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📌 SPOILER ALERT: Episode 278 Novel Explanation & Detailed Breakdown!

In Episode 278 of Swallowed Star, Luo Feng spends a trillion eras teaching his 16 human disciples, mastering the ten basic laws, and creating incredible level-eight techniques while preparing for war. Meanwhile, terror strikes Universe Ocean as the Sector Beast Morosa targets Rampaging Devil God's miniature universe! As Jue He True God and Luo Feng's elite team rush to the scene across space, Morosa suddenly finishes swallowing half the origin and teleports away—leaving the enraged True Gods searching for their elusive prey!

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00:00In today's chapter recap of Swallowed Star, the danger is about as close as it gets.
00:05Firefly True.
00:06Master is wrapped inside a black fog cocoon that feeds on his godly power,
00:11while the sector beast, Morosa, sits outside sustaining it.
00:15Nine-headed demon.
00:16Master and the other true gods have to break that cocoon before it drains the last of him,
00:21and every choice they make costs them something.
00:24Let's get into it.
00:25Light strands twisted around Firefly True Master until they formed a cocoon,
00:31and from it spilled a black fog.
00:33Inside, he thrashed so violently that the cocoon swelled in one spot after another,
00:38and the fog spread wider with every heave.
00:40Save Firefly True Master!
00:43Nine-headed demon master roared.
00:45He pushed his godly power to its limit, turned himself into a golden blaze,
00:49and hurled himself at the sector beast, Morosa.
00:53Morosa knew better than to underestimate him.
00:55Nine-headed demon master was one of the eight great overlords of universe.
01:00Ocean, so the sector beast, opened its mouth and unleashed a scream.
01:04That made no sound at all.
01:06It was aimed only at nine-headed demon master,
01:09who faltered for an instant but kept coming.
01:11His willpower matched the limit of any true god of void space,
01:15and though the silent cry sent a sharp pain through him, he endured it.
01:20Sector beast!
01:21Golden claws sprouted from his hands.
01:24They were an automaton-type treasure.
01:26Tear!
01:27The claws stretched, a million kilometers, and cut through, void space along a strange path.
01:34When the two blades met, the void itself seemed to split, one half black and the other white.
01:39Then the claws came down on Morosa.
01:41Scram!
01:42Morosa said.
01:43Two palms rose into view and swelled as they grew.
01:46The golden claws slammed into them, seized the sector beast's body, and pulled.
01:52That was the heart of Nine-headed demon master's attack, to tear his enemy apart.
01:57But Morosa's body was like rubber.
01:59It stretched outward to ten million kilometers and still did not tear.
02:03So you are Nine-headed demon master?
02:06The elongated beast snarled.
02:08You are stronger than the other fools, but it's pointless.
02:11You cannot kill me.
02:13From a distance, the enormous black cocoon came into view.
02:16Firefly True Master was still thrashing inside, calling out through a domain-type supreme true
02:22treasure.
02:22Save me!
02:24Everyone, attack that cocoon!
02:26Nine-headed demon master ordered.
02:28The seven other true gods obeyed at once and pounded the cocoon.
02:32With every technique they had, it held.
02:35Each blow only dented it or stretched it.
02:37The black light streaming from the cocoon connected back to Morosa, who stood far away
02:43and sustained it with his own power.
02:45Every time the true gods wore it down, it was fed again.
02:49This black fog-silk cocoon devours our godly power and is incredibly tough, one true god said.
02:55The sector beast must be supplying it, and that power keeps countering us.
03:00We can't break it from outside.
03:02Then maybe we should try from inside, another replied.
03:05Firefly True Master's voice came from within, still roaring.
03:10The cocoon ballooned to more than ten times its size, yet he could not escape.
03:15Then he sent a frantic message.
03:17It's swallowing my godly power, and its energy isn't shrinking.
03:21It's growing!
03:22I'm burning my own power to resist, and it has to spend its strength holding me down, too.
03:28When you hit it from outside, I felt it weaken.
03:30Keep attacking!
03:31It has limited tolerance.
03:33Just wear it down until it can't replenish its supply and it will collapse.
03:37The plan that saved him came from inside the cocoon, not outside it.
03:42Firefly could feel the thing draining him and feel it weaken under outside pressure.
03:46So his read on the cocoon gave the others the clearest guide they had.
03:51His reasoning made sense to everyone, including Nine-Headed Demon Master.
03:56Godly power was precious to every true god.
03:58With an automaton-type treasure, a single true god's power could unleash hundreds or thousands
04:04of blows.
04:05Spending that power just to exhaust an opponent meant wasting it.
04:09And for true gods with smaller bodies, that was a real reason to hesitate.
04:14Then we drain it, Nine-Headed Demon Master ordered.
04:17Blood Orchid Ancestor answered first.
04:18She sent out a flood of flowers and vines that wrapped the cocoon, pouring her godly
04:24power into the attack.
04:25Where the powers met the black fog, they hissed like red-hot tongs plunged into water, and
04:31each side fought to consume the other.
04:34Inside, Firefly True Master pleaded,
04:36Everyone together!
04:37Put everything into it!
04:38If we can wear it out, the cocoon will break.
04:41I only need a moment.
04:42The other true gods exchanged glances.
04:44Then, teeth clenched, they released their godly power at once and charged.
04:49The eight great true masters attacked from inside and outside together.
04:54The distorted light rays Morosa had scattered across.
04:57The void now converged on the cocoon, until not a single ray remained in open space.
05:02They all surrounded it, ready for a full assault.
05:05Moments later, the cocoon split apart with a violent crack, and Firefly True Master burst out,
05:10battered and pitiful.
05:12Ha ha ha!
05:13He laughed, startled with relief.
05:15The relief did not last.
05:17Seventy percent of his godly power was already gone, drained far faster than he had expected.
05:23In the distance, nine-headed Demon Master and Morosa were locked in close combat.
05:27The golden claws pressed the sector beast down, but Morosa answered with silent soul attacks
05:33and slipped away from many blows.
