"Hm? The gestation is complete?" Luo Feng suddenly smiled.
After nearly a year, Morosa had finally produced his first true warrior—a Saint-level Warrior whose combat power rivaled a Mid-tier Third-Origin Saint Realm expert!
Luo Feng immediately appeared inside the Star Tower.
"Master," Morosa said respectfully.
Beside him appeared a tall warrior who looked remarkably human.
The warrior had two arms and two legs, and his build was much like a human's. The only difference was his skin: black scales covered his entire body, each etched with mysterious runes. Even his head seemed modeled after a human's. Apart from the texture of his skin, his facial features were the same. A pair of curved horns rose from his head, somewhat like a bull's.
Luo Feng also noticed a vertical eye on the back of the warrior's head, almost eliminating the blind spot behind him.
He knew this was the warrior Morosa had produced. His strength rivaled a Mid-tier Third-Origin Saint Realm expert.
"Master, I gave him some human features when I created him. I can change a warrior's appearance," Morosa added.
"Good." Luo Feng looked at the World Beast Warrior with satisfaction.
He knew a World Beast's warriors took their appearance chiefly from what the World Beast King envisioned.
If Morosa wanted, he could even produce a warrior who looked just like Luo Feng. His aura, of course, could never be identical.
I wonder if a God King could tell he's a World Beast Warrior. Luo Feng was a little worried.
"Master, the warriors we World Beasts produce are much like us. Their power comes mainly from their formidable bodies and the Destruction Origin, with the Destruction Origin at their core. If a warrior uses the Destruction Origin, a God King Level expert might recognize him."
"But if he doesn't use Destruction Origin Power, a God King has no chance of identifying him unless they send their divine sense into his body to examine him," Morosa replied.
"Every one of our warriors has an extraordinarily tough body and top-tier defenses. A Saint-level Warrior's defenses are even stronger than Saint-level armor. No one at the same level can kill him. His physical strength is formidable too. Even without the Destruction Origin, he isn't much weaker—he can still rival an Early-tier Third-Origin Saint Realm expert." Morosa glanced at the warrior beside him.
Hearing that, Luo Feng breathed a sigh of relief. He could only marvel at how monstrous World Beasts were.
The sheer toughness of a Saint-level Warrior's body would probably give even Eighth-Origin and Ninth-Origin Saint Realm experts a headache.
No wonder the records of Origin Continent described every appearance of World Beasts as a catastrophe. Their warriors possessed terrifying destructive power, and their monstrous toughness left opponents of the same level helpless.
Once a World Beast King grew to the point where he had complete command of the Destruction Origin, he could produce God King Level World Beast Warriors. Their bodies would be like God King armor. Even God Kings might be unable to deal with them.
The Heavenly Wood God King inspired such fear precisely because he had enslaved a World Beast King—and that World Beast King had reached the God King level.
"From now on, disguise yourself as an ordinary Eternal True God. This warrior will be our guard. He needs a name... Let's call him Tie Nanhe." Luo Feng was reminded of the past. Back when he was only at Star Level, he had a Servant named Tie Nanhe, who had died protecting him in a World Lord World.
"Yes," Morosa replied.
"Yes, Master," said the warrior who had just been named Tie Nanhe.
Luo Feng was Morosa's master, so he was naturally Tie Nanhe's master as well.
World Beast Warriors differed from Insect Race Warriors. Insect Race Warriors had no independent consciousness, but World Beast Warriors did. In that respect, World Beasts were somewhat like the Machine Race: their warriors could think independently, yet obeyed their creators utterly.
Warriors with independent minds were naturally more formidable, especially when an army of them launched a combined attack. A World Beast King hardly needed to control them; a little guidance was enough.
"Morosa, can Tie Nanhe study and learn other secret techniques on his own?" Luo Feng couldn't help asking now that he knew World Beast Warriors had independent minds.
"Master, World Beast Warriors can't improve their strength through study. Their power depends on three things: most importantly, the Destruction Origin; then the strength of their bodies; and finally, their techniques."
