Chapter 1067: Secret Art of Heaven’s Forge

“No way?” the Progenitor, somewhat astonished, gazed down at the distant figure below. “Could he actually comprehend the Heart of the Beast God?”

The plains were overgrown with weeds. A majestic, colossal statue of a one-horned lizard crouched slightly, as if ready to spring into action at any moment. On the back of this “Golden Beast God” statue, Luo Feng lay resting on its scales with his eyes narrowed. In midair before him, countless intricate golden arcane threads continuously flowed.

Outwardly relaxed, just like during his countless eons of cultivation, Luo Feng was actually in a unique state.

For over a hundred million years, he had been studying the eight arcane pattern charts of the Golden Beast God. Each chart represented one aspect of the Golden Beast God. These eight charts made Luo Feng feel as if he were watching every side of the Golden Beast God day after day, month after month, year after year…

Time passed ceaselessly.

Luo Feng continued studying these eight arcane charts, as if perpetually accompanying the Golden Beast God.

At this very moment…

After one hundred eighty million years of studying the eight arcane charts, he suddenly forgot himself. In this moment… he seemed to become the Beast God himself!

Joy, happiness, anger, roaring, madness…

He soared freely through the universe!

He battled enemies, fought bloody wars across endless voids, continuing combat across galaxies… until finally, he fell in defeat, filled with regret.

Luo Feng lay there, slowly closing his eyes, motionless.

All was illusion.

Only the Beast God was real!

For a long, long time…

This slumber lasted a thousand years.

For a thousand years, even Luo Feng’s Earthling original body and the boundless Nethersea fell into deep slumber. No one could reach Luo Feng! Throughout this millennium, Luo Feng forgot all his human memories, truly believing himself to be a Beast God living out his existence…

A thousand years passed silently.

Luo Feng opened his eyes.

“Could this be like Zhuangzi’s dream of the butterfly?” Luo Feng murmured softly. At the moment he opened his eyes, he momentarily struggled to distinguish whether he was Luo Feng or the Beast God. But soon, he fully regained his senses. The memories of over a hundred million years as a human surged back, completely overriding the memory of his time as the Beast God.

“The Beast God? What a strange sensation.”

Lying atop the Beast God statue, the feeling of being the Beast God was so vivid, so easily accessible.

The Beast God and the human were entirely different states of existence.

One was a completely transcendent, free, and instinctive state.

Atop a mountain peak.

The Progenitor looked down at the scene, shaking his head in disbelief with a mixture of admiration and exasperation: “Could he really have mastered the ‘Heart of the Beast God’—the ultimate bottleneck of the Beast God Path, the most elusive and difficult to grasp?”

According to the teachings of the Ancestor God Sect, the Beast God Path consists of seven levels of inheritance.

To fully master the Beast God Path would elevate one to the rank of “Cosmic Sovereign,” becoming a supreme existence in the universe… but how immensely difficult is it to attain such a status? For instance, the lineage of the Golden-Horned Giant Beast had only produced two Cosmic Sovereigns across countless eons, while the Flaming Star Giant Beast lineage had just one.

All of this indicated… becoming a Cosmic Sovereign was extremely difficult!

There were many obstacles!

One of the most elusive and intangible barriers on the Beast God Path was… one must comprehend the Heart of the Beast God to truly transform into a Beast God! This puzzled many Cosmic Overlords. Figures like Hiero and many other Cosmic Overlords could only transform into “False Beast Gods” because they had never truly grasped the Heart of the Beast God.

Without a genuine Heart of the Beast God… one could not truly become a Beast God.

By chance, Luo Feng immersed himself for countless eons in studying the eight arcane charts, pouring his entire being into it. Over a hundred million years of dedication unknowingly led him into a deep slumber, forgetting everything. During this slumber, he lived an entire long life as a Beast God in his dreams.

“That makes sense.”

“This Luo Feng gained such a reputation in less than one hundred thousand years! In my Beast God Realm, he has trained for one hundred eighty million years… fully dedicating himself to studying the ‘Golden Void’ branch of the arcane chart school, without any guidance, completely self-taught. Now he has reached an extremely high level. He can casually create secret techniques at the Cosmic Sovereign level… clearly demonstrating an unbelievable mastery of the eight arcane charts of the Golden Beast God. These eight charts fully represent the complete Golden Beast God.”

“Moreover—”

“The Golden-Horned Giant Beast is originally a descendant of the Golden Beast God, making it easier to sense the Heart of the Golden Beast God. With these two factors combined, it’s natural for him to succeed.” The Progenitor quickly understood that this was the result of accumulated effort leading to a natural breakthrough.

After all, Luo Feng had spent one hundred eighty million years studying the arcane charts. With Luo Feng’s talent—having achieved King-level peak in less than several thousand years, and creating three ultimate secret techniques in just tens of thousands of years—if he had focused on studying the laws, in one hundred eighty million years, Luo Feng would have already reached the level of a High Cosmic Sovereign.

But in pursuit of defeating the Progenitor,

Luo Feng did not invest a single thought into law comprehension. He dedicated himself entirely to studying the arcane chart school, which made his proficiency in the arcane chart school… far surpass his achievements in law comprehension.

After all, his law comprehension training had only lasted tens of thousands of years.

The arcane chart school, however, had been his focus for one hundred eighty million years. There was no comparison!

