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Deep within Wu Qi Tower, Luo Feng faces the brutal second-level trial, dodging endless destructive light rays and outmaneuvering a 200,000-kilometer-tall dark red rock giant using his Golden Claw God armor and god-tier body techniques! In this Swallowed Star novel explanation, Luo Feng's legendary agility catches the attention of the four supreme commanders of Godly King Valley!
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Deep within Wu Qi Tower, Luo Feng faces the brutal second-level trial, dodging endless destructive light rays and outmaneuvering a 200,000-kilometer-tall dark red rock giant using his Golden Claw God armor and god-tier body techniques! In this Swallowed Star novel explanation, Luo Feng's legendary agility catches the attention of the four supreme commanders of Godly King Valley!
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00:00Ten warriors stood before the towering doors, four beast warriors and six tribal warriors among them, and each one understood
00:07what the mission demanded.
00:09Luo Feng exchanged a look with the others.
00:11Then they surged forward as streaks of light and passed through together.
00:15Nobody teleported.
00:17In a mission like this, one careless jump could be the last.
00:20The first level of Wu-Chi Tower was a desert.
00:23Cold wind rolled over endless dunes and frost crept across the grains of sand.
00:27High in the distance hung a space portal, and ten figures came sweeping through it, scanning every direction before they
00:34touched down on the sand.
00:36The portal vanished behind them as if it had never existed.
00:40Luo Feng turned in a slow circle.
00:42Dunes and more dunes.
00:43No end in sight.
00:45Shu Zhong, the tall, skinny warrior beside him, sent a private message.
00:49This tower is incomparably dangerous.
00:52Milky Way, where do you think the danger is hiding?
00:54Under all this sand?
00:56I have no idea.
00:57Luo Feng answered.
00:58Of the ten, only he and Shu Zhong came from the East Army.
01:02Without ever discussing it, they drifted close together.
01:05Each one a backup if the other ran into trouble.
01:08Then the stillness broke.
01:10A rumble rolled across the desert, and a wave of energy swept outward until it had covered the entire region.
01:17Far above, a beam of light twisted down out of the sky, falling as fast as lightning.
01:22Within seconds, a huge cyan column joined the sand to the heavens.
01:26What is that?
01:27It holds a terrible amount of power.
01:30Doubt spread through the group.
01:31Across the surface of the cyan column, black characters flickered into view, warped and enormous.
01:38Their intent was so savage that it reached into every mind on the sand.
01:42Even Luo Feng's iron will trembled.
01:44His eyes reddened, and the emotions boiling inside him refused to be calmed.
01:49The characters kept coming, one line after another.
01:52This is the passageway that connects the first and second levels of Wu Qi Tower.
01:57Those who enter it will reach the second level.
01:59To enter this passageway, you must first kill one warrior.
02:02If you do not kill another warrior, you will never leave this place.
02:06Before the lofty doors open for the next batch, every warrior who has not reached the second level will be
02:12annihilated.
02:13Those who hide inside Battleship.
02:15Treasures to avoid?
02:16The fight will count as failed attempts.
02:18And their final verdict is annihilation as well.
02:21The characters hung in midair, pressing down on everyone.
02:24Such force could have wiped out the whole crowd in one sweep.
02:27No one was going to pull a trick inside this tower.
02:30All ten believed it.
02:31So that was the price of the door.
02:34The tower had dressed up a door as a question.
02:36And the question was not about who was strongest.
02:39It was about who would be willing to become a killer first.
02:42Anyone who hesitated would be the first to die.
02:45Because everyone else was thinking the same thing.
02:48We have to kill a warrior just to enter the passageway?
02:51Luo Feng said slowly.
02:52That means at least five of these ten will die.
02:55Now he understood.
02:57Why the single-horned beast, true god.
02:59Outside had said that half of the warriors from the first three batches had died.
03:04This was not a test of strength.
03:07It was a call dressed up as one.
03:09Kill one.
03:10But who?
03:11Luo Feng's gaze swept the others.
03:13They stood close, each sizing up the rest.
03:16Each hunting for a target weak enough to kill and strong enough not to kill them first.
03:21A warrior who had come this far was no ordinary soldier.
03:24And a wrong choice could be fatal.
03:26Then the air went still, as though every warrior had frozen at once.
03:31A roar tore through the silence.
03:33One warrior moved and the careful balance shattered.
03:36In seconds the whole group was in motion, each one lunging at a chosen victim.
03:41A beast with huge scaly wings let out a howl and charged straight for Luo Feng.
03:45Meet your doom, bellowed a burly warrior, swinging a massive hammer, crackling with lightning.
03:52Luo Feng judged at once that the hammer had to be an automaton-type treasure.
03:56A black beam shot toward his head.
03:58Three warriors had chosen him.
04:00Luo Feng nearly laughed.
04:02Being spotted as a new recruit, outside the tower had already brought him trouble,
04:07and now that same reputation had drawn three attackers.
04:10Earlier he had told the others his skill could hold its own against elite warriors.
04:14That claim had been part boast and part bait, and these three had bitten.
04:19He darted backward.
04:21Countless snowflakes bloomed in the air around him, thick and cold.
04:25This was a domain-type true god-level treasure he had traded for earlier,
04:29and he used it now to trap the three attackers inside a frozen field.
04:34The domain did not kill anyone.
04:36It held them in place, which was exactly what Luo Feng needed.
04:39It bought him time, and it let him see who was really attacking him.
04:44Inside the domain, he could see clearly who they were.
