Swish, swish~~ The murderous aura was as thick as fresh blood. A massive vortex of killing intent exuded an ancient and eternal aura, a presence that naturally stirred the soul.
“Come, my child.”
“Come forth!”
“Come to me!”
“Indulge in slaughter! For slaughter is a beautiful, endless delight…” An invisible temptation accompanied the bloodthirsty call. The powerful will of slaughter struck Luo Feng’s mind like a rolling war chariot, again and again. As Luo Feng’s will wavered, the intangible temptation surged once more.
Clad in bronze battle armor, Luo Feng gradually approached the vortex’s core within the swirling maelstrom of bloodthirsty energy, resisting with gritted teeth.
“What is mine, shall be mine!”
“I will slaughter, I shall kill! All foreign wills shall be shattered!”
“Shatter them all!”
Luo Feng’s will was terrifyingly firm. He repelled each assault and temptation, remaining completely unscathed by the corruption. As he drew closer to the vortex’s core, the will to kill and the temptation intensified. Luo Feng, flying toward the sun-like red sphere, grew even more cautious.
Fifty meters, forty meters, thirty meters, twenty meters, ten meters…
The red sphere loomed before him.
It was the core of this vast vortex of killing intent.
“Boom, boom~~” An ancient, invisible aura spread outward, making Luo Feng feel like an ant facing a celestial dragon.
“Even if I am an ant, I shall slay the dragon.”
In an instant, Luo Feng banished the instinctive reverence rising in his heart and stepped forward, entering the dazzling red sphere radiating crimson light. The entire vortex calmed, and the bronze-clad figure vanished.
…
Inside the vortex’s core—the crimson sphere.
Luo Feng slowly flew forward, sensing the killing intent gradually weakening. “It was strongest near the surface of the sphere. Now, within it, the killing intent weakens.”
He drifted forward at a pace slower than an ordinary man’s walk. After flying about thirty meters, all he could see was a dense crimson haze.
Puh!
Luo Feng pierced through the outer layer of the red sphere and beheld the scene before him.
“Ong, Mo, Da…”
A voice pierced directly into his soul, echoing in his consciousness. Ancient, chaotic notes without rhythm, each one brimming with supreme, infinite, and ancient power. Luo Feng stared in shock at the sight before him—the interior of the red sphere was hollow.
No trace of crimson murderous aura remained.
Instead, massive golden runes, as thick as a man’s arm, coiled and twisted within the space. Twelve in total, each hundreds to nearly a thousand meters long, they intertwined and spiraled, exuding a powerful, awe-inspiring presence.
Moreover, the twelve colossal golden runes emitted golden rays, enveloping the entire area.
The golden light flowed slowly, transforming the surroundings into a sacred realm.
Within this flowing golden light, three images continuously emerged and faded—a monstrous beast, similar to a giant lizard, raised its horned head toward the sky. A colossal hand descended from the heavens, reaching for the beast. The ancient creature lunged forward, its long tail vanishing in an instant, only to reappear and strike the giant hand with blinding speed.
Three images…
These were the same ancient images Luo Feng had seen before. Yet now, deep within the vortex’s core, the images naturally formed by the twelve golden runes were far clearer!
Each image appeared and vanished intermittently.
Like drifting paper on water, the three images rotated endlessly, sometimes sinking beneath the surface, sometimes rising again, continuously replaying…
“Krrr!”
“Ong!”
Ancient, primal, and seemingly mindless beastly roars echoed faintly in Luo Feng’s ears, as if crossing through eons of time.
“Heaven…” Luo Feng’s eyes widened.
“Law runes! These are law runes!”
Never before had Luo Feng seen law runes so clearly. Whether in Chaos City or on psychic weapons, the runes were always tiny and simple. But these twelve massive runes, thick as a man’s arm, each bore countless tiny inscriptions, finer than a needle’s point, entwined within.
“This is a spatial law rune!”
“A fragment of the spatial law rune.” Luo Feng’s eyes burned with excitement. He turned his gaze to the three ancient images that kept appearing and vanishing. Unlike the previous blurry versions, these were crystal clear. Even the ancient beast’s intent during its attack was conveyed vividly through the images, allowing Luo Feng to feel it clearly.
“I’ll memorize these images first, then study the law runes.”
Luo Feng fixed his gaze on the image of the ‘Sky-Rending Claw’ from the three ancient images. With a mind as sharp as a photonic computer, he began memorizing every detail, recording a video of it—simple enough. But what Luo Feng truly needed was to grasp the underlying intent—the profound and mysterious aura it carried—for future cultivation.
