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Chapter 158 - 158: 157: Determining The Future Major Focus! (Please subscribe!)

Chapter 158 - 158: 157: Determining The Future Major Focus! (Please subscribe!)

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Forty-eight days later.

Du Gang’s ten thousandth consecutive victory has finally begun.

Interesting enough, his opponent was also someone who had won nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine consecutive games.

Standing opposite him was a thin dark-skinned man, wielding a golden longsword in his hand.

“I was thinking about letting you win a round in my ten thousandth fight, but who knew, it’s your ten thousandth fight as well!”

The slender man opposing him spoke first, his mouth adopting an air of bad luck, yet his face was full of confidence.

How could someone who had won nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine consecutive games not be confident?

“In that case, let the battle begin!”

Without another word, he attacked, swiftly launching his sword at Du Gang.

“Swish!”

The moment Du Gang took a step, executing a footwork to dodge, the golden light of the sword unexpectedly swerved, slashing at Du Gang’s next position even faster.

“Clang! ”

Seeing this, Du Gang quickly activated his Domain to momentarily delay the golden light, then executed the first Transformation in Skyward Nine Transformations to rapidly put distance between them.

“Flying sword … a Mind Master?”

Watching the golden longsword returned to the hand of the dark-skinned man after its failed attack, Du Gang became somber.

Mental Power is something everyone has, but not everyone is gifted in cultivating it.

Ordinary people may cultivate Mental Power as their cultivation increases, but without certain talents, they cannot do much with it except for simple perception of their surroundings.

However, Mind Masters are different. They exclusively cultivate Mental Power, focusing on unique mental methodologies that can meticulously control weapon attacks.

Moreover, their speed is exceptionally fast. If Du Gang hadn’t reacted swiftly to activate his Domain to delay the speed, he would have become a streak of

white light.

“Your footwork isn’t bad. You can even dodge my flying sword!”

The slender man did not hurry his attack but gave a faint comment.

Indeed, he has this advantage. Weapons controlled by a Mind Master are incredibly fast, and even with the Domain slowing down the speed, they are still incredibly challenging to fight against.

Unless Du Gang understands a Domain that relates to gravity, conventional Domains will find it challenging to defend against a Mind Master.

“Again!”

Seeing Du Gang remaining silent, the slender man uninterestedly launched the flying sword once more.

“Swish!”

A flash of golden light shot towards him.

Du Gang only glimpsed the golden flash. The next second, the flying sword had entered his Domain. He executed his footwork just in time to dodge it.

This time, the flying sword was on the offense, while Du Gang on the defense, the golden light chasing around shot him around this space.

This was Du Gang’s first encounter with a Mind Master. He hadn’t expected the flying sword’s speed to be so fast. It took both his Domain and the first Transformation of his footwork to barely dodge.

Moreover, he realized that the opponent certainly had more sophisticated sword tactics that he had yet to unleash.

He couldn’t keep retreating!

He had to try to parry!

Once Du Gang made up his mind, he promptly used the second Transformation of his footwork. Abruptly, he began to move as if strolling through space, and his speed picked up immediately.

Simultaneously, he raised the Ancient Divine Spear in his hand and executed the Shadow Following technique.

Suddenly, there were spear shadows all over the sky, and they were even wrapped in an aura of War Gold.

“Clang! ”

The tactic worked. The long sword was knocked away by the spear.

The slender man regained control of the flying sword about three to four meters away and recalled it back.

“I didn’t anticipate that your speed could increase!”

The slender man remained still and calmly remarked, “If this is all you’ve got, then the match ends now!”

Du Gang remained silent, his Domain still enveloping him, tightly gripping the spear in his hand, his eyes fixed on his adversary.

Encountering a Mind Master for the first time, he concentrated more on his opponent. Not only that, he radiated all his Mental Power, enveloping the surrounding space to prevent being sneak attacked from behind. “Turns out you’re a dour one. Fine, I’ll send you off then!” The slender man chuckled and slowly declared: “All Swords Fired!”

With that, he shot the longsword in his hand.

All of a sudden, the single golden longsword split into two in mid-air, two into four, four into eight, and in no time, the whole space was engulfed by longswords.

“Go!”

As the slender echoed a command, tens of thousands of longswords in the space all received directives, flying toward Du Gang in varying manners.

“Damn it!”

Seeing this, Du Gang quickly released his Stun Light Domain, which instantly overlapped with his Secret Domain.

