Battle Against the Warrior of Gold

Luo Feng watched the old man fade away, his words still echoing in his ears.

"The Origin Continent is so vast, yet no one has obtained the Core Inheritance?" Luo Feng murmured. His gaze fell on the passage to the second level. Golden light blazed from it like a road to the heavens.

"Firmament? Ascending to the heavens?" Luo Feng nodded to himself. Without further hesitation, he stepped into the passage.

Following the passage, Luo Feng entered the world of the second level.

The first thing he saw was an enormous Heaven-Reaching Stairway, several light-years wide. Each step rose 10,081 kilometers. At its center lay a flat area where a guardian seemed to be waiting... Around the stairway stretched endless void, boundless flames, vast oceans, forests brimming with life, and barren brown earth. Some of the scenery was beautiful; some looked like a place of certain death.

As soon as Luo Feng arrived, he received instructions from Firmament Palace:

Pass the stairway and reach the level above to ascend to the heavens!

"Ascend to the heavens?" Luo Feng stepped onto the first stair.

A Will Impact struck him instantly, but it was too weak to affect him in the slightest.

Luo Feng climbed step after step with ease.

At the end of the first ten thousand steps stood a vast platform. In its center, a golden alien warrior held a long blade and stood perfectly straight... He had a humanlike form, with two arms and two legs, but golden scales covered his body as though he had been cast from gold. Three eyes marked his head, and the vertical one radiated a piercing aura that soared skyward.

The moment Luo Feng set foot on the platform, the warrior's gaze locked onto him.

Luo Feng looked back at the