Earth, the Asian continent, Huaxia, Yangzhou City.
Early in the morning, Luo Feng stepped onto the Dark Cloud Shuttle, transforming into a golden streak of light that instantly disappeared into the eastern horizon.
Above the East Sea.
Standing on the Dark Cloud Shuttle, Luo Feng looked eastward at the fiery red sun slowly rising above the horizon.
“This fifth tier spiritual weapon really is different from a third tier spiritual weapon.” Luo Feng lowered his head and glanced at the Dark Cloud Shuttle beneath his feet. He had bought it at the previous Qian Wu Auction. The Qian Wu Auction was held once every three years. The first one was held at the end of 2065 according to Huaxia time, and he had spent quite a lot of money that time.
Another auction was held at the end of 2068.
At that time, he had been participating in the Reincarnation Battles, so he had specifically applied for ten days of leave to attend the auction.
The Reincarnation Battles could be rescheduled.
After all, with more than nine thousand people and a period of nearly three years, unexpected circumstances could arise, so the schedule was relatively flexible. In theory, he should have fought 100 battles during those ten days. At the time, after discussing and coordinating with each opponent one by one, they had all agreed. Only then did the organisers approve his application, giving him the opportunity to attend that auction.
“One Dark Cloud Shuttle and two units of Lanke Fruits cost me one mixed unit.” Luo Feng sighed. “Fortunately, the money my younger brother earned through investments helped.”
At the 2065 auction, after purchasing the Demon Killer Race skin, the Yan Shen Weapon, and Lanke Fruits, he had only had several hundred billion Universe Coins left, not even one mixed unit.
He had not earned any money during these three years.
Fortunately, when the previous auction ended, his younger brother had more than two trillion Universe Coins. After three years of operation, although he had suffered some setbacks along the way, it had still grown into six mixed units! In three years, he had earned nearly 200% in profits. Generally speaking, the larger the amount of capital being managed, the harder it was to make money.
Even many major organisations, including some investment departments under the Universe’s First Bank and the Universe Galaxy Bank, had invited Luo Hua.
“I make the decisions myself, and I can do whatever I want. How great is that? If I went to those departments, I’d still have to follow instructions from the people above me. How troublesome. I’m not going!” That was what his younger brother Luo Hua had said to him.
Standing on the Dark Cloud Shuttle above the East Sea.
“I still don’t have enough money.” Luo Feng thought to himself. “The Golden Horned Beast, the Mo Yun Vine, and even the Demon Killer Race clone will all require enormous amounts of money to cultivate. My original body needs money too.”
Strictly speaking, the Golden Horned Beast should be considered Luo Feng’s original body, but subconsciously, Luo Feng still regarded his Earthling body as his original body.
The Golden Horned Beast was now at the Universe level. Merely evolving by devouring metals did not cost too much money. However, cultivating the《Original Secret Technique》was practically a bottomless pit.
The higher the Mo Yun Vine evolved, the more difficult it became. Lanke Fruits were highly effective at its current level, but as the Mo Yun Vine became stronger, the amount of money invested would also become a bottomless pit. Back then, Hu Yan Bo had paid an absolutely terrifying price to make his Mo Yun Vine reach the Immortal level.
As for the Demon Killer Race clone, very little was known about it at present.
Luo Feng’s Earthling original body had already consumed huge amounts of money on things such as the Yan Shen Weapon, the Dark Cloud Shuttle, and the nutrition cabin. And this was only while he was at the Stellar level. As his horizons broadened in the future, the expenses would probably become even more astonishing. Luo Feng had seen some peerless treasures of the universe at the auction, with a single item costing several thousand mixed units. Ba Ba Ta was now too lazy to even mention such treasures to Luo Feng.
“The Golden Horned Beast is at Universe level seven. The Mo Yun Vine is at Universe level six. My original body is at Stellar level nine.” Luo Feng thought to himself. “From now on, my original body will stop cultivating.”
The Golden Horned Beast required 15 years to progress from Universe level one to three. From level four to six, each level required 20 years, for a total of 60 years. Levels seven, eight, and nine each required 120 years. As for breaking through from Universe level nine to the Domain Lord level, it required 500 years! In theory, the entire Universe level cultivation process would last nearly a thousand years.
From the time he reached Universe level six in 2055 until October 2059, nearly four years had passed.
By relying on the best metal combination to supply the absorption of his internal space, his efficiency had reached 56 times the normal rate, equivalent to 224 years! Luo Feng needed 240 years to advance through levels seven and eight. Therefore, he was currently only at Universe level seven and still needed a little more time to reach Universe level eight.
……
As for the Mo Yun Vine, it was already at Universe level two in the World Within a World. At that time, it still contained some undigested energy from the Life Fruit. After eating more than a hundred Lanke Fruits, it had long since grown to Universe level six. It was just that the difficulty of progressing from level six to level seven had suddenly increased dramatically.
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“It’s almost ready.” Luo Feng frowned slightly.
Boom!
