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by I Eat Tomatoes, Wo Chi Xi Hong Shi, 我吃西红柿

  “Brother Eastcalm?” A Sixth Tribulation Eminence greeted him warmly.

  Meng Chuan smiled and replied, “Palace Lord Star Sand.”

  This Sixth Tribulation Eminence’s name was Palace Lord Star Sand. He was the strongest expert of the Star Sand lifeforms in the River of Spacetime. His body was condensed from starlight sand, and the sand slowly flowed around him. He smiled brightly. “I heard of your name some time ago, but I’ve only gotten to meet you today.”

  “Brother Eastcalm, I heard that you are acquainted with Deputy Hall Lord Blazing Sun, allowing you to head to the Valley of Spacetime directly. We are extremely envious.”

  “We can only be envious.”

  “Brother Eastcalm, are you from Goddess River Zone? I’m from Bone Chasing River Zone. It’s very close to Goddess River Zone.”

  The surrounding Sixth Tribulation Eminences chatted with Meng Chuan. They were rather enthusiastic. They were also ordinary Sixth Tribulation Eminences. They were willing to befriend an Essence Soul Sixth Tribulation Eminence with strong background and backing.

  Furthermore, according to White Avian Hall’s rules, they had to help each other as members of White Avian Hall’s third branch. There were too many members in White Avian Hall. According to the regional division, neighboring river zones were grouped together. There were a total of eight branches.

  Hall Lord White Avian personally led the first branch. It had the most members, and it was in the River of Spacetime’s central region. The other seven branch halls were led by seven half-step Seventh Tribulation Eminences. They had over 1,000 members. They were the other seven areas in the River of Spacetime.

  As a member of Goddess River Zone, Meng Chuan was assigned to the third branch. “A few days ago, our battle with Six Directions Heaven in the East Abyss River region was really tragic. The battle was chaotic. Even a Seventh Tribulation Eminences and several half-step Seventh Tribulation Eminences appeared. My outer realm true body died in battle during the process. After the battle, the Patroller returned my weapons and treasures to me. They even compensated me with 30,000 cubes of Outer Realm Essence Crystals. Unfortunately, I require more than 30,000 cubes to recultivate my outer realm true body. I suffered a terrible loss.”

  “All of us suffered a loss during the battle at East Abyss River. Six Directions Heaven launched a sneak attack, fully prepared. After the Seventh Tribulation Eminence-Lord of the East Abyss-was heavily injured, he requested for help. White Avian Hall sent a large number of experts to reinforce us, but they failed to clinch victory in the end. There’s no way to replenish the losses they suffered from the battle. It’s not bad that they compensated you with 30,000 Outer Realm Essence Crystals.

  “Lord of the East Abyss is still a little weak. If he had the strength of a peak Seventh Tribulation Eminence, I believe Six Directions Heaven wouldn’t dare to take over the entire East Abyss River.”

  “Lord of the East Abyss… It’s a long story.”

  “He’s quite petty.”

  “For example, our Sect Master Mental Demon and Hall Master Azure Dragon are much more generous. We have never suffered any losses following the Sect Master and Hall Master Azure Dragon.” As the Sixth Tribulation Eminences chatted, Meng Chuan mainly listened. After all, he didn’t accept any missions from White Avian Hall, so he knew very little about such matters.

  “He’s here.”

  “Sect Master is here.” The lively hall gradually fell silent as three figures walked over.

  Meng Chuan took a closer look.

  Walking in the middle was a smiling boy. In fact, he was the leader of the third branchSect Master Mental Demon. He was also a half-step Seventh Tribulation Eminence. He grasped the Immeasurable law. The difficulty of dealing with a half-step Seventh Tribulation Eminence depended on the laws they grasped.

  Once one grasped the Immeasurable law, they could be said to be immortal. In terms of head-on combat, Sect Master Mental Demon was ranked in the River of Spacetime’s top 100. However, in terms of life-preservation means, he was ranked in the top 20.

