Chapter 1176: A Thousand Years

“Big!”

“Big!”

“Big! Master, make me even bigger!” Sha Wu sent waves of messages to Luo Feng.

Luo Feng also gave it his all.

Originally, Sha Wu’s wings had been split into six pairs during a legendary battle countless eons ago, each pair suffering severe hidden damage. The topmost sixth pair, the ‘White Wings,’ had been sustained by the ‘Origin,’ so although they had been drifting aimlessly, their hidden damages had long been healed, leaving only three major injuries that required consuming numerous precious materials to recover. Fortunately, with the ‘Origin’ supporting them, they could still unleash immense power.

The other five pairs of wings, however, were in a terrible state. They had long since scattered, drifting aimlessly to unknown locations. Each suffered from hidden damage, causing a significant drop in their power. Without the ‘Origin’ as a core, they endured many perils during their drifting—like the Three Ultimate Death Zones and other deadly places capable of killing even the strongest beings in the universe and destroying peak treasures. Although these wings survived each calamity, their hidden damage only worsened.

Until today, Luo Feng finally obtained these two pairs of wings, allowing them to fully absorb the Origin’s energy and restore themselves.

“Stop! Stop!” the White Wings desperately tried to halt the process.

“Big! Bigger! Biggest!” Sha Wu kept urging Luo Feng.

As the Sha Wu Wings became increasingly perfect, growing larger became easier.

…

The larger the wings grew, the more blade-light they could absorb at once.

Four wings… towering infinitely!

Each spanned several light-years. The entire Sha Wu Wings could rival the massive Light Wings, which had already begun trembling as if on the verge of collapse. Massive amounts of blade-light flew toward the Sha Wu Wings, merging into them.

“Master, countless eons ago, my countless components suffered many hidden damages. But now, I’ve already recovered one-tenth of my full strength!” Sha Wu sounded very excited.

“One-tenth already? This has taken half a day!” Luo Feng was secretly astonished.

Indeed, restoring such an ultimate treasure was extremely demanding. Fortunately, there was the ‘Origin.’ Otherwise, relying solely on his own power, it would be impossible to restore them in a short time.

…

“You thief!”

“You robber! That’s my energy! Mine!” The White Wings, from initially trying to stop the process, had now completely turned to scolding.

“Come on! Come on! What are you going to do? Kill me if you can! Like I’m afraid of you!” Sha Wu taunted. “Besides, the energy belongs to all six pairs of wings. Am I wrong to use it for my own restoration? Are you trying to hoard it all for yourself?”

“I am both the wing and the Origin!” the White Wings roared in anger.

“Haha… You’re just a spirit, with no offensive power at all. I, however, have a master. Wait and see, I know all your secrets. My master will definitely claim you one day.” Sha Wu was triumphant.

“Impossible! Impossible! Your master wants to claim me? Never! I will find a new master first. I’ll make my new master kill your human master, then devour you.” The White Wings spat in hatred.

Their voices carried as waves.

Though both possessed intelligence, they weren’t true living beings and couldn’t fight. They were merely spirits born from different components of the same ultimate treasure. If one day the Sha Wu Wings and the White Wings truly merged, only one spirit could survive.

One of them must perish.

Thus, both spirits were determined to eliminate the other. Sha Wu was trying to help Luo Feng claim the White Wings. Initially, the White Wings simply considered Luo Feng unworthy and wanted to kill him, hoping to consume his treasures to repair itself.

Now that Sha Wu had been born, the White Wings was even less willing to help Luo Feng.

It understood perfectly well… that the human would naturally trust the newly born spirit more.

“You want to find a new master? Do you think a Cosmic Sovereign with the will of a peak Cosmic Overlord will just appear before you? Or even a Sovereign with an even more terrifying will?” Sha Wu laughed arrogantly. “Haha, your downfall is inevitable. You know you’re doomed, yet you can do nothing about it. You can’t even escape.”

That was the tragedy of a spirit.

It couldn’t control the treasure to move on its own.

“You… you… I will definitely find a new master, then devour you. You will die! You will die!” The White Wings spirit was nearly mad. It didn’t hate the human as much anymore—it hated Sha Wu even more.

Only one of them could survive.

…

Time passed.

“Restored three-tenths.”

“Restored four-tenths.”

“Master, I’ve restored half now.”

From time to time, Sha Wu excitedly informed Luo Feng. About thirty hours had passed when the Sha Wu Wings had restored ninety percent of their power.

“Nearly thirty hours, constantly absorbing massive amounts of blade-light, energy that was originally stored by the Origin after being transformed from the power of a being stronger than even the peak Cosmic Overlords.” Luo Feng marveled. Such energy was incredibly rare.

The towering Light Wings and the silver four-winged Sha Wu, each spanning several light-years, faced each other from afar.

Countless rays of blade-light from the Light Wings flew toward the silver wings. At first glance, the Light Wings seemed unaffected, but compared to thirty hours ago, the Light Wings had visibly shrunk. Their diameter had decreased by half a light-year. It was unimaginable how much blade-light had been lost.

