Zizhong

When Daohe King's renowned battle spread, many of Luo Feng's allies among the human camp's King-level experts contacted him, overflowing with enthusiasm. Initially, Luo Feng responded, "I was forced into it, there was no other way. Blood Beast King, Heavy Arrow King, and the others all wanted to kill me. If I didn't fight, I would die! So, I fought like that."

"Luck, just luck."

"Haha, thank you."

Luo Feng dealt with some friends, then, overwhelmed by the annoyance, simply turned off his Virtual Universe message reception.

...

Inside his inner world.

Luo Feng, clad in silver armor, stood atop a vast mountain peak. On the peak lay various treasures: ancient, powerful weapons from those King-level experts, seemingly extraordinary and perfectly preserved battle armor, as well as some world rings and spatial rings. Of course, Luo Feng's gaze fell upon an ancient Zizhong.

"Zizhong," Luo Feng murmured softly. "I'll study you thoroughly."

To research this Zizhong, his Earthling body had personally returned to his inner world. As for the outside world... his Golden Horned Beast clone, wearing the Shiwu Wings, was temporarily lurking in a mountain cave. In terms of strength, the Golden Horned Beast clone was even stronger than his Earthling body and feared no encounter with powerful experts.

"These characters..."

On the mottled, ancient Zizhong, its body was covered with countless dense characters. The characters were square-shaped, but they weren't any script Luo Feng had ever seen.

"Babata, do you recognize these characters?" Luo Feng asked mentally. Babata often roamed the Virtual Network, and he had memorized all the scripts Luo Feng had permission to view.

"I know countless scripts and languages, but I don't recognize this one," Babata replied.

"Oh."

Luo Feng nodded, not pressing further. He concentrated on observing the ancient Zizhong. The bell was about three meters high, and its mouth diameter was also nearly three meters. It was simply covered with countless characters. As he watched... these dense characters seemed subtly connected, as if invisible threads linked them, forming a strange secret pattern.

"I can't understand it," Luo Feng shook his head.

"First, let's refine it," Luo Feng gently touched the bell's body. A faint heat emanated, as if touching a branding iron. Immediately, a trace of psychic energy permeated it. This Zizhong, now an ownerless object, quickly absorbed the spiritual imprint contained within the psychic energy, easily acknowledging him as its master.

"Rumble~~" His consciousness boomed.

A surge of ancient information poured into Luo Feng's mind from the ancient bell, stopping after a moment.

"Combat Secret Art, 'Demon Sound Fire God Bell'?" Luo Feng frowned slightly. What entered his mind was a combat secret art for using this Zizhong, but he only received the first layer. Only by perfectly mastering the first layer to fully control the Zizhong could he obtain the content of the second layer.

However, the conditions for the first layer were very stringent: one needed to have mastered the laws of fire and comprehended 'space lockdown' within the laws of space to achieve great success in the first layer.

"No wonder Zizhong King could bind the explosive energy of the Fire God Origin Crystal into one direction to kill Cangjin King. So, he had mastered this first layer," Luo Feng muttered. "Just the first layer has such high requirements. It seems this is also a treasure suitable for Universe Venerables."

Luo Feng's vision was incredibly high. For something whose initial power was so outrageous and whose conditions were so demanding, it was clear that further advancement would only be suitable for Universe Venerables.

"Integrate!"

Luo Feng tried to integrate it into his body, but the ancient Zizhong was blocked as soon as it touched his skin. The General Armor imprint within his body seemed to tremble.

"Hmm?" Luo Feng frowned. With a thought, the silver battle armor on his body retracted and disappeared. At the same time, he immediately forced the General Armor Bead out of his body. At this moment, Luo Feng was only wearing a Moyun Battle Suit. He then tried to integrate the ancient Zizhong again.

Whoosh!

Instantly, the ancient Zizhong integrated into his body, merging with his muscles and internal organs.

"So that's how it is," Luo Feng shook his head. "Then this Zizhong is truly like a 'chicken rib' to me—tasteless to eat, yet a pity to discard."

The Zizhong was a treasure, capable of blocking over ninety percent of both soul attacks and material attacks! It was a defensive item whose effectiveness was no less than that of the General Armor. Of course, the General Armor could also grant Luo Feng 10,000 times the power of a Sector Lord... which the Zizhong did not. However, the integration conditions for the General Armor were very strict; other humans simply couldn't use it. The Zizhong, however, had no strict master-acknowledgment requirements; it only needed a spiritual imprint to acknowledge its master.

It must be admitted—

It was a treasure.

But it was truly of little use to Luo Feng.

Because there were limitations to simultaneously integrating defensive treasures into the body. For example, one could only wear one battle suit integrated into the skin. It was absolutely impossible for a powerful expert to wear ten or a hundred battle suits simultaneously. And General Armor Beads and Soldier Armor Beads were integrated into muscles, internal organs, etc., completely merging with the body. Thus, one could only wear one Soldier Armor or one General Armor.

It was impossible to say—

Wearing several King Armors simultaneously, or several General Armors simultaneously. In fact, to integrate a General Armor Bead, one had to force the Soldier Armor Bead out of the body.

To integrate the 'Zizhong', one had to force the General Armor Bead out of the body!

The principle was the same: only one defensive treasure of the same type could be used simultaneously.

