Moments later, at the entrance of the Tai Chu Region.
“Prince Luo Feng, this is the secret manual we just received. It’s what you purchased,” Madame Fuss gently swayed her furry tail while handing over a briefcase.
“Thank you,” Luo Feng accepted the silver briefcase.
He had the item!
This was the third volume of “Reflections on Space-Time,” worth a hefty 100,000 points. (Since Luo Feng already had the first and second volumes, the Virtual Universe Company had only sent the third.)
Carrying the briefcase, Luo Feng turned and was about to take flight.
“Luo Feng, you crazy bastard, stop!” A loud voice rang out.
Luo Feng turned his head. In the distance, a streak of silver light flew toward them before landing on the grass. It was the black-haired youth ‘Wuka’ in silver battle armor. This prince of the Banka Star was indeed growing slowly; even after all this time, he had not yet fully matured.
“What do you want?” Luo Feng smiled as he walked over.
“You didn’t attend even a single small gathering on the Starry Land, let alone any of the big gatherings of the Tai Chu Region members. Come on, lately you’ve even gone missing in the ‘Virtual Universe’!” Wuka exclaimed, then with clear annoyance, he thumped Luo Feng in the chest with a punch that landed with a ‘thud.’
Luo Feng’s chest slightly trembled as he dissipated the force.
“In the past few months, my schedule has been very tight, so I haven’t been on the Virtual Universe,” Luo Feng explained. In recent months, first he obtained the Beast God Statue, and then had an adventure in the Tianchi Palace. Indeed, it had been several months since he last visited the Virtual Universe.
“Ah, Luo Feng,” Wuka’s expression turned mysterious as he lowered his voice. “I have a secret to tell you.”
“What secret?” Luo Feng asked, puzzled.
“I just came from the ‘Battle Arena’ and heard some news. Today, Bolan has gone to challenge the Heaven-Connecting Bridge again,” Wuka whispered with a grin.
“Again?” Luo Feng was surprised.
The Heaven-Connecting Bridge had three tiers, which were thresholds, and the later tiers were increasingly difficult!
Tiers 1-3, 4-6, 7-9…
During the 80 years he spent in the Xue Luo World, Bolan, Long Yun, Ronjun, Wuka, Qianshui, Galesi, and others had all chosen their own paths. Their progress varied, but they occasionally challenged the Heaven-Connecting Bridge. Most of the geniuses had improved.
However!
Bolan had already reached the sixth tier in the Chaos City, and during these 80 years, this extraordinary genius had kept striving but had never managed to pass the seventh tier of the Heaven-Connecting Bridge! This showed how incredibly difficult the seventh tier was!
Nowadays, among Luo Feng’s contemporaries…
Only three had reached the sixth tier of the Heaven-Connecting Bridge: Bolan, Ronjun, and himself! Bolan and Luo Feng had reached the sixth tier early on, while Ronjun had only recently broken through in the later years of the past 80.
As for those who had reached the fifth tier of the Heaven-Connecting Bridge, there were currently four.
“Did he pass?” Luo Feng quickly asked.
“Hehe,” Wuka chuckled mysteriously. “That aloof guy failed two years ago, and he tried again today. But he failed again… Haha… Do you think the seventh tier is that easy to pass? The difficulty from the sixth to the seventh tier is comparable to the combined difficulty of tiers one through six!”
“Failed again?” Luo Feng nodded slightly.
That made sense.
In the past 80 years, with his extraordinary experiences, cultivating three avatars simultaneously, and having the Blood-Net Power to enhance his comprehension, he still wasn’t confident about passing the seventh tier.
“Come on,” Wuka urged. “Ronjun, that wild man, just reached the sixth tier not long ago. It will take him at least a few hundred more years to reach the seventh… Right now, among our group, only you and Bolan have the potential to reach the seventh tier first! Luo Feng, you must bring honor to the ‘Three Heroes of Tai Chu’!”
“Get lost,” Luo Feng couldn’t help but laugh and curse.
The ‘Three Heroes of Tai Chu’?
