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Without further ado, within the vast internal world, the Golden Horned Beast coiled before a mountain range. Its psychic energy controlled tens of thousands of carving knives, attempting to carve repeatedly. From time to time, it would use world power to restore the mountain, then carve again, restore again, carve again… a continuous cycle!

It repeatedly failed to replicate the scale patterns of the giant beast god statue, always feeling unable to capture the pressure and artistic conception.

It failed ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times.

“Over three thousand failures,” the Golden Horned Beast muttered. “This is truly difficult. Alright, I’ll try imitating the small beast god statue, just a few scales.” Having experienced the oppression of the cosmic laws before, the Golden Horned Beast was extremely cautious in its imitation. Carving the scale patterns of this ‘small beast god statue’ naturally brought a unique sensation.

It felt as if it were carving the ultimate cosmic dao!

As it carved, the invisible oppression of the cosmic laws descended once more, gradually intensifying.

“Stop!” After carving ten scales, the Golden Horned Beast paused, then let out a low roar and turned to control a large number of carving knives, resuming its attempts to imitate the giant beast god statue.

…

Luo Feng’s human body sat in the Beast God Canyon, observing the giant statue and continuously sensing its peculiar fluctuations.

The Golden Horned Beast was responsible for the repeated carving attempts.

The Demon Killer Clan clone held the small beast god statue, constantly observing it, sensing its unique ‘spirit’ and ‘artistic conception’. The more it sensed, the clearer it felt the terrifying nature of this beast god—a presence that made one tremble and submit.

…

The three bodies combined their efforts!

They immersed themselves completely, working tirelessly. Because the Golden Horned Beast’s carvings were always completed in one swift, lightning-fast motion, it could perform tens of thousands of carvings in a single Earth day.

In this state…

Over a year passed in the blink of an eye.

…

Starry Sky Behemoths are inherently solitary. The Golden Horned Beast lay coiled on the grassland, tirelessly controlling the carving knives to carve the massive mountain before it with lightning speed. It would instantly complete a carving, instantly restore the mountain with world power, and instantly complete another carving. Its speed was simply terrifying.

“Woo!”

The Golden Horned Beast was about to use world power to restore the mountain again when it suddenly stopped.

“Rumble~~~” The Golden Horned Beast, which had been lying there, suddenly rose to its four feet, its dark golden eyes gleaming with excitement. It stared at the continuous, tens of thousands of kilometers long statue it had carved, now resembling a sleeping beast god.

“Damn!”

The Demon Killer Clan Luo Feng flashed over, landing directly in front of the beast god rock statue. He reached out, touching the carving, feeling the faint, almost imperceptible fluctuations of the entire beast god statue.

“Fluctuations.”

“It’s that kind of cosmic law fluctuation, not any of the elements: metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, light, time, or space,” the Demon Killer Clan Luo Feng roared excitedly. “Damn it, I succeeded! I actually managed to imitate a trace of its essence, drawing forth a hint of the cosmic origin’s fluctuations.”

“Woo—” On the grassland, the Golden Horned Beast also raised its head and let out an excited roar, its voice echoing across the endless plains.

…

Outside, in the Beast God Canyon.

Luo Feng, sitting cross-legged, couldn’t hide his excitement. He stared at the distant beast god statue, truly wanting to shout.

Too excited, truly too excited.

“Over a year, over a year! I’ve imitated it over five million times! I’ve tried imitating the small beast god statue over a hundred times. The Demon Killer Clan clone has been constantly observing the small beast god statue, memorizing its spirit and artistic conception, trying to integrate them into my subconscious. I didn’t expect to actually succeed in imitating it once,” Luo Feng exclaimed, incredibly excited.

This successful imitation, the carving produced by the Golden Horned Beast, contained fluctuations that were barely perceptible, extremely weak.

However, the ‘giant beast god statue’ itself had very normal fluctuations, and the pressure it generated was no weaker than that of an elder (Cosmic Venerable level). The statue carved by the Golden Horned Beast, however, currently had no pressure at all.

“No pressure! Cosmic law fluctuations, perhaps only one trillionth of the giant beast god statue’s,” Luo Feng thought to himself.

“But!”

“At least there’s a result.”

“This small achievement doesn’t help my strength much now. But at least it proves one thing… my method is feasible. I must continue! Constantly improving. As the trace of artistic conception I can imitate becomes stronger, the benefits to me in the future will definitely be astonishing.” Luo Feng knew that the beast god statue was a true treasure.

He was also lucky enough.

The small beast god statue itself couldn’t be imitated at all; even carving a few more scales would trigger interference and pressure from the cosmic laws.

The large beast god statue could be imitated, but it lacked true spirit, leaving no clear goal for imitation.

Only by combining the two could he achieve something.

And the small beast god statue was a supreme treasure on Xueluo Continent. Although no one understood its mysteries, its status was extremely high. At least, the beast god statues circulating in the cosmos were extremely rare, and one of them had fallen into Luo Feng’s hands.

…

“Your Highness.”

“His Highness Luo Feng?”

Dilun and Sifanqi noticed Luo Feng’s emotional fluctuations and both asked.