In an instant, the flying swords that had penetrated his Domains suddnly halted.

“Clang, clang, clang!”

Seeing this, Du Gang quickly performed the Multiple Spear Shadows tactic, successfully repelling all the flying swords.

“A Double Domain?! !”

The thin man’s eyes bulged out in shock as he stared at the two overlapping domains around Du Gang.

Despite each of these domains spanning just about a dozen meters and augmenting his power by only about tenfold, they can stack under the same laws. The effect produced by the overlapping domains is multiplicative. Thus, the amplification brought by Du Gang’s double domain had reached over a hundred times.

This explained why he could immobilize the flying sword.

Seeing his opponent’s astonished expression, Du Gang instantly breathed a sigh of relief. He feared that if he executed his double domain and his opponent had a countermeasure, the fight would become quite challenging.

Fortunately!

Despite the thin man’s extreme shock, he didn’t give up on resisting. He obviously wasn’t facing the double domain for the first time.

After his initial shock, he quickly adjusted his state of mind, merging his tens of thousands of long swords into one.

Once his long sword was reconstituted, the thin man acted immediately without any hesitation.

Suddenly, the golden light began to traverse the entire space at an even faster pace.

“Zip!”

This time, it was faster than a bolt of lightning. Even under the double domain, the golden light advanced two or three meters before Du Gang could react.

“Clang! ”

Just like before, he parried it with a thrust of his spear, he wasn’t eager to kill his opponent just yet.

Although the Milky Way Galaxy had no Mind Masters, many people possessed Mental Power, which was primarily used for detection.

A Mind Master is said to have incredibly high talent in the mental domain, enabling them to cultivate related secret methods.

According to the records, a Mind Master can not only sweep through their own rank but can also fight across ranks.

Encountering a Mind Master for the first time, he wanted to see what other means they employed.

The thin man on the other side did not give up. He continuously manipulated the flying sword, attempting to attack from various directions.

But each of his attempts was thwarted by Du Gang, who detected them beforehand and parried them away.

Off parrying the golden light once again, Du Gang furrowed his brows.

A Mind Master doesn’t seem as formidable as he had imagined, huh?!

Just as he was preparing to parry a golden light that was shooting over, suddenly a strong mental fluctuation surged towards his mind.

It was a mental attack!

Du Gang realized in an instant. At the same time, behind him, a silver light shot soundlessly towards him at twice the speed of the golden light.

“Third Transformation!”

“Swoosh!”

A golden light and a silver light brushed past each other in a split second. At their crossover point, Du Gang, who should have been standing there, had already vanished.

When he reappeared, he was in front of the thin man.

“How could it be?!”

Just as the thin man uttered his words in shock, his figure had been punched by Du Gang into white light before it disappeared. [Congratulations, you have won your ten thousandth victory!]

[Congratulations, earning you the title of Asura!]

Gazing at the several continuous prompts, Du Gang quickly left the Killing Field.

“Broadcast the playback of my previous match,” Du Gang commanded.

Soon, the match started to replay.

When the enemy launched his All Swords Fired attack, Du Gang commanded, “Pause, replay this part at one-tenth the speed!”

“One-hundredth the speed.

“Du Gang, to playback at one-hundredth the speed, you’ll need to pay extra to the Killing Field…’ “Continue with the replay!”

“Yes!”

Soon, the video started to replay back and forth at one-hundredth of the original speed, but Du Gang’s eyes were fixed intently on the screen without blinking.

It wasn’t until a while later that he finally identified the silver light amidst the band of sword lights.

It had appeared the moment his opponent had first split his flying sword.

The silver light didn’t participate in the attack with the other flying swords. Instead, it cloaked itself and faded, becoming as inconspicuous as the air.

“Truly formidable!”

Du Gang couldn’t help but sigh. Every player who had lasted ten thousand matches was no ordinary individual. He hadn’t sensed the existence of the silver sword with his Mental Power while he was inside the arena.

That wasn’t the most crucial part. The thin man had initially put on quite an arrogant display, but in reality, he had been secretly laying out his strategy.

After revealing his double domain, Du Gang intentionally put on a shocked expression to catch him off guard.

He even continuously attacked with the golden light, pretending he was unable to overtake Du Gang.

Until the final moment, exactly when Du Gang was considering how his enemy wasn’t as strong as he had imagined, the thin man finally put his all into the fight.

