Around the iceberg stone forest, the herd of phantom beasts was divided into three groups.
The three groups were led by three supreme rulers of the Phantom Lizard, the Giant Humanoid Phantom, and the Flying Avian Phantom. Luo Feng, transformed into an ‘Ice Bear’ by the Mosha Clan, moved slowly and clumsily, just like the other phantom beasts. After about three and a half hours, he finally exited the range of the phantom herd.
“Phew!”
The Ice Bear Luo Feng secretly sighed in relief, glancing back. Within the vast expanse of icebergs and stone forests, numerous phantom beasts roamed.
“Finally out of the phantom beasts’ territory,” the Ice Bear Luo Feng relaxed slightly. The previously dull bear’s eyes now gleamed with a spark of intelligence, gazing ahead.
Beyond the path, the endless icebergs and stone forests still stretched.
Occasionally, a lost and clumsy phantom beast wandered alone.
“I can’t retreat anyway; the other end of the cave is guarded tightly by that Monarch. I can only keep moving forward!” The Ice Bear Luo Feng alternated between sprinting and strolling. Within moments, no other phantom beasts were visible in his field of vision. Before him lay only the endless icebergs and stone forests.
This iceberg stone forest seemed endless!
Luo Feng continued forward in the form of the Ice Bear.
“Roar!”
“Woosh!”
Mystic sounds fluctuated in strength, invading Luo Feng’s soul and bewitching his consciousness. Complete influence would turn him into a soulless puppet.
“This is troublesome.” The Ice Bear Luo Feng slowed his pace, silver eyes showing a hint of worry. “The deeper I go into this iceberg stone forest, the more terrifying these mystic sounds become.”
Hiss!
Silent mystic sounds invaded Luo Feng’s soul.
The Ice Bear Luo Feng’s body subtly trembled.
“The intensity of this mystic sound could probably control even a common Third-Stage Monarch directly.” Luo Feng inwardly marveled. Based on the islands of the Illusionary Sea and other sources, he could roughly estimate the willpower and consciousness levels corresponding to different strengths. In terms of willpower alone, he might rival an immortal.
However, his consciousness strength was weak, which is why he was stuck at the tenth island of the Illusionary Sea.
As for the mystic sounds…
They carried no consciousness pressure, only a form of illusion. Therefore, Luo Feng was better at resisting them, which is why he chose the Mystic Sound Mountain.
“Mi!”
An extremely eerie sound pierced Luo Feng’s soul, instantly conjuring countless illusions. Layer upon layer of illusions beckoned him to lose himself. Simply enduring these illusions might take countless years.
“Break!”
His willpower was pure to the extreme, uncompromising, completely rejecting all influence!
Whoosh!
The Ice Bear transformed into a black current. Endless black currents condensed into a humanoid form, finally becoming the ‘Black-Horned Youth,’ a human-like figure. This location was already more than ten thousand kilometers from where he first encountered the phantom herd. Since no phantom beasts had been seen for over 100,000 kilometers, it was safe to revert to his human form.
Switch!
Luo Feng reverted to his Earthling form. It was better not to reveal the Mosha Clan clone unless necessary.
Luo Feng glanced at a nearby rocky iceberg. “The mystic sound here just now might have overwhelmed even Sixth or Seventh-Stage Monarchs.”
“How strange,” Luo Feng frowned slightly. “I’ve been in the Mystic Sound Mountain for some time now. The mystic sounds in the cave were mostly very weak, even a Cosmic-Level warrior could resist them. Occasionally, I encountered ones capable of bewitching Cosmic-Level warriors, and very rarely ones that could bewitch Domain Lords. As for mystic sounds capable of bewitching Monarchs… they were extremely rare!”
Gazing ahead at the endless icebergs and stone forests.
Luo Feng’s frown deepened, increasingly sensing something strange. This stone forest… the mystic sounds were too terrifying. Judging from this situation, the deeper he went… the stronger the mystic sounds occasionally became. If this continued, the next one might be enough to bewitch even a peak Monarch! And beyond that…
Perhaps mystic sounds capable of bewitching ‘immortal deities.’
At that point, Luo Feng himself wasn’t confident he could withstand them.
“Keep going?” Luo Feng pondered.
“Go!”
Luo Feng clenched his teeth, his eyes gleaming. “I know my breaking point clearly. The current mystic sounds are still far from reaching my limit! I want to see… how powerful the ‘mystic sounds’ of this iceberg stone forest can become!”
Luo Feng continued forward!
…
As he advanced, the mystic sounds fluctuated in strength, but overall, their power was indeed increasing.
After walking about another 100,000 kilometers.
“The mystic sound just now was the most terrifying one I’ve encountered since entering the Mystic Sound Mountain. It should be able to bewitch even a normal peak Monarch,” Luo Feng gritted his teeth, eyes narrowing. His gaze seemed like a blade, almost materializing.
The eyes are the window to the soul.
Clearly, Luo Feng was now at his most alert, his willpower and consciousness fully concentrated!
“I’m still far from reaching my breaking point.”
Luo Feng continued forward, maintaining extreme vigilance, not daring to relax even slightly.
Yet, after walking only another 2,000 kilometers, he reached the end of the endless iceberg stone forest. Ahead appeared the familiar three wide cave passages.
“Cave passages?”
“The iceberg stone forest has come to an end?” Luo Feng smiled slightly, yet felt puzzled. “This iceberg stone forest is filled with powerful mystic sounds. Is there no other secret here?”
Luo Feng looked back at the endless iceberg stone forest stretching for tens of thousands of kilometers behind him, feeling something unusual must be hidden there.