04:47The first was the beast, the second the burly warrior, and the third was Shuzhong, another
04:53East Army warrior.
04:54Shuzhong!
04:55Luo Feng shouted over the link, his voice raw with fury.
04:59We serve in the same army!
05:01This is only the first level, and you're turning on me.
05:03You're a new recruit!
05:05Shuzhong snarled.
05:06If I don't kill you, who else do I kill?
05:09Layers of purple light flared around Shuzhong, pushing back the snowflakes.
05:13He had a domain treasure of his own.
05:16Luo Feng laughed.
05:17He despised fighters like Shuzhong more than anything.
05:20With a roar, he blurred into a streak of blade-like motion, slipped past the burly warrior's swing,
05:26and dove straight at Shuzhong.
05:28One dodge, one dive, simple.
05:30But the three elite warriors saw it, and their expressions changed.
05:35That single sequence had carried,
05:37Luo Feng clear of the burly warrior and sent the beast flying.
05:40Weaker fighters might not have noticed.
05:42These three did, and they knew at a glance that this milky way was dangerous.
05:47Not good!
05:49Shuzhong growled.
05:50White light erupted from his body, and in a moment he had become a white-flying beast.
05:55It beat its wings and rocketed straight upward, fleeing in a clean line.
06:00Luo Feng's expression shifted.
06:01An automaton-type treasure.
06:03Bib Bird!
06:04Bib Bird belonged to the East Army.
06:07It was a runner.
06:08Built for escape, and not especially good at dodging.
06:11But in a straight-line sprint, it was ferociously fast.
06:15Trading for it cost 600,000 military credits.
06:18Far more than Golden Claw God.
06:20In the business of escape, it ranked among the best.
06:23Shuzhong had seen what he was up against.
06:25Luo Feng had landed ten strikes to his one.
06:28And if the fight dragged on, Luo Feng would have pushed him aside completely.
06:32Bib Bird was the only way out, so he had used it.
06:35You're lucky you're fast, Luo Feng said with a shrug.
06:39Already losing interest, a treasure like Bib Bird made Shuzhong too slippery to pin down.
06:44Far away, Bib Bird spread its wings and turned to look back at Luo Feng.
06:49A new recruit?
06:51Shuzhong's thoughts carried a sour edge of pain.
06:54He's stronger than a veteran!
06:56Is he lying?
06:57No.
06:58I know every warrior in the Python River Army with real skill.
07:01And I don't know him, so he really is new.
07:05But a new recruit with that kind of skill.
07:07I'm in trouble.
07:08Even if I survive this level, there's the second level and the third.
07:12Regret burned through him.
07:14His first choice had been the worst one he could have made.
07:17He had picked out the strongest warrior in the entire group as his target.
07:22The other two warriors had also seen the trap closing in, and they began their retreats at once.
07:27The burly warrior shook his body, and a pair of black wings unfolded from his back.
07:33With a whistle, he sped away.
07:35The beast was slower and far less nimble than the other two, pulling away at a crawl.
07:40Too slow.
07:41Whose fault is that?
07:42Luo Feng growled and charged.
07:44As he gave chase, slicing through the air, his form began to change.
07:48In an instant, he was an enormous, savage, humanoid beast, and his hands and legs had become huge golden claws.
07:55Golden Claw God ignited!
07:57His godly power surged to the first stage of blazing.
08:00It rushed into Golden Claw God and reached its core, where it transformed.
08:05The Golden Claws gave off an endlessly wild, ferocious aura.
08:09The scaly beast with armored wings glanced back and his stomach dropped.
08:14Golden Claw God was closing in, and far too quickly.
08:18How was he this fast?
08:19The beast's mind raced.
08:20Why had he not spent his credits on something to help him escape?
08:24He had come with an automaton-type treasure, but it was built for attack.
08:28He had felt no fear of the other warriors in a fight.
08:31But Luo Feng's dodging had shown him the truth.
08:35Continuing the battle would be a losing move.
08:37He had to escape.
08:39There was a lesson hidden in his error.
08:41A treasure built only for attack could not run, and in a tower where one wrong choice ended a life.
08:47The ability to escape was a skill of its own.
08:50The beast had prepared for the fight he wanted, not the fight he got.
08:54He could not escape.
08:55Luo Feng flew at him with unmatched ferocity, a whistle tearing behind him.
09:00He came from above like a storm.
09:02His legs were two great blades.
09:04He moved through the light-of-water-and-fire blade technique, executing it with both legs.
09:09He had only reached the first stage of extermination.
09:12But his command of secret technique was clearly beyond the beast's there.
09:17Blazing godly power was roughly equal, but Luo Feng's footwork was far superior.
09:22The difference was not power alone.
09:25Luo Feng had been placing his feet with purpose.
09:27While the beast had been relying on its wings and its weight, in a fight where every mistake meant death,
09:33that gap was enough to decide everything.
09:36The beast now understood that it had fallen into deep trouble.
09:39No! It bellowed.
09:41It had tried to block Luo Feng, and that had drained its power.
09:45Now that Luo Feng had turned to attack, the beast realized it could not block every strike.
09:51Golden claws, sharp as swords, slashed toward its head and sent the beast crashing down toward the endless desert.
09:57Luo Feng's legs struck again and again, cutting with growing brutality as he stripped the armored scales from the beast,
10:04one by one.
10:05In the world of jinn, a lawmaster's power was measured in levels, and the scale was brutally honest about what
10:12was worth buying.
10:13The scaled strange beast had built its career one level at a time.
