Chapter 723: I am here, straight up to the clouds

Two helmets were placed in front, this was the virtual space.

"Does the Daoist want to experience it now?"

Hong spoke.

"If the Senior wants to enter the virtual space, you only need to lie there and put on the helmet, and your consciousness will directly enter the virtual space."

Zhu Xi explained from the side.

"Then I will give it a try."

Fang Yu showed a look of interest, walked over, and put on the helmet as Zhu Xi said.

"I will go in with the Daoist."

Hong also walked over and put on the helmet.

Suddenly, two figures appeared on a boundless silver land; one was Fang Yu’s consciousness, and the other was Hong’s consciousness.

As far as the eyes could see, above this silver land was the cosmic starry sky, revealing countless stars, and the entire silver land was as smooth as a mirror.

"Daoist, in this virtual space, the sky is the starry sky, and the ground is the silver land. And the only building we can see in the entire virtual space is that seven-story trial tower in the distance, which is where many students are tested."

Hong spoke. As far as his eyes could see, there was indeed a huge tower in the distance that reached into the clouds. The entire tower had images carved on it, as if all kinds of monsters were surrounding it.

"This is something unearthed from ancient ruins, called the Trial Tower. After we enter it, only our consciousness descends, and it automatically matches us with a physical body of the same physical fitness: normal punch force of 10,000 kilograms, speed of 150 meters per second, and nerve reaction speed of primary War General level superior."

Hong spoke.

In fact, without Hong’s reminder, Fang Yu also felt that his current body was very fragile, as if he had returned to the time of the Mortal Body Realm, but Hong’s body was just as fragile, with a punch force of only 10,000 kilograms.

A punch force of 10,000 kilograms seemed to be just the strength of four or five Profound Yellow Fierce Horses.

"Here, everyone’s physical fitness is the same. I am the same when I come in. No matter how strong the body is in reality, it is the same in the virtual space. This is a kind of fairness, and also a kind of challenge. If the Daoist entered with your real body, how could there be any talk of a test?"

While speaking, Hong invited Fang Yu to the Trial Tower in the distance.

As the two walked, they soon arrived in front of the first floor of the Trial Tower.

Hong pointed to the Trial Tower in front and spoke: "Although this Trial Tower is an ancient civilization ruin I obtained, even with my strength, I have not broken through to the seventh floor. Using the same body to traverse the Trial Tower increases the difficulty by a lot. The Daoist can try it. Using this most basic body to pass the levels might help the Daoist comprehend the principles you want to comprehend."

Hong said to Fang Yu.

"Comprehend the principles I want to comprehend in this Trial Tower using the most basic body? That might be a bit difficult. The principles I want to comprehend require constantly improving physical strength and spiritual strength, perhaps then I can understand a little bit. Using such a body to pass the levels feels like returning to before I started cultivating. Of course, I can give it a try."

Fang Yu felt Hong’s good intentions, smiled, and entered directly into the pitch-black entrance on the first floor.

"I wonder how many floors the Daoist can break into. I broke through to the sixth floor at most."

Hong did not enter, but watched Fang Yu’s departing back.

Whoosh!

At this very moment, Fang Yu had already entered another scene.

He was now on a vast grassland, and looking around, there was grass everywhere.

"The body only has a punch force of 10,000 jin. Of the Three Thousand Great Daos, it seems there isn't much I can use. Comprehending the Law of Creation here still seems difficult. To comprehend the Law of Creation, the body still needs to be strong to a certain degree."

Fang Yu sensed the body that the virtual space had matched for him. This body was truly pitifully weak. It had not taken various Heaven-level elixirs, had not been nourished by the True Dragon Qi of the Eight Departments, and of course, had not been strengthened by Great Daos and divine abilities such as the Great Five Elements Art, Great Conferred God Art, Great Life Art, Great Soul Art, Great Origin Art, Great Blood Soul Art, Great Devouring Art, etc. It was simply a plain human body.

Here, hoping to comprehend any Law of Creation could be forgotten, but tempering one's spiritual will was slightly possible, and things like force exertion and amplitude could be improved.

Fang Yu felt that this Trial Tower was mainly aimed at human force exertion, combat power amplitude, and other attributes. Of course, there were also various abilities when facing monster group attacks, such as movement techniques, attacks, defense, emergency response, and comprehension.

"It really is a return to before cultivation."

Fang Yu shook his head, and just then, an electronic voice sounded, asking Fang Yu what kind of weapon he needed.

