“Teacher?” Luo Feng stood up quickly, his expression humble, as he tapped the screen.
On the screen appeared a pavilion built upon a massive reef. Sitting beneath it was Zhenyan Wang, holding a wine cup. Far behind him loomed a magnificent golden palace, upon which two large golden characters were inscribed—Zhenyan.
“This must be the teacher’s temple on the Thunder Island,” Luo Feng mused.
“Luofeng,” Zhenyan Wang called with a smile on the screen.
“Teacher,” Luo Feng respectfully bowed.
“You’ve received the email from the Virtual Cosmic Corporation, right?” Zhenyan said, his eyes glinting with amusement. “Can’t wait to rush into the Primordial Secret Realm?”
“Yes,” Luo Feng nodded, then shook his head helplessly. “Teacher, after reading the email, I learned that there are two ways to ascend to the Primordial Secret Realm: the Qualification War and the Towering Heaven Mountain. I just tried the ‘Primordial Towering Heaven Mountain’…”
“Spit!” Zhenyan spat out his wine, his golden face brimming with laughter. “You said you attempted the Primordial Towering Heaven Mountain?”
“Yes,” Luo Feng nodded.
“You failed, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” Luo Feng nodded again.
“It would be strange if you didn’t fail!” Zhenyan couldn’t help but laugh. “You clearly know nothing about the Towering Heaven Mountain!”
“I just learned about the Towering Heaven Mountain after seeing the email,” Luo Feng replied quickly.
Zhenyan shook his head in disbelief. “There are three Towering Heaven Mountains, and core members can challenge them anytime! If you pass, you can immediately enter a higher secret realm. Sounds great, right? But do you think the difficulty is a joke? Do you remember the ‘Seven Trial Towers’ from the Genius War?”
Luo Feng nodded.
He had failed at the first level of the sixth trial tower, while Bolan reached the first level of the seventh tower.
“Same principle!”
“The standard set by the Seven Trial Towers is practically impossible to pass!” Zhenyan explained. “The Towering Heaven Mountain is the same! The difficulty is extremely high. If you want to pass the Primordial Towering Heaven Mountain and enter the Primordial Secret Realm, let me tell you this: even if all the Primordial Secret Realm members tried, none could pass the Primordial Towering Heaven Mountain.”
Luo Feng was stunned.
Even the members of the Primordial Secret Realm couldn’t pass the Primordial Towering Heaven Mountain?
“Understand now?”
“If you can pass the Primordial Towering Heaven Mountain, that means you’re stronger than any member of the Primordial Secret Realm at your level! Of course, you’d be promoted immediately,” Zhenyan said. “As for how difficult it really is, you’ve tried it. At which level did you fail? The foot of the mountain? Midway up? At the peak?”
“At the foot,” Luo Feng said, somewhat embarrassed. “I killed two but still failed.”
“Killing two is not bad at all, considering how short a time you’ve been trained by the Virtual Corporation,” Zhenyan remarked. “As for the difficulty of the Primordial Towering Heaven Mountain, at each level—foot, middle, and peak—there are three guardians.”
“The guardians are a warrior, a mentalist controller, and an illusionist.”
“They all attack you together.”
“Even if each is slightly weaker than you, together they complement each other and become stronger,” Zhenyan explained. “The guardians at the middle level are ten times stronger than those at the foot. The guardians at the peak are ten times stronger than those at the middle level!”
Luo Feng’s eyes widened. “So that means the guardians at the peak are a hundred times stronger than those at the foot?”
“Exactly, a hundred times stronger,” Zhenyan nodded.
“I can maintain the Sword World for 30 seconds. Being able to use the Sword World at Cosmic Lord Ninth Stage is already considered top-tier in the vast cosmos, right?” Luo Feng knew his standing well. Zhenyan nodded slightly.
“I can barely pass the foot level now, and the peak guardians are a hundred times stronger than the foot guardians?” Luo Feng couldn’t help but exclaim. “How could a Cosmic Lord Ninth Stage pass?”
Unimaginable.
At Cosmic Lord Ninth Stage, how could there be someone a hundred times stronger than himself?
He could already use the Sword World, and his will and consciousness could resist illusions!
“Exactly, how could anyone pass?” Zhenyan laughed. “That’s why even the Cosmic Lords of the Primordial Secret Realm can’t pass!”
Luo Feng was stunned.
“The Primordial Towering Heaven Mountain is just a benchmark, placed there to inspire awe and give people a goal, to remind them never to be arrogant,” Zhenyan said. “So if you want to ascend to the Primordial Secret Realm, the Qualification War is the real way!”
“Teacher?” Luo Feng’s mind stirred.
Zhenyan on the screen looked at Luo Feng.
“Has anyone ever passed the Primordial Towering Heaven Mountain?” Luo Feng asked quickly.
“Yes! Of course! And quite a few!” Zhenyan nodded with a smile. “The cosmos is vast, and humanity is countless. There are those with great luck, special encounters, strong wills, high aptitude, and excellent backgrounds. Throughout history, how many geniuses have emerged?”
“You and Bolan are merely geniuses who appear once every ten thousand eons. But how long has the Primordial Universe existed?”
“Throughout endless ages, there have been geniuses ten or even a hundred times stronger than you and Bolan,” Zhenyan shook his head. “Geniuses have a high chance of becoming supreme experts, yet many still fall. There were many of my contemporaries, though a few hundred thousand years before me. One of them was named Kedi, hailed as the greatest genius in a hundred million eons!”
