Reversing the Milky Way

Protected by the Spirit Armor Technique, the Thunderclap Flying Knife, upon striking the spirit puppet, propelled its entire body backward with tremendous force, even lifting its feet off the ground.

However, Bai Cheng's attack was incredibly powerful. During the process, the Thunderclap Flying Knife gradually broke through the spirit armor on the spirit puppet's body, then transformed into a golden light that passed straight through the spirit puppet's body.

Immediately following the force of inertia, the spirit puppet's entire body slammed violently into the ground, then rolled dozens of times. During this time, small parts spilled out from the spirit puppet's pierced chest, and even some spirit stones shattered into pebbles could be seen.

Bai Cheng stood not far away, staring intently at the spirit puppet, only the sound of panting could be heard from his chest.

As the scene shifted back to normal, Bai Cheng finally relaxed. With the effects of his previous state fading, he was now completely devoid of spiritual energy. The fragment's spiritual energy was also reduced to only forty percent. He poured all his energy into the attack he had just unleashed.

Bai Cheng collapsed to the ground, began to regulate his breathing, and after retrieving the flying knife, he took out a Spirit Gathering Pill and swallowed it.

"Congratulations on passing the fourth level. Please proceed to the teleportation array behind you to proceed to the next level. If you wish to stop the trial, please step into the red teleportation array to return to the first level."

Upon hearing the sound, Bai Cheng slowly stood up. After glancing at his own condition, he took out an outer garment from his storage bag and put it on.

Ever since others had coveted his precious robe, he had always worn it underneath, covering it with an ordinary outer garment so that it wouldn't be easily discovered.

Bai Cheng: "The treasure armor could clearly withstand the sword and blade strikes of a high-grade treasure, but it was damaged in the attack just now."

After saying that, he glanced at his academy identity token, which showed that he had accumulated 110 points.

Bai Cheng: "I never expected that passing the fourth level would reward me with fifty cultivation points!"

Bai Cheng tidied himself up and then stood up.

Bai Cheng: "Damn it, if it were a real person fighting, it probably wouldn't be stronger than this. If it were a real person fighting, although the opponent might not necessarily be stronger than this spirit puppet, there would be so many more things to consider. Not only would I have to take into account numerous external factors, but I would also have to consider the differences between the techniques and weapons. Sigh... just thinking about it gives me a headache."

Bai Cheng walked to the scattered area of ​​the spirit puppet. The cores of the scattered spirit stones around him emitted a faint spiritual light on the ground. He picked up a fragment of a spirit stone and felt a little annoyed.

'Alas, what a pity, such a large spirit stone has been destroyed just like that.'

After discarding the fragments of the spirit stone, Bai Cheng stepped into the red teleportation array. After a flash of light, he was teleported to the first level.

However, the scenery on each floor of the Trial Tower was almost the same. If it weren't for that conspicuous door, he wouldn't even know which floor he was on.

Just as they reached the entrance, the voice from inside the hall rang out again.

"Congratulations to the trial participant for passing the fourth level!"

After the sound faded, a magic circle suddenly lit up in the open space to the side.

"Here is your reward for completing the level. Please take it."

As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Cheng saw spirit stones popping up continuously from the magic array. They were about the same size as the ones he usually saw. Bai Cheng counted them and there were exactly 110, the same number of points he had earned.

Outside the Trial Tower, the remaining people were staring intently in the direction of the Trial Tower.

Student 1: "Look!"

A red aura shone from the outside of the fourth floor of the Trial Tower.

Student 2: "This... he actually made it past the fourth level!?"

As the doors of the Trial Tower opened, Bai Cheng slowly walked out.

Bai Fengze: "Well, you actually have this much strength? Looks like we'll have to find some time to have a match!"

Upon hearing Bai Fengze's words, Bai Cheng could only manage an awkward smile.

Bai Cheng: "I was just lucky. If it were a real fight, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to fight him."

Bai Fengze: "Hehe, don't be modest."

Bai Fengze stepped forward and patted Bai Cheng on the shoulder.

Bai Fengze: "It's getting late. Let's go straight to the City Lord's Mansion."

Afterwards, led by Bai Fengze, Bai Cheng followed to the City Lord's Mansion, and the news that he had passed the fourth level of the Trial Tower spread among the students.

Inside the city lord's palace.

Bai Fengze: "It's getting late, let's rest for the night. I'll hand over the land deed for that property to you tomorrow."

Bai Cheng: "Alright, I'll follow Brother Fengze's arrangements."

Bai Cheng was assigned to a room. Although it wasn't his first time visiting the City Lord's Mansion, it was his first time staying there. Moreover, the City Lord's Mansion was quite large, covering a total area of ​​over 50,000 square meters, and its various institutions were no less than those of the Supervisory Office.

