Several days later.
Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean.
On the muddy seafloor, the Golden Horned Beast, its entire body as black as ink, lay sprawled.
As its dark golden eyes opened, they filled with a cold killing intent—the instinct of the Golden Horned Beast!
"Babata."
The Golden Horned Beast, Luo Feng, spoke.
"How much time has passed?"
"It's been sixteen days since you possessed the Golden Horned Beast," Babata hurriedly replied.
"That long?" Luo Feng was surprised.
The Golden Horned Beast's vast inheritance memories had forcibly merged into his soul, pushing it to its very limits. Under such pressure, even thinking about anything else left Luo Feng exhausted.
"That's an incredible amount of knowledge. No wonder Starry Sky Behemoths are so rare in the universe," Luo Feng marveled.
"Did you receive all of its inheritance memories?"
Babata sounded very excited.
"That's unbelievable... Hurry and see what knowledge and Secret Techniques it has."
"Mm." Luo Feng nodded and began examining the Golden Horned Beast's inheritance memories.
Although he had possessed the Golden Horned Beast, his soul was still human. Even after merging with those memories, he hadn't completely mastered them. In that respect, he was somewhat like Su Zhe.
After devouring a target, Su Zhe didn't acquire all of its memories either. He would instead sift through them and retain the important parts.
Otherwise, the sheer volume of memories would be enough to send Su Zhe's soul into a coma.
This wasn't a problem at the moment, but if he later devoured a World Master or even an undying, the memories would be so vast... It would probably be difficult even to find the genuinely useful ones.
After looking through the Golden Horned Beast's inheritance memories, Luo Feng fell silent.
"I have to learn all this knowledge one thing at a time myself?"
Luo Feng grumbled.
"That's normal," Babata said. "Otherwise, every Golden Horned Beast would be invincible, mastering powerful Secret Techniques from birth."
"Fine."
Luo Feng shook his head.
"Putting that aside, did anything happen on Earth while I was receiving the inheritance memories?" Luo Feng asked.
He had been missing for so many days and had possessed the Golden Horned Beast. He still didn't know how he would explain things to Xu Xin, much less how he could show himself in front of humanity again.
"On Earth... something did happen!"
Babata jolted and spoke urgently.
"Luo Feng, look at this!"
Babata conjured a projection. The scene looked familiar: a vast stretch of ocean.
"This is... the Pacific Ocean? Is this a live broadcast?"
Luo Feng froze for a moment. He was about to ask something, but the footage quickly drew his attention.
A young man with black hair appeared onscreen.
He stood in midair, clearly a Planetary Level fighter. Yet Luo Feng had never seen him before. Who was this young Planetary Level fighter, so young?
Before Luo Feng could ask, the young man onscreen moved.
"ROAR!!!"
No—more accurately, it wasn't him who moved. It was the waves below!
As a dragon's roar split the heavens, a violent field of lightning instantly enveloped the sea.
A thousand-meter divine dragon, its entire body flashing with crackling lightning, surged upstream from beneath the waves!
The Thunder Dragon Emperor?!
Luo Feng's heart jumped. It had once been one of Earth's two Beast Emperors. The Thunder Dragon Emperor was as powerful as the Octopus Beast Emperor, but was more skilled at offense, famed for its speed, lightning, and strength. The Octopus Beast Emperor, by contrast, specialized in defense.
Before possessing the Golden Horned Beast, Luo Feng had already killed the Octopus Beast Emperor, so he knew the two Beast Emperors' strength very well.
In the ocean, the Planetary Level Six Thunder Dragon Emperor was powerful enough to crush human fighters of the same level!
Thanks to the ocean's unique advantages, even Hong—who had mastered a domain and was considered invincible at the Planetary Level—had been forced to reach a peace agreement with the two Beast Emperors.
Could this young man he'd never met really do it?
Far beneath the Pacific Ocean, dark clouds churned like ink.
Under the cameras broadcasting live around the world, Su Zhe hovered in midair, gripping a War Blade in his right hand. It was a Blacklight Virus simulacrum with a little Camouflage.
No weapon made on Earth could pierce the Thunder Dragon Emperor's defenses.
Su Zhe had asked Atkin to search the Ancient Civilization Ruins for Force Weapons, but most of the good things on Earth were in Hong's hands.
Even though Hong was unconscious, the Extreme Martial Arts Hall's possessions weren't easy to get hold of.
Since the broadcast was going out worldwide, Su Zhe had disguised himself a little. He could reveal himself if he really couldn't win.
"ROAR—!!!"
The seawater below boiled violently. A ferocious dragon's head, wreathed in destructive blue lightning, burst through the surface!
After Su Zhe's relentless provocation, the Thunder Dragon Emperor had finally lost patience and surged out of the sea!
"BOOM!!"
Su Zhe spread his arms. Thick, ink-black Void Devouring Flame covered the blade in his right hand, transforming it into a flaming blade that slashed toward the Thunder Dragon Emperor's head.
Black flames and lightning collided in midair, bursting into a dazzling shower of sparks.
The terrifying surge of energy blasted a vast, temporary hole in the sea. The evaporating seawater billowed into white mist that filled the sky.
The satellite overhead faithfully recorded the scene and broadcast it to people around the world.
"CRACK!"
The Thunder Dragon Emperor whipped its enormous tail, tearing through the layers of mist. The air cracked with a sonic boom. Su Zhe's gaze sharpened, and he swiftly retreated.
Lightning spread over Su Zhe's legs as well.
Having devoured Yan Hai and acquired the Conception of Thunder, Su Zhe was intimately familiar with the power of lightning.
If he could devour this Thunder Dragon Emperor, his Conception of Thunder would advance even further!
That was what Su Zhe thought. Over the past few days, he had continued hunting and devouring King Level Beasts on land. He had nearly swept the wilderness clean of them, leaving only the monsters hiding underground or in the deep sea.
Even so,
after devouring so many, Su Zhe had only just managed to reach Planetary Level Four.
The quality of Earth's monsters was too low.
Su Zhe also had little access to the precious resources. Take Wood Bud Crystals, for instance. Atkin had helped him get all the Wood Bud Crystals the HR Alliance had collected in Mist Island, but there were only a few.
The great families surely had some hidden away, but there was nothing he could do about that.
"ROAR!"
Seeing Su Zhe driven back, the Thunder Dragon Emperor was delighted. It charged straight at his position, eager to finish off this irritating human.
But flames and lightning erupted from Su Zhe's body in vast quantities.
Thunder and fire intertwined!
Ordinary Planetary Level fighters could only master one special ability at this stage, but Su Zhe was clearly no ordinary fighter.
Besides flames, Su Zhe had also mastered lightning, and from the two he had developed something new.
"Flame Thunder Burst!"
Using Void Devouring Flame as its base, he infused it with a vast amount of lightning and gathered it around his right arm.
White mist swirled around the battlefield.
Su Zhe's right hand curled into a claw and plunged into the Thunder Dragon Emperor's body. The violent energy surged into the beast alongside the Blacklight Virus, then exploded inside it!
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