Flowing Light landed in a desert, revealing Jiang Luo.
Jiang Luo sighed. "The world has changed so much."
The place where he had led his tribe to rise five thousand years ago had now become a desert.
"This should be the spot..." Jiang Luo looked at the sea of sand beneath his feet and threw a punch.
Boom!
The sand shifted, as if a small earthquake had struck.
A deep cavern appeared beneath Jiang Luo. The sand above it had vanished completely, exposing the soil and rock below.
Jiang Luo unleashed his Water and Flame Domains. Two lotus flowers overlapped and interlocked, then began to spin.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle~~~
Like a knife cutting through tofu, layer upon layer of soil and rock melted away beneath the Water-Fire Lotus Domain.
Jiang Luo continued downward until he was nearly ten thousand meters below the surface, then stopped.
A gigantic spacecraft blocked his way!
Its hull looked like a cross between metal and rock. Not even his Water and Flame Domains could budge it.
We meet again, Lord Wu. Jiang Luo smiled.
More than five thousand years ago, not long after he had transmigrated and before he had become his tribe's chief, he had seen a spacecraft crash here.
He had even entered it, only to be driven out by the intelligent life-form inside, "Lord Wu." Afterward, the spacecraft sank underground, leaving behind a lake.
Otherwise, he would never have known that he was in the Swallowed Star universe.
Just as it had been five thousand years ago, the hatch was still open.
Jiang Luo entered the spacecraft and sped down the corridor toward its core cabin.
"Hm?"
Jiang Luo stopped.
A translucent screen stood before him—or rather, layer upon layer of them.
There were ten screens in all, each one centimeter thick.
He hadn't seen any of these when he first entered the spacecraft five thousand years ago.
Jiang Luo stirred his mental power, controlling a pebble to shoot at the first screen.
With a bang, the pebble shattered. The screen rippled and trembled, but remained intact.
"Such incredible defensive power!" Jiang Luo was taken aback. "The first screen probably takes at least four thousand tons of force to penetrate. Or four pebbles, each carrying a thousand tons of impact, striking at once."
His Spiritual Force was at the second stage of Planetary Level. That last attack had only been a test, without any Mental Power Amplitude, but it had still carried two thousand tons of impact.
Penetrating the first screen would take a Planetary Level first-stage fighter with four times the Mental Power Amplitude or four times the force.
The energy fluctuations from the second and third screens were stronger still, growing more intense with each layer.
So the spacecraft's intelligent life-form set up some kind of test? Jiang Luo mused.
His tentative attack on the screen seemed to have awakened something.
A cold voice suddenly rang out in the Luo Planet People's language. "Not bad. I didn't expect such a weak race, with only tenth-grade bloodline, to produce a Planetary Level fighter—and a spirit reader at that.
"Do you naturally possess an immense reserve of Spiritual Force? That's incredible. In theory, a tenth-grade bloodline shouldn't produce a spirit reader. Did I judge incorrectly? Are you ninth-grade bloodline?"
Jiang Luo remained calm. The voice did indeed belong to the arrogant intelligent life-form he had encountered in the spacecraft's core thousands of years ago.
Though the intelligent life-form seemed arrogant, his actions spoke louder than his words.
He kept looking down on the Luo Planet People, yet hadn't he still spread the method of cultivating Origin Energy?
Five thousand years ago, there had been no cultivation method for Origin Energy on this planet. Otherwise, Jiang Luo wouldn't have died with so many regrets.
After he awoke and used Corpse-Free Reincarnation to be reborn, he discovered that martial arts had flourished on Luo Planet and that the method for cultivating Origin Energy was widely available.
There was an eighty percent chance that this intelligent life-form, Lord Wu, had been behind it.
The cold voice echoed through the metal corridor. "Since you found your way here, you must be fated to do so.
"I'll give you a chance. Attack the screens with everything you have—all your strength and every technique.
"There are ten screens in all. The first requires a total impact of four thousand tons to penetrate; the second takes twice as much, eight thousand tons... and so on. Each subsequent screen requires twice the attack power of the one before it!
"If your attack can penetrate three screens, I'll grant you the spirit-reader cultivation method for after Planetary Level—the stage you've now reached.
"If you can penetrate four screens, I'll give you the chance to leave this planet with me as my follower.
"If you can penetrate six screens... Heh, I'll take you as my disciple and give you the chance to become a truly great being!
"However—"
The cold voice changed tone. "If you can't even penetrate the third screen, then a good-for-nothing like you has no reason to live. Death is what awaits you!
"Heh heh. The moment you entered this spacecraft, you lost any chance to turn back!"
Jiang Luo rolled his eyes to himself. This intelligent life-form was being a little too dramatic.
Still, this test would be quite difficult for an ordinary spirit reader or fighter who had just reached Planetary Level.
Penetrating the third screen took an impact of sixteen thousand tons. A normal second-stage Planetary Level spirit reader would need eightfold Mental Power Amplitude.
That wouldn't be easy for a self-taught native.
To penetrate the sixth screen and become Lord Wu's disciple, he would need an impact of 128,000 tons—that meant sixty-fourfold Mental Power Amplitude!
A Planetary Level spirit reader with that kind of Mental Power Amplitude could already be called an unparalleled genius.
As for a Planetary Level fighter capable of exerting sixty-four times his strength... that was even rarer.
Perfect exertion at one hundred times one's strength was one of the thresholds to immortality. Most Star Level and Universe Level members of the five major powers' Core Layers couldn't achieve it.
He's making quite a grand claim. Could the owner of this spacecraft be a Marquis or King Rank powerhouse?
Jiang Luo suppressed his urge to scoff and raised a finger. The silvery-white Ice Domain and scarlet Flame Domain drew on the power within his body, spinning and converging at a single point on his fingertip.
The energy fluctuations surged almost in a straight line!
In the core cabin, a handsome man with long silver-white hair stared in astonishment. His expression quickly shifted from disdain to seriousness, then from curious interest to shock. "This..."
This move lets my Water and Flame Domains unleash their greatest power. Its drawback is that it takes too long to charge.
"Special Beam Cannon!"
A spiraling beam of intertwined silver and crimson shot from his fingertip.
The first screen collapsed almost as soon as the beam touched it.
The second, third, and fourth screens... none lasted even an instant.
The entire metal corridor flashed bright, then went dark.
All ten screens that had blocked Jiang Luo's path had vanished!
The next moment, the phantom image of a handsome silver-haired man appeared before him.
It was the intelligent life-form Jiang Luo had seen five thousand years ago: Lord Wu.
"You..." The silver-haired man was so shocked that he could barely get the words out. "You have a Domain?! Two Domains?!"
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