(TL/N: Chapters from the past 2 and onward will be quite long, around 2400 - 2700 words.)
The secret technique Luo Fan created this time was developed by referencing the first layer of secret engravings on the Riftsplitting Blade.
This technique was primarily based on the Space Origin Law, combined with the eight lower origin laws.
Luo Fan named it Nine-Origin Riftsplitting Slash.
The power of this blade technique was extremely great. Even among the strongest secret techniques of Universe Masters, it could be considered very powerful.
If it were used together with the Riftsplitting Blade, it could even unleash power close to that of a fifth-tier Universe Master's strongest fusion secret technique. (TL/N: Riftsplitting Blade can also be called Void Splitting Blade.)
The power of Nine-Origin Riftsplitting Slash was considerably stronger than Annihilation Divine Light.
Of course, if one did not possess a suitable blade-type supreme treasure, then when used, Annihilation Divine Light might be slightly stronger.
Although Nine-Origin Riftsplitting Slash was powerful, it was somewhat dependent on a treasure.
Additionally, if a combined attack were performed, the power unleashed by Annihilation Divine Light would be greater.
Annihilation Divine Light was essentially a pure law-energy attack.
This type of energy attack was the easiest kind of secret technique to use in combined assaults.
Blade techniques like Nine-Origin Riftsplitting Slash were actually not very suitable for joint attacks.
After creating Nine-Origin Riftsplitting Slash, Luo Fan sent an avatar to find Luo Feng and ask about his current situation.
He also learned that Luo Feng was currently trapped within the Ice Prison Star Belt.
However, Luo Feng said he would first try to escape by himself.
If that failed, he would ask for help later.
Luo Fan also planned to use this time to try and see whether he could master the second layer of secret engravings on the Riftsplitting Blade.
Although by using the Riftsplitting Blade together with Nine-Origin Riftsplitting Slash he could unleash strength at the peak of the fourth tier, approaching the level of a fifth-tier Universe Master, in the end it still could not match a true fifth-tier Universe Master.
However, if he mastered the second layer of secret engravings on the Riftsplitting Blade, then once activated he would be able to unleash true fifth-tier Universe Master strength.
Now he had already created a fourth-tier strongest secret technique of a Universe Master.
Moreover, it was a technique created by referencing the first layer of secret engravings on the Riftsplitting Blade.
As long as Luo Fan was given a little time, he was confident he could master the second layer of secret engravings.
Luo Fan directly brought the Riftsplitting Blade into the Zhouji Tower and began comprehending the secret engravings.
Not only that, Luo Fan also brought several other True God-level treasures into the Zhouji Tower and began studying the secret engravings on those treasures as well.
Previously, after Luo Fan obtained these True God treasures, he had only bound them to himself.
However, when Luo Fan activated them, the actual difference compared to using peak treasures was not very large.
This was because he had not mastered the secret engravings on them and was merely activating the True God treasures using divine power.
For example, the Divine Fiend Armor that the Original Universe granted Luo Fan after suppressing the Illusory True Demon God.
The Divine Fiend Armor possessed three layers of secret engravings.
Activating the first layer of secret engravings could reduce received material attacks to one ten-thousandth of their original power.
At the same time, soul attacks could also be reduced to one tenth of their original strength.
Activating the second layer of secret engravings could reduce received material attacks to one hundred-thousandth of their original power.
At the same time, soul attacks could also be reduced to one percent of their original strength.
Activating the third layer of secret engravings could reduce received material attacks to one millionth of their original power.
At the same time, soul attacks could also be reduced to one thousandth of their original strength.
At present, Luo Fan could activate the second layer of secret engravings.
In fact, Luo Fan's top-tier peak treasure armor, as long as he activated the third layer of secret engravings, could also reduce material attacks to one hundred-thousandth of their original power.
The only difference was that the top-tier peak treasure armor he was currently using could not reduce incoming soul attacks.
However, Luo Fan's three main combat bodies, his original body, the Space Worm clone, and the Mechanical Race clone, had different characteristics.
Among them, the Space Worm clone could transform into a creature without a soul, while the Mechanical Race clone inherently possessed no soul at all.
Only his original body feared soul attacks.
As for the Space Worm clone and the Mechanical Race clone, they could completely ignore enemy soul attacks.
The same was true for his avatars.
Therefore, for Luo Fan, the difference between the top-tier peak treasure armor and the True God treasure Divine Fiend Armor was actually not very large.
However, once Luo Fan's understanding of the laws continued to improve and he mastered the third layer of secret engravings of the Divine Fiend Armor, he would be able to use this True God treasure as a regular treasure.
Before mastering it, he had no intention of using it.
Otherwise, using the Divine Fiend Armor now would not provide much improvement.
Moreover, it would expose the fact that he possessed a supreme treasure of the highest level.
The most important reason was that Luo Fan now possessed the Guard innate talent secret technique.
