Chapter 145: Great Tremor

On the Sky-Connecting Bridge Plane Island.

Silence!

At this moment, whether it was Krimo, Piger, and others, or the others who appeared on the Sky-Connecting Bridge Plane later and were attracted by the giant screen, all were now silent, each staring in shock at Lu Qingshan within the screen.

Since they could appear on this Sky-Connecting Bridge Plane, naturally they all knew what it meant to break through the seventeenth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge!

In fact, among all the living experts of the entire human race currently, those who could break through the seventeenth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge absolutely did not exceed one million!

One million sounds like a lot, but placed within the vast territory of the human race and the history of endless ages, that was already quite remarkable!

If Lu Qingshan had previously only broken through the sixteenth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge, they might have just found it hard to accept, but now seeing Lu Qingshan break through the seventeenth layer, including Piger and another Marquis-level Immortal, they were already admiring Lu Qingshan from the bottom of their hearts.

Because even if given endless ages to cultivate, they would not have absolute confidence to break through the seventeenth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge!

And Lu Qingshan, Lu Qingshan who had only cultivated for over ten million years, had directly accomplished something that even in their future endless ages they might be unable to do!

Moreover, Lu Qingshan had just broken through the seventeenth layer of the Thunder Sky-Connecting Bridge with extreme ease, simply crushing his way through!

And once Lu Qingshan breaks through the eighteenth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge...

"Something big is about to happen!"

An Immortal Army Lord spoke somewhat hesitantly: "Could it be that we are about to witness the birth of a King-level Immortal today?"

"It might actually be possible!"

Another Immortal Army Lord said similarly: "I saw Lord Marquis Qingshan break through the seventeenth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge so easily; I imagine he certainly did not exert his full strength. Perhaps he really has a chance to break through the eighteenth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge!"

Immediately, some Immortals watching the battle sent messages to friends beside them, and some even directly placed call requests.

"Brother, come quickly to the Sky-Connecting Bridge Plane! Lord Marquis Qingshan is about to break through the eighteenth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge; I think he has a high chance of success! Come quickly; if you miss this, you might not see it again!"

"Usir, our human race is likely to produce another King-level Immortal who has broken through the eighteenth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge. Come quickly to the Sky-Connecting Bridge Plane!"

If Krimo, Piger, and others only thought Lu Qingshan had a chance to break through the eighteenth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge, then Guardian Bafen, standing nearby, was already quite certain in his heart!

"Based on the strength Lord Marquis Qingshan has displayed so far, the probability of him breaking through the eighteenth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge has already exceeded ninety percent!"

Guardian Bafen, who had previously called Lu Qingshan 'little one' or 'Lu Qingshan', had now changed his form of address, and then thought silently: "Many King-level Immortals previously ordered me to notify them once someone had a chance to break through the eighteenth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge! Right, I also need to notify this Lord Marquis Qingshan's teacher, Lei Huanwang!"

Thinking of this, Guardian Bafen quickly began to send mass emails.

Instantly, over a hundred emails were sent out by Guardian Bafen.

The five major powers of the human race usually often cultivate geniuses, but geniuses who can truly break through the eighteenth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge are few and far between.

Among the living experts of the human race currently, those who can break through the eighteenth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge absolutely do not exceed one hundred thousand!

Therefore, the birth of every King-level Immortal who can break through the eighteenth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge counts as a major event for the human race.

Perhaps those Universe Zifeng Zunzhe and Universe Masters who sit high above would not pay much attention, but numerous King-level Immortals would pay attention!

In the Virtual Universe, inside a palace at the foot of Lei Ting Island.

Lord Heifeng extended his hand and lightly tapped; a screen soon appeared in the void, and there was an email on the screen.

"An email from Guardian Bafen?"

Lord Heifeng's heart stirred: "Could it be that the disciple I accepted earlier has broken through the tenth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge?"

As one of the supervisors of the transportation department of the Virtual Universe Company, Lord Heifeng managed the transportation missions between the Initial Universe and the Primordial Universe, so naturally he frequently went to the Initial Universe.

