The "god" who unleashed this world-shattering attack showed no sign of ease on his handsome, almost demonic face. Instead, his eyes were fixed intently on the point where the energy exploded. As the aftershocks of the rampage subsided, a figure swirling with three colors shot towards him with incredible speed.
Aside from a slightly weakened and disordered aura, it was almost completely unaffected. Seeing this, the god's face immediately revealed a complex and indescribable expression. His eyes hesitated for a moment, seemingly considering using another killing move. But after thinking it over, he ultimately gave up.
"Never mind." He sighed softly.
Then he stood motionless. The figure surrounded by three-colored light instantly pierced through him. But this time, it seemed as if he had missed his target. In the instant before the god's body was pierced, at the very moment where it was about to happen, he vanished like a dream bubble.
The figure surrounded by tricolored light, with its overwhelming attack, merely punctured a bubble under the sunlight. This sense of unreality plunged the latter into a state of confusion. He stood blankly in the starry sky, searching for his opponent. Having found nothing, he ultimately followed a predetermined trajectory, silently returning in the direction he had come from.
However... The planet he had originally resided on seemed to have been completely destroyed in his battle with the god. The figure stood blankly in the desolate void of space, as lonely as a homeless wanderer.
"Whoosh—"
Lu Sheng suddenly opened his eyes, his face unreadable.
"Still no use."
He gently shook his head. In the dream space universe, a "god" had fought a figure surrounded by tricolored light. Naturally, that god was him, having entered the first realm of Extreme Yang.
And the one surrounded by the three-colored light was a level 14 powerhouse, roughly the weakest that Lu Sheng had found in the Dream Space Universe!
"Those three-colored lights represent the three kinds of Law Powers he wields. This number of Law Powers is not large; for a level 14 martial artist, they are pitifully few. The number of Law Powers I currently wield is many times greater than his!"
However, Lu Sheng simply couldn't defeat him. Even inflicting significant damage on him was extremely difficult.
"Because the three laws he wields are perfectly fused together, like water and milk blending seamlessly. Because he used three laws to construct his Law Body."
A level 14 powerhouse. A Law Body. The power of laws was undeniable. But what level of strength could a martial body achieve when the power of laws was integrated into it?
Lu Sheng didn't know before. Now he knew.
"My proud Immortal-Martial Supreme Body is as fragile as paper compared to the most ordinary Law Body."
Lu Sheng possessed the power of the Space Law, allowing him to perfectly evade his opponent's attacks every time. And if he couldn't evade, he could use the method of forcibly escaping the dream space to cheat, making him inherently invincible. Otherwise, he probably wouldn't even be qualified to fight this opponent.
"So it seems that the punch I used to injure the Lord of Oblivion... While it appeared to twist off his arm, it was actually just like plucking a single hair from its body."
Heaven knows how many arms the Lord of Oblivion actually has. Of course, Lu Sheng isn't incapable of harming a level 14 opponent now. However, the damage is minimal, far from crippling.
He used the power of the universe's origin to deduce a powerful killing move—the "Extreme Yang - Void Shattering Strike"—a fusion of the Extreme Yang Law and the Space Law! But even a direct strike to the opponent had minimal effect. The supremacy of a Law-Bound Body is evident.
"Although his ultimate killing move encompassing the Five Elements Laws is useless, its effect probably would be very noticeable."
This is precisely why Lu Sheng ultimately gave up using it. Because every time he used this ultimate killing move, the consumption was enormous.
The feeling of "weakness" was something Lu Sheng disliked, even in the Dream Space Universe.
"Level 13... after level 13, there should be a qualitative change." Lu Sheng thought.
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A month and a half passed. He had long since absorbed the ten Tier 3 Blue-Cosmos Star Cores bought by Haiji Dao. They had increased the number of Extreme Yang Immortal Cells in Lu Sheng's body to 85 million. This was slightly less than Lu Sheng had expected.
"Two or three more star cores should be enough to break 100 million."
Breaking 100 million. This didn't mean he would advance to level 13. Lu Sheng's Immortal-Martial Supreme Body had also made significant progress, his physical strength increasing by leaps and bounds. Not only did it double the amplification of the power of laws, but it also greatly improved Sheng's limit at level 12. In other words, to advance to level 13, the Extreme Yang Immortal Cells he needed to accumulate might far exceed 100 million.
"This is a good thing for me."
Who would complain about having a too-solid foundation? The more solid each step was, the greater the possibility of reaching even higher levels in the future.
"If I can get ten more Tier 3 Star Cores, I should be able to reliably reach Level 13," Lu Sheng thought to himself.
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After finishing his daily cultivation, Sheng proceeded with his usual relaxation routine at the same old coffee shop. Gazing through the window at the bustling crowd of students at his alma mater, Baihe No. 3 Middle School, Lu Sheng's mind was immersed in a rare sense of tranquility.
Ever since losing contact with Qingxue last time, he had repeatedly tried—for a month and a half, yet he still couldn't reach her. He suspected it was because his 4.6 communicator was too low-level. Once he would reach the Hunting Bow, he would definitely look for the highest-grade communicator.
Days without even being able to send messages were unbearably difficult. Each day, he could only think of his wife and child, his family, countless light-years and hundreds of star sectors away, and see them through mental projections.
Lost in thought, Lu Sheng expression suddenly shifted.
He gently set down his coffee cup and rose to his feet. After clearing all traces of himself from the room, he opened the door. Haiji Dao, Anon Turing, and Zi Yanxin—the captain of the Star Spirit Flower, the starship that had welcomed them aboard—all stood at his doorway. Seeing him appear, Anon was the first to speak.
"Lu Sheng, we've arrived. We've reached the Hunting Bow!"
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Translation notes by dhoo
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The frightening perk of level 14: the Law Body
The original version is "terror of level 14, Law Body"
恐怖, kǒngbù: terror/dread/horror
The supremacy of a Law-Bound Body is evident.
Again, kǒngbù, terror.
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Qingxue
Lu Sheng's wife's full name was written here, Dong Qingxue, but just like Anon or Saya I feel like she's important and it's nicer to use her first name alone.