The seventeenth floor of the Heavenly Bridge.
On the blazing, dazzling star, flames surged and coalesced into a man clad in fiery armor.
Armor encased his body, flames rising from its surface. He wore a mask and held a battleaxe. In appearance and build, he seemed no different from the eleventh-floor Gatekeeper except for the addition of armor and a mask.
But facing him, Ling Feng finally felt pressure.
Clearly, this Gatekeeper was much stronger than the previous ones.
"As a newly recruited genius, you are the first in history to reach the seventeenth floor."
Standing amid the flames, the masked man fixed his blazing crimson eyes on Ling Feng. "It is my honor to fight a peerless genius like you."
"You flatter me."
Ling Feng's expression remained calm, betraying no emotion at the praise.
"In the battle to come, I will use my full strength against you!"
The fiery man raised his battleaxe and pointed it at Ling Feng, who instead smiled.
"I could ask for nothing better!"
He slowly raised his hand. At the same instant, both men charged at each other.
Waves of fire rolled through their wake.
"First axe, split the heavens!"
The fiery man's battleaxe abruptly grew to tens of millions of feet in length, as though it would cleave this entire space in two.
Seeing this, Ling Feng did not hesitate either. He unleashed the same move.
Only, Ling Feng used a sword.
Clearly, however, his understanding of Giant Axe's profound mysteries ran deep enough to adapt the weapon's secret art.
In an instant, the God-Slaying Sword in Ling Feng's hand also grew to tens of millions of feet, as though it would split heaven and earth apart, and crashed head-on into the fiery man's attack.
Boom!
As though the universe itself had exploded,