Chapter 701
Bombardment
Cultivating plant lifeforms has always been an extravagant endeavor. For instance, nurturing a Moyun Teng to Ninth-tier Universe Lord, even with extreme frugality, would still require ten to twenty thousand primal chaos units. However, for a premium Moyun Teng like Luo Feng's, the cost could reach a terrifying level of approximately 100,000 primal chaos units!
100,000 primal chaos units—what does that even mean?
The average assets of Undying Legion Masters are 10,000 primal chaos units, while the average assets of human Universe Lords are 10 primal chaos units!
Don't be fooled by the Fire Phoenix Group's vast enterprise and numerous slave planets. A single galaxy is typically worth less than 1 primal chaos unit. The entire massive Black Dragon Mountain Starfield is only between 300,000 and 1,000,000 primal chaos units. Luo Feng's expenditure on the Moyun Teng alone is worth a fraction of the Black Dragon Mountain Starfield!
One can imagine how astonishing the cost is!
Don't even think about dabbling in plant lifeforms without a solid foundation. Moreover, for ordinary plant lifeforms like 'Iron Vine Grass,' due to their limited potential, it's extremely rare for them to even reach Ninth-tier Universe Level. For these less potent plants, the cost of breaking through to Domain Lord or Universe Lord is actually far greater than for a Moyun Teng!
Iron Vine Grass reaching Ninth-tier Universe Lord! The cost is extravagant.
Shaluo Flower reaching Ninth-tier Universe Lord! Clearly, it's also a premium Shaluo Flower.
The cultivation of these two definitely exceeded 100,000 primal chaos units!
Even an ordinary Undying God couldn't afford such a colossal sum.
“He's just the boss of the Fire Phoenix Group. His total assets probably wouldn't even reach a few dozen primal chaos units. How could he cultivate these two plant lifeforms?” Luo Feng was shocked. “Moreover, the Virtual Universe Company's intelligence only stated that Pan Xi, when he was a slave, relied on Iron Vine Grass to seize that slave planet. But back then, the Iron Vine Grass was only at Ninth-tier Planet Level. I never expected it to be at Ninth-tier Universe Lord now.”
...
“Shaluo, seize him.” Pan Xi, communicating telepathically, controlled the Ninth-tier Universe Lord Shaluo Flower.
The Iron Vine Grass was something he obtained by chance in his youth, a turning point that changed his destiny.
The Shaluo Flower was a young plant he specifically purchased after achieving a higher status and continuously cultivated; it was his strongest trump card.
Because he had always been low-key, even when he used the Iron Vine Grass and Shaluo Flower a few times, he instantly killed his enemies. Thus, the news that he possessed Ninth-tier Universe Lord 'Iron Vine Grass' and 'Shaluo Flower' had always been a secret, one that even the Virtual Universe Company's intelligence department failed to uncover.
Regardless, the Virtual Universe Company isn't omniscient.
Just like when Luo Feng pursued 120 million targets back then, some managed to escape to uninhabited, desolate planets, making it impossible for Luo Feng to find them.
...
The Shaluo Flower's vibrant, eerie blossoms, swift as lightning, covered a distance of several tens of kilometers in less than 0.001 seconds, enveloping Luo Feng.
As Luo Feng rapidly fled, he stared at the eerie, pouncing flowers, simultaneously telepathically shouting, “Babata! Quick!”
“Coming!”
“Boom!”
The Yunmo Star Ship, which had been hovering beside Dilun, suddenly accelerated. With its blood-red triangular structure, its sharp edges could easily pierce and cut through a planet. Even when encountering an asteroid field, the Yunmo Star Ship's speed would not be affected in the slightest.
F9-grade metal, solidified secret patterns reinforced by the Virtual Universe Company!
How sharp was it?
“Whoosh!”
“Whoosh!”
Like a giant god wielding a scythe to cut grass, as the Yunmo Star Ship charged towards the Shaluo Flower, the Shaluo Flower's vibrant blossoms immediately opened. The expanded flowers, with an even more astonishing diameter, easily swallowed the entire Yunmo Star Ship. Its chilling, dense teeth gnashed, but then the vibrant flower exploded, and the Yunmo Star Ship cut directly through the flower and flew out, its speed almost undiminished.
It struck like lightning, at a terrifying speed of approximately 290,000 kilometers per second!
The scythe was cutting grass!
The Yunmo Star Ship swept past, and no matter how tough the Shaluo Flower was, it was directly cut apart. It wailed with an ear-piercing shriek, its terrifying sound waves even propagating through space, causing visible spatial tremors and distortions. The Shaluo Flower tried to dodge… but with its massive size and entangled by the Moyun Teng, how could it escape?
