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Deep inside Wu Qi Tower along the True God Path, Luo Feng absorbs an endless river of unowned godly power and deciphers ancient, complex 3D life diagrams. Utilizing the inherited technique Creation and 10,000x time acceleration, Luo Feng achieves a massive breakthrough—soaring to 60,000x life gene level and expanding his godly body to a colossal 100 million kilometers tall! In this Swallowed Star novel explanation, Luo Feng completes the trial only to be transported into a mysterious, empty passageway!
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Deep inside Wu Qi Tower along the True God Path, Luo Feng absorbs an endless river of unowned godly power and deciphers ancient, complex 3D life diagrams. Utilizing the inherited technique Creation and 10,000x time acceleration, Luo Feng achieves a massive breakthrough—soaring to 60,000x life gene level and expanding his godly body to a colossal 100 million kilometers tall! In this Swallowed Star novel explanation, Luo Feng completes the trial only to be transported into a mysterious, empty passageway!
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00:00On the screen, the four leaders watched. Golden Claw. God Luofeng slipped past the giant hands as
00:06if they were nothing. He was toying with the dark red rock giant, and the beams of light could not
00:12touch him. But the ancient engraving kept sinking, and the gap between it and the ground shrank by
00:17the second. Luofeng had less room to maneuver, and the light began to find him. Duanmi, the first
00:24level of burning godly power, he said almost before he had decided to speak. The four leaders
00:30grinned. So Milky Way finally uses the godly power-burning technique. He was patient, I'll
00:36give him that. As a soldier from a special army, he would have learned the first level in his basic
00:41inheritance. Of course he knows it. Once the technique took hold, his attack, defense, and speed
00:47all rose at once. Suddenly everything was easy again. He could manage the rock hand, the rock giant,
00:53and the streaks of light together without strain. After several minutes, the engraving dropped low
00:59enough to nearly brush him, and he had to dive to keep away from it. Lingering close would only
01:04leave him open to the beams. The second floor is nothing to that soldier, one leader said. Right,
01:10he may lose something at the very end, but his godly body has barely been touched. It won't matter to
01:16him. Elsewhere on the second floor, the armored teenager in dark red armor was running as hard as he
01:22could. The engraving was only a million kilometers above the ground, too low for him to climb. The
01:28rock hands from the cracks could not easily catch him either. It still hasn't ended, he gasped.
01:34Light hammered his back again and again, but he barely noticed. Dodging the beams was hopeless now,
01:39and all his attention was fixed on the ground beneath him. A rock hand shot up from a crack. He
01:45tried to
01:45twist away, but was a fraction too slow. Its palm, a million kilometers wide, stretched out and caught
01:52him. I've lost too much of my godly body, he said bitterly. My power has been weakened badly. I can't
01:58dodge even if I try. He turned his weapon inward and poured his remaining strength into an attack,
02:04against the hand. The hand did not care. The dark red rock giant charged in and slapped him.
02:10Twenty times in quick succession. He tore free and fled, only to find the light falling on him anew.
02:17I can't. His godly body was fading with every heartbeat. The giant hand burst from the earth
02:23once more. Before it could even touch him, the flowing light found him and wiped him out. Only
02:28shards of armor and a few machine-type valuables remained. Another soldier was gone. Half a minute
02:34later, three more soldiers had their worlds dissolve. The rock giants melted back into crimson fluid and
02:40sank into the cracks. The survivors sat dazed on the scorched ground. Ha! I'm still alive!
02:46I was in despair. It's finally over. One more second and I would have been dead.
02:52They had been through hell. The best of them had about a tenth of his power left,
02:57and the weakest had less than a thousandth. All three had survived, but only just.
03:02Then the reality set in. What do we do now? Our godly bodies have never been weaker,
03:07and this is only the second floor. There's still the third, fourth, and fifth. How are we supposed
03:12to survive those? We're already so weak. We're not the only ones, another said. It's a fair game.
03:19Maybe the tower will give us something to restore our godly bodies. Look at that soldier from the
03:24Python River Army. He's still holding back the dark red rock giant. They turned to follow his gesture.
03:31The soldiers of the next group, Luo Feng most of all, still stood at the height of their power.
03:37Even after burning his godly power he can suppress that rock giant. He uses it as a shield against
03:43the light and the rock hands. How is he so strong? Three pillars of light descended without,
03:49warning and swallowed the survivors whole. They vanished. They've been sent to the third floor,
03:55Luo Feng observed, glancing around. Two of the five died, and the other three are badly weakened.
04:02My group may be heading the same way. The engraving kept descending, and Luo Feng's group suffered
04:07even more. Soon soldiers began to fall, and three of them survived. I made it. Ha! I survived!
04:14The other two were delighted, but both kept a careful distance once they saw Luo Feng.
04:20One of them, a thin man named Shuzhong, looked away. Luo Feng turned to him and smiled lightly.
04:26He's lucky to still be alive, Luo Feng said. Shuzhong went pale. He understood that Milky Way had seen
04:33through him. Three pillars of light enveloped Luo Feng and the other two and carried them away.
