Devouring Stars, becoming Luo Feng's golden finger

Several months ago, Luo Feng's accumulated points had exceeded five trillion, which, according to the nine-one split, meant that Bai Chen had accumulated over forty trillion units of energy.

Moreover, the sale of treasures hadn't stopped during these past few months. Luo Feng had Jin Er and Jin San lead a group of Star-level subordinates to settle on Water Source Star, where they established a foreign trade base specifically to sell the items Luo Feng purchased from the exchange list.

Unlike before on Qilong Star, where they only sold third-tier excellent telekinetic weapons, the 'Thousand Shuttle,' and Planet-level cultivation resources, the 'Azure Wave Marrow,' this time, Jin Er and Jin San brought over a hundred types of 'goods.'

The profit margins ranged from five to over twenty times the cost.

Over three to four months, this earned Luo Feng more than two trillion Black Dragon Dollars, which was about half of what he made on Qilong Star.

But the focus wasn't on making money; it was on completing tasks with each item sold. The tasks Bai Chen assigned to Luo Feng covered all aspects: cultivation tasks, daily tasks, tasks to train subordinates, and even tasks related to the previous migration to Water Source Star.

In short, Bai Chen didn't miss any opportunity to exploit Luo Feng.

Therefore, over these three to four months, Bai Chen's accumulated energy increased from the original forty trillion to just over sixty trillion.

"If it were before, this amount of energy would be barely enough, but now, it should be no problem," Bai Chen thought to himself.

Splitting the soul was simple, but making two soul bodies independent while also allowing them to share a common consciousness significantly increased the difficulty.

Fortunately, Bai Chen had analyzed the Golden Horned Beast's three major innate techniques and its soul structure, giving him the confidence to accomplish this with just this amount of energy.

"Bear with it; the process might be painful," Bai Chen comforted Luo Feng.

Luo Feng took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and, after preparing himself, sat down cross-legged, his expression resolute. "Bai, begin. I will endure it."

"Alright, I'll start then." Bai Chen didn't waste words, raising a hand. The energy he had accumulated resembled golden starlight, emitting a dreamlike glow.

Countless dreamlike golden lights broke through the restraints of the golden finger space and directly appeared in Luo Feng's sea of consciousness, touching his soul body.

The transparent soul body was dyed with golden light, like a Buddha statue plated with gold, shimmering and dazzling.

When the dreamlike golden light completely enveloped Luo Feng's soul body, Bai Chen in the internal space breathed a sigh of relief.

These 'dreamlike golden lights' were specifically to maintain the stability of Luo Feng's soul body.

Consider it Bai Chen's core guarantee for Luo Feng.

After all, the soul was too mysterious, so caution was necessary.

"Split!" Bai Chen's eyes focused, and the soul body, like a small golden figure, instantly cracked.

It began to split from the bottom up.

"Ah!" Outside, Luo Feng, sitting cross-legged, suddenly had his veins bulging, the intense pain in his soul causing him to lose control of his body and involuntarily cry out in pain.

Bai Chen could only choose to remain indifferent to this; the soul body had already begun to divide, and nothing could be allowed to ruin the effort now.

He had to be ruthless!

Crack, crack, crack. Each time the soul body's small golden figure tore open a bit more, countless dreamlike golden lights would wrap and treat the 'wound.'

"Hold on; it's already seventy percent split," Bai Chen said, seeing Luo Feng twitching and unable to even scream.

In reality, the soul body's small golden figure had only split forty percent.

But there was no other way; the duration of pain felt the longest, and deception was sometimes a form of encouragement.

Sure enough, upon hearing Bai say that the soul body was about to split successfully, Luo Feng's will, which had been on the verge of collapse, strengthened again.

Just hold on a little longer; it will be over soon! Luo Feng encouraged himself inwardly.

He never expected the pain of splitting the soul to be so terrifying. His current will strength, tempered by the constantly upgrading 'Mental Hoop,' had already broken through to the Universe level, always maintaining a level higher than his own.

The will strength of a Universe-level expert would allow them to remain calm and collected even if all their bones were completely crushed.

But the pain of splitting the soul was on a completely different level than having all the bones crushed. One was the soul, the other the physical body. The physical body could become numb, the five senses could be shut down, but the soul couldn't. The soul was the most core and fundamental aspect of life.

There was a kind of pain called—'pain that goes deep into the soul.'

Time slowly passed.

Cultivation chamber.

Lying in a small puddle formed by sweat, Luo Feng frowned deeply, his body completely motionless.

He looked just like he was dead.

