Though he was in the Ancient God’s Ruins, Luo Feng appeared very relaxed.
This was because the core was inside the Mosha Clan clone’s body, and even the intelligent lifeform Babata and other important items were taken away by the Mosha Clan clone. Thus, the Earthling main body staying here had no real concerns.
“Even if I’m killed, it’s just a matter of consuming more energy from the ‘Inner World’ to recover,” Luo Feng closed his eyes, connecting his consciousness to the virtual universe network through an intelligent computer within the space ring. “Besides, I have a lesson on the ‘Principle of Gold’ coming up. I can’t miss it.”
…
In a quiet and vast city located trillions of kilometers away,
Inside a secret training room on the third floor of a pavilion within the city lord’s mansion, a man dressed in battle armor was lying on the ground, while the Black-clothed Luo Feng stood beside him.
“With these two Blood-Net Crystals, I now have exactly 100 Blood-Net Crystals collected since leaving the Ancient God’s Ruins,” the Black-clothed Luo Feng waved his hand, erasing all traces of the corpse, and then silently left into the night sky, soaring into the void beyond the Blood-Net Continent aboard the Mechanical Clan spaceship.
…
Inside the control room of the Mechanical Clan spaceship.
Black-clothed Luo Feng sat on a sofa, smiling lightly, “Simulate external scenery at 100%.”
Instantly, the surroundings changed, presenting an incredibly beautiful and dreamlike view of the void, with the cloud layers of the Blood-Net Continent below.
“Luo Feng, you fused 30 Blood-Net Crystals each time in the last two instances. How many do you plan to fuse today?” A glow gathered beside him, forming Babata’s energy figure, the little demon smiling gleefully at Luo Feng.
“Planning to fuse 25!” said the Black-clothed Luo Feng.
“Oh… In the Ancient God’s Ruins, the Golden-Horned Giant Beast fused 15. Previously, each time was 30. Now the Golden-Horned Giant Beast has fused a total of 75 Blood-Net Crystals. Adding the 25 you’re going to fuse today, it will make exactly 100,” the little demon Babata chuckled wickedly. “Can you endure that intense pain?”
Black-clothed Luo Feng furrowed his brows.
Pain?
Yes.
Back then, when fusing the tenth Blood-Net Crystal, the Golden-Horned Giant Beast was in so much pain that it uncontrollably charged around wildly, and the other two clones also felt excruciating pain, a pain that made the soul tremble.
When fusing the eleventh Blood-Net Crystal, the pain was far less severe than when fusing the tenth.
However, the more crystals were fused, the more the pain increased gradually. When the 72nd Blood-Net Crystal was fused, the pain was comparable to the terrifying sensation felt when fusing the tenth. Last time, Luo Feng forced himself to fuse up to the 75th, but he was nearly unconscious.
“Today, we’re going to fuse from the 76th to the 100th. Each time, the pain will likely be more than before,” the little demon warned. “If you can’t take it, better split it over several days.”
“No problem!”
The Black-clothed Luo Feng’s eyes were sharp. “If I can’t even endure this pain, how can I become immortal?”
“This isn’t just a little pain. If your will wasn’t strong, you’d have been scattered into oblivion long ago,” Babata warned.
“I haven’t heard of anyone being scattered into oblivion from fusing Blood-Net Crystals,” the Black-clothed Luo Feng said softly. “If you can’t bear it, you’ll just faint directly, and the fusion of the Blood-Net Crystal will stop. There’s no danger. Besides, Babata, I have a feeling that when I fuse a hundred Blood-Net Crystals… a miracle will happen.”
The Black-clothed Luo Feng’s eyes gleamed with anticipation: “Begin!”
Flash!
Inside the Mechanical Clan spaceship, only a core remained floating, while the Black-clothed Luo Feng entered his Inner World.
…
Inner World.
The Golden-Horned Beast, resembling a black mountain, slowly rose, while the Black-clothed Luo Feng suddenly appeared.
Whoosh, a right hoof claw, as if a heavenly pillar, slowly extended forward, placed before the Black-clothed Luo Feng.
“76th!” The Black-clothed Luo Feng flipped his hand and took out a triangular prism-shaped blood-red crystal, placing it on the palm scales of the hoof claw. As the sharp claw slashed across the scales, the fusion of the 76th Blood-Net Crystal began…
“Ahh!”
The Black-clothed Luo Feng clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and stood there, his body subtly trembling.
“Wu!!!” The Golden-Horned Beast painfully soared into the sky, its scale-covered wings, as vast as two enormous clouds, flapping wildly. It flew frantically over the vast metallic continent, crashing into one metallic mountain after another, wildly releasing the excruciating pain, only stopping after a long while.
“Huff.”
“It’s okay. It feels a bit better than the last time I fused 30 crystals in a row. It seems my willpower has improved a bit through training,” the Black-clothed Luo Feng sighed inwardly, loosening his tightly clenched fists.
The descending Golden-Horned Beast raised its right hoof, simultaneously activating that mysterious force. Instantly, the right hoof transformed from pure black to a light golden hue. A black Golden-Horned Beast with golden-threaded armor, mostly black in color, even its four horns appeared golden at first glance due to the dense golden inscriptions covering them.
In reality, it was a mixture of gold and black.
Only the right hoof was entirely light golden, brimming with infinite power! Moreover, this light golden right hoof was adorned with very intricate and dazzling inscriptions, whose complexity was almost on par with the golden inscriptions covering the entire body of the Golden-Horned Beast.
However, even an ordinary person would notice that these blood-red, complex, and arcane inscriptions seemed somewhat incomplete.
Not the complete inscriptions.
“Judging from the number of inscriptions, it feels like fusing around the 100th should complete the inscriptions,” the Black-clothed Luo Feng stared at the blood-red inscriptions on the giant right hoof.
