Swallowing the Stars: The Rise of Emperor Wei

In the blink of an eye, Gao Sheng has been in Chaos City for twenty-five years, while Luo Feng arrived nearly five years earlier and is about to leave.

In the living room of Luo Feng's residence.

"Sixth level cleared? Congratulations, Luo Feng." Gao Sheng raised his glass, secretly thinking to himself, "This guy's Demon Slayer Clan clone is indeed monstrous."

Luo Feng passed through the sixth level of the Tongtian Bridge before leaving Chaos City, which was actually only two or three years earlier than in another timeline. Given Gao Sheng's influence, this is normal.

Luo Feng smiled, raised his glass, and drank it all in one gulp. "Bolan is also on the sixth level."

"Cultivation isn't about comparing yourself to others. As long as you keep improving, what does it matter if you're progressing quickly or slowly?"

"Well said! Cheers!" Luo Feng refilled his glass.

"It's a pity that I'm at the Virtual Universe Company and you're at the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance. Who knows when we'll see each other again after this trip?" Luo Feng sighed.

Gao Sheng smiled and said, "There's plenty of time. Even immortal gods have eternal life, so why worry about not having enough time?"

"Yes, we brothers must achieve immortality! Then, we'll travel the universe together! Cheers!"

"Dry!"

……

"Luo Feng is gone, and I only have less than five years left in Chaos City."

"Of the nine fundamental mysteries of the laws of space, I have comprehended three. As for the other six, I feel I am on the verge of comprehending them, but I have also accumulated a lot of doubts. It is time to go and see the Chaos Stele again."

Gao Sheng left the rooftop and headed towards the City Lord's Mansion of Chaos City.

On the day Luo Feng left Chaos City, Gao Sheng entered the secret chamber of the Chaos Stele in the City Lord's Mansion once again for his third comprehension session, this time focusing all his efforts on comprehending the laws of space.

Seven days later, Gao Sheng returned to his residence with a joyful expression and immediately immersed himself in cultivation.

He has mastered three of the nine fundamental mysteries!

Including the three I had previously comprehended, I have now comprehended six of the nine profound mysteries.

The nine fundamental mysteries of the laws of space are all on the same level. Comprehending the first mystery is the most difficult, but after that, it is much faster.

Moreover, the laws are a whole; a higher level of understanding of the laws of fire will also greatly help in understanding the laws of space.

"If I have mastered the nine basic mysteries of the laws of space, I am at the third level of the Bridge to Heaven. I have not only mastered them, but I have also comprehended six of them. I am also on the verge of comprehending the other three, which should be the fourth level."

"It's true that the lower the starting point, the faster the progress."

When he first arrived in Chaos City, his Fire Law was roughly at the third level of the Bridge to Heaven. After fifteen years of cultivation and comprehending 36 profound mysteries, he was only at the peak of the fifth level of the Bridge to Heaven, having improved by less than three levels.

As for the laws of space, when Gao Sheng entered Chaos City, he was even worse than Luo Feng, not even reaching the first level. After ten years of cultivation, he had already reached the fourth level of the Heavenly Bridge, improving by more than four levels.

With such a profound understanding of the laws, combined with the laws of fire, he is no longer considered a weakness. Using the Ember Divine Weapon, Gao Sheng is confident that he can pass the fifth level of the Bridge to Heaven.

Having fully comprehended the nine spatial mysteries, and with further insights into deeper levels of mystery, Luo Feng had reached the fifth level of the Bridge to Heaven in terms of spatial laws. Combined with his understanding of the Law of Metal, and using the Divine Weapon, he could pass through the sixth level of the Bridge to Heaven.

While Gao Sheng is still somewhat lacking in spatial laws, he hasn't completely given up on fire laws over the years, and has even cultivated a little bit of the fourth volume of "The Hundred Solutions to Fire".

The fourth volume of "The Hundred Explanations of Fire" contains all 108 profound mysteries of the entire fire system, which are far more profound and complex than the previous three volumes combined. Among them, there are 72 deep mysteries, which I had only come into contact with before my advancement, making them difficult to comprehend... and indeed I only comprehended a small portion of them.

It's important to understand that comprehending all 108 fundamental mysteries of the Law of Fire is equivalent to reaching the eighth level of the Bridge to Heaven, which is what earns the Law of Fire's recognition. This level of difficulty is far, far greater than the first three volumes.

