Time Acceleration

The fifth Trial Tower, fifth floor.

"Boom!"

It was the same scene. Lu Yan'an had already experienced it four times in the first four Trial Towers. The mechanical puppets appearing again in the fifth Trial Tower had been well within his expectations! The farther he got, the harder each Trial Tower became. So far, fewer than fifty contestants were still active in the trials. As for the rest, their journey through this Genius Tournament was basically over.

"These mechanical puppets are such a pain! These hundred mechanical puppets are as strong as ten thousand Fei Hou from the fourth floor!"

Lu Yan'an felt utterly aggrieved. His illusions were completely useless, they moved incredibly fast, and they could even use a domain! The setup seemed designed specifically to counter him. But there was nothing he could do except take things as they came. Although using the Law of Time could help him—he could charge straight through this floor, or even the sixth floor of the Trial Tower—that would also reveal his ultimate trump card!

"I'll stall and practice my footwork first. Let's see if I can hold out for ten days. If I really can't, I'll figure something out then!" he gritted out. The next moment, he shifted from offense to defense. Against these unreasonable mechanical puppets, he couldn't make any headway without using the Time Law, so he might as well stop attacking altogether! There was more than one way to advance to the next floor. As long as he held out until then, he could finally breathe easy.

Lu Yan'an made up his mind and began devoting himself wholeheartedly to honing his footwork. The mechanical puppets had completely countered his skills as an Illusionist on the fifth floor, but once he got past it, he'd be free as a bird in the sky! Hang on!

"Cangming, that kid Lu Yan'an from your Ganwu Universe Country seems like he's about to lose it!" On the plaza in the hall, Marquis Liehuo pointed at Lu Yan'an's projected run on the screen and said to Marquis Cangming.

"Looks like he really is about to lose it!" Marquis Cangming watched Lu Yan'an's condition and shook his head in confirmation. He no longer had any hope of Lu Yan'an placing higher. With Illusion Dream competing for first place in the overall universe rankings, he already had no regrets!

"Hey, wait a minute! Cangming, take a closer look at that kid. His condition seems a little unusual!" Marquis Liehuo suddenly patted Marquis Cangming on the shoulder and said urgently.

"Hm? This is..."

Three days later, with Lu Yan'an still fighting at full defense, his left arm was broken, his face was pale, and his energy was nearly spent. Of course, more than twenty of the hundred-plus mechanical puppets had been destroyed as well. The two sides were in a state of mutual attrition. But relatively speaking, Lu Yan'an was at a disadvantage—he had no backup.

He glanced at the ranking on his wrist screen: one hundred and twenty. That meant he had made it into the top thousand in the universe. No matter what happened, he'd be able to take part in the final showdown! With that in mind, he decided to keep this trump card hidden until the very end and do his best to reach a higher ranking!

"If I use the Time Law, I can definitely break through! But if I reveal my trump card, things will be harder later..." Facing the mechanical puppets' overwhelming attacks from every direction, Lu Yan'an could almost see himself being pounded to pieces. But he still kept his trump card in reserve, refusing to use it!

"If I'm going to die, I might as well take more of them with me! If I'm going to suffer, then you mechanical puppets can suffer too!" Lu Yan'an roared, looking utterly battered.

Clutching his long saber, he erupted into a burst of speed and went wild, repeatedly darting past the more than seventy mechanical puppets still standing. He fought with everything he had, pushing his speed to its absolute limit! By the time he had taken down another twenty or so mechanical puppets, he had completely lost himself in a frenzy.

"Hm?"

Though his body was in a frenzy, Lu Yan'an's mind was perfectly calm, thanks to the consummate state of his mind.

He felt a familiar fluctuation of the Time Law coming from the void. It was as if the temporal dimension through which he observed the world had changed!

"That's it!"

"Exactly!!!" Lu Yan'an could even sense the flow of time within a certain area around him, surging endlessly forward like a river! This was the second piece of the puzzle for the heaven-defying secret technique "Time Stasis"—Time Acceleration!

At that very moment, Lu Yan'an suddenly took control of the situation once more!

"Whoosh! Whoosh!" His new insight into the Higher Origin Law brought about a qualitative transformation in his footwork!

"Time Acceleration! What a stroke of luck!" Lu Yan'an had already decided that even if he failed the tower, he would keep this trump card—the Higher Origin Law of Time—hidden. But unexpectedly, he had made a breakthrough at this life-or-death moment.

Following his own understanding of time, he felt its fluctuations and began to move! His footwork now far surpassed the speed he'd previously achieved with the Law of Light's enhancement. He easily broke through his predicament and began counterattacking!

After advancing his comprehension of the Higher Origin Law of Time, Lu Yan'an's footwork became extraordinarily elusive. The speed and force of his saber strikes turned almost impossible to predict. In an instant, he pierced the cores of several mechanical puppets!

A moment later!

He wiped out nearly all the mechanical puppets and broke through the fifth floor in an instant.

"Cangming, what kind of ridiculous luck do you have?!" Marquis Liehuo said to Marquis Cangming, his face full of envy and jealousy.

"Cangming, what kind of ridiculous luck do you have?!" King Lieyu chimed in, turning into a human echo machine.

"Cangming, what kind of ridiculous luck do you have?!" ×1007

All the leaders of the Immortal factions present were stunned. What kind of absurd luck was this? In the first Genius Tournament in the entire universe, there were two Star Level genius Illusionists who had comprehended Higher Origin Laws! And they were from the same Universe Country, in the same World Zone!

Marquis Cangming, standing there, had turned into a stone statue and fallen into a long silence.

The surprise was simply too great—it had become a shock. One had comprehended the Higher Origin Law of Time, the other the Higher Origin Law of Space. They'd covered both Higher Origin Laws, and both were Illusionists. Even if someone told this unbelievably improbable tale as a myth, no one would believe it!

After a long silence, he seemed to gradually accept the truth and launched into a fit of wild laughter. "Hahahahaha... Two genius Illusionists who've comprehended Higher Origin Laws? The Genius Twin Stars of our Ganwu Universe Country? Hahahaha..."

His laughter was grating. The surrounding Immortals couldn't help frowning when they heard it.

At that moment, King Lieyu interrupted his performance. He patted Marquis Cangming, who was unable to contain himself. Marquis Cangming froze, and King Lieyu pointed to the dead-silent crowd around them. Marquis Cangming suddenly realized he really had gotten carried away, so he reined himself in and said:

"Everyone, I'm sorry. I'm just so happy." Marquis Cangming scratched the back of his head, looking a little sheepish. The cold aura around him had vanished completely, replaced by irrepressible joy!

"How about this? The Cold Spirit Wine for everyone here is on me!" Marquis Cangming said, wincing a little at the cost. There were 1,007 Immortal Experts in the hall, and the Cold Spirit Wine would cost over 100,000 Hunyuan Units!

"Hahaha, that's the spirit, Cangming!" Marquis Liehuo chimed in from the side, smoothing things over.

Only then did the tension among the Immortals begin to ease. Marquis Cangming felt a little apprehensive now, too. He really had gone a bit overboard. After all, there were Universe Countries present whose entire contingents had been wiped out! But the thought of the nearly 100,000 Hunyuan Units he was about to spend on wine still made his heart ache!

Sigh! I'll just call it money spent on a lesson. I really shouldn't get carried away! he thought.

But you two brats, keep fighting your way forward! I can't have that 100,000 Hunyuan Units of wine money go to waste! Marquis Cangming roared inwardly.