At this moment, an intense fluctuation erupted from within the abyss.
Not to mention that Luo Fan was currently right beside this underwater abyss.
Even from tens of thousands of light-years away, this powerful disturbance could still be clearly sensed.
Luo Fan looked toward the underwater abyss and did not hesitate. He immediately separated a clone and sent it into the abyss.
This kind of underwater abyss essentially served as the boundary between the Outer Region and the Inner Region.
The pressure inside the abyss was extremely terrifying.
Moreover, unknown dangers could also exist within it.
Even some relatively powerful Fifth-Tier Universe Masters rarely dared to enter such an abyss.
Teleportation was basically impossible inside.
Furthermore, if the abyssal pressure became strong enough, once one descended, that terrifying pressure would continuously erode a Universe Master's divine body.
Although the consumption of divine power was not particularly large, over long periods of time it became extremely frightening.
One had to know that a Universe Master's divine power was extraordinarily precious.
Treasures capable of restoring a Universe Master's divine power were priced in Supreme Treasure Points.
In other words, any treasure capable of restoring divine power was worth at least an ordinary Supreme Treasure.
If one remained within the abyss for too long and lost excessive divine power, it could very likely affect a Universe Master's combat strength.
The moment Luo Fan's clone entered the abyss, it immediately felt overwhelming pressure.
After descending a certain distance, he could clearly sense his divine power slowly decreasing.
Fortunately, even as a clone, its body length still reached 100 million kilometers.
Therefore, although the clone's genetic level was lower than the original body, its total divine power was countless times greater.
Without hesitation, Luo Fan activated the secret technique obtained when the Mechanical Race clone achieved Perfect Gene Level: Hold Fast.
In the next instant, he felt that the loss of the clone's divine power had become almost negligible.
Hold Fast could reduce material attacks suffered by the user to one ten-thousandth of their original strength.
Not only that, this innate secret technique could stack with Supreme Treasure armor.
The clone was currently wearing an ordinary Supreme Treasure armor.
This armor could reduce material attacks to one-thousandth of their original strength.
As long as the attack did not exceed Second-Tier power, it would not surpass the defensive limit.
The abyssal pressure itself could also be considered a form of material attack.
Moreover, it was far below the Second-Tier level.
It only became dangerous because it was continuous, gradually wearing down a Universe Master's divine power.
Under this dual reduction, the divine power consumption was even slower than the clone's natural recovery rate.
The clone continued descending deeper into the abyss without hesitation.
Even Luo Fan had not expected the depth of this abyss to be so terrifying.
He had already descended more than ten thousand light-years, yet still had not reached the bottom.
As the depth increased, Luo Fan could clearly feel the rate at which divine power was being eroded accelerating.
Fortunately, with the combined reduction from the secret technique and Supreme Treasure, even remaining here for a hundred years would not result in significant divine power loss.
Every time the clone descended a certain distance, it established a wormhole.
The internal environment of the abyss was special, making teleportation impossible.
Under normal circumstances, even Universe Strongest experts entering such a place could only fly slowly.
But Luo Fan was different.
He possessed wormhole secret techniques.
If he had known how deep the abyss truly was, he would have directly created a wormhole straight to the bottom.
Because the depth was unknown, each wormhole he established spanned only one hundred light-years.
Thus, after descending twenty thousand light-years, Luo Fan finally reached the bottom.
He discovered that the temperature here was terrifying.
The combination of extreme heat and immense pressure caused the clone's divine power to dissipate rapidly.
If an ordinary Universe Master arrived here, they likely would not last more than a few days before being completely annihilated by the environment.
At this moment, Luo Fan finally understood what lay at the bottom of the abyss.
The abyss floor was actually an environment resembling a magma lake.
The lava below possessed an unimaginably high temperature.
Even a Heavy Treasure thrown into it would melt instantly.
Luo Fan could clearly sense that the Supreme Treasure armor on the clone was slowly being damaged.
If it remained here for too long, the armor would be completely ruined.
Fortunately, Luo Fan was wealthy enough not to care much about such losses.
What interested him far more was the Supreme Treasure about to emerge.
Yes, after arriving here, the clone confirmed that the emerging Supreme Treasure was located within this magma lake.
The fluctuation of the treasure originated from within it.
However, Luo Fan had not yet seen the treasure's true form.
It seemed he would still need to wait some time for it to fully emerge.
Since this treasure could remain within the magma lake for long periods without being destroyed, and its aura was extremely powerful, it was clearly not an ordinary or high-grade Supreme Treasure.
Even the clone's Supreme Treasure armor was slowly deteriorating in this environment.
Ordinary and high-grade Supreme Treasures would inevitably suffer damage over time.
This meant the treasure was most likely a Top-Tier Supreme Treasure.
Moreover, even among Top-Tier Supreme Treasures, it would be considered exceptional.
There was even a slight possibility it might be a Peak Supreme Treasure.
However, Luo Fan considered that unlikely.
If it were truly a Peak Supreme Treasure, the emergence disturbance would have been far greater.
Luo Fan had no intention of leaving.
