Luo Fan was not surprised.
He had long known that Luo Feng would say this.
As for Babata, his opinion was not important.
Babata had already acknowledged Luo Feng as his master long ago.
Now, Luo Feng was his true master.
Moreover, Babata also knew how much help Luo Fan had given Luo Feng over the years.
So, it was impossible for him to refuse.
After Luo Feng agreed, Luo Fan left.
He headed straight for the ruins where the Zerg Mother Nest was located.
This ruin was located in the Shennongjia region of China.
While still in the air, he saw an enormous fortress.
This fortress had been built by his avatar.
The entire outer layer of the fortress was made of F-grade metal.
Its main purpose was to prevent the poisonous gas unconsciously released by the Zerg Mother Nest from spreading.
After arriving, Luo Fan waved his hand.
In the next moment, the entire metal fortress vanished directly.
Now that he was going to enslave this Zerg Empress, the fortress was no longer useful.
It was better to recycle it for reuse.
After the metal fortress disappeared, Luo Fan saw the scene below.
Beneath the fortress was a gigantic sphere.
This sphere, with a diameter exceeding 800 meters, was astonishingly large.
There were pits on its surface, and poisonous liquid flowed within them.
These poisonous liquids would transform into toxic gas and spread outward.
Because the surroundings were filled with this toxic gas, the Zerg Mother Nest appeared indistinct and hazy, with poison mist swirling around it like clouds.
Luo Fan did not immediately collect the Mother Nest, but first habitually established a task.
[Task: Obtain a World Master–level Zerg Mother Nest. Reward: One set of evolutionary resources required by a World Master–level Zerg Mother Nest.]
Although he did not know what the evolutionary resources were.
Judging by the description, they were likely meant for the Zerg Empress.
Looking at this reward, Luo Fan could not help but sigh.
What a pity. This reward was of little use to him personally.
However, once he enslaved this Zerg Empress, she would belong to him.
These resources would not go to waste.
With a thought from Luo Fan, the enormous sphere disappeared directly.
At the instant he put away the Zerg Empress, the sound of task completion echoed in his mind.
After the Zerg Mother Nest vanished, only a massive deep pit remained at the original location.
Aside from that, there was some remaining poisonous liquid and toxic gas.
This toxic gas was completely ineffective against him.
He waved his hand once again.
In the next moment, all the toxic gas and poisonous liquid disappeared entirely.
Even some of the soil on the ground was gone.
That missing soil had all been contaminated by the poison.
So Luo Fan collected it directly as well.
As for what would be done with this place afterward, he left it to Jia Yi and the others to decide.
After finishing all this, he directly sent the Mother Nest to his main body.
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After obtaining the Zerg Mother Nest, Luo Fan did not immediately enslave it.
He did not yet have a suitable enslavement secret art.
The soul structure of a Zerg Empress was different from that of ordinary lifeforms.
Normally, humans have only one soul origin.
Most lifeforms also have only one soul origin.
However, a Zerg Empress possessed ten thousand soul origins.
Although each individual soul origin of a Zerg Empress was inferior to the soul origin of other lifeforms at the same realm,
with such an enormous quantity, the overall strength of her soul origins far exceeded that of other lifeforms.
This was also why Zerg Empresses were all soul masters.
They were simply too suited for cultivating the soul.
Moreover, the difficulty for them to cultivate soul amplitude secret arts was far lower than that of other races.
They were even born with a hundredfold mental power amplitude.
This alone demonstrated the terrifying talent of the Zerg Empress.
And this was a race that could reproduce normally.
This was also one of the reasons why the Zerg, a faction consisting of only the Zerg Empress race, could become one of the nine major powers of the Primal Universe.
It could be said that the Zerg were lifeforms created by the Primal Universe in imitation of World Beasts.
To enslave a Zerg Empress required a special enslavement secret art.
It needed to act simultaneously on all ten thousand of the Empress's soul origins.
Otherwise, the chance of failure would be extremely high.
Therefore, Luo Fan planned to first purchase a secret art capable of enslaving a Zerg Empress.
Without hesitation, he had his avatar log into the Virtual Universe and begin purchasing the Ten Thousand Hearts Soul Control Secret Art from the Virtual Universe Company's treasury.
This secret art was created by Puti.
One had to know that Puti was a Lord of the Universe.
Moreover, his teacher was Sitting Mountain Guest.
This secret art was extremely good and very suitable for enslaving a Zerg Empress.
As usual, before purchasing the secret art, Luo Fan first established a task.
[Task: Obtain the Ten Thousand Hearts Soul Control Secret Art. Reward: Slave Mark.]
Judging by the name, it should be a soul enslavement secret art.
No matter what, it would certainly be better than the Ten Thousand Hearts Soul Control Secret Art.
On this point, Luo Fan was very confident.
System rewards had basically never disappointed him.
Without hesitation, he had his avatar purchase the Ten Thousand Hearts Soul Control Secret Art in the Virtual Universe.
That small amount of points meant nothing to him.
Very soon, Etor delivered the secret art to the entrance of Luo Fan's manor in the Virtual Universe.
