Permanent Martial Arts

“Master, you are finally back.”

As soon as Longbetham saw that Lin Feng had returned, its face immediately lit up, as if it was very excited.

It seemed like Longbetham had been doing well during Lin Feng’s absence.

“Longbetham, search up information on devouring lifeforms.”

“Yes, Master.”

Longbetham downloaded all the information in the upper district. As long as the information was public in the upper district, Longbetham could find it.

“Master, devouring lifeforms are a general term for lifeforms that devour life and energy based on their physical instincts. Devouring lifeforms are the great enemies of cultivators. Once discovered, devouring lifeforms must be reported to the Divine Palace immediately, and action must be taken to eliminate them.”

Lin Feng nodded. This was an introduction to ordinary devouring lifeforms.

“Longbetham, search up information on cultivators similar to devouring lifeforms.”

Longbetham checked for a while, and finally said with a strange expression, “Cultivators who cultivate a special combat body and use devouring as their main method of cultivation are adaptive devouring lifeforms. They have a common name—fiends!

“Anyone who encounters fiends must do their best to kill them, or report them to the Divine Palace. Fiends are far more dangerous than devouring lifeforms. They possess intelligence and have a complete cultivation system, like the dark side of cultivators. They are completely ruthless, and only seek their own interests without regard for the consequences. If devouring the universe can aid their cultivation, fiends will devour the universe without hesitation!”

Lin Feng understood now. The Black Dragon Cult leader he had met was a fiend!

Moreover, fiends could hide in crowds. Compared to those natural devouring lifeforms, fiends were the true threat.

If a fiend did not devour, one would not even realize that they were a fiend.

Hence, Lin Feng searched for information about fiends again. It was overwhelming. There was simply too much information about fiends in the upper district.

Lin Feng spent ten entire days before he finally read through all the information on fiends. He gained a detailed understanding of fiends. The reason he could find the Black Dragon Cult leader and expose him was entirely because the Black Dragon Cult leader did not take Lin Feng seriously.

As for some cautious fiends, they would hide among the many ordinary lifeforms and give the cultivator a fatal blow at the critical moment.

Countless cultivators had died for it.

Lin Feng stopped. He closed his eyes and slowly digested and organized all this information.

Fiends were actually also cultivators! There was no doubt about it, but the birth of fiends was not a coincidence. Or rather, it was inevitable!

Thinking about it, many people were not as lucky as Lin Feng, who was able to enter the Divine Palace of Bemond. Even if they entered the Divine Palace of Bemond, not everyone could advance to the upper district like Lin Feng, where he had sufficient energy to undergo life transitions and condense combat bodies at any time.

Not everyone could possess the extraordinary talent to reach the peak in the end.

What should those who had no status, status, or even good cultivation methods do?

At this point, becoming a fiend might be the best choice.

The cultivation system of fiends was not as complicated as that of cultivators. They did not need to comprehend the truth of the universe. They only needed to constantly devour, and keep devouring, so that they could improve naturally.

For instance, for a fiend with five life transitions, what they wanted to do was not to comprehend anything, but to devour. Perhaps they could not devour planets, but they could devour many intelligent lifeforms and natural treasures.

As long as there were enough intelligent lifeforms, they could use the intelligence and power of all living beings to become planetary lifeforms.

Compared to the cultivation system, the system of fiends was just too simple. They only needed to do one thing, and they only needed to keep devouring to constantly grow.

It was no wonder that even though fiends were suppressed by cultivators in the entire universe, they could still develop continuously. Many cultivators were willing to become fiends. Even some powerful cultivators who had reached their own bottlenecks and had not improved for billions of years were willing to become fiends, and attempt the cultivation system of fiends to wreak chaos in the entire universe.

“How terrifying. Not only does a fiend have powerful strength, their very existence can also entice people!”

Lin Feng’s heart skipped a beat. After reading so much information about fiends, he finally understood why cultivators treated fiends like their greatest enemy.

The power of fiends was secondary. The key was how they could entice people.

If a cultivator had cultivated for thousands or tens of thousands of years, and still remained at the stage of five life transitions, unable to undergo further life transitions, would they take the risk to become a fiend? How could they resist the temptation of becoming a planetary lifeform just through the simple action of devouring?

Even for planetary lifeforms, if they remained stagnant, would they develop other thoughts? Becoming a fiend and devouring some planets would allow them to advance to the next level. How many cultivators could resist such temptation?

Lin Feng asked himself honestly. Even he would probably be tempted.

However, he was very clear-headed now. Hence, he knew that fiends were a misconception.

It seemed like one only needed to devour to improve. There was no better cultivation system. However, if everyone was a fiend, in the end, it would actually be a zero-sum game.

No matter how many fiends there were, and how many fiends had grown to an extremely advanced level, as long as a fiend wanted to become a universal lifeform, it would have to devour the entire universe.

At that time, the entire universe would become nutrients for that fiend, supporting it to become a universal lifeform.

All the fiends would disappear, leaving only one behind!

This was a zero-sum game through and through. It was completely unsustainable. In the orthodox cultivation system, even the birth of one, two, or even three universal lifeforms was nothing. In fact, the more universal lifeforms born, the more they could nourish this universe.

For example, if a planetary lifeform was born, that planetary lifeform would help the lifeforms on the planet and protect it.

Fiends only knew how to devour.

Hence, the cultivation system of fiends was a complete zero-sum game. Countless fiends fought to devour. What was their goal?

It was probably all for the sake of becoming that final fiend that could devour the entire universe and become a universal lifeform!

But who could be that lucky one?

It was precisely because of this that fiends were classified as taboo by all cultivators in the universe, and were public enemies of all cosmic civilizations. The stronger the fiend, the greater the force of suppression it would encounter.

Some galactic-level fiends did not even dare to show themselves for billions of years, because once they did, they would be jointly attacked by countless great galactic lifeforms.

It was no wonder that the Divine Palace reacted so quickly and sent Raymond over, finally resolving the crisis of the Black Dragon Cult leader.

Once discovered, fiends would not be let off lightly!