05:35Morosa turned toward Firefly True Master and smiled cruelly.
05:39I meant to devour you.
05:40Who knew you would escape?
05:42Then you can die now.
05:43Its body shuddered.
05:45The light rays that had flown apart when the cocoon shattered flared up and turned into
05:50dazzling black beams.
05:52They stopped being distorted and gathered into a single shining black column, which shot toward
05:57Firefly True Master faster than he could react.
06:01To the eye, his body began to vanish piece by piece.
06:03It was mutual annihilation, one power destroying the other, an eye for an eye.
06:09Morosa could afford the exchange.
06:11It had already swallowed much of Firefly True Master's godly power, and absorbing more than
06:17half the origin of a miniature universe was no small thing.
06:20Digesting it was slow, though, so the sector beast had to store the excess.
06:24It was clearly not afraid of spending its own power.
06:27No!
06:28Firefly True Master cried, trying to reach his battleship.
06:32Blood Orchid Ancestor, horrified, lashed her vines out to block the column and strengthen
06:37the resistance.
06:38Nine-headed Demon Master was stunned.
06:40Stop!
06:41The annihilation was too fast.
06:43The column struck Firefly True Master and erased more of him.
06:47Before the others could intervene, Morosa lifted its head and loosed another silent attack.
06:52This time, every true god was hit.
06:54Nine-headed Demon Master suffered the least.
06:57Since he was farthest from Firefly True Master.
07:01No, no, no.
07:02Firefly True Master kept struggling toward the ship.
07:05If he could reach it, he would be safe.
07:07But the black column began to flow and twist, forming a new fog cocoon that wrapped around
07:13him again and cut off his escape.
07:15Break it open!
07:16Blood Orchid Ancestor shouted as her crimson flowers finally surged in.
07:21The cocoon vanished, and Firefly True Master vanished with it.
07:24Only his treasures remained, weapons and armor drifting in void space.
07:29Far away, Nine-headed Demon Master and Blood Orchid Ancestor stared in shock.
07:34Firefly True Master was gone.
07:36The miniature universe began to shake.
07:38Cracks spread through its space as it started to collapse.
07:41Every living being within it, from the Firefly Clan's universe masters down to the ordinary
07:47souls, died in an instant.
07:49In void space, Morosa felt neither joy nor anger.
07:53Gone?
07:54The origin of his miniature universe fell apart and returned to universe.
07:59Ocean the moment he died?
08:00My delicious meal.
08:01If I had known, I would never have killed him.
08:04Its regret was genuine.
08:05Devouring the origin of a miniature universe would have yielded far more energy than devouring
08:11ten true gods.
08:13But once Firefly True Master died, the origin collapsed and slipped back into universe ocean
08:18beyond its reach.
08:19The sharpest irony is that Morosa's hunger undid its own plan.
08:23Nine-headed Demon Master and the others, consumed with rage, closed in on Morosa and rained attacks
08:30down on it.
08:30If I kill another true god, I destroy another miniature universe.
08:35And I lose another meal?
08:36Morosa thought, reluctant.
08:38I would rather feed on a universe's origin first and kill the true god later.
08:43Now is not the time.
08:44It turned to flee.
08:45You want to run?
08:46Nine-headed Demon Master and the others kept attacking and blocked every route.
08:51That infuriated Morosa.
08:53The surrounding void had been frozen, so teleportation was impossible.
08:57Could it escape by flying alone?
08:59Its pursuers could follow wherever it went.
09:01There was no escape.
09:02Star Tower drifted through the turbulent airflow of void space.
09:07Luo Feng in his white robe held a transmission token.
09:10Nine-headed Demon Master's voice came through.
09:13Milky Way, Firefly True Master is dead.
09:15But we're taking no chances.
09:17The Sector Beast is trying to escape.
09:19But the time and space around it are frozen.
09:21So it can't.
09:23We could suppress it.
09:24But killing it would cost us dearly.
09:26We might see another one or two true gods annihilated.
09:29So we did not force it into a corner.
09:31We simply kept it from escaping and stalled until you and Nine-Remoteness arrived.
09:36Good, Luo Feng replied.
09:38How did Firefly True Master die?
09:40Even with all of you here, it killed a true god?
09:43Silence came from Nine-Headed Demon Master's end.
09:46After a moment, a message arrived.
09:49Milky Way, the Sector Beast has escaped.
09:51Three days after the Sector Beast vanished, Luo Feng, Devil Master, and Blood Orchid Ancestor met in the chaos space
09:59of Universe Ocean.
10:00The other, true gods, had already returned to their miniature universes.
10:05Nine-Remoteness True Master stood beside Luo Feng, while Fire Dome True God and Hong waited a step behind.
10:12Devil Master, you told us the space was sealed and that all eight of you.
10:16Had the beast surrounded?
10:18Nine-Remoteness said, his voice tight.
10:20Inside a sealed space, not even teleportation works.
10:23So how did it slip free so smoothly?
10:26Luo Feng studied Devil Master 2, over the communication token.
10:30Devil Master had said the matter, was too tangled to explain that way, and had asked to meet face to
10:36face.
10:36Let's not rush.
10:38All nine of Devil Master's faces were grave.
10:41I've been replaying that battle since it ended, and I went through it with Blood Orchid.
10:46Something about it doesn't sit right.
10:48I'll walk you through it in order.
10:50Blood Orchid nodded beside him.
10:52Sector Beasts are not usually strong, Devil Master said.
10:56This one sat just above Blood Orchid and just below me.
10:59Its danger lies in its abilities.
11:01First, it can swallow the origin of a miniature universe,
11:04which by our reckoning takes around eight days.
11:07It cannot do that while it fights, though.
11:10Second, the curving lines it gives off can swallow true gods as well as Origins.
11:14His godly power rebuilt the battle in the air.
11:17The black mist cocoon closed over Firefly True Master,
11:21and no matter how he fought, he could not get out.
11:24Inside, his godly power kept being devoured, Devil Master said.
11:28The harder he burned to resist, the more the cocoon neutralized it.
