“Second brother, do you now see the gap?” Hong teased. “Then you’d better hurry up and cultivate harder! Either elevate your domain by one level, or breakthrough from the ninth stage of Planet Level to the first stage of Star Level. Either one, once you break through, you can surpass both me and Luo Feng.”
The cultivation realm is broadly divided into four major tiers:
Foundation—Art—Domain—World. Beyond that, one becomes an Immortal cultivator.
Each tier is further minutely divided.
The Domain level alone is divided into nine layers!
Many Cosmic Level and Domain Lord cultivators struggle hard within these nine domain layers. Each advancement in realm is extremely difficult.
“Stepping from the ninth stage of Planet Level to Star Level is no less difficult than rising from the first to the ninth stage of Planet Level! Not to mention the even greater difficulty of domain advancement,” Lei Shen stroked his chin. “Hong, you’ve always been ahead of me, and the third brother is even more monstrous, surpassing us both at such a young age. My old face is about to be completely lost.”
Luo Feng and Hong both laughed.
“Hmm?” Suddenly, Hong’s wrist communicator vibrated. He glanced at it slightly. “Something urgent at the martial arts academy. We’ll end our chat here today.”
“The Emperor of Thunder Dragon has been killed. Time to go home,” Lei Shen waved and flew off directly.
Luo Feng also parted ways with Hong, each returning to their respective homes.
…
Flying above the land of Huaxia Country, Luo Feng looked down and spotted the decaying ruined cities below, the beasts scavenging and surviving within, and the martial artists carefully honing themselves amidst the ruins. Seeing those martial artists, Luo Feng felt as though he were seeing his younger self.
“Luo Feng, Luo Feng,” Babata called excitedly.
“What’s got you so happy?” Luo Feng asked mentally.
“The auxiliary propulsion system is all set! From now on, the Heilongshan X81 spacecraft is fully functional. Just wait another day while I install the auxiliary propulsion system completely, and then… you can board the Heilong spacecraft and travel through the cosmos, exploring the vast universe and experiencing countless alien races!” Babata was extremely excited.
It had been too long.
Trapped underground for so long, Babata had long desired to wander through the universe.
“Travel through the cosmos, exploring the universe?” Luo Feng was greatly surprised, halting mid-flight and hovering in the air.
“Exactly, exactly!” Babata was overjoyed.
Luo Feng couldn’t help but feel his blood surge with excitement.
An ordinary Earthling, imagining the day they could reach the moon, would likely be too excited to sleep. Let alone the fact that Luo Feng now had the chance to traverse the universe, exploring and experiencing the countless races of the cosmos. Such excitement was indeed impossible to suppress.
Of course, Luo Feng was deeply attached to his home planet, Earth.
But occasionally visiting other planets in the universe would be quite wonderful!
“Luo Feng! If Earth is ever discovered by other adventurers or nations from the cosmos, it will be in grave danger. Therefore, you must integrate into the universe as soon as possible. Only then will it benefit Earth’s survival in the future.” Babata tried every means to persuade Luo Feng to venture into the universe.
“The most important step to integrating into the universe is… to open an account in the ‘Virtual Universe Network.’ Once you do that, you can enter the Virtual Universe and communicate with countless alien races,” Babata continued eagerly.
For a sentient being like Babata.
The temptation of exploring the ‘Virtual Universe’ was no less than wandering the real universe.
“Just go to an outer planet, open an account, and then return to Earth,” Babata urged anxiously.
“Don’t worry!”
Luo Feng grinned. “Of course I must go! I even want to go right this moment. But just now I was thinking… my inner world should complete its transformation in about a month. Then the ‘Golden-Horned Giant Beast’ will be even more powerful. Let’s wait until after the transformation before heading to the planet!”
“A month? Oh, fine,” Babata sounded somewhat helpless but still agreed.
“The universe?”
Luo Feng stood high above the wilderness, gazing at the vast landscape, his mind already drifting to the mysterious, boundless stars.
…
Within the Milky Way Galaxy’s well-known ‘Void Region’ in the cosmic starry expanse.
Whoosh!
A silver, disc-shaped spacecraft maintained an astonishing speed, steadily approaching Earth.
Inside the spacecraft.
A handsome middle-aged man in a silver-gray battle suit stood before the control panel. Beside him, a muscular, hulking crew member with black fur on his face, resembling a 2.2-meter-tall chimpanzee, looked worried: “Captain, now that your family’s fleet is also in the Void Region, what if… your family takes most of the profits, giving you only a small share?”
“Hmph.”
The handsome middle-aged man coldly replied, “Although my relationship with my grandfather is rather strained, he’s not that kind of person.”
“But this time it’s a life-bearing planet,” the chimpanzee-like crewman continued urgently. “You haven’t seen it yet—this planet’s value is beyond estimation. And this is a planet once dominated by an invincible powerhouse. Its value is definitely higher than that of an ordinary life planet. In the face of such massive profits, even blood brothers might turn on each other. Captain, you must be careful.”
The handsome middle-aged man looked at the chimpanzee-like crewman, then scanned the other crew members, a slight smile appearing: “Everyone, no matter what, our adventurer team’s interests will not be shortchanged. After all, you are the comrades who have shared life and death with me!”
The crew members all smiled.
