He opened the first case. Inside was a laser gun over three meters long, forged from a complex alloy and covered in intricate patterns.
"So this is a D9-class laser gun."
Chu Yuan picked up the laser gun and stroked its body, unwilling to put it down.
A single shot from this laser gun could blast a Domain Lord Ninth Stage expert to death, and it could fire repeatedly after charging. Its power was terrifying.
With the laser gun in hand, his sense of security was instantly filled to the brim.
Next, Chu Yuan opened the second case. Inside was a saber with an unusual design.
The saber was about 1.8 meters long, ancient and imposing, with densely packed intricate patterns engraved on its blade. Red light flowed along those patterns.
Chu Yuan picked up the Flame Void Saber and faintly sensed a repelling force.
The Flame Void Saber was a divine weapon, unlike ordinary Tier 2 or Tier 3 Force Weapons.
To use weapons of Tier 5 and above, one first had to nurture them with Spiritual Force, leaving one's Spiritual Imprint on the weapon-the equivalent of binding it to a master.
Only a divine weapon bound to its master could connect with its master's thoughts.
The Flame Void Saber came with nine secret techniques, each incredibly difficult to master.
The first, called the Prairie Fire Form, required crossing the threshold of the Fire Origin Law to master. Once mastered, it could make one invincible among those at Star Level.
The second was the Cloud-Breaking Form.
The third was the Heaven-Burning Form.
The fourth was Flame Dragon Pierces the Heavens.
The fifth was Blazing Sun Melts Gold.
The sixth was Fire Purgatory Burns the Void.
The seventh was Raging Flame Devours Mountains and Seas.
The eighth was Karmic Fire Severs the Void's Trace.
The ninth was Immortal Can Also Be Defeated.
Like Controller Divine Weapons, warrior divine weapons were created to shatter preconceptions and pursue the limits.
Their final moves, cultivated to the highest realm, were all Immortal Can Also Be Defeated.
Chu Yuan was currently only at the third stage of the Fire Domain. He still had some distance to go before crossing the threshold of the law, so he could not yet master the Flame Void Saber's first secret technique.
He carried the Flame Void Saber every day without practicing with it, only nurturing it with Spiritual Force to bind it as soon as possible.
Chu Yuan spent all his remaining time cultivating his Fire Domain.
The talent transformed by the Fire Origin Divine Fruit revealed itself. His efficiency in cultivating the Fire Domain was astonishingly high.
That day, Chu Yuan sat cross-legged in midair inside the main hall of the Dragon Abyss Hall, the Flame Void Saber resting across his knees.
Chu Yuan's eyes were tightly closed. The flames around him swam back and forth at his command, like little living fish.
The flames scattered at times and gathered into a fireball at others. The fireball expanded and contracted rhythmically.
Suddenly, the fireball exploded with a boom. Raging flames instantly filled every corner of the palace, then began spinning rapidly, forming a violent fire tornado.
Chu Yuan abruptly opened his eyes and reached out with a large hand. The fire tornado flew toward him, shrinking as it approached until it landed in his palm, as docile as a pet.
"The fourfold domain-I've done it!"
A trace of delight flashed through Chu Yuan's eyes.
Only two months had passed since he bought the Flame Void Saber.
In just two short months, his Fire Domain had advanced another step, breaking through to the fourth layer.
Domain cultivation was extremely difficult. Anyone who could advance a single stage in ten years was considered a genius among geniuses, yet Chu Yuan had broken through in only two months.
Sitting on Chu Yuan's shoulder, Feiluan said cheerfully, "Those people on Stardust Island said you'd need a hundred years to reach domain ninth level, and three to five hundred years just to have a chance of catching up to Kangas and Jiulufen's heels. If they knew you'd reached the fourfold domain in two months, their jaws would probably hit the floor."
Xiong Ba also jumped out and folded his arms across his chest, giving a disdainful sneer. "What do those fools know about true geniuses? Staying in a tiny place like Stardust Island, squabbling jealously with one another-they'll be frogs at the bottom of a well their whole lives."
