Looking at the towering peak that pierced the clouds not far away, Luo Fan flew over at an unhurried pace.
As soon as he reached the foot of the mountain, Luo Fan saw a tall minotaur lying sound asleep on a massive boulder not far away.
Beside the minotaur was a dark purple giant axe nearly five meters tall.
At a glance, it looked as if countless streams of blood had coagulated upon it, making one's heart tremble.
"Minotaur, wake up. I'm here to challenge the Primal Sky Mountain!"
Luo Fan shouted toward the minotaur.
The sleeping minotaur rolled over and jumped to his feet.
He blinked, looked around, and when he saw Luo Fan, he clearly recognized him.
"Your Highness Luo Fan, you wish to challenge the Primal Sky Mountain?"
Luo Fan nodded.
Seeing this, the minotaur widened his bull-like eyes and immediately roared toward the rear.
"Monkey, Snake Lady, come out quickly!"
"Someone is challenging the Primal Sky Mountain!"
As his voice fell, two streaks of light flew over from afar.
They were the ape mentalist and the serpent-woman illusionist.
After the three gatekeepers at the mountain foot gathered, they all looked at Luo Fan.
After flying over, the serpent-woman gave Luo Fan a charming smile.
"Your Highness Luo Fan, you've finally come to challenge the Sky Mountain."
The ape beside her also laughed.
"We were even betting on when you would come challenge the Sky Mountain."
Hearing this, Luo Fan asked with some curiosity.
"When did you think I would come?"
The three exchanged glances. The serpent-woman spoke first.
"I thought you would come challenge it when you were at the Cosmic level."
A trace of gloom flashed across her face.
"You cleared the tenth level of the Sky-Piercing Bridge not long after leaving Chaos City."
"With that speed, you could have cleared the Cosmic-level Primal Sky Mountain very quickly."
"Who would have thought you'd wait until the Domain Lord level to come?"
"It seems you haven't even been gone from Chaos City for thirty years, right?"
"How did you break through directly?"
"Wouldn't it have been better to first clear the Cosmic-level Primal Sky Mountain, earn one hundred million points, and then break through?"
As she spoke, the gloom on the serpent-woman's face grew heavier.
Anyone could tell that with Luo Fan's rate of progress, if he wanted to, clearing the Cosmic-level Primal Sky Mountain would have been a certainty.
Yet no one expected that in less than thirty years after leaving Chaos City, Luo Fan would directly break through to the Domain Lord level.
The minotaur also spoke from the side.
"I also thought Your Highness Luo Fan would challenge the Primal Sky Mountain at the Cosmic level."
"I bet with the Snake Lady. One of us said you would come fifty years after leaving Chaos City, the other said one hundred years."
"Not long after you broke through to the Domain Lord level, you directly cleared the fourteenth level of the Sky-Piercing Bridge."
"Logically speaking, you should have had nearly a hundred percent certainty of clearing the Cosmic-level Sky Mountain."
"No one expected you to break through directly."
The ape laughed.
"Heh, luckily I bet that Your Highness Luo Fan would come at the Domain Lord level."
"After all, the Cosmic level doesn't offer you much benefit. It's better to break through directly."
Hearing this, Luo Fan could not help but laugh and shake his head.
"Alright, come on. Let me see just how difficult the famous Primal Sky Mountain really is."
Hearing this, the expressions of the three turned serious.
They immediately took out their respective weapons.
Luo Fan also took out the Tide God Blade.
In the next moment, the battle began instantly.
"Whoosh!"
The ape's mentalist weapons launched the first strike.
A large number of flying shuttles formed into a gigantic ape.
The giant ape slapped directly toward Luo Fan.
At the same time, the minotaur charged straight at Luo Fan.
Luo Fan did not hesitate and immediately prepared to counterattack.
He planned to directly use the Tideblade Battle Art.
Although the Tideblade Battle Art could not fully unleash his strength at the moment,
there was no alternative.
After all, this was the secret art he was most familiar with.
Using other secret arts would likely result in even less power.
Just as he was about to slash apart the massive ape in front of him, the environment before his eyes suddenly changed.
The towering mountain, the giant ape, and the minotaur, ape, and serpent-woman attacking him all vanished.
High-rise buildings filled his surroundings.
This was…
Earth.
Moreover, it was not the present Earth.
It was not even the Earth of this world.
This Earth was the place where he had lived in his previous life.
A trace of nostalgia flashed through his eyes.
However, in the next instant, his gaze became resolute.
The matters of his previous life were already in the past.
He did not know whether he could return.
But in this life, he had new experiences.
Here, he also had people who mattered to him.
His current life was countless times more exciting than before.
Although he sometimes still thought about the past,
those memories would not become obstacles for him.
Moreover, he knew that even if returning were possible, it was not something his current self could accomplish.
Only with sufficient strength would it be possible.
"It's been a long time since I've seen such a scene."
"But in the end, it's only an illusion."
"Break!"
With Luo Fan's furious roar, the surrounding illusion shattered like glass.
In the outside world, only an instant had passed.
