The Third Form of the Flint God Weapon!

Time flew by. After Jiang Luo climbed the Mountain of Power and stunned everyone with his performance on the Mountain of Souls, things fell quiet once more.

Nine years later.

Inside the World Ring, a clear pool lay at the bottom of a massive crater.

The lake radiated an intense chill that filled nearly the entire space within the World Ring.

It was easy to tell that the pool had once held far more water, enough to fill the enormous crater.

Now, only a small spring remained at the bottom.

A figure sat cross-legged in the clear water, which barely reached above his waist.

Jiang Luo's true body circulated the second layer of Tao Wu Eighteen Gods and Demons, steadily absorbing the life force in the liquid.

His soul felt colder than ever before, yet beneath that chill, his mind had never been clearer.

Every cell in his body was rapidly transforming, and his Gene Level continued to recover.

At last, he opened his eyes and stood up. Looking down at the pool, which now only came up to his waist, he sighed.

"I've finally recovered..."

Five years ago, once he had accumulated enough wish power to manifest the second layer of Tao Wu Eighteen Gods and Demons, Jiang Luo began restoring the life levels of his true body and his seventeen clones.

Tao Wu Eighteen Gods and Demons was certainly wondrous. It could divide his soul and physical body into eighteen parts.

But the price was steep.

Not only had his soul been greatly weakened, but the life levels of his true body and seventeen clones had also fallen from twelve times the norm to less than three.

The second layer of Tao Wu Eighteen Gods and Demons could restore the life levels of his true body and clones, but recovering through ordinary cultivation would be far too slow.

Only treasures like Locke Divine Water, which contained a rich vitality, could speed up the process.

Over the past nine years, through visualizing the Nuwa Map, the souls of his true body and all seventeen clones had gradually recovered to their peak.

Only their physical Gene Levels had yet to recover.

During that time, Jiang Luo had attended several Gulun Auctions, spending a total of 16,000 Hunyuan Units to buy nearly 20,000 cubic meters of Locke Divine Water.

He had never expected that the Locke Divine Water capable of nurturing a World Lord Level Cloud-Touching Vine would only be enough to restore his true body to its original life level of twelve times the norm.

Restoring all seventeen clones to match his true body would probably cost another 300,000 Hunyuan Units.

Money was secondary.

The real problem was that the Gulun Universe Kingdom's auction was only a low-tier auction. Even when Locke Divine Water appeared, there was never much of it.

Items at low-tier auctions were worth at most around 10,000 Hunyuan Units. Treasures of greater value rarely appeared there.

If he wanted to buy Locke Divine Water in bulk, he would probably have to attend a mid-tier auction.

"The mid-tier auction, held once every hundred years, is coming up in two months. It's about time I made some money." Jiang Luo took stock of his assets.

Most of the 110,000 Hunyuan Units in Universe Coins left behind by Flint Star Sector Lord had gone toward cultivating the Ten Thousand Feather Tree.

Every time the Ten Thousand Feather Tree gave birth to 10,081 offspring, it consumed dozens of Life Fruits.

But he couldn't cut corners. His source of faith—the countless life-bearing planets—needed the Ten Thousand Feather Tree's offspring to guard and protect them.

Nine years ago, he had climbed to the summit of the Mountain of Power through perfect force exertion and received a reward of 10,000 Hunyuan Units.

He had climbed to the hundredth step of the Mountain of Souls and received a reward of 199 Hunyuan Units.

—At Star Level, each step below the hundredth on the Mountain of Souls awarded one Hunyuan Unit. From the hundredth to the hundred-and-ninety-ninth step, each step awarded 100 Hunyuan Units.

Those rewards had also gone toward Locke Divine Water.

Without selling off the other treasures left behind by Flint Star Sector Lord, he was now practically penniless.

Jiang Luo wasn't worried at all. Although his life level had yet to recover over the past nine years, he had never neglected his Law of Origin comprehension or the cultivation of his two Innate Secret Techniques.

After devouring the Flame Star Behemoth bloodline, he had become much more sensitive to the fluctuations of the Space Law.

On top of that, the independent space-time within the Eye of the Space-Time Nightmare Beast was comparable to the Space Law Chaos Stele, offering him a place to study.

He also had Boundless, left behind by Flint Star Sector Lord, and the Space Secret Technique manual Nine Heavens Atlas, a reward from Marquis Mo Yan.

With all these advantages—

His talent in space might not match Luo Feng's, with his Mosha Clan clone.

But his progress in the Space Law was no slower than Luo Feng's had been before entering Chaos City.

His progress in the Law of Fire was even more astonishing.

Jiang Luo reached out, and a translucent, pale-red gemstone spear appeared before him.

It was one of the Nine Divine Weapons of the Controller: the Nine-Layer Heaven-Facing Flint!

This was the weapon that Flint Star Sector Lord had once used to dominate the universe and earn the title of Sector Lord Level Great Axe Warrior.

Ertis, Flint Star Sector Lord, had left behind the Controller Divine Weapon that had been his longtime companion, as a treasure for his successor.

Jiang Luo stroked the translucent spear shaft. It suddenly began to tremble, releasing a violent aura that made the heart quail.

