The swordsmanship of the man in white robes astounded Luo Feng. These techniques were all at the pinnacle of the sixth-tier level. While they posed no direct threat to Luo Feng, the mere fact that the man achieved this relying solely on fundamental laws filled Luo Feng with immense admiration and shock.
As he battled the man in white, Luo Feng simultaneously cultivated his 'Golden Horned Beast Avatar' within the training space of the Inheritance Space, utilizing the ten-thousand-fold time acceleration to constantly dissect every single sword move.
“The Three Hundred and Sixtieth Strike!”
After Luo Feng repelled this three hundred and sixtieth strike.
The man in white retreated far back, pausing momentarily on the snowy ground.
“Hm?” Luo Feng was startled, stopping his own movement.
“Since these three hundred and sixty strikes cannot overcome you, then face my stronger sword techniques,” the man in white declared. The ice blade in his hand instantly flared, and within that moment, the faint outline of a roaring ferocious beast emerged… a beast resembling a one-horned lizard.
Luo Feng was startled: The Gold-Metal Beast God?
“Roar~~~” As the ice blade appeared, the manifested, roaring Gold-Metal Beast God was incredibly shrill and frenzied, lowering its head with its sharp horn pointed forward, charging as if burning its very life force.
Boom!
It left behind a piercing streak of golden light even in the void.
“Whoosh~~~” A dazzling light of water and fire erupted, directly blocking that agonizing golden blade light.
“Gold-Space Fusion Law. Luo Feng’s heart leaped in shock. “Seventh-tier sword technique!”
The preceding three hundred and sixty strikes each contained only one fundamental law, placing each one at the peak of the sixth tier, equivalent to the level of Nirvana Rebirth.
But this three hundred and sixty-first strike fused laws—the ‘Gold-Space Law’—and its might reached the seventh tier.
It forced Luo Feng to unleash his Light of Water and Fire just to defend against it.
This man in white had claimed earlier to use the same energy as Luo Feng, but in reality, the power he exuded was far greater! Luo Feng had needed to use his 'Blood Shadow Blade' to execute Nirvana Rebirth just to withstand the previous three hundred and sixty strikes delivered by the man in white.
Clearly…
This fifth level was actually testing combat secret techniques. As for divine power? Blood Shadow Blade? All other advantages were rendered useless.
“He has seen through the secret.”
“Knowing the benefits of this fifth level, hahaha. Look at this soldier Luo Feng, constantly fighting, yet never exploding with his full power to defeat his opponent. He clearly wants to glean more sword techniques from his adversary,” the four commanders murmured with knowing smiles. Every soldier who reached the fifth level throughout history quickly discerned this secret.
Then, with joyous excitement, they would begin absorbing and comprehending.
Luo Feng was indeed absorbing and comprehending.
The previous three hundred and sixty strikes had impacted him greatly. Having received the lineage inheritance of Duan Dong River, he already understood the importance of the Ten Great Fundamental Laws. Luo Feng had long grasped these fundamental laws, but he had never contemplated them to such depth.
Understanding a law was akin to knowing certain elements.
But how those elements were combined, and to what extent, depended entirely on one’s capability. In the sea of the universe, creating a ‘fifth-tier pinnacle’ secret technique using fusion laws or spacetime laws was termed the ‘Strongest Secret Technique,’ but in truth, it was merely a massive bottleneck, one extremely hard to surpass.
Like Luo Feng, hadn't he created the sixth-tier pinnacle Nirvana Rebirth based on the Gold-Space Law? Hadn't he created the seventh-tier Light of Water and Fire based on the Water, Fire, and Gold Laws?
The so-called limit! The so-called perfection! They were merely colossal bottlenecks.
For instance, a life gene level of 10,081 times was called perfection, yet Luo Feng had already reached sixty thousand times!
The impact was tremendous, especially aided by the ten-thousand-fold time acceleration in the ‘Training Space,’ which allowed Luo Feng to deduce countless insights. During his exchanges with the man in white, Luo Feng’s swordsmanship was steadily improving.
