The cyan stone peak circled outwards gradually, resembling a sailboat tacking against a current to gain leverage, yet infinitely more profound. After all, this devouring power was simply too overwhelming even for the strongest beings in the universe; they dared not confront it head-on openly.
“Teacher is repairing the Mad Demon Destroying God Armor,” Luo Feng stood atop the stone peak, looking down upon the boundless earth. “And simultaneously diverting some consciousness to control the mountain valley…” Loneliness.
Luo Feng sat alone, many thoughts surfacing in his heart.
The battle with the Giant Axe Creator at Jingdu—when observing it, his blood had surged with excitement, but now, having calmed down, he felt the chasm separating him from the universe’s strongest.
“Universe’s strongest are severely suppressed within the Primal Universe.”
“Even in the Sea of Chaos, a slight suppression remains.”
“If Hong were unrestrained, the gap between him and a Universe Master would likely be even greater.” Luo Feng understood clearly just how excessive this suppression was.
In the Primal Universe, if they weren't battling Universe Masters, the universe’s strongest could still achieve ‘words become law’ and wield world-shattering power; the universe’s origin laws would naturally show them deference.
But once they engaged in battle with a Universe Master, everything changed!
The primal laws of the universe would no longer yield! Instead, they would suppress forcefully, making ‘words become law’ impossible. Moreover, Universe Masters could control time and space, meaning the universe’s strongest held no advantage in the domain aspect. Of course, the killing of Lord Yuan Ao back then was in accordance with the primal will of the universe, which is why no suppression was enacted.
The intensity of divine power exerted was equivalent to that of a Universe Master with perfect life gene level. This was only one small aspect, and there was also an upper limit to their ultimate power! It was a ceiling set by the universe’s origin laws; the power displayed by the universe’s strongest could not exceed this limit. If they attempted to surpass it, they would suffer ‘suppression,’ just as the Void True Demon God was bound by chains of law back then.
‘Words become law’ vanishes! The intensity of divine power is restricted! Even their maximum burst strength has an upper limit!
Furthermore!
After killing a Universe Master, they faced severe punishment, their divine bodies critically injured! Under so many suppressions, Universe Masters in the Primal Universe feared the universe’s strongest very little! A slightly more formidable Universe Master need not fear them at all.
It was different in the Sea of Chaos.
The Sea of Chaos held numerous small universes and the Primal Universe…” The Primal Universe was simply too vast, so its source will remained the strongest! Even the operation of laws in the distant Sea of Chaos was influenced by it. However, other regions of the Sea of Chaos were its exterior, meaning the power exerted by the Primal Universe origin was much weaker, and the restrictions were far fewer.
There were only two layers of restriction.
First… When the universe’s strongest engaged in combat with Universe Masters, the laws would no longer retreat! Rendering the universe’s strongest incapable of ‘words become law’!
Second, the intensity of their divine power was suppressed to the level of a Universe Master possessing perfect life genes.
With only these two points.
As for the power they could unleash by relying on supreme treasures and secret techniques, this was left entirely to the universe’s strongest to exert, with no upper limit! Moreover, there was no punishment for killing a Universe Master. Relatively speaking, the Sea of Chaos had far fewer restrictions than the ‘Primal Universe.’ Thus, overall… the universe’s strongest feared the Primal Universe Will greatly.
Luo Feng sat atop the peak, contemplating the myriad relationships between the universe’s strongest, the Primal Universe Will, himself, and others.
“Luo Feng.” A voice sounded.
“Teacher.” Luo Feng turned around to see Mount Keeper, and immediately rose. “Teacher, weren't you repairing the Mad Demon Destroying God Armor?”
“It’s fixed.” Mount Keeper waved a hand, and a suit of black armor flew directly toward Luo Feng.
Luo Feng looked at Mount Keeper in astonishment. “This… this was only less than two days.”
“A simple repair, how much effort do you think that takes me?” Mount Keeper scrutinized Luo Feng. “I saw you sitting there just now; what were you contemplating?”
“I was thinking about the Primal Universe’s Origin Will! The universe’s strongest! Universe Masters, and… myself,” Luo Feng replied.
Mount Keeper paused upon hearing this, falling silent.
After a long silence.
“The Primal Universe Origin,” Mount Keeper sighed, his voice imbued with complex emotions. “When one hasn't become universe’s strongest, they are merely the children of the Primal Universe. It cares for you. But once one achieves the rank of universe’s strongest… their small universe breaks away from the Primal Universe to survive in the Sea of Chaos. Then, the universe’s strongest become targets of hostility for the Primal Universe Origin.”
“Suppression, suppression, always suppression.”
“Reincarnation, reincarnation… every reincarnation era is merely a cycle of gestation, birth, and destruction wrought by the Primal Universe Origin.” Mount Keeper lamented. “Your Human Race’s Ancestor was truly formidable, actually…”
“Actually what?” Luo Feng pressed eagerly.
Mount Keeper shook his head. “Don’t ask. Can’t you enter the Virtual Universe anytime? If you become strong enough to draw the attention of Ancestor Yuan, you can formally converse with him, and perhaps he will tell you why he did what he did back then. I only have speculations; they aren’t conclusive.”
Luo Feng’s heart itched. Ancestor Yuan dared to provoke the Primal Universe Origin, dared to act that way; there must have been a purpose.
A heaven-defying purpose.
But even his teacher, the Chaos City Lord, never told him why Ancestor Yuan defied the Primal Universe Origin.
