The Blood-Haired Mammoths on the sixth Trial Tower had taken a huge leap in strength compared to those on the fifth tower.
Although the Nine Bright Blades, transformed into nine fire dragons, could achieve maximum killing efficiency and were suited to attacking groups,
their weakness—a lack of power against single targets—was fully exposed on the sixth Trial Tower.
Even Imprisonment had much less effect on the Blood-Haired Mammoths.
Against weak opponents, Imprisonment could even have the same effect as "time stop."
But against powerful enemies, merely slowing their movements was already a decent result.
As Jiang Luo used Imprisonment to keep the Blood-Haired Mammoths at bay, hundreds of streaks of light shot from the Flint God Weapon behind him.
Countless threads and secret patterns connected, and in an instant formed six jade blades with ancient patterns on their surfaces, alternating between red and white, and exquisitely smooth.
The jade-wall-like Origin-Breaking Blades were completely different from the first form, the ferocious Bright Blades that could transform into fire dragons. They appeared exceedingly restrained.
Once fired, they were so fast that only a faint line of light could be seen.
As an Origin-Breaking Blade shot toward a Blood-Haired Mammoth, a flash of terror suddenly passed through its eyes. It even tried to dodge in a panic.
The Origin-Breaking Blade, milky white at the center and red around the edges, merely grazed the scales on its body, scraping off only one or two.
Yet the Blood-Haired Mammoth reacted as if it hadn't lost scales, but had suffered a wound to its soul, letting out a mournful scream.
It really had been struck by a Soul Attack!
The biggest difference between the Flint God Weapon's second form, the Origin-Breaking Blade, and its first form, the Bright Blade, was that it contained a Soul Attack.
The ancient milky-white secret patterns at the center of the blade were the inner flame, while the ancient red secret patterns around its edges were the outer flame.
The outer flame burned the body; the inner flame burned the soul.
Physical attacks and Soul Attacks were combined as one.
The Bright Blade wielded twin flames, drawing upon the Law of Fire to transform into a fire dragon with overwhelming force.
The Origin-Breaking Blade, by contrast, focused on the word "break": it broke both the body and the soul, inflicting twofold pain on its enemies.
The moment it caused even the slightest wound, the inner flame could seep through it and corrode the target's soul!
Six beams of light crisscrossed through the herd of Blood-Haired Mammoths, wounding any they touched and killing any they struck!
Screams filled the area. The mammoths fled from the blades as if they were venomous snakes.
Even a wound insignificant compared to their massive bodies was enough to leave them in so much pain that they could no longer resist.
Most of the Blood-Haired Mammoths had barely a mark on them before the life left their bodies.
The terror of the Origin-Breaking Blade was on full display.
Before long, Jiang Luo had completely cleared the first level of the sixth Trial Tower and entered the second.
When Jiang Luo's points reached 1,777,770,000, every member of the Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall received an email.
Jiang Luo had cleared the first level of the sixth Trial Tower in the Star Level Trial Space!
He had become the Star Level genius with the most points in a million years.
"Even the champions of the overall finals in past 1008 Universe Kingdoms Genius Battles rarely managed to clear the first level of the sixth Trial Tower, didn't they?"
"That imperial genius called Yi Feng in the previous Genius Battle was nowhere near his level."
"Heh, what's Yi Feng? If Jiang Luo had competed in the previous Genius Battle, only Bolan could have held him back."
"It's a shame Jiang Luo was born in the wrong era. If the Universe Human Peak Genius Battle, which begins in two years, were postponed by a thousand years—no, even one or two hundred years—he might have a shot at first place in the overall finals of the Strong Ones Battle."
"There's nothing to regret. In over eighty years, the Giant Axe Arena will send people to select Star Level geniuses from the various Universe Countries. He might go straight to the Giant Axe Secret Realm. All he'll miss out on is the title of champion among the 1008 Universe Countries..."
"Titles matter, too! If I could take first place in the overall finals among the 1008 Universe Countries, tsk, I'd be willing to die on the spot!"
"Hmph, empty fame. Even the brightest shooting star is still just a shooting star. The only thing that matters is becoming an undying and gaining eternal life. The more dazzling a genius is, the more likely he is to die before his time."
Sixth Trial Tower, third level.
Jiang Luo had pushed Imprisonment to its limit, but it had little effect on the thousand Tuoluo Race Warriors on the third level.
Unlike the first two levels of the sixth Trial Tower, where he had slaughtered his way through, the third level immediately plunged him into a hard fight, leaving him in constant danger.