  Sect Master Mental Demon. Flanking his sides are King Hunch Ridge and Lord of Avian Mountain. Meng Chuan examined them. King Hunch Ridge was a single-horned elder with an octagonal outer shell on his back. Lord of Avian Mountain was a white and fat man. His skin was very fair and supple. These two had grasped a spatial law. They were peak Sixth Tribulation Eminences, and they were strong enough to exchange blows with Seventh Tribulation Eminences.

  As for ordinary Sixth Tribulation Eminences and peak Sixth Tribulation Eminences, they were unable to fight back against Seventh Tribulation Eminences.

  “Everyone.” Sect Master Mental Demon-who looked like a child-sat at the main seat of honor. His voice reached every corner of the hall, and his voice naturally carried joy. “Apart from King Hunch Ridge, our White Avian Hall’s third branch has produced another Deputy Patroller. It’s none other than Brother Avian Mountain.”

  Only peak Sixth Tribulation Eminences had the right to take on the responsibility of Deputy Patroller.

  Meng Chuan sat in a corner and raised his cup with the crowd.

  During the entire celebration, Meng Chuan only focused when Lord of Avian Mountain began explaining the spatial law he had comprehended.

  The lecture continued for half a day, and all the Sixth Tribulation Eminences listened carefully.

  Only then did the pudgy Lord of Avian Mountain smile. “After saying so much, I will need to showcase it a little to make it more comprehensible. Whoever wishes to spar with me, please come to the hall.”

  “Brother Avian Mountain, I’m looking forward to receiving some pointers.” A thin figure in the front row stood up and walked to the center of the hall.

  Anyone who dared to challenge a Deputy Patroller had to be a peak Sixth Tribulation Eminence. It would be meaningless if the strength difference was too great.

  The thin figure’s blood-red eyes were filled with anticipation. He also wanted to comprehend a spatial law. He could gain a deeper understanding of spatial laws by engaging in direct combat.

  “Don’t hold back. Attack with all your might.” The thin figure stared at Lord of Avian Mountain. In the past, they had been on par, but the gap between them had now widened.

  “You won’t be able to last more than a few blows if I attack with all my might.” The white and fat Lord of Avian Mountain walked to the center of the hall. “Come at me.”

  The thin figure vanished into thin air.

  A huge illusory head appeared and attempted to devour Lord of Avian Mountain. The surrounding scenery began to distort.

  Lord of Avian Mountain extended his right hand, and his fair palm pressed down slightly.

  Silently

  The surrounding area was suddenly crushed into a piece of paper. There was a thin figure pattern on the piece of paper. The paper eventually dissipated, and the thin figure pattern also vanished. Meng Chuan’s pupils constricted when he saw this. He had studied the Void Catalog for so long, so he could naturally tell that Lord of Avian Mountain had used the simple Void Pressure. It crushed all the layers of space into a single layer. Furthermore, it erased the ‘height’ of this layer of space, changing it from a three-dimensional space to a flat surface.

  After becoming a flat surface, all living beings that relied on space would die.

  One had to grasp a spatial law completely in order to control space so wantonly.

  Chapter 656 - Spatial Law

  Despite killing a peak Sixth Tribulation Eminence with a single strike, Lord of Avian Mountain thought nothing of it. At that moment, the thin figure walked in from outside the hall. He had clearly condensed his will once again.

  “Brother Avian Mountain, you won against me fair and square.” The thin figure walked in and shook his head. “I’ve cultivated to such a stage, but I’m still unable to withstand a single blow in front of a spatial law.”

  “Space is the foundation of all existences. It can naturally suppress all other Sixth
Tribulation laws,” said Lord of Avian Mountain. “Although I don’t know why one is still considered a Sixth Tribulation lifeform despite grasping a spatial law… it’s no less important than an Origins law to me.”

  All the Sixth Tribulation Eminences from the various river zones present nodded.

  At their realm, the next step was the Origins laws. Therefore, they could sense that the spatial laws had a greater influence on everything, even more than a number of Origins laws. However, the body and Essence Soul cultivated with a spatial law remained at the Sixth Tribulation realm.

  “Time and space are the two core foundations of everything we know.” Sect Master Mental Demon-who was seated in the main seatspoke from afar. “It’s just like two legs. Without any of the legs, one will be a cripple. The spatial law is indeed very important, but if there’s no time, pure space will be much weaker. However, it will transform once time is added.”

