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In the lobby, Mingluo was leading Lu Yan'an inside.

Suddenly, a ghostly phantom flashed past from the beams of the hall, and in the next instant, it appeared in front of Lu Yan'an, a dazzling spear light piercing towards Lu Yan'an's head!

"Hmph!" Lu Yan'an snorted coldly, and his figure instantly became blurry. Gradually, the attacker lost sight of Lu Yan'an altogether!

Boom!

The pillar in the hall behind Lu Yan'an instantly withstood the attacker's blow. The collision between the pillar and the spear produced a huge roar. However, the pillar, made of some unknown material, remained standing firm after enduring such an attack, without even a scratch on its surface.

"You dare to launch a sneak attack? You're courting death!" A flash of anger appeared in Lu Yan'an's eyes. With a roar, a long sword appeared in his hand, and he charged directly at the ghostly phantom that had suddenly appeared.

Whoosh!

Seeing that its sneak attack had failed, the ghostly phantom shook its head in frustration, and then retreated and fled without hesitation!

"Trying to escape?" A cold glint appeared in Lu Yan'an's eyes. He transformed into a blur and quickly chased after the attacker. Reaching the ninth level of the Universe Level Realm, his speed was simply too fast, exceeding 300 kilometers per second. In a flash, he had already traversed hundreds of kilometers beyond the main hall and returned to the end of the Heart-Refining Path!

"With this mere comprehension of the Origin Law of Light, coupled with a little bit of movement technique, you dare to launch a sneak attack?" A hint of killing intent flashed in Lu Yan'an's eyes as he flew towards the Heart-Refining Path. Suddenly, his Spiritual Force sensed a wave of attack in the cosmic space he was connected to.

"There are rats nearby?" He looked up in the direction of the attack wave and saw a lean martial artist about two meters tall, wielding a long sword, suddenly leap out!

The longsword seemed to have a life of its own, following the curve of the surrounding space as it pierced towards him!

"That's it?" Lu Yan'an held the long sword without flinching, his eyes cold. He suddenly accelerated upwards in mid-air, and at the same time, all his strength was instantly transferred to his right arm holding the sword. In the blink of an eye, the long sword had already connected with the Law of Light that Universe Origin!

The longsword, imbued with the power of the Law of Light, slashed upwards!

Meanwhile, the lean martial artist above elegantly wielded his longsword, aiming a deadly strike!

"Boom!"

The blade and sword clashed instantly. The lean martial artist's sword, imbued with the Law of Light, was accompanied by unparalleled speed, and he unleashed a series of thrusts in an instant!

Lu Yan'an's strike was a furious attack, drawing upon the power of the Origin Law of Light. However, it was clear that his understanding of the Origin Law of Light far surpassed that of the lean martial artist! Therefore, the outcome was quite obvious...

"Pfft!" The lean martial artist's body trembled as he took the full force of Lu Yan'an's enraged attack! His face flushed red as the recoil caused him to bleed from all seven orifices. His body was also thrown away by the powerful force, and his longsword instantly flew out of his hand, striking the nearby rock wall. The rock wall rumbled, and countless rocks tumbled down.

After a moment of acceleration, his body slowly began to fall freely under the influence of gravity! At this moment, the tiger's mouth of the lean martial artist's right hand holding the sword was completely cracked! With a blank look on his face and an incredulous expression, he looked at Lu Yan'an in front of him.

"You don't think this is the end, do you?" Lu Yan'an, wielding a long sword, chased after him.

"How is this possible?" The attacker stared in horror at Lu Yan'an, who was rapidly closing the distance from afar, as he plummeted downwards. "He... he's also a ninth-level Universe Level cultivator. In terms of speed, he's even faster than me. And after my sudden attack, he actually clashed head-on with me. Moreover, under the mental influence of the Heart-Refining Path, he was still able to seriously injure me?"

Lu Yan'an pounced and chased after him, his eyes sharp as knives, staring at the lean martial artist below, intending to seize the opportunity to kill him.

"Call out!"

A Spiritual Force weapon— the Tianheng Spike —infused with the World Energy, pierced through the lean martial artist and aimed at Lu Yan'an, or more precisely, at the longsword in his hand!

"Bang!"

The two weapons clashed and collided with a deafening roar!

Lu Yan'an felt the weight of an entire world crushing down on the longsword in his hand! The result was unsurprising: a Spiritual Force weapon imbued with the World Energy was simply beyond Lu Yan'an's current ability to resist. The longsword slipped from his grasp, and his entire offensive was forcibly halted!

"Please, Your Highness, show mercy! These two are Haoyue Level geniuses secretly trained by my Aurora Race. The attack just now was merely a trial that every genius of my Aurora Race must undergo before entering the Yanguang Secret Realm. They meant no harm!"

