A man with silver wings and black hair zipped through the infinite expanse, leaving streaks of afterimages in his wake—swish! swish! swish!—as he executed long-distance teleportations in this very ocean. It was Luo Feng, departing the Primal Universe alone toward the Universe Boat.
It was different from his first journey to the Qingfeng Realm.
Though only a millennium had passed, having absorbed immense amounts of Origin energy within the "Winged Space," the Shi Wu Wings had repaired numerous hidden damages, achieving their absolute perfect state. Once that faint golden light spread out, its sheer power astonished even Luo Feng. The saying "knowing a hundred moves is worse than mastering one" rang true!
Other powerhouses might boast superior attacks, defense, divine bodies, or secret techniques, but with his weaknesses notwithstanding, relying solely on the "Perfect Shi Wu Wings," the "Flame Sand Cup," and the "Miniature Universe" combined, he was certain to sweep aside all other peak Domain Type Supreme Treasures in this aspect.
He could choose when to fight and when to flee; all control rested entirely in his hands.
“I truly look forward to it.”
“This journey, once my will is honed to the level of the Universe Supreme Master, I can return to the Qingfeng Realm to retrieve that white wing,” Luo Feng mused, anticipation coloring his thoughts.
While idly daydreaming, he maintained his high-frequency, long-distance teleportation jumps.
Whoosh.
He abruptly stopped.
“A natural wormhole.” Luo Feng gazed at the massive, distorted spatial vortex in the distance, a smile playing on his lips. Traveling in the cosmic sea was exceedingly tedious—nothing but chaotic currents everywhere. Sometimes he would teleport continuously for a full day or two, maintaining a near-limit frequency. Through the space he passed, there was no sense of up, down, left, or right; only the eternally unchanging chaotic energy. It was truly monotonous.
Thus, seeing this natural wormhole was like finding a splash of green on a white sheet of paper.
“This trip to the Universe Boat, I suspect I’ll be there for a very, very long time,” Luo Feng murmured softly. Before setting out, he had already researched vast amounts of data concerning the Universe Boat to pinpoint where to temper his will. The Universe Boat was enormous, and its inner regions were too perilous; many areas forbade teleportation. His destination… was a place specifically for tempering the will.
The Universe Boat was one of the Three Great Desperate Lands, fraught with countless dangers.
Even within the area dedicated to tempering the will, based on the current data held by the Human Race, there were numerous locations, each with different environments. One place was called the "Black Vein Stone Pillar," which the Human Race referred to as the "Heaven-Reaching Demon Pillar." It was one of the countless marvels within the Universe Boat.
There were sixteen Heaven-Reaching Demon Pillars (Black Vein Stone Pillars)!
Each of these sixteen pillars towered over a thousand light-years high, possessing endless might, impervious to any attack, and impossible to take away. These sixteen pillars supported a strange space filled with massive, secluded chambers. Each chamber contained an independent space and corresponded to a black token; one needed the black token to enter that chamber.
Jie Fanziqun, however, had left behind a higher-grade cyan token.
The chamber corresponding to the cyan token was even deeper, situated at the very edge of the inner domain—practically the fringe of the core region. Even Universe Supreme Masters had to tread carefully there. Figures like City Lord of Chaos or Star River Master dared not venture too deeply. The Heaven-Reaching Demon Pillar location was much closer and significantly less difficult. At least City Lord of Chaos, Star River Master, Ice Peak Master, Anyong Master, and others dared to attempt traversing to it, a journey that might take several hundred or a thousand years within the inner domain.
The Heaven-Reaching Demon Pillar was mysterious, emitting endless surges of mental impact; the closer one got, the more terrifying the impact became.
Furthermore, the closer one approached the pillars, the faster the flow of time accelerated!
A time flow ratio of 100:1? 1000:1?
It was precisely because of the time dilation that Luo Feng decided to head to the Heaven-Reaching Demon Pillar!
After all, simply traveling deeper into the inner domain to reach the will-tempering site might take several centuries or millennia.
The round trip alone would consume a vast amount of time.
Not to mention the time needed to attain the "Universe Supreme Master Will"—the Heaven-Reaching Demon Pillar, by saving time, was naturally Luo Feng's first choice.
“The greatest treasure of the Primal Star lies within the God-Destroying Temple. The God-Destroying Temple must contain numerous components of peak Domain Type Supreme Treasures,” Luo Feng felt he had to make a choice. He possessed one God-Mirror Stone, granting him entry qualifications. But he might not make it in time. Once all the God-Mirror Stones appeared, the God-Destroying Temple would open.
Those possessing a God-Mirror Stone could enter.
If the God-Destroying Temple opened while he was at the Heaven-Reaching Demon Pillar, by the time he rushed back, hundreds or thousands of years might have passed. By then, the treasure competition within the God-Destroying Temple might already be over!
“I have placed the God-Mirror Stone in my God Kingdom.”
“If the God-Destroying Temple opens and I can return quickly, I will go myself. Otherwise, I will immediately hand the God-Mirror Stone to Teacher and the others; at least the Stone should not go to waste.” Luo Feng valued the God-Mirror Stone, but relatively speaking, the damaged white wing held even greater importance to him.
Whoosh~
Luo Feng transformed into a streak of light and flew into the natural wormhole, quickly teleporting light-years away.
