In the abyssal darkness of the ocean, countless sea creatures gathered in solemn reverence, their gazes fixed upon the distant Devourer Beast seated in profound meditation. The Devourer’s dark golden eyes gradually closed, as though slipping into slumber.
Yet, under the invisible pressure of an unseen presence, the entire region remained eerily silent.
With its colossal eyes slowly shutting, Luo Feng felt himself utterly engulfed by a torrent of memories. These mystical and extraordinary secret arts were flawlessly tailored for the Golden-Horned Behemoth—vast, profound, and infinite. Vivid images and arcane scripts cascaded into his mind like an endlessly looping film, submerging his consciousness in an inexhaustible tide of esoteric wisdom.
Endless!
Luo Feng faintly felt a headache forming, clearly indicating that the influx of memories had reached the limit his soul could endure.
“How much knowledge is this?” Luo Feng couldn’t believe it. “This has been going on for over an hour already.”
One hour, two hours, three hours!
The memories cascaded like an endless tide of churning seawater, ceaseless and inexorable. One after another, visions flickered past, merging seamlessly into Luo Feng’s very soul. He scarcely had time to grasp fragments—diagrams of the Golden Horned Beast’s cultivation techniques—before being engulfed by the next torrential wave.
Half a day!
One day! Two days! Three days!
The Golden-Horned Beast, a terrifying cosmic entity, lay motionless upon the ocean floor, as if plunged into profound slumber.
…
Sixteen days later!
In the abyssal depths of the ocean, amidst the murky seabed, the pitch-black Golden-Horned Behemoth lay motionless. At last, its dark golden eyes snapped open, radiating an instinctive aura of frost and bloodlust—a primal birthright.
“Phew, thank heavens,” Luo Feng finally felt a sense of relief.
During the sixteen days of memory integration, his soul had been pushed to its absolute limit. Under such pressure, even thinking clearly had become exhausting.
“This… how much knowledge is there?” Luo Feng marveled.
“Luofeng! Luofeng!” an excited voice echoed in Luo Feng’s consciousness.
“Barbara,” Luo Feng called out.
“Did you fully receive the inheritance memory? That’s amazing! With your current soul capacity, you could absorb information at an incredible rate every second. Over sixteen days, how much data must you have received!” Barbara was clearly thrilled. “Quick, check what kind of knowledge you’ve gained! What powerful secret techniques?”
“I’ll check it out first,” Luo Feng said, equally curious.
Though he had transformed into a Golden-Horned Beast, he remained oblivious to its true potential.
“Barbara, there’s a problem,” Luo Feng said with a hint of helplessness as he began to examine the inherited memories.
“What’s wrong?” Barbara quickly asked.
“These memories linger within my mind, yet I must delve into each one with meticulous study. How long shall this journey take?” The legacy memories were a sacred conduit of knowledge, woven from one Golden-Horned Beast to its successor. Yet to truly command this arcane wisdom, he would need to immerse himself in its depths and unravel its mysteries through relentless study.
“That’s normal!” Barbara replied. “The reason this inheritance memory is so vast is because it contains many secret techniques, each of which may consist of countless words. For example, the《Soul Seal》technique—if it were printed into books, it could easily fill hundreds of volumes, each with millions of Chinese characters.”
“Luofeng,” Barbara continued excitedly, “you should now organize all the inheritance memories. You don’t need to read every detail of the secret techniques—just note their names and general functions. Categorize them. It should be quick. You know, in the universe, powerful beings from various races would pay enormous wealth just to obtain a single secret technique. And here you are, complaining about having too much knowledge!”
Luo Feng chuckled. “Alright, I’ll organize it.”
He began categorizing the knowledge.
The Golden Horned Beast’s cultivation knowledge encompassed 18 unique secret techniques and 3,199 general techniques.
There were also introductions to other cosmic beasts, various humanoid races, and professions such as Controllers, Illusionists, Beast Tamers, Puppeteers, Hunters, and Martial Artists. Among the flesh-and-blood beings, aside from humans and cosmic beasts, there existed the Yao Tribe, the Insectoid Hive, and countless others—each described in vivid, sprawling detail.
In addition to flesh-based races,
There were also metallic races like the Mechanus, lithic races, spectral races, and verdant races…
Moreover, there were extremely rare races, as powerful as cosmic beasts but far fewer in number…
…
The descriptions of human races and cultures alone would require tens of billions of Chinese characters to fully document.
And the human race was just one of the many peak races in the vast universe.
…
Another month and three days passed before Luo Feng finally completed the categorization and organization of the inherited memories. In the future, if he needed any specific knowledge, he could quickly locate it within this vast repository. As for actually learning it?
Heaven forbid!
No Golden Horned Beast could possibly master it all. Even just the 18 supreme techniques and 3,199 common techniques would require countless eons to fully comprehend.
“Luofeng, you’ve struck gold! You’ve struck gold!! Heaven above, you have so much knowledge?” Barbara, upon learning how many categories Luo Feng had sorted, was completely stunned. “So the universe really has this many races? And there are even rare races that rival cosmic beasts?”
“No wonder cosmic beasts are so powerful,” Barbara marveled. “Even your teacher, with a lifespan of over 60 million years, could never have gathered as much knowledge as you.”