11:32The rest of us could not break it.
11:35In the end, Blood Orchid managed it.
11:37We stopped trying to cut through it with weapons, Blood Orchid said.
11:41We swept our godly power across the cocoon and wore it down until it gave way.
11:47Think about what that means for one true god.
11:49Trapped alone, he would never reach his palace treasure.
11:53The cocoon grows and shrinks as it pleases and keeps catching whoever is nearby.
11:57Against this beast, a lone true god has no chance.
12:00Lo Fong, Nine Remoteness, Hong, and Fire Dome all looked grim.
12:05A true god caught alone here would not survive.
12:08Our weapons can still harm the cocoon, Devil Master said.
12:12But not strongly enough.
12:14If the beast had wanted to trap someone, I was the biggest threat.
12:18Instead, it chose Firefly, the weaker one.
12:20The others murmured their agreement.
12:22Still, the cocoon demands respect.
12:24Devil Master turned toward the empty air, and the scene shifted.
12:28Black light gathered into pillars that streamed toward Firefly True Master and began eating
12:34him away bit by bit.
12:36When the cocoon broke, its strands became these pillars, and they started eroding him.
12:41He was struggling toward his ship while the rest of us tried to slow the beast, but its
12:46soul attacks kept us pinned.
12:47He was nearly there when one pillar folded back into a cocoon and swallowed him.
12:52He died soon after.
12:53Even if he had carried the ship with him, the light would have become a cocoon again.
12:58Luo Fong and the others went quiet.
13:01Cocoon, pillar, cocoon again.
13:03The cycle could repeat without end, and there was no running from it.
13:07That is their most dangerous technique, Devil Master said gravely.
13:11Binding and erosion that never stops.
13:13Third, the soul attacks.
13:15Anyone with true god willpower would be in such agony that they could not fight.
13:19Only a true god of void space would stay conscious, and even he would be weakened.
13:24Only those at the limit of void space could shrug it off.
13:27Now for their escape.
13:29He gestured at the air beside him.
13:31See for yourselves.
13:32The projection showed the giant sector beast Morosa letting out a howl.
13:36A sigil with a black rim and a golden face spread across its body.
13:41Ninety-nine engravings in all.
13:42Then its body broke into ninety-nine streaks of light that scattered in every direction.
13:46Their speed climbed to a thousand times the speed of light, then ten thousand.
13:52Devil Master sighed.
13:53None of us dared to scatter completely.
13:55We feared it would pick us off one at a time, so we split into two groups.
13:59I went alone, and Blood Orchid led the other seven.
14:02We chased two of the lights, but both vanished after a short while.
14:07The beast was simply gone.
14:08Devil Master and Blood Orchid shook their heads in defeat.
14:12Luo Fong looked lost.
14:13One body had split into ninety-nine parts, and two of them had simply disappeared.
14:18Luo Fong frowned.
14:19The body came apart.
14:21Once it escapes, any fragment can become the main body.
14:24The other ninety-eight can dissolve and merge back into it, and the beast is whole again.
14:29We reached the same conclusion, Devil Master said.
14:32If it can do that, how do we kill it?
14:34Nine remoteness shook his head.
14:36Almost impossible.
14:38Everyone felt uneasy.
14:40Hong spoke at last.
14:41Doesn't that make it stranger?
14:42It has escape skills like that, so why did it fly off right after killing Firefly?
14:47Devil Master could only hold it back.
14:49It could have killed whoever it wanted.
14:51Why stop fighting?
14:52We asked ourselves the same thing, Devil Master said.
14:55It seemed completely in control.
14:57It could have used the black mist cocoon on another true god.
15:01Yet it left the moment Firefly died.
15:03The beast could have taken another life at any moment, which makes its departure the strangest
15:08part of the fight.
15:09That restraint reads as a warning, Blood Orchid added.
15:12Devil Master and I talked it over.
15:14And we believe what it showed us is not everything it can do.
15:18Luo Feng Hong Fire Dome and Nine remoteness looked dazed.
15:21It isn't strong in direct combat, Devil Master said.
15:25But it has a whole collection of other tricks.
15:28The cocoon.
15:29The black light.
15:30The soul attacks and the escape.
15:33That's only what we saw.
15:34We pushed it hard so it may still hold techniques it hasn't used.
15:38Luo Feng nodded slowly.
15:40Powerful beings often keep their trump cards hidden until they truly need them.
15:44Sector Beasts are terrifying creatures born in Universe Ocean to embody destruction.
15:48From the way it fought, Luo Feng judged that the beast had treated the battle as a trial
15:53rather than a real fight, which meant it may never have been desperate.
15:57No wonder the original mind placed such weight on this, Luo Feng said.
16:00One Sector Beast is already this hard to handle, and this is only one of them.
16:04Their nest holds many more.
16:06Everyone's hearts grew heavy.
16:07The trouble is, Devil Master said, we don't know what else it can do.
16:11In the chaos air of Universe Ocean, the Golden Sector Beast Morosa lay at rest, breathing
16:17it in, more at ease than ever.
16:19Black light rippled across its body, and even now it was slowly turning the stolen energy
16:23into its own, taking its time.
16:26What a feast, it said.
16:27I haven't even finished the origin of a small universe, yet I feel I've gained more than
16:31I would from ten true gods.
16:33Each miniature universe I swallow makes me stronger.
16:36Keep at it, and I will surpass by Z, then I will devour the other Sector, Beasts, and
16:41become the one true king of them all.
16:43Each origin it swallows adds to its power.
16:46So the eight days of feeding are more than a detail.
16:48They are the beast's path to power.
16:51Across Universe Ocean, panic spread.
16:53A Sector Beast had appeared, killed Firefly True Master despite nine true gods surrounding
16:58it, and vanished after swallowing an origin in only eight days.
17:01Luo Feng and the seven other great overlords usually needed a long time just to reach a
17:07miniature universe, so no one could say who would be next.
17:10We'll split into eight teams, one overlord said.
17:13That way, when it appears, at least one of us will arrive in time.
