Something Was Off

"Finally finished eating. According to the Inherited Memory, if I consume metal along with the nutrients from the eggshell, I can reach Stellar level within a year."

"Or I can seek out powerful creatures to Devour, which can also accelerate my body's growth. But none of that is urgent. First, I'll catch a monster and learn about this planet."

Jin Yu urgently needed to determine whether he was actually on Earth.

"Energy intensity roughly at Apprentice level 9. You'll do."

After searching, Jin Yu discovered an Electric eel nearly a hundred meters long. Its tail had actually evolved into a Dragon tail, and its energy level had reached the peak of Lord level.

Spreading his nearly twenty-meter-wide scaled wings, Jin Yu instantly transformed into a faintly golden afterimage. Before the Electric eel could react, a single flap of his wings knocked it unconscious.

"Soul Searching!"

Jin Yu's horn lit up as powerful Mental power brutally bored into the Lord-level eel's mind.

This was an ordinary secret technique he had learned from the Golden Horned Beast's Inherited Memory. He had no time to study it in depth, but the simple and brutal method of using it was easy enough to master.

The price, however, was that once the Soul Searching ended, the target's soul would collapse and it would die.

"The strongest within a hundred kilometers is a Planetary-level tuna? The strongest creature in this sea region is Thunder Dragon, a Planetary level 8?"

After Soul Searching, based on some of the images and energy sensations the creature understood, Jin Yu gained a rough understanding of this sea region. At the very least, his own abilities would keep him from facing any threat to his life.

"The Sea monsters here are so weak. This is very likely Earth. But I still need to find a human to confirm it."

After thinking for a moment, Jin Yu once again became a golden afterimage and dove toward the coastline.

Evening, August 20, 2057. America, North America, formerly NY State.

NY connected to the Atlantic Ocean.

Therefore, America had established a major military district not far from NY and built a War base in NY to stop Sea monsters from entering the inland regions.

The War base, over five hundred meters long, resembled a ferocious monster crouching atop the river.

Inside the War base.

The lingering light of the setting sun shone in from above. In a bunker below, five American soldiers sat cross-legged on the ground gambling. Most of the time, there was no fighting in the War base, but once battles broke out, people often died. So the military higher-ups did not bother with the soldiers gambling in their spare time.

"Shit, terrible hand!"

One of the young Black men cursed and threw down his cards. Having lost all his money, he went to the small opening in the bunker to clear his head.

The opening faced the former location of the Statue of Liberty. However, the Statue of Liberty had long since collapsed into ruins.

"Damn virus! Damn monsters! Even the Statue of Liberty has fallen. One day, these filthy monsters will all be slaughtered!" Seeing the monsters wandering in the distance, the young Black man shouted angrily.

"OMG, is that monster looking for death?!"

The young Black man suddenly pointed toward the bunker opening in astonishment, and the other soldiers immediately looked over.

It was a monster over sixteen meters long, shaped somewhat like a lion. Its body was covered in black scales the size of human heads, the edges of every scale sharp as blades and chilling to behold. It also had a pair of black-scaled wings, twenty meters wide when spread, as if forged from steel!

A horn rose from its head, proudly poised as though it wanted to pierce the heavens!

"Fuck, it's a Lord-level monster!"

"It has to be fifteen or sixteen meters long! At that speed, it's at least Lord level! Sound the alarm!"

"Move, move, move!"

An ear-piercing alarm instantly rang out throughout the entire War base. The previously relaxed base seemed to be wound up like a clock as countless soldiers immediately returned to their positions and prepared for battle!

What terrified them was that, just when they thought they could deal with it easily, the golden patterns wrapped around the black monster's horn suddenly lit up. Its speed surged, leaving behind one afterimage after another.

This was the Golden Horned Beast's Talent Secret Technique: Enhancement.

The Steel Fortress, capable of resisting Lord-level monsters, was pierced by the black monster as easily as tofu. At the same time, two soldiers were impaled through the body and carried away by the black monster into the depths of the sea.

More than a hundred kilometers from the fortress, Jin Yu stopped. He then performed Soul Searching on the two unconscious soldiers he had pierced.

Casually tossing the two corpses into the ocean, Jin Yu felt no emotional stir, as though he had merely done something insignificant.

At that moment, he did not realize that he had already been influenced by the Golden Horned Beast's Slaughter bloodline.

"So it really is Earth. And it's August 20, 2057. China recently even produced an Invincible Wargod named Luo Feng."

Since Earth's strongest person was Chinese, the Chinese language was popular around the world at this time, and most people understood some of it.

