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#swallowedstar #novel #english    In Episode 257 of Swallowed Star, Luo Feng sets his sights on the ultimate peak of cultivation as he aims for the legendary third level of the godly power path—striving to reach an incredible 90,000 times life gene level using his massive Remote Ocean and the inherited technique "Creation"! In this explanatory retelling, we break down Luo Feng's deep cultivation strategy and his preparations before bidding farewell to Primal Chaos City Leader and venturing back into Universe Ocean.  Make sure to watch until the end for our full educational analysis as Luo Feng prepares to hunt down strange objects and rare life forms, all while taking on the critical covert mission to investigate the mysterious mastermind behind Giant Axe Creator's tragic fall!  --------------------------------------------------  🚨 SPOILER WARNING: This video is an educational breakdown and explanatory retelling of the original novel chapters. Because the Donghua adaptation is still in production, the animation studios may change certain plot points, fights, or character details when these events are officially animated!   🔔 Subscribe for more in-depth literary analysis and complete story breakdowns!  ⚙️ VIDEO TAGS: Swallowed Star, Luo Feng, Godly Power Path, episode 257 breakdown, explanatory retelling, donghua analysis, xianxia story explained, novel chapter breakdown, educational story analysis, Universe Ocean adventure

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00:00The war among nearly every top power in the original universe had ended,

00:04and not one ordinary lifeform ever knew it happened. A lower-tier war would have devastated

00:09them directly. This one, fought entirely among top-tier beings, touched them not at all. Though

00:16if either side had truly lost, the populations under their control would have been slaughtered

00:21without mercy regardless. The United Forces hadn't won. The human team hadn't lost. That

00:27was simply how it ended. More conflict between the two camps seemed inevitable eventually.

00:32But not on this scale again. Not unless one side became absolutely certain it could crush the other

00:38outright. Hugenba had died. Yunmo Star had been destroyed. But Babata, having become undying

00:44himself, had rebuilt it quickly and reclaimed. Nearly all of Huanbo's old territory, everything

00:51except the region around Earth. Purple starlight filtered down through dark clouds onto the

00:56rebuilt star. On Earth, warriors gathered from planets across the territory trained under strict

01:03discipline. The most loyal among them selected to serve directly under Yunmo Star's new master.

01:09Come get me, you cowards from Allure Star! A red-horned giant bellowed at the rival camp across

01:15from him. Right here! Come if you dare! Someone in the opposing camp lunged forward, furious,

01:21only to be dragged back by their own side. He's insane. You trying to die? Ignore the maniac!

01:28Another voice called from within the camp. Ha ha ha ha! Cowards, every one of you from a

01:33Luo Star! Cowards forever in front of me! The giant roared on, reckless. High above,

01:39a figure in a casual silver-white cape drifted through the sky, looking down.

01:44So this is what Yunmo Star looked like before it fell, Luo Feng thought.

01:49Babata put real effort into rebuilding it. Hu Yanbo clearly left a mark on him. He kept moving.

01:55He flew utterly unnoticed. No guard, no detection system. Not even the warriors passing directly in

02:02front of him registered his presence at all. This was what true mastery over space and time actually

02:07looked like in practice. He took his time surveying the star before finally arriving above a black castle.

02:13Babata! He called down. Inside, on a throne, sat a black-caped child, two antennae, red eyes,

02:21a round, almost cute face that belied. Exactly how terrifying the female servants. Performing below

02:27him knew him to be. Babata! The child's head snapped up and he vanished in an instant teleport.

02:34He reappeared in the sky beside Luo Feng. Master! You look relaxed enough, Luo Feng said, amused.

02:41Though clearly still training hard, teleportation now. The resources you gave me, the path you laid

02:47out, Babata said. Even someone mediocre could reach undying with that. Someone as sharp as me? Even

02:54easier. Ordinary people had no idea the war had even happened. But Babata, already undying, had been

03:01summoned to the primal universe himself and had only just returned once it ended. All of primal chaos city

03:08was buzzing about it. No real details. But everyone knew Luo Feng had been among its top performers.

03:15Come with me to Yunmo Star's outer space, Luo Feng said.

03:18Why? Babata asked, confused. I'm going to resurrect Hu Yanbo.

03:23Babata's whole body shook, emotion breaking through before he could stop it. Luo Feng felt the distance

03:29between them in that reaction. Babata had called him by name once. Before he'd grown this strong,

03:34now it was always master. Pure reverence. The natural response to standing near one of the

03:41human races, and the entire original universe's genuine top beings. But Babata and Hu Yanbo had

03:47survived countless life and death fights together. Spent something close to an eternity adventuring side

03:53by side. Ever since Babata first became a thinking being at all, that kind of bond ran far deeper than

03:59reverence. Let's go, Babata said, thrilled. Luo Feng nodded, took hold of him, and both vanished.

04:07Out past Yunmo Star's atmosphere, Luo Feng stood in his silver cape with Babata beside him,

04:12visibly anxious. Watch closely, Luo Feng said. Up. He turned his attention outward, and with a thought,

04:20time itself began running backward around them. The star's reconstruction, unwinding,

04:26its earlier destruction, rewinding past that, Luo Feng accelerating the reversal further and further

04:32back. He stopped abruptly. A triangular spacecraft had appeared. Yunmo Star's ship. Figures visible

04:39inside it. This one, Babata? With another thought, the figures inside came into view. A handsome man

04:46standing at the front of the control room. Others arrayed behind him, Babata among them.

