Luo Zhiyuan's First Battle

After obtaining his new toy, the Black God Set, Luo Zhiyuan was genuinely fascinated for several days, often commanding the Black God Set to transform into all sorts of strange outfits, which would make his whole family burst into laughter. Some time later, Hong and Thunder God, the two strongest humans before Luo Feng, finally awoke from their comatose state after being critically injured by the Golden Horned Behemoth.

Luo Feng went to visit them. Since all three were well aware of the dangers of the universe—knowing that if Earth's situation were discovered by cosmic beings, it would be sold into slavery—the three swore brotherhood and decided to shoulder the future of Earth together.

Hong and Thunder God believed that sparring and cultivating together would lead to faster progress, but Luo Feng had a better idea: to have Hong and Thunder God join the Yunmo Planet lineage so they could learn its heritage, which would be far faster than their own cultivation.

Hong and Thunder God were overjoyed and quickly agreed, only for Luo Feng to smirk and break the bad news: "Big Brother, Second Brother, since you have both entered my Yunmo Planet lineage, I must tell you one more thing. I am currently considered the first disciple of Yunmo Planet, but above you, there is a second disciple who joined before you. So, I would like to solemnly introduce you to your Second Senior Brother—my son, Luo Zhiyuan. He is a year and a half old. Haha."

Hong and Thunder God stared blankly at Luo Feng, exchanging glances. Finally, Thunder God couldn't hold back and shouted at Luo Feng, "Little Third, you can't just trick your brothers like this! How are we, as his uncles, supposed to face your son now?"

"Haha, alright, I won't tease you anymore. Let's just keep our own separate titles. Although my boy is only a year and a half old, he is already a planet-level one spirit reader and martial artist. Furthermore, his mental maturity is very high; if you ignore his age and size, you can treat him like an adult, so you don't need to worry too much. However, as his uncles, shouldn't you prepare some gifts for your first meeting? Haha."

This once again shocked Hong and Thunder God. Neither could sit still, and they urged Luo Feng to take them to see their Second Senior Brother immediately; they were dying to meet such a peerless genius.

After Luo Feng brought Hong and Thunder God home, they went to his gravity chamber to find Luo Zhiyuan. Inside the chamber, Hong and Thunder God met Luo Zhiyuan for the first time.

Hong and Thunder God scrutinized Luo Zhiyuan, who was training in the chamber, and first felt a powerful gravitational force. Looking at the control panel on the side, they saw a staggering value: 1200g! It was actually 1200 times Earth's gravity. Hong and Thunder God had their own gravity chambers, but theirs could only reach a maximum of 1000 times Earth's gravity. Luo Feng's had been modified by Babata and could reach up to 90,000 times Earth's gravity.

The two of them usually trained in maximum gravity environments, but seeing such a small child moving freely under 1200 times Earth's gravity left them stunned. When they looked closer at Little Zhiyuan's movements, they were rendered speechless.

Luo Zhiyuan was practicing a movement technique while drenched in sweat. The technique made one doubt their own eyes; he would clearly appear to be in one spot, but then his figure would flicker, and he would appear elsewhere. His entire body seemed blurred, as if he were constantly vibrating at a high frequency and creating afterimages, making it impossible to see his true physical details.

This... what kind of movement technique is this? It feels so eerie!

Luo Feng was also confused. His son hadn't been practicing this technique when he left, so he didn't know the specifics and had to ask Babata.

"Haha, Luo Feng, your son is truly a genius. I just taught him a movement technique called 'Godly Evasion'. If practiced to the fourth level of mastery, one can create 100 afterimages, leaving enemies unable to locate the true body. Your son has only been practicing for one day, and he has already reached the first level of minor success, allowing him to vibrate and blur his figure, making it difficult for enemies to pinpoint his exact strike zones."

"That's not all. Little Zhiyuan has also developed his own domain, the Light Domain. Combined with this movement technique, people of the same level can't possibly hit his body; they will always miss!"

