Swallowing the Stars: Cultivate to Become Stronger.

Chapter 148 Re-entering the Sky Bridge

The Primal Secret Realm, Wuchen Time and Space.

In the void, 136 planets are constantly moving in incredibly mysterious trajectories, triggering the two most fundamental laws of the universe—the laws of space and time—making the void in which these 136 planets reside a spacetime of its own.

"Rumble~~" Spatial ripples spread through the void.

A magnificent, bright red F-class spaceship, over a thousand meters long, appeared out of thin air. It quickly slowed down and came to a stop, hovering in mid-air, waiting quietly.

"Thank you for the escort. Please give my regards to the Palace Master of Heavenly Eclipse!"

At the hatch of another spaceship that was already hovering in this starry sky, Luo Shen and Yan Na bid farewell to the burly man, and then the two transformed into a streak of light and flew straight towards the bright red spaceship.

With their combined strength, the short distance between the spaceships was quickly traversed.

"Greetings, Your Highness!"

At the entrance to the spaceship, Rong Di, the commander of the guards, stood waiting. Upon seeing Luo Shen, his rugged face was full of smiles: "Welcome back safely, Your Highness. I have prepared a feast for Your Highness at home."

As he spoke, Rong Di's gaze fell on Yan Na, who was standing to the side.

Noticing Rong Di's gaze, Luo Shen smiled and introduced the two to each other: "Yan Na, this is Rong Di, the commander of my guards. Rong Di, this is King Nan Jia, who will be living with us from now on."

Rongdi's teacher was the Golden Axe Venerable, so naturally he wouldn't be surprised by someone who had been granted the title of King and Immortal.

What truly surprised him was Luo Shen's attitude toward the King of Nanga.

Logically speaking, as the commander of Luo Shen's guards and having spent some time together, he should be closer to Luo Shen than the King of Nanga. However, when Luo Shen introduced him earlier, he clearly put the other person first.

Moreover, he also noticed that Luo Shen did not address the King of Nanga by his title, but rather by his given name.

He couldn't help but mutter to himself, "Could it be that His Highness has taken a fancy to this King of Nanga? Hmm, judging from their attitudes, it's not impossible. After all, His Highness is exceptionally talented and holds a high position."

but--

Rong Di also began to wonder if the two of them would get together and become too much of a hindrance to their guards.

My mind raced with thoughts.

But Rong Di was not slow at all. He bowed to Yan Na and said respectfully, "Greetings, King Nanga."

Regardless of the relationship between the other party and His Highness Luo Shen.

After all, King Nanga was an immortal king, far stronger than him, so he still deserved respect.

Yan Na, who came from a tribe on the Blood Luo Continent, didn't like too many formalities. Facing the somewhat reserved Rong Di, she casually waved her hand and said, "We're all on the same side, no need for so much formality."

Turning to Luo Shen, he asked, "I didn't expect you to have such a high status; even your guards are immortals."

It should be noted that even a super genius like the Blood Killing King in the Blood Luo Continent could not obtain the personal protection of an Immortal, since the Immortals themselves are great and inviolable!

Luo Shen laughed and said, "This is just the tip of the iceberg. You'll gradually witness the power of my Virtual Universe Company in the future!"

With that, he stepped into the spaceship.

A voice trailed off in mid-air: "Come on, let me show you the new house."

Virtual Universe Company, Yuxiang Mountain, Luo Shen's Manor.

After settling Yan Na in, Luo Shen instructed Rong Di to teach Yan Na about the Virtual Universe Company before entering the Virtual Universe.

In the study.

Luo Shen sat at his desk, the screen in front of him flashing a deep blue light.

With a light tap of his right hand, Luo Shen opened the 'Backend Management' file on the screen, quickly taking him to the Dao cultivation task page: 'Request to confirm completion of cultivation task!'

An instruction was quickly transmitted to the higher management level of the virtual universe system.

"Hello, Your Highness Luo Shen," a gentle voice came from the screen. "Would you like to request confirmation of your cultivation task completion status?"

"yes!"

"Your Highness, how many of the two cultivation missions in the Blood Luo World have you completed?"

"The first one is done."

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Luo Shen clearly noticed a pause in the gentle voice on the other end of the screen, and then quickly realized: "Please wait a moment, Your Highness. A spaceship will soon arrive at Your Highness's territory for real-world verification. Once the verification is complete, Your Highness will receive a points reward."

The fact that Luo Shen had stayed on the Blood Continent for over a hundred years had long been circulating within the Virtual Universe Company.

Therefore, many people speculated that Luo Shen stayed on the Blood Luo Continent to complete the Blood Warrior's mission, but now Luo Shen has only completed one cultivation mission?

However, curiosity aside...