04:51Wuza! Wuza! Babata trembled, unable to stop. Yes, it's them. It's really them. Luo Feng felt a flicker

05:00of surprise at just how close Babata truly was to this circle. He decided on the spot. To bring back

05:06the soul slaves, too. A gesture of real gratitude toward both of them. Hu Yanbo's original help looked

05:13small now, measured against everything Luo Feng had since become. But at the time, it had mattered

05:19enormously. Freeze, Luo Feng said, locking the entire scene in place, the space itself. Hu Yanbo,

05:26all nine of his soul slaves. Now reverse. Time snapped backward like a stretched spring released.

05:33Pulling a life forward from the past into the present carried a real cost. Nothing at all if

05:38he'd simply chosen to leave them there, but genuine weight if he chose to bring them back. That cost

05:44technically belonged to Hu Yanbo and his nine slaves, but since none of them could actually bear it

05:50themselves, Luo Feng absorbed it in their place. For him reviving mere universe knights, let alone a

05:56handful of undying fighters, barely registered as effort. The ship itself came back, too. Floating steady

06:04in the sky. Luo Feng had pulled it forward along with everyone inside it. A living being, once dead in

06:11the present simply couldn't be recovered this way, objects were different. Even something that still

06:17existed now could be duplicated by retrieving an earlier version of it from the past, an existing

06:24true treasure, say, effectively copied. The cost of a stunt like that, though, would be genuinely

06:30staggering. Far more than simply acquiring ten new treasures outright. Recovering the ship itself,

06:36thankfully, cost him nothing worth mentioning. It had never been a true treasure to begin with.

06:41The hatch opened, and a handsome man in a black cape stepped out, excitement plain on his face,

06:48undying fighters filing out behind him one by one, every one of them nervous and thrilled at once.

06:53The man's eyes found Luo Feng, then the black-caped child beside him.

06:58Babata! Babata couldn't hold back any longer. He teleported straight to Hu Yanbo's side and threw his

07:04arms around him. Big brother, big brother, big brother. The words carried everything. This man had

07:11been brother and father both to him, and the ache of missing him bled through every syllable.

07:17Luo Feng watched from a distance and sighed. The bond was exactly as deep as he'd guessed.

07:23Hu Yanbo and his nine slaves stood dazed. They remembered dying, and yet here they stood alive.

07:29A universe master had reversed time itself to bring them back. How was that even possible?

07:35What baffled them even more was Babata. Once nothing more than an intelligent life-form.

07:40Teleporting like that.

07:43Teleportation? You're undying now?

07:45One of the nine, an ape-shaped fighter, asked, staring at him.

07:49Yes, Babata said, nodding. Thanks to my master, Milky Way Horde Leader.

07:55Luo Feng, I'm an undying emperor now. I can teleport. Milky Way Horde Leader?

08:01Confusion spread through the group. They knew the Milky Way, of course.

08:05Hu Yanbo himself had once held land there. But no Horde Leader title meant anything to them.

08:12None of them could process it. Babata, formerly just an intelligent life-form,

08:17now outranking every one of them, when Hu Yanbo himself had only ever been a mere official.

08:22How long were we dead? Hu Yanbo finally asked.

08:26Ten million years. A hundred million? And who exactly is this Milky Way Horde Leader?

08:31One of the human race's top beings, Babata answered.

08:34One of the supreme beings of the entire original universe.

08:38Master Luo. Feng is the one who turned back time and brought all of you back, he pointed.

08:43That's him. Hu Yanbo and his slaves turned. Having been so fixed on Babata that they'd never even

08:51noticed the man standing there until now, the silver-caped figure stepped forward. And the

08:56sight of him alone left them stunned. Someone who could reverse time itself. Whatever they thought

09:02they were, it meant nothing standing in front of that. Teacher Hu Yanbo, Luo Feng said.

09:08I know Teacher Hu Yanbo's virtual universe number, Luo Feng said after a moment, smiling.

09:14It'll show up on your contact list the moment you connect. Reach me whenever you need to.

09:19He glanced between them. You two haven't seen each other in a long time. I'll leave you to it.

09:25He turned and vanished. The relief on Hu Yanbo's and his slaves' faces was immediate.

09:30The moment Luo Feng was actually gone. Big brother, Master Luo Feng respects you,

09:37Babata said. You were his instructor once. And the inheritance you left behind genuinely helped him.

09:43There's no need to be this tense. You can speak freely around him. Why were all of you so frightened

09:48you couldn't even talk? Easy for you to say, Babata, the ape-shaped, undying fighter answered.

09:54That's a universe master. Even Ganwu. Universe country master feels like an ancient legend to us.

10:01And universe masters stand above that at the peak of the entire human race. Your big brother did him

10:07a favor once. But none of us actually know him. Who wouldn't fear someone who could end you with a

10:12glance? Hu Yanbo took a slow breath and rested a hand on Babata's head. You fought beside him,

10:18Babata. You knew him back when he was still weak. You grew up together. That's why you're at ease

10:24around him. The rest of us never had that. We have to be careful, even with a favor owed.

10:29Recklessness around someone like that only invites trouble. Nods went around the group.

10:34There's an old Earth saying, keeping company with a king is like living beside a tiger.

10:39Absolute power demands caution, favor, or not. Universe masters could erase billions of planets.

10:44Worth of life or turn back time to save countless more. The same awe a king commanded,

10:50except magnified past anything in ordinary undying. Fighter could expect to witness,

10:56even once in an entire lifetime. I understand, Babata said. Even though Master Luo,

11:02Feng holds his power back around me and treats me exactly like before. I still feel it sometimes.