In the distance, Mingluo Luo, who had been watching the show, arrived "late" and immediately interrupted Lu Yan'an's attack!

Lu Yan'an curled his lip. "Is this how your Aurora Race treats its guests? If that's the case, then we have nothing to talk about!" After saying that, he turned and left, decisively and cleanly, without giving Mingluo a chance to speak.

Seeing Lu Yan'an turn and leave, Mingluo was stunned, and his expression became somewhat awkward! However, he had no choice but to quickly step forward and explain, "Your Highness, please calm down. This is just a test of our clan. Two geniuses who have completed ten years of comprehension will be used to rank each new genius to determine the time required for a newcomer to comprehend the 'Aurora Statue' for the first time!"

As he spoke, he beckoned to the two attackers. "Hurry up and apologize to His Highness!"

The two who had launched the sneak attack had no choice but to awkwardly step forward and apologize, saying, "Your Highness, we were in the wrong just now, please forgive us!" After saying that, the two bowed slightly to Lu Yan'an to express their apology.

Lu Yan'an was just using this as an excuse to vent his frustrations. These trials were endless! If he didn't express his dissatisfaction, these guys would really think he had no temper.

Upon hearing their apology, he immediately accepted it, replying with a forced smile, "It's alright!"

Seeing that Lu Yan'an's expression had softened slightly, Ming Mingluo breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to himself that the geniuses in his clan were unreliable! However, he seemed to have forgotten that he himself was just watching the show and observing how things would unfold during this test.

"You two, get out of here!" Mingluo said, giving a wink to the two geniuses from the clan. The two attackers immediately breathed a sigh of relief, bowed to Mingluo and Lu Yan'an, and quickly left!

"Your Highness, please follow me. We'll be at the meditation chamber of the Aurora Statue shortly! You've passed the highest level of the trial and have a full month to meditate on it!" Mingluo said hastily after the two left, fearing that something else might go wrong.

"Then let's go!" Lu Yan'an a premonition that this "Aurora Statue" would definitely have an extremely powerful effect on the comprehension of the Law of Light! Even those two rather inexperienced guys were able to cross the threshold of the Origin Law of Light with it, which is enough to prove its effectiveness in comprehension!

"Please follow me!" Mingluo, then took to the air and flew towards the direction of the palace. Lu Yan'an followed behind him...

High in the clouds.

Two figures were gathering in mid-air; they were the ghostly phantom from before and the lean, wiry young martial artist. But now, these two had lost all their arrogance, completely stunned by Lu Yan'an's performance!

"How... how can he be so powerful?" The voice in the ghostly phantom was low, but one could still hear the tremor in his voice.

"We are all the most elite geniuses selected from all over the Aurora Race by the Yanguang Secret Realm. We are now undergoing a simple ranking assessment. The two of us team up to deal with a young man who is also at the Haoyue Level, and we are completely powerless against him?" The lean martial artist shook his head repeatedly. "He is ridiculously strong. He has also crossed the threshold of the Origin Law of Light, and his comprehension is far superior to ours! Also, did you see that? He can actually exchange a blow with the Tianheng Spike Thorn, which is imbued with the World Energy!"

"Of course I saw it! Is that even humanly possible?"

"He's incredibly strong, beyond the limits!" the masked, ghostly youth said in a low voice. "He can even withstand the mental attacks of the final level of the Minor Heart-Refining Path, and even under those conditions, he still managed to severely injure you with a single strike, leaving you completely defenseless!"

Both of them fell silent.

As the pride of the Aurora Race, and geniuses nurtured by the Yanguang Secret Realm, they have always been arrogant and disdainful of others!

But even though they are the chosen ones, they were also nurtured by the Yanguang Secret Realm, so naturally they must fulfill the requirements of the Yanguang Secret Realm for them.

"Today I've redefined what genius is! Even when we teamed up, we were still utterly crushed!"

"Tsk, looks like things aren't going to get any easier from now on!"

"Not necessarily, there are some monsters in the secret realm too! Now it depends on the outcome of their competition."

The two people who dealt with Lu Yan'an were top geniuses within the Aurora Race. Because Mingguang Star lacked a "Virtual Universe Network," communication and talent gathering faced many difficulties. Many super geniuses were buried and undiscovered until they truly became powerful figures, by which time the best period for their development had already been wasted.

Compared to those two, Lu Yan'an is a prodigy who rose to the top of the universe's overall rankings through countless battles, a testament to the relentless efforts of Human Race across the vast universe via the "Virtual Universe Network." He was selected from billions of geniuses through a series of "pre-selection" processes.

And now, having spent 30 years meditating in the "Chaos City" of the Initial Universe, how could these two possibly try to take advantage of him!

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