17:16Milky Way has two bodies, so he'll cover two areas.
17:20Many true gods from the original universe will come out too.
17:23We must stay ready at all times.
17:25When it shows itself, we'll get there and kill it all at once.
17:27Panic had swept through, all of Universe Ocean.
17:31Luo Feng had pulled all, three of his bodies out of the original universe, and split them
17:36into two teams.
17:37Remote Ocean and Moshe traveled together, carrying Star Tower, Shi Wu Wing, and other precious
17:43valuables, and they were sturdy enough to bear the strain.
17:47Golden Horned Beast went alone, carrying only Machine-type valuables and Soul-type Supreme
17:53true treasures, which mattered little to Luo Feng.
17:57Between them, the two teams covered two areas of universe.
18:00Ocean.
18:01If the Sector Beast surfaced, near the original universe.
18:04Golden Horned Beast would disintegrate on the spot, and Remote Ocean would reform into
18:09a single body.
18:10In the Milky Way dimension, within the virtual universe, stars twinkled above floating palaces.
18:16Human great beings stood in the square before the main palace, bowing to Luo Feng.
18:21Teacher, they said together.
18:24Luo Feng looked over them.
18:25Sit.
18:25His disciples came from many periods and many clans of the human race.
18:30Over the trillions of eras, the race had produced many geniuses.
18:33The primal chaos.
18:35City leader had more than twenty disciples.
18:38Luo Feng had sixteen, and Luo Zhen-ni and Fire Dome were the first and second.
18:43Thirteen of the sixteen were universe masters.
18:46Two were universe knights, and one was a true god.
18:49Ask me anything, Luo Feng said.
18:51He seldom lectured.
18:53Most of the time, he let his disciples work things out on their own, and he stepped in
18:58only when they were stuck and could not improve.
19:01Teaching, in other words, meant answering the questions they could not answer themselves.
19:06A winged disciple with a sharp nose raised his hand.
19:09It was Chen He, the ninth disciple.
19:11Teacher, I used gold and fire as my foundation, with space and time as support.
19:15I tried to create a level six technique, but no matter how hard I tried, I could not finish
19:21it.
19:21Luo Feng nodded.
19:22Show me what you can do and tell me where you get stuck.
19:26Chen He turned toward the empty distance and raised a hand.
19:29A giant shield formed in his grip.
19:31He threw it, and mid-flight it reshaped into a huge blade that tore through space.
19:36Strange beasts wrapped in golden flame roared wherever the blade passed.
19:41Time and space froze around it, and everything it touched burned to ash.
19:46Several distant stars were destroyed.
19:49Top tier level five, Luo Feng said.
19:51I cannot push it past that, Chen He said.
19:54I know what you are reaching for, Luo Feng said.
19:58Going from top tier level five to level six is a fundamental change, and it is very hard.
20:05Gold law and fire law can support and amplify each other, and their power is greater than
20:09you think.
20:10I will show you one technique.
20:12Study it yourself, he pointed.
20:14A giant golden dragon appeared in the distance, shining like metal.
20:18As it streaked past, it changed from tail to head into burning red fire, until the golden
20:24dragon had become a red one.
20:26Chen He stood still, lost in thought.
20:28Next, Luo Feng said, turning to the others.
20:31Luo Feng had not gained ground on the godly power path in the past trillion eras, but he had
20:37not wasted that time.
20:39He knew that a true god who wanted to reach void space had to build on the ten.
20:43Basic laws.
20:45Gold, wood, water, fire, mud, space, time, wind, thunder, and light.
20:51Long before he had created light of water and fire.
20:54Since then, inside the training space of the inheritance, under accelerated time, he had
21:00studied the legacy.
21:01Left by supreme beings of the world of Jin in ancient times and worked out how the ten
21:07laws connect.
21:08Now he had created 83 top-tier level 7 techniques, light of water and fire among them, and two
21:14level 8 techniques.
21:16Top-tier level 8 remained beyond him, however hard he tried.
21:20This is where the numbers matter.
21:21The two supreme beings of Duandong River, including the three ancestral teachers, had created
21:27only one level 8 technique between them.
21:29Luofeng had made two.
21:31Even with his limit in sight, he had outdone them.
21:34The thresholds between levels were steep.
21:36Going from top-tier level 5 to 6 was a large gap, and 6 to 7 was another.
21:418 was far beyond.
21:43In the ancient civilization, anyone who could create level 8 techniques was at least consecrated,
21:48and that held only for as long as they lived.
21:51The disciples were thrilled to learn from a teacher who had reached so far.
21:55Few true gods could understand the basic laws this deeply or combine them so freely.
22:01Huh?
22:01Some of the more alert disciples had noticed something.
22:04The Sector Beast has appeared?
22:06The Sector Beast again?
22:08The disciples began to talk among themselves.
22:10Most of them were universe masters.
22:13And though they could not fight Sector Beasts, they knew the reports.
22:17News spread quickly through the race, and Luofeng heard it almost as soon as they did.
22:22He frowned.
22:24The lesson is over.
22:25Go back and study carefully.
22:27They understood that he wanted them gone.
22:29Those who had been lost in their practice had to be woken by their brothers.
22:33Then all of them bowed, thanked him, and left.
22:36Luofeng ended the lesson at once.
22:38His disciples knew the reports.
22:40But most of them could not fight a beast like this.
22:43So the only thing he could give them now was time to train.
22:46It's coming, Luofeng said, alone on the square, looking at the distant stars.
22:51It vanished thirty years ago, and no one could find it.
22:54Now it has come back.
22:56You are fortunate, though.
22:57It surfaced in the area guarded by Juhi True God, which is far from mine.
23:02Star Tower floated through the chaos space of Universe Ocean.
23:06Hong and Fire.
23:07Dome waited inside with Luofeng.
23:10None of them spoke for a while.
23:12The Sector Beast has appeared, someone said.
23:15We go now, Luofeng said.
23:17Hong was eager.
23:18It vanished for so long.
23:20Where did it go all that time?
23:22Fire Dome's face was troubled.
