Floating Sand Sea

Luo Feng's divine power incarnation within the Sacred Land Universe occasionally guided his disciples and some of Humanity's True Gods. Most of the time, he kept his family company and enjoyed the warmth of family life.

His true body on the distant Origin Continent entered the Primal Chaos Stele once more.

This time, a full hundred thousand epochs would pass. To Luo Feng, that was equivalent to a billion epochs. There was some hope of merging the Law of Fire with metal, wood, water, and earth.

Once he laid a solid foundation in the Five Elements Laws, integrating the remaining five would become much easier.

The familiar scene lay before him. Luo Feng's gaze fell upon the fusion of fire and earth, wood and fire. Each tiny unit of flame gradually merged into the Law of Earth. Yet the secret-pattern murals contained detailed depictions of the fusion process. As long as Luo Feng fully comprehended the mysteries within, he could attempt the fusion himself.

Luo Feng soon immersed himself completely, utterly forgetting the passage of time.

With every point of fusion, Luo Feng discovered that simply merging pairs of laws was indeed much easier. But once the whole was involved, pairwise fusion no longer worked. He had to reconsider the overall effects. It was the same as with the previous fusions, except this fifth one was even more difficult.

Luo Feng could only continue comprehending, attempting, summarizing, comprehending again, and attempting again.

After countless attempts, success would eventually come.

Twenty million epochs after entering the Primal Chaos Stele, Luo Feng finally brought the five different laws of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth from initial fusion to a qualitative leap. If law fusion were divided into initial, minor success, major success, and perfection, he had now reached the realm of minor success. The progress from initial to minor success might seem small, but it was a qualitative change from nearly zero to one. It meant he had grasped the rules of fusion. With rules in hand, the road ahead naturally became clearer, and his speed would increase as well.

After achieving minor success in fusion, Luo Feng's confidence greatly increased. He examined every detail of the murals even more carefully.

With the foundation of minor success, when Luo Feng looked at an entire mural as a whole, he suddenly felt that something had changed from before. The threads of fusion became much clearer in his mind.

"Wood draws forth fire, wood ash becomes earth..." Luo Feng murmured as he looked at the mural formed from secret patterns, his eyes growing brighter and brighter. "Wood draws forth fire, wood ash becomes earth. Long-standing earth nurtures metal, metal accumulates water over time, water moistens and nourishes wood, and wood produces fire once more... The You Mountain God King truly put great thought into this. Expressing the laws in such a manner is a perfect interpretation of the secrets of laws."

"So that's how it is... As expected of a God King. His understanding is truly thorough!"

Luo Feng became utterly obsessed. Within the Inheritance Space, his divine power incarnation copied the secret-pattern diagrams again and again while repeatedly attempting fusion. Luo Feng was delighted to discover that after thoroughly understanding the whole, fusion became easier to comprehend and much faster to achieve.

From minor success to major success in fusion, Luo Feng spent only thirty million epochs.

One had to know that from initial fusion to minor success, he had first accumulated experience over countless epochs. Only then, after entering the Primal Chaos Stele, was he able to make such rapid progress and reach minor success.

From major success to perfection, the difficulty increased somewhat further.

Another fifty million epochs passed, yet Luo Feng still failed to achieve complete perfection.

However, Luo Feng did not feel any regret. Over nearly a hundred million epochs, his gains had already been immense. He had basically understood the train of thought and essence behind fusion. He merely needed time to slowly accumulate experience. The complete fusion of the five fundamental laws was only a matter of time.

"Time to leave." As soon as the stele guardian gave the reminder, Luo Feng rose to his feet.

After returning to Nine Regions Palace, Luo Feng followed his usual routine and spent a million epochs thoroughly digesting the gains from this session.

Outside the Shadow God King's manor.

"Teacher, this disciple requests an audience!" Luo Feng remained respectful.

"Come in." It was the Shadow God King's voice.

Luo Feng was already familiar with the way. Entering the familiar setting, he saw the Shadow God King still tending a stove and cooking delicacies.

"You came to say farewell this time, didn't you?" the Shadow God King asked. He watched the meat boiling in the pot without looking at Luo Feng.

"Yes. This disciple intends to venture out. If I remain in the empire, I will never see any hope of a breakthrough," Luo Feng replied.

"Your thinking is correct. Many Eternal True Gods and Saint Realm experts in our empire venture outside or carry out missions. Comfort cannot produce the strong. Only by walking amid danger and continuously seeking external stimulation to surpass oneself can one forge a true powerhouse. As an assassin, your teacher spent endless years in the past hovering on the brink of death. It was through one perilous situation after another that I became who I am today." The Shadow God King nodded as he summarized.

Turbulent times produced heroes!

The principle was the same. Only by walking the line between life and death could true powerhouses emerge.

Every God King had been tempered through life-and-death struggles. As a God King, the Shadow God King understood this principle well. Therefore, Luo Feng's desire to venture out was something he was pleased to see.

"Have you decided where to go?" the Shadow God King asked.

"This disciple intends to take missions. I have not yet decided on a specific destination," Luo Feng replied.

