Five Hundred Epochs

Huyang City, atop a tall building in the City Lord's Mansion.

Luo Feng drank alone.

"Nine Rivers Holy World?" Luo Feng murmured.

This gathering between Yan Feng Ancestor, Emperor Qing, and Luo Feng had revealed a great deal of information.

Once one reached the Ultimate Realm Lifeform level, they could leave the Origin Continent through a transmission passage within it, usually arriving at a random destination. Unless, that was, they specified precise coordinates during transmission.

The world where Emperor Qing resided was called the Nine Rivers Holy World. It gathered experts from countless Source Worlds and experts from billions upon billions of worlds.

"Emperor Qing is in the Nine Rivers Holy World. The weakest beings qualified to enter are Ultimate Realm Lifeforms! The strongest can reach the Half Primal Chaos level!"

"Yan Feng Ancestor is in the Dark Holy World, whose entry threshold is extremely high! Yan Feng Ancestor and Thunder Ancestor are only slightly stronger than the threshold. In the Dark Holy World... resources of every kind are far more abundant than in the Nine Rivers Holy World."

Luo Feng was still far too distant from the so-called "Dark World threshold." Ordinary Enlightenment Seekers needed to reach the God Emperor Late-Stage before they had any hope of entering.

"Whether it is the Nine Rivers Holy World, the Dark Holy World... or certain other places, Senior Yuan and the others use them to nurture weak beings like us." Luo Feng understood this as well.

"Without the Star Tower and the Life-Death Eye, I am still too weak."

The Life-Death Eye between Luo Feng's brows opened, gazing distantly in the direction of the Dream Domain.

Other than the Infinite Space, which was not on the Origin Continent, Luo Feng could peer into all other Treasure Lands.

"Buzz."

Under the Life-Death Eye's observation, his gaze swiftly passed through layer upon layer of spatial obstructions and saw the most central layer—the Darkness Area.

Originally, only Mind Will could peer into the Darkness Area. Yet the Life-Death Eye saw it with perfect clarity.

"The Darkness Area contains only a single space."

Luo Feng watched.

The entire Dream Domain was like an enormous sphere, filled with countless bubbles, each one an Independent Space. The outermost layer contained the greatest number of Dream Domain spaces; the middle layer had far fewer, the deeper layers fewer still, while the most central Darkness Area contained only one space.

This space was incomparably stable.

Its ground was forged from black metal and etched with secret patterns.

Its trees grew from countless intertwined metals.

Its rivers were formed from converging specks of flowing light.

The weakest creatures here were all at the Emperor or Monarch level.

The powerful ones had even touched the Origin Continent's upper limit of power. Some of the disturbances caused by their conflicts made even Luo Feng's expression change.

"Even I cannot enter while carrying the Life-Death Eye and the Star Tower." Luo Feng understood this. "Although the strongest Dream Domain Creatures in the Darkness Area are only at the upper limit of power, some regions contain far too many Dream Domain Creatures."

Under the Life-Death Eye's observation, he could see one region where several hundred snake-like creatures had gathered. Even their playful antics could touch the Origin Continent's upper limit of power.

"If several hundred snake-like creatures swarm me, it would be like several hundred Emperor Qings attacking together." Luo Feng thought, Even if I hid Inside the Star Tower, I would be completely trapped and could never escape.

The Star Tower's power was limited as well.

One against several hundred?

How could he fight?

Even Yan Feng Ancestor and Thunder Ancestor would be useless here.

"There are quite a lot of Special Lifeform Remains." Luo Feng observed with the Life-Death Eye. At a glance, he saw densely packed, innumerable remains scattered throughout the place.

At the bottom of rivers lay hundreds of thousands of pieces: a bone, a scale, a strip of flesh and sinew...

Some were hidden deep within mountains as well.

However, they all shared one trait: obtaining them required exploring a considerable distance into the Darkness Area.

"My Life-Death Eye can only see the outward appearance of these Special Lifeform Remains. It cannot peer into their interiors." Luo Feng frowned. "It is difficult for me to determine their exact value."

Using the Life-Death Eye, his powers of observation might rival those of an ordinary High-Tier Primal Chaos Lifeform. But seeing through the essence of Special Lifeform Remains at a glance was simply impossible.

"I can only take one. Once I obtain one, I will be expelled and never be able to enter again." Luo Feng pondered.

His Life-Death Eye observed carefully.

Rivers, mountains, underground, forests...

He compared all kinds of corpse materials one by one.

"This one looks extraordinary." Luo Feng finally fixed his gaze on a piece of material.

It was a Dark Gold Horn.

This Dark Gold Horn lay deep within an underground labyrinth. More than a hundred centipede-like creatures occupied the place, circling around the horn as though they deeply revered it.

"While observing the entire Darkness Area of the Dream Domain with my Life-Death Eye, this is the only horn-type material I have seen. And the creatures guarding it are quite powerful as well." Luo Feng thought, This is the one!

If an incomparably terrifying lifeform had horns, and even possessed only a single horn, that horn was surely of great use.

"Let's take another look at the Sky Pillar Realm."

Luo Feng turned his gaze, and the Life-Death Eye carefully observed the entire Sky Pillar Realm.

Deep within the Sky Pillar Realm, the most conspicuous sight was a winding Filthy Blood River! An ordinary God King Second Realm cultivator would die immediately upon touching this Filthy Blood River, and even their external avatars would perish after their souls were contaminated.

There were also enormous mountains of bones. Countless cracks ran through them, forming labyrinths.

In addition, lush vegetation grew in abundance. These plants grew along the Filthy Blood River and within the bone mountains, their roots extending deep underground.

