Nine Universes Heavenly Bridge

After leaving the inner area of the City Lord Mansion, Ling Xuan took his three wives to find a quiet residence for cultivation.

"Should we go and try out this Heavenly Bridge first?" Ren Yaoli, the most restless of the three, was the first to suggest.

"That works. It's best to go and see it for ourselves first," Ling Xuan said with a smile, encouraging the idea.

The four of them then entered the Virtual Universe together.

"Master, a teleportation permission for the Heavenly Bridge plane has been added to your authority," Puff said.

"Teleport me there now."

After a brief shift in space-time, Ling Xuan and the three women appeared in a unique plane of existence.

This plane was an endless ocean with surging waves.

On the ocean sat a single, beautiful island. At the edge of this island were 49 ports, each extending into an endless long bridge that stretched toward the horizon... as if trying to connect to the distant edge of the world. These 49 long bridges were completely shrouded above the ocean.

Mist faintly hovered over the ocean waves, making it impossible to see what lay within the water. The mist coiled around the long bridges, making everything feel dreamlike and illusory.

As soon as the four of them arrived, they instantly attracted the attention of everyone nearby.

These were all geniuses from the current Genius Tournament. Seeing the first-place winner of the tournament appear alongside the three most beautiful flowers was bound to cause a stir.

"Yanmo, have you come to challenge the Heavenly Bridge as well?" Alister, who placed fourth in the tournament, walked over enthusiastically.

"Indeed. Have you all challenged it yet? How were your results?" Ling Xuan responded with a smile.

"Everyone in our batch who has contemplated the Chaos Stele came to challenge the Heavenly Bridge immediately. Only Yanshen Cao Benqi managed to clear the eighth level of the Heavenly Bridge in one go; everyone else ended up with zero," Alister said.

"The eighth level?" Ling Xuan pondered the number. Honestly, it was difficult to catch up based solely on law comprehension.

He could easily surpass it by cheating, but there was no need for that.

"I'll go challenge it first. You can watch my fight, and it might serve as a reference when you take your turn," Ling Xuan said with a smile.

"Why don't we go first and provide a reference for you? That Cao Benqi managed to clear the eighth level, after all," Feng Lishuang countered.

"No need. You saw that the others couldn't even clear the first level, which shows that this Heavenly Bridge is extremely difficult. At most, you would clear the first level, so the subsequent levels wouldn't have any reference value. Given my strength, clearing the first level is effortless. Besides, I'm not in a hurry to compete with Cao Benqi. He has cultivated for many more years than I have; I don't need to prove that I can quickly surpass him." Ling Xuan had a healthy mindset and clear goals.

The three women paused at his words. Sometimes Ling Xuan spoke the truth, but it could be quite piercing.

What did he mean by "so many years older," and saying they would at most clear the first level? It was too blunt.

"Go ahead, the Nine Universes Heavenly Bridge happens to be empty right now." The monitor Bafen had been watching from the side and finally found an opportunity to speak.

"Could I trouble you, Monitor, to broadcast the live combat footage to my three wives?" Ling Xuan asked.

"Leave it to me." Bafen bowed. As a personal disciple of the Giant Axe Founder, his status was comparable to that of a Universe Venerable, so Bafen naturally would not refuse his request.

"Many thanks." After thanking him, Ling Xuan turned into a blur and flew directly toward a Heavenly Bridge in the distance that stretched to the end of the world. From afar, he could see a stone tablet in front of the bridge with the characters "Nine Universes" inscribed on it.

The moment Ling Xuan stepped into the Nine Universes Heavenly Bridge, Puff's voice rang out in his mind: "Master, you have just received an email from the Virtual Universe Company."

"Understood." Ling Xuan didn't even check it; he roughly remembered the rules regarding points.

The points for each level of the Heavenly Bridge were likely double the previous one, with the first level worth 100 points.

As an incentive for newcomers arriving in Chaos City, the points they could earn by clearing the Heavenly Bridge during their thirty years in Chaos City were ten times the original amount.

Therefore, for the sake of those tenfold points, Ling Xuan would go all out to challenge the Heavenly Bridge before leaving Chaos City, but he wouldn't do so right from the start.