“Don’t think about it too much; it’s too distant for you,” Mount Keeper smiled at Luo Feng. “Think more about yourself. Once you become a Universe Master… coupled with the Star Tower in hand, the gap with the universe’s strongest can be completely ignored.”
Luo Feng shook his head. “Even after becoming a Universe Master, the gap in secret techniques with the universe’s strongest remains significant.” Although he had witnessed the Void True Demon God and Ancestor God clash, that was within the Primal Universe, and their power wasn't at its peak. However, the recent confrontation between the Third True Master, the Sixth True Master, and the Giant Axe Creator truly made him feel a massive disparity.
“You are mistaken,” Mount Keeper shook his head.
“Huh?” Luo Feng looked at the old man.
“Universe Masters cannot devise secret techniques of that level of might. But the secret patterns on the Star Tower represent an extremely high level of secret technique.”
Mount Keeper smiled. “This is the precious nature of ultimate supreme treasures. For example, the first layer of the Star Tower—when you only activated the first layer, the power you displayed was minimal. But when you activate the second layer… the profound nature of those second-layer patterns is comparable to the strongest secret techniques of a Universe Master. You can’t create it, but merely urging it forward is significantly less difficult.”
“The third layer of patterns is comparable to the methods of the universe’s strongest.”
“The fourth layer of patterns—only the top-tier existences among the universe’s strongest can create secret techniques of this caliber. Such as Giant Axe, Ancestor Yuan, the First True Master, and so on.”
Luo Feng nodded repeatedly as he listened.
Correct.
Merely urging the patterns is indeed a much lower requirement than creating a secret technique of equivalent might… yet the power achieved is just as immense, perhaps even greater due to the ultimate supreme treasure acting as the medium.
“There is a method for power assessment in the Sea of Chaos,” Mount Keeper stated.
“Newly entered Universe Master, life gene at a hundred times, without having created a secret technique—this is ‘Tier One’ among Universe Masters.”
“Ordinary Universe Master, life gene at a thousand times, having also created an ultimate secret technique—this is ‘Tier Two.’”
“Above that, there are Tier Three and Tier Four. Take the Star River Master of our Primal Universe, your teacher the Chaos City Lord, and the Lord of Five Chaos whom you caused to die alongside you—they are all Tier Five.”
“A Universe Master possessing an ultimate supreme treasure is Tier Six! This is the highest tier for a Universe Master,” Mount Keeper chuckled. “Why does possessing an ultimate supreme treasure elevate them above the Chaos City Lord or the Lord of Five Chaos? It’s precisely because the secret patterns of an ultimate supreme treasure can represent a higher level.”
Luo Feng listened intently. This Tier Six assessment method was something he was hearing for the first time.
“A Tier Six Universe Master can be comparable to a universe’s strongest being without an ultimate supreme treasure,” Mount Keeper explained with a smile. “Of course, for someone like the Giant Axe Creator, even without an ultimate treasure, he can still be a level above a Tier Six Universe Master.”
“However, I suspect that when Giant Axe performed that ‘Fifteenth’ axe technique, which he claimed was newly created, he likely obtained that divine axe, observed its secret patterns, and gained insight, perhaps unleashing that heaven-defying axe through the patterns used to activate the divine axe,” Mount Keeper mused. “That’s how he managed to unleash such might.”
Exiting the abyss took nearly three months.
Mount Keeper also instructed Luo Feng, especially as Luo Feng carefully studied the Mad Demon Destroying God Armor. Luo Feng discovered that the Five Beasts Great Annihilation used by the Lord of Five Chaos was actually a modified move based on the third layer of secret patterns on the Mad Demon Destroying God Armor.
“Some primitive natives with simple intelligence will also learn to use stones or sticks as weapons.”
“The difference in intelligence lies in whether one knows how to use weapons.”
“Universe Masters, universe’s strongest… their weapons are supreme treasures! Those who learn to utilize them, and even create secret techniques based on the patterns found on those treasures, are the ones who become famous throughout the universe, often having a signature treasure. For instance, you, while claiming the title Lord of the Galaxy, are externally known as the Lord of Silver Wings.”
Luo Feng finally understood.
He began studying the secret patterns on the Star Tower, the Mad Demon Destroying God Armor, and the Chaos Wings, and then set about creating corresponding secret techniques that suited him.
Meanwhile, his divine power avatar, in that hidden space, was studying the ultimate secret technique pattern diagrams left by ancient existences even more heaven-defying than Ancestor Yuan and the Giant Axe Creator, cross-referencing them with the six secret pattern diagrams Mount Keeper had left behind… This pushed Luo Feng’s rate of progress into a rapid acceleration phase.
Other defensive patterns on the Mad Demon Destroying God Armor were quickly mastered, and he rapidly grasped two of the three offensive patterns on the golden right hand. He vaguely understood most of the third layer and estimated that with a few more months of effort, he would fully comprehend it.
“The third layer of secret patterns on the golden right hand of the Mad Demon Destroying God Armor is not as potent as the third layer of the Star Tower, but it still achieves the might of a Universe Master combining their strongest secret techniques. Once you can activate it, your mastery over the pattern diagram creation technique will likely approach the Universe Master level. Alright, we are out of the abyss now. I am leaving. Don’t let such incidents happen again.”
“Yes, Teacher.” Luo Feng bowed gratefully.
Immediately afterward, a cyan stone peak and a blood-red palace (the form the Star Tower took through the Blood Cloud Pearl) flew off in two different directions amidst the endless lightning fire of the frozen lake.
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