When three crystals were fused, the blood-red inscriptions were simple yet complete.
When ten crystals were fused, the blood-red inscriptions were more complex, yet still complete and unified.
Now the Golden-Horned Beast’s right hoof had fused 76…
“Continue with the 77th!” the Black-clothed Luo Feng placed another Blood-Net Crystal on the palm of the right hoof.
…
The 78th, 79th, 80th…
Each subsequent transformation of the right hoof, especially towards the end, made the Golden-Horned Beast, the direct recipient of the transformation, wish for death. Yet, the deep-rooted pride and unshakable willpower compelled Luo Feng to endure time and again.
Painful!
Damn it, it’s so painful!
…
The 86th, 87th, 88th…
…
In the Ancient God’s Ruins, within the training room of the Giant Pit Mansion.
Luo Feng, clad in bronze battle armor, knelt in the training room, his ten fingers like hooks digging fiercely into the rocky ground, tearing out chunks of stone powder, clenching his teeth tightly, his gums making a crunching sound, his face completely flushed, veins bulging, sweat continuously pouring from his body, soaking the ground.
“Crunch, crunch, crack! Crack! Pain! Spit!” Luo Feng spat hard, spitting out broken teeth.
“I… damn!!”
“Pain.”
“Real pain.”
Luo Feng’s whole body was trembling, sweat flowing out through the gaps in his armor, his skin seemingly steamed and cooked. That unprecedented pain in his soul was fully acting on his body.
“Huff!”
“Huff!” Luo Feng suddenly collapsed, his whole body seemingly paralyzed, panting heavily, gasping for breath.
“Heaven, finally made it through.”
“It feels like I’ve died a thousand or ten thousand times. The 100% simulation in the virtual universe network, even the pain of death was simulated. But the pain of death is not even a fraction of this pain,” Luo Feng lay there, his Earthling main body alone was in such pain, what would the Golden-Horned Beast, the direct recipient of the right hoof, be feeling?
It should be known that this pain was the Golden-Horned Beast’s body acting on the soul.
The pain felt by the Golden-Horned Beast was the most intense…
“This is only the 90th, how will I endure the rest?” Luo Feng couldn’t imagine it. The pain he had endured so far was already the worst pain he had ever experienced in his life, so intense that his consciousness nearly collapsed and fainted as a self-defense mechanism.
Collapsing into unconsciousness was an instinctive self-protection.
However, Luo Feng was well aware that once he fainted, it meant the fusion of this Blood-Net Crystal had failed.
…
In the control room of the Mechanical Clan spaceship, trillions of kilometers away in the distant void, the crystalline core was spinning in mid-air.
Inner World.
“91st!” Black-clothed Luo Feng took a deep breath, placing another Blood-Net Crystal on the palm of the Golden-Horned Beast’s right hoof. The massive Golden-Horned Beast, its dark golden eyes larger than a lake, looked down at the Blood-Net Crystal, its eyes also showing a hint of trepidation. Truly… it was too, too painful.
Hiss!
The sharp claw scraped across, blood flowed, and the fusion of the 91st Blood-Net Crystal began again.
“Kill!”
“Kill, kill!”
An incredibly fierce killing intent surged like a tide, overwhelming Luo Feng’s will. Each Blood-Net Crystal fusion added another layer of this killing intent, and by the time the 91st Blood-Net Crystal was fused… this killing intent was no less than eight times the killing intent from the previous vortex of malevolence.
In fact, it might even surpass it!
“My heart is like a mirror, don’t try to sway me, get out!” Luo Feng’s will roared, furiously resisting, desperately holding on time and again, finally managing to push back that killing intent.
“At last, I’ve withstood this killing intent.”
In fact, by now, not only was the excruciating pain from the hoof transformation almost unbearable, but even the killing intent… was becoming too much for Luo Feng to handle.
However.
Resisting the killing intent was different from resisting the pain from body transformation.
Resisting the killing intent was either a success or a failure. There was no pain involved, no suffering!
But the pain was continuous, wave after wave… until the right hoof was completely transformed, that terrible pain would finally end.
“Damn, here it comes again!”
The Black-clothed Luo Feng’s body trembled, directly kneeling on the ground, his hands plunging into the metallic floor, gritting his teeth and desperately holding on.
“Aaaahhh!!!” The Golden-Horned Beast roared in agony, wildly venting its frustration.
…
The 91st, under the nightmare-like sensation of repeatedly facing near-death, finally passed.
“92nd!”
To succeed, one must be ruthless to oneself!
Luo Feng continued to have the Golden-Horned Beast clone fuse the 92nd Blood-Net Crystal. The killing intent from the 92nd Blood-Net Crystal was… simply unbearable. Luo Feng desperately focused his will, making it extremely concentrated, persistently holding on, feeling his will was about to collapse.
Finally, that terrifying killing intent receded.
But immediately followed by a continuous and even more intense pain…
…
“I have this feeling,” the Black-clothed Luo Feng picked up the 93rd Blood-Net Crystal, murmuring, “that fusing up to the 100th will be extremely difficult.”
“Continue!”
The moment the 93rd Blood-Net Crystal touched the wound on the Golden-Horned Beast’s right hoof, the killing intent surged toward Luo Feng’s will, more violent, crazier, and fiercer than before. The killing intent was endless, each wave stronger than the last. Luo Feng barely managed to resist wave after wave.
“Boom!” Luo Feng felt a dizziness in his consciousness, and then, all three clones fell into a coma.
After breaking through Luo Feng’s resistance, the killing intent quickly retreated back into the Blood-Net Crystal.
The fusion of the 93rd Blood-Net Crystal failed!
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