array enveloped Taiyun like a net from the sky!

"Pfft—!" Tai Yun felt as if he had been struck by a celestial body. His face turned ashen, and he coughed up a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of his internal organs! What terrified him even more was that the surrounding space was completely distorted and solidified by that terrifying power, like an invisible shackle that imprisoned him tightly, making him unable to move!

"No...impossible!!" Taiyun's eyes were filled with only horror and despair.

Ye Feng's eyes were expressionless, and his tone was icy: "I'm sorry, but if you see my true face, you will only die."

He didn't retract his clenched fingers, but instead flicked them at the imprisoned Taiyun.

laugh!

A crystal of crimson gold, condensed to its extreme and seemingly formed from highly compressed pure fire elemental energy, ignored spatial distance and the priceless World Lord armor, precisely striking Tai Yun's chest—the core intersection of the six blood-red runes!

"Ughh ...

Taiyun lost control of his body and crashed down from the sky like a meteorite!

Boom!!!

The summit of a mountain below instantly turned to dust! In the smoke-filled crater, Taiyun lay dying, his eyes unfocused, his heart filled with boundless fear and questions.

"Who exactly is this person?"

"Not immortal, yet possessing the power to crush even a peak World Lord! Even Bawei is far inferior to it!"

Ye Feng's figure gently floated to the edge of the deep pit, looking down indifferently.

"No...don't kill me!" Taiyun roared with his last bit of strength, "I am a core genius of the Immortal Temple! My master is Elder Xihe!"

Kill me... and the temple will fight you to the death!

Even if you are ten times, a hundred times stronger... you will not escape the temple's pursuit and will surely die!

"Rest in peace." Ye Feng said calmly.

To prevent the Immortal Temple from searching for his soul and tracing his origins, Ye Feng's mental power, like an invisible sharp cone, instantly pierced Tai Yun's life core, completely shattering his soul core!

"Heaven...outside..." In the last moment of his life, Taiyun finally realized the truth. The light in his eyes completely died out, leaving only endless regret.

Ye Feng used his mental power to pull up Tai Yun's spatial ring and probed it with his spiritual power.

The next instant, Ye Feng's usually indifferent expression showed a dramatic change for the first time!

"So many?!" Even with Ye Feng's composure, he couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice!

Inside the ring's space, aside from weapons and miscellaneous items, there was a small mountain made of blood crystals!

A sweep of mental energy revealed the exact number of individuals.

Forty-six thousand!

A strong sense of "poverty" welled up in Ye Feng's heart!

He had been worried that asking for 10,000 coins was an exorbitant demand, but who knew that the other party was carrying such a huge sum of money!

"This is amazing!" A surge of joy instantly filled my mind!

But then, Ye Feng's expression changed drastically!

boom!

The crimson-gold primordial flames instantly surged up, incinerating Tai Yun's corpse and any remaining aura into nothingness!

Ye Feng's figure, carrying the burning energy of the primordial laws, soared into the sky, transforming into a streak of light that tore through the clouds and rushed straight to the eighteenth heaven!

During the flight, he quickly transferred all the Blood Crystals in the ring to his own spatial ring, and then discarded Taiyun's empty ring.

The fact that the other party possesses such a massive amount of Blood Crystals indicates that their identity is far from that of an ordinary World Lord!

His dying words were not empty boasting!

"This is troublesome!" Ye Feng's mind raced, and he pushed his speed to the limit.

The commotion caused by Tae-yun's death was much greater than he had anticipated!

Ye Feng had considered that Tai Yun was a genius of the Immortal Temple, capable of fusing six Blood Crystals, but he never imagined that his master, Elder Master, was standing behind him.

The elders wield astonishing power within the Temple of Immortality. The commotion caused by the discovery of Taiyun's death would be equally astonishing.

This behemoth that has ruled the Blood Continent for countless epochs, though suppressed here by the human race, still possesses considerable strength!

From the fragmented memories of those lords, it is known that the temple possesses over 100,000 immortal gods, ruled by eighteen even stronger elders! Those elders are by no means ordinary immortals; they are very likely... Marquis-level or even King-level beings!

With his current peak strength as a military commander, if he were to attract the title of immortal king, he would face certain death!

……

In the void outside the Blood Luo Continent, at the Heavenly Eclipse Palace.

In the side hall on the first floor, a huge monitoring screen was broadcasting in real time the scene of Ye Feng killing Tai Yun and breaking through the air.

"I...I'm seeing things?! That Prince Ye Feng...killed a World Lord?! And a World Lord genius at the peak World Lord level?!" A World Lord monitor exclaimed in shock, his voice trembling.

"Hallucination? No... It's impossible for it to be a collective hallucination! It's real! Crushing! Absolute crushing!" Another realm lord's voice trembled.

"Shut up!" the leading realm lord roared, his face extremely grave. "A cosmic-level counterattack against a peak realm lord! A monster unseen for countless eons! Report this to Lord Tianyi immediately! The rest of you, keep a close eye on Prince Ye Feng! If he sheds even a hair on our heads in the outer space of the Blood Luo World, we cannot bear the consequences!"

"Yes!" The realm lords responded solemnly, their hearts filled with surging waves of shock.

They had long heard that a monster named Ye Feng had emerged from this year's Genius Battle, having conquered the eleventh level of the Heavenly Bridge! Now, witnessing him kill a World Lord with their own eyes, they knew the rumors were true!

This prince is so ruthless and powerful that it's simply terrifying!

Among the dozen or so realm lords, many felt a sense of unease.

"After cultivating for millions of years to reach the strength of a World Lord, I'm still inferior to a universe-level genius who has cultivated for a few decades. What a waste of all those years of cultivation!"