04:39The third floor was a vast plain, and Luo Feng and the two others appeared on it.
04:44The fourth group has arrived. Both the third and fourth groups have three survivors.
04:49In the distance, Luo Feng saw moving shapes, some soldiers and some strange beasts. Eleven soldiers
04:56stood across the plain. He counted quickly. Six had come from the third and fourth groups,
05:02so the other five must have come from the first and second. The third floor, then, required everyone
05:07to gather. As he studied them, the survivors from the third and fourth groups grew terrified.
05:13They teleported away and sealed the eight. Space ripples around themselves, so no one could follow.
05:18Huh? What's going on? The survivors from the first and second groups were dazed. It was obvious that
05:25the soldier before them stood on a different level altogether. A single look from him was enough to
05:30frighten them. We need to keep away from him, too. That soldier from Python River Army must be formidable.
05:37Even those who did not know his strength kept their distance and sealed. Their own space.
05:42Luo Feng simply shook his head and smiled. Time passed. On the sixth day, two more soldiers arrived.
05:50Soon after, a sixth group of three appeared. Two months went by. By then, thirty-eight soldiers had
05:56gathered on the plain. Some were friends of the earlier survivors and quickly learned how fearsome.
06:02Luo Feng was. Most kept away from him, but a few were too proud to be cowed. He's only a
06:07tribal warrior.
06:08Yet you're all trembling. Before him, said a giant plant. Creature with resentment. Colorful flowers
06:16bloomed across its body, and the largest one held several eyes and mouths. I killed tens of thousands
06:22of tribal warriors before. I joined the army. It glared at Luo Feng with open provocation.
06:28Your godly body is nearly a hundred million kilometers. Tall, a soldier called from a distance.
06:34Of course you don't need to fear him. Luo Feng cared nothing for what those around him felt.
06:39He simply stood where he was. At last, two more soldiers arrived, and then the plane changed.
06:45A whirlpool rippling like water opened in the sky. All forty surviving soldiers looked up.
06:50Space and time trembled, and wherever they stood, they were pulled directly beneath it.
06:56Screens of light poured down from the whirlpool and enclosed an area,
07:00a billion kilometers across, cutting it off from the outside world. The whirlpool itself
07:05was just as wide. A giant eye opened at its center and gazed down at them. Each soldier felt
07:11his soul seize up. Wuchi Tower! An ancient voice rang in every soldier's ears. Your lives are in
07:17danger on the first three levels. But if you survive those three, you will be safe. From the fourth level
07:23onward, you will have the chance to receive inheritance and valuables. It continued.
07:29Of course, that only holds if you survive the third level first.
07:33High above the grassland, the divine eye gazed down at the forty warriors,
07:38and an aged voice spoke inside each of their minds.
07:41You forty have shown your strength on the first two levels. On this third level, only fifteen of you
07:47will survive. Those fifteen will climb to the fourth level and claim their rewards.
07:51Until you have endured the trial of this level, do not enter the battleship. Whoever does so fails at
07:58once and falls into annihilation. Luofeng felt a chill. Fifteen? That meant more than half of them
08:04would die here. Most of the warriors began to tremble. Those who had made it this far were
08:09extraordinary. But the numbers were brutal, and few dared to believe they would be among the fifteen.
08:15Then two blasts tore through the air, and enormous branches and leaves unfolded across the sky.
08:20They blazed with golden radiance and lashed at the crowd. A warrior with less than one percent of
08:26his godly power left was struck, and he vanished completely. It killed a warrior! Even Luofeng turned
08:33his head. The attacker was a plant life form, and one of the bright flowers on its body curled into
08:39a sneer. The tower said only fifteen may survive. It said nothing about us not fighting each other.
08:45The more I kill, the fewer rivals I have. Meet your end! Most of the warriors were badly hurt from
08:51the
08:51miniature worlds of the second level. The weakest had barely a thousandth of their power left.
08:56Run! Be careful! The most injured scattered in every direction, trying to keep their distance from the
09:03stronger warriors. But the Divine Eye had sealed off everything within a billion kilometers, and no
09:09matter how fast they fled, they could not leave that circle. Chaos spread across the area in moments.
09:16Luofeng did not move. No one dared approach him, not even the arrogant plant creature.
09:20Then the Divine Eye flared. Golden light poured down and spread outward. Several warriors who had
09:26been fighting suddenly felt as though their souls had been struck. They stopped attacking one another
09:32at once. No one knew what the third level held, and being distracted now could mean certain death.
09:38A few moments later, three more warriors were annihilated. All three had been near death since the
09:43second level, and they were simply trampled. Their armor, weapons, and automaton-type
09:49treasures were stripped away. Shuzhong glanced at Luofeng from a distance and let out a breath.
09:54Lucky that Milky Way didn't make a move. Across the grassland, warriors looked up at the Divine Eye,
10:00which poured out endless golden light. Its willpower pressed down on everyone, but for now,
10:06it was bearable. What kind of danger is this level hiding? Is that eye the only threat?