10:17Its technique sat at level six.
10:20No small thing, since a lawmaster who invents anything at that tier has burned lifetimes to do it.
10:26Layer on the first tier of godly power burning, and its output climbed to seven.
10:30Its machine-type valuable was a claw, forged for one purpose only, and it added three levels to every swing.
10:38Ten, a lawmaster swinging at ten.
10:40Every soldier watching understood what ten meant.
10:43They themselves were the elite of the special armies, men who already struck at the absolute limit of what their
10:49cultivation allowed.
10:50Among peers packed that tightly, a decisive gap should have been impossible.
10:54But the beast had made one mistake that no amount of levels could cover.
10:59It had bought nothing but attack.
11:01No defense.
11:02No evasion.
11:03So the fight became a ledger.
11:05The beast could not reach Luo Feng.
11:07Luo Feng could reach it whenever he liked.
11:10On the rare occasion, something connected.
11:12Golden Claw God and Luo Feng's own protection swallowed it whole.
11:17Every exchange debited one godly body and left the other untouched.
11:21And the ledger only ran one direction.
11:23This isn't a fight, someone murmured.
11:26Watch his movement.
11:27His machine-type valuables aren't even efficient, but each one does a job.
11:32Once one lands, you're finished.
11:34The claw technique is the real weapon.
11:36Golden Claw.
11:37God isn't an attack treasure.
11:39Milky Way is supplying the attack himself.
11:41They were not watching for entertainment.
11:43The first floor required them to kill each other.
11:46That was the toll for the second, and the dead left their valuables behind.
11:51Assessment was survival.
11:53Every man there ranked every other man.
11:55And every ranking returned the same verdict.
11:58Do not touch that one.
12:00Stay far away.
12:02Shuzhong, who had spent six days being friendly at the tower's base, watched his own good judgment
12:07rot in real time.
12:09He had found a countryman, made conversation, and let the man walk away with nothing but a
12:14name exchanged.
12:15Had I known, I would have made a friend worth keeping.
12:18A friend on the second level, on the third, that would have changed everything.
12:22The window had closed while he was being polite.
12:25The golden claw bent, blade-shaped, and came down across the beast's back.
12:31It rolled.
12:32The claws kept arriving in waves, and each wave peeled off another layer.
12:36At eighty percent loss, the outcome stopped being a battle and became a countdown.
13:09Milky Way, spare me!
13:10Soldier, I don't reach the second level.
13:12Then Wuchi Tower annihilates me.
13:14I'm not dying for your comfort.
13:16Even if you outlived me, you couldn't kill anyone else in this batch.
13:20You'd die regardless.
13:21The beast understood.
13:23Understanding changed nothing.
13:25Facing death, a living thing clings.
13:27Not to a plan.
13:28Not to a future, just to the next breath.
13:30The dangers above were abstractions.
13:32The claws were not.
13:34One of us has to reach the second floor.
13:36It isn't going to be you.
13:38He did not say the last part aloud.
13:40The beast had struck first.
13:42Had Luo Feng been the weaker man, this conversation would have been happening to him instead with
13:47nobody to hear it.
13:48The beast could not even manage a final detonation worth the name.
13:52Level ten was beyond its reach now.
13:54The waves rolled over it and it was gone.
13:56The plane surrendered its loot.
13:58Luo Feng swept it up with a gesture.
14:00A black claw among the rest.
14:02The beast's own machine type, valuable.
14:05So this is what the world of Jin hands its soldiers.
14:08He turned the claw once in his hand.
14:11It carries the complete ancient civilization.
14:14And its mastery of machine type valuables is beyond anything we ever built.
14:18A universe master here, running godly power burning through machine type treasures.
14:23Fights at the level teacher origin fights at in-universe ocean.
14:27That was the real lesson lying at his feet.
14:29Machine type?
14:31Valuables were how lawmasters in this world closed the distance to true gods.
14:36Not through centuries of cultivation.
14:38Through equipment.
14:39He had won for one reason.
14:41And he knew exactly which one, speed, evasion, being, where the enemy's attack was not.
14:47It had carried him in nine smoke marsh against a true god.
14:51And it carried him here against a peer.
14:53A single elite soldier is worth more than ten true god corpses.
14:57He looked around.
14:59Wind crossed the grass.
15:01Fights burned in several directions.
15:03And every so often a combatant stole a glance his way and then looked.
15:08Elsewhere very quickly.
15:09Nobody was close.
15:11Nobody was going to be.
15:12He had wanted one or two more kills.
15:15More valuables.
15:15More trophies.
15:16He had people to feed.
15:18The humans.
15:19The earthlings.
15:20The Luo family line.
15:22Every treasure carried home was a foundation for someone else.
15:25But the plane had already decided what he was.
15:28And what he was had cleared the field around him.
15:31Move toward anyone now and they would run.
15:34And chasing frightened.
15:35Men across a level built for.
15:37Killing was a waste of hours he.
15:39Could spend climbing.
15:40Fine.
15:41The next level then.
15:42Half the entrance had already died on the first floor.
15:45And only one in ten would leave Wu-Chi Tower alive.
15:49The survivors here would carry everything the dead had owned.
15:52He would collect from the survivors.
15:54He stopped deliberating and flew at the cyan pillar like an arrow.
15:58It took him without resistance.
15:59Golden light, a twist of space, then nothing.
16:02The plane exhaled.
16:04He's gone finally.
16:06The second floor.
16:07Good.
16:08Just watching him fight made it obvious.
16:10None of us are on his level.
