Enlightenment

Beidi, as the strongest Beast God currently within the Beast God Lair, naturally paid close attention to the Universe Ocean. Through Zhen Jia King and Ancestral God Qiuyan, he had learned some information about the Universe Ocean and understood that the current strongest expert in the Universe Ocean was the 'Cosmic Overlord' Luo Feng. "It's a pity that Zhen Jia and Qiuyan are both ostracized by the various races of the Universe Ocean, so they don't even know if Yinhe Lord has broken through to True God... I also wonder if Yinhe Lord forced Moluosa back to First Tier while still in his 'Cosmic Overlord' form, or if he only did so after becoming a True God." Beidi pondered. The difference between these two possibilities was immense. If Luo Feng had become a True God to achieve this, then it would be acceptable, and the threat wouldn't be too great. But if Luo Feng, merely a Cosmic Overlord, could force Moluosa back to First Tier, what would happen once Luo Feng became a True God? "It seems my strength is still insufficient." "I must improve faster, become stronger more quickly," Beidi mused. "In the past, I mostly dealt with other Third-tier Beast Gods. Now, I must devour even Second-tier Beast Gods... devouring enough Second-tier Beast Gods can still be equivalent to devouring a Third-tier Beast God." Beidi's past strategy was simple. He would devour any Beast God that threatened him, or at least severely injure them if he couldn't devour them whole. This way, Beidi always stood at the pinnacle! This method was very stable; he could easily keep track of the hundred most threatening Beast Gods at all times... but this method was also slow! If he were to devour and attack even the vast numbers of Second-tier Beast Gods, his advancement speed would increase, but it would also mean he likely couldn't perfectly control the situation of those threatening Beast Gods. It had its pros and cons. In the battle between Beast God Moluosa and Luo Feng, Moluosa was defeated and retreated. This marked the first contact between the Beast Gods and the lifeforms of the Universe Ocean. This filled the various races of the Universe Ocean with fear and unease. All races understood... that with the first contact made, the second contact was likely not far off. Similarly, the news that Moluosa had been beaten back to First Tier and retreated to the Beast God Lair shocked many other Beast Gods in the lair. It made them realize that the races of the Universe Ocean, which they had previously looked down upon, were actually so powerful. This also caused the Beast Gods, who had been steadily fighting and evolving, to gradually descend into madness! "Although the first Beast God was defeated and escaped by Yinhe Lord... according to the information transmitted to us by the Origin Will, the countless Beast Gods within the Beast God Lair will certainly be affected and will accelerate their evolution. The final decisive battle between the Beast Gods and us will likely be brought forward." The Ancient Ancestral God stood at the edge of the plaza in front of the Ancestral God Palace, gazing at the Beast God Temples floating in the distant void. "Indeed." The Young Ancestral God's face was filled with solemn worry. "The sole hope for all races in our Universe Ocean is Yinhe Lord! If Yinhe Lord becomes a True God, we still have hope... But if Yinhe Lord doesn't break through, once the vast Beast God army arrives, or a super-powerful Beast God attacks, we will be unstoppable, facing only utter annihilation! What's wrong with Yinhe Lord? He's merely a Cosmic Overlord, yet his secret techniques are so miraculous, and his strength has reached such a level. He also possesses the Duan Dong River lineage's inheritance and received ancient inheritances in Jinzhi World. Why can't he even break through to True God? For other powerhouses, becoming a True God might be incredibly difficult. But for him, he should have succeeded long ago." "Alas..." The Two-Faced Ancestral God also shook his head and sighed. Indeed. Why Yinhe Lord had not yet broken through to True God was not just a source of anxiety for the three Ancestral Gods; all races in the entire Universe Ocean were anxious! Before the ancient inheritances were widely disseminated, becoming a True God was extremely difficult. But after the ancient civilization inheritances became known to almost all races... the difficulty of becoming a True God was now comparable to the past difficulty of becoming a 'Cosmic Overlord'. "Luo Feng!" In the Yinhe Holy Land, Zhenyan Lord also stood on the top floor of his palace, gazing from the railing at the distant, boundless Youhai. A trace of worry flickered in his eyes. "I imagine you're under immense pressure right now. All races in the entire Universe Ocean have placed their hopes on you. At this moment, you must endure; there is no other choice." Zhenyan felt a pang of heartache. This disciple, Luo Feng... was Zhenyan's greatest pride. Back then, shortly after Luo Feng entered Chaos City following the Genius Battle, Zhenyan took him as a disciple. Zhenyan had watched his disciple grow step by step! Zhenyan also understood everything Luo Feng had experienced on Earth in the past... emerging from hardship, never bowing his head, never giving up even when facing mutual destruction with the Devouring Beast. Understanding his past and watching Luo Feng grow step by step... Zhenyan truly regarded Luo Feng as a disciple, as family. Zhenyan's own family had long since passed away with the flow of time. His disciple was like his own kin. Luo Feng, in his heart, was like a son. Perhaps Luo Feng himself hadn't realized it... but