The Iron Vine Grass also wanted to dodge, but it was even more deeply intertwined with the Moyun Teng.
“Whoosh!” “Whoosh!”
The Yunmo Star Ship arced, cutting through large swathes of vines, directly targeting Pan Xi.
“How could—” Pan Xi's eyes widened, seemingly unable to believe such a terrifying spaceship existed.
Huff!
The Iron Vine Grass, however, wrapped around him and yanked him back, allowing him to evade the Yunmo Star Ship's 'cut.'
“Babata, keep going!” Luo Feng's eyes gleamed as he hovered in mid-air.
“Haha, understood.”
Babata continued to control the entire Yunmo Star Ship, charging again. It felt like returning to the days of adventuring with Huyan Bo. Compared to then, the Yunmo Star Ship's handling performance was even stronger, and its cutting ability was already monstrous back then, slicing asteroids like tofu. After being modified by the Virtual Universe Company, it was even more powerful.
As for its defense, even a Sector Lord-level Undying God would need considerable effort to damage it.
Even ordinary Undying Gods wouldn't dare to let the Yunmo Star Ship 'cut' them at will.
Of course...
Undying Gods have astonishing dodging abilities, and Universe Lords are also quite adept at dodging, certainly better than a spaceship's instantaneous evasion.
“Big trouble. His Moyun Teng is actually stronger than my Iron Vine Grass, and the Moyun Teng is massive and incredibly tough. Even if it can't defeat my Shaluo Flower, it can certainly entangle it. Once entangled… the Shaluo Flower and Iron Vine Grass are just targets.” Pan Xi's expression changed drastically.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
The Yunmo Star Ship flashed past repeatedly. The thin, sharp edges of the ship's hull acted like a giant blade, cutting through again and again. Large amounts of vines were severed, and many flowers and tree vines were cut. With the Moyun Teng's restraint… the Shaluo Flower and Iron Vine Grass were completely doomed.
“Haha!”
“Gagagaga.”
Babata's shrill, wild laughter echoed in the Yunmo Star Ship's control room.
After repeated cuttings, the two great plant lifeforms were severely damaged and their strength greatly diminished, as neither Iron Vine Grass nor Shaluo Flower were known for their 'cellular regenerative capabilities.'
“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!”
The Mechanical Race spaceship was also summoned by Luo Feng.
The Mechanical Race spaceship and the Yunmo Star Ship together unleashed a furious barrage, repeatedly bombarding the already weakened Shaluo Flower and Iron Vine Grass. Under Babata's precise calculations, these attacks almost exclusively landed on the Shaluo Flower and Iron Vine Grass, with very little collateral damage to the Moyun Teng.
Even if it was affected, the Moyun Teng's attack power might be inferior to the Shaluo Flower's, but its regenerative ability was far superior.
...
Amidst a fierce bombardment, especially the Mechanical Race spaceship's main cannon, which delivered a full-power strike comparable to an Undying God, the Shaluo Flower, Iron Vine Grass, and Pan Xi himself were all blasted into dust!
Over!
“Finished.” Luo Feng stood in space, smiling as he watched the scene, simultaneously closing the Virtual Universe Network's synchronized transmission.
Mission accomplished!
“Wow~~” Babata and its auxiliary AI simultaneously controlled the two spaceships, whistling as they flew to Luo Feng's side.
“Luo Feng, that was exhilarating! I haven't had this much fun in ages. This Yunmo Star Ship is absolutely incredible! Its acceleration, instantaneous maneuvering, and so on are 80% stronger than before. And with the solidified secret patterns on the hull, its cutting ability is even more amazing. Cutting through those Ninth-tier Universe Lord Shaluo Flower and Iron Vine Grass was simply too easy.”
Luo Feng smiled, telepathically communicating: “I spent hundreds of thousands of primal chaos units to modify the Yunmo Star Ship. And that's only because I'm a member of the Virtual Universe Company's Primal Chaos Secret Region! The Virtual Universe Company's modifications are no joke, are they?”
...
While telepathically communicating with Babata, Luo Feng flew directly forward.
After Pan Xi's death, his inner world automatically collapsed, and a large number of items floated out. A mental scan didn't reveal any particularly special items, but… Luo Feng still collected everything into his world ring. Because of those two Ninth-tier Universe Lord plant lifeforms, Luo Feng always felt… Pan Xi must have had some secrets.
“Dilun, mission accomplished, let's go.” Luo Feng said.
“Relying on two spaceships and the Moyun Teng, the power is indeed considerable.” Dilun smiled. “Once your Moyun Teng reaches Ninth-tier Universe Lord, with its regenerative ability and toughness… it will be very difficult for ordinary Universe Lord lifeforms to break free from its restraints. First, trap the Universe Lord, then use the Yunmo Star Ship to cut them down. Tsk tsk…”
Luo Feng also smiled.