16:12We're the best the special armies have.
16:15There shouldn't be anyone meaningfully stronger than us.
16:18So where did Milky Way come from?
16:19That close combat technique.
16:21Even true gods don't move like that.
16:24Behind him they returned to killing each other in clusters.
16:26He had finished his opponent in moments.
16:29The rest would take a long while.
16:31Space folded.
16:32The light dimmed and smeared and when it cleared he stood somewhere new.
16:36Dark red ground split by fissures.
16:39Red fluid running beneath and venting as steam through the cracks.
16:43A sky choked with black cloud.
16:45Five soldiers.
16:46All five spread far apart.
16:48All five watching their arcs of the field with the taut nerves.
16:52Of men who had learned not to trust a quiet plane.
16:56The previous group then.
16:57New blood.
16:58Called a handsome youth in dark red armor, smiling.
17:01The armor matched the ground so closely it looked deliberate.
17:05You've been waiting here.
17:06Why?
17:07The smile widened.
17:08The eyes behind it did not join in.
17:11When we arrived, Wuchi Tower told us a round takes ten soldiers.
17:15Only five of us lived.
17:17So we wait for the rest of you to fill the quota.
17:19Luofeng nodded.
17:21Three groups had entered before his.
17:23Thirteen soldiers had come out of them where fifteen should have.
17:27Two groups had lost only one.
17:29Man each, or the arithmetic, was hiding.
17:32Something less tidy?
17:33How does the second level test us?
17:35The answers came from several directions at once.
17:38Don't know.
17:39No idea.
17:41You're the first here from your batch.
17:43That makes you the strongest of your group.
17:45Luck, Luofeng said.
17:46The youth in red armor did not blink.
17:49Where are the other four?
17:50They'll be along shortly.
17:52Half an hour later, they were all four within moments of each other.
17:56As though the tower had timed it for drama.
17:59Xu Zhong's bib bird wheeled and swept away the instant he landed.
18:03He scanned the field, found Luofeng in the distance,
18:06and understood at once that his position had not improved.
18:09The four of them spread out, putting as much ground between themselves and one man as the
18:15plane allowed.
18:15The five veterans watched this and read it correctly.
18:19Four elite soldiers moving like prey.
18:21That was louder than any introduction.
18:23He frightens them that badly.
18:25Note him.
18:26Keep away from him.
18:27The veterans rebuilt their entire picture of the second, level in a handful of seconds.
18:33Then ten light pillars came down from the sky and enclosed them all.
18:37Ten pillars of light came down, and not a single one of the ten elite law.
18:42Masters managed to move before.
18:44They were swallowed whole.
18:45Wuchi Tower did not ask permission.
18:48A voice filled the space around them.
18:50This is the second floor.
18:52Each of you will be placed inside a miniature world and attacked.
18:55Survive the attacks and you pass.
18:57The previous group has rested long enough.
19:00Their godly bodies are restored.
19:01Those who just arrived recover as quickly as you can.
19:05You will be transported one after another.
19:07Any soldier who hides inside a battleship to avoid the fighting will be annihilated.
19:12Space twisted.
19:13The youth in dark red armor and other four vanished,
19:16scattered across distant corners of the red plain.
19:19Recover.
19:20Now.
19:21Quick.
19:22Luo Feng and other four spread out and drew on their valuables.
19:26The treasures worked.
19:27Slowly.
19:28Nothing about restoring.
19:30A godly body was instant, and Wuchi Tower had clearly planned around that.
19:35It knew it was releasing men hollowed out by the first floor's slaughter,
19:39so it granted a pause.
19:41The pause was not kindness.
19:43It was the courtesy of letting a man catch his breath before the second thing happened to him.
19:49The youth in dark red armor landed in a world a hundred million kilometers wide.
19:53Then the sky filled.
19:55A colossal engraving picture materialized.
19:58Overhead.
19:58A hundred million.
20:00Kilometers of ancient diagram.
20:02Its surface crawling with patterns in every color.
20:05Laid across the heavens like a lid.
20:07Light tore out of it with a noise that traveled through the ground and up through bone.
20:11Beams fell without rhythm or warning.
20:14He blocked the first with his silver blade.
20:16And the shockwave picked him up and threw him tumbling across the sky.
20:20More beams came while he was still rolling.
20:23Still upside down.
20:24Still trying to remember which way was down.
20:27Too much.
20:27Each one hits like a true god.
20:29I need machine-type defense.
20:31Circular engravings ignited beneath his feet.
20:34Silver script winding up his legs and over his body.
20:37Not a shield.
20:38Speed.
20:39In a place like this, standing still was just dying on a delay.
20:44Five soldiers.
20:45Five miniature worlds.
20:46All five under assault at once.
20:48While the rest of the batch watched from outside and waited their turn.
20:52Luo Feng said nothing.
20:54The other four filled the silence.
20:56Talking the way nervous men talk.
20:58And every few sentences, one of them would glance at him and look away.
21:02These little worlds don't look so bad.
21:04Honestly, better than the first floor.
21:06The first floor makes us butcher each other.
21:09Half of us die there no matter what.
21:11This one's just survived the attacks.
21:13Most of them might walk out.
21:15Luo Feng kept his eyes on the five worlds.
21:18The engraving pictures were hammering.
21:20The trapped soldiers with strikes that measured out at ordinary true god strength.
21:24With machine-type valuables in hand, all five were holding.
21:28Barely, but holding.
21:29Is the second floor gentler to make up for the butchery of the first?
21:33He wondered.
