Lord Wu, Special Beam Cannon

A streak of light descended into a desert, revealing the figure of Jiang Luo.

Jiang Luo sighed, "Time brings great changes to the world."

The place where he had led his tribe to rise five thousand years ago had now turned into a vast desert.

"It should be here..." Jiang Luo looked at the sea of sand beneath his feet and threw a punch.

BOOM!

The sand surged, as if a minor earthquake had occurred.

Beneath Jiang Luo, a deep cavern appeared; the upper layers of sand vanished entirely, exposing the soil and rock below.

Jiang Luo released his dual Water-Fire Domain, two lotuses overlapping and interlocking as they began to rotate.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...

Like a knife cutting through tofu, layers of soil and rock were melted and eroded by the Water-Fire Lotus domain.

Jiang Luo descended nearly ten thousand meters before coming to a stop.

Blocking his path was a massive spaceship!

The hull, appearing to be made of both metal and rock, was so sturdy that even his Water-Fire Domain could not shake it.

We meet again, Lord Wu. Jiang Luo revealed a smile.

Over five thousand years ago, shortly after he had transmigrated and before he had become a tribal chief, he had seen a spaceship crash here.

He had even entered the ship, only to be kicked out by the artificial intelligence within, "Lord Wu," after which the ship sank into the ground, leaving a lake behind.

Had it not been for that, he would never have known that he was in the Swallowed Star universe.

Just like five thousand years ago, the hatch remained open.

Jiang Luo entered the ship, moving rapidly along the corridor toward the core cabin.

"Huh?"

Jiang Luo stopped in his tracks.

Appearing before him was a translucent light screen—no, it was layer upon layer of light screens.

There were ten layers in total, each one centimeter thick.

These things had not been here when he first entered the ship five thousand years ago.

Jiang Luo moved his telekinetic power, manipulating a pebble to shoot toward the first layer of the light screen.

With a bang, the pebble was Shattered; the light screen merely rippled and vibrated, remaining unpenetrated.

"Such strong defense!" Jiang Luo was startled. "This first layer likely requires at least 4,000 tons of force to penetrate, or four pebbles each carrying 1,000 tons of impact force striking simultaneously."

His spiritual telekinesis was at the second-tier Planetary level. That previous attack was merely a probe, and he hadn't used any telekinetic amplification, yet it still carried 2,000 tons of impact force.

The first layer alone would require a first-tier Planetary level user with 4x telekinetic amplification or 4x force output to break through.

The energy fluctuations coming from the second and third layers were stronger than the last.

It seems this is some kind of test set by the ship's artificial intelligence? Jiang Luo thought thoughtfully.

His probing attack on the light screen seemed to have awakened something.

A cold voice, speaking the language of the Luo Planet, suddenly rang out: "Not bad. To think a weak race with only tenth-grade bloodlines could produce a Planetary level, and a spirit reader at that?

"It seems you were born with a vast reserve of spiritual telekinetic power? Incredible. Theoretically, it is impossible for a tenth-grade bloodline to produce a spirit reader. Did I judge incorrectly? Are you actually a ninth-grade bloodline?"

Jiang Luo's expression remained calm. This voice was indeed the arrogant artificial intelligence he had encountered when he first entered the ship's core thousands of years ago.

Although this ship's intelligence seemed arrogant, it was actually a tsundere.

It kept claiming to look down on the people of Luo Planet, yet hadn't it spread the methods for cultivating genetic energy?

Five thousand years ago, there had been no genetic energy cultivation methods on this planet; otherwise, he wouldn't have died of old age.

Ever since he awakened and used "Living Corpse Reincarnation" to be reborn, he had discovered that the martial arts of Luo Planet were now flourishing, and genetic energy cultivation methods were widespread and common.

It was eighty percent likely that this "Lord Wu" was responsible.

The cold voice echoed through the metal corridor: "Since you were able to find this place, it is your fate.

"I will give you a chance. Use all your strength and techniques to attack the light screens.

"There are ten layers in total. The first layer requires a total of 4,000 tons of impact force to penetrate, the second layer doubles to 8,000 tons... and so on. The attack power required to penetrate each subsequent layer is double that of the previous one!

"If your attack can penetrate three layers, I will grant you the spirit reader cultivation method for the stage beyond Planetary level—your current realm.

"If you can penetrate four layers, I will give you a chance to follow me and leave this planet.

"If you can penetrate six layers... heh, I will take you as my disciple and give you a chance to become a truly great existence!

"However—"

The cold voice shifted: "If you cannot even penetrate the third layer, such trash has no value in surviving. What awaits you is death!

"Heh heh, there is no chance to turn back now that you have entered the ship!"

Jiang Luo rolled his eyes internally; this artificial intelligence was a bit too chuunibyou.

However, this trial is quite difficult for an ordinary spirit reader or fighter who has just stepped into the planetary level.

To penetrate the third layer of the light screen, one requires an impact force of 16,000 tons, which for a normal second-level planetary spirit reader would necessitate an 8-fold spiritual force amplitude.

For a self-taught native, this is by no means easy.

As for wanting to penetrate the sixth layer of the light screen to become a disciple of this 'Lord Wu', one requires an impact force of 128,000 tons, which translates to a 64-fold spiritual force amplitude!

A planetary-level spirit reader who can reach such a degree of spiritual force amplitude can already be called a peerless genius.

As for a planetary-level fighter who can reach a 64-fold force output... that is even rarer.

A 100-fold perfect force output is one of the hurdles to becoming an immortal, and most of the star-level and universe-level members of the core layers of the five giants cannot even reach that.

Boasting so grandly, could the owner of this spaceship be some Marquis or King-level powerhouse?

Jiang Luo suppressed the urge to retort, extended a finger, and channeled his internal power through his silver-white ice domain and crimson fire domain, rotating and condensing them into a single point at his fingertip.

The energy fluctuations climbed continuously at an almost linear rate!

In the core cabin, a handsome man with long silver-white hair froze, his expression quickly shifting from disdain to seriousness, and then from curious exploration to shock: "This..."

Jiang Luo thought to himself: This move allows my dual water-fire domain to erupt with its maximum power, but the drawback is that the skill's pre-cast charging time is too long.

"Special Beam Cannon!"

A spiral beam interwoven with silver-white and crimson suddenly shot forth from his fingertip.

The first layer of the light screen collapsed almost upon contact.

The second, third, fourth... none of them managed to hold out for even an instant.

The entire metal corridor first brightened, then dimmed.

The ten layers of light screens that had originally blocked Jiang Luo's path had already vanished!

The next moment, a phantom of the handsome silver-haired man appeared before him.

It was none other than the intelligent lifeform 'Lord Wu' whom Jiang Luo had seen five thousand years ago.

"You..." The silver-haired man was so shocked he even stuttered, "You have a domain?! And it's a dual domain?"