10:11The second level started with harmless-looking engravings, and then rock giants came out.
10:16Who knows what might rise from this grass? Some took to the air, unwilling to stand on ground where
10:23something might burst out at any moment. The golden light kept falling and its power kept growing.
10:28The willpower is getting stronger. Is this the test of willpower? They fought to hold on.
10:34No one wanted to be the first to give up. This was the last level with real death in it.
10:39From the fourth level on, only rewards waited, and who would not gamble for that?
10:44Luofeng endured the pressure and sighed inwardly. Now he understood why the injured warriors could
10:50not recover. This was a test of willpower. A lost, godly body weakened combat power a great deal,
10:56but it touched willpower only slightly. The pressure is growing, he said to himself.
11:02Then he fixed his eyes on Shuzhong, who had taken the form of a bibbird far off.
11:06It means nothing to me yet. While it is still weak, I must deal with him first.
11:11He moved and his speed rose sharply as he shot toward Shuzhong. Shuzhong was struggling against
11:17the pressure while, keeping one eye on everything around him. His bibbird form was superb for escaping,
11:23but weak in direct combat. His injuries from the second level still weighed on him. Even after
11:29recovering during the break, he had only regained about half his godly body, and his power was a tenth of
11:35what he had started with. He could not afford to be careless.
11:38Huh? He caught a streak of light coming toward him.
11:42Milky Way! A chill ran through him. He was terrified of this man. He changed into a large
11:48white bird and surged forward. At the same time, he sent a voice message.
11:52Milky Way! We are both from the East Army, why are you chasing me so relentlessly?
11:57If I don't kill you, who else should I kill?
12:00Luo Feng's reply was cold. Shuzhong's heart sank. At the very start of the first level,
12:06he had ambushed Luo Feng and spoken nearly the same words.
12:10You're a new recruit. If I don't kill you, who else should I kill?
12:14Now the tables had turned.
12:16Milky Way, let me go, he pleaded. I'll give you this automaton-type
12:20treasure as an apology. Spare me, and it's yours.
12:24Hmph, Luo Feng snorted. He had no real appetite for killing.
12:28He had come to climb this tower, not to stain his hands. But he despised men like Shuzhong.
12:34They smiled to your face like brothers, then struck the moment your back was turned.
12:39Long ago, while traveling through Demon Note Mountain, Luo Feng had been ambushed by his
12:44own partner, Mo Luo. Since then, he had carried a deep hatred for that kind of man.
12:50Xuchung had to die. Shuzhong fled and Luo Feng pursued.
12:54Even at a tenth of his power, Shuzhong flew faster than Luo Feng in a straight line.
12:59Blaze up! Luo Feng willed it, and he executed the first volume of extermination,
13:05Golden Claw. God's speed surged. He had studied his Shi Wu wings for over eight million eras.
13:12He had not brought them into the world of Jin, but he had mastered them as a whole treasure.
13:17Combined with the body technique flowing gold, which suited acceleration well,
13:21the gap began to close. Milky Way, what will it take for you to let me go?
13:26Shuzhong called, looking back in panic.
13:29When you are gone for good, I'll let you go, Luo Feng answered, indifferent.
13:35The area beneath the Divine Eye was only a million kilometers across.
13:39At their speed, they could cross it in a second. So Shuzhong was forced to weave along arcs and corners,
13:46doing everything he could to keep his distance. Half a minute of pursuit passed,
13:50and Luo Feng still could not reach him. Perhaps Shuzhong was fighting for his life.
13:55Or perhaps Bib Bird was simply masterful in the air. Luo Feng shook his head.
14:00In Nine Smoke Marsh, he had been willing to use the second volume of
14:04Extermination Because No Warriors Controlled That Land.
14:08Here, every move was likely being watched. He had to hold back. Let's see how long you can hold out,
14:14he thought. Continuing the chase without giving Shuzhong a moment to breathe,
14:19Shuzhong was consumed by resentment and regret.
14:23Time crept on. The Divine Eye's golden light grew heavier, and now many warriors were feeling the strain.
14:30The willpower has reached the limit a lawmaster can bear. Some were in agony. Most of these warriors were
14:36elite, and most had broken through to the willpower of a true god. A few had not.
14:42Kill. Some fought harder precisely because they feared their own weak will. They believed that
14:48killing their opponents would ease the pressure. Fewer opponents means we're closer to fifteen.
14:53Kill. Warriors fighting for their lives while resisting the pressure could not afford a single
14:59lapse. Over thirty of them streaked through the air, colliding and striking, and the slower ones began
15:05to fall. Then the pressure surpassed what some could endure. Nine warriors suddenly convulsed in
15:10mid-flight. Their bodies shook, they lost consciousness, and they dropped. The Divine Eye fixed its gaze on
15:17them and fired nine beams of piercing purple light. Each beam struck one unconscious warrior,
15:23and each one was annihilated. Only armor, automaton-type treasures, and belongings remained.
