“Ahh!” The minotaur widened his bovine eyes and roared immediately, “Someone has entered the Primordial Heaven-Mount!”
Two streaks of light streaked across the sky from the distance—it was none other than the Ape Psychic Master and the Snake-Woman Illusionist. The three guardians at the mountain’s base converged, their gazes fixed upon Luo Feng. In moments, they had obtained intricate details about him.
“Luo Feng? He passed the 13th level of the Heaven Bridge?” The snake-woman smiled seductively, “Prince Luo Feng, your strength is still insufficient.”
“Cut the chatter.”
The dark-gold staff strapped to Luo Feng’s back abruptly split apart, transforming into 10,081 gleaming golden micro-blades. In the blink of an eye, ten thousand golden radiances wove together in an arcane and masterful dance, swiftly coalescing into a 3.3-meter-long obsidian-gold greatsword. This was the pinnacle manifestation of the Divine Armament—its ninth metamorphosis, known as “Even Celestials May Be Defied.”
“Whoosh!”
The battle began instantly!
…
From the foot of the Primordial Heaven-Mount, Luo Feng fought his way upward, defeating the guardians stationed at the foot and halfway up the mountain.
“Huff~” Luo Feng rode the Dark Cloud Shuttle, continuously flying upward along the towering Primordial Heaven-Mount. After flying for a long time, he finally reached the summit.
The mountain peak was shrouded in clouds and mist. The minotaur was lying there, snoring loudly. The ape was drinking heartily from a large barrel of fine wine, while in the distant pond, the snake-woman was bathing. When Luo Feng landed on the summit, the three guardians simultaneously opened their eyes and looked toward him, scrutinizing him.
The summit was the final and most difficult trial.
“How many years has it been?” The snake-woman sighed, slowly emerging from the pond, wearing only a thin veil. Though she had a snake tail and human body, her upper torso was partially visible beneath the veil, her faint blush clearly discernible, inciting desire.
“Yes, far too long,” the deep voice came from the minotaur.
“We were created, and for over a million epochs, no one has challenged us,” the ape stood up.
Luo Feng was slightly stunned by their words.
Manufactured?
Luo Feng then understood. These guardians were likely some form of ‘intelligence’ created by the Virtual Universe System. After all, the Virtual Universe System was incredibly powerful—it could simulate various laws of nature and, in places like the ‘Killing Fields,’ provide opponents tailored to a cultivator’s needs.
Therefore, creating guardians for the Heaven-Mounts of ‘Celestial,’ ‘Primordial,’ and ‘Original’ was a simple task.
However, these intelligences had existed for so long that some had evolved into ‘sentient beings,’ possessing emotions like joy, anger, and sorrow.
“Luo Feng,” the snake-woman looked at him, her voice soft and alluring, “Though I would love to chat more with you, an outsider, we must carry out our duties and give it our all…”
“I feel the same,” Luo Feng said softly.
Boom!
The dark-gold rod behind his back instantly disassembled and reformed into a dark-gold sword. At the same time, Luo Feng’s body began to sprout scales, and in moments, he transformed into a humanoid ‘Beast God,’ using the technique ‘Beast God Transformation’—though only the first level, his power was not particularly strong.
“Seems quite impressive,” the snake-woman smiled.
At her smile…
Luo Feng fell into an illusion. Immediately, an arc of light shot from behind the thin ape, slicing toward Luo Feng’s neck, aiming to sever his head.
“Break!” Luo Feng’s eyes flashed like lightning, and with a low shout, he shattered the illusion.
“Clang!”
The obsidian-gold blade accelerated to its zenith in an instant, accompanied by the primordial growl of a celestial beast—utterly tyrannical and savage. With a thunderous detonation, it rent the heavens asunder, crashing against the luminous crescent. Both the arc of radiance and Luo Feng’s Divine Derivative Weapon trembled violently under the impact, recoiling in unison through the shattered firmament.
“With my mind power fully amplified and using the first level of ‘Scale Armor’ to its fullest, I can only match this ape,” Luo Feng’s expression changed slightly, and he immediately let out a low roar.
He shot forward like lightning toward the minotaur.
As he closed in to strike the Minotaur, he manipulated the Divine Weapon to ensnare the ape. As for the serpent-woman… Luo Feng paid her no heed, unwavering in his conviction that his indomitable will could shatter her illusions.
“Hahaha…” The minotaur laughed, charging toward Luo Feng. Each step shook the mountain stones. The bloody great axe in his hand was instantly raised high. In an instant, the space trembled, and invisible giant axe shadows appeared around him. With a low growl, the space was sliced open, creating a terrifying rift.
A Domain Lord at the ninth stage easily tore through cosmic space!
“Excellent!” Under the ‘Beast God Transformation,’ Luo Feng morphed into a humanoid beast deity and swung his right hand with overwhelming dominance.
“Break it!!!”
Luo Feng appeared to shatter the heavens and earth with a single palm strike. A claw emerged, faintly revealing the phantom of a colossal, indistinct beast god’s talon. This strike collided with the bloody great axe from the side. With a thunderous boom, the crimson axe was forcibly deflected. The minotaur swiftly adapted—shifting from a downward cleave to a sweeping horizontal slash!
“Whoosh!” Luo Feng moved like lightning.
After delivering the claw strike, he immediately lunged forward, his hands landing on the surface of the axe blade. Then, with a sudden extension of his claws!
“Tearing Heaven Claw!” Luo Feng unleashed it fully for the first time.
This claw strike was ferociously powerful!
As the claw struck, five spatial rifts instantly appeared in the air. Then, Luo Feng’s claw pierced through the minotaur’s chest armor. The terrifying claw force rampaged inside the minotaur’s body, easily destroying his life core.
