In the dark seabed, countless sea monsters were scattered throughout the surrounding waters. Each of them looked respectfully towards the Devouring Beast resting in the distance. The Devouring Beast slowly closed its dark golden eyes, as if it had fallen asleep.
Yet under the pressure of its invisible aura, the entire region remained utterly silent.
As the enormous eyes closed, Luo Feng felt himself completely submerged by memories. Mysterious and extraordinary secret techniques appeared before him. These techniques were perfectly suited for Golden Horned Beast cultivation, profound and boundless beyond imagination. Illustrated memories continuously flooded into his mind, like a film playing at incredible speed. Vast amounts of knowledge poured directly into his consciousness.
Endless.
Luo Feng gradually felt a headache coming on. The speed at which the memories were entering had clearly reached the limits of what his soul could endure.
“Just how much knowledge is there?” Luo Feng could hardly believe it. “This has already been going on for over an hour.”
One hour, two hours, three hours.
The memories continued pouring in like an endless, surging ocean, never stopping. Countless fragments flashed past and merged directly into Luo Feng’s soul. He only managed to glimpse a few cultivation diagrams related to the Golden Horned Beast before being overwhelmed by more memories.
Half a day passed.
Then one day. Two days. Three days.
The terrifying starry sky beast lay motionless on the ocean floor, as though sleeping.
Sixteen days later.
Deep beneath the sea, upon a seabed covered in mud, the pitch black Golden Horned Beast remained lying there. Finally, its dark golden eyes opened. Within them was a natural coldness and killing intent. It came from its very bones.
“Phew, thank heavens,” Luo Feng finally felt a sense of relief.
During those sixteen days of receiving and merging the inheritance memories, his soul had been pushed entirely to its limits. Under such pressure, even the slightest extra thought felt exhausting.
“Just how much knowledge is this?” Luo Feng marvelled.
“Luo Feng, Luo Feng!” An excited voice rang out within his consciousness.
“Babata,” Luo Feng replied.
“You’ve completely received the inheritance memories? That’s unbelievable. With your current soul capacity, you can absorb huge amounts of information every second. How much information did you receive in sixteen days?” Babata sounded extremely excited. “Quickly check. What knowledge is there? What incredible secret techniques?”
“I’ll have a look first.” Luo Feng was equally curious.
Although he had now become a Golden Horned Beast, he still knew almost nothing about its abilities.
“Babata, there’s a problem.” Luo Feng felt somewhat helpless after checking the inheritance memories.
“What happened?” Babata immediately asked.
“The knowledge is all in my head, but I still have to learn everything myself. How long is that going to take?”
Inheritance memories were merely a method of passing down knowledge. Knowledge was transmitted from one generation of Golden Horned Beasts to the next. However, truly mastering that knowledge still required careful study and comprehension.
“That’s not strange at all,” Babata replied. “The reason the inheritance memories are so enormous is mainly because of the secret techniques. A single technique may contain countless words. Take your master’s Soul Seal technique for example. If it were printed into books, it could easily fill hundreds of volumes and contain tens of millions of Chinese characters.”
“Luo Feng.”
Babata spoke excitedly.
“You should first organise the inheritance memories. There’s no need to study the detailed contents of every secret technique right now. Just learn their names and general functions. Categorise everything. It should be quick. Honestly, in the universe, powerful experts spend vast fortunes buying secret techniques and valuable knowledge, yet you’re complaining there’s too much. That’s unbelievable.”
Luo Feng laughed.
“I’ll organise it.”
After sorting everything as a whole:
There were cultivation methods for the Golden Horned Beast, eighteen special secret techniques, and 3,199 ordinary secret techniques.
There were introductions to various other starry sky beasts, numerous human races, spirit controllers, illusionists, beast tamers, puppet masters, assassins, martial fighters and more.
Among flesh and blood lifeforms, besides humans and starry sky beasts, there were demon races, insect races and many others. Every race had extensive descriptions.
Beyond flesh and blood races, there were also metal based races such as the Mechanical Race, rock based races, spirit races, plant races and more.
There were also extremely rare special races that possessed power comparable to starry sky beasts while remaining extraordinarily scarce.
The explanations alone regarding the countless human races and cultures would require far more than ten billion Chinese characters to record.
And humanity was merely one of the peak races in the vast universe.
Another month and three days passed before Luo Feng finally completed a thorough classification of the inheritance memories. In the future, whenever he needed specific knowledge, he could quickly locate it within the immense memory archive.
As for learning it all?
Heavens.
No Golden Horned Beast could possibly learn all of this knowledge. Just reading through the contents of eighteen special secret techniques and 3,199 ordinary secret techniques once would take who knew how many years.
“Luo Feng, you’ve struck it rich, you’ve struck it rich! My heavens, how do you have so much knowledge?” Babata was completely stunned after learning how many categories Luo Feng had organised. “So the universe actually contains this many races? There are even rare races capable of rivaling starry sky beasts?”
