“To defeat me is to gain access to the second level of the Heaven Bridge.” The mass of mist and cloud spoke.
“Is he using the Dark Cloud Shuttle and the Yanshen weapon, just like me?” Luo Feng’s pupils constricted. With a thought, a hexagonal ‘Void Shield’ and a blood-shadow war blade styled ‘Shadow Gold Blade’ appeared in his hand. Simultaneously, the dark golden long staff behind him emitted a series of golden lights—no fewer than fifty-four streams.
Each cluster of nine golden lights rapidly merged, transforming into a golden sword over a foot long, appearing incredibly real.
This was the second layer of the Yanshen weapon—Heaven Piercing Style, which involved manifesting a single golden sword. Yet Luo Feng, in one go, conjured six golden swords. One reason was that his mental strength had advanced from the ninth stage of the Stellar Sovereign level to the first stage of the Cosmic level. More importantly, during the three years of his cosmic journey, his strength had improved remarkably.
“Die!” The mysterious figure roared, dashing forward on the Dark Cloud Shuttle, rapidly forming three condensed, real golden swords behind him.
Both of them were controllers!
They charged at each other at high speed, one commanding six golden swords, the other three.
“These three years, I have never relaxed. Compared to the time of the Genius War, I have become much stronger! Let me test my current strength against you!” Flames of endless fighting spirit leapt in Luo Feng’s eyes. Instantly, the six golden swords, as if wielded with great skill, cooperated seamlessly, directly launching a crushing assault!
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
Midair, the six golden swords clashed violently with the three golden swords conjured by the mysterious figure in a furious series of attacks.
“What’s going on?” Luo Feng’s heart quivered.
Before reaching the City of Chaos, he had already mastered the ability to summon six golden blades. Wielding six was his most familiar and effortless feat. Due to his profound mastery, even after making tremendous breakthroughs from seven days of studying the Chaos Stele, he still opted to employ only six golden swords—for their combined assault tactics flowed through his veins like second nature.
“He actually blocked me. I refuse to believe it!” Luo Feng’s eyes darkened.
The six golden swords moved as if six perfectly coordinated soldiers, advancing and retreating in perfect harmony, launching repeated attacks—again and again attempting to break through the barrier of the three golden swords to kill the enemy.
But!
Failure! Failure! Failure!
Again and again, they failed. The mysterious figure’s three golden swords carried a unique intent, as if they were not separate entities but a single, perfect whole! At times, the three golden swords seemed like an endless tsunami crashing down; at others, like a towering mountain piercing the clouds, immovable and unshakable!
“How is this possible?” Luo Feng was stunned. “I have six golden swords, he only controls three, yet I can’t gain any advantage at all?”
He pushed himself!
Trying every possible method to achieve exquisite coordination between the six golden swords, yet the opponent still hovered effortlessly in the distance, easily blocking everything with just three.
“Foolish! You don’t even understand such a basic thing.” The mysterious figure’s eyes, visible through his black mask, carried a hint of mockery. “Still daring to attempt the first level? Die!”
Whoosh!
Suddenly, the three golden swords controlled by the mysterious figure changed formation. Instantly, the three swords drew closer, faintly producing a sense of unity, as if merging into a single colossal sword poised to cleave through the heavens. Luo Feng’s heart jolted, immediately commanding his six golden swords to intercept. With a thunderous boom, all six of Luo Feng’s golden swords were sent reeling backward.
“How could this be…” Luo Feng, hovering in the distance, was stunned.
“Haha! Foolish! Foolish! Foolish!” The mysterious figure roared.
Facing the three golden swords now transformed into three sword beams rushing toward him, Luo Feng suddenly let out a low roar: “Rise!”
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Three golden swords rose from behind Luo Feng. The six golden swords that had been knocked back also rose again. At the same time, brilliant golden light erupted from Luo Feng’s body, spreading outward like waves, quickly entwining around the nine rising golden swords. The nine golden swords were like the foundation of a grand formation!
Golden threads of light erupted and connected with each other. Golden sword qi radiated outward from the nine golden swords as their center. In an instant, a spherical space with a radius of 300 meters centered on Luo Feng became a dazzling world of sword qi, with countless golden sword qi crisscrossing and roaming within this spherical space.
It seemed slow.
In reality, the nine golden swords rose and rapidly formed the spherical space.
This was the third layer of the Yanshen weapon—Heaven Sword Style!
Also known as the ‘Domain of Sword’!
The Yanshen weapon was divided into nine layers. The second layer, the Heaven Piercing Style, merely involved merging nine golden illusions into one golden sword. The third layer, however, required simultaneously manifesting nine golden swords. This was equivalent to combining eighty-one golden illusions into one, a feat of difficulty dozens or even hundreds of times greater than the second layer!
Luo Feng was able to succeed.
This was due to the massive improvement in his strength over the past three years, as well as his mental strength reaching the first stage of the Cosmic level.
Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!
The three golden sword beams, as if sinking into a swamp of sword qi, were blocked and weakened by countless sword qi, their speed continuously decreasing.
“I admit you are strong, but before absolute power, you will still lose!” Luo Feng, riding the Dark Cloud Shuttle, dashed like lightning toward the distant mysterious figure.
The Domain of Sword centered on Luo Feng.