“The Three Hundred and Ninety-Ninth Strike!” The man in white instantly transformed into a massive tornado, within which swirled streaks of golden blade-light. These golden blades layered upon one another, like the overlapping leaves of a fan… Enveloped by this endless tornado of blade energy, Luo Feng let out a sudden, low roar.
The moment he swung the Blood Shadow Blade in his hand.
“Boom boom boom boom boom boom!!!!!” In the center of the layered, endless golden blade tornado, accompanied by the swing of the Blood Shadow Blade, there was an instantaneous explosion. An incomparably violent blade-light erupted, causing everything around it to shatter—all energy, all spacetime—and all the layered, endless blades were annihilated.
Everything dissipated.
The man in white was thrown backward, staggering three steps before looking at Luo Feng with shock.
Luo Feng stood holding the Blood Shadow Blade, his heart surging with excitement.
He had succeeded.
Finally… finally, he had forged a pinnacle seventh-tier sword technique!
Nirvana Rebirth was a pinnacle sixth-tier sword technique, and Light of Water and Fire was a seventh-tier technique. Since creating Light of Water and Fire, achieving further breakthroughs had been incredibly difficult. The last time, in the Nine Smoke Marsh, when Luo Feng killed that beast True God under the eyes of ten thousand True God corpses, that moment was a genuine life-or-death struggle, giving everything he had.
In truth, during that battle, Luo Feng’s swordsmanship had already improved, feeling on the verge of a breakthrough.
But the accumulation was still insufficient.
The preceding three hundred and sixty strikes by the man in white had significantly solidified Luo Feng’s foundation in laws, leading to a natural breakthrough. By combining the Four Laws—Water, Fire, Gold, and Space—he had effortlessly created this incredibly domineering strike. This move embodied explosion, tearing, and the destruction of everything…
“This strike was created within the Wu Qi Tower.”
“This time, I am determined to enter the ninth level and reach the summit of the Wu Qi Tower.”
“Everything blocking my path will be crushed; nothing can stop my way. This move shall be called the Path of Nine Heavens!” Luo Feng thought to himself.
Luo Feng’s three sword techniques.
Nirvana Rebirth, Light of Water and Fire, and Path of Nine Heavens!
These were techniques destined to be carved into the Blood Shadow Blade, though here, within the Wu Qi Tower, Luo Feng wasn't rushing to inscribe them.
“My swordsmanship realm has also reached the pinnacle of the seventh tier. Among the past inheritors of Duan Dong River, this should at least be considered average,” Luo Feng rejoiced. Historically, only two inheritors of Duan Dong River managed to create eighth-tier attack secret techniques while in the Universe Master stage; most others remained at the pinnacle of the seventh tier.
“With my swordsmanship reaching this level, I can now comprehend the third stage of the Shi Wu Wings, and the Star Tower can also be understood at a higher level.”
The stronger one’s foundation, the higher the level at which supreme treasures could be utilized.
When Luo Feng killed Lord Pei Xing, although he obtained another pair of wings, Luo Feng could not comprehend the third stage secret technique of the Shi Wu Wings at all—it was too profound.
But now that his swordsmanship had reached the pinnacle of the seventh tier, his realm was completely different, and he estimated he should be able to grasp it.
The first stage of the Shi Wu Wings was ‘Chaotic Spacetime’; the second was ‘Golden Kingdom’; he wondered…
What would the third stage be?
Luo Feng felt immense anticipation!
Inside the main hall of the third level of the silver-grey palace.
The Black Fog Commander exclaimed in awe, “His swordsmanship has broken through! This is already the mid-tier level for a True God.”
Pinnacle sixth-tier sword techniques only counted as early-tier True God level.
Pinnacle seventh-tier counted as mid-tier True God.
Pinnacle eighth-tier counted as high-tier True God. The axe technique self-created by Giant Axe Creator was at this level, and by utilizing a supreme treasure, he could unleash pinnacle ninth-tier attacks.
