Yan God Clan's Territory

Luo Feng ran his hand over the palm-sized black metal plate; it was cool and smooth, like jade. "Feng, what exactly is this black metal plate? Do you know?" Xu Xin asked.

Luo Feng gently shook his head.

He had never seen such a black metal plate before. Even in the vast inheritance memory of the Golden Horned Beast, he had meticulously studied F-grade and even G-grade metals. Yet, this substance wasn't present in the Golden Horned Beast's inheritance memory.

"Babata, do you know?" Luo Feng mentally inquired.

"Scanned. The scanning instruments can't detect any information, nor can they penetrate it. I've never seen this black metal plate either," Babata's slightly puzzled voice echoed in Luo Feng's mind.

Suddenly, Luo Feng held the black metal plate with both hands.

"Hmph!"

A sharp glint flashed in Luo Feng's eyes as he let out a low grunt, exerting force with both hands, trying to bend it. As a Sector Lord level 9 expert, he possessed enough power to plunge an entire living planet into extinction! Yet, his terrifying strength had no effect on the small metal plate, not even a tremor. It was as if Luo Feng's power was nothing more than an ant trying to shake a tree.

"What a strange metal plate," Luo Feng murmured, frowning in confusion. "Let's go, we'll head back inside first."

Luo Feng led his wife, leaving the treasure vault.

...

On the bedroom balcony, Luo Feng sat silently. It was already deep into the night, around three or four in the morning. The moon hung high in the night sky, and the cool breeze of the summer night drifted in through the window.

"With my current authority, I've roughly reviewed all the data on various miraculous substances searchable within the Virtual Universe Company. I've also roughly gone through the Golden Horned Beast's inheritance memory concerning peculiar metals and other materials." Luo Feng caressed the black metal plate in his hand. "But there's no information!"

"It must have a significant origin," Luo Feng's eyes gleamed.

Luo Feng understood clearly.

Although his status was high, within the human race alone, there were many whose status far surpassed his. For instance, his authority as a Primal Secret Region member seemed very high, but above that were the authorities of the Undying Gods of the King-tier, and his teacher Zhenyan King's authority was likely even higher than that of an ordinary King-tier. Above them were the Universe Nation Masters.

In short!

Even among humanity's 1008 Universe Nations, he could only be considered upper-tier, not truly high-tier. Naturally, he knew less information.

"But... if even the Golden Horned Beast's successive inheritance memories don't contain it, then this black metal plate is truly special," Luo Feng stared at it.

It was a treasure.

Absolutely a treasure!

"The patterns on the surface of this fractured black metal plate look utterly ordinary, no matter how I examine them." Luo Feng stared intently. His naked eye vision, if observing dissected specimens, could even clearly see the cell nuclei within cells! Yet, even with such acuity, he couldn't find anything special.

"My naked eye can't discern it. I'll try with spirit energy; spirit energy detection can be more meticulous," Luo Feng thought.

*Whoosh whoosh~*

Invisible, colorless, and incredibly fine threads of spirit energy gently swept over the black metal plate.

"Hmm?" Luo Feng's expression changed slightly, then a look of pleasant surprise appeared on his face.

"Haha! So that's it, it really is special!"

Luo Feng's eyes shone with delight.

When he manipulated the spirit energy threads to sweep over the black metal plate, the threads didn't 'touch' the metal plate at all; it was as if the metal plate was air. Instead, the spirit energy threads swept directly into the interior of the black metal plate... and encountered layers of obstruction.

"Metal usually has a certain blocking effect on spirit energy," Luo Feng was incredibly excited. "But this metal plate is like air under spirit energy detection... perhaps it's not a metal plate at all, but some other incredibly hard substance. Or perhaps it's a very special metal plate! In any case... spirit energy can penetrate it!"

"What's inside?"

Luo Feng controlled his spirit energy.

Hundreds of spirit energy threads, like embroidery needles, diligently drilled through the layers of obstruction they encountered inside the black metal plate.

A moment later—

"Hmm?" Luo Feng's expression shifted slightly, feeling that his spirit energy could no longer penetrate deeper.

"Can't drill through?"

"I refuse to believe it!" Luo Feng narrowed his eyes.

Within his inner world.

On the vast continent, the Golden Horned Beast, stretching like a mountain range, let out a mighty roar, and simultaneously, the four sharp horns on its forehead lit up with secret patterns—

Innate ability 'Enhance'!

Not only were all aspects of the Golden Horned Beast's body strengthened, but even the Golden Horned Beast's soul—the soul within its core—was enhanced!

"Out!"

On the bedroom balcony, Luo Feng, sitting there, had eyes like lightning.

His current Earth human body was at 'Sector Lord level 9', and the Golden Horned Beast was also at 'Sector Lord level 9'. Since they were of the same rank and level, the spirit energy released after the soul in the core was enhanced could be borne by the human body without collapsing!

If the human body was only at Universe level 9, the soul spirit energy from the core could not be released through the human body.

Because the level difference would be too great, the human body wouldn't be able to withstand it.

Generally, within a two to three-tier difference, the physical body can bear it.

"*Whoosh!*" The spirit energy, influenced by mysterious cosmic laws, surged in power! It immediately drilled through the layers of obstruction within the black metal plate in Luo Feng's hand.

"*Boom boom boom~~~*"

"My child!" A majestic, faint voice echoed in Luo Feng's mind, and instantly, Luo Feng's consciousness fell into the illusion contained within that voice...

