"Hm?"
Jiang Luo suddenly received a video call request from an unfamiliar number.
He immediately sent a wisp of consciousness into the Virtual Universe, appearing inside a villa on Gulun Sacred Island.
Jiang Luo pointed toward the air, and a large screen condensed into being.
The screen flickered, then a terrifying pressure that made one's heart tremble came through it.
Jiang Luo sneered. His state of mind had already come close to Infinite Heart, the realm of embracing everything.
This slight pressure of will was instantly absorbed into his boundless heart, like a breeze brushing against his face.
A tall figure clad in scarlet battle armor and wearing a helmet appeared on the screen.
It was the Blood Demon King, just as he'd expected!
Jiang Luo's heart remained as calm as still water. In an instant, he entered the realm of Ultra Instinct once more.
His self sank to the bottom of the water, without thoughts or desires.
His entire body was controlled by an emotionless, desireless, absolutely calm will.
"Hm?"
The Blood Demon King looked surprised and suspicious. The pressure of will he'd deliberately sent through the screen hadn't affected the other party at all?
This Jiang Luo really did have secrets!
"Did the treasure of the Flint Star World fall into your hands?" the Blood Demon King asked bluntly.
In his eyes, even the most talented Star Level cultivator was nothing but an ant.
Jiang Luo's expression remained blank. "My lord, I have nothing to do with the treasure of the Flint Star World."
The Blood Demon King's eyes flickered, and he sneered. "You must have the Flint Star Sector Lord's token. You need it to open the World within a World.
"Even if the person who obtained the treasure of the Flint Star World wasn't you, they must be connected to you!
"If you hand the treasure over to me, you may ask me for anything you like. As long as I can grant it, I will."
Jiang Luo shook his head. "My lord, I told you, I didn't obtain the treasure of the Flint Star World."
The Blood Demon King's eyes immediately turned savage. "I only want one of the treasures: a huge golden eye. Give it to me, and I don't want any of the other junk!"
Jiang Luo's heart stirred. So he really had come for the Eye of the Space-Time Nightmare Beast?!
"My lord, I'll say it again: I have nothing to do with the treasure of the Flint Star World."
A hint of doubt flashed deep in the Blood Demon King's eyes. Could it be that the treasure of the Flint Star World really had nothing to do with this fellow?
"Then let me search your soul. Don't worry; with my soul-searching methods, I absolutely won't harm your soul." The Blood Demon King stared intently at the young man on the screen.
Jiang Luo sneered. "I'm afraid I can't agree to that."
"Fine, fine, fine!" The Blood Demon King's gaze pierced at Jiang Luo's soul like two beams of sword light. "Those who dare defy me usually end up wishing they were dead, yet unable to die—"
What a lot of nonsense.
Jiang Luo expressionlessly ended the video call.
If you've got the guts, come kill me in the Gulun Secret Realm.
Blood Demon Planet.
"Ahhh!!!" The Blood Demon King roared in fury, consumed by an indescribable rage.
His roars echoed throughout Blood Demon Palace, making all the servants tremble in fear.
Then he sent another wisp of consciousness into the Virtual Universe.
After a while, the Blood Demon King's expression changed. "How is that possible? That Jiang Luo is on that old geezer, the Gulun Kingdom Lord's, radar?"
He didn't care about ordinary geniuses from the Ancient Wheel Hall.
He'd even dared to capture Thanses and kill him. As long as he left behind no conclusive evidence, the Universe Country couldn't do anything to him.
But after looking into it just now, he'd found that Jiang Luo's potential rating had risen to the highest level!
The Ancient Wheel Hall divided its disciples into different ranks based on their potential.
Special, first, second, and third.
These ranks represented how much attention they received from the Universe Country—or, more precisely, the Gulun Kingdom Lord.
Only geniuses ranked special or first were worthy of the Gulun Kingdom Lord sparing a wisp of his attention.