……

Time flies, and more than four years have passed in the blink of an eye.

The residence of the Fire King.

Gao Sheng sat opposite the teacher.

"Master, I have received a notice that I will be leaving Chaos City in a month." There was a hint of resentment in Gao Sheng's eyes.

Who would be willing to leave Chaos City, a sacred place for cultivation?

"Hmm," said Fire King, stroking his beard, "In that case, go and see the statue, and then go and try to cross the Heavenly Bridge."

"Yes." Gao Sheng was delighted.

Fire King smiled and said, "Pay attention to the time. Before you leave, go and study the Chaos Stele one more time. Once you leave Chaos City, you won't be able to study the Chaos Stele again at the Universe level."

"Yes."

Of course, Gao Sheng had to take the plunge; it was a five-times-point opportunity, and once you left Chaos City, you wouldn't find such a good deal.

It took him nine days to comprehend the Firebird statue, and then he spent another seven days cultivating and digesting what he had learned.

……

In the Tongtian Bridge dimension, Gao Sheng appears in the plaza on a beautiful island.

Four-Eyes Baffin's eyes lit up, and he walked over.

"A promotion? You've finally come back again."

"Your Excellency the Guardian," Gao Sheng bowed.

"Every new kid who just arrived in Chaos City tries it out every year or two. You, on the other hand, haven't been here for thirty years," Baffin laughed. "Trying to cross the Heavenly Bridge?"

"Yes."

"There's no one at the Mother Ancestor's Heavenly Bridge, go ahead," said the guardian, Baffin.

Watching Gao Sheng fly towards the port of the Mother Ancestor's Sky Bridge, Baffin immediately sent out several emails, muttering to himself, "Those people in Chaos City, although they failed to take him as a disciple, are still paying attention to Gao Sheng."

The Mother Ancestor's Sky Bridge spans the endless ocean, stretching upwards.

It soared rapidly, quickly passing through endless clouds and entering the howling high sky.

We flew all the way to the end of the fifth floor.

A huge tornado blocked the way.

"Choose any opponent. You can choose one of the following: a martial artist, a mentalist controller, or a mentalist illusionist. Defeat your opponent to pass through the fifth level of the Sky Bridge."

"I choose, the warrior."

Whoosh! A man dressed in silver armor and wearing a silver mask flew out from the tornado, carrying two battle swords on his back.

"Hmm? It's you. What, you think you can gain the upper hand by letting me fight you in close combat?" The silver-armored man sneered.

Gao Sheng looked at the silver-armored man and thought to himself, "So it's the same gatekeeper AI. If you choose a controller, it will use the same weapon, but if you choose a warrior, it won't."

"I won't take advantage of you." Gao Sheng smiled, and with a flick of his arms, a pair of light boxing gloves appeared in his hands.

With a whoosh, Gao Sheng transformed into a streak of fire and delivered a punch directly to the silver-armored man.

"So fast?" The silver-armored man was startled and quickly drew his sword to block.

Clang! The impact sent numbness through his entire body, and he was forced to retreat hundreds of meters before finally regaining his footing.

"So powerful! We can't fight it head-on." The silver-armored man pushed off with both legs and leaped into the air, causing the surface of the Tongtian Bridge to tremble slightly.

With a whoosh, a hundred silver phantoms appeared around Gao Sheng, each wielding two swords, and attacked him.

"Hundred-Line Flow?" Gao Sheng chuckled. "I can do that too, but I don't need the laws of space to deal with you."

The spatial laws of the fifth level of the Sky Bridge certainly involve more than a hundred illusions, but definitely not more than the Ten Thousand Flow and Hundred Flow Body Techniques. Using a hundred illusions will have special effects.

Whoosh! A faint red light appeared and disappeared in an instant, sweeping over all the phantoms of the silver-armored man. Ninety-nine phantom bodies collapsed and vanished, leaving only the true body, who saw a palm rapidly enlarging before his eyes.

The silver-armored man barely managed to raise his twin swords.

Boom! The palms clashed, but the sheer force of the blows wasn't great, and the silver-armored man wasn't knocked away.

Boom! Blazing flames surged from the blade and struck the silver-armored man, turning his silver armor crimson. He became numb, standing there in a daze.

