The Fortress Master Fan Nuo shot an angry glance toward the black, golden-horned behemoth in the distance. Bo Xue Teng was his original body, yet during their recent clash, Fortress Master Fan Nuo found himself utterly suppressed. While Bo Xue Teng was certainly unharmed, thanks to his high-grade supreme treasure armor and powerful divine body, Bo Xue Teng could not hold back the black, golden-horned behemoth at all.
“Whoosh!”
The deep cyan fortress turned into a streak of light, flying towards Fortress Master Fan Nuo, who promptly flew to meet it. He no longer had time to deal with the human Luo Feng. He understood perfectly: if he delayed even a moment longer... once the unstoppable golden-horned behemoth got close, he would be in serious trouble.
“Trying to escape?” Luo Feng flapped his wings, causing space-time to completely distort. Multiple figures of Luo Feng suddenly appeared surrounding Fortress Master Fan Nuo.
“What!” Fortress Master Fan Nuo’s expression shifted slightly. He immediately cursed the unreliable rumors. The rumors claimed Luo Feng only cultivated the Path of the Beast God. Yet, Luo Feng’s control over ‘space-time’ before him had clearly reached an extremely high level. Even if he was borrowing power from a supreme treasure, how could he wield it without sufficient comprehension?
Fortress Master Fan Nuo was unaware of the existence of the ‘Secret Pattern Flow.’
“You think you can stop me? Get lost!” Fortress Master Fan Nuo roared, whipping out his divine whip once more.
A cold, sharp golden light flared!
The blade light was irresistible!
“Peng!”
The divine whip was forced downward, bending, and the Zhan Yue Blade immediately followed, cleaving towards Fortress Master Fan Nuo’s head. The faint shimmer of his armor resisted the strike, but Fortress Master Fan Nuo was still driven downwards.
“Impossible!” Terror filled Fortress Master Fan Nuo’s eyes as he looked up at Luo Feng. How could this be!
How could this happen!
How could the human Luo Feng be this powerful?
This saber technique?
This saber technique seemed to be the same secret technique used by the golden-horned behemoth. Could it be... that the peerless human genius Luo Feng had been possessed by that golden-horned behemoth? Because of the possession, whatever the golden-horned behemoth knew, the human Luo Feng also knew. This would explain how the human Luo Feng could unleash such heaven-defying secret techniques in less than twenty thousand years.
“That’s right. Luo Feng’s aptitude is extremely high, his talent astonishing. Even supreme beings would covet him, wanting to make him their clone. However—for such a super genius, the protection afforded by the human race must be exceedingly high. To be subdued as a servant even under those conditions? This golden-horned behemoth is too terrifying.” Fortress Master Fan Nuo, in his panic, prepared to flee.
Swish!
Luo Feng moved his four wings. The top-tier supreme treasure, the Shi Wu Wings, tore through distorted space-time, accelerating him to an entirely new level. He was far stronger than he was back then! Almost instantly, several more figures materialized in front of Fortress Master Fan Nuo.
“You won’t escape,” Luo Feng’s saber light descended once more.
Fortress Master Fan Nuo managed a desperate block with his divine whip before being sent flying backward again.
...
Luo Feng kept Fortress Master Fan Nuo trapped, forcing him to activate the flying fortress for rescue! Although the flying fortress was en route, the golden-horned behemoth was also closing in. In terms of flight speed, the flying fortress was clearly much faster than the golden-horned behemoth.
“Human, get out of the way!” From the approaching flying fortress, immense vines suddenly shot out.
“Hmph!”
Luo Feng snorted coldly. The four wings on his back began to expand violently, instantly surging to a size of nearly one hundred kilometers—clearly visible to the naked eye... The closer the massive wings got to Luo Feng’s divine body, the smaller they appeared, with the section over Luo Feng’s back remaining exactly the same size as before he expanded. It was truly mysterious.
“Break!” The four massive wings acted like four blades, their hilts fixed upon Luo Feng’s back.
