Luo Fan immediately informed Luo Feng and the other two of this news.
The three of them ended their cultivation state and arrived in the spaceship hall.
"Did you find it?"
"What kind of treasure is it?"
Thunder God looked at Luo Fan, unable to hide his impatience.
Hong and Luo Feng were also filled with anticipation.
Luo Fan did not hide anything and spoke directly.
"It is an inheritance."
"But that place is full of phantom beasts, and some are even at the Immortal level."
"So at that time, Thunder God and Hong will hide inside the World Ring first. My avatar will take you in."
"As for Feng, you can transform into a phantom beast and blend in."
"That is how I got in."
Thunder God and Hong spoke immediately.
"No problem. We'll leave it to you."
The two trusted Luo Fan greatly.
Luo Feng also nodded.
Then he spoke.
"Big Brother, my teacher suggested that I not upload the recording, and instead go squeeze Marquis Po Yu for compensation."
"I will give you part of the 'mental damage fee' when I get it."
Luo Feng looked a bit embarrassed as he said this.
Luo Fan heard this and responded casually.
"It's fine. I don't care about that. Instead of getting her punished, this way we can still gain something."
"You don't need to give me anything. I have almost no use for points or money right now."
How much could Luo Feng extort?
Compared to the Seven Absolute Arts of the Water God, that amount was nothing but a drop in the ocean.
So Luo Fan could not be bothered to want any of it.
He would soon gather ten billion mixed-element units worth of universe coins.
For someone who could smuggle between races, it was extremely easy.
Seeing Luo Feng about to say more, Luo Fan stopped him directly.
"Alright, get ready to receive the inheritance."
Hong spoke quietly from the side at this moment.
"Your big brother does not lack that little money anymore."
"He has now been accepted as a registered disciple by one of the Great Beings of the Virtual Universe Company."
Hong's permissions were far higher than Luo Feng, Thunder God, and even Luo Fan's former level.
So he received this news the moment it came out.
"What?!"
"Luo Fan was accepted as a registered disciple by a Great Being?!"
Thunder God's face was full of shock.
Earlier he had blocked all notifications from the Virtual Universe, so he did not know Luo Fan had passed the tenth floor of the Sky-Piercing Bridge.
As for Luo Feng, he had just been discussing Marquis Po Yu with True Yan King.
He had been called out by Luo Fan right after that, so he also did not know yet.
Luo Feng looked equally shocked.
"Wh… which Great Being?"
Thunder God stammered as he asked.
"It is the creator of the Ice Peak Chaos Tablet, the Lord of Ice Peak."
Luo Fan did not intend to hide it. Everyone would know soon enough anyway.
And unlike the Lord of Darkness, the Lord of Ice Peak was not a hidden human powerhouse.
So revealing it caused no trouble.
Thunder God could not hide his envy when he heard this.
Luo Feng felt the same.
"Alright, let's go. I'll take you to receive the inheritance."
When Luo Fan finished speaking, Thunder God and Luo Feng calmed themselves.
Their mental states were not low.
Especially after Luo Fan repeatedly emphasized the importance of will and mental strength.
Hong and Thunder God entered the World Ring first.
The World Ring they were in was held by Luo Fan's avatar.
Even if there was danger, Luo Fan could instantly open a wormhole and send them away.
Soon, Luo Fan brought Luo Feng to the mouth of a cave.
The cave was bottomless.
Luo Fan's space worm avatar transformed into the shape of a phantom beast.
This avatar was identical to a real phantom beast, even lacking a soul entirely.
Seeing this, Luo Feng followed Luo Fan's example and used his space worm avatar to transform into a phantom beast as well.
However, Luo Feng's transformation still had a soul.
But the phantom beasts were so unintelligent that they could not tell the difference.
"Let's go."
After transmitting the message to Luo Feng, Luo Fan jumped down first.
Luo Feng followed without hesitation.
They fell for dozens of minutes before finally landing.
While in midair, Luo Feng had already seen the scenery inside the cave.
Below was an impossibly vast ice mountain stone forest.
Phantom beasts tens of meters tall, hundreds of meters, and even thousands of meters tall, along with tiny ones only half a meter long, were everywhere.
With one glance, there were at least several thousand phantom beasts. Among them, a few had auras so powerful they reached the peak of the World Master level.
"Roar…"
"Roar…"
Phantom beasts roared from time to time.
Feeling the auras around him, Luo Feng could not help but think that if he accidentally ran into a phantom beast, he might be killed before he could even react.
At this moment, having transformed into phantom beasts, none of the surrounding beasts were showing signs of attacking them.
Luo Fan led Luo Feng deeper into the cave.
Along the way the two admired the scenery.