Upon entering the room, Bai Cheng took out the spirit stone core he had obtained from the spirit puppet. After pondering for a moment, he took out the unknown weapon he had acquired earlier from his storage bag.

Bai Cheng could only determine that this weapon was a firearm, and definitely manufactured using technology from a more advanced civilization. During a previous, unintentional test, Bai Cheng discovered that the weapon's stock was powered by spirit stones, but lacking suitable spirit stones, he had been delaying the matter.

Now, seeing the spirit stone core inside the spirit puppet, I remembered this incident.

He compared the size of the spirit stone in his hand with the entrance below the gun handle. Although the size was about the same, some precise adjustments were still needed. So, after scanning the internal space of the gun handle with his divine sense, he began to carefully adjust the size with the Thunderclap Flying Knife.

Before long, he had polished out a spirit stone that perfectly fit the internal dimensions of the gun handle.

With a surge of excitement, he slowly placed the spirit stone into the space beneath the gun handle.

A faint buzzing sound rang out from inside the gun, and a blue light bar began to emerge from the outside of the gun. At the same time, structures that Bai Cheng did not recognize began to pop out from the outside of the gun.

Immediately afterwards, the groove at the back of the gun automatically popped out, and the entire frame of the glasses inside lit up with a blue fluorescent light.

Meanwhile, the gun body is also changing. A small, jet-black sphere pops out from the top of the sight, giving the entire gun a futuristic and technological feel.

Bai Cheng: "I'm going..."

Bai Cheng's feelings at this moment could only be described as amazement. He slowly put on the monocle, and a virtual projection began to appear in the frame.

As a series of unfamiliar characters and symbols flashed by, lines began to appear in the frame, scanning everything in front of him. As Bai Cheng turned his head, his field of vision shifted rapidly, and these lines scanned all the objects in the frame without the slightest delay.

Bai Cheng: "It's interesting, but it's a bit of a pity that I don't recognize the symbols and words marked on these glasses."

Over the next half hour, Bai Cheng continuously studied the gun, during which time he discovered a particularly interesting function.

That is, the glasses he is currently wearing can detect his brainwaves and then control the small ball on the gun to fly up according to his wishes. After Bai Cheng scanned the material of the small ball with his divine sense, he could not detect what its structure was. He only knew that without his own control with spiritual power, the small ball could float in the air without gravity simply by the instructions issued by the brainwaves on the glasses.

At the same time, after the small black ball flew out, the scene on the glasses changed to be centered on the ball. He could even see a scene looking at him from the ball's perspective. In other words, this small ball was equivalent to a 360-degree surveillance camera.

Moreover, when the ball flew out of the window and looked down at the room where Bai Cheng was, the scene in the frame in front of Bai Cheng changed again. When he looked at the wall again, the wall in front of him became illusory. Then, all the objects in front of him through the wall would appear in front of Bai Cheng in turn. Even the outlines of people walking in the city lord's mansion hundreds of meters away through countless walls could be seen clearly.

Furthermore, as Bai Cheng issued the command to investigate the human figure's outline in his mind, the moving human figure began to grow larger in the virtual display of the glasses frame. The person in the distance appeared completely on the glasses, and Bai Cheng could even see the person's facial features clearly through the glasses.

Meanwhile, the distance between himself and the other party was marked in the upper right corner of the virtual display, which also included the terrain. Although he couldn't understand the symbols marked on it, Bai Cheng could use his divine sense to detect the person and mark the distance represented by the symbols.

He then tested the farthest distance the ball could fly, and the result surprised him greatly. The test showed that the ball could only travel a maximum distance of 5,000 meters from the gun, and the farthest distance the object appeared to be in the glasses was also only 5,000 meters.

Although Bai Cheng felt that this thing would be somewhat useless in the future, it was a divine artifact for him at the moment, considering that his current range of divine sense observation was less than a kilometer.

Based on Bai Cheng's speculation, this should be an auxiliary detection feature for aiming at targets, as it can ignore terrain, allowing for accurate detection even of targets inside buildings. The glowing bars on both sides of the gun are likely the gun's energy consumption bars.

After understanding the effect, Bai Cheng used his glasses to control the ball to fly back to his room and then put it back on his weapon.

Just then, a thunderous explosion suddenly came from afar.

Bai Cheng: "Huh! What's going on?!"

Bai Cheng immediately put away his weapon and quickly walked out of the room.

Immediately afterwards, he saw a huge human figure appear in the west.

Bai Cheng: "That's right!!"

At the same moment, in the Xue family's residence, the human-shaped Dharma image stood directly above the Xue mansion.