15:28Luo Feng flashed past the scene at tremendous speed. With a single wave of his hand, he gathered
15:35everything one of the fallen warriors had left behind. That is quite a fortune, he said under his
15:41breath. This level offers a rare chance to gather treasure. If I let it slip, I may never see another.
15:47Every warrior was a walking treasure vault. Nearly all of them carried at least two automaton-type
15:52treasures. Since they had survived the first two levels, ahead, Shuzhong was still fleeing.
15:57I must escape. I cannot die. This pressure is growing too strong. I don't think I can bear it
16:04much longer. The Divine Eye's golden. Light kept falling across the grassland, and every warrior
16:10beneath it. Its willpower grew stronger with each passing moment slowly but without pause. Those who
16:15could not bear the rising weight had only one way out. Only fifteen would survive. The Divine Eye pressed
16:22harder against the field, and its mental shock sank deeper into every mind it touched.
16:27Shuzhong felt his thoughts begin to slip away from him. Stay conscious, he told himself.
16:32For the love of God, stay conscious. He looked back. Golden Claw God was a black streak in the sky,
16:39and it had not slowed even a fraction. His mind was crumbling and his flight had become unsteady.
16:45With the last of his strength, he sent a voice message across the air.
16:48Milky Way, I was wrong to do what I did. Spare my life! Please spare me! Golden Claw God reached
16:55him
16:55in an instant. Die! A single claw swept down across the giant white bird. Its wings folded,
17:02and it dropped out of the sky, slamming onto the plane. Luofeng landed beside it.
17:07Bib Bird had already lost consciousness. Across the field, the surviving soldiers watched from a distance.
17:13They understood what they were seeing. The bird was finished, and the Divine Eye would soon erase it.
17:19The treasures it left behind would be claimed by someone. None of them dared to challenge Luofeng for
17:25them. A thin thread of purple light fell from the eye and struck Bibby. Bird, the machine-type
17:31treasure that had shielded. Shuzhong could not stop it, and he was gone. Only armor, space bracelets,
17:37and a few machine-type treasures remained on the grass. Luofeng gathered all of it with a flick of
17:43his hand, then turned toward the soldiers still fighting. The count was falling fast. Twenty-eight,
17:49twenty-six, twenty-three. Some. Soldiers were taken by the Divine Eye, and others fell to their own
17:55companions. Stay back! A voice thundered. Golden Claw God shot toward a fallen soldier, racing for the
18:02treasure it had left behind. It's Milky Way. Three soldiers had been sprinting toward the same spot.
18:08The moment they saw who else was heading there, they veered away. They were too far back to win,
18:14and even if one of them got a lead, Luofeng would overtake him. Crossing him now could only end badly.
18:20Of all the soldiers, the plant creature had collected the most. Only Luofeng came close. It stood nearly a
18:26hundred million kilometers tall, and its spread of branches covered so much ground that it could
18:32gather treasure faster than anyone. Then the largest flower on its body began to shriek.
18:37No, it can't be! Die! All of you die! The plant was formidable in many ways, but the mental shock
18:44was grinding it down. Plant creatures relied on their bodies in battle, and this one had never trained
18:50its willpower to match. Its will had reached true God level, yet beside the other elite soldiers it
18:56was only ordinary. No! No! Its resolve was giving way. The soldiers in the distance turned to watch.
19:04They kept their distance, but their eyes were hungry. The plant held more machine-type treasures
19:09than anyone else. Luofeng hung in the air and watched as well. Die, all of you! The plant roared,
19:15lashing out with its branches. Golden light flickered along each limb as they swept across
19:21the field. The soldiers scattered away from it. Most still had plenty of power, so even if caught,
19:27they would not die quickly. No. The branches sank to the ground in mid-swing, and the shriek faded.
19:33The plant had lost consciousness. Luofeng's eyes narrowed with interest, and he darted toward it like
19:38a shot of light. Other soldiers rushed in as well. Even treasures that did not suit them. Could be
19:44traded for military. Credits and exchanged for something useful. A cold purple beam struck the
19:50plant, and it was annihilated. Only treasure remained. A strange beast soldier with two pairs
19:56of wings and a three-horned head reached it first, faster than anyone else. They're mine!
20:01It swooped low across the plain and scooped up every treasure there. You thief! Someone shouted.
20:08The beast smirked. Soldier Milky Way, I am not as strong as you, but I fly much faster.
20:14Luofeng streaked toward it. Is that so? He transformed in a heartbeat. Golden Claw.
20:21God melted away, and in its place a silver-white flying beast took shape. It was Bib Bird.
20:28Bib Bird! The strange beast gasped. Bib Bird accelerated and outpaced it at once.
20:33The bird had come from Shujong, and Luofeng had already planned what to do with it.
20:38Right after taking it, he had sent it into Boat of Mausoleum and given it to Golden Horned Beast to
20:44study. Time in the space of inheritance ran ten thousand times slower than outside. Golden Horned
20:50Beast had spent more than a day inside, yet only about ten seconds had passed in the real world.
