Vigilance

Luo Feng, clad in the Jinjiao, experienced a surge in overall strength, completely dominating the armored beast. The armored beast's secret technique reached the Sixth Tier. As a Law Master, creating a Sixth-tier secret technique was commendable. It also mastered a First-tier divine power burning secret art, allowing it to unleash Seventh-tier combat power normally! Most importantly, its mechanical-type treasure was a hoof-claw, primarily focused on extreme attack, capable of boosting its offensive power by three tiers! This meant it could unleash attacks up to the Tenth Tier. However, it received no auxiliary enhancements in defense or evasion, which made it unable to hit Luo Feng, while Luo Feng could easily strike it. And even if it did hit Luo Feng, Luo Feng, protected by the Jinjiao and his parries, suffered virtually no damage. But once the armored beast was hit, it immediately lost a significant portion of its divine body. A one-sided battle! This left the other soldiers watching from afar in awe. At their level, this was already considered the peak combat power a Law Master could unleash. To achieve further breakthroughs, even a slight advancement was extremely difficult. Thus, in actual combat, the differences between them were usually not significant. But that soldier, Yinhe... “Too strong. Soldier Yinhe's movement technique is terrifying, and although his mechanical-type treasures aren't individually supreme, each provides auxiliary enhancements. Once he attacks, it's sheer devastation.” “His claw technique is also incredibly potent. The Jinjiao isn't inherently powerful in attack, but Yinhe's claw technique makes his offense this formidable.” The soldiers fighting in the distance also noticed this. They understood that since the first level of Wuqilou required them to fight each other, and the ultimate goal was to reach the top of Wuqilou, then in the many subsequent levels, it was entirely possible they would be forced to fight each other, or even willingly engage in combat driven by certain interests. Naturally, they had to assess the strength of other soldiers now. The other soldiers immediately made a judgment: “Soldier Yinhe is not to be provoked. Stay as far away as possible!” “If I had known he was this strong, I wouldn't have targeted him,” Soldier Xuzhong muttered, unwilling. “Deliberately befriending him... having such a friend help in the subsequent adventures through the levels of Wuqilou would be much better.” “Whoosh!” Luo Feng's right Jinjiao slightly hooked, curving gently, especially its five claws, which resembled curved blades. That single claw strike! It sliced directly across the armored beast's back, tearing at it until the entire beast tumbled to the ground. This was followed by a flurry of frantic claw strikes... dazzling golden claw shadows, like surging waves, continuously slashed across the armored beast's divine body, weakening it relentlessly. At this point, the armored beast had lost a portion of its divine body, its strength reduced to about twenty percent, making it even more utterly dominated. “Yinhe, spare my life!” The armored beast panicked, pleading for mercy. Luo Feng completely ignored it. “I will, I will offer all my treasures,” the armored beast desperately cried, truly not wanting to die. “If I kill you, your treasures will still be mine,” Luo Feng transmitted coldly. “Furthermore, since you chose to enter Wuqilou, you must be prepared to die. Your strength is now greatly diminished... even if I spare you on the first level, what about the second, third, or fourth? Do you think you can survive? And without killing other soldiers, you cannot enter the second level. If you cannot enter the second level... you will be annihilated by Wuqilou. I don't want to die! Even if I let you live, you won't be able to kill other soldiers, so no matter what, you are doomed!” The armored beast understood. But feeling death approach, it was unwilling, it panicked. Naturally, it wanted to live for as long as possible, and as for future crises? It would deal with them as they came. “I still need your life to proceed to the second level,” Luo Feng's voice was icy, without any fluctuation. Just now, this armored beast had actively attacked him. If he had been weaker, he might have been killed himself. “No!” The armored beast roared in furious defiance, but despite its anger and unwillingness, it could only watch helplessly as it continuously weakened, until it was annihilated, with no other recourse. Because even if it self-destructed... the attack power generated by its self-destruction would not reach the Tenth Tier. Under the furious, wave-like onslaught... The armored beast was annihilated! “Quite a few treasures were left behind.” Luo Feng waved his hand, instantly collecting the numerous items scattered on the desert. Among the remnants was a black hoof-claw, the mechanical-type treasure previously owned by the armored beast. “Jinzhi World...” “It possesses a complete ancient civilization, especially skilled in mechanical-type treasures!” Luo Feng mused with emotion. “Even a Universe Master, with divine power burning secret arts and mechanical-type treasures, can achieve Tenth-tier combat power. In the Universe Ocean... this is the combat power of the Original Ancestor.” This was actually quite normal. Mechanical-type treasures, at the Law Master level, inherently possessed the power to fight above their rank! Luo Feng collected a large number of treasures and understood that the reason the armored beast was killed by him was his absolute advantage