Luo Feng Breaks Through to Domain Lord, Nine Tribulations Manual Appears!

On Earth.

Luo Feng was currently in seclusion, cultivating.

Domain Lord level Origin Power surged through his body like a tide, and his comprehension of the Rainstorm Diagram from the Nine Universes Chaos Tablet had reached a critical juncture.

The Luo family's renovation of Earth had also entered its final stages; the entire planet's infrastructure, defense systems, and energy networks had been completely renewed. According to Dylan, the current Earth could withstand attacks from a peak World Lord for a considerable amount of time.

Luo Feng was quite satisfied with this. After catching up on the details, he turned his focus back to his cultivation.

Inside the secret chamber.

One could see wisps of space law fluctuations swirling around Luo Feng's fingertips as he continuously attempted to analyze the 72 more profound essences of space one by one.

"Too difficult." He shook his head and opened his eyes.

The 72 space essences in the Rainstorm Diagram were far more profound than the 36 in the Drizzle Diagram. Even Lian Luo had needed three thousand years of meditation in Chaos City to fully grasp them. Although Luo Feng had the enhancement of the Golden Horned Beast's Xueluo Power and the assistance of his Mosha Race clone—a darling of the space laws—trying to break through in a short time was still a pipe dream.

"At the current pace, it will take at least several hundred years." Luo Feng sighed.

He had time. A Domain Lord's lifespan reached a million years; a few hundred years was merely a flick of a finger. Yet, for some reason, he felt a sense of urgency—as if something were waiting for him at the end of the river of time, urging him to constantly accelerate.

Suddenly, an email arrived via the Virtual Universe.

"Ah Feng, come quickly! We've discovered a mysterious metal fragment!"

It was Xu Xin's voice.

Unlike her usual gentle demeanor, her tone now carried a hint of urgency.

Luo Feng opened the email, and a holographic projection instantly unfolded in the secret chamber.

In the image was a palm-sized black metal plate.

The surface was engraved with patterns that appeared ordinary at first glance.

"What is this?" Luo Feng's gaze was instantly drawn to the metal plate.

"I don't know either." Xu Xin's voice continued as she flipped the plate over, revealing irregular, fractured edges. "A few days ago, when the construction team was digging the foundation in the new district, they unearthed it from several thousand meters underground. Mr. Dylan said the hardness of this object exceeds F-grade metal. He used his full strength as an undying with his immortal divine power, and he couldn't even leave a mark!"

Luo Feng raised an eyebrow.

Although Dylan was only an undying military lord, his true strength was already close to that of a Marquis. His full-force strike was enough to shatter a planet into fragments. A metal that even such power couldn't damage in the slightest?

"There's something even more exaggerated." Xu Xin lowered her voice. "According to the geological dating, it has been buried there for at least six hundred million years. Six hundred million years, Ah Feng! Think about it, six hundred million years ago, there might not have even been dinosaurs on Earth!"

"Six hundred million years?" Luo Feng's pupils constricted slightly, and he stood up immediately. "I'm coming over right now."

A moment later, Luo Feng's figure appeared inside the Luo family's No. 1 treasure vault.

Xu Xin walked over and handed the black metal plate to Luo Feng.

The moment it touched his hand, Luo Feng sensed something unusual.

It was too light.

Despite being the size of a palm, it felt as light as a pencil.

The surface was cold and smooth, feeling like some kind of jade, yet it possessed the cold, hard texture unique to metal. The edges were irregularly fractured, clearly shattered by some terrifying force.

Luo Feng carefully examined the patterns on the surface. At first glance, they did indeed look like ordinary decorative motifs, but when he focused his spiritual energy to observe them closely, the arrangement of those lines subtly contained a certain logic—not chaotic decoration, but some kind of extremely exquisite... text?

"Try penetrating it with spiritual energy."

Luo Feng closed his eyes, and wisps of invisible spiritual energy threads probed into the interior of the metal plate.

A bizarre thing happened.

The moment his spiritual energy touched the metal plate, it passed through the surface without any resistance, as if the plate didn't exist at all. But immediately after, layer upon layer of obstacles appeared in his perception.

"Interesting."

Luo Feng became intrigued.

His spiritual energy had long reached the peak of the Domain Lord level, and after countless refinements during his trials in the Xueluo World, its purity far exceeded that of his peers. Yet, such powerful spiritual energy felt inadequate before those layers of obstacles.

Eight hundred layers... three thousand layers... ten thousand layers...

Fine beads of sweat seeped from Luo Feng's forehead. The obstacles seemed endless; one layer broken, another appeared, and the deeper he went, the more indestructible they became. He gritted his teeth and connected his consciousness to his internal world.

On the vast metal continent, the massive black Golden Horned Beast raised its head and let out a silent roar. The four sharp horns on its forehead lit up simultaneously: Innate Secret Technique, "Strengthen"!

His soul strength skyrocketed!

