Integration

Although he was in the Ancient God Ruins, Luo Feng felt quite relaxed. This was because his core was within his Demon Killer Clan clone, and even important items like the intelligent lifeform Babata had been taken by the Demon Killer Clan clone. So, his Earthling original body staying here had no worries. “Even if I’m killed, it’ll just cost a bit more ‘inner world’ energy to recover,” Luo Feng closed his eyes, his consciousness connecting to the virtual universe network through an intelligent optical computer in his spatial ring. “There’s a ‘Law of Gold Origin’ class coming up soon; I can’t miss it.”

Tens of trillions of kilometers away, in a quiet, vast city. On the third floor of a pavilion within the City Lord’s Mansion, a man in a battle suit lay on the ground in a cultivation chamber. Black-Clothed Luo Feng stood beside him. “With these two Xueluo Crystals, I now have exactly 100 Xueluo Crystals since leaving the Ancient God Ruins.” Black-Clothed Luo Feng waved his hand, instantly destroying the corpse, then silently departed into the night. He soared into the sky, boarding the mechanical race spaceship and heading into the void outside Xueluo Continent.

Inside the control room of the mechanical race spaceship. Black-Clothed Luo Feng sat on the sofa, chuckling softly, “External scenery simulation 100%.” Immediately, the surrounding scenery shifted, revealing an incredibly beautiful and dreamlike voidscape. Below them lay the cloud layer of Xueluo Continent. “Luo Feng, you integrated 30 Xueluo Crystals each time during your previous two attempts. How many are you planning to integrate today?” A glow gathered beside him, forming Babata’s energy form, the little devil smiling as he looked at Luo Feng. “I plan to integrate 25!” Black-Clothed Luo Feng declared. “Oh… In the Ancient God Ruins, the Golden Horned Beast integrated 15. Before that, it was 30 each time. So, the Golden Horned Beast has integrated a total of 75 Xueluo Crystals so far. Adding the 25 Xueluo Crystals you’re integrating today, that makes exactly 100.” The little devil Babata cackled strangely, “Can you endure that intense pain?”

Black-Clothed Luo Feng frowned. Pain? Yes. When he integrated the tenth Xueluo Crystal, the Golden Horned Beast was in such agony that it lost control, thrashing wildly. His other two clones were also in excruciating pain, a pain that made his soul tremble. Integrating the eleventh Xueluo Crystal, the pain was far less severe than the tenth. However, with each subsequent Xueluo Crystal integrated, the intensity of the pain steadily increased. By the time he integrated the 72nd Xueluo Crystal, the pain was comparable to the terrifying sensation of integrating the tenth. Last time, Luo Feng pushed himself to the limit, integrating up to the 75th, but he was almost on the verge of collapse. “Today, you’ll be integrating from the 76th to the 100th. Each instance of pain will likely surpass the previous ones,” the little devil warned. “If you can’t bear it, it’s better to split the integration over several days.” “It’s fine!” Black-Clothed Luo Feng’s eyes sharpened. “If I can’t even endure this much pain, how can I hope to become Undying?” “This isn’t ‘just a little pain.’ If your willpower wasn’t strong, your soul would have long since scattered,” Babata reminded him. “I’ve never heard of anyone’s soul scattering from integrating Xueluo Crystals,” Black-Clothed Luo Feng said softly. “If one can’t bear it, they’ll simply pass out, and the Xueluo Crystal integration will stop. There’s no danger. Besides, Babata, I have a feeling that when 100 Xueluo Crystals are integrated… a miracle will occur.” A hint of anticipation flickered in Black-Clothed Luo Feng’s eyes. “Let’s begin!”

Whoosh! Only a core remained in the mechanical race spaceship, while Black-Clothed Luo Feng entered his inner world.

Inner world. The Golden Horned Beast, resembling a black mountain range, slowly rose. Black-Clothed Luo Feng suddenly appeared. Whoosh, a right claw, like a pillar supporting the heavens, slowly extended, resting before Black-Clothed Luo Feng. “The 76th!” Black-Clothed Luo Feng flipped his hand, taking out a triangular, pillar-shaped blood-red crystal and placing it on the scales of the claw’s palm. As the sharp claws pierced the scales, the integration of the 76th Xueluo Crystal began… “Ah!” Black-Clothed Luo Feng clenched his fists, gritting his teeth, his body subtly trembling. “Woooo!!!” The Golden Horned Beast roared in agony, soaring into the sky. Its scaled wings, like two massive dark clouds, flapped wildly, flying frantically above the vast metal continent, occasionally crashing into metal mountain ranges, venting its intense pain. It finally stopped after a long while. “Phew.” “That was better than when I continuously integrated 30 last time. It seems my willpower has been tempered and improved a bit,” Black-Clothed Luo Feng secretly breathed a sigh of relief, loosening his tightly clenched fists. The Golden Horned Beast, having landed, raised its right claw and activated its wondrous power. Instantly, the right claw transformed from pure black to a faint golden color. A black Golden Horned Beast with golden threads woven into its armor, mostly black all over, even its four sharp horns, appeared golden at first glance due to the dense golden secret patterns. In reality, it was a mix of gold and black. Only the right claw was entirely faint golden, possessing boundless power! Moreover, this faint golden right claw bore extremely complex and magnificent secret patterns. The complexity of these patterns was almost comparable to the golden secret patterns covering the Golden Horned Beast’s entire body. However, even an ordinary person would feel that these blood-red, complex, and profound secret patterns seemed somewhat incomplete. They were not complete secret patterns. “Judging by the number of secret patterns, I feel that integrating around 100 crystals should complete them,” Black-Clothed Luo Feng stared at the blood-red secret patterns on the massive right claw. When three were integrated, the blood-red secret patterns were simple but complete. When ten were integrated, the blood-red secret patterns became much more complex, yet still complete and unified. Now, the Golden Horned Beast’s right claw had integrated 76… “Continue with the 77th!” Black-Clothed Luo Feng placed another Xueluo Crystal into the palm of the right claw.

