Mystic Tower

Lu Zhen took a seventh-rank, high-grade Purple Cloud Acupoint-Breaking Pill from his Space Ring.

"I hope you give me a pleasant surprise," Lu Zhen murmured. Then he tipped back his head and swallowed it.

The pill dissolved in his stomach, becoming a dense current of spiritual energy.

The current flowed along the "stream" between his acupoints and poured into a Star Vortex already in motion. Almost instantly, a new Star Vortex condensed and took shape inside him.

Lu Zhen was overjoyed.

The pill had used up less than a tenth of its power!

The remaining energy lay dormant within him, its reserves astonishingly deep.

He closed his eyes and cleared his mind of all distractions.

He drove the Taiyi Star-Inducing Art and Taiyi Star-Congealing Record to their limits.

Inside the Grade-A Cultivation Room, spiritual energy thick enough to form mist funneled into his body. Lu Zhen plunged into secluded cultivation with reckless abandon.

Meanwhile, outside.

Across the sprawling dormitory blocks—Grade A, Grade B, Grade C, and beyond—many geniuses had activated the Void Terminals on their wrists.

Within the Void Realm.

An ancient pagoda, black and yellow from base to peak, stood silently in the void, towering into the clouds.

The Black-Yellow Pagoda!

On the Ancient Star, the rules of heaven and earth suppressed everyone and sealed their True Intent. They could only pit the raw "Ancient Force" of their acupoints against one another.

But inside the Black-Yellow Pagoda, every seal was lifted!

This was the true, all-around trial for the geniuses.

The foundational power of their streams and the True Intent born of their understanding of the laws complemented each other. Together, they made up the true combat strength of a Great Wilderness warrior.

In the Void Realm, on the vast plaza before the pagoda.

Arthur Rothschild stood there,