After leaving the Tawen Tribe, they had been flying at a speed nearly equal to light speed. Despite the advanced capabilities of the Yunmoxing No.1, it still easily recorded everything happening on the ground along the way, displaying it on the screen for Luo Feng, Dylan, and others to watch. This allowed them to gain a deeper understanding of this alien civilization.
On the 18th day of travel, they were about to arrive at the Holy City.
“We’ve been riding the spaceship all the way here and often saw battles and slaughters below. What’s going on?” Luo Feng, stepping out from the rest cabin, asked the elder Sifan Qi after watching some videos.
“In our Gold Horn Race, there is a clan rule. Once one reaches the Cosmic level, they must leave the tribe to wander and explore. They must undergo a thousand years of trials outside or reach the Domain Lord level before they can return to the tribe,” Elder Sifan Qi explained. “During their wandering, battles and slaughters are quite normal.”
“You don’t forbid it?” Luo Feng pressed.
“The population of our race isn’t large to begin with.”
“Why should we forbid it? A true champion must be forged through battle,” Elder Sifan Qi remarked coldly. “Besides, only by ascending to the status of an Immortal God can one truly become the cornerstone of our kind. Otherwise, mere mortals with such fleeting lives—those who fail to rise as champions—are of no consequence to the survival of our race.”
“Your Highness, look, ahead is the Holy City,” Elder Sifan Qi said.
The Yunmoxing No.1 also began to decelerate.
Luo Feng looked down from the observation deck and saw an incredibly majestic ancient city standing in the endless wilderness. The city had a diameter of about several hundred thousand kilometers. The most striking feature of the entire city was a pure golden statue over ten thousand kilometers tall. Even from the spaceship, Luo Feng could see it clearly.
The spaceship descended.
The hatch opened, and Luo Feng, Dylan, the five Domain Lords, Kashna, and Elder Sifan Qi all disembarked. Immediately after, Luo Feng recalled the spaceship.
“Do you see that statue?” Elder Sifan Qi gestured toward the tallest and most radiant pure gold effigy in the Holy City. “That is Hierodo! The mighty Hierodo! Every moment, countless warriors journey from across the realm of Lasao to kneel in reverence. The entire colossus stands 12,319 kilometers high. Even its feet alone tower 1,622 kilometers into the heavens.”
(Note: Adjusted “强者” to “warriors” for fantasy flavor while preserving the sense of elite fighters. Used “effigy” and “colossus” for stylistic variation in describing the statue. Converted numbers to digit format for consistency with fantasy worldbuilding conventions. Maintained the reverential tone through phrases like “mighty” and “kneel in reverence.”)
Luo Feng nodded, feeling a bit excited.
An existence worshipped by an entire race for countless years.
“Come, let’s go into the city,” Elder Sifan Qi smiled. “Your Highness should remember one thing: the Holy City holds a special status. Combined with the fact that countless prodigies from our entire Gold Horn Race gather here, it is the future of our race. Therefore… fighting is strictly forbidden within the Holy City. If one wishes to fight, they must go to the massive martial arena outside the Holy City.”
…
Luo Feng’s group also entered this bustling and ancient Holy City.
There were extremely many residents within the Holy City.
“Hierodo,” Luo Feng stood in the statue plaza, looking up at the tall, pure golden statue. It had a pair of eyes that seemed to contain the infinite universe. There was no trace of sharpness or ferocity, only a calm and serene expression. No matter how restless one’s heart was, all troubles and worries would vanish upon gazing at the statue.
“Although I haven’t seen the real Hierodo, just by looking at this statue, it’s no wonder he could lead an entire race to stand firm in the vast universe,” Luo Feng mused inwardly.
Just as Luo Feng was paying homage to this great pioneer of the Gold Horn Race, many Gold Horn Race members on the statue plaza were looking at Luo Feng and his group with confusion and astonishment.
“Look, those are humans.”
“They are humans.”
“I can even smell the scent of flesh and blood from them, and they don’t have life imprints either.”
The commotion was growing larger.
More and more Gold Horn Race members noticed Luo Feng and the few other humans. In the world of Lasao, it was still quite rare to see humans. However, in the ‘Holy City’ of Lasao, one could occasionally see some invited humans. Every human who came here was no ordinary figure.
“Hmm?” Luo Feng also noticed he was being surrounded.
“Let’s go,” Luo Feng ordered.
“Yes, Your Highness,” the group complied.
Suddenly—
“Human, you, a Domain Lord Ninth Stage, have come to our Gold Horn Race’s Holy City. You must be an extraordinary genius among humans. I… Kanuonle, challenge you!” A youth with dark golden skin and a dark golden long stick on his back, whose entire body seemed carved from metal, stared at Luo Feng and roared.
“Challenge?” Luo Feng looked at the youth.
The youth was also at the Domain Lord Ninth Stage.
“Your Highness, no need to pay attention,” Elder Sifan Qi beside Luo Feng quickly said. “Indeed, many humans have come to the Holy City before, including some extraordinary geniuses. There have even been battles between human geniuses and Gold Horn Race geniuses, some of which became legendary tales. Therefore, many young ones, upon seeing human geniuses, come to challenge them. However, as long as Your Highness ignores them, they won’t dare to persist.”
After Elder Sifan Qi finished speaking, invisible immortal laws and powers spread out.
This caused the surrounding Gold Horn Race members to hastily retreat in fear.
“Hmph!”
Elder Sifan Qi snorted coldly, and no one dared to block them again. He then smiled and said, “Let’s go. We are going to the Elder Divine Palace to pay respects to the Elder.”