11:08I used to just call him Luo Feng. I don't anymore. That's majesty for you, Hu Yanbo said,

11:14smiling faintly. A being like that doesn't need to display it directly or status alone earns the

11:21reverence. Those who don't, show proper respect, don't tend to survive long around power like that.

11:27I never imagined. My own broken inheritance would help raise someone into greatness like this.

11:33Babata, tell us about him, the yellow-skinned man behind Hu Yanbo said.

11:37This Milky Way horde leader. Luo Feng had genuinely wanted to talk with them himself earlier,

11:43and Babata had tried briefing everyone beforehand, and but the group had been too nervous to hold up

11:50their end of an actual conversation, which was exactly why Luo Feng had excused himself.

11:56Curiosity ran deep in all of them, regardless. How had an earthling risen to become one of the entire,

12:02human race's supreme beings in just two hundred thousand years? Pride mixed easily with that

12:07curiosity. They'd helped shape that. Rise, after all, and their own futures now looked bright by

12:14association, so long as none of them did anything foolish. I know everything about him before he

12:19became undying, Babata said. After that, he only kept getting stronger, and my knowledge of him gets

12:26thinner from there. Still plenty worth telling. Though perfect mind, perfect willpower, a genuinely

12:33peerless talent. Let me start with the catastrophes on earth, and the war of talents. Elsewhere, in the

12:40quiet of the Milky Way, Luo Feng walked alone. The higher he climbed, the lonelier it got. Family, his wife,

12:48his children, his parents, would never grow distant from him. Friends were different, even people he'd

12:54once fought alongside. Like Rong Jun, Hong, Thunder God, would inevitably drift into the same wary

13:01distance everyone else kept. Only Wei Wen, who'd grown up beside him without grasping the human race's

13:07senior hierarchy, still treated him exactly as before. Even holding my power back, they're still afraid of

13:15me, he thought. If I let it show fully, even universe knights wouldn't dare meet my eyes.

13:22The loneliness was real. Resurrecting Hu Yanbo and his slaves had stirred up old memories.

13:28The Firehammer Squad, from his first days as a warrior. The friends who'd died fighting the

13:34swallowing beast. The golden-horned beast, whose soul he'd taken into himself while the rest of them

13:40simply didn't survive. Could he bring them back too? No. Not even with a universe master's power

13:46over time. Those particular friends had only ever reached star-traveler level, a natural lifespan of a

13:53thousand years, nothing more. He could locate them in the past, easily enough. And he himself could

13:59absorb the cost of reversing time to reach them. But the actual passage of that reclaimed time,

14:04the years themselves, had to be borne by the people being pulled forward, not by him. Undying fighters

14:11could shrug that weight off without effort. His old friend's mortal bodies would simply decay under

14:16it instantly. Their souls gone almost as fast, with no second body to fall back on. Turning back time

14:23couldn't save them. It simply wasn't built to. That was one of the real limits of the ability.

14:29Powerful but never perfect. With edges it couldn't reach no matter how strong he became.

14:33He sighed and flew on toward his palaces in the distance. The Milky Way's own holy land? Where he

14:40made his home. Once there, he rebuilt the space and time immediately around his palace from scratch,

14:47sealing it off entirely through his own mastery. Ordinary ships passing nearby couldn't enter that

14:54pocket of space at all. Then he began his first real cultivation session since becoming a universe

14:59master. His home had earned real fame by now, thanks to the war that had drawn in. Nearly every supreme

15:06being in the original universe. Outsiders had taken to calling it Milky Way Holy Land. Or simply the

15:12Milky Way Den. An entire army couldn't touch him there, let alone anyone weaker. Inside it, the ten billion

15:20kilometer, boat of mausoleum drifted through space while, Luo Feng trained within its space of

15:26inheritance. Haven't created a new blade technique since the one that earned me this inheritance,

15:32he thought, star tower floating on his open palm. And even with star tower itself, I can only work its

15:39third level, engravings, already as complex as Nirvana incarnation. Using engravings was ordinarily

15:46far easier than inventing a technique outright. Masters like Pengong Darkness and Star River had

15:54never created a true universe supreme master level. Technique of their own, yet could still wield

16:00engravings at that exact tier. Since Luo Feng had managed to originate a blade technique at that level

16:06personally, logic suggested he should be capable of handling engravings even more advanced still.

16:11Star Tower remained his single strangest treasure. The boat of mausoleum and Shu Wu Wing were both

16:17machine type, with clean defined functions and hard power ceilings. Blood Shadow Blade was still just

16:24an embryo, every technique for it his own to build from nothing. Star Tower alone refused to fit any

16:30category cleanly. Before the war, its brutally strict master recognition, requirements had puzzled him.