  “As for Origins laws, they are compatible with time and space, resulting in their great might. With this, one can reach the Seventh Tribulation realm. Just relying on space is extremely weak. But with a complete spatial law as a foundation, one can leap out of the River of Spacetime and become an Eighth Tribulation Eminence once a complete temporal law is combined with it.

  “They can roam the past, future, and other universes,” said Sect Master Mental Demon with a smile. “To an Eighth Tribulation Eminence, grasping a spatial law is just one step in building their foundation.”

  The Sixth Tribulation Eminences present nodded slightly. They yearned for the Eighth Tribulation realm, but they found it extremely distant.

  They were all hegemons of their own jurisdictions. Some were geniuses from high-level worlds, the strongest of a special lifeform race, and the most dazzling person of weak worlds…

  In the vast River of Spacetime, there were only tens of thousands of Sixth Tribulation Eminences among the countless species.

  For example, the Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snake species—which Meng Chuan had interacted with before-didn’t have a Sixth Tribulation Eminence. The strongest expert in that species didn’t even have the right to enter Nebula Palace. Clearly, being in the ranks of Nebula Palace meant that one stood among the universe’s strongest experts. “Avian Mountain, show us more. People won’t even have the time to comprehend what’s happening if you keep finishing your opponent in one or two moves,” said Sect Master Mental Demon with a smile.

  Lord of Avian Mountain nodded slightly. He swept his gaze across the top Sixth Tribulation Eminences sitting at the front of the hall.

  At that moment, a silver-haired, green-eyed man stood up. His ears were sharp, and his robe was gorgeous. He smiled and said, “I’ll spar with Brother Avian Mountain. Brother Avian Mountain, please show mercy.”

  “It won’t be easy to destroy this avatar of yours.” When Lord of Avian Mountain saw the other party, he felt somewhat helpless.

  It’s him? Shadowfiend Walker? Meng Chuan raised his eyebrows.

  Hall Lord White Avian had a good friend who had built White Avian Hall with him. His name was Lord of Shadowfiend. He was a half-step Seventh Tribulation Eminence, and he was like Hall Lord White Avian’s shadow. He didn’t like to appear in public, nor did he handle any management issues. However, his secret contributions to White Avian Hall were above that of Deputy Hall Lord Blazing Sun and Deputy Hall Lord Azure Dragon. Traces of his contribution could be found in many of White Avian Hall’s major events.

  Lord of Shadowfiend was publicly recognized as the strongest half-step Seventh Tribulation Eminence! In the days when he fought alongside Hall Lord White Avian, Lord of Shadowfiend had once killed two Seventh Tribulation Eminences’ outer realm true bodies. This shocked all the factions in the River of Spacetime. Of course, he seldom appeared in the past 10,000 years.

  As for Shadowfiend Walker, he was Lord of Shadowfiend’s only Sixth Tribulation disciple.

  Inside the main hall of Nebula Palace, Lord of Avian Mountain and Shadowfiend Walker began fighting Shadowfiend Walker transformed into windan omnipresent wind!

  The wind howled alongside a gentle breeze. The latter silently seeped deep into the enemy’s body.

  Whoosh.

  Wind sliced toward Lord of Avian Mountain like a blade.

  Lord of Avian Mountain stood there.

  The wind blade sliced through the air as though Lord of Avian Mountain was an illusion. The wind blade failed to touch him at

  all.

  As long as Lord of Avian Mountain is willing to stand in front of him, the other party won’t be able to touch him. Meng Chuan could tell that Lord of Avian Mountain had casually created a layer of space and stayed inside it. Other Sixth Tribulation Eminences were unable to enter this layer of space, so they naturally couldn’t injure him at all.

  Lord of Avian Mountain suddenly took a step forward. Strangely, all the wind around him receded.

  He was walking The surrounding wind was avoiding him, maintaining a distance of about one feet from him.

  So close yet so far. Meng Chuan sighed in amazement.

  It wasn’t that the wind was retreating, but rather that Lord of Avian Mountain was controlling space, allowing the two parties to maintain such a distance forever. No matter how fast the other party was, he would always be slightly short of hitting Lord of Avian Mountain.