"Reaching the summit of the Mountain of Power at Star Level, and making it to the hundredth floor of the Mountain of Souls... It was most likely him, then. That little fellow's secrets are definitely no small matter!"
The Blood Demon King had fully regained his calm. "You think hiding in the Gulun Secret Realm will stop me?"
Inside the pyramid ship in the Internal World.
Jiang Luo gazed thoughtfully at the enormous Golden Eye before him.
He knew that showing such incredible talent would make the Blood Demon King more suspicious of him.
But he'd never considered deliberately concealing his abilities to reduce those suspicions.
This world wasn't one where it paid to hide your talents.
Only by continually raising your status could you forge a path through every obstacle and hardship.
"It looks like I'll have to investigate this Eye of the Space-Time Nightmare Beast."
For over a year, Jiang Luo had only studied the Eye of the Space-Time Nightmare Beast by observing it, using it to comprehend the profound and mysterious Space Origin Law.
He hadn't probed it any further.
Jiang Luo smiled. "Good timing. I was planning to start cultivating a clone anyway."
The Eye of the Space-Time Nightmare Beast seemed to conceal a tremendous secret. He wasn't about to put himself in danger.
"I've accumulated quite a bit more wish power over the past year. The Canon of a Thousand Bodies is definitely far from enough, and I can't manifest the complete Tao Wu Eighteen Gods and Demons. But I should be able to manage the simplest first layer."
At a thought, the first layer of the Tao Wu Eighteen Gods and Demons appeared deep within his soul.
The first layer of this astonishing clone technique was fairly simple.
It merely allowed the original to split perfectly into eighteen sub-bodies, each with only a tenth of the original's strength.
Only the second layer recorded the method for restoring all eighteen sub-bodies to the original's full strength.
Three months later.
Eighteen Jiang Luos sat in a circle in the ship's main hall.
He had finally mastered the first layer of the Tao Wu Eighteen Gods and Demons.
Jiang Luo felt weaker than ever. After splitting off seventeen additional sub-bodies, not only was his soul greatly weakened, but his body's Gene Level had also fallen to three times that of an ordinary human.
His soul's ability to clearly sense fluctuations in the Origin Law had also declined significantly.
But he could make up for all these shortcomings by cultivating the second layer of the Tao Wu Eighteen Gods and Demons.
Once he mastered the second layer, both his original and his seventeen sub-bodies would recover their former souls and bodies.
Then he would have eighteen souls, each with talent rivaling that of a Starry Sky Behemoth with peak bloodline, to comprehend the Origin Law and cultivate secret techniques.
Only then would the astonishing effects of this clone technique truly be revealed.
One of his clones stood and walked over to the Eye of the Space-Time Nightmare Beast, probing inside it with Spiritual Force.
In an instant, the sub-body seemed to be pulled into the Golden Eye.
Jiang Luo, who remained outside, put his other sixteen clones into the World Ring and looked on in astonishment.
There was actually an independent space-time inside the Eye of the Space-Time Nightmare Beast!
The space before Jiang Luo's clone turned and shifted. In an instant, he found himself in an endless starry sky.
But he knew this wasn't some region of the Primal Universe.
It was an independent space-time!
"So that's how it is..." Jiang Luo immediately understood.
Only a Universe Master could create a space-time like this!
This Golden Eye wasn't some golden eye left behind by a Venerable Level Space-Time Nightmare Beast after its death.
It belonged to a Universe Master!
It was an eye left behind by a Space-Time Nightmare Beast at the Universe Master level!
Jiang Luo's eyes lit up. "Is that...?"
A huge, translucent crystal sphere floated in the starry sky not far away.
It was a crystal sphere specifically used to record secret technique inheritances.
Jiang Luo transformed into a streak of light and flew to the sphere, probing inside it with his Spiritual Force.
Only after a long while did he withdraw his Spiritual Force and sigh. "So that's what happened..."
The crystal sphere didn't contain some precious secret technique inheritance. It held a recorded message from the Flint Star Sector Lord, left behind as his final words.
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