Wait, when did my son develop a domain? Big Brother and Second Brother both have domains, so why don't I? Luo Feng felt deeply discouraged. He had possessed the Golden Horned Behemoth, and hadn't Babata said his conditions were superior? He hadn't even grasped a domain yet, and his son already had one. Life was unbearable; he had lost all his dignity as a father!

As it turned out, after Luo Zhiyuan broke through to a planet-level martial artist, he could finally use Flowing Time to keep his body movements in sync with his mind, eliminating the lag between the two.

However, another strange sensation became even clearer: his spirit energy, physical force, willpower, and body naturally reached a harmonious state. The powers even began to fuse, and the resulting white energy could actually exert control over the surrounding space.

Luo Zhiyuan felt like the master of light in the surrounding area; he could alter the path of light, preventing it from traveling in a straight line. He instinctively integrated this feeling into his movements, and thus, amidst Babata's shouting, he had gained his own domain: the Light Domain.

When practicing the Godly Evasion technique, one needs to constantly vibrate the body to affect the opponent's vision and spiritual perception, creating afterimages at the boundaries of one's body. Luo Zhiyuan, however, could use his domain to control the light flickering around his body while vibrating, allowing him to master the first level of Godly Evasion very quickly. Now, he was practicing repeatedly to form muscle memory, allowing him to enter this state whenever needed.

After Hong and Thunder God entered the gravity chamber, Luo Zhiyuan sensed outsiders and stopped his movements, looking at the two strangers who had followed Luo Feng. One was a man in black who gave off a cold, indifferent feeling, as if there were no life in his eyes; the other was a bald man in white robes, his body seemingly crackling with lightning, dazzling to the eyes. With a jolt, Luo Zhiyuan guessed who they were.

Luo Feng said to Luo Zhiyuan, "Zhiyuan, come over and meet your two uncles, Uncle Hong and Uncle Thunder God." Sure enough, these were the former first and second strongest men on Earth, who had finally woken up after being critically injured by the Golden Horned Behemoth.

Luo Zhiyuan had long admired Hong and Thunder God, and he was quite excited to see them. After all, these two had established the two largest martial arts gyms on Earth, making the path of human evolution much smoother. It could be said that without them, Earth might have been overrun by monsters long ago, and humans might not have had a base to survive and reproduce. They were truly the heroes of humanity.

Luo Zhiyuan played the part of an obedient child, greeting them with a smile: "Uncle Hong, Uncle Thunder God, you've finally woken up! My father has told me about your heroic deeds many times and was worried about you for so long. It's so good that you're awake!"

As he spoke, he kept staring at them with wide eyes, scanning them back and forth. Hong and Thunder God felt a bit awkward, not knowing how to interact with this tiny Second Senior Brother.

Luo Feng watched the two big men and the one small child staring at each other and couldn't help but joke: "Zhiyuan, these two uncles have another identity—they are your junior brothers. They have joined the Yunmo Planet lineage with us. Tell me, you two uncles, have you prepared the meeting gifts for my son? Hurry up, pay your respects to your Second Senior Brother!"

Hong and Thunder God turned bright red. At their age, having to call such a tiny child "Senior Brother" was incredibly uncomfortable. However, both valued tradition, and according to seniority, they really should offer gifts to their senior, so they bowed their heads and cupped their hands, calling him Second Senior Brother.

Luo Zhiyuan hadn't expected this and was stunned, accidentally accepting their gesture. Feeling embarrassed, he quickly flew over to support their arms, not daring to let them finish the gesture, and said, "Oh, Uncles, I can't accept this! You're going to ruin me; you mustn't do this."

"Don't listen to my dad's nonsense. There's no one else in our Yunmo Planet lineage, and we don't stand on ceremony. Please don't mention the 'Second Senior Brother' thing again. Besides, 'Second Senior Brother' doesn't sound very good. I'd rather be your little nephew so I can ask you for meeting gifts, hehe."

