Under Lan Qi's recommendation, Luo Fan chose to head to the Insect Race's Hundred Flowers Secret Realm to undergo training.
This was one of the most dangerous training worlds among those available to World Master–level Insect Race geniuses.
The secret realms for World Master–level Insect Race Matriarchs were divided into five tiers.
They were ranked from one star to five stars.
A one-star secret realm was one where the strongest beings were only at the World Master level.
A two-star secret realm had Ordinary Immortals as its strongest beings.
A three-star secret realm had Marquis-level Immortals as its strongest beings.
A four-star secret realm had King-level Immortals as its strongest beings.
As for five-star secret realms, they represented the presence of Venerable-level powerhouses.
Previously, when Irina was a member of the Cocoon Chrysalis Secret Realm, she could at most enter four-star secret realms.
Moreover, she was only allowed to enter one four-star secret realm.
Now that Luo Fan had arrived at the Butterfly Metamorphosis Secret Realm, he could enter two five-star secret realms and five four-star secret realms.
The Hundred Flowers Secret Realm he was about to enter now was precisely a five-star secret realm.
It was said that many Immortal-level Insect Race Matriarchs had long wished to enter the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm.
This was because there had once been an Immortal-level Insect Race Matriarch who obtained a great opportunity within the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm and successfully broke through to the Venerable level.
This time, Luo Fan planned to go to the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm to see what treasures he might find.
This secret realm was also recorded in the Human Race's database.
In the past, this secret realm had belonged to a top-tier Universe Overlord known as the Hundred Flowers Lord.
However, this top-tier Universe Overlord was later killed by the Insect Race.
And the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm, the birthplace of the Hundred Flowers Lord, was also taken over by the Insect Race.
It was said that the Hundred Flowers Lord had been killed precisely because the Insect Race had set their sights on certain treasures within the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm.
Very soon, Luo Fan boarded a spaceship and arrived at the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm.
The Hundred Flowers Secret Realm was a massive secret realm with a diameter of over ten thousand light-years.
Moreover, within the secret realm, teleportation and divine kingdom transmission were both impossible.
Therefore, traversing the entire secret realm was extremely difficult.
Once one's speed exceeded the speed of light, one would enter the Dark Universe.
As a result, only Insect Race Queens had ever patrolled the entire secret realm.
The entrance to the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm was located on a planet.
After arriving at the location of that planet, Luo Fan saw a colossal palace from afar and did not see the planet where the secret realm entrance was located at all.
He knew that this palace belonged to the Insect Race's Lord of the Universe, the Lord of White Canopy.
The Lord of White Canopy was also the Lord of the Universe tasked with guarding the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm.
The planet containing the entrance to the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm was located inside the Lord of White Canopy's palace.
If an alien race wanted to force their way in, they would first have to break through the Lord of White Canopy's palace.
Soon, guided by the reception signal, Luo Fan landed outside the White Canopy Palace.
He directly put away his spaceship.
After his identity was confirmed, an Insect Race warrior led Luo Fan into the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm.
The moment he entered, he saw countless flowers.
Just like the name of the secret realm suggested, the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm was filled everywhere with all kinds of flowers.
However, although these flowers looked beautiful, they also concealed danger.
Much like Insect Race Matriarchs themselves.
Because some of the flowers within the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm preyed on living beings.
Some of them had even broken through to the Immortal level.
There were also flowers that possessed extremely potent poison.
Some of these poisons could even claim the lives of King-level powerhouses.
Luo Fan directly released a large number of incarnations transformed into Insect Race warriors.
This was also a commonly used method for Insect Race Matriarchs when exploring secret realms, using Insect Race warriors to scout the path.
After advancing a certain distance and moving away from the entrance area, Luo Fan began to test things out.
A wormhole about one meter in size appeared before him.
On the other side of the wormhole was also a sea of flowers.
Seeing this, Luo Fan was immediately delighted.
When he learned that teleportation and divine kingdom transmission were impossible within the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm, Luo Fan had been somewhat worried that he would not be able to use the wormhole secret technique.
In that case, he would only be able to fly slowly.
Moreover, he would not be able to explore too much of the secret realm.
After all, the diameter of the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm was over ten thousand light-years.
If he relied solely on flying, even crossing the entire Hundred Flowers Secret Realm would take at least ten thousand years.
Now that he could use wormholes, things became much more convenient.
Luo Fan did not hesitate and directly used a wormhole to arrive at a location over a thousand light-years away.
The area around the entrance of the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm had basically been explored countless times by Insect Race Matriarchs.
Any good items there had long since been taken.
Therefore, Luo Fan headed toward the depths of the secret realm.
His incarnations, after disguising themselves as Insect Race warriors, also directly used wormholes to move in different directions.
Some of them even headed straight toward the deepest part of the secret realm.
That was a location more than ten thousand light-years away from the entrance.
Luo Fan's Space Earthworm incarnation also began to investigate its surroundings.
He was extremely cautious at this moment.
Although there were no significant opportunities near the entrance area.
Due to long-term exploration, there were also very few dangers there.
However, the area where the Space Earthworm incarnation was currently located was far from the entrance.
Very few Matriarchs had ever been there.
As a result, it was relatively more dangerous.
Although Luo Fan was not afraid of death.
The energy required to nurture a Space Earthworm incarnation was extremely large.