Fang Yu chose a sword directly.

Among the Three Thousand Great Daos, many Great Dao divine abilities could not exert their power in an ordinary body, such as the Great Five Elements Art, Great Yin-Yang Art, Great Blood Soul Art, Great Soul Art, Great Salvation Art, Great Entanglement Art, Great Freezing Art, Great Delusion Art, etc., but there were also Great Dao divine abilities that could be used.

The Great Slaughter Art of the Three Thousand Great Daos could be used.

"To think that I would have to use the Life-Ending Killing Sword, the Great Slaughter Art, which Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai is most accustomed to using, here."

A sword appeared on this grassland. After it was held in Fang Yu’s hand, his aura changed immediately, as if he had become a god of slaughter.

Just at this moment, one hundred wild oxen appeared on the grassland in the distance, and the electronic voice sounded: if Fang Yu killed all these wild oxen within thirty minutes, he would pass the level.

"Life-Ending Killing Sword, Great Slaughter Art, killing wild oxen?"

Fang Yu felt it was a bit magical, but at this moment his physical fitness had returned to before cultivation, and he could not use various Great Dao divine abilities. What he relied on was just the sword in his hand.

With the sword in hand, Fang Yu was majestic, yet he did not display any sword qi, only a pure sword.

An ordinary person’s body simply could not display sword qi.

Of course, facing the incoming wild oxen, Fang Yu’s body moved, and the long sword slashed out. Each move was simple yet exquisite, profound yet simple, encompassing Yin and Yang, combining hardness and softness. In just a split second, the sword light passed through the eye of a wild ox, killing it directly.

"Between heaven and earth, there is always a glimmer of life. The number of the Great Expansion lacks one to be agile, and the Life-Ending Killing Sword extinguishes all life; it is the sword of absolute slaughter, using the person of absolute slaughter to perform the posture of absolute slaughter."

Fang Yu’s body drew shadows in the void. Each thrust of the sword was aimed exactly at the weak point of a wild ox. He could even thrust his sword into empty space, and the next moment the wild ox would foolishly rush over, as if it were delivering itself to death.

"Life-Ending Killing Sword, the sword light flows, it is a light sword!"

As Fang Yu moved, he also had a realization. Now, the Great Dao divine abilities he could use were few, and all that existed around him was a sword and the surrounding light. This sword in his hand seemed to merge with the light of heaven and earth. Every sword thrust out could not be defended against.

In an instant, the so-called wild ox herd suffered heavy losses, and before long, they were all slaughtered by Fang Yu.

"Time taken: three minutes. All one hundred wild oxen slaughtered. Congratulations, Daoist, for passing the trial. Do you wish to enter the second floor of the trial?"

The electronic voice echoed across the entire grassland.

"Since I'm here, let's continue."

Fang Yu gave a hum.

Since he was here, he would have a good time.

Thus, the trial began. This time, the void where Fang Yu was located was no longer a vast grassland, but a desert.

A boundless desert.

It gave people a feeling of oppression just by looking at it.

"This trial: kill fifty 'Primary Beast General-level' Iron-Armored Scorpions within ten minutes. Good luck."

The electronic voice of the virtual space echoed over the entire desert.

Iron-Armored Scorpions were a type of monster often seen in desert areas and were the most numerous among scorpion-type monsters. Because their bodies were relatively small, more than ten or even twenty Iron-Armored Scorpions could surround a human at once, which was why the difficulty of the second floor’s trial was far greater than that of the first.

Like the wild oxen that appeared in the first floor’s trial, although they had great strength, in reality, a martial artist could only face two or three wild oxen at a time and could completely slaughter the rushing wild oxen within sufficient time to win.

This was also the reason why the elite students of this world could pass the first floor’s trial. After all, they did not understand any Great Slaughter Art, nor did they know anything about the Life-Ending Killing Sword or the Great Expansion Sword Art.

And the difficulty of the second floor was very great. Not many of the entire elite student body could pass it.

Just after another long sword appeared in Fang Yu’s hand, scorpions with dark red armor appeared in the endless desert. These scorpions crawled out of the desert. Each scorpion’s armor was dark red, and its long, sharp, cone-shaped tail was pitch black, clearly containing deadly poison.

If Fang Yu had arrived with his true body, he could have directly used the Great Poison Art to let them know what real poison was in an instant. However, this ordinary human body could not cultivate the Great Poison Art in a short time. In fact, for an ordinary person to try to cultivate the Great Poison Art, they would basically be poisoned and die directly.

