Chapter 176

Inside the floating palace, deathly silence!

Elders Zhuge Xiao, Yun Huan, and Lu Chen stood utterly frozen in place, eyes wide, mouths agape, the shock on their faces growing ever stronger!

From initial surprise to disbelief, and now their whole bodies tremble uncontrollably!

They stared fixedly at the Dao Mirror, their minds blank, utterly unable to believe what they saw!

"The... eighth level!"

"He's already reached the eighth level! How long has it been? Less than a quarter of an hour!" Lu Chen's voice hoarse, his whole body trembling, he pointed at the Dao Mirror, speaking incoherently.

For millions of years, only peerless monsters who gave everything could reach the eighth level!

But Li Zhangsheng, in just a short quarter of an hour, stepped onto the eighth level!

"Not only that, he's moving again!"

"He's entered the ninth level!" Yun Huan let out an incredulous exclamation, his single eye bulging almost out of its socket.

The ninth level was a death ground where even mid-stage Dao Sovereign experts were ground to ash by the Dao's power, the endpoint of countless heavenly pride!

Yet in the Dao Mirror, Li Zhangsheng stepped into the ninth level, facing the terrifying Dao power capable of obliterating everything, he merely relaxed his aura slightly, and all Dao pressure instantly vanished!

In a single breath, he cleared the ninth level and entered the tenth!

"Boom!"

The three elders felt a thunderous roar in their minds, as if struck by lightning, standing frozen, utterly petrified!

The tenth level!

It was the tenth level that, over millions of years, only two had barely reached—a legend unattainable in the hearts of countless cultivators!

And this white-clad cultivator, in less than a quarter of an hour, swept from the first level all the way to the tenth!

"This... this is simply heaven-defying, unprecedented, unheard of!" Zhuge Xiao, the grand elder at mid Dao Emperor realm, trembled violently, his eyes filled with shock and disbelief!

"For millions of years, no one has ever charged through so swiftly—he... who on earth is he?"

Just as the three elders were left speechless by utter shock, the image on the Dao Mirror changed again.

Li Zhangsheng entered the tenth level without pause; its trial was an ultimate will test, a vast will flooding in, capable of matching the mental crushing of a Dao Emperor!

But this will had no effect on Li Zhangsheng whatsoever!

Clearing the tenth level took only two minutes!

Under the elders' astonished gazes, light blossomed beneath Li Zhangsheng's feet as he strode straight toward the eleventh level!

Know that above the eleventh level of the Heaven-Reaching Tower, no one has ever touched; it is a legendary tier!

Even the three elders lack permission to view the eleventh level and above, and they don't even know what lies beyond!

"He... he's going to the eleventh level!"

The three elders stared at each other, utterly dumbfounded!

"The legend of millions of years—will it be broken today?"

The three elders completely lost control, circling the Dao Mirror, their hearts churning with tumultuous waves, eyes locked fixedly on it!

Even though they could no longer see Li Zhangsheng's figure, they remained overwhelmed with shock and disbelief!!

And Li Zhangsheng continued with the force of crushing bamboo, sweeping through the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth levels!

Each level fell in seconds, no trial able to halt his steps!

From the first to the fourteenth level, the total time was less than half an hour!

Finally, Li Zhangsheng stepped into the fifteenth level of the Heaven-Reaching Tower, its highest floor!

Inside the fifteenth level, there were no perilous trials, no violent beasts—only a expanse of harmonious divine light!

In the center floated an ancient Dao scripture, surrounded by countless Daoist runes, flowing with supreme Dao aura—this was the Heaven-Reaching Tower's greatest opportunity!!

"The Secret Record of Time-Space Unity?" Li Zhangsheng's divine sense swept over the ancient Dao scripture hovering in the center!

After his divine sense swept over it, Li Zhangsheng also understood that the "Secret Record of Time-Space Unity" is a Dao art concerning the laws of time and space!

Through the "Dao of Time-Space" to open up an inner world!

Nowadays, Li Zhangsheng also has a rough understanding of each realm of the Yuan Zhi Sheng Tu!!

Opening an inner world is the Dao that must be comprehended when a Dao Sovereign peak steps into the Dao Emperor realm!

After opening an inner world, that inner world becomes your source of power, with all attributes receiving a tremendous boost!

"This is a Dao Emperor realm Dao art; it seems this is the Heaven-Reaching Tower's greatest opportunity, was this 'Secret Record of Time-Space Unity' created by the Canglan Emperor?" Li Zhangsheng muttered to himself.

The "Secret Record of Time-Space Unity" has three layers!

The first layer, Initial Condensation of the Realm Heart, condenses the world core in the dantian's purple palace, giving birth to chaotic qi within the body, space initially opened.

The second layer, Chaotic Realm, the inner world expands, forming an independent chaotic domain, autonomously giving rise to yin-yang and the five elements' laws.

The third layer, Great Thousand Worlds Formed, the inner world fully takes shape, with heaven and earth, sun and moon, and the river of stars!

Standing before the "Secret Record of Time-Space Unity," Li Zhangsheng merely closed his eyes, focused his mind; with a thought, countless Daoist runes flooded into his mind like rivers into the sea, which he instantly comprehended, integrated, and mastered completely!

At the same time, Li Zhangsheng miraculously discovered that he now possessed an inner world, within which existed all things of heaven and earth, sun, moon, and star rivers!!

"How marvelous!" Li Zhangsheng exclaimed involuntarily; simultaneously, his divine sense and power coverage greatly increased, reaching several hundred thousand light-years!

At the very moment Li Zhangsheng fully comprehended the "Secret Record of Time-Space Unity"!

The entire Heaven-Reaching Tower suddenly trembled violently, billions of Dao patterns lit up at once, golden divine light shot through the clouds, illuminating the whole Canglan Holy Land domain!

Across a domain of millions of light-years, one could feel the supreme phenomenon emanating from the Heaven-Reaching Tower!

This is the first time in millions of years that anyone has reached the Heaven-Reaching Tower's highest fifteenth level, triggering a heaven-and-earth phenomenon!

"What happened to the Heaven-Reaching Tower?"

Within the Canglan Holy Land domain, all beings gazed toward the Heaven-Reaching Tower, faces filled with shock!

"Good heavens, has the Heaven-Reaching Tower been cleared?!"

Inside the floating palace, the three elders felt the Heaven-Reaching Tower's violent upheaval; the shock in their hearts peaked, their bodies stiffened, faces filled with horror!

They knew that the white-robed cultivator had actually passed through all the floors and reached the fifteenth floor!!

At the same time!

In the depths of the core region of the Vast Wave Holy Land, amidst a expanse of void and chaos, an aura that spanned heaven and earth, immensely majestic, suddenly erupted, shooting straight to the Nine Heavens!

A figure clad in a golden imperial robe, surrounded by the Dao of the Source, slowly opened its eyes, its gaze piercing through endless spacetime, directly locking onto the fifteenth floor of the Heaven-Reaching Tower!

This person is the Vast Wave Emperor!

"It's been millions of years, and someone actually managed to pass through all the floors of the Heaven-Reaching Tower!" The Vast Wave Emperor's face likewise showed shock, "Master, the one you've been seeking has finally appeared……"