"According to the scope given to me by the Ancestral God, it should be within the Yuan Ao Secret Realm." On the surface of a desolate, mineral-rich planet, a silver figure pierced through the hard rock; the debris scattered, but the figure had already reached space, hovering in place.

Luo Feng stood in the void, gazing into the distant starry expanse.

"This is the closest location to the Yuan Ao Secret Realm that my numerous servants can teleport to."

Luo Feng nodded slightly, simultaneously executing a rapid body switch. His Earthling Primal Self entered the World Ring, while the Blood Cloud Hall Master materialized out of thin air. The Blood Cloud Hall Master swept his tail slightly, and with a wave of his hand, a palace—the Blood Cloud Hall—appeared in the starry sky.

"Go!" He entered the Blood Cloud Hall, which then transformed into a streak of light, rapidly accelerating. Soon, it entered the Dark Universe, beginning its ultra-high-speed journey toward the destination, the Yuan Ao Secret Realm.

After all, this was work for the Ancestral God Sect, and not an urgent life-or-death matter. Luo Feng would not resort to continuous instant movement for travel. Repeated teleportation for one or two days was extremely fatiguing. However, traveling via the Blood Cloud Hall, while considerably slower than instant movement, was still quite fast within the Dark Universe.

In a void near the palace of the City Lord of Chaos, within the original secret territory of the Human Race, two figures stood: the City Lord of Chaos, and the Giant Axe Creator.

"Chaos!" the Giant Axe Creator spoke, "I plan to venture into the Sea of Universe. I might be gone for a considerable time and unable to return to the Original Universe. Guarding humanity will temporarily fall to you."

"Venture into the Sea of Universe?" The City Lord of Chaos frowned slightly. "A considerable time?"

For experts at the level of the Giant Axe Creator, a single period of cultivation could span thousands or tens of thousands of years. Thus, when the Giant Axe Creator mentioned a "considerable time," the duration was likely not short at all—perhaps measured in "eras." What puzzled the City Lord of Chaos, however, was why the Sea of Universe would demand such a long commitment from someone with the Giant Axe Creator's power.

"Could it be..." The City Lord of Chaos looked at the Giant Axe Creator in astonishment.

"Yes, I plan to venture into the Qingfeng Realm within the Sea of Universe," the Giant Axe Creator said, having seen the City Lord's expression.

"Giant Axe!" The City Lord of Chaos exclaimed involuntarily, "That is the Qingfeng Realm!"

"I managed to obtain a fragmented map of a section within the Qingfeng Realm," the Giant Axe Creator explained. "With this fragment, I can carefully investigate the area recorded on the map. If my luck holds... I might be able to obtain an Ultimate Supreme Treasure from it. Even if luck is slightly worse, a treasure of the level of a Peak Domain Treasure should be achievable."

"A fragmented map?" The City Lord of Chaos was pleasantly surprised. "A fragment of the Qingfeng Realm map?"

"Yes." The Giant Axe Creator smiled and nodded.

Even someone of the City Lord of Chaos's standing couldn't help but feel excitement. One must remember that the Sea of Universe... that place outside the Original Universe, was vastly larger and infinitely more perilous. The Sea of Universe could truly be called boundless! To this day, no single expert knew the farthest reaches of the Sea of Universe.

While the universe's ultimate experts kept a low profile within the Original Universe, in the Sea of Universe, they were fiercer, more cunning, and more ruthless than one another.

Combat!

Plunder!

These things happened constantly in the Sea of Universe. The Sea of Universe was where the most treasures were born. Treasures like Ultimate Supreme Treasures almost invariably originated from certain mysterious locations within the Sea of Universe. The Qingfeng Realm, for instance, was one of the most perilous dead zones in the Sea of Universe. All manner of treasures, even Peak Treasures and Ultimate Supreme Treasures, lay hidden in its secret corners. Of course, the Qingfeng Realm also held endless dangers; the "getting lost" factor alone was enough to strike terror into the hearts of the universe's peak experts.

Because there was no directional guidance within, it was easy to become lost. Even if a universe's ultimate expert could withstand all the external dangers, they could still become permanently lost, wandering the depths of the Qingfeng Realm for eternity.

Without a guiding map, even the strongest universe experts dared not venture in recklessly...

A complete map of the Qingfeng Realm did not exist. Only fragmented maps recorded by countless explorers mapping specific areas. By combining many of these partial area maps, fragmented maps were formed. These fragments were treasures to all major super-factions. The rarer the fragment, the fewer explorers had charted that area, and the higher the probability of finding a valuable treasure. A single fragment... was enough to incite lethal conflict among universe's ultimate experts.

"This is a fragmented map of a deeper region within the Qingfeng Realm," the Giant Axe Creator said solemnly. "From what I understand, very few have explored it. I was fortunate enough to obtain this fragment and must depart immediately to explore that area as soon as possible."

"Giant Axe, my Primal Self will accompany you," the City Lord of Chaos offered.

"No!" The Giant Axe Creator shook his head. "The deeper one goes into the Qingfeng Realm, the more dangerous it becomes. Just the sound of soul confusion... even a Universe Master has the possibility of being trapped in permanent slumber."

The City Lord of Chaos was startled. The dangers contained within the Qingfeng Realm were even more terrifying than the means of the universe's ultimate experts! Even with the ability of Talent Clones, if one clone's soul was affected, the others would naturally suffer the same fate, resulting in permanent slumber. This was almost equivalent to true death for Luo Mo.

