Slaughter Space

After the two chatted for a while, Mikita left the restaurant to attend to his own affairs.

Qi Tianshou did not linger. After settling the bill, he walked out of the restaurant and headed down the main street toward the teleportation terminal.

A short while later, he arrived at the nearest teleportation point. After queuing up and entering the channel along with the other users, he issued a command to his AI, Futu, to teleport to the Slaughter Arena.

"Whoosh."

The next second, Qi Tianshou appeared in front of a massive building. Stepping inside, he found himself in a hall the size of an entire city.

Qi Tianshou scanned his surroundings. The background of the hall, which resembled a sea of blood, filled him with a sense of slaughter, and the prominent "blood drops" scattered about added an even more chilling, murderous atmosphere to the Slaughter Arena.

Although the hall was vast, there were not many people present. After all, the costs here were exorbitant; ordinary family disciples could not afford to stay for long, let alone average adventurers.

"I am at the Universe Level 9. A single day in this Slaughter Arena costs 10 million Noah Coins. The 500 million Mikita gave me won't even last two months."

Qi Tianshou calculated the costs as he headed to the service counter to link his bank account, ensuring that future combat services would be deducted directly.

Once the formalities were complete, Qi Tianshou followed the guidance information and walked straight toward the end of the hall.

There, rows of channels stood waiting. Each person chose one to enter, leading to an independent Slaughter Space.

Qi Tianshou did not hesitate; he chose a channel at random and walked deep into it.

As he walked, the environment shifted into the starry expanse of the universe. He found himself standing on a massive meteorite, a golden book appearing in his hand containing the user manual for the Slaughter Space.

Qi Tianshou glanced through it, and a plan formed in his mind.

He had two goals in coming to the Slaughter Space. The first was to refine his own techniques; he didn't need to become peerless, but he couldn't afford to be too far behind others of the same rank.

After all, he possessed an innate secret technique in reality that gave him combat power comparable to a Domain Lord level 1 or 2, and his strength could rise even further once he transformed into his Golden Buddha Form.

However, that was achieved solely through his innate secret technique; his actual grasp of combat techniques and the application of law domains was quite crude.

While that was a part of his strength, there were too many geniuses in this universe capable of fighting above their rank, and many possessed special talents. Relying solely on his innate secret technique would make it difficult for him to stand among the strong.

The second point was his primary objective: to showcase his talent to the Virtual Universe Company and attract the attention of the management team stationed at the Beihua Empire's Slaughter Arena.

He currently lacked combat secret techniques. Without a legacy or affiliation with any major power, he lacked the funds to acquire high-level techniques.

If he could join the outer circle of the Virtual Universe Company, he would have a channel to obtain combat techniques. Even if the techniques he could acquire weren't top-tier, they would at least be better than what Mikita provided.

With his mind made up, Qi Tianshou began his first battle in the Slaughter Arena.

"Futu, link to the Slaughter Space. Set terrain to plains. Opponent: Universe Level 9 martial artist with a level 9 domain."

Over the next ten days, Qi Tianshou remained immersed in the Slaughter Space, fighting battle after battle and slowly refining his shortcomings.

The level of his opponents gradually increased, shifting from those with a level 9 domain to those who had stepped into the threshold of the Origin Law of Metal.

He lacked combat secret techniques, but he could unleash formidable power with just his fists and feet. Since he couldn't learn the secret techniques of his opponents, he studied how they applied their secret techniques to the origin laws.

Over these ten days, Qi Tianshou's strength grew, his combat techniques improved, and he mastered rudimentary applications of the laws, integrating them into his own strikes.

On the eleventh day of entering the Slaughter Space, Qi Tianshou, still hard at work, received a communication from Mikita.

After logging out of the Virtual Universe Network, Qi Tianshou washed up in his hotel room and stepped out into the living area.

On the luxuriously customized sofa, Mikita was savoring a fine wine, accompanied by Qi Jingshi and the others.

"Shangye, let's see your spiritual weapon. We should spar a bit later."

Qi Shangye, sitting on the edge of the sofa, had shed his usual lazy demeanor and was looking at his newly acquired weapon with excitement.

"Oh? Shangye bought a spiritual weapon?"

Qi Tianshou heard their conversation as he walked out and sat on the sofa, looking at Qi Shangye with interest.

"Buddha Lord." The group stood up quickly to greet him as they saw him approach.

"Mm." Qi Tianshou nodded slightly, picked up the wine from the stone table, poured himself a glass, and took a small sip.

Qi Tianshou noticed two metal briefcases on the stone table, both secured with combination locks; he wondered what they contained.

"Buddha Lord, Mr. Mikita took us around Mengyu Planet these past few days and even bought us weapons."

Qi Tianshou (the person) said with excitement, pulling a half-person-tall battle axe from his space bracelet to show Qi Tianshou.

The axe was a second-tier mid-grade force weapon, dark gold in color and forged from a special alloy, with secret patterns etched into the surface.

Qi Jingshi also took his battle blade from his storage space. It was crafted from the same dark gold alloy, but the blade was slender, resembling a Tang-style sword from ancient China.

"These two weapons were designed by the same blacksmith and share similar names. The one in Tianshou's hand is the Gold-Slashing Axe, and the one in Jingshi's hand is the Gold-Slashing Blade."

Mikita smiled and took a sip of his wine, introducing the force weapons to Qi Tianshou.

Qi Tianshou nodded. Because they all belonged to the Gold Soul Clan, they had awakened metal-attribute talents and possessed the "Vajra Body," making such force weapons quite suitable for them.

"What about yours, Shangye?" Qi Tianshou turned to ask Qi Shangye.

"Buddha Lord, Mr. Mikita bought me a second-tier top-grade spiritual weapon. It was much more expensive than the ones for Brother Jingshi and the others." Qi Shangye said, looking a bit embarrassed.

"Oh? Let's see it."

As soon as Qi Tianshou finished speaking, Qi Shangye flipped his hand, and a cyan sphere materialized out of thin air in his palm.

"This is the Wind-Controlling Bead, composed of 256 metal blades. It has two forms; the first is simply a spherical shape."

"The second form can configure itself into the likeness of a beast from the universe known as a 'Wind-Controlling Fox,' capable of erupting with formidable offensive power."

Qi Tian looked at the cyan sphere and asked curiously, "This should be a wind-attribute telekinetic weapon, right?"

Qi Shangye nodded upon hearing this, and then Mikita spoke up to explain.

"Buddha Lord, although Shangye also awakened a metal-attribute talent, I have been guiding his combat techniques over the past year and discovered he has a high aptitude for speed."

"Especially during this time training in the Slaughter Space, he actually showed signs of grasping the Domain of Wind. It was also during this period of guidance that I caught some good fortune myself and comprehended the Domain of Wind."

"To thank Shangye, I bought him this Tier 2 peak-grade Wind-Controlling Bead. If not for the constraint that he is currently only at the Planetary Level 9, I would have been willing to buy him a Tier 3 telekinetic weapon."