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Time flies like an arrow, and the vastness of the universe is enough to swallow up all the ripples of time.

Five years have quietly passed since the "Wind and Thunder Canyon Massacre," which shocked the Black Dragon Mountain Empire and caused countless domain lords to return empty-handed.

On the edge of the Milky Way, on a barren planet devoid of any signs of life.

"Boom—!!!"

A cataclysmic earthquake, capable of destroying the entire planet, is raging across its surface. From outer space, the dark red, barren planet is witnessing continuous bursts of visible, tangible shockwaves, tearing the already desolate surface into massive canyons hundreds of kilometers deep and tens of thousands of kilometers long. The billowing dust obscures starlight, plunging the world into a state of chaos.

In the heart of this swirling sandstorm and destructive storm, two colossal beings are engaged in the most primal and ferocious hand-to-hand combat!

One of them was a towering giant, nearly four hundred meters tall, with a bluish-green body and muscles that looked as if they were sculpted from the most perfect cosmic crystal. His eyes were like burning amber, and with every gesture he made, the surrounding space rippled.

The creature fiercely battling this azure giant was none other than a peerless ferocious beast, over a thousand meters long, covered entirely in cold black scales, upon which were densely covered with profound golden primordial runes! This beast had wings on its back and a single, sharp horn on its head that seemed capable of piercing the sky. Its entire body exuded a coldness, savagery, and nobility originating from the depths of its bloodline!

The pinnacle bloodline of the Starry Sky Beasts—the Golden Horned Beast!

"roar--!"

The golden-horned behemoth let out a soul-piercing roar, its cold, dark golden eyes flashing with a frenzied fighting spirit. With a sudden flap of its wings, the surrounding space seemed to be instantly sucked away, its massive body transforming into a streak of black and gold light, moving at a speed that even a ninth-tier Star-level martial artist couldn't keep up with. The sharp horn on its head gathered dazzling power of the golden primordial law, like an indestructible, peerless divine spear, stabbing fiercely towards the chest of the azure giant.

However, faced with this terrifying charge that could instantly kill an ordinary ninth-level cosmic-level martial artist, the azure giant not only did not panic, but instead curled up a calm smile on his lips.

The Azure Silver Giant possesses an absolute affinity for the origin of space, as natural as breathing.

The spatial textures around him were clearly visible to his senses, right at the moment the horn was about to pierce his chest—

The diamond-shaped primordial mark between the giant's eyebrows flashed slightly, revealing the spatial secret technique "Shrinking the Earth to an Inch"!

"Buzz—"

The golden-horned behemoth's indestructible horn pierced the chest of the azure giant, but Luo Feng felt no resistance as if the horn had struck a solid object.

It's an illusion!

In a fraction of a second before the horn was about to strike, the azure giant's massive body seemed to merge into a crack in space, vanishing from its spot. The next instant, extremely subtle ripples appeared in the surrounding space, and the giant's figure, without warning, traversed the distance of space, appearing directly above the golden-horned behemoth's broad, continent-like back!

"Don't just focus on what's in front of you during the battle," the giant's telepathic message boomed in Luo Feng's mind.

Then came the giant's arms, as thick as mountains, carrying pure physical strength capable of destroying the world, like two giant hammers that cleaved the heavens, slamming hard into the back of the golden-horned beast!

"boom--!!!"

The giant golden-horned beast's massive body stiffened abruptly, then, like a meteor struck by a heavy hammer, it slammed into the ground with even greater speed than it had come! Countless fine cracks appeared on its indestructible black scales, and its enormous body smashed through several mountains tens of thousands of meters high, carving a terrifying, bottomless ravine into the earth.

Before the golden-horned behemoth could struggle to its feet from its dazed state, the azure giant took a step forward and straddled its broad back.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The giant raised his fist, which was as big as a small hill, and like a pile driver, he smashed it down on the scales of the golden-horned behemoth! With each punch, the entire planet trembled violently, and the earth cracked wildly.

"Awooo... Stop! Stop! Master! Stop hitting me! I surrender! I beg for mercy!"

After enduring countless heavy blows, the Golden Horned Beast's originally fierce and savage eyes finally cleared. It stopped struggling and instead used its huge wings to cover its head tightly, sending out an extremely human-like message of grievance.

Upon hearing the plea for mercy, the azure giant's raised fist froze in mid-air, a hint of a smile flashing in its amber eyes.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Two human-shaped figures flew down from outside the planet and landed steadily on the summit of a solitary peak that had not yet collapsed.

These two were Zhou Mu and Luo Feng, who had been undergoing intensive training in seclusion on this desolate planet for a long time!

"Hiss... Master, you were too ruthless." Luo Feng rubbed his shoulder. Although his Earthling body was not injured, the intense pain he felt when his soul synchronized with the Golden Horned Beast still made him gasp.

Now, after five years of intensive training and resource accumulation, Luo Feng's human body has successfully broken through to the third level of the Hengxing level, and his biggest trump card - the Golden Horned Beast clone - has long since crossed the threshold of the first level of the cosmic level!

I thought that with the Golden Horned Beast's unparalleled combat power at the same level, coupled with my own understanding of the threshold of the Law of Gold, I should be able to last several hundred moves against my master in this sparring match.

As it turned out, facing his master's Cangyin Giant clone, he, a cosmic-level Golden Horned Beast, was like a three-year-old child being rubbed on the ground by an adult, completely being unilaterally beaten!

"You're acting all aggrieved, aren't you?" Zhou Mu stood with his hands behind his back, smiling as he looked at his rapidly improving disciple. "Although your Golden Horned Beast has broken through to the cosmic level, and your understanding of the laws has reached the threshold, you rely too much on the brute force brought by your bloodline. Your use of the secret technique of 'Absolute Space' is still too clumsy. In a true clash between strong individuals, the slightest difference can mean the difference between life and death. If I had used my Law Domain just now, you wouldn't have been able to withstand even one of my punches."

Luo Feng nodded repeatedly, his eyes filled with undisguised admiration and awe.

Yes, only by truly facing your master can you know just how high that mountain really is.

Over the past five years, he had witnessed Zhou Mu's almost monstrous growth rate firsthand. Luo Feng knew very well that in that earth-shattering hand-to-hand combat just now, his master was simply using physical strength to train him, without ever using those trump cards that terrified him.

Zhou Mu looked at Luo Feng, feeling quite emotional.

These five years were a crucial period of dormancy for Zhou Mu, during which his strength underwent a dramatic transformation.