Whoosh!
The Yunmo Star Ship hovered in space, and its hatch opened with a whoosh.
“Luo Feng, please enter the ship.” Babata's enthusiastic voice echoed at the entrance of the Yunmo Star Ship's hatch.
“Haha.”
Luo Feng and Dilun laughed as they flew into the ship.
...
After entering the Yunmo Star Ship, Luo Feng entered the world ring he had purchased in the Wulong Starfield, the most luxurious one with a diameter of hundreds of millions of kilometers.
The reason a Universe Lord's inner world is small is that the 'core' cannot bear the load.
However, 'world rings' can be made using precious materials to contain a world, without being limited by the core, thus allowing for the creation of extremely large worlds.
...
Inside the world ring.
A vast land of hundreds of millions of kilometers, primarily land. The countless碎石 (crushed stones) and mud blocks within the infinite land were endless. One of these mud blocks was the Demon Killer Clan clone in disguise.
“Swish!”
The mud block transformed into a black stream of air, shifting and changing into Black-Clad Luo Feng.
When Luo Feng was assassinated in the Wulong Starfield back then, after much thought, he came up with this method because he had to carry his core. He bought an enormous world ring, and his Demon Killer Clan clone, carrying the core, transformed into a mud block, lurking within the endless world ring.
Whether it's a space ring or a world ring, one must use mental energy, Undying power, or world power to detect the items inside.
And the detection range depends on personal strength.
For example!
In a world, a weaker individual might only be able to mentally scan a few hundred kilometers, while a stronger one might scan hundreds of thousands of kilometers, all depending on personal strength.
There are only two places where an infinite range can be easily scanned.
One is the inner world.
The other is a God Kingdom!
To scan one's own inner world, a single thought is enough to explore every corner.
To scan one's own God Kingdom, a single thought is also enough to explore the entire God Kingdom.
And a 'world ring' is an independent world. Even if Luo Feng were to explore this world, he would rely on mental energy to meticulously search.
A world with a diameter of 100 million kilometers.
The larger the world, the more astonishing its gravity.
And the more astonishing the gravity, the smaller the mental scan range!
“If I encounter an enemy I can't resist, and my Earthling original body is killed, I can pretend to be dead. Even if the opponent obtains this world ring, and even if they search carefully! With such terrifying gravity, someone of the same strength might only have a search range one ten-thousandth the diameter of what they'd have under Earth's gravity.” Luo Feng thought to himself. “A world with a diameter of 100 million kilometers, perhaps only a being like a Universe Venerable could sweep through it directly.”
“And such a cursory scan wouldn't be able to detect the true nature of the 'Demon Killer Clan clone.' Only by infiltrating and examining every stone, every grain of sand… Tsk tsk, a world 100 million kilometers in length, width, and height, trying to meticulously filter and search it like that wouldn't be an easy task.”
“As long as they don't know my secret beforehand, who would know that I'd be hiding inside?”
Within such a vast world, transformed into a mud block.
Who would have thought?
Who could find it?
“Hmm, let's check what's among Pan Xi's belongings. I always felt Pan Xi had some secrets.” Black-Clad Luo Feng looked at the distant plain, where a large number of items were scattered, all of Pan Xi's belongings that Luo Feng had just collected.
...
Black-Clad Luo Feng stood on the plain, surrounded by a jumble of items. Some were indeed valuable, but Luo Feng's standards were incredibly high.
“All these items combined probably aren't even worth 20 primal chaos units.”
“Seriously!”
Luo Feng shook his head, then his gaze swept over three specific items.
Two space rings and one world ring.
“Perhaps there's something in the rings?” Black-Clad Luo Feng picked up the world ring, carefully examining it for a long time, but found nothing.
“Could it be in the space rings, or perhaps Pan Xi truly had no secrets?” Luo Feng pondered, then continued to examine the two space rings. The internal space of the space rings was much smaller; one was about a few hundred meters in diameter, and the other was even smaller, about 100 meters in diameter.
After searching, they contained only trivial items.
“Damn it.”
“Throw everything into my inner world to check.” Black-Clad Luo Feng thought, immediately taking out all the items from the two space rings and the one world ring.
Then he collected everything into his inner world.
In his own inner world, he was the master!
“There really was a special item! I thought it was just a very ordinary token among a large number of trivial items. If it weren't in my inner world, it would have been truly difficult to detect that slight peculiarity!”
Black-Clad Luo Feng's eyes lit up. He immediately entered his inner world, allowing a core to spin rapidly, suspended within this world ring's space.