The 78th, the 79th, the 80th… Each subsequent modification to the right claw made the Golden Horned Beast, the direct recipient, wish it could die from the pain. But the inherent pride and rock-solid willpower in Luo Feng’s bones allowed him to endure it time and again. It hurt! It hurt like hell!

The 86th, the 87th, the 88th…

In the cultivation chamber of the Giant Pit Mansion in the Ancient God Ruins. Luo Feng, clad in bronze battle armor, knelt in the cultivation chamber, his fingers like hooks fiercely digging into the rocky ground, grinding out fragments of stone. He gritted his teeth so hard that his jawbone made cracking sounds. His face was completely flushed, veins bulging, and sweat constantly dripped from his entire body, making the ground damp. “Crack, crack, snap! Snap! Ugh! Spit!” Luo Feng spat fiercely, even broken teeth coming out of his mouth. “Holy… crap!!!” “It hurts.” “It really hurts.” Luo Feng’s entire body trembled, sweat flowing out through the gaps in his battle armor, his skin feeling as if it had been steamed. The unprecedented agony of his soul completely affected his body. “Hoo!” “Hoo!” Luo Feng suddenly collapsed, lying prone as if paralyzed, gasping for breath, one ragged breath after another. “Thank goodness, I finally made it through.” “It feels like I’ve died a thousand, ten thousand times. The 100% simulation in the virtual universe network simulates death pain. But the pain of death is not even one-ten-thousandth of this pain.” Luo Feng lay there, just his Earthling original body in such agony. How much worse must the Golden Horned Beast original body, the direct recipient of the right claw’s modification, be suffering? One must know that this pain was inflicted by the Golden Horned Beast’s flesh on its soul. The Golden Horned Beast experienced the most intense pain… “This is only the 90th. How am I going to endure the rest?” Luo Feng couldn’t imagine. The pain he had endured so far… was the most terrifying pain he had ever experienced in his life, so intense that his consciousness was on the verge of collapsing and fainting as a self-defense mechanism. Collapsing and fainting was an instinctive self-protection. However, Luo Feng knew very well that once he fainted, it meant the integration of that Xueluo Crystal had failed.

Tens of trillions of kilometers away in the void, in the control room of the mechanical race spaceship, the crystalline core spun suspended in mid-air.

Inner world. “The 91st!” Black-Clothed Luo Feng took a deep breath and placed another Xueluo Crystal into the palm of the Golden Horned Beast’s right claw. The colossal Golden Horned Beast, its dark golden eyes larger than lakes, looked down at the Xueluo Crystal, a hint of trepidation in its gaze. It was truly… too, too painful. Rip! The sharp claw sliced, blood flowed, and the integration of the 91st Xueluo Crystal began again. “Kill!” “Kill, kill!” An incredibly frenzied killing intent surged towards Luo Feng’s willpower, overwhelming him. Each integrated Xueluo Crystal added to this killing intent. By the 91st Xueluo Crystal, this killing intent was no less potent than the killing intent from the 8x region of the killing intent vortex he had experienced before. In fact, it even surpassed it! “My heart is like a mirror; you cannot sway me. Get out!” Luo Feng’s willpower roared repeatedly, resisting frantically, struggling again and again. Finally, that surge of killing intent receded. “Finally, I’ve endured this killing intent.” In truth, at this point, not only was the excruciating pain from modifying the right claw almost unbearable, but even the killing intent… was becoming too much for Luo Feng to handle. However. Resisting killing intent and resisting the pain of physical modification were different. When resisting killing intent, either you blocked it, or you failed. There was no pain, no suffering! But the pain was continuous, wave after wave… until the right claw was completely modified, only then would that terrifying pain end. “Damn it, here it comes again!” Black-Clothed Luo Feng’s body trembled, and he immediately knelt on the ground, his hands digging into the metal floor, gritting his teeth and holding on desperately. “Awoo!!!” The Golden Horned Beast roared, venting its madness.

The 91st, endured through a nightmare-like sensation of repeatedly passing through life-and-death gates. “The 92nd!” To succeed, one must be ruthless to oneself! Luo Feng continued to have his Golden Horned Beast clone integrate the 92nd Xueluo Crystal. Heavens, the killing intent from the 92nd Xueluo Crystal… was simply irresistible. Luo Feng desperately controlled his willpower, making it incredibly focused, persisting and persisting, feeling as if his willpower was about to collapse. Finally, that terrifying killing intent receded. But immediately following was a continuous, even more terrifying pain…

“Why do I have this feeling?” Black-Clothed Luo Feng picked up the 93rd Xueluo Crystal, muttering, “It will be very, very difficult to integrate up to the 100th.” “Continue!” The moment the 93rd Xueluo Crystal touched the fresh blood in the Golden Horned Beast’s right claw wound, a killing intent far more violent, frenzied, and ferocious than before surged towards Luo Feng’s willpower. This killing intent was endless, each wave incredibly powerful. Luo Feng frantically resisted again and again with great difficulty. Boom! Luo Feng felt a dizzy spell, and then all three of his clones fell unconscious. After breaking through Luo Feng’s resistance, the killing intent quickly receded back into the Xueluo Crystal. Integration of the 93rd Xueluo Crystal, failed!