Under these circumstances, wanting to accept a disciple was like getting the best of both worlds.

Over thirty thousand years ago, he accepted a disciple in Chaos City who had joined the Virtual Universe Company by passing the Peak Genius Battle; now that person is a Domain Master-level member of the Initial Secret Realm and has long since broken through the ninth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge!

If that disciple of his could break through the tenth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge, there would be a complete chance to return to the Primordial Secret Realm!

Thinking of this, Lord Heifeng moved his mind and then opened the email with great expectation.

"It is actually news about that Lu Qingshan?"

After browsing the email message, Lord Heifeng's face soon showed surprise: "This Lu Qingshan's cultivation speed is simply too fast! Although he has comprehended all the essences of the Time Origin Law, it is impossible for him to break through the eighteenth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge in such a short time, right?"

"Never mind! Since Guardian Bafen sent a message, I imagine this Lu Qingshan has a chance to succeed; I should go directly and take a look!"

Thinking of this, after sending emails to several friends, Lord Heifeng immediately set off with a smile towards the Sky-Connecting Bridge Plane.

At the same time, Lei Huanwang, staying in his own residence, also received the message from Guardian Bafen.

But after reading Guardian Bafen's email, Lei Huanwang was stunned.

"Is Qingshan about to break through the eighteenth layer of the Sky-Connecting Bridge?"

"This is too fast!"

Although Lei Huanwang knew that Lu Qingshan had a great chance in the future to break through and become a King-level Immortal, the speed at which Lu Qingshan broke through was simply too fast.

You must know, he cultivated for endless ages, and among his many disciples, only three broke through to become King-level Immortals!

And among these three disciples at the King level, which one did not require him to spend a huge amount of time and energy to cultivate?

But when he originally accepted Lu Qingshan as a disciple, it was merely a whim; yet less than two million years have passed, and Lu Qingshan is about to become a King-level Immortal?

Of course, although surprised in his heart, Lei Huanwang quickly set off towards the Sky-Connecting Bridge Plane.

And while heading to the Sky-Connecting Bridge Plane, Lei Huanwang did not forget to notify Jing Lei Wang and several other friends!

At the same time.

Lei Huanwang, Jing Lei Wang, Lord Heifeng... Marquis Qingcang, over a hundred King-level and Marquis-level Immortal Gods arrived at the Sky-Connecting Bridge Plane one after another.

As for Immortal Army Lords, there were even more, after all, Piger, Krimo, and others had also sent out many messages!

Even not only the numerous Immortals under the Virtual Universe Company, but also some Immortals under the other four superpowers rushed to the Sky-Connecting Bridge Plane.

Although the five superpowers each have their own plane spaces, such as Lei Ting Island and Yuxiang Mountain belonging to the Virtual Universe Company faction, assessment planes like the Sky-Connecting Bridge, Illusion Realm Sea, and Immortal Altar are common to all five powers, so experts from other powers can naturally also arrive at the Sky-Connecting Bridge Plane!

And right now, so many powerhouses had gathered in the Tongtian Bridge dimension. Although it wasn't as shocking as when an absolute genius like Zifeng Zunzhe had challenged the Tongtian Bridge, it was still a rather rare scene.

"Haha…"

Jing Lei Wang looked around, then said with a smile: "A scene like today is truly rare! The last time this many people gathered was when Zifeng Zunzhe challenged the Tongtian Bridge, wasn't it? Who would have thought that this time, when Lu Qingshan challenges the eighteenth floor of the Tongtian Bridge, everyone would come again!"

"Isn't it because everyone hopes our human race will gain one more Hei Fengwang undying!" a breathtakingly beautiful woman with a snake's tail and human body, draped in black gauze, 'Mist King', said softly.

At this moment, another Hei Fengwang undying also laughed and asked: "Everyone, do you think this Lu Qingshan has a chance of clearing the eighteenth floor of the Tongtian Bridge?"

