(TL/N: Another long chapter :D)
Upon hearing Luo Feng's words, Luo Fan instantly reacted.
Mountain Guest had recorded the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex upon the Heavenly Soul Crystal.
Within the Original Universe and even within this entire Universe Sea, there was only one Heavenly Soul Crystal.
Only the Heavenly Soul Crystal could record the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex and allow the lifeforms nurtured under Mountain Guest's guidance to cultivate it.
Unless the lifeform previously cultivating the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex died, only one person within the Original Universe could see the contents recorded on the Heavenly Soul Crystal.
Mountain Guest had divided the Heavenly Soul Crystal into five parts and placed them in different locations.
The opening portion of the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex was placed on Earth.
Only in this way could the leader of the Earth lineage obtain it.
The second fragment of the Heavenly Soul Crystal appeared in the hands of a young man of the Nashi Race on the Extraterritorial Battlefield.
However, Luo Fan guessed that this had also been arranged by Mountain Guest or Pu Ti.
He did not believe Mountain Guest would casually discard the second fragment of the Heavenly Soul Crystal.
It was most likely that after seeing Luo Feng head to the Extraterritorial Battlefield, Mountain Guest or Pu Ti placed the second fragment on that Nashi Race youth and guided him to meet Luo Feng.
As for the third fragment, it was located in the Ice Prison Star Zone.
The Ice Prison Star Zone was the territory of a special lifeform of the Ancestral God Sect.
That being possessed the strength of a Universe Overlord.
Because they knew Mountain Guest and had once received his favor,
they were aware of this matter.
Although they did not know the full details,
the original story made it clear that they knew Luo Feng was connected to Mountain Guest.
As for the fourth fragment of the Heavenly Soul Crystal, it was in the hands of the Artisan God Master.
The Artisan God Master was considered the strongest weapon refiner in the Original Universe aside from Mountain Guest.
He was also a special lifeform.
Because he had once received guidance from Mountain Guest, he had reached his current level in weapon refinement.
For that reason, although Mountain Guest had not formally accepted him as a disciple, he still regarded Mountain Guest as a teacher.
Mountain Guest had placed the fourth fragment there.
However, if Luo Feng went to see the Artisan God Master, he would be thrown into the small universe of the Starry Sky Behemoth Progenitor, the Old Beast God.
The main purpose was for Mountain Guest to have Luo Feng comprehend the Beast God statues and obtain the Secret Pattern Diagram Stream inheritance.
Mountain Guest and the Old Beast God also had some friendship.
As for the final fragment, it was located within the Blood Cloud Hall of the Blood Cloud Hall Master.
The Blood Cloud Hall Master was an extremely bloodthirsty Universe Master who had enemies among many forces.
However, he did not have any enmity with the Human race.
In reality, the true identity of the Blood Cloud Hall Master was Mountain Guest himself.
He created this identity to temper his third disciple.
Because the Blood Cloud Hall Master had enemies with most of the peak forces in the Original Universe, inheriting that identity meant becoming the enemy of most powerful beings.
It could be said that one would stand against the entire world.
The reason the aura of the Blood Cloud Hall Master differed from Mountain Guest's true aura was because Mountain Guest had refined a special supreme treasure, the Blood Cloud Pearl.
It had been refined directly from the complete corpse of a Universe Master.
After using it, one's aura would completely transform into that of the Blood Cloud Hall Master.
It could not only change one's aura, but even alter the characteristics of one's secret techniques.
These preparations were all made by Mountain Guest to provide his disciple with proper tempering.
When Luo Feng mentioned that he intended to go to the Ice Prison Star Zone, Luo Fan immediately understood his objective.
He began recalling the plot of the original story.
Although he had not read the later parts in detail, he still knew the general outline.
After Luo Feng went to the Ice Prison Star Zone, he would encounter Si Buwa.
That was a genius of the Heavenly Wolf Race of the Demon Race.
On him was a Beast God inheritance token of the Earth and Space Beast God lineage.
In order to call for help and summon his Venerable-level teacher to rescue him, Si Buwa exchanged that Beast God inheritance token with Luo Feng for a Virtual Universe consciousness login device.
Or more precisely, he exchanged it for a usable login account.
After all, it was extremely difficult for foreign races to log into the Virtual Universe.
Once detected as not belonging to the Human race or a Human subsidiary race, one would be immediately expelled.
This was especially true for members of the Demon Race, Insect Race, and Mechanical Race.
As a disciple of the Primal Chaos City Lord, Luo Feng possessed considerable authority within the Virtual Universe. Arranging a temporary account posed no problem.