Immediately, Luo Feng’s group left the statue plaza under the gazes of countless Gold Horn Race members.
“Human.”
“A human has come to the Holy City, and the leader is even a Domain Lord Ninth Stage.”
“He must be a human genius.”
“A human extraordinary genius has come to the Holy City.”
The news spread like wildfire throughout the entire Holy City. The Holy City gathered countless prodigies from the ten thousand tribes of the Gold Horn Race, each possessing a fighting spirit. Upon learning that an extraordinary human genius had arrived at the Holy City, a sense of racial pride made countless prodigies excitedly eager to challenge the human genius.
…
Luo Feng’s group had already arrived outside the Elder Divine Palace.
“This, this…”
Luo Feng stared wide-eyed at the distance.
“This is, how… impossible!” Upon arriving at the homeland of the Gold Horn Race—the world of Lasao—Luo Feng was shocked for the first time.
“Your Highness?” Elder Sifan Qi and Kashna were both taken aback, surprised that Luo Feng, who had always been relatively calm, would lose his composure like this.
In the distance, on the continuous high mountains, stood a majestic divine palace. The palace was entirely dark golden, about a thousand kilometers tall, and covered an area of nearly ten thousand kilometers in diameter. As for such a palace, with Luo Feng’s experience, he had seen many grander and more luxurious palaces, so he naturally wouldn’t be surprised.
However, protruding from the entrance of this majestic palace was a nearly one-kilometer-thick black star chain.
This black star chain, one kilometer thick and nearly ten thousand kilometers long, pierced directly into the flesh and bones of a peculiar giant beast, about 620 kilometers tall, resembling a gorilla with a blue-green body. The entire beast crouched there, like a majestic mountain, almost as tall as the palace itself.
“Sta, sta…” Luo Feng’s eyes widened, his heart trembling. “Star Sky Beast!!!”
For the first time!
Since he had taken over the body of the Gold Horn Beast, although he had seen much and experienced a lot, he had never seen another Star Sky Beast, not even a specimen or corpse, let alone a living one! This was the first time Luo Feng had seen another Star Sky Beast.
Yet, this Star Sky Beast was pierced through its body and bones by the black star chain, completely bound.
“Haha…” Elder Sifan Qi laughed. “Your Highness must be surprised by this Star Sky Beast. Haha, this Star Sky Beast is one of the twelve peak bloodlines of the Star Sky Beasts—the ‘Huisha Beast’—at the peak of the Domain Lord level. Although merely at the peak of the Domain Lord level, its true combat power is so formidable that even many ordinary Immortal Gods are no match for it. It is very terrifying.”
Luo Feng stared at the Star Sky Beast, which seemed to be bound like a pet, feeling the sorrow and sadness it exuded.
“How long has it been?” Luo Feng asked.
“What do you mean, how long?” Elder Sifan Qi was taken aback.
“How long has this Star Sky Beast been captured here?” Luo Feng said in a low voice.
“About twenty million years,” Elder Sifan Qi sighed. “The lifespan of Star Sky Beasts is long. Our Gold Horn Race and human Domain Lords have a lifespan limit of 1000 eras, but the lifespan limit of Star Sky Beasts is ten times that.”
“Why is it bound?” Luo Feng asked in a low voice.
Elder Sifan Qi also noticed that Luo Feng’s tone was a bit off. “This Star Sky Beast was captured by the Elder back then, but it refused to submit. What status and position does the Elder have? A Domain Lord-level Star Sky Beast is of no use to him. It was only because it was so rare that he captured it.”
“Yeah, the Elder is a Cosmic Sovereign, of course he doesn’t care about a Star Sky Beast,” Luo Feng said in a low voice.
“But this Star Sky Beast is very stubborn and refuses to submit. Back then, it often struggled and roared, and we could often hear its screams, as well as blood and broken fur flowing from its body during its struggles,” Elder Sifan Qi sighed. “But the land around here had already been transformed by the Elder, so it couldn’t destroy anything. And those chains… they directly bound its life core and body, so no matter how it struggled, it was useless. Over time… it gave up. But it has never lowered its head. The Elder once said… when it finally lowers its head, that’s when the chains will be removed.”
Luo Feng felt a chill in his heart as he listened.
Star Sky Beasts are proud.
Even the young Gold Horn Beast that he had taken over was extremely proud, looking down on humans and killing them as if they were livestock. Perhaps they were cruel, perhaps they were ruthless, but that was their nature, born that way! To make them submit, it was too difficult.
“Your Highness’s first time seeing a Star Sky Beast?” Elder Sifan Qi asked. “This Huisha Beast is extraordinary. A Domain Lord-level beast capable of defeating ordinary Immortal Gods. Shall I tell Your Highness more about its background?”
Luo Feng didn’t speak.
He knew far more than this Elder Sifan could ever imagine.
The Huisha Beast was one of the twelve peak bloodlines of the Star Sky Beasts, ranking alongside the Gold Horn Beast! However, it was not a devouring-type beast.
It belonged to the ‘Lightning, Time’ type of beast.
Born cunning and ferocious.
It possessed only one innate secret technique—Time Freeze!
Although this innate secret technique of ‘Time Freeze’ was only one, its power could be imagined.
With its cunning and ferocious nature and the innate secret technique of ‘Time Freeze’, the Huisha Beast’s combat power was extremely formidable, and its escape ability was also very strong. It could easily rival the Gold Horn Beast, Flame Star Beast, and others.
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