20:55How? The beast stammered. A new machine-type treasure usually took a long time to master.
21:01How had Milky Way understood this one so quickly? It did not know that Luofeng's grasp of engravings
21:07ran deep, and that within the space of inheritance, understanding came to him almost at once.
21:13Everyone says you're powerful! The beast shrieked. I don't believe you're stronger than me.
21:18Go down, said Bib Bird, closing in. Its wings cut through the air in the blade technique.
21:23Light of water and fire. The strike hurled the beast into the plane, where it crashed and left
21:30a deep crater. Luofeng reverted to Golden Claw God. Attack was this form's strength.
21:36Die! Golden Claw. God surrounded the beast and struck without pause,
21:42its shadow rolling over the creature like waves. The beast tried to fight back, but once it was
21:48caught, escape was impossible. Luofeng was far stronger, already weakened from the second level.
21:53The beast was torn apart under an unbroken flood of blade light. Thirty seconds later,
21:59it was gone. Hmph. Luofeng gathered the treasure. An elite, to be sure. It lasted longer than that
22:06true god from Nine Smoke Marsh even hurt as it was. The others stared in silence. A powerful elite had
22:12not even managed to flee before it was crushed in thirty seconds. Fear spread through the survivors.
22:18This was the first soldier Luofeng had killed on the third floor.
22:22Shuzhong's death had come from the Divine Eye, but this one was Luofeng's doing. With one fight,
22:29he had shown everyone that staying away from him was the wise choice. The Divine Eye blazed brighter,
22:34and its mental shock swelled. Ah! Only fifteen can survive. Under the pressure,
22:41the soldiers began to lose themselves. They turned on each other with growing fury,
22:45and their numbers kept falling. Twenty, eighteen, sixteen. At last fifteen. By the time only fifteen
22:52remained within the eye's light. Its mental shock had reached the peak of top-tier true gods,
22:57nearly the limit. Every soldier except Luofeng was barely standing. Eight million eras, Luofeng said.
23:04Looking over the struggling soldiers with a sigh, a limit-level true god's mental shock meant nothing to him.
23:09When he first received Duandong River's inheritance, his mind had already reached true god level. He had
23:16then spent a long time training in the space of inheritance. The ideal place to cultivate supreme
23:21beings, and willpower could be sharpened there, too. Across more than eight million eras, he had raised
23:28his willpower far beyond where it began. He suspected it now matched a true god of void space. True gods
23:35often
23:35possess that kind of willpower, and some in the universe ocean had reached it. Among universe
23:40masters, however, it was rare. Luofeng did not think it was extraordinary. I have the space of
23:46inheritance, he thought. If I could not reach that level, I would be a poor excuse for an air of
23:52Duandong River. Every air of Duandong, river was expected to reach that level of willpower. While still
23:59a universe master, the divine eye vanished. Fifteen pillars of light descended, enveloped the fifteen
24:06survivors, and carried them away from the third level of Wuchi Tower. The four leaders sat in the
24:11silver palace beside Wuchi Tower, their eyes fixed on a floating screen that followed every fighter
24:17inside. For a while, none of them spoke. Then the black mist let out a low, satisfied laugh. He crossed
24:24the
24:24third level as if he were taking a walk, it said. Only a warrior with willpower at the level of
24:30a true
24:30god of void space could stay that calm under the divine eye, and he is still a lawmaster. The silver
24:38armored woman narrowed her eyes at the way Golden Claw God moved. His blade work is refined enough to rank
24:44with an elementary true god. Body, blade, and will. He is strong in every direction, said the gravest of
24:51the four. Since I took this post, I have never seen anyone like him. If he reaches the top of
24:55Wuchi Tower, we will finally honor the faith His Majesty the Godly King placed in us. The weight of
25:02that faith settled over the room. Their gazes slid to the fourth floor, where the next trial was waiting.
25:08The prizes are there, one of them murmured. I wonder which one Milky Way will choose. The fifteen
25:15survivors had been waiting for this moment. Wuchi Tower had promised them that the first three floors were
25:20death traps, and that from the fourth floor on only rewards remained. For the first time since the
25:26divine eye had appeared, the fear that had gripped them began to loosen. Space folded around them,
25:32and all fifteen found themselves on the fourth floor. Portals stretched in every direction,
25:37and along the walls between them hung countless trees and bodies, living and dead, as if creatures of
25:44every kind had been sealed into the stone. A maze, Luo Feng thought. A portal on my left,
25:50another on my right. No one moved. They waited for the tower to speak. Light gathered around them,
25:57and the voice returned. Lucky soldiers! You have reached the fourth level, and from now on you are
26:03safe. No soldier may attack another. Anyone who does will be executed. That first line eased the room.
26:09The soldiers glanced at one another, and their shoulders dropped. Four portals surround you,
26:15and each holds a different prize, the voice continued. The portal of dimming white light
26:20leads to valuables. Machine-type weapons and treasures that can restore your godly bodies.