As for manufacturing a consciousness login device, that was even simpler.
For powerful beings of their level, creating such an item was extremely easy.
The reason the Heavenly Wolf Master personally descended was because he knew Si Buwa possessed a Beast God inheritance token.
Otherwise, Si Buwa had been in the Ice Prison Star Zone for countless eras and had no idea what Luo Feng's title, Blade River King, represented.
A Beast God inheritance token was indeed far more precious than an ordinary supreme treasure.
Beast God inheritance tokens were extremely rare within the Original Universe.
Even peak races did not possess many of them.
One had to know that even an invincible King-level expert like King Zhen Yan could not obtain one despite applying.
Within the Hong Alliance, there were only a few thousand inheritors of the Ancestral God legacy.
The three neighboring races bordering the Human race were in a similar situation.
This was because Beast God inheritance tokens were evenly scattered throughout the Original Universe.
Although the four peak races controlled vast territories at the core of the Original Universe,
their territories were large only in comparison to other races.
In reality, the territories of the four races occupied only a small fraction of the Original Universe.
Therefore, the Demon Race did not have many inheritors within the Ancestral God Sect either.
Their stockpile of Beast God inheritance tokens was even smaller than that of the Human race.
After all, many branches within the Demon Race were well suited to cultivating the Beast God path.
Yet without complete internal inheritance and with few tokens available,
a single Beast God inheritance token was worth far more within the Demon Race than within the Human race.
That was why the Heavenly Wolf Master personally made the trip.
Luo Fan was not concerned about the third Heavenly Soul Crystal fragment.
Both his clones and his original body had already raised their gene levels to perfect genes.
The latter portions of the Chaos Secret Codex were no longer particularly important to him.
What he was thinking about was the Heavenly Wolf Master.
That was a Universe Master.
The Heavenly Wolf Master himself was actually quite weak.
He only possessed a high-tier supreme treasure, the Heavenly Wolf Hall.
Within the Original Universe, no one could break the Heavenly Wolf Hall.
Even a Universe Strongest could at most unleash peak sixth-tier power within the Original Universe.
Such power was insufficient to break a high-tier palace supreme treasure.
However, within the Universe Sea, breaking a high-tier palace supreme treasure was possible.
Even if it could not be broken, it could easily be dragged into a dangerous region.
Therefore, the Heavenly Wolf Master always remained within the Original Universe and dared not venture into the Universe Sea.
His personal strength barely reached the third tier.
If Luo Fan wanted to kill him now, it would be somewhat troublesome, especially within the Original Universe, where reinforcements arrived very quickly.
However, if the goal was merely to seal and suppress him, it might not be impossible.
Luo Fan began contemplating the possibility of suppressing the Heavenly Wolf Master.
Although there had been a prior agreement with the Demon Race not to take the initiative against them, otherwise the agreement would become void,
could the Heavenly Wolf Master truly resist the temptation to seize the Beast God inheritance token from Luo Feng?
If he could endure it, Luo Fan would have nothing to say.
If he could not, then Luo Fan would have justification to intervene.
After all, powerful Demon Race experts were also not allowed to bully the weak.
Especially in a situation like this, where the token had been acquired through exchange.
If someone of equal level took action, then losing it would simply be a matter of inferior strength.
But if a higher-level expert bullied a weaker one, then Luo Fan stepping in would be entirely justified.
"You've been through quite a lot during this period."
"Rest for a while before you go."
Luo Fan said with a smile to Luo Feng.
Although he was confident he could suppress the Heavenly Wolf Master,
he still hoped to prepare more thoroughly.
In the original story, Luo Feng remained in the Ice Prison Star Zone for two thousand years.
That amount of time would likely be enough for Luo Fan to create a strongest secret technique at the Universe Master level.
Two thousand years in the Original Universe equaled twenty million years inside the Cosmic Zenith Tower.
After creating the strongest secret technique of a Universe Master, Luo Fan could begin attempting to activate the second layer of secret patterns on the Riftsplitting Blade.
At that time, he would be able to unleash the power of a fifth-tier Universe Master.
Upon hearing this, Luo Feng nodded.
There was visible fatigue in his eyes.
The process of binding the Star Tower over these years had not been easy.
For Luo Feng, it had been extremely grueling.
His physical body had been manageable.
However, the process of binding the Star Tower had placed tremendous pressure upon his mental will.
Although his soul had rested, he was still deeply exhausted.
He needed some time to fully recover.
