Primordial Heaven-reaching Mountain, ten thousand miles high, majestic and mystical, is the tallest mountain in this plane of existence, specially carved out within the Virtual Universe.
A streak of light halted at the foot of Primordial Heaven-reaching Mountain. It was Luo Feng, his back adorned with a dark-gold long staff.
“Huh?” Luo Feng gazed ahead. Lying near the base of the mountain was a towering bull-headed humanoid with horns, beside whom rested a terrifyingly massive axe. The bull snored like thunder, drool dripping from the corner of his mouth, sliding slowly down his fur-covered face in threads, finally falling onto the nearby dark-black rock.
The bull seemed to sense something, opened his eyes in confusion, and upon seeing Luo Feng, immediately jumped up with a start, laughing heartily, “You’re here to challenge Primordial Heaven-reaching Mountain?”
“That’s right,” Luo Feng nodded.
“Haha! Finally, someone to play with!” the bull laughed loudly, then threw his head back and roared, “Bai Pi Yuan! That sly woman! Hurry over here!”
The sound rolled and echoed.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
From two other directions at the foot of Primordial Heaven-reaching Mountain, two figures flew in. The one from the left was a lean ape humanoid wearing silver-white battle armor, with golden fur. He carried a black bamboo pole on his back. The one from the right was a bewitching woman with a serpentine tail and a semi-transparent veil, exuding an alluring aura.
“Bull-headed, Ape, Snake-person?” Luo Feng slightly furrowed his brow.
Ape beings were a large branch of the humanoid races across the universe, with many sub-races within their lineage. Relatively speaking, the Bull-headed race was slightly weaker than the Ape race, while the Snake-people were even rarer. However, this rarity was still relative; Snake-people were still considered a common sub-race among the humanoid species.
“Hehe, finally someone dares to challenge Primordial Heaven-reaching Mountain,” the lean Ape hunched over, cackling.
“Let me see who he is,” the seductive Snake-woman spoke, her long, terrifying tongue flicking out now and then. Her fox-like, bewitching eyes glanced at Luo Feng, “It’s the young master Luo Feng from the Tai Chu Secret Realm. A newbie dares to challenge Heaven-reaching Mountain!”
“Sly woman, don’t scare him off,” the Bull-head roared, then turned to Luo Feng, “Prince Luo Feng, the rule for challenging Heaven-reaching Mountain is simple—you must fight from the foot of the mountain to the summit, killing the guardians stationed at the foot, halfway, and the peak. If you do that, you pass! We three are the guardians at the foot of the mountain!”
Luo Feng nodded slightly.
From the foot to the summit?
“Will you challenge it or not?” the Bull-head roared.
“I will,” Luo Feng affirmed.
“Haha! Bai Pi Yuan! That sly woman! Attack!” the Bull-head howled excitedly, immediately gripping his terrifying axe. With just one step, the entire ground trembled violently. In an instant, he charged straight at Luo Feng, raising the massive axe, which instantly transformed into a streak of earth-yellow blade.
Hiss~ Hiss~
The blade cut through space, leaving ripples in its wake.
“Hehe!” the lean Ape cackled, standing on the rock. The black bamboo pole behind him suddenly shot forward, elongating instantly. The pole had nine sections, each section detaching rapidly, connected by countless threads.
It transformed into a weapon resembling a nine-section whip—the third-tier mental weapon known as ‘Arc Snake’.
Whoosh!
The hazy phantom darted out like lightning, arriving at Luo Feng’s front even before the Bull-head’s axe.
Like a venomous snake, it struck directly at Luo Feng.
“Hmph!” the Snake-woman hummed softly, her eyes flashing purple.
Invisible mental force surged toward Luo Feng.
…
Instantly, the Bull-head, the lean Ape, and the Snake-woman attacked simultaneously. In terms of speed, the mental force was naturally the fastest, directly penetrating Luo Feng’s consciousness sea.
Within the consciousness sea.
A vast Void Tower stood firm, more refined now, faintly gleaming gold, structured in three tiers. His comprehension of the laws had allowed Luo Feng to cultivate his ‘Void Tower’ to the Three-Tiered Pagoda Realm. In fact, not long after leaving the Chaos City, Luo Feng had finally reached the Three-Tiered Pagoda Realm!
In these past eighty years, he had not yet gathered enough to condense the Fourth Tier.
“Boom!” The mental force struck the Void Tower, causing it to tremble slightly, yet it remained unscathed.
“You think this can harm me?” Luo Feng, standing atop the Dark Cloud Shuttle, his eyes filled with killing intent, roared, “All of you, die!”
Boom!
Behind him, the dark-gold long staff suddenly radiated countless golden lights. Innumerable dark-gold tiny swords shot out golden threads, directly connecting to the fundamental essence of space and the essence of metal. Under the clever combination of the Divine Sword Art, the surrounding majestic mountains instantly vanished.
In a boundless space, sword qi swirled.
Divine Sword Art, Sixth Stage—World of Sword!
Dang! A strand of sword qi struck the black light transformed from ‘Arc Snake’, sending it flying backward. The lean Ape, hunched over at a distance, turned pale, his expression changing drastically: “The World of Sword from the Divine Sword Art!” He hastily transmitted mentally, “Sly woman, attack his soul! Distract his mind and collapse his World of Sword!”
“Don’t tell me!” the Snake-woman’s expression turned cold, and invisible mental force surged toward Luo Feng again.
Dang! The condensed strand of sword qi, after repelling ‘Arc Snake’, struck the Bull-head’s axe.
The Bull-head felt the powerful impact transmitted through the axe, his whole body shuddering involuntarily as he was sent flying backward, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
At the same moment, the Snake-woman’s illusory mental force also touched the Void Tower in Luo Feng’s consciousness sea.