He not only used the golden light to carry on with his feigned attack, but he also unleashed a mental secret technique in an instant, directly attacking Du Gang’s mind.

In addition to that, he deployed the silver long sword, hidden in the air, for his strongest attack.

Du Gang dodged all these attacks by relying on the real essence to ignore all the mental attacks.

Moreover, at the moment the silver sword entered his domain, he had sensed it.

However, at that time, it was too late to counter with the spear and lance. Thus, Du Gang made a swift decision and quickly executed the Third Transformation he had just comprehended!

Yes, over these forty-eight days.

Du Gang successfully mastered the second and third transformations of Skyward Nine Transformations.

The speed of the second transformation reached the flight speed of a D-level spaceship, which is 10,000 kilometers per second.

The speed of the third transformation was even more exaggerated; it reached the flight speed of a C-level spaceship, 100,000 kilometers per second, approximately one-third of the speed of light!

By understanding the third transformation, Du Gang didn’t just increase his speed but also comprehended a mysterious space law: the Mystery of Friction.

This was a mystery naturally comprehended after mastering the third transformation, a law that could reduce his own friction. However, at its core, it was the disaggregation of his body into space for frictionless displacement.

In addition to the third transformation, Du Gang also fully perfected his understanding of Dazzling Mystery and developed the Dazzling Domain.

War Gold, however, became like Sharp Gold, stuck at 99 percent progress and unable to further advance.

He didn’t know why. These two mysteries were like being just a hair’s breadth away, stuck at the last one percent and simply unable to break through.

“I didn’t expect to encounter such a strong opponent in just the ten-thousandth battle. The slender man earlier was a native of White Dragon Mountain’s elementary cosmic country, right?”

During each battle, you could only see each others’ names and records, and you couldn’t tell where they came from.

However, only people from places like that could learn mental secrets and become Mind Masters, a rare and powerful profession.

After becoming an Asura in the White Dragon Mountain’s Elementary Killing Field, Du Gang found that Asura now had a new level.

This time, it wasn’t calculated by consecutive victories. Instead, it was calculated by winning matches. Each victory counted as one point, each loss deducted one point. Accumulating ten thousand points would make him a one-star cultivator, and with a hundred thousand points, he would become a two-star Asura.

What was even more incredible was that the Killing Field notified him that he would only encounter Asuras in each subsequent battle. The number of Asuras in the White Dragon Mountain’s Elementary Killing Field was ten million.

“I, with my two Domains and various divine powers, barely became an ordinary Asura, and yet there are so many Asuras here…”

Du Gang was left stunned. He thought his ranking would at least be within the top ten thousand, but…

The reality was that he had overestimated. These ten million Asuras were not only under ten thousand years old, but many were actually very old and had been cultivating for a long time.

White Dragon Mountain, elementary cosmic country.

The lean, dark-skinned man with whom Du Gang fought was now continuously replaying the video of their battle.

Only after watching it several times did he confirm, “This guy definitely has some kind of secret mental defense technique. Damn it, with such a thing, it won’t be the scions of those hidden families coming out, will it?!”

Although his family was not among the top families in the White Dragon Mountain cosmic country, it wasn’t bad either and belonged to the second -tier families.

He knew almost all the hotshots from the top families, but this man named Du Gang was new to him.

“Damn it, I hope I don’t encounter this guy in future competitions!”

With his strength, he could even take down those with two Domains. However, against such a person who could ignore mental attacks, he naturally felt helpless.

The mysteries of Sharp Gold and War Gold were stuck at the last one percent, which made Du Gang very uncomfortable. After struggling for a while, he went to find Fan An to see if he had any ideas.

Although Fan An’s strength was no longer as great as his, he had, after all, lived for hundreds of thousands of years. His experiences and knowledge would certainly far exceed Du Gang’s.

“Did you study the laws of the Gold Element and the laws of Light and Darkness simultaneously?”

Fan An seemed surprised, but quickly said seriously, “Du Gang, I hope you can

give up one of the laws and focus solely on the practice of one.” hearing this, Du Gang asked, “Is there a problem?”

“The problem is serious!”

Fan An said gravely, “Let me tell you simply about the general case of an ordinary martial artist advancing from the Planet Level to the Eternal Level without considering natural talent constraints.”

“Ordinary martial artists begin to comprehend the temperament from various moves such as weapon skills, unarmed or leg techniques, etc., at the Planet

“Upon reaching the Stellar level, what martial artists must do is continuously understand the temperament, from a single-layered temperament to a nine-layered temperament. When he explores the laws from the nine-layered temperament and realizes the mysteries of the laws, it symbolizes advancement to the Cosmic level.”