After a long time—

Luo Feng, who had been sitting dumbfounded on the balcony, suddenly trembled. His face contorted, he gritted his teeth, and abruptly opened his eyes.

"Damn it, I've never encountered an illusion like this!" Cold sweat dripped from Luo Feng's forehead. This was the most bizarre illusion he had ever encountered, different from the various schools of human illusion secret techniques Luo Feng knew. Generally, illusion secret techniques directly targeted the heart, trapping people in illusions based on desires, inner thoughts, and so on.

But the illusion just now.

It was purely a 'bullying' illusion!

With that profound voice, illusions generated one after another... when Luo Feng broke through one illusion, perhaps even more illusions were born. This led to—even though Luo Feng continuously broke through illusions, the number of illusions being born grew, giving Luo Feng a nightmarish feeling of falling into a bottomless abyss from which he couldn't climb out.

"I broke through nearly ten thousand illusions, and finally, that endless chain of illusions automatically collapsed." Luo Feng took a deep breath. His spirit energy continued to penetrate deeper into the black metal. Suddenly, text messages continuously integrated into Luo Feng's spirit energy, becoming known to him.

A moment later, the text message transmission ended.

"Hmm?"

"This is actually a peculiar item that stores inheritance messages," Luo Feng said, touching the black metal plate, puzzled. "These characters are also square-shaped. But I don't recognize a single one."

Each character was square-shaped.

There were a total of 36,923 characters in this message.

Unfortunately, Luo Feng didn't recognize any of them.

"It feels quite similar to some ancient characters in Huaxia's ancient culture, but it's not," Luo Feng's conscious calculation speed was astonishing. He had some understanding of various profound characters in Huaxia's ancient culture, and the characters he received from the black metal plate, while similar, were not the same.

"Babata," Luo Feng called out.

"Hmm? Found anything?" Babata immediately asked.

"Do you recognize this character?" Luo Feng selected a very complex character, with as many as 92 strokes, and wrote it directly in the air.

"This, this..." Babata said, shocked. "These are the characters of the Yan God Clan's Territory!"

"Yan God Clan's Territory?" Luo Feng asked, surprised and confused.

After carefully searching through some data in the Golden Horned Beast's inheritance memory, he quickly found records related to the Yan God Clan's Territory.

The Yan God Clan's Territory, one of the billions of races in the vast cosmos, was a powerful race, not to be provoked.

The information in the inheritance memory was very scarce, only emphasizing 'not to be provoked'.

"Babata, how much do you know about the Yan God Clan's Territory?" Luo Feng pressed.

"I never heard of the Yan God Clan's Territory when I was with my master," Babata said. "However, after you became a Primal Secret Region member, as your virtual assistant, I can certainly help you search the network. So... with your authority, I've looked up a lot of information and stored a large amount of it in memory."

Luo Feng smiled.

Normally, while he cultivated, Babata would get bored and collect all sorts of information.

"Tell me about the Yan God Clan's Territory," Luo Feng urged.

"There are billions of races in the cosmos, and every race that survives cannot be underestimated," Babata began to describe. "Of course, Humans, the Bug race, the Machine race, the Monster race, and so on, all belong to the peak races. Peak races stand at the pinnacle of the cosmos; they all possess incredibly terrifying power."

"For example, the Bug race. The Bug race is incredibly united; their thoughts can merge into one! And some powerful Bug race mother nests can mass-produce Undying Bug race warriors..."

"With endless swarms of bugs, any single Bug race mother nest can easily conquer a Star Domain."

"The Machine race. Every member of the Machine race is an intelligent lifeform, and the higher-grade Machine race members are even more terrifying! Many high-tech weapons alone can be used to kill Undying Gods..."

"Humans. Individuals can develop independently, with extremely strong individuality. Coupled with their incredibly vast numbers... from such a huge population, many geniuses can be selected, and many peerless experts capable of dominating the cosmos can be cultivated," Babata continued. "Perhaps individually, humans are not as terrifying as the peak experts of the Bug race or the Machine race, but humans have a large number of powerful individuals!"

"In short!"

"Peak races have two major advantages: first, strong peak military power, and second, they can employ swarm tactics, machine ocean tactics, and human wave tactics."

"Besides the peak races, there are also some races that are few in number but extremely powerful individually. Therefore, they also hold a certain position in the cosmos. Their status may be high or low!" Babata said. "Some weaker races have long become vassals or been annexed. And the Yan God Clan's Territory... is a powerful, independent, and mysterious race."

"Their population is small, so they don't occupy a large territory."

"Because there are many super-beings within the Yan God Clan's Territory, and their territory isn't large, peak races like humans and the Bug race are unwilling to provoke them. Because it's not worth the trouble."

Luo Feng nodded, based on the information in his inheritance memory.

Races.

Could be roughly divided into Peak races, Powerful races, Ordinary races, and Weak races.

Humans belonged to the Peak races.

The Yan God Clan's Territory belonged to the Powerful races.

The Golden Horned Beast race? It was even weaker than the Yan God Clan's Territory, mainly because Golden Horned Beasts were simply too rare.

Between an elephant and a hundred million ants, there was no doubt that the ant colony was stronger.

"The characters you just wrote are precisely the characters of the Yan God Clan's Territory," Babata said. "The history of the Yan God Clan's Territory is very ancient; it probably existed during the earliest periods of the cosmos' birth. Since this black metal plate has existed on Earth for 600 million years, it's understandable, as the history of the Yan God Clan's Territory far exceeds 600 million years."