A black triangular spacecraft suddenly appeared in the sky. Luo Feng quickly entered the spacecraft on the Dark Cloud Shuttle. The spacecraft then accelerated and shot into the sky, passing through the atmosphere, leaving Earth, and flying towards Mars.
Solar System, Mars.
The spacecraft landed inside a huge crater on the surface of Mars.
Inside the spacecraft’s lounge.
Luo Feng sat cross-legged in meditation, while his consciousness completely entered his internal world.
……
Within the internal world, on the vast golden continent surrounded by golden mist.
A Golden Horned Beast more than ten kilometres long was coiled across the ground. It raised its head, its pair of dark golden eyes staring at the oval-shaped golden egg in the sky.
“Almost there.” A trace of anticipation appeared in the cold eyes of the Golden Horned Beast.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The already extremely thin oval-shaped golden egg suddenly cracked apart. It then fell directly from the sky, revealing an extraordinarily strange black crystal.
This crystal had been cut into exactly 10,081 faces. Every face was covered with incomparably complex golden secret engravings. The golden secret engravings were completely integrated into the entire crystal core.
This was the core of a Demon Killer Race member, the Life Crystal Core!
“Appear!”
A low shout echoed through the metallic continent.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Streams of black energy rapidly surged out from the Life Crystal Core before quickly condensing into a solid form.
A naked man with yellow skin and short black hair appeared.
It was a completely naked Luo Feng, identical in appearance to Luo Feng himself.
On the surface of Mars, where sand and gravel filled the sky, Luo Feng in a dark red battle suit, Luo Feng dressed in black, and the enormous Golden Horned Beast, which was as huge as a mountain range, all stood on the ground.
“Interesting, interesting.”
The two Luo Fengs and the Golden Horned Beast looked at each other.
As for the true core of life, the Origin Core, it could instantly appear inside his original body, inside the Golden Horned Beast, or inside the Demon Killer Race clone.
“Collect!”
The Golden Horned Beast disappeared, leaving only the two Luo Fengs.
“Collect!”
Luo Feng in the dark red battle suit disappeared.
“Collect!”
The Luo Feng dressed in black also disappeared.
The three of them all entered the internal world. Outside, only a transparent crystal sphere remained. In its surface were incomparably complex golden secret engravings, faintly radiating golden light.
Whoosh!
The black-clothed Luo Feng appeared.
“The Life Crystal Core is very unsafe if left alone outside.” The black-clothed Luo Feng thought to himself. “As for this Demon Killer Race clone… transform!”
The black-clothed Luo Feng’s body seemed to turn into flowing energy, rapidly transforming into the tall wild man, Rong Jun. It then transformed again, becoming a Golden Horned Beast only a dozen or so metres long. It then transformed into a thick willow tree, and finally changed back into the black-clothed Luo Feng.
“Energy lifeforms really are extraordinary.” Luo Feng smiled.
The Demon Killer Race was an energy lifeform and did not have a fixed appearance or form. It could transform freely. Of course, if it wanted to transform into a giant ten thousand metres tall while maintaining a physical defence comparable to that of a Universe level two being, the energy consumption would be extremely high. Therefore, under normal circumstances, it tried to avoid transforming into excessively large forms.
“The Demon Killer Race is known as the strongest assassin race. So this is why!” Luo Feng sensed the difference between the Demon Killer Race clone and his other bodies.
“Beloved of space. It really isn’t an exaggeration.”
After possessing his third body, the Demon Killer Race clone, Luo Feng naturally became aware of the Demon Killer Race’s innate secret technique.
Innate Secret Technique, Replication!
In terms of lifeforms, the Demon Killer Race was completely different from humans and Golden Horned Beasts. Humans and Golden Horned Beasts were at least flesh and blood lifeforms. But the Demon Killer Race was an energy lifeform. It did not even possess a soul!
More precisely, its Life Crystal was its soul as well as its source of energy!
Therefore, the Demon Killer Race was not afraid of spiritual attacks, but it also could not unleash telekinetic attacks, let alone control objects.
Thus, the Demon Killer Race all followed the warrior path!
As for the Innate Secret Technique, Replication, it allowed a Demon Killer Race member to replicate its target’s life aura, soul aura, and other characteristics. Their bodies could naturally transform into different forms. Once they used this innate secret technique to replicate another person’s soul aura, even if the target were an Immortal existence, unless telekinetic force was sent into its body to investigate, it would be impossible to discover the disguise from its appearance or the aura it emitted.
This was no longer disguise.
It was replication!
Innate Secret Technique, Replication!
You could never imagine that your beloved grandson had actually become a Demon Killer Race assassin.
This seemingly simple innate secret technique was what allowed the Demon Killer Race to become the most terrifying assassin race in the entire universe. They could transform into the form of any lifeform and reproduce any life aura or soul aura.
Of course, if the other party was suspicious from the beginning and sent telekinetic force into the body to investigate, the disguise would naturally be exposed.
“The beloved of space.”
