There are two paths—one easy and one difficult.
Which one to choose?
Inside the tower, Luo Feng stood motionless with his eyes closed before the Holy Stele, yet a faint smile appeared on his face.
“My heart is like a mirror, clearly seeing through all illusions. My heart is like a blade, cutting through all obstacles.” Without hesitation, Luo Feng made his decision calmly. “If I don’t even have the courage to break through to Immortality as the Peak Golden-Horned Beast, how can I speak of becoming a supreme being in the universe? How can I dream of becoming a true high-ranking figure among humanity?”
“I believe I can do it!”
“I certainly will.”
Luo Feng whispered silently.
As a disciple who had received guidance from Thunder God and Hong in the cultivation of the heart, he placed even greater emphasis on inner strength.
If a person lacks the courage to challenge hardships, they are destined to achieve nothing. However, if one faces truly insurmountable challenges with full confidence and bravery, they will strive forward, continuously surpassing their limits and drawing closer to their goal. Even if they eventually fail, their achievements will still be extraordinarily great.
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Thus, Luo Feng naturally chose the second path—the method of consuming vast quantities of metal to strengthen his Inner World. In fact, he had already purchased the required metal combinations for the Monarch stage long ago… This clearly shows that deep within, Luo Feng had already made precise plans for his future.
“In the past, I was just an ordinary martial artist on Earth. Did anyone imagine I would become a Lord of the Milky Way?”
“When I entered the cosmos as Earth’s strongest warrior, did anyone foresee that I would rank among the top ten geniuses in the 1008 Cosmic Kingdoms of humanity during the Genius War?”
“Did anyone believe I would qualify for the Primordial Secret Realm in my first attempt?”
“And now, many believe I have the potential to become an Earl or even a King-level Immortal. But how many dare to imagine that I will one day reach the level of a Venerable, a being of cosmic greatness?” Luo Feng murmured silently, his eyes shining ever more brightly.
True strength lies in having unshakable belief.
First, one must dare to dream, then strive with effort—it is only then that success becomes possible. If one cannot even dare to set such a goal in their heart, how can they ever succeed?
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Inside the Inner World.
Across the vast Inner World, on a great grassland of the central continent, stood a starry beast resembling a continuous black mountain. Beside the beast stood another Luo Feng—an obsidian-skinned Mosha Clan clone.
“Golden-Horned Beast, breakthrough to the Monarch stage!”
“Mosha Clan clone, breakthrough to the Monarch stage!”
As his consciousness surged, the countless Cosmic Crystals that had previously formed a towering Cosmic Crystal Mountain shattered, transforming into a mighty torrent of World Power. Like two mighty rivers, one stream flowed into the Golden-Horned Beast, while the other surged into the Mosha Clan Luo Feng.
However, the two torrents differed greatly—one was about ten meters wide, while the other stretched over ten kilometers across!
“Crack! Crack! Crack!” The Golden-Horned Beast’s body emitted various sounds. After cultivating the mysterious scripture, its already powerful body began to transform. It devoured massive amounts of World Power, causing its body to gradually grow larger, its scales tighter, and even a faint transparent layer appeared on the surface of its scales.
A fifth horn began to grow from the Golden-Horned Beast’s forehead, while the other four horns lengthened.
“Boom! Boom!” Beside it, the Mosha Clan clone completely transformed into a black current of energy. The current grew denser and denser, revealing at its core a brilliant gemstone radiating spatial laws.
Boom!
Boom!
The ten-kilometer-wide torrent of World Power and the ten-meter-wide torrent simultaneously ceased.
The Golden-Horned Beast’s body had now reached an astonishing 100 kilometers in length. Once its scales and wings unfurled, it could easily shroud any super metropolis on Earth, circling the planet in the blink of an eye. For such a mighty being, planets were far too small. Their true domain was the starry cosmos.
“Whoosh!” The swirling black energy suddenly solidified, transforming directly into Luo Feng clad in black.
The Monarch-stage Golden-Horned Beast and the Monarch-stage Mosha Luo Feng now stood side by side on the grassland.
“Roar!”
The Golden-Horned Beast raised its head, letting out a triumphant cry that echoed across the boundless world, proclaiming its arrival at the Monarch stage.
“Hahaha!”
The Mosha Luo Feng laughed heartily as well.
“Reaching the Monarch stage really is different,” the Mosha Luo Feng said joyfully. “The Mosha Clan clone already had a spatial law affinity amplified by dozens of times. Now that I’ve reached the Monarch stage, which is the fastest stage for cultivation, combined with the Mosha Clan’s amplification… it’s just… incredible…”
It was said that the Monarch stage was the fastest for cultivation.
The Monarch stage was a period of explosive power growth, unmatched even by Immortal-stage cultivators. This was why many powerful cultivators preferred to remain at the Monarch stage longer rather than rushing toward Immortality.
Take for example the Time Monarch Luo—if he had stayed at the Monarch stage for so long, now nearing the end of his lifespan, advancing to the Immortal stage had become perilous.
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Inside the vast Holy Stele Tower, standing before the towering Holy Stele, Luo Feng finally opened his eyes after a long silence.
“Mm.”
“I’ve broken through to the Monarch stage and gained the Two-World Abyss. In the future, using the innate secret art ‘Devour,’ I’ll be far safer than before.” Luo Feng mused. “Both the Golden-Horned Beast and the Mosha Clan clone have reached the first stage of the Monarch. The leap from Domain Lord to Monarch has indeed brought an incredible increase in power.”