Luo Feng hadn't expected his two brothers to be so formal and was almost scared himself. Hearing his son's words, he quickly urged Hong and Thunder God to stop, telling them not to actually bow to his son, then took the opportunity to tease them, demanding their meeting gifts.

Hong and Thunder God looked at each other, stopped worrying about it, and began to ponder what kind of gifts to give Luo Feng's son. Ordinary things like gold locks wouldn't do; what should they give?

Thunder God, quick-witted, took a beautiful fruit from his storage equipment that emitted an alluring fragrance and handed it to Luo Zhiyuan: "Very well, I have an energy fruit here that I obtained during an operation on the African continent. It should taste good; try it, Little Zhiyuan."

Hong then took out an insulated box, handed it to Luo Zhiyuan, and said, "Inside are the eggs of a fish monster I found near the Arctic last time. They taste great and are rich in nutrients. You're at the age where you're growing, so these are perfect."

Luo Zhiyuan put the two gifts into his storage space and thanked them repeatedly, saying cute things that made Hong and Thunder God laugh heartily, effectively moving past the earlier awkwardness.

After seeing Luo Feng's gravity chamber and realizing it was much better than theirs, Hong and Thunder God decided to stay and cultivate at Luo Feng's place.

A few months later, in the summer of 2062, Thunder God reached planet-level nine martial artist with a first-level domain, Hong reached planet-level eight martial artist with a second-level domain, and Luo Feng reached planet-level five martial artist and planet-level eight spirit reader, with a spiritual amplitude of 32.

Luo Zhiyuan had reached planet-level five spirit reader with a spiritual amplitude of 20, his body had reached planet-level four, and his domain was nearing the second level. However, because his level had risen so quickly, his foundation was not very solid, so Babata decided to stop him from leveling up and focus on solidifying his foundation.

Luo Zhiyuan had no objections. By age, he was not yet two, but his physical development was like that of a six or seven-year-old. If Luo Feng and Xu Xin hadn't been watching him every day, they would never have recognized him as their own son.

As for why Luo Zhiyuan grew so fast, there were several reasons: he constantly used Flowing Time to accelerate himself, and Hong and Thunder God would occasionally give him so-called "health supplements." This caused Luo Zhiyuan to grow so rapidly that Xu Xin couldn't help but complain to Luo Feng, saying she couldn't even hold Little Zhiyuan anymore, and she hadn't held him enough yet!

Under Babata's arrangement, Luo Zhiyuan began running around Earth. Now, apart from a beast emperor in the ocean that posed a slight threat, even king-level monsters were no longer enough to harm him. However, Luo Zhiyuan had no experience in actual combat, which was very abnormal, so he needed to find various monsters across Earth to fight and gain experience.

The first opponent Babata chose for Luo Zhiyuan was an apprentice-level 8 Spiked Turtle, known on Earth as a medium-level lord monster. The Spiked Turtle was characterized by relatively slow movement, average attack power, and extremely high defense. It could withstand the full-force attack of a planet-level one martial artist and even trigger a counter-shock to injure the opponent, making it a type of enemy martial artists were very reluctant to face.

Since Luo Zhiyuan's speed was much faster than the Spiked Turtle's, Babata believed there was no real danger and that it was perfect for practice. He instructed him to first tease the turtle in close quarters to get familiar with the routines of field combat before killing it.

Babata found this Spiked Turtle on the outskirts of a ruined county town, where it was residing in a dilapidated warehouse. Luo Zhiyuan wore a tiny, form-fitting combat suit that Babata had made on the spot; it could only defend against attacks from apprentice-level 5 martial artists, so it couldn't withstand the Spiked Turtle's attacks. The purpose of this battle was not a life-or-death struggle, but to familiarize himself with combat patterns.

Luo Zhiyuan flew down from the sky and hid behind a pile of rocks, ignoring the few unknown guard monsters on the perimeter—according to Babata, those guys weren't even worth practicing on.

