Swallowed Star 2: Land of Origin

Chapter 487: Chapter 12: The Initial Ancestor Is Lightly Injured

“What should we do?”

“Next time, they will probably target us again.”

At this moment, the most terrified were the Myriad Touch Dragon Mother, Star Luo Ancestor, and Dream Weaver, who excel at soul techniques!

Mogus is undying and unyielding, and the Silent Extinction Ancestor is also one of the Nine Emperors. However, the physical bodies of Myriad Touch Dragon Mother, Star Luo Ancestor, and Dream Weaver are much weaker, only slightly stronger than the two who have passed away.

“Among the eight Lords, the only ones with weak spiritual will are the Golden Lord and Lord Nai Gu.” Mogus, having been defeated twice, was no longer as confident, “This time we deal with the weaker ones.”

Previously, we were too overconfident, and because Mogus was very knowledgeable about Yuan, this killing move was meticulously prepared specifically for him. This technique would be relatively less effective against other Lords.

The key elements of the Lords’ formation are Yuan and Luo Feng, which is why they’ve targeted these two consecutively.

Yuan was still hit, losing his ability to resist, although he recovered so quickly, which Mogus found hard to understand. But Luo Feng… was not affected at all, causing Mogus’s confidence to plummet.

“Target the Golden Lord.”

Mogus and his group of five launched their move.

The soul techniques silently enveloped the Golden Lord.

The eight Lords were resisting the overwhelming attack, waiting for Lord Mo Man to recover before proceeding with the ’Curse Killing Array.’

“Hmm?” Jin’s expression suddenly changed, and his eyes glowed red as he fell into a vast illusory realm.

Jin’s character is different from Yuan.

Yuan has suppressed his nature for too long, but Jin acts with utter abandon. Furthermore, with Nightmare and Thousand Eyes dead, the power of the soul techniques has diminished again.

“Unexpectedly, some tricky sub-consciousnesses have emerged.” Jin, however, managed to stay clear-headed, his glowing red eyes scanning the surroundings, transmitting, “Everyone, I need to concentrate on suppressing some sub-consciousnesses. I can exert about sixty percent of my power.”

“The team led by Mogus is indeed the greatest threat.” Luo Feng and the others actually understood this, which is why they devised ways to attack and kill.

“Jin, you should rest. The four of us will move.” Yuan immediately transmitted.

Mo Man, Luo Feng, Starlight, and Yuan, the four of them coordinated once more to unleash the Curse Killing Array! Without ’Jin,’ it seemed the power was not much reduced. But sometimes, to completely annihilate an Ancestor, just lacks that strength.

“Buzz.”

The Curse Killing Array landed on the Myriad Touch Dragon Mother protected within multiple formations.

The Myriad Touch Dragon Mother felt its timeline being erased, its life core vitality extinguishing, and its life core fluctuating violently. The numerous tentacles twisted painfully, yet it endured.

Its life force was inherently stronger than that of Nightmare and Thousand Eyes! The power of the Curse Killing Realm Array had weakened again, allowing it to fully withstand this move.

As long as it survived for a moment, the substantial life power from its companions replenished it, allowing it to quickly recover to its pinnacle.

“I survived, I survived.” The Myriad Touch Dragon Mother rejoiced.

The Infinite Snake Ancestor, Ice Peak Ancestor, Sha Zhou, and many other Ancestors all felt relieved. If such a physically weak ’Myriad Touch Dragon Mother’ couldn’t be killed, those Ancestors with more terrifying physical bodies would be under much less pressure.

“A killing move that ignores all obstacles will inevitably have limited power.” The Infinite Snake Ancestor transmitted to all sides, “Under the soul techniques, the Lords of the Cultivator side will continue to weaken, and eventually, they won’t be able to stop us.”

“Target Nai Gu!” Mogus’s confidence increased a bit as the group of five’s soul techniques enveloped once again.

In previous years, facing mind techniques, both Nai Gu and Jin had suffered! Their spiritual will was already considered very strong, but among the eight Lords, they were relatively weaker.