“Haha,” Luo Feng turned to look at Dilun and Sifanqi, and couldn’t help but say, “I’ve been sitting here for over a year, but I’m very interested in this beast god statue. I estimate I’ll need to stay for another ten or even a hundred years. Elder Sifanqi, if you have something urgent, you can return to the Tawen Department early. I will leave the Lasiao world directly after I finish comprehending here in the Beast God Canyon.”

“Time is infinite,” Elder Sifanqi laughed. “A hundred or a thousand years is but an instant to me. Your Highness needn’t worry about me. If there were truly an urgent matter, I would certainly inform Your Highness before leaving.”

“Mm.” Luo Feng nodded, then glanced at Dilun.

The two exchanged glances; no more words were needed.

Dilun’s mission was to protect Luo Feng, and the Domain Lord level was the final stage for building a foundation.

At the Universe level, he was in the ‘Virtual Universe Company’s’ various headquarters, protected by guards. But at the Sector Lord level… he would truly venture out into the cosmos alone. So, during Luo Feng’s Domain Lord stage… his cultivation was the most important thing. Dilun would rather cultivate a few thousand years less himself than disturb Luo Feng’s cultivation.

…

Luo Feng’s three bodies cooperated.

After the first success, he had the Golden Horned Beast continue to attempt imitation, only to find that it succeeded once every ten attempts. After about half a month of further imitation, it reached a point where it succeeded once every three attempts. After another half month, it finally stabilized, achieving success with every single imitation.

At this moment! Luo Feng had truly grasped that weakest trace of artistic conception.

Luo Feng named this artistic conception ‘Beast God Artistic Conception’.

“I now have a slight grasp of this Beast God Artistic Conception. Even when the Golden Horned Beast clone uses ‘Sky-Rending Claw’, its power seems to have increased,” Luo Feng sat cross-legged on the rocky ground. In the distance, figures of Golden Horned Clan members could be seen, hundreds of millions of strong individuals sitting densely in the canyon, like a sky-covering swarm of locusts.

“Mm.” “Since I’ve barely grasped this trace of Beast God Artistic Conception, I’ll establish a long-term retreat here for secluded cultivation,” Luo Feng made his decision.

Where else would he cultivate? He could meet his wife, parents, and children occasionally in the virtual universe; after all, it was 100% virtual, almost indistinguishable from reality.

“During my secluded cultivation here, I must first exchange for the ‘Myriad Soul Control Secret Art’.” Luo Feng immediately sent a wisp of consciousness into the virtual universe network.

…

Virtual Universe, Yuxiang Mountain, Primal Region, Luo Feng’s manor.

In the study.

Luo Feng sat at his desk, opened his laptop, and quickly clicked on the ‘Treasure Vault’ file, then opened the ‘Secret Arts’ category within it. In just a moment, he found the ‘Myriad Soul Control Secret Art’.

The ‘Myriad Soul Control Secret Art’ is an extremely high-grade control-type secret art, far stronger than the ‘Soul Imprint’ created by Huyan Bo. Even with his Marquis-level Undying strength, Huyan Bo was completely helpless against a Sector Lord-level Zerg Mother Nest. Even if he had money, he had no channels to purchase such extremely precious secret manuals.

After all, among the entire human race, there were only 29 types of secret arts created that could control a Zerg Mother Nest.

All of them were extremely expensive.

“Damn,” Luo Feng muttered. “So expensive.”

Luo Feng looked at the price. Unlike top-tier expensive secret manuals like ‘Space-Time Sketch’ which could be bought in layers, the ‘Myriad Soul Control Secret Art’ could not be bought in layers; it had to be purchased all at once.

‘Myriad Soul Control Secret Art’, a secret art for controlling soul slaves, exchange price 1,500,000 points (Primal Secret Region 30% discount, Taichu Secret Region 20% discount, Tiandi Secret Region 10% discount, End-of-World Secret Region full price).

“1.5 million points!” “They really dare to charge that much.” Luo Feng looked at the price, feeling immense heartache. “It’s too ruthless. Teacher Huyan Bo’s secret art, ‘Soul Imprint’, the entire ‘Soul Imprint’ secret art costs around 10,000 points, and a single slave soul imprint probably only costs a few thousand points. But this ‘Myriad Soul Control Secret Art’… which also controls soul slaves, costs as much as 1.5 million points.”

Babata, perched on Luo Feng’s shoulder, pouted, “Don’t complain about the price! If you weren’t a core member of the Virtual Universe Company, you wouldn’t be able to buy this secret manual even with 2 million or even 3 million mixed units. Any powerful individual who obtains a Zerg Mother Nest would generally spare no expense to buy a secret art that can control it. If the Virtual Universe Company were to sell such a secret art at an auction, it would be fiercely bid upon by a group of powerful individuals.”

Luo Feng rubbed his chin. He knew that, of course.

But… he was poor!

“My points, from that 200,000-point mission, when the one-year deadline arrived, there were still two targets at large, resulting in only an 85% completion rate. I only got 170,000 points from that mission. The most points I got were from two desperate-level missions: 400,000 points from the Demonic Sound Mountain mission, and 500,000 points from the Lost Galaxy mission.” Luo Feng looked at his points display on the page.

Total points: 1,316,060.