“He passed the Primordial Towering Heaven Mountain directly during the Cosmic Lord, Domain Master, and World Lord stages. His encounters were extraordinary, defying the heavens. On the battlefield, other races trembled before him. At the World Lord stage, he could even kill an immortal of Marquis rank!”
“A group of cosmic monarchs and venerables fought to take him as their disciple. In the end, it was the Lord of Chaos City who took him as his apprentice.”
Luo Feng was stunned.
The Primordial Towering Heaven Mountain was like child’s play to him? Killing an immortal of Marquis rank at the World Lord stage? A group of cosmic monarchs and venerables fighting to take him as a disciple?
Unbelievable!
“And in the end?” Zhenyan shook his head. “He perished directly in a cosmic secret realm. He died at the peak of the World Lord stage.”
Luo Feng blinked.
“Someone may be a genius, the greatest in a galaxy. But look at the star regions, the cosmic nations, or even the entire human race?” Zhenyan smiled. “Even if you are the greatest genius of the human race, it’s only for a certain period. Look at ten thousand years, ten thousand eons, or even the entire history of humanity? What are you then?”
Luo Feng couldn’t help but nod.
“Be confident, but not too proud,” Zhenyan shook his head. “Bolan is too arrogant. He doesn’t realize that the cosmic monarchs don’t even take him seriously. With their long lifespans, they’ve seen many geniuses comparable to Bolan.”
“I understand.”
“I will strive. If others can pass the Primordial Towering Heaven Mountain, I will strive to do so as well,” Luo Feng said.
Zhenyan on the screen was slightly taken aback, then nodded.
“This time I contacted you to remind you about the Qualification War,” Zhenyan said. “The Qualification War starts with your internal battle in the Primordial Secret Realm! There are 38 Cosmic Lords in the Tai Chu Region, originally 30, plus your eight new recruits.”
Luo Feng nodded.
“38 people will battle to decide the top three.”
“Only the top three will have the chance to fight against the members of the Primordial Secret Realm. Of course, very few have succeeded in past competitions,” Zhenyan explained. “What I want to tell you now is the internal battle among the 38 members of the Tai Chu Secret Realm.”
“You, Ronjun, and the other seven are just newcomers.”
“The veterans of the Tai Chu Region have been trained by the Virtual Cosmic Corporation for at least a thousand years, some even for several thousand years,” Zhenyan said. “Among these 30 veterans, five have reached the seventh level of the Towering Bridge, and 25 have reached the sixth level.”
Luo Feng’s eyes widened.
This… this…
Thirty veterans, five of them at the seventh level of the Towering Bridge? The rest all at the sixth level?
“Don’t be surprised. If Wuka and others continue to cultivate for another thousand or several thousand years, they will all reach at least the sixth level of the Towering Bridge,” Zhenyan said. “Time, this is the magic of time! You may have higher talent, but they have trained longer.”
“But why haven’t they broken through to Domain Master after so long?” Luo Feng couldn’t help but ask.
It was so unfair.
The newcomers were practically being crushed. Among the 30 veterans, five had passed the seventh level of the Towering Bridge!
“Bottlenecks. For these geniuses, a thousand years is nothing,” Zhenyan poured a cup of wine, drank it in one go, and poured another as he spoke. “However, at the Cosmic Lord stage, you can take training missions to earn points! And by laying a solid foundation, your future achievements will naturally be greater.”
“After all, with their long lives, what’s a few thousand years at the Cosmic Lord stage?”
“Everyone is no fool; they all take the opportunity to earn points.”
“And precisely because of this, you can take at most ten training missions every hundred years! And there are also limits on how many times you can take missions of each level: Safety, Common, Difficult, Dangerous, and Desperate,” Zhenyan explained.
“This is so unfair!” Luo Feng couldn’t help but exclaim.
“They were also newcomers once,” Zhenyan on the screen said. “You’re lucky to stay in the Tai Chu Secret Realm. But people like Wuka from the Banka Star will probably be demoted to the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm.”
Luo Feng fell silent.
“Your biggest opponents are the five who have passed the seventh level of the Towering Bridge,” Zhenyan said.
“Five? The top five veterans among the 30?” Luo Feng frowned slightly.
The top five.
Their talents must be at least on par with Wuka, with much longer training time, countless training missions, and definitely very experienced.
“Work hard.”
“They are your opponents,” Zhenyan said. “This is your first Qualification War. It’s almost impossible to enter the Primordial Secret Realm. My requirement for you is… to enter the top three in Tai Chu!”
…
The call ended, and Luo Feng sat in the meditation room for a long time.
“I originally planned to enter the Primordial Secret Realm this time, but the strength of the veterans in the Tai Chu Secret Realm is surprisingly strong… The teacher wants me to enter the top three?” Luo Feng mused. “A soldier who doesn’t want to be a general is not a good soldier. If I can’t even dare to dream of entering the Primordial Secret Realm, I’m too useless.”
“This time!”
“I must enter the Primordial Secret Realm!”
“Six years, there are still six years,” Luo Feng mused. His original plan for the next six years was abandoned directly. Luo Feng already had some vague ideas for a new plan.
“Maximize the advantage!”
“Use the greatest advantage to maximize my strength.”
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