Luo Feng gritted his teeth as he stared at his communications watch. His bloodshot eyes were crimson, his fists clenched so tightly that they crackled, and the veins on the backs of his hands bulged prominently.
“If it had been a human martial artist at the first level of the Stellar rank, a 150 million tonne yield hydrogen bomb would have blown them to pieces long ago. The Golden Horned Beast truly deserves its reputation as one of the pinnacle bloodlines among the starry sky beasts. It also lives up to its fearsome reputation as a metal attribute devouring beast with astonishing defence and attack,” Babata exclaimed in amazement.
Metal attribute beasts naturally excelled in scale armour defence.
Not to mention the Golden Horned Beast, which grew by devouring and absorbing metal. Its defence was monstrously powerful.
“Stop talking,” Luo Feng shouted angrily.
Inside the intelligent virtual space on his wrist device, Babata had been lounging on a sofa, ready to continue praising and analysing the Golden Horned Beast. Luo Feng’s sharp rebuke immediately silenced him.
“How dare he scold the great Demon Babata.” Babata bared his fangs before muttering, “I am the great Demon Babata. Back then I slaughtered countless World Lords, and now I’m getting scolded. This kid is on the verge of breaking down from grief. Fine, I’ll be magnanimous and forgive him.”
Babata understood logically just how much pain Luo Feng was in.
However, he simply could not empathise.
He had followed the Master of Yun Mo Planet for millions of years. He had witnessed entire planetary races being wiped out countless times.
He felt nothing.
Still, he knew that Luo Feng was on the verge of losing control. Or rather, all of Earth’s top leaders and elites were teetering on the edge of hysteria, each desperately suppressing the madness inside them.
Luo Feng wasted no time and immediately called home.
“Xiao Feng, we just saw an incredibly bright light to the north, almost like another sun. Your younger brother said only a nuclear explosion could be that bright. What exactly happened…”
Before Luo Hongguo could finish, Luo Feng interrupted.
“Dad, Mum, go upstairs to the second floor immediately and get inside the gravity chamber. If you want to know what’s happening outside, take my laptop in with you and check the internet. The other computers probably can’t get online now. Remember this, if I don’t come back, never leave the gravity chamber.”
“Alright. Alright.”
His family immediately realised how serious the situation was.
What they did not know was just how unimaginably serious it really was.
After ending the call, Luo Feng lowered his head and looked at the endless dark sea below.
“Now all I can hope is that I find a weapon capable of killing the Golden Horned Beast inside Ruins No. 12, one of the Three Great Deadly Ruins.”
“Down!”
Luo Feng’s gaze was as sharp as an icy sword. Standing atop the Soaring Shuttle, he plunged into the sea with a fierce burst of air.
…
The sea beneath the night sky was dark, gently rippling without end.
A streak of light shot straight into the water, continuously diving deeper.
“Luo Feng, the distance from the sea surface to the seabed is about 5,100 metres. Ancient Civilization Ruins No. 12 are another 3,300 metres beneath the seabed,” Babata said.
“Understood.”
With Babata guiding him, Luo Feng maintained an accurate course despite being surrounded by nothing but seawater.
This deep ocean was home to enormous numbers of sea monsters. Although many sea monsters were already advancing inland through river systems, they represented only a tiny fraction of all the creatures inhabiting the oceans.
There were simply too many sea monsters.
After all, human peak experts were stronger than land monsters. Yet why had Hong chosen negotiations instead of wiping them out?
Because…
The land monsters included King level monsters, though perhaps no Emperor level monsters. Humanity had fewer than a million martial artists worldwide, yet a single Level Three Rat Tide could number in the millions or even tens of millions. A Level One Beast Tide reached into the hundreds of millions.
If the land monsters truly fought humanity head on, their breeding capacity was simply overwhelming. A single litter could contain dozens of offspring. Humans could never compete.
No matter how powerful Hong was, could he slaughter every monster on Earth?
That was why peace had been maintained.
Land monsters alone had already pushed humanity to this point.
Compared with them, the sea monsters outnumbered and outdiversified them by an unimaginable margin. Even sealing every inland river would only prevent a tiny portion of the ocean’s monsters from advancing.
…
As Luo Feng continued diving, he encountered countless sea monsters.
“Hmph.”
As Luo Feng descended like a streak of light, every sea monster within a hundred metres died instantly. Blood quickly spread through the surrounding waters.
Kill!
He killed them almost absent mindedly.
The fury, grief, and unwillingness filling Luo Feng’s heart found only the slightest release through casually slaughtering a few sea monsters.
He could already imagine the horrifying scene of countless sea monsters flooding inland through the rivers and attacking every base city.
Who knew how many humans would die?
“The seabed.”
Luo Feng landed on the ocean floor, where the terrain rose and fell like mountain ranges.
The terrifying pressure of over 5,000 metres of seawater had been greatly weakened by the Cloud Contact Vine armour covering his body.
When it came to absorbing impacts and defence, his Cloud Contact Vine far surpassed the Black God Set.
Its initial cultivation had greatly elevated the life level of the Cloud Contact Vine itself.
“Another 3,300 metres below.”
Luo Feng immediately continued descending.
He pierced through layers of seabed rock, drilling deeper.