“Let’s just pick one at random.”
Luo Feng directly approached the central wide and deep cave passage among the three ahead. This cave was nearly twenty kilometers wide and seven or eight kilometers high. Compared to it, Luo Feng was like a tiny speck. It was like an ant walking along a human’s wide corridor. When Luo Feng was about dozens of meters from the cave entrance, about to step inside.
“Rumble~~~”
Suddenly, an unimaginable and terrifying suction force emerged from the deep cave ahead. The surrounding space instantly formed visible vortex waves. Some rocks and ice layers on the ground were sucked off the surface, drawn into the deep cave. Luo Feng was completely caught off guard!
Whoosh!
His whole body was directly sucked into the vast and deep cave, as if swallowed by a giant mouth!
“What the hell is this?” Luo Feng’s eyes widened.
“Bang!”
Simultaneously with the suction, a silent mystic sound directly pierced Luo Feng’s consciousness, like a giant gong suddenly struck. Almost instantly, he felt his willpower and consciousness were like a small boat caught in a stormy sea, wave after wave crashing down, the boat seemingly about to capsize at any moment.
Whoosh!
Due to the mystic sound interference, Luo Feng was on the verge of collapse, unable to focus on anything else. He was sucked in helplessly…
Puh! Puh! Puh! Puh!
Suddenly, thick, deep red vines shot out from Luo Feng’s arms. Numerous massive vines either directly pierced into the rocky ice layers on the ground, with countless small vine leaves embedding into the surface, while more main vines extended rapidly like lightning, grabbing onto the cave entrance!
The cave was nearly twenty kilometers wide.
Yet the Mo Yun Vine, at the peak of the Domain Lord Ninth Stage, had main vines far longer than this distance. It was like a giant octopus with many arms, desperately clinging to the cave’s edges.
The power of plant life was truly extraordinary.
“Rumble~~~” The terrifying suction force, despite the Mo Yun Vine’s resistance, began snapping the main vines one by one.
Snap! Snap! Snap!
They broke forcefully! The ice layers penetrated by the small vine leaves were stripped off directly!
“My goodness!”
The mystic sound came quickly and vanished just as fast.
Luo Feng instantly regained clarity, seeing the main vines of the Mo Yun Vine snapping one by one. Immediately, he mentally shouted: “Switch!”
Whoosh!
The Earthling form instantly transformed into the Mosha Clan clone. The Mosha Clan clone had already changed into a shuttle about 30 centimeters long and 6 centimeters wide (widest part). The shuttle was pointed at both ends, round in the middle, and slippery in appearance.
Because the shuttle’s volume was much smaller than a human’s normal size, combined with its structural form, the suction force it experienced was hundreds of times weaker than before.
“Whoosh!”
The Mosha Clan clone, favored by space, finally resisted the suction force calmly when it was only a fraction of what it had been before, quickly flying out of the cave.
…
When the Mosha Clan clone ‘shuttle’ was over a hundred meters away from the cave, the terrifying suction force vanished instantly.
Splash!
The shuttle transformed into black currents, then condensed back into a humanoid form.
Luo Feng stared at the central deep cave among the three ahead, recalling the previous scene, his heart filled with dread.
“The mystic sound I just encountered was so intense that even I could barely resist it. A normal peak Monarch definitely couldn’t have withstood it. And that suction force… Only after the Mosha Clan clone transformed and utilized its mastery of spatial laws did I finally escape,” Luo Feng looked at the cave entrance ahead, his heart filled with fear.
If he had been sucked in, what would have happened?
Unknown!
“Luofeng!” Babata’s voice finally sounded at this moment. “This is a classic death trap found in cosmic secret realms.”
“What kind of death trap?” Luo Feng immediately asked in his mind.
“In the vast universe, the most mysterious and unpredictable things are these cosmic secret realms. These cosmic secret realms were formed during the early stages of the primordial universe’s evolution due to special changes, creating one cosmic secret realm after another. No two cosmic secret realms are exactly the same, and their danger levels vary!”
“The forms of danger also differ!”
“Some dangers are overt, although terrifying, at least you can see them coming.”
“But some dangers are sudden, seemingly safe, yet crisis strikes unexpectedly. Just like the cave entrance you just entered without caution, the Mystic Sound Mountain has millions of cave passages, most of which are safe. But suddenly, you were attacked by a suction force and mystic sound! I dare say… there are even more terrifying dangers deep within this cave.” Babata said, “Such sudden, unannounced crises are called death traps.”
“Who knows how many immortal beings!”
“How many brilliant geniuses!”
“How many mighty and great existences have perished in these death traps!” Babata said.
Luo Feng was stunned.
He suddenly recalled what his teacher, Zhenyan, had once told him about an extraordinary genius who, at the peak of the Monarch stage, could kill a Marquis-level immortal. Yet this genius ultimately perished in a cosmic secret realm.
“Although the Taichu Secret Realm has been controlled by the Virtual Universe Company, there are still a few special areas even the Virtual Universe Company cannot fully control,” Babata continued. “Places like the Xue Luo World and the depths of this Mystic Mountain are like this! You must be careful. I once accompanied your teacher and witnessed too many such situations, too many powerful beings dying in these traps. These death traps… some contain treasures, some are true dead ends!”
Luo Feng nodded quickly.
Then he turned to look at the other two deep cave passages on the left and right.
“Going back is impossible; the Monarch guards that way!”
“Moving forward, among the three caves ahead, the central one is not an option. How should I proceed?”
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