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

Shen Tian floated in this absolutely empty daylight, as if he had been cast onto an endless canvas that had not yet been painted.

Shen Tian's gaze swept across the boundless white surroundings, his thoughts racing through his mind.

"The seventh level of martial arts is to comprehend the power of heaven and earth and use one's own martial arts essence to drive the power of heaven and earth."

Just as his thoughts settled, the pure white void suddenly rippled.

Hundreds of billions of extremely tiny light particles exploded in the void without warning.

Particles of different colors: deep ice blue, raging crimson, heavy dark gold, deathly black...

These tiny particles emitted a dazzling light.

It splashed this pure white canvas with vibrant colors and brilliance.

They are connected end to end, interlocking with each other, and eventually forming huge chains that are tens of thousands of kilometers long.

Two distinctly colored light chains intertwined, forming a massive structure resembling the double helix of human DNA.

Thousands upon thousands of these light chains slowly rotated around Shen Tian, ​​with each rotation...

Millions of symbols will then appear on the optical link's connection nodes.

In the blank space, which was as bright as day, thousands of double-helix chains of light slowly rotated.

Each friction unleashes billions of shimmering runes.

The dazzling and brilliant lights intertwined to form a magnificent and bizarre matrix.

Shen Tian floated in this ocean of data, his brows furrowed, his thoughts racing.

At the same time, he released spiritual energy from between his eyebrows, which slowly extended towards the nearest chain of light.

boom!

Within Shen Tian's spiritual sea of ​​consciousness, it was as if ten thousand supernovae were detonating simultaneously.

Countless pieces of information flooded into his mind.

too large.

He felt it clearly.

These chains are the essence of the power of heaven and earth!

Their rotation represents the operating logic of the power of heaven and earth.

Shen Tian endured the pain that was emanating from his soul.

However, he only sensed it for less than a second before the overwhelming amount of information filled his brain.

The instant his mind was filled with a vast amount of information, Shen Tian immediately understood the situation before him.

In the pure white void, these thousands upon thousands of double-helix chains of light, rubbing, converging, and colliding, are not a manifestation of some martial arts technique, but rather the essence that constructs this universe.

"For an ordinary martial artist to break through to the seventh rank, they only need to comprehend a light chain that matches their own attributes."

Shen Tian floated in the center of the vast chain.

"By comprehending the part of the light chain, one can understand the essence of the operation of the power of heaven and earth. By using one's own martial arts essence, one can resonate with the power of heaven and earth, thereby mastering the power of heaven and earth."

This is the method used by 99% of martial artists to break through.

However, since he was currently standing on the 999th step, he was in absolute zero-distance contact with the 10,000-meter-tall golden statue.

This ancient behemoth revealed the essence of all the forces of heaven and earth that constitute the entire world to Shen Tian without reservation!

This is an extraordinary stroke of luck, one that is rarely seen throughout history.

The crimson chains represent bursting flames, the dark blue chains depict the extreme cold that freezes time and space, the dark gold chains exude the weight of suppressing star fields, and the pitch-black chains surge with a lifeless stillness...

Tens of thousands of chains formed an intricate three-dimensional network in the void.

They interlock at hundreds of millions of nodes, and with each rotation, they unleash tens of millions of runes containing enormous variables.

"boom!"

A massive chain of light, composed of 600,000 cyan storm runes, swept past Shen Tian's mental tendrils with a deafening roar.

Even the slightest brush against him caused Shen Tian to shudder violently from the massive flow of information.

This is a stroke of luck, but also an enormous challenge!

Rather than saying Shen Tian is comprehending the power of heaven and earth, it would be more accurate to say he is comprehending the world itself!

Outside, at the top of the 150 steps, Li Xuangang closed his eyes, also entering a state of contemplation.

The dim, yellowish light, like thick mud, filled Li Xuangang's entire consciousness space.

There is no blue sky, no earth here.

Suspended directly in front of him was a towering mountain, thousands of feet high, composed entirely of dark purple rock.

The giant mountain hangs silently in mid-air, its surface covered with terrifying, crisscrossing cracks.

Unlike the rune chain in front of Shen Tian, ​​which represents the essence of the power of heaven and earth, what appears in front of the "ordinary prodigy" is a concrete object representing the true meaning of their martial arts.

Faced with this towering mountain, Li Xuangang had no room for trickery.

He could only sense the heavy aura emanating from the mountain rocks and observe the changes brought about by that enormous shape.

In order to capture some of the operating rules of this power of heaven and earth.

At the same time, in another space of consciousness.

Gu Qingshan stood on a lone boat, motionless on the surface of a vast, calm, azure lake.

The entire lake surface was as smooth as a giant mirror, reflecting the starless void above.

"The true meaning of still water lies in the absolute balance between movement and stillness."

Gu Qingshan muttered to himself,

"Even a slight breeze can disrupt this balance."

For every meter his lone boat glided forward, the lake surface generated a strong reaction force, attempting to stir up raging waves.

Feng Wuhen was standing in a dark red, vast sea of ​​blood.

A broken giant blade, hundreds of meters long, lay upside down in the middle of the sea, its rusted edge stained with dark red blood.

The moment the blood hit the sea, the surrounding gravitational field collapsed, creating a violent, blood-red tornado hundreds of meters high.

At the summit of Kunlun, where the sea of ​​clouds surged, several streams of spiritual energy were scanning the white jade ladder below.

The First Elder, Cang Yunzi, gently stroked his white beard, his gaze piercing through layers of void as it landed on the group of young prodigies sitting cross-legged:

"The Li family boy's aura has been completely stabilized."

The Second Elder nodded, his voice echoing through the clouds:

"Gu Qingshan and Feng Wuhen are also in good condition. One's aura is like stagnant water, while the other's killing intent soars to the sky. The pressure of the Heavenly Ladder's laws is not only testing the physical body, but also filtering it out."

Ouyang Qianjue's icy gaze was like two sharp swords piercing the void.

"The information they glean from comprehending the golden body at this level is completely different."

"This is absolutely a fortunate thing."

Cang Yunzi turned to look at the ten-thousand-meter-tall golden statue at the very top, his tone tinged with relief.

"If these little guys weren't screened, even if you threw Li Xuangang and Feng Wuhen directly in front of the golden statue..."

"Then they can only return empty-handed, having wasted this opportunity."

Thinking of this, the Second Elder gasped:

"So, Shen Tian, ​​who is at level 999, is now facing...?"

"No one has ever entered; there are 999 steps."

"Nobody knows what's there."