The minotaur died!
“Two left.” Luo Feng, having torn through the minotaur’s chest, quickly turned around and dashed toward the others like lightning.
…
In truth, when the minotaur was killed, the outcome of the battle was already decided.
“It’s done.”
Standing atop the summit, Luo Feng looked at the three blurry corpses shrouded in mist. Then, the wounds on the three bodies instantly vanished, and they returned to normal. The minotaur, the snake-woman, and the ape stood up again.
“Congratulations, Luo Feng.”
“Congratulations on passing the Primordial Heaven-Mount.”
The three guardians smiled at Luo Feng. The snake-woman couldn’t help but ask, “Luo Feng, why is my illusion always ineffective on you?”
“Your illusion isn’t strong enough,” Luo Feng smiled faintly.
Nine hundred years of arduous cultivation in the City of Chaos, enduring prolonged solitude, had profoundly tempered his state of mind. After nine centuries… Luo Feng’s willpower had evidently grown stronger. “Cultivating the Mind and Awakening the Heart”—though only at the initial stage of mental realm, relentless extreme training and refinement could still elevate his willpower.
With Luo Feng’s firm will, how could the snake-woman possibly shake him?
…
On the rooftop of one of the many cultivation residences in Chaos City, Luo Feng sat cross-legged.
“Done,” Luo Feng murmured as his eyes fluttered open, a glimmer of triumph dancing in their depths. “The Primordial Heaven-Mount has been conquered. Now, upon ascending to Monarch rank, the merit points shall be mine—and with them, my power shall surge to unprecedented heights!” His fingers curled into fists as determination hardened his voice. “This… this will be my edge in the crucible of life and death.”
“Right.”
“Chaos City Lord also told me… when I reach Monarch level, I should go find him.”
“So, now, I’ll break through to become a Monarch.”
Luo Feng closed his eyes…
…
At the same moment.
On Thunder Island in the Virtual Universe, things were lively. The company’s management learned a piece of news—the news that Luo Feng had passed the Primordial Heaven-Mount!
“It’s been so long. Finally, a descendant of our human race has passed the Primordial Heaven-Mount at Domain Lord level,” said a tall, thin man with compound eyes, wearing a sinister emerald battle armor. He sat sipping fruit wine, nodding in admiration.
“Luo Feng truly lives up to being chosen by Chaos City Lord. His potential is indeed extraordinary,” said a bald man in a silver robe with green markings on his face, smiling as he glanced at another person.
The trio engaged in conversation were all Monarch-tier powerhouses under the administration of the Virtual Universe Corporation. When Luo Feng last completed his highest-point mission… it was these three who presided over its evaluation.
“Hmph.” A short man with messy green hair snorted, “This Luo Feng is bloodthirsty and extremely selfish. What good is his strength? In the future, he might become a disaster. In my opinion, we should have restricted him and suppressed his development long ago!”
“We wouldn’t dare suppress him,” the man with compound eyes and sinister aura chuckled. “That’s the personal disciple of Chaos City Lord. The Virtual Universe Company has always been under Chaos City Lord’s sole control… I must say, Bossiwa, you truly have guts to dare suppress the disciple of Chaos City Lord.”
Bossiwa’s face grew even darker.
Suddenly, the silver-robed bald man grinned, “Speaking of which, I recall that once someone surpasses the Primordial Heaven-Mount at the Domain Lord level, when Luo Feng ascends to Monarch… he’ll be granted a reward of 3 billion points, correct?”
“Yes, that’s right,” the man with compound eyes nodded.
“Three billion points. Luo Feng hasn’t received many resources before, yet his progress has been astonishingly swift. Once he ascends to Monarch… with these three billion points, he can acquire countless treasures tailored to his needs. Under the tutelage of the Chaos City Lord, he may very well soar like a dragon into the heavens. Perhaps he will even become a legend on par with Kedi himself.” The silver-robed bald man spoke with admiration.
The man with compound eyes and sinister aura and the silver-robed bald man sang in harmony, irritating the short man beside them.
The two weren’t mocking him without cause. Back during Luo Feng’s highest-scoring mission in the Fourth Ring, the trio had clashed. The man with faceted eyes and the silver-robed bald one both held… that a touch of selfishness was perfectly natural. To lack it would be unnatural. Besides, Luo Feng dealt fairly with other clan members—he deserved a 90% to 100% completion rate, and extra points could be doled out liberally besides.
But this Monarch named ‘Bossiwa’ disagreed.
He believed Luo Feng was extremely selfish!
He didn’t even deign to acknowledge his own father, clearly showing no respect for the Virtual Universe Corporation… Nurturing such an individual might invite calamity.
(Note: I made the following stylistic adjustments for a fantasy tone:
1. “deign to acknowledge” conveys more arrogance than “bother to”
2. “Corporation” instead of “Company” sounds more grandiose
3. “Nurturing” fits cultivation themes better than “cultivating”
4. “Invite calamity” has a more ominous, prophetic ring than “bring disaster”)
After the argument…
The final score was neither too high nor too low.
“Time will tell. I said it before, Luo Feng might very well become a disaster in the future,” the short man said.
“Oh?” The man with compound eyes and the silver-robed bald man both smiled.
Just as they were talking—
All three simultaneously received a piece of news.
The number of Primordial Secret Monarchs had increased from 100 to 101. The newly added Primordial Secret Monarch… was none other than Luo Feng!
“Luo Feng has become a Monarch?” The man with compound eyes and the silver-robed bald man smiled. The short man, however, wore a cold expression.
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