"No way?" The Progenitor looked down from his vantage point, astonishment etched on his face. "He could actually awaken the Beast God's Heart?"

Over the overgrown plains, a towering, immense statue of a single-horned lizard crouched low, seemingly poised for immediate action. Upon the back of this 'Golden Beast God' statue, Luo Feng lay resting, his eyes narrowed. Before him, countless intricate golden secret script threads flowed ceaselessly through the air.

It appeared as leisurely as the billions of years of ascetic practice, yet in reality, Luo Feng was submerged in a unique state.

For billions of years, he had studied the Eight Secret Script Diagrams of the Golden Beast God. Each diagram represented one facet of the 'Golden Beast God'; the eight diagrams… allowed Luo Feng to perceive every aspect of the Golden Beast God as if witnessing them daily, day after day, month after month, year after year…

Time continued to slip away.

Luo Feng remained engrossed in studying these eight diagrams, so much so that for an immeasurable span, he felt eternally intertwined with the Golden Beast God.

And then, at that very moment…

After one hundred and eighty million years of cultivating the secret script diagrams, he suddenly lost all sense of self. In that instant… it was as if he was the Beast God!

Joy, elation, fury, roaring, madness…

He soared through the cosmos!

He battled foes, fighting bloody wars across endless voids, the conflict spanning entire galaxies… until his final, unwilling demise.

Luo Feng settled onto the statue, his eyes slowly closing, utterly still.

Everything was an illusion.

The Beast God was the reality!

After a long, long time…

This slumber lasted a thousand years.

Throughout those thousand years, even Luo Feng’s Earthling true body and the Boundless Nether Sea fell into deep sleep. No one, absolutely no one, could reach him! During this millennium… Luo Feng forgot his human memories, forgot everything. In his sleep, he believed he was a Beast God, living out that existence…

A thousand years passed, silent and swift.

Luo Feng opened his eyes.

"Was that the Zhuang Zhou butterfly dream?" Luo Feng whispered. The moment his eyes opened, he was momentarily confused, unable to discern if he was Luo Feng or the Beast God. But quickly, full clarity returned; the memories of billions of years spent as a human surged back, completely eclipsing the experience of having embodied the Beast God.

"The Beast God? What a magnificent sensation."

Luo Feng lay on the statue's back. The feeling of being the Beast God was so vivid, so accessible; he could slip back into that state effortlessly.

The Beast God and the human—these were entirely disparate states of existence.

One was a state of complete transcendence, freedom, and pure instinct.

At the summit of the peak.

The Progenitor gazed down upon the scene, shaking his head, a mixture of exasperation and disbelief coloring his sigh. "The final bottleneck of the Beast God Path, the most elusive and unattainable 'Beast God's Heart'—he grasped it just like that?"

The Beast God Path, according to the seven stages of inheritance from the Ancestral God Cult’s Gofen, was the path to godhood.

Comprehending the entirety of the Beast God Path meant stepping into the ‘Universe Master’ realm, becoming a supreme entity in the universe… But how incredibly difficult was it to become a Universe Master? For lineages like the Golden Horned Beast, only two Universe Masters had ever emerged across endless epochs. For lineages like the Flame Star Beast, there was only one.

This all indicated… becoming a Universe Master was exceedingly hard!

There were numerous insurmountable hurdles!

One of the most intangible and profound obstacles on the Beast God Path required grasping the Beast God's Heart before one could truly transform into the genuine Beast God! This puzzled many Universe Overlords—like Xiloudo and countless others—who could only transform into 'Pseudo-Beast Gods' because they had never attained the Beast God's Heart.

Without a Beast God's Heart, true transformation was impossible.

Yet, Luo Feng, through an unintentional yet fortunate path, spent an immeasurable age studying the Eight Secret Script Diagrams. He immersed himself completely, and this commitment spanning billions of years led him, without awareness, into slumber, forgetting everything, living out a vast Beast God tenure in his dreams.

"That makes sense, too."

"This Luo Feng made such a name for himself in less than one hundred thousand years! In our Beast God Realm, he has cultivated for one hundred eighty million years… focusing entirely on the 'Gold-Void' lineage of the secret script diagram school. Without any guidance, purely through self-exploration, he has now reached an exceedingly high level. He can casually create techniques at the level of a Universe Venerable… showing an unbelievable mastery over the Golden Beast God’s Eight Secret Script Diagrams, which completely represent the entire Golden Beast God."

"Moreover…"

"The Golden Horned Beast is a direct descendant of the Golden Beast God, making it inherently easiest for them to comprehend the Golden Beast God's Heart. Their combination achieving this result is normal." The Progenitor quickly understood; it was a case of long-accumulated effort culminating naturally.

After all, Luo Feng spent one hundred eighty million years solely on the secret script diagram school. Given his talent—reaching Peak Fenzhen in mere thousands of years, and creating three ultimate techniques in tens of thousands of years—if he had spent that time on Law comprehension, Luo Feng would have long since ascended to the realm of a High-Level Universe Venerable.

But he did it all to pursue the goal of defeating the Progenitor.

Therefore, Luo Feng invested zero effort into Law comprehension; he focused entirely on the 'Secret Script Diagram' school, which resulted in his mastery of that field far surpassing his understanding of Law comprehension.