This time they were targeted again!

“Gurgle gurgle.”

Lord Nai Gu’s gaze turned colder, and he slightly twisted his neck, where one head after another began to grow, adding nine new heads.

“Nai Gu, how are you?” Wulan asked worriedly, while the other Lords also looked at Nai Gu.

“My power isn’t affected.” Lord Nai Gu said calmly, “Fortunately, with the two Ancestors dead, this move is weaker, and the awakened alien bloodline will isn’t too strong. With the Heart Cutting Technique, I can cut them off.”

“Heart Cutting Technique?” Yuan was wide-eyed.

Luo Feng also frowned.

They had all read Lord Nai Gu’s heritage tomes and knew that the ’Heart Cutting Technique’ involved actively severing sub-consciousnesses yet still perfectly controlling these sub-consciousnesses.

This is somewhat similar to ’cluster consciousness,’ where cluster consciousness has one main consciousness, and the rest are sub-consciousnesses.

But this path is ultimately not as pure as a singular ’main consciousness.’ Lord Nai Gu’s path is the ’Primordial Bloodline Dao,’ but one of the challenges of mastering an Ancestor Bloodline is the residual bloodline will. Nai Gu had long since developed the Heart Cutting Technique, though he never used it before.

This time, the numerous Ancestor bloodlines within him were greatly strengthened in terms of residual bloodline will, which Nai Gu could no longer suppress, forcing him to use the Heart Cutting Technique, allowing the sub-consciousnesses to become independent.

Nai Gu may seem unaffected in strength, but his cultivation path has shifted from a singular main consciousness to the path of the ’Heart Cutting Technique.’ The more sub-consciousnesses there are, the greater the influence on the ’main consciousness.’”

The other seven Lords were all quite helpless.

Jin’s situation was much better than Nai Gu’s. Having just been hit and able to maintain sixty percent of his strength, with time, he might recover to eighty or ninety percent! Even this training might make his spiritual will stronger.

Nai Gu, however, was experiencing a change in his cultivation foundation! Currently, his strength is unaffected, but what about the future?

“This is the cost of war,” Starlight transmitted, “Find a way to continue to kill Myriad Touch, Star Luo, and Dream Weaver.”

“Into the formation,” Yuan also transmitted.

The Curse Killing Array couldn’t even kill the Myriad Touch Dragon Mother, so naturally, it was not guaranteed to deal with other Ancestors.

The eight Lords didn’t waste time, immediately joining forces to unleash another killing move, the ’Heaven-Slaying Saber Formation.’

The Heaven-Slaying Saber Formation uses the Bloodshadow Knife’s ability to cut through all matter and energy; the eight Lords jointly maneuvered it, with Luo Feng even burning his main battle avatar, consuming thirty percent of his energy reserve into this move.

His thirty percent energy reserve was even more than Mo Man, Jin, and Ming Huang burning their main battle avatar energies.

“Boom——”

The eight of them, along with the Bloodshadow Knife, seemed like one entity, transforming into an extraordinarily dazzling blade light. The blade light was so brilliantly spectacular that even the Ancestors found it somewhat ’blinding’.

The moment the blade light appeared, a deep fear arose in the hearts of all the Ancestors.

“Can’t stop it.”

“No way to block it!”

All Ancestors had this realization deep within.

The blade light shone with extreme brilliance, as if patrolling the endless spacetime. Wherever it passed, it silently and seamlessly cut through layers of the highest level of power barriers and sliced into the intricate formations of the Ancestors! These formation defenses were originally very strong, comprising a combination of various highest level defensive powers.

Yet, under this blade light, they were still cleaved apart.

“Deal with Nightmare.” Mogus, Silent Extinction Ancestor, Myriad Touch Dragon Mother, Star Luo, and Dream Weaver quickly unleashed another soul technique.

The two with weaker spiritual will, ’Nai Gu, Jin’, were dealt with, while other lords possessed very strong spiritual will.

“I’m fine.”

Nightmare took this blow without a change in expression, and the slight sub-consciousness born in her mind was completely destroyed and obliterated under the terrifying spiritual will of her ’golden thunder’ form!