As Luo Feng charged forward, the entire domain naturally moved with him.
“Break!” The mysterious figure instantly retreated rapidly while letting out a sharp cry!
Hiss!
His three golden blades instantly converged, countless golden threads weaving between them, coalescing into a hazy, colossal golden sword entwined around the trio of blades. This shimmering, indistinct weapon sliced effortlessly through the obstructing sword energy, trailing a dreamlike iridescent glow as it lunged straight toward Luo Feng.
“What kind of move is this?” Luo Feng was startled. He had studied and practiced the Yanshen weapon himself, yet he had never seen this move before.
“Heaven Sword!”
Luo Feng roared.
Puff!
The nine golden swords forming the ‘Domain of Sword’ now moved as one. At Luo Feng’s command, one of them suddenly shot forward like a hunting leopard, carrying the full might of the sword domain, directly piercing toward the colossal golden sword. At once, countless sword qi within the domain seemed to receive orders, all striving to intercept, or following behind the golden sword.
The golden sword carrying the might of the sword domain!
The colossal golden sword formed by merging three golden swords!
They collided instantly!
Boom!
The golden sword was instantly knocked back. The colossal golden sword was like a massive ship plowing through, directly overturning Luo Feng’s golden sword, then in an instant, it was upon Luo Feng.
Unable to dodge, Luo Feng raised his war blade and shield.
Boom!
As Luo Feng raised his shield to absorb the impact, he felt as if a colossal mountain had crashed down upon him, causing his entire body to tremble and blood to spurt from his mouth. “No wonder even the Heaven Sword Style couldn’t stop it. The impact force is beyond belief.” Immediately afterward, Luo Feng’s consciousness wavered.
…
When he regained consciousness, he was back in his mansion in the Primordial Region of the virtual universe ‘Yuxiang Mountain’.
“Your Highness.” The servants and guards bowed.
“Hmm.” Luo Feng nodded.
“Did Your Highness succeed in the Heaven Bridge trial?” The estate steward, also the leader of the guards, the Sovereign Master Otorik asked.
“I failed.” Luo Feng shook his head.
“The Heaven Bridge is very difficult to conquer. It’s normal to fail on the first attempt. Your Highness need not dwell on it.” Otorik said.
Luo Feng’s face remained calm as he returned to his study.
Inside the study.
“I lost.” Luo Feng frowned slightly. “Out of the 1000 people in our group, nearly 900 have taken the test. Except for Bolan, who passed two layers, everyone else failed to pass even the first. Failure doesn’t surprise me, but the opponent I faced in the first level test was also using the Yanshen weapon, and with only three golden swords, he actually broke through my ‘Heaven Sword Style.'”
“Basics!”
“Luofeng, I’ve always said that basics are important. You used nine golden swords to form the Heaven Sword Style, while he only used three and still managed to win. That’s the importance of fundamentals.” Babata, the fist-sized orb perched on his shoulder, shouted.
“It’s not the same. His use of the Yanshen weapon differs from mine.” Luo Feng recalled the battle. “Whether I controlled six golden swords or nine, they were always individual entities, like six or nine soldiers cooperating together. But his use of the Yanshen weapon achieved true amplification in power, as if they were a single, unified whole. Especially in his final move… those three golden swords merged into a colossal golden sword!”
The third layer of the Yanshen weapon—Heaven Sword Style.
The fourth layer of the Yanshen weapon—Great Skill Without Ornament.
The fourth layer was actually a fusion of a large-scale sword formation, becoming a unified whole, overwhelming the opponent with absolute pressure. It was named ‘Great Skill Without Ornament’!
“I felt his move was somewhat similar to the fourth layer.” Luo Feng frowned. “But it’s different from the fourth layer. The fourth layer is far more complex and powerful. His move was merely the fusion of three golden swords, yet the resulting power was absurdly overwhelming.”
“This is the trial of the ‘Stele of Nine Heavens Chaos’…”
Luo Feng’s mind flashed to the first image of the ‘Nine Heavens Chaos Stele’—the Raindrop Image. There were nine raindrops depicted within it. Over the seven days of deep contemplation, Luo Feng had gleaned numerous insights. Now, as he recalled the battle scene and reflected upon the ‘Raindrop Image,’ his thoughts suddenly converged upon the fusion of three raindrops’ essence from the ‘Raindrop Image.’
“Could it be—”
Luo Feng’s eyes grew brighter and brighter.
The seven days of contemplation and the three years of studying the laws and using the Yanshen weapon fused in his mind, sparking countless ideas.
Excitement!
Anticipation!
“I understand! I understand!” Luo Feng couldn’t help shouting.
“Better to have no book than to believe everything in it!” Luo Feng couldn’t help but laugh aloud. “The Yanshen weapon is a weapon created by powerful beings. Rigidly following the basic methods to use the Yanshen weapon is too rigid and foolish. No wonder he called me foolish—it truly was stupid! The ‘Raindrop Image’—this is the true way to unleash the ultimate power of the Yanshen weapon!”
The Stele of Chaos in the Nine Heavens!
It contained the true Dao, where any method of using weapons could find the correct path through the Dao. Although this attempt failed, the impact and benefits for Luo Feng were even greater than if he had succeeded!
“It’s time to begin.”
Luo Feng could hardly wait any longer.
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