After all, his Law comprehension had only spanned tens of thousands of years.

The Secret Script Diagram school, however, had spanned one hundred eighty million years—no comparison!

"This—" The now-calm Progenitor's expression suddenly changed drastically. He stared down in disbelief at Luo Feng on the Beast God statue in the wasteland below. He hadn't been this flustered even when Luo Feng first comprehended the Beast God's Heart.

On the Beast God statue's back.

After a thousand years of sleep, Luo Feng returned to studying the Golden Beast God’s Eight Secret Script Diagrams, using the 'Miniature Universe Secret Script Diagram' as the ultimate template, attempting to forge a new technique. Even after a thousand years of slumber, Luo Feng was subtly influenced by the Beast God's Heart.

Whoosh whoosh~~~~

Innumerable golden threads floated in the air.

"It should be like this."

"And like this."

As if guided by an external force, Luo Feng rapidly combined the eight secret script diagrams, without even fully grasping the underlying principles himself. While the bulk of the script thread combinations relied on his excellent foundation, a small portion of the connections was pure impulse born from a peculiar mental state—he acted without thought.

It was as if the Golden Beast God drifted through the cosmos, everything guided by whim: kill when desired, eat when hungry, sleep when tired…

Those combinations Luo Feng felt uncertain about also flowed naturally, seamlessly. He just felt this way was most comfortable.

"Boom!"

A golden light suddenly pierced the heavens and earth.

The golden beam flashed across the landscape, slicing the utterly solidified space to create a ripple-like chasm. The very ground suffered under the residual force, tearing open a trench miles long. Moments later, the earth naturally shifted, and everything returned to normal.

"I… I didn't use much divine power," Luo Feng muttered, astonished, sitting on the statue’s back as he watched the deep trench stretch to the far end of the barren plain, until it finally healed itself.

"A technique?"

"What level of technique?"

Luo Feng found it hard to believe. He was powerful; in just a few thousand years of Law comprehension, he had reached 'Immortal Peak.' If he had devoted those long one hundred eighty million years to Law comprehension, he could have cultivated the Beast God Path to the Sixth or even Seventh Stage. Instead, he spent that time studying the secret script diagram school!

It was certainly fruitful; now he could effortlessly create Universe Venerable-level techniques, and occasionally, even an Ultimate Technique at the Universe Overlord level, possessing immense power.

But its destructive might was clearly far inferior to that single golden beam.

"Could it be a Universe Master Ultimate Technique?" Luo Feng was stunned.

Until he practiced it, he hadn't fully known.

After studying the secret script diagram school, he understood: while this path occasionally allowed for lucky breakthroughs to create astonishing techniques, the more heaven-defying the technique, the less reliant it was on luck and the more dependent on foundational mastery!

One hundred eighty million years!

Luo Feng’s attainment in the secret script diagram school was already monumental. He could create Universe Venerable-level techniques with ease, and the strongest he had authored was merely a 'Universe Overlord Ultimate Technique'—only two tiers above his normal output. To create a Universe Master Ultimate Technique… Luo Feng guessed it would likely require several more hundred million years of research!

When he could casually create Universe Overlord techniques, perhaps he might get lucky enough to create a 'Universe Master Ultimate Technique.'

The higher the foundation!

The greater the chance to spontaneously create a stronger technique!

A painter, the stronger their inherent skill, the better the masterpiece they could conjure when inspiration struck.

A novice, no matter how inspired, could not paint a transcendent work.

Luo Feng’s foundation was now unimaginably high; in the realm of secret script diagrams, he was arguably unrivaled, a Grandmaster, a Founder! Yet, to create a Universe Master Ultimate Technique was still almost unbelievable.

"Is this a Universe Master Ultimate Technique?"

Whoosh!

Luo Feng leaped up, flying directly toward the distant mountain range, the Golden Horned Beast perched on his shoulder.

After flying a short distance.

He arrived at the mountain face, where three sets of technique carvings were inscribed—left behind by Universe Masters of the Starry Sky Beasts. All three were 'Universe Master Ultimate Techniques.'

"I’ll inscribe the secret script of the technique I just created and see the pressure, and I’ll know!" Luo Feng looked at the cliff face. His divine power surged, and instantly, incredibly complex secret script diagrams began to appear on the rock—structures that many Universe Venerables would see as celestial scripture, and which the Luo Feng of one hundred eighty million years ago couldn't have comprehended at all.

The diagram was unfathomably deep, radiating immense pressure. It resonated perfectly with the pressure emanating from the three adjacent ultimate technique carvings, proving its equal standing.

The crystallization of over a billion years of toil!

Plus the Beast God's Heart…

At a specific moment, Luo Feng had spontaneously forged such a technique.

A technique modeled on the 'Miniature Universe Secret Script Diagram,' essentially a simplified version—a near-perfect amalgamation of the Golden Beast God’s Eight Diagrams—forming an offensive technique—a Universe Master Ultimate Level Technique!

"A billion years of searching and creation."

"The Beast God's Heart."

"In a single instant, the Golden Beast God’s Eight Secret Script Diagrams combined nearly perfectly, in a configuration both logical and illogical… and thus, it was born." At the peak, the Progenitor observed below, simultaneously transmitting a message to Mountain Sitting Guest in the Primitive Universe, "Mountain Sitting Guest, get over here now!"