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

The moment Shen Tian stepped onto the white marble plaza, the entire ten-thousand-meter-high white marble staircase erupted with a long, hollow hum.

The buzzing sound was no longer the mournful cry of collapsing laws, but rather like a grand bell spanning eras, welcoming the arrival of an ancient overlord.

The original pressure of the laws transformed into gentle golden light rain, which fell softly on Shen Tian's broad back.

The sword energy barrier surrounding Ouyang Qianjue dissipated completely, and his hands, which had been behind his back, were trembling uncontrollably.

For three hundred years, even the most powerful ninth-tier experts, who remained unfazed by the collapse of heaven and earth, now had fine red blood vessels appearing in their eyes.

"Nine hundred and ninety-nine levels... Humans, there really are people who can complete this path."

Ouyang Qianjue murmured.

The atmosphere on the white jade steps below was as still as stagnant water.

At the 370th level, Xiao Ting lay limp on the gray stone slab like a lump of mud with its bones removed.

He looked up, staring intently at the blurry figure bathed in golden light ten thousand meters above the ground, his eyes completely devoid of their former unruly gleam.

"Fuck your mother..."

"Are they even from Earth? They climbed from the first step to the summit in less than half an hour!"

Two meters away from him, Li Changge gripped the sword hilt tightly with both hands.

"Spanning millions of years, relying solely on his physical body to surpass the sages of the past and present."

A flush appeared on Li Changge's originally pale face.

"The so-called sword cultivators who are the best at killing are nothing but a joke in the face of such pure violence. So this is the true end of martial arts."

"This is an absolute chasm... Even if I burned all my lifeblood, I couldn't even touch a trace of his shadow!"

Along with Gu Qingshan, Li Xuangang, and others, everyone had lost the strength to even look up.

This aura was like a blazing golden sun hanging in their minds, burning away all their pride, arrogance, and ambition to compete with their peers.

On the 999th level of the white marble plaza.

Shen Tian slowly exhaled a long, scorching breath.

Boom!Boom!

A flash of purplish-gold light disappeared deep within his pupils.

His gaze swept across the vast plaza, which spanned over 100,000 square meters, and landed on the colossal figure standing at the far end of the plaza, representing the ultimate essence of martial arts.

Even though Shen Tian had looked up at its outline countless times during the climb, the visual impact of actually standing on the same level and facing it directly still caused the purple-gold blood in Shen Tian's body to instinctively boil.

This is a golden statue that is 10,000 meters tall.

Its lower body was hidden in the rolling golden sea of ​​mist, while its upper body stood straight up into the depths of the sky.

The statue is not in human form, but an ancient deity with four thick arms and a huge, blazing sun on its back.

Its surface shows no trace of human carving, as if it were a living thing naturally conceived at the beginning of the universe.

Shen Tian took a step and walked towards the statue.

He was less than 100 meters away from the base of the statue.

Shen Tian raised his head, his gaze landing directly on the statue's face.

It was a face without a mouth or nose, only a pair of huge eyes.

Those eyes were tightly closed, their eyelids covered with a thick layer of dust from the ages, like meteorite fragments, as if they had been in an eternal slumber since the endless ancient times.

The ten-thousand-meter-tall golden statue, radiating boundless golden light and representing the ultimate essence of martial arts, was right before my eyes.

The moment Shen Tian's gaze fell upon him.

"Click."

An extremely faint voice, yet one that sent chills down Shen Tian's spine, suddenly rang out in his mind.

Shen Tian's pupils instantly shrank to the size of pinpoints, and his right leg abruptly took half a step back, instantly sucking away the air within a ten-meter radius around him with a terrifying force field.

On the ten-thousand-meter-tall golden statue that had been lifeless for millions of years, the gray dust covering the giant eyelids suddenly began to fall in a flurry without warning.

Those eyes, which had been closed for millions of years, trembled slightly.

The dust of time on the statue's eyelids fluttered down.

The ancient deity, towering ten thousand meters tall, slowly opened its eyes, which had been closed for countless epochs, creating a rift a hundred meters long.

In an instant, an indescribable sense of antiquity and desolation, as if spanning countless cosmic eras, poured out from that crevice.

Shen Tian raised his head and calmly met that gaze.

At that moment, it seemed as if countless universes were being created and destroyed within Shen Tian's spiritual sea of ​​consciousness.

In that gaze, he saw a vast, boundless mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, and countless civilizations, one after another, falling like stars in the sky.

There was no hostility in that gaze; it couldn't even be called a gaze.

Just ten breaths.

That crimson-gold gaze, powerful enough to pierce through eternity, suddenly paused for a moment.

The enormous eyelids of the 10,000-meter-tall golden statue, covered with the dust of time, began to slowly sag.

Click... click click.

With a dull rustling sound, the hundred-meter-long slit of the eye slowly closed.

The countless beams of crimson-gold light seemed to flow backward in time, all converging into the interior of the statue.

The moment her eyes closed completely, the terrifying phenomenon that had enveloped the entire Kunlun Mountains vanished.

The purple-gold flames surrounding Shen Tian gradually dissipated.

At this moment, the statue transformed back into that ancient stone weathered by time.

It was as if the eye contact we just made was an illusion.

What is the origin of this sculpture?

Shen Tian secretly made his own calculations.

In order to leave behind the flame of civilization, the ancient human ancestors ventured into the starry sky. This statue stands at the end of the white jade steps, enjoying the worship of the geniuses of all ages.

The level of power it exhibits is far too unknown.

Is this a god worshipped by ancient humans, or...?

Is this colossal object standing here solely to help martial artists comprehend the laws of nature?

Shen Tian had a premonition that helping martial artists comprehend the laws was probably the least noticeable use of this statue.

Shen Tian composed himself and sat down on the spot.

However, since we've come here, it's to break through to the seventh rank and forge our own path.

Don't think about the rest for now.

Once I have enough strength, everything will become clear.

His spiritual energy surged forth from between his eyebrows and poured into the statue.

Unlike other prodigies who could only comprehend the statue from afar through the void, Shen Tian could sit directly beside the statue and comprehend it.

The benefits are unimaginable.

The scene before Shen Tian's eyes peeled away layer by layer, like a shattered mirror.

The ancient and desolate deities and the rolling golden sea of ​​mist around them vanished in an instant.

When his consciousness refocused, he found himself standing in a pure white space.

There is no sky, no earth, no direction here.

All around, there was only endless pure white.