Open up and break into another world

Zhang Mu was still in shock after leaving the Void Universe Battlefield.

The Void Universe Battlefield was only a virtual world; being slapped in the Void Universe Battlefield wouldn't leave a mark on his face in reality.

However… after leaving the Void Universe Battlefield, Zhang Mu couldn't help but repeatedly touch his face, always feeling a burning sensation as if he had been slapped.

Actually, it wasn't that Zhang Mu had a slap mark on his face, but that Xu Ming had left a psychological shadow on him!

"Heh!" Xu Ming glanced at Zhang Mu disdainfully before leaving directly—just a clown, yet he dared to disturb my cultivation!

However, although Xu Ming's cultivation was disturbed by Zhang Mu, it wasn't without its benefits.

At least, Xu Ming learned about the Tower of Understanding and the Book Depository of Self from Zhang Mu; otherwise, Xu Ming would probably have to cultivate in seclusion for a long time before someone challenged him and he found out about these two places.

"I'll go challenge the 'Tower of Understanding' first!" Xu Ming thought to himself.

Just now, Xu Ming had already used slaps to force out some information about these two places—as long as he passed the first three levels of the Tower of Understanding, he would receive three secret manuals respectively!

And these three secret manuals were all about the theoretical foundation of the "Realm of Self," which was exactly what Xu Ming needed.

After Xu Ming left…

"Eh? Isn't that Zhang Mu?" A genius happened to pass by, "Why does your face look so bad? Did you lose in the Void Universe Battlefield?"

Zhang Mu was startled and quickly said, "No… no! I'm fine!"

He didn't dare let others know that he had been crazily slapped by Xu Ming in the Void Universe Battlefield.

If other geniuses knew about this, Zhang Mu would definitely become a laughingstock.

…

The Tower of Understanding wasn't very far from the Void Universe Battlefield.

It didn't take long for Xu Ming to arrive at the Tower of Understanding.

Coincidentally, there were quite a few geniuses near the Tower of Understanding; Xu Ming's arrival naturally attracted some attention—after all, who told Xu Ming to perform so well in the selection battle? It was hard not to be noticed.

"Isn't that Xu Ming?"

"Didn't I hear that Xu Ming failed to challenge the first level of the 'Tower of Understanding' before? Is he going to challenge it again now?"

However, among the geniuses, there was a rumor that Xu Ming had once challenged the Tower of Understanding but failed to pass even the first level.

Moreover, Xu Ming had never appeared, so this rumor gradually seemed to become true.

Many geniuses believed that Xu Ming couldn't even pass the first level.

"I was only focused on cultivation and almost forgot to challenge Xu Ming in the Void Universe Battlefield!"

"That's right! Xu Ming's strength is suppressed two hundred times! That suppression is too much! Even if he is the 'Number One Genius on the Primordial Myriad Things Ranking,' what's the use?—Two hundred times the suppression directly turns Xu Ming into a soft persimmon!"

"After Xu Ming finishes challenging the Tower of Understanding, I will challenge him! I'll give this soft persimmon a good pinch!"

Obviously, many geniuses regarded Xu Ming as a soft persimmon.

However… a man's reputation is like the shadow of a tree; even if they regarded Xu Ming as a soft persimmon, they wouldn't dare to challenge him easily.

They planned to take advantage of Xu Ming's challenge to the Tower of Understanding and observe Xu Ming's strength first.

If Xu Ming couldn't even pass the first level, then most of the geniuses would probably challenge Xu Ming to earn points from him.

But if Xu Ming passed the second level, then the geniuses who wanted to challenge him would probably have to weigh their chances of winning first!

"Can Xu Ming pass the first level?"

"It's hard to say… after all, his strength is suppressed two hundred times! That suppression is too great!"

…

Xu Ming ignored these surrounding voices, took a step, and directly entered the "Tower of Understanding" to begin the challenge.

Whoosh!

With a change of scenery before his eyes, Xu Ming appeared on the first level of the Tower of Understanding.

"This is…?" Xu Ming didn't sense too many abnormalities in the Tower of Understanding, "It seems that the Tower of Understanding is just a place to prove one's strength!—Where is my opponent?"

Rumble…

Suddenly, Xu Ming felt that the entire continent beneath his feet was trembling—this continent was even larger than the Divine Domain, as if the entire continent was rising rapidly!

"This is…?" Xu Ming was stunned, and his divine sense spread out, covering the entire continent.

In the next instant, Xu Ming's expression froze—he then realized that the continent beneath his feet was not a continent at all, but a giant beast.

"Is this the 'True Kun'?"

When Xu Ming was slapping Zhang Mu in the Void Universe Battlefield, he already knew that the opponent on the first level of the Tower of Understanding was the incomparably huge "True Kun."

At that time, Xu Ming didn't have much of a concept of "incomparably huge."

After all, at his level, "size" didn't mean much anymore; only the strength was the essence.

But now, when Xu Ming really saw the size of the "True Kun," he couldn't help but be shocked.

He was standing on the True Kun's body, which was even more exaggerated than an ant standing on a giant whale.

Whoosh—

Xu Ming quickly left the True Kun's body and distanced himself from it.

"It is said that… this True Kun is a kind of giant beast in the True Universe! The True Universe is extremely mysterious, and even some cultivation systems are completely different from the Virtual Universe—for example, this True Kun, which doesn't 'comprehend the True Self' like us at all; but its strength is extremely powerful, its cultivation level is only equivalent to the Myriad Things Realm, but its strength is comparable to a 'Half-Step Realm Lord,' equivalent to the strength of a mid-to-lower-ranked expert on the Heavenly Ranking!"

"Roar—"

When the distance was pulled to a certain extent, Xu Ming finally saw the full picture of this True Kun—the True Kun had no scales all over its body, and it looked like a giant whale that had been magnified countless times; at the lower jaw, there were countless thick and long fleshy whiskers, each with a length of "one realm."

"This is a very ordinary True Kun in the True Universe?" Xu Ming was a little shocked, "I wonder… what other strange beasts in the True Universe are like?"

Xu Ming suddenly had a trace of yearning for the True Universe.

Of course, no matter what… Xu Ming had to go to the True Universe!

That was his ultimate battlefield!

Xu Ming was frantically improving his strength in the Virtual Universe in order to go to the True Universe—his wife, Gu Hanmo, and his daughter, Xu Yin, were both in the True Universe!

"Let's kill this True Kun first and pass the first level!" Xu Ming thought to himself.

This True Kun was actually just a wisp of refined formation spirit, and even if it was killed, it would be immediately reborn.

Of course, in terms of strength, it was only stronger, not weaker, than a normal True Kun.

"Let's first test the strength of this giant beast from the True Universe!"

Boom—

Xu Ming directly took out his spear, his aura burst forth, and he went straight to kill the True Kun.

And the True Kun's eyes, as vast as a continent in the Divine Domain, directly looked towards Xu Ming.

Whoosh—

An extremely large fleshy whisker directly lashed towards Xu Ming.

Brother, are you raising a Kun?