The Great Void Art

"No, that kid has merged with the void." At last, a sharp-eyed, observant expert spotted the clue.

"Impossible. Merging with the void requires at least a High King's comprehension of the Law of Space, and you have to follow the Teleportation school to pull it off. Besides, it would cause obvious spatial fluctuations. How could a Star-Level kid possibly get inside?"

"That's right. The fluctuations aren't obvious, but if you look closely, you can still see them. There really are spatial fluctuations—but how on earth did he do it?"

"Even High Kings can't hide in the void as well as he can. Usually, they can only merge with the void while using instantaneous movement."

As if to prove his point, Ling Xuan's figure appeared the next second in the middle of the Tuoluo Race Warriors' formation. His Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear spun around him in a sweeping slash, sending waves of flaming blades crashing outward. Caught completely off guard, the Tuoluo Race Warriors were killed instantly, one after another.

"Could he have understood instantaneous movement?"

Someone beside him suddenly pinched him.

"What are you doing? Ow!" The man glared at him in pain.

"Good. If it hurts, then we're not dreaming."

"If you want to check whether you're dreaming, why not pinch yourself?"

"No, I'm telling you that you're not dreaming. How could someone at Star Level understand instantaneous movement? Don't let your imagination run wild." The man spread his hands, looking utterly innocent.

The remaining Tuoluo Race Warriors suddenly snapped to their senses and charged at Ling Xuan again. Spear-like flashes formed from the Law of Gold thrust toward him.

Yet Ling Xuan's figure vanished from where he stood without warning once more. Not only did their attacks miss, they also struck other Tuoluo Race Warriors.

The entire Tuoluo Race Warriors' formation was shattered in an instant.

Whoosh—

Ling Xuan reappeared and struck with another slash.

Even though the Tuoluo Race Warriors were prepared this time, they still couldn't tell how Ling Xuan had appeared. They were killed without being able to fight back.

"The Great Void Art lets me merge with the void. It's an ability on par with a King-level Immortal's. How could the Tuoluo Race Warriors possibly find me now?" Hidden in the void, Ling Xuan watched the warriors searching all around for him and sneered to himself.

"An opening."

Ling Xuan spotted a flaw in one group of Tuoluo Race Warriors. He crossed the void in an instant and appeared among them, his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear slashing rapidly as he dispatched them at once, then slipped away again.

In the battles that followed, Ling Xuan picked off the Tuoluo Race Warriors one by one with the elusive Great Void Art.

"Ling Xuan has entered the fourth level."

The geniuses of the Ganwu Universe Kingdom cried out in astonishment as they watched his points soar.

"So what? Cao Benqi entered the fourth level long ago, and he's already close to clearing it."

On the fourth level, Ling Xuan quickly dealt with the Feihou beasts, whose defenses were even less tightly organized than those of the Tuoluo Race Warriors.

Before understanding the mysteries of the void, the Great Void Art was always the fastest way to break through a group attack. Besides, these beasts were no match for Ling Xuan individually.

Cao Benqi and Ling Xuan entered the fifth level one after another.

"He actually caught up." Cao Benqi stole a glance at the points leaderboard. He'd expected to leave everyone far behind, but that detestable name was still hot on his heels.

"In that case, I'll stop holding back." Cao Benqi's eyes flashed. "I'll show you what despair looks like: giving it everything you have and still being unable to see my back."

As he spoke, Cao Benqi's aura surged. If a combat power detector had been there, his combat rating would have been shooting upward.

Facing a hundred Mechanical Puppets, he showed no fear and charged straight into them.

"Look, Cao Benqi's points are rising even faster now!"

"What? Was that still not his limit?"

"Is this what a peerless genius born once in a hundred million eras looks like? What we thought was the height of his strength is only the tip of the iceberg!"

"The gap is enormous. Does Ling Xuan still have a chance?"

At the same time, Ling Xuan launched another attack against a hundred eight-meter-tall silver humanoid Machine Race puppets and the Mechanical Experimental Base.

The puppets' beams and their saturation bombardment would normally make them terrifying opponents at this level.

But against Ling Xuan, who had merged with the void, it was like they were facing no one at all. No, they really were facing no one.

The laser cannons couldn't even touch him. He approached the war puppets without hindrance and killed them with a single slash.

The hundred Mechanical Puppets put even less pressure on Ling Xuan than the defensive formation of the metal lifeform Tuoluo Race Warriors. At times, their bombardment even accidentally hit their own side as they tried to strike him.

The final Mechanical Experimental Base couldn't stop him either. He easily infiltrated it with the Great Void Art and destroyed it.

He cleared the fifth level!

They were once again neck and neck. Their race was far from over, and it was still impossible to tell who would win.

As he stepped into the Trial Space of the sixth level, Ling Xuan suddenly stopped.

Before him stretched a barren red wasteland. Shards of meteorite were embedded among the gravel, and ten enormous dark-gold beasts crouched where earth met sky.

Their three-hundred-meter-long bodies were like shifting mountains. Their dark-gold scales gleamed with a cold metallic sheen, and sharp protrusions lining their backs glinted in the sunlight.

When the leading beast raised its head, the bloodlust surging in its triangular pupils seemed to freeze the air across the entire wasteland.

The beast at the far left struck first, sweeping its hundred-meter-long tail toward him. The Law of Space gathered at its tip into a golden blade wheel. Wherever it passed, it carved a trench a thousand meters deep through the ground.

Ling Xuan's figure flickered. Ripples of void shimmered around him, and he slipped into the void like a drop of ink dissolving in water.

The next moment, he emerged from the void behind the beast, his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear wrapped in a Burning Wave Horizontal Slash as he struck at the gaps between its scales.

But the instant the blade struck the dark-gold armor, the sparks that erupted ricocheted like bullets, blasting craters into the ground.

The Starry Sky Behemoths were clearly so powerful that Ling Xuan might not even have the upper hand one-on-one. If not for the elusive Great Void Art, which kept the creatures from getting a fix on him, he would probably have lost in a single exchange.

Ling Xuan didn't retreat. Instead, the challenge only stoked his fighting spirit.

He used the Great Void Art to move freely through the void, constantly searching for the beasts' weaknesses.

The second beast sensed the threat and opened its jaws, firing a golden beam. Space twisted and shattered wherever the beam passed.

Ling Xuan became a blur and darted diagonally out of the void. His blade flashed, carving a deep wound across the beast's left eye.

The third beast flew into a rage and stamped all four hooves against the ground. Countless golden spikes erupted from the earth.

Ling Xuan kept shifting positions in the void, making the beast's attacks miss again and again.

Seizing his chance, he emerged beneath the beast's belly and brought down a full-powered Burning Wave Horizontal Slash. Several dark-gold scales fell away, revealing the dark-red flesh beneath.

Yet these wounds were only minor injuries to the Starry Sky Behemoths.

Their healing abilities were astonishing, and the wounds began to close almost immediately.

Ling Xuan realized he had to find a more effective way to attack.

He began studying each beast's fighting habits and weaknesses, and discovered that their eyes, bellies, and joints were relatively vulnerable.

In the battles that followed, Ling Xuan made full use of the Great Void Art's advantage and defeated them one by one.

First one, then two, then three.

"Cao Benqi is still one step ahead, having reached the seventh level first. He seems to have no bottleneck at all. Even the Starry Sky Behemoths in the Seventh Trial Tower are helpless before him."