After sorting through the memories, Jin Yu finally determined the time and place of his transmigration.

"Looks like I caused the Golden Horned Beast to be born early. According to the original trajectory, it should only have emerged from the egg in 2058."

Jin Yu had not expected that his angry strike to break the eggshell would make him be born a year early.

"But if I became the Golden Horned Beast, what happens to Luo Feng's opportunity?"

At that thought, Jin Yu was dumbfounded.

The Golden Horned Beast could be said to run through the entirety of Swallowed Star. Without the Golden Horned Beast, there would be no Luo Feng's glorious future.

And without Luo Feng, no one would be able to resolve the threat of the World Beast.

Yet now, the Golden Horned Beast had been possessed by him for some reason! But he could not possibly stupidly offer himself up for Luo Feng to possess, could he?

Jin Yu was so frustrated he nearly spat blood. He was completely at a loss, sinking into self-doubt.

"I can't exactly travel a thousand miles just to hand Luo Feng my head and let him possess me. What's the point of thinking about this now?" Jin Yu finally laughed at himself.

Even if the World Beast crisis came in the future, he could not possibly nobly sacrifice himself. Noble? Putting the greater good first? Please, he was not a Sage. If he died, what meaning would there be in whether the World Beast could be defeated?

"First, I'll see if there's anything useful in the miscellaneous section." Now that Jin Yu had confirmed he was on Earth, he was no longer in a hurry for the moment.

When sorting through the memories earlier, he had felt that some strange things had been mixed in, but he had not yet had time to organize them.

"The origin of the Inherited Memory?" Jin Yu flipped to something that had always puzzled him, and his eyes lit up as he began reading carefully.

Ten minutes later, Jin Yu revealed an enlightened expression. In the form of a Golden Horned Beast, however, it looked rather ferocious.

Originally, he had believed that the Inherited Memory was something like a blessing granted by the rules. Whether it was a newly born Golden Horned Beast in the cosmos or a Golden Horned Beast Egg expelled after a Golden Horned Beast died, both would receive the same inheritance information.

But he discovered that he had been mistaken. Inheritance information was limited and could not be accumulated without limit.

The Inherited Memory was structured similarly to a Cloud Server. Only Golden Horned Beasts that became Immortal were qualified to leave behind an inheritance and upload one of their inheritances to the Cloud Server.

Over successive generations, the Golden Horned Beasts discovered that if they uploaded inheritances that were too profound, then whenever one of their members was possessed by another race, all kinds of secret techniques would be given away for nothing. Thus, they deleted some of the inheritance information and replaced it all with inheritances that only Golden Horned Beasts could cultivate.

"Fuck, those bastards are really cunning. I was wondering why Luo Feng didn't get any precious secret techniques in the original story. So those old thieves deleted the inheritances." Jin Yu bared his fangs in anger.

Logically speaking, the Golden Horned Beast race was extremely powerful, with two Masters of the Universe among them. They surely had many force-amplifying secret techniques. Yet in the original story, Luo Feng only obtained a secret technique that Golden Horned Beasts could cultivate, one for Devouring precious materials.

They clearly had amplification secret techniques that could be cultivated without resources, yet they did not provide them. Instead, they only gave inheritances that Golden Horned Beasts could cultivate.

However, the good news was that besides the Cloud Server, there was also a Local Server for inheritance. Apart from those nurtured by the natural environment, Golden Horned Beasts on the verge of death could also pass down all of their inheritances to the next generation through the Nurturing Secret Technique.

This was the advantage of the Local Server: it was not restricted by the rules.

"Holy shit! I've struck it rich!" Jin Yu continued sorting through the information and discovered the precious wealth his predecessor had left behind for him.

He had never expected that his predecessor had actually left him an inheritance. The account and password were both there, and there was only one requirement for accessing it: he needed to present a Golden Horned Beast horn.

"So my predecessor was also named Jin Yu, and he even made a name for himself in human territory as Jin Yu Hou." A few simple accounts gave Jin Yu a basic understanding of his predecessor.

"Marquis-level strength really does mean abundant wealth." Looking over the information, Jin Yu discovered that the assets left to him exceeded five million Hun Yuan units.

Still, that was not actually much. Even Hu Yanbo, at the peak of Immortal Army Lord, had left his disciple an inheritance of three million Hun Yuan units. There was nothing particularly surprising about what the Golden Horned Beast had left behind.

But he currently had no way to access the universe, so Jin Yu could only stare helplessly at that string of numbers. It frustrated him so much that he nearly began questioning his life.

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