Execution

Within a specially created dimensional space in the Virtual Universe.

Roar~~~ Azure divine dragons coiled and soared through the heavens and earth. 'Caw!' Beautiful, rainbow-winged birds were also ubiquitous. In this vast dimensional space, a single glance revealed tens of millions of peculiar beasts, some beautiful, some grotesque.

Surrounded by tens of millions of beasts.

A majestic complex of blood-red palaces floated in mid-air, and within one of them.

'Smash!' A tall, burly man, clad in purple combat armor and sporting a silver horn, violently slammed the wine glass in his hand. The translucent glass shattered upon impact with the ground. The silver-horned man's face was contorted in fury, his eyes burning like two stars as he roared, 'What, do you think I'm easily bullied? The Demonic Sound Mountain inheritance was an opportunity I worked hard for, for my disciple, Meng Cang King. You just say it's gone?'

'Venerable!'

A white-haired elder standing below the main hall bowed and said, 'It's not that it's gone, but you'll have to wait for the next batch!'

'Next batch, next batch? What a load of crap!' The silver-horned man roared in anger. 'Each batch of Demonic Sound Mountain inheritance is separated by 10,081 epochs! Each batch has a maximum of 32 participants. I spent so many treasures, invested so much, and went through the final selection process just to secure this one spot! But now you tell me... that one of the 32 inheritance palaces in Demonic Sound Mountain has been occupied by an unknown life form, and a spot is missing.'

'What do I care if a spot is missing? Why erase my disciple's opportunity? Why not erase someone else's?' The silver-horned man was utterly furious.

'Venerable!'

The white-haired elder bowed slightly, 'During the initial selection, Meng Cang King was ranked last among the 32, so the higher-ups decided...'

'Get out, get out of my sight!' The silver-horned man waved his hand abruptly.

The white-haired elder bowed slightly, not daring to say more, and immediately turned and left.

The silver-horned man's face was grim.

To think that he, a dignified Venerable, one of the great eternal existences among the cosmic human race, rarely encountered anything that could vex him, but this time...

'Those old geezers in the Hong Alliance, they took my benefits back then, and now they're all acting so righteous, directly eliminating my disciple's opportunity just because one spot is missing.' The silver-horned man seethed with resentment, but he knew very well that since the higher-ups had made a decision, his anger was useless.

'Who exactly is it!'

'Who exactly took my disciple's spot?' The silver-horned man was filled with bitter resentment.

The Demonic Sound Mountain inheritance!

It was tens of millions of times more precious than the opportunity to comprehend the Jiuyu Chaos Stele, because the Chaos Stele merely guided people to comprehend laws. But the 'Demonic Sound Mountain inheritance' was a truly detailed cultivation secret technique; as long as one cultivated step by step, their strength would achieve a leapfrog improvement.

'Wait for the next batch? After 10,081 epochs?' The more the silver-horned man thought about it, the angrier he became.

His disciple, Meng Cang King, was a King-level Undying.

Becoming a Venerable was incredibly difficult!

However, through this Demonic Sound Mountain inheritance, to a certain extent, the probability of becoming a Venerable would greatly increase. Now, someone unknown had taken the opportunity, forcing his disciple to wait another hundred million years.

...

Of course, Luo Feng was unaware of the affairs of some of the cosmos's highest-ranking figures.

He only knew to seize the opportunity and immerse himself in cultivation.

...

Inside the main hall of the inheritance palace, on the inheritance steps.

Luo Feng had been standing on the first step for a day, silently with his eyes closed on the black rock steps. His mental power in his mind was continuously cultivating this inheritance secret technique. This powerful, nameless inheritance secret technique was tentatively named 'Supreme Demonic Sound Codex'.

According to the information Luo Feng received on the first step, this 'Supreme Demonic Sound Codex' was mainly divided into two aspects.

One was the foundation.

The other was the Demonic Sound Secret Technique.

