The Secret Art's Natural Formation

"No way?" The Ancestor looked down, a little surprised, at the distant area below. "Could he actually comprehend the Beast God Heart from this?"

The plain was overgrown with weeds, and a colossal, majestic unicorn lizard statue was half-crouched, seemingly poised to strike. On the back of this 'Golden Beast God' statue, Luo Feng lay on its scales, eyes narrowed, while countless intricate golden secret pattern threads flowed continuously in the air before him.

It appeared as leisurely as his hundreds of millions of years of arduous cultivation, but in reality, Luo Feng was in a unique state.

For hundreds of millions of years, he had been studying the eight secret pattern diagrams of the Golden Beast God. Each diagram represented an aspect of the 'Golden Beast God'. These eight secret pattern diagrams... made Luo Feng feel as if he were observing every facet of the Golden Beast God, day after day, month after month, year after year...

Time flowed ceaselessly.

Luo Feng had continuously studied these eight secret pattern diagrams, and it felt as if he had been with the Golden Beast God every moment of this long era.

At this very moment...

After 180 million years of secret pattern cultivation, he suddenly forgot himself. At this moment... it was as if he *was* the Beast God!

Joy, happiness, rage, roars, madness...

He roamed the cosmos!

He battled his enemies, fighting bloody wars in the endless void, with battles spanning galaxies... until his unwilling demise.

...

Luo Feng lay there, slowly closing his eyes, motionless.

Everything was an illusion.

Only the Beast God was real!

For a long, long time...

This sleep lasted a thousand years.

During those thousand years, even Luo Feng's Earthling true body and the Abyssal Sea all fell into slumber. No one, regardless of who they were, could contact Luo Feng! In these thousand years... Luo Feng forgot his human memories, forgot everything. In his sleep, he believed himself to be a Beast God, living its life...

A thousand years passed silently.

Luo Feng opened his eyes.

"Is this the Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly?" Luo Feng murmured softly. The instant he opened his eyes, he was momentarily unable to discern if he was Luo Feng or the Beast God, but he quickly became fully awake. Hundreds of millions of years of memories as a human surged forth, completely overriding the brief period where he seemed to have transformed into a Beast God.

"Beast God? What a wondrous feeling."

Luo Feng lay on the Beast God statue's back. The sensation of being a Beast God was so clear that he could easily re-enter that state.

Beast Gods and humans existed in fundamentally different states of being.

A state of complete transcendence, freedom, and primal nature.

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At the peak of the mountain.

The Ancestor looked down at the scene, shaking his head with a sigh, a mix of laughter and tears. "The ultimate bottleneck of the Beast God Path, the most elusive and difficult to grasp 'Beast God Heart', he actually managed to comprehend it just like that?"

The Beast God Path, according to the Ancestral God Sect's classification, has seven levels of inheritance.

Comprehending the entire Beast God Path means stepping into the 'Universe Master' level, becoming a peak existence in the cosmos... Yet, how difficult is it to become a Universe Master? For example, the Golden Horned Beast lineage has only had two Universe Masters in endless epochs, and the Flame Star Beast lineage has only one.

All of this indicates... that becoming a Universe Master is extremely difficult!

There are numerous hurdles!

One of the most elusive and intangible hurdles on the Beast God Path is... one must comprehend the Beast God Heart to truly transform into a Beast God! This greatly puzzled some Universe Overlords. Like Xiluoduo, and many other Universe Overlords, they could only transform into 'pseudo-Beast Gods' because they had not comprehended the Beast God Heart.

Without a Beast God Heart... it's impossible to truly transform into a Beast God.

And Luo Feng, without intending to, achieved an unexpected success. He spent countless years studying the eight secret pattern diagrams, dedicating himself entirely. This dedication over hundreds of millions of years unknowingly led him into a deep sleep, where he forgot everything and, in his dreams, lived a long life as a Beast God.

"That's right."

"Luo Feng achieved such renown in less than a hundred thousand years! In my Beast God World, he has cultivated for 180 million years... fully dedicating himself to the 'Golden Space' lineage of the secret pattern school. Without any guidance, he explored entirely on his own and has now reached an extremely high level. He can effortlessly create Universe Venerable-level secret arts... clearly, his familiarity with the Golden Beast God's eight great secret pattern diagrams is incredible, and these eight diagrams fully represent the complete Golden Beast God."

"What's more—"

"The Golden Horned Beast is inherently a descendant of the Golden Beast God, making it easiest to comprehend the Golden Beast God Heart. The combination of these two factors makes his achievement normal." The Ancestor quickly understood that everything was a result of long-term accumulation leading to natural success.

After all, Luo Feng had spent 180 million years on the secret pattern school. With Luo Feng's talent, reaching the peak of a King in a few thousand years and creating three ultimate secret arts in tens of thousands of years... if he had focused on studying laws, in 180 million years, Luo Feng would have long since cultivated to the level of a high-tier Universe Venerable.

It was simply because he sought to defeat the Ancestor.

Therefore, Luo Feng didn't spend any thought on law comprehension. He dedicated himself entirely to studying the 'secret pattern' school, which in turn made his attainments in the secret pattern school... far surpass his achievements in law comprehension.

After all, he had only cultivated law comprehension for tens of thousands of years.

The secret pattern school, however, he had cultivated for 180 million years—there was no comparison!