They dared not be negligent in the face of Luo Shen's request to complete the task. After all, he was the personal disciple of the person in charge of the entire company. If they expressed any dissatisfaction, they would be in deep trouble.

Therefore, they dared not be negligent in the slightest.

The mission spacecraft arrived quickly.

Because only one task was to be completed, Luo Shen's handover process was relatively simple. He only needed to place a Blood Crystal on the alloy table and have it scanned by a laser to finish.

As for the subsequent mention of the Blood Crystal recycling, Luo Shen directly refused.

Blood Crystals aren't something you can just buy if you have money.

Although a large number of Blood Crystals were obtained in the Beast God Altar space, it is better to keep them and use them as incentive prizes for Earthlings than to sell them cheaply at 600 points per Blood Crystal.

Speaking of Earth.

Hundreds of years have passed since Luo Shen left Earth, and Earth has developed particularly rapidly since then.

Since Luo Shen was accepted as a personal disciple by the Lord of Chaos City, Earth's development has been on a fast track. Under the leadership of the Virtual Universe Company, large and small universe civilization empires such as the Qianwu Universe Kingdom and the Black Dragon Mountain Empire have provided strong support.

Humans left the Milky Way galaxy more than a hundred years ago and integrated into the cosmic family.

The personal disciple of the Chaos City Lord holds such a prestigious position that even the Qianwu Kingdom Lord would have to show him some respect. After all, none of his fellow disciples are easy to mess with; even the weakest among them is a King-level Immortal.

As for the other intermediate-level cosmic civilization empires within the Qianwu Universe, needless to say.

Thanks to the dedicated efforts of Virtual Universe Corporation, over the past few centuries, Earth has developed into the only super-life-bearing planet in the Milky Way, with a safety factor that meets the standards of the highest-life-bearing planets!

It is even higher than the capital star of the Qianwu Universe Kingdom.

At the same time, the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom also arranged for a large number of cosmic troops to be stationed around the solar system. Not to mention world lords, even ordinary immortals who dare to act recklessly on Earth will be quickly suppressed.

With sufficient resources, excellent conditions, and the fact that human reproduction is among the best of all the top races, plus enough time—hundreds of years—even if we calculate it as one generation every twenty years, ten generations have already been reproduced, and the number has reached trillions!

Naturally, many outstanding geniuses emerged from among them.

Thanks to Luo Shen, many of them were fortunate enough to enter the Qianwu Secret Realm for cultivation, and their future looked bright.

It has been more than a year since I returned from the Blood Continent.

However, Luo Shen never chose to undertake a second cultivation task. He spent his days wandering around Yuxiang Mountain, sometimes seeking out familiar fellow geniuses to drink and chat with, and sometimes listening to teachers' lectures, living a carefree life.

Even Luo Feng couldn't help but inquire privately whether Luo Shen had encountered any problems.

Actually, there's no problem at all.

The main reason was that during the hundred years he spent in the ruins of the ancient god, he was subjected to near-limit-level killing intent almost every day. Even though Luo Shen's will was strong, he was not unaware of fatigue.

Having just returned from a cultivation mission, I can take advantage of this long-awaited moment of relaxation to organize what I've learned in my cultivation.

After all, in the hundred years he spent on the Blood Continent, he had made progress in much more than just his Mind-Eye Blade.

The greatest gain was naturally the ancient battle imagery, especially the terrifying blade light within the core vortex of the first deep pit, which greatly aided Luo Shen!

He had been brewing a plan, waiting for the day he could create a unique, top-tier sword technique of his own!

Peak sword technique!

Even in the original story, Luo Feng, with the help of the Chaos City Lord, spent over a thousand years to create one of his sword techniques. Now, Luo Shen actually has the confidence to create a peak sword style?

That is indeed the case.

After all, the owner of that blade of light was a super strong person standing at the top of the original universe, and his swordsmanship was naturally the peak swordsmanship, or even the ultimate swordsmanship that surpassed the peak!

However, instead of breaking through with his peak sword technique, Luo Shen went to the Tongtian Bridge first.

The Sky Bridge.

Before heading to the Blood Continent, Luo Shen had already passed the fourteenth level of the Bridge to Heaven, ranking first among all the core members of the human race at the cosmic and domain lord levels!

After more than a hundred years of cultivation, Luo Shen had already acquired the ability to pass through the fifteenth level of the Heavenly Bridge.

I hadn't planned to attempt it before, partly because I had more important things to do, and partly because there was no real need for it. After all, the tenfold reward was gone, and even if I succeeded, the reward would only be about the same as the points for a dangerous mission.

There's absolutely no need for either.

Unfortunately, the tree may wish to remain still, but the wind will not cease.

During the more than one hundred years he spent on the Blood Continent, he had attracted a lot of gossip from other core members, most of whom were jealous of Luo Shen.