He did not want the Space Earthworm incarnation to die just like that.
Luo Fan released some genuine Insect Race warriors to scout ahead.
These were nurtured by Irina.
Nurturing a single Insect Race warrior consumed far less energy than splitting off one of his own incarnations.
As such, this approach was the most cost-effective.
Although Luo Fan could not control these Insect Race warriors very well.
Simply having them scout the path posed no real problem.
Boom!
Suddenly, a massive sound came from ahead of Luo Fan.
A gigantic flower appeared.
Countless vines lashed violently in all directions.
One of the Insect Race warriors sent ahead to scout was directly devoured by the flower.
A terrifying aura radiated from the flower's body.
Luo Fan did not hesitate and directly took out the Tide Blade.
In a place like this, there were basically no Insect Race Matriarchs around.
Therefore, he could fully display his original secret techniques.
Even if he were discovered, it might not necessarily be a problem.
After all, the Insect Race Matriarchs who came here might not even recognize Irina.
A massive root system lashed toward Luo Fan.
Luo Fan slashed out with a single strike.
A gigantic creature resembling a whale appeared in the air.
This was the Water-Space Beast God.
Its enormous fin slashed forward.
In the next moment, the root system was directly severed.
However, merely cutting off a single root did not cause much damage to the flower.
It possessed thousands upon thousands of such roots and vines.
He judged that the opponent had roughly the strength of a Marquis-level Immortal.
Luo Fan had no intention of getting entangled with it and left after executing a few moves.
Although with the Space Earthworm incarnation's ten-thousandfold genetic level combined with a ninetyfold amplification, Luo Fan could unleash the power of nine hundred thousand times a peak World Master.
With such foundational strength, killing this flower would not be difficult.
However, plant-type lifeforms had massive divine bodies and were difficult to kill.
More importantly, unlike the Marquis-level enemies on the extraterritorial battlefield, this flower did not carry any spoils of war.
Killing it would not yield any military merit.
Plant lifeforms rarely moved, and killing them provided almost no loot.
They were troublesome to kill and not worthwhile.
Luo Fan decisively chose to leave.
He directly took out a detector with a detection range of one billion kilometers.
This was something he had purchased from the Mechanical Race.
Within the Mechanical Race, such a detector only cost a few tens of billions of Hunyuan Units in universe currency.
Among the Human Race, however, it would cost several hundred billion to over a trillion Hunyuan Units or equivalent points.
In addition to this detector, he also took out a small detector capable of scanning the surrounding one million kilometers.
The large detector was mainly used to detect lifeforms.
The small detector was used to search for treasures.
Next, Luo Fan began avoiding these plant lifeforms and focused solely on searching for treasures.
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Human Race territory.
During this period, Luo Fan's true body and Mechanical Race incarnation had been continuously attempting to create their own secret techniques.
He had used the insights left behind by the creators of those secret techniques.
These insights were extremely powerful.
They allowed him to directly experience the thought processes of the secret technique creators at the time.
Through this, Luo Fan was able to better comprehend the strengths of those secret techniques.
He also gained quite a lot of inspiration from this process.
The secret technique that the Space Earthworm incarnation had used in the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm earlier was one he had created himself.
At present, this secret technique was still being continuously refined.
However, he had already used this single technique to defeat the 489th opponent set up for him by the Lord of Icepeak.
As long as he defeated the 500th opponent, this technique would qualify as a top-tier secret technique.
Luo Fan directly began establishing a task.
[Task: Refine the self-created secret technique Whale Fin Slash to the level of an Immortal-grade top-tier secret technique. Reward: Pseudo-Heavy Treasure Whale Fin Blade.]
Seeing the task reward, a trace of joy flashed across Luo Fan's face.
The Tide Blade he was currently using had been a previous reward from the system.
The Tide Blade King also used the Tide Blade.
The Tide Blade was a pseudo-heavy treasure.
However, the Tide Blade only contained secret patterns of the Water Origin Law and the Space Origin Law.
It did not contain secret patterns of the Water-Space Fusion Law.
As a result, its support for Luo Fan's Beast God Path techniques was not very significant.
Judging from the name of the pseudo-heavy treasure in the task reward, it was likely extremely well-suited to this secret technique.
In other words, the Whale Fin Blade should contain secret patterns of the Water-Space Fusion Law.
After seeing the task reward, Luo Fan became even more motivated.
Since he began creating this secret technique, counting the time spent inside the Ultimate Tower.
He had spent roughly over sixty years to defeat 489 opponents.
The earlier opponents were ones he could defeat very quickly.
Although he also defeated the later opponents rather swiftly.
After each victory, Luo Fan would stop and think for a period of time to refine his secret technique.
Now that he had established the task, although he was somewhat eager to quickly obtain this pseudo-heavy treasure.
He still proceeded as before, reflecting after each victory.
He not only examined the flaws in his own secret technique but also learned from the strengths of his opponents.
The opponents set up for him by the Lord of Icepeak were almost never repeated.
Each one belonged to a different race.
Luo Fan also observed the advantages of their innate secret techniques and combat secret techniques.
He then absorbed these advantages to improve his own secret technique.
In this way, five years passed inside the Ultimate Tower.
Over the course of these five years, Luo Fan further refined the Whale Fin Slash he had created.
The power of Whale Fin Slash was now significantly greater than it had been five years earlier.
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