"This—" The now calm Ancestor's expression suddenly changed drastically. He looked down in disbelief at Luo Feng on the Beast God statue in the wilderness below. Even when Luo Feng had comprehended the Beast God Heart earlier, he hadn't lost his composure like this.

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On the Beast God statue's back.

After a thousand years of sleep, Luo Feng once again began to study the Golden Beast God's eight great secret pattern diagrams, using the 'miniature cosmic secret pattern diagram' as his ultimate template to attempt to create a secret art. The Luo Feng who awoke from a thousand-year slumber was still subtly influenced by the Beast God Heart.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~~~~

Countless golden threads floated in mid-air.

"It should be like this."

"And like this."

As if by a divine hand, Luo Feng, without even understanding the principles himself, rapidly combined the eight great secret pattern diagrams. While most of the law threads were connected due to Luo Feng's solid foundation, a few connections were purely spontaneous, born from a special state of mind, without any conscious thought.

It was as if the Golden Beast God wandered the cosmos, doing everything as it pleased: killing when it wished, eating when it wished, sleeping when it wished...

Luo Feng's somewhat hazy and uncertain combination methods were also spontaneous and seamless, feeling only that this was the most comfortable way.

"Boom!"

A golden light suddenly appeared between heaven and earth.

The golden light instantly streaked across the heavens and earth, forcefully tearing a spatial ripple chasm through the incredibly solidified space. Even the ground was directly carved with a deep trench, tens of millions of kilometers long, by the aftershock. Moments later, the entire land naturally shifted, and everything returned to normal.

"I... I didn't use much divine power." Luo Feng sat stunned on the Beast God statue's back, gazing at the deep trench that stretched to the end of the wilderness, until it eventually healed.

"A secret art?"

"What level of secret art?"

Luo Feng couldn't believe it. He was indeed formidable, having reached the 'Immortal Peak' in law comprehension in just a few thousand years. If he had spent these long 180 million years entirely on law comprehension... he could have cultivated the Beast God Path to the sixth or even seventh level. Yet, he had spent this immense time studying the secret pattern school!

He had indeed achieved a lot. Now, he could easily create Universe Venerable-level secret arts, and even occasionally create an ultimate Universe Overlord-level secret art, possessing immense power.

But in terms of power, it was clearly far inferior to this golden light.

"Could it be a Universe Master's ultimate secret art?" Luo Feng couldn't believe it.

One wouldn't know without cultivating.

Only after cultivating the secret pattern school did he realize that while this school occasionally allowed one to create a secret art with extraordinary luck... the more heaven-defying the secret art, the less one could rely on luck; foundation was more important!

180 million years!

Luo Feng's attainments in the secret pattern school were already extremely high, allowing him to easily create Universe Venerable-level secret arts. The strongest he had created was merely an 'ultimate Universe Overlord-level secret art'. This was only two levels higher than his normal performance. To create a Universe Master's ultimate secret art... Luo Feng guessed it would probably require several hundred million more years of study!

Perhaps when he could effortlessly create Universe Overlord-level secret arts, he might get lucky and create a 'Universe Master's ultimate secret art'.

The stronger the foundation!

The more powerful the secret art one could accidentally create!

A painter, the stronger their own ability, the better paintings they can create when inspiration strikes.

While someone with no foundation, no matter how inspired, cannot paint a masterpiece.

Luo Feng's foundation was now extremely high. In the secret art school... he was practically unparalleled in the cosmos, already considered a grandmaster, an patriarch! But to say he could create a Universe Master's ultimate secret art... it still seemed somewhat unbelievable.

"Is it a Universe Master's ultimate secret art?"

Whoosh!

Luo Feng leaped up and flew directly towards the distant mountain range, with the Golden Horned Beast perched on his shoulder.

After flying for a moment.

Upon reaching the mountain cliff, there were three sets of secret art carvings on its face, all left behind by Starry Sky Behemoth Universe Masters. These three sets were all 'Universe Master's ultimate secret arts'.

"If I carve the secret patterns of the secret art I created, won't I know by its pressure?" Luo Feng looked at the cliff, divine power surging. Immediately, incredibly complex secret art diagrams began to appear on the cliff face—so intricate that even many Universe Venerables would find them indecipherable, like a heavenly script. The Luo Feng of 180 million years ago would also have been completely unable to understand them.

The secret art diagram, profound and unfathomable, exuded boundless pressure. It resonated with the pressure of the three ultimate cosmic secret art carvings next to it, not yielding in the slightest.

It gathered hundreds of millions of years of painstaking effort!

Plus a Beast God Heart...

At a certain moment, Luo Feng casually and accidentally created this set of secret art.

A set of secret art using the 'miniature cosmic secret pattern diagram' as a template, it could be said to be a simplified version of the 'miniature cosmic secret pattern diagram', a nearly perfect combination of the Golden Beast God's eight great Beast God diagrams, forming an offensive secret art—a Universe Master's ultimate-level secret art!

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"Hundreds of millions of years of exploration and creation."

"The Beast God Heart."

"At a certain instant, the Golden Beast God's eight great secret pattern diagrams combined almost perfectly, in a rational or irrational manner... and thus it was born." At the peak of the mountain, the Ancestor looked down, and at the same time, directly transmitted a message to Seated Mountain Guest in the Original Universe, "Seated Mountain Guest, aren't you coming yet!"