Luo Feng, suspended above the volcano's rim, vanished into thin air only to reappear instantly in various regions across the entire Jue'an Continent. Wherever an Undying being resided, Luo Feng materialized within a million kilometers.

"Not red." "Not red." "Red!" "Not red."... Teleporting hundreds of times, he scanned these hundreds of Undying beings in an incredibly short span.

Twelve of them caused the eyes of the golden toad to glow red. Exercising caution, Luo Feng immediately bound those Undying beings with immense force, locking down space and rendering the twelve incapable of movement.

"Now, time to meet the Master of the Inferno Flame," Luo Feng murmured. He strode across the void, each step taking him directly above the towering, magnificent temple nestled amidst the ring of volcanoes.

[Baidu Tieba Dawn Update Group Xiaoyi First Release.] "Hmm?" Luo Feng frowned. "There are two targets within this temple?" He could sense both figures below him perfectly through the golden toad.

Inside the temple, in a secluded hall, the Master of the Inferno Flame stood clutching his scepter, unable to struggle against the invisible golden light that restrained him. Silence suddenly descended.

A man with deep cyan wings slowly descended from the high heavens, landing in the uppermost hall of the temple. Yet, all the temple guards seemed completely oblivious to his arrival.

The Master of the Inferno Flame looked upon the man before him with palpable terror, stammering, "I do not know what business Your Excellency has in my Yuan'ao Secret Realm. I can request an audience with the Lord of Yuan'ao on Your Excellency's behalf." "Why not address me as the Supreme God of Yuan'ao?" Luo Feng chuckled softly, instantly confirming that the Master of the Inferno Flame himself, and not some strange artifact, was the cause for the golden toad's eyes turning red.

"With such power, Your Excellency must be a Universe Master from another force in the universe," the Master of the Inferno Flame respectfully stated. Luo Feng offered no denial.

"Your Excellency need only command; Ju Lian will exert every effort," the Master of the Inferno Flame said with utmost deference. "I have questions for you," Luo Feng stated.

"Speak, Your Excellency." The moment the Master of the Inferno Flame finished speaking, his eyes glazed over; he had fallen into an illusion. Luo Feng frowned, looking at the ensnared Master of the Inferno Flame.

"Merely a primary Venerable, I estimate. I can only trap him in an illusion, yet I cannot search his memories." Memory probing requires mastery and a vast disparity in power.

This Master of the Inferno Flame was a Universe Venerable, albeit a weak one, skilled in matters of the soul. Though Luo Feng could induce the illusion, true memory extraction remained out of reach.

Luo Feng waited there in silence for a moment. "Finally succumbed," Luo Feng nodded slightly.

This Venerable Ju Lian had finally broken within the illusion. This, however, only meant Luo Feng could question him; memory searching was still impossible.

"I ask you: what secret do you hold?" Luo Feng pressed. "I once ambushed and killed 'Si Duo Shen'..." The Master of the Inferno Flame began speaking mechanically, his scepter held stiffly.

Luo Feng frowned as he listened. Something was wrong.

None of this sounded like anything detrimental to the Original Universe. The Original Universe fostered billions of races...

even the invincible Human 'Yuan Zu' was directly suppressed by the universe's original essence. To be deemed a threat to the Original Universe, Ancestor God needed to send him out for a reason, and it definitely wouldn't be over such trivial matters.

"Have you ever left the Yuan'ao Secret Realm?" "Has the Lord of Yuan'ao ever tasked you with anything significant?" "Have you ever obtained any exotic treasures or experienced any rare fortuitous encounters?" "What do you believe sets you apart from other Venerables?" Luo Feng questioned the Master of the Inferno Flame continuously. Fully lost in the illusion, the Master of the Inferno Flame revealed everything, but the more Luo Feng listened, the more confused he became.

A thought sparked in his mind... Swish!

A figure enveloped in golden light flew over—the second target within the entire temple that had turned the golden toad's eyes red. An Undying being, tall, burly, and utterly dark-skinned, stood there, his eyes also vacant.

He had been silently brought under Luo Feng's control. "Search his memory." Luo Feng could not search the Master of the Inferno Flame, but he could easily probe this Undying being.

Moments later, "Hmm?" Luo Feng looked between the dark, robust undying lifeform and the Master of the Inferno Flame. "What a coincidence?

This Undying being and the previous Bo Wa Shen I killed are both soul servants of this Master of the Inferno Flame?" Combining the memories of the two, Luo Feng discovered this common thread. With a thought!

The twelve 'Undying beings' in distant regions of the Jue'an Continent that also triggered the golden toad’s red eyes... with a mere thought, Luo Feng first released the space locks surrounding them, then commanded a spatial shift, teleporting them directly into this magnificent temple.

Fifteen figures were now gathered in the hall: Luo Feng, the Master of the Inferno Flame, and the now-present Undying beings. "They are all targets." "Search!" Luo Feng immediately began the arduous task of probing their memories one by one.

Excluding the Master of the Inferno Flame, he sifted through the memories of the thirteen Undying beings... and carefully cross-referenced the findings.

"Nothing unusual. They are all normal Undying beings!

And all climbed up step-by-step from the Jue'an Continent," Luo Feng mused internally. "The only commonality...

is that these thirteen are all soul servants of the Master of the Inferno Flame." "Ju Lian," Luo Feng turned to the trapped master. "How many soul servants do you have?" "Twenty in total.

