He had no other choice. Although the Divine Power Route’s third layer, with its ninety-thousand-fold life level, was the best possible outcome, if the cataclysm struck and time ran out, he couldn't help it. Relatively speaking, becoming a true god via the ‘Divine Power Route Second Layer’ was already far superior to those who achieved godhood through the Law Routes.

“Father…”

A voice beside him interrupted Luo Feng’s contemplation.

Luo Feng turned his head to look at his two sons standing nearby. In the eyes of Luo Ping and Luo Hai, he sensed their worry and unease.

“Relax,” Luo Feng stood up and patted both brothers on the shoulder. “Your father has confidence!”

Hearing this, the brothers remained unsettled. They knew too much about the ‘World Beast’ cataclysm and understood that other factions simply couldn't withstand it; their father was the only hope across the entire sea of the universe! What pressure, what a monumental burden?

“Of course,” Luo Feng placed his hands on their shoulders. “If your father fails, we father and sons, along with your mother, our entire family will perish together. At least we'll have company on the road to the Yellow Springs.”

Luo Ping and Luo Hai both managed a smile.

“Yes,” they nodded heavily.

“Go now,” Luo Feng said.

The two brothers vanished together.

A faint smile touched Luo Feng’s eyes. Having been tempered through trillions of epochs, his two sons could naturally face death with equanimity.

‘If I lose, everything dissolves into nothingness.’

Images flashed through Luo Feng’s mind: his teacher Zhen Yan, Chaos, his friend Rong Jun, his parents, his wife, his sons, his brother… and the lineage of Earthlings preserved by the sacrifices of countless heroes during the battle against the Devourer Beast…

Everything. If he failed, all would revert to vapor.

It would be just like the eras preceding the three great cycles of reincarnation, like Jie Fanzhi, all turned to dust. Perhaps only the inscriptions left in the three great perilous zones could prove they had ever existed.

In the distant Jin World.

Luo Feng’s true body of the Earthling was currently within the East Army’s barracks, but at this moment, his divine body began to directly dissolve and dissipate.

“That World Beast escaped; it certainly won't abandon thoughts of revenge.”

“This is merely the calm before the storm…”

“Whether I break through to ninety thousand times or not, once the final cataclysm descends, I must immediately become a true god. And once I become a true god… all my avatars will merge and return to the main body, and my Earthling true body will naturally have to return.” Luo Feng stood in the stone room, his divine power quietly fading away.

Continuously dissipating, returning to the entirety of the Jin World.

In a moment.

Luo Feng’s Earthling true body was gone, leaving behind only a divine power avatar.

“Now, only my divine power avatar remains in the Jin World,” Avatar Luo Feng shook his head subtly inside the stone room. “For the time being, I must decline all visitors; I’ll see no one.”

In the core region of the Qinfeng Boundary, one of the three great perilous zones of the sea of the universe, in the gloom.

“Tear!”

Black flesh ripped, blood sprayed, and the hideous head bit down voraciously, devouring with savage delight.

“Hahahaha… Hahahaha…” The biting World Beast, Molosa, laughed maniacally. “I, Molosa, actually have a day to rise again! I actually succeeded!” His body was covered in wounds, and one of his heads was torn down to half its size. It was clear the preceding battle had been utterly brutal.

Battles between World Beasts were fundamentally different from battles between World Beasts and true gods.

When fighting true gods, World Beasts could use their fundamentally opposite powers to drain each other, or easily split their bodies to escape.

But fighting other World Beasts was different.

Their powers were equal.

And they were mutually restrictive; if you could split into ninety-nine avatars, so could I! You wouldn't even be able to flee!

“Molosa… you ate me, and you will just be eaten by other World Beasts later,” the World Beast being furiously torn apart by Molosa, its chest bearing a massive hole and only one head remaining, roared with resentment. “You struggled so hard to win against even my heavily injured form; you won't survive.”

“Fool,” Molosa cursed while frantically devouring. “Even though you were heavily injured, you should still be stronger than me, but your combat experience, your technique… you are far inferior to me.”

The Molosa of the past stood at the peak of the World Beast Lair, second only to Beidi!

Having fought his way to such a position among ten billion World Beasts, Molosa’s combat experience was incredibly rich. Even if his foundation was somewhat lacking… he still managed to compensate with technique and experience, coupled with the fact that his opponent was initially stunned, thinking Molosa was still the same as before. All this allowed Molosa to secure the victory in the end!

“Once I consume you, I will advance to the second tier. With my combat experience, my chances of winning against the other second-tier World Beasts remain high. In the future, I can still return to the third tier,” Molosa roared.

“The third tier? A single slip leads to eternal decline; you are destined never to become the final king.” The World Beast being chewed and swallowed offered no resistance because its most vital component, the ‘Boundary’ within its body, had been devoured. Without the Boundary, it was like rootless water, possessing no fighting power whatsoever.