Zhenyan truly saw him that way. Seeing Luo Feng grow powerful, Zhenyan was naturally very pleased. At this moment, Zhenyan felt heartache, yet there was nothing he could do. "You can only endure, only face the catastrophe, and fight." Zhenyan silently hoped. "Hurry, become a True God as soon as possible. Only then will you have hope of survival." Zhenyan wished he could go himself. But he knew that if he went, he would only become a snack for the Beast Gods, completely useless. "Luo Feng, if you must die, wait until you've annihilated all the Beast Gods!" Purple Moon Ancestor roared internally. "Become a True God. This, it shouldn't be difficult for you." East Emperor Ancestor stood on the Ancestral Tree, gazing into the distance, his sight piercing through the cosmos towards the Original Universe. "Even if you follow the divine power path, with your talent, you should have succeeded by now." "Become a True God!" God-Eye True Master yearned. "I truly don't want to choose to side with the Beast Gods!" "Become a True God!" "Become a True God!" All races in the Universe Ocean, including the Insectoid Race and Monster Race, shared a common expectation at this moment: they hoped Luo Feng would become a True God. In the distant 'Universe Boat', one of the three great absolute lands, within the Black-Patterned Stone Pillar space. "So tall." Inside a silver battleship, Luo Feng stood in the Grand Hall, his gaze passing through the cabin wall to the towering Black-Patterned Stone Pillar outside, which pierced deep into the clouds. "Finally, I'm back!" The Black-Patterned Stone Pillar. It was one of the marvels within the Universe Boat, containing powerful will-shocks. The closer one got to it, the more terrifying the will-shocks, and simultaneously, the faster the flow of time! Ordinary Cosmic Overlords could only approach areas with a time flow of several thousand times. Bei Chi Star Master, back then, got the closest, where the time flow reached over 130,000 times! "I want to see just how high the time acceleration of this Black-Patterned Stone Pillar can reach," Luo Feng declared, immediately boarding the Tomb Mausoleum Boat and rapidly approaching. "10,000 times, 30,000 times..." As the Tomb Mausoleum Boat continuously flew closer, Luo Feng's expression remained calm. His will had already reached the Eternal True God level, far surpassing that of Bei Chi Star Master. "100,000 times, 120,000 times, 150,000 times..." Space itself was slightly distorted. The flow of time was already extremely fast, and powerful will-shocks swept through in waves, attempting to destroy everything. Yet, Luo Feng felt as comfortable as if bathed in spring breeze, without the slightest discomfort. 220,000 times, 260,000 times, 290,000 times... 510,000 times, 550,000 times... "Hmm?" Luo Feng's expression turned serious. "Close." The Tomb Mausoleum Boat had flown extremely close to the Black-Patterned Stone Pillar, but the powerful will-shocks caused Luo Feng to frown. Gradually, the Tomb Mausoleum Boat began to decelerate until it came to a stop. This was Luo Feng's limit. The bow of the Tomb Mausoleum Boat was almost touching the Black-Patterned Stone Pillar. "To touch the Black-Patterned Stone Pillar, my will would likely need to reach the limit of an Eternal True God," Luo Feng murmured. "I'm still a bit short." His will, though at the Eternal True God level, had not yet reached its absolute limit. "The time acceleration here is approximately 600,000 times," Luo Feng nodded to himself. This trip to the Black-Patterned Stone Pillar space aboard the Tomb Mausoleum Boat was precisely to utilize the special 'time acceleration' environment around the Black-Patterned Stone Pillar for cultivation! The threat of the Beast Gods placed immense pressure on Luo Feng; he had to seize every moment, which led him to this idea! "Here, I will then enter my cultivation space." Luo Feng mused. His cultivation space could already accelerate time by 10,000 times. If the outside maintained 600,000 times, theoretically, the combined effect would be 6 billion times... Of course, this was impossible. Luo Feng, who deeply understood ancient civilizations, knew that under 600,000 times time acceleration, attempting further time acceleration would drastically increase the difficulty. "The will-shocks here are too strong; they're already affecting my cultivation." "Retreat a little." Luo Feng piloted the Tomb Mausoleum Boat, pulling back slightly to an area with 500,000 times time acceleration. Immediately, his Earthling true body entered the cultivation space. The cultivation space could accelerate time by up to 10,000 times... "Accelerate by 1,000 times." Luo Feng attempted time acceleration, and the time flow within the cultivation space immediately surged, maintaining a 1,000-fold acceleration. The outside already had 500,000 times time acceleration. Accelerating by another 1,000 times within the cultivation space meant a 500 million times time acceleration. "Rumble~~~" Luo Feng looked around in astonishment. Heaven and Earth trembled, the entire inheritance space shook, and energy was rapidly consumed. "Not good." Luo Feng's expression subtly changed. "Slow down to 100 times!" Whoosh! The time flow immediately slowed to 100 times. The surrounding Heaven and Earth stabilized somewhat, but the energy reserves of the entire inheritance space were still being rapidly consumed. "Still too fast. Slow down to ten times." Luo Feng was forced to decelerate to ten times, and immediately the entire inheritance space became calm. "Even accelerating the cultivation space by merely ten times consumes far more energy than accelerating by 10,000 