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Chapter 178 Solo Adventure in the Star Tower

Extraterritorial battlefield, the seventh battlefield.

A black F9-class spaceship is traversing space in the dark universe at these coordinates. Luo Yuan's immortal avatar is currently inside this spaceship. He is drinking Purple Fire Ape Wine worth 800 billion points while looking at the star map. The destination of this trip is the Star Tower, known as the "battlefield of the Kings".

This Star Tower was not unfamiliar to Luo Yuan. It was a God-King level treasure that the top powerhouse "Sitting Mountain Guest" had spent countless precious resources to refine. It was a treasure that even the Lord of the Universe and the strongest in the universe would covet. It had been placed in this extraterrestrial battlefield for billions of years, but no one had ever been able to make it recognize a master. Even the Lord of the Universe could not leave a trace on it.

Luo Yuan came here specifically for the Star Tower. He was determined to obtain it, even though the process of recognizing it as his master was extremely painful. He had to endure it, because if he could persevere, his soul power would be greatly enhanced. To this end, Luo Yuan spent over a thousand years honing his mental state. He even went to consult Hong and picked up his Threefold Mental State Technique again. He then ventured into the Illusionary Sea and reached the 21st island, shocking everyone.

It was precisely because of these achievements that Luo Yuan dared to venture into the Star Tower, which contained many valuable items. If he could obtain them, his strength would also increase rapidly.

Soon, Luo Yuan's spaceship arrived at the designated location, jumped out of the dark universe, and came to the corresponding primordial universe. Then he saw the square pagoda that was 9 light-years high. The pagoda had nine floors, each of which was much larger than the entire Sacrifice Flame Continent. Around the pagoda, countless nebula-like vortices were formed due to the absorption of energy, from one vortex to nine vortices.

These nebula-like vortexes are terrifying. The fourth vortex alone can directly devour a King-level Immortal powerhouse into nothingness. Only Universe Venerables dare to venture deep into them, while the seventh vortex would cause even the Lord of the Universe to perish.

Looking at the giant tower from a distance, Luo Yuan felt a tremor in his soul and a yearning in his body cells. This was the effect of his cultivation of the "Nine Tribulations Secret Manual" and also his instinctive reaction as an Earthling, because the Star Tower was originally a treasure prepared to select the leader of the Earth lineage.

Although the giant tower seemed close, it was actually hundreds of millions of kilometers away. Luo Yuan simply got out of the spaceship and put it away. Then, with a teleport, he directly crossed the hundreds of millions of kilometers and arrived at the foot of the Star Tower. In fact, with his strength as an immortal king, he could have traversed the dark universe directly with his divine body. However, since he could travel by spaceship, no immortal powerhouse would be foolish enough to do so.

Luo Yuan stood on the first floor of the Star Tower, where there were nine colossal gates that were millions of kilometers high. Countless immortals came and went, but most of them were King-level immortals. It was said that hundreds of thousands of King-level immortals would venture inside all year round, and among these Kings, there were many invincible powerhouses like True Evolution King.

Luo Yuan's appearance here also attracted the attention of many Kings, because he had been fighting in the outer battlefields for the past thousand years, slaughtering many alien legions and capturing a large number of Kings and Immortals. Therefore, the information about his King and Immortal clone was also known to many high-ranking people.

"It's the Chaos King! The Chaos King has come to challenge the Star Tower!"

"Hmph, he's arrogant outside, relying on teleportation to run fast, but he can't do that here at the Star Tower. The Star Tower has a spatial blockade, so teleportation and the like can't be used!"

"I must contact my clan immediately and send a large number of my kings to join forces and annihilate this demon king!"

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Luo Yuan's arrival caused various thoughts among the kings. The human kings nodded to Luo Yuan to show their respect, but dared not approach him to talk, fearing that they would be targeted by the alien races. Meanwhile, the alien kings began to send messages, asking the other kings to gather through the divine kingdom teleportation to jointly kill Luo Yuan.

Luo Yuan nodded in greeting to the human kings, but he glared at the hostile alien kings with a fierce look. His powerful spiritual energy sent them fleeing in panic.

