A Sudden Outburst Known Throughout the World

On the rooftop of his cultivation dwelling.

Feng Hui sat cross-legged in quiet cultivation.

These past few years, he had immersed himself in the Cosmic Scripture and Principles of Space-Time, reveling in the joy of comprehending the fundamental laws of the universe... barely feeling the passage of time.

Suddenly, the meditating Feng Hui opened his eyes, a sharp gleam flashing within them. His entire being seemed transformed.

"I've finally grasped the first subtlety of the essence of both the Time Law and the Law of Space."

"Luo Feng sat in Chaos City for ten years to comprehend the first subtlety of the Law of Space's essence. With such exceptional conditions, I took six years to grasp it—and I've also gained the essence of Time."

After years of bitter cultivation, Feng Hui felt the urge to move.

"So much time has passed, and I've yet to challenge the Heavenly Bridge. The others have probably all cleared the first layer by now."

"Well then, let me give it a proper try!"

The virtual universe, a special dimensional space.

This dimensional space was an endless ocean, its waves surging.

On the ocean sat a single beautiful island. At its edge were fifty-two harbors, each extending an endless long bridge that stretched toward the horizon...

These fifty-two bridges hung entirely over the ocean, as if trying to connect to the distant sky.

Above the ocean waves, faint mist lingered, obscuring whatever lay beneath. The mist coiled around the bridges, making everything seem dreamlike and illusory.

Feng Hui suddenly appeared on the central plaza of the island.

"Oh?"

The overseer of the Heavenly Bridge Plane, Bafen, looked over in surprise and said with a smile.

"It's been six years, hasn't it? Aside from your first visit to Chaos City, why haven't you challenged the Heavenly Bridge even once? Those young geniuses who arrived with you have all passed the first layer—and every single one of them tries several times a year."

"I was cultivating before and didn't want to be distracted." Feng Hui walked over with a smile.

Watching the black-clad, short-haired youth with sharp eyes before him, Overseer Bafen felt that this young man seemed different now.

"No one's on the Cosmic Heavenly Bridge right now. Go ahead and challenge it!" Overseer Bafen looked at Feng Hui expectantly.

"Swoosh!"

Feng Hui turned into a blur, flying straight toward a distant Heavenly Bridge that stretched to the horizon. From afar, he could see a stone tablet before the bridge, inscribed with the words "Cosmos."

The Heavenly Bridge stretched endlessly to the horizon, shrouded in hazy white mist, with surging waves below.

Feng Hui had now reached the end of the first layer of the Cosmic Heavenly Bridge.

"Choose your opponent. You may select a warrior, a spiritual controller, or a spiritual illusionist. Defeat your opponent to pass the first layer of the Heavenly Bridge."

Before him was a massive cloud of mist, from which a voice emerged.

From what he knew, he had to defeat the opponent for the mist to dissipate and allow him to ascend to the next layer.

"I choose... warrior."

"Whoosh"

A mass of black liquid flew out from the mist, coalescing midair into a mysterious figure clad in a black battle suit and a black mask. This figure held a dark-gold long blade, and beneath the black mask, a pair of cold, dark eyes stared at Feng Hui.

"The opponent on the first layer might have been somewhat challenging for me six years ago, but now..."

Feng Hui wasted no words. He drew his blade and swung—

The black-clad figure died instantly, dissolving back into black liquid that merged into the white mist.

"...it's effortless."

Then, Feng Hui flew straight to the end of the second layer of the Heavenly Bridge.

At the end was another massive cloud of mist.

"I still choose... warrior!" Feng Hui slowly descended from midair, his hard boot soles landing on the bridge.

Black liquid flew out again, coalescing into another black-clad figure.

"Come!" Feng Hui's eyes blazed with light, his wild battle intent erupting!

He charged forward, leaving an afterimage in his wake as another version of himself appeared before the black-clad figure.

"Bang!"

Their blades clashed. The black-clad figure was sent crashing down to one knee on the bridge surface, then slid backward and tumbled away.

"Where's your Time Law? Why aren't you using it?" The black-clad figure leaped up with a roar.

"To pass the second layer, I don't need to use the Time Law. The Falling Leaf Blade is enough."

"Hmph!" The black-clad figure snorted, stomped hard on the bridge, and shot toward Feng Hui like a bolt of lightning.

"Falling Leaf!" Feng Hui bellowed. Space itself seemed to compress as his blade swept toward the black-clad figure like an autumn wind clearing fallen leaves.

If Feng Hui's Falling Leaf Blade had been ordinary before, now—infused with the first subtlety of the Law of Space's essence—it truly became like an autumn wind sweeping away leaves. The black-clad figure had no way to withstand it.

"Boom."

The black-clad figure plummeted downward, plunging into the mist-shrouded seawater below.

"Third layer!" Feng Hui watched as the white mist before him dissipated, revealing the third layer of the Heavenly Bridge stretching upward.

Above Chaos City, Wind King was flying toward his disc-shaped spacecraft.

After these days in Chaos City, he had observed everything he needed to from this batch of geniuses. It was time to return and report to the Venerable.

"Hm?" Mid-flight, he suddenly halted.

Wind King was specifically tasked with gathering intelligence on these newcomers for Ice Universe Venerable, so he had naturally instructed Bafen, the overseer of the Heavenly Bridge, to notify him immediately if any of them broke through.

"Feng Hui passed the second layer of the Heavenly Bridge, and he did it using only the Law of Space."

Wind King was somewhat surprised.

He knew that when Feng Hui first arrived in Chaos City and challenged the Heavenly Bridge, he had already displayed an extraordinary comprehension of the Time Law.

Though he lacked time-based secret techniques back then, with the Principles of Space-Time granted by the Venerable, six years of study should have ensured the Time Law wouldn't hold him back.

Yet the second layer of the Heavenly Bridge hadn't even forced Feng Hui to use the Time Law.

"Good kid, still holding back. Looks like he's made considerable progress these past few years!"

"Whoosh."

Wind King stopped in his tracks, his consciousness instantly entering the "Heavenly Bridge Plane" within the virtual universe.

Seeing the new figure appear on the beautiful island, the overseer Bafen quickly bowed respectfully.

"Wind King."

"Has Feng Hui's battle on the third layer begun?" Wind King barked.

"It's about to start. He just reached the end of the third layer."

The overseer Bafen replied.

Bafen was the sole overseer of the entire Heavenly Bridge Plane, the one most familiar with everyone's progress on the bridge. Even a super powerhouse like Wind King couldn't directly observe someone's battle on the Heavenly Bridge; he had to rely on Bafen.

"Play the footage of his Heavenly Bridge challenge." Wind King said solemnly.

"Understood!" The overseer Bafen waved his hand, and a screen over ten meters long and nearly eight meters wide appeared before them. On the screen was an image: a section of the Heavenly Bridge and a mass of white mist, with Feng Hui standing on the bridge, staring at the mist.

"Do you think Feng Hui can clear the third layer?" Wind King couldn't help asking.

"It's very difficult. After all, he's only been in Chaos City for six years—far too short a time."

Just as he was discussing this with Wind King, the overseer Bafen had a sudden thought: "According to orders from above, I need to find ways to spur competition among these geniuses. Hmm, it's time to inform Guge and the others."

The overseer Bafen quietly sent the news that Feng Hui had passed the second layer of the Heavenly Bridge and was now challenging the third layer to the batch of geniuses currently in bitter cultivation.

All the surviving geniuses, including Guge, over nine hundred in total...

They all received this message at the same time.

Without exception... they were all stunned.