The wing-blades swung!
Four streaks of golden light flared, directly blasting away the extended vines.
“Damn it!” Fortress Master Fan Nuo panicked, roaring loudly. With a rumbling sound, all the vines instantly retracted into the flying fortress, which then transformed into a streak of light and smashed directly into Luo Feng. With a loud crash, the flying fortress collided with Luo Feng’s massive Shi Wu Wings, causing Luo Feng to slightly tremble.
The moment the flying fortress struck the Shi Wu Wings, countless vines shot out again, rapidly extending into the edges of the wings.
Fortress Master Fan Nuo made contact with a vine, and instantly, his divine whip, supreme treasure armor, and all other items were transferred into the Bo Xue Teng divine body, while his own form immediately vanished. Numerous vines were seen rapidly withdrawing... as the flying fortress attempted to flee.
“Roar~~~” The golden-horned behemoth lowered its head and rushed through the void. Its longest horn struck the flying fortress sharply, causing the fortress to shake violently and be thrown off course.
Accelerated by the impact, the flying fortress shot away like a streak of light, making its escape.
...
“What a terrifying golden-horned behemoth.” Above the ocean of the Primitive True Universe Star, the flying fortress hovered. A giant man emerged from it—Fortress Master Fan Nuo was still haunted by fear.
“He actually possessed the human Luo Feng! And his strength is so great... truly powerful. Although it’s the same secret technique, the might displayed by the golden-horned behemoth was clearly far superior. That golden-horned behemoth must possess an extremely potent offensive supreme treasure,” Fortress Master Fan Nuo grew increasingly shocked the more he thought about it.
“This golden-horned behemoth is not to be trifled with,” Fortress Master Fan Nuo thought silently.
...
The battle concluded, and Luo Feng began reviewing the fight.
“Fortress Master Fan Nuo’s life gene level is 1000 times. Compared to World Tree, he falls somewhat short. Furthermore, World Tree’s innate secret technique, ‘Control Space-Time,’ is more advantageous in combat. Fortress Master Fan Nuo’s innate secret technique allows for two extra clones,” Luo Feng mused. These factors meant Fortress Master Fan Nuo’s strength was a notch below World Tree’s.
His divine power was somewhat weaker than Fortress Master Fan Nuo’s.
But his secret techniques were far superior! His true combat power should be comparable to ‘World Tree,’ which is why he could suppress Fortress Master Fan Nuo!
“It’s only suppression, though.”
“The gap in strength isn't too large. My attacks were already significantly weakened after being blocked by his weapon before landing on his divine body... causing him very little damage,” Luo Feng understood this point. Because the golden-horned behemoth possessed the top-tier supreme treasure set, the ‘Beast God Armor,’ its might was heaven-defying due to the advantage of the treasure!
Even Bo Xue Teng, with his million-kilometer divine body, was forced to flee in disarray.
Yet, it only managed to force the opponent to escape. After all, against that million-kilometer divine body... Luo Feng had no recourse, let alone the fact that the opponent possessed a flying fortress, functioning like a ‘turtle shell.’ Since Fortress Master Fan Nuo, equipped with the ‘Flying Fortress,’ could withstand attacks from Universe Masters and escape, Luo Feng suspected even using ‘I Am Universe’ might not be enough to harm the million-kilometer divine body shielded within the ‘Flying Fortress.’
“The higher one ascends, the harder it becomes to kill; at most, one can only defeat them,” Luo Feng mused.
“However, this incident was strange.”
“Did Fortress Master Fan Nuo want to trade for my metal? And resort to fighting when he failed?”
“For a top-tier Universe Hegemon to become this frantic, the value of that metal must be comparable to a supreme treasure,” Luo Feng surmised.
In the distant Northern Frontier Alliance, within the towering palace complex that burned with endless black flames, spanning over a hundred million kilometers, there were numerous immortal servants and even many Universe Venerables moving about. As they looked towards the central main hall, they all wore expressions of deference. Around the outermost perimeter of the entire palace...
