Chapter 430: One Night, Heavenly Book

Is it over? Chu Feng was stunned, feeling that it wasn't enough; he wanted to delve deeper.

Does the inheritance process really end after just these three stages?

Chu Feng had serious doubts, unsure if the scriptures he had just reviewed truly contained the method for constructing a supreme force field. Moreover, the second stage, where he fought the armored cavalry, seemed more like an application of knowledge than a direct method of inheritance.

Strictly speaking, he learned the basics in the first stage, and in the third, he simply memorized a pile of scriptures. Was this truly the Sacred Master's all-encompassing force field scripture?

Chu Feng looked at the dark red energy tower and voiced his confusion.

The energy tower swayed as if nodding, its tone gentle, and its attitude towards Chu Feng grew increasingly favorable, cherishing him as an inheritor.

It sighed softly, "There is indeed a fourth stage, but I advise you to give up."

It was very solemn and extremely serious, stating that this was to protect Chu Feng and prevent him from risking his life and perishing.

Having exceptionally completed the first three stages, such a young man was truly astonishing. In the energy tower's eyes, he was a force field inheritor of extraordinary talent, with an aptitude that was terrifyingly high.

This had never happened before!

It had once suspected that the Sacred Master had returned in his youth, which made it tremble and feel like crying out loud, hence its reluctance for Chu Feng to perish.

This kind of talent seemed to be born for force fields; he learned too quickly. The lunar inheritance had existed for so many years, yet it had never encountered anyone with such extraordinary giftedness.

Furthermore, he was a direct, pure-blooded descendant of the mother star.

In the energy tower's view, this was simply a gift from heaven!

"I choose to continue!" Chu Feng declared. He wanted to forge ahead; he had come for the Sacred Master's supreme secret scripture and sought nothing else.

Since he was going to learn, he would learn it to the fullest and walk this path to its most glorious end!

The energy tower strongly dissuaded him, saying, "According to regulations, you could certainly return in a hundred years. By then, you will have thoroughly studied all the scriptures you received, and it's highly likely you can then clear all the way through."

"A hundred years is too long!" Chu Feng shook his head. What was the current situation? The desolate Earth was recovering, and one year of cultivation here was equivalent to ten or even a hundred years elsewhere!

A hundred years later, it would be too late for him to rise again. Opportunities would be exhausted, and fortunes depleted. What would be left? Everything would have vanished like clouds and smoke.

The energy tower fell silent. Here, everything operated by the rules; agreeing to Chu Feng entering the fourth stage would be tantamount to harming him.

"The fourth stage: Stellar Hunt!" Finally, it spoke.

The energy tower's words were brief, but Chu Feng was startled. He had always lived on Earth, and his first long journey had only taken him to the moon.

Now, he was to enter the starry sky to hunt unpredictable creatures. This was truly astonishing, far beyond his expectations!

"What kind of creatures am I to hunt?" Chu Feng asked.

"The armored cavalry of old," the energy tower replied without any emotional fluctuation. "If they are still alive, their strength will be unimaginable. Even if not invincible, they would still awe an entire starfield!"

Chu Feng was stunned, then utterly shocked. The stellar hunt was actually about pursuing and killing the executioners of yesteryear, which was indeed terrifying.

"Are there specific targets?" he asked cautiously.

"There are a few very small life-bearing planets that were once the fiefdoms of those ancient stellar knights. You can choose one to land on and hunt," it replied.

This answer still made Chu Feng's expression solemn. That group of armored cavalry, who conquered the stars in ancient times, came from different races and were just one contingent among the invading army.

However, those who clashed with Earth's elites, survived, and continued to spread slaughter must all be formidable individuals.

Furthermore, after such a long time, if they were truly still alive, they would surely have become major, peerless figures, impossible to resist.

Chu Feng felt a headache coming on; this was an impossible mission.

"So, give up," the energy tower said.

"What if the individual in question is long dead?" Chu Feng asked.

"Then kill his successor," the energy tower responded.

If a successor existed and the family was still active after all these years, it suggested they might be very powerful and just as formidable and difficult to provoke.

"What if on that fiefdom planet, not even a successor exists, and the entire clan has been wiped out?" Chu Feng persisted.

"Then switch to another planet and start over." The energy tower's merciless words left Chu Feng speechless.

