Chapter 1004
Luo Feng's World
Roar! Crash! The waves surged, blood-red tides reaching the sky. Luo Feng's entire inner world had completely transformed into a realm of blood-red sea. All the original landmasses had vanished, consumed and converted into 'World Energy'. Looking across the entire inner world... only a single landmass, a million kilometers in diameter, remained in the center of the boundless blood sea. At the core of this landmass was the 'Two Realms Abyss'. This Two Realms Abyss was where the Golden Horned Beast digested everything after performing its 'Devour' ability. At the very heart of the Two Realms Abyss lay a 'Golden Horned World Stone'. Apart from this island, the inner world, nearly a hundred million kilometers in diameter, had entirely become an endless blood sea. "Boom!" The blood-red waves parted. A colossal figure stepped out from the waves, clad in magnificent black armor with blood-red trim. It was precisely the Youhai Clone, formed through 'Creation', standing over nine thousand kilometers tall, its life gene level a thousand times that of a normal being. "This is troublesome now." The blood-red waves surged like fountains. The Youhai Clone stood atop the crest of a wave. Its gaze pierced through the entire inner world. "The inner world is completely obscured, except for the Two Realms Abyss," the Youhai Clone murmured. "But my blood sea clearly hasn't expanded to its limit yet. If the inner world expands further, I fear the core might not be able to bear the load. Wait... My core seems to have undergone a transformation." Most of Luo Feng's consciousness swiftly withdrew from the Youhai Clone and returned to his core. He began to carefully sense his 'core'. Indeed, after undergoing a strange alteration, the core appeared a hazy, chaotic color. And it bore the nearly hundred-million-kilometer-diameter inner world with no strain at all, feeling quite effortless. The larger the inner world, the greater the pressure on the core. Expanding the world by 'Devouring Metal' utilized the energy of metal to continuously strengthen the core, making it extremely powerful, and only then... could one possess an enormous inner world. "My core feels so relaxed, could the inner world expand even further?" Luo Feng's consciousness pondered. "Let's try it." Inside the inner world, above the boundless blood sea, piles of Cosmic Crystal mountains appeared out of thin air. A portion of one Cosmic Crystal mountain immediately melted, and a vast amount of World Energy spread out, beginning to integrate into the inner world. For some time now, the blood sea had been absorbing energy, while the inner world had, conversely, converted its continents, rivers, and other features into World Energy to feed it. After this boundless World Energy was absorbed by the 'inner world', it caused the inner world to devour desperately, like a starving child. Boom! Boom! Heaven and Earth trembled. Growing larger and larger... "It's expanding again, truly expanding again!" From atop the blood-red waves, the Blood Sea Clone let out a thunderous laugh that shook heaven and earth. "The inner world can indeed expand further, excellent! However, the best way to expand the inner world isn't with Cosmic Crystals, but with metal!" Devouring metal to expand the inner world. First, some of the purest metal essence, which the inner world couldn't absorb, would gather on the 'Golden Horned World Stone'. Second, the metal essence would also transform the core, making it stronger, naturally enabling it to bear a larger inner world. "Purchase metal alloy remnants!" The four peak races engaged in war almost every 1000 epochs. Each war produced massive amounts of metal alloy remnants. These alloy remnants could be reused if refined. However, the cost of refining was extremely high, making the value of these remnants very low. Regardless, if they were E-grade alloy remnants, even with low value, they were still E-grade. If the quantity was exceptionally large, the price would still be astonishing. "Start with 100 million mixed units." "Lord Luo Feng, the materials you require are below your free quota. This is free." 100 million mixed units, even if used to purchase intact E-grade spacecraft, would be enough to cover the sky if gathered together. Let alone merely purchasing old alloy remnants. It was even more cost-effective than using 'Cosmic Crystals' to expand the inner world. What's more... for Luo Feng, it was free! "Roar~~~" The Golden Horned Beast entered a World Ring. This was an enormous World Ring, a hundred million kilometers in diameter, filled with endless remnants. The Golden Horned Beast first used 'Original Body Heaven and Earth' to rapidly enlarge its body. Then it opened its mouth and unleashed its innate secret technique, 'Devour'... With its tens of thousands of kilometers long body, and a mouth as vast as an ocean, once 'Devour' was activated... the distorted space directly enveloped an area of nearly a hundred thousand kilometers around it. Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~~~ Countless metal remnants surged in frantically, being sucked inside. Like a bottomless pit, they were continuously drawn in. Meanwhile, within the inner world, countless metals were rapidly digested by the 'Two Realms Abyss'. Countless golden mists spread out, then were absorbed by the inner world. The inner world began to expand wildly! While devouring massive amounts of metal, a very faint trace of metal energy essence, left after the refinement of endless metals and unabsorbable by the inner world itself, was continuously absorbed by the 'Golden Horned World Stone'. What was strange was that during the expansion of the inner world, the core showed no changes at all. "Strange. Back when I devoured metal to expand my inner world, my core was constantly transforming, until it reached the ninth-tier of a Sector Lord. Could it be saturated?" Luo Feng couldn't help but wonder. When the original Youhai