Between the 'General Armor Bead' and the 'Zizhong', Luo Feng could only integrate one into his body at any given moment. Without a doubt, Luo Feng would definitely choose the General Armor Bead.

"This is definitely a treasure, and it should be one used by Universe Venerables," Luo Feng murmured. "Unfortunately, I already have the General Armor! My Golden Horned Beast clone also has even better King Armor! General Armor and King Armor are what suit me best..."

...

Although slightly disappointed, Luo Feng was still in a very pleasant mood. After all, the Zizhong was still a significant treasure; its monetary value alone far exceeded the previous 560 billion. Moreover, Luo Feng had another idea in mind... his teacher, Zhenyan King, treated him with sincerity, and perhaps this Zizhong could help his teacher.

"Let's see my other gain this time." Luo Feng instantly flashed out of his inner world and entered a world within one of his world rings.

In that world, on an endless desert, lay a divine body emitting boundless pressure. Although it was in a deep slumber, the invisible pressure... was still terrifying.

"Heavy Arrow King."

Luo Feng smiled, standing before him. "At that time, you were severely injured. Your best option was to immediately self-destruct. If you had self-destructed... then perhaps you could have revived countless years later, although you would have incurred massive debts from the revival. However, by becoming my slave, there's no possibility of revival. At that time, you still hoped to escape, but you didn't expect that the Moyun Vine's three sharp thorns would pierce into your body, causing you to fall directly into slumber."

Being killed into slumber was quite rare.

Heavy Arrow King also didn't expect that the Moyun Vine, upon piercing his body, would instantly corrode his divine body, causing him to fall into slumber.

"From today onwards, you are my slave, Luo Feng's," Luo Feng said, looking at the Heavy Arrow King before him, and immediately cast the 'Myriad Soul Control Secret Art'. Unlike when he controlled the Insectoid Queen Yilina, who also fell into slumber, but that was due to Huyan Bo's soul secret art.

When Luo Feng first tried to control Yilina, she woke up and resisted.

But Heavy Arrow King was too severely injured, so much so that he lost consciousness. At this moment, he was like a fish on a chopping board, completely incapable of resistance.

A moment later—

"Success." Luo Feng smiled.

But looking at the unconscious Heavy Arrow King still lying in the desert, Luo Feng's brows gradually furrowed. Yes, he had controlled the Heavy Arrow King, but this did nothing to help the Heavy Arrow King's injuries. He was still severely injured and in a state of slumber. An unconscious Heavy Arrow King was useless to him.

"I need to restore his strength, restore his complete undying divine body," Luo Feng mused. "In the universe, there are indeed treasures that promote divine body recovery, but they are expensive. Is it worth paying such a high price for this Pinnacle King-level soul slave?"

"However, he is an absolutely loyal slave, and he can teleport. With his assistance, my journey through the universe will be much more convenient."

"First, I'll go research it."

...

This time, Luo Feng killed Zizhong King and 14 other alien King-level undyings. The treasures in their battle armor, battle suits, weapons, and world rings were indeed diverse. For example, Zizhong King had a silver battle suit, which was worth 50 billion mixed yuan units in the Hong Alliance and could block fifty percent of material attacks!

Fifty percent and ninety percent might seem like a small difference.

But in reality, 'reducing by fifty percent' only made Zizhong King's material defense twice as strong as before. 'Reducing by ninety percent' meant it was ten times stronger than before! This shows how incredibly valuable items like Zizhong, General Armor, and King Armor were. If General Armor and King Armor could be widely used, their price would be astonishing. Even so, that King Armor was once priced at 50 billion in the Hong Alliance.

...

Luo Feng spent more than two days, using the Virtual Universe Network and the Hong Alliance, to finally confirm the value of his spoils.

Heavy Arrow King's wealth was approximately 60 billion mixed yuan units (Luo Feng took the ring from Heavy Arrow King's finger, forcibly breached it, and carefully examined Heavy Arrow King's treasures).

The combined wealth of the 13 other King-level experts totaled 50 billion mixed yuan units.

Zizhong King's wealth was 120 billion mixed yuan units, not including the Zizhong itself!

Total accumulated.

230 billion mixed yuan units, plus one Zizhong!

"It's still more profitable to deal with capable experts like Zizhong King who had fortuitous encounters," Luo Feng muttered. "Killing ordinary King-level experts, 13 of them only yielded 50 billion mixed yuan units, and it would cause unrest. Killing too many King-level experts might attract the attention of some super existences."

"Ugh."

"Zizhong King's type is the best, but those with fortuitous encounters, the greater the encounter, the more ruthless their trump cards," Luo Feng secretly thought. "They are also harder to kill."

"For example, me. Whoever kills me would probably strike it rich."

"But killing me isn't that easy," Luo Feng secretly thought. "If pushed to the most dangerous situation, I can only summon my teacher, Chaos City Lord! When Chaos City Lord appears, everyone will be stunned! That's right, a supreme treasure like the Shiwu Wings was given to me by my teacher, Chaos City Lord. If it weren't for such a super existence bestowing it, trying to snatch it would be a pipe dream."

Snatching the Zizhong was feasible.

Snatching the Shiwu Wings? That would be dreaming.

"If I had to call upon my teacher, Chaos City Lord, I would be too much of a failure," Luo Feng shook his head.

"What should I do now? How should I handle these spoils of war, and what about the unconscious Heavy Arrow King?" Luo Feng now had more worries, albeit happy ones.