23:24What worries me most is that there might be more than one.
23:28We need to move, Luofeng said.
23:30Juhi True God will reach it first.
23:33Skeleton Master will follow and we will come after.
23:35It will take us three days.
23:37A fire seemed to burn in his chest.
23:39He wanted that Sector Beast dead.
23:42Everyone in Universe Ocean feared the Sector Beasts.
23:45In the void, Morosa hung in space, its huge body and ferocious tail filling the view.
23:52Black mist seeped from it, and twisted lines of light stretched out to a miniature universe
23:57in the distance, where they sank into it.
23:59Light flowed steadily into Morosa's body.
24:02So satisfying, Morosa said, delighted.
24:05Finally I can feed.
24:06Last time I swallowed only half of Firefly True Master's miniature universe,
24:11and it took a while to absorb and refine that power.
24:15Still my strength rose quickly.
24:17That wretched Bay D must be eating other Sector Beasts.
24:20I am growing faster than he is.
24:22It kept feeding at its leisure.
24:24Time passed.
24:25A Universe Master had come by and looked around, but no true god had come.
24:30This is the miniature universe of rampaging devil god,
24:33Morosa said, studying its outline.
24:35He is a fairly strong true god in Universe Ocean.
24:39Stronger than Firefly True Master, and a match for Blood Orchid Ancestor.
24:44He is still food to me.
24:46Then it considered the rest of the problem.
24:48Morosa had learned the layout of Universe.
24:51Ocean from Genjia Emperor and Dragon.
24:53Rock Ancestral God, and so it knew how long any help would take.
24:57Those far away would need ten days to arrive.
25:00Those closer would need about two.
25:02After that, a squad of true gods would come after it.
25:05Rampaging devil god, you are lucky today, Morosa said.
25:09I won't kill you until I've finished the origin of your miniature universe.
25:13I've been feeding for a day already.
25:15It's time for me to go.
25:17It smirked, then vanished in a burst of teleportation.
25:20Its restraint was calculation, not mercy.
25:23It let the true god live only because the origin was still unfinished,
25:27and a half-finished meal was worth more to it than a quick kill.
25:30Rampaging devil god waited outside the membrane of his miniature universe,
25:36looking uneasy.
25:37However proud and arrogant he was,
25:40he panicked when he faced the Sector Beasts
25:42that the whole of Universe Ocean feared.
25:45Sector Beasts.
25:46Damn Sector Beasts, he muttered.
25:48And I'm the second one?
25:49I'm so unlucky.
25:50Blood Orchid once said I'd be the second Firefly true master,
25:54even after we spent all that time.
25:56Together among the black-striped stone pillars,
25:59he clenched his fists.
26:01Come on, Joey, Milky Way!
26:03Where are you?
26:04If I have to, I'll fight it myself.
26:06The six Universe Masters behind him were all special life forms.
26:10Devil God last time Universe Ocean had no warning.
26:13This time we are prepared, and Juha, true god, is close.
26:17He will be here soon.
26:19We can kill that Sector Beast this time.
26:21Devil God, please don't take the risk.
26:23They were afraid.
26:24They knew their leader was reckless,
26:26and they feared he would challenge the beast and die,
26:29taking all of them with him.
26:31Rampaging Devil God stared at the empty space.
26:34Wait, why did it leave?
26:36Amidst the chaotic void of Universe Ocean,
26:39a battleship was advancing through one stretch of space,
26:42and a nine-story tower was moving through another.
26:45Both were headed for the same target,
26:47the miniature universe of Rampaging Devil God.
26:51Inside the battleship rode,
26:53Juha, true god, one of the eight great overlords.
26:56Great beings from across Universe Ocean
26:59were racing toward the same place.
27:01Rampaging Devil God broadcast to them all at once,
27:04calling out Juha, true god,
27:06the Milky Way horde leader,
27:08divine eye, true god,
27:10and nine-headed demon master by name.
27:12The devouring of my origin has stopped.
27:15I boarded my palace supreme, true treasure,
27:18and went out to look.
27:18Look, the sector beast is nowhere to be found.
27:21It has vanished.
27:22The news rippled outward.
27:24Great beings already on their way were stunned,
27:27and so were those still preparing to leave.
27:30Vanished?
27:31It only started devouring a day ago.
27:34One of them said,
27:35How can it be gone already?
27:37Juha, true god, was shaken.
27:39Swallowing a whole origin took eight to ten days.
27:42So how had the beast taken so much in a single day?
27:45Her rampaging.
27:46Nine-headed demon master sent urgent,
27:48one day of feeding, and then it's gone.
27:51Did some true god fight it off?
27:55Snow, rampaging devil god answered.
27:57No great being has touched it.
28:00Divine eye, true god sounded unsettled,
28:02so it was never attacked.
28:04It fed for one day and then simply left,
28:07for no reason we can see?
28:08Er, yes, rampaging devil god said.
28:11Just like that.
28:13Inside the nine-story tower,
28:15Luo Feng's faint smile vanished the moment he heard.
28:18This is serious, he said slowly.
28:21Hong and Fire Dome were just as grave.
28:24Everyone could see that this beast's plan now held real danger.
28:28Hong spoke quietly.
28:30It fed for only a day and no one was attacking it,
28:33yet it chose to leave.
28:35If something in the sector beast's nest called it back in a hurry,
28:39that would explain the rush,
28:40and we would have less to fear.
28:42But if nothing forced it,
28:44then it has grown more careful and more cunning.
28:47Luo Feng replied,
28:49Her true,
28:50if it needs only a single day,
28:52how can we gather in time to surround it?
28:54We cannot trap it at all,
28:56and that makes killing it far harder.
28:58Fire Dome answered at once.
29:00Then next time it feeds another day.
29:03End the time after that.
29:04Repeat that seven or eight times on one miniature universe,
29:07and that universe will probably die that way.
29:10Hong's face darkened.
29:12That is more frightening than watching a universe get eaten bit by bit.
29:16Luo Feng frowned,
29:17or we wait and watch.