The main problem was that the Soul Attack of the Flint God Weapon's second form, the Origin-Breaking Blade, was useless against the Tuoluo Race Warriors, who were Metal Lifeforms.
"Condense!"
Jiang Luo's Mental Power Amplitude abruptly surged to two hundred times its normal strength, and he forcibly used the third form, the Lotus Domain!
A splendid lotus flower appeared above his head.
Countless threads, seeming both illusory and real, extended from its roots in every direction and disappeared into the void.
They formed a spherical space with a diameter of over a thousand meters, centered on him.
The lotus, seemingly made up of hundreds of crimson petals, trembled gently. One petal on the outside fell, then another and another. In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred had fallen.
As they drifted through the air, the fallen petals instantly transformed into crimson blades. Following mysterious trajectories, they attacked the Tuoluo Race Warriors who entered the spherical space at incredible speed, catching them before they could react.
After each attack, the crimson blades looped back along mysterious trajectories like boomerangs, returned to the lotus, and turned back into petals.
The cycle repeated without end: petals fell, transformed into crimson blades to attack the enemies, then returned to the lotus like swallows returning to their nest.
Because the crimson blades moved so fast, from the outside the entire spherical space seemed to instantly become a forbidden zone filled with streaks of crimson light.
This was another form of the Flint God Weapon suited to attacking groups.
However, he was far less adept at controlling the third form, the Lotus Domain, than he was at controlling the second. It was riddled with flaws.
If he faced a guardian of the Heaven-Reaching Bridge, they would probably break it with a single move.
Fortunately, the thousand Tuoluo Race Warriors were clearly not as accomplished as the guardians of the Heaven-Reaching Bridge and had no way to break the Lotus Domain.
On the floating island.
"Lotus Domain..." Marquis Mo Yan murmured, brilliant light bursting from his eyes.
Controller Divine Weapons were different from ordinary telekinetic weapons. They had no Law Secret Patterns to assist them.
The first two forms could perhaps be assembled by force with powerful Spiritual Force.
But from the third form onward, the weapon's master needed sufficient Law Comprehension, especially in the Space Law!
Being able to use the Flint God Weapon's third form—
even if he couldn't control it perfectly—meant that Jiang Luo's comprehension of the Law of Fire and the Space Law had already far exceeded his expectations.
Then Marquis Mo Yan seemed to come back to himself. "I'll go report this to the Country Lord!"
After clearing the third level, Jiang Luo used the same move against the Flying Hou on the fourth level.
As fierce beasts, Flying Hou were far less intelligent than the Tuoluo Race Warriors, and they weren't immune to Soul Attacks.
But they had tough skin and thick hides, and their defensive and offensive power surpassed that of the Tuoluo Race Warriors.
He spent more than half a day wearing them down before he finally killed all one hundred Flying Hou.
By the time he reached the fifth level and faced the Machine Race puppets, the Lotus Domain could no longer hold up.
There were only a hundred Machine Race puppets, but their strength and teamwork far surpassed those of the Flying Hou on the previous level, and they were also immune to Soul Attacks.
A combined beam struck the magnificent lotus hovering above Jiang Luo's head.
With a sharp crack, the lotus shattered completely, turning into hundreds of streaks of light.
A second beam immediately pierced through his head.
In the Virtual Universe, Jiang Luo appeared out of nowhere inside his villa on Sacred Island. He looked somewhat regretful.
"If I'd mastered Nine-Line Flow, combining it with Imprisonment would probably have been enough to clear the fifth level. But that won't be difficult for me now."
Nine-Line Flow and Imprisonment were two different paths corresponding to advanced mysteries of the Space Law.
Usually, one could only concentrate on one of them.
That had been the case for Jiang Luo before, too.
After cultivating Tao Wu Eighteen Gods and Demons, his soul had split into eighteen parts, each far weaker than before.
So over the past nine years, his other clones had devoted most of their effort to contemplating the Nuwa Map, in order to restore their souls as quickly as possible.
After nine years of contemplation, although the physical bodies of his seventeen clones had yet to recover to twelve times the life level, their souls had basically recovered to the same level as his main body.
From then on, the seventeen clones could focus on comprehending laws and cultivating secret techniques.
By then, the main body and clones would have eighteen independent souls in total.
They could do more than cultivate both advanced paths of the Space Law at the same time.
They could even cultivate several Origin Laws simultaneously.
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