Lotus Domain, Reporting to the National Lord

The combat power of the Blood-Haired Mammoths in the sixth Trial Tower had seen a massive leap compared to those in the fifth.

Although the Nine Bright Blades could achieve maximum slaughter efficiency by transforming into nine flame dragons, making them suitable for crowd control, their lack of single-target attack power was laid bare in the sixth Trial Tower.

Even the effect of Space Imprisonment on the Blood-Haired Mammoths had diminished significantly.

Space Imprisonment could sometimes achieve an effect similar to "Time Stop" against weaker opponents.

But when facing powerful enemies, merely delaying or slowing their movements was considered a decent result.

As Jiang Luo maneuvered around the Blood-Haired Mammoths using Space Imprisonment, he simultaneously launched hundreds of streams of light from the Flint God Weapon behind him.

Threads and secret patterns intertwined, instantly forming six jade blades with archaic patterns on their surfaces, alternating between red and white, appearing incredibly gentle.

Unlike the first form of the Flint God Weapon, which could transform into violent and ferocious flame dragons, the jade-like Origin-Breaking Blades appeared extremely restrained.

Once fired, one could only see a faint, thin line of light.

A Blood-Haired Mammoth facing the Origin-Breaking Blade shot toward it suddenly felt a flash of terror in its eyes, even attempting to dodge in a panic.

The Origin-Breaking Blade, with its milky-white center and crimson edges, merely grazed the scales on its body, scraping off only one or two.

Yet, the Blood-Haired Mammoth let out a shrill, mournful howl, as if it were not its scales that had been injured, but its very soul.

It had indeed suffered a soul attack!

The greatest difference between the second form of the Flint God Weapon, the "Origin-Breaking Blade," and the first form, the "Nine Bright Blades," was the inclusion of soul attacks.

The milky-white archaic secret patterns at the center of the blade were the inner flames, while the crimson archaic patterns at the edges were the outer flames.

The outer flames burned the body, while the inner flames burned the soul.

Physical attacks and soul attacks were fused into one.

The Nine Bright Blades were dual-flame, drawing upon the Law of Fire to transform into flame dragons with overwhelming momentum.

The Origin-Breaking Blade, however, focused on the word "break"—breaking both the physical body and the soul, inflicting dual agony upon the enemy.

As long as the target was wounded, even by the slightest margin, the inner flames could erode their soul through the wound!

Six beams of light crisscrossed through the herd of Blood-Haired Mammoths, causing them to be wounded upon contact and perish upon touch!

Howls echoed everywhere, and the beasts avoided the blades like the plague.

Even if they were only grazed, leaving a wound insignificant compared to their massive bodies, they would lose the ability to resist due to the excruciating pain.

Most of the Blood-Haired Mammoths lost their life force without even showing many scars on their bodies.

This demonstrated the terror of the "Origin-Breaking Blade" to the fullest.

Not long after, the first floor of the sixth Trial Tower was completely cleared by Jiang Luo, and he entered the second floor.

When Jiang Luo's points reached 1,777,770,000, every member of the Ancient Wheel Sacred Hall received an email at that very moment.

Jiang Luo had cleared the first floor 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.

"Hardly any of the first-place winners in the previous Universe Human Peak Genius Battle finals have managed to clear the first floor of the sixth Trial Tower, right?"

"That royal genius named 'Yi Feng' from the last Genius Battle is far behind him."

"Heh, what is Yi Feng? If this Jiang Luo had been in the last Genius Battle, only Bolan could have held the upper hand against him."

"It's a pity this Jiang Luo was born in the wrong era. If the 'Universe Human Peak Genius Battle' starting in two years could be delayed by a thousand years—no, even one or two hundred—he would likely have the qualifications to compete for the top spot in the finals."

"There's nothing to regret. In 80-plus years, the Giant Axe Arena will send people to every Universe Kingdom to select Star-Level geniuses. Perhaps he will be able to enter the Giant Axe Secret Realm directly, missing out only on the title of the 1008 Universe Kingdoms' number one..."

"The title is important too! If I could take first place in the 1008 Universe Kingdoms' finals, tsk tsk, I would be willing to die immediately after!"

"Hmph, mere vanity. No matter how brilliant a shooting star is, it is still just a shooting star. Only by becoming Immortal and gaining eternal life is the true foundation. The more dazzling a genius is, the easier it is for them to fall midway."

Sixth Trial Tower, third floor.

Jiang Luo had pushed "Space Imprisonment" to its limit, but the impact on the 1,000 Tuoluo Race warriors on the third floor had become negligible.

