I became a god through frontier slaughter, and I crushed the academy's prodigies!

On the four hundredth white jade step, Shen Tian straightened his back.

The grayish-white spatial barrier was shattered by his foot, turning into countless tiny specks of light.

The golden chains of law crumbled inch by inch under the crushing force of absolute power.

Shen Tian's breathing remained steady.

"There's a cheater! There's a cheater!"

Xiao Ting gripped the edge of the steps with both hands.

High in the sky, a sudden change occurred.

The once violently churning blue sea of ​​clouds seemed to have been cleaved in two by an invisible, colossal sword.

The gale stopped instantly.

The howling winds and churning fog seemed to pause at that moment.

An elderly figure dressed in a coarse Taoist robe appeared out of thin air.

He simply stood there, and the sea of ​​clouds thousands of meters around him spontaneously retreated to both sides, forming an absolute vacuum.

The First Elder Cang Yunzi's pupils contracted sharply.

He immediately led the two elders beside him to bow their heads in mid-air and perform the most standard junior greeting.

"Welcome, Sect Leader!"

The three eighth-tier powerhouses, who were usually renowned in their respective regions, now spoke with genuine awe.

Ouyang Qianjue put his hands behind his back and casually waved them:

"No need. I just came out to see something interesting."

Ouyang Qianjue tilted his head back and burst into a hearty laugh.

"What a brilliant move, relying entirely on physical strength to overpower others."

Ouyang Qianjue's laughter pierced through the clouds, causing ripples to spread across the surrounding blue mist.

His withered hand stroked his graying beard, and in his cloudy eyes, the thin, dark figure below was reflected.

"When I climbed this Heavenly Staircase, I reached the 398th level and was already at my limit. My sword energy was exhausted, and the pressure of the laws almost broke my spine."

Ouyang Qianjue sighed softly, his tone devoid of any disappointment at being surpassed; instead, it was filled with an unprecedented sense of exhilaration.

"For over three hundred years, this old man has sat atop Kunlun Mountain for over three hundred years, and finally, the Dragon Kingdom has produced someone who can shatter this broken record!"

Cang Yunzi and the other two elders looked at each other in bewilderment.

This ninth-tier peak expert, revered as the backbone of the Dragon Kingdom, would laugh so uncontrollably when his record was broken.

Ouyang Qianjue stopped laughing and fixed his gaze on Shen Tian through the ten thousand meters of void.

Involuntarily, the image of that dilapidated bronze palace deep within the nebula surfaced in his mind.

That glorious civilization that once broke through the barriers of the world and ventured into the deep space beyond to confront the unknown fears.

"This kid..."

Ouyang Qianjue silently recited in his heart,

"Such a calm demeanor, such incomprehensible and terrifying potential. Perhaps, the game-changer I've been waiting for for hundreds of years has finally appeared."

Ancient civilizations need a successor.

Previously, Ouyang Qianjue thought his disciple Xiao Ting had a chance, after all, one in ten thousand people are born with innate awakening.

But now, watching Shen Tian step by step up the four hundredth step, Ouyang Qianjue overturned his previous judgment.

Xiao Ting is a promising talent, but Shen Tian is a towering tree that can support the entire human civilization!

"He is qualified to be a successor of civilization."

Ouyang Qianjue's eyes lit up.

Above the white jade steps.

Shen Tian naturally ignored what the group of old guys above were thinking.

He stepped firmly onto the stone slab of the four hundredth step.

The surrounding environment underwent another dramatic change.

The pressure here is no longer a simple feeling of falling, but a comprehensive squeeze from all directions.

The air was highly compressed, turning into semi-fluid, transparent mercury.

Even a slight swing of the arm requires overcoming hundreds or thousands of tons of viscous resistance.

Shen Tian's black combat trousers were torn in several places during the exertion, revealing his strong leg muscles.

His heart pounded like a war drum, making a deep, rumbling sound in his chest.

The surrounding space had a viscous texture, as if it were sealed inside a large block of unsolidified resin.

The light was severely distorted here, stretching his already thin shadow into all sorts of bizarre geometric shapes.

