Before Feng Hui's sudden breakthrough, among this batch of geniuses... only Guge of the Primordial Region had passed the second level of the Heavenly Bridge. Everyone else had passed only the first!
Even Guge of the Primordial Region had only just passed the second level.
He had taken first place in the Genius War, so everyone could accept that he had passed the second level. Some even thought it was only natural.
As for the rest, even the nine people from the Taichu Secret Realm had passed only the first level.
Now a genius from the Doomsday Secret Realm had come from behind, even surpassing the geniuses of the Taichu Secret Realm and the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm. How could these geniuses, so proud of themselves, possibly accept that?
What made it worse was that Feng Hui had chosen the most complicated and difficult Cosmic Chaos Stele. At the time, quite a few well-connected geniuses who already knew how difficult the Cosmic Chaos Stele was had secretly laughed at him.
They thought he had no idea of his own limits and was reaching beyond his grasp. Surely, before long, he would be left far behind by his peers.
But in reality, they were the ones who had been thoroughly humbled.
"Impossible!"
"How did this guy improve so fast?"
"We're from the Taichu Secret Realm, yet he's already so far ahead of us."
"There are nearly a hundred of us from the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm. We were much stronger than him before. How could this have happened?"
When Guardian Bafen's email arrived, Guge was fighting a simulated opponent in his private training ground in the Primordial Region of the Virtual Universe.
The enormous training ground stretched as far as the eye could see, hundreds of kilometers in both length and width. Compared with Feng Hui's cramped training room in the Doomsday Region, the two were worlds apart.
"Hm?" Guge suddenly stopped and waved a hand. All the simulated opponents vanished.
Puzzled, he looked down at the screen on his arm. A new email had appeared.
"Oh, an email from Guardian Bafen. Did someone else break through the second level of the Heavenly Bridge?"
"Was it Ha'en or Kong Ji from the Taichu Secret Realm? They took much longer than I did to pass the first level. The second level is far harder than the first, and I only just passed it myself. There's no way they could have broken through the second level already."
Still confused, Guge said sharply, "Open the email."
The email opened automatically.
"Feng Hui of the Doomsday Secret Realm has attempted the Heavenly Bridge for the first time in six years. He just passed the first and second levels in succession and is now attempting the third."
Reading the email, the ape-man Guge's eyes widened.
He'd never paid any attention to Feng Hui from the Doomsday Secret Realm. He had remembered the name only because Feng Hui was the sole person who chose the most difficult Cosmic Chaos Stele.
Even then, he'd regarded it as a minor curiosity and given it no further thought.
He never expected Feng Hui to catch up with him and become the second person to pass the second level of the Heavenly Bridge.
Guge suddenly felt a sense of crisis, as if someone were catching up to him.
While the news of Feng Hui's sudden breakthrough left the geniuses, who had been quietly competing and striving all along, stunned, Feng Hui had already begun his battle on the third level of the Heavenly Bridge.
At the end of the third level of the Heavenly Bridge.
"I choose..." Feng Hui looked at the cloud of mist before him. "Warrior!"
Just like at the first two levels, the huge cloud of mist at the end of the Heavenly Bridge sent out a stream of black liquid, which immediately formed into a man in black.
The man in black also held a dark-gold longsword. The one eye visible beneath his mask fixed on Feng Hui. "You want to pass the third level?"
"Show me what you can really do."
The Cosmic Heavenly Bridge tested one's comprehension of both the laws of time and the laws of space.
Now that he had reached the third level, Feng Hui didn't dare rely on the Law of Space alone. He had to show his true ability in cultivating both time and space.
"Good. As you wish." Feng Hui smiled confidently.
After years of arduous cultivation, he was eager to test what he'd learned and measure how far he'd come through battle.
His opponents on the first and second levels had been far too weak to force him to give his all.
Now he desperately needed an evenly matched opponent to fight.
He wanted to see how far his years of painstaking cultivation could take him.
Feng Hui unleashed his full strength. Space twisted, transforming into countless streaks of blade light. The flow of time grew chaotic as well, blurring the blade light until it became impossible to track.
The man in black raised his sword to defend himself. The two War Blades clashed violently, and the very air seemed to split open before shuddering and bursting apart.
On the Heavenly Bridge, Feng Hui darted back and forth through the world, his movements so bewildering that they dazzled the eye.
One move followed another in their lightning-fast clash. Yet it was clear that the man in black had been suppressed. He could do nothing but defend; he had no chance to strike back.
"This ends now." Feng Hui let out a low shout.
His War Blade came down with the tremendous force of a mountain-splitting, peak-shattering blow. The strike shook the heavens and earth, carrying overwhelming power.
Its dazzling blade light pierced through space, and even time seemed to be affected.
The man in black couldn't block it in time. The blade struck him, and his body exploded!
He had passed the third level of the Heavenly Bridge!
"Analyzing the Law Essence may take a long time and demand exceptional comprehension, but this power..." A faint smile appeared on Feng Hui's face. "It really is much stronger than those shallow applications of the laws."
He looked ahead. The mist had dissipated, revealing the fourth level of the Heavenly Bridge, which led straight upward.
"Rumble!"
In the distance above, Feng Hui could clearly see terrifying gray currents, sharp as knives, enveloping the Heavenly Bridge.
The first three levels had been shrouded in mist. At the fourth, howling gales now filled the air.
Dark gray winds roared across the bridge, and at its far end stood a tornado.
"I'll choose Warrior again," Feng Hui said at once.
"Boom!"
A figure suddenly shot out from the center of the tornado. He wore silver-white armor and boots, with a dark-gold War Blade strapped to his back. Beneath his silver-white mask, his eyes gazed at Feng Hui.
The Silver-clad Man said coolly, "I'll make only one move. If you can't block it, you lose."
Feng Hui's expression turned grave. With his strength—having comprehended the first profundity of both the Law of Time and the Law of Space—he'd been confident about passing the third level. But the fourth... he had no confidence at all.
After all, the farther one went on the Heavenly Bridge, the steeper the difficulty became. The gap between the third and fourth levels was enormous.
"Take this!"
The Silver-clad Man drew the War Blade from his back. A profound streak of blade light swept toward Feng Hui.
"So fast!"
Feng Hui was startled. He had no time to dodge and could only force his blade up to meet the attack. But the Silver-clad Man's blade light traced a profound arc and swept straight past Feng Hui's neck.
He failed to pass the fourth level!
At the center of the island in the Heavenly Bridge Plane.
Wind King watched the screen floating before him.
Although Feng Hui had lost at the fourth level, it did nothing to diminish his astonishing performance up to that point.
"Well done, kid!"
Wind King exclaimed with a smile. "You've cultivated in Chaos City for only six years, yet you've already glimpsed a trace of the essences of both the Law of Space and the Law of Time."
"What an unexpected discovery. Feng Hui is an unexpected find from my trip here. He's definitely stronger than Guge!"
"At least he hasn't disappointed the Venerable, and the Venerable's earlier help wasn't wasted."
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