Pinnacle ninth-tier counted as the limit for a True God! Of course, by using supreme treasures, they could exhibit power one level higher, as was the case with Jie Fanzi.
Pinnacle tenth-tier… a super-being among True Gods, usually requiring assistance from a supreme treasure to reach. Of course, some heaven-defying existences are exceptions, like Luo Zheng, who managed to create pinnacle seventh-tier sword techniques while still a Universe Master. Once he became a True God, he would naturally surpass the so-called limits of ordinary True Gods.
And then there was the Primal Chaos Master!
The ‘Virtual Universe’ created by the Primal Chaos Master before his suppression, without relying on any supreme treasure, already possessed the might of a pinnacle tenth-tier technique. Especially during the long period he was suppressed by the source of the Original Universe, the Primal Chaos Master had made further breakthroughs; his realm had actually reached the level of a ‘Void True God,’ yet he remained suppressed…
His divine body could not advance (lacking divine power supply), and his miniature universe could not evolve (still filled with chaotic airflow, the most basic evolution yet to be completed).
“A Master of Laws creating mid-tier True God sword techniques. Unbelievable. Even at the Master of Laws level, I was slightly inferior to him,” the sturdy commander sighed.
“Passing the fifth level is indeed difficult, but as long as one can withstand the attacks, that’s enough. I hadn't expected this soldier Luo Feng to reach such a realm,” the silver-armored female commander next to him murmured lightly.
This was the truth.
Passing the fifth level indeed required only achieving the ‘seventh-tier’ level in attack secret techniques. The first three hundred and sixty strikes by the man in white were only pinnacle sixth-tier, and the later fusion law techniques were only seventh-tier.
As long as one did not lose.
Eventually, the man in white would concede!
“The Four Hundred and Fiftieth Strike!”
Luo Feng seemed possessed, his frenzied and terrifying sword strikes slammed into the man in white, directly blasting him into the snowy ground, causing the surface to crack and leaving behind long fissures.
Whoosh.
The man in white stood up and sighed, “Your strength is truly formidable. I concede.” He then casually tossed the ice blade, which instantly dissolved into snow and scattered away. He himself took one step and arrived far away, and with another step, he vanished from Luo Feng’s line of sight.
Luo Feng stood there, stunned.
“It ended just like that?” Luo Feng was bewildered.
“So close, just a little closer,” Luo Feng felt anxious and unwilling.
After successfully creating Path of Nine Heavens, Luo Feng had pushed himself to the limit in combating the man in white, striving desperately to forge an even stronger sword technique! Every exchange allowed him to absorb insights from the man in white, immediately integrating those suitable into his own technique… Luo Feng wanted to create an eighth-tier sword technique.
Historically, only two inheritors of Duan Dong River managed this while they were Universe Masters. Luo Feng also wished to achieve this.
But it was truly difficult.
Even after the man in white departed, Luo Feng had not yet succeeded.
“It seems an eighth-tier sword technique isn't that easy to forge,” Luo Feng sighed emotionally.
“Hm?” Luo Feng’s mind suddenly raced.
The man in white had performed a total of four hundred and fifty strikes earlier. Of these, three hundred and sixty strikes were created using only the Ten Great Fundamental Laws individually! And the fusion law techniques… there were ninety in total! Every single fusion law had been displayed. The man in white had clearly laid out everything for Luo Feng to see before accomplishing his goal and leaving.
“He conceded, meaning I succeeded?” Luo Feng suddenly realized. “If I hadn't created the technique myself, but instead used some secret methods from a supreme treasure, what would the outcome have been?”
Relying on a supreme treasure to execute a secret technique usually resulted in a power level one tier higher.
Luo Feng immediately understood. This was the Wu Qi Tower left by the Divine King. It would be a joke if the system couldn't distinguish whether a challenger used a supreme treasure or their own skill.
“Boom!”
A pillar of light descended from the sky, enveloping Luo Feng.
Whoosh!
Luo Feng vanished from the icy, snowy ground of the fifth level of the Wu Qi Tower.
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