Time flowed onward.
It took approximately 12 days of travel across the vast cosmic sea to finally reach the "Universe Boat," one of the Three Great Desperate Lands.
“The Universe Boat is just ahead.”
Luo Feng teleported continuously for a few more minutes.
Suddenly, the scenery before him changed. The chaotic energy thinned considerably, and in the distance, an overwhelmingly shocking scene appeared.
“This, this…”
Luo Feng stood in the void, gazing across hundreds of millions of light-years at the incredible vista. Even though he had seen diagrams in the data, witnessing the true "Universe Boat" for the first time was profoundly stunning.
The endlessly majestic Universe Boat…
It was an immensely huge, damaged starship, tens of millions of light-years tall and over a hundred million light-years long. Its entire body was a mottled mix of deep black and bewitching purple. Even from hundreds of millions of light-years away, Luo Feng could see countless dense cracks and holes—hundreds, even thousands of them—dotting the hull.
It looked as if a massive vessel had been riddled by countless laser beams and then savaged by giant blades, leaving it utterly broken!
Rumble, rumble, rumble… A colossal gravitational pull emanated from the Universe Boat, voraciously devouring the surrounding chaotic energy, ensuring the chaotic currents near it were always sparse.
By consuming the chaotic energy, the entire Universe Boat constantly unleashed infinite power. Rings of huge, fiery rivers encircled the vessel, while vast, surging seas of cold energy shrouded its surroundings. Within the cold currents, one could faintly discern crystalline ice that looked like mirrors. Simultaneously, colossal vortexes of wind raged nearby…
Crack!
Streaks of massive lightning bolts, tens of thousands of light-years long, lashed out and roared.
Dazzling beams of multi-colored light were breathtakingly brilliant.
Gigantic, dark green vines clung to the surface of the entire Universe Boat, appearing strangely serene.
Fire, coldness, wind, lightning, vines, light rays…
On the outermost perimeter, numerous "fragments" were constantly circling the Universe Boat at high speed—presumably pieces that had broken off the hull. These countless fragments maintained a high-speed orbit at all times.
This wasn't what shocked Luo Feng the most.
What truly stunned him was beneath the Universe Boat. Beneath the vessel, there was a dense cluster of chaotic energy. Within the spreading chaotic mass, one could faintly see flickers of gold, red, blue, and cyan electricity mixed with other colors. And within that chaotic flow, there was a massive, broken Miniature Universe!
A Miniature Universe!
“It’s devouring a Miniature Universe! It really is devouring a Miniature Universe,” Luo Feng was shocked. “The upper half of the Miniature Universe is no longer visible—was part of it devoured?”
The Universe Boat itself was only about a hundred million light-years long.
Although the Miniature Universe was damaged, its maximum diameter spanned about a hundred million light-years. If its height were included, the Miniature Universe was actually larger.
“What exactly is the origin of this Universe Boat?” Luo Feng couldn't help but let his thoughts wander. “No other powerhouse can directly devour chaotic energy; only a Miniature Universe can absorb chaotic energy and convert it into inherent universe energy. Yet, the Universe Boat can constantly devour chaotic energy, and it can even devour Miniature Universes. Moreover, everything it absorbs is converted into energies like metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, light, time, and space. Within the Universe Boat, there are numerous chambers containing independent spaces, and many places where the time flow is bizarre.”
“To achieve this level is nearly comparable to the inherent source of a Miniature Universe.”
“How was this Universe Boat created? And why is it damaged?”
“However, the legends of the Three Great Desperate Lands date back countless Reincarnation Eras,” Luo Feng thought inwardly.
Countless powerhouses often discovered relics left behind by historical Universe Supreme Masters and found clues, but in every Reincarnation Era, the Three Great Desperate Lands were recorded. The eternity of these Three Desperate Lands rivaled the cycles of the Primal Universe itself. No one knew how they came into being.
Luo Feng stood in awe of the scene presented by the Universe Boat. After a prolonged teleportation effort, he finally arrived at the region where numerous fragments of the high-speed flying "Universe Boat" lay scattered.
The fragments ranged in size from tens of billions of kilometers to hundreds of light-years.
Whoosh!
Luo Feng teleported and landed on a fragment of the Universe Boat. This particular piece had a maximum diameter of about ten light-years.
Aside from some purple markings, the rest was a profound, deep black. The fragment radiated a pressure that made Luo Feng’s heart tremble. Moreover, this fragment seemed to maintain some subtle connection to the distant main body of the Universe Boat.
Over endless eons, countless powerhouses had tried, yet no one could take even a single fragment of the Universe Boat. Even striking a fragment with full force failed to make it shift or fly erratically.
It seemed an invisible cord bound it to the Universe Boat.
“I have reached the vicinity of the Universe Boat. First, I should visit the gathering place of my Human Race,” Luo Feng decided.
His figure flickered through the void.
After about five minutes of travel,
Luo Feng teleported onto a rapidly flying, warped fragment of the Universe Boat—this was the gathering point for the Human Race within the Primal Universe on the "Universe Boat." The Human Race maintained gathering points in the outer regions of the Three Great Desperate Lands: Qingfeng Realm, Universe Boat, and Flowing Heavy Mountain. This was because during dangerous exploration, when caution was required, or when exhaustion set in after long periods, they could return here to rest momentarily.
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