It was another day when Xu Xin was snatched away by Liu Ting and the others...
Xu Ai got dressed and walked out of the bathroom helplessly.
They'd snatched Xu Xin away while she was bathing with Xu Ai. There was no point in continuing the bath!
Especially since Xu Xin hadn't even gotten dressed yet!
They'd carried her off completely naked (???)
It was already the end of 2060.
Three years ago, influenced by Xu Ai's charms, the members of her harem, the Willow Leaf Squad, had all moved in with her!
It had nothing to do with the Gravity Chamber!
Anyway, Xu Xin was constantly being snatched away. If it weren't for Jiang Fang and Ye Yu comforting her with their generous bosoms, Xu Ai would have to check whether Liu Ting's butt was swollen!
The Earth had changed a great deal over these three years. First of all, Martial Artists had transitioned to new roles.
With the threat of monsters gone, Martial Artists' position had become rather awkward. In response, all the major powers had taken action, finding them new paths forward.
First, with Huaxia leading the way, the Extreme Martial Arts Hall and Thunder Dojo had eliminated the job of dojo instructor, replacing it with school martial arts teachers.
There were plenty of schools in the Base Cities. Assigning two or three Martial Artists to each school would help solve the problem of transitioning some of them to new careers.
At the same time, new cities were being built, creating even more places where Martial Artists were needed.
Next came the military. The Extreme Martial Arts Hall and Thunder Dojo had disbanded the Martial Artist squads, since there was no longer any need to hunt monsters.
In their place, Martial Artist legions were formed within the military.
The soldiers didn't just fight wars. They also helped guard the borders of many new cities and took part in construction work. After all, with the strength of Martial Artists, they could get things done more easily than ordinary people.
Finally, the Two Great Dojos and the Huaxia Military had established the Heaven, Earth, and Human Rankings!
The Heaven Ranking listed the top one hundred Martial Artists in the world. Hen Ren was first, Hong second, Thor third, Xu Ai fourth, and Luo Feng fifth...
The Earth Ranking listed War God Level Martial Artists, while the Human Ranking listed talented Martial Artists under thirty.
Those who made the Heaven Ranking couldn't enter the Earth or Human Rankings, and those who made the Earth Ranking couldn't enter the Human Ranking.
Everyone who made a ranking received resources and support.
The rankings were meant to encourage more Martial Artists to emerge!
Besides that, there had been all kinds of other changes, but they were all led by Huaxia!
What could they do? Four of the five strongest people on the Heaven Ranking were from Huaxia, and the last one, Thor, was half Huaxian.
"Speaking of which, why haven't Luo Feng, Hong, and Thor come back yet?"
Luo Feng had retrieved the spaceship from Ancient Civilization Ruin No. 12 in late 2057.
In early 2060, Babata had finished repairing the ship and even invited Hen Ren to go with them, but she'd refused.
So he'd taken Hong and Thor out for a look around. They'd been gone for nearly a year...
"Did something happen to them? Did they run into space pirates?"
They couldn't be that unlucky, could they? With Luo Feng's wealth, he would surely have bought a few Star Level slaves for protection. As long as they didn't run into Universe Level pirates, they'd be fine...
They couldn't have actually run into Universe Level pirates, could they?
Xu Ai was getting a headache. But there was another extremely troublesome matter, too...
"2060 is almost over. Where the hell did the Golden-Horned Beast go!?"
That's right. 2060 was the year of Earth's great crisis, the Swallowing Beast War.
The Swallowing Beast was the Golden-Horned Beast. Shortly after its birth, it would be deceived by the two Beast Emperors and lead the monsters in an attack on humanity.
Humanity would fight back with everything it had, even nuclear weapons, but to no avail! Even Hong and Thor would fight to the death and end up as vegetative patients...
In the end, five Planetary Level powerhouses would sacrifice themselves, allowing Luo Feng to risk his life and possess the beast. Its ultimate fate would be to become Luo Feng's cheat that lasted for almost the entire novel!
So...
"Where the hell did the Golden-Horned Beast go!?"
Xu Ai had been planning for Hen Ren to send it to sleep with a single illusion as soon as it appeared, then wait for Luo Feng to come and possess it.