Luo Yuan instantly entered the first floor of the Star Tower and immediately arrived at a forbidden space. The Star Tower contains many forbidden spaces with constantly shifting coordinates. Each forbidden space is an independent world with a different environment and terrifying guardians. Generally, one can only go there by killing these guardians and finding the passage connecting to other forbidden spaces.

Besides the guardians, the most dangerous people in the Star Tower are the other Kings and Immortals. Kings of different races fight each other here to seize each other's treasures, so this place is also known as the Shura Field and Meat Grinder for Kings and Immortals, a battlefield for high-end combatants.

From the information he had gathered, Luo Yuan knew that the Star Tower was rich in a kind of "Sealing Star" that could seal powerful people. It was a treasure, but Luo Yuan was not very interested in it because the "Sealing Star" required defeating the opponent and then sealing them. However, in Luo Yuan's mind, if it was an opponent, he decided that if he defeated the opponent, it would be easier to simply annihilate them. Therefore, he was more interested in the property of those who were kings.

The forbidden space where Luo Yuan is now is a desert area. As far as the eye can see, there is only golden sand, boundless and endless. Suddenly, the space distorted and several figures appeared. They were all kings who had been teleported here. There were human kings, as well as kings from top races such as insect race, demon race, and mechanical race.

As soon as these kings appeared, they quickly divided into several camps according to their ethnicity, and then became wary of each other. When the kings from other ethnic groups saw Luo Yuan, boundless killing intent surged in their eyes.

"Chaos King, you have slaughtered my army, this time you are doomed!"

Suddenly, a demon king at the peak of his power shouted, and then the alien kings surrounded Luo Yuan. Several human kings hesitated and dared not step forward to help. Luo Yuan sneered, about to exchange a few words.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, a loud bang was heard, and a metal scorpion thousands of kilometers long rushed out from the bottom of the desert. As soon as the scorpion emerged, it immediately thrust its stinger forward, piercing through the body of a lion-shaped immortal king of the demon race. The immortal king's divine body then collapsed into ashes, scaring the other kings into fleeing.

Luo Yuan was also startled. What material was this metal scorpion made of that could directly kill a King-level Immortal? Could it be made of a material similar to Kaso metal? He spent 6 trillion Chaos Units just to buy a Kaso dagger. How much would the material of this metal scorpion, which was thousands of kilometers long, be worth? Luo Yuan's eyes lit up when he saw it. He felt like he was about to strike it rich.

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Chapter 179 The Battle for the Title of King

"Boom~ Boom~"

In a forbidden area on the first floor of the Star Tower, Luo Yuan and the other Kings were rapidly dodging the attacks of the metal scorpions. The alien Kings had no intention of causing trouble for Luo Yuan anymore, as they were afraid of being attacked by the scorpions and dying.

Upon seeing this, Luo Yuan immediately donned the Secret Pattern Armor. The silver armor covered his entire body, and the golden secret patterns on it emitted divine light, allowing Luo Yuan to use spatial laws within a small area. Seeing this, the other Kings around him all revealed greedy expressions. Luo Yuan sneered and said, "You bunch of scum, what time is it? If you don't want to die, attack the energy core in this scorpion's head!"

Upon hearing this, the other kings did not immediately take action and remained in a wait-and-see state. Suddenly, a mechanical king opened the divine kingdom passage and attempted to escape, but his metal body was immediately struck by the giant scorpion's tail stinger, and his divine body turned into ashes on the spot. This made the other kings no longer have any illusions and they joined forces to attack the giant scorpion's head.

Luo Yuan also took out his Divine Weapon. With a thought, the Divine Weapon immediately split into 10081 small golden swords, which then instantly formed a huge totem pillar. Luo Yuan held one end in each hand and swung the totem pillar down hard on the giant scorpion's head. Seeing this, the other Kings also took out their divine weapons to bombard the giant scorpion's head. However, the giant scorpion was made of extremely hard materials and remained undamaged despite the siege of many Kings.

While dodging, Luo Yuan pondered why the guardian he encountered in the first forbidden space he entered from the Star Tower was so strong. This made no sense. Although his strength was greatly reduced due to the special rules of the Star Tower, he still had the combat power of an invincible king. He quickly realized that it might be because of his special characteristics.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, the space fluctuated, and several planet-sized phantom stars appeared in the forbidden area where Luo Yuan was located, leaving the surviving Kings present stunned and speechless.

