In the end, the only solution Luo Fan could think of was to take a detour.
However, such a detour would require traveling more than two billion light-years just to reach the territories of the three other races.
Even with his Space Worm clone, it would still take a long time to get there.
So, Luo Fan simply gave up on the idea.
But now, he had picked it up again.
After all, the Human race's territory occupied only a tiny portion of the universe.
The regions beyond humanity were vast beyond imagination.
Treasures found within human territory made up only a small fraction of all treasures in the universe.
In other races' domains, there were countless things humanity did not possess.
If Luo Fan wanted to follow the divine power path in the future, he would need to collect every type of material that existed in the universe.
Since that was the case, he might as well prepare early and start planning ahead.
He could have his avatars begin constructing wormholes gradually.
Given enough time, he could fill the entire universe with his wormholes!
Once he made up his mind, Luo Fan immediately got to work!
Soon, several of his avatars stationed in the Law Source Secret Realm scattered in all directions.
This time, Luo Fan released one thousand avatars to head for different locations.
His Space Worm clone had already reached the Universe Level, capable of dividing into ten thousand avatars.
Sending out just one thousand of them to other territories wouldn't affect Luo Fan much, it would merely slow down the rate at which his Space Worm clone devoured space fragments.
Not all of these avatars traveled through the Dark Universe.
After all, Luo Fan hadn't purchased that many spaceships.
He decided to let a portion of them move through spatial layers instead!
Space Worms were creatures that lived within spatial layers by nature.
Thus, these avatars would feel completely at home traveling there.
While his avatars began their journey to other territories, Luo Fan started reading the contents of the second volume of the inheritance.
The second volume contained information about Universe-Level potions.
Similarly, its bloodline potions and bloodline evolution potions only went up to the Star Level.
The section on materials was somewhat shorter than in the first volume.
Aside from potions, this volume also included some insights into the laws, primarily the Origin Law of Wood, with a smaller portion on the Origin Law of Water.
Luo Fan soon finished reading it all.
Both volumes of the inheritance had greatly benefited him.
He now had many new ideas in mind.
However, he needed a large number of materials to conduct experiments.
Many of these materials he had never encountered in reality, meaning that he could only interact with them within the Virtual Universe.
Since he had never seen them in the real world, he couldn't use his secret techniques to simulate those materials either.
Still, with the materials he had encountered before, he could already carry out quite a few experiments.
After reading both the first and second volumes of The Blood Codex,
Luo Fan had learned many of the reactions and interactions between different materials, the culmination of a King-level alchemist's lifelong experience.
What kind of materials existed in the greatest numbers?
Naturally, low-level materials were the most abundant.
In the Original Universe, no one dared claim they knew every Star-Level or lower material.
There were simply too many.
Even with Luo Fan constantly performing simulations, he could only test so many within a few short years.
But Grando?
A King-level alchemist — how many years had he lived?
He had long since conducted countless experiments.
Even with rarer materials, he had tested many of them within the Virtual Universe.
Though the Virtual Universe could never perfectly replicate reality, and couldn't compare to Luo Fan's secret technique simulations, its accuracy was still quite high.
Luo Fan now understood many of the reactions and effects produced when various materials fused together.
Thus, he decided to try again, to create a new potion.
This time, he planned to make a Peak Planetary-Level Bloodline Evolution Potion.
Between potions of the same level, bloodline evolution potions were generally more popular.
After all, given the choice between evolving one's bloodline or replacing it, who would want to replace their own bloodline?
Because evolution meant advancement rather than substitution, bloodline evolution potions were slightly more expensive than ordinary bloodline potions of the same tier.
At the same time, creating and improving them was much more difficult.
For a bloodline potion, the simplest method was to extract blood of the corresponding level, add some supplementary materials, and refine it into a potion, not a particularly hard process.
The true challenge was to use other materials to configure a bloodline potion without directly extracting any blood.
At present, humanity could only configure up to Universe-Level bloodline potions and bloodline evolution potions.
For Domain Lord-level bloodline potions, one needed to extract Domain Lord-level bloodlines.
However, races that possessed Domain Lord bloodlines were extremely protective of their young.
Anyone who harmed their clansmen would incur their full wrath.
Even the Virtual Universe Company's Domain Lord-level bloodline potions were usually made using the blood of deceased Domain Lord bloodline creatures or refined from blood essence that had been willingly sold.
No one dared extract it directly from living beings, not even the Virtual Universe Company.
Doing so would attract too much hatred.
Moreover, species with Domain Lord-level bloodlines were rarely weak.
Their clans almost always had King-level powerhouses, often several, and many even had Venerable-level experts.
Some of the strongest bloodlines were backed by actual Universe Masters.
The Human race wasn't foolish either, they also protected species that possessed Domain Lord bloodlines, since those races frequently produced geniuses.
Many of humanity's core elites had originated from such bloodline races.
To create a single Domain Lord-level bloodline potion, one would need to refine blood from seven or eight different Domain Lord bloodlines, a terrible cost-benefit ratio.
…
Soon, Luo Fan's Mechanical Tribe clone began the simulation.
Because it had been fully enhanced by the system, its simulation ability far surpassed that of normal Mechanical Tribe beings.
The clone's simulations were nearly one hundred percent accurate.
Ordinary Mechanical Tribe simulations required vast data collection and still had a chance of failure.
However, this time, Luo Fan ran into trouble.
The simulation dragged on for three full months.
During that time, he continuously supplied energy to his Mechanical Tribe clone to sustain the operation of its simulation secret technique.
Yet, throughout that entire period, he did not succeed even once!
Not even a special-case partial success occurred.
"Simulation number 125,212, failure!"
"Record: Blood Vital Grass and Baiyang Flower conflict detected."
At that moment, Luo Fan couldn't help but feel weary.
He had performed more than a hundred thousand simulations during this time.
Because his simulation secret technique had been enhanced, he could run multiple scenarios simultaneously, as long as his computational power was sufficient.
But for now, he still saw no sign of success.
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