"I am Xue Tianmu, the patriarch of the Xue family. Today, I am fortunate to have the opportunity to inquire about the Tonghai! In ten days, the Xue family will host the Tonghai Banquet! I hope you will all grace us with your presence!"

Xue Tianmu's voice boomed in the darkness before dawn, and everyone within a hundred miles could see the figure standing tall in the night sky, like a lighthouse.

Xue Tianmu's voice echoed throughout the entire White Maple City. In the quiet night, whether people were deep in their dreams or babies sleeping soundly in their swaddling clothes, they were all awakened by this sudden sound.

In an instant, chaos erupted. Many large mansions were brightly lit, and some patriarchs of cultivation families immediately flew out of their secluded cultivation areas to look in the direction of the Xue family after hearing the noise.

The patriarch of a cultivation family in White Maple City: "Quick! Go prepare congratulatory gifts!"

The sect leaders of the six major sects were also surprised by this sudden scene, and they all came up into the sky to look in the direction of the Xue family.

Feng Wuhen: "I never imagined that after the Bai family patriarch, there would be someone in Baifeng City who could break through to the Tonghai Realm!"

In the Si Nan family mansion in Baifeng City, Dong Gu looked at the distant horizon, his gaze revealing a serious expression.

Dong Gu: "I never expected Xue Tianmu to have broken through to the Tonghai Realm as well!?"

Si Nanchen then walked out of the room.

Si Nanchen: "This doesn't make sense. I remember that the Xue family patriarch only had four spiritual power attributes, so how could he also reach the Dao Sea Realm?!"

Dong Gu: "It must have been the work of the royal family, to restore his last remaining basic spiritual energy constitution."

Si Nanchen: "Damn it, they definitely used a secret technique of my Si Nan family!"

Dong Gu: "I'm afraid not, but young master, there's no need to panic. This time, in the Imperial Mausoleum Secret Realm, we'll see if our ancestor can seize the Xia family's inheritance!"

At this moment, inside the Xue family mansion.

All the disciples and the head of the Xue family waited respectfully at the back of the mountain.

"Welcome back, Ancestor!"

Xue Chuan stepped forward and spoke respectfully.

As the enormous image in the sky slowly disappeared, a beam of light rapidly descended from the sky to the ground, revealing a man who appeared to be around thirty years old, with a majestic and imposing air about him.

Xue Tianmu: "Everyone, from this day forward, my Xue family will no longer need to be beholden to others."

As he spoke, he spread his hands out and slowly raised them to shoulder height. Then, a terrifying spiritual power burst forth from his body, spreading throughout the entire Xue mansion. Wherever it passed, the ground was dyed with a layer of light spiritual light.

Upon witnessing this scene, the Xue family members exclaimed in unison, "Our Ancestor is mighty!..."

Xue Tianmu slowly raised his hand, and the scene immediately fell silent.

Xue Tianmu: "From this day forward, my Xue family will accept disciples! All those who join my Xue family will receive double the cultivation resources!"

Inside the city lord's mansion, Bai Cheng watched the enormous figure slowly disappear, a sense of unease rising in his heart.

Bai Fengze: "Bai Cheng!"

Bai Fengze arrived quickly from a short distance away.

Bai Cheng: "What's wrong, Brother Fengze?"

Bai Fengze: "I have urgent business within the family that has summoned me back. I have already instructed others about the land deed, and someone will come to find you tomorrow."

After hearing this, Bai Cheng nodded silently.

Bai Fengze left quickly without lingering.

Watching his departing figure, a thought slowly flashed through Bai Cheng's mind.

"White Maple City is about to undergo a major upheaval."

Early the next morning, someone knocked on Bai Cheng's door. It was the person who delivered the land deed to him.

Only after receiving the land deed did Bai Cheng feel a surge of joy.

Bai Cheng: "Finally, I don't have to hand over my share of the profits every month."

Afterwards, Bai Cheng left the city lord's mansion and returned to his shop. He then gathered the group together, except for Bu Qian, and told the people in the shop about what had happened.

Lü Liang: "If that's the case, does that mean we don't have to hand over commissions every month anymore?"

Bai Cheng: "That's right. In my opinion, the shop doesn't have to focus on selling talismans as its main business."

Cui Yuanfang: "That's good too. Diversifying the products is essential to ensuring the smooth operation of the store."

Bai Cheng nodded slightly, and just then, Mi Hua suddenly spoke up: "By the way, you know about what happened last night, right?"

Bai Cheng: "Are you referring to the Xue family?"

Mi Hua: "That's right. Being able to enter the Tonghai Realm already qualifies one as a strong person. In our second-tier sect, this would be equivalent to at least an elder position."

Bai Cheng's expression remained unchanged after hearing this.

Bai Cheng: "It doesn't matter, this has nothing to do with us."