First on the Hidden Dragon Rankings

On Muli Star, within a magnificent, dreamlike manor palace of Lihua Palace.

Palace Master Lihua naturally received the information from the Nine Dragon Ranking as well.

"Damn Galaxy!" Palace Master Lihua, Mu Lihua, had an icy expression. "I never expected you to possess such willpower and be skilled in soul illusion techniques. No wonder even Mad Demon fell to you... So what if you have Saint Realm guards? So what if you possess Saint Realm willpower? No matter what background you have, once my true body meets you, I will kill you!"

"Keep a close eye on Galaxy for me." Palace Master Lihua looked at the two maids below and spoke coldly.

"Yes!" The two maids promptly responded.

Within the ninth level of the second Will Dragon Tower.

Luo Feng's entire body trembled. The powerful willpower assault had turned his face pale. If not for his heart being as sharp as a blade, this wave of willpower alone would have crushed him long ago.

"Just a little more." Luo Feng roared inwardly, but the ever-strengthening willpower assault finally shattered his will completely, and he immediately fell unconscious.

The Divine Eye in the void closed as well.

At the same time, a force of awakening from the Nine Dragons Tower instantly entered Luo Feng's body, waking him from his slumber.

"I failed." Luo Feng opened his eyes and could not help shaking his head. The willpower assault had already vanished, while a force from the Nine Dragons Tower wrapped around him and sent him out of the Dragon Tower.

Luo Feng's gaze fell upon the name ranked fourth on the Azure Dragon Ranking, and a faint smile finally appeared on his face.

"I thought Kaser would at least possess Saint Realm extreme willpower. I didn't expect him to be somewhat inferior to me." Luo Feng was rather surprised. Other than the God King, among the many Saint Realm experts of the You Mountain Empire, not one possessed God King-level willpower. There was not even anyone with Saint Realm extreme willpower. Other than the God King, the strongest was actually him, an Eternal True God.

"Next comes the test of comprehension." Luo Feng's gaze fell upon the final three Dragon Towers.

The Comprehension Dragon Tower had the most challengers, with nearly eight hundred people waiting in line.

However, the Comprehension Dragon Tower opened whenever it gathered a thousand people. Whether they were Law Venerables, Lords of Laws, True Gods, Void True Gods, or Eternal True Gods, they could enter as long as their total number reached the requirement.

The Comprehension Dragon Tower was the only one open even to those below the True God level, so gathering a thousand people was quite fast.

Not long after Luo Feng joined, the number reached one thousand.

Under the guidance of a True God present, the thousand people entered the first-level space of the first Dragon Tower in an orderly manner.

The rules of the Comprehension Dragon Tower differed from those of the Strength Dragon Tower and Will Dragon Tower.

In the first Dragon Tower, for the first three levels, a Lord of Laws could remain at each level for at most one era. Exceeding one era counted as failure. Those below the Lord of Laws level had ten eras. True Gods had one thousand years, Void True Gods one hundred years, Eternal True Gods ten years, while Saint Realm experts only had one year. Exceeding the time limit counted as failure.

For the next three levels, the time limit was ten times that of the lower three levels.

The first level of the Comprehension Dragon Tower contained one hundred spaces, each capable of holding one thousand people. This meant the first level could accommodate one hundred thousand challengers at once.

When Luo Feng entered the first level of the first Dragon Tower, he saw enormous pillars that looked strangely familiar.

They were Rhinoceros Emperor Puzzles!

However, they differed slightly in appearance from those on the Tomb Boat.

There were one thousand pillars on the left and 10,081 on the right. The rules for clearing the level were simple. Of the one thousand challengers, each selected one pillar. As long as they demonstrated and completed the partially solved endgame beside it, they could pass this level. The more complicated rules were those of the Rhinoceros Emperor Puzzle itself, and Luo Feng had long understood the rules for solving it.

The 10,081 endgames on the right had already been nearly solved. Challengers only needed to fill in the final arrangement.