21:34He found out how wrong he was almost immediately.
21:38The five had just settled into a rhythm.
21:40Against the light when the ground began to shake.
21:43Crimson liquid burst out of the fissures.
21:45It was burning fluid.
21:46And it forced all five soldiers into the air.
21:49Landing meant bathing in it.
21:51The fluid gathered.
21:53It climbed.
21:54It shaped itself into towering dark red giants.
21:57And as it thickened, the liquid clotted into stone.
22:01Hot fluid still running across the rock like veins.
22:04The giants lifted their heads, and the cracks fed them.
22:07More fluid streaming upward to pack their bodies solid.
22:11The light kept falling.
22:12It struck the giants and blew away chunks of rock.
22:15And the chunks turned to liquid and flowed back into place.
22:19Every injury was undone before it finished happening.
22:22The giants charged, some coming on enormous feet.
22:25Others racing across the ground on their rocky fists.
22:28And the soldiers were thrown like ragdolls.
22:30No!
22:31Too strong!
22:33They're dead.
22:34Luo Feng and the four beside him watched.
22:37And the watching was worse than the fighting.
22:39Those rock giants measured out at true god strength.
22:42And they wore no armor because they did not need any.
22:45The crimson supply was endless.
22:47And injury was something that happened to them, and then stopped happening.
22:51And the light had not paused.
22:53A soldier who dodged the beams got hit by a giant.
22:56A soldier who braced against a giant got drilled by the beams.
23:00Hit after hit.
23:02Godly bodies draining in the open.
23:04In full view of everyone waiting their turn.
23:06The five watchers had gone quiet.
23:08The five trapped inside were already past despair.
23:12Nobody in those worlds was weak.
23:14That was the ugly part.
23:15The worlds themselves were simply built to kill.
23:18What do we do?
23:19We'll get the same thing.
23:21Beams from above, a giant in our face.
23:24What's the answer to that?
23:25Dodge and get flattened.
23:26Brace and get drilled.
23:27Our godly bodies won't last.
23:29The others worked themselves into a state.
23:32Luofeng stayed calm and let the same arithmetic run quietly behind his eyes.
23:37None of that frightens me.
23:38What frightens me is what comes after.
23:40The engraving picture and the rock giant were problems he believed he could solve.
23:45His evasion had carried him past a true god in Nine Smoke Marsh, and it would carry him here.
23:52What he could not solve was a third danger.
23:55A fourth.
23:55His strength had a floor.
23:57And every level of Wu-Chi Tower was built by something that knew exactly how to find it.
24:02One in ten walks out of Wu-Chi Tower.
24:04I intend to be that one.
24:06So he watched, and he counted, and he waited.
24:08Near Wu-Chi Tower stood a three-story silver palace, ringed by true god guards.
24:13This was the power center of godly King Valley.
24:16On the third floor, four thrones filled a vast hall.
24:20Three sat empty.
24:21On the far left, a churning cloud of black mist shrouded its throne, and the mist shook as it watched
24:27a screen.
24:28Of light showing the second floor.
24:30The five soldiers flailing in their worlds.
24:33The giants bellowing.
24:34The beams falling.
24:35Useless, the voice came out of the mist.
24:38Useless, all of them.
24:39How long must we wait before the peerless genius?
24:42His Majesty Desired finally appears?
24:44This was one of the four leaders of godly King Valley.
24:47A true god of void space and sealed.
24:50Granted a title by his Majesty the Godly King.
24:53That seal put it far above any ordinary.
24:56Void space true god.
24:58It could annihilate the leader of North True Ocean without effort.
25:02Too weak.
25:03This is only the second floor.
25:04There were elites who performed better than this, and none of them succeeded either.
25:09This batch has no hope at all.
25:11Another sigh stirred the mist.
25:13Godly King Valley required no guards.
25:16It was free of danger by design.
25:17The fact that this being stood watch here at all was proof of His Majesty's trust.
25:22Its true purpose was singular.
25:24To find the one who could reach the ninth floor of Wu-Chi Tower.
25:28It has been so long, the ancient voice murmured.
25:31This is the only task His Majesty left us, and we still have not done it.
25:35If someone could truly reach the top, I would die for it gladly.
25:40Regret soaked every word.
25:42Is the competition inside the world of Jyn not enough?
25:45Should it be crueler?
25:46On the screen, the next five soldiers were transported into their miniature worlds.
25:51Wu-Chi Tower's second level was a world of dark red earth, where the air burned so fiercely it seemed
25:57to rise forever.
25:59Even neutron stars from the universe ocean would have been reduced to nothing.
26:03The moment they entered this land, five regions made up the level, and each held its own miniature world.
26:10In four of them, the danger had a face.
26:12Five colossal rock giants were tearing through five.
26:15Warriors who had already been battered past their limits, far from that carnage.
26:20Luo Feng stood with the other four warriors and watched in silence.
26:24Worry showed in every one of their eyes.
26:26They had only just survived a brutal round on the first level, and they had not had nearly as much
26:32rest as the group before them.
26:34Still, they used what little time they had to study the battlefield.
26:38Watching others struggle was its own lesson, a preview of what waited for them.
26:43Rock giants are practically indestructible, one of them muttered.
26:47We have to buy ourselves time, or we'll be finished the moment we step in.
26:52Then the air shuddered.
26:54Space rippled around them, and the five warriors felt themselves pulled away, as though a wormhole had opened beneath their
27:00feet.
27:01When the distortion settled, Luo Feng was standing in a new miniature world.