When combined with the top-tier peak treasure armor, the material attacks he received would be reduced to one billionth of their original strength.
That was already more than sufficient.
However, the True God palace treasure Pantheon and the True God domain treasure Chaos Sea were treasures whose secret engravings Luo Fan could begin studying.
If Luo Fan mastered the secret engravings on the Pantheon, he would be able to use it to suppress his opponents.
As for the True God domain treasure Chaos Sea, he could use it to restrict his enemies while amplifying his own power.
Most importantly, the Chaos Sea was actually extremely compatible with the Nine-Origin Riftsplitting Slash Luo Fan had just created.
After mastering the secret engravings of the Chaos Sea, Luo Fan could combine it with Nine-Origin Riftsplitting Slash and further perfect the technique.
At that time, with the reinforcement of both the Riftsplitting Blade and the Chaos Sea, the power of Nine-Origin Riftsplitting Slash might directly reach the level of a fifth-tier Universe Master's strongest fusion secret technique.
Luo Fan did not hesitate and directly entered seclusion once again.
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During the period while Luo Fan was in seclusion, Giant Axe had already received the first peak treasure ransom that the Demon Race had delivered.
After obtaining this peak treasure, there was temporarily nothing within the Human Race that required Giant Axe's attention.
After all, the work of reviving the fallen Human Race Immortals and Venerables was being handled by the avatars of the Human Race's Universe Masters, as well as several of Luo Fan's avatars.
Therefore, Giant Axe planned to return to the Inkling Peak Realm as soon as possible.
The Universe Ocean still required him to oversee it.
This was not only because of concerns that Universe Masters from the Hong Alliance or the Human Race might be threatened by Universe Strongest experts from other forces.
In fact, such situations were relatively rare.
Those Universe Masters all knew to avoid the Universe Strongest of other factions.
As for the Universe Strongest experts in the Universe Ocean, they generally did not casually attack Universe Masters either.
Most of the times Giant Axe received requests for help in the Inkling Peak Realm were when Universe Masters from the Hong Alliance or the Human Race accidentally entered certain dangerous regions.
In such situations they could only hide inside palace-type treasures.
Only by doing so could they preserve their lives.
However, once they hid inside palace treasures, under those dangerous environmental conditions they usually could not control the palace treasure to escape the perilous area.
At that point, Giant Axe would need to rescue them.
Otherwise, other Universe Masters basically had no solution for such situations.
Unless they possessed a supreme palace treasure of the highest level.
Only such a treasure could completely ignore certain dangerous regions and freely enter or exit them.
Sometimes they would also encounter particularly powerful Universe Masters.
Some Universe Masters from the First Era, because their races were approaching extinction, had become extremely desperate.
They might cling to a Universe Master opponent and refuse to let go.
Although Universe Masters were at the same level and killing one another was extremely difficult.
Only if one's strength exceeded the other by three tiers could they instantly kill their opponent.
If they were stronger by two tiers, they could kill them relatively quickly.
If the difference was only one tier, it might require trapping the opponent and attacking continuously for several months before finally killing them.
In fact, if the opponent possessed a very large divine body, it might even take several years to completely annihilate them.
Even being one tier stronger required such a long time, let alone fighting a Universe Master of the same level.
Between Universe Masters of the same tier, killing the opponent was basically impossible.
Unless both sides continuously burned divine power, neither side attempted to flee, and no reinforcements arrived midway.
Only then might one side eventually die.
Even if one side died, the other would usually suffer severe losses, possibly retaining less than ten percent of their divine power.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, Universe Masters of the same tier would rarely fight to the death.
Especially when there were no significant benefits involved.
Even when treasures appeared, unless it was a supreme treasure of the highest level, once one side successfully bound it, the battle would usually stop.
However, because they were on the brink of extinction, some Universe Masters of the First Era might relentlessly cling to their opponents.
They might even be willing to die just to kill one enemy.
And they would not mind fighting for several years.
In such situations, a Universe Strongest expert would also need to provide rescue.
Of course, as long as the other party did not provoke them, after the rescue they would simply leave and would not attack the other side.
Therefore, Universe Strongest experts were extremely important.
If it were not for the fact that there had been many internal matters within the Human Race recently, Giant Axe would normally remain stationed in the Universe Ocean.
Now that everything was finished, he planned to return to the Inkling Peak Realm.
Although he had obtained a supreme treasure of the highest level, unfortunately it was not an axe-type supreme treasure.
Giant Axe planned to study the secret engravings on the Heaven-Shaking Hammer to further increase his strength before venturing deeper into the Inkling Peak Realm to explore.
Once his strength increased, the regions he could explore would expand.
Especially areas he previously did not dare to enter.
Perhaps this time he might gain something.
Giant Axe also hoped to see whether he could personally find a supreme treasure of the highest level.
Very few people explored those core regions, so the probability of discovering such treasures was relatively high.