Luo Feng's previously faltering spiritual energy suddenly turned sharp, like a divine weapon that had been reforged, piercing through the layers of obstacles with unstoppable force.

He did not know how much time had passed.

The moment the final layer of resistance was pierced.

BOOM!

An ancient and magnificent voice exploded deep within his consciousness.

"I am Mountain Sitting Guest, leaving the Nine Tribulations Manual here."

The voice was as vast as if it had crossed hundreds of millions of years of time, yet it was as clear as a whisper right beside his ear. Every word contained a certain indescribable rhythm of the Great Dao, causing Luo Feng's entire consciousness to hum.

"This manual transcends the operating rules of the universe and defies the heavens."

"For flesh-and-blood life, there are two foundations: the body and the soul. This manual focuses on cultivating body genes. Using the internal Force Crystal and Soul Crystal as the core, it constructs a cosmic operational cycle to drive the active evolution of genes..."

"The first tribulation complete, genes increase threefold; second tribulation, sixfold; third, twelvefold; fourth, twenty-fourfold... Nine Tribulations complete, ten-thousand-fold genes, the foundation for becoming the supreme!"

"This is the first tribulation; the remaining eight are scattered across various locations."

"Remember: cultivating this manual, every breakthrough is accompanied by a life-and-death ordeal. Gene collapse, soul annihilation—the slightest carelessness will reduce you to dust. Unless you are fully prepared, be cautious! Be extremely cautious!"

As the voice faded, a massive influx of information surged into Luo Feng's consciousness like a torrent.

It consisted of profound and mysterious techniques, totaling over thirty thousand characters, all written in a certain ancient block script.

Luo Feng did not recognize a single one of these characters, yet he felt a strange sense of familiarity. They bore a striking resemblance to certain variant characters in ancient Chinese scripts; the flow of the strokes and the structure of the essence shared the same lineage.

Luo Feng snapped his eyes open, his forehead drenched in cold sweat.

"Feng!" Xu Xin held his arm nervously. "What's wrong? Your face is so pale."

"I'm fine." Luo Feng took a deep breath, gripping the black metal plate in his hand, his gaze so intense it seemed as if he might melt it. "I just... discovered something incredible."

Luo Feng looked down at the black metal plate in his palm and slowly uttered a few words: "An opportunity that can change my destiny."

Returning to the Luo family's secret chamber, Luo Feng could no longer suppress the shock in his heart.

"Nine Tribulations Manual... Mountain Sitting Guest..."

He sat cross-legged in the center of the chamber, his fingers gently stroking the seemingly ordinary black metal plate.

Mountain Sitting Guest!

The super-existence ranked first in the Primal Universe, the head of the top ten powerhouses according to the Sky Screen Ranking!

Just a few months ago, that massive sky screen spanning the entire Primal Universe had allowed billions of living beings to see those three words.

Founder Giant Axe was second, Shihua Island Master was third, True Void Demon God was fourth, Starry Sky Progenitor was fifth, Beast Ancestor was sixth, Zerg Queen was seventh, Machine Father God was eighth, and the two ancestors of the Demon Race were at the bottom, ninth and tenth.

And that supreme figure who towered above all others, suppressing everyone, was Mountain Sitting Guest!

The evaluation from the sky screen was still etched in Luo Feng's mind: "Secret Technique Level: God King Realm. Combat Power: Absolutely superior to all living beings in the Primal Universe."

God King Realm.

That was a level Luo Feng had never even heard of. The fact that there was a realm above the strongest in the universe was enough to overturn the entire cultivation system of the Primal Universe.

And a manual left behind by such an existence—how could it be anything ordinary?

Luo Feng closed his eyes and began to carefully organize the information in his mind.

The Nine Tribulations Manual focused on cultivating body genes. Using the internal Force Crystal and Soul Crystal as the core, it constructed 72,000 auxiliary filaments and 1,440 main filaments to simulate the cosmic operational cycle.

As the cycle operated, the body's genes were slowly driven to evolve.

"Active gene evolution... this is simply contrary to the rules of the universe." Luo Feng opened his eyes, filled with astonishment.

One must know that every gene transition of a life form is driven by the rules of the universe itself when breaking through a major realm.

From apprentice to planetary level, from planetary to stellar level—each transition represents a qualitative change in the level of life.

There has never been a secret technique that allows a cultivator to actively drive gene evolution without changing their realm.

What does this mean?

It means that those who cultivate the Nine Tribulations Manual, at the same realm and with the same law comprehension, possess physical strength several times, dozens of times, or even ten thousand times that of their peers!

"At the Domain Lord level, three times the genes would be comparable to those special life forms born with powerful bloodlines."

Luo Feng calculated silently in his heart, "If I complete the second tribulation, sixfold genes, a Domain Lord could shake a common World Lord; third tribulation twelvefold, fourth tribulation twenty-fourfold... If I reach the fifth tribulation, I could crush those invincible at the same level with my physical body alone."