27:06He lifted his gaze to the sky.
27:09The transfer had given them only a brief pause, but it also meant they could see danger before it found
27:15them.
27:15He thought that seemed a fair trade.
27:17Above him, layers of dark clouds parted to reveal an immense diagram of secret engravings.
27:24It was so intricate and mysterious that Luo Feng could not begin to fathom it, and it stretched over the
27:29entire world below.
27:31Then it began to fire.
27:32Countless gun barrels, like those of a massive battleship, pointed downward and poured out rays of light.
27:38Each ray carried the force of a true god's attack.
27:41Luo Feng understood that this was only a test.
27:43Meant to sharpen the skills of those who passed through.
27:47Had all those rays struck a single point, even an eternal true god would have had no choice but to
27:53flee.
27:54The thought stirred something close to awe.
27:56This wu-chi tower, left behind by his majesty the godly king, was no ordinary trial.
28:02Luo Feng drew blood ghost blade from across his back.
28:04The stone blade met a streak of light, and the impact forced him back six steps, each footprint sinking deep
28:12into the scorched ground.
28:13He counted quickly.
28:15Nine streaks, each a different color, yet all carrying the same measure of power.
28:20His assessment was precise.
28:21He allowed himself a short, wry smile before turning his attention to the land below.
28:27You rock giants, he said quietly.
28:30Come out soon.
28:31Otherwise, I'll have to spend a good deal of my godly power just dealing with this diagram.
28:36He focused his will.
28:38Golden Claw God!
28:39His body changed in an instant.
28:42Golden Claw.
28:44God was an automaton-type treasure whose color could shift at will, and now Luo Feng stood as a black
28:50humanoid monster.
28:51As his godly power surged to call the treasure forth, his speed, defense, resistance, and attack all climbed by two
29:00full levels.
29:00It was a powerful transformation, but it came at a cost.
29:04Extermination, the technique he saved for the worst crises, would drain his godly power far more quickly.
29:11For now, the strength he had would be enough.
29:13The ground split open.
29:15Scorching crimson liquid burst.
29:16From the cracks and boiled upward in great surging tides, it gathered, thickened, and took shape until a towering dark
29:25red rock giant stood before him.
29:27The liquid kept flowing in to feed it so the giant could never truly be spent.
29:31The giant threw back its head and charged.
29:34Luo Feng's lips curved.
29:35Perfect timing!
29:37He launched himself off the ground, leaving a deep claw print in the burning earth, and rushed to meet the
29:42monster head-on.
29:43The contrast between them was striking.
29:46Golden Claw, god Luo Feng, stood 10,000 kilometers tall, in the state where he could unleash his fullest potential.
29:54The rock giant rose nearly 200,000 kilometers into the air.
29:59Luo Feng barely reached its waist.
30:01The giant bellowed.
30:02A fist as large as a mountain peak came hurtling toward his face.
30:07Luo Feng shifted his form as if to dodge, but the fist followed every twist of his body, closing off
30:12each route.
30:13It seemed to reach across all of heaven and earth, leaving him no room to escape.
30:17He had to change direction three separate times just to avoid one punch.
30:21In Nine Smoke Marsh, he had slipped past a true god's attack with a single movement.
30:26Against this giant, he needed three.
30:29Still, he saw the lesson in it.
30:31The rock giant's technique was refined.
30:33Even a creature formed from condensed energy could wield a subtle fist.
30:37A perfect dodge would have left.
30:39The attack falling.
30:41Short after only one change of direction.
30:44And Luo Feng knew he had not reached that level yet.
30:47He used the moment anyway.
30:48As he slipped past, his sharp claws grazed the giant's arm and threw its enormous frame-off balance.
30:56In that heartbeat of confusion, he slid behind it and used it as cover.
31:00The rays from above lashed down and struck the rock giant again and again, but not one touched Luo Feng.
31:08The giant itself had become his shield.
31:10The giant spun to face him, but Luo Feng was already moving.
31:14He ran circles around it, darting along lines that looked straight but bent sharply without warning.
31:20The giant lunged and swung wildly in every direction.
31:23At one point, its fists dissolved back into crimson liquid, trying to trap him in a suffocating net.
31:29It tried every approach it had, but Luo Feng kept dancing around it, always keeping the giant between himself and
31:36the sky.
31:37He would rather take an occasional blow from the rock, giant than suffer a single hit from those descending lights.
31:44The rock giant is no threat, he thought.
31:46It's a great help.
31:47With it at my side, I have a huge shield, and I can hide from all those lights behind it.
31:53His body technique flowed freely now.
31:56He dodged when he could and borrowed the giant's momentum when he needed to.
32:00No one could catch him or block him.
32:02Yet he refused to fight the giant head-on.
32:05A rock giant recovers from injury almost as quickly as it takes damage.
32:08It was undying in every sense, and trying to beat it would only burn through his godly power faster.
32:15He had not used extermination at all.
32:17Dodging was his strategy, the giant was his shield, and so his godly power drained at a slow and manageable
32:24pace.
32:26Within the silver-gray palace beside Wu-Chi Tower, on the third level of Godly King Valley, a suspended screen
32:32showed the battles raging across the ten major miniature worlds.
32:36Four thrones stood in the hall.
32:38The one on the far left was wrapped in a vast black mist, and suddenly it began to tremble.
32:44Body technique?
32:45A voice whispered from within the mist.
32:48The screen shifted.
32:49The scene of the current world shrank, and another grew until it filled nearly the whole view.
32:55There, locked in combat with a dark red rock giant, was Luo Feng.