But it simply wouldn't show itself. Earth wasn't huge, but it wasn't small, either. Even though Hen Ren, at Star Level, could use the boost from the Nine Secrets: Jie to extend her Spirit Force across the whole planet,
That only allowed her to attack indiscriminately. She still couldn't search for anything. Doing so would consume far too much Spirit Force...
"If I remember correctly, this Golden-Horned Beast hatchling was an egg formed from the life force of a World Lord-level Golden-Horned Beast nearing the end of its life, which it expelled just before dying."
"And in the original story, the Golden-Horned Beast hatchling's inherited memories judged that once it reached Star Level, Earth would no longer pose a threat to it. Looking at it that way...
That World Lord-level Golden-Horned Beast would choose a suitable planet for its hatchling to grow on. After all, inherited memories came from its ancestors. In other words..."
Xu Ai froze, unable to believe it.
"Could it be that Hen Ren was so strong that the Golden-Horned Beast's World Lord parent judged its hatchling wouldn't survive long on this planet, so it didn't choose Earth!?"
After all, Hen Ren was a Star Level powerhouse with a Nine-Fold Domain, on the threshold of the Law of Water and the Law of Space, and had even comprehended three fundamental aspects of the Law of Water. She was a monster.
And Hen Ren was still under thirty. That World Lord-level Golden-Horned Beast couldn't possibly be stupid enough to think its hatchling could beat her...
This was a real problem! Without the Golden-Horned Beast, could Luo Feng really grow strong?
Don't bring up any nonsense about predetermined fate. Neither Swallowed Star nor Snow Eagle Lord had anything like that!
"Let's take it one step at a time..."
In early 2061, while Xu Ai was cuddling Xu Xin to sleep, Luo Feng finally returned.
"Why were you gone for so long?"
Hen Ren flew up to the spaceship hovering above her villa and asked in confusion.
But after seeing Luo Feng, Hen Ren was even more puzzled.
"You're Planetary Level Seven? How did you cultivate so fast?"
Had he encountered some kind of lucky opportunity? But why had Hong and Thor only broken through one level in a year? That was way too slow...
Had Luo Feng kept the opportunity all to himself?
"Uh, well..."
The three of them hesitated, but in the end, they decided to tell Hen Ren.
"So Luo Feng went to Mars and possessed a Golden-Horned Beast, one of the twelve pinnacle bloodlines among Star Behemoths, and is destined to become a World Lord?"
After all that wandering around, that brat had gone to Mars!
But that made sense, too. Mars had at least as many metal resources as Earth, and the quality was even better.
Dark Iron Ore, B8-grade metal; Dark Iron Essence, C8-grade metal. Setting aside all the assorted spaceship wreckage on Earth, Mars was still better suited to the Golden-Horned Beast. It could grow up more safely there.
Although the Golden-Horned Beast had trouble digesting the dark iron on Mars, by the time Luo Feng and the others arrived, it had still reached Star Level Three.
Fortunately, Hong and Thor had three- and two-fold domains, respectively, and their strength was Planetary Level Eight and Nine. Luo Feng's spaceship also had quite a few Laser Cannons...
The Golden-Horned Beast hatchling had been injured by the spaceship's "Shi Da Bian Le" attack.
The three of them had then fought to the death. Hong and Thor had been badly injured, and Luo Feng had nearly died while possessing the Golden-Horned Beast...
"Mm. You were really lucky..."
Hen Ren nodded, relieved.
In the original story, the Golden-Horned Beast had been battered over and over.
It had been injured by the nuclear explosion, then by the Laser Cannon attack, and then again when Hong and Thor fought it to the death.
After the five heroes sacrificed themselves, Luo Feng, now stronger, had recklessly attacked it and injured it again. Only then had he finally succeeded in possessing it...
This time, it had only taken a few Laser Cannon shots for Hong and Thor to be badly injured, and then Luo Feng had risked his life to possess it successfully. Compared to the original story's brutal events, they'd been much luckier...
But the fact that Luo Feng had still ended up possessing the Golden-Horned Beast...
"Could fate really be predetermined?"
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