Hearing that name made his skin crawl. Because among the new generation of geniuses, himself, Ronjun, and Wuka had good relations and all showed impressive performances, others naturally regarded the three of them as a small group. Prince Wuka, however, was quite pleased with the self-proclaimed title of the ‘Three Heroes of Tai Chu.’
Luo Feng, for his part, found it very awkward, and Ronjun also frowned in displeasure, but Wuka was quite satisfied.
“I won’t talk to you anymore. I’m going back first,” Luo Feng said.
“Hey, what did you buy?” Wuka curiously looked at the briefcase Luo Feng was carrying.
“The Reflections on Space-Time,” Luo Feng replied.
“You bought the third volume? That’s 100,000 points worth!” Wuka’s eyes widened as he exclaimed, “You’re ruthless, you’re a real rich guy!”
Luo Feng didn’t say much and immediately took flight.
Whoosh!
He soared through the sky and quickly returned to his estate.
…
In the study, Luo Feng sat in front of the desk, holding his breath as he opened the briefcase.
Inside was only one thick metallic book. The book was about 50 centimeters long, 40 centimeters wide, and had an astonishing thickness of 50 centimeters. What did that mean? A half-meter-thick book, much thicker than the first and second volumes. The entire book was still made of golden metallic pages, with several thousand in total.
“The third volume!”
Luo Feng’s eyes lit up like a wolf seeing prey. Without hesitation, he opened this third volume of secret techniques and began greedily reading and comprehending it.
…
The third volume of “Reflections on Space-Time” corresponded perfectly with the third image, the “Rainstorm Picture.” As he studied and practiced, combined with the daily meditation of the Beast God Statue by the Gold-Horned Giant Beast, focusing on the “Tearing Heaven and Shattering Earth” technique, particularly the “Tearing Heaven Claw,” he found his comprehension and cultivation progressing significantly.
As the saying goes, “Easy to learn, hard to master.” The basics were easy to grasp, but true mastery, especially the complete understanding of the 108 profound mysteries, was extremely difficult!
Currently, Luo Feng was striving for a basic understanding of the “Rainstorm Picture.”
…
“Master Luo Feng, you have a message. It’s from the Virtual Universe Company,” Luo Feng was sitting cross-legged on the alloy floor in the training hall, the thick “Reflections on Space-Time” open before him. Occasionally, he manipulated the ‘Yan Shenbing’ to practice, with countless dark golden small swords dancing in the air.
“Oh?”
Luo Feng’s mind stirred.
Swish!
The countless golden swords immediately returned like birds to their nest, all flying into the dark golden long rod on his back.
“A message?” Luo Feng directly clicked into the void, and a screen appeared out of nowhere, displaying a newly received email.
“Secret Realm Qualification Battle?” Luo Feng’s heart stirred as he saw the title and quickly opened the email to read it.
The core members of the Virtual Universe Company were divided from top to bottom into the Primordial Secret Realm, the Tai Chu Secret Realm, the Heaven-Earth Secret Realm, and the Doomsday Secret Realm.
It wasn’t that once you were selected into the Tai Chu Secret Realm, you could stay there permanently! In the core layer, there was fierce competition. The weak were demoted to lower secret realms, the strong remained in their current realm, and only the strongest could advance to higher secret realms. The competition was constant!
If you didn’t work hard…
During the Genius Competition, you might have been the top genius and selected into the Primordial Secret Realm. But if you didn’t keep working, you might be demoted to the Tai Chu Secret Realm after one Qualification Battle. After the second Qualification Battle, you might be demoted to the Heaven-Earth Secret Realm!
Resources were limited!
Talents were endless!
As time passed, new waves of geniuses kept emerging. If your strength didn’t meet the level of the Tai Chu Secret Realm, you would naturally be demoted to the Heaven-Earth Secret Realm.
…
The members of the Primordial Secret Realm in the Yuxiang Mountains were divided by strength into ‘World Lord Level,’ ‘Domain Lord Level,’ and ‘Cosmic Lord Level.’