"Should be no problem! Since Guardian Bafen sent us a message, I believe this Lu Qingshan must have a very good chance of clearing it!"

"I think it's a bit uncertain!"

Another Hei Fengwang undying wearing golden battle armor said with a smile: "I just looked up some information on this Lu Qingshan. Over a million years ago, he challenged the sixteenth floor of the Tongtian Bridge and didn't clear it! Being able to clear two floors in a row this time is already very impressive; clearing the eighteenth floor of the Tongtian Bridge is definitely a bit uncertain!"

"Right, the eighteenth floor of the Tongtian Bridge is too difficult! Even among the many Hei Fengwang undying of our human race, there are some who haven't cleared the eighteenth floor of the Tongtian Bridge!"

Of course, the reason these Hei Fengwang undying had appeared here was because they hoped Lu Qingshan could clear the eighteenth floor of the Tongtian Bridge!

"Lei Huanwang, you are that Lu Qingshan's teacher. Tell us, can this Lu Qingshan clear the eighteenth floor of this Tianlei Tongtian Bridge?" a Hei Fengwang undying suddenly looked at Lei Huanwang and asked.

For a moment, all the Hei Fengwang undying turned their gazes toward Lei Huanwang, who was standing together with Jing Lei Wang.

Even many Fenghou undying and Junzhu undying also looked toward Lei Huanwang. Although they didn't dare ask questions, they too wanted to know Lei Huanwang's evaluation of Lu Qingshan.

"Hahaha!"

Lei Huanwang laughed heartily, then said: "My disciple's talent is indeed very good. This time, he should have a chance of clearing it!"

"Besides, hasn't the battle already begun? Everyone just watch!"

Hearing Lei Huanwang's words, the crowd immediately turned their heads to look at the illusory screen in midair, which had been enlarged once again.

……

Inside the Tianlei Tongtian Bridge, within the star core.

Lu Qingshan stood at the end of the eighteenth floor of the Tongtian Bridge, thinking to himself: "Finally reached the eighteenth floor!"

The entire star trembled continuously, while emitting a rumbling sound: "Choose your opponent — Warrior, Controller, or Illusionist. Choose one, and defeating them will allow you to pass the eighteenth floor!"

"I choose Warrior!" Lu Qingshan answered quickly.

Rumble rumble…

The star core shook, countless purple flames drifted out, then gathered in the void to form a mysterious figure wearing purple battle clothes and a purple mask.

He was seen stepping on alloy battle boots, holding a two-handed battle blade in his hand as he looked at Lu Qingshan, and said in a low voice: "Challenger, since the establishment of the Tianlei Tongtian Bridge, 8,346 human powerhouses have cleared my floor in succession. I hope you can become the 8,347th!"

Hearing the Guardian's words, Lu Qingshan couldn't help but be slightly startled!

Although he didn't know the specific period when the Tianlei Chaos Monument was built, even taking an average, with the human race's current fifty Chaos Monuments, the number of powerhouses who had cleared the eighteenth floor of the Tongtian Bridge should be over four hundred thousand!

"But according to what my teacher and senior brothers chatted about, the number of Hei Fengwang undying from our human race who have joined the Hong Alliance is only just over ninety thousand!"

Lu Qingshan thought to himself: "Could it be that this Tianlei Chaos Monument was built relatively early, so more people have cleared it?"

Of course, he was currently challenging the Tongtian Bridge, and it wasn't the time to think about these matters.

So Lu Qingshan just casually shook his head, dispelling all sorts of thoughts, then looked at the purple-clothed Guardian ahead and said: "I will!"

He had already reorganized his Divine Power Importance to ten thousand times a World Lord's force, and at the same time, his body amplification secret art and soul amplification secret art had both been raised to eight times due to the breakthrough in laws. If he couldn't clear this eighteenth floor, that would be a joke.

"Quite confident!"

The purple-clothed Guardian quickly said coldly: "Then let me see if you have the strength to match it!"

"Enough talk, let's fight!" Lu Qingshan was even more direct.