26:25The portal of dimming golden light leads to inheritance, where special techniques wait,
26:31and the fortunate may find extraordinary ones. The portal of dimming purple light is a path to true
26:36gods, following the law path. It shows you how to break through and become a true god. The portal of
26:42dim black light is also a path to true gods, but it follows the godly power path. It will make
26:48you
26:48stronger, but it is hundreds of times more difficult. The voice paused. You may choose only one. The prize
26:55you take will decide whether you enter the fifth floor. Choose, lucky soldiers. Then it fell silent.
27:01A giant black snake beast, strung with skulls, slithered toward the golden portal.
27:07Extraordinary techniques will let me match great beings of my own level. It hissed. A short tribal
27:13warrior shook his head. I have been stuck as a lawmaster far too long. I must become a true god.
27:20The godly power path is too hard for me, so I'll take the purple one. He stepped through. The soldiers
27:25chose one after another. Some hoped the tower would reveal how to become a true god and reached for
27:32techniques or valuables. Others wanted the fastest route to true godhood and took the path to true
27:37gods. Eight of the fifteen chose a path to true gods. Six of those eight picked the law path,
27:43the common and gentler road that everyone knew about. Few felt sure they could succeed on it,
27:49and none dared try the godly power path. After all, it was only a guide.
27:53The godly power path? Luofeng said. Let me see what his majesty the godly king left for those who
28:00come after. He did not hesitate. Valuables? He had already gathered plenty. And he did not expect the
28:07tower to offer anything exceptional, after only three floors. Techniques? He already carried a
28:13great many from Duandong River. The law path? He had set it aside long ago. Only the godly power
28:20path remained. The one his majesty had left behind. Perhaps it would stir something in him. The four
28:26leaders watched. Luofeng and one other soldier step onto the godly power path, and both of them sighed.
28:33A wise choice, one leader said. On the fourth level, the godly power path to true gods is the only
28:40truly
28:40precious portal. It is his majesty's great achievement. Milky Way has chosen well. The rest of the army knew
28:47nothing of this. But these four led godly king valley and guarded Wuqi Tower. So they understood
28:53what it meant. The peerless talent. His majesty sought would have to become a true god through the godly
28:59power path. There was also a second way to prove oneself the genius the godly king wanted. One had
29:05to reach a life gene level of 90,000 times on the godly power. Path and solve all 10,081.
29:12Solutions of the
29:13Rhinoceros Emperor game in one go. Anyone who met both conditions would be sealed on the spot and
29:18receive. Wuqi God. Taken together, the two requirements made clear that the genius must walk
29:24the godly power path. When the tower was built, his majesty had designed that path with special care for
29:31his successors. Luofeng walked the hallway. Bodies and objects were sealed into both walls, displayed like
29:38specimens in a museum. Where is the godly power guide? He searched carefully. Then his eyes caught
29:45on a section of the wall. The simple-looking specimens formed an intricate engraving. Some
29:50bulged out of the stone while others sank into it, and together they made a three-dimensional image.
29:56Others might have missed what it meant, but Luofeng did not. He had studied the structures of living
30:01things through his remote ocean many times, and his godly body had already passed the perfect life
30:07gene level. This, he said quietly, is the most detailed structure of a perfect life form.
30:14He committed it to memory at once. Anyone without real understanding could stare at the image,
30:20forever and still forget it. But Luofeng had a deep grasp of life structure, and his knowledge
30:25already went beyond the picture before him. He turned to the opposite wall. Those specimens also
30:31combined into a three-dimensional image of a perfect life form. The right is a flesh-and-blood
30:36life form. The left is a plant life form. He memorized them both and moved on. Along the walls,
30:42countless specimens formed more images, and each one showed a perfect life form. Yet even perfect
30:48forms differed from one another. Flesh-and-blood creatures alone had hundreds of variations in their
30:53gene structures. Incredible, he murmured. So detailed. He kept walking until he reached the end of the
31:00hall. A door waited there with an unfinished three-dimensional image set into its surface.
31:06Flesh-and-blood, Luofeng said with a smile. He pressed his godly power into the image and completed it,
31:14forming a perfect creature. An energy-type life form might have taken him a long time,
31:19but flesh-and-blood was familiar ground, and he finished the picture at once. The wooden door released a
31:25cyan light that wrapped around him, and he vanished.
31:29He has gone through, one leader said. And he finished the task so quickly, his godly body must
31:35have already passed the perfect life gene level, said the towering leader, his voice booming,
31:41and he chose the godly power path. This soldier is ambitious. He does not want only to become a true
31:47god. He wants a higher life gene level. The others were just as eager.
31:51Let us see how far he can go. Even the leaders could not see the deepest parts of the godly
31:57power
31:57path. Wu-Chi Tower held great secrets, and they could inspect only some of it. The eighth and ninth
32:03floors lay beyond their reach entirely, and the deeper godly power path was closed to them too,
32:09because it guarded a vast secret. Becoming a true god was grueling, and the analysis of life forms was
32:16strictly confidential. Luo Feng carried the inherited technique, creation, from the original universe.