The Three Thousand Great Daos were not so easy to cultivate.

The Small Fate Art, cultivated by burning life, could be called invincible.

A thought flashed through Fang Yu’s mind, and another sword technique was performed by him. The Life-Ending Killing Sword, every sword strike carrying the killing intent of leaving no life behind, was indeed a sword of absolute slaughter when performed by Fang Yu.

Three minutes later, Fang Yu passed the level again.

Going up the high tower again, the void before his eyes changed once more; the desert disappeared and was replaced by a new environment and new monsters.

Fang Yu had complete mastery of his body, and every sword strike killed the monsters at their weak points. By the end, one sword strike came like a comet attacking the moon, like a goshawk catching a rabbit.

What monsters? They had no power to fight back at all.

It was even a bit bullying to the monsters.

Using the Life-Ending Killing Sword to deal with monsters that had no instinctive inheritance was indeed bullying the monsters.

All the way up, until the seventh heaven, the scenery before his eyes changed again, all showing the appearance of the cosmic galaxy, which looked even more attractive than the monsters.

"Virtual space, it is better to simulate the cosmic galaxy. This might be of some benefit to my cultivation."

Fang Yu struck in this seventh-floor space, the sword light flowing, slaughtering all the monsters, while his eyes focused on the cosmic galaxy around him. This was indeed more attractive than the monsters.

He liked the simulation changes of the surrounding environment in this virtual space. If this virtual space could simulate changes according to a person’s wishes, it would also have many benefits for comprehending the Dao.

In the Stellar Transformation world, Lei Wei observed in the universe and saw the nature of the cosmic stars, thus comprehending Stellar Transformation.

Now in this world, Fang Yu could certainly go to the cosmic starry sky, and of course, he could also use this virtual space to observe the changes in the universe and comprehend the Law of Creation.

The fifth level of Longevity, the Creation Realm, required comprehending the Law of Creation. This law was a flash of inspiration for a cultivator after comprehending space and time, a step across to achieve the realm of a Creator.

And in the vast void, stars were themselves creators.

Observing the changes of cosmic stars was inherently beneficial for comprehending the Creation Realm.

When Fang Yu was watching the changes of the galaxy here, a huge uproar had already appeared in the outside world.

Because the record of the Trial Tower had been broken.

Hong’s record had been broken by a Daoist after Hong arrived.

All the elite students looked at the changes in the leaderboard and felt it was incredible.

On the current leaderboard, a person’s name had suddenly appeared.

Daoist.

Daoist, just these two words.

It did not say who this Daoist was, nor did it say any other information about him. When the Daoist occupied the first place on the leaderboard and the first place in the Trial Tower, breaking the record, all the martial artists were boiling.

"Daoist? The great Hong, his record was actually broken by a Daoist? Who is this Daoist?"

"Incredible, truly incredible. Even Hong, our human number one, did not reach the seventh floor of the Trial Tower. This Daoist could actually reach the seventh floor. Is this still a human? Where did this Daoist come from, so fierce!"

"Today I seem to have seen the Pavilion Master invite a Daoist to come, I didn't expect him to be so powerful!"

"It’s truly incredible that a peerless Daoist who could break Senior Hong’s record has appeared. This Daoist must be a Daoist from our great Eastern country. My China is invincible."

"How is this possible? Hong is already the world’s number one. Could that Daoist be even more powerful than Hong?"

Everyone felt shocked, stunned, and incredulous. Even Lu Gang and Zhu Xi, who accompanied Fang Yu this time, showed looks of shock on their faces after seeing Fang Yu break the Trial Tower record.

"That Senior is truly an invincible existence."

"Yes, even with just an ordinary person’s body, an ordinary person’s strength, and an ordinary person’s speed, he could actually achieve such a level? I thought that when the Senior returned to being an ordinary person, he would become weak."

"The Trial Tower can temper many things, but it cannot temper the Daoist at all. I don't know if there is anything left in our human world that is useful to the Daoist. I am really looking forward to seeing what level the Senior will reach after breaking through the realm."

"Yes, that Daoist Senior said he wanted to break through and understand a kind of principle. I don't know how he can understand that kind of principle? What can we do? I am really looking forward to the changes after the Senior understands that kind of principle."

Lu Gang and Zhu Xi discussed.

And at this moment, Fang Yu came out of the Trial Tower.

All the martial artists stood in awe.