"Can I go see it in person before deciding whether to withdraw?" Chu Feng whispered.

"As an inheritor who has exceptionally completed the first three stages, you... have the right!" Ultimately, the energy tower was surprisingly lenient, granting him some choice.

"Alright!"

Chu Feng was very happy. He felt he shouldn't be so pessimistic; perhaps the family still existed but was incredibly weak. In that case, he might be able to complete the mission!

Of course, if it proved impossible, he would turn and leave without the slightest hesitation.

However, the energy tower then told him that if the family's successor was too weak, he would still need to switch to another planet, which made Chu Feng's face instantly fall.

"Set off!"

The energy tower spoke, taking Chu Feng into a wormhole. They vanished directly from there and then appeared above an unknown star.

This was indeed a small planet, yet it was also suitable for life.

However, now this place was very strange; the entire planet was covered in a layer of gray mist, obscuring the stars and moon. The energy tower carried Chu Feng, breaking through the mist, and hovered high in the sky.

"Hmm? This is..." Chu Feng was surprised, recalling a passage in the scriptures that was very similar.

Soon, the energy tower relayed information to him: the old executioner from back then had long been dead, but his family was still active, with the 89th generation descendant of that old knight serving as the current successor.

The bad news was that this successor was also very old, with profound cultivation. He had created this mist while practicing some mysterious breathing technique.

"When the Underworld Breathing Technique is cultivated to a certain level, and one encounters a bottleneck that needs to be forced through," the energy tower explained, "it requires obscuring the blazing sun and blocking out all moonlight and starlight, making the place resemble the underworld!"

Its tone was unfriendly, carrying anger, and it was very agitated.

Chu Feng was puzzled and asked what was wrong.

"On this planet, there is a burial ground," the energy tower explained. "The bones are those of children from the mother star. After being captured by that old knight back then, he intended to keep them as bait, but upon encountering resistance, he killed them all."

Even Chu Feng, upon hearing this, revealed a murderous intent.

Although it had happened many years ago, his trials on the moon made him feel as though he had personally experienced similar tragedies. He clenched his fists.

The energy tower informed him: "The ultimate source of the Underworld Breathing Technique is the twelfth-ranked planet, one of the mother star's great enemies. This technique is that planet's supreme method. The version of the Underworld Breathing Technique circulating externally is only a partial one, given to meritorious individuals. The more profound methods can only be learned on that star, transmitted through a spiritual imprint anointing."

"He's a meritorious subordinate of a great enemy," Chu Feng instigated. "Why don't you personally take action?"

"I am already incomplete and lack combat power," the energy tower said. "The path I opened is a wormhole that already existed."

"Then let me do it!" Chu Feng declared, full of confidence.

While browsing the secret scriptures on the moon, he had seen a related passage, which was considered an anecdote.

The "Brilliant Starlight" force field had been deeply researched. It was once used against cultivators practicing the Underworld Breathing Technique at a critical moment, and its effects were astonishingly good!

Before this, Chu Feng hadn't paid much attention to those anecdotes, primarily focusing on the true secret scriptures. Now, it seemed they were equally useful; at critical moments, they could even surpass large-scale destructive force fields.

Acting on his thoughts, he began to set up the "Brilliant Starlight" force field according to the anecdote's description, primarily using solar fire essence beams.

Just above the gray mist, he began his arrangements, putting all the magnets he had brought from the moon to use.

In just over an hour, he had completed all the arrangements.

Then, he directly activated the force field.

The next moment, starlight poured down like a waterfall, and especially from the direction of the sun, specks of fire essence were gathered.

Finally, with a loud bang, it completely dispersed the gray mist below.

This small planet was no longer gloomy, no longer possessed the aura of the underworld, and was illuminated by brilliant light.

"Roar..."

On the ground, from within a certain ancient castle, an earth-shattering roar erupted. As the darkness here was dispelled, a creature wailed in agony, finally rushing out, its entire body engulfed in flames.

The Underworld Breathing Technique was interrupted at a critical moment. The brilliant starlight and solar fire essence invaded, causing him fatal interference.

Ultimately, as this ancient, devil-like creature flapped its fleshy wings, it exploded and was incinerated into ashes.

After the energy tower relayed this scene to Chu Feng, he gasped. Was practicing breathing techniques actually this dangerous?