“At the Cosmic level, one begins to continuously cultivate this mystery of the laws, practicing it to one hundred percent. Finally, upon mastering the domain, one is regarded as having reached the Domain Lord Level…”

“The Domain Lord level then involves cultivating the mysteries again after having a domain. When one has cultivated eight more mysteries and turned them all into domain states, one then possesses a nine-layered domain and may consider merging these nine domains of the same law with a small world, officially possessing an inner world. Then one may be considered a Sector Lord…”

“Therefore, the Sector Lord level not only denotes the rule of a sector, but also means that one owns a world inside oneself!”

“At the Sector Lord level, possessing a world domain is an even more potent domain than at the Domain Lord level. It is also a very complete and sturdy domain. After this point, a Sector Lord strongman needs to continue comprehending the laws within his world domain before he can ultimately advance to Eternal…’

Obviously, Fan An wasn’t very knowledgeable about the promotion of Sector Lord Strongmen to the Eternal level and was making things up as he went along.

“You should understand now, when you’re at the Stellar level, it doesn’t matter which law’s mysteries you’re comprehending. However, when you reach the Domain Lord level, you must choose one law to learn first…”

“The nine-layered domain of a Domain Lord must be of the same law!” Du Gang was curious, “What if different laws overlap, doesn’t that count as an accumulation?”

Fan An shook his head, “It’s not an accumulation, it’s an addition!”

“You understand, right? Your comprehension of two domains of two laws equals twenty, which is like ten plus ten. But your perception of two domains of one law equals a hundred, which is like ten times ten!”

“Every time you comprehend an additional domain, you lose more in the end, because different laws are additive, but the same law’s domains are multiplied!”

“And our energy is limited… In the past, I’ve seen those with astonishing talents who, at the Stellar Level, comprehended eighteen different domains. They even included two domains of the higher-order spatial laws among the eight basic laws. The result? He was easily defeated by a martial artist who only comprehended one law but reached a four-layered domain…’

“With his talent, the time he spent comprehending the eighteen domains would have been enough to create a nine-layered domain from two laws. As a result, he wasted his talents…

Fan An earnestly advised, “Du Gang, your law affinity is highest with the Gold Element, so I suggest you give up the Light and Darkness laws you’ve comprehended and focus on studying the Gold Element laws…”

Upon hearing Fan An’s words, Du Gang understood. This was essentially an efficiency issue.

If he only studied one kind of law, his progress would be swift. Still, if he learned several laws simultaneously, it could slow him down.

“Brother Fan, I understand. Thank you for your teaching…

“You’re welcome, for now, the most important thing is to focus on understanding the Gold Element, putting all other laws aside…’

After leaving Fan An’s residence, Du Gang walked towards the law’s affinity testing room, contemplating.

What Fan An said made a lot of sense. What Du Gang should do was to learn one set of laws, then cultivate it to the extreme as quickly as possible, reaching a limit of power. Then, when he had spare time, he could comprehend the laws of other systems.

Simultaneously learning two, or even three sets of laws may indeed be advantageous in battles of the same rank in the short term, but it can be a loss in the long run.

For instance, Zhang San had the same talent as Du Gang.

At present time, Du Gang had apprehended two sets of different laws, which made his strength and combination quite powerful, hence he was able to beat Zhang San.

However, a year later, when he had mastered two dual-domain laws and Zhang San had mastered a four-domain law, the outcome would surely be Zhang San’s victory.

This is just within one year. Given a longer time, say a hundred years, when he comprehended four tiers of laws in two systems, Zhang San might have comprehended eight tiers in a single system.

At that time, the multiple of his two sets of four-tier laws would be twenty thousand times, while the multiple of Zhang San’s eight-tier law would, in fact, be a hundred million times!

“So, I should just study one set of laws!”

Du Gang didn’t have the problem common to geniuses, who stubbornly want to study several laws at once. That would be stupid and would slow down his growth.

Just like now, he could clearly reach the Domain Lord Level in ten thousand years, but he insisted on spending twenty thousand years to break through with two sets of laws.

There could be countless changes in the extra ten thousand years.

Therefore, no matter how you look at it, it is most reliable to only study one set at this stage.

Soon, he arrived at the Affinity Testing Chamber again.

