Because Luo Feng understood clearly... even if he killed them, the Purple Moon Holy Land would swiftly promote 'Quasi-Universe Masters' to fill the void. While the Purple Moon Holy Land's history paled in comparison to the East Emperor Holy Land, and their number of Quasi-Universe Masters might be limited, replacing eight or ten would surely not be difficult. In that scenario, the Purple Moon Holy Land's overall strength would remain entirely unaffected.
It was far better to keep them captive!
To make demands of the Purple Moon Holy Land!
“Merely a pair of wings, for your Purple Moon Holy Land, that’s just an ordinary supreme treasure,” Luo Feng shook his head and sighed. “To exchange for the lives of four of your Universe Masters, even the Purple Moon Ancestor wouldn't agree. Truly cold-hearted, treating your people with such indifference, not valuing their lives at all.”
The four Universe Masters gnashed their teeth in fury.
“Galaxy Master.” The strongest among them, 'Lord Bei Qu,' shook his head and sighed, “Don’t waste your efforts. The Purple Moon Ancestor is the progenitor of our race... No one dares defy his command. If your Human Race desires that pair of wings, now that the matter is known, no matter how many Universe Masters you capture, don't even dream of exchanging them back from my Purple Moon Holy Land.”
“Luo Feng, just give up,” Lord Yulan, the newly captured one, roared. “Our Ancestor long ago commanded those of us who were not confident to return to the Holy Land Universe immediately. If we refused to return and were captured by you, he wouldn't concern himself with our fate. You want the wings? Absolutely impossible!”
Luo Feng shook his head with a sigh: “Why insist? A mere pair of wings, how much can they truly enhance my strength? The lives of four Universe Masters aren't even worth one ordinary supreme treasure wing.”
“That’s not an ordinary supreme treasure, it’s a component of an ancient civilization's super supreme treasure!” Yulan shrieked.
“Sigh…”
Luo Feng sighed. “Then you all will continue to live here.”
With that, Luo Feng’s figure vanished.
The four Purple Moon Universe Masters exchanged glances, surveying the desolate space around them, filled with unwillingness, anger, and helplessness.
...
Luo Feng continued to roam the Three Great Death Zones aboard the Tomb Ship, feeling a sense of futility.
“The final pair of the Shi Wu Wings...” Luo Feng whispered softly. “Obtaining them seems almost impossible.”
According to what he had learned from the captured Universe Masters, when he was outside the 'Purple Moon Holy Land Universe' and sensed the summoning call... a Universe Venerable inside a secluded space within the Purple Moon Holy Land Universe had also sensed his wings vibrating, vaguely feeling that the source of the call was incredibly distant, endlessly far away... perhaps millions or even hundreds of millions of light-years away...
That Universe Venerable was greatly shocked at the time!
To sense it from such an immense distance meant it must be a supreme treasure of the highest caliber; as a mere Venerable, he was in no position to interfere, so he immediately sought out his teacher, 'Lord Feng Hao,' to report the matter.
Lord Feng Hao immediately took the matter seriously and began inquiring, directly questioning many Universe Masters to see if anyone's supreme treasure had recently produced a summoning sensation.
After all, they belonged to the same faction.
A win-win situation was entirely possible.
But this inquiry... failed to locate any other components.
The 'Purple Moon Ancestor,' as the controller of the Holy Land Universe, knew everything that transpired within it, and naturally learned of this development... At first, he paid it no mind. It was only later that powerhouses from the Sea of Chaos factions, through secretive methods like 'exchanges' and 'trades,' managed to acquire some ordinary supreme treasures from within the Holy Land Universe.
Clues began to connect!
Upon further investigation, the Purple Moon Ancestor quickly pieced together the events.
First, Lord Pei Xing was killed by Luo Feng. However, Luo Feng was originally on the 'Universe Boat,' while Lord Pei Xing was in the Qinfeng Realm—the two locations were vast distances apart. Based on the timeline, Luo Feng should have sped to the Qinfeng Realm immediately after killing 'Lord Haolei Star' and then killed Lord Pei Xing. Curiously, many Universe Masters from the Purple Moon Holy Land were scattered across the Qinfeng Realm and Liuzhong Mountain, several possessing powerful supreme treasures. Why target the newly promoted Universe Master, Lord Pei Xing?
Time! Target!
This strongly suggested... Luo Feng was deliberately targeting Lord Pei Xing! Lord Pei Xing happened to possess two pairs of wings!
Second, the so-called wing summoning sensation occurred several hundred years after Lord Pei Xing's demise. Based on the timeline—it coincided almost exactly with the period after Luo Feng emerged from the Qinfeng Realm.
Third, the secretive attempts by Sea of Chaos factions to acquire ordinary supreme treasures from the 'Holy Land Universe'... likely indicated a layout orchestrated by the Hong Alliance from behind the scenes.
Fourth, Luo Feng genuinely possessed wing-type supreme treasures. When he first rose in the Original Universe, he had only one pair. Later, he acquired two pairs. Some powerhouses had even witnessed Luo Feng possessing three pairs, suggesting... Luo Feng had acquired pair after pair of wings.
Combining these four points!
The Purple Moon Ancestor immediately inferred... it was almost certain that Luo Feng was targeting that specific pair of wings! And judging by the summoning sensation, the Purple Moon Ancestor instantly understood just how terrifying this wing supreme treasure was.
“Tell Luo Feng to save himself the trouble. That pair of wings is within my Purple Moon Holy Land, and thus, it will never leave the Purple Moon Holy Land by even an inch,” the Purple Moon Ancestor stated after confirming his suspicions, relaying the message via the divine power avatar of one of the captured Universe Masters.