Even before binding the Star Tower, Luo Feng had already completed the military merit quota assigned by the Virtual Universe Company.
He could now officially retire.
Just like in the original story, the title Blade River King spread outward.
The Primal Chaos City Lord still handed over the Slaughter Wu Wings to Luo Feng.
Among the Earth group of four, aside from the Luo Fan brothers, Hong and Thunder God had also made tremendous progress.
Hong had long since been accepted as a direct disciple by the Darkness Master.
After the secret of Earth was discovered, Luo Fan directly instructed Hong to fully challenge the Illusory Sea.
After witnessing Hong's astonishing results, the Darkness Master valued him even more highly.
Moreover, both Hong and Thunder God had used the Golden Horned Beast talent serum given by Luo Fan.
Both now possessed the clone talent.
The Darkness Master had even found Hong a special lifeform.
It was a special lifeform with a gene level reaching two thousand times.
Its innate secret technique was extremely powerful, a terrifying soul illusion technique.
Experts of the same level could fall into illusion with just a glance of eye contact.
That special lifeform's soul talent was also extremely strong, making it very suitable for Hong.
As for Thunder God, after the secret of Earth was exposed, he too accepted a master.
He passed the test of the Dragon Master and became his direct disciple.
The Dragon Master likewise found him a powerful special lifeform clone.
Both of them were now tempering themselves on the Extraterritorial Battlefield.
Compared to the original story, their current strength was far greater.
Because they possessed special lifeform clones, their speed of law comprehension was extremely fast.
Although not as exaggerated as the Luo Fan brothers,
they had already reached Marquis-level law comprehension.
One had to know that they had only cultivated for a few thousand years.
Such talent was truly terrifying.
In fact, in the original story, one of them became a True God and the other a Universe Master. That alone demonstrated their talent.
Hong had, without any guidance and possessing only ninth-grade bloodline, grasped a Domain at the Planetary level.
Thunder God had done the same in the original story, also mastering a Domain at the Planetary level.
Earth had no proper cultivation guidance for them at the time.
Hong's talent was truly extraordinary.
It was not merely his mental state that was powerful.
Thunder God was the same.
Therefore, Luo Fan was not surprised at their growth.
As for Luo Fan's two sons,
although they had also entered the Virtual Universe Company and enjoyed various conveniences provided by Luo Fan,
they were currently only Domain Lords.
Moreover, their law comprehension was not particularly high among the Domain Lord members of the Primal Region.
After all, they were still relatively young.
The geniuses from Earth were in a similar situation.
Although Luo Fan had provided numerous conditions,
no one had yet emerged who could truly catch his interest.
…
Time quickly passed.
After resting for a period, Luo Feng departed for the Ice Prison Star Zone.
Because of Luo Fan's influence, his strength was now much greater than in the original story, and he possessed more methods as well.
Luo Fan did not know whether Luo Feng would still remain in the Ice Prison Star Zone for two thousand years this time.
With greater strength, Luo Feng might not stay there as long.
Therefore, Luo Fan resolved to create the strongest secret technique of a Universe Master as soon as possible.
He instructed his incarnation exploring the dangerous lands in the Universe Sea to engage more frequently in combat with others.
Although compared to Universe Masters in the Universe Sea his incarnation was weaker and could easily be killed,
Luo Fan could instead seek out Universe Sea lifeforms like the Waterflow Spirit.
Such beings generally lacked intelligence.
As long as one approached, they would attack.
There were many records of such lifeforms within the Human race.
While fighting them, Luo Fan could temper himself and also establish missions to gain rewards.
This brought him considerable gains.
For example, special fruits and weapon-refining materials.
Occasionally, he might even obtain certain inheritances.
However, because the opponents were relatively weak, the inheritances obtained were at most at the True God level.
Even so, these inheritances provided Luo Fan with considerable inspiration.
...
Thus, five hundred years passed.
Within the Source Land of the Original Universe clone,
an incarnation stood there holding the Riftsplitting Blade.
He slowly raised it.
In the next instant, vast flames, lightning, storms, ice blades, and more coiled around the blade.
Soon after, all the flames and lightning condensed together.
As Luo Fan slashed out with a single strike, a massive blade phantom appeared above him.
Countless engravings covered the blade.
Lightning, flames, and ice blades swirled around the phantom.
Terrifying law fluctuations swept across the surroundings.
The blade phantom shot forward.
After the Original Universe clone experienced its power, the blade phantom abruptly dispersed.
At the same time, the sound of mission completion rang out in Luo Fan's mind.
He had finally created the strongest secret technique of a Universe Master.
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