“Furthermore, even as I was failing, I managed to spread news of you throughout the entire Lair,” the dying World Beast said madly. “I said that you, Molosa, returned from the outside only to fall back to the first tier. Even if they hear it, you’ve only just entered the third tier. You are still extremely weak in the entire World Beast Lair. Those terrifying figures in the third tier who hold grudges against you will come to kill you one by one.”

“You spread the word?” Molosa paused slightly.

It wasn't surprised.

It had known this already…

World Beasts were super-lifeforms born for destruction. If it hadn't made a move, perhaps none of the other World Beasts would know it had regressed to the first tier. But once it acted… to deal with another World Beast, that beast would immediately know. If this beast won, it might not publicize it, but if it lost, it would certainly spread the news out of vengeance.

Once the news spread…

In the World Beast Lair, any random World Beast would dare to attack Molosa! This was precisely why it had been so desperate after Luo Feng forced it down to the first tier; it understood that climbing back up from the first tier was as difficult as ascending to heaven.

“Scared?” the dying World Beast mocked.

“Scared?” Molosa took a huge bite, tearing off flesh. “Only one final king is destined to exist. By falling back to the first tier this time, I am also destined to never contend for the final kingship again; death awaits me eventually. What does dying sooner matter?”

Endless rage burned within Molosa’s body.

Even if it meant death!

Before dying, it had to take revenge on the human Luo Feng, the one who had cut off all its hopes!

“Luo Feng…” Molosa muttered silently in its heart.

“You went to the outside world; you probably haven’t heard one piece of news yet,” the dying World Beast did not give up any opportunity to strike at Molosa.

“What news?” Molosa looked indifferently at the dying beast and swallowed another piece.

“Beidi…” the dying World Beast sneered, “has already advanced to the fourth tier. This was the news transmitted by Batul before his death; many World Beasts know it.”

“Before Batul’s death?” Molosa was momentarily stunned. “No wonder he didn't tell me!”

Ten billion World Beasts were born and then fought each other. Some powerful World Beasts naturally stood at the pinnacle; Molosa was one of them, and Batul was another. Molosa and Batul harbored deep mutual hatred!

Batul died, killed and consumed by Beidi.

At the same time, that battle revealed to Batul that ‘Beidi’ was actually a fourth-tier existence. Naturally, Batul would transmit the news before dying, though he withheld it from some enemies.

“Fourth tier!” Molosa’s heart grew cold.

One step slow, and every step thereafter is slow.

To become the final king, one absolutely could not leave the first echelon. It had once been a member of the first echelon… only facing relentless pursuit from Beidi did it decide to venture out to seek opportunity and rapidly reach the peak of the third tier to challenge Beidi. Who knew Beidi had actually broken through to the fourth tier.

“The final king!”

“No hope remains.”

“I… am destined to die.”

“Then before I die, I must take revenge on that detestable human who destroyed my hope!” Molosa’s other wounded head fully recovered, and both heads bowed low as they frantically bit and devoured mouthfuls.

“I sent word to Beidi; you and Beidi have contested for endless epochs… Beidi knows you have weakened and will surely come to hunt you. You are second tier, Beidi is fourth tier; Beidi’s speed far surpasses yours, you cannot escape,” the dying World Beast roared. Puchi, one of Molosa’s heads savagely bit down, tearing off the dying beast’s last remaining head.

Tear! Hiss! Hiss!

Great gulps were swallowed.

The solitary eyes on both heads of the World Beast Molosa flickered with cold light: “I, Molosa, even in death, must make Luo Feng pay the price!” Simultaneously, it carefully sensed the locations of various World Beasts, paying special attention to powerful ones like Beidi. If Beidi or others approached this area, Molosa would immediately flee far away.

Deep within the World Beast Lair.

On a floating desert rock, a massive black figure lay sprawled. Hoo, it suddenly sat up, gazing into the distance.

Both of its ugly heads looked in the same direction, the solitary eyes atop them faintly swirling with colored light, looking coldly toward the distant horizon.

“Molosa…”

It murmured hoarsely. “You… regressed to the first tier? Since birth, you have fought and contended with me. The last time you suffered a heavy defeat and fled the Lair, you returned only to fall to the first tier.”

Peak first tier killing a heavily injured second-tier World Beast.

It seemed difficult.

But Beidi was not surprised, because… this was its old adversary, Molosa! A rival that once posed a significant threat to it. Now, its rival had arduously climbed to the second tier, while Beidi had already reached the fourth tier… currently known as the sole fourth-tier existence in the entire World Beast Lair.

The higher one climbed, the more exaggerated the gap between each tier became.

“The lifeforms in the sea of the universe are actually this powerful?” Beidi’s voice was low and hoarse. “Who caused Molosa to become like this? Could it be the one the scientists like Qiu Yan and Zhen Jia spoke of… the strongest entity in the sea of the universe, the Lord of the Galaxy?”

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