Endless starlight diffused, small points of light enveloping several light-years.
This was the residence of the ‘Lord of the Star River.’
The Lord of the Star River was an entity of extremely high status in the vast universe, his fame in no way inferior to that of Chaos City Master! In fact, various factions across the universe revered the Lord of the Star River even more than the Chaos City Master!
Inside the main hall.
A figure resembling a black hole sat upon the throne. Any light approaching the throne would be devoured, allowing only the vague outline of a massive void to be perceived upon the seat.
“Whoosh whoosh~~~”
Space-time within the hall was reversed; time flowed backward.
Scenes flickered and rewound across the hall. Waves of Universe Venerables had come to pay respects to the Lord of the Star River; some great beings had personally met the Lord of the Star River here, and even two of the strongest beings in the universe had visited this place...
“Fix!” Suddenly, two figures bowing respectfully from a certain era were locked in place.
Time continued to rewind, the surrounding scenes constantly shifting, while the two figures remained completely still.
“Fix!” Another figure was locked.
“Fix!”
“Fix!”
Figure after figure was locked. Various Universe Venerables, a total of 39 High-Tier Universe Venerables, stood motionless, like statues.
“Space-Time Recall.” The previously reversing time flow rapidly returned to normal. The backlash from the powerful laws governing the universe continuously hammered against the dark void on the throne. The dark void trembled slightly, contracting and expanding intermittently, seemingly bearing immense pressure from reviving a total of 39 High-Tier Universe Venerables simultaneously.
After a long while, everything returned to calm.
The 39 High-Tier Universe Venerables regained consciousness and exchanged bewildered glances. Soon, their memories returned.
“We thank the Lord of the Star River,” all 39 Universe Venerables bowed respectfully.
“Twenty-two or twenty-three of you should have died because of that human Luo Feng,” the dark void on the throne spoke. “Answer me: who was the human Luo Feng’s helper?”
“It was the black golden-horned behemoth.”
“It was a strange beast similar to a golden-horned behemoth, possessing six horns, one of which was extremely long.”
“A black strange beast.”
The Universe Venerables spoke one by one. Suddenly, a sharp voice interjected with confusion, “You were all killed by a black strange beast? But I was killed by a single saber strike from that human Luo Feng. Were none of you killed by him?”
“Killed by Luo Feng? How strong could he be? Are you joking?”
“What a joke,” the other alien Venerables commented.
However—
“I was also killed by Luo Feng.”
“Me too.”
“I thought I misremembered, but I too was personally killed by Luo Feng.”
Three Universe Venerables in a row spoke up. The entire hall fell silent. One High-Tier Universe Venerable claiming this might be a mistake, but four High-Tier Universe Venerables stating the same thing caused a flicker of terror in the eyes of every Venerable present.
Chaos City.
“Master.”
“Master.”
Luo Feng walked through the City Lord’s Mansion. The guards within all bowed respectfully. Luo Feng nodded slightly, moving familiarly toward the side hall dedicated to offering treasures to the clan. Fortress Master Fan Nuo’s actions earlier had drawn Luo Feng’s attention, even making him recall the Battle Mist Venerable who was incidentally killed by his ‘I Am Universe.’
“Battle Mist Venerable and Fortress Master Fan Nuo both belong to the Thorn Ring Alliance. Moreover, Fortress Master Fan Nuo knew about my helper, the golden-horned behemoth! And he came to trade metals with me again...” Luo Feng suspected that his collection of metals contained some unknown precious item. Thus, he temporarily left the Primitive True Universe Star, first returning to his God Nation to retrieve the metals he couldn't identify.
If he couldn't identify them... he would bring them to Chaos City to be identified!
“What exactly is that treasure?” Luo Feng wondered to himself as he arrived before the side hall. With a booming sound, the ancient bronze hall doors slowly opened, and Luo Feng stepped inside.
: Chapter One complete! There will be three chapters today. RO