One Against Three

The Original Sky-Reaching Mountain, towering tens of thousands of miles high, was a majestic and mysterious peak, the tallest mountain in this plane space specially created by the Virtual Universe.

A streak of light paused at the foot of the Original Sky-Reaching Mountain. It was Luo Feng, with the dark golden long staff on his back.

“Eh?” Luo Feng looked ahead. In the distance, at the foot of the mountain, lay a burly Minotaur with horns. Beside him was a terrifying giant axe, and he was snoring like thunder, drool slowly trickling down his bull-haired face, forming threads that dripped onto the dark black rocks nearby.

The Minotaur seemed to sense something, opening his eyes in confusion. He glanced at Luo Feng, then abruptly scrambled to his feet, laughing heartily, “Are you here to challenge the Original Sky-Reaching Mountain?”

“Yes,” Luo Feng nodded.

“Haha, finally someone to play with!” The Minotaur laughed, then roared upwards, “White-furred ape-man, seductive woman, hurry over!”

The sound rumbled, echoing through the air.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

From two other directions at the foot of the Original Sky-Reaching Mountain, two figures flew over. From the left came a lean ape-man in silver-white combat armor with golden fur, carrying a black bamboo pole on his back. From the right, in the distance, flew an enchanting woman with a snake tail and a human body, clad in a translucent gauze dress.

“Minotaur, ape-man, snake-person?” Luo Feng frowned slightly.

Ape-men were a vast branch of the cosmic human race, further divided into many sub-races. In comparison, the Minotaur faction was slightly weaker than the ape-men, and snake-people were even rarer. This rarity was relative; snake-people were still considered a common branch of humanoids.

“Hehe, finally someone’s here to challenge the Original Sky-Reaching Mountain,” the lean ape-man cackled, hunched over.

“Let me see his background,” the enchanting snake-woman said, her terrifyingly long tongue occasionally flicking out. Then, her pair of watery, foxy eyes glanced at Luo Feng. “So, it’s His Highness Luo Feng from the Taichu Secret Realm. A newcomer, daring to challenge the Sky-Reaching Mountain.”

“Seductive woman, don’t scare him away!” the Minotaur roared, then looked at Luo Feng. “His Highness Luo Feng, the rules for challenging the Sky-Reaching Mountain are simple. You just need to fight your way from the foot of the mountain to the summit, killing all the guardians at the foot, waist, and summit. Then you’ll have successfully passed the Sky-Reaching Mountain! We three are the guardians at the foot of the mountain!”

Luo Feng nodded slightly.

Fight his way from the foot to the summit?

“Are you challenging or not?” the Minotaur roared.

“I am,” Luo Feng nodded.

“Haha, white-furred ape-man, seductive woman, attack!” The Minotaur let out an excited howl, immediately grabbing his terrifying giant axe. With just one step, the entire ground shook violently, and he instantly charged in front of Luo Feng. At the same time, the terrifying giant axe was already raised, instantly transforming into a yellowish-brown axe blade.

Sizzle~~~

Where the axe blade passed, ripples formed in space.

“Hehe!” The lean ape-man cackled, standing on the rock. The black bamboo pole on his back flew out directly, and the entire pole seemed to instantly stretch, with nine segments. Each segment detached instantly, connected by countless threads.

It formed a weapon resembling a nine-section whip! This was precisely the Third-tier Psychic Weapon — ‘Arc Serpent’.

Whoosh!

This hazy phantom shot out instantly, fast as lightning, arriving before Luo Feng even before the Minotaur’s giant axe. It was like a venomous snake poised to strike Luo Feng.

“Hmph!” The snake-woman snorted softly, a purple light flashing in her eyes.

An invisible psychic attack directly assailed Luo Feng.

……

Instantly, the Minotaur, the lean ape-man, and the snake-woman attacked simultaneously. In terms of speed, psychic energy was naturally the fastest, directly penetrating Luo Feng’s sea of consciousness!

Within the sea of consciousness.

A majestic Void Tower stood guard, now even more refined, faintly glowing golden, and structured in three layers. Luo Feng’s comprehension of laws had allowed his Void Tower to reach the three-layered pagoda realm. In fact, not long after leaving Chaos City, Luo Feng had finally achieved the three-layered pagoda realm!

After 80 years, it was still not enough to condense the four-layered pagoda realm.

“Boom!” The psychic energy struck the Void Tower. The Void Tower vibrated slightly but remained completely unharmed.

“You think you can hurt me with just this?” Luo Feng stepped on his Dark Cloud Shuttle, his eyes blazing with killing intent. “All of you, die!”

Boom!

The dark golden long staff on his back instantly radiated countless golden lights. Dense dark golden small swords shot out countless golden threads, directly connecting to the cosmic space origin and the gold origin. The power of these two origin laws, cleverly combined through the Yanshen Blade, instantly made the surrounding towering mountains disappear.

A vast space, filled with sword energy.

Yanshen Blade’s Sixth Stage — Sword World!

“Clang!” A wisp of sword energy directly collided with the black light of the ‘Arc Serpent’, blasting the black light backward. The lean ape-man, hunched in the distance, immediately turned pale, his expression changing drastically. “The Yanshen Blade’s Sword World!” At the same time, he hastily transmitted, “Seductive woman, attack his soul! Make his consciousness scatter, and the Sword World will collapse!”

“You don’t need to tell me!” The snake-woman’s face turned cold, and invisible psychic energy once again assailed Luo Feng.

“Clang!” The condensed wisp of sword energy, after repelling the Arc Serpent, then struck the Minotaur’s giant axe.

The Minotaur felt a powerful impact transmitted through the axe, causing his entire body to tremble. He involuntarily flew backward, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

At the same moment… the snake-woman’s ethereal psychic energy also touched the Void Tower in Luo Feng’s sea of consciousness.

