Four Sovereigns of the Cosmic Sea were captured alive, yet Luo Feng refrained from killing any of them.
Luo Feng knew clearly… even if he killed them, the Zi Yue Holy Land would still have “Quasi-Sovereigns” ready to ascend quickly. Although the Zi Yue Holy Land’s history is far less ancient than that of the Eastern Emperor Holy Land, and its number of Quasi-Sovereigns might not be large, replenishing ten or eight would certainly be no problem. In that case, the strength of the Zi Yue Holy Land would be practically unaffected.
So it was better to capture them!
And then present demands to the Zi Yue Holy Land!
“Just a single pair of wings is merely an ordinary treasure to your Zi Yue Holy Land. Exchanging it for the lives of four Sovereigns? Even the Zi Yue Ancestor would refuse such a deal,” Luo Feng shook his head with a sigh. “Truly heartless! So heartless indeed! They clearly do not value your lives at all.”
The four Sovereigns gritted their teeth in fury.
“Lord Galaxy,” said one of them, the strongest among them, the Sovereign Bei Qu, sighing as he shook his head, “Don’t waste your efforts. The Zi Yue Ancestor is our clan’s progenitor… no one dares defy his orders. Your Human Race desires the Heart of the Wings? Since it has already been discovered, even if you capture a thousand Sovereigns, you will never obtain that pair of wings from our Zi Yue Holy Land.”
“Luo Feng, give up!” roared the newly captured Sovereign Yu Lan, “Our clan’s Ancestor has already declared that those of us without confidence should return to the Holy Land’s universe. If anyone refuses to return and gets captured by you, he will not care about our lives. You want the wings? Impossible!”
Luo Feng sighed again, shaking his head: “Why must it be this way? Just a pair of wings, what real enhancement could it bring to my power? Can’t four Sovereigns’ lives outweigh an ordinary treasure?”
“That is no ordinary treasure, but a component of an ancient civilization’s supreme treasure!” Sovereign Yu Lan roared.
“Ahh…”
Luo Feng sighed once more. “Then you all may continue living here.”
Immediately, Luo Feng’s figure vanished.
The four Sovereigns of Zi Yue looked at each other, gazing at the barren, desolate space around them, filled with resentment, anger, and helplessness.
…
Luo Feng continued wandering through the three forbidden realms aboard the Mausoleum Boat, equally helpless.
“The final pair of wings of the Sha Wu Wings…” Luo Feng murmured softly, “It seems nearly impossible to obtain now.”
According to what he had learned from the captured Sovereigns, when he had originally sensed the call while outside the Zi Yue Holy Land’s universe, one of the Cosmic Sovereigns possessing wings within an independent space inside the Zi Yue Holy Land’s universe had also sensed his wings trembling. Moreover, he vaguely felt… the call was from an extremely distant location—possibly millions or even hundreds of millions of light-years away.
The Cosmic Sovereign had been greatly alarmed!
Feeling a resonance from such an immense distance meant it must be an ultra-supreme treasure, far beyond the qualifications of a mere Sovereign to get involved. Thus, he immediately sought out his master, Sovereign Feng Hao, and reported the matter.
Sovereign Feng Hao took the matter seriously and began inquiring openly among the many Sovereigns: “Has anyone’s supreme treasure recently responded to a call?”
After all, they were all part of the same faction.
It could have been a win-win situation.
However, this inquiry yielded no results—no one had found another component.
The Zi Yue Ancestor, the ruler of the Holy Land’s universe, was aware of everything occurring within it and naturally learned of this incident. At the time, he hadn’t paid much attention. But later, certain powerful factions from the Cosmic Sea had “indirectly” managed to exchange or trade away some ordinary treasures from the Holy Land’s universe.
When all these clues were pieced together!
The Zi Yue Ancestor investigated further and quickly uncovered the truth.
First, the Sovereign Pei Xing had been killed by Luo Feng. Originally, Luo Feng was aboard the Cosmic Boat while Sovereign Pei Xing was in Qing Feng Realm—these two locations were extremely far apart. From a timeline perspective, Luo Feng should have rushed to Qing Feng Realm at maximum speed immediately after killing Sovereign Hao Lei. Then he killed Sovereign Pei Xing. Strangely, at the time, there were many Zi Yue Holy Land Sovereigns scattered throughout Qing Feng Realm and Liuzhong Mountain, many of whom possessed powerful supreme treasures. So why target a newly promoted Sovereign like Pei Xing?
The timing! The target!
It clearly indicated… Luo Feng had specifically targeted Sovereign Pei Xing!
And Sovereign Pei Xing happened to possess two pairs of wings!
Second, the sensation of the wings responding to a call occurred several hundred years after Sovereign Pei Xing’s demise. According to the timeline—this coincided exactly with the period shortly after Luo Feng emerged from Qing Feng Realm.
Third, certain factions from the Cosmic Sea had secretly attempted to obtain ordinary treasures from the Holy Land’s universe through covert means… likely orchestrated by the Hong Alliance.
Fourth, Luo Feng indeed possessed a supreme treasure of wings. When he first rose to prominence in the Original Universe, he had only one pair. Later, he obtained a second pair. Some even claimed to have seen him with three pairs, clearly indicating that Luo Feng had continuously acquired pairs of wings.
Combining these four points!
The Zi Yue Ancestor immediately deduced… it was almost certainly Luo Feng who had targeted that final pair of wings!
And judging from the resonance, the Zi Yue Ancestor immediately understood how terrifying this supreme treasure must be.
“You tell Luo Feng to stop wasting his efforts. That pair of wings is within our Zi Yue Holy Land, and they will never leave it, not even the slightest bit,” the Zi Yue Ancestor declared firmly after confirming the situation, immediately transmitting this message through the divine projection of a captured Sovereign.