"The Star-Sealing Treasure! This is the Star-Sealing Treasure, and it has actually appeared here, and so many of them at once!"

"No, I must contact the kings of my tribe to seize it!"

At this moment, all the Kings present, whether human or alien, began to use special communication methods to summon Kings in other forbidden spaces. Soon, countless divine kingdom passages appeared in the forbidden space where Luo Yuan was located, densely packed. When Luo Yuan scanned them with his mind, he found that there were as many as 200,000 Kings who had come here, and the number was still increasing.

"Is this an attempt to wipe out all the kings in this Star Tower?" Luo Yuan couldn't help but think maliciously.

Hundreds of thousands of powerful immortal beings of various races surged in at once. With their combined strength, they quickly shattered the energy core of the giant scorpion. Then, these hundreds of thousands of immortal beings began to fight each other for the giant scorpion's body materials and to seal the star, directly causing the space here to shatter.

Tens of thousands of alien kings besieged Luo Yuan's immortal clone, which enraged Luo Yuan. He no longer held back and directly unleashed "True Body of Heaven and Earth," transforming into a million-foot giant. He then swept across the kings with the towering totem pillar, not caring if any of them were human kings attacking him. He had already retired from the military and was no longer under the control of the military system, so he could kill enemies at will.

They're just a bunch of greedy people blinded by greed for treasure. They've thrown race, justice, and reputation to the back of their minds. All they know is to kill each other and steal the treasure.

Under the bombardment of Luo Yuan's totem golden pillar, the divine bodies of all the Kings who were swept away shattered. Luo Yuan then threw out a black hole, which instantly turned into a super black hole billions of miles in size. Driven by Luo Yuan's divine power, the power of this black hole was more than ten thousand times that of the original. Those Kings with weaker strength were directly swallowed into nothingness by the black hole, and then their world rings were captured by the divine kingdom of Luo Yuan's clone.

"He's gone mad! He's gone mad! Don't kill me! I want to go home!"

A canine demon king hastily activated his divine kingdom in an attempt to escape, but the next moment his divine body was struck by a golden light, causing it to collapse and his divine kingdom to be shattered by the aftershocks. This golden light was Luo Yuan's Kasuo dagger, which was now reaping the lives of kings under Luo Yuan's mental control.

"Since you've used the Kaso dagger, then I'm sorry, you'll all die here!" Luo Yuan's cold eyes swept over the kings below who were desperately fleeing.

"Chaos King, you slaughtered us today. Aren't you afraid that our clan's venerable ones and even the Lord of the Universe will seek revenge against you?"

A ten-thousand-foot-tall azure dragon of the demon race roared loudly in the air, its body crackling with countless bolts of lightning, causing the space around it to sizzle. This was an invincible being who had been granted the title of King, but it was still far inferior to Luo Yuan's clone.

Upon hearing this, Luo Yuan laughed loudly and said, "Azure Dragon King, as long as you all die here today, so what if others find out? Haven't I killed enough alien races in the past thousand years? If you don't want to die, then obediently surrender and become my soul slaves! Otherwise, I will kill all of you scum today!"

"Human brat, stop being so arrogant! Demons, listen to my command! Join forces and attack this human brat!" the Azure Dragon King roared.

With the Azure Dragon King's summons, the demon kings who were still fighting began to bombard Luo Yuan with their attacks. Seeing this, the kings of other races such as the insect race and the mechanical race followed suit. Only the human kings hesitated, unsure whether to attack Luo Yuan.

Luo Yuan laughed upon seeing this, "Human Kings, I don't care why you came here. If you want to leave, I won't stop you. But if you attack me, don't blame me for killing you all!"

Upon hearing Luo Yuan's words, most of the human kings immediately fled the battle and opened the divine kingdom passage to escape. Only a few who were lost in the treasures chose to watch and hide aside. Some who had originally colluded with the alien races also launched an attack on Luo Yuan.

Luo Yuan, now a million-foot-tall silver-armored giant, looked down at the kings attacking him, his eyes flashing with cold light. He threw the totem golden pillar upwards, and it immediately dispersed into 10081 small golden swords. Then, under Luo Yuan's divine power, these small swords instantly transformed into a colossal sword reaching the heavens, appearing densely packed.