"I can see the Dream Domain clearly at a glance."

"Yet in the Sky Pillar Realm, roughly ten to twenty percent of the regions remain unclear to me. I cannot see into the Filthy Blood River. I can only see the surface of the bone mountains, not their deepest parts, and I cannot see deep underground either." Luo Feng gently shook his head.

"The Filthy Blood River should have formed from the contaminated blood of a World-Level Primal Chaos Lifeform."

Luo Feng was fairly certain.

Blood that even his Life-Death Eye could not see through could not possibly belong to a lifeform within the cage.

"I heard that Innate Treasures are easily born within the Filthy Blood River, the bone mountains, and deep underground." Luo Feng smiled. One thing was rather strange: whether in the Dream Domain or the Sky Pillar Realm, he had not seen a single Innate Treasure.

The Innate Treasures seemed to be hidden extremely well.

"As for Special Lifeform Remains..."

Luo Feng looked at the Sky Pillar Realm. "There are remains everywhere. The entire Filthy Blood River is made of remains, and every one of those bone mountains is a set of remains."

Luo Feng realized this, but he had no ability to take them away. Just by looking at them... Luo Feng could tell how incomparably heavy they were and how terrifying their pressure was.

"This one, then."

Luo Feng carefully examined the vast number of remains deep within the Sky Pillar Realm before finally selecting one.

According to the Life-Death Eye's observations, there were a total of 289 bone mountains. Within the centralmost bone mountain lay a long stretch of black bone, divided into nine sections.

"These nine sections of black bone should allow me to take one section." Luo Feng thought.

Although the imperial families of the two nations guarded the Sky Pillar Realm, they did not dare obstruct the Galaxy Master in the slightest.

Luo Feng sent out a powerful avatar. Its physical body alone possessed God Emperor-level strength, and it forcibly made its way deep into the bone mountain range. Although the pressure grew increasingly stronger, it was still limited to the Origin Continent's upper limit.

Luo Feng reached the core and entered deep into that bone mountain, where he looked upon the towering nine-sectioned black bone.

The nine sections of black bone emanated a terrifying aura.

The instant Luo Feng touched them, formless information was transmitted to him. He could take only one section, and once he took it away, he would no longer be able to take any Special Lifeform Remains.

"Buzz."

As Luo Feng moved it, he felt its incomparably immense weight. He then stored it within the God Emperor-level secret treasure he carried with him—the Water Drop Flying Boat.

With Luo Feng's strength, obtaining Special Lifeform Remains from the Sky Pillar Realm was relatively easy. However, the Dark Gold Horn from the Dream Domain was extremely difficult. Luo Feng tried several hundred times, failing every time.

Fortunately, his avatars possessed sufficiently strong vitality. After several hundred attempts, his energy loss was not too great.

"Even with the Life-Death Eye assisting me from afar, I still failed." Luo Feng could only set it aside for the time being.

More than two hundred epochs later.

With the coordination of three Nine Branches Fusion Secret Methods of the Life-Death Great Path, Luo Feng sent several avatars into action at once. With the Life-Death Eye observing from afar to assist, along with luring the enemy away and desperately holding them back, he finally obtained that Dark Gold Horn.

From then on, he had acquired both Special Lifeform Remains, the most important treasures that God Emperors of the Origin Continent could generally obtain.

"These two treasures truly are extraordinary." Under the Life-Death Eye's observation, Luo Feng saw this clearly.

The horn and the section of black bone each contained endless profundities. Although they were somewhat inferior to the Life-Death Eye, they belonged to the same level and were even simpler and purer.

"The horn actually contains the profundities of Mind Will." Luo Feng was somewhat astonished. Among the secret patterns within the horn, Mind Will occupied the dominant position.

"This section of black bone contains the profundity of 'indestructibility.'" Luo Feng peered into the composition of the black bone. Could the growth of a lifeform truly reach such an indestructible level?

Luo Feng immersed himself in cultivation, and the Origin Continent returned to peace!

Under the joint orders of the Galaxy Master, Yan Feng Ancestor, and Thunder Ancestor, the Great Sinners of the entire Origin Continent lost all ground on which to survive. Even those fortunate enough to survive, who cautiously devoured a few tribes in secret to aid their cultivation, lived in constant fear, for the patrols led by Moluo Sa might discover them at any moment.

Unknowingly, roughly five hundred epochs had passed since the wagered battle between Luo Feng and Thunder Ancestor.

Within a vast space in the Yan Feng Ancient Nation.

Eleven streams of consciousness gathered, forming the figures of eleven Emperors.

"Luo He Guest Elder has served as the Sky Pillar Realm's guardian for a thousand epochs." Emperor Yan said. "It is time for him to leave! No Guest Elder may take the Sky Pillar Realm guardian mission consecutively."

Guarding the Sky Pillar Realm was a fine assignment that all Guest Elders dreamed of obtaining.

Emperor Yan and the others generally used it to reward obedient Guest Elders! Luo He had occupied the post for over a thousand epochs, so Emperor Yan and the others were naturally dissatisfied.

"A Guest Elder who does not understand rank and status was still allowed to serve as guardian for over a thousand epochs." Emperor Wu's expression was icy. Back then, she had personally threatened Luo He and forced him to accept another mission, only for Emperor Chu to ultimately protect his own disciple.

Emperor Chu and she bore a blood feud, so she was naturally filled with hostility toward Luo He as well.

"Since the term has ended, he should naturally be replaced." Emperor Chu cast Emperor Wu a glance, utterly unconcerned.