"I know the most dangerous areas in the Qingfeng Realm. As long as I avoid those, there is no life-threatening danger. At worst, it's the peril of being lost!" the Giant Axe Creator stated. "However, I will proceed according to the map. If the map is flawed, I will immediately turn back the way I came."

"Understood. Be extremely careful," the City Lord of Chaos said solemnly.

"Haha, obtaining this fragment is already a great fortune. The area described by this fragment is vast; it might have been charted by powers from before the Great Annihilation. With this fragment as a foundation, I can explore a much wider scope."

"If I spend some time, and luck is on my side, I might fully obtain an Ultimate Supreme Treasure," the Giant Axe Creator said. "I am leaving now; everything is in your hands."

Whoosh!

The Giant Axe Creator vanished into thin air.

The City Lord of Chaos stood suspended in mid-air for a long time, nodding slightly: "If Giant Axe can obtain an Ultimate Supreme Treasure, our Human Race will surely become even stronger." He then executed an instant movement and returned to his palace.

Luo Feng, in the guise of the Blood Cloud Hall Master, traveled at maximum speed in the Blood Cloud Hall through the Dark Universe. In just eight days, he arrived at the Yuan Ao Secret Realm, a cosmic secret realm tucked away in a corner of the Original Universe.

"Hengyuan Secret Realm." Luo Feng, clad in silver armor and silver wings, stood suspended in the void of the Hengyuan Secret Realm. With a flip of his hand, a golden toad appeared in his palm. The golden toad was unchanged; its eyes remained dim.

"According to the Ancestral God, it should be inside the Hengyuan Secret Realm."

"Hengyuan Secret Realm," Luo Feng recalled from the data, "has 12 vast continents! Each continent is small, with a diameter exceeding 1 light-year, and large ones approaching 8 light-years. Numerous alien lives reside there." Luo Feng nodded internally. "The entire Yuan Ao Secret Realm is the territory of the lone entity known as the 'Yuan Ao Master'."

A vast continent within a cosmic secret realm can support an astonishing number of lives, and the birth of many Sector Lords is perfectly normal.

However, the "cosmic special life energy" within a certain territorial range is finite. The fewer lives there are, the more nourishment each life can absorb. For instance, on a continent teeming with countless inhabitants, although the population is high, the birth rate of true experts is far lower than in a normal star field.

"Cosmic secret realm continents are heavily populated, and the birth of Undying beings is relatively easy, but the emergence of Universe Venerables is extremely rare. In the entire Yuan Ao Secret Realm, apart from the Yuan Ao Master... no Universe Masters have ever been born." Luo Feng mused. "The Yuan Ao Master himself originated from a special life form." The Yuan Ao Master was a special life form, incredibly powerful, wandering the universe alone.

Perhaps feeling lonely, he began to heavily plunder populations across the universe. He targeted citizens of weak races, seizing hundreds of millions of lives from one race, then hundreds of millions from another... For many weak races whose strongest expert might only be a Universe Venerable, how could they dare defy a Universe Master? Furthermore, the number the Yuan Ao Master took was not excessive; a single race usually numbers in the trillions of billions, and he only took a mere hundred million...

The universe is filled with countless races, from Peak Races and powerful races down to common and weak races.

The Yuan Ao Master extensively plundered across the universe, collecting life forms from nearly a hundred different species.

He then distributed them across the 12 vast continents to multiply and survive.

Population growth is astonishing. As time flowed, the number of inhabitants increased, and the Yuan Ao Master repeatedly expanded the 12 continents, making them larger and larger... until they reached their current scale. Trillions of trillions of lives now inhabit these 12 continents.

On these 12 continents, Undying Gods were born, leading the ordinary lives to worship these Undying Gods and follow their commands.

Endless Divine Wars... maddeningly chaotic.

Of course, on these 12 continents, there was the legendary Supreme God—the Yuan Ao Supreme God—whom all beings worshipped.

"The Yuan Ao Master relies on plunder for propagation and uses the Divine Wars waged by his subordinate Undying Gods to pit countless ordinary lives against each other, tempering experts through combat. Life-or-death combat is indeed a very effective way to forge experts. Across the 12 continents, thousands of Gods orchestrate these Divine Wars, and endless conflict continues..." Luo Feng murmured softly. "Over endless ages, he has nurtured dozens of Universe Venerables and thousands of Undying Gods."

Luo Feng smiled faintly.

Naturally, these Universe Venerables were useless in a battle against a Universe Master. He recalled that he had exterminated over 6,000 Universe Venerables in a single move. The true purpose of Universe Venerables was the potential within them to give birth to Universe Masters; producing even one was enough justification.

"According to the Ancestral God's words,"

"Something detrimental to the source of the universe is occurring within the Yuan Ao Secret Realm." Luo Feng nodded secretly. "I will first investigate these 12 continents one by one, as nearly all life in the Yuan Ao Secret Realm resides there."

Whoosh!

Luo Feng instantly teleported over a thousand light-years. One teleportation after another... in the blink of an eye, he had covered millions of light-years. Before him appeared a colossal, majestic, endless continent—one of the 12 boundless lands belonging to the Yuan Ao Master.

"This should be the Jue'an Continent," Luo Feng nodded internally.

With that, he took a step... and entered the boundless continent.