32:22And the leaders could not clearly see into certain powerful life forms. They could not detect the drop
32:28of godly blood within Shui Wu-Wing at all. True gods, true gods of void space, and even eternal true
32:35gods could not analyze the structures of creatures. Comprehensive three-dimensional pictures like these
32:41were beyond price. Still understanding came first. Anyone who could not grasp the pictures could not
32:47remember them, and the pictures were only an aid. Even so, no power of the ancient civilization had
32:54been willing to share them. Not even Duandong River. Deep along the godly power route of the true god
33:00path, Luo Feng appeared out of nothing. He looked down, and his brow creased. A river? The passageway ahead
33:07looked as it always did, with walls crowded with specimens on either side. But the wide, deep channel
33:14before him held a river, and it was not water. It was godly power flowing thick and bright.
33:20Luo Feng stepped onto its surface and reached out with his godly sense. The river had no master. It was
33:26an endless, powerful flow, much like the ownerless, godly power of the ocean law from the primal universe.
33:32He could draw from it as much as he pleased. He caught his breath. His godly body stood 10,000
33:38kilometers tall, and the passageway was roughly 100 million kilometers wide and high. It stretched
33:45for tens of billions of kilometers, and nearly half of its space was filled with condensed godly power.
33:51The godly king left all of this unclaimed, he thought. Anyone who stayed here to comprehend would
33:57reach a breakthrough in the godly body, and afterward would need to refill their power. Perhaps that is
34:03why it is here. Whatever the reason, leaving such a flood untouched would be foolish. He drew it in.
34:10To understand why this mattered so much to him, one had to look back. Between the first and third
34:15levels of the tower, his earthling original body had broken through to a life, gene level of 16,000 times.
34:22That breakthrough had cost him a great deal of godly power, and his golden-horned beast body had
34:28been forced to make up the loss. The golden-horned beast had never fully recovered its reserves.
34:34Since there is so much here, I should take it all at once and bring my godly body to the
34:39highest life
34:40gene level. I have comprehended, Luofeng decided. Godly body reassemble. His earthling body came apart
34:47completely, and turned into raw, godly power. Each life structure within that power was rebuilt piece
34:54by piece. Then everything rushed back together, condensing into a body once more. Around him, the river
35:01swirled and poured into him as though it had been starved. His godly body drank greedily, trying to refill
35:07itself as fast as it could. At the same moment, his golden-horned beast body was going through its own
35:13reassembly. Soon it, too, began to replenish, and after a while, both bodies settled.
35:18My godly body is now at a life gene level of about 28,000 times, Luofeng said quietly.
35:25But I am still far from my goal. Before he had set out for godly King Valley, he had gathered
35:31blood,
35:32scales, and hair from the endless remote ocean of the primal universe. With those samples, he had
35:38broken through to 16,000 times in a single move. Then, while he waited on the third level for the
35:44other warriors to arrive, he had stayed inside the space of cultivation, where time ran 10,000 times
35:50faster. In that space, he had broken through several more times and reached 28,000. Even so, the second
35:57stage would not come easily. Luofeng had hoped to reach 30,000 in one push, and he had not managed
36:03it.
36:03He was a little disappointed. 30,000 was only the first stage. Life diagrams, Luofeng said,
36:10stepping onto the river again. Along both banks rose intricate three-dimensional diagrams of life.
36:15Blood and flesh, rock, energy, metal, plant. Their life gene levels ranged from 10,000 times to
36:2230,000 times. There were far too many to count. He understood blood and flesh life forms best.
36:29Of the others, he grasped far less. He had chosen to focus on blood and flesh first and set the
36:34rest
36:35aside. Still, while studying one kind, he would pick up a little about the others. Days passed.
36:42In the primal universe, the endless remote ocean kept studying the diagrams, and in the space of
36:47inheritance, his golden-horned beast body ran experiments without pause. After only 15 days,
36:54Luofeng broke through again. His life gene level climbed 32,000 times. That was no surprise. His
37:00foundation was already strong, and a little more contact with the diagrams was enough to carry him
37:06beyond. 30,000. The river surged around him, pouring into him without end. He grew until he stood a million
37:14kilometers high, and his golden-horned beast body grew with him. Ha! He laughed as he stood at the far
37:21end
37:21of the river's passage. A wooden door waited there with another incomplete life diagram on its surface.
