“Defeat him, and you can enter the second level of the Heavenly Bridge.” The mass of clouds and mist spoke.
“Using the Dark Cloud Shuttle like me, and the Yan Shen Weapon too?” Luo Feng’s pupils narrowed. With a thought, the six sided “Absolute Sky Shield” and the Blood Shadow Battle Blade style “Shadow Gold Blade” appeared in his hands. At the same time, the dark golden long staff behind him immediately shot out strings of golden light, a total of 54.
Every nine strands of golden light rapidly fused together, forming a golden sword more than a foot long that looked extremely solid.
The second stage of the Yan Shen Weapon, the Heaven Piercing Form, involved condensing a single golden sword. Yet Luo Feng had instantly produced six golden swords in succession. One reason was that his mental force had broken through from the ninth rank of the Stellar level to the first rank of the Universe level. More importantly, during the three years of travelling through the universe, Luo Feng’s strength had also improved tremendously.
“Kill!”
The mysterious figure gave a low growl and charged downwards on the Dark Cloud Shuttle. Three solid golden swords also rapidly formed behind him.
Both of them were Controllers.
At the same time, they charged rapidly towards each other. One controlled six golden swords, while the other controlled three.
“In these three years, I have never relaxed. Compared with the time of the genius battle, I am much stronger now! Let me use you to test my current strength!”
Endless fighting spirit flickered in Luo Feng’s eyes. The six golden swords instantly moved with extreme familiarity, coordinating perfectly with one another as they directly pressed towards and surrounded the opponent.
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
In midair, the six golden swords and the three golden swords controlled by the mysterious figure launched a series of frenzied attacks.
“What is going on?”
Luo Feng was startled.
Before coming to Chaos City, he had already been able to control six golden swords. Controlling six golden swords was what he was most familiar and comfortable with. Because he was so familiar with them, although he had made great progress during his seven days of comprehending the Chaos Stele in Chaos City, he had still chosen to use only six golden swords, because he was extremely familiar with various attack formations involving six golden swords working together.
“He actually blocked it. I refuse to believe this!”
Luo Feng’s eyes turned cold.
The six golden swords were like six perfectly coordinated soldiers. They advanced and retreated in perfect harmony, launching attack after attack. Each time, they attempted to break through the obstruction of the three golden swords and kill the enemy.
But they failed.
Failure!
Failure!
Failure!
Again and again, they failed.
The three golden swords controlled by the mysterious figure contained a strange artistic conception. It was as though the three golden swords were not independent entities at all, but a perfect whole.
At times, the three golden swords gave Luo Feng the feeling of an endless tsunami crashing down upon him. At other times, they seemed like a towering mountain reaching into the clouds, completely immovable.
“How is this possible?”
Luo Feng was shocked. “I have six golden swords, while he is controlling only three. How can I have absolutely no advantage?”
He tried his best.
He tried every possible method to make the six golden swords coordinate with greater precision, but his opponent remained suspended in the distance and could easily defend against him with only three golden swords.
“Foolish. You actually cannot even understand something this simple.”
A trace of mockery appeared in the eyes revealed beneath the mysterious figure’s black mask.
“And you still hope to pass the first level? Die!”
Whoosh!
The three golden swords controlled by the mysterious figure suddenly changed form. The three swords rapidly drew closer together, faintly giving the impression that they were merging into one. It was as though they had transformed into a gigantic sword capable of cleaving the heavens.
Luo Feng was startled and immediately controlled his six golden swords to block it.
“Boom!”
With a tremendous explosion, all six of Luo Feng’s golden swords were blasted backwards.
“How…”
Luo Feng was shocked as he floated in midair.
“Hahaha! Foolish! Foolish! Foolish!”
The mysterious figure roared.
Facing the three golden swords that had transformed into three streaks of sword light and were rushing towards him, Luo Feng suddenly shouted, “Rise!”
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Three golden swords rose behind Luo Feng. The six golden swords that had been blasted backwards also rose into the air.
At the same time, dazzling golden light erupted from Luo Feng’s body. The golden light spread outwards like waves, then rapidly wrapped around the nine rising golden swords.
The nine golden swords were like the foundation of a great formation.
Countless golden threads erupted and intertwined. Golden sword energy burst forth with the nine golden swords at its centre.
In an instant, the spherical space within a radius of 300 metres around Luo Feng became a dazzling world of sword energy. Countless streams of golden sword energy crisscrossed and swept through the spherical space.
It seemed slow to describe.
In reality, the moment the nine golden swords rose, the spherical space was formed almost instantly.
The third stage of the Yan Shen Weapon, the Heavenly Sword Form!
It was also known as the “Sword Domain”!
The Yan Shen Weapon was divided into nine stages. The second stage, the Heaven Piercing Form, merely required nine golden streams to merge into a single golden sword. The third stage, however, required the simultaneous formation of nine golden swords.
That meant combining 81 golden streams.
The difficulty was dozens, even hundreds of times greater than that of the second stage.
Luo Feng had been able to successfully execute it because of the tremendous improvement in his strength over the past three years, as well as the fact that his mental force had reached the first rank of the Universe level.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!
The three streaks of golden sword light seemed to have fallen into a swamp of sword energy within the spherical space. They were obstructed and weakened by countless streams of sword energy, and their speed continuously decreased.
“I admit that you are very strong, but in the face of absolute strength, you still have to lose!”
Luo Feng stood on the Dark Cloud Shuttle and charged towards the mysterious figure like lightning.
The Sword Domain was centred around Luo Feng.
As Luo Feng advanced, the entire domain naturally moved rapidly with him.
“Break!”