“It’s incomparable,” Barbara murmured in awe. “The ancestral memories passed down through generations of cosmic beasts… Even among human civilizations, only an empire like the Qianwu Cosmic Nation could rival the depth of knowledge possessed by a cosmic beast. That’s truly extraordinary.”
Under the vast expanse of the Qianwu Cosmic Nation’s starry sky, where celestial bodies danced in eternal harmony, the ancient bloodline of the Luo family pulsed with ancestral memories older than the constellations themselves. Their legacy whispered through the void like stardust carried upon solar winds, each generation inheriting fragments of cosmic wisdom from progenitors who had walked among quasars.
After Luo Feng completed the sorting, he too was deeply impressed.
The nobility of bloodline manifested in many ways.
Natural talent was one aspect—the hardware. But this depth of knowledge was the software!
“Barbara, among cosmic beasts, only the top twelve bloodlines can carry such vast memories across generations,” Luo Feng explained.
“Twelve bloodlines?” Barbara asked in surprise.
“Yes,” affirmed Luo Feng. “Among cosmic beasts, only twelve bloodlines possess the ability to reach the World Lord level immediately upon maturation. The Yanxingiant you once described is one of those twelve elite bloodlines!” Having processed the information, Luo Feng now fully comprehended. “These twelve bloodlines carry the most profound and extensive inherited memories, with each generation even contributing their own experiences to the legacy.”
Now Luo Feng clearly understood how the Golden Horned Beast passed down its legacy.
To reproduce, a Golden-Horned Beast would expend nearly all its life force to form an egg, which it would then expel. The original Golden-Horned Beast would perish within a few years. Once the egg hatched, a newborn Golden-Horned Beast would emerge, beginning anew the eternal cycle.
“Wow, Luo Feng, hurry up and check—how long until you reach the World Lord level?” Barbara pressed urgently.
“I’ll check.”
Luo Feng skimmed through the information, reading it in a few seconds, and couldn’t help but be astonished.
“If a Golden-Horned Beast hatches and doesn’t consume its eggshell but instead feeds on ordinary metals, it takes ten years to reach the Stellar Lord’s first stage. However, if it eats the eggshell first and then consumes large amounts of ordinary metals, it can reach that stage in just one year,” Luo Feng explained.
“One year? The little one you took over is only one year old?” Barbara was speechless.
Luo Feng sighed.
The Devourer Beast that nearly caused Earth’s apocalypse was just a one-year-old Golden-Horned Beast infant?
“Under normal evolution speed, it takes 100 years to progress from Stellar Lord first stage to Cosmic Lord first stage.”
“From Cosmic Lord first stage to Domain Lord first stage, 1,000 years.”
“From Domain Lord first stage to World Lord, 10,000 years,” Luo Feng stated directly. “This is the slowest pace. If certain special methods are used, the evolution speed can be accelerated. Using specific metal combinations can promote faster growth of the internal world, allowing for quicker power enhancement!”
“Heaven-sent blessing!” Barbara exclaimed. “Your teacher prepared meticulously, with the best training plan possible, and even then, it would still take over 100,000 years for you to possibly reach World Lord!”
“Without your teacher’s meticulous guidance and the countless treasures and resources poured into your cultivation, you’d be fortunate to reach the Cosmic Lord level in your entire lifetime. But now… under normal evolutionary progression, it takes merely 10,000 years?” Barbara, who had previously known little about the Golden-Horned Behemoth, now understood it firsthand.
“It won’t take that long. That’s the slowest speed,” Luo Feng replied. “If you have unlimited resources to accelerate the growth of your internal world, the time can be shortened several times, even more so.”
“But among the 18 supreme arts and 3,199 common techniques, I can’t decide which to master,” murmured Luo Feng. “These sacred disciplines have been inherited across generations of Golden Horned Beasts, exclusive to their bloodline. The ancestral memories warn—greed breeds mediocrity. I must heed the decree: no more than two supreme arts, nor exceeding six common techniques. The fewer, the purer the path!”
“Oh?” Barbara asked eagerly. “Tell me the general effects and cultivation conditions of the 18 special techniques and 3,199 general techniques, and I’ll help you choose the best combination.”
When it came to selection, Luo Feng naturally couldn’t match Barbara’s capabilities.
“Alright.”
Luo Feng began transmitting the general effects and cultivation conditions of the techniques to Barbara. As for the techniques themselves? There were far too many. Even with mental transmission, it might take years.
Eight hours later.
The general introductions of the 18 special techniques and 3,199 general techniques were all transmitted to Barbara, who began rapidly analyzing and selecting the best combinations using its intelligence.
“Luofeng, the Golden-Horned Beast must possess innate secret techniques, right? I’ve witnessed it suddenly accelerate and such,” Barbara remarked. “Share with me these innate secret techniques so I can devise the most optimal pairing.”
“Innate secret techniques? Wait a moment.”
From the memories, Luo Feng discovered that the Golden Horned Beast possessed three innate secret techniques. As for the details—once the soul entered the ‘inner world,’ it would naturally comprehend them in their entirety.
Innate secret techniques required no study—they could be used instinctively.
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