Boom! Boom!

In an instant, incomparably brilliant purple light erupted simultaneously from Lu Qingshan and the purple-clothed Guardian, while large amounts of purple threads also spread from the weapons in their hands.

Powerful fluctuations of origin law surrounded Lu Qingshan and the purple-clothed Guardian. The origin law of time and the origin law of lightning combined together in perfect harmony at this moment.

"Kill!"

The purple-clothed Guardian roared, instantly pouncing toward Lu Qingshan, the battle blade in his hand raised high, as if wanting to split Lu Qingshan in two.

Whoosh!

Lu Qingshan stepped on his battle boots, the purple-gold long sword in his hand sweeping across all directions, causing the surrounding space to twist.

A brilliant sword light stretched across the long sky. Wherever it passed, the cosmic space exploded with a rumble, and a huge black crack visible to the naked eye appeared along the way.

Rumble rumble!

The battle blade in the purple-clothed Guardian's hand and the long sword in Lu Qingshan's hand collided in midair.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Lu Qingshan and the Guardian clashed again and again in the void, terrifying might continuously erupting in the surrounding void, overbearing and awe-inspiring.

And this scene also completely stunned the many Fenghou undying and Junzhu undying watching the battle outside.

The strength Lu Qingshan had erupted with at this moment was already enough to easily annihilate most of them!

"Your strength is indeed very good, but I am even stronger!"

After dozens of consecutive exchanges, Lu Qingshan instantly executed the body amplification secret art 'Lei Ting', immediately gaining an absolute upper hand!

"Crash!"

The purple-gold long sword in Lu Qingshan's hand suddenly slashed toward the purple-clothed Guardian's neck. A brilliant sword light swept past, instantly separating his head from his body.

The Guardian's headless corpse slammed heavily onto the surface of the Tongtian Bridge, and this also marked Lu Qingshan's successful clearing of the eighteenth floor of the Tongtian Bridge!

……

Outside, in the center of the Tongtian Bridge dimension's plaza, many undying deities were all seriously watching the livestream on the screen.

Upon seeing that Lu Qingshan had truly cleared the eighteenth floor of the Tongtian Bridge, many of the undying deities present felt immense astonishment, admiration, and envy in their hearts!

Piguer, standing beside a group of undying Junzhu, looked at the figure on the screen that resembled a god or demon, and could no longer summon any thought of continuing to chase after him.

If Lu Qingshan had only cleared the sixteenth floor of the Tongtian Bridge, he would still have the confidence to chase after him, but now, Lu Qingshan had simply gone too far!

Between the fifteenth floor and the eighteenth floor, although it looked like only three floors apart, the actual gap was like the difference between heaven and earth!

Among the human race, Marqui Immortals are countless, but how many King Immortals are there?

No matter how confident Pugel was in himself, he wouldn't dare claim he could reach Lu Qingshan's level in the future!

Moreover, would Lu Qingshan not continue to progress in the future?

In the current Pugel, he even saw the figures of those super geniuses from the Primordial Secret Realm on Lu Qingshan!

No!

It should be said that Lu Qingshan was even more formidable than those Primordial Secret Realm geniuses!

After all, not every Primordial Secret Realm genius could survive to become an Immortal, and even if they did become Immortals, they might not necessarily be able to clear the eighteenth level of the Sky-Reaching Bridge!

……

"Lei Huanwang, congratulations!"

"Yes, Lei Huanwang, congratulations on having another outstanding disciple like Qingshan Wang under your tutelage!"

"I didn't expect another King Immortal to appear in our human race, truly wonderful!"

"Yes! The last one to join the Hong Alliance was Ziyu Wang over two hundred thousand years ago! Who would have thought that in just over two hundred thousand years, another King Immortal who cleared the eighteenth level of the Sky-Reaching Bridge would appear in our human race!"

"Speaking of which, our human race has truly been favored by the universe's origin will in recent years — King Immortals and Universe Zunzhe have been emerging one after another!"