The mysterious figure immediately fled at high speed while shouting.
Swoosh!
The three golden swords he controlled suddenly drew closer together. Countless golden threads surged between them, and around the three golden swords, they actually formed a hazy gigantic golden sword.
The hazy golden sword rapidly cleaved apart the countless streams of sword energy blocking its path. Carrying a dazzling rainbow of light, it shot directly towards Luo Feng.
“What kind of technique is this?”
Luo Feng was startled.
He himself cultivated the Yan Shen Weapon and had studied it extensively, yet he had never understood this technique.
“Heavenly Sword!”
Luo Feng shouted.
Puff!
The nine golden swords forming the Sword Domain had already become like one entity.
Under Luo Feng’s control, one of the golden swords suddenly shot forward like a hunting leopard, carrying the power of the entire Sword Domain as it directly stabbed towards the gigantic golden sword.
At the same time, countless streams of sword energy within the Sword Domain seemed to receive an order. They all desperately moved to intercept the enemy, while countless streams of sword energy followed behind the golden sword.
A golden sword carrying the power of the Sword Domain.
A gigantic golden sword formed by the fusion of three golden swords.
The two collided in an instant.
“Boom!”
The golden sword was instantly blasted backwards. The gigantic golden sword was like a huge ship charging forward recklessly, directly knocking aside Luo Feng’s golden sword before instantly arriving in front of him.
Luo Feng had no time to dodge and could only raise his battle blade and shield.
“Boom!”
Luo Feng held up his shield, attempting to deflect the impact. He only felt as though a towering mountain had crashed down upon him.
His entire body shook violently, and blood immediately sprayed from his mouth.
“No wonder even the Heavenly Sword Form could not block it. The impact is simply unbelievable.”
Luo Feng’s consciousness trembled violently.
……
When he regained consciousness, he had already returned to his manor in the Primordial Zone of Yu Xiang Mountain in the Virtual Universe.
“Your Highness.”
The servants and guards bowed respectfully.
“Hmm.”
Luo Feng nodded.
“How did it go when Your Highness went to the Heavenly Bridge?”
The manor steward, as well as the leader of the guard team, the World Lord Odoerik, asked.
“I failed.”
Luo Feng shook his head.
“The Heavenly Bridge is extremely difficult to cross. Failing the first time is perfectly normal. Your Highness need not take it too seriously.”
Odoerik comforted him.
Luo Feng remained calm on the surface and returned to his study.
Inside the study.
“I lost.”
Luo Feng frowned slightly. “Nearly 900 of the 1,000 people in our batch have already been tested. Apart from Bolan, who passed two levels in succession, none of the others even passed the first level. I am not surprised that I failed, but the opponent I encountered in the first level also used the Yan Shen Weapon. Yet, by controlling only three golden swords, he actually broke my Heavenly Sword Form.”
“Fundamentals!”
“Luo Feng, I told you long ago that fundamentals are important. You used nine golden swords to form the Heavenly Sword Form, yet he only used three golden swords to defeat you. That is the importance of fundamentals.”
On Luo Feng’s shoulder, the fist sized Babata shouted.
“It was different. His use of the Yan Shen Weapon was different from mine.”
Luo Feng recalled the battle.
“Whether I controlled six golden swords or nine golden swords, they were still independent entities. They were like six soldiers or nine soldiers coordinating with one another. But when he used the Yan Shen Weapon, he was able to create a genuine stacking of power. It was as if they had truly become one. Especially that final technique, those three golden swords actually combined together to form a gigantic golden sword!”
The third stage of the Yan Shen Weapon, the Heavenly Sword Form.
The fourth stage of the Yan Shen Weapon, Great Skill Appearing as Simplicity.
The fourth stage was actually a fusion of a large sword formation, combining everything into one entity and using absolute pressure to crush the opponent. That was why it was named Great Skill Appearing as Simplicity.
“I feel that his technique is somewhat similar to the fourth stage.”
Luo Feng frowned.
“But it is different from the fourth stage. The fourth stage is far more complex and powerful. His technique only fused three golden swords together, yet the resulting power was actually this outrageous.”
“This is the test of the Nine Universe Chaos Stele…”
An image of the first diagram of the Nine Universe Chaos Stele, the Rain Drop Diagram, flashed through Luo Feng’s mind.
There were nine raindrops in the Rain Drop Diagram. After seven days of comprehension, Luo Feng had gained many insights.
At this moment, as he recalled the previous battle and then thought of the Rain Drop Diagram, he seemed to remember a fusion of the artistic conception contained in three of the raindrops.
“Could it be…”
Luo Feng’s eyes grew brighter and brighter.
The comprehension he had gained during those seven days continued to merge with his three years of experience in comprehending laws and using the Yan Shen Weapon.
As these thoughts collided, countless sparks erupted, and one idea after another emerged.
Excitement!
Anticipation!
“I understand! I understand!”
Luo Feng could not help shouting.
“Following a book blindly is worse than having no book at all!”
Luo Feng could not help laughing loudly.
“The Yan Shen Weapon is a weapon created by a powerful existence. Using the Yan Shen Weapon rigidly according to its most basic methods is simply too rigid and too foolish. No wonder he called me foolish. I really was foolish! The Rain Drop Diagram, this is the true method of unleashing the greatest power of the Yan Shen Weapon!”
The Nine Universe Chaos Stele!
It contained the true Great Dao. No matter what weapon one used, one could find the most correct path through the Great Dao.
Although he had failed this time, the impact and benefits this battle had brought Luo Feng were actually far greater than if he had succeeded.
“Let’s begin.”
Luo Feng could no longer wait.