In his sea of consciousness, the completely split soul bodies quietly floated in the sky above the sea of consciousness.

Both soul bodies were in a state of closed-eyed slumber.

During the process of splitting the soul, Luo Feng ultimately failed to persevere, and even his soul entered a state of slumber.

If it weren't for those dreamlike golden lights constantly maintaining Luo Feng's soul body, the soul body would have shattered into specks of light and disappeared the moment he couldn't hold on.

"Second step." Bai Chen's thought moved, and the golden finger's ability was used again. The two incomplete souls began to 'complete' into a single, complete soul body, but in terms of shape and size, it was half the size of the original complete soul body.

This was the price that had to be paid for splitting the soul.

Fortunately, this was a temporary weakness that could be recovered, not permanent damage.

"Last step." Bai Chen took a deep breath, his eyes focused. A massive amount of energy was consumed frantically to completely separate and isolate the two soul bodies.

But at the same time, the two soul bodies still shared a common consciousness.

From then on, two independent Luo Feng soul bodies were born.

By the time this step was completed, almost all of the sixty trillion units of energy Bai Chen had accumulated were depleted.

But Bai Chen didn't panic, as everything was within his control. He had already simulated countless times the amount of energy required to split the soul.

"The remaining task of seizing the Golden Horned Beast will be simple." Bai Chen revealed a relaxed expression.

With a casual flick, the black Golden Horned Beast egg, over thirty meters tall, appeared in the cultivation chamber.

With another casual flick, one of Luo Feng's soul bodies escaped from the sea of consciousness and plunged into the Golden Horned Beast egg.

A prismatic, blood-red crystal remaining in the core of this soul began to decompose and burn. Instantly, an incomparably vast and high-quality mental power merged into Luo Feng's soul. This was residual soul imprint energy, originating from the power of Hu Yanbo.

Luo Feng's soul body also woke up from its slumber under this immense impact, and upon waking, he discovered that he possessed two unique perspectives, feeling incredibly wonderful.

Had he succeeded?

Luo Feng was pleasantly surprised. He had thought he had failed, as he seemed to have completely lost consciousness at the last moment.

"Don't be curious; quickly seize the Golden Horned Beast first. Everything else can wait until after the seizure," Bai Chen urged.

"Okay!" Luo Feng also instantly reacted, manipulating his other soul body to attack the Golden Horned Beast's soul defense.

Under the control of Luo Feng's soul, the blood-colored soul imprint energy transformed into a sharp thorn, forcefully piercing through the Golden Horned Beast's still-developing soul defense.

With the defense breached, the Golden Horned Beast's fragile soul was directly shattered into countless fragments by the impact.

Following Bai's instructions, Luo Feng's soul body began to frantically devour and digest these soul fragments.

These soul fragments contained all of the Golden Horned Beast's inherited memories and its three innate techniques.

During the process of devouring, Luo Feng's original human-form soul body began to be assimilated by the Golden Horned Beast's soul essence, becoming tainted with a trace of ferocity.

However, its appearance remained that of a human soul.

As long as a Universe Master saw Luo Feng, they would clearly see that Luo Feng's essence was actually a human.

As for those below the Universe Master level, even Universe Venerables wouldn't be able to perceive Luo Feng's essence with a single thought, unless they deliberately infiltrated a trace of divine power into Luo Feng's body to investigate. Otherwise, it would be impossible to detect that the Golden Horned Beast had been seized by a human through its appearance.

"In the future, I need to find a treasure or supreme treasure that can disguise a human soul as a Golden Horned Beast to prevent the prying eyes of Universe Masters and Universe Strongest Ones," Bai Chen thought to himself.

He had actually considered how to arrange the future development path of Luo Feng's Golden Horned Beast main body.

Among them, the best path was to join the Starfield Behemoth Alliance.

The Starfield Behemoth Alliance didn't occupy or develop cosmic territories, so they didn't have irreconcilable conflicts with the six peak races of the primal universe.

In addition, the Starfield Behemoth Alliance's ancestor, the 'Old Beast God,' was a Universe Strongest One.

There were only a handful of Universe Strongest Ones in the primal universe. As long as Luo Feng's Golden Horned Beast main body latched onto this big shot, would he still need to fear alien assassinations? Would he still need to worry about not having profound secret techniques and rare treasures for Bai Chen to scan and analyze?

In terms of background, the Starfield Behemoth Alliance was far inferior to the six peak races, as the number of Starfield Behemoths was too small. Even including ordinary Starfield Behemoths, they were pitifully few, not even reaching the scale of the Man Kaxing race, a sparsely populated race among humans.