“Die!” Luo Feng glared at the Bull-head.
Whoosh!
The condensed strand of sword qi followed instantly, flashing past and piercing straight through the Bull-head’s forehead, creating a hole. His corpse crashed to the ground.
The Bull-head was dead!
The lean Ape and the Snake-woman stopped attacking.
“Prince Luo Feng, you actually defeated Man Niu just like that. You’ve passed the first trial at the foot of the mountain,” the lean Ape muttered.
“Congratulations,” the Snake-woman said.
“How terrifying this illusion is! Yet it still falls short of fooling me. Shatter!!!” Luo Feng’s mind remained icy and razor-sharp, piercing through all deception. In an instant, his consciousness transformed into a celestial blade, cleaving violently through the surrounding mirage. With a thunderous boom, the illusion exploded into fragments, and every false vision dissolved into nothingness.
As the illusion vanished, Luo Feng’s expression slightly changed.
A streak of black light had already reached his eyes. The Bull-head, blood at the corner of his mouth, roared and charged. The distant Snake-woman wore a look of shock: “He broke my illusion so quickly!”
“This illusion is terrifying,” Luo Feng thought grimly.
While he had seemingly wounded the Bull-head earlier, he had unknowingly fallen into the ‘illusion’—the Bull-head’s death was merely an illusion.
“The Snake-woman’s illusion has reached such a level of refinement. The Bull-head and the Ape are definitely not easy opponents either. They clashed directly with my ‘World of Sword’ earlier, sustaining injuries but not dying.” Thoughts flashed through Luo Feng’s mind as he summoned a blood-red war blade and a hexagonal shield.
Brilliant blade light erupted!
Phantom Seven-Deadly Cuts—Ephemeral Bloom!
Dang! The black light was cleaved apart.
“Die!”
Within the boundless World of Sword, a strand of sword qi shot directly toward the distant Snake-woman. Her expression changed drastically as she transmitted mentally furiously: “You two, help block him!!!” A black shield appeared before her, its edges adorned with snake-like patterns. As an illusionist, her skill in controlling mental weapons was significantly inferior to that of a controller.
“Aaaaah!” The Bull-head roared and charged forward, but a warrior’s speed was far slower than the speed of sword qi or mental weapons.
“Die!” The Ape hurriedly controlled the black arc to strike Luo Feng.
Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!
With the shield and war blade, though slightly at a disadvantage and being overwhelmed, Luo Feng managed to hold his ground.
“Hmph.” Luo Feng resisted, a glint of coldness in his eyes.
Hiss! Hiss! Hiss! Hiss! Hiss! Hiss! Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!
Because he could block the Ape’s mental weapon with the war blade and shield, Luo Feng focused all his efforts on attacking the Snake-woman with the ‘World of Sword’! A condensed strand of sword qi furiously attacked the Snake-woman… nearly instantly launching dozens of attacks.
“Spit!”
The Snake-woman’s skill in controlling mental weapons was clearly far inferior to her mastery of illusions. Finally, her head was pierced by the sword qi.
“I can’t hold on much longer,” Luo Feng’s expression changed slightly.
Because he was distracted by wielding the war blade, maintaining the ‘World of Sword’ became increasingly difficult.
“Ahh!” The furious Bull-head had already reached Luo Feng’s front.
“Whoosh!” The black streak of light was also lightning-fast, reaching Luo Feng’s front again.
“Dang!” Luo Feng quickly condensed another strand of sword qi to block the black light.
Boom!
The boundless World of Sword collapsed suddenly. As it collapsed, the countless golden tiny swords instantly combined. Half of them transformed into a dark-gold long sword, which instantly shot toward the Bull-head charging at Luo Feng. This was the Fifth Stage of the Divine Sword Art—Spatial Severing!
“Die!” Luo Feng’s blood-red war blade unleashed the Phantom Seven-Deadly Cuts—Grave!
The blade light was fierce!
Fueled by boundless killing intent!
“Ahh!” The Bull-head roared and swung his axe downward.
Dang!
The dark-gold sword instantly collided with the axe, causing it to shatter into more than two thousand golden tiny swords. The Bull-head’s axe was also deflected sideways, and Luo Feng’s blood-red war blade slashed downward fiercely!
Puh!
The Bull-head was split from head to toe!
“Block!” As Luo Feng cleaved the Bull-head in two, he simultaneously controlled the hexagonal shield to block the black light from ‘Arc Snake’ shooting from behind.
Boom!
The moment the black light struck the hexagonal shield, the whip-like black light’s tail end suddenly swung, lightning-fast, sweeping past Luo Feng’s head. Red and white splattered.
Luo Feng was dead!
“Damn, he actually killed two of us,” the lean Ape exhaled in relief, unable to help but exclaim.
The Bull-head and Snake-woman revived again. The Snake-woman looked at Luo Feng’s vanished corpse, shocked: “Even with my illusions combined with my talent, I couldn’t affect him at all!”
“This was just a newbie, yet he managed to kill two of us three?” The Bull-head stared wide-eyed.
…
In the Tai Chu District of Yu Xiang Mountain, Luo Feng sat in a meditation chamber.
“I couldn’t even pass the first trial at the foot of the mountain,” Luo Feng shook his head inwardly. “Hmm, at a critical moment, the duration of maintaining the World of Sword was insufficient. If I solely maintained the World of Sword, I could sustain it for 30 seconds. However… while using the blood-red war blade and shield alongside maintaining the World of Sword, the time was significantly shortened.”
“It’s still a matter of comprehension!”
Luo Feng recalled the previous battle, reflecting on his failures…
Moments later.
“Luo Feng, you’ve received a call request from your teacher, Zhenyan Wang,” the demon Babata, the size of a fist on his shoulder, shouted.
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