Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Primal Tenfold Talent

The end of the first level of the Cosmic Bridge.

Ahead, a dense, giant cloud of mist appeared out of nowhere.

A cold, mechanical voice echoed from the clouds: "Please select your opponent type. You can choose from three categories: Martial Artist, Mentalist Controller, or Mentalist Illusionist. Defeat your chosen opponent to pass the first level of the Sky Bridge."

Without the slightest hesitation, Meng Jingrong declared, "I choose... the Controller!"

call!

As soon as he finished speaking, a viscous black liquid flew out from the clouds.

The liquid spun and condensed rapidly in mid-air, instantly transforming into a mysterious figure dressed in black and wearing a black mask.

This mysterious figure rode a cloud-like shuttle and carried a long staff called "Yu Shen Bing" (Divine Weapon of the Universe) radiating seven-colored light. Beneath a black mask, a pair of cold, piercing eyes stared at Meng Jingrong, and a chilling voice rang out: "The battle begins."

"Defeat him to enter the second level of the Sky Bridge," the mechanical voice in the clouds announced again.

Meng Jingrong remained motionless in mid-air, and a cyan shadow blade flew out from the pale blue-black disc on his back, instantly piercing through the black figure.

The black figure froze, then transformed into specks of black light and vanished into the air.

"The second floor!"

As Meng Jingrong watched the white mist slowly dissipate before him, revealing the second level of the sky bridge extending upwards, he stepped straight up without pausing.

In the following period, Meng Jingrong's speed in clearing the levels was astonishing, and he made unstoppable progress.

Meanwhile, the geniuses waiting in the island square quickly sent emails to their close friends.

Upon receiving news of Meng Jingrong's breakthrough at the Tongtian Bridge, most of the geniuses sent a wisp of their consciousness to the Tongtian Bridge plane.

In a short time, the square, which originally had only about a hundred people, quickly gathered more than a thousand figures.

"Lord Guardian, what level has Meng Jingrong reached now?"

Luo Chen appeared in the central square and bowed slightly to Baffin.

"Let me see."

Baffin smiled and said, "We've already defeated the guardian of the 14th floor, and judging by the momentum, we're still moving very fast."

A deep sense of horror instantly welled up in Luo Chen's eyes.

He received the message in just a few minutes, and Meng Jingrong had already reached the 15th floor!

It should be noted that when he first reached the 9th floor, he was easily killed by the gatekeeper.

The terrifying strength of the guardian of the 9th floor is still vivid in his mind, leaving him with lingering fear.

The fact that Meng Jingrong was able to reach the 15th floor in such a short time, and the vast difference in strength between them, made Luo Chen feel somewhat disheartened.

However, despite his dejection, Luo Chen was also filled with curiosity about Meng Jingrong's limits.

"The ninth level of the Divine Weapon is a match even for immortals!"

"Pfft!"

The illusory image dissipated, and Meng Jingrong steadily conquered the fifteenth floor, then entered the next floor.

The moment he stepped onto the sixteenth level of the Sky Bridge, his vision was filled with an extreme grayness and deathly silence.

The ground beneath our feet was no longer the surface of a star, but rather the solid outer shell of a neutron star.

The air had long been torn apart and dissipated by the extreme gravity, leaving the entire world deathly silent.

This is one of the densest celestial bodies in the universe. The matter of the entire planet is crushed to the extreme by gravity. It is only tens of kilometers in diameter, but its mass far exceeds that of thousands of stars.

The Bridge to Heaven is divided into three stages, with the 16th stage representing the opponent he will face, whose understanding of the laws has reached the level of immortality and nobility.

"Choose your opponent: Warrior, Controller, Illusionist. Defeat one to pass the 16th floor." A deep voice came from within the neutron star.

"The controller," Meng Jingrong said directly.

Afterwards, he put away the Divine Weapon and put on the Profound Universe Abyss Suppressing Spear.

"Phew~~~"

Suddenly, a large number of purple light spots floated out from within the neutron star, and then condensed into a human figure. The human was covered in purple armor and wore a purple mask. The human stood on a Lov Pipa and carried a long halberd on his back. It looked like a halberd, but it was actually made of densely packed feathers. This was the immortal-level psychic weapon - the Shattering Time Halberd.

"You're impressive to have made it to the sixteenth floor. Unfortunately, your journey across the Bridge to Heaven ends here."

The gatekeeper hovers above the neutron star.

"This floor can't stop me."

Meng Jingrong smiled slightly.

"I'm quite confident."

The man in purple said coldly, "I'm using the second level of the Shattering Time Halberd's secret technique, 'Celestial Meteor Strike,' which is far more powerful than the guardian of the fifteenth level. You'd better be careful."

"bring it on."

Meng Jingrong spoke up.

"boom!"

Behind the purple-clad figure, thousands of red rays of light burst forth, and 10081 feathers were layered upon each other, each feather seemingly connected by transparent threads, forming a small planet with a diameter of several thousand kilometers around the feathers as its core.

"go!"

The man in purple let out a low shout, and the red planet, carrying a terrifying gravitational tide, crashed down on Meng Jingrong as if it were destroying the world.

"Cosmic Abyss Star Rift!"

Meng Jingrong's Xuanzhou Zhenyuan Spear frantically drew upon the power of spacetime, distorting the light of the surrounding star field.

A phantom spear, tens of millions of meters long, appeared, causing space to collapse in its wake. With unstoppable momentum, it thrust towards the red planet.