The foundation accounted for ninety-nine percent of the 'Supreme Demonic Sound Codex'. Once a solid foundation was firmly established, the final Demonic Sound Secret Technique could be easily mastered.

The 'foundation' here referred to the amplitude of mental power!

For example, when Luo Feng controlled a flying dagger, its maximum attack power reached a certain value. Luo Feng's limit was... simultaneously controlling 78 flying daggers, all reaching their maximum power. In that case, the mental power amplitude would be 78! Back when Luo Feng was on Earth, his strength was still weak, and he could simultaneously control over ten flying daggers to achieve their maximum attack power.

The soul had mental power amplitude!

The body had strength amplitude!

The 'Undying Altar' was for testing strength amplitude. Generally, a strength amplitude of 100 was considered perfect control over every ounce of the body's power! A strength amplitude of 100 was a limit under normal circumstances!

Similarly.

A mental power amplitude that could simultaneously control 100 flying daggers, with each dagger reaching its maximum attack power as if controlled individually, was also a limit under normal circumstances!

However!

That was merely the limit under normal circumstances.

For instance, when the Golden Horned Beast performed a physical attack, its normal strength amplitude might only be 80-90. But once it unleashed its innate secret technique—Enhance!—it would immediately double, causing its strength attack power to exceed one hundred. If it used the 'Original Body Heaven and Earth' secret technique, its physical strength would increase several more times! Reaching several hundred! And the Golden Horned Beast's 'right hoof claw', once activated with Xueluo power, its strength would surge!

Physical strength would increase again!

Logically, the limit was 100, but that was the normal limit. Some special secret techniques and special treasures could allow one to surpass the normal limit! And these secret techniques and treasures were all incredibly expensive items in the cosmos.

The innate secret technique 'Enhance' strengthened everything: body, soul, and so on.

The Golden Horned Beast's current soul amplitude was 78, but once it unleashed its innate secret technique, its attack power would immediately double!

And the 'Supreme Demonic Sound Codex' was a secret technique similar to the 'Original Body Heaven and Earth' in the Golden Horned Beast's memory, and it was even more heaven-defying and exaggerated than 'Original Body Heaven and Earth'... 'Original Body Heaven and Earth', when cultivated to mastery, only increased power by 27 times. But the 'Supreme Demonic Sound Codex' was much stronger.

This was a truly ultimate inheritance, leading to the pinnacle!

'Truly profound and extraordinary!'

'Even more powerful than 'Original Body Heaven and Earth', such a heaven-defying inheritance!' Luo Feng opened his eyes, looking at the layers of increasingly high steps extending before him. At a glance, the steps led into the endless void. Luo Feng took a deep breath, shot forward, and flew to the second step.

The moment Luo Feng's foot landed on the second step, an incredibly detailed and exquisite secret technique immediately flooded into his mind again.

Continue cultivating!

Day after day!

Step after step!

On these inheritance steps leading into the endless void, Luo Feng continuously advanced.

In fact, from the moment he began receiving the inheritance, Luo Feng had received a message... once the inheritance began, it could not be stopped! One had to continuously cultivate and advance. The cultivation process was actually a form of torment for one's will and consciousness. If one couldn't endure this torment and stopped cultivating, then... the inheritance would automatically end!

In the vast cosmos, over hundreds of millions of years, more than a hundred thousand different life forms had come to receive this inheritance.

However—

Not a single life form had been able to reach the end of the inheritance steps!

'I wonder how long this inheritance will last!'

'Hmm, this opportunity is hard-won, I can't miss it.'

Luo Feng cultivated with a frenzied obsession, like a beggar ravenously devouring steamed buns. The more he cultivated, the more he felt his consciousness amplitude continuously increase, quickly surpassing 100, the limit under normal circumstances, and still rising.

It was too heaven-defying.

