Martial Ascent to Divinity-Chapter 571 - 554: Four-Eyed

Zhou Leng remembered something recorded in the Divine Text fragments from the Demon Spirit World. He didn’t quite understand it at the time, but now it suddenly became clear.

In High-Level Civilizations, bloodline, tribe, identity, and so on are useful, but not universal.

There are too many powerful bloodlines, tribes, identities, and most rely on predecessors, which cannot truly measure a person’s high-level value.

The life in High-Level Civilizations cannot be so primitive as to use identifiers such as bloodline, tribe, identity to reflect value.

Civilizational merit badges are the current universal measure.

During the minority period before the age of 100, one can obtain civilizational merit badges through extremely rare trials.

After reaching adulthood at 100, only by enhancing the entire civilization’s "degree of evolution" or by completely killing a "Foreign God" and other actions, can one obtain civilizational merit badges, a difficulty beyond imagination.

Currently, this civilizational badge has not yet been formed, it’s just a projection; only by completing all trials and achieving a super full score of 120 points in all of them can it condense and take shape.

As Zhou Leng looked at the civilizational badge, he recalled some contents from the Divine Text fragments, his heart moved.

In most High-Level Civilizations, life is more equal among beings. Conditions like wealth, power, or strength are not unimportant but cannot play a decisive role.

Civilizational merit badges can.

Even if a common person from an Elementary Civilization obtains a civilizational badge, even if it’s just 1 point of civilizational merit badge, they will be treated with respect in any High-Level Civilization world.

The civilizational badge is sought after with determination.

Besides the civilizational badge, the Will World has introduced a new set of things.

A "World Instrument" and a Martial Shadow Wall.

The World Instrument looks ancient, somewhat like a celestial instrument in silver-gray metallic color, with a spherical interior and circular rings surrounding it that rotate slowly.

The Martial Shadow Wall is just a palm-sized jade plaque. The "Slaughtering Heaven Battle Body" is like this, so is the Martial Shadow Wall from the Ancient River Sect when minimized.

An information stream flowed into his mind.

Originally, Zhou Leng thought the Martial Shadow Wall was only in the jade plaque form and an enlarged jade monument form, but now he knows the World Instrument is also needed.

"Theoretically, this kind of reward is only given to a Martial Shadow Wall, but I don’t have a World Instrument, so there’s an extra gift; has a glitch been triggered again?"

Zhou Leng tried to control the World Instrument and Martial Shadow Wall.

He saw the Martial Shadow Wall fly into the celestial instrument-shaped World Instrument, the outer circular rings of the World Instrument rotated rapidly, emitting a fine hum.

Swish...

Zhou Leng felt a flash of darkness and brightness before his eyes, and his body appeared in a brand new world.

The grass was bright blue, the sky full of endless suns, and in the distance, peculiar trees along with oddly-shaped beasts slowly moved about.

Then, a light screen appeared in front of him, with red Divine Text shining brightly.

"Star Court Warning: According to Star Court Law..."

Zhou Leng found it somewhat familiar and read it carefully.

Although he couldn’t recognize all the characters, he could roughly guess that it was copyright protection information or the like.

As the light faded away, a blue-black-skinned humanoid walked over.

About five meters tall, with a huge blue-black tail behind him, slowly sweeping the ground.

His body and limb contours were similar to humans, except his fingers were eight talons, and a bony crown grew on his head, with extraordinarily broad shoulders.

There were four eyes on his head, each located in the front, back, left, and right directions, one for each direction.

A divine halo hung high behind his head, with small stars gathered together forming a large ring-like object, emitting a faint glow.

The star ring is obviously only slightly larger than his head, looking small, but upon careful observation, it appears like a magnificent and grand asteroid belt.

The divine halo slowly rotates, exuding endless majesty.

It was very similar to the Divine Spirit phantom seen earlier in the Divine Power Land.