At this moment, the Spiked Turtle was tearing into a monster carcass in the warehouse clearing. Luo Zhiyuan observed its movements for a while and found that it was quite large, standing two meters tall with a shell four meters in diameter covered in rhino-like spikes. It was also very alert. It seemed to have noticed someone nearby, so it stopped eating and was slowly turning its body back and forth, peering around.

After observing for ten minutes, Luo Zhiyuan felt he had mastered the Spiked Turtle's movement patterns and left the rock pile to approach it, intending to test his movement technique. To his surprise, after the Spiked Turtle spotted him, it instantly completed a turn, moving much more nimbly than before, and swiped a claw at the little one.

Luo Zhiyuan hadn't expected the turtle to turn so quickly, but since he was there to test his technique, he didn't panic. He instantly shifted his position to the side, kicked the turtle's shell hard, and after feeling a strong counter-shock, quickly moved to the turtle's rear flank.

The Spiked Turtle clearly hadn't accurately judged Luo Zhiyuan's position; its claw swiped more than half a meter away from where he had been. Realizing it had missed, it quickly turned in place again to swipe at where Luo Zhiyuan had reappeared, but missed by another half meter. Then came the third turn, the fourth turn, the bite...

By now, the power of Godly Evasion had been proven. It was truly a high-level secret technique collected by the Yunmo Planet lineage; its ability to deceive biological senses was genuinely high.

However, to become more familiar with the technique, Luo Zhiyuan continued to drift and dodge around the Spiked Turtle, constantly using the evasion experience Babata had taught him, occasionally punching and kicking to provoke the turtle. The Spiked Turtle roared in anger but couldn't hit the annoying little one, instead accidentally knocking away the guard monsters that had rushed over and tearing half the warehouse down.

The Spiked Turtle seemed to sense that this little pipsqueak couldn't cause it any real harm beyond being annoying, so after a while, it simply retracted its limbs and head, forming a true turtle shell. No matter how much he provoked it, it decided to ignore him entirely; it stopped moving, not caring what happened next.

Luo Zhiyuan was frustrated. He hadn't been playing for long, so why had it stopped moving? He kicked it again and found the Spiked Turtle still unresponsive. Luo Zhiyuan was speechless; what a mess. Forget it, he would try his soul attack technique. With that, Luo Zhiyuan backed away to a certain distance and used the only soul attack technique he currently knew against the Spiked Turtle—Mental Shock.

He gathered his spiritual force into ten strands and launched them rapidly toward the Spiked Turtle. Luo Zhiyuan felt his spiritual force make contact with the Spiked Turtle's sea of consciousness in an instant, causing it to vibrate incessantly as if it were on the verge of shattering.

Judging by the Spiked Turtle's outward appearance, one could only see its entire shell shudder once, after which there was no further reaction, as its limbs were already retracted and it was impossible to tell what its current state was.

Luo Zhiyuan was speechless once more. This was truly helpless; he couldn't see the effects of the soul technique at all. Forget it, he would test another technique: the innate technique—Soul Fusion. In an instant, the spiritual force that had just surged into the Spiked Turtle's mind returned to his own, seemingly bringing something back with it.

Sensing his own sea of consciousness, Luo Zhiyuan discovered that a miniature version of the Spiked Turtle was rapidly dissipating within his soul space. He then began to receive a wealth of information, including the Spiked Turtle's complete memories, its growth history, hunting experiences, escape techniques, and more. Luo Zhiyuan discarded the memories and emotions that were meaningless to him and fully absorbed the rest of the experience that would aid his growth.

Returning to the side of the Spiked Turtle and looking at the creature still curled up in its shell, Luo Zhiyuan knew that this intermediate commander-level monster had already had its soul scattered. He silently said to it: As my first opponent in this Swallowed Star world, although the battle was short, I still thank you for all the experience you gave me, allowing me to begin my combat career. I will keep you in my memory forever.