Lo Feng sat upon the throne, looking down upon the dense throng of extraordinary life forms kneeling below. The awe, the reverence shining in the eyes of these thousands of unique beings instantly made Lo Feng realize the tragedy inherent in their seemingly rare and powerful existence: they were simply too weak.
Because of their extremely high life-level and innate secret techniques, they attracted countless races across the cosmos, leading to them being enslaved or having their bodies taken over!
A group of extraordinary life forms, without a powerful protector, would very quickly be torn apart and devoured by the greedy masses of countless races in the universe!
Back in the day, when the Blood Cloud Hall Master roamed the universe, the population of these special beings was still quite large. He witnessed some of them being captured and killed, and pity arose in his heart. He rescued group after group, and only through this accumulation did these thousands of special beings gather. After immeasurable eons of growth...
It was through the guidance of Sitting Mountain Guest that top-tier Universe Overlords like the Black Sky Lord, Silver Dragon Venerable, and Thorn Crow Demon Lord were born.
In the past, they too would likely have faced the fate of being hunted.
Of course, after such a long passage of time, any lineage of special beings without a protector had long since vanished in the vast river of cosmic history. Thus, many ancient existences, such as the Chaos City Master, possessed avatars of these special life forms. However, as time progressed towards Lo Feng's era, finding suitable bodies to take over became exceedingly difficult.
"Sitting Mountain Guest protected them, guarded them, and instructed them—just like a father to them," Lo Feng murmured. "No wonder they all address me as Master, yet their reverence and respect come from the depths of their hearts."
"From today onwards!"
"I am the Blood Cloud Hall Master. Although I have gained this powerful force, beyond my Earth lineage, I now bear another profound responsibility," Lo Feng thought to himself.
This was indeed a force that made cosmic powers intensely envious: three top-tier Universe Overlords! Especially the Black Sky Lord, whose divine power purity was nearly a hundred times greater than that of Tian Chang Venerable. Similarly, even for high-tier ultimate treasures in armor, Lo Feng would require an attack two tiers higher to achieve the same devastating effect he had on Tian Chang Venerable... Furthermore, the Black Sky Lord's divine body was an astounding million kilometers tall! The volume of his divine body was billions of times greater than the less-than-ten-meter-tall divine body of Tian Chang Venerable...
"The Silver Dragon Venerable and Thorn Crow Demon Lord, while their divine bodies aren't quite as exaggerated, are still considerably large."
"With the three of them present,"
"This force of special beings can resist any threat short of a Universe Master," Lo Feng nodded internally. Protecting this lineage wasn't nearly as challenging as safeguarding his Earth lineage, as this stream of special beings had already grown for endless ages and possessed a degree of self-preservation.
Lo Feng suddenly understood.
Why the treasury contained so many precious materials, great treasures, and ordinary ultimate treasures. After all, Lo Feng's future opponents would be Universe Masters, and ordinary ultimate treasures would shatter easily in battles at that level! Clearly, Sitting Mountain Guest hadn't left these ordinary ultimate treasures for Lo Feng, but for this host of special beings.
"Black Sky," Lo Feng called out.
"Master," the Black Sky Lord replied in a simple, honest tone.
"The eighteen of you, tell me about the ultimate treasures you possess," Lo Feng surveyed those below.
"Yes, I have high-tier ultimate armor and six high-tier ultimate divine hammers!" the Black Sky Lord beamed honestly. "Master, are you going to bestow upon me top-tier ultimate armor? You mentioned last time... that next time you would find a way to get me a top-tier ultimate armor, saying that with it, even a Universe Master would find it difficult to kill me."
Lo Feng was momentarily stunned.
Top-tier ultimate armor? Teacher had only left behind a hundred-odd ordinary ultimate treasures in his treasury.
"Teacher Sitting Mountain Guest is too devious," Lo Feng cursed inwardly, powerless to change the situation. "Now that I inherit the position of Blood Cloud Hall Master, equipping my subordinates with treasures, the responsibility is also mine?"
"I am thinking of a way; top-tier ultimate armor is not easy to acquire," Lo Feng stated.
"But Master can certainly do it," the Black Sky Lord affirmed.
"Next," Lo Feng commanded.
The Silver Dragon Venerable, Thorn Crow Demon Lord, and the others reported on their ultimate treasures one by one, leading Lo Feng to discover that these old Universe Venerables all possessed ultimate treasures, clearly matched to their strength. The three top-tier Universe Overlords all held high-tier ultimate treasures, each possessing several! This caused Lo Feng to abandon his original plan of bestowing treasures. In the end, he only gifted some heavy treasures to the Immortal-level special beings, concluding this initial meeting.
"This is a force."
"Although I bear the responsibility of leading and protecting them, they can also help me accomplish many tasks," Lo Feng mused. "In the future, I will naturally guard my Earth lineage myself. The Black Sky Lord's group of special beings and the Earth lineage should be complementary."
That day, Lo Feng dismissed the special beings.
He then contacted the Black Sky Lord, Silver Dragon Venerable, and Thorn Crow Demon Lord privately through a transmission: "Black Sky, Silver Dragon, Thorn Crow, I must make a trip to the Ancient Annihilation Secret Realm. Leave the affairs of those children entirely to you three. If anything arises that you cannot handle, only then notify me."
"Yes."
"Yes, Master," the three replied via their communication tokens.
That same day, the Giant Axe Beast avatar quietly returned to the human territory and entered its divine kingdom.