He realized that after evolving to a later stage, the various mysteries of breathing techniques would gradually be revealed, something he hadn't yet experienced, and thus didn't know.

But the Yellow Ox had once said that when cultivating the Great Thunder Sound Breathing Technique, a single oversight could cause injury, breaking one's bones and tendons; it was too overbearing.

Anyway, for now, he... completed the mission!

The impossible mission was thus resolved by him.

They left immediately, returning to the moon via the wormhole.

"You actually... over-completed it." The dark red energy tower was almost speechless.

"Luck!" Chu Feng said with a modest laugh. It was indeed luck; otherwise, facing such an ancient, experienced demon, no number of him rushing in would have been enough to kill it.

To his surprise, the energy tower was very serious, saying, "Luck is also a part of strength. The Sacred Master once said so."

"Alright then!" Chu Feng blushed slightly. He felt this truly wasn't a display of raw power; if it hadn't been so urgent, he would never have been so aggressive.

"The fifth stage: presenting the Sacred Master's cherished 'Heavenly Page One'!" the energy tower announced.

A silver page flew out from its body, densely covered with symbols, with both sides already inscribed.

This required Chu Feng to use his Fiery Eyes to see clearly, as the symbols were tiny and numbered in the tens of thousands!

It also included methods for constructing force fields.

"A single page of scripture?" Chu Feng asked, puzzled.

The energy tower replied, "Yes, its origin is incredibly mysterious, obtained by the Sacred Master unexpectedly. One day, if you fully comprehend the Sacred Master's cherished first Heavenly Page, you will then sense the second and third pages."

"Just give them all to me," Chu Feng said shamelessly.

"On the moon, there is only this one Heavenly Page," it replied. "It is considered the highest inheritance here, and it has all been given to you!"

The energy tower explicitly told him that only the first page was here. Furthermore, apart from the Sacred Master, no one had ever obtained this Heavenly Page in the past. Now that Chu Feng had taken it, it meant this place of inheritance could now be sealed.

Chu Feng was moved and solemnly put away the Heavenly Page.

This was not authored by the Sacred Master; its origin was suspected to be boundless!

All five stages were completed.

As they said goodbye, Chu Feng asked, "How long have I been here in total?"

"Less than half a day," the energy tower replied.

"Huh? Impossible!" Chu Feng didn't believe it. He felt as if several months, or even one or two years, had passed.

Because when he was comprehending various ancient texts in the third stage, he felt it took a very long time, eventually having to resort to rote memorization for fear of spending too much time.

"It's no difficulty for the Force Field Sacred Master to arrange such a special secret realm where the flow of time is different from the outside world," the energy tower said.

It told Chu Feng that most of the time was spent during the stellar hunt.

Finally, Chu Feng bid it farewell. He was leaving, returning to Earth, and would rise there!

As he passed the moon laurel tree, he saw the white tiger, impaled by forty-nine stone pillars and bleeding profusely. He asked the dark red energy tower, which was seeing him off, what rank of being it was and if it was still alive.

"Everyone said the Sacred Master died and sank into the bronze coffin," the energy tower replied. "As a result, a demon saint invaded the moon, and it was nailed here, left with a remnant life, providing energy for this place."

The energy tower's reply shocked Chu Feng!

"The Sacred Master... is he still alive?" Chu Feng asked, slightly agitated.

The energy tower said sadly, "I guess he might never appear again. The demon saint is nailed there because there's a force field set up by the Sacred Master before he disappeared."

Chu Feng fell silent.

"There are few true direct pure-blooded descendants left." By the end, the energy tower became increasingly melancholic. The vast mother star had fallen to such a state!

"There's a woman on Dragon Tiger Mountain..." Chu Feng said.

"I know that girl," the energy tower replied. "She and her fiancé astonished an era. But as for her fiancé and his master from the depths of the starry sky, it's better not to speak of them!"

The energy tower then vanished directly.

Before leaving, it sighed softly, "There are some secret realms on Earth, such as the islands of Penglai and Fangzhang. They were originally dwelling places for the servants of the direct lineage. If they still harbor old sentiments, they will be a considerable force on Earth right now."

Chu Feng was surprised.

He paused slightly here, and after a moment of silence, he strode away.

From behind him, the energy tower's voice echoed: "Rising from ruins, recovering from desolation, one day, we will return!"