When Luo Feng heard this, his heart sank.
Heavens!
The enemy had figured it out. Thinking carefully about the entire sequence of events, Luo Feng realized that while the Hong Alliance's methods were indeed covert... because the target was those specific wings, some traces were inevitable. Combined with the slight flaws he had previously left behind, it ultimately led the Purple Moon Ancestor to discover his goal.
With secretive tactics rendered useless, Luo Feng decided to go overt!
I capture!
I capture and capture, I will exert all my effort to capture your Universe Masters, using the lives of your people for exchange... Will you trade or not? If not, even though the Purple Moon Ancestor holds immense prestige and his subordinates dare not defy him, there would surely be some resentment in their hearts, leading to discord within the Purple Moon Holy Land. There would always be lingering friction.
“Wear them down slowly!”
“Even if I obtain the last pair of wings, I cannot deploy them effectively yet. After all, I haven't even grasped the third secret pattern of the Shi Wu Wings.” Luo Feng wasn't in a hurry; his struggle against the Purple Moon Holy Land was destined to be immensely protracted.
Time flowed on.
Luo Feng roamed the Three Great Death Zones of the Sea of Chaos. After he had captured six of the unwilling Purple Moon Holy Land Universe Masters alive! Finally, ninety percent of them retreated back to the Holy Land Universe, leaving only those who refused to yield! Possessing eternal life, they had lived too long and cared little for death; the pressure Luo Feng exerted only drove some Universe Masters to greater madness.
...
The Sea of Chaos, in a remote region never reached by any powerhouse before.
“Boom!”
A massive humanoid body, slightly larger than a small universe, lay prone. Traveling at speeds exceeding millions, even tens of millions of times the speed of light, the sheer friction against the surrounding chaotic energy currents generated intensely brilliant light, leaving long streaks of luminescence across a vast stretch of the void.
It was continuously advancing towards the Original Universe.
Ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years...
A hundred thousand years, a million years...
Time slipped by.
In the blink of an eye, Luo Feng had been roaming the Sea of Chaos for over 8 million years.
After flying for more than 8 million years while constantly maintaining a terrifying speed unattainable by any universe's strongest beings, the 'colossal entity' finally entered regions within the sphere of influence of major powers in the Sea of Chaos.
...
Over eight million years—how long is that for ordinary life forms?
But for powerful beings, 8 million years is remarkably short. Yet, for Luo Feng, who had lived less than 200,000 years previously (excluding time acceleration), these 8 million years represented a truly pivotal period, the longest stretch since his birth.
This was because for over 8 million years, he had been cultivating within the 'cultivation space,' which actually amounted to cultivating for over 8 million epochs!
At this moment!
Luo Feng continued to wander leisurely within the inner domain of the Universe Boat.
Simultaneously, in a remote sector of the Sea of Chaos... a figure was advancing via ultra-long-distance teleportation.
“It’s been a long time since I visited Liuzhong Mountain, I think I’ll take a stroll there,” the Beast Ancestor advanced with immense leisure. He held grudges against the Starry Sky Ancestor and the two Old Ancestors of the Demon Race, and the current conflict between the allied forces and the Human Race faction saw the humans gradually gaining the upper hand, which gave the Beast Ancestor considerable satisfaction.
Boom!!!!!!!!!!
An incredibly terrifying streak of light flashed past nearby.
“Rumble~~” At that terrifying speed, the shockwave generated by the colossal entity colliding with the surrounding chaotic energy instantly struck the Beast Ancestor, who was still quite far away, causing the beast's massive divine body to tumble several tens of billions of kilometers away.
“Pfft!”
The Beast Ancestor opened its fanged maw and spat out blood. Dark gold blood flowed across the surface of its body, which was covered in hard scales. The Beast Ancestor stared in horror at the lingering golden streak of light far in the distance: “This, this, this…”
It never imagined...
That the mere shockwave generated by ultra-high-speed flight could injure it, a Universe's Strongest! If it had been hit head-on, wouldn't it have perished?
“What terrifying existence? What existence could it be?” The Beast Ancestor was completely stunned. It had traversed the Sea of Chaos; although it suffered disadvantages when fighting the Dream Demon Ancestor, Shock Demon Ancestor, and Starry Sky Ancestor without a supreme ultimate treasure, its ability to save its life was generally assured. No one had ever made it feel so despairing.
Even facing the Primal Ancestor, it could put up a struggle.
But the endless colossal entity that flashed by at extreme speed just now filled the Beast Ancestor with terror and despair; it was simply not on the same level of power. A mere impact from its flight was enough to cause its demise.
“Opportunity!”
“Great Opportunity!”
“A massive opportunity!” The Beast Ancestor suddenly grew excited. Any incomprehensible event likely heralded a super opportunity. Judging by the sheer scale of that disturbance, if the entity flying past contained an opportunity, it would absolutely be a super one; obtaining a few supreme ultimate treasures would be nothing.
“I must seize this opportunity! Whether it's an inheritance, a powerhouse, or treasure, I must grasp it! If I can grasp it, I will surely crush those two idiots of the Demon Race and that Old Beast God. By then, I will unify the Demon Race and the Star Beast Alliance—that is when I will truly be the Beast Ancestor!” The Beast Ancestor was beside itself with excitement, immediately initiating ultra-long-distance teleportation.
Flash! Flash! Flash!
Three consecutive ultra-long-distance teleports finally brought it to a distant location beside the rapidly advancing 'colossal entity.' Resisting the terrifying rush of wind, the Beast Ancestor strained its eyes. Before this behemoth, the Beast Ancestor resembled a small earthworm gazing upon a star.