16:37He simply hadn't been strong enough yet to uncover what made it special. Now, after the war, the first

16:43real answer had surfaced. Nothing else guarded a soul as efficiently as Star Tower did. Let's actually

16:50study this properly, he said, and began working through its engravings in earnest. Time inside the

16:56space of inheritance ran ten thousand times faster than outside. Maximum efficiency. And now that he was

17:02finally a universe master, real comprehensive growth at this level was within reach at last. Hundreds of

17:09years passed inside, far longer than that, relatively speaking, outside. Luo Feng opened his eyes

17:15eventually, frowning. The ancestral god school wants me? He drew out the token the ancestral gods had given,

17:22him upon making him a sub-member of their school. I actually have to go see them? At mediocre status,

17:28a summons like this would have been unremarkable. Not anymore. His true strength had shown itself

17:34fully in that war. The school would only reach for him now under real, special circumstances and even

17:41then, they could easily have sent a prophet instead of calling him in person. I spoke with all three

17:46ancestral gods myself after the war. None of them struck me as arrogant. There had to be a genuine reason

17:53behind this. He was a pinnacle being of the original universe in his own right now. Mutual respect between

17:59beings at that level was simply how things worked. He vanished. On Baohinia Island, deep in the

18:05ancestral god-secret region, his old palace still stood exactly as he'd left it. A silver-caped figure

18:11appeared, trailing fading light. Luo Feng. It's been a while, he said, looking around.

18:18Luo Feng! A voice called out. Come. There's something important about the humans I need to tell you.

18:26Luo Feng frowned, murmuring to himself. Right next door? Double-face ancestral god. Tracing the ripple of

18:33godly power back to its source. And given that the sender had chosen to reveal himself first,

18:38the answer clicked into place. This was the same ancestral god who'd once saved him during

18:44his fight against the virtual real devil god, and apparently had been quietly living beside

18:50him as a neighbor, this entire time, unnoticed, purely to keep watch over him.

18:56Luo Feng hadn't expected him to finally step forward now. He teleported to the neighboring

19:00residence in a single step. The building carried architectural traces of a dozen different races,

19:06serene behind its high courtyard walls. Inside, a pond held eleven sculptures of six-armed,

19:13vaguely human figures arranged around a flat, smooth central rock, and on that rock sat a wooden

19:19table with two chairs, facing each other. Double-face ancestral. God occupied one of them,

19:26tall and solidly built. His two faces were opposites entirely, one gentle and kind,

19:31the other savage and cruel. The face turned toward Luo Feng now was the fair, amiable one.

19:38Sit, he said, smiling. Luo Feng descended into the empty chair. I prepared something special.

19:45Double-face ancestral. God lifted a dark green bottle. Ice-fired fruit wine. Found nowhere,

19:52in the primal universe outside the ancestral god secret. Region, the fruit itself only,

19:58grows once every ten thousand eras. A single fruit gives a sector lord a fifty percent shot at

20:05becoming undying. This bottle is the distilled essence of a hundred twenty-eight thousand of

20:10them. Divine, honestly. Luo Feng laughed, genuinely impressed. Who else but the ancestral god school?

20:16I've heard how much fruit it takes to make this. Never actually had the chance to try it myself.

20:22Ice-fired fruit could only grow in an environment precise enough to be nearly

20:26unreproducible. Unreproducible anywhere else. Eating even one rivaled receiving a beast god's

20:31inheritance. Rooted instead in water and fire law, and genuinely improved a sector lord's odds of

20:37reaching undying status. An almost unmatched treasure across the entire universe, monopolized entirely by

20:45the ancestral god school, which held countless other treasures no outside. Race could ever dream of

20:51laying hands on. The primal universe origins own will favored. The school specifically above every

20:56other power. Which meant new. Discoveries of this kind usually reached. Them long before word ever

21:03spread. Anywhere else at all, every dish on that table was worth roughly a true treasure. Though to the

21:09ancestral gods themselves, the cost barely registered. Luo Feng's standing was more than enough to justify

21:16this level of hospitality from all three of them. I've thoroughly enjoyed the meal, Luo Feng said,

21:22teasing now. Time to get to the actual reason you called me here. I'm genuinely curious. Something

21:28this important to humanity. And even we don't know it. Yet you do. What exactly is this about?

21:35News I only just received myself, double-faced ancestral god said quietly. From the willpower of the

21:41primal universe origin. The primal universe origin's willpower? Luo Feng's remaining haze from the

21:48wine burned off instantly. It can actually transmit information like that? As far as he understood it.

21:54The primal universe origin's willpower was purely instinctive. A force shaped naturally by universal

22:01law, leaning toward kindness or hostility on pure reflex. He'd seen the hostile version once.

22:07A certain strange object it reacted to with instinctive revulsion, which was exactly why

22:13the ancestral god school had been dispatched to handle it. You're saying it told you something

22:18important, specifically about us? Luo Feng pressed, skeptical. Double-faced ancestral god nodded.

22:25Less strange than it sounds. Ancestral gods exist in part as its spokespeople. And this particular

22:31news concerns your Huge Axe creator, already annihilated. As you know. Huge Axe? Luo Feng's

22:38eyes sharpened. What news? His annihilation wasn't misfortune. He was ambushed, deliberately,

22:45by other great beings in Universe Ocean. A genuine conspiracy. The questions came fast.

22:51Conspiracy? Who? Humanity already knew Yuan Ao Master's map had been fabricated. Huge Axe had

22:58warned them of that much before he died, but never named names. Likely calculation on his part,

23:03expecting a human response. Given he wasn't among them directly, would have cost more than it was

23:09worth. Three conspirators, double-faced ancestral gods said. All from the first reincarnation era.

23:15Great Thunderstar Master. Chen Jia Emperor. Dragon Rock Ancestral God. Something violent surged

23:22through Luo Feng's chest, murder flashing behind his eyes. The first reincarnation era, of course.

23:28That era had been staring down its own extinction, and everyone in it had turned reckless enough to

23:33attempt anything at all. Great Thunderstar Master. Chen Jia Emperor. Dragon Rock Ancestral God.