29:18Its next move will tell us a great deal.
29:21If this was a one-off for a special reason,
29:23it won't repeat.
29:24If not,
29:25it may plan to make this a habit.
29:28Fire Dome and Hong nodded.
29:30Star Tower came to a halt and hung motionless in the turbulent void.
29:35Across universe ocean,
29:36every true god understood what it meant when a sector beast behaved this way.
29:41Each of them hoped it was a special case.
29:44Days passed,
29:45then months.
29:46The beast did not return.
29:47It hasn't come back.
29:49When it fed on Firefly True Master's universe,
29:52it took more than half.
29:54It clearly can eat far more than a day's worth.
29:57Maybe this time it had business somewhere else.
29:59The true gods prayed their guess was right.
30:02Nine-headed demon master,
30:03Luofeng skeleton master and the others agreed on one thing against a beast with so many methods they needed more
30:11true gods standing together.
30:12Half a year after the beast had fed on rampaging devil god's origin,
30:16It stirred again in the chaotic void.
30:19Its tail swayed lazily.
30:21Ah, that's better.
30:22I took part of rampaging devil god's origin and have already turned it into my own strength.
30:30My power grows again.
30:32My power grows again.
30:46Ha!
30:46I am too clever.
30:48And my power will climb faster than Betty's or anyone else's.
30:51It grinned.
30:53When I return, I will be the final king.
30:55By then I will have swept every miniature universe away,
30:58and then I will move on to the primal universe.
31:01It considered for a moment.
31:03I'll leave the strongest ones for later.
31:05The next meal will be I, Devil God.
31:07It teleported in a single move and reappeared in the region holding
31:11I, Devil God's miniature universe.
31:14A little more than a day's journey away.
31:16Sector beasts teleported far faster than the true gods of universe ocean.
31:21The origin of a miniature universe, it said.
31:24Studying the silhouette in the distance.
31:27The finest food for raising my power.
31:29Let's begin.
31:30Its tongue unrolled as long as a frog's,
31:32and it licked its lips.
31:34Black fog spread around it.
31:36Waves of distorted light reached.
31:38Out across light years, a void and sank into the space.
31:42Around the universe.
31:43Then it began to devour.
31:45I, Devil God sat in a palace built into the tallest.
31:48Oldest divine tree in his miniature universe.
31:50He had used that tree as the core of his universe's framework.
31:54His eyes snapped open and his colorful face went pale.
31:57No!
31:58The sector beast is here!
31:59The beast had fed for a single day and then vanished.
32:03Now it was back after half a year,
32:04and universe ocean was on edge.
32:06Divine Eye True God sent the first message.
32:09Eye Devil God, watch it closely.
32:11We'll see how long it means to feed this time.
32:14Luo Feng sent his.
32:15Board your palace supreme true treasure and get over there.
32:18Keep it in sight.
32:20Others followed with their own messages.
32:22Eye Devil God answered in a panic.
32:24Everyone, when will you arrive?
32:25I cannot match that sector beast.
32:28He had been badly wounded when he and Hong went to the sector beast's nest to scout,
32:32and he had not fully healed.
32:34Facing this beast was out of the question.
32:37Watching it from inside his palace treasure was something he could manage.
32:41As long as he did not step outside, he was safe.
32:44Luo Feng replied,
32:45Hold on.
32:45We're on our way.
32:47Milky Way will be there for certain.
32:49Divine Eye True God said.
32:51Skeleton Master is closer and is coming too.
32:54With others backing him, Eye Devil God boarded a gray battleship,
32:58left his universe, and flew toward the beast.
33:01Soon he spotted it.
33:02It was large and sturdy with a golden humanoid body.
33:06Eye Devil God knew that even universe masters could change their forms easily,
33:11so the humanoid shape meant little.
33:13This was a terrifying life form that could reshape itself at will.
33:17Sector Beast, get out of my territory!
33:19Eye Devil God shouted from inside his battleship,
33:22activating his domain-type Supreme True Treasure.
33:25The domain pressed against the beast, and he roared his commands through it.
33:29To the beast, the domain felt like an itch.
33:32It did not care.
33:33Hmph!
33:34The beast glanced at him with contempt.
33:37Foolish!
33:38Timid Eye Devil God!
33:40You hide in that ship and still expect me to leave?
33:42If you had come out, I would have killed you with no effort.
33:45You!
33:46Eye Devil God's fury burned.
33:48But the beast was right, and he knew it.
33:51Vile beast, get lost!
33:52He burned his godly power to fuel his domain,
33:56condensed it into a huge ribbon, steered it from afar,
33:59and hurled several strikes at the distant beast.
34:02A condensed domain was weaker than an attack-type Supreme True Treasure,
34:06and it lacked an automaton-type treasure's force.
34:09Eye Devil God was skilled in illusions and soul attacks,
34:12and he knew the beast excelled at soul attacks, too,
34:15so he had chosen a domain strike.
34:17His caution was sound, but it left him with nothing that could really hurt the beast.
34:22To the beast, the blows were a breeze on its cheek.
34:25How weak!
34:26The beast said, unconcerned.
34:28His strikes did not even slow its feeding.
34:31A day later, it spoke again.
34:33You can hide in your ship as long as you like.
34:35I will eat your miniature universe to the last drop.
34:38It laughed openly, then teleported away.
34:42Eye Devil God's face turned ashen.
34:44It's... it's gone!
34:45Only one day again!
34:47Luo Feng's expression was grim.
34:49Hong shook his head.
34:51Disaster.
34:52Disaster has arrived!
34:53Every great being in Universe Ocean heard the news.
34:56They were furious and helpless.
34:58The beast had fed on Eye Devil.
35:00God's origin for a single day and then disappeared.
35:03Half a year later, it returned.
35:05And spent one day feeding on Luo,
35:08Jin True Masters, miniature universe before vanishing.
35:11Half a year after that,
35:12it came back to feed on another true God's universe for a single day.
35:17The pattern held,
35:18a day of feeding, then half a year away.
35:21The half-year gap was the cruelest part of that pattern.
