Ancient Vision

A super-large deep pit nearly ten thousand kilometers in diameter—what kind of concept is that? The Moon would barely touch the bottom if thrown in! Luo Feng stood at the edge of this colossal deep pit, faintly sensing an inexplicable aura washing over him—a powerful, ancient, and wild presence...

"Such dense malevolent energy," Luo Feng observed. He gazed into the pit, its depths unfathomable. From hundreds of thousands of meters up on the mountain, he could barely discern its edge, but standing directly on it now... looking into the distance, he couldn't see the end, only an boundless expanse.

"This deep pit is truly an excellent place, unfathomably deep and rich with malevolent energy!" Luo Feng's eyes lit up, and a faint smile appeared on his face. "I could build a dwelling for myself in this deep pit and settle down here for long-term secluded cultivation."

For the past half-month, the reason he had been without a fixed residence, constantly moving forward on his journey, was primarily due to the four Ninth-tier Universe-level geniuses he encountered half a month ago. He had killed one of them, obtained their spatial storage device, and upon careful examination, discovered...

...The deceased muscular warrior also possessed a 'cosmic spaceship' and communication tools. He had Babata hack into the communication device and found some recorded communication content. From these communications, it could be deduced... the deceased was named Wu Qi, one of the elite geniuses cultivated by the Immortal Temple.

"A genius cultivated by the Immortal Temple? They might send some powerful experts to trouble me." That's what Luo Feng thought at the time. This Xueluo Continent wasn't his personal territory. He even broke through the eighteen cloud layers, took a mechanical race spaceship, and flew for tens of billions of kilometers before stopping.

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"I also need a stable residence for a long period to properly comprehend my Ninefold Chaos Tablet." Luo Feng leaped directly from the edge of the colossal deep pit, plummeting downwards with a whooshing sound.

"The malevolent energy is indeed heavy."

"What a great place, truly a great place." Luo Feng was filled with joy, allowing gravity to pull him down. After descending nearly a thousand kilometers, he finally stopped.

Looking at the mountain wall beside him, Luo Feng nodded slightly. "I'll just carve out a dwelling in the rock face of this giant pit."

As for the bottom of the pit? Who knows how deep the bottom of this giant pit truly is? He would check it out occasionally when he had time.

...

Luo Feng had effectively settled down in this colossal deep pit. With his abilities, he easily excavated a massive space, a hundred meters long and wide, and ten meters high, deep within the rock face. He even decorated it, carving some rocks into sculptures and adorning the walls, making it truly resemble a normal dwelling. Luo Feng proudly named this dwelling 'Abyssal Pit Manor'. The Abyssal Pit Manor had a deep cave passage leading to the edge of the rock face.

...

Silver-Armored Luo Feng and Demon Killer Luo Feng sat cross-legged on the rock bed simultaneously. Indeed. Both the true body and the Demon Killer clone were simultaneously outside. After all, the Demon Killer clone was extremely sensitive to cosmic space; it could detect any approaching experts... Moreover, in critical moments, Demon Killer Luo Feng could also act as a bodyguard.

"The unique 'malevolent energy' of this ancient god ruin truly has a noticeable effect on the body." Luo Feng suddenly stood up, and the Demon Killer Luo Feng beside him instantly vanished into his inner world. "However, while the cultivation paths for my Earthling true body and Demon Killer clone are very clear, what should my Golden Horned Beast clone cultivate?"

'True Body Heaven and Earth' and 'Absolute Space' were, of course, important, but the Golden Horned Beast lacked a combat secret technique. There were plenty of secret techniques in its inherited memories. Even before coming to the Xueluo World, Luo Feng had been considering this issue. Even Babata only helped him filter out 12 combat secret techniques for Luo Feng to choose from. But the choice was too difficult, so Luo Feng only selected three combat secret techniques from them. They were 'Eightfold Shadow Hunt,' 'Sky-Rending Earth-Splitting,' and 'Golden Horn.'

These three combat secret techniques were all very powerful. Luo Feng's idea was... to have the Golden Horned Beast clone attempt to cultivate all three, observe the effects, and then focus on whichever one it mastered more proficiently. All three great secret techniques belonged to close-quarters combat. 'Eightfold Shadow Hunt' focused on movement techniques. 'Sky-Rending Earth-Splitting' focused on bloody slaughter. 'Golden Horn' focused on one-hit kills. Although each had a focus, all three secret techniques encompassed aspects of 'movement techniques,' 'one-hit kills,' and 'bloody slaughter.'

"What a bother." "Sometimes, having endless choices before you can also be a troublesome thing." Luo Feng sighed, then couldn't help but laugh at his own words. This statement was truly infuriating. Even the super geniuses of the Virtual Universe Company had to use points to exchange for secret techniques. Unlike the Golden Horned Beast, which could just pick freely from its inherited memories.

"Can't get too complacent, or bad luck will follow. Must be humble, must be humble." Luo Feng, in an excellent mood, hummed a little tune as he walked along the passage outside the manor, reaching the edge of the passage near the cliff face. Sitting down at the mouth of the cave, Luo Feng gazed at the endless abyss below the giant pit, and then at the boundless, dense malevolent energy before him. He cleared his mind, completely relaxing.