23:40Everything Luo Feng. Knew about the three of them surfaced at once. None of them came from pinnacle

23:45races even in their own era. But each was still a genuinely frightening opponent in his own right.

23:51Great Thunderstar. Master belonged to the Thunderstorm Star Race. During the first era,

23:56entire stars had existed at the star traveler level as living thunderstorms, each one carrying its own

24:03inherent willpower entirely of its own. Given enough time, some of them evolved, and evolution opened a

24:10direct path, straight to undying. Status and further strength beyond even that. The race itself stayed

24:17small in number but savagely strong regardless, and Great Thunderstar Master ruled the whole of it as its

24:23supreme master. Chen Jia Emperor came from the fire source race. Beings born from within stars.

24:31Themselves, though out of a full trillion stars scattered across the universe. Perhaps not even

24:36one would ever actually produce a single member of that race. Upon reaching adulthood, they became

24:43sector lords capable of refining their own bodies into pure steel, their core gradually evolving into what

24:49was known as the eyes of the fire source. As long as those eyes stayed lit and burning,

24:55they simply couldn't die at all. Jen Jia Emperor stood as Emperor over the entire race,

25:01its unquestioned leader. Dragon Rock Ancestral God had been one of the first era's own three

25:07ancestral gods until that era's entire. Universe was destroyed and all. Three were exiled from their

25:13homeland outright, shattering their own school's cohesion completely in the process. He still led

25:19a race of his own regardless. The Dragon Rock race. Only a few thousand strong in total.

25:25Distinguished above all by godly bodies of genuinely massive, overwhelming scale. Rarity tended to track

25:31with raw talent in this universe. The smaller a special lifeform's population, the more formidable its

25:39individuals usually were. Those three... Luo Feng's frown deepened. A genuinely brutal matchup.

25:45He'd sooner take on enmity with all. Five true masters of the divine. I clan than tangle with this

25:52trio. Any one of them alone wasn't to be underestimated. Combined? If these doomsday-era

25:58relics ever actually coordinated, even Hugh Jack's creator himself might have struggled. Those three,

26:04double-faced ancestral god confirmed, watching him. Feeling the weight of it now? Aloof, tyrannical?

26:12First era supreme masters, Luo Feng said, shaking his head. My own primal universe's supreme masters

26:17don't compare. Three of them. Each with a supreme true treasure of their own. I want them dead. But I

26:24won't pretend that doesn't weigh on me. The words were partly for show. Underneath, his actual confidence

26:31hadn't budged an inch. He'd reached full adulthood in under two hundred thousand years, carried the

26:37Duandong River inheritance, and feared nothing across the entire span of universe ocean. He fully

26:43intended to pursue every possible avenue toward avenging Hugh Jack's, no matter what it took. But

26:49performing some hesitation in front of double-face ancestral, god made sense regardless, and he still

26:55genuinely didn't understand what the primal universe origins willpower actually wanted out of relaying

27:01this to him. By rights, a feud between supreme masters shouldn't concern something as detached and

27:08instinctive as that willpower at all. And yet it had specifically chosen to relay this exact information

27:15to humanity through an ancestral god entirely unprompted. Only a fool would assume that carried no hidden

27:21motive whatsoever. No supreme master is someone to take lightly, Luo Feng said. Let alone these

27:28three. Double-face ancestral. God smiled. Hard for most, sure. But you have the boat of mausoleum,

27:36Milky Way horde, leader, and a track record of charging straight through dangerous territory.

27:42Multiple bodies, too, so losing even one wouldn't cost you much. If outright killing them proves

27:47impossible, there's another path. Use the danger of their own most hazardous territories against them,

27:54combined with what the boat of mausoleum can do. Push them to desperation. To the brink.

27:59Wouldn't that settle it either way? Opportunities like that don't come easily,

28:03Luo Feng said. Given enough time, double-face ancestral god said. They always do. Luo Feng studied him.

28:10That same kind, amiable face smiling steadily back. Finally, slowly, he asked. Why would the

28:18primal universe, Origins' willpower, choose? To tell the human race this, through you specifically?

28:24I'm no fool. There's a reason behind this. Tell me the actual goal or I can't sit easy with any

28:30of it.

28:30Double-face ancestral god smiled, didn't waver. Simple enough. The willpower wants those three dead.

28:37Humanity is the one party across. All of Universe Ocean with genuine motive to pursue them. Other

28:43races would struggle to kill them at all. You, specifically, carrying the Duandong River

28:48inheritance, hold the best real chance of anyone. And even if not today, certainly once you reach

28:54Universe Supreme Master yourself. Luo Feng gave a small nod. He'd never doubted his own capability.

29:01And hundreds of eras spent comprehending. Star Tower had only sharpened that confidence.

29:06Annihilating a Supreme Master outright, right now, might be unrealistic. But becoming one himself,

29:14backed by the Duandong River inheritance, could put him well within reach of matching what?

29:19Teacher Origin himself had once achieved. The willpower wants them dead,

29:24Luo Feng murmured to himself. Thoughts kept surfacing, one after another. Something about the

29:29primal Universe Origin's will was starting, faintly to come into focus. Even something as detached from

29:36ordinary conflict as the original mind, Luo Feng reasoned, would still take offense at real wrongdoing

29:42and want the offender dead for it. But wanting something and doing it alone were different things.

29:48It clearly needed great beings, help to actually deal with Yuan Ao Master and the Three Conspirators,

29:54which meant even something this invincible. This far above everyone still operated within rules of

30:00some kind. Even Teacher Origin, who'd openly defied it, had only ever been eternally suppressed,

30:06not killed. Beyond that, Luo Feng had never heard of the original mind actually wanting anyone dead.