After all, each core member can take on ten cultivation missions every hundred years, but he spent more than a hundred years on just one Blood Luo World and only got 10,000 points.

It's absolutely not worth it!

Furthermore, the fact that the Lord of Chaos City accepted Luo Shen as his disciple further provoked many people.

Those who envy and hate him will naturally spread rumors to slander Luo Shen. This kind of thing is not uncommon even in a cosmic-level power like Virtual Universe Company.

of course.

Luo Shen naturally didn't care about these gossipy women who only dared to talk behind people's backs.

After all, why would a lion care about the complaints of ants at its feet? They're from completely different worlds. If they dared to say it to his face, he'd fall down and see who had the courage to do so.

However, even if I don't care, hearing too much gossip eventually gets a bit annoying.

Let's just use facts to prove them wrong.

Virtual universe, the dimension of the Skybridge.

In the center of that beautiful island, the steadfast Baffin was standing guard in the central square as always when suddenly a figure appeared out of thin air. Upon recognizing the person, he exclaimed in surprise, "Your Highness Luo Shen, it's been a long time!"

Yes, it has been a while since I last visited.

Since Luo Shen and the others left Chaos City, Luo Shen has never tried to cross the Sky Bridge again. After all, he doesn't lack points, and the points he really needs to spend can't be made up for by these few coins.

So I simply didn't come.

"It's been a while since I've been here, so I came to visit."

Luo Shen noticed that Baffin's clothes were exactly the same as those he wore more than a hundred years ago, and teased, "It's Lord Guardian who, after all these years, still looks so familiar in his clothes."

"Your Highness is joking."

The guardian, Baffin, laughed and said, "There's no one on the Giant Axe Bridge to Heaven right now. I wish you the best of luck in passing the fifteenth level. If you pass the fifteenth level, you'll be only one step away from passing the Primordial Heavenly Mountain, which is at the Domain Lord level."

One of the conditions for passing through the Primordial Tongtian Mountain at the Domain Lord level is that one's understanding of the laws must reach at least the sixteenth level of the Tongtian Bridge!

"Give it a try."

Luo Shen smiled slightly, waved to Baffin, and then transformed into a streak of light, rushing towards the Giant Axe Sky Bridge in the distance. He then quickly flew up layer by layer along the Giant Axe Sky Bridge.

Watching Luo Shen's figure disappear into the Tongtian Bridge.

Baffin glanced down at his clothes and chuckled, "Looks like I should probably change my outfit too."

The fourteenth level is already inside the star.

The fifteenth layer then bursts out of the star's surface once more, extending towards the more distant cosmic space.

The wide bridge stretched directly across the void, and at the end of the bridge floated a pale blue planet about the size of the moon. Luo Shen was standing on the bridge, dressed in a black combat suit, looking at the planet at the end.

"Choose your opponent: Warrior, Controller, Illusionist. Defeat them to advance to the fifteenth floor!"

A hoarse voice came from the planet.

"A martial artist!" Luo Shen replied without hesitation.

Rumble!

A huge crack suddenly appeared in the middle of the dark blue planet, and then a smaller stone flew out from it, crashing directly onto the bridge surface and causing a violent tremor.

Luo Shen frowned.

Watching the dark blue stone suddenly transform into a young warrior clad in dark blue armor, wearing a silver mask, and carrying two swords, his deep eyes staring intently at Luo Shen through the mask.

"Your Highness Luo Shen, it's been so many years, I'm so glad to see you again."

The young martial artist exuded a fighting spirit.

Back then, after Luo Shen barely made it through the fourteenth level, he fought against the guardian of the fifteenth level, who was the young martial artist in front of him. However, he was sent back to his hometown in less than two moves.

"It's been so many years, I should come and visit my old friend."

Luo Shen smiled.

"It's been many years. I hope Your Highness is no longer as easily defeated as you were back then." The young martial artist spoke with great arrogance, which was in line with his persona.

After all, for someone at the "cosmic level" to possess the comprehension of the laws of the fifteenth level of the Bridge to Heaven is definitely at the level of a top genius in the universe!

Even considering the top clans and powerful forces, few can rival him. If such a genius truly existed, all factions would already be plotting his assassination.

Even Luo Shen now.

If it weren't for the fact that it was located in the heart of human territory, in the core area where the headquarters of the Virtual Universe Company was located, it would probably have suffered countless assassination attempts, just like many geniuses in human history.

"Don't worry, I definitely won't let you down."

Luo Shen grinned, a glint of light flashing in his eyes. He stretched out his right hand, and the battle knife fell into his grasp.

The young martial artist opposite him also drew his twin swords from his back.

"very good!"

The young martial artist's gaze swept over the twin swords in his hands, a faint smile playing on his lips. He then growled, "Let me see just how much you've improved, to be so confident!"

Whoosh!

The battle is imminent!

(End of this chapter)