Armament

The Ancestral God Sect was about to publicly bestow treasures, so Luo Feng naturally stayed obediently on Purple Thorn Island, awaiting that day.

Inside Luo Feng's mansion on Purple Thorn Island.

“The Thunder King himself is descending to bestow treasures upon you?” Zhenyan shot up, his eyes wide. “This, this, you’re not joking, are you?”

“Master, how could I joke about something like this?” Luo Feng said. “The Thunder King will descend very soon.”

Zhenyan King stroked the fur on his face, pacing back and forth in the hall, frowning in deep thought, muttering, “If one of the Eight Great Beast Gods is personally descending with such fanfare, it must be at least a supreme treasure! But that doesn’t seem right. Even though the Ancestral God Sect is the universe’s foremost power, they wouldn’t just casually hand out a supreme treasure.”

“You are different from the Bug-Slaying King,” Zhenyan King shook his head.

“Different?” Luo Feng was startled. The strength he displayed was comparable to the Bug-Slaying King’s. The Bug-Slaying King was an outer member, and so was he. What was different?

“The Bug-Slaying King is a special lifeform,” Zhenyan King said solemnly. “He isn’t affiliated with any other power; he belongs entirely to the Ancestral God Sect! You, however, are different. You are first and foremost a member of the Hong Alliance, and only then an outer member of the Ancestral God Sect. For example, the Howling Mirror King was absorbed into the Northern Territory Alliance... so the Ancestral God Sect didn’t bestow even a single supreme treasure upon him.”

Luo Feng suddenly understood.

“The Ancestral God Sect is the universe’s foremost power, and while they claim not to contend, their favor towards super-experts from other powers still diminishes.”

“The Howling Mirror King’s primary allegiance is to the Northern Territory Alliance.”

“Your primary allegiance is to the Hong Alliance, to the human race.”

“The Bug-Slaying King hasn’t joined any other power; his primary allegiance is to the Ancestral God Sect!” Zhenyan King looked at Luo Feng. “I’ve collected data on many heaven-defying inheritors and found that only those who are completely loyal to the Ancestral God Sect receive the best treatment. If they have a background with other powers... while they might still receive blessings, they will be far inferior.”

Luo Feng nodded.

That makes sense.

“When faced with a choice between the Ancestral God Sect and the human race, you would undoubtedly choose the human race first,” Zhenyan King said. “So, even if the Ancestral God Sect bestows treasures upon you, even if they try to win you over, they shouldn’t give too much. However, this time, the Thunder King himself is descending, and with such grandeur... if the treasure bestowed upon you is merely a heavy treasure, it would be an insult to the Eight Great Beast Gods! Therefore, it must be a supreme treasure.”

“That’s why I’m so puzzled,” Zhenyan King frowned.

Luo Feng nodded as he listened.

He would undoubtedly choose the human race first! Regarding the Ancestral God Sect... his loyalty was indeed not high. Even if the Ancestral God Sect was making such a grand display to bestow treasures upon him this time, it would only make him feel a bit grateful and remember this kindness. If it came to loyalty, he was undoubtedly loyal to the human race.

“Regardless,” Zhenyan King looked at Luo Feng, “they clearly value you greatly. Because they value you so much, even though you are part of the human race, the Ancestral God Sect is still bestowing treasures.”

“Mm,” Luo Feng nodded.

“However, you should also be mentally prepared. Although I estimate it to be a supreme treasure, the Ancestral God Sect probably won’t be too generous with their offering,” Zhenyan King said.

“We’ll just wait for it. No reason to refuse a free gift,” Luo Feng said.

Luo Feng looked at Zhenyan King, thinking to himself... if the treasure bestowed by the Ancestral God Sect wasn’t very useful to him, or if its functions overlapped with his existing supreme treasures, then it would be suitable to give to Master Zhenyan.

Days passed, and Luo Feng waited for that day on Purple Thorn Island.

And while waiting, Luo Feng familiarized himself with the many treasures he had obtained from the Howling Mirror King.

Inside the World Ring.

“Haha, the Northern Territory Alliance really spared no expense to win over the Howling Mirror King.” Luo Feng’s Earthling original body was currently wearing a set of golden, strangely shaped armor. This armor had raised shoulders and was covered in peculiar beast secret patterns, none of which Luo Feng had ever seen among the Eight Great Beast Gods.

This was the supreme treasure combat armor... After Luo Feng bound it to himself, as soon as he put it on, a wealth of information was transmitted from the supreme treasure combat armor.

This supreme treasure combat armor was named ‘Jinzhen King Armor’. It had three forms. When an attack was within the Jinzhen King Armor’s tolerance, the first form could weaken physical attacks to one percent of their original power, the second form to one-thousandth, and the third form to one ten-thousandth.

If an attack exceeded the Jinzhen King Armor’s tolerance, the weakening effect would be much less, and if the power was too great, it might barely weaken it at all.

For instance, against a Universe Master’s ultimate attack, even the third form would be fortunate to weaken it by half. Such ordinary supreme treasures... were often useless in battles involving Universe Masters.

Beings like Zuoshan Ke could even easily shatter an ordinary supreme treasure.

“Ordinary supreme treasures are disregarded by Universe Masters. Yet, they drive countless Universe Venerables into a frenzied pursuit.” Luo Feng observed the ancient-looking armor on his body. “Anyway, I don’t have the ability to provoke a Universe Master right now, so this golden armor, for me...”

“Is priceless.”

“No wonder everyone desires supreme treasures,” Luo Feng exclaimed in pleasant surprise.

