Golden Horn Clan

The Cosmic Army of the Ganwu Universe Nation is composed of 100 legions, with over a hundred million cosmic warriors! In reality, such a massive army isn't a significant burden for a Universe Nation. First, the Ganwu Universe Nation possesses hundreds of millions of galaxies; even with natural development, a single galaxy can produce a Universe-level being! What's more... there are throngs of Sector Lords and Domain Lords, and Ganwu Dojos are spread throughout the entire Universe Nation. Under such guidance, the average number of Universe-level experts per galaxy in the Ganwu Universe Nation exceeds 10, totaling over a billion! By this calculation, a Cosmic Army with over a hundred million cosmic warriors is indeed not too heavy a burden; the Universe Nation has an abundant supply of fresh blood to continuously replenish it.

“Luo Feng, this Ninth Army Commander is from our Virtual Universe Company, a member of our Virtual Universe Company,” the black-veiled girl introduced with a smile.

“I'm afraid I'll be troubling the Ninth Army Commander quite often in the future,” Luo Feng said with a slight smile.

“It's my duty,” the tall, thin man said, looking at the black-veiled girl. “We are also under the jurisdiction of the Ganwu Branch's 'Military Department'... If the special envoy has any requests, please don't hesitate to give orders; it's no trouble at all.”

Luo Feng glanced at the large group of Undying beings behind the tall, thin man.

Seeing this, the tall, thin man said in a low voice, “These are the 100 army commanders under my Ninth Legion. Some are from the Virtual Universe Company, and some are from the Ganwu Universe Nation.”

Luo Feng nodded.

According to the information he'd received from emails earlier, the Ganwu Universe Nation's Cosmic Army has over ten thousand Undying beings serving in military positions. Half of these Undying beings are from the Virtual Universe Company, and the other half are from the Ganwu Universe Nation, intermingled within the various legions. This ensures the entire Cosmic Legion remains unified and doesn't splinter. What's more... the Ganwu Universe Nation wouldn't dare to split from the Virtual Universe Company.

“Special envoy, what does my Ninth Legion need to do for this mission?” the tall, thin man asked, looking at Luo Feng.

“No rush, I'll send you the detailed mission brief soon,” Luo Feng replied.

“Hahaha... then I'll await your orders, special envoy,” the tall, thin man said with a slight smile.

Before this, the entire Ninth Legion had been completely unaware of the mission. The mission had to be kept absolutely confidential. According to Luo Feng's plan... even when the mission was finally executed, Luo Feng wouldn't reveal all the information to the Ninth Legion. The Ninth Legion was merely a resource, a pawn he could utilize.

...

Time flowed by. Luo Feng contacted the company's intelligence system via the Virtual Universe Network to confirm the detailed information of the 120 million targets he needed to eliminate. He then swiftly formulated a battle plan—he would provide the Ninth Army Commander with the detailed information of these 120 million individuals and their planetary locations. Once the order was given, they would immediately blockade the planets and trap them like turtles in a jar! Ensuring not a single one escaped! All would be slaughtered clean!

...

“Next, I need to make contact with the Golden Horn Clan's Tawen Department.” Luo Feng sat in his manor's study within the Yuxiang Mountain Primal Region of the Virtual Universe, looking at the vast amount of information displayed on his laptop screen—all concerning the Golden Horn Clan's Tawen Department.

“The Golden Horn Clan, their name is quite similar to the Golden Horned Beast,” Luo Feng chuckled.

Babata curled his lip. “The Golden Horned Beast is one branch of the 'Starry Sky Behemoths,' which are flesh-and-blood lifeforms. But this Golden Horn Clan... they don't belong to the flesh-and-blood category at all.”

Lifeforms in the universe are broadly categorized into flesh-and-blood lifeforms, metallic lifeforms, intelligent lifeforms, energy lifeforms, plant lifeforms, rock lifeforms... Even within the same lifeform category, appearances, body structures, and so on can still vary greatly. For instance, among rock lifeforms, some clans resemble rocks, some are like massive mountains, others like boulders, while some show no trace of rock on their surface. At first glance, some even appear human, or like certain flesh-and-blood monsters; only their internal composition differs.

“What a fascinating race,” Luo Feng exclaimed, looking at the detailed description. “The Golden Horn Clan is a type of rock lifeform, whose appearance is strikingly similar to the Pola Tribe among humans; at least from the surface, there's no discernible difference.”

“But in reality, they eat dirt and rubber, and even their excrement consists of crystals,” Babata said disdainfully. “Even if you cut open their bodies, it's like cutting through an alloy; there's no trace of blood, and certainly no internal organs like a heart or lungs, because rock lifeforms naturally don't need to breathe.”

Luo Feng nodded.

“The Golden Horn Clan is just an ordinary race among the billions of races in the universe,” Babata said dismissively. “Their strength is too weak, yet their population is quite large, requiring a considerable territory. This led to them being unable to thrive in the universe, so they sought refuge with humanity, becoming a vassal race to the pinnacle race that is humanity.”

Cosmic races can be divided into four types: pinnacle races, powerful races, ordinary races, and weak races. The Yan God Clan, mentioned previously, belongs to the powerful races. The Golden Horn Clan belongs to the ordinary races.