Compared to his slaughter on the first two floors of the sixth Trial Tower, the third floor immediately plunged him into a bitter struggle, even leaving him in precarious situations.

The main reason was that the soul attack of the Flint God Weapon's second form, the "Origin-Breaking Blade," was ineffective against the Tuoluo Race warriors, who were metallic lifeforms.

"Condense!"

Jiang Luo's consciousness amplitude suddenly surged to 200 times, and he forcibly unleashed the third form: "Lotus Domain!"

A magnificent lotus appeared above his head.

From the roots of the lotus, thin threads—appearing both illusory and real—extended in all directions, sinking into the void.

They formed a spherical space with a diameter of over a thousand meters, centered on him.

The lotus, which seemed to be composed of hundreds of crimson petals, gave a gentle tremor. One outer petal fell, then another, and another. In the blink of an eye, over a hundred petals had fallen.

The drifting, falling petals instantly transformed into crimson blades in mid-air, tracing mysterious trajectories and attacking the Tuoluo Race warriors who had intruded into the spherical space with incredible speed, striking them before they could react.

After the attack, the crimson blades traced mysterious trajectories like boomerangs, returning to the lotus and transforming back into petals.

This cycle repeated continuously; petals fell away, transformed into crimson blades to strike the enemy, and then returned to the lotus like swallows returning to their nest.

Because the crimson blades moved with such extreme speed, from an external perspective, the entire spherical space instantly became a forbidden zone filled with streaks of crimson light.

This was a form of the Flint God Weapon that excelled in area-of-effect attacks.

However, his control over the third form, the Lotus Domain, was far from as perfect as the second form, riddled with flaws.

If he were to encounter a guardian of the Heaven-Reaching Bridge, he would likely be defeated in a single move.

Fortunately, these one thousand Tuoluo Race warriors were clearly not as skilled as the Heaven-Reaching Bridge guardians and lacked the means to break the Lotus Domain.

On the floating island.

"Lotus Domain..." Marquis Mo Yan murmured, his eyes erupting with a brilliant radiance.

Controller weapons were different from ordinary spiritual weapons; they lacked the assistance of law secret patterns.

The first two forms could potentially be forced into shape with powerful spiritual force.

Starting from the third form, the wielder required sufficient comprehension of laws, especially the Law of Space!

Being able to manifest the third form of the Flint God Weapon, even if the control was not perfect, meant that Jiang Luo's comprehension of the Law of Fire and the Law of Space had already far exceeded his imagination.

Marquis Mo Yan then seemed to snap out of a dream: "I must report this to the Kingdom Lord!"

After clearing the third level, Jiang Luo used the same method to deal with the Flying Hou on the fourth level.

As ferocious beasts, the Flying Hou possessed far less intelligence than the Tuoluo Race warriors and were not immune to soul attacks.

However, they were thick-skinned and sturdy, possessing greater defensive and offensive power than the Tuoluo Race warriors.

It took a grueling half-day of attrition before all 100 Flying Hou were slaughtered.

When he reached the fifth level and faced the Machine Race puppets, the Lotus Domain could no longer hold.

Although there were only 100 Machine Race puppets, their combat power and coordination far surpassed the Flying Hou of the previous level, and they were immune to soul attacks.

A combined beam of light struck the resplendent lotus hovering above Jiang Luo's head.

With a cracking sound, the lotus completely collapsed, disintegrating into hundreds of streaks of light.

He was immediately pierced through the head by a second beam of light.

In the Virtual Universe, Jiang Luo appeared out of thin air inside his villa on the Sacred Island with a look of regret:

"If I had mastered the Nine-Line Flow, combining it with Imprisonment, it should have been enough to clear the fifth level. However, that is not a difficult task for me now."

The Nine-Line Flow and Imprisonment were paths corresponding to two high-level mysteries of the Law of Space.

Usually, one could only focus their energy on one of these paths.

The Jiang Luo of the past was no different.

By cultivating the Tao Wu Eighteen Gods and Demons, his soul had been divided into eighteen parts, each much weaker than before.

Therefore, over the past nine years, the other clones had focused most of their energy on contemplating the Nuwa Map to restore their souls as quickly as possible.

After nine years of contemplation, although the physical bodies of the seventeen clones had not yet recovered to twelve times the life level, their souls had basically returned to the same level as the original body.

From now on, the seventeen clones could devote their energy to comprehending laws and cultivating secret techniques.

By then, the original body and the clones would possess eighteen independent souls.

Never mind simultaneously cultivating two mysterious paths of the Law of Space; they could even cultivate several different origin laws at the same time.