32:59This body technique?
33:01It's so...
33:02The black mist commander seemed stunned.
33:05He had overseen generations of selections for Wu-Chi Tower and watched countless elite, warriors pass through.
33:12He had never seen a body technique like this.
33:14Formidable movement, however, did not guarantee excellence in every other area.
33:19A warrior might dominate in one aspect and still fall short elsewhere.
33:23Yet this one had clearly outpaced many elite warriors.
33:27Such a warrior!
33:28The commander said, his voice rising in anger.
33:31How could none of the four generals mention him?
33:33He is an important seed, one his majesty the godly king would need.
33:38And yet his name was not on the list submitted to me.
33:41He had spent countless years in godly king, valley searching for exactly this kind of rare, peerless talent.
33:49Then his tone sharpened with interest.
33:51Warrior Milky Way?
33:53Python River Army?
33:54So he only just joined.
33:55That explains the general's silence.
33:57He's new, yet he's been sent on a mission to earn a title.
34:01He must have tremendous confidence.
34:03Milky Way!
34:04His rumbling voice carried a note of delight.
34:06You three, wake up!
34:08Hurry over!
34:09His call rolled through the silver-gray palace and down deep into the earth, where the other
34:14three commanders lay sleeping.
34:16Godly King Valley's commanders rarely had much to do.
34:19Ordinarily, one oversaw the general affairs of the entire godly king sector.
34:24While the others rested, only unusual circumstances would bring them all together.
34:29Three powerful auras rose at once, startling the handful of true god guards stationed in the valley.
34:35In the hall, the second throne from the left was occupied by a beautiful woman in silver armor.
34:41Her gaze seemed to be the source of all light.
34:44Beneath her watch, it felt like bathing in the warmest sunshine, and one could drift unknowingly into a world of
34:51brightness.
34:52Beside her sat a tall, broad-shouldered commander in blood-colored armor.
34:57His helmet bore nine sharp silver horns shaped like machetes, and he carried himself with overbearing arrogance.
35:04On the far right crouched a scaly, black-armored beast with two faces, each with a single eye.
35:10Right now, one eye was open while the other was shut.
35:13The open eye was solid black and seemed to swallow everything it looked upon.
35:17The beast radiated a murderous intent that was immeasurably deep.
35:21From the black mist came a voice.
35:23Quickly, all three of you, look.
35:26Look at the warrior controlling the Golden Claw God.
35:29Four leaders stirred from there, long asleep and gathered before the floating screen of light.
35:35For ages they had waited for one task from His Majesty the Godly King.
35:39Find someone who could reach the top of Wuchi Tower.
35:42Now, watching the soldier on the screen, they forgot their weariness.
35:47That soldier is riding Golden Claw God.
35:49One of them said slowly.
35:51Judging by its speed, he has never needed the godly power-burning technique.
35:55They barely glanced at the other nine soldiers.
35:58Those men were strong, but these leaders had watched countless elite warriors pass through the valley.
36:04Only a truly powerful soldier could hold their attention, and they kept their eyes locked on Luofeng.
36:10The silence stretched on until the towering leader in sanguine armor finally spoke.
36:15Brilliant body technique.
36:16He has many clever methods, and he is only a lawmaster.
36:20Yet he created these techniques and wields them with skill.
36:23He is practically toying with the rock giant.
36:26What none of them knew was how Luofeng had sharpened those skills.
36:29He had fought great beings in the space of inheritance, and he had faced the three ancestral teachers again and
36:35again.
36:36Compared to that pressure, a stupid rock giant was not so hard to handle.
36:40Even the eternal true gods of the world of Jyn were only allowed to take part in trial battles against
36:47beings like those three teachers.
36:49Even I am moved, the towering leader admitted.
36:52You are an eternal true god, another leader snapped.
36:56If even you are moved, what does that say about this boy?
36:59Their own history was just as heavy.
37:01When His Majesty the Godly King departed, all four leaders had been sealed true gods of void space.
37:08Over a long stretch of time, one of them had become an eternal true god.
37:12Yet the king's order bound each of them to a post, so none could leave the world of Jyn.
37:18Eternal true gods born later had left, one by one, but not one had ever returned.
37:23All four leaders were stunned by Luofeng's body technique.
37:27Had a true god of void space performed such a feat, they would have been unimpressed.
37:31But this was a lawmaster, and the gap between lawmasters and true gods of void space was enormous.
37:38Never had they seen a lawmaster do something like this.
37:41He has the best technique of every candidate we have watched since we began guarding.
37:45Godly King Valley, one of them said, and he is strong in other areas too, added another.
37:51The towering leader let out a breath.
37:53He may well be able to reach the top of Wu-Chi Tower.
37:56The room fell silent.
37:58Their faces grew grave, and each of them stared at the screen.
38:02Fulfilling the dream of His Majesty the Godly,
38:05King mattered more to them than becoming eternal true gods.
38:09It mattered even more than their own lives.
38:11On the second floor of Wu-Chi Tower, across the ten miniature worlds on the dark red ground,
38:17the first five soldiers were in ruin.
38:19Their godly bodies had been eaten away piece by piece.
38:22The second group had also taken damage.
38:25Though they had only been in their worlds a short while and looked far better,
38:29Luofeng looked untouched.
38:31His godly body had not been consumed at all since he arrived,
38:35and he had not even needed the first level of Duan Mi.
38:38With Golden Claw God, his power was greatly increased.
38:41He was fully capable of fighting true gods on his own terms.