“I don’t need to rush into cultivating the ‘Ten Thousand Hearts Soul Control Art’ yet. I’ll wait until I finish studying the Holy Stele for a month. I can’t waste this month.”
Though it seemed slow, in reality, the breakthrough within his Inner World—the Golden-Horned Beast and the Mosha Clan clone’s ascension—had taken less than half a day.
Luo Feng then focused his attention on the pale green crystal Holy Stele before him.
On the towering Holy Stele was a massive image of a roaring demon, with two curved horns, feathered wings, and eyes like flames. At first glance, it appeared to be just an ordinary demonic roar. But upon closer inspection, one would notice… every feather on the demon’s wings, every flame encircling its eyes, every strand of hair, every pattern on the curved horns, and every rune on the armor…
All were unfathomably profound.
“Boom!”
A portion of Luo Feng’s consciousness immersed itself into the demon’s roaring image, while the majority of his awareness—the consciousness of the Golden-Horned Beast and the Mosha Clan clone—instantly resonated through World Power, instantly entering the Origin of the Universe.
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The mysterious Origin of the Universe.
The core of the Primordial Universe—no one knew when it had come into existence, but it was known that only at the Monarch stage could one’s consciousness enter this place for the first time.
“It really feels amazing.” The majority of Luo Feng’s consciousness was instantly drawn into a single grain of sand by the endless land, with an unprecedented clarity in sensing the fundamental vibrations of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, light, space, and time—each and every one perceptible.
The essence of the laws was hidden within this mysterious Origin of the Universe!
When one’s consciousness entered the Origin of the Universe, it was as close as one could get to the source of the laws themselves. Because of this closeness, the perception became the clearest. Even the elements like wood, water, fire, and earth, which had previously been completely incomprehensible, were now as clear in perception as the metal law had been at the Domain Lord stage.
Of course—
If the clarity of perceiving wood, water, fire, etc., was rated at 100, then the clarity of metal law perception was about 10,000, and the clarity of spatial law perception was a staggering 200,000!
“Can the cultivation speed at the Monarch stage not be fast?”
“The perception of the laws has become hundreds of times easier!”
“Many things that were impossible to grasp at the Cosmic or Domain Lord stages can now be cultivated to the point of earning ‘Primordial Law Recognition’ after reaching the Monarch stage.” Luo Feng marveled. “The Monarch stage is truly a privileged realm.”
World Power is a special kind of creative force.
Monarchs used World Power to create their own worlds. And the endless land of the Origin of the Universe… was in fact an infinite reservoir of World Power! Within every grain of sand lay boundless Cosmic Crystals. It was precisely because of the uniqueness of World Power that consciousness could enter the Origin of the Universe.
Once one reaches Immortality!
The energy level changes again, gaining the far more powerful Immortal Power, but one can no longer fuse their consciousness with the land.
Greater power does not always mean better—what matters is suitability.
Having World Power means having the opportunity to perceive all kinds of laws! Once one steps into Immortality, countless cultivators who spend millions or even billions of years still fail to comprehend spatial laws. One reason is that spatial laws become increasingly difficult the further one progresses—eventually reaching an extreme of difficulty. The second reason is that the cultivation at the Immortal level lacks the luxury available to those at the Monarch stage.
At the Monarch stage…
Some rare prodigies could, within just tens of thousands of years, achieve a level of law perception equal to that of a King-level Immortal.
Yet an ordinary Immortal cultivator, even through continuous breakthroughs, would never reach King-level in a hundred million years!
That was the advantage!
The advantage of the Monarch stage! And precisely because of this, many ambitious cultivators were unwilling to ascend to Immortality too quickly. They wished to further comprehend the laws at the Monarch stage, so that once they did ascend to Immortality, they would possess an extremely solid foundation—immediately becoming Earl-level… or even King-level Immortals.
Take the super-genius Kedi, for example. He was already capable of defeating Earl-level Immortals while still at the Monarch stage. Had he survived and ascended to Immortality, upon reaching that stage, he would have instantly become a King-level Immortal!
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Inside the Inner World.
The Mosha Luo Feng sat cross-legged, his life crystal’s intricate spatial runes pulsing, amplifying the Mosha Clan clone’s perception of spatial fluctuations by dozens of times.
“Blood-Net Power!” The Golden-Horned Beast also activated the Blood-Net Power in its right hoof. The hoof rapidly transformed, and a blood-red beast god’s head emerged in a roaring image, boosting the Golden-Horned Beast’s clarity in sensing the metal law by tenfold!
Previously, the clarity of metal law was 10,000, and spatial law was 200,000.
But now—
The clarity of metal law had risen to 100,000, and spatial law was estimated to be over 200,000—far surpassing the clarity of wood, water, fire, lightning, light, and time laws.
“It’s so wonderful.”
“While studying the Holy Stele’s Roaring Demon image, I can simultaneously compare and study space and metal laws. This speed is just…” Luo Feng felt that each day spent studying before the Holy Stele was equivalent to a hundred years of cultivation at the Domain Lord stage. Of course, this was mainly because the Monarch stage had increased his cultivation speed by hundreds of times compared to the Domain Lord stage.
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