It seemed to be issuing a challenge, yet also reminiscing about its former master's invincible might—the countless World Lords he had defeated and the Immortal Gods he had challenged.

"Don't worry. I can do everything your last master did."

Jiang Luo smiled and lightly flicked the shaft of the Flint God Weapon with his fingertip.

A sharp crack rang out!

A full 729 thin blades, as if carved from pale-red gemstones, flew out from the shaft.

The incredibly intricate patterns on the blades began to interweave. Every nine blades combined into a crystal blade, glowing with a translucent, milky-white light.

A total of eighty-one crystal blades hovered around him.

The first form of the Flint God Weapon: the Bright Blade!

Nine Bright Blades marked the peak of the first form, but Jiang Luo easily condensed eighty-one of them.

Then, every nine Bright Blades released shimmering threads. Their Law Secret Patterns interwove and gradually fused into a blade-shaped jade disc, formed entirely of red light and engraved with ancient patterns along its outer edge.

The second form of the Flint God Weapon: the Origin-Breaking Blade!

"Combine!"

Jiang Luo's Mental Power Amplitude rose again.

The patterns on the nine Origin-Breaking Blades formed from the eighty-one Bright Blades wriggled and linked together once more.

With a boom, a dazzling blaze erupted, lighting up the void with a searing glow.

When the flames died away, a translucent crimson lotus appeared above his head. Its petals were carved from hundreds of jade discs.

Bathed in the lotus's brilliant radiance, Jiang Luo looked like a god.

From the lotus's base, threads that seemed both illusory and real stretched in every direction, vanishing into the void.

They formed a spherical space with a diameter of about a thousand meters, woven from illusory threads and controlled by Jiang Luo at its center.

The third form of the Flint God Weapon—the Lotus Domain!

Within the Lotus Domain, Jiang Luo felt as though he had become the ruler of this spherical space.

If Thanses, who had yet to break through to Universe Level, appeared before him, he could tear him to shreds with ease, even without using the Thirteen Sword Phantoms.

"Alas... it's still not perfect!"

Jiang Luo looked far from satisfied. "My control over the Lotus Domain isn't precise enough. It has too many flaws. Against a true enemy, I'd be a sitting duck.

"It has great power, but it's too diffuse to focus. It's only good for bullying weaklings.

"Against an opponent like the one on the first level of the Heaven-Reaching Bridge, I'd probably lose."

"Change!"

At his next thought, the Lotus Domain collapsed and reverted to the second form, the Origin-Breaking Blade.

Jiang Luo frowned slightly. "Nine Origin-Breaking Blades are still too many. I can't control them perfectly. Six will be enough!"

In an instant, only six Origin-Breaking Blades remained before him.

The blades were translucent and lustrous, their colors alternating between red and white like jade discs. They no longer carried the Bright Blades' sharp, violent aura, as if they could burn everything away. Instead, they were restrained and serene.

"I can control these six Origin-Breaking Blades perfectly. I can even use the various Combat Secret Techniques in Boundless. Even if I went to challenge the Heaven-Reaching Bridge, I'd definitely pass the first level!"

Jiang Luo was brimming with confidence!

A higher form of a Controller Divine Weapon did not necessarily mean greater power.

When Luo Feng first challenged the Heaven-Reaching Bridge, for example, his opponent used the second form of the Yan Shen Armament, the Sky-Piercing Form, and condensed only three golden swords.

Luo Feng used the third form of the Yan Shen Armament, the Heavenly Sword Form, yet his opponent easily trounced him with the second form.

If one's control over a weapon was imperfect, then even using a higher form through superior Law Comprehension and Mental Power Amplitude would be nothing more than an empty show against a true powerhouse—easy to shatter.

Of course, that was also because, at the time, Luo Feng had not studied the Space Law by analyzing its basic units, nor had he practiced any combat manuals for the Yan Shen Armament, such as Thirty-Six Forms of God-Deriving.

Jiang Luo had access to the 108 basic units of the Space Law, laid out clearly within the Eye of the Space-Time Nightmare Beast.

From the very beginning, he had taken the path of analyzing the profound principles underlying the Space Law.

Although he was still some distance from glimpsing even a trace of the Law Essence, the foundation of his understanding of the Space Law was exceptionally solid.

He surpassed not only all the Star Level and Universe Level cultivators in the Ancient Wheel Hall.

He was even stronger than most World Lords.

This was the result of following a different path in studying the Space Law.

Some World Lords might have greater comprehension of the Space Law than he did, but they understood what it did without understanding why.

Without touching the fundamental mysteries of the law, they were already inferior to Jiang Luo at the very foundation.

Thus, with the help of Boundless, a manual specifically created to cultivate the Flint God Weapon, he could achieve perfect control over it.

He was on the same level as the Controller opponents on the Heaven-Reaching Bridge.

Even weapon wielders who had learned their skills through unorthodox means couldn't beat him, even if they used a higher form.

"If my assessment of my strength is right, I'm probably the strongest Star Level cultivator in the 1008 Universe Kingdoms now..."

With the strength to pass the first level of the Heaven-Reaching Bridge, there was probably no one at Star Level who could defeat him.

Unless there was another Bolan.