On a life-filled planet within the territory of humanity,
An old man with green skin and a hunchback, possessing antennae, stood in an alley of a bustling city, facing a despondent young human.
“My boy, you’re so young, so full of vitality, with boundless prospects ahead. Why are you so dispirited and lacking in fighting spirit?” the old man with green skin and a hunchback rasped.
The despondent youth sat on the ground leaning against a wall, his eyes filled with sorrow. He shook his head and said, “There’s no hope, no hope at all. I’ve tried so hard, but they are too powerful. Though they aren’t the strongest in this city, they are beyond what a lowly commoner like me can resist. They keep toying with me, mocking me. The only reason they haven’t killed me is because they see me as their plaything!”
“Life is full of miracles,” the green-skinned hunchbacked elder said hoarsely. “Nothing is ever unchanging. The universe is mysterious and unpredictable; anything can happen.”
“Is that so?” the despondent youth glanced at the green-skinned elder and then lowered his head to drink again.
“Yes, anything is possible.”
The green-skinned elder smiled and nodded.
The despondent youth was momentarily stunned, sitting there blankly holding the bottle.
The old man’s smile grew broader. Within just five seconds, the despondent youth suddenly awoke.
His eyes became sharp, his aura completely transformed. He scanned the surroundings warily, but upon seeing the ordinary alley and the hunchbacked elder before him, he was momentarily stunned, his expression filled with disbelief: “I… I… How did I return to one hundred thousand years ago? I was already a Realm Lord! How could I come back… This must be an illusion. No illusion could be this real. But… but…”
“My child,” the hunchbacked elder spoke.
“You, you are…” the despondent youth stared at the hunchbacked elder. “Are you the old man who guided me back then?”
“Back then, wasn’t it just now?” the hunchbacked elder smiled, and then vanished into thin air.
The despondent youth remained stunned for a long time.
“Domain!” the despondent youth looked around. He sensed his surroundings, and though his mental energy was very weak, under the guidance of a Realm Lord’s will, a faint flame domain formed instantly.
“It’s real, everything is real. What happened to me was real. My entire journey of cultivation to becoming a Realm Lord was real? But, how did I return to the most painful time of my life back then? Time travel to the past? No—” the despondent youth was clearly different from before; he now had the heart of a mighty warrior.
“Even if time flows backward, it cannot traverse into the past. That means I experienced an illusion. But, what kind of illusion could let me live one hundred thousand years within it? And become a Realm Lord? And even comprehend parts of the laws of existence?” The despondent youth’s eyes widened in terror as he looked around frantically, shouting, “Senior, Senior, Senior…”
Yet there was no response.
The despondent youth shook his head. “What a pity, I missed a great opportunity! If I could have followed that senior, becoming an immortal would have been effortless. It’s just too incredible… However, I have already gained much from this experience. Hmph… Those bastards, I killed you in the illusion, now I’ll make you despair once again!” With that, the despondent youth left the alley.
“Hehehe…”
The hunchbacked elder with antennae still stood in place, watching the youth leave, chuckling.
Throughout everything, the hunchbacked elder hadn’t moved at all. He simply allowed the youth to see him when he wanted, and made himself invisible when he didn’t.
“Buzz~~~”
A powerful will pierced through endless space-time and suddenly descended upon this planet, upon this alley.
The surrounding space slightly twisted.
An oval-shaped black orb appeared in the alley, speaking: “Stone, you are known as the Demon God! Even the Overlords of the Universe fear you. Yet you find time to help that young fellow.”
“If I want to kill, I kill. If I want to save, I save. If I feel like bestowing grace, I do so! If that young fellow had knelt in the alley, begging me to see him… I would have killed him outright.” The hunchbacked elder turned his head toward the black orb. “Machine, this is human territory. Why have you descended your will here to find me?”
“I have a task,” the oval-shaped black orb hovered midair, its surrounding space unstable and its form hazy. “I ask you to kill a young fellow.”
“Is he very strong?” the hunchbacked elder asked.
“HUMAN LUO FENG!” the black orb declared.
“Luo Feng?” the hunchbacked elder nodded. “I know this young fellow. Since returning from the Cosmic Sea, news of him has spread widely. No wonder you came. Your Mechanical Race, along with the Insect Race and the Demon Race, probably all want him dead. Tell me, where is he now?”
“The Ancestral God Sect, the Crape Myrtle Island!” the black orb responded.
“The Ancestral God Sect!!!”
The hunchbacked elder, who had been calm before, was now visibly agitated, his eyes flashing with black light. “Machine, I don’t care about the giant axe. I can help you kill that young man. But he is in the core area of the Ancestral God Sect… You want me to break into the heartland of the Ancestral God Sect and kill their heir. I’ve heard the Ancestral God Sect even bestowed treasures upon him; they clearly value Luo Feng greatly.”
“You once helped me once before. This time, consider it repaid,” the distant black orb spoke.
“I owe you one.”
The hunchbacked elder rasped, “Fine, I’ll do it. Give me the details on him.”
“He possesses the power of a peak-level Cosmic Overlord. His divine body is speculated to be on par with rare special lifeforms. Additionally, he has the ability of a talent clone. Simply destroying one of his divine bodies is futile. You must penetrate his soul… causing all his divine bodies to perish. Or control his soul! Though controlling the soul is obviously far more challenging.” The black orb stated. “Stone, you are the strongest in the Illusion Stream! If you can’t accomplish this, no powerhouse in the Original Universe will be able to.”