After receiving the secret art, the sound of task completion immediately echoed in his mind.
He could not even be bothered to look at the contents of the Ten Thousand Hearts Soul Control Secret Art.
Unless Slave Mark was not a soul enslavement secret art, there was no need.
He directly claimed the reward.
In the next moment, an additional manual appeared in his system space.
He took it out directly inside the Zhouji Tower and began reading it.
This manual was extremely large, about two to three meters in length and width.
Its thickness was nearly twenty centimeters.
The material of the book's cover was unknown and felt very strange to the touch.
It did not resemble metal, wood, or stone.
Moreover, he discovered that this book actually had the effect of nourishing the soul.
When his mental power attached to it, his soul felt extremely active and comfortable.
If one's soul were injured, simply attaching the soul to it could gradually repair the damage.
Of course, if the user's strength was too great, it would not work.
Even so, the material of this book alone was already extraordinary.
Luo Fan opened it and began reading the contents.
The first page did not contain a cultivation method, but rather an introduction to Slave Mark.
After scanning it at a glance, a trace of excitement immediately appeared on Luo Fan's face.
This Slave Mark was actually a will-based enslavement secret art.
Although its level was not particularly high,
it was still terrifyingly powerful.
Will-based enslavement secret arts existed only with Sitting Mountain Guest in the entire universe.
This secret art could be said to be incomparably precious.
However, the will enslavement recorded within could at most be used on Lords of the Universe at the extreme limit.
Even so, it was already unimaginably valuable.
A secret art capable of enslaving a Lord of the Universe was almost nonexistent in the Primal Universe.
After all, up to now, there had never been a single Lord of the Universe enslaved in the Universe Sea.
Even the strongest beings in the universe found it nearly impossible to enslave a Lord of the Universe.
As for Primal Ancestor's Mechanical Race Lord of the Universe slave, it was likely an intelligent lifeform that Primal Ancestor had originally owned and painstakingly nurtured step by step.
For Primal Ancestor, obtaining a Heart of Evolution was extremely easy.
He could even directly ask the Mechanical Race Father God for one.
And Primal Ancestor only ever had that single Lord of the Universe slave.
As for directly enslaving a Mechanical Race Lord of the Universe, the possibility was essentially nonexistent.
To enslave a Mechanical Race Lord of the Universe, one had to possess a will secret art.
And it was virtually impossible for Primal Ancestor to obtain a will secret art.
Even the Jin King treated will secret arts as extremely precious.
Therefore, it was basically impossible for Primal Ancestor to acquire a will enslavement secret art in the Universe Sea.
Otherwise, would Primal Ancestor have enslaved a Mechanical Race Lord of the Universe?
Luo Fan truly did not believe that.
This alone showed how precious will secret arts were.
Luo Fan checked the requirements. The minimum requirement for this secret art was Immortal-level will.
Although he had not reached that yet, it did not matter.
During this period, his will cultivation had basically reached the peak of the World Master level.
He simply had not focused on cultivating will recently.
With just a little cultivation, he would be able to break through to Immortal-level will.
After all, with the system present, he only needed to complete a few will-related tasks.
This will secret art allowed one to forcibly enslave targets whose will realm was one major realm lower than one's own.
If the opponent's soul was injured or their divine body damaged, then even if their will realm was the same, as long as one's will was slightly stronger, successful enslavement was possible.
Of course, this required the opponent to be extremely severely injured, to the point where their strength was less than one percent of its original level.
As for targets who were unconscious or sealed, as long as their will realm was not one realm higher, enslavement would basically succeed.
If the target's will realm was one realm higher, there was still a ten percent chance of success.
Naturally, this required Slave Mark to be cultivated to an extremely profound level.
Moreover, this secret art placed very little burden on one's own will. Using Slave Mark to enslave others allowed for a very large number of soul slave slots.
If one's will realm was the same as one's own cultivation realm, one could have one thousand soul slaves.
If one's will realm was one realm higher than one's cultivation realm, one could have ten thousand soul slaves.
If it was two realms higher, one could have one hundred thousand soul slaves.
If it was three realms higher, one could have one million soul slaves.
The more Luo Fan read, the more shocked he became.
Although this Slave Mark could at most enslave Lords of the Universe,
it was still unbelievably powerful.
After all, will-based attacks were far more difficult to resist than soul attacks.
Without hesitation, Luo Fan directly had his avatar enter the Zhouji Tower together with him and begin completing will cultivation tasks.
Before that, he first established another task.
[Task: Break through will to the Immortal level. Reward: Mental State Insight +10,000,000; Intermediate Will Talent +10.]
This reward was fairly standard, but still quite decent.
Luo Fan did not hesitate and immediately began cultivating his will.
He currently had two methods for cultivating will.
Both were relatively crude methods.
One was to use soul orbs to shatter his own soul and then repair it.
The second was to have his avatar fuse Blood Luo Crystals.
However, as his will cultivation increased, the effectiveness of both methods diminished.
Fortunately, his will talent had previously advanced from beginner to intermediate.
This was what prevented the speed of his will cultivation from declining.
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