Honoring Luo Feng

After two full days of slaughter, nearly a thousand King-level Monsters had fallen to Li Qingxu's hand. The lower-level monsters killed by the waves of energy had numbered in the hundreds of millions.

He had nearly swept all the King-level Monsters from Huaxia Nation's territory. Even the high-level Lord-level Monsters had been reduced by almost half.

As a result, the Councilors of Huaxia Nation were asked by the other four great nations to help defend against the King-level Monsters surging up from the oceans.

On Sunday night, five days later, the sea monsters that had been relentlessly attacking human Base Cities around the world quickly withdrew.

Nearly two thousand King-level Monsters had been slain in this battle, along with the two overlords of the oceans—the Emperor-level Monsters.

But countless monsters were still being born in the oceans every second, and devouring one another in battle.

It was estimated that before long, new King-level Monsters would appear.

When the sun rose once again on the new day,

Earth returned to peace.

In Base Cities around the world, statues were erected to honor the thirteen Councilor-level experts who had died fighting King-level Monsters.

They were human heroes who had fought the King-level Monsters to the death before the eyes of the entire world.

Naturally, people in the various Base Cities went to pay their respects of their own accord, expressing their gratitude and reverence.

Meanwhile, in Times Square in Yangzhou City, Jiangnan Base City, wreaths covered the plaza.

A statue of a young man with an exceptionally youthful appearance stood in the center.

Almost everyone living in Yangzhou City knew who the statue depicted.

Luo Feng, an Inspector from the Limit Dojo in Jiangnan Base City.

Yet they were a little confused. They hadn't seen Luo Feng in the footage during the global broadcast.

At that moment, a huge crowd dressed in matching black clothes arrived at the statue in the center of the plaza to pay their respects.

These were none other than the human powerhouses they had seen in the broadcast a few days earlier. All of them had come, except for those who had died.

With an air of helplessness in his eyes, Li Qingxu walked up to Luo Feng's statue and bowed.

He knew Luo Feng was still alive, but Hong and the others didn't.

They wouldn't allow a hero who had shielded humanity from annihilation to die in obscurity.

They wanted to set the record straight about Luo Feng!

After all, ordinary people on Earth didn't know the details of Luo Feng's sacrifice alongside the Devourer Beast.

Only a handful of War God-level and Councilor-level experts, along with the leaders of the various nations, knew the truth.

Now, every Councilor-level expert on Earth, as well as the leaders of the various nations, had gathered here.

A global broadcast was also underway.

They wanted to tell every person on Earth that Luo Feng had given his life to save humanity from annihilation.

As the group of people standing at the very peak of Earth's power recounted the Devourer Beast incident, the world finally learned what had happened a week earlier.

From that day on, people from all over the world came to Times Square in Yangzhou City every day to pay their respects and thank Luo Feng.

They might not have experienced it firsthand, but they understood that Luo Feng had saved them.

After paying his respects to Luo Feng, Li Qingxu returned to the top-floor suite at the Limit Dojo headquarters and continued his secluded cultivation.

He would enter the universe as soon as Luo Feng returned.

By now, he had begun to sense a barrier in the laws. Only by entering the Four Extremities Secret Realm could he break through it.

But he didn't know whether the Origin Laws would acknowledge him and descend, or whether the so-called Four Extremities Heavenly Tribulation would appear.

Most crucial of all was the consciousness of the Primordial Universe...

The Pacific Ocean.

Inside the Origin Heaven Divine Technique Array, the enormous, ink-black Golden Horned Beast lay motionless, not a trace of life in its body.

Inside the Golden Horned Beast,

a crystal ball covered in countless golden secret patterns emitted a faint golden glow. It looked just as it had before, but in truth, it had undergone some changes.

"So this is how hard it is to take over a body. Babata, if we keep going step by step like this, how long will it take before I completely take over this Golden Horned Beast's body?"

Luo Feng's consciousness asked.

"Don't rush. The opportunity you have now comes once in billions of years. Be patient and take it slowly," Babata said, his voice trembling.

Luo Feng himself hadn't expected to survive.

A week ago, as he desperately attacked the Golden Horned Beast's Soul Crystal Ball, he had discovered just how powerful its soul defenses were.

Even though he attacked the tiny crack in the crystal, he had nearly burned through his own soul star.

Fortunately, the Inheritance Soul Seal created by the Master of Yunmo Star could transform the soul of a first-stage Universe Level Spiritual Reader.

The Inheritance Soul Seal looked tiny, no more than a crystal pillar.

But in truth, it had been made by an immortal being.

As the crystal pillar broke down and burned, its overwhelming power instantly breached the Golden Horned Beast's soul defenses.

Luo Feng's soul was replenished and grew immensely powerful. Realizing that his physical body and sea of consciousness had collapsed, he acted decisively, using the secret technique of body possession to devour a large number of the Golden Horned Beast's soul fragments.

Things like the Space Ring and the Cloud-Touching Vine recognized their masters through Spiritual Imprints. Babata, too, communicated with Luo Feng through a Spiritual Imprint.

The soul was the foundation!

That was why Luo Feng had naturally connected with Babata while possessing the Golden Horned Beast.

"Luo Feng, you've taken control of its sea of consciousness for now. But your soul is still a poor fit for its body, so you'll need to take it slowly."

"Don't worry. I've cut off the signals around us. The human world won't detect the Devourer Beast's life signs."

Babata was incredibly excited.

The sole inheritor of Black Ink Star had actually taken over a Starry Sky Behemoth. It felt like a dream.

In the universe, the Golden Horned Beast was one of the very highest-ranking Starry Sky Behemoths in terms of bloodline.

"Babata, what do you think Councilor Li really is? After devouring the Golden Horned Beast's soul fragments, I learned that a small golden sword had made that crack in its Soul Crystal Ball. At the time, the only ones there were Councilor Li and me."

Luo Feng couldn't understand it.

If that little golden sword really had been wielded by Li Qingxu, it meant he had a way to kill the Golden Horned Beast.

If so, why had he let Luo Feng risk his life?

And back on Mist Island, Councilor Li had also hinted that there was treasure beneath the island.

That was how Luo Feng became the inheritor of Black Ink Star, and now he had even taken over the Golden Horned Beast's body.

The more Luo Feng thought about it, the more unsettled he became.

It was as though everything that had happened had been under Li Qingxu's control.

"Luo Feng, I told you long ago that that scammer probably wasn't from Earth, but you didn't believe me."

"Still, he doesn't seem to mean you any harm. If anything, he's been helping you."

Babata was just as confused.

A Golden Horned Beast was incredibly precious. Yet that scammer hadn't just passed it up—he had helped the inheritor of Black Ink Star take over its body.