“Babata, this place is so well hidden. How did Earth’s nations discover these ruins in the first place?” Luo Feng asked as he continued downward.
“Your Earth’s technology certainly couldn’t have found them. They relied on instruments recovered from the wreckage of interstellar warships to scan the entire planet,” Babata replied. “Apart from places like mine, where I actively concealed signals and disguised them from detection, nearly every other ruin on Earth has already been discovered.”
“Luo Feng, we’re here,” Babata said.
Luo Feng immediately slowed down.
Bang!
As he broke through another layer of rock, he struck something incredibly hard, causing his entire body to shake.
“A warship wreck?”
Luo Feng spread out his spirit force over a radius of five hundred metres. A rough model immediately formed in his mind.
It was an enormous warship.
What he could detect represented only a tiny portion of the wreck.
Judging from his observations…
It seemed slightly larger than the warship at the headquarters of the Extreme Dojo.
Breaking through the surrounding rock, Luo Feng entered through one of the damaged breaches in the vessel.
“Hehe, Luo Feng, we came to the right place. We really did,” Babata said excitedly.
“What is it?”
Luo Feng also noticed that the alloy walls inside the ship’s corridors had rusted and were gradually decaying.
“This is the flagship of an interstellar fleet,” Babata explained. “In other words, it’s the fleet’s command ship.”
“The flagship?”
Luo Feng’s eyes lit up.
“I suspected it from the beginning. Otherwise, an ordinary warship wouldn’t have been classified as one of the Deadly Ruins,” Babata said. “This flagship is sixteen thousand metres long, three thousand two hundred metres wide, and eight hundred metres high. Although it isn’t the fleet’s largest ship, it possesses the strongest defence and the greatest firepower.”
Luo Feng became excited as well.
“Where are the weapons? Where is the Deadly Ruin?”
The flagship itself was not the true Ancient Civilization Ruins No. 12.
The real Deadly Ruin was a secret compartment hidden within the flagship.
“Wait a moment while I scan it.”
Babata quickly used his own detection methods to examine the entire flagship.
“Luo Feng, because this flagship was heavily damaged and lost its protection systems, many of its weapons were removed long ago. Those that remained have already decayed. None of the properly preserved weapons are here,” Babata said. “Our only hope now lies within Ruins No. 12. Follow this corridor straight ahead.”
The core of Ruins No. 12 was a hidden compartment inside the flagship.
As Luo Feng made his way through the vast wreck…
“Luo Feng, the leaders of every nation have gathered in the War God Palace conference hall,” Babata suddenly said.
Luo Feng’s heart tightened.
Earth was facing an unprecedented crisis.
Humanity’s strongest weapon, the hydrogen bomb, had already been used.
After surviving this attack, the Golden Horned Beast would never again give humanity the same opportunity.
“They’ve decided that every nation will implement martial law and begin the Human Inheritance Plan,” Babata said.
“What?”
Luo Feng’s expression changed drastically.
Martial law meant that stock exchanges, supermarkets, and countless other facilities throughout the base cities would all close.
Where people lived, what they did, what they ate, everything would be controlled by the military.
Food would be distributed by the armed forces.
Where people lived and when they evacuated would all follow military planning.
Implementing martial law meant they had reached the worst possible situation.
As for the Human Inheritance Plan…
It clearly meant that every nation had already accepted that this war would be lost.
The battles from this point onward existed only to ensure that more humans could survive into the future.
One could imagine just how many people would die in this war.
The number of humans who ultimately survived would be pitifully small.
Even those who survived would continue living in constant danger.
“Hurry. Find the most powerful weapon and kill the Golden Horned Beast.”
Luo Feng continued rushing towards the so called Ruins No. 12.
A short while later…
Inside a massive hidden chamber rested a disc shaped spacecraft roughly one hundred metres in diameter.
Its entire body was jet black.
Despite remaining buried underground for who knew how many tens of thousands of years, the hull had suffered remarkably little corrosion.
A twin winged dragon emblem was still clearly visible on its black surface.
“So this is the spacecraft represented by Ruins No. 12?”
Standing beneath it, Luo Feng looked up at the ship before him.
Over the years, every nation on Earth had exhausted every possible method trying to deal with this spacecraft.
Many people had died because of it.
Even Council level experts had perished here.
Yet to this day, it remained completely undamaged.
“Haha, so it’s this one. It’s actually this one.”
“When my master destroyed that interstellar fleet with a single strike, it seems the fleet flagship carried an extremely important individual. Someone who could actually afford a Black Dragon Mountain X81 model spacecraft. No wonder nobody on Earth ever managed to get inside. The X81 model is one of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire’s most famous spacecraft designed for cosmic adventurers,” Babata said excitedly.
Luo Feng knew…
The Black Dragon Mountain Empire ruled the entire Black Dragon Mountain Starfield.
Even the Silver Blue Empire was merely one of its more than five hundred subordinate nations.
“Luo Feng, there’s hope. The construction cost of this X81 model spacecraft exceeds that of the entire flagship. Its standard weapon systems have a chance of killing even seventh or eighth level Stellar rank experts,” Babata said excitedly. “I never expected that someone aboard this flagship could actually afford an X81.”