Inside the General's Residence, many people were constantly paying attention to Luo Fan.
Although they had already given up on comparing themselves to him, they still wanted to see just how monstrous he truly was.
Thus, most of them kept a portion of their attention on Luo Fan.
After all, many of the Universe Sea experts currently solving the puzzle in the General's Residence were merely incarnations.
Their true bodies were solving the puzzle outside; once completed, they only needed to reproduce the solution using divine power within the colored light pillar before them.
Because of this, many people focused on observing others, especially Luo Fan.
Besides observing him, they also paid attention to the progress of other experts.
Suddenly, Luo Fan's incarnation, which had been continuously outlining perfect solutions with divine power toward the colored light pillar, collapsed.
Everyone witnessed this scene.
The nearby human experts were especially shocked.
In the next moment, their expressions changed drastically.
Fear appeared on their faces.
Meanwhile, the other Universe Sea experts revealed expressions of joy, their eyes filled with excitement.
Although Luo Fan was surrounded and protected by three layers of light barriers, these barriers could be freely passed through when not under attack.
Thus, everyone could sense Luo Fan's life aura.
But now, it had disappeared.
This could only mean one thing.
This incarnation of Luo Fan had died.
There were only two possibilities.
The first was that Luo Fan had voluntarily extinguished the consciousness and soul of this incarnation.
That would leave behind only divine power, turning it into an empty shell, exactly like what they were seeing.
Of course, if he chose, he could also self-destruct like the previous Universe Master.
However, self-destruction here would result in immediate soul annihilation by Qing Qiong.
The second possibility was that Luo Fan had been killed at the soul level.
Only these two explanations existed.
Because everyone knew that as long as even one of Luo Fan's incarnations remained, he was not truly dead.
To kill him through material attacks, one would have to destroy all his incarnations and clones simultaneously.
But that was impossible.
Luo Fan had far too many incarnations.
No one could track all their locations.
It could be said that aside from Luo Fan himself, no one knew where all his incarnations were.
Even the human experts did not.
Thus, no one could accomplish such a feat.
This was why, after learning about Luo Fan's countless incarnations, no faction ever considered eliminating him.
It was simply impossible.
Instead, they only sought to befriend him.
Especially after seeing that Luo Fan's incarnations had reached regions in the Black Pattern Stone Pillar Space where time flowed more than three thousand times faster.
In that place, only those with willpower at the level of a Universe Master could withstand the mental pressure.
With such willpower, even some True God-level soul masters could not instantly annihilate his soul.
Even if his incarnations only had second-tier Universe Lord strength and lacked soul treasures, making them easy to kill physically, they could not be erased before self-destruction.
His will alone was enough to let him destroy his own incarnation before being killed.
Unless the attacker possessed willpower beyond the Universe Master level, like the Lord of Bechi Star, and was also a powerful soul master.
In the eyes of the Universe Sea experts, only one person fit that description: the Original Ancestor.
Unfortunately, not only was the Original Ancestor suppressed by the will of the Original Universe, but even if he were free, he would protect Luo Fan rather than kill him.
Thus, despite Luo Fan's terrifying potential and near certainty of obtaining the inheritance, no faction in the Universe Sea attempted to assassinate him.
Instead, they wanted to ally with him.
For those madmen of the First Era, if it were possible, they would have killed Luo Fan without hesitation, eliminating the possibility of him obtaining the inheritance.
A small lead still allowed hope.
A large lead was discouraging but not hopeless.
But someone like Luo Fan, who was ahead by several levels, inspired only despair.
Faced with such despair, they would normally spare no cost to eliminate him.
But that person was Luo Fan.
Yet now, this individual, regarded by all as the hardest to kill in the Universe Sea, had been slain right before their eyes.
After all, Luo Fan was about to reach the fourth stage and could skip the third trial to directly inherit from the Star Abyss Sect.
At such a critical moment, why would he commit suicide?
Compared to that, it was far more likely he had been killed at the soul level.
Almost instantly, they suspected the culprit came from one of the two Holy Land Universes.
Only those places could harbor such unknown experts.
Or perhaps, they simply hoped that was the case.
Qing Qiong's expression turned extremely grim.
Compared to the inheritors, he understood Luo Fan's incarnations far better.
This was undoubtedly the result of soul annihilation.
He had been watching Luo Fan closely.
There had been no signs of self-destruction before his death.
If there were, Qing Qiong would have sensed it immediately.
Thus, only one conclusion remained.
Luo Fan had been killed at the soul level.
At this moment, Qing Qiong felt both anger and disappointment.
After finally finding a genius capable of inheriting his King's legacy, he had died just like that.
But there was nothing he could do.
He was merely a remnant consciousness.
If not for a special technique preserving a fragment of his awareness to pass on his inheritance and that of the Wu Kingdom, he would not even exist here.
He let out a sigh.