“It’s completely useless!” Myriad Touch Dragon Mother, Star Luo Ancestor, and Dream Weaver were anxious and communicated, “The eight lords are coming for us, we need to hide immediately.”

“Don’t panic, they need to break through many formations. The Initial Ancestor is right nearby and can take you in immediately.” Silent Extinction Ancestor transmitted, “Let’s first deal with Mo Man.”

According to historical experience.

Wulan is the strongest in defense, with even his spiritual will like pure matter, unaffected by anything.

Starlight couldn’t lock on, Yuan and Luo Feng both tried. The relatively weaker Jin and Nai Gu also tried.

It’s worth trying once more on ’Nightmare, Mo Man’.

“Buzz.”

If it were a soul technique at its peak power, it might pose a threat to Nightmare or Mo Man. But at this moment, the soul technique’s power was only sixty to seventy percent, and Lord Mo Man also withstood it, existing purely as ’Primordial Fluctuation Path’, his main consciousness fluctuated like waves and easily crushed all derivative sub-consciousness.

“Kill!” The eight lords broke through layer upon layer of obstructions, having reached the core, directly pressing in on Myriad Touch Dragon Mother, Star Luo, and Dream Weaver.

“They’re coming.” Myriad Touch Dragon Mother, Star Luo, and Dream Weaver no longer wanted to engage, each actively charging towards the Initial Ancestor, who was right in front, silently encompassing them.

The three of them hid within the Initial Ancestor’s body.

Inside the absolute sphere.

Myriad Touch Dragon Mother, Star Luo Ancestor, and Dream Weaver finally felt at ease.

“We’re physically weak and shouldn’t have joined the battle.” Dream Weaver regretted somewhat. Under the coercion and enticement of resources from the Innate Primordial Camp and Ice Peak Camp earlier, they joined the battle.

But who would have thought the formations formed by the Ancestors couldn’t withstand the eight lords.

“Shhh—”

Suddenly, a terrifying blade light forcibly cleaved into the internal space of this absolute sphere.

The three Ancestors looked in horror at the appearance of this blade light, as the moment it appeared, it swept past them, and their bodies were carried away by the blade light.

…

“What?”

The Ancestors were shocked and angered at this scene before them.

The terrifying blade light fully controlled by the eight lords forcibly sliced into the Initial Ancestor’s body! The slash was incredibly thin but still managed to penetrate halfway.

“Our combined efforts couldn’t even cut it in half?” Luo Feng and the eight lords were also surprised.

The body of the Ancestor, even if cut in two, generally would not be considered severely injured, with minimal energy consumption. Only when completely obliterated, even the Life Core destroyed, would it count as a kill.

Merely creating a fissure? The fissure couldn’t even penetrate to half its depth? Barely considered a minor wound, the Initial Ancestor instantly fully recovered.

“All eight lords combined only managed to cut this deep. If I acted alone, it would just scrape the surface.” Luo Feng realized this.

But this scene in front of them shattered the Ancestors’ morale completely.

The slight injury to the Initial Ancestor was just a minor wound.

Yet it meant those hiding within the ’Initial Ancestor’ could still be killed.

“Can’t win at all.”

“There’s no way to fight.”

“Retreat, retreat.”

Many Ancestors were in panic, with more than half actively communicating the need to retreat.

Infinite Snake Ancestor, Ice Peak Ancestor, and other fourteen Undying and Undying beings, upon seeing the Initial Ancestor cut to half its depth, knew that blow, who among the non-Undying ones, could claim to withstand?

At this moment, there was no more fighting spirit.

At this moment, they all understood, this battle was utterly lost! They could no longer gather so many Ancestors to fight desperately again.

“Retreat.” Infinite Ancestor was very unwilling but could only transmit.

“Retreat.” Ice Peak Ancestor also ordered.

In fact, this battle, with their greatest hope pinned on the ’Mogus Team’s’ killer move, even Yuan’s recovery meant the battle was tilting towards the cultivators.