With a casual wave of his hand, Gao Sheng caused the silver-armored man's head to burn into nothingness.

Fifth floor, passed.

"Teacher's boxing style is really too powerful. It doesn't even have a name yet. Hmm, let's call it Fire Hidden Fist Dance."

He secretly admired Gao Sheng.

This set of boxing techniques alone is worth 2000 points, right?

The rules are at the fifth level of the Bridge to Heaven, but this fist technique is not.

Having mastered the third volume of "The Hundred Solutions to Fire," his strength was no longer limited to the fifth level.

The guardians on each level of the Sky Bridge are equipped with combat power equivalent to those using normal secret techniques under normal comprehension.

Moreover, after comprehending the Firebird Statue once again, Gao Sheng made considerable progress in the Law of Fire, so dealing with this silver-armored man was naturally a piece of cake.

……

In the Tongtian Bridge dimension, on the plaza, five figures watched the battle on the big screen.

"Congratulations, Huozang," the burly man in blue armor said in a deep voice.

"I never expected that Gao Sheng, in just thirty years, would be able to comprehend the first three volumes of your 'Hundred Explanations of Fire.' What kind of talent is that?" The sinister Thousand Chaos King shook his head. "He truly should be your disciple."

The red-haired man dressed in white, Polaris King, laughed and said, "Fire Treasury, none of your previous disciples could do this, right? It seems your mantle will have to fall on this little disciple."

"The sixth level is no challenge for him either; he is in no way inferior to Luo Feng and Bo Lan." The stunningly beautiful Qian Li Wang nodded slightly.

King Huozang stroked his beard and smiled, extremely pleased with himself.

In fact, Gao Sheng could have passed the sixth level more than ten years ago.

……

At the end of the sixth level of the Sky Bridge, the tornadoes still roared.

Choose your opponent: Warrior, Controller, Illusionist. Defeat one to advance to the seventh level. A voice echoed from within the tornado.

"The controller." Gao Sheng said without hesitation.

Gao Sheng was not a martial artist after all, and exerting force was not his forte. He dared not be careless on this sixth level.

Suddenly, a figure flew out from the tornado. He was still dressed in silver, standing on a fire plate, with a black snake-fire barrier on his arm.

Gao Sheng didn't bring the Ember Divine Weapon this time, so his opponent only had one weapon.

"You've reached the sixth level at the cosmic level? You're quite good. Among the entire human race, only a little over a hundred cosmic-level beings can pass the sixth level." The silver-armored man looked at Gao Sheng indifferently.

"More than a hundred people?" Gao Sheng muttered to himself.

There should be more than forty Virtual Universe Companies, and I estimate that there are about the same number as Giant Axe Arena and the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance, while the two major banks have far fewer.

That's definitely less than two hundred.

Whoosh! Gao Sheng took off on the Fire Disc, countless black lights rose from his right arm, forming a long black line. A full 1,800 black short needles suddenly gathered together, wrapped around countless threads of law, and turned into a fist-sized black bead that floated in front of Gao Sheng.

The fourth level of the Serpentfire Realm, "Burning Sky Style," is the final level of the Burning Sky Style!

This black sphere is merely a preparatory form; in reality, the changes are determined by the mind.

The fourth level of the Serpentfire Realm can only be perfectly mastered if one's Fire Law reaches the sixth level of the Bridge to Heaven.

Gao Sheng has only fully comprehended the third volume of "The Hundred Solutions to Fire". He hasn't gained much insight into the content of the fourth volume, but his foundation is so profound that he can still perform the perfected Burning Sky Style.

The silver-armored man's eyes lit up, and countless black lights flew up, while the same black sphere hovered in front of him.

The two were riding on flying weapons, facing each other from a distance!

"Go!" The silver-armored man's eyes narrowed, and the black bead in front of him instantly transformed into a red light, shooting straight up and creating a series of spatial ripples.

Gao Sheng could see clearly that it was a handleless throwing knife that was over a meter long.

"Hmph!" A streak of black light met the flying knife head-on, and with a muffled thud, it directly clashed with the fiery red flying knife.

It was a black ribbon that completely wrapped around the throwing knife.