The more he cultivated, the more he understood that if this secret technique were to be exchanged in the Virtual Universe Company's treasury, it would undoubtedly cost an astronomical amount of points! Perhaps even the Virtual Universe Company's treasury might not possess such a heaven-defying secret technique.

'There's only one chance to cultivate.'

'I'll cultivate as much as I can. Maybe I can even cultivate it to mastery! No matter what, how can I not give it my all?'

...

While Luo Feng was receiving the Demonic Sound inheritance in the deepest core of Demonic Sound Mountain, the experts from Thousand Star Sect, whom Po Yu Marquis had sent to hunt Luo Feng, were having a headache.

Six months later.

In the Virtual Universe, there was an island specifically for the powerhouses of Nine Star Sea to reside.

On Nine Star Sea Island, a vast complex of palaces served as the headquarters of the renowned Thousand Star Sect within the Virtual Universe Company.

Inside one of the palaces.

'God!'

Two Sector Lords and two Domain Lords respectfully saluted.

A peerlessly beautiful woman with stunning jade-green long hair sat on the throne in the main hall, leaning back languidly. She glanced down and asked, 'You four still haven't found the target?'

'Yes, God.'

The four felt nervous.

These four were among the six experts from Thousand Star Sect dispatched for this mission. As for the other two... they had already died within Demonic Sound Mountain!

'A bunch of trash!' The peerlessly beautiful woman snorted coldly. 'I'll give you another six months! I hope you don't disappoint me!'

'Yes.'

The four were drenched in cold sweat.

Time flowed by, and in the blink of an eye, a year had passed since the four of them entered Demonic Sound Mountain. During this year, another Domain Lord among them died, having fallen victim to the demonic sound... unknowingly becoming a walking corpse.

Finally, the three surviving members all escaped Demonic Sound Mountain one after another.

'Congratulations, you have survived in Demonic Sound Mountain for a year, making you fully qualified to join my Virtual Universe Company.' The Virtual Universe Company personnel stationed at the periphery of Demonic Sound Mountain, specifically the lowest-ranking silver-robed deacons, quickly went to welcome the three survivors.

Ba Yan and the other two Thousand Star Sect experts exchanged glances, feeling somewhat helpless.

They had come to challenge Demonic Sound Mountain because Po Yu Marquis had demanded it. In reality, none of the three wanted to join the Virtual Universe Company and run errands for others.

'Bring those three to me.' A voice echoed in the ears of the silver-robed deacons.

'Yes, Po Yu Marquis.'

The silver-robed deacons immediately led Ba Yan and the two others to Po Yu Marquis's temple.

Deep within the temple, in a certain hall.

Po Yu Marquis lay on the throne, her jade-green snake tail coiled beside it. Her eyes gazed down at the trembling Ba Yan and the two others.

'God.'

The three knelt prostrate.

Po Yu Marquis waved her hand, and immediately, the spatial ring was forcibly stripped from the Domain Lord's finger. She directly broke its spiritual imprint and retrieved the E9-grade laser gun from within.

'God, the target was only a Universe-level Ninth Tier, and we haven't found him in a year, nor has he emerged from Demonic Sound Mountain. It's highly likely he was killed by others within Demonic Sound Mountain, or perhaps he was enchanted by the demonic sound and became a walking corpse.' Ba Yan, the strongest among them, a Sector Lord Ninth Tier, quickly said.

'Let's hope so!' Po Yu Marquis nodded slightly, then her gaze swept over the three below.

The three's eyes immediately stiffened!

Then, with three thuds, they collapsed to the ground, dead.

'However, you know too much, so you must die.' Po Yu Marquis said indifferently. Sending people to kill a genius valued by the Virtual Universe Company—if discovered, she, a Marquis-level Undying... even if not killed, would be imprisoned in the Starry Sky Prison.

'It's been a year.'

'That little fellow is most likely dead.' Po Yu Marquis murmured softly, then flashed a charming smile, as if the surrounding world suddenly became vibrant.