This master approached leisurely, seemingly taking a stroll after supper, but in Zhou Leng’s heart, it was like a ten-thousand-foot-tall mountain, while carrying ten-thousand-foot-high waves behind it, slowly crushing the earth.

The breath of death approached him.

It seemed as if the Celestial Calamity Envoy was stretching out its finger again, pointing directly at him.

The world was about to collapse.

Zhou Leng was stunned for a moment, instantly realizing that he had underestimated High-Level Civilizations.

The Martial Shadow Wall was not just something similar to TV video.

It was such a fully simulated world.

Not only leaving an image but also leaving behind the aura of a Divine Spirit.

Zhou Leng immediately bent down and bowed, speaking in Divine Text, "Student Zhou Leng, pays respects to teacher."

The Void God of the four-eyed tribe looked at Zhou Leng with a smile and said, "Elementary Civilization, you have some understanding of Divine Text, at such a young age, yet you can achieve Super Resolution, not bad."

"Teacher praises too highly, this student wouldn’t dare."

Zhou Leng’s heart pounded like a drum; he realized that the divine spirit power inside, actually possessed independent consciousness.

"Display your Lightweight Skills."

"Yes."

Zhou Leng first demonstrated the Eight Trigrams Step, Cloud Wandering Body Technique, Flying Crane Technique, which he initially learned, and finally showed the Ancient River Sect’s Sky Dragon Flash.

The Void God of the four-eyed tribe pondered for a long time and said, "Your civilization’s cultivation technique has a wide range... have you encountered Martial Arts Ruins?"

"Teacher has keen sight, the final Sky Dragon Flash indeed originates from the Martial Arts Ruins," Zhou Leng said.

The Void God of the four-eyed tribe said, "There’s no need to be overly polite. Then I shall guide you targeting your tribe’s physique and cultivation technique."

"Thank you, teacher."

The Void God of the four-eyed tribe walked to Zhou Leng’s side, reached out and performed a bone-touching technique all over Zhou Leng, not leaving out any inch of space from head to toe.

Then, his eyes lit up, like a scanner, scanning Zhou Leng’s entire body from head to toe.

He contemplated for a long time and slowly said, "Interesting, very interesting. Your tribe’s body seems so ordinary, so commonplace; at first glance, the body has no special qualities."

Zhou Leng’s heart turned cold, finished.

He continued, "Yet such a tribe can always create miracles."

"Why?" Zhou Leng was puzzled.

The Void God of the four-eyed tribe said, "Even Elementary Civilizations should know the evolution of life often spans billions of years."

"For example, our four-eyed tribe, the reason we are fortunate enough to have four comprehensive eyes is due to the harsh environment in which we lived, where hostile tribes possessed strong ambush abilities."

"Those ancestors who didn’t evolve four eyes and had poor vision went extinct early. Only this bloodline of ours was fortunate enough to survive."

"To adapt to the environment of our world, we have used all the potential of our genes to enhance our body technique and four eyes."

"In our world, we four-eyed tribe are the strongest, the most correct."

"Do you think, among the Taisheng Universe and all the races, our four-eyed tribe is still the strongest?"

Zhou Leng did not answer.

"Of course not. Among high-level civilizations, we four-eyed tribe are quite ordinary. Our tribe’s evolutionary potential exists, but it’s not much."

"Your tribe, seemingly ordinary in all aspects, also means there is immense evolutionary potential."

"Ordinary, without strengths, also means no weaknesses; mundane, uncrafted, also signifies endless possibilities."

"Of course, surviving in the universe also requires a bit of luck."

"Alright, next I’ll train your lightness skill."

"However, you are within an elementary civilization; there is a ’civilization shackle’ between us. I cannot teach you specific cultivation techniques, but I can teach you experience, insights, my training methods, and the correct concept of lightness skill..."

After finishing the explanation, the four-eyed tribe’s void god referred to the body technique training courses of high-level civilizations and tailored a lightness skill training program.