  “Impressive.”

  “A spatial law indeed crushes all other Sixth Tribulation laws.”

  “Every time I see it with my own eyes, I find the difference between us too great.”

  The Sixth Tribulation Eminences present discussed silently. Sixth Tribulation Eminences who grasped a spatial law were ranked as peak Sixth Tribulation Eminences. They were on a whole different level. They weren’t even afraid of falling out with Seventh Tribulation Eminences. This was because they would still have time to self-destruct an avatar if a Seventh Tribulation Eminence wanted to kill them.

  “It’s my turn.” Lord of Avian Mountain—who had been hiding-finally attacked.

  He pointed his finger forward.

  Boom.

  The raging winds that had spread everywhere were suddenly restrained! To be precise, the surrounding space was abruptly compressed into a single point. It was slightly smaller than a grain of sand, so the boundless wind was naturally contained within that point.

  The fair, slender finger touched the spot, and the spot was completely destroyed with a boom.

  At the moment of annihilation, Shadowfiend Walker appeared out of nowhere, still in peak condition.

  Law of the past. Meng Chuan looked at this scene and knew that this was another one of Shadowfiend Walker’s techniques.

  Shadowfiend Walker was a peak Sixth Tribulation Eminence. He had grasped two Sixth Tribulation laws. One was the law of wind, and the other was the law of the past.

  The law of the past was actually the ingenious usage of an Undying Talisman’s profundity. Shadowfiend Walker could create Undying Talismans himself.

  The moment he seemed to be killed, he could project a still perfect body from the past to reality.

  To kill an expert that had comprehended the law of the past, not only did one have to kill the expert’s present, but one also had to kill the expert’s past.

  If the law of wind was considered relatively good for staying alive, then the law of the past could be said to give one an undying body at the Sixth Tribulation realm.

  “No matter how powerful time is, it still depends on space.” Lord of Avian Mountain finally became serious. With him at the center, his surroundings began to distort and boil. Shadowfiend Walker’s body began to distort as well. Every distortion resulted in destruction and rebirth.

  Shadowfiend’s body was constantly being destroyed and projected from the past to the present. However, it was clearly becoming more and more difficult for him to project his past body into the present. “Absolute Space?”

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  Everyone present watched as Meng Chuan held his breath.
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  In the past, only one move could break a Sixth Tribulation law-Absolute Space.

  Absolute Space meant complete control. For example, the 50,000-kilometer-wide Lightning Realm that Meng Chuan had previously read about was an absolute space.

  Absolute Space had a terrifying suppression on everything. Teleportation through time became extremely difficult. “In my Absolute Space, you can only project the most recent moment to the present. How many times can you project yourself? Ten times? A hundred times?” Lord of Avian Mountain looked at his opponent.

  Shadowfiend Walker’s body trembled dozens of times before he immediately shouted, “Alright, alright. Stop immediately.”

  Absolute Space greatly affected Shadowfiend Walker’s control over time. After the recent time nodes were destroyed, he could only use an older time node. However, the older the time node was, the harder it was for him to successfully project it into the present amidst Absolute Space.

  For example, an Eighth Tribulation Eminence could directly head to the past with their body. It was something Shadowfiend Walker didn’t even dare imagine. Whoosh.

  The surrounding space returned to normal. Lord of Avian Mountain smiled as he looked at Shadowfiend Walker.

  “A complete spatial law is indeed invincible at the Sixth Tribulation realm.” Shadowfiend Walker shook his head. “Without Origins laws, there’s no way to suppress it.”

  Meng Chuan watched all of this from a corner at the back of the hall, and he sighed.

  Be it Shadowfiend Walker or Lord of Avian Mountain, they both far exceeded him. He had no way of dealing with Shadowfiend Walker’s Undying Body of the Past at all. The other party’s two laws combined could trample him.

  As for Lord of Avian Mountain? In Absolute Space, he could destroy Meng Chuan however he wanted.

  Spatial law, Meng Chuan thought to himself. This was also his current cultivation goal.

  Chapter 657 - Endless Belts of Wind

  The celebration ceremony finally came to an end.