Upon hearing this, Luo Feng’s heart sank.
Heavens!
They had figured it out. Thinking through the entire matter, Luo Feng realized that although the Hong Alliance’s methods had been quite secretive, their target had been the wings, inevitably leaving behind some faint traces. Combined with the clues he had left behind earlier, it ultimately led the Zi Yue Ancestor to discover his true intentions.
Since his covert methods were now useless, Luo Feng decided to act openly!
I will capture them!
I will capture as many of your Sovereigns as I can, and demand their lives in exchange… will you trade or not? If not, even though the Zi Yue Ancestor’s authority is immense and his subordinates dare not rebel, they would surely harbor resentment, causing internal discord and tension within the Zi Yue Holy Land.
“I’ll just wait!”
“Even if I obtain the final pair of wings, I still wouldn’t be able to fully utilize their power. After all, I haven’t even deciphered the third secret rune pattern of the Sha Wu Wings yet,” Luo Feng wasn’t in a hurry. His struggle with the Zi Yue Holy Land was destined to be an extremely long and drawn-out battle.
…
Time passed.
As Luo Feng traversed the three forbidden regions of the Cosmic Sea, the unwilling Holy Land Sovereigns of Zi Yue, after six of their members were captured alive by Luo Feng, ultimately saw nearly ninety percent of them retreat to the Holy Land’s universe. Only a handful of the most stubborn remained—those who refused to submit. Having already achieved eternal life, they feared no death. The pressure Luo Feng imposed on them only drove some Sovereigns to become even more reckless and desperate.
…
In a distant, uncharted region of the Cosmic Sea, far beyond where any powerhouse had ever ventured.
“Boom!”
A human-like body, slightly larger than a small universe, was lying there. Moving at speeds far exceeding millions or even tens of millions of times the speed of light, it even caused the surrounding chaotic energy flows to ignite from the ultra-high-speed friction, producing an incredibly dazzling glow. A long trail of radiant light stretched across the void.
It was constantly advancing toward the Original Universe.
Ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years…
One hundred thousand years, one million years…
Time passed.
In the blink of an eye, Luo Feng had wandered the Cosmic Sea for over 8 million years.
After more than 8 million years of flight, maintaining an unimaginable speed that no Cosmic Sea powerhouse could ever match, this colossal entity finally entered a region where the influence of the Cosmic Sea’s major factions could be felt.
…
More than 8 million years—how incredibly long for ordinary life forms?
Yet for mighty beings, 8 million years was but a fleeting moment. However, for Luo Feng, who had lived less than 200,000 years prior (excluding time acceleration), this 8 million years marked a truly critical and unprecedentedly long period of his life.
Because during these 8 million years, he had remained continuously within the Training Space, actually training for over 8 million eons!
At this moment!
Luo Feng was still leisurely exploring the inner domain of the Cosmic Boat.
At the same time, in a remote region of the Cosmic Sea, a lone figure was rapidly teleporting across vast distances.
“It’s been a long time since I last visited Liuzhong Mountain. I’ll go take a stroll there,” the Primordial Beast Ancestor was advancing leisurely. He had longstanding enmity with the Starry Sky Ancestor and the two ancient beast patriarchs. Now, with the allied forces and the human factions locked in conflict—where the human side was gradually gaining the upper hand—the Primordial Beast Ancestor found the situation quite pleasing.
BOOM!!!
A terrifying streak of light flashed past beside him.
“RUMBLE~~” Under the unimaginable speed, the shockwave generated by the colossal entity’s impact on the chaotic energy flows instantly struck the Primordial Beast Ancestor, who was still far away, sending his massive divine body rolling hundreds of billions of kilometers.
“Spit!!”
The Primordial Beast Ancestor opened his fanged mouth and spat out blood.
Dark golden blood flowed across the surface of his scaly, armored body. Staring in horror at the lingering golden streak of light far in the distance, the Primordial Beast Ancestor gasped in shock: “This… this… this…”
He had never imagined…
That even the shockwave from such an ultra-high-speed flight could injure a Cosmic Sea powerhouse like himself! If struck directly, wouldn’t he perish?
“What terrifying existence is this? What kind of being could this be?” The Primordial Beast Ancestor was utterly stunned. Though he roamed the Cosmic Sea, lacking supreme treasures made him at a disadvantage when fighting against Meng Yaozu, Zhen Yaozu, or the Starry Sky Ancestor. Still, he had always been confident in his ability to survive—no one had ever made him feel true despair.
Even when facing Yuan Zu, he could still put up a struggle.
Yet the colossal entity that had passed by at an unimaginable speed just now filled the Primordial Beast Ancestor with terror and despair. It was clearly on an entirely different level. A direct impact from its flight alone would be enough to kill him.
“Opportunity!”
“Fortune!”
“A great opportunity!” Suddenly, the Primordial Beast Ancestor became excited. Any unimaginable occurrence could potentially signify a supreme opportunity. Judging from the commotion it caused, the colossal entity that had just flown past must contain an extraordinary opportunity—one that could easily surpass obtaining several supreme treasures.
“I must seize this opportunity! Whether it’s a legacy, a powerful being, or a treasure—I must grasp it! If I do, I will surely surpass those two fools from my race and old Shou Shen, and then I will unify the Beast Race and the Starry Sky Colossal Beast Alliance. Only then will I truly be the Primordial Beast Ancestor!” The Primordial Beast Ancestor was ecstatic. Immediately, he activated his teleportation ability.
Flash! Flash! Flash!
After three consecutive ultra-long-distance teleportations, he finally arrived at a distant side of the rapidly advancing colossal entity. Struggling against the terrifying howling winds, the Primordial Beast Ancestor strained his eyes to look. Compared to the colossal entity, he resembled a tiny earthworm gazing upon a star.
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