30:13Pure instinct mostly reacting rather than scheming. That reasoning left him considerably less

30:19intimidated by the whole idea. My job was just to pass along what happened,

30:23double-faced ancestral god said, smiling. I named who conspired against Hugh Jack's creator.

30:30What you do with that is entirely yours to decide. We can't force your hand either way.

30:35Privately, Luo Feng nearly smiled at that. Not because the ancestral gods lacked the power to compel

30:42humans. Even the original mind itself couldn't do that. But knowing this and simply ignoring it wasn't an

30:49option either, even if real vengeance had to wait. Thank you, Luo Feng said, rising. This matters to

30:55us. I'll see myself out. Double-faced ancestral god walked him out regardless. Luo Feng returned home

31:02and departed through god-country transportation. Back in the primal secret region, remote ocean's waves

31:08still churned, some cresting a million kilometers high. He'd left it here after the war. A pinnacle-soul

31:15true treasure buried somewhere inside it. Combined with Duan Mi, its godly power could still absorb

31:21anything below level ten outright. The two hundred-plus masters they'd captured had gutted the

31:27united forces. Camp's real capability, even at full strength now. A combined strike from them could

31:33barely reach level nine. And with the freedom, alliance already holding, Purple Moon's inheritance

31:40and having lost half its own members, there was no remaining incentive to risk fighting old friends

31:45for no real gain. That left the united forces fielding something like four hundred, universe

31:51masters at most. No longer any kind of real threat. Teacher! Luo Feng called out, landing at the top

31:58level of the main palace, where the city leader stood leaning against the railing. Still practicing,

32:03I thought. What brings you here? The city leader asked, smiling. Double-face ancestral god spoke

32:10with me, Luo Feng said. The original mind had him pass along something important. I had to come tell

32:16you directly. The original mind directing an ancestral god to reach you specifically? The city leader's

32:22surprise was plain. What information? Three beings conspired to kill Hugh Jack's creator. The city leader's

32:29whole body shook. Who? First universe era. Great thunder star master. Chen Jia emperor. Dragon rock

32:36ancestral god. His lips trembled as he repeated the names under his breath, fist clenching hard enough

32:43to visibly twist the space and time around him, eyes flashing with raw hatred and the urge to kill.

32:49Whatever Luo Feng had felt hearing those names, the city leader felt it far more violently. Luo Feng had been

32:56grateful to Hugh Jack's. But they'd never truly been close, hadn't spoken much at all. The city leader's

33:03bond with him ran far deeper. Both had followed Teacher Origin together, and Hugh Jack's had been

33:09like a brother to him. After Teacher Origin's suppression, the weight of protecting humanity had

33:15landed squarely on the two of them, forging something closer than brotherhood. Teacher Origin had been a

33:21father to the city leader. Hugh Jack's had been his brother. Great thunder star master. Chen Jia emperor.

33:28Dragon rock ancestral god, they all deserve to die, he spat. Teacher? Luo Feng could see his mentor's

33:34control slipping. I'm fine. The city leader forced the bloodlust back down. Those three are harder to

33:41deal with than anything in our own primal universe. Hugh Jack's must have kept their names from us,

33:46specifically to stop us from throwing ourselves at a fight we'd lose. We'll settle this eventually.

33:52Just not yet. Luo Feng nodded. The city leader closed his eyes, composure returning. Then opened

33:59them and shifted subjects entirely. You've been cultivating for centuries. So I let you be. But

34:05you should hear what's happened while you were gone. Please, Teacher. The Hong Alliance's terms have

34:11improved. Better benefits for joining. Real punishment for betrayal. Our unity keeps growing.

34:18Twelve universe masters defected straight from the freedom. Alliance to join us. Luo Feng looked

34:24pleased. It made sense. Humanity's cohesion had visibly outpaced the united forces. Looser structure

34:32and greater potential paired with better. Incentives naturally pulled talent toward the stronger,

34:37more stable side. There's more. Purple Moon. Holy Land's gift to the Freedom Alliance and the United.

34:45Forces has spread further than, intended, some of our own. Hong Alliance masters share bloodlines with

34:52Freedom Alliance members. And those relatives have been quietly, passing their inheritance,

34:57along to family inside our ranks. Luo Feng's eyes lit up. Which means we've effectively received

35:03Purple Moon's inheritance too. Secondhand? The city leader said. I suspect Purple Moon Holy Land saw that

35:10coming and didn't mind at all. How does it compare? Detailed. Comprehensive. Genuinely. About ten times

35:18better than what we originally prepared to hand other races, the city leader shrugged. Still nothing next

35:25to yours, of course. Luo Feng knew that much was true. His own inheritance ran impossibly deep.

35:31Machine-type. Machine-type cultivation. Valuable crafting. Stream after stream of knowledge buried in

35:38the Duandong River memory stones, of which he'd only ever extracted and simplified a fraction to

35:43share outward. Nothing else came close. Given what Purple Moon handed us, we can afford to sweeten the

35:50offer. Further for other races now? The city leader said. Actually reaching Supreme? Master from Universe

35:58Master is rare. Enough regardless that sharing, more costs us little. And the longer this goes,

36:04systematic training, growing numbers of Knights and Masters, the stronger humanity gets over all.