"They risk their lives just to enter the Apocalypse Secret Region, never realizing that even if they get in, their chances of breaking through to Immortal are still vanishingly small. They don't even measure up to my master back then."
"Kid, your talent for the Fire Origin Law is stronger than my master's now. As long as you don't die along the way, your chances of breaking through to Immortal are a hundred, a thousand times greater than those fools'."
Chu Yuan knew this, of course, so he had never regarded the geniuses on Stardust Island as his competitors.
Over the past two months, Chu Yuan had attended only one lecture on Stardust Island, and that had been a World Lord's lecture.
He simply did not attend the other lectures given by Domain Lords.
With Xiong Ba personally teaching him, Domain Lord lectures were of no use to Chu Yuan at all.
"Master, now that you've reached the fourfold domain, are you going to challenge the Trial Tower? Those fools will definitely be shocked when they see how quickly you're improving."
Anticipation filled Feiluan's eyes. She really wanted to see the expressions on those so-called geniuses' faces when they were slapped in the face.
"There's no need."
Chu Yuan shook his head. "Going through it floor by floor is too slow. Once I'm strong enough, I'll clear the tenth layer in one go and enter the Apocalypse Secret Region directly. That will cause the greatest sensation."
Clearing the Trial Tower's fourth floor awarded 800 million Universe Coins, but to Chu Yuan, it was like chicken ribs-hardly worth bothering with. He paid it no mind at all.
Rather than spend time challenging the Trial Tower, he would be better off focusing on cultivation and comprehending secret techniques.
After breaking through to the fourfold domain, Chu Yuan faintly gained a new perception of the universe.
He could vaguely sense a peculiar power.
It could neither be seen nor touched, yet it truly existed.
"Is this the Fire Origin Law?!"
Chu Yuan was overjoyed. He had not expected to sense the existence of the Fire Origin Law already.
In theory, only after cultivating to the ninefold domain could one faintly sense the existence of an Origin Law.
Geniuses could do so earlier, at the sixth or seventh domain stage.
Yet Chu Yuan could already do so at the fourfold domain.
After sensing the existence of the Origin Law, his speed in cultivating the Fire Domain would become even faster.
"The Fire Origin Divine Fruit really is a rare treasure of the universe!"
Such talent was even better than a peak bloodline.
While Chu Yuan immersed himself in cultivating secret techniques, the No. 1 treasure-hunting fleet under his command, located in the Xiaohua Empire, suffered a devastating attack.
In the boundless starry sky, a D5-class spaceship unleashed its full firepower.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Energy beams blanketed the sky, striking a C9-Class Spaceship.
The beams broke through the spaceship's energy shield and pierced its hull.
Rumble!
The C9-Class Spaceship exploded into a massive fireball. Every Planetary Level and Star Level warrior and spirit reader aboard was reduced to ashes.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Three Universe Level slaves flew out from the center of the exploding fireball. Leading them was a Universe Level 8 warrior, followed by two Universe Level 1 warriors.
"Run!"
The moment the three Universe Level warriors escaped the sea of fire, they fled into the distance.
"Trying to leave? Too late!"
Inside the D5-class spaceship, Modu, a lizardman, sneered.
"I chased you from the Radiance Empire to the Xiaohua Empire, across millions of light-years. After chasing you for so long, how could I possibly let you escape my grasp?"
The D5-class spaceship flew at tremendous speed and soon caught up with the three Universe Level warriors.
Modu charged out of the spaceship and appeared behind the two Universe Level 1 warriors in a flash. Holding a curved saber, he slashed across the void.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Cross-shaped saber light flashed past. The two Universe Level 1 warriors were chopped into more than a dozen pieces, dying gruesomely amid the stars.
After killing the two Universe Level 1 slaves, Modu turned into a fierce gust of wind and caught up behind the Universe Level 8 slave.
His Wind Domain erupted, suppressing the Universe Level 8 slave and rendering him immobile. At the same time, his blade slashed down furiously.
Even a Universe Level 9 expert could not have blocked this strike.