“This——” The Progenitor, already calm, suddenly changed expression, unable to believe as he gazed down at Luo Feng on the Beast God statue in the wilderness below. Even when Luo Feng had previously grasped the Heart of the Beast God, he hadn’t been this shaken.

On the back of the Beast God statue.

After sleeping for a thousand years, Luo Feng once again began studying the eight arcane charts of the Golden Beast God, using the ‘Microcosmic Universe Arcane Chart’ as the ultimate template to attempt creating secret techniques. Even after a thousand years of slumber, Luo Feng was still subtly influenced by the Heart of the Beast God.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh~~~~

Innumerable golden threads floated in midair.

“It should be like this.”

“Like this.”

Unconsciously, without even understanding the principles himself, Luo Feng rapidly combined the eight arcane charts. Most of the connections were due to Luo Feng’s solid foundation, but a few were purely instinctive, made spontaneously in a special mindset, without conscious thought.

As if the Golden Beast God roamed the universe freely, killing when he wished, eating when he wished, sleeping when he wished…

Luo Feng, still somewhat dazed and uncertain, connected the arcane threads instinctively, smoothly and effortlessly, feeling this was the most comfortable way.

“Boom!”

Suddenly, a golden beam of light appeared across the heavens.

In an instant, the golden light tore through the sky, forcefully carving ripples and fissures in the frozen space. Even the ground was affected by the aftershocks, directly sliced into a deep trench stretching millions of kilometers long. After a while, the land naturally healed, returning to normal.

“I… I didn’t use much divine power.” Luo Feng sat on the Beast God statue, astonished, gazing at the trench stretching to the edge of the wilderness, until it finally healed.

“A secret technique?”

“What level of secret technique?”

Luo Feng couldn’t believe it. He was powerful—having reached the peak of Immortal in just a few thousand years of law comprehension. If he had spent these one hundred eighty million years studying law comprehension… cultivating the Beast God Path to the sixth or even seventh level, he could have done it. He had spent all this time studying the arcane chart school!

He had indeed achieved great success. Now he could easily create secret techniques at the Cosmic Sovereign level, and occasionally create ultimate secret techniques at the Cosmic Overlord level, with immense power.

Yet their power was clearly far inferior to that golden beam.

“Could this be an ultimate secret technique of a Cosmic Sovereign?” Luo Feng couldn’t believe it.

One doesn’t know without practice.

Only after studying the arcane chart school did he realize that although the arcane chart school occasionally allowed one to create unexpectedly powerful techniques through sheer luck… the more powerful the technique, the less likely it was to be created by chance. The foundation was more important!

One hundred eighty million years!

Luo Feng’s mastery of the arcane chart school had reached an extremely high level, easily creating secret techniques at the Cosmic Sovereign level. The strongest he had created before were merely ‘Cosmic Overlord Ultimate Secret Techniques,’ just two levels beyond his normal capabilities. To create an ultimate secret technique of a Cosmic Sovereign… Luo Feng guessed he would probably need to study for another several hundred million years!

Only when he could casually create Cosmic Overlord-level secret techniques might he get lucky enough to create a ‘Cosmic Sovereign Ultimate Secret Technique.’

The higher the foundation,

The greater the chance of creating a more powerful secret technique!

An artist, the more skilled he is, the better artwork he can create when inspiration strikes.

But without any foundation, no matter how inspired, one cannot produce a masterpiece.

Luo Feng’s foundation was already extremely high. In the arcane chart school… he was already a master, even a grandmaster, unmatched in the cosmos! Yet, to create a Cosmic Sovereign Ultimate Secret Technique… it still seemed incredible.

“Could this really be a Cosmic Sovereign Ultimate Secret Technique?”

Swoosh!

Luo Feng leapt up, flying directly toward the distant mountains, with the Golden-Horned Giant Beast perched on his shoulder.

After a brief flight.

He arrived at a cliffside in the mountains, where three secret techniques were carved—left behind by Cosmic Sovereigns of the Star-Sea Giant Beasts. These three were all ‘Cosmic Sovereign Ultimate Secret Techniques.’

“I’ll carve my created secret technique here. Then, by sensing its pressure, I’ll know for sure,” Luo Feng said, looking at the cliffside. His divine power surged, and instantly, extremely complex patterns began to appear on the cliff. Even many Cosmic Sovereigns would find these patterns as incomprehensible as celestial scripture. If Luo Feng from one hundred eighty million years ago saw them, he would have been completely lost.

The secret technique chart was profoundly unfathomable, exuding boundless pressure. It resonated with the three ultimate secret techniques carved beside it, equally powerful.

Gathering over a hundred million years of effort!

Combined with a Heart of the Beast God…

At one moment, Luo Feng casually created this secret technique.

Based on the ‘Microcosmic Universe Arcane Chart,’ this secret technique could be considered a simplified version of the Microcosmic Universe Arcane Chart. It was an almost perfect combination of the eight Golden Beast God charts, forming a combat technique—an ultimate secret technique at the Cosmic Sovereign level!

“A hundred million years of exploration and creation.”

“The Heart of the Beast God.”

“At one moment, the eight arcane charts of the Golden Beast God were nearly perfectly combined, in a rational or irrational manner… and thus it was born.” Atop the mountain peak, the Progenitor gazed down at the scene below and immediately transmitted a message to Situ Shanke in the Primordial Universe, “Situ Shanke, come now!”