36:11More beings approaching teacher origins level eventually. Maybe even someone who transcends

36:17incarnation outright. Our position only gets more secure from here. If we're advancing this fast,

36:22Luo Feng said. We need our subsidiaries advancing too. Or they won't stay loyal. Speaking of advancing,

36:30the city leader said. How's your own practice gone these past centuries?

36:34Very well, Luo Feng said, unable to hide his own pleasure. The city leader nodded, satisfied.

36:41His disciple ran quiet by nature when Luo Feng said, very well outright. It meant real,

36:47substantial progress underneath the understatement. Do you have an actual plan for reaching Supreme Master?

36:53I do. It's brutally difficult, though. He did have one. In law comprehension and technique.

36:59He already sat at the absolute peak of what a Universe Master could reach. Creating a merged Supreme

37:06technique alone was remarkable for that level. And Luo Feng had gone further. Originating an actual

37:12Universe Supreme Master-tier technique. Nirvana incarnation, backed by fully perfected godly power.

37:19On paper, that should be enough to break through outright. In practice, across hundreds of centuries,

37:25hundreds of eras, inside the space of inheritance, his single greatest gain had simply been understanding

37:31Star Tower more deeply. Just thinking about it filled him with genuine joy. His strangest treasure by far,

37:37and one that kept outpacing whatever he expected of it. It hadn't seemed remarkable when he was

37:42weaker. But growing stronger, but especially after the war, had revealed one real function worth noting.

37:50Hundreds of eras of further study since then had shown that function was only a sliver of what the

37:55tower actually held. The stronger he grew, the more it kept revealing. More precious than Shi Wu Wing,

38:01honestly, he thought. Broken memories suggest Shi Wu Wing was built for someone well beyond a true god's

38:08level. Star Tower. Star Tower was already enough for beings at that exact tier. How did Teacher Sitting

38:13Mountain, Guest even manage to build something like this at all? By his own reckoning, even a Universe

38:20Supreme Master shouldn't have been capable of creating it. His teacher had once mentioned something

38:26unexpected happening during its construction, maybe that explained it. And there was the earlier history,

38:32too. His teacher had first created the Flame God race, which had ultimately failed him, before

38:38turning to the Earthlings instead. What does Teacher Sitting Mountain Guest actually want, underneath all of

38:44it? Everything about the man felt mysterious. The nine-volume manual alone was extraordinary.

38:51And Sitting Mountain Guest remained the only known being capable of producing something on that level.

38:57I owe him more than I can measure, Luofeng thought. If he ever needs my help, I'll give everything I

39:02have. I'm strong enough now that nothing scares me. I'll simply wait for the day he comes asking.

39:08More eras of study deepened his grasp of Star Tower further, alongside constant thought toward his actual

39:15breakthrough. Four bodies currently. The conventional path meant his god-country eventually completing,

39:21into a true miniature universe, while all four merged into one. But merging into his original Earthling

39:28body specifically would mean losing 99% of remote, Ocean's godly power back to the original universe

39:35outright. He wouldn't allow that. Fortunately, the Duandong River inheritance told him exactly how to

39:42avoid it. A harder path then, he thought. One that makes me stronger instead of weaker. Break through the

39:48laws with raw strength, starting from the godly body itself, and become a true god that way. Only

39:55then does the body absorb all of remote Ocean's power directly, instead of surrendering most of it back.

40:02My remote Ocean is too enormous, Luofeng thought. Already massive now and given time,

40:08it would eventually be measured in light years. Extraordinary, even by the ancient civilization's

40:14own standards. To merge it into a single godly body, he'd need to reach a life-gene level of 90

40:20,000

40:20times baseline. Nothing less would do. Starting from raw godly power, breaking through the universe's

40:27laws by strength alone, and becoming a true god at the far end of it, that path came in distinct

40:33tiers.

40:34The original universe's own natural ceiling sat at 10,081 times. Cross that, say,

40:40to 11,000 times, and a god country could convert into a miniature universe almost instantly,

40:47though the actual power gained from a breakthrough that small barely registered.

40:52Per the Duandong River records, anyone reaching true god status under 30,000 times through the

40:57ordinary law path saw no real transformation in raw strength at all. The godly power path split into

41:04three, tiers 30,000. To 60,000 times was the first. 60,000 to 90,000 was the second. 90

41:12,000 up toward the

41:13neighborhood of 100,000 was the third, first tier. The godly body grew tenfold. A hundred thousand

41:22kilometer, frame becoming a million kilometers, godly power scaling up a thousand-fold with it,

41:28an advantage that stuck permanently, even past true god status. Second tier, bodies scaled a

41:35thousand-fold further. Third tier was nearly unreachable. Nobody in the entire Duandong

41:41river record had ever actually touched 100,000 times. The closest anyone got was near it. Simply

41:47reaching 90,000 was already a genuine miracle, unlocking flexible body sizing and functionally

41:53unlimited. Godly bodies, unlimited in both number and scale. Godly power dictated volume directly.

42:00More power, more size. But once someone actually became a true god, their total reserve, of godly

42:08power locked in place. Even the original, universe's own origin couldn't hand. Unlimited power to a single

42:14being. Advancing from universe master to supreme master, the origins help only stretch to converting

42:21a god country into a small universe. Nothing further. Ordinary universe masters climbing the law

42:27path instead relied, post-breakthrough, on their own miniature universe converting chaos energy into

42:33usable godly power, eventually reaching that 10,000 times baseline as supreme masters. First tier caps

42:40around a million kilometers tall. Second tier, a hundred million. Third tier, theoretically limitless,

42:46Lofeng thought. But theory only. A body still needs to actually swallow godly power to grow into that

42:52space. The first two tiers can draw on the universe origin's own supply. The third can't lean on that

42:58at all. That supply was finite regardless, and eventually cut off entirely, otherwise nine remoteness.