“They're not weak at all. At least the Golden Horn Clan has many tribes, and any action squad dispatched by a random tribe consists of one King-level Undying and seven Marquis-level Undying beings,” Luo Feng remarked with emotion. “If a single tribe is that powerful, the entire Golden Horn Clan must be quite formidable.”

“When I say weak, I mean relative to humanity!” Babata retorted, curling his lip. “You have to understand, no matter what, it's still an entire race!”

“No matter how weak a race is in the universe, you can't underestimate them. Otherwise, those races wouldn't be able to survive at all and would have long been devoured by more powerful races,” Babata said. “Take this Golden Horn Clan, for example. I estimate they have at least a hundred King-level Undying beings, and probably two or three Universe Nation Lord experts. Sweeping through the Ganwu Universe Nation would be no problem for them!”

Luo Feng nodded.

Based on the intelligence data, the Golden Horn Clan could indeed easily sweep through the Ganwu Universe Nation. However—humanity's pinnacle strength is actually concentrated in its five major powers. Just the power revealed by the Virtual Universe Company alone... for example, the Initial Universe existing independently outside the Primal Universe! Or easily suppressing the Xueluo World! Or effortlessly creating a dimension! Humanity's true strength is indeed unfathomable.

“Of course, they are merely humanity's vassals,” Babata said. “Dirty work, hard work, dangerous work—they handle it! Good fortune, joyous events, treasures—we humans take them.”

Luo Feng smiled, sighing inwardly at the same time. Survival for races in the universe is indeed not easy. A race as powerful as the Golden Horn Clan can only serve as humanity's vassals, risking their lives for humanity to obtain the resources needed for their own development.

“They're considered lucky. Some even weaker races don't even qualify to be vassals,” Babata said dismissively. “They're simply captured and enslaved like chattel.”

Luo Feng nodded. And an idea sparked within him—he, too, should become one of the pillars supporting humanity's stand in the vast universe! Allowing the countless humans within the 1008 Universe Nations of humanity's territory to live relatively peaceful lives.

...

While the Yunmo Star Ship was still traveling through the dark universe towards the Red Dawn Star, a mysterious and powerful squad had already arrived at the Red Dawn Star. The Red Dawn Star, a very ordinary life planet, was located within an outpost of the Virtual Universe Company.

Inside a luxurious, entirely golden grand hall, nine powerhouses were seated scattered around. Their skin was bluish, and each had a vertical golden mark on their forehead. On the plates before them lay exquisite, individual bar-shaped compounds or circular materials.

“Crunch, crunch, crunch.” One of the youths, clad in golden combat armor, held a circular piece of metal and ate it with large bites, exclaiming, “The taste is truly excellent; this alloy combination is absolutely delicious.”

“Everyone, take a look at the data,” an aged voice resounded. The elder, seated at the head, completely enveloped in golden armor save for a pair of aged eyes, said in a low voice, “This is the contact person humanity has arranged for us this time, and also some information about the human we need to obey. Kashina, you can eat later! Look at this data first.”

“Yes, Teacher,” the armored youth nodded repeatedly.

The other seven Undying beings also looked at the data on the projection screen.

“Luo Feng?” the armored youth muttered. “A young man from the indigenous planet 'Earth,' who participated in the Virtual Universe Company's genius battle at the Star-level and immediately made a name for himself, ranking among the top ten in the pinnacle showdowns of countless peerless geniuses from the 1008 Universe Nations, entering the Taichu Secret Realm. Hey, Teacher, this guy is pretty impressive.”

“Keep reading!” the elder barked.

“Oh,” the armored youth obediently continued reading.

“Wow!” The armored youth's eyes widened. “He actually broke into the Primal Secret Realm during his very first internal qualification battle, a peerless genius rarely seen in tens of thousands of human epochs? Hmm, serving as an inspection special envoy, tsk tsk, he's been an inspection special envoy for 50 years, and there's no new information about him.”

“Everyone has seen it,” the elder said, looking around before his gaze settled on the armored youth. “Kashina, this time you were brought here at the leader's request. However, you are only a Sector Lord in strength, so listen obediently and observe quietly. Don't cause us any trouble, understand?”

“Understood, Teacher,” the armored youth nodded, but his eyes darted around.

The elder no longer looked at his disciple, but instead declared loudly, “Judging from the data, this is no ordinary Primal Secret Realm genius. His rate of progress is astonishing. Even if we include all the Sector Lord geniuses from humanity's Virtual Universe Company's Primal Secret Realm, Luo Feng's potential would still rank among the top few!”

“Indeed,” the seven Undying beings of the Golden Horn Clan's Tawen Department all nodded.

“According to our clan regulations, such peerless human geniuses, who have the potential to rise to humanity's upper echelons in the future, must be befriended.” The elder, enveloped in golden combat armor, his voice gradually turning stern and sharp, like clashing blades, continued, “This mission is an excellent opportunity to befriend this human named Luo Feng. For our Golden Horn Clan to survive, even if it's difficult to befriend humanity's current high-ranking officials, we must befriend their future high-ranking officials. Everything, for the clan!”

“Everything, for the clan!” the seven Undying beings, including the armored youth, responded with solemn expressions.

“Enjoy the banquet,” the golden-armored elder said. The elite squad members of the Tawen Department began eating the alloys and special compounds custom-made for them by the Virtual Universe Company, their laughter echoing loudly.