"laugh--"

A sharp, piercing sound of space cracking, accompanied by a deep tremor, instantly shattered the gravitational tides, and sonic booms exploded in layers.

"Snap!!"

The cracking sounds of the outer layer breaking were continuous, like the hard crust being forcibly torn apart, and a dull roar swept across the entire red planet.

Rumble!

A muffled, deafening roar shook the starry sky, followed by a flurry of thousands of red feathers. The dark golden spear light shattered the "Celestial Meteor Strike" and instantly annihilated the purple-clad man's body. It was so fast that he had no time to dodge, and his life core was reduced to dust.

After the spear's gleam dissipated, the vast star field stretched for tens of thousands of miles, utterly silent.

The sixteenth level of the Sky Bridge.

by!

"The seventeenth floor!" Meng Jingrong took a deep breath, a hint of madness in his eyes.

"Rumble~~~"

The bridge, which had seemingly reached its end, continued to stretch into the endless starry sky beyond the neutron star…

"Choose your opponent: Warrior, Controller, Illusionist. Defeat one to pass the 17th floor." A deep voice echoed from the depths of the hazy, pale purple nebula.

"Warrior."

Meng Jingrong still held the Zhenyuan Spear and spoke calmly.

Numerous purple light spots floated out of the nebula, then coalesced into a human figure. The human, clad in purple armor and wearing a purple mask, also held the Xuanzhou Zhenyuan Spear and gazed at Meng Jingrong from afar.

"A domain lord reaching the 17th floor is not bad, not bad, but that's where it ends," the gatekeeper said.

"Yeah?"

Meng Jingrong's gaze sharpened.

"Cosmic Star Rift!"

Without uttering a single wasted word, Meng Jingrong channeled his primal force into the Zhenyuan Spear and unleashed the first move of the Zhenyuan Spear.

"Cosmic Star Rift!"

At the same time, the man in purple also used the same move.

Two dark golden spear beams appeared simultaneously, and the surrounding starry sky shattered into spatial turbulence.

The moment the two spear beams collided violently in the void, there was no earth-shattering roar, only a low, resonant sound as if from the origin of the universe, which instantly swept across the entire star field.

An area spanning hundreds of thousands of kilometers was transformed into a dead zone.

In their first head-on clash, the two were evenly matched.

Meng Jingrong's eyes sharpened, and with a sway of his body, he directly created ten thousand spatial illusions.

However, the purple-clad gatekeeper remained calm and composed, his body swirling with spatial laws, conjuring up ten thousand spatial illusions.

These illusory forms merged into the void, moving like ghosts through the nebulae, and engaged in an extremely frenzied battle with Meng Jingrong's illusory forms.

Gunfire clashed, the void collapsed and reformed repeatedly, and spatial turbulence raged.

In this encounter, the two remained evenly matched.

"Your Highness Meng Jingrong, you are indeed very strong, but unfortunately... you are still lacking in some aspects if you want to get past me!" the purple-clad man roared.

"hehe!?"

Meng Jingrong chuckled softly and retreated a distance away.

With a thought, all the illusory bodies instantly retracted.

Looking at the bewildered man in purple, he put away the Zhenyuan Spear, and the Xuanyu Pipa appeared beneath his feet, while he carried the Yunchi Illusionary Disc on his back.

"The battle should end now."

Meng Jingrong smiled calmly, "Cloud dragons swirl in the sky!"

In an instant, an invisible and intangible spiritual force swept past the man in purple.

Thousands of dragon-shaped shadow blades appeared out of thin air.

Each dragon was lifelike, its terrifying aura, powerful enough to tear space apart, densely interwoven into a net, carrying a world-destroying force as it poured towards the man in purple.

The purple-clad man's eyes went blank, and the moment he regained his senses, countless dragon shadow blades completely engulfed him.

By the time all the dragon shadow blades had dissipated, the man in purple had already vanished.

17-story sky bridge, passed!

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"Keep going!"

The next second, Meng Jingrong fell directly into an endless starry river.

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"How is this possible!" Venerable Qianwu was dumbfounded, not even caring about the loss of the two treasure points he had just lost.

The smile on the face of the Yuan Chen Kingdom King froze instantly.

When Meng Jingrong passed the sixteenth floor, he was overjoyed, thinking he could make a fortune from it.

Unexpectedly, in less than a minute, Meng Jingrong successfully conquered the seventeenth floor.

"17 floors? How old is he? This is outrageous!" The King of Ancient Wheel shook his head repeatedly, his face also filled with disbelief.

Unlike the shock of the crowd, the smile on the face of the Yanlong Kingdom Lord never disappeared when he saw Meng Jingrong pass the level so quickly, and his eyes and brows revealed his uncontrollable joy.

"I never thought we'd actually win!" The King of Yanlong laughed loudly, causing ripples to spread through the surrounding space.

"Old Dragon, did you know this beforehand? Otherwise, why would you have suppressed it by 17 layers?" Venerable Stele Relic turned to look at the King of Flame Dragon Kingdom.

"Well, a bet's a bet." Venerable Qianwu then looked at the King of Yanlong Kingdom, with a hint of teasing, "But old dragon... you have to treat us today!"

"Everyone!"

The King of Yanlong laughed heartily, in high spirits: "After we finish the trial, let's go to the Hongmeng Time-Space Tavern. Plenty of food and wine... Everyone, drink to your heart's content!"

The King of Yanlong was very generous.

I won about ten treasure points in one go, and with some food and drinks, it didn't cost me much money at all.

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