Swallowing the Stars: Only in my later years did I come to the life-spending panel.

"Time, freeze!"

In a split second between life and death, Zhou Mu frantically squeezed out his understanding of the laws of time, forcibly stopping the flow of time around the "Azure" at the forefront by one-thousandth of a second.

Taking advantage of that one-thousandth of a second, Zhou Mu's figure moved like a purple lightning bolt, forcibly twisting in mid-air in an extremely strange arc.

"Rip—"

A sickening metallic tearing sound rang out!

Although the "Azure" beast's movements were slowed down, its massive tail, nearly three hundred meters long and resembling a dark golden divine whip, still carried the power to split mountains and shatter the space, grazing past Zhou Mu's left shoulder!

The dark gold Force suit was torn apart like paper by the terrifying physical impact and the sharpness of the Law of Gold. A burst of blood instantly erupted on Zhou Mu's fair shoulder, and his bones made a cracking sound as if they could not bear the weight.

"hiss--"

Zhou Mu gasped, his body retreating hundreds of meters, crimson blood dripping from his left arm onto the meteorite, a horrifying sight.

He's injured!

Since the start of the qualifiers, the myth of being able to crush everything and not get hurt has been shattered at this moment by the star beast "Cang"!

"Tick-tock...tick-tock..."

Seeing the blood flowing down his shoulder, Zhou Mu showed no panic whatsoever. Instead, he stuck out his tongue and gently licked the corner of his mouth. The pure, frenzied fighting spirit that had been suppressed for so long in his deep eyes finally erupted like a volcano!

"Very good... The darling of the Golden Law, his physical body and strength are indeed abnormally monstrous."

Zhou Mu raised his head, his white hair whipping wildly in the gale-force winds of the asteroid belt. His handsome face now exuded a chilling savagery. "Since you want to play a head-on confrontation, then I'll grant your wish!"

"Thunderbolt Style, disperse!"

Instead of condensing the heavy, thousand-meter-long giant blade again, Zhou Mu used his mind to transform the 1600 purple-gold lightning blades back into a sky full of flowing light.

This time, however, he did not spread the lightning blades outwards. Instead, he compressed these 1600 lightning blades, which contained the laws of lightning and time, into a range of less than three meters around his body in an extremely frantic manner!

His entire being seemed to have transformed into a porcupine-like, purple-gold lightning ball exuding an aura of destruction!

Come on!

Zhou Mu roared and actually abandoned his defense, transforming into a purple streak of light, rushing straight towards the ten giant star beasts "Cang" that were rampaging like a dark gold mountain range!

What followed was a brutal and gruesome fight that was practically a bloody battle with every punch landing!

The colossal star beast "Cang" relentlessly launched death charges with its terrifying speed and the sharpness of the Law of Metal, while Zhou Mu countered with his "Time Slowing" prediction and the high-intensity compressed lightning blades surrounding his body!

"Snap!"

A giant, blood-red maw of a creature named "Cang" viciously bit through Zhou Mu's side waist, its astonishing bite force nearly severing him in half!

But at the same instant, Zhou Mu pointed his fingers like knives, controlling hundreds of lightning blades to flow upstream along the giant beast's throat, shredding its insides into a pulp!

"Bang!"

Zhou Mu was slammed hard into the back by a sharp protrusion on the back of a giant beast, spitting out a mouthful of blood. However, he retaliated with a palm strike filled with the power of the primordial law of lightning, directly severing the dark golden head of the giant beast!

Crazy! Tragic!

On this sixth floor,

Zhou Mu completely abandoned his composure and elegance, and like a true madman, he used an extreme fighting style of trading injury for life to engage in the most primitive and desperate struggle against these ten peerless ferocious beasts!

Blood stained his snow-white hair and his dark gold battle armor.

When the last cosmic behemoth, "Cang," roared in despair as its skull was pierced by a purple-gold lightning blade...

Zhou Mu knelt on a huge meteorite, panting heavily. His body was covered with dozens of wounds of varying sizes and depths, and blood had stained him completely.

But he won.

Those eyes, as defiant as a lone wolf's, were fixed on the dazzling pillar of light that was slowly descending from mid-air, leading to the final level.

Level 6 cleared!

Outside, all was silent.

Everyone was so shocked by the extremely brutal battle that they were speechless. They originally thought that Zhou Mu was just a master of long-range secret techniques, but they never expected that when he was really in a desperate situation and started close combat, he would be even more ferocious and deadly than those martial artists!

"call……"

Zhou Mu leaned on a longsword formed from lightning blades and slowly stood up. He ignored his wounds, because within the trial space, as long as vital organs weren't injured, the Force would slowly repair the body.

He took a deep breath and looked up at the end of the beam of light.

The seventh trial tower, the seventh floor.

It is also a forbidden zone that no genius has ever set foot in for millions of years in the entire universe!

"Let me see what this final despair looks like."

Zhou Mu took a step forward, his white hair flying, like a blood-soaked demon god stepping onto the final battlefield, resolutely entering the pillar of light on the last level.

The light flickered.

When Zhou Mu's vision cleared again, he found himself on a vast, desolate, dark red wasteland.

At the edge of the wasteland stands a colossal oval sphere, 120 meters high, equivalent to a 40-story building. This is the most feared weapon of war in the universe—the Zerg Mother Hive!

The surface of the enormous mother nest is covered with countless pitted holes, each about a meter in diameter.

"Guji—"

Almost the instant Zhou Mu appeared, the holes on the surface of the hive simultaneously began to writhe. Then, like a tidal wave, Zerg warriors, covered in slime and emitting a pungent stench, surged forth from the holes!

In the first round, a full 1000 heads emerged!

Five consecutive rounds! In just a few seconds, a full 5000 Zerg warriors densely filled the sky.

These insectoids all had triangular heads with two antennae on top. Their huge compound eyes gleamed with a cold, eerie light. Their bodies were muscular and covered with a sturdy blue carapace. Two thick hind legs supported their bodies, while their four forelimbs swung like sharp battle blades. Two translucent wings on their backs vibrated rapidly.

This is the most common cannon fodder unit, the Mantis, in the "combat-type Zerg"!

"Fortunately, the 'Zerg hive' in this trial space has been modified by the virtual universe system."

Zhou Mu's gaze sharpened as he looked at the overwhelming swarm of insects. "If we encountered a true Zerg nest on an extraterrestrial battlefield, the spawned units wouldn't just be these cannon fodder. Scouts, assassins, ranged attackers, assault troops… all sorts of units working together would truly mean certain death!"