38:45The first five have lost a great deal of their godly bodies.
38:48Golden Claw God, Luofeng murmured,
38:51letting his gaze sweep across the distant worlds.
38:54In a moment like this, only he could afford to look around.
38:57Then the five soldiers began to scream in agony.
39:00Across the front worlds, the five dark red rock giants answered with a madness of their own.
39:06Their cries were nothing like their earlier bellowing.
39:09They sounded wrong, and they reached into the soul itself.
39:13Even soldiers in other worlds were shaken.
39:16Luofeng and the four others in his group could not help turning toward the sound.
39:20Under that mournful cry, the five soldiers from the first group sensed what was coming,
39:24and they panicked.
39:25Out of a crack beside the nearest rock giant,
39:28a massive rock hand thrust upward, wrapped in burning fluid.
39:32Then three more followed.
39:34Each palm was at least a million kilometers across,
39:36and each was attached to a thick, impossibly long arm.
39:40They came from nowhere and clawed at the elite soldiers.
39:44One soldier with a tattoo on his face tried to dodge,
39:47but a giant palm closed around half of his godly body.
39:50He strained against its grip.
39:52The rock giant swung its fist at him, and he took the blow full on.
39:56He was being held and battered at the same time, and his godly body was draining away with every hit.
40:02He fought back with everything he had.
40:05He swung his godly hammer, pouring out his godly power, and tore himself free just before the rock giant's next
40:11punch landed.
40:12But by then, he had lost almost all of his strength.
40:16Another rock hand burst from the ground.
40:18In moments, all five soldiers were crumbling, crushed between the giant hands,
40:23the rock giants, and the descending engraving.
40:26They had no time to react.
40:28They were on the edge of collapse.
40:30The four soldiers in Luofeng's group were stricken with fear.
40:34This is a disaster!
40:36Those five were being torn apart.
40:38We will be next!
40:39Golden claw god Luofeng was calculating quickly.
40:43Four giant rock hands had appeared at once, surrounding the dark red giant.
40:48The engraving was descending.
40:50Each hand alone was not the real threat.
40:52The danger was that once a soldier was caught,
40:55the rock giant could do whatever it wanted with him.
40:58Fortunately, there were only four hands, and not more.
41:02How can four hands appear without any sign?
41:04He thought.
41:06Without any warning at all?
41:07What do I do about them?
41:09He grew tense.
41:10If the engraving had not been sinking,
41:13he could have climbed high enough to escape the hands.
41:16But it was dropping steadily.
41:18Each passing moment gave the soldiers less time to dodge the falling light,
41:22and less room to rise into the sky.
41:25They must be held back,
41:26Luofeng decided, shaking his head.
41:29Some of those soldiers will die for certain otherwise.
41:32The situation was hopeless.
41:34The engraving kept sinking,
41:36and every second made survival harder for the five soldiers below.
41:40Streams of light rained down,
41:42and each beam carried power that could match a true god's.
41:46The engraving kept striking.
41:48The soldiers again and again.
41:50Rock hand!
41:51Rock giant!
41:52And the engraving?
41:53The space around them kept narrowing,
41:56and the rock hands were almost impossible to escape.
41:59The soldiers of the first group burned their power and
42:02fought with every technique they knew,
42:05trying anything to stay alive a little longer.
42:07A strange twelve-winged beast was seized by the rock hands.
42:10The dark red rock giant began pounding it,
42:13and with a final cry the beast was destroyed.
42:15Only its armor and valuables were left behind.
42:18The rock giant lifted its head and roared,
42:21clearly excited by the kill.
42:22Then the rock giant and its hands
42:24dissolved into crimson fluid and sank.
42:27Into the cracks in the ground.
42:28The armor of the fallen beasts slipped into the earth with them.
42:32The miniature world vanished.
42:34Only nine miniature worlds remained on the second floor.
42:37The other four soldiers from that first group were still fighting.
42:40Is it over yet?
42:42It should have stopped by now.
42:43I've lost most of my power.
42:45If this goes on, I won't be able to hold on.
42:48Their anxiety was well-founded.
42:50For lawmasters, losing even a small part of their godly body meant a drop in power.
42:55At the start of a battle, godly power drained slowly.
42:58As the fight wore on, godly bodies were consumed much faster,
43:02and each lost body took more godly power with it.
43:06It was a vicious cycle, and there was no easy way out.
43:09Everyone was panicking.
43:10The soldiers in Luo Feng's group were uneasy, too.
43:13We must save our godly power.
43:15If we don't, we won't survive this floor.
43:18Just as they were starting to feel the weight of that warning,
43:21five piercing shrieks tore through the five soldiers' minds.
43:25The other four in Luo Feng's group went pale.
43:28So soon?
43:29We entered much later than they did.
43:31They had been transported half an hour after the first group.
43:35Yet the nightmare reached them only ten minutes later.
43:38Luo Feng rose and looked up.
43:40The vast engraving was still falling.
43:42The dark red rock giant also rose, tracking him.
43:45Its purpose was simple, to kill him.
43:48Its rocky palms, each a million kilometers wide and attached to impossibly long arms,
43:54stretched toward him.
43:56Luo Feng had already shot into the sky.
43:58With a small margin of time in hand, he dodged each grasping hand with ease.
44:03In the ancient palace, the four sealed leaders of godly King Valley,
44:07one eternal true god and three true gods of void space,
44:11all stared at the screen.
44:13They waited eagerly to see how.
44:15Luo Feng would perform on the second floor of Wu Qi Tower.