Four have perished. Sixteen remain," the Master of the Inferno Flame mechanically replied.

Luo Feng glanced at the thirteen numb Undying beings standing there. "Are they all Undying?" "Three are still Demigods," the Master of the Inferno Flame stated.

"Under which Undying being's banner? In which empire?" Luo Feng inquired.

Having searched the memories of thirteen Undying beings, he was now quite familiar with the geography of the entire Jue'an Continent. Following the directions provided by the Master of the Inferno Flame, Luo Feng quickly located the three Universe Master soul servants of the Master of the Inferno Flame!

This investigation proved surprising, as these three Universe Masters did not cause the golden toad's eyes to turn red; clearly, they were not the targets. "Even though these three Universe Masters are not targets," "It is noteworthy that every Undying servant of the Master of the Inferno Flame is a target, and he himself is a target," Luo Feng pondered.

"And the Master of the Inferno Flame himself seems fine. Could it be..." "Ju Lian, is the Lord of Yuan'ao your master?" Luo Feng pressed.

"Yes," the Master of the Inferno Flame replied robotically. Luo Feng immediately smiled.

"It truly is him..." He followed up quickly, "Do you know if the Lord of Yuan'ao has other soul servants?" "Yes, I know of two more," the Master of the Inferno Flame reported mechanically. "Tell me their names and where they are located," Luo Feng commanded.

Moments later. Including the Master of the Inferno Flame, the ten targets were instantly annihilated and dissipated.

Luo Feng then canceled his golden domain and, with a single teleportation, departed the Jue'an Continent... heading toward another, far vaster continent among the twelve great landmasses—the Mogao Continent.

In the spatial interlayer corresponding to the universe space of the Yuan'ao Secret Realm, deep within fragments of endless space... there floated a magnificent, boundless Divine Moon Divine Kingdom of immense scale.

Suspended in the air above the entire divine kingdom was a colossal continent, tethered to the bottom of the endless ocean by countless black chains stretching hundreds of millions of kilometers long. This entire floating continent seemed anchored by these massive black chains, preventing it from drifting away.

At the center of the suspended continent was a vast lake filled with scorching black fluid—a substance that would instantly incinerate even a Universe Venerable upon entry. And within it lay an incredibly colossal figure.

This immense silhouette resembled a giant carved from a massive mountain, resting in the endless, searing black fluid of the lake. "Whoosh!" The giant suddenly sat up.

His head was square-like, possessing only one enormous eye and a massive mouth. His divine body was covered in gray armor that flowed like liquid mercury.

As he rose, it was as if a towering mountain range had emerged from the black fluid lake, the scorching liquid cascading off him back into the depths. This was the Lord of Yuan'ao, famous throughout the universe!

"A hazy golden domain, strong enough to paralyze even Ju Lian?" "Appearance similar to the Kaju race? Unparalleled combat strength?

Oh, he’s trapped in an illusion?" The Lord of Yuan'ao spoke in a low rumble. The Master of the Inferno Flame was his soul servant, naturally capable of distant soul communication.

The moment he was ensnared in the illusion, the Lord of Yuan'ao was instantly notified. Unfortunately, he fell completely under control shortly after, unable to transmit any further messages.

"Such formidable strength; a peak Universe Hegemon? No, likely a Universe Master." The Lord of Yuan'ao waited silently.

After only a moment, the Lord of Yuan'ao sensed that his servant, the Master of the Inferno Flame, had perished. "He’s truly dead," the Lord of Yuan'ao’s voice was deep, yet a strange glint burned in his eyes.

"Everything unfolded exactly as predicted. Once the plan was initiated...

the Ancestor God Sect, those self-proclaimed guardians of the Original Universe’s essence, were bound to react. And this reaction was quite swift.

The one dispatched by the Ancestor God Sect must be a Universe Master." "Let him come." "With such a high cost, it would be pointless if only the Ancestor God Sect came. Since the Ancestor God Sect’s powerhouse has arrived...

the next stage must begin. The Demon race...

the Beast Alliance... the Northern Frontier Alliance...

they should all arrive one by one." Luo Feng remained utterly unaware of any of this. "Strange.

My killing of Bo Wa Shen might be excusable to the Lord of Yuan'ao. But I have now slain his soul servant, the Master of the Inferno Flame.

The Lord of Yuan'ao must have known instantly." Luo Feng hovered over the endless Mogao Continent, frowning slightly. "But the Lord of Yuan'ao shows absolutely no reaction." Although the Lord of Yuan'ao was powerful, Luo Feng felt no fear.

However, the Lord of Yuan'ao’s refusal to appear made Luo Feng uneasy. If someone were slaughtering powerhouses in Human territory, the Human Universe Masters would have appeared long ago.

Moreover, based on the intelligence gathered earlier, both the Master of the Inferno Flame and his immortal soul servants were confirmed targets. Therefore...

since the Lord of Yuan'ao was the master of the Master of the Inferno Flame, the source of the problem likely lay with the Lord of Yuan'ao himself! "Let's see what exactly is causing trouble for the Original Universe," Luo Feng commanded with a thought.

"Rumble~~~" Endless, hazy golden light, carrying the might of the Silver River Lord, descended directly upon the Mogao Continent, which spanned light-years at its largest diameter. At this moment...

no powerhouse on the Mogao Continent could escape Luo Feng's grasp.