He had studied the Sky-Rending Claw for nearly eighty years, already possessing a clear mental image of it.
Now, he refined his past memories by comparing them with the original. Luo Feng was well aware—he had yet to become immortal, and his understanding of the Sky-Rending Claw was still far inferior to that of the ancient beast. Pride would only hinder him, so he remained humble and learned.
…
As he devoted himself entirely to memorizing the Sky-Rending Claw, Luo Feng failed to notice the profound changes occurring in every cell of his body under the golden light. Unlike the slow, subtle transformations caused by the murderous aura, these changes were accelerated a hundredfold, even a thousandfold.
Yet Luo Feng was too engrossed in memorizing the Sky-Rending Claw to care. Even if his body were to be destroyed, it was a trivial matter compared to this.
…
It took a long time to fully memorize the Sky-Rending Claw. When Luo Feng closed his eyes and clearly visualized the ancient image of the Sky-Rending Claw, he finally sighed inwardly, “My comprehension isn’t high enough. This is the limit of what I can memorize. I can’t capture the deeper intent or aura any further.”
Then, he turned his gaze to the other two ancient images.
Compared to the Sky-Rending Claw, which had consumed 80% of his effort, the other two techniques required less attention and yielded less understanding. Soon, he could memorize no more.
In his mind…
The three images were etched deeply. The Sky-Rending Claw exuded the most ancient and profound aura, while the other two bore a faint, distant echo of that ancient might, though noticeably shallower. Luo Feng simply couldn’t memorize them more deeply.
“Alright, I’ve memorized them all.” A trace of excitement flickered across Luo Feng’s face. “Humans can’t learn from these ancient images directly. But for the Golden-Horned Giant Beast, they are invaluable. Once the beast comprehends them, its understanding of the laws will improve, which in turn enhances my own.”
With his three clones mutually reinforcing each other, progress would be swift.
“Wait, my body?” Luo Feng’s attention finally returned to himself.
Every cell in his body was surging with transformation.
“Such changes… they’re exactly like those caused by the murderous aura, but accelerated a thousandfold!” Luo Feng’s eyes widened in surprise, then gleamed with delight. “A single day here equals years of progress outside!”
Luo Feng was ecstatic.
He floated silently in midair, observing the twelve colossal golden runes. Though seemingly simple, these runes were far more complex and profound than the runes demonstrated by Zhenyan Wang during his public lectures in Chaos City. After staring for a long time, Luo Feng still felt utterly lost.
“It feels like spatial law… yet there’s a hint of the essence of metal. But upon closer inspection, it’s nothing like either.” Luo Feng was deeply puzzled.
When his teacher, Zhenyan Wang, demonstrated hundreds or even thousands of runes, Luo Feng could usually grasp much of their meaning, at least partially.
But now…
He understood absolutely nothing.
“Could the pinnacle of complexity be simplicity itself?” Luo Feng suddenly had an epiphany after observing the massive golden runes for two days. “It seems my current level of law comprehension is far beneath the mysteries contained in these runes. Just like when I first saw the seventh to ninth images of the Nine-Heaven Chaos Stele—I couldn’t understand them at all. These golden runes… I can’t understand them either.”
No matter how precious a book may be, it is useless to an illiterate.
The golden runes, brimming with infinite mysteries, were of no use to Luo Feng either. He couldn’t even memorize the faint aura they exuded, only managing to retain their basic images through sheer mental effort, like a camera capturing a photo.
…
Time passed day by day.
Even within the vortex’s core, under the golden light, Luo Feng’s body transformation gradually slowed, eventually coming to a halt. He realized he had reached his physical limit.
“If only my Earthling body could match the Golden-Horned Giant Beast’s monstrous potential. Without even needing the murderous aura, it’s already fused with ninety-seven Blood-Net Crystals.” Luo Feng mused.
Ninety-seven…
That was his achievement over the past eighty years.
In these eighty years, whether in law comprehension or mental cultivation, he had made astonishing progress, allowing him to reach the core of this vortex. During this time, the Golden-Horned Giant Beast’s right hoof had also improved occasionally, and now had fused a total of ninety-seven Blood-Net Crystals.
After a long while, the transformation deep within Luo Feng’s body finally ceased.
“I’ve reached my limit.” He thought to himself. “I’ve been in the vortex’s core for nearly thirty days. Out there, it would have taken at least a hundred years for my body to reach saturation.”
“I wonder… can I now fuse the third Blood-Net Crystal?”
“Alright, I’ll return to my dwelling to try.”
He cast one last glance at the twelve massive golden runes suspended in midair, then turned and shot straight into the crimson light layer, swiftly flying toward the vortex’s outer edge.
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