Clone's life level reached 10081 times, cultivating the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual was useless. Was it the same for the core? Having reached an extremely high level, had devouring metal become ineffective? "Never mind, let's just keep devouring metal. Although it makes the Golden Horned Beast work harder and get tired, it at least strengthens my Golden Horned World Stone." Luo Feng mused to himself, "Historically, even the more powerful Golden Horned Beasts typically had inner worlds only 100 million kilometers in diameter. The Golden Horned World Stone, accumulated with essence, from such a beast was already a precious material highly favored by Universe Venerables. And my Golden Horned World Stone..." Luo Feng didn't know if any other Golden Horned Beast had ever encountered such a fortune as his. To have a life gene level reach 10081 times... this already surpassed most unique special lifeforms. Luo Feng couldn't be certain he was the only one, but just by looking at the heaven-defying nature of the 'Nine Tribulations Secret Manual'... Luo Feng deduced that even if there were other Golden Horned Beasts as heaven-defying as him, they would likely have been meticulously cultivated by a Universe Supreme Being. Having even one such being would be remarkable. "Devour! Devour metal. I want to see just how strong my Golden Horned World Stone can become." The scale of alloy remnants Luo Feng required astonished the high-ranking officials responsible for the garbage starfields. Purchases were made by filling World Rings one after another and sending them over. Such a consumption rate... was rarely seen by them. "Not enough. Still not enough. My inner world has already expanded to a diameter of 10 billion kilometers, yet... it still hasn't reached its limit?" Luo Feng was utterly shocked. He hadn't expected his inner world to become so vast. "Send more alloy remnants." Luo Feng accepted all comers. "The larger the inner world, the more stable and powerful the God Kingdom formed in the future will be." Luo Feng grew increasingly expectant. "Just how far can my inner world expand?" Under normal circumstances, a World Ring with a diameter of 100 million kilometers would only consume a few mixed units of Cosmic Crystals. The reason for such cheapness... was that Sector Lords could resonate with the origin of the universe, drawing endless cosmic energy to form Cosmic Crystals. Because it was too easy and the quantity was vast, the price became low. A world with a diameter of 10 billion kilometers would consume only 1 million mixed units of Cosmic Crystals. A world with a diameter of 1 trillion kilometers would consume '1 trillion' mixed units of Cosmic Crystals. And because Luo Feng was using alloy remnants, the cost was even lower. Yet he had still used tens of billions of mixed units worth of alloy remnants... And these 'tens of billions of mixed units' were still within his free quota. In truth, Luo Feng himself didn't care about this amount of money; selling any single treasure could fetch 10 trillion mixed units. This process of devouring and expanding the inner world lasted for over three months. During these three months, the Golden Horned Beast rested only one hour each day, divided into six breaks of merely 10 minutes each. All other times were spent frantically unleashing 'Devour', with endless alloy remnants continuously being sucked in as if into a black hole. "A diameter of one trillion kilometers! Finally... it's reached its limit!" Atop the blood-red waves, the Demon Killer Clan Clone, the Golden Horned Beast Clone, and the Youhai Clone all gazed into the distance, each a little dumbfounded. This was outrageous! Truly outrageous! A Golden Horned Beast's inner world typically had a diameter of 100 million kilometers, but now it was a trillion kilometers in diameter! "What exactly happened to my core that it can bear such an enormous inner world?" Luo Feng was also deeply shaken. He understood that when his consciousness obtained the heaven-defying innate secret technique 'I Am the Universe', his core 'core' had also undergone a terrifying, earth-shattering evolution. "This is... the Golden Horned World Stone!" The Demon Killer Clan Clone, the Golden Horned Beast Clone, and the Youhai Clone all flew above the Two Realms Abyss, looking down. "Buzz~~" Streaks of golden light shot out from the depths of the Two Realms Abyss, causing ripples in space. Although the Golden Horned World Stone was hidden within the Two Realms Abyss, it naturally emitted a hazy golden glow. To form an inner world with a diameter of 1 trillion kilometers (approximately 1 trillion kilometers in length, width, and height), the amount of metal remnants consumed was incredible. The faint traces of metal energy essence extracted, continuously accumulating, also caused the Golden Horned World Stone to undergo a special transformation. "My Golden Horned World Stone can probably be called the strongest Golden Horned World Stone among all Golden Horned Beasts throughout the history of the universe," Luo Feng mused. "It's likely the only one this strong, with an extremely low probability of a second." "Generally, Golden Horned World Stones are precious materials used by Universe Venerables. My Golden Horned World Stone, a trillion times stronger and likely unique, I wonder how precious it truly is." Luo Feng had a feeling that the value of this Golden Horned World Stone... would be extraordinary, but limited by his current understanding, he couldn't yet discern its full worth. "The inner world has reached its limit! The Golden Horned World Stone has also reached its limit!" "Haha, an enormous inner world with a diameter of one trillion kilometers, a blood sea... let me see how far you can expand!" Luo Feng finally began a frenzied expansion, directly sending massive amounts of Cosmic Crystals, mountain after mountain, into his inner world, allowing the blood sea to expand to its heart's content.