times in a normal time region." "With the reserves of the inheritance space, it can easily be maintained." After a series of adjustments, Luo Feng finally decided to maintain a 20-fold time acceleration within the cultivation space. Combined with the 500,000-fold acceleration outside, this amounted to a ten million-fold time acceleration. Although this consumed a vast amount of energy... the inheritance space's accumulation over endless eras could sustain it for a very long time. "Cherish every moment, hoping to break through before the Beast God catastrophe!" Luo Feng left a divine power clone in the Tomb Mausoleum Boat, while his Earthling true body departed directly. Time flowed. Years passed. The divine power clone beneath the Black-Patterned Stone Pillar cultivated frantically in the 'ten million times time acceleration' environment... Luo Feng's true body, meanwhile, traveled everywhere, seeking inspiration. First, he journeyed within the Tilted Peak Sector, reaching its core region, even observing the Dark Region from a distance. He then went to other places, even finding some inheritances left behind by True Gods long ago before they attempted reincarnation. He also traveled through the Universe Boat, exploring meticulously, even discovering traces left by some ancient powerhouses who had once piloted the Universe Boat... He also visited Liu Zhong Mountain, where he found traces of ancient civilization powerhouses... Finally, Luo Feng returned to the Original Universe, visiting some peripheral areas, even venturing into the territories of races like the Insectoid Race, Monster Race, and Mechanical Race, and even into regions of some weaker races... observing the birth and decay of life, watching those lifeforms kill each other and fall, witnessing the destruction of a planet... Whether evil or good, Luo Feng did not interfere with anything among the billions of races in the universe; he was merely an observer, watching everything. Observing small lifeforms. Observing the birth of a new planet. Observing the destruction of a planet, and even the annihilation of a galaxy under a supermassive black hole. Luo Feng firmly believed that the Original Universe, which nurtured billions of lifeforms, contained the supreme Dao of 'life's genesis'. From all things, he should be able to find the key to unlock the 'third layer of divine power'. What seemed like the simple growth and aging of an infant, Luo Feng meticulously pondered and sought traces within the ten million times time acceleration. What seemed like the simple movement of celestial bodies, Luo Feng was similarly exploring. Silently, Luo Feng's will was gradually transforming. "Earth." Luo Feng stood in outer space, gazing at the distant blue planet. In Luo Feng's gaze, time flowed backward. Earth rapidly orbited the Sun in reverse, circle after circle, and all things on Earth continuously changed... "This is the past." "What about the future?" Under Luo Feng's gaze, the entire Solar System underwent changes again, scene after scene continuously shifting. If the scenes of time flowing backward were very clear, then when Luo Feng observed the future, the scenes were constantly shifting... The past had already happened, irreversible. But the future was unknown, with many possibilities. Yet, scene after scene almost converged on a single outcome. 30,000 years later, the Solar System was destroyed, everything annihilated. This represented the Beast Gods destroying everything. 60,000 years later, the Solar System was destroyed, everything annihilated. 110,000 years later, the Solar System was destroyed, everything annihilated. Destruction! Destruction! Still destruction! But one outcome was incredibly brilliant: Earth became even more developed, countless spaceships traveled to and from Earth, and even after tens of thousands, even hundreds of millions of eras, Earth still existed... This outcome represented Luo Feng killing the Beast Gods. Luo Feng merely watched all the possibilities of the future with a calm demeanor. "Hmm?" Luo Feng's expression suddenly changed. "The Sun!" Luo Feng's eyes lit up. Under his gaze, from the endless ancient past to the future, Earth orbited the Sun, circle after circle. Even in all the various possibilities of the future, Earth still orbited the Sun, circle after circle... eternally ceaseless, seemingly repetitive and mundane, yet possessing an unstoppable law. "Earth!" Luo Feng's gaze shifted, focusing on Earth. From the endless past to the future. As a life-bearing planet, Earth constantly attracted peculiar life energy from an extremely vast region, nurturing life. This life energy was invisible, but Luo Feng, who had traveled throughout the Original Universe observing past and future, could faintly discern its traces from subtle clues, sensing that the entire Earth was the core of life's genesis for the surrounding vast region. "Earth orbits the Sun; the Sun is the core..." "But in the life-nurturing system, within a vast region, Earth is again the core..." "Celestial system." "Life system." "Different systems, yet perfectly combined..." Scene after scene flashed before Luo Feng's eyes: the trajectories of countless planets, and simultaneously, other images appeared—the complex structural diagrams of his own life and those of the Beast Gods. "Different... yet interconnected..." Transcending space, transcending time. Originating from the supreme laws of operation, everything led to the ultimate destination. Cosmic Overlord, True God, Void True God... Beast God... Completely opposite lifeforms, yet both nurtured by the Universe Ocean, and both heading towards the same ultimate destination.