In the Primordial Secret Realm, there were 100 World Lords, 10 Domain Lords, and 3 Cosmic Lords!
In the Tai Chu Secret Realm, there were 1,000 World Lords, 100 Domain Lords, and 30 Cosmic Lords!
In the Heaven-Earth Secret Realm, there were 10,000 World Lords, 1,000 Domain Lords, and 300 Cosmic Lords!
As for the Doomsday Secret Realm… those who failed in the core layer competitions were all cast into the Doomsday Secret Realm, making it the lowest tier of the core layer.
Among them…
The Cosmic Lord-level members underwent qualification battles once every 100 years!
The Domain Lords had qualification battles once every 1,000 years!
The World Lords had qualification battles once every 100,000 years! Since most World Lords were stuck at their limits for a very long time, the Virtual Universe Company held Genius Competitions and Hero Competitions every 10,000 years. They also specially recruited some geniuses and had many late-rising World Lord-level geniuses. Therefore, the number of World Lord-level experts was the highest. Even with only 100 spots in the Primordial Secret Realm, the competition was incredibly fierce.
100 spots…
To be fought over by hundreds of generations of Genius Competitions, Hero Competitions, and many late-rising experts.
…
Luo Feng looked at the screen in front of him and thought, “Qualification Battle?”
“I’m currently at the Cosmic Lord level. The qualification battle happens once every 100 years. Is it going to start in about six more years?” Luo Feng thought to himself. “According to the email, the competition for the Primordial spots is extremely fierce. It’s not just competing with my contemporaries, but also with the previous generations.”
“The Qualification Battle is brutal!”
“But besides the Qualification Battle, there’s another way to enter the Primordial Realm?” Luo Feng read the email and smiled.
Members of the Doomsday Secret Realm wanted to enter the Heaven-Earth Secret Realm.
Members of the Heaven-Earth Secret Realm wanted to enter the Tai Chu Secret Realm.
Members of the Tai Chu Secret Realm wanted to enter the Primordial Secret Realm!
What to do?
There were two methods: one was the Qualification Battle, and the other was the Heaven-Connecting Mountain!
The Qualification Battle was a large-scale elimination selection battle among Cosmic Lord-level members, ultimately selecting the best. It happened once every 100 years. When it came to the World Lord level… the Qualification Battle was held only once every 100,000 years!
However, the Heaven-Connecting Mountain was different.
Core members could challenge the Heaven-Connecting Mountain at any time. There were three Heaven-Connecting Mountains—Primordial Heaven-Connecting Mountain, Tai Chu Heaven-Connecting Mountain, and Heaven-Earth Heaven-Connecting Mountain. If a member of the Doomsday Secret Realm successfully challenged all three Heaven-Connecting Mountains in one go, they could be directly promoted to the Primordial Secret Realm!
“According to the email, if I can pass the Primordial Heaven-Connecting Mountain, I can directly enter the Primordial Secret Realm?” Luo Feng’s eyes lit up.
“Let me give it a try!”
“I’ve been studying the third volume of ‘Reflections on Space-Time’ for one or two months now. I’ve gained a basic understanding of the ‘Rainstorm Picture.’ When I use the ‘World of Sword,’ I can now maintain it for 30 seconds! In a battle between experts, 30 seconds is enough,” Luo Feng thought to himself. “Let me try challenging the Primordial Heaven-Connecting Mountain.”
…
In the Virtual Universe, a special plane of existence had been created.
Within this space was a vast land, and on this land stood three towering mountains, each one higher than the last!
“Is this the Heaven-Connecting Mountain plane?” Luo Feng, with the dark golden rod on his back, looked up at the three towering mountains. On the mid-sections of each mountain were two golden characters glowing with brilliance—Heaven-Earth, Tai Chu, and Primordial! Among them, the Primordial Heaven-Connecting Mountain was even more magnificent and towering!
Whoosh!
Luo Feng transformed into a streak of light and flew directly toward the Primordial Heaven-Connecting Mountain.
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