The warring factions of the Demon Race and the Nine Domains Alliance departed, and the various experts from other races, drawn by the disturbance, exchanged glances from a distance before quietly dispersing.
"Just as the records for Venerable Niuzhou described," Luo Feng flew slowly above the desolate plains, the Golden Horned Beast crouching obediently on his shoulder. "The experts on the Original Star are extremely cautious; they won't make a move easily unless they sense a powerful treasure or are absolutely certain of victory. The fight just now between the Demon Race and the Nine Domains Alliance didn't emit any aura of an Ultimate Treasure, so I estimate it involved several Supreme Treasures."
If an Ultimate Treasure conceals its aura, distinguishing it from a mere Supreme Treasure by appearance alone is impossible.
But the Original Star is different.
The Original Star is a Treasure Star, teeming with riches. The emergence of a Supreme Treasure causes little fanfare, perhaps a slight ripple for some top-tier complete sets of Supreme Treasures, but the appearance of an 'Ultimate Treasure' always generates a significant commotion! The greater the phenomenon, the higher the tier of the Ultimate Treasure! Sometimes, a palace might even rise from the earth, enshrining an Ultimate Treasure within...
In short.
The bigger the disturbance, the higher the level of the treasure.
...
"Hm?"
Luo Feng spotted a spatial vortex hanging in the distant air. "Another vortex passage. I wonder which Original Star this one leads to."
According to the records, the 10,081 Original Stars each contained 10,081 spatial vortex passages randomly distributed in their skies. One of these was the exit (the one Luo Feng used to arrive); the other 10,080 passages connected to the other 10,080 Original Stars.
"All the experts searching for treasure on the Original Stars aren't foolish enough to wander aimlessly. Almost all of them stake out a position and wait silently, sensing auras. Once they detect a special disturbance, they rush over immediately," Luo Feng decided to follow the ancient wisdom passed down through generations who had opened the Original Stars.
Whoosh!
He immediately dove down, landing in a low-lying, ancient forest. The mountain peaks here were only about a thousand kilometers high—far taller than any mountain on Earth, yet considered low by the standards of the Original Star. The ancient trees and flora growing here were exceptionally beautiful.
Treading on fallen leaves, Luo Feng strolled about.
"The pressure on the Original Star is immense! Weaker Immortal level beings would be annihilated, yet these trees, flowers, and stones survive perfectly intact," Luo Feng observed a stout, low-lying tree trunk, more than thirty meters thick. "Without a doubt, the branches, flowers, and grasses here could be used to forge weapons for ordinary Immortals. They are definitely valuable, rare materials."
Luo Feng understood this, yet he wouldn't take any.
Because predecessors had already tried that historically!
"Peng!" Luo Feng kicked the tree trunk. Under the impact of his potent divine power, the entire tree felt integrated with the boundless earth. The kick sent him recoiling, crashing into a patch of distant undergrowth, flattening much of the foliage before he managed to stand up.
"Indeed... the flora and trees here are one with the Original Star."
"And the records state... that the plants and trees are incredibly difficult to damage. Even if a supreme expert damages them, they will recondense and grow back to their original state," Luo Feng first enveloped the surroundings with his divine power, then ignited the divine power in his right foot, causing its might to surge. With a roar, he kicked down hard onto the soil, sending a large amount of dirt flying and directly carving out a pit.
Luo Feng stood beside it, watching silently.
Moments later, the scattered soil around the area vanished into thin air, and the pit was filled in, returning to its previous state.
"It really is like that," Luo Feng sighed inwardly. "What a miraculous Original Star."
On the Original Star, any object that felt 'integrated' with it—such as soil, flowers, or trees—could be violently removed temporarily, but they would quickly return to their original location on the Star. All such efforts were destined to be futile.
Only objects not 'integrated' with the Original Star, like emerging treasures, could actually be taken away.
...
Sensing the mystery of the Original Star, Luo Feng continued to wander through the forest, observing everything around him.
"Chī!" Luo Feng's foot struck something hard. With his divine power, ordinary stones would be kicked away, and soil would be flattened.
"Hm?" Luo Feng looked down.
A silver-white horn jutted out from the ground, still coated in mud. Luo Feng sensed it carefully; the silver-white horn possessed a subtle, extraordinary quality.
Luo Feng blinked.
"My luck couldn't be this good," Luo Feng muttered to himself. The Original Star held countless treasures, and some Supreme Treasures emerged without any fanfare, meaning they could be found in rivers, buried in the soil, or simply stumbled upon while walking... This had happened many times throughout history.
"Stumble upon a Supreme Treasure while walking?" Luo Feng crouched down, placing his right hand on the horn. His sharp nails gripped tightly, while his divine power wrapped around the silver horn like fine threads.
Whoosh!
With a pull, like digging up a radish, the soil shook off, and a completely silver 'cube,' about half a meter tall, was extracted. Luo Feng swept his divine power over it, causing all the dirt to fall away, fully revealing an exquisite silver cube etched with ancient law secret patterns. Its aura was subtle—clearly a Supreme Treasure.