in movement and evasion! And this advantage of his... was absolute even against True Gods, as proven in Nine Smoke Marsh. “Killing one elite soldier is more profitable than killing ten True Gods,” Luo Feng's gaze swept around. On the cold desert. The cold wind still blew... and in several extremely distant directions, battles were raging. The fighting soldiers occasionally glanced towards Luo Feng. “They're all quite far from me,” Luo Feng couldn't help but shake his head. He had originally thought... if there was an opportunity, he would kill one or two more soldiers to acquire more treasures. After all, he had a vast enterprise; whether it was humanity as a whole, his Earth lineage, or even the Luo Clan, they all needed treasures. But now, it seemed these soldiers clearly regarded him as a major threat. He feared that if he made a move, they would flee from afar. “Never mind, I'll go to the next level,” Luo Feng thought to himself. “According to historical patterns, only about ten percent usually survive Wuqilou. Only fifty percent have died on this first level! They'll fight, and the victors will also get treasures. Later, I'll kill those victors, and naturally, I'll gain even more.” Luo Feng glanced at the four battle locations, no longer hesitating. He immediately transformed into a streak of light and flew directly towards the massive blue light pillar in the distance. Boom! As Luo Feng flew towards the blue light pillar, the pillar did not obstruct him, allowing him to enter. “Boom!” Guided by the blue light pillar, Luo Feng immediately transformed into a golden streak, moving incredibly fast, soaring straight up and instantly disappearing at the very top of the blue light pillar. “He's entered the second level.” “Phew, that terrifying guy has finally entered the second level.” “That's good.” Each soldier breathed a sigh of relief. If Luo Feng were constantly lurking nearby, even their own battles would be filled with unease, because they clearly felt... they were not on the same level as Luo Feng. “We are all the most outstanding individuals from the various special legions of the Four Armies. Logically, those stronger than us shouldn't be that much stronger. How can this Soldier Yinhe be so much more powerful than us? Especially his close-combat movement technique, how can it be so terrifying? Even a True God wouldn't have such a fearsome movement technique.” As soon as Luo Feng left, the remaining eight quickly refocused and paired off to fight. However, unlike Luo Feng... Luo Feng killed with extreme speed, but because the differences between them were not significant, their battles were much slower. Luo Feng only felt space-time distort and hazy light flicker before he emerged from the blue light pillar into a new place. “Hmm?” Luo Feng looked around. This was a vast, dark red land. The entire dark red ground was crisscrossed with cracks, beneath which flowed crimson liquid. Streams of scorching air erupted skyward from these fissures, and the entire sky... was covered by dark clouds, dense black clouds obscuring more than half of the heavens. “Five soldiers?” Luo Feng immediately spotted five scattered soldiers in the distance. They were all quite far from each other, clearly maintaining a high degree of vigilance. “From the previous batch?” Luo Feng's heart stirred. “Soldiers from the next batch, some have arrived already,” one of the five distant soldiers, who looked like a handsome youth in dark red armor, said with a smile. The surroundings were a dark red land... and he wore dark red armor, his aura perfectly harmonizing with the entire world. “What, have you been waiting for our next batch?” Luo Feng asked. “When the five of us arrived together,” the dark red armored youth smiled, a hint of fierce aura flickering in his eyes, “Wuqilou informed us that there are ten soldiers per batch. After our batch went through the first level, only five of us remained, so naturally, we had to wait for your next batch of soldiers.” Luo Feng nodded. Indeed, three batches had entered before him. Three batches meant 30 soldiers, and 15 should have survived! Unless special circumstances occurred... fewer than 15 would remain. It seemed that exactly fifteen had survived from the previous three batches. “How will this second level of Wuqilou test us?” Luo Feng inquired. “We don't know.” “We don't know either.” Several soldiers spoke up. “You're the first to arrive, so it seems you're the strongest among your batch of soldiers.” “Just luck,” Luo Feng said casually. “Where are the other soldiers from your batch?” the dark red armored youth asked Luo Feng. “They'll arrive shortly,” Luo Feng chuckled. 'Shortly' turned out to be quite a long time. It took about half an hour before soldiers began arriving one after another, with the other four soldiers arriving almost simultaneously. Whoosh! The moment Xuzhong appeared, transformed into a 'Ke Niao', he immediately flapped his wings, darting far away, then cautiously scanned his surroundings, his gaze locking onto Luo Feng in the distance. These four soldiers all kept a significant distance from Luo Feng. Seeing this, the five soldiers from the previous batch, if they weren't fools, could naturally discern the extreme vigilance and fear the other four soldiers from the new batch held for the first one to arrive. “To make so many elite soldiers so fearful.” “We must be careful of him.” The five soldiers from the previous batch were all secretly alarmed. Just then... “Boom~~~” Ten pillars of light descended from the sky, instantly enveloping all ten soldiers.