Although the human race produces over a hundred geniuses in every era who possess combat power close to a King's while at the World Master stage, those who could clear the eighteenth level of the Sky-Reaching Bridge and successfully break through to become King Immortals are not many — three or five per era is already quite impressive!

And Lu Qingshan did not receive strong cultivation from the Five Great Powers in his early training period, so being able to grow to such a level now is even more commendable!

……

The Sky-Reaching Bridge spanned the endless starry sky, connecting directly from a star to the side of a black hole.

Every three levels of the Sky-Reaching Bridge formed one environment, and ahead of the nineteenth level was a terrifying sphere over two meters in diameter, its surrounding space completely twisted and shattered, with massive spatial fragments swirling around it.

This was a celestial body collapsed and compressed to the extreme, with an ultra-high density far greater than that of a neutron star, and it would constantly devour any celestial bodies that approached it — spaceships, planets, asteroids, stars, and everything else — while using them to strengthen itself.

Of course, the black holes within the Sky-Reaching Bridge were all simulated by the Virtual Universe, naturally not that terrifying.

When Lu Qingshan appeared at the end of the nineteenth level of the Thunder Sky-Reaching Bridge, a low voice came from the black hole ahead: "Choose your opponent — Warrior, Controller, or Illusionist. Choose one, defeat them, and you pass the nineteenth level!"

"I choose Illusionist!" Lu Qingshan answered quickly.

Whoosh!!

Numerous black dots quickly floated up above the black hole, then coalesced into a human figure.

This was a human clad entirely in black armor and a black mask, with a greatsword constructed from densely packed fragments strapped to his back — clearly a composite-type telekinetic weapon.

"Qingshan Wang!"

The black-clad man looked at Lu Qingshan from afar, then said calmly: "Since the establishment of the Thunder Sky-Reaching Bridge, only 1,813 people have been able to clear my level. I hope Qingshan Wang, you can become the next one!"

"I will!" Lu Qingshan nodded slightly.

The reason he chose Illusionist as his opponent this time was to see if he could defeat the level guardian by relying on his advantage in willpower.

"Qingshan Wang, you make the first move!"

The black-clad level guardian said with a smile: "If I make the first move, I'm afraid you won't have any chance at all!"

Seeing the other man return to him the very words he had said to the previous few level guardians, Lu Qingshan felt quite helpless inside, but who could he blame when his strength was insufficient!

"Then take this strike from me!"

The moment his voice fell, Lu Qingshan instantly sprang into action.

Boom!

Divine body amplification secret art, top-tier movement technique and sword art were instantly deployed, and even the virtualized Immortal divine power had already seeped toward the opponent!!

Now, when Lu Qingshan went all out, even high-level King Immortals would not dare to ignore him!

"Nightmare!"

The level guardian's eyes seemed to contain endless worlds, instantly plunging Lu Qingshan into an Illusion Realm.

"Qingshan Wang, your Law comprehension is still insufficient!"

The level guardian appeared quite calm: "If you want to clear my level, you'd better go back and cultivate for a while longer!"

Yet at this moment, Lu Qingshan's willpower had already been pushed to its absolute limit!

"Break for me!"

Lu Qingshan's willpower was roaring!

Rumble rumble rumble!

The Illusion Realm shattered instantly, and Lu Qingshan continued to charge at the level guardian with sword in hand!

"What?"

"Kill!"

The level guardian, who had been quite calm moments ago, now showed surprise on his face. Then the greatsword on his back instantly disassembled, gathering into a massive blade that slashed down at Lu Qingshan.

Lu Qingshan instantly manipulated the longsword in his hand to block.

But that terrifying blade traced a bizarre arc and directly chopped at Lu Qingshan's neck!

As Lu Qingshan's headless corpse slammed onto the surface of the Sky-Reaching Bridge, it also marked Lu Qingshan's failure to clear the level!

"The gap in strength is still a bit too large!"

Lu Qingshan sighed inwardly: "I wonder when I'll be able to clear this nineteenth level?"

(End of this chapter)