Sixth Trial Tower, first level.
A hundred enormous beasts with fearsome golden horns roared deafeningly. A heart-chilling bloodlust filled the air around them, and each beast seemed like a killing machine from the ancient past. Though they were only weakened virtual versions, the pressure radiating from the Golden Horned Beasts as a group already surpassed that of ordinary Universe Levels. It even made some weaker Domain Lords tremble with fear.
"Roar!"
The herd thundered forward, their dark-golden scales scraping against the Trial Tower's hard floor with a grating screech. They looked clumsy, but were astonishingly fast. More terrifying still, the formation they seemed to be forming stirred the Law of Space, creating an invisible binding field that tried to lock onto the tiny human figure in their midst.
But Qin Zhao moved.
"Ten Thousand Line Flow—appear!"
He unleashed his Ten Thousand Line Flow movement technique, which was nearly at the great accomplishment stage! He no longer created just a hundred or so Phantom Bodies as before; in an instant, he split into more than eight hundred incredibly solid Phantom Bodies! Each one carried the powerful aura of his true self and his fierce blade intent, making it impossible to tell illusion from reality. This was no simple matter of numbers. It was the result of a qualitative change in his movement technique, born from reaching a certain level of understanding of spatial fluctuations. Subtle forces of attraction connected the Phantom Bodies, as if they formed a spatial web blanketing the entire battlefield.
"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"
The Golden Horned Beasts' frenzied attacks crashed into the web of Phantom Bodies. Most passed through the afterimages, while the few that struck real targets were deftly diverted by spatial ripples, which dispersed and deflected their force. Qin Zhao's true self darted through the web