Luo Feng chose a nearby pillar and immediately began solving the puzzle.

A blank puzzle was the hardest. This kind of partially solved puzzle was incredibly simple for Luo Feng. He merely had to look at the half-solved endgame, sketch it with divine power, and complete it perfectly.

Luo Feng took only one day to solve all 10,081 partially solved endgames.

On the second level, Luo Feng took twenty-six days.

On the third level, he took one hundred and seven days.

On the fourth level, he took 1,483 days.

On the ninth level, he took 144,103 days.

Of course, these times had been converted into time spent within the Inheritance Space. In the outside world, even the ninth level took only fourteen days. Such speed was terrifying.

Starting from the second Dragon Tower, the difficulty increased greatly, as he had to solve blank puzzles. Yet Luo Feng only had one era at each level to solve them.

On the first level of the second Dragon Tower, he needed to solve the first one thousand blank puzzles so that they completely corresponded to their reference puzzles.

Naturally, these first one thousand puzzles differed from the first one thousand puzzles within the Tomb Boat.

Every Rhinoceros Emperor Puzzle had 10,081 basic units, and the same units could be repeatedly used to solve a puzzle. Through permutations and combinations, each puzzle had 10,081 to the power of 10,081 possible solutions. This was an incredibly exaggerated number, yet behind it lay only one correct and perfect solution. One could imagine how difficult it was.

On the first level of the second tower, Luo Feng took a full 3,890 years of Inheritance Space time to solve the one thousand puzzles.

On the second level, he had to begin solving from zero again. He needed to solve up to the 1,500th puzzle to pass, and Luo Feng took 4,536 years.

On the third level, he had to solve the first two thousand puzzles, taking Luo Feng 5,892 years.

On the fourth level, the difficulty doubled. He needed to solve up to the 3,000th puzzle, taking Luo Feng a full 45,632 years.

On the fifth level, he had to solve up to the 4,000th puzzle, taking Luo Feng 62,130 years.

On the sixth level, 66,321 years.

On the ninth level, he solved all 10,081 puzzles, taking 787,210 years.

On the first level of the third Dragon Tower, there were no longer any reference puzzles, only a blank pillar. The rules were simple: use the 10,081 basic units to independently create a perfect puzzle. Complete the creation within the specified time, and one would pass.

As an Eternal True God, Luo Feng had one thousand eras.

"Create one myself?" Luo Feng was somewhat stunned. So after completing all 10,081 puzzle solutions, this was the 10,081st "puzzleless puzzle" displayed within the Tomb Boat.

Within the Dragon Tower, starting from the third Dragon Tower meant solving puzzleless puzzles.

On the first level, he only needed to create one puzzle, so comparatively speaking, it was much easier.

However, Luo Feng still had no clue at all.

This puzzleless puzzle was, bluntly speaking, about using the experience from the first eighteen levels to create 10,081 basic units himself, then construct a complete energy circulation system.

"How exactly should I construct it?" Luo Feng frowned, quickly recalling the perfect puzzles he had seen before. Every perfect puzzle seemed to be an energy model, forming a closed circulation system. Energy neither increased nor depleted, yet it could continue operating eternally.

Luo Feng attempted to construct one.

He quickly failed.

After trying countless times, Luo Feng temporarily gave up. Blind attempts without any direction had no hope of succeeding.

"Since they are energy models, I should start with the previous energy models and find what they have in common."

"Some of those energy models resemble divine power structures, some resemble array structures, and some resemble supreme treasure embryos..."

"Some of them even resemble universe structures."

"Universe structures...? Right, this is like a universe structure." Luo Feng suddenly woke up. He thought of a certain energy pattern in his mind, one that was nearly perfect and somewhat similar to a universe structure.