37:27Blood and flesh again? He murmured. Perhaps the tower tests each warrior. With the kind of life
37:33form that matches his own. If a plant warrior walked in here, the door would show a plant great
37:38being instead. He did not wait. He quickly filled in the missing pieces. The diagram was at 30,000 times,
37:46and after a brief, careful study he resolved it. The wooden door flared with cyan light wrapped around
37:52him and carried him into a deeper stretch of the true God path. He appeared in another passageway,
37:58much like the last. Yet the river had grown broader and deeper, and the diagrams on its walls were larger
38:04and more complicated. The first stage was the perfect life gene level. The second ran from 10,000 to 30
38:10,000
38:11times. This third one must reach from 30,000 to 60,000, Luo Feng said slowly. He felt the weight
38:18of the place. Before I passed through easily because I already had a foundation. But this stage will not
38:23be so simple. He flew forward to the first diagram on the left. It was blood and flesh, and he
38:29guessed
38:30it belonged to around 35,000 times. The moment he looked at it, he was stuck. Whole regions of it
38:36were
38:36beyond him. Without comprehension, a picture could be stared at forever. Yet nothing would remain in
38:42the mind. Only real understanding would make it stick. Luo Feng set aside the other life forms,
38:47and gave all his attention to the blood and flesh diagrams. Before the first one, he stood motionless
38:53on the river for more than three months. Meanwhile, the remote ocean in the primal universe was using the
39:00inherited technique. Creation to examine the true God samples of blood, scales, and hair. His golden-horned
39:07beast body, running under the 10,000-fold acceleration of time, studied and analyzed the same samples without
39:14rest. Those three months in the passage were, in the outer world, a few thousand years. But at last he
39:20truly understood the first diagram. The second took him more than a month. The third took half a year.
39:26He kept the blood and flesh alone, moving from the lowest level to the highest. He compared each
39:31diagram with the life structures, of true gods, that the remote ocean had, recorded through creation,
39:38then studied the differences in fine detail. Under the 10,000-fold acceleration, he traced how the
39:44diagrams changed and what each change meant. It felt as though he were inventing a technique of his own.
39:50As he worked, his grasp of life gene levels kept growing. After a year and six months,
39:55he reached 40,000 times. Around 80 years later, he reached 50,000. Then came more than a thousand
40:01years in which he stayed exactly where he was, unable to break through. Still, he would not leave.
40:07This true God path was an extraordinary treasure. Even the pulse of Duandong River held no series of
40:14life diagrams so detailed. And if he walked away now, everything he had not fully understood would slip
40:21from his memory at once. He would never recall it. One era, he reminded himself. That is the longest time
40:27allowed to complete a mission for a title. When the next era arrives, a new mission begins. I must gain
40:34as much as I can in this one, more than I have already gained. These precious diagrams are laid out
40:40before me, and I may study them as long as I wish. I have creation as well. Two great advantages
40:46are
40:46working for me. If I let this chance pass, I may need up to a million times as long to
40:51find another,
40:52or even longer, and it might never be as rewarding as this. He did not allow himself any ease.
40:59Outside Wu-Chi Tower, a warrior was pulled from the tower and sent out. On the third level of the
41:04silver-gray palace beside the tower, four figures leaned on the railing and watched him descend.
41:10The other warriors are being sent out one after another, the burly commander sighed. They have
41:16reached the limit of their time on the fourth level. But warrior Milky Way has done more than
41:21any of them, and he can stay longer. No one knows how much he has gained on the godly power
41:26route of
41:26the true god path. The other three commanders turned toward the tower. They could not see inside,
41:32but they understood the meaning of it. Since Milky Way had gone deeper along the true god path than
41:38anyone, he would be able to enter the fifth level and keep climbing toward the peak.
41:43I wonder how much he can gain in this half-era, one of them said.
41:48Luo Feng did not know that he could remain on this path for half a century at most.
41:52Even if he had known, it would not have changed anything. He was already pushing himself to
41:57comprehend as much as possible, and he was doing so with everything he had. By his count,
42:02it was his forty-two hundredth year on the true god path. He stood before an enormous life
42:07diagram near the far end of the passageway. He had been standing there for more than two thousand
42:12years. Then he smiled. The knot in his brow loosened. The moment he understood, everything
42:19came clear at once. The sense of enlightenment was overwhelming. So this is how it works,
42:24he said and laughed. His godly body came apart in an instant. Every particle of godly power changed,
42:31colliding and condensing into a new form. The river around him surged and tumbled,
42:36and its power poured into the condensation. The towering body grew and grew. Soon his legs reached
42:42the floor of the passage, and his head nearly touched the ceiling. He stood a hundred million
42:47kilometers tall, and his life gene level had passed sixty thousand times. Such a massive body might have
42:54been clumsy as many huge life forms are. But Luo Feng moved with no sluggishness at all. His speed and
43:00agility had grown along with his size. His earthling body and golden-horned beast body had both
43:06their limits. Next, he said. He shrank himself back down and walked to the wooden door.
43:12There. He had spent some time earlier repairing the flaws in the incomplete diagrams.
43:18Cyan light enveloped him, and he was carried to the far end. Ahead lay another passageway with walls
43:23on both sides. No godly water flowed through it, and not a single specimen hung on the walls.
43:29It was empty. Emptiness, Luo Feng thought, and for a moment he could not look away.
43:34So you could have been empty. You couldn't get Traduque.
43:34But if you were empty, your eyes were empty. He was empty.