“How extraordinary.” Luo Feng could sense the Demon Killer Race clone and faintly perceive tiny ripples emitted by the surrounding space.
His Earthling body and Golden Horned Beast could not sense them at all.
“《Absolute Space》!”
Luo Feng suddenly unleashed his movement technique. At the same time, the black crystal core inside his body, with its 10,081 faces, also began to rotate slightly. The complex golden secret engravings on its surface faintly fluctuated, seemingly responding to the fluctuations of the surrounding cosmic space.
Whoosh!
On the desert surface of Mars, two Luo Fengs suddenly appeared. Then gradually, there were three Luo Fengs, four Luo Fengs, five Luo Fengs!
Whoosh!
Luo Feng stopped.
“Too extraordinary, too extraordinary. Flying and dodging with the Demon Killer Race clone is so effortless. It is simply, simply… unbelievable.” Luo Feng’s face was filled with shock. “My comprehension of《Absolute Space》is clearly still very shallow. Even after these three years, I can only be considered to have touched the threshold of the Space Origin Law. I haven’t even truly entered the basics.”
“Yet despite having such little comprehension, when I use the Demon Killer Race clone, the speed is faster and more mysterious. I can even sense the fluctuations of space.” Luo Feng was filled with astonishment.
“Switch.”
The Demon Killer Race clone disappeared, and Luo Feng in the dark red battle suit appeared.
“Hmm?”
Luo Feng looked around with his Earthling body. That wonderful sensation from before was completely gone. Everything had become ordinary. Mars was still Mars, and the universe was still the universe. The wonderful feeling of sensing the fluctuations of cosmic space had disappeared.
Boom!
Luo Feng unleashed his movement technique. It was mysterious and astonishingly fast, but that was all. He could not cause space to distort and produce illusory bodies.
“The Demon Killer Race clone feels as though it is a fish in water when moving through space.” Luo Feng thought to himself.
The speed at which humans swim in water could never compare to their speed running on land.
Likewise, the speed at which a fish could jump around on land could never compare to its speed in water.
It was the same principle!
The Demon Killer Race clone was naturally favoured by the Space Origin. Within cosmic space, they were completely at home. Even with the same level of comprehension, when the Demon Killer Race clone used a movement technique, it could display abilities several levels higher.
“Monstrous, truly monstrous.” Luo Feng could not help praising it.
“Of course. They are known as the strongest assassin race! Energy lifeforms, flesh and blood lifeforms, mechanical lifeforms, metal lifeforms, plant lifeforms, and countless other lifeforms. Among the countless races, for one race to be recognised as the strongest assassin race, do you think that is a joke?” Ba Ba Ta continued. “Innate Secret Technique, Replication, is only one innate secret technique. But in reality, the most monstrous aspect of this Demon Killer Race clone is that… it can sense fluctuations in space.”
“They have an innate compatibility with the Space Origin!”
“This greatly increases the power of the spatial secret techniques they use.”
“At the same time, comprehending spatial laws is also much easier for them than for humans.”
“Therefore, every Demon Killer Race member has crossed the threshold of the Space Law. Their movement techniques are strange and unpredictable, with endless variations. They can transform into any person or any form. Because their disguises can reach perfection, their attacks are also powerful, and they can flee immediately if their first strike fails. Most importantly, it isn’t just one member of the race that is powerful. Every member is powerful. That is why they can be called the strongest assassin race.” Ba Ba Ta explained.
Luo Feng took a deep breath.
No wonder… even a damaged Demon Killer Race skin could be sold for such a high price.
Under normal circumstances, the Demon Killer Race had no secret engravings on the surface of its body. When one was killed, most of the time its crystal core would shatter and its body would dissipate, leaving only a damaged crystal core. There would be no skin left behind.
Only under one particular circumstance could the profound secret engravings containing the Space Origin Mysteries within the Life Crystal Core appear on the skin!
Those really were secret engravings containing the mysteries of the Space Origin Law, so the skin was extraordinarily valuable.
“But during the Genius Battle, I can only use the body uniformly provided by the Virtual Universe Company to fight. I can’t use the Demon Killer Race clone.” Luo Feng thought to himself.
“It is October now. Less than a year remains before the Peak Genius Battle of the 1008 Universe Nations. What you can do now is use the Demon Killer Race clone to simulate the form of the Golden Horned Beast, then study the《Absolute Space》secret technique.” Ba Ba Ta said. “The cultivation process of the《Absolute Space》secret technique is only suitable for use in the Golden Horned Beast form.”
Of course, the comprehension of space gained after successful cultivation could be used by all the clones. After all, they shared the same consciousness.
“Mm.” Luo Feng nodded.
“Less than a year.” Luo Feng took a deep breath. “Right, Ba Ba Ta. I should be able to use the Demon Killer Race clone… to retrieve the bank account my teacher left for me.”
The master of the Yun Mo Planet had divided his inheritance into three accounts.
They could only be accessed when his disciple reached the Stellar level, Universe level, and Domain Lord level respectively.