The vast ice mountain stone forest was beautiful, with layers of black stone ice forming unique shapes.
If not for the phantom beasts, this place could be considered a perfect tourist destination.
However, within this vast stone forest lived a group of creatures that were both extremely foolish and extremely terrifying.
These phantom beasts varied greatly in size and naturally divided territories based on their strength.
Among the thousands of phantom beasts, the weakest could compare to the Universe level, while the strongest rivaled the peak of the World Master level.
There were about forty phantom beasts above the World Master level, and among them three had reached the World Master peak.
One was a thousand meters tall, shaped like a giant tiger.
One was five kilometers long, like a massive dragon with wings on its back.
One stood seven hundred meters tall but had a wingspan of three kilometers, resembling a Roc.
…
The consciousness of these phantom beasts was so simplified that it caused countless explorers of Magic Mountain endless headaches. There was no way to make them non-hostile to humans.
Because as long as they saw any lifeform that was not a phantom beast, they would attack madly.
They were extremely sensitive to the aura of non-phantom lifeforms.
And phantom beasts were a special kind of lifeform. They had no soul.
If they were chopped into thousands of pieces, they would simply turn into chunks of ice.
Yet these strange ice chunks carried a unique consciousness.
No one knew what the vessel for that consciousness was.
Attacks on the soul were completely ineffective.
Unless… it was an attack of will.
Will-based attacks targeted any living creature.
Even creatures without souls could not avoid will attacks.
…
Phantom beasts liked to gather in groups.
But occasionally, some wandered off foolishly.
This was why some phantom beasts appeared alone.
Therefore, Luo Fan and Luo Feng could move freely without much trouble.
The two of them had transformed into phantom beasts about several meters tall, shaped like ape creatures.
Though squeezed among the other phantom beasts, they were not in danger.
Occasionally, some phantom beasts would come over to lick them.
At that moment, a strange sound suddenly echoed.
"Ong!"
"Woo!"
"Mii!"
This was demonic sound.
These demonic sounds varied in intensity and could cause ordinary creatures to fall into illusions.
The demonic sound here was not very strong.
At most, it reached the Domain Lord level.
Luo Fan's avatar, having transformed into a phantom beast, had no soul at all.
So it was completely immune.
But Luo Feng was not.
Sometimes he would fall briefly into an illusion before pulling himself out.
Luo Fan knew this could not continue.
Without hesitation, he opened a wormhole.
Earlier he had not teleported directly to the inheritance location because he worried phantom beasts might follow the wormhole into the spaceship.
Now, surrounded entirely by phantom beasts, it did not matter anymore.
The next moment, a wormhole appeared in front of them.
All the nearby phantom beasts turned to look.
Seeing that the other side was also full of phantom beasts, they lost interest.
The two walked directly through the wormhole and reached the other side.
"Roar…"
"Caw!"
Shrill cries came from all directions.
Everywhere they looked, whether humanoid, bestial, plant-like, or monstrously shaped, phantom beasts filled the landscape, countless in number, stretching beyond sight.
All of them were climbing a winding ice mountain.
Luo Feng realized that the "mountain" beneath them was actually a phantom beast.
In the distance, faint golden light radiated continuously.
Soon, the two arrived before the golden light.
The golden light came from enormous palaces.
Each palace had a diameter of several dozen kilometers, and each emitted golden radiance.
There were 32 palaces in total.
Among them, 23 were covered in a white light barrier, as if protected by a dome completely sealing them.
"Ong!"
"Weng!"
Faint mysterious sounds came from the direction of those floating palaces.
These sounds had no attack effect. Instead, Luo Feng felt his soul becoming extraordinarily comfortable.
Luo Fan, however, felt nothing.
…
These palaces floated in the air above an endless abyss.
"Roar!"
"Aow!"
Many phantom beasts raised their heads to look at the floating palaces, seemingly attracted to them.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Some phantom beasts leapt into the sky, trying to rush into the palaces.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
They crashed into the white light barrier and fell down, hitting the icy ground so hard that cracks spread across it.
Moments later, the fallen phantom beasts got up as if nothing had happened.
Some even leapt up again to crash into the barriers.
Crash.
Fall.
Crash again.
Fall again.
Some phantom beasts with single-minded stubbornness repeated this endlessly.
After many attempts, they eventually gave up.
Luo Fan and Luo Feng noticed something.
The 23 palaces covered by the white barrier were completely impenetrable, no matter how many times the phantom beasts crashed into them.
But the remaining nine palaces without a barrier—
Phantom beasts could leap directly into them without falling.
Those palaces without the white barrier could be entered.
Through the barrier-covered palaces, only faint golden light could be seen, their interiors completely obscured.
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