The mountains stretched endlessly, their peaks shrouded in dense forests.
Dongbo Xueying appeared in this layer of the world, standing atop a mountain as he surveyed the realm around him. This was the fourth layer of the Star Tower, where he had once been defeated as a nascent Void God.
“He’s here,” Dongbo Xueying murmured, his gaze settling on a distant point in the sky.
“Hiss—”
From the depths of countless mountains, wisps of bloody light surged forth, converging into a single point in the air. There, they coalesced into a towering, alien figure clad in crimson armor. His skin was dark as forged metal, yet his long black hair was braided into hundreds of tiny strands.
The crimson-armored being tilted his head slightly, his single gray eye scrutinizing Dongbo Xueying. “You’ve grown stronger? Finally daring to challenge me again?”
His aura distorted the very laws of the world, as though his very existence was meant to annihilate all things.
“May I ask where you come from?” Dongbo Xueying inquired.
“You are unworthy of knowing,” the crimson-armored being sneered before his expression twisted into a vicious grin. “Now, die.”
**Boom!**
A terrifying wave of energy erupted from him, sweeping across the land. Though seemingly harmless, the moment it touched the mountains, countless flowers withered instantly, and the leaves of the trees yellowed and fell. The entire layer of the world turned desolate in an instant.
Yet, when the wave reached Dongbo Xueying, it was effortlessly blocked a thousand miles away. His dominion over the laws was far superior.
“Interesting. Very interesting,” the crimson-armored being mused, abandoning his initial plan and deciding to engage in direct combat.
**Whoosh.**
He vanished.
Dongbo Xueying remained calm, standing still on the mountain peak. However, the space within a thousand miles around him plunged into absolute darkness. Then, he turned his head slightly—a distorted figure was struggling to emerge from the shadows a thousand miles away. It was the crimson-armored being, attempting to teleport in for the kill.
Though he could still move within Dongbo Xueying’s law domain, his speed was drastically reduced. Under such suppression, he could barely exert a tenth of his strength.
“Die,” Dongbo Xueying whispered.
**Whoosh.**
A vast, ten-thousand-mile-wide world of darkness descended from the void, solidifying into reality as it voraciously devoured the surrounding energy.
The crimson-armored being stared at the encroaching darkness. Though the world was silent, he could sense the terrifying destruction brewing beneath its surface. His expression twisted in alarm. He had assumed this young warrior, even after breaking through to the Unity realm, would still struggle to defeat him.
But now, he realized how wrong he had been.
“Last time, he was only at the nascent stage. How can he already overpower me so easily after such a short breakthrough? Even the elders of the Taixu Temple don’t cultivate this fast!” With a furious roar, he charged toward Dongbo Xueying, though his movements were sluggish.
The dark world rapidly shrank around him, condensing into a mere hundred-meter-wide bubble that encased the struggling figure.
**Pop!**
The bubble burst, unleashing a concentrated wave of annihilation upon the crimson-armored being. His eyes locked onto Dongbo Xueying in defiance before his body disintegrated into bloody light, which seeped back into the mountains.
“On to the fifth layer,” Dongbo Xueying muttered, unsurprised. Based on his mastery of the Dark World technique, this attack was more than enough to clear the fourth layer.
—
The fifth layer of the Star Tower held immense significance. Clearing it meant one’s strength had reached the threshold of the Chaos realm, marking near-invincibility among Unity realm cultivators. As for the sixth and seventh layers? Those were legends from ancient times. In this era, no Unity realm cultivator had ever reached the seventh layer, and even those at the sixth were exceedingly rare—rarer than encountering a Cosmic God!
In the Taixu Temple, those who cleared this layer were granted the title of Inner Hall Elder.
“Only by passing this layer will I uncover the hidden secret,” Dongbo Xueying mused as he appeared in a desolate wasteland. Lightning snakes crackled across the sky, striking the ground in the distance, yet his surroundings remained eerily calm.
“What secret could be so important that even my master, Gu Qi, refused to tell me?” he wondered.
“Soon.”
“Once I defeat this layer’s opponent, I’ll know.”
**Hiss—**
From the storm of lightning in the distance, crimson light surged from the earth, coalescing into a towering figure clad in blood-red armor. This one had four arms and silver-white skin, his cold gaze fixed on Dongbo Xueying.
“Just one?” Dongbo Xueying frowned in surprise.
Based on his experience, the first layer had one gray-armored opponent, the second had ten, and the third had a hundred. The fourth had one crimson-armored foe, and now the fifth also had only one—though this one looked entirely different.
“Unity realm? Die!” The four-armed warrior wasted no time, lunging forward with terrifying speed.
**Whoosh.**
He teleported within a thousand miles of Dongbo Xueying but was forced to materialize within the dark law domain. Yet, even under suppression, his speed was staggering—fast enough to close the distance in an instant.
“Damn!” Dongbo Xueying barely managed to teleport away. Even with the law domain hindering his foe, his own movement speed couldn’t match the four-armed warrior’s. Engaging in close combat was out of the question—his current melee skills were far inferior to his Dark World techniques.
**Rip—**
The four-armed warrior’s claws tore through space, shredding Dongbo Xueying’s afterimage. Meanwhile, the real Dongbo Xueying flickered through the void, simultaneously unleashing his **Dark Bubble** technique.
**Whoosh.**
A dark world descended, rapidly shrinking as it absorbed the surrounding energy. Though the four-armed warrior pursued relentlessly, the bubble tightened around him before—
**Pop!**
The explosion struck with concentrated force, leaving deep wounds across the warrior’s body. Yet, crimson light flowed over his injuries, slowly healing them.
“You can actually wound me?” the warrior growled, his fury mounting as he teleported again. This time, his speed surged even higher, defying the law domain’s suppression.
“Only wounded?” Dongbo Xueying narrowed his eyes. If a single Dark Bubble wasn’t enough…
“Then let’s escalate.”
**Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!**
One after another, six dark worlds manifested, each encapsulating the last. They solidified, devouring the world’s energy before shrinking rapidly—six bubbles, nested within one another, all trapping the enemy.
**Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!**
The bubbles detonated in sequence.
Dongbo Xueying’s soul could barely handle the strain of conjuring six dark worlds simultaneously. Any more would exceed his limits. But six was enough.
The explosions overlapped, their destructive force hammering the crimson-armored warrior again and again…
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