35:24It was long enough for hope to return
35:26and short enough to crush it again.
35:28Every six months,
35:29Universe Ocean began to believe the beast had gone for good.
35:33And every six months,
35:34it reappeared beside someone's universe.
35:36Why half a year every time?
35:38Three explanations seem possible.
35:40Its devouring technique might need a rest between uses.
35:44It might need time to digest what it took.
35:46Or the half-year gap might simply be its habit.
35:49Eleven years later,
35:51Luo Feng was angry enough to send his thoughts to everyone.
35:54Every time the beast returns,
35:56it appears beside a weaker true God's miniature universe.
36:00I have said this before.
36:01Earlier,
36:02I suspected that Great Thunderstar Master,
36:04Genjia Emperor,
36:06and Dragon Rock Ancestral God
36:08were on the Sector Beasts' side.
36:10Great Thunderstar Master has since died.
36:13But Genjia Emperor and Dragon Rock Ancestral God
36:16are still alive.
36:18And they know a great deal about Universe Ocean.
36:21None of you need to worry much.
36:22Because you mostly stay in your own miniature universes.
36:27But I alone hold two regions,
36:29each near a miniature universe.
36:31Why does the beast never visit this region of mine?
36:34Could Genjia Emperor and Dragon Rock Ancestral God
36:36already know where I am?
36:38Nothing in the beast's behavior proves a leak.
36:40Yet every visit landed beside a weaker true God's universe.
36:44And never beside the regions Luo Feng holds.
36:47That pattern looks like evidence only in hindsight.
36:50Which makes it harder to dismiss
36:52and easier to fear.
36:54Luo Feng was furious.
36:56Both of the areas he guarded
36:57lay close to two miniature universes.
36:59And both belong to weak true Gods.
37:02In theory,
37:03the Sector Beasts should have appeared beside one of them.
37:05And Luo Feng would have arrived in time to kill it.
37:08Yet 11 years had passed.
37:09And he had never once met it.
37:11We never told Genjia Emperor
37:13or Dragon Rock Ancestral God where you were.
37:15Divine Eye True Master said,
37:17You say they serve the Sector Beasts.
37:19How could we have leaked anything to them?
37:21Skeleton Master sent his reply.
37:23We revealed nothing.
37:25Only a few true Gods knew your whereabouts.
37:27And not even the Universe Masters knew your tracks.
37:30As for the miniature universes
37:31of Dragon Rock Ancestral God
37:33and Genjia Emperor,
37:34they were destroyed long ago.
37:35We have also ordered every great being under us
37:38to cut all contact with them.
37:40The eight great overlords,
37:42Luo Feng,
37:43Skeleton Master,
37:44Divine Eye True Master,
37:46Nine Headed Devil Master,
37:47Bacchi Star Master,
37:48and Primal Chaos City Leader among them,
37:51were talking it over.
37:5211 years,
37:53Luo Feng said.
37:54His anger plain.
37:55I have never met that beast.
37:57Yet it has visited the universes
37:59of those weak true Gods.
38:01Why not the two closest to me?
38:02Two or three visits might be coincidence.
38:05But the beast had struck 20 times in 11 years.
38:07Great beings from the original.
38:09Universe Era could reach their miniature universes at once
38:13through a universe portal.
38:14So any help arrived quickly.
38:16That was why the Sector Beast had never gone after their universes.
38:19It had gone after those from the first and second universe eras instead.
38:22Those true Gods were few to begin with.
38:25And after the screening in the world of Jin,
38:27even fewer were left.
38:28And the weakest among them,
38:29fewer still.
38:3020 times and never once a universe I guard.
38:33Luo Feng said.
38:34This cannot be chance.
38:3620 visits.
38:37And not one of them to his regions.
38:39That was not bad luck.
38:41Each visit had been aimed.
38:42And the pattern pointed at someone who knew where he was.
38:45It must have known our arrangements in advance.
38:47Another overlord said.
38:49How could it know them?
38:50Someone asked.
38:51Our enemies would never get them from our own people.
38:53A third said.
38:54Then there is only one possibility.
38:56Luo Feng said coldly.
38:58Some other true God in Universe Ocean
39:00has gone to the Sector Beast for protection.
39:03Not just Great Thunder Star Master,
39:05Gen-Jia Emperor,
39:06and Dragon Rock Ancestral God.
39:08That traitor told the Beast where I would be.
39:11The other seven fell silent.
39:13They had already considered the idea.
39:14And none of them wanted to believe it.
39:16Nine remoteness true Masters sent his message at last.
39:19Gen-Jia Emperor and the others betrayed us
39:21and fled to the Sector Beasts.
39:23Others may do the same.
39:25Some may have turned long ago.
39:26And some more recently.
39:28More recently?
39:29In the last decade or so?
39:31The Beasts keep devouring.
39:33And that makes true Gods desperate.
39:35Nine remoteness said.
39:36Some believe we cannot fight them at all.
39:38Even if we can,
39:40many weak true Gods will die before we do.
39:42So some may have quietly sought shelter.
39:44They may have claimed
39:46the Beast was devouring their origins
39:48when really it was only a pretext.
39:50A way to hide who the Spy is.
39:52If Nine remoteness was right,
39:54then some of the Universes already attacked
39:56may never have been attacked at all.
39:58The Spy could be hiding inside the list of victims.
40:01That's right.
40:02It makes sense.
40:04Agreed,
40:05Luo Feng said.
40:06The Sector Beasts' many techniques
40:07were a true headache for every
40:09great being in Universe Ocean.
40:11Still,
40:12there was only one of them.
40:13Faced with that much despair,
40:15some true Gods might follow.
40:17Jenjia Emperor and Dragon Rock Ancestral God
40:20and turned to the Beasts.
40:21Then this is what we do,
40:23Luo Feng said.
40:24From now on,
40:25we will announce our arrangements to everyone,
40:27but they will be false.
40:28I will act alone.
40:30No one but me will know where I am going.
40:32This time,
40:33the Sector Beast will not get away.