"Choose your opponent. You may choose a Fighter, a Spirit Reader Controller, or a Spirit Reader Illusionist. Choose any one opponent; defeat your opponent, and you will have cleared the first level of the Heavenly Bridge." A voice emanated from a massive cloud of mist in front of Ling Xuan.

"I choose... a Fighter," Ling Xuan said.

Whoosh!

A mass of black liquid flew out from the mist. In mid-air, the liquid began to condense and take shape, transforming into a mysterious figure wearing a black mask. This figure wore Cloud-Flow Battle Boots and held a crimson Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear—the exact same equipment as Ling Xuan.

A pair of cold, deep eyes stared at Ling Xuan from beneath the black mask, and it spoke: "Let the battle begin!"

"Defeat him, and you may enter the second level of the Heavenly Bridge," the cloud of mist announced.

Ling Xuan lightly shook his Fire God Absolute Domain Blade. The blade hummed, and crimson flames instantly surged three feet high, enveloping him like a god of war bathed in fire.

The masked figure's body erupted with fiery red flames as he leaped forward, the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear thrusting toward Ling Xuan's throat at a tricky angle.

Ling Xuan blocked horizontally with his own Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear. With a loud "clang," sparks flew in all directions.

Both of them used the force to fly backward, and the moment they landed, they launched themselves at each other again.

The masked figure swept his blade, unleashing the second stage of the secret technique, "Burning Wave Horizontal Slash." The fiery red flames transformed into a hundred-meter-wide surging wall of fire, sweeping toward Ling Xuan like a tidal wave.

Ling Xuan didn't dodge or evade; he unleashed his own "Burning Wave Horizontal Slash," and the crimson flame wall collided with the incoming attack.

The two flames crashed together, erupting with a thunderous roar.

Using the explosive shockwave, Ling Xuan stepped forward on the flames, his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear dancing in a flurry of blade shadows, each strike carrying the momentum to split mountains and shatter rocks.

The masked figure did not show weakness, the cold light on his three-pointed blade flickering as he met Ling Xuan's attacks head-on.

The sparks generated by the clashing blades illuminated the entire battlefield as if it were broad daylight.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

The Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spears collided repeatedly, the sound of metal ringing out deafeningly.

Ling Xuan intentionally exposed a flaw, baiting the masked figure to strike at his left shoulder. Just as the opponent was about to succeed, Ling Xuan flipped his wrist, striking the side of the opponent's blade with his hilt and using the leverage to knock him back several steps.

The masked man in black roared, his flames surging as he charged forward once more, his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear dancing through the air, thrusting and sweeping in a relentless, storm-like assault.

Ling Xuan countered with the exact same techniques, clearly displaying the masked man's attack rhythm, power level, and tactical shifts to Feng Lishuang and the others watching from the sidelines.

Although the weapon used by the masked man varied from person to person, the level of the laws being utilized remained fixed.

It held a certain degree of reference value.

After dozens of rounds of intense combat, Ling Xuan felt he had demonstrated enough, so he let out a loud shout, gathering all his flame energy into the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear to unleash a heavy and powerful Burning Wave Horizontal Slash.

A crimson curtain of fire, like a burning city wall, pressed down toward the masked man in black.

The masked man in black swung his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear with all his might, attempting to cleave through the curtain of fire, but under Ling Xuan's full-force strike, the fiery red flames instantly collapsed.

Ling Xuan's Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear, trailing raging flames, continued its momentum, slicing him and his weapon into nothingness.

With the fall of the masked man in black, the clouds shrouding the Heavenly Bridge dissipated, revealing the path to the second level.

Ling Xuan stepped onto it without the slightest hesitation.

At the end of the second level, there was still a massive mass of clouds, and a voice emanated from them: "Choose your opponent. You may choose a Fighter, a Spirit Reader Controller, or a Spirit Reader Illusionist. Choose any one opponent; defeat your opponent, and you shall pass the second level of the Heavenly Bridge."

"Fighter."

Whoosh!

A glob of black liquid flew out from the massive clouds, rapidly solidifying in mid-air into a mysterious figure wearing a black battle suit and a mask, equipped exactly like Ling Xuan.

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