“Fine, I’ll set off immediately. I know you’re impatient.” The hunchbacked elder said.
“Then I’ll await your good news.” The black orb replied.
Whoosh!
Both vanished one after the other, the surrounding space-time slightly vibrating before returning to normal. The ordinary humans in this city had not noticed anything at all.
…
Outside the Ancestral Divine Secret Realm, in the void near the Aurora Lake of Five Colors.
An alien lifeform, entirely black, stood in the void, enveloped by swirling black mist that shrouded its body. Only a pair of dark, shadowy eyes could be faintly discerned.
“HUMAN LUO FENG?”
“He must be quite something to have one of the strongest beings in the universe request another of equal might to kill him. You should be proud.”
…
On the Crape Myrtle Island.
Luo Feng’s residence was designed in the style of a Jiangnan garden, featuring small bridges over flowing streams, pavilions, and terraces. Seated at a table in one of the pavilions, Luo Feng sipped fine wine while contemplating the “Path of the Beast God.” He genuinely relished this peaceful life of cultivation, though he was acutely aware that his current sense of security within the Ancestral God Sect was merely an illusion.
The longer time dragged on, the more anxious the Insect Race, the Demon Race, and the Machine Race would become. After all, watching him grow stronger before their very eyes, how could those three peak races possibly endure it?
They would certainly attempt something.
And with his ability to create talent clones, if they merely attacked and destroyed one of his clones physically, it wouldn’t achieve their goal. Therefore, any attack would have to come from the soul—either soul infiltration that would completely destroy him, just like how the Master of the Inkstone Star had perished, or soul control.
Since his Earth-originated main body was openly present, Luo Feng naturally dared not be careless.
He always carried the soul treasure ‘Tower Pearl,’ and wore the peak treasure ‘Calamity Armor,’ which also had the ability to weaken soul attacks. Most importantly, unlike other fragile soul treasures that might shatter under powerful soul attacks, the Tower Pearl was a control core of the Star Tower and a token of ownership. Even an attack from a peerless treasure wouldn’t break it, though its defensive power was only at the level of an ordinary treasure, it was absolutely reliable.
“Tower Pearl, Calamity Armor, plus my own will and consciousness as a Cosmic Overlord,” Luo Feng murmured to himself.
His mighty divine form and boundless divine power endowed him with an overwhelming consciousness! (Cosmic Overlord level)
Repeated trials, transformations through life-and-death inheritances, and one hundred and eighty million years of secluded cultivation had also elevated his will to the level of a Cosmic Overlord!
With these advantages,
Luo Feng naturally felt much more confident!
“Hmm?” Luo Feng, who had been sitting there contemplating the Path of the Beast God while holding his wine cup, suddenly looked up at the sky. He faintly sensed something amiss.
As he looked up!
Just beneath the Aurora Lake of Five Colors high in the sky, a figure surrounded by endless black mist had just appeared. The swirling mist obscured the figure, making it impossible to see clearly, but faintly, a pair of eyes could be discerned. What a pair of eyes! The moment Luo Feng saw them, he felt a shiver run through his soul. Something was very wrong!
That instinctive tremor from his soul… instantly told Luo Feng that this sense of helplessness was something he had only felt before when facing beings like the Star-King Ancestor or Sitting Mountain Ke.
“A Cosmic Overlord!” Luo Feng realized immediately.
Whoosh!
An invisible attack descended!
Boom!!! Boom!!! Boom!!! Boom!!! Boom!!! Boom!!!
Suddenly, a massive rift appeared a hundred meters above Luo Feng!
No, it wasn’t a rift.
It was a collision between two realms of space-time!
It turned out that the space-time surrounding the figure cloaked in black mist had been completely controlled. The cosmic laws governing that space had receded, and everything within that realm was entirely under the control of the figure in the black mist. Meanwhile, the space-time below was also controlled. With one above and one below, the two realms of space-time collided a hundred meters above Luo Feng.
It was even more terrifying than the collision of entire planets!
The two invisible realms of space-time clashed, and the two mighty wills controlling their respective realms caused fractures to intermittently appear.
“What!” Luo Feng was stunned. After all, his strength far exceeded that of a top-tier Cosmic Overlord, rivaling even the Cosmic Sovereigns. His will and consciousness were also extremely strong, so he instantly determined that there was another Cosmic Overlord present within the lower space-time!
“Two Cosmic Overlords?”
“Fighting each other?” Luo Feng was dumbfounded.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh~~~~
The Aurora Lake of Five Colors at the zenith of the heavens erupted with unprecedented ferocity! This marked the first time Luo Feng had ever witnessed such violent turbulence in the Aurora Lake. The boundless, multicolored celestial lake seemed to collapse instantaneously—**BOOM!**—as endless auroras cascaded downward, surging toward the shadowy figure enveloped in black mist below.
*(Note: The onomatopoeic “轰隆隆” is rendered as “BOOM!” to convey the thunderous collapse, while maintaining the dramatic impact. The translation preserves the original’s grandeur and urgency, with adjustments for natural English flow.)*
Yet the figure in the black mist remained motionless. Instead, it bellowed in rage: “Ancestral God, are you attempting to hinder me?”
“Xu Zhen Demon God, this is the territory of our Ancestral God Sect!” a deep and mighty voice resounded.
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