Chapter 376: The Inclined Peak Realm
Given the Human Race's current rate of development, these Human Race Universe Masters all believed that as long as they were given enough time,
The Human Race would inevitably become the overlord of the Original Universe.
Whether there was one more or one less fifth-tier Universe Master-level enemy did not have much impact on the Human Race.
When debts pile up, one no longer worries; when lice are many, one no longer itches.
The Human Race already had too many enemies.
One fifth-tier Universe Master was nothing significant.
After all, the three races combined with the other peak forces in the universe had several hundred, even nearly a thousand Universe Masters.
But what about the Human Race's current strength?
Leaving aside the other Universe Masters,
Luo Fan alone possessed one million incarnations.
Although these incarnations were not as strong as his true body,
They still possessed power close to second-tier Universe Masters.
One million second-tier Universe Masters.
What kind of concept was that?
They could sweep across the universe.
However, since they were ultimately incarnations, without coordinated combined attacks, they could easily be instantly annihilated in large numbers by prepared experts.
It was like a Universe Master facing ordinary Universe Venerables.
Even if the latter's combined attack was extremely powerful,
A Universe Master would never give them the chance to unite.
Why did combined attacks of Universe Masters display such terrifying power in the original story?
It was mainly because in the original story, those Universe Masters united within the Original Universe to deal with the Human Race.
Moreover, they were third-tier and fourth-tier Universe Masters.
Within the Original Universe, even a Universe Strongest One could at most display peak sixth-tier power.
When facing fourth-tier Universe Masters, even a Universe Strongest One could not instantly kill them.
That was why combined attacks among Universe Masters could unleash such abnormal might.
It was precisely because those Universe Strongest Ones could not eliminate them in one strike.
But Luo Fan's incarnations, along with the incarnations of the Human Race Universe Masters, could easily be instantly killed in large-scale battles.
As long as the opponent possessed fifth-tier, or even fourth-tier strength, they could annihilate vast numbers of incarnations in moments.
This was also why, after breaking through to Universe Venerable, the Insect Race Mother Emperor rarely relied on combined insect attacks.
Producing insect warriors consumed immense divine power.
Yet the opponent could instantly kill them.
They would not be given the opportunity to execute a combined strike.
Experts above the level of Universe Venerable reacted extremely quickly.
Even though Luo Fan's incarnations shared a single consciousness,
Because they possessed different bodies, coordinating a combined strike still required a certain amount of time.
For true experts, that brief moment was enough to react.
How did legion warfare on the Origin Continent achieve its effectiveness?
They relied on mechanical-type supreme treasures.
With the protection and amplification of such treasures, they could unleash the power of combined attacks.
Otherwise, directly executing a combined strike would merely turn them into targets for true experts.
This was why, despite possessing so many incarnations of terrifying strength, Luo Fan had not acted against other races.
Their strength was still insufficient.
Once Luo Fan broke through to Universe Master, it would be the moment for the Human Race to counterattack.
For the Human Race now, the most important thing was time.
As long as they had enough time to allow Luo Fan to grow,
The Human Race would stand invincible.
Thus, the life or death of the Lord of Nianjiao was not that important to them.
It was better to use him to negotiate with the Demon Race.
At the very least, it could force the Demon Race to temporarily halt their suppression of the Human Race, buying Luo Fan some time.
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After suppressing the Lord of Nianjiao, Giant Axe greeted Luo Fan and his master, then prepared to send the Lord of Nianjiao to his miniature universe.
At the same time, he would dispatch someone to negotiate with the Demon Race.
As for Luo Fan and Ice Peak Lord, they planned to continue toward the Inclined Peak Realm.
Soon, the three parted ways along two different routes.
As for whether Giant Axe would encounter Dream Demon Ancestor on the way back to his miniature universe,
Luo Fan was not worried at all.
Even if Giant Axe met Dream Demon Ancestor, the latter would not be able to do anything to him.
With Luo Fan's wormholes, Giant Axe's return to the Original Universe would be extremely fast.
Natural wormholes, although connecting two locations,
Still contained a stretch within them that required slow flight or teleportation.
One could say a natural wormhole was like a highway.
But the wormholes created by Luo Fan had their two ends directly connected.
Such wormholes were more like portals.
One step inside and one would instantly arrive at a distant location.
Thus, traveling through Luo Fan's wormholes was far faster than using ordinary natural wormholes.
Giant Axe could return to the Original Universe from here in less than an hour.
Since most of the route relied on Luo Fan's wormholes, the probability of encountering Dream Demon Ancestor was extremely small.
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After bidding farewell to Giant Axe, Ice Peak Lord brought Luo Fan toward the Inclined Peak Realm.
Their speed this time was much faster than when they had come.