Luo Yuan pointed downwards, and tens of thousands of towering giant swords swept towards the Kings. The giant swords carried complete spatial laws, and any King who was hit by the giant swords shattered. Then, these fragments of divine bodies were swallowed into nothingness by the super black hole. At the same time, a Kaso dagger kept shuttling among the Kings, directly crushing the divine bodies of each King into ashes.

The horrific scene of slaughter directly frightened many timid princes into kneeling down and expressing their willingness to submit. These princes will become new members of the Luo Yuan Prince Servant Legion.

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Chapter 180 The Secret of the Stars

On the first floor of the Star Tower, in a forbidden space.

Luo Yuan was slaughtering the Kings who were besieging him. Whether they were beginner Kings or invincible Kings, their divine bodies collapsed under his attacks and were then swallowed up by the super black hole into nothingness. Luo Yuan also collected their world rings. This great battle lasted for a whole year. He fought against hundreds of thousands of Kings. This battle made him famous, but it was a fearsome reputation he earned through killing.

In the end, there were still more than 2 kings left. They all knelt on the ground, trembling with fear. Then Luo Yuan did not hesitate to use the top-level soul enslavement method to turn all these kings into soul servants.

After the newly added 2-plus Immortal Kings were enslaved by Luo Yuan's soul, their entire consciousness truly submitted to Luo Yuan, and everything revolved around him. Even if Luo Yuan ordered them to die immediately, they would not hesitate. However, this did not affect the strength or thinking ability of these Kings. This is the terrifying aspect of soul enslavement.

"Greetings, my lord!"

More than 2 immortal kings knelt down and bowed to Luo Yuan, who was standing in the void, appearing neat and orderly with an extraordinary aura.

Luo Yuan nodded, then with a wave of his hand, he took the more than 2 newly added King-level soul servants into his divine kingdom. After these Kings entered the divine kingdom, they aroused the people of the divine kingdom to be fanatical and worshipful towards Luo Yuan. Luo Yuan also gained all the wealth of hundreds of thousands of King-level immortal powerhouses in one fell swoop. His wealth was already unimaginable.

Luo Yuan put away the super black hole, and the corpse of the giant metal scorpion, which was thousands of kilometers long, was also taken into his divine kingdom. He then had the divine craftsmen in the divine kingdom dismantle it and make a batch of Kaso weapons. He equipped his legion of kings and servants with these weapons. With these mass-produced weapons that could directly shatter immortal divine bodies, his legion would be invincible on the battlefield outside the domain.

Just as Luo Yuan was feeling smug and was about to head to the next forbidden space, dozens of nebula vortexes suddenly appeared in this forbidden space. These vortexes generated extremely strong suction, and even Luo Yuan, who was wearing the secret pattern armor, was sucked into one of the vortexes. The powerful rotational force made Luo Yuan dizzy, and he felt that his body was completely out of his control.

After an unknown amount of time, Luo Yuan's consciousness returned, and he found himself in an incomparably magnificent temple, surrounded by countless "suppressing stars," as if he were in an endless galaxy. Suddenly, the space in front of the temple distorted, and an old man with a snake's tail and a human-like upper body appeared. This old man had a purple beard and looked kind and approachable, but the pressure he exuded was similar to that of the Chaos City Lord.

Luo Yuan guessed the old man's identity; it seemed to be "Puti," the eldest disciple of "Sitting Mountain Guest." However, he couldn't show it, so he pretended to be shocked and curious as he looked at the old man with a respectful attitude.

The old man looked at Luo Yuan, waved him over, and smiled, "Child, come here!"

Upon hearing this, Luo Yuan did not resist, but obediently flew over and respectfully asked, "Senior, who are you?"

The old man didn't explain immediately, but waved his hand, and a stone table and two stone chairs appeared instantly. Luo Yuan saw that the table and chairs were made of the legendary Chaos Stone. It seemed that there were endless galaxies rotating in the stone, making it look mysterious and beautiful.

"sit!"

The old man smiled and pointed to the stone chair, then sat down himself. Luo Yuan followed suit, and he immediately felt a surge of divine power flowing into his body, instantly replenishing the divine power he had consumed after the battle. This made Luo Yuan very interested in the stone table and chair.