40:35Do it, Milky Way.
40:36Not even the seven of us will know your route.
40:38Then no one can leak it.
40:40The meeting confirmed
40:41what the Overlords had feared.
40:42Apart from Jenjia Emperor
40:44and Dragon Rock Ancestral God,
40:46other true Gods in Universe Ocean
40:48had turned to the Sector Beasts.
40:50Luo Feng and the others
40:51began drawing up new plans.
40:53Luo Feng's remote ocean body
40:55and Moshe body traveled together.
40:57The Golden Horned Beast went alone.
40:59All three left their old positions
41:01and took up new ones,
41:02waiting for the Beast to come.
41:04In the chaos space of Universe Ocean,
41:06Sector Beast Morosa drifted through the air.
41:09I am so clever, it said.
41:11Every time I feed for only one day
41:13so they cannot arrive in time to surround me.
41:15Ha!
41:16I have swallowed almost three Origins by now.
41:19My power is far greater
41:20than when I left the nest.
41:22Now where should I go?
41:23It weighed its options.
41:25The miniature universes
41:26of the original Universe era were tempting.
41:28That era was the most powerful
41:30with the most true Gods,
41:32and their universes sat close
41:33to the original Universe.
41:35Any Beast that went after one
41:37would be, encircled by a crowd,
41:39of true Gods before it finished.
41:41The First and Second eras were no better,
41:43since the Beast had already visited
41:46every universe it could reach there,
41:48and it avoided the universes of groups,
41:50such as the Divine Eye Clan,
41:52and the universes of the most powerful,
41:55such as Juha, true God,
41:56and the ones Luo Feng guarded.
41:58I am far stronger than I was,
42:00Morosa thought.
42:01But I am still only as strong
42:02as Nine-Headed Devil Master.
42:04Last time I was weaker than him.
42:06In Milky Way Horde leader Luo,
42:08Feng is said to be the strongest great being
42:10in Universe Ocean, not now.
42:13I'll go to a Holy Land, it decided.
42:15Holy Lands are superior.
42:16Their resistance is stronger,
42:18so I will feed more slowly.
42:20But I will at least taste it first.
42:22I want to see how much better the
42:23origin of a Holy Land is than a miniature.
42:26Universes.
42:27Morosa rushed to the miniature.
42:29Universe of Purple Moon Holy Land
42:31and arrived, outside it,
42:32in less than two days.
42:34Purple Moon Holy Land, it said,
42:37peering at the blurred, enormous outline.
42:40Smaller than East Emperor Holy Land,
42:42but easier to deal with.
42:44Black mist seeped from its whole body.
42:46Traces of light stretched out
42:48toward Purple Moon Holy Land.
42:50Hundred million light-years in length,
42:52sinking through the void
42:53until gleaming light poured into its body.
42:55Oh, ah!
42:57Morosa shook and closed its eyes.
42:59This is exquisite.
43:00It's heaven, it whispered,
43:02its voice trembling.
43:03This is far tastier than the origins
43:06of miniature universes.
43:07And I can swallow this origin
43:09just as fast as the others.
43:11Then it felt the resistance.
43:12The origin of Purple Moon Holy Land
43:14pushed back hard.
43:16Morosa was feeding only at a hundredth
43:18of the speed it had managed
43:19with the other.
43:20Miniature universes.
43:22Ah!
43:22Inside Purple Moon Holy Land,
43:24a booming voice echoed in the ears
43:26of every universe master and true god there.
43:29The top-tier great beings
43:30all rushed toward it.
43:31In the palace, Purple Moon Ancestor
43:34stood with his usual composure gone.
43:36He looked ashen, anxious, and furious,
43:39emotions he had never shown before.
43:41Even when he had failed to kill Luo Feng,
43:43even when the elite universe
43:45masters of Purple Moon Holy Land
43:47had died in the world of Jin.
43:49He had not been this shaken.
43:51He was worried, and he,
43:52Purple Moon Ancestor, was worried sick.
43:55Fear of arrival is fear
43:56of something you can scheme against.
43:58This was different.
43:59He was afraid of something
44:01that was simply eating his universe,
44:03with no plan to counter
44:05and nothing to strike back at.
44:06What do we do?
44:08He muttered.
44:09It has come.
44:10I always knew the Sector Beast
44:12would come someday.
44:13It has been devouring the miniature universes
44:15of other true gods all this time.
44:18And now it is our turn.
44:19I have slowed it to a hundredth of its speed,
44:22but that is not enough.
44:24Given enough time,
44:25it will swallow my whole universe,
44:26and then my Holy Land will crumble.
44:29I am finished.
44:30The whole Holy Land was in a panic.
44:32Ancestor, more beings flew in.
44:35Over a hundred universe masters
44:37and two true gods arrived,
44:39all of them respectful.
44:40Purple Moon Ancestor glared down at them.
44:43That Sector Beast has reached the space
44:45right outside Purple Moon Holy Land.
44:47Sector Beasts!
44:49Right outside our Holy Land?
44:51It has finally come.
44:53Everyone was terrified.
44:54Over a hundred universe masters
44:56and two true gods.
44:57And not one of them could say for sure
44:59they could stand against a Sector Beast.
45:02Go now!
45:03Purple Moon Ancestor roared.
45:05Anyone with a soul supreme true treasure?
45:07Get into your palace treasure.
45:09Leave Purple Moon Holy Land
45:11and go face that beast.
45:12Ancestor, we are no match for it.
45:14We cannot fight it.
45:16Of course you cannot!
45:18Purple Moon Ancestor shouted.
45:20That is why you should hide inside
45:22your supreme true treasure palaces.
45:24I only need you to slow it down.
45:27And tell everyone in Universe Ocean
45:29that the Sector Beast is here!
45:31Ancestor!
45:31said a Universe Master in red armor.
45:34We have a bad relationship with the humans
45:36who are the first power in Universe Ocean.
45:39And the Milky Way Horde Leader
45:40is the strongest great being.
45:42Will Luo Feng come?
45:43I don't know.

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