Chapter Ninety-Seven: World Lord-Class Equipment

After spending several more hours in tender seclusion with Jiang Fang in the palace, Luo Yuan returned from the virtual universe network to reality.

The next day, Luo Yuan went with Luo Feng and the others to the slave market in Horned Dragon City and bought ten ninth-tier universe-level slaves. These ten slaves were all human races whose appearance was very close to that of Earth humans: five psychic masters and five gene warriors, six men and four women. The men were ordinary in appearance, while the women were beauties of matchless grace.

By then, Luo Yuan had already mastered the Soul Imprint inheritance of the Dark Meteorite Planet, and with the enormous spiritual power he possessed, far exceeding that of ordinary psychic masters by more than a hundredfold, he easily planted slave soul imprints into all ten of those ninth-tier universe-level slaves.

Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God also bought several ninth-tier stellar-level slaves to bring back to Earth as bodyguards for their families.

After that, the group made another trip to the mall in Horned Dragon City and bought a planetary defense system for monitoring and defending the Solar System. In the end, they also purchased some cultivation resources.

At the spaceship harbor on Horned Dragon Star, Luo Yuan and the others boarded the ship and began the return journey to Earth.

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In the boundless cosmos, a black C9-class spaceship suddenly accelerated, turning into a streak of light before plunging into the dark universe.

On the ship, Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God had nothing to do, so they put on their helmets and entered the virtual universe, heading to the Great Axe Battle Arena to watch life-and-death duels.

Meanwhile, Luo Yuan went to the uppermost deck of the ship. This level was vast beyond measure, and for the moment he was the only one there. He took out the Mo Cloud Vine seedling he had once exchanged for in the blue castle of the world within the world.

That seedling was only at planetary level and had not yet acknowledged a master. Luo Yuan directly dripped his own essence blood onto it and carried out a forced bond ritual. In the face of his overwhelming power, the seedling acknowledged him without the slightest resistance. He then established a mental connection with the Mo Cloud Vine and could clearly feel its closeness and dependence upon him.

Luo Yuan first took out a large quantity of wood essence crystals and fed them to the vine. In less than a month, the Mo Cloud Vine had already reached the strength of the seventh or eighth tier of the stellar level. This amazed Luo Yuan. The Mo Cloud Vine truly deserved its reputation as a powerful cosmic plant lifeform. However, he kept it restrained in size at all times, after all, this spaceship was nowhere near large enough for the little fellow to fully unleash itself.

Then Luo Yuan took out the stone box containing the Life Fruit.

The instant the stone box was opened, everything around it seemed to lose its color and brilliance. Only that greenish-gold fruit, faintly wet with droplets upon its surface, shone with dazzling radiance.

Green light burst forth in all directions.

A rich, intoxicating fragrance spread through the air. In an instant, the entire space was filled with vigorous life, and the source of all vitality was that green fruit, the Life Fruit. Just one such fruit was a miraculous crystallization within the vast universe, containing unimaginable life force.

Even a realm lord, who could destroy a planet with a wave of the hand and possessed boundless power within his body, could recover completely from any injury, no matter how severe, no matter how much energy had been consumed. For that reason, if one asked a realm lord to trade an entire galaxy for it, countless realm lords would still be willing to make the exchange.

Luo Yuan drew in a deep breath. The fragrance drifting from the fruit entered his body, and every cell in him cheered with joy, as though it had just tasted a peerless treasure of heaven and earth. The genetic material within his cells began to change naturally, his bones crackled and popped, and even his muscles were undergoing transformation.

But Luo Yuan did not dare be careless. He quickly closed the stone box again. In the brief span of one or two breaths, the energy leaking from the Life Fruit had already amounted to hundreds of mouthfuls of breath. Yet he still did not dare to consume it himself. This was something only a realm lord would dare use. If he forced it down, he would burst apart on the spot. He decided that once he reached Earth, he would let the Mo Cloud Vine use the Life Fruit. That should be enough to raise the vine to the universe level, giving him another ace in the hole.

With a thought, the Mo Cloud Vine transformed into a streak of flowing light and merged into his skin, forming a thin membrane that covered Luo Yuan’s entire body. It could even change into any shape according to his will, somewhat like the Black God Suit he had once worn on Earth, but the Mo Cloud Vine was clearly far more powerful than that suit, and it could grow stronger together with its master.

Being enveloped by the Mo Cloud Vine caused Luo Yuan no discomfort at all. He felt as though the vine were an extension of his own body, something he could command with perfect ease. Once a Mo Cloud Vine acknowledged a master, it would never betray him, and if the master died, it would perish as well.

Luo Yuan then took out a fifth-tier dark-gold force armor set and put it on. A fifth-tier battle blade, the Void-Sundering Blade, hung at his back, and beneath his feet appeared a fifth-tier telekinetic weapon, the Dark Cloud Shuttle. He glanced at himself in the mirror and felt that his equipment was truly dazzling, but it still seemed as though something was missing.

A thought flashed through his mind. He checked the forty-odd treasures he had left in his storage ring, and his eyes lit up. He took out a gray hooded cloak. This cloak was also fifth-tier equipment. He did not know what material it was made from. It felt smooth and soft to the touch, yet its defensive power was astonishing. Like the fifth-tier battle armor, it could withstand a strike from a realm lord. It could also block the probing of psychic masters below the realm-lord level, and it even carried an aura pressure and mental suppression on the level of a realm lord.

Luo Yuan draped the cloak over himself, and instantly felt as though his bearing had risen several realms, while his whole body seemed to become light and buoyant.

Just like that, he walked down from the upper deck. When the slaves resting on the second deck saw Luo Yuan appear out of nowhere, every one of them dropped to their knees in terror and bowed in salute, cold sweat streaming down their foreheads. Among them were the ten ninth-tier universe-level slaves Luo Yuan had purchased.

"Don’t be afraid. It’s me."

The helmet of his fifth-tier force armor dissolved automatically like quicksilver, revealing Luo Yuan’s handsome face. At once, none of the slaves in the area dared even lift their heads.

Luo Yuan smiled and continued down to the next deck. The moment his figure vanished, all the slaves on the second deck let out a collective sigh of relief.

"Camero, the aura the master just gave off was terrifying. Even though we’re ninth-tier universe-level, we didn’t even dare raise our heads. Could the master be a realm lord?" asked a dark-skinned, ordinary-looking burly man beside a cool, blue-eyed woman with silver hair.

"I don’t know. But we’d better not speak carelessly about the master behind his back, or you’ll pay dearly for it," the cold woman said in a frosty voice.

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By the time Luo Yuan reached the first deck, Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God had just finished watching several life-and-death battles at the Great Axe Battle Arena and were discussing their own insights. When they saw the equipment Luo Yuan was wearing, they were first stunned beyond measure, and then the four of them began teasing one another.

"Honestly, with that look of yours, Little Third, if you show up like that and someone doesn’t take a careful look, it could really scare people to death. The realm-lord aura and mental pressure simulated by that cloak are indeed rather intimidating," Thunder God said with a grin, rubbing his bald head.

"Hahaha, I wonder what that Thunder Realm Lord Kabu was thinking, to come up with such an interesting piece of equipment. He must be quite an interesting person himself," Luo Yuan said with a laugh.

"I really envy Third Brother. He exchanged for so many treasures. The Thunder Stones we got back then were limited, so we only managed to exchange for a few items," Luo Yuan said enviously.

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