"Haha, no wonder Venerable Nine Swords asked to borrow an Ultimate Treasure from me back then, willing to offer ten Supreme Treasures as compensation!" Luo Feng grinned widely. "There truly are so many Supreme Treasures on the Original Star that I can trip over one just walking!"
Finding a Supreme Treasure by walking counted as good luck.
However, the Original Star did indeed contain a vast number of Supreme Treasures... As long as one spent enough time here, acquiring dozens or even a hundred Supreme Treasures wasn't difficult. These could then be handed over to one's faction in exchange for a complete set of Supreme Treasures! Furthermore, these Supreme Treasures could be disassembled; the rare materials yielded from breaking them down were often impossible to gather otherwise.
By dismantling numerous Supreme Treasures and combining those countless precious materials, it was entirely possible to forge an Ordinary Ultimate Treasure!
Forging an Ordinary Ultimate Treasure was challenging enough. Creating super Ultimate Treasures like the 'Jie Jia,' 'Yuan Hun,' or 'Yan Shen Ji' was likely only achievable by 'Mountain Seated Guest,' the lone master of treasure forging in the universe.
...
Luo Feng imprinted his life imprint onto the cube, instantly claiming the Supreme Treasure. Streams of information flowed into him, and the silver cube rapidly shrank to the size of a peach, resembling a Rubik's Cube.
"Ha, it's actually a Seal-type Supreme Treasure, containing a sealed space within. It's not inferior to the Star Sealing Tower," Luo Feng nodded contentedly. "Getting a Supreme Treasure on my very first day on the Original Star! If I could find one every day, how many would I have after a century or a millennium? Haha..." Luo Feng knew that was impossible, but the feeling of finding a Supreme Treasure by chance was exhilarating.
Luo Feng wandered in the forest for most of the day, but alas, he didn't stumble upon another Supreme Treasure.
He then found a random spot, sat cross-legged on the fallen leaves, and began to wait silently.
Time flowed on. The opening of the Original Star would last for an entire 1,000 epochs, ensuring that the probability of certain precious Ultimate Treasures emerging was exceedingly small, perhaps occurring only once in a great while.
Instead, complete sets of Supreme Treasures and Ordinary Ultimate Treasures became the common objects of contention.
"Common" here still required a bit of luck. In the two years since Luo Feng arrived, he hadn't even witnessed one complete set of Supreme Treasures. Although he had sensed the aura of a complete set emerging three times, even if the aura was faint, the senses of these powerful beings were incredibly sharp.
Proximity was key. Luo Feng was too far away during those three occurrences; by the time he arrived, the battle for the complete set of Supreme Treasures had already concluded.
"Luck," he mused.
"Haven't obtained a single complete set of Supreme Treasures. Two years already... and only two Supreme Treasures found. How pitiful!" Luo Feng stood atop the ancient mountain in the forest, gazing toward the distance.
Two Supreme Treasures in two years—this efficiency was actually considered average.
After all, on the Original Star, people risked their lives!
Luo Feng was currently disguised as an expert from the 'Star Beast Alliance,' which was aloof and mysterious. Therefore, experts from hostile races generally avoided provoking those affiliated with the Star Beast Alliance! In two years, Luo Feng and the Golden Horned Beast on his shoulder had already become somewhat well-known.
At the very least, many experts recognized and remembered them.
"The Human Clan Alliance, Demon Race Alliance, Machine Race Alliance, and Insect Race Alliance are fighting ferociously," Luo Feng muttered to himself. "Any slight provocation could erupt into battle!"
These four peak races were geographically adjacent.
With accumulated hatred, they fought viciously on the Original Star.
Luo Feng had lived too short a life. Despite experiencing the 'Insect Race spy directly detonating a planet' and 'hostile races sending Venerable Zhaoshi to assassinate him,' emotionally, while he disliked and loathed them, his hatred for the Insect Race, Demon Race, and Machine Race hadn't reached its absolute, maddening peak.
It was different for the long-lived human experts. They had existed for so long that they had intertwined countless grievances and hatreds with these three peak races... repeated confrontations built up the animosity to an immense degree.
"In the two years I've been here, I haven't had a single fight," Luo Feng lamented inwardly.
Just as Luo Feng was sighing internally—
A unique aura began to spread.
Luo Feng, experienced, started immediately: "It's a complete set of Supreme Treasures, or perhaps even an Ordinary Ultimate Treasure!"
"And this aura seems very close!"
Luo Feng became excited.
He hadn't even brushed against the edge of a complete set of Supreme Treasures during the previous three times; this time, he was extremely close.
"Swoosh!"
Luo Feng's Demon Killing Clone instantly burned his divine power, erupting in speed!
Boom!
He flew directly toward the source of the aura.
...
"The aura is quite strong! It's a complete set of Supreme Treasures, perhaps even an Ultimate Treasure!" A giant from the Prison Race, over ten kilometers tall and covered in golden flames, flew alongside two Universe Venerables who were both a hundred meters tall and possessed twelve pairs of black wings, hunched over and covered in black scales...
...
"The aura of a treasure emerging!"
...
"It's a treasure!"
The six teams in the immediate vicinity rushed over. As the aura permeated the area, distant teams of alien Universe Venerables also began to gather in small groups, rapidly converging on the source of the disturbance.
:Chapter One Complete! RO