“As expected of starry sky beasts. Incredible, truly incredible.” Babata could not stop praising them. “Even your master, despite living for over sixty million years, gathered far less knowledge than you possess.”
“It simply can’t compare.” Babata remained shocked. “Generation after generation of starry sky beast inheritance, this kind of foundation… Even among humanity, perhaps only the knowledge vaults of nations such as the Ganwu Universe Country could rival the inheritance memories of starry sky beasts. It’s astonishing.”
After sorting through everything, Luo Feng was equally impressed.
The nobility of a bloodline manifested in many ways.
Natural talent was one aspect, the hardware.
This vast knowledge base was the software.
“Babata, among starry sky beasts, only the twelve supreme bloodlines can carry this much inherited memory generation after generation,” Luo Feng explained.
“Twelve bloodlines?” Babata asked in surprise.
“Yes. Among the starry sky beasts, there are twelve supreme bloodlines capable of naturally reaching the World Master level upon maturity. The Flame Star Beast you mentioned before is one of those twelve bloodlines.” Having organised the memories, Luo Feng now understood these fundamentals completely. “The inheritance memories of the twelve bloodlines are the most extensive and complete. Each generation can even add its own memories.”
Luo Feng now clearly understood how Golden Horned Beasts passed on their lineage.
If a Golden Horned Beast wished to leave offspring, one method was to exhaust nearly all of its life force to condense an egg and lay it. Afterward, the original Golden Horned Beast would die within just a few years. Once the egg hatched, a Golden Horned Beast infant would emerge, beginning a new cycle.
“Heh, Luo Feng, quickly check how long it’ll take you to reach the World Master level,” Babata urged.
“I’ll take a look.”
Luo Feng skimmed through the information. After only a few seconds, he had roughly read it and could not help being astonished.
“After hatching, if a Golden Horned Beast eats ordinary metals instead of its eggshell, it requires ten years to reach the first level of the Stellar level. However, if it eats the eggshell and then consumes large quantities of ordinary metals, it only takes one year.”
“One year? This little fellow you possessed is only one year old?” Babata said speechlessly.
Luo Feng also sighed.
The Devouring Beast that had pushed the entire Earth towards extinction was merely a one year old Golden Horned Beast infant?
“Under normal evolution speed, advancing from the first level of the Stellar level to the first level of the Universe level takes one hundred years.”
“From the first level of the Universe level to the first level of the Domain Lord level takes one thousand years.”
“From the first level of the Domain Lord level to the World Master level takes ten thousand years.”
Luo Feng continued.
“That’s the slowest possible speed. There are special methods that can accelerate evolution. Certain metal combinations help accelerate the growth of the internal world, allowing strength to increase much faster.”
“This is like a gift from heaven!” Babata exclaimed. “Your master made every preparation possible. His cultivation plans were the very best, and even then it would have taken you over one hundred thousand years just to have a chance of reaching the World Master level.”
“Without your master’s detailed plans, wealth and treasures to support you, you’d be lucky to reach the Universe level in your lifetime. But now… even at ordinary evolution speed, it only takes ten thousand years?” Babata had previously known little about Golden Horned Beasts. Now he finally possessed firsthand information.
“Not that long. That’s merely the slowest speed,” Luo Feng replied. “With sufficient wealth invested into accelerating the growth of the internal world, the time can be shortened several times over, perhaps even more.”
“However, among the eighteen special secret techniques and 3,199 ordinary secret techniques, I don’t know which ones to learn.” Luo Feng continued. “All of these techniques have been passed down through generations of Golden Horned Beasts and can only be cultivated by them. According to the key guidance within the inheritance memories, trying to learn too much is counterproductive. It advises learning no more than two special secret techniques and no more than six ordinary secret techniques. Any more than that and there won’t be enough energy to master them. In fact, fewer is even better.”
“Oh?” Babata immediately said. “Tell me the general effects, requirements and characteristics of the eighteen special secret techniques and the 3,199 ordinary secret techniques. I’ll help filter them and see if we can create the optimal combination.”
When it came to analysis and selection, Luo Feng knew he could not compete with Babata.
“Alright.”
Luo Feng began describing the general effects and cultivation requirements of the many secret techniques. As for the techniques themselves, there were simply too many. Even transmitting them through thought alone would probably take years.
Eight hours later.
The general introductions for all eighteen special secret techniques and 3,199 ordinary secret techniques had been transmitted to Babata. Using its intelligence systems, Babata began rapidly screening and matching them.
“Luo Feng, the Golden Horned Beast should possess innate abilities, shouldn’t it? I’ve seen its speed suddenly increase before.” Babata said. “Tell me about the innate abilities as well, so I can create the best possible combination.”
“Innate abilities? Wait a moment.”
From the inheritance memories, Luo Feng learned that the Golden Horned Beast possessed three innate abilities. As for their detailed information, once his soul entered the internal world, he would naturally understand everything.
Innate abilities required no learning at all.
They could be used instinctively.