“Cursed!”

“Cursed! I will devour you! I will!” The White Wings had run out of words, only able to curse now.

“Come on! Come on!” Sha Wu’s wings were triumphant.

“Master, I have fully recovered!” Suddenly, Sha Wu sent a message, causing Luo Feng to pause in surprise before his face lit up with joy.

Half a day.

It had taken half a day to absorb that high-level blade-light. Each ray of blade-light was stronger than the attack of a peak Cosmic Overlord. Only after absorbing it for half a day had the two pairs of wings fully recovered.

“Fully recovered? Even the power?” Luo Feng was hopeful.

“Yes, yes! I am completely intact now,” Sha Wu replied eagerly. “Of course, I’m only two of the six pairs of wings. Master can only use two secret techniques at most. However, these two pairs of wings have now reached their peak state. Even if someone had all six pairs, if they could only use the first and second techniques, their power would be no different than what Master can currently wield.”

Luo Feng suddenly paused.

“Sha Wu, you mean I can still only use two techniques at most? But the power has increased greatly?”

“Exactly, Master! Before, I had countless hidden damages. When your divine power activated the secret patterns, it was inefficient at every step, only able to unleash a fraction of my true power. Now, however, I can unleash one hundred percent of my full power!” Sha Wu explained.

Luo Feng immediately understood.

It was like a machine. When old and worn, it could only perform at ten to twenty percent of its original capacity. But when at its peak, it performed at its best.

…

“Do you still want to absorb the light?” Luo Feng asked.

“I can’t anymore,” Sha Wu replied helplessly. “Before, I had damage, so when I absorbed the light, it was automatically used to repair me. But now that I’m fully healed, even if I absorb the light, I can’t use it. It will just fly out of me again. There’s nowhere inside me to store the light.”

“Only the Origin can store the light, and only through the Origin can one control the light,” Sha Wu added.

Luo Feng sighed inwardly.

“It’s a pity Master couldn’t force the White Wings to bring out the Origin before. If the Origin had emerged separately, Master could have trapped it inside the Star Tower. Without the Origin, the White Wings outside would be powerless, and Master could easily absorb it into the Star Tower. Then, Master could gradually temper his will, waiting for the right moment to claim it.” Sha Wu sighed. “But now, Master has no way.”

Luo Feng nodded.

Indeed.

Before, he had spent so much time and effort with the White Wings, knowing full well it had set traps, yet he endured patiently… but the White Wings was always alert, never revealing its true core—the Origin.

“What do we do now?” Luo Feng asked, troubled.

“There’s nothing we can do. We can only leave it here,” Sha Wu said. “As long as the Origin remains, just like how the Star Tower was untouchable in the battlefield beyond the Domain, the White Wings will remain untouchable too.”

Luo Feng nodded.

Earlier, even when he used the Star Tower to ram into it, the White Wings didn’t even tremble.

“It’s just a spirit. It can’t control the White Wings to escape,” Sha Wu said. “Plus, claiming it is extremely difficult. I don’t believe that in such a short time, a Cosmic Sovereign with the will of a peak Cosmic Overlord would coincidentally discover it and survive long enough to reach the White Wings.”

“As for a Cosmic Sovereign possessing a will stronger than even the peak Cosmic Overlords, that’s even more impossible,” Sha Wu said confidently.

“Right, we can only leave it here for now,” Luo Feng agreed.

“But I’m not in a hurry to leave either.”

Inside the Star Tower, Luo Feng smiled as he looked at the distant White Wings. The endless, crushing will continued to assault him relentlessly. “This holy land for will tempering is exactly what I need. Though there are others in the Cosmic Sea, reaching them is extremely dangerous.”

…

The four silver wings extending from the four channels of the Star Tower quickly shrank and disappeared. The Star Tower itself also shrunk down to the size of a speck of dust.

In this silent space.

The White Wings and the Star Tower faced each other from afar, slowly drawing closer over time.

“Human, you will regret this,” the White Wings muttered, half-mad. But as a spirit, it could only watch helplessly as everything unfolded.

Year after year passed.

Luo Feng dedicated himself to honing his willpower. Occasionally, he would pause to study secret techniques, the Path of the Beast God… especially his Oceanic Clone, which traversed Earth and numerous other planets, gaining profound insights that further fortified Luo Feng’s will against the terrifying onslaughts.

In the blink of an eye, one thousand two hundred years had passed.

The White Wings and the Star Tower, slowly approaching for a long time, finally made contact for the first time. The dust-like Star Tower touched the White Wings—more precisely, it landed on a bloodstain on one of the White Wings’ feathers. The bloodstain was half a meter in diameter, exuding a terrifying, maddening aura.

“Finally made contact. Even the will and aura contained in just this bloodstain are this terrifying,” Luo Feng, sitting cross-legged, opened his eyes and saw the bloodstain right outside the Star Tower!