When Qin Feng arrived, he found over a thousand other eliminated contestants already gathered there, scattered about.
Clearly, they were all the unlucky ones who had been defeated in the first round of the competition.
He waited patiently for a little longer.
Once all the contestants who had failed to advance to the "Top 10,000" round had finally trickled in,
an Ultimate Warrior, clad in sky-blue Standard Power Armor with an aura as vast as an abyss, appeared before the crowd.
He wasted no time on pleasantries, simply beckoning to them.
"Everyone, board the ship."
The crowd immediately followed him, boarding a strangely shaped, silver-gray spaceship docked at an outer starport.
The ship activated, instantly entering a Subspace Teleportation corridor.
When Qin Feng opened his eyes again and looked out the viewport, he was utterly stunned by the sight before him.
They had emerged into a boundless, magnificent expanse of deep space.
Directly ahead of them, a colossal city whose majesty and grandeur defied all description stood silently amidst a brilliant Star River. This Star River was a convergence of billions of galaxies, countless nebulae, and vast oceans of gas and dust.
The great city was simply too vast.
It looked as if countless galaxies had been forcibly spliced and fused together, stretching so far across the Cosmos that its edges were lost to sight.
Compared to it, the Canaan Tower—which Qin Feng had once seen and which stood several light-years tall—seemed as insignificant as a toothpick, too minuscule to even mention.
Anyone with megalophobia would likely suffer a complete mental breakdown the instant they laid eyes on this megastructure!
’This is... one of the great strongholds of the Beikai-Andromeda Interstellar Great Wall—the Martial Hero Pass.’
’And it’s also the main base of the Ultramarines Chapter.’
Qin Feng had quickly found this information about the majestic megastructure by searching the Subspace Network forums.
The ship didn’t enter the great city directly. Instead, it docked for a long time at a Starport outside the pass.
It was only several hours later that the ship started up again, passing through another short-range Subspace Teleportation Gate to enter the interior of the Martial Hero Pass.
The scene before them changed once more.
This time, what appeared before them was a cluster of black Stone Steles, so massive they defied imagination, standing amidst endless cosmic dust.
The main stele leading the cluster was several times taller than even the Canaan Tower, reaching a staggering height of tens of light-years!
It stood there in silence, as if it had existed for all eternity, radiating a formidable aura that was boundless, ancient, and filled with the endless rhythm of the Dao.
"This is your destination—the Extreme Enlightenment Stele."
The Ultimate Warrior in the sky-blue power armor, who had been silent until now, finally spoke.
His voice, broadcast through his power armor’s external speakers, was steady and powerful.
"This ’Extreme Enlightenment Stele’ contains the lifelong Martial Dao comprehensions and the traces of various ultimate killing techniques, all inscribed by countless sages of the past.
Its first function is to allow you to learn and imitate by studying and comprehending these inscriptions.
However, this function is of no use to you at your current level.
You would need to be at least at the ’Planet-level’ of strength to even begin to withstand the immense impact of the sages’ Martial Dao Will."
He paused for a moment before continuing.
"Its second function, and the main reason you are here, is to enhance the activity of your Mental Power."
"To put it simply, the special Energy Field it radiates allows your minds to enter the profound ’flow state’ much faster and more easily. It can even induce the legendary state of ’epiphany.’
This will dramatically increase the efficiency with which you comprehend and advance your Slaughter Realm."
"As for how to use it, the method is simple."
The Ultimate Warrior pointed out the window toward the vast cluster of giant Stone Steles floating in the cosmic dust.
"In a moment, you will be randomly teleported to the side of one of the smaller steles. All you need to do is sit in meditation cross-legged beside your Enlightenment Stele, then immerse your consciousness into the Imperial Arena for high-intensity combat."
"Under the amplifying effect of the Enlightenment Stele’s Energy Field, your progress will be extremely rapid. However, you only have one month. Good luck."
Hearing the Ultimate Warrior’s detailed explanation of the Enlightenment Stele’s function, Qin Feng’s heart suddenly sank.
’This is bad!’
An annoyed thought surfaced uncontrollably in his mind.
’Dramatically increase the efficiency of advancing my Slaughter Realm...’
’One month... ’
He instantly realized the immense awkwardness of his situation—he knew far too few Fourth-level Killing Techniques!
Since advancing to the sixth rank, he had only cultivated a single Fourth-level Killing Technique: *Heavy Spear*.
If he possessed the legacies for ten, or even dozens, of different Fourth-level Killing Techniques, then with the heaven-defying assistance of the Enlightenment Stele, couldn’t he cultivate all of them to an extremely high level within this one month?
Now *that* would be hitting the jackpot, a meteoric rise!
However, this thought, filled with regret and remorse, did not linger in Qin Feng’s mind for long.
Because when he truly began to experience the miraculous and unfathomable power of the Extreme Enlightenment Stele, he would discover just how ridiculously wrong he had been.