“Die!” Luo Feng glared at the Minotaur.

Whoosh!

The condensed wisp of sword energy followed closely, flashing past and directly piercing through the Minotaur’s brow, creating a hole. His corpse crashed to the ground.

The Minotaur was dead!

The lean ape-man and the snake-woman stopped attacking.

“His Highness Luo Feng, you actually defeated Brute Bull just like that. You’ve passed the first stage at the foot of the mountain,” the lean ape-man said with a pout.

“Congratulations,” the snake-woman said.

“What a formidable illusion! But it’s far from enough to bewilder me. Break!!!” Luo Feng’s mind was as clear as a mirror, seeing through all illusions. His consciousness, like a blade, instantly transformed into a heavenly saber, fiercely cleaving at the surrounding scenery. The illusionary realm collapsed with a crash, and all images vanished.

As the illusion disappeared, Luo Feng’s expression changed slightly.

A black streak of light was already before his eyes, and the Minotaur, with blood on his mouth, roared as he charged. The snake-woman in the distance showed a look of surprise: “He broke my illusion so quickly!”

“This illusion is truly terrifying,” Luo Feng thought, startled.

He had been caught in an ‘illusion technique’ at the same time he thought he had severely wounded the Minotaur… The so-called killing of the Minotaur was merely an illusion, not real.

“The snake-woman’s illusion technique has reached such a refined level. The Minotaur and the ape-man are definitely not to be trifled with; they only got injured, not killed, when they clashed head-on with my ‘Sword World’ earlier.” Numerous thoughts flashed through Luo Feng’s mind. At the same time, a Blood Shadow Battle Blade and a Hexagonal Shield appeared in his hands.

Brilliant saber light flared!

Phantom Seven Absolute Blades — Ephemeral Bloom!

“Clang!” The black light was cleaved apart.

“Die!”

Within the vast Sword World, a wisp of sword energy immediately shot towards the snake-woman in the distance. Her face instantly changed drastically, and she roared via mental transmission, “You two, help block it!” A black shield appeared before her, adorned with snake-like patterns. As an illusionist, her control over psychic weapons was far inferior to a controller’s.

“Ahhhhh!” The Minotaur roared as he charged, but a warrior’s speed was far slower than that of sword energy or psychic weapons.

“Die!” The ape-man continuously manipulated the black arc light to kill Luo Feng.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

With his shield and battle blade, although he was somewhat at a disadvantage and suppressed, he managed to hold his ground.

“Hmph.” As Luo Feng resisted, a hint of coldness flickered in his eyes.

Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!

Because he could block the ape-man’s psychic weapon with his battle blade and shield, Luo Feng focused all his power from the ‘Sword World’ on the snake-woman! A condensed wisp of sword energy furiously assaulted the snake-woman… attacking dozens of times in quick succession.

“Puff!”

The snake-woman’s control over psychic weapons was clearly far inferior to her mastery of illusions. Finally, a sword energy pierced through her head.

“I can’t hold on much longer,” Luo Feng’s expression changed slightly.

Because he was distracted by using the battle blade, maintaining the ‘Sword World’ became increasingly difficult.

“Ah!” The furiously roaring Minotaur was already in front of Luo Feng.

“Whoosh!” The black streak of light, fast as lightning, also reached Luo Feng again.

“Clang!” Luo Feng quickly condensed another wisp of sword energy to block the black streak of light.

Boom!

The vast Sword World collapsed with a roar. The golden small swords that were revealed instantly recombined. Half of them transformed into a dark golden long sword, which shot towards the Minotaur charging at Luo Feng. This was the Yanshen Blade’s Fifth Stage — Space Rend!

“Die for me!” Luo Feng’s Blood Shadow Battle Blade unleashed the Phantom Seven Absolute Blades — Burial!

The saber light was fierce!

Carrying endless malevolence!

“Ah!” The Minotaur roared, bringing his axe down.

Clang!

The dark golden long sword instantly collided with the giant axe, causing the dark golden long sword to explode into over two thousand golden small swords. The Minotaur’s giant axe was deflected to one side, and Luo Feng’s Blood Shadow Battle Blade just happened to cleave down furiously!

Puff!

It split the Minotaur directly in half from head to toe!

“Block!” As Luo Feng cleaved the Minotaur to death, he quickly manipulated his Hexagonal Shield to block the Arc Serpent’s black light shooting from behind him.

“Boom!”

The moment the black light struck the Hexagonal Shield, the nine-section whip-like black light whipped its tail, fast as lightning, directly sweeping past Luo Feng’s head, splattering red and white.

Luo Feng died!

“Damn it, he actually killed two of them,” the lean ape-man finally let out a sigh of relief, marveling.

The Minotaur and the snake-woman beside him revived. The snake-woman watched Luo Feng’s corpse disappear, shocked: “My illusion, even with my talent, couldn’t affect him!”

“He’s just a newcomer, yet he killed two of us three?” The Minotaur’s eyes widened.

……

In the Yuxiang Mountain Taichu District, Luo Feng sat in his quiet room.

“I didn’t even pass the first stage at the foot of the mountain,” Luo Feng shook his head inwardly. “Hmm, at the critical moment, the Sword World’s duration wasn’t long enough. If I just maintain the Sword World, I can last 30 seconds. But… while using the Blood Shadow Battle Blade and shield, and maintaining the Sword World, the time is significantly shortened.”

“My comprehension is still insufficient!”

Luo Feng recalled the previous battle, reflecting on his failures…

A moment later.

“Luo Feng, your teacher Zhenyan King is calling,” the fist-sized demon Babata on his shoulder called out.