He finally understood why Peifeng Venerable was only injured when his Youhai clone, over nine thousand kilometers tall, instantly self-destructed in front of him. It was all thanks to his supreme treasure armor, activated to its extreme form!

“I wonder which is stronger, Peifeng Venerable’s supreme treasure combat armor or my golden armor,” Luo Feng mused.

“The Howling Mirror King wore golden armor.”

“Fortunately, I have the supreme treasure ‘Star Map’. The power of 520 star heavy treasures stacked together caused my attack power to surge. The Star Map and the golden armor almost canceled each other out, which is why the Howling Mirror King fell.” Luo Feng then looked up into the distance, where a massive behemoth was coiled on the ground.

It was the Golden Horned Beast!

“This golden armor will be worn by my Earthling original body,” Luo Feng thought. “When I eventually obtain the Calamity Armor, I’ll have the Golden Horned Beast wear it.”

The golden armor and the Calamity Armor were different.

The golden armor only provided defensive capabilities.

As for the Calamity Armor, it could evolve into a series of armors like Soldier Armor, General Armor, and King Armor. When worn, the Calamity Armor itself would also imbue immense divine body power.

In Luo Feng’s plan...

His Earthling original body followed the spirit master path and didn’t require close-quarters combat, so the golden armor was sufficient.

However, the Golden Horned Beast clone engaged in close-quarters combat, so the Calamity Armor would be most effective when worn by the Golden Horned Beast.

Luo Feng obtained many treasures from the Howling Mirror King, but only two were truly suitable for him: one was the supreme treasure ‘Jinzhen King Armor’, and the other was the set of heavy treasures ‘Heaven-Devouring Earth-Rending Claws’. Composed of four claw gauntlets, which the Howling Mirror King previously wore on his hands and feet, they were now integrated into the Golden Horned Beast’s four hooves. When their power erupted, it could be transferred and stacked onto one of the gauntlets, making the attack power extremely formidable.

The Howling Mirror King also had several other heavy treasures, but they were useless to Luo Feng.

As for precious materials for restoring the divine body, Luo Feng had an inexhaustible supply from the ‘Endless Youhai’, so he naturally didn’t care for them.

Luo Feng practiced with the ‘Supreme Treasure Golden Armor’ and the ‘Rending Claws’ while waiting for the Thunder King’s descent. Of course, ‘Golden Armor’ and ‘Rending Claws’ were names Luo Feng had given them himself.

On the eleventh day after receiving that email from the Ancestral God Sect.

Above Purple Thorn Island, an invisible yet heart-stopping pressure descended upon all inheritors. This pressure, so vast and domineering, was even more terrifying than that of the Guardian Beast God, the master of Purple Thorn Island.

Immediately, inheritors flew out from their palaces.

“The Thunder King is about to descend?” Zhenyan King also quickly flew out.

Meanwhile, inside Luo Feng’s mansion.

Demon Killer Luo Feng was sitting cross-legged, while his Earthling original body was repeatedly familiarizing himself with the ‘golden armor’ and activating it within his internal world.

When that boundless pressure descended... the Demon Killer clan clone immediately showed a look of pleasant surprise. At the same moment, the Earthling original body also emerged from the World Ring.

“Finally, it’s here.”

Luo Feng took a deep breath, stepped over the threshold, and then began to ascend into the sky.

In the mid-air above Purple Thorn Island, hundreds of millions of inheritors were densely packed, each looking up at the sky.

Luo Feng and Zhenyan King stood side-by-side, also looking up at the sky.

“Rumble~~~” Endless lightning filled the sky. For a moment, the boundless lightning obscured the entire Purple Thorn Island, preventing the inheritors from seeing the Five-Colored Aurora Lake.

Within the endless lightning, a colossal figure vaguely appeared, and the pressure emanated from it.

“Hmph!”

A cold snort.

The lightning between heaven and earth suddenly intensified, and the pressure abruptly grew stronger, causing all hundreds of millions of inheritors who were originally in mid-air to fall crashing to the ground. Even the inheritors who were Universe Venerables couldn’t resist the fall.

Gradually, the colossal figure slowly descended, slowly revealing its true form.

Its entire body was covered in azure fur, each strand like a Thunder God’s Whip. Its three hooves seemed to be trampling and suppressing the entire space, and its slightly spread wings... caused endless lightning to surge in the sky above. The most dazzling feature of its proud head was its pair of enormous eyes.

Its eyes were like oceans, and within those oceans, there was boundless thunder!

Eyes of Thunder!

Gazes down... no one dared to meet its gaze.

“How profound,” Luo Feng merely glanced at it and felt that the colossal, terrifying being high in the sky was like a part of the universe’s fundamental laws. “They say that after becoming a Beast God, one becomes an embodiment of fused laws. But the Guardian Beast God wasn’t this terrifying. Could it be that ascending to the Beast God’s revered position causes a qualitative change?”

All inheritors... submitted.

They submitted not to the pressure, but to the irresistible force, as if the universe’s fundamental laws themselves had descended.

“I am... the Thunder King, one of the Eight Great Beast Gods.” Its voice boomed like thunder, and the air exhaled from its nostrils transformed into thunderous roars, echoing throughout Purple Thorn Island.

“Inheritor Daohe King.”

As soon as the voice spoke.

An invisible force immediately descended, binding Luo Feng and causing him to slowly ascend into the sky. Instantly, hundreds of millions of inheritors from various cosmic races below looked up in astonishment at the slowly rising ‘Daohe King’. They all understood... the Thunder King had descended specifically for this human, Daohe King!