“Once we arrive at the life planet, we’ll immediately begin sampling and gathering data. Just the sampling and data collection will take several days,” the handsome middle-aged man said. “At that time, I can immediately enter the ‘Virtual Universe Network’ to find buyers! My family won’t be faster than us.”
“Everything will be in our hands,” the handsome middle-aged man smiled. “The more benefits my family gives me, the more I’ll share with them. As for my brothers’ shares, they will definitely not be reduced!”
Immediately, a wave of cheerful laughter filled the room.
“Atuka, how much longer until we reach the first life planet?” the handsome middle-aged man asked.
A child’s avatar appeared on the control panel screen, answering in a crisp voice: “Captain, we’ll arrive in 91 days.”
“Excellent!”
The handsome middle-aged man smiled.
…
The silver-gray adventurer spacecraft continued its journey toward Earth!
…
Late September, on Earth in Huaxia Country’s Jiangnan Base City, at an altitude of 8,000 meters, a massive black spacecraft hovered.
Inside the spacecraft, in a wide, quiet chamber.
Luo Feng stood calmly in the chamber. With a wave of his hand, a small pile of deep red metal lay on the ground—exactly 92 tons of refined Xuan Iron metal.
“92 tons! I devour 92 tons of refined Xuan Iron every day. The refined Xuan Iron I obtained last winter is now almost exhausted,” Luo Feng felt the pressure. His innate world was like an endless abyss. Although it didn’t consume much each day, the daily devouring of refined Xuan Iron from the legacy of millions of miners…
In less than a year, it was nearly depleted.
“Today is the day of transformation.” Luo Feng extended his right hand. The surrounding space seemed to twist, enveloping the 92 tons of refined Xuan Iron.
Flash!
The refined Xuan Iron vanished.
…
On the Metal Continent, surrounded by vast golden mists, the upper sky also filled with golden mists.
A shadow in midair abruptly halted—it was a massive, black-scaled Golden-Horned Giant Beast. The Golden-Horned Giant Beast looked at the sudden appearance of the pile of refined Xuan Iron on the Metal Continent. Its enormous dark golden eyes showed a trace of joy.
“Hu hu~~”
The pile of refined Xuan Iron seemed to vaporize, transforming into dense golden mists. The volume slowly shrank, the surrounding golden mists growing thicker. About five minutes later, the 92 tons of refined Xuan Iron completely vanished.
“Boom boom~~~”
The Metal Continent trembled.
A sky-covering, earth-encompassing golden mist enveloped the entire continent, integrating into it. The golden mists rapidly solidified, becoming part of the continent itself, causing the continent to grow larger and larger.
Unknown how much time had passed.
Everything stopped!
The golden mists surrounding the Metal Continent drifted outward, flying beyond the continent, ascending to the high skies above! Only a cluster of golden mist merged into the Golden-Horned Giant Beast’s body. The beast’s physical volume also crackled as it rapidly increased, until finally stopping its growth. At this moment, its body length had reached 420 meters!
The entire Metal Continent now spanned 40 kilometers in diameter! Its height also reached 40 kilometers. Beyond the 40-kilometer-high sky, golden mists floated.
…
Inside the Heilong spacecraft’s quiet chamber.
“The Golden-Horned Giant Beast has already reached the fourth stage of Star Level.” Luo Feng opened his eyes, a trace of joy evident. “Although consuming refined Xuan Iron costs a fortune, the growth speed is fast!”
The growth of the inner world: the first three stages are the fastest. The middle three stages are more difficult. The last three stages are extremely difficult! The final ninth-stage breakthrough, entering a new level—this transformation takes as much time as all previous breakthroughs combined.
From the first to the third stage of Star Level, ordinary evolution takes one and a half years to complete.
From the third to the sixth stage of Star Level, ordinary evolution requires six years (about two years per level)!
From the sixth to the ninth stage of Star Level, it requires 36 years (about twelve years per level)!
And from the ninth stage of Star Level to the first stage of Cosmic Level, over fifty years!
One can imagine how difficult that final breakthrough is! This is still the Golden-Horned Giant Beast. If it were another race, the difficulty would be unimaginable.
…
In the evening.
Luo Feng sat in the living room, watching TV with his wife and son.
“Luo Feng, why aren’t you cultivating today? Actually taking time to watch TV with us?” Xu Xin smiled, cradling their younger son on her lap.
“Just spending some time with you. Tomorrow I’m going out on an errand. This trip might take a while,” Luo Feng replied.
“Going out on an errand? How long?” Xu Xin couldn’t help but ask.
“About a month,” Luo Feng said.
“A whole month?” Xu Xin was surprised. Nowadays, what could possibly take Luo Feng so long on Earth?
But Luo Feng clearly remembered what Babata had told him earlier.
Their destination this time was a prosperous, powerful planet—Qiulong Star—located 320,000 light-years from Earth! A super planet far more prosperous and bustling than even the capital planet of the Silver-Blue Empire by hundreds or thousands of times. A place teeming with powerful experts, a favored destination for the upper echelons of the universe. Such places… were actually less savage and bloody, relatively safe.
Of course, the premise was that you had wealth and status! Otherwise, you wouldn’t even have the qualification to enter.
“Qiulong Star!” Luo Feng mused in his heart.
“Luo Feng, going out for a month? Where to?” Xu Xin couldn’t help but ask again.
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