On the way there, Luo Fan had released incarnations along the route to different locations.
Now, however, the remaining path led directly to the Inclined Peak Realm.
This road went straight there. To go elsewhere would require backtracking.
Thus, the incarnations heading to the Inclined Peak Realm were all still with Luo Fan. He no longer needed to release them along the way.
Master and disciple traveled directly through the fixed wormholes previously established by Luo Fan's incarnations that the Human Race Universe Lords had carried with them.
Along the journey, Ice Peak Lord occasionally paused to introduce various dangerous regions to Luo Fan.
Although these regions were not as perilous as the Three Great Desolate Lands,
Even Universe Masters could perish there if careless.
Some of these areas also produced valuable materials.
Whenever Luo Fan found something interesting, he would release an incarnation to explore it.
In this way, after about an hour, Luo Fan finally saw a toppled mountain in the distance.
The sight was breathtaking.
Although the Universe Ocean was hazy due to the countless streams of chaotic airflow,
For experts of their level, such obstructions posed no difficulty in seeing faraway scenery.
In the distance stood a towering mountain.
Yet its peak had fallen halfway down the mountainside.
It was as if a being of infinite might had sliced horizontally through the mountain, causing the summit to collapse midway.
The smooth main body of the mountain was covered with endless gigantic waterfalls cascading downward, crashing onto the mountainside below.
The waters spread outward, submerging nearly half of the fallen peak.
At the same time, countless fragments of rock orbited the mountain continuously.
The scene was immensely shocking.
Luo Fan and Ice Peak Lord were still over 100 million light-years away.
Even at such a distance, they could clearly see the Inclined Peak Realm.
This alone demonstrated its vastness.
The moment Luo Fan saw the Inclined Peak Realm, information about it surfaced in his mind.
The Inclined Peak Realm's main mountain was approximately 98.02 million light-years tall. The severed peak had a maximum diameter of 12.26 million light-years.
Outside the mountain lay the Outer Region, which included the surrounding water domains.
The Outer Region was relatively less dangerous, though certain areas could still cause Universe Masters with weaker survival abilities to fall.
Within the mountain lay the Inner Region, primarily where the flying stone fragments and various mountain foothills and midsections were located.
The Inner Region was extremely dangerous. Even the strongest Universe Masters could perish there.
At the mountain's core was the fallen peak and the interior depths of the mountain.
In these core areas, even Universe Strongest Ones could die.
The stone fragments that now appeared small from afar were, in reality, each potentially a light-year in size.
And those were merely fragments.
A mountain nearly 100 million light-years tall. How terrifying was that?
Such a mountain could never be born within the Original Universe.
Although a Universe Strongest One's miniature universe might have a diameter of 100 million light-years,
Much of its interior consisted of void space.
The Inclined Peak Realm, however, contained vast regions of solid mountain mass.
Not only that, it also housed numerous different spatial dimensions within.
Many areas in the Inclined Peak Realm prohibited teleportation.
Thus, exploration was extremely difficult.
This was why, although the distance from the Original Universe to the Inclined Peak Realm required only a few days of normal travel,
Those experts within the Inclined Peak Realm needed many years to return to the Original Universe.
In many regions, teleportation was impossible or too dangerous to attempt, forcing them to rely on slow flight.
However, with the wormholes established by Luo Fan's incarnations, it became extremely convenient for Human Race experts to return.
When exploring, they would have Luo Fan's incarnations establish wormholes along the route.
In this way, returning to the Original Universe would take less than a month.
Soon, master and disciple entered the Outer Region of the Inclined Peak Realm.
Whoosh.
Whoosh.
Whoosh.
Enormous mountain stones, nearly boundless in size, sped through space at high velocity.
From over 100 million light-years away, they had appeared as tiny pebbles. Now they were almost immeasurable in scale.
These massive stones traveled at several times the speed of light.
Within the Original Universe, the maximum speed was the speed of light.
Exceeding it would lead into the Dark Universe.
But the Universe Ocean had no Dark Universe, so surpassing light speed was effortless.
Luo Fan's own maximum speed far exceeded the speed of light.
If he used a palace supreme treasure or a flying supreme treasure, he would be even faster.
Soon, Ice Peak Lord brought Luo Fan onto one of the stone fragments.
The stones surrounding the Inclined Peak Realm were relatively stationary with respect to one another.
The closer a stone was to the Inclined Peak Realm, the slower it moved.
The farther away, the faster it traveled.
The two moved across stone after stone until they arrived at a celestial stone.
A random depression on its surface extended more than a million kilometers deep.
Within that canyon stood a temple.
Several figures stood outside the temple, casually conversing.
When they saw Luo Fan and Ice Peak Lord arrive, their eyes lit up, and they quickly surrounded them.
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