"Hmm." "Oh?" Luo Feng frowned, looking at the malevolent energy in the distance. The entire giant pit was astonishingly vast. The dense malevolent energy within it would naturally flow, forming various shapes, sometimes creating patterns that seemed remarkably real. At this moment, within Luo Feng's line of sight, a colossal, blurry image, hundreds of kilometers in size, appeared in the distant haze. Faintly...

...It was the image of a giant lizard-like creature. The difference from a true lizard was a faint, sky-piercing horn! It was also more robust, with thicker hooves and claws. Within that blurry image... A colossal hand descended from the sky, while the monster in the image, roughly a hundred kilometers long, simultaneously reared its head and lunged forward. As it lunged, its long 'lizard tail' rapidly whipped around, striking fiercely against the giant hand. Boom! The image dissipated, and the malevolent energy slowly flowed, no longer forming such a realistic pattern.

"This, this, this..." Luo Feng's eyes widened, scenes of the ethereal, blurry image flashing through his mind. The monster's actions in that image were primarily 'lunging forward and whipping its long tail,' and that tail actually struck the hand, which seemed as vast as heaven and earth, causing it to completely collapse and dissipate. Lunge! Tail Whip! This image kept replaying in his mind, instantly bringing many insights to Luo Feng, who had been cultivating 'Eightfold Shadow Hunt,' 'Sky-Rending Earth-Splitting,' and 'Golden Horn' during this period. Consciousness was shared; what one clone understood, the other two understood as well... The Golden Horned Beast's cultivation was naturally Luo Feng's own cultivation.

"This, this is absolutely not a natural phenomenon. It's impossible for a simple image to contain such profound laws!" Indeed! Profound and unfathomable! Just that simple lunge and tail whip, in the evolution within Luo Feng's mind, seemed capable of tearing apart heaven and earth, its power incredibly immense.

"This isn't a natural phenomenon." Luo Feng suddenly recalled seeing giant deep pits in the ancient god ruin from high above, resembling the footprints of some peerless fierce beast. This sparked a flash of inspiration in his mind, and his eyes brightened. "Those giant deep pits must have been left countless years ago, very likely by some fierce beast during the legendary earth-shattering battle between the Virtual Universe Company and the natives of the Xueluo World." "Then!" "Could the blurry image that just formed be a combat scene from that era?" Luo Feng mused. In terms of insight, Luo Feng's was already quite high.

He felt... The instantaneous combat scene in that previous image definitely surpassed 'Immortal-level combat scenes.' Because in Chaos City, Luo Feng had personally witnessed two Immortal experts fighting, and had also seen his teacher, Zhenyan King, practice... Yet, in terms of feeling, it still seemed inferior to that fierce beast and the giant hand. "Hand?" Luo Feng's eyes widened. "Giant hand?" A bolt of lightning seemed to flash through Luo Feng's mind! Back in Chaos City, when those two Immortal experts clashed, the cosmic space instantly froze, and the fundamental laws of the universe ceased to operate. A giant hand directly slapped those two Immortals into dust. Although both of them reformed their bodies, they were severely wounded.

"The Chaos City Lord's hand? Yes, that's the feeling." Luo Feng nodded repeatedly. "However, it didn't seem as terrifying as the Chaos City Lord's." When the Chaos City Lord made a move, everything in cosmic space seemed to submit and fall under his control. But from that blurry image... Luo Feng could only glimpse a fraction.

"Lunge! Tail Whip!" "Magnificent, truly magnificent." Luo Feng stopped overthinking and seized the moment to fully grasp his previous insights. The more he comprehended, the more exhilarated he became. This lunge and tail whip instantly boosted Luo Feng's comprehension of 'Sky-Rending Earth-Splitting' by a significant margin. 'Sky-Rending Earth-Splitting' was a close-quarters, bloody combat technique, where 'Sky-Rending' referred to claw attacks, and 'Earth-Splitting' referred to tail strikes. Of course, this was the simplest and most casual description.

However, seeing this ancient vision filled Luo Feng with confidence in cultivating 'Sky-Rending Earth-Splitting.' "This is it. The Golden Horned Beast's combat secret technique will be 'Sky-Rending Earth-Splitting.'" Luo Feng made his decision, his eyes shining as he watched the endless malevolent energy flow in the distance, anticipating, "I wonder if I'll see any more images!"

From then on. Although Luo Feng cultivated in seclusion within his manor, his Demon Killer clone transformed into a stone and sat at the cave entrance, meticulously observing the flow of malevolent energy in the deep pit.

One day, two days... one month, two months... one year... After two months of observation, the Demon Killer clone discovered three images, including the first one. After a long period of continued observation, it occasionally saw repetitions of the first three images, but no new ones appeared. Of the three images, the first depicted a giant hand descending from the sky, and a monster lunging forward with a tail whip, scattering the hand. The second image showed the monster with its head lowered, its golden horn pointed forward, charging at high speed—a simple scene of a head-on ramming attack. The third image showed the monster fiercely raising its hooves and claws, delivering a direct smashing blow.