From then on, Lo Feng's life split into two parts: the Giant Axe Beast avatar studied the "Star Tower" using the secret pattern flow, while the Earthling true body cultivated on Purple Thorn Island.
The Earthling true body first began cultivating the eighth tribulation of the Nine Tribulations Secret Tome!
The advantage of a small divine body was incredibly fast cultivation.
In just over a year, Lo Feng mastered the eighth tribulation, his life gene level increasing from approximately 9,800 times to about 10,050 times—this was a rough estimation on Lo Feng's part. He then continued cultivating the ninth tribulation of the Nine Tribulations Secret Tome. During this process, the growth rate of his life gene level became extremely slow. Especially halfway through practicing the ninth tribulation, his life gene level suddenly stalled! It stopped, stuck just a tiny fraction short of reaching the "Perfect Gene" level. No matter how much further he pushed the Nine Tribulations Secret Tome, the life gene level would not increase an iota.
"Just a tiny bit more,"
"The Void Sea avatar and the Giant Axe Beast avatar both reached the perfect gene level directly, but why has my Earthling true body stopped completely halfway through the ninth tribulation, stuck by just a hair?" Lo Feng grew anxious.
It was useless.
Even as his cultivation advanced further, the life gene level remained stagnant.
"Just this little bit, what can I do?"
In the third year on Purple Thorn Island,
Lo Feng sat cross-legged on a stone bridge over a pond in the courtyard of his residence. At this very moment, the Nine Tribulations Secret Tome finally reached its final step! Neither the Giant Axe Beast avatar nor the Void Sea avatar had reached this final stage before achieving perfect genes, making the Earthling true body the first to fully cultivate the Nine Tribulations Secret Tome.
"Rumble nn"
Lo Feng sat there, but his entire body emitted the sound of a surging ocean. Simultaneously, thin golden threads began to appear on his skin, and a vast, profoundly mysterious, and complex secret pattern diagram manifested across his entire body! If Lo Feng's entire skin were laid flat, although the resulting diagram was different from the pattern formed by the text of the Nine Tribulations Secret Tome, the underlying essence was the same.
"Bang!"
Lo Feng felt a fundamental breakthrough occur in his life origin, as if a bottleneck had been shattered. At this point, his life gene level finally took that small additional step! This single small step represented a fundamental leap in crossing a threshold.
"I broke through."
"I broke through," Lo Feng's eyes filled with delight.
"I need to return to the divine kingdom." Lo Feng clearly felt his divine body yearning to absorb energy to grow, yet there wasn't enough energy to absorb on Purple Thorn Island. He immediately used divine kingdom teleportation and quickly left Purple Thorn Island.
Inside the divine kingdom.
The boundless Void Sea churned with waves hundreds of kilometers high, and above the rolling surface, a dark-haired youth stood naked in mid-air. Countless masses of seawater surged up from below, winding around the dark-haired youth like innumerable ribbons, continuously being absorbed by him, causing the youth to rapidly grow larger.
From under two meters tall, he began to soar in height and mass.
Ten meters, one hundred meters, one thousand meters...
The divine power within his divine body also increased continuously, multiplying by billions of times and more! Reaching an incomparably surging and terrifying level.
When he finally stopped, reaching an imposing height of over ninety thousand kilometers.
"From today onwards!"
"The Earthling true body and the Giant Axe Beast avatar will be my two main fighting forces!" Lo Feng smiled. Previously, although the Earthling true body possessed high divine power purity, its small volume prevented him from utilizing the "I Am the Universe" technique. Now, in terms of divine body size, the Earthling true body was equal to the Giant Axe Beast, meaning it could exert far greater power. Furthermore, when using Universe Master ultimate secret techniques like "Golden Light," he would no longer need to worry excessively about draining his divine body.
"It's also time to visit Chaos City."
"That Severing Brightness Saber is far too fragile for me now."
Lo Feng first headed to Chaos City in the Origin Universe. He consolidated the Severing Brightness Saber, the vast number of ordinary ultimate treasures he hunted on the Original Star, and more than twenty ultimate treasures from the Blood Cloud Hall treasury. Combining these with his remaining treasure points, he exchanged them with the race for a top-tier ultimate battle saber: Sorrowful Nine Snow.
The saber's original name was Sorrowful Nine Snow, but Lo Feng renamed it the Blood Shadow Saber.
"Black Sky, Silver Dragon, Thorn Crow... the hundreds of ultimate treasures in the treasury were left by Teacher for you special beings. However, it will take an extremely long time for those little ones to mature. I will temporarily take some of them, but I will certainly replace them in the future," Lo Feng acknowledged the pressure he felt, as the Bug Race, Machine Race, and Demon Race were stirring restlessly. The stronger he was, the better.
Possessing the peak ultimate treasure 'Calamity Armor,' which could be activated to the third layer (reducing enemy attacks by a factor of one hundred thousand), coupled with his ninety-thousand-kilometer divine body... his survivability reached a terrifying level. However, when fighting a Universe Master, a mere high-tier ultimate battle saber was clearly too weak.
Returning to Purple Thorn Island from the divine kingdom.
The Giant Axe Beast avatar continued its study of the Star Tower's secret patterns within the flow of secret patterns in the divine kingdom.
Lo Feng's true body remained on Purple Thorn Island, quietly cultivating and continuously deepening his comprehension of the Beast God Path. After all, greater mastery of the Beast God Path aided his proficiency in the secret pattern flow. Such peaceful days slipped by, and in a blink, 61 years had passed.
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