"The more Destruction Origin I give a warrior while producing him, the stronger he'll be. The treasures I consume turn into essences stored in my inner world, and those essences determine each warrior's physical strength. I can use them to produce warriors with the strongest divine bodies possible. As for techniques, I grant those to them directly. Anything I know, they can learn."
"A warrior's strength isn't fixed once he's been produced. I can bring him back into my inner world and reinforce him. Of course, that takes time and outside resources. The stronger the warrior, the more complex and difficult his creation, and the longer it takes," Morosa explained.
Luo Feng understood. Everything in the universe followed a balance, and energy was conserved.
World Beast Warriors were already extraordinary. If they could also learn and grow stronger on their own, they would be truly terrifying.
Every warrior a World Beast produced required a corresponding amount of energy. The stronger the warrior, the more energy and time his creation demanded.
"Tie Nanhe is already strong enough to handle ordinary trouble," Luo Feng said with a smile. "It's time we headed for the Imperial Capital."
Studying the Primal Chaos Stele had been on Luo Feng's mind all along.
Luo Feng left a Divine Power Avatar in Azure City, then set out for the Imperial Capital with Morosa and Tie Nanhe.
Azure City was more than thirty billion light-years from You Mountain Imperial Capital. Even on Origin Continent, that was an immense distance. With speed and teleportation restricted, a True God traveling there by flight might need millions of epochs.
As the lord of the nine great regions, Luo Feng had a complete map of the You Mountain Empire. The shortest route to the Imperial Capital had long since been plotted.
Passing through a Wormhole over fifty million light-years away was almost the fastest way to get there.
After killing Mad Demon, Luo Feng had acquired an excellent Mechanical Flow spaceship. Though it still couldn't break Origin Continent's light-speed limit, it came close, reaching a top speed equivalent to 9,400 times the speed of light in the Primal Universe. Morosa no longer had to exhaust himself teleporting them along.
Traveling by ship also gave Luo Feng time to study and create Blade Techniques.
The journey from Azure City to the Wormhole took more than five thousand years.
The trip from the Wormhole's other end to You Mountain took six times as long—a full three epochs. The journey alone had lasted longer than all the time Luo Feng had previously spent on Origin Continent.
At last, a mountain like a pillar holding up the heavens appeared before Luo Feng: You Mountain.
You Mountain was a stone-column-like peak with a maximum diameter of 304 light-years and a height of more than 5,600 light-years. From afar, it looked like a pillar rising from the earth into the sky.
Ten enormous celestial bodies orbited You Mountain, each hundreds of thousands of times larger than the sun Luo Feng remembered. Influenced by the mountain's unusual properties, all ten were exceptionally well suited to cultivation. Beings born on them had a greater chance of becoming powerful than those born elsewhere.
According to rumor, those ten celestial bodies were territories governed by the You Mountain Empire's ten titled Saint-level experts, each stationed on one of them.
Thus, the ten planets had become the empire's ten great Holy Lands, second in status only to the Imperial Capital atop You Mountain.
The Imperial Capital stood at You Mountain's summit and was the heart of the empire. Aside from those stationed on the ten planets, almost all of the empire's Saint Realm experts lived there. Its three God Kings also resided in You Mountain City. It was, without question, the safest place in the entire empire.
Even a powerful God King would not dare enter You Mountain Imperial Capital uninvited.
"What a sight. The power of this vast world is incredible." Seeing it through the spaceship's windows, Luo Feng could scarcely believe his eyes.
A stone pillar reached toward the heavens, with ten enormous planets circling it.
Looking closer, Luo Feng saw numerous smaller celestial bodies orbiting those ten planets. Almost every planet had more than twenty.
And above them all, at the very top of the stone pillar, lay the heart of the You Mountain Empire: the Imperial Capital, You Mountain City!
"Master, gravity has changed a little here. The mountain's pull has become dominant," Morosa said.
"You Mountain really is remarkable." Luo Feng nodded. He could feel the change in gravity too.
Before long, their spaceship had entered You Mountain's vicinity. Through the dense clouds, the vast city on the summit was just coming into view...
They were finally about to reach You Mountain City.