But in terms of top-tier strength, that is, at the Universe Master and Universe Strongest One level, the Starfield Behemoth Alliance wasn't much inferior to the six peak races.

Unless they were completely insane, no peak power would be willing to risk offending the Starfield Behemoth Alliance to forcefully kill a peerless genius of the Starfield Behemoth race.

You could kill or seize ordinary Golden Horned Beasts that hadn't reached the Immortal level. The Starfield Behemoth Alliance wouldn't care about this, as the universe was inherently cruel, and the weak would be eliminated.

But if you hunted a peerless genius of the Starfield Behemoth race who had been cultivated with the Starfield Behemoth Alliance's full attention, or hunted a Starfield Behemoth who had reached the Immortal level, then once discovered, you would have to be mentally prepared to offend the entire Starfield Behemoth Alliance and be relentlessly pursued by them.

"Luo Feng's Earthling main body will take the genius battle route and enter the core of the Virtual Universe Company," Bai Chen thought to himself.

One entering the core of the Starfield Behemoth Alliance, and the other entering the core of the Virtual Universe Company, gathering the resources of the two cosmic super powers, plus Bai's help, how terrifying would Luo Feng be when he grew up?

Bai Chen glanced at the Golden Horned Beast egg and Luo Feng's human body, which had both fallen into slumber, and didn't plan to disturb Luo Feng, who was in a critical state. Instead, he summoned Little Green, Little Silver, Little Iron, and Little Thunder, these little pets.

"Come, a new round of research is starting. Who wants to be the first?" Bai Chen smiled as he looked at these 'pets' with bodies hundreds or thousands of meters in size, preparing to experiment with the evolution of a three-times life gene level.

After analyzing the Golden Horned Beast's genes, Bai Chen did have the ability to create life forms with ten times the life gene multiplier, but to ensure everything was foolproof, he definitely had to experiment on other life forms first, right?

However, these monsters were actually very willing to participate in Bai Chen's experiments. Although the process was painful and even potentially risky, they could become stronger!

Take Little Green, for example. From the original Azure Scale Python, it had evolved into the Azure Scale Flood Dragon with twice the life gene level, and both its talent and potential had been greatly improved.

It usually ate inexpensive super lollipops that weren't worth any energy as pet food, and its level and strength soared. Now, it had reached the ninth tier of the Planet level, and the subsequent thresholds of the Star level and Universe level didn't pose any bottleneck for it at all.

It could smoothly break through as long as it accumulated enough.

Upon hearing that an experiment was about to be conducted, the Azure Scale Flood Dragon 'Little Green,' relying on its powerful flood dragon body, pushed aside the other monsters and eagerly brought its head, tens of meters in diameter, to Bai Chen.

Sticking out its tongue, it had a flattering look on its face.

On the right, the Silver Moon Dire Wolf, reaching hundreds of meters in size, also crowded forward.

Armored Dragon, Thunder Dragon Emperor, East Sea Azure Dragon, Black-Crowned Golden Eagle...

Outside, the Golden Horned Beast main soul finally devoured all the soul fragments and was laboriously manipulating its body inside the eggshell.

Golden Horned Beasts didn't need to go through the process of embryonic growth. They were complete life forms from birth, but before they grew to have enough strength, they would hide inside the egg to absorb 'egg liquid' to increase their strength until the 'egg liquid' was completely absorbed before choosing to hatch.

Unless they encountered some danger that required them to escape, they would choose to risk hatching early.

Inside the black giant egg, twelve meters in diameter and thirty-six meters in height, a Golden Horned Beast cub, less than three meters in size, laboriously raised its claws, then wiggled its butt and shook its tail.

Having just seized the body of the Golden Horned Beast, Luo Feng's soul wasn't very compatible with this body and needed to adapt.

Several hours later, when Luo Feng was finally able to control the Golden Horned Beast's body normally, just like his own body, an incomparably vast memory flooded into Luo Feng's soul. It was an incredibly vast and ancient memory passed down from generation to generation of Golden Horned Beasts.

At this time, these inherited memories were completely revealed to Luo Feng without any concealment. The vastness of these inherited memories caused Luo Feng's thinking to slow down for a moment.

After a moment, he came back to his senses.

Too vast!

Compared to the inherited knowledge of Meteor Star, the inherited memories of the Golden Horned Beast were just a wave in the ocean, so insignificant.

Luo Feng felt that he was completely submerged by this inherited memory. The mysterious and special secret techniques were like a flood, and a large amount of knowledge poured into his mind.

After a long time, Luo Feng roughly received this inherited memory.