Every universe structure was the crystallization of a True God's thoughts. The more perfect the structure, the more stable the Miniature Universe, and the greater the subsequent increase in strength. However, compared to the energy patterns of the Rhinoceros Emperor Puzzle, universe structures might be far less complex, yet they were harder to manipulate. The more perfect they were, the greater the requirements for energy and other factors, making them harder to achieve. If one forcibly constructed one, it could very likely result in the universe collapsing.

Luo Feng thought of his own "The Beginning of One Yuan, the Hundred Thousand Heavens." It seemed to be a perfect universe structure, with similarities to the structure of the Primal Universe.

However, "The Beginning of One Yuan, the Hundred Thousand Heavens" seemed somewhat more perfect than the Primal Universe. Luo Feng had gradually discovered this after taking over the Primal Universe Origin Will. The Primal Universe's structure was not perfect; flaws had deliberately been left behind so it could undergo cycles of destruction and rebirth.

"I'll first try the Primal Universe's structure." Luo Feng's thoughts stirred.

After sketching the required 10,081 basic units with divine power, Luo Feng began constructing an energy model on the stone pillar according to the Primal Universe's structural method.

As one basic unit after another stably took form, Luo Feng also breathed a sigh of relief.

Whoosh!

The further he progressed in the construction, the more nervous Luo Feng became.

Sizzle!

As Luo Feng outlined the final stroke of divine power, a complete model of the Primal Universe's structure appeared above the stone pillar and remained stable. The entire pillar lit up with golden radiance.

"It really worked." Luo Feng was delighted. He had actually succeeded on the first try.

A familiar notification then sounded in Luo Feng's mind. "Ding! Puzzle solved successfully. Congratulations on passing. Please proceed to the next level to continue solving puzzles."

"It was actually this fast. It only took twelve months. My earlier attempts were inferior to using the Primal Universe's structure." Luo Feng smiled and shook his head, stepping into the passage to the next level.

Just as Luo Feng entered the second level, the Nine Dragon Ranking outside had already erupted in an uproar.

Hidden Dragon Rankings: Galaxy of Nine Regions Palace, ranked first!

Whether it was the Mountain Alliance or Nine Regions Palace, both had noticed the changes in the Hidden Dragon Rankings.

The one ranked first was Galaxy of Nine Regions Palace.

Palace Master Lihua had fallen to second place, followed by Kaser in third.

"Galaxy!" Saint Lord Wuchen's eyes shone brilliantly, and he could barely control his excitement. "My Nine Regions Palace has actually encountered such a genius."

"Chief Steward, Galaxy is a treasure!" Heng Tieshan and several other Saint Realm experts realized this as well.

During this period, the name "Galaxy of Nine Regions Palace" had rapidly climbed the Hidden Dragon Rankings, drawing the attention of every faction within You Mountain City. What all sides often discussed was also Galaxy of Nine Regions Palace.

Now, just as the various factions were wondering whether Galaxy of Nine Regions Palace would stop at second place on the Hidden Dragon Rankings, less than an hour had passed before he directly leapt to first place.

And that final leap was what they found unbelievable.

They had also guessed that Galaxy possessed an incarnation within accelerated time, but even under ten-thousandfold acceleration, this was still less than a year!

In one year, he had gone from second to first, much faster than the one hundred years Palace Master Lihua had taken back then under accelerated time. Palace Master Lihua had likewise reached the first level of the third Dragon Tower, but she had taken nearly four days, far slower than one hour.

Among the many factions of the Mountain Alliance.

At the same time, Kaser, Li Gui, and numerous other ancient and powerful Saint Realm experts were also watching.

After investigating for some time, they finally learned that Galaxy of Nine Regions Palace was merely an Eternal True God.

An Eternal True God possessing Saint Realm strength, with willpower ranked first beneath the God King, and even more terrifying comprehension—he had reached first place on the Hidden Dragon Rankings in less than two hundred years. Such an Eternal True God would certainly obtain an imperial title. The You Mountain Empire's records showed that it had been a very, very long time since an Eternal True God had received an imperial title.