The giant ape's palm had not even reached Luo Fan yet.
He directly slashed out with his blade.
Boom!
Before the terrifying blade light, the giant ape shattered instantly.
At this moment, the serpent-woman's face was filled with shock.
Although she had anticipated that her illusion might not have much effect on Luo Fan,
she had not expected that it would fail to make him hesitate even for a single second.
If it were an ordinary Domain Lord–level genius, encountering the serpent-woman's illusion would indeed cause them to fall into it.
Even some peerless geniuses might pause momentarily.
But Luo Fan's will had already broken through to the Immortal level.
Moreover, his mental state cultivation had reached the second level.
The serpent-woman's illusion was essentially completely ineffective against him.
If not for the brief sentimentality brought on by seeing familiar scenes earlier, he could have ignored the illusion outright.
At this moment, the minotaur also realized that his two companions' attacks were ineffective against Luo Fan.
However, he had already reached Luo Fan's immediate vicinity.
At this point, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and charge forward.
The massive axe smashed toward Luo Fan.
Luo Fan calmly watched the rapidly approaching axe, his expression unchanged.
He slashed out once more.
Boom!
The slender blade directly knocked the massive axe away.
Without pausing at all, Luo Fan slashed the minotaur apart in a single strike.
Immediately afterward, he flew toward the ape.
The giant ape had already shattered into tens of thousands of flying shuttles.
At this moment, the ape attempted to control these flying shuttles to counterattack.
However, how could Luo Fan possibly give him such an opportunity?
He directly used spatial traversal, appeared before the ape, and killed him in a single move.
After killing the ape, Luo Fan turned to look at the serpent-woman not far away.
Meeting Luo Fan's gaze, the serpent-woman winked flirtatiously and revealed a seductive smile.
"Your Highness, fighting and killing is so unpleasant. Why don't we play something more interesting?"
As soon as her voice fell, her eyes lit up, and a soul illusion technique struck toward Luo Fan.
However, Luo Fan had long been prepared. How could he let her succeed?
This illusion did not even slow his speed in the slightest.
His terrifying will and powerful mental state allowed him to completely ignore it.
In the next instant, the serpent-woman was completely slain.
This also meant that Luo Fan had passed the first trial.
In truth, for him, the difficulty of the mountain foot trial was not high.
The three gatekeepers here were roughly equivalent to the gatekeeper of the fourteenth level of the Sky-Piercing Bridge.
The difference was that, unlike the fourteenth level of the Sky-Piercing Bridge, here all three attacked together, and they were not all warriors.
With Luo Fan's crushing law comprehension and powerful amplification secret art, killing them was very easy.
He did not linger and flew directly toward the mountainside.
Before long, Luo Fan reached the mountainside.
Everything here was much the same as before.
The minotaur, ape, and serpent-woman were already waiting for Luo Fan.
The three of them had been specially created by the Virtual Universe.
Whether at the mountain foot, the mountainside, or even the summit, the gatekeepers were always these three.
Moreover, they served as gatekeepers for the Cosmic-level, Domain Lord–level, and World Master–level Primal Sky Mountains alike.
This was the very purpose for which the Virtual Universe had created them.
Soon, Luo Fan killed the three once again.
Compared to the mountain foot, the law comprehension of the three at the mountainside had improved.
However, it still had not reached the level of the fifteenth Sky-Piercing Bridge gatekeeper.
Their law comprehension was only close to that level.
After killing the three, Luo Fan leisurely flew toward the mountain summit.
While flying, he even had time to admire the surrounding scenery.
Luo Fan continued flying upward along the towering Primal Heaven-Reaching Mountain. After a long time, he finally reached the summit.
Clouds swirled around the peak. The minotaur lay there, snoring thunderously. The ape held a large barrel of fine wine and drank heartily. In a pool of water not far away, the serpent-woman was playing in the water.
When Luo Fan arrived, the gazes of all three fell upon him.
The summit trial was the final trial, and also the most difficult one.
The four did not start fighting immediately.
The ape looked at Luo Fan and asked with a smile.
"Your Highness Luo Fan, care to have a drink together?"
Luo Fan smiled, nodded, and sat down beside the ape.
This was only an avatar, and there was no need to rush to comprehend the laws.
So he was quite free.
The minotaur also stopped sleeping, sat up, and came over to the two.
The serpent-woman emerged from the pool as well.
She was covered only by a thin veil.
Although she had the body of a serpent from the waist down, beneath the thin veil, her upper body was faintly visible, with a trace of redness discernible, enough to stir burning desire.
The ape took a large gulp of wine and said with emotion.
"How many years has it been. Someone has finally come to challenge the Primal Sky Mountain."
The serpent-woman's face was also filled with emotion.
"Yes. Since we were created, no one has challenged us for a million eras."
The minotaur did not speak, only drinking his wine.
Because the three of them were specifically responsible for guarding the trials, they had remained here all along.
They were unlike other intelligent life forms who could follow a master on adventures.
Thus, the three of them were also very lonely.
And now, at last, someone had come to challenge them.
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