A terrifying pressure of law evenly covered every inch of his skin.

Shen Tian immediately calmed his mind and looked inward at himself.

This sight stirred up a storm in his heart.

Within his near-perfect body, in the originally pure and vast river of crimson-gold blood and qi.

Suddenly, thousands upon thousands of tiny, ridge-shaped light spots appeared, shimmering with dazzling golden light.

These spots of light are like tiny diamonds embedded in the fibers of flesh and bones, radiating a vast and boundless aura of heaven and earth.

These things... are fragments of laws!

Shen Tian quickly reviewed the situation in his mind.

The void above these four hundred steps is filled with countless fragments of free-floating laws.

Ordinary geniuses who climb to this point all exert all their strength to unleash their true martial arts intent to fight back.

But Shen Tian did the opposite, using his pure flesh and blood to directly confront the immense power of this world.

Those fragments of laws that permeated the semi-fluid space were smashed through the surface by the terrifying pressure and forced into his flesh and bones.

It was an incredible stroke of luck!

A fanatical fire blazed in Shen Tian's eyes.

The path of martial arts cultivation involves six stages: condensing true intent at the sixth stage, mastering the power of heaven and earth at the seventh stage, and only by crossing the insurmountable barrier and entering the eighth stage can a martial artist truly come into contact with the laws.

Eighth-tier powerhouses need to condense the origin of laws in their sea of ​​consciousness, and then, through long years of arduous cultivation, devour and refine the fragments of laws in the world to strengthen their own origin of laws.

In other words, law fragments are strategic resources exclusively for powerhouses of the eighth rank and above.

Even Xiao Ting and the others wouldn't dare to dream of incorporating such a fragment of law into their bodies.

But now, these fragments of laws are continuously being integrated into every inch of Shen Tian's flesh and blood.

The cells beneath the [Undying God-Demon Body] are roaring and devouring wildly.

The fragments of the law released an overwhelmingly powerful energy, transforming Shen Tian's physique.

This is an extremely long process of physical remodeling.

Once these fragments of laws embedded in his flesh and blood are completely integrated with his body and the tempering process is completed, Shen Tian's physical body will undergo a tremendous qualitative change.

Shen Tian withdrew his focus from his internal examination.

Since enduring the hardship allows the fragments of the laws to enter the body and temper it, there's no need to linger in place.

Shen Tian suddenly stretched his arms outwards, and all 206 bones in his body exploded with a loud crack in an instant.

[Primordial Divine Elephant] roared wildly, unleashing the physical density of a martial artist of the same level, which was up to fifty times that of a martial artist of the same level, to its peak.

Instead of adopting any defensive stance, he proactively opened up hundreds of thousands of pores all over his body, like a black hole, completely opening the door to the semi-fluid space in all directions.

"Come!"

Shen Tian let out a low roar, and the muscles in his right leg swelled up to a full circle in an instant, completely tearing his already tattered black combat trousers and revealing leg lines as hard as granite.

boom!

His right foot slammed heavily onto the gray stone slab of the 401st step.

The surface of the ten-meter-wide white jade staircase suddenly collapsed downwards, creating a huge pit half a meter deep. The ancient Yinglong totem engraved on it instantly disintegrated into dust.

Level 410!

Level 430!

Level 450!

Boom boom boom boom—!

A continuous series of deafening sonic booms echoed along the steps ten thousand meters above the ground.

Shen Tian was like an ancient ferocious beast that had broken free of its shackles, rampaging wildly.

Shen Tian cleared a path with a punch!

Snap—Boom!

A dark golden law crystal pillar, thirty meters long and five meters in diameter, was smashed in two by Shen Tian's right shoulder.

The violent impact of the collision transformed into countless tiny golden streaks of light, which were pressed into Shen Tian's flesh by the immense pressure.

Shen Tian completely ignored the bright red blood beads seeping from his body and continued running upwards with great strides.

With each brutal physical collision, a massive amount of fragments of laws were forcibly slammed into the depths of his flesh and blood.

Cells are rapidly cycling through tearing and recombination, and fine, mysterious golden totem patterns are beginning to appear on the surface of the bones.