43:06Ocean would simply have kept expanding forever. In the ancient civilization proper, an inheritor closing in

43:12on 90,000 times. Would have had earlier generations stockpile. Enormous godly power storing.

43:19Valuables specifically to help the next one form a body with real capacity. Nothing like that survived

43:24into this era. Fortunately, Lofeng had remote. Ocean itself to serve the same function. Reached 90,000 times,

43:32and all of remote ocean's power became genuinely his. Reaching the third tier at all was close to

43:38impossible. Barely one in 10,000 universe. Masters even succeeded. At the godly power path to begin

43:44with, of those true gods who did, maybe one in 10,000 ever reached the third tier on top of

43:50that.

43:50Every Duandong River inheritor had managed the godly power path itself. Thanks to the inheritance,

43:56but only two ever had reached the third tier. Both cases had required real luck.

44:02Difficult, but not impossible for me specifically, Lofeng thought. I have the inheritance itself.

44:08And I have the space of inheritance. 10,000 times the outside world's time flow.

44:13That kind of acceleration was an extraordinary luxury. And a dangerous one. It violated the

44:20natural rules of space and time outright. And the longer a being trained inside it, the steeper the

44:25price grew. Space beast ancestor had only ever permitted. Lofeng to train in beast god sector because

44:31he'd still been weak at the time. Even during the actual competition over the Duandong River

44:36inheritance itself. The powers involved had only allowed short training windows there. Precisely

44:41because the inheritance was too valuable to risk. Sustained use of accelerated time was something nobody

44:47dared attempt for long. It amounted to robbing a miniature. Universe's own origin. Real pressure

44:53even on universe masters. And far worse for supreme masters. Lofeng could sustain it in his own space

44:59of inheritance regardless. He also had creation, the second of remote ocean's two inherited techniques.

45:06Alongside ocean transformation, creation let him analyze a life form down to its fundamental

45:12structure. And taken far enough, actually create new life forms outright. Nine remoteness master had once

45:19created an entire race with a similar gift. Despite being only a universe master and something even most

45:26supreme masters couldn't manage. Lofeng held that same capability now. Techniques. Built for analyzing

45:33and creating life are exactly what this research needs, he thought. Real odds now at actually reaching

45:39ninety thousand. I've had plenty handed to me already. The rest is mine to earn. Every past inheritor had

45:46leaned on those before them the same way. Only two had ever crossed ninety thousand regardless. The actual work

45:52ahead was staggering. Studying every category of life in the original. Universe. Plant, flesh and blood.

46:00Metal, rock, energy, all of it. Plus lifeless matter, too. Materials, stone, fruit, strange objects of every kind.

46:08Billions of specimens. Endless time and effort. A hunt that would eventually require locating the actual corpses

46:14of great beings. Difficult didn't begin to cover it. He was certain he could become a true god via this

46:21path

46:21regardless regardless of the outcome. Reaching ninety thousand times specifically remained only a chance.

46:27Never a guarantee. Worth chasing anyway, he decided. If this era ends before I reach it, I break through

46:34regardless wherever I've landed. Clearing ten thousand times before the era's end at least would be simple enough

46:40on its own. Time to head for universe ocean. Gather what I need. Only by studying life's foundations, from every

46:48possible

46:48angle. Could he actually move this path forward? He found the city leader at the railing. Teacher.

46:54I'm heading to universe ocean. Universe ocean? The city leader looked over, surprised.

47:00I want to become a supreme master. I need strange objects. A lot of them. Why would strange objects factor

47:07into that? Those belong to supreme true treasures. They're rare. Not that kind teacher. Luo Feng smiled.

47:13Just anything genuinely unusual. Doesn't need to be a weapon. Even an odd rock works. Something clicked

47:20for the city leader. You're on the godly power path. Yes. That path is brutally difficult.

47:26By every account from the inheritance. The city leader studied him. This is about keeping remote ocean,

47:33isn't it? It is. I'm not giving it up. Luo Feng nodded. My original body and golden horned beast body

47:39stay in universe ocean from here on. Moshe body and remote ocean body stay in the original universe.

47:46I'll leave two ancient god eyes here, too. That should cover everything. The city leader nodded slowly.

47:53Real determination. Staying out there that long. The godly power path demanded exactly that kind of

48:00perseverance. Ninety thousand times, ultimately, Luo Feng thought. Only two inheritors in the whole

48:06history of Duandong River ever managed it. Nothing less than full effort gets me there.

48:11Go, then, the city leader said. Adventure as you need to. Between Star Tower and the Boat of Mausoleum.

48:18You're well equipped to survive real danger out there. One more thing. Keep watch on those three

48:23who conspired against. Huge acts. Find out why they actually wanted him dead. There's no obvious benefit to

48:30it on their end, if anything. Killing him may have put them at risk themselves. Something bigger is sitting

48:36underneath this. Understood, Luo Feng said. It ties into the original mind, too. Relaying this through

48:42the ancestral god school. Wanting those three dead. If the original mind itself is involved now, this is

48:48a much larger scheme than it looks. Watch yourself regardless, the city leader said. I will, Luo Feng smiled.

48:56Heading out now, teacher. The city leader watched him rise into the sky and vanish.

Swallowed Star | The Godly Power Path & Journey to Universe Ocean! | Episode 257

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