Those who had reached the mountaintop early were all favored sons of heaven from their respective worlds, star systems, and even deep-field celestial regions.
For lifeforms of such advanced civilizations, the Boundless Ancient Road did not yet count as the highest-tier trial.
There were also geniuses from remote star regions, curiously looking around.
Zhou Leng sat beside the Star-Climbing Stone. Feeling somewhat weary, he swallowed several medicinal pills and sat in meditation, circulating the Great Sun Divine Technique.
It had merely been ordinary cultivation, yet his body suddenly shook violently, like a powder keg set ablaze.
High above, the immense Giant Supergalaxy released stellar power that filled the heavens, gathering into a colossal funnel of starlight whose tip descended upon Zhou Leng. The silver radiance was so dense that it triggered streams of multicolored force fields, scattering colorful sparks in all directions like an enormous firework blooming. Within the silver light, Stellar Void True Energy surged through Zhou Leng's body, and his skin gradually turned crimson.
Thunderous roars rang endlessly within his chest and abdomen, like rolling thunder.
The nearby cosmic geniuses all turned to look.
Many wore puzzled expressions.
Was this not the "Stellar Baptism" one had to undergo after advancing to Demigod?
Could someone truly climb to the mountaintop so quickly without undergoing Stellar Baptism?
The geniuses of advanced civilizations were somewhat bewildered.
If it were them, they absolutely could not have arrived so quickly without experiencing Stellar Baptism.
But they quickly came to their senses.
This person was either not a genius from an advanced civilization at all, or a descendant of some down-and-out advanced civilization from a remote star region.
That was why he did not even know the most basic Demigod cultivation.
In ordinary advanced civilizations, the major factions would invite Void Gods to act,