From the Metropolis to the Strongest in the Cosmos

’Can Lan Yu withstand this?’ Li Yang wondered, his eyes fixed completely on Lan Yu.

’If Lan Yu is eliminated, my rank will definitely rise. I might even jump to ninth or eighth place.’

”Huh?” Suddenly, Li Yang’s expression changed slightly.

Faced with everyone’s attacks, Lan Yu showed no signs of panic. He wasn’t even in a hurry to make a move.

The instant the vines were about to touch him, Lan Yu finally moved.

HUMMM...

A strange ripple emanated from him. As it spread, the surrounding void seemed to undergo a bizarre transformation. The rapidly approaching vines, the incomparably sharp glint of a blade, the net of spear lights that filled the air, the pale blue ice arrows, the roaring fire dragon... all these attacks suddenly slowed down, as if someone had hit a slow-motion button.

BOOM!

Then, Lan Yu reached out with his right hand and directly grabbed the vines in front of him.

He tore them apart with both hands. The vines, which pulsed with astonishing power on par with a Star Lord, were instantly shredded to pieces.

”One of the four great profundities of the Time Law—Time Slow!”

Long Zhan exclaimed in shock as he watched Lan Yu tear the vines to shreds.

The Time Law! It was an exceptionally unique law!

The four great profundities of the Time Law are Time Domain, Time Slow, Time Stop, and Time Reversal.

With other laws, the four great profundities could be comprehended individually. One could comprehend any of the four as their first.

But the Time Law was different. The three profundities of Time Slow, Time Stop, and Time Reversal had to be mastered in order. It was impossible to comprehend Time Reversal before comprehending Time Stop.

”You think you can eliminate me with attacks like these?”

Lan Yu looked at the five of them, a trace of disdain on his face.

BOOM!

Without using a weapon, he simply threw his fists, destroying the incoming attacks one by one.

At the same time, he waved his hands, and five beams of light shot out toward Li Yang and the other four.

”Not good.”

Sensing the power in the light, Li Yang’s face fell, and he scrambled to dodge.

The Space Law excelled at evasion. He simultaneously created a series of phantom bodies to cover his escape.

But it was useless. Under the profundity of Time Slow, Li Yang felt as if he were trapped in a quagmire, his speed drastically reduced.

When the beam of light hit him, Li Yang felt as if a giant star was crashing into him. He had no power to resist as his life force drained away frantically.

In less than a second, his life force was completely gone.

”I’ve failed.”

Resigned, Li Yang’s figure vanished from the space.

It wasn’t just him. Long Zhan, Mute, Huo Lie, and Yun Rou all vanished at the same time.

An instant kill!

Faced with a planned siege by five peerless geniuses, including Li Yang, Lan Yu had insta-killed all five of them!

”Overestimating their own strength!”

A disdainful smile touched Lan Yu’s lips as he watched Li Yang and the others disappear.

’They dared to ambush me with that level of strength?’

At this moment, he didn’t give Li Yang and the others a second thought—not even the third-ranked Long Zhan.

He had only one opponent: Mixed Void.

The other geniuses were too far beneath him.

...

Outside the space, the powerful experts were still discussing.

”Look, Long Zhan and the others are making their move.”

”Lan Yu is counterattacking.”

”Time Slow! Lan Yu’s mastery of this Time Law profundity is so deep! He insta-killed Long Zhan and the others!”

”That level of power is incredibly close to the Mid-Star Lord Realm!”

”Haha, so Lan Yu was hiding his true strength!”

”We underestimated Lan Yu’s power. With strength like this, he’s not just a peerless genius that appears once every few hundred million years, but one that might only appear once in several billion!”

Seeing Lan Yu’s sudden burst of power and the instant kill of Li Yang’s group, the eyes of these mighty experts lit up.

For them, the stronger Lan Yu’s Talent, the better.

...

SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH!

Li Yang, Mute, Long Zhan, and the other two all appeared at the same time within a vast area.

They looked at each other, all wearing wry smiles.

”We were insta-killed!”

”That Lan Yu is just too strong.”

The group was helpless. Their carefully prepared plan to take down Lan Yu hadn’t affected him in the slightest.

Mute’s eyes glinted as he said, ”The vines were at the Star Lord level, and there were the five of us on top of that. Lan Yu’s strength, even if it’s not at the Mid-Star Lord Realm, is incredibly close.”

Passing the ranking trials proves you have the strength to kill a Star Lord.

However, you only need to be slightly stronger than an Early Stage Star Lord to manage that kill, since the trial was against one hundred virtual opponents whose combined strength equaled that of an Early Stage Star Lord.

But the Mid-Star Lord Realm is at least ten times stronger than the Early Stage of the Star Lord Realm!

After analyzing Lan Yu’s strength, Mute added, ”Lan Yu has been hiding his power. He’s ranked second right now, but I think he’s actually stronger than Mixed Void!”

’Stronger than Mixed Void?’ Li Yang wondered.

He recalled the feeling of being insta-killed, and that was while Lan Yu was fighting all five of them at once.

’He’s too strong! Just how does Lan Yu cultivate?’

Li Yang was shaken to his core. ’To think someone at the Law Realm could be this powerful!’

Fighting above one’s realm becomes progressively harder the higher one’s cultivation.

For example, Li Yang had spent so much time and energy to finally master the third form of the Hexagram Spear, giving him strength unrivaled in the Longevity Realm!

After reaching that level, it would be incredibly difficult for him to increase his strength any further.

For instance, say he were to practice another extremely difficult Cultivation Technique, one as hard as the third form of the Hexagram Spear.

Say he spent another five years mastering it, grasping an attack method no weaker than the third form of the Hexagram Spear!

By then, how much would his strength have increased?

Perfectly combining two powerful attack methods would, at most, only double his power!

’Spend another five years to triple it?’

And yet, by his calculations, Lan Yu’s current strength was thirty times their own!

The gap was just too wide!

’Unless I master the fourth form of the Hexagram Spear, I won’t stand a chance against Lan Yu,’ Li Yang thought.

Despite being insta-killed, Li Yang didn’t feel any despair. Instead, his eyes burned with fighting spirit.

’This is what makes it interesting. With a target like Lan Yu ahead of me, I have more motivation to catch up!’

One day in the future, his strength would finally catch up to Lan Yu’s!

He glanced at the giant screen floating in the void above, then checked his own rank.

Even though he’d been eliminated, Li Yang’s rank was still 10th, unchanged.

(Author’s Note: My apologies, something came up, so I’ll release four Chapters tomorrow. *Sigh.* I really don’t have any stockpiled Chapters, otherwise I would’ve posted an extra one yesterday. I have to work an outside job on top of writing, so I implore everyone to please subscribe and not skip Chapters. Wind Blade would be immensely grateful. Thank you to Half-Life of Sorrow for the 1500-coin donation, thank you to FarewellOPMing for the 500-coin donation, and thank you to 08a, Little Uncle, and BookFriend130212152833687 for the 100-coin donations. Thank you all.)