Now, he could only hope that among the remaining candidates, there were one or two worthy of cultivation.
The other Universe Sea experts, if not constrained by the ongoing trial, would have celebrated.
The human experts, however, were filled with shock.
Especially the human Universe Masters, who understood Luo Fan better than anyone else.
They knew how extraordinary he was.
In their eyes, Luo Fan was someone who could never die.
He was destined to lead humanity to glory, establish a Holy Land Universe, and transcend reincarnation.
Yet now, he had died right before them.
Their eyes filled with anger, grief, and despair.
The Ice Peak Master was hit the hardest.
Luo Fan was his disciple, and his most outstanding one.
Yet this exceptional disciple had died before his eyes.
Why did even the human experts believe Luo Fan had died?
Because at that exact moment, Luo Fan had also exited the Virtual Universe.
Everyone kept a strand of consciousness there.
In fact, Luo Fan logged into the Virtual Universe using an incarnation.
Now that all his Space Worm incarnations had died simultaneously, he naturally logged out.
...
Virtual Universe, Giant Axe Temple.
"How could this happen?"
"How could anyone in the Universe Sea annihilate Luo Fan's soul?"
"Why does this keep happening to humanity? The Original Ancestor was suppressed, and now Luo Fan has been killed!"
"Every time we see hope, it is destroyed. Why?"
These usually calm Universe Masters were now overwhelmed by emotion.
When the Original Ancestor was suppressed, they still had the Giant Axe.
But now, Luo Fan, someone even more important in their eyes, had died.
He was the one who could guarantee the creation of a Holy Land Universe.
After all, he possessed an Original Universe clone.
With that, humanity could survive even after three reincarnation eras.
Now, that hope was gone.
Even these seasoned experts could not recover quickly.
...
Earth.
"Big brother! Big brother!"
For the first time, Luo Feng showed panic.
His incarnation on Earth teleported instantly to Luo Fan's residence.
When he saw Luo Fan's incarnation lying lifeless, he froze.
He had never imagined Luo Fan could die.
He knew how many methods Luo Fan possessed.
Precisely because of that, he believed Luo Fan was immortal.
He had always thought that even if he died, his brother would not.
Memories of their time together flooded his mind.
At that moment, Fang Xueyi approached.
She had already become an Immortal being.
Many had heard Luo Feng's shout, but no one dared disturb him.
Within the Luo family, aside from Luo Fan, Luo Feng was the strongest.
"Ah Feng… did something happen to your brother?"
Her eyes carried sorrow.
"Sister-in-law…"
Luo Feng did not know how to respond.
The two fell silent.
At that moment, a wormhole suddenly appeared beside them.
...
Original Star.
The alien races exploring the Original Star suddenly noticed that the pressure that had enveloped it since its opening had disappeared.
The surrounding space-time was no longer under control.
They were stunned.
They had no idea what had happened.
Had the Human Hunyuan Master left?
Regardless, they continued exploring and reported the situation to their clans.
...
Original Universe clone, Origin Land, within the Time God Palace.
Luo Fan looked at the dead Space Worm clone.
There was no anger on his face, only curiosity.
The loss of divine power was insignificant to him.
Moreover, the divine body still existed and could be reformed.
He was simply curious about the identity of that black mist.
Even in the original records, no such Universe Master had been mentioned.
His true body approached the corpse while his Mechanical Race clone continued solving the puzzle as if nothing had happened.
He placed a hand on the dead body.
A chaotic light enveloped it.
The body transformed into a chaotic sphere and began to regenerate.
With the acceleration of the Time God Palace, the Space Worm clone was quickly reborn.
However, Luo Fan did not immediately recreate more clones.
This new body only had a genetic level of two hundred times and a divine body of ten million kilometers.
It needed improvement.
Its divine power began to restructure at the most fundamental level.
The pain was like being torn apart, but Luo Fan showed no reaction.
Soon, the restructuring was complete.
The body shrank a hundredfold.
Its genetic level had reached eight thousand times.
He continued cultivating the Chaos Codex.
At the final step, just before condensing the law seed, he stopped.
This was not the Original Universe, so no innate secret technique would be granted.
He wanted to test something.
Without hesitation, he had the clone open a wormhole and return to the Original Universe.
Before leaving, it absorbed some ownerless divine power from the Chaos Spirit Pearl, restoring its body to ten billion kilometers.
Once inside the Original Universe, he immediately condensed the law seed.
In an instant, the genetic level reached 10081 times.
Unfortunately, no new innate secret technique was granted.
He was not disappointed.
He then began creating new incarnations.
He left twenty thousand incarnations in the Original Universe, just as before.
They spread out to recover the divine bodies of the fallen incarnations.
None of that divine power would be wasted.
...
Earth.
As Luo Feng and Fang Xueyi stood in grief, a wormhole suddenly appeared beside them.
They both froze.
In the next moment, a familiar figure stepped out from within.
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