He planned to retest his affinity talent, as he felt something was off last time.

After a while, the test was finished and the result was out.

[Test completed!]

[Gold Element Law affinity 26%] [Wood Element Law affinity 5%] [Water Element Law affinity 5%]

[Light and Dark Laws affinity 26%]

[Space Law affinity 13%]

“For the seven sets of laws I’ve never been in contact with, the affinity is all

5%, adding up to 35%, plus the Gold Element, Light and Dark, and Space

Element, it’s just right to add up to one hundred percent!”

Looking at the report of Law affinity testing, Du Gang understood!

If he hadn’t learned any skills, his affinity for all ten categories might have been ten percent!

The reason why the test result was different last time, with Gold and Space standing out was because he learned Spear and Lance Nine Kills and Skyward Nine Transformations.

This time, the affinities of the other seven items were all 5%, while Gold Element and Light and Dark Element had a higher proportion of affinity because he had comprehended two mysteries. The Space Element had lower affinity because he only understood one, the Friction Mystery.

“So, for my physique, it’s actually the same to comprehend any laws. This so-called affinity is just my current level of comprehension…”

After understanding that it’s the same to study any set, Du Gang began to hesitate again.

He originally wanted to confirm that if the affinity of the Gold Element was the highest, he would abandon the other two and just focus on the Gold Element.

But now, it seems that it’s the same for him to study anything.

For the Light and Dark Laws, he has now comprehended the Mystery of Secrecy and the Mystery of Dazzling Light, which are both very useful. One can hide the body and the other can blind the enemy, and both mysteries have comprehended domains!

For the Gold Element, he has understood the Mystery of Sharp Gold and the

Mystery of War Gold, both stuck at 99%, without comprehending a domain.

For Space Laws, he has understood Friction Mystery, which can reduce friction and make his speed reach one third of the speed of light!

“Which system should I focus on?”

He felt a bit gloomy, as people usually rejoiced to understand a set of laws, but here he had to choose to give up two sets of laws.

“Phew-”

“Let’s deduce it a bit!”

Du Gang began to calculate, If he only learnt a certain system, what kind of situation he might encounter.

“If I only learn Light and Dark, I might go further and further on the paths of hiding myself or blinding the enemy, and in the end, I could possibly become an assassin…”

He hadn’t studied other mysteries of Light and Dark laws, and didn’t know whether they had any offensive means, so he could only deduce based on the information he currently had.

“Next is Gold. If I learn Gold laws, my attack power will become very formidable. Sharp Gold and War Gold seem to be enhancers that pierce armor.

So, in future, I will become a warrior with powerful attack…”

Gold system is dominated by slaughter, this is known to everyone, so it’s no problem to speculate there will be a big increase in attack power.

“Then there is the Space system. As top-level laws, it must be very difficult to learn. Based on the ultimate laws of Skyward Nine Transformations, I might achieve something in speed and become a nimble, elusive warrior or a type of assassin…”

As Du Gang listed all the possibilities of the three sets of laws, an answer naturally emerged in his mind.

“Am I, an Ancient God, going to be a hundred-meter-tall assassin? Or a million-meter-tall assassin?”

Du Gang suddenly laughed, “I’ve decided to become a powerful warrior by studying the Gold system!”

In fact, the Gold system suits the Ancient God very well, as its body is extremely formidable and defensive, not to mention the Ancient Divine Spear has the effect of breaking the laws. Coupled with the Gold system, it’s a perfect match!

Of course, by saying he would study Gold laws, it didn’t mean he wouldn’t use the laws of other systems.

It just meant that he would no longer spend time specifically studying the two other systems.

He would still use them, after all, the Mystery of Dazzling Light was very useful, and the Mystery of Friction was good for saving his life. At least at this stage, it was his most powerful method.

“There are 117 days left for the Peak Contest organizing committee to announce the format of the Open Auditions. During this period, I need to focus on studying Gold laws…”

He didn’t intend to go to the Killing Field for now, because the Gold laws didn’t meet his demands, especially since he wouldn’t get good training in the Killing Field, so it would naturally be difficult to improve.

“Let’s go to the Cultivation Site!”

At this time, Du Gang thought of the Cultivation Site in the virtual universe, which contained numerous miracles and was ideal for the cultivation of Gold laws.

He was not concerned by the high cost of the Cultivation Site, as he had earned a total of 610,950 White Dragon Coins from the Killing Field..