"If I can complete the nine tribulations—ten-thousand-fold genes, the foundation of the supreme!"

His breathing became heated.

But soon, he calmed down. The opening of the manual stated clearly: cultivating this manual is a life-and-death gamble. During each tribulation breakthrough, if the internal cosmic cycle loses even the slightest balance, the Force Crystal, the Soul Crystal, and the body will collapse simultaneously, leading to total destruction.

If it were just a single collapse, he had his Mosha Race clone and his original core to transfer to; even if his Earthling main body turned to dust, it could be reconstructed.

But what was more terrifying was what followed: the higher the gene level, the more complex the cosmic cycle constructed within the body, and the more horrific the backlash during a collapse.

By then, even his original core might be affected.

"As expected of the handiwork of Senior Mountain Sitting Guest." Luo Feng stroked the patterns on the metal plate. "This manual is extremely difficult to cultivate."

First, it requires high comprehension to penetrate the cosmic cycle diagram composed of those 72,000 filaments.

Second, it requires an extremely strong physical body; otherwise, the cycle cannot even be constructed.

Third, it requires a clone or some means of preserving one's life; otherwise, a single failure leads to immediate death.

Three conditions, none of which could be missing.

Luo Feng happened to possess them all.

"I just don't know why Senior Mountain Sitting Guest left the manual on Earth... and why it was me who obtained it..."

He shook his head, pushing these thoughts aside for now. He was still too weak; pondering these questions was meaningless.

"Babat, help me check all information related to 'Mountain Sitting Guest', 'Nine Tribulations Manual', and 'Yan God Race script' in the Virtual Universe. Use my highest clearance; do not miss a single clue."

"Received, received!" Babat's excited voice rang in his mind. "Luo Feng, Mountain Sitting Guest is the number one powerhouse in the Primal Universe; how could anything he leaves behind be bad? We've hit the jackpot!"

"Keep a low profile." Luo Feng's lips curled upward slightly. "Aside from you and me, no one else can know about this. Not Dylan, not my teacher Zhen Yan King, and not even the Virtual Universe Company."

He realized the value of this manual was simply too great. It was significant enough to make those supreme beings of the universe disregard their status to seize it. Before the rewards from the Sky Screen appeared, a single supreme treasure could incite the supreme beings of the universe to slaughter one another. And the value of the Nine Tribulations Manual far exceeded that of any supreme treasure!

"Understood, understood. My lips are sealed," Babata promised repeatedly.

Luo Feng put away the metal plate and began to study the cultivation method for the first tribulation.

What he did not know was that from the moment he touched this metal plate, his destiny had been completely altered.

Meanwhile, deep within the endless starry sky, in a desolate and silent desert star region, Yang Yu, who stood as tall as a mountain, slowly withdrew his gaze, picked up a wine pot to take a sip, and revealed a look of satisfaction in his eyes.

"Domain Lord level... mastering the first tribulation in three months is about what I expected."

A smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.

As long as Luo Feng's growth trajectory wasn't altered too much, the future was secure!

Leaving a sliver of consciousness to continue monitoring Luo Feng, Yang Yu split off another sliver of consciousness to observe the other factions of the Primal Universe.

The rewards from the Sky Screen had completely changed the landscape of the Primal Universe.

Dream Demon Ancestor and Tremor Demon Ancestor were at the bottom of the top ten on the Sky Screen; although the rewards they received were decent, they were ultimately insufficient.

After being crushed in turn by Beast Ancestor, Zerg Queen, and the human Founder Giant Axe, the Demon Race had no choice but to cede more than half of their territory to survive.

Inside the Demon Ancestor Secret Realm.

Tremor Demon Ancestor and Dream Demon Ancestor summoned all the Universe Masters of their race for a closed-door meeting.

It was said that on that day, the entire Demon Ancestor Secret Realm trembled under the fury of the two ancestors.

But no matter how angry they were, it was useless; the God-Slaying Axe held by Founder Giant Axe was not something they could withstand.

The vassal races of the Demon Race also saw which way the wind was blowing and began secretly contacting the humans, looking for a way out.

The vassal forces that the Demon Race had gathered when they were at their peak were disintegrating at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Meanwhile, in the Zerg territory, Zerg Queen was in quite a good mood.

She lay deep within the Queen Palace, her slender fingers caressing the crystal-clear Eternal Pearl, a bewitching smile curling at the corners of her lips.

Her Zerg Mother Nest was working at full capacity to gestate a new generation of Zerg geniuses, preparing for the Genius Ranking a million years from now.

"Soul amplitude can be cultivated later, but individuals with innate powerful willpower are the true gems. Pass down the order: all Zerg Mother Queens must increase the selection criteria for larvae fivefold over the next million years. No! Fivefold—better to have none than to settle for mediocrity!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"