At the end of the Ancient Path lay the nine hundred and ninety-ninth trial.
This was an ancient star barely five kilometers in diameter, and upon it stood only a crude thatched hut.
Before the thatched hut, a man in a straw raincoat held a fishing rod and fished.
Yet there was no lake before him, only a vast, boundless sea of stars. His fishing rod was no ordinary rod either; countless Dao Laws lay within it.
Roar...
Just then, a low roar came from the starry sky.
An enormous ferocious beast slowly approached from the distant stars, giving off an incomparably powerful aura. Under that power, stars shattered one after another!
But immediately afterward, the enormous beast seemed to become entangled in something and began struggling in the starry sky.
Every struggle whipped up terrifying storms of energy among the stars, and star after star shattered and perished within those storms.
The eyes of the old man in the straw raincoat lit up. His eyes lit up as he said, "Hooked one."
He pulled on his fishing rod, forcibly hauling the enormous beast out of the starry sky. Its vast body rapidly shrank, becoming a fish a few palms in size within just a few rushing breaths, and the old man tossed it into a fish basket beside him.
Chu Kuangren watched this from behind him, his expression calm, though a trace of surprise remained in his eyes.
This old man used Dao Laws as his line to fish for Starry Sky Beasts here.
That was quite an astonishing method.
"Heavenly Sword of the Sword Spirit Clan's legends, I trust you have been well." The old man turned to glance at Chu Kuangren and smiled faintly. "In all these years, you are the second person to reach this place."