"Hmm?" The silver-armored man's gaze was icy. The red throwing knife instantly retracted, freeing itself from the ribbon's entanglement. In mid-air, it transformed into two red short swords, one on the left and one on the right, drawing two arcs to strike Gao Sheng.

"Such speed! In terms of spatial laws, he's above me."

"Explode!" Gao Sheng's eyes were focused. The black ribbon split in two and appeared in front of the two short swords in a flash.

"However, I have grasped the entire fundamental essence of the Law of Fire. Trying to bypass my interception is impossible!"

Even with the laws of space, Gao Sheng has already comprehended eight of the nine most basic and profound laws, so he can still intercept them.

But there's no need! Having grasped the full essence of the Law of Fire, Gao Sheng has no weaknesses when using this Serpent Fire Realm!

The laws are everywhere. As a pure fire-based psychic weapon, the speed of the bursts generated by the fluctuations of the fire law is in no way slower than that of the spatial law.

Moreover, after comprehending the essence of the laws, the upgraded weapons not only utilize the laws but can also influence the laws themselves.

……

Gao Sheng was completely on the defensive. The silver-armored man used all his skills, his telekinetic weapon sometimes a knife, sometimes a sword, sometimes a stab, sometimes a single strike, sometimes a combined attack, but none of it worked! It was completely blocked by Gao Sheng.

……

At the Tongtianqiao Square, Qianli Wang smiled first.

"This promotion is like treating the 'crossing the sky bridge' as a joke."

"The opponent on the sixth floor poses no threat to him. Even if he hadn't reached the pinnacle of this technique, his powerful consciousness alone would have been enough to defeat him." Thousand Chaos King nodded.

……

While parrying the attacks, Gao Sheng observed his opponent's fighting techniques.

"It seems these are all the methods we have. They're indeed rigid and inflexible." Gao Sheng shook his head inwardly. "Let's end this."

Boom! The black ribbon suddenly transformed into its original sphere, directly colliding with the opponent's flaming spear, sending it flying backward. Then, with a whoosh, it turned into a rain of fire, raining down on the silver-armored man.

"No!" The silver-armored man stepped off the fire plate and dodged rapidly by following the fluctuations of the spatial laws. His speed was incredibly fast, and his movements were undeniably bizarre.

But even at its fastest speed, it couldn't outrun a telekinetic weapon. Countless red lights shattered the numerous illusory figures created by the silver-armored man, simultaneously striking his head.

Whoosh! Gao Sheng sheathed his weapon and flew quickly forward.

……

"The sixth floor is indeed easy for him," Polaris King nodded.

"But the seventh level is completely different," King Linshan said in a low voice. "I don't think he can get through it."

The Sky Bridge is divided into three major stages, with the difficulty increasing dramatically from the sixth to the seventh stage!

"Not necessarily. Have you forgotten his consciousness amplitude? He didn't exert much of his power on this sixth level," the woman in black said softly.

Qian Hunwang looked at the white-haired old man, "Huozang, what do you think?"

"It's hard to say. I don't know exactly how much his psychic power amplitude is. Perhaps last time wasn't his limit." Fire King shook his head.

……

Gao Sheng flew rapidly across the Sky Bridge.

The air gradually thinned, and the endless gale disappeared without a trace.

Whoosh! It felt as if we had suddenly passed through the atmosphere of a planet, and what appeared before us was an endless starry sky.

Fly all the way to the end of the seventh level of the Sky Bridge, where a small meteorite, several kilometers in diameter, is suspended. A voice comes from the meteorite: "Choose your opponent: Warrior, Controller, Illusionist. Choose one, defeat him, and you can pass the seventh level."

"An illusionist." Gao Sheng smiled.

For this seventh level, since there's no certainty about promotion, one should choose the one with a higher probability of success.

Speculation and trickery? That's fake; points are the real deal.

The five people watching the game in Tongtianqiao Square all laughed, even Baffin had a smile on his face.

"An illusionist? Is he really that confident?" the woman in black laughed.

"Given the amplitude of his consciousness, his will is certainly extraordinary."

"I don't think so. His mental power amplitude is so high, it must be due to special circumstances. How old is he? His willpower may not be that amazing." The burly man, Lin Shan Wang, shook his head with a smile. "Choosing to be an illusionist might be asking for trouble."

"If you lose, just come out and go back in to choose again," King Huozang said calmly.