With a wave of his hand, hundreds of pieces of lightness training equipment or venues appeared on the ground.

Zhou Leng followed instructions and began training.

The void god of the four-eyed tribe taught experience, knowledge, insights, and concepts during the training process, sometimes even recounting high-level civilization events related to lightness skills, including some celebrities.

Zhou Leng tried hard to memorize.

Perhaps due to the world instrument, his memory suddenly surged, and every key divine text spoken by the teacher left a virtual shadow in his mind instantly.

Originally, it required many repetitions to form the virtual shadow of the divine texts in the mind.

The virtual shadow would persist for a while but would disappear with time.

If repeatedly recalled later, the divine text would become clearer until it solidified, being remembered forever.

No time passed within the world instrument, and Zhou Leng repeatedly studied and trained.

After completing the first stage of training, the four-eyed teacher let Zhou Leng continue to participate in the higher difficulty evasion trials.

Zhou Leng bid farewell to the teacher and restarted the higher difficulty trials.

This time, he directly scored 110 points.

Original large-scale explosion shrapnel from shells and rockets could also be effectively evaded.

After repeatedly trying, the highest score was 112 points, still unable to reach the higher difficulty of 120 points.

Zhou Leng again used the world instrument and martial shadow wall to seek learning from the four-eyed teacher.

Thus, going back and forth in and out of training.

Gradually, Zhou Leng felt himself changing more and more.

Not only in body technique levels but also in the understanding of martial arts.

A few casual words from the four-eyed teacher could enlighten martial artists of elementary civilization.

Some understandings of martial arts were useful for lightness skills, body techniques, or stepping techniques, and also applicable to other cultivation techniques.

In this way, Zhou Leng repeatedly cultivated and underwent trials.

"First layer evasion trial, commence."

On the martial arts dojo, dense attacks arrived.

Zhou Leng’s movements were entirely different from before.

In the past, the body was like a constantly flying bullet, flying rapidly, dizzying to the eyes.

But now, it seemed clumsy, became slow.

Walking a step, pausing, walking another step, and pausing again.

Walking and stopping intermittently.

Yet oddly, it seemed to possess eyes that could foresee the future.

Where he stopped would never be attacked.

Where he passed, all attacks would graze past.

As if he could always find an absolutely safe time and absolutely safe place among the dense landings.

The key point was, the consumption of physical strength and energy was less than one-tenth of the original.

Ineffective movements were minimal.

The complex steps of the Dragon Flash, simplified.

All things follow their track, all events source from their origin.

Zhou Leng firmly followed the guidance of the four-eyed teacher, mind devoid of external distractions, stepping with the seemingly lagging lightness skill Dragon Flash.

Sometimes, he would even abandon the Dragon Flash and switch to the basic Eight Trigrams Step or even basic stepping techniques.

The buzzer sounded.

"Trial ended. Congratulations to the trial taker Zhou Leng for completing the high difficulty evasion trial, successfully reaching 120 points."

"Since the super full-score reward has already been claimed, no additional rewards will be given."

"However, once you obtain a complete civilization badge, this result will be recorded within it, universally applicable across the universe."

Zhou Leng glanced around, all attackers vanished.

Zhou Leng smiled and wanted to enter the world instrument and martial shadow wall once more to thank the four-eyed teacher.

The martial shadow wall had vanished.

The guidance had ended.

Zhou Leng was stunned, feeling a sense of emptiness within.

The passage of time in the world of consciousness was hard to calculate, but comparing it to the cultivation progress, the two had spent at least half a year together day and night.

Unfortunately, farewell was inevitable.

Just as Zhou Leng was about to enter the second room to adjust the trial, he suddenly felt his whole body numb and tingly.

Body and consciousness connected.

Zhou Leng opened his eyes.

The ward came into view.

Chen Shouhu and Wang Boxiong turned their heads to look.