Seeing this, the old man smiled and said, "Do you like this set of table and chairs? If you can pass the teacher's test, I will give you this set of table and chairs!"

Luo Yuan's eyes lit up with joy upon hearing this, but he pretended to ask, "A test? What kind of test?"

The old man calmly said, "Before I tell you about this trial, let me tell you some stories from the past. You have seen the Star Tower. It is a treasure that even the Lord of the Universe cannot shake. And its creator is my teacher, who is also the creator of the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual that you are cultivating!"

The old man paused for a moment, then looked at Luo Yuan and found that Luo Yuan was expressionless. A look of doubt flashed in his eyes, because everyone who had come here before had been shocked when they heard this news, but Luo Yuan seemed to take it for granted. However, he didn't think too much about it and continued, "My teacher is an incomparably powerful being, and he has many powerful servants."

So far, I have only taken on two disciples: one is myself, Puti, and the other is Yan Di, the leader of the Yan God Clan. I am the eldest disciple, and Yan Di is the second disciple. My teacher created two clans a long time ago: one is the Yan God Clan, whose physical strength is strong but whose soul power is weak, and the other is the Earth Clan, whose soul power is pure but whose physical strength is weak.

But countless epochs have passed, and the leader of the Earth lineage has still not appeared. If Earthlings want to become the leader of this lineage, they must have the Star Tower recognize them as their master. In ancient times, Earth was called the Mountain and Sea Realm, and later it was called the Origin Realm. In both of these eras, an outstanding genius emerged. They came to the Star Tower to perform the recognition ceremony, but in the end, they all failed and died.

"Your name is Luo Yuan, right? Your teacher and I have actually been following you for a long time. You're truly outstanding, far surpassing those two prodigies born on Earth. I also watched the battle for the title of King just now; your clone is extraordinary. I'd really like to see your true form!"

Luo Yuan remained silent upon hearing this. How could he allow his main body to take such a risk before he had a clear understanding of the specific circumstances?

The old man named "Puti" smiled and said, "You are very cautious, but I must remind you first that if you want to pass the basic test of recognizing a master in the Star Tower, only your true body can come here. Otherwise, your clone will collapse. If you can pass the test and become the leader of the Earth lineage, then you can become the teacher's third disciple."

Luo Yuan listened to what the old man named "Puti" had to say, and he nodded. He had already planned to come here to recognize the Star Tower as his master. For this reason, his main body had personally gone to see the Lord of Chaos City. If he were to perish, he would ask the Lord of Chaos City to revive him, just to be on the safe side.

After considering all this, Luo Yuan's immortal avatar directly activated the Divine Kingdom Teleportation. His main body, far away in Chaos City, immediately stood up and stepped into the Divine Kingdom passage, instantly arriving at this Starry Sky Divine Palace. At the same time, the Chaos City Lord, Venerable Guiyi, Venerable Peilan who was in seclusion, Jiang Fang from Earth, Luo Feng, Rong Jun, Hong, Thor, Blood Orchid King, and others who were fighting in the extraterrestrial battlefield all received an email that read, "I will be going into seclusion and closing all means of communication. It may take seven thousand years. Wait for my return!"

At this moment, many people were in a state of panic and sent emails to inquire, but received no reply. Out of trust in Luo Yuan, they chose to wait.

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Chapter 181 Recognizing the Master

In a temple within the Star Tower, Puti, the eldest disciple of "Sitting Mountain Guest," solemnly said to Luo Yuan, "Luo Yuan, once the Star Tower's test of recognizing its master begins, it cannot be stopped. No one can change it. You either succeed or perish. But don't worry, if you perish, I will ask my teacher to revive you, because even with your original strength, I cannot fully revive you."

Upon hearing this, Luo Yuan's lips twitched. This "Puti," whose strength was similar to that of the Chaos City Lord, actually said that he could not revive his original self. Didn't that mean that if he were to perish, even the Chaos City Lord would not be able to revive him? The Star Tower's basic recognition of its master was terrifyingly powerful. He suddenly felt uneasy. However, with "Sitting Mountain Guest's" strength as the strongest being in the universe, reviving him was still no problem.

"Boom~"