Breaching the Domain Lord Level Primordial Heaven-Reaching Mountain (Seeking Follow-ups)

In the lineage of the Virtual Universe Company, aside from the Dark Lord who spent his days in the Cosmic Sea, all other Universe Masters had gathered in the Heavenly Mountain plane.

At a remote corner of the Heavenly Mountain plane, a figure in a white robe stood silently.

His aura was extremely restrained, as if he had merged with this virtual world. The entire realm operated according to his will, and none of the Universe Masters could detect the white-robed figure.

The Origin Ancestor had arrived unnoticed, hands clasped behind his back, gazing into the distance as he quietly watched Zhang Dong challenge the Heavenly Mountain. Light flickered in his eyes, as if they contained the entire ancient history of humanity.

At this moment, Zhang Dong had broken through the defenses of the mountain-pass guardians like a splitting bamboo and ascended to the summit of the Primordial Heaven-Reaching Mountain.

He wore light blue armor, carried a long blade on his back, and his face was full of confidence—how spirited and proud he was.

Mist and clouds swirled around the summit. The moment Zhang Dong arrived, the three summit guardians set aside their tasks and stood ready.

As intelligent lifeforms, they understood what Zhang Dong's arrival here signified.

"Lord Zhang Dong, I truly didn't expect you to reach the summit," the Ox-Head said in a gruff voice. "The last one to come here was Ke Di."

"Ke Di was much older than you," the Snake Woman said with a seductive smile. "Lord Zhang Dong is a young hero. If you can pass our trial, you might be called the strongest genius in history."

Breaking through the Domain Lord-level Primordial Heaven-Reaching Mountain was nothing special.

But doing so with such a short cultivation time was far too exaggerated.

The Primordial Universe was not the Origin Continent or the neighboring Three Realms. In the understanding of many powerful beings, reincarnation did not exist.

Even the Universe Masters of past eras were far inferior to Zhang Dong in their youth.

"Relying only on my own comprehension of the laws to break through would be tough," Zhang Dong mused. "But the gap between the fifteenth and sixteenth floors of the Heavenly Bridge isn't that large. I can make up for it with raw power."

The fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth floors all belonged to the Marquis-level Immortal stage.

The eighteenth floor was King-level Immortal. Crossing that gap purely through amplification techniques was extremely difficult, but from the fifteenth to the sixteenth was possible.

Zhang Dong smiled. "I'm sure no small number of super existences are watching. Let's skip the pleasantries and begin."

The next moment, he drew the long blade from his back and slashed forward. A blade light emerged, expanding from three zhang to hundreds of zhang in an instant.

The blade light was fierce, cutting through the plane's space and revealing a deep, dark void.

"Not bad," the Snake Woman said with a seductive smile as she began casting illusions, while the Ape-Man behind her unleashed a curved streak of light to block Zhang Dong's blade light.

The Ox-Head roared to the sky, raising his blood-colored giant axe above his head. Countless phantom axe blades appeared, tearing through space as they swept in all directions with boundless might!

When the three guardians acted together, even all the Domain Lords of the Primordial Realm combined would be instantly annihilated!

But the illusions had no effect on Zhang Dong.

He had a First-Class True Intent, transcendent in nature, and some of his True Intents had already broken through to the Second-Class Divine Heart realm. His soul was inherently extremely powerful.

As for willpower, Zhang Dong was heaven-defying. So-called illusions were merely a breeze brushing his face. He could even ignore the illusions of the Realm Lord-level Primordial Heaven-Reaching Mountain, let alone the Domain Lord-level one.

Dodging the curved streak of light and sidestepping the Ox-Head's blood axe, his movement technique was so exquisite that even the Venerables watching from outside couldn't help but praise it.

For a Domain Lord to possess such movement skills was simply unbelievable.

Little did they know, Zhang Dong had comprehended this movement technique with the Pole True Intent at the third level as its core.

"Kill!"

After evading the first round of attacks, Zhang Dong launched his counterattack. His figure shifted slightly, and in what seemed like an instant, he crossed a vast distance to appear before the Ox-Head.

The Snake Woman's illusions were useless, and the Ape-Man was a spiritual psion. As long as he killed the Ox-Head, the battle would hold no more suspense.

The Ox-Head raised his blood axe again, delivering a strike that tore through space.

Zhang Dong did not retreat. He swung his long blade, channeling the Great Extinction Force, and executed a secret technique. The entire blade's edge shimmered with light, piercing through everything like a pole point.

And at the point where that blade light landed, space itself began to collapse!

This secret technique, created by combining the Pole True Intent with the mysteries of the Chaos Hole, would, if perfected in the future, deliver endless penetration and collapse with each strike.

Space was pierced through with a tiny hole, while a larger area caved inward, creating an extremely eerie sight.

Boom!

Blade and axe collided. The blood-colored giant axe was instantly shattered. The Ox-Head's face was full of shock—he could clearly feel that Zhang Dong's power wasn't all that overwhelming.

But the penetrating force of that blade light was truly astonishing!

With one strike, the blood axe snapped in two. The Ox-Head reacted quickly, immediately reaching for the broken axe blade to swing it back and block Zhang Dong's blade light.

"Stillness," Zhang Dong said at that moment, casting Inanimate Stillness.

The timeline of the axe blade was completely stripped away, and countless particles ceased their motion. Though it was already an inanimate object, the Ox-Head controlling it had to bear part of the resistance.

That fraction of resistance slowed his retrieval of the axe blade by 0.001 seconds—an instant was more than enough.

Chi!

The blade light swept past, and the Ox-Head's head was severed.

The violent energy continued to wreak havoc, and the life core within his body was also destroyed.

Outside, the many Cosmic Venerables watching the battle exchanged glances. When challenging the Primordial Heaven-Reaching Mountain, as long as the Ox-Head was killed, the rest of the fight would generally not be too difficult.

With Zhang Dong's skill, law comprehension, and explosive power just now, how could the Ape-Man and Snake Woman possibly block him?

The Snake Woman and Ape-Man held out for less than three seconds before Zhang Dong thoroughly subdued them. The three soon recovered from their injuries and stood back up.

"How did you do that?" the Ox-Head asked directly as he rose. "You actually cut my Blood Axe apart."

"And completely ignored my illusion technique."

"Congratulations, Your Highness Zhang Dong, on passing the Primordial Heaven-Reaching Mountain. From now on, you are destined to be an extraordinary super-existence of our human race."

The Snake Woman and Ape-Man each added a sentence.

"Just some combat secret techniques," Zhang Dong replied casually. "As for your illusion, it's not strong enough."

He had lived a very short time, but his soul was far too powerful.

With a strong soul, one's will wouldn't be weak either, so naturally it couldn't be shaken.

Outside, the many experts watching the battle exchanged glances, utterly unable to believe that Zhang Dong had passed so easily.

The Shayue Venerable from before was especially full of regret.

If he had known Zhang Dong was such a prodigy, he should have invested in him back then. Then he could have gained a backer in the future—most Cosmic Venerables didn't have powerful patrons.

"This matter must still not be spread outside, not even to the Kings under your command," Chaos City Lord said after a moment of deliberation, looking at the group of observing Cosmic Venerables. "Our human race may be about to birth another super-existence."

Those Cosmic Venerables all nodded repeatedly.

The stakes were enormous.

If they dared to leak this matter, they would absolutely be locked up in the Venerable Prison of the Initial Universe and sit in jail for billions of epochs.