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

The sparse sunlight pierced through the smoke of battle, illuminating the desolate and tragic battlefield with its countless ravines and trenches.

Without the support of high-level combatants, the remaining Blood Demons fell into complete chaos.

The Blood Demon fled in all directions on instinct.

"Counterattack."

Chu Feng's voice was transmitted to every war puppet via mental signals.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The puppet army surged out like a floodgate opening.

The energy beams completely illuminated the entire sky.

The scales of war tipped sharply in favor of Tianyun Prefecture the moment Shen Tian appeared on the battlefield.

What follows is nothing more than the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.

Half a day later.

Shen Tian stood on the city wall and glanced at the system panel.

The kill count has stopped jumping, and after this series of frenzied killings, it has once again reached the 600,000 mark.

Kill Points: 356,020

A streak of cyan-gold sword light ripped through the sky, its sonic boom stopping above the city wall.

Ouyang Qianjue stepped through the air and landed steadily in front of Shen Tian and Lu Changming.

The human swordsman's white robe was stained with a lot of purplish-black blood, but his spirit and energy were like a divine weapon unsheathed.

Ouyang Qianjue tossed two storage rings, each radiating powerful spatial fluctuations, precisely into Shen Tian's hand.

"This is the Ancient Nightmare, and also the spatial ring that Xue Li was wearing."

Ouyang Qianjue patted the dust off his robe.

"The spoils are yours to keep."

Shen Tian grasped the two storage rings and, without refusing, stored them into the Creation Origin Realm.

"Thank you, Senior Ouyang."

They were so focused on fighting that they forgot to loot the corpse.

The treasures of a ninth-tier expert should not be underestimated.

Lu Changming stood to the side, clutching his chest.

Looking at the old man and the young man in front of me, I felt a strange sense of disorientation.

The ninth-tier powerhouses who were once unattainable in his eyes were now slaughtered like fish on a chopping board.

And the one who accomplished all of this was actually a seventh-level boy.

The two were chatting and laughing at this moment.

This left the Lord of Tianyun Prefecture without even the right to interrupt.

"senior."

Shen Tian's gaze passed over Ouyang Qianjue's shoulder and landed in the distant north.

"When I fought against Brahma and Xiu Si in Ziji City, I discovered a hidden danger."

Ouyang Qianjue had already guessed that Shen Tian might have gone to the Purple Spirit Clan.

But he didn't expect that Shen Tian had already fought against Brahma and Xiu Si.

He suppressed his smile, his gaze shooting out like cold lightning:

"What you call a potential hazard must be something significant. Tell me about it."

"Brahma's natal puppet, the Great Brahma Wheel, is undergoing a reverse change."

"He spent nearly a hundred years merging his own peak ninth-tier spiritual law essence with the Star Corpse God's Finance. The characteristics of a native life form have already appeared inside that thousand-meter-tall machine."

Lu Changming gasped, the movement aggravating his wound and triggering a violent cough.

Shen Tian paused:

"Brahma is plotting the ultimate leap in life forms; he is preparing to enter the tenth level."

Tenth level.

In the existing combat power system of Earth, the peak of the ninth rank is the pinnacle of all races' understanding.

That is an invincible symbol of having refined one's essence, energy, and spirit to perfection and mastered the laws.

Tenth rank?

That is a place that no one on Earth has ever set foot in.

This means that the power of an individual can completely surpass that of the Earth.

Lu Changming's heart pounded and his throat went dry.

If the Purple Spirit Clan were to give birth to a tenth-tier True God, the Dragon Kingdom's defenses, built up over the past century, would be torn apart like paper, and the entire Blue Star's格局 (geju, a term referring to the overall structure or pattern of the planet) would be instantly overturned.

However, after hearing these words, Ouyang Qianjue suddenly threw his head back and burst into laughter.

The laughter was like rolling thunder, shattering the remaining leaden clouds in the sky.

"Tenth rank?"

Ouyang Qianjue's laughter subsided, his white robes fluttering in the wind, and a look of disdain appeared in his eyes.

"That old monster Brahma, after a hundred years of seclusion, has ruined his brain. Does he think he can cross that insurmountable chasm by nurturing a pile of scrap metal into a living thing? That's utterly delusional!"

Shen Tian's eyes narrowed slightly:

"Does the senior mean that his path is a dead end?"

I don't know if we've taken the wrong path.

"Because the paths through the ten steps are all different."

"But I knew for sure that he couldn't get through."

Ouyang Qianjue put his hands behind his back.

"The perfect unity of spirit and body, and the leap in life force, are indeed the basic conditions for breaking through to the tenth rank. However, he, Brahma, is not the only one in this world with the aptitude to break through to the tenth rank!"

A terrifying aura, indescribable in words, suddenly surged from Ouyang Qianjue's body.

Even Shen Tian, ​​who possesses the Eternal Overlord Physique, felt a sense of oppression in the face of this aura.

That was not simply a matter of forceful oppression, but rather a harbinger of a transformative leap in one's life level.

"Do you think my title as the number one swordsman in the Dragon Kingdom is just empty boasting?"

Ouyang Qianjue snorted coldly.

"When essence, energy, and spirit are united, the laws undergo a qualitative change. I touched this barrier thirty years ago! I am only one step away from the tenth level, and I can cross it at any time. Brahma's chances of winning are far less than mine."

Lu Changming listened from the side, his mind blank, and he even forgot to breathe.

Was Ouyang Qianjue already on the verge of a breakthrough thirty years ago?

Why has the Dragon Kingdom failed to produce a tenth-tier expert in the past thirty years?

If Ouyang Qianjue had taken that step, the Dragon Kingdom would have wiped out the alien races long ago!

Shen Tian's mind raced, his thoughts colliding rapidly in his mind.

He quickly grasped the crux of the problem.

"Since the senior could break through at any time, he has been stuck at this threshold for thirty years, and Brahma has also been hiding in the Holy City for a hundred years without coming out."

Shen Tian looked directly into Ouyang Qianjue's eyes.

"Are you afraid to break through because you lack some irreplaceable condition?"

Ouyang Qianjue nodded approvingly.

"clever."

Ouyang Qianjue sighed, his eyes filled with endless vicissitudes.

"To advance from the ninth rank to the tenth rank, one needs not only personal transformation but also the world's recognition."

"World recognition?"

Shen Tian's purple-gold eyes flashed with a thoughtful light.

"The origin of the world."

What is the origin of the world?

Why has Ouyang Qianjue been held hostage for so many years?

Shen Tian was puzzled and asked Ouyang Qianjue about his doubts.

"senior."

"What exactly is the origin of the world? With your unparalleled swordsmanship, you touched the threshold of the tenth rank thirty years ago. Why are you stuck on this ethereal thing?"