The clone simply waited quietly at the bottom of the abyss.
He planned to instantly bind the treasure the moment it fully emerged.
Judging from the fluctuations it emitted, that moment was approaching.
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While the original body was gaining results here, the clones within the Universe Boat and Flowing Heavy Mountain were encountering difficulties.
These clones were relatively weak.
Although their attack power could approach Second-Tier strength, their overall combat ability still placed them at a disadvantage against true Second-Tier Universe Masters.
This was because the clones themselves were originally only Venerates, and their divine body genetic levels were relatively low.
If not for their enormous divine bodies, along with the innate secret techniques Hold Fast and Enhancement, their defensive capabilities would have been extremely poor.
This disadvantage became especially obvious while exploring dangerous regions.
In many perilous zones, dangers exceeded the defensive limits of ordinary Supreme Treasure armor.
As a result, these clones frequently suffered massive divine power losses.
If this continued, many of Luo Fan's clones might eventually perish.
He sent these clones to explore the two great dangerous lands primarily to establish more wormholes.
That way, when his main combat bodies arrived later, exploration would proceed far more efficiently.
At present, Luo Fan's primary exploration strength in the Universe Sea still relied on his original body and true clones.
Although combined attacks from incarnations were powerful, their overall capabilities remained somewhat lacking.
Unless Luo Fan himself broke through to become a Universe Master.
Only then would the incarnations' strength continue improving.
Alternatively, he could forge large numbers of high-grade or Top-Tier Supreme Treasures.
With sufficient Supreme Treasures, the incarnations' overall strength would also rise.
If Mechanical Stream Supreme Treasures could be forged, the incarnations might even reach Third-Tier or nearly Fourth-Tier combat strength.
However, the difficulty of forging Mechanical Race treasures was extremely high.
Even the Original Universe clone currently found it difficult to produce such treasures.
At present, the only Mechanical Race item it could manufacture was the Mechanical Heavy Treasure Puppet rewarded by the system when the Mechanical Race clone broke through.
That was merely an ordinary Heavy Treasure.
However, through empowerment and mission rewards stacking together, it could directly produce mechanical puppets comparable to high-grade Supreme Treasures.
Although manufacturing these Mechanical Stream Heavy Treasure puppets was extremely troublesome, the Mechanical Race clone currently possessed one hundred high-grade Supreme Treasure mechanical puppets.
They could already be used in combat.
As for ordinary Mechanical Heavy Treasure puppets, Luo Fan assigned them to the incarnations for pathfinding.
This was precisely why none of the incarnations had been destroyed so far.
However, more than half of those one hundred Mechanical Heavy Treasure puppets had already been lost.
This clearly demonstrated how dangerous exploration within the Universe Boat and Flowing Heavy Mountain truly was.
This was also why Second-Tier and Third-Tier Universe Masters were rarely seen within the Universe Sea.
Most Universe Masters exploring the Universe Sea possessed Fourth-Tier or Fifth-Tier strength.
Second- and Third-Tier Universe Masters faced extremely high mortality rates when exploring dangerous lands.
Especially without maps.
The heavy losses Luo Fan suffered in mechanical puppets occurred because he primarily explored areas absent from Human Race maps.
He now only wanted to quickly locate the cave mentioned in the original story, where Luo Feng obtained the source of the Chaotic Golden Wings.
If successful, he might obtain the legacy left behind by that Tenth-Tier True God.
He did not particularly care about those Supreme Treasures.
What he desired most was the map.
With maps available, these incarnations would obtain vast numbers of treasures during exploration.
Currently, the Human Race possessed very few maps of the Universe Boat and Flowing Heavy Mountain.
This was because most Human Race experts operated within Inkling Peak Realm.
Very few strong experts ventured into the Universe Boat or Flowing Heavy Mountain.
Especially Flowing Heavy Mountain.
Some experts still visited the Universe Boat's Black Pattern Stone Pillar Space to temper their will.
But no Human Race expert had ever truly ventured deep into Flowing Heavy Mountain.
At most, they wandered around the outer regions.
As a result, maps of Flowing Heavy Mountain were the scarcest.
Luo Fan had already lost nearly forty Mechanical Heavy Treasure puppets there alone.
However, these incarnations were not without gains.
They discovered many Heavy Treasures and even materials used to forge Supreme Treasures.
During exploration, numerous wormholes were also established.
For other Universe Masters, materials suitable for Heavy Treasures were often not even worth collecting.
After all, most matter capable of existing within the Universe Sea could serve as forging material.
At the very least, it could be used to create Immortal Divine Weapons.
Materials suitable for Heavy Treasures were even more abundant.
However, since Heavy Treasures were completely useless to Universe Masters, those exploring the Universe Sea rarely bothered collecting them deliberately.
Within the Original Universe, even some King-Titled experts possessed Heavy Treasures.
As for Venerates, as long as they served their race for some time or explored cosmic secret realms, obtaining one or two Heavy Treasures was not difficult.
Because such treasures were already plentiful among major races, they were rarely gathered intentionally.
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