Luo Feng had looked into it before. For those wishing to venture out, taking missions was the best method. Every mission had been carefully selected internally by the empire, offering the greatest degree of training and possibly corresponding opportunities as well. Most who ventured out from the You Mountain Empire primarily did so through missions.

More importantly, some missions could even provide direct transport, saving considerable time.

The Shadow God King nodded. "I have a good recommendation. You can take the Floating Sand Sea mission. Based on the timing, the Floating Sand Fruits in the Floating Sand Sea should mature during this reincarnation era. With your strength in will and soul, you can try competing for Floating Sand Fruits. They are exactly what you need and will bring you benefits beyond your expectations."

"The Floating Sand Sea?" Information about the mission quickly flashed through Luo Feng's mind. There really was such a mission.

"The Floating Sand Sea is one of the eighty-one highly renowned dangerous lands of the Origin Continent. Only its core has an exceptionally high danger level; the other dangers are fairly ordinary. The Floating Sand Sea contains many opportunities, and Floating Sand Fruits are one of them. To Saint Realm experts, Floating Sand Fruits are enormously tempting opportunities. If you can obtain one while still at the Eternal True God stage, it will be of immense benefit to your law fusion and comprehension of the origin."

"Of course, as one of the eighty-one dangerous lands, its dangers are famous as well. Even Saint Realm experts and God Kings have fallen there. If you go, you must never enter the core region. Even God Kings face the risk of death in the core region, much less an Eternal True God like you." The Shadow God King did not forget to warn him.

Luo Feng nodded. Though he had not yet learned much about the Floating Sand Sea, the Shadow God King's tone alone made it clear that its danger level was absolutely not low.

However, since it was dangerous and the Shadow God King still recommended it to him, then apart from trusting Luo Feng's strength, the Floating Sand Fruits probably truly had great use for him.

"Rest assured, Teacher. This disciple knows his limits and will not deliberately seek out danger." Luo Feng naturally had no desire to gamble with his life.

"If you were merely an Eternal True God on your own, I naturally would not let you go. But as far as I know, you should have a Saint Realm guard. With that guard, you need not fear venturing through the outer regions. Moreover, your soul and will are quite formidable. As long as you do not enter the core region to throw your life away, your chances of survival should exceed seventy or eighty percent." The Shadow God King nodded.

Some footage of Luo Feng's battle with Mad Demon had spread, so the Shadow God King knew that Luo Feng had a Saint Realm guard. He even suspected that Luo Feng might have some background.

But everyone had their own secrets, and the Shadow God King did not inquire too deeply.

"During this period, I also anticipated that you would leave to venture out. So, whenever I had spare time, I casually refined a one-use life-saving treasure for you." As he spoke, a pitch-black crystal sphere flew from the Shadow God King's hand and landed before Luo Feng. "Refine it with your mind power. This crystal contains the full-force strike of this divine power incarnation of mine. It barely reaches the threshold of a God King. Against enemies below the God King level, it should be enough to preserve your life."

"Thank you, Teacher!"

Luo Feng's eyes lit up as he quickly expressed his gratitude. Taking the crystal sphere, he could clearly sense the incomparably terrifying blade light contained within. Once activated, all the blade light inside the crystal would be unleashed. Below the God King level, anyone without God King-grade armor would likely be instantly slain.

"Mm. I have nothing else to give you. Remember this—come back alive." The Shadow God King's expression turned solemn and serious.

"This disciple will certainly not disappoint Teacher!" Luo Feng replied confidently.

"Mm." The Shadow God King nodded in satisfaction. Seeing that the meat in the pot was fully cooked, he smiled. "Come, have a drink with your teacher. Eat before you leave. This is dragon-tiger meat, a rare delicacy."

As he spoke, master and disciple sat around the stove and began having hot pot.

After eating his fill, Luo Feng bade farewell to the Shadow God King and returned to his residence.

"I'll go to the Floating Sand Sea, just as Teacher suggested." Within Luo Feng's special Nine Regions Palace Holy Son identity token was a mirror-stone space. Sending his consciousness inside, he easily found the Floating Sand Sea missions on the mission list.

"There are two Floating Sand Sea missions in total."

"One is a dangerous-level mission: hunt the vicious beast Sea Marten. Use Sea Marten Stones as proof. Handing over Sea Marten Stones upon completion earns 2,000 contribution points."

"One is a desperate-level mission: pick Floating Sand Fruits. Use Floating Sand Fruits as proof. Hand over the fruit upon completion to earn 80,000 contribution points."

"A single Floating Sand Fruit is worth as much as 800,000 Qiankun Units? That's so expensive!" Luo Feng was greatly shocked. "This price is only the internal purchase price for selling to the You Mountain Empire. Its actual price may be even higher. Selling it to the empire would not be worthwhile. I should take the first mission. It is simpler and easier. After completing it, I can still compete for Floating Sand Fruits. If I obtain one, I can keep it for myself."

After thinking it over, Luo Feng did not hesitate any longer and accepted the first mission. As for the second, Luo Feng felt that a Floating Sand Fruit might be worth even more than 80,000 contribution points.