"My brother and I are heading to the Seventh Battlefield," Lei Shen announced. "Luo Feng disappeared there, didn't he? We plan to check on him."
Hong nodded, his expression thoughtful. "Luo Feng hasn't contacted us in five thousand years. He said he was receiving a life-and-death inheritance. After all this time without any word, I was worried something might have happened to him."
"Don't worry, Luo Feng isn't dead." Han Jue's confidence in Luo Feng was absolute.
"I asked Uncle Primal Primal Chaos City Lord. He confirmed Luo Feng is still alive, though he can't pinpoint his exact location. Even if Luo Feng did perish, as long as his soul wasn't enslaved, the City Lord would still revive him. After all, Luo Feng is his personal disciple."
Han Jue shared what he knew.
Hearing this, Hong and Lei Shen both breathed sighs of relief.
They were all powerful warriors who had risen from Earth together. Though they'd never formally become sworn brothers, their bond ran deep.
"Father, Han Xi and I are heading to the First Battlefield to continue our training," Han Huan announced.
Han Jue gave a slight nod.
So they'd all chosen to continue their training? That was fine.
With their potential, even at the World Master level, they might not be invincible among Kings, but possessing peak King-level combat power was definitely achievable. It wasn't too late to break through to Immortality after fully developing that potential.
"Then I'll wait for you to break through to Immortality," Han Jue said with a smile. "Once you become Immortal, I'll find a way to give each of you a supreme treasure!"
"A supreme treasure?" Lei Shen's eyes widened in shock.
"Isn't that too precious?" Hong asked, concern evident in his voice.
Even Hong's teacher, the Lord of Darkness, had only given him a soul-type supreme treasure. Lei Shen had come to understand the poverty of his own teacher, King Ganwu, over the years, and knew just how valuable a supreme treasure truly was.
Han Huan and Han Xi, however, remained quiet. As Han Jue's children, they were entitled to the best resources.
"It's alright. You're the future pillars of Earth. My expectations for you are quite high. In the future, you should at least reach the level of a Universe Master, otherwise, it would be a waste of my investment," Han Jue said with a smile.
"Universe Master?" Lei Shen couldn't help but exclaim in astonishment.
"You're overestimating us."
Currently, the entire human race only had a dozen or so Universe Masters. Did Han Jue really expect all four of them to reach that level? If that happened, Earth might become humanity's sixth major power!
"That's right."
As if reading Lei Shen's thoughts, Han Jue continued, "I intend to make Earth a true holy land in the universe, comparable to, or even surpassing, entities like the Virtual Universe Company and the Giant Axe Arena!"
"With the Six-Eyes Bloodline and the support of the Virtual Universe Company's resources, achieving this goal won't be too difficult as long as a few supreme beings emerge from Earth."
"So you all need to work harder." Han Jue's smile was encouraging.
In the original timeline, Hong had broken through to become a True God, and Lei Shen had also become a Universe Master. Though they'd had the help of inheritances from the World of Jin, becoming a Universe Master wouldn't be a major obstacle for them!
"Alright, I'll be on Earth soon. We'll talk more later."
After several years of flight, the Ice Wasteland spaceship was about to arrive at Earth!
For ordinary intelligent life, cultivating and evolving was extremely difficult.
Unless one could obtain an Evolution Heart and integrate it into a metallic body, allowing an intelligent life form to reside within it, then the intelligent life form would become one hundred percent integrated with that metallic body.
Just as a soul corresponded to a body, the intelligent life form would possess the most precious physical form, an evolved body.
This would have two effects.
First, after complete integration with the body, the clarity of sensing the laws of the universe would skyrocket, reaching at least the level of an ordinary human powerhouse.
Second, as cultivation progressed, the Automaton Race's body would continuously strengthen. Its flexibility, toughness, and other aspects would become highly refined, almost like a real physical body.
However, this treasure, the Evolution Heart, was possessed only by the Automaton Race.
This was the Automaton Race's most important and core precious asset, so they strictly controlled the Evolution Heart, prohibiting any member from privately selling it. This principle was deeply ingrained in the core programming of every Automaton Race member.
The Automaton Race could produce large numbers of Evolution Hearts to cultivate individual members, but they would absolutely never sell any Evolution Hearts, no matter how high the price.
This made it extremely difficult for humans, demons, and many other races to purchase an Evolution Heart!
Each Evolution Heart cost hundreds of billions of Chaos Units, almost the entire fortune of a King-level Immortal!
This meant that unless one considered their intelligent companion a brother in life and death, and was a super-powerful individual with immense wealth, they simply couldn't afford to buy an Evolution Heart.
Han Jue, however, possessed an Evolution Heart obtained from the Automaton Race's King-level Limit powerhouse, the Mechine Killer King.
"Rimuru!"
Han Jue called out from the void outside Earth, his voice echoing through space.
"Master!"
A mechanical puppet appeared before Han Jue. Its physique and height resembled that of an ordinary Earthling, but its entire body was forged from a special metal far exceeding G-grade, a rare material in the primordial universe called Soul-Gathering Gold!
Soul-Gathering Gold could be used to forge soul-type treasures, and was even one of the materials for top-tier supreme treasures.
The Venerable Ripple's Gold-Gathering Temple had used some of this material in its construction.
Using this Soul-Gathering Gold to forge Rimuru's body had cost Han Jue hundreds of billions of Chaos Units. Fortunately, Han Jue was now wealthy enough not to care about this loss.
"Fuse with it," Han Jue said, handing the Evolution Heart to Rimuru.
Rimuru accepted the Evolution Heart with visible excitement. He'd never imagined he would one day exist as a true life form!
The more he thought about it, the more convinced he became that following Han Jue was the right decision.
The Soul-Gathering Gold body and the Evolution Heart began to fuse.
Rimuru himself, as an intelligent life, merged with this metallic body, beginning his transformation into a true life form.
The Soul-Gathering Gold body possessed several special functions.
First, after fusing with this body, Rimuru essentially gained a soul-type treasure for protection, almost completely eliminating any fear of soul attacks.
Second, this Soul-Gathering Gold had another characteristic, it could be freely transformed!
While it couldn't mimic the aura of the Demon Slayer race, its appearance could be completely altered. It could even soften and harden, transforming back into its original slime form instead of remaining a hard, unyielding metal.
Finally, there was the inherent strength of the Soul-Gathering Gold itself.
With this body, even without corresponding comprehension of the laws, Rimuru could be considered a peak-level King.