Aside from finding an axe-type supreme treasure for himself, Giant Axe also hoped to find one for Luo Fan.
After all, the Heaven-Shaking Hammer he currently held had been given to him by Luo Fan.
Although Giant Axe had also given Luo Fan ten thousand treasure points, he knew Luo Fan essentially did not lack treasures.
Even after receiving those treasure points, Luo Fan had barely used them.
Therefore, Giant Axe wanted to try finding a supreme treasure of the highest level for Luo Fan to use.
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Just like this, five hundred years passed.
During this time, Luo Fan mastered the second layer of secret engravings of the Riftsplitting Blade.
At the same time, he had also mastered the first layer of secret engravings of both the Pantheon and the Chaos Sea.
Not only that, he had further perfected Nine-Origin Riftsplitting Slash.
Now, when Nine-Origin Riftsplitting Slash was unleashed while simultaneously activating the Riftsplitting Blade and the Chaos Sea, it could receive the amplification of two True God treasures at the same time.
However, because Luo Feng had not come looking for him during this period, Luo Fan planned to continue attempting to create another strongest secret technique of a Universe Master.
After all, due to the limited level of law comprehension possessed by Universe Masters, if one wanted to create a fifth-tier secret technique, they usually needed to fuse two strongest Universe Master secret techniques.
Luo Fan needed to do the same.
At present, he had only completely comprehended the nine origin laws.
As for the Time Origin Law, although he had already mastered the three profound mysteries, he still needed some time to perfectly fuse them and completely master the Time Origin Law.
As for the Beast God Path, he had only reached the seventh level, which was not yet fully perfected.
Therefore, Luo Fan's law comprehension was actually weaker than that of other experts with similar strength.
This meant that the difficulty for him to create stronger secret techniques was greater than for others of the same level.
After all, his foundation was not as deep.
If Luo Fan wanted to create a fifth-tier secret technique, he also needed to fuse two strongest Universe Master secret techniques.
This was the most common method.
It was also why fifth-tier Universe Master techniques were called the strongest fusion secret techniques of Universe Masters.
Just as Luo Fan was preparing to reference the second layer of secret engravings on the Riftsplitting Blade to create another strongest Universe Master secret technique, Luo Feng suddenly contacted his avatar.
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Earth, Luo Family Hall.
"What's wrong?"
"You're coming back from the Ice Prison Star Belt?"
"Or do you need me to go fish you out?"
Looking at Luo Feng sitting across from him, Luo Fan asked with interest.
Hearing this, Luo Feng shook his head and revealed a bitter smile.
"Ahem."
"Big Brother, something unexpected happened on my side."
"Previously I came here to find the third part of the Nameless Secret Manual."
"However, quite a few people are trapped in the Ice Prison Star Belt."
"I also discovered a Demon Race King-level Immortal here named Spuva."
"He wants to make a deal with me."
"He possesses a Soil-Space Beast God inheritance token, and he wants to exchange it with me for a Virtual Universe login device and account so he can contact the Demon Race for help."
"Because the Soil-Space Beast God inheritance token is extremely valuable, I'm worried something might go wrong. So I wanted to ask Big Brother to come and bring me out of the Ice Prison Star Belt."
Because of Luo Fan's influence, Luo Feng already knew the value of Beast God inheritance tokens.
Aside from that, he was also aware of the Ancestral God Religion.
Unlike in the original timeline where he immediately sought help from the Primal Chaos City Lord, Luo Feng also knew how powerful Luo Fan was.
So when something like this happened, the first person he thought of asking for help was naturally Luo Fan, who was closer to him.
In the universe, the relationship between master and disciple was considered the closest.
Sometimes it was even closer than the bonds between father and son, husband and wife, or brothers.
However, that was mainly because in the universe, the time required for a powerful expert to grow was extremely long.
By the time they finally rose to power, most of their relatives and friends had already exhausted their lifespans.
Even within the same family, or even between biological siblings, their talents could still differ greatly.
This was especially true for geniuses.
Although there were many geniuses in the universe, that was only when looking at the universe as a whole.
If one only looked at a single star system, a single planet, or even one family, producing even a single genius would already be considered an extraordinary stroke of fortune.
It could even be said that for an entire race, having one true genius appear within a generation was already quite good.
Therefore, once these geniuses grew up, the people around them had usually already died of old age.
However, Luo Fan and Luo Feng were different.
They were true blood brothers.
Moreover, the time both of them had spent cultivating was extremely short.
The two of them had risen together from humble beginnings, and their bond was extremely deep.
Furthermore, the help Luo Fan had given Luo Feng was far greater than what the Primal Chaos City Lord had provided.
Therefore, at a time like this, the first person Luo Feng thought of was naturally Luo Fan.
Luo Fan also understood that as he continued to grow stronger, the number of people around him would gradually decrease.
In the end, the one who would still stand beside him would only be Luo Feng.
Because of this, he also valued the bond between himself and Luo Feng very deeply.
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