140: Chapter 140 Young Kong Hanshu, Absolute Space

"Han Shu, what do you think?"

Behind the group of Students, Director Lu Yu pointed to the name on the leaderboard that had already reached third place and looked at Kong Hanshu beside him.

"It's hard to say." Kong Hanshu replied with a smile, "You know that the ninth level of every stage is a hurdle."

"I actually think the chances are quite high."

Director Lu Yu smiled, and with a wave of his hand, an illusory tower pearl appeared in his palm.

Kong Hanshu looked at Director Lu Yu in surprise; there were only a few illusory tower pearls in existence, and even he didn't have one.

"Hehe, didn't expect that, did you? I asked Dean Xiaos Academy for it."

The Stars had three deans in total.

One principal and two vice-principals.

And the Dean Xiao that Director Lu Yu mentioned was the other vice-principal, besides Xue Mingyun.

Xue Mingyun was responsible for the academy's miscellaneous affairs, including the various research institutes on campus and admissions work.

However, this Dean Xiao was the head of the teaching system, and besides being a special-grade instructor, Kong Hanshu was also Dean Xiao's assistant.

"Want to take a look?"

Director Lu Yu asked again.

"Hmm."

Kong Hanshu nodded. In truth, he was also curious about Du Ming and Chen Mo's performance.

"Haha, then let's take a look."

Saying that, Director Lu Yu tossed the illusory tower pearl in his hand into the air.

Kong Hanshu also raised his hand, but not to activate the illusory tower pearl; instead, he used Space Law to wrap both of them, and even the illusory tower pearl, into an independent small space.

It would be one thing if it were other Students, but the situations of Du Ming and Chen Mo were not suitable for so many people to watch.

"Let's watch Du Ming first!"

"Hmm!"

Director Lu Yu smiled and pointed to the light spot that was currently on the second floor of the illusion tower.

Du Ming's image appeared again, then vanished in an instant.

"That's not..."

Director Lu Yu was slightly taken aback, clearly not expecting this scene.

"Interesting."

Kong Hanshu chuckled, appearing unsurprised, and then pointed at the "screen-off" illusory tower pearl.

In a desolate meteorite belt somewhere, Du Ming, floating in the void, raised his head again.

"Coming again? It never ends, does it?"

As he spoke, a book imprinted with mountains and rivers materialized in his hand.

The book opened slowly, and a majestic exotic beast with a head full of golden long whiskers emerged from it.

At the same time, two characters flew out from the book, both written in Dao Script.

They were... Pixie!

Shanhai exotic beast, power of the true name: Pixie appears, all evils retreat!

"Crack!" In front of Kong Hanshu, the newly solidified image shattered again.

This time, Kong Hanshu also revealed a helpless expression.

It wasn't that he couldn't continue. Truth be told, even if the other party was truly a reincarnation of a Supreme Being, they were only at the demigod rank now, and with his methods, he could completely force it to continue.

But how to put it?

There was no need. One reason was the resistance the other party was showing.

The second reason was that this place was, after all, the pinnacle of The Stars, and under the "God-Forbidden Array" that covered the entire domain, forcibly unleashing power exceeding the demigod rank could easily cause unnecessary trouble.

"Forget it, if they don't want to, let's not watch."

Director Lu Yu hurriedly advised, fearing that Kong Hanshu would disregard everything and use power exceeding the demigod rank.

"Then let's leave it at that."

Kong Hanshu smiled helplessly, then pointed his finger again.

The scene in front of them solidified again, and this time there was no obstruction, and Chen Mo's figure appeared before them.

"That's good."

Seeing the image complete, Director Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief, but Kong Hanshu's eyes became somewhat intriguing at this moment, because...

"First stage, ninth level, begin."

The moment the illusory voice rang out, Chen Mo had already arrived at the center of a venue similar to the Myriad Domain Arena.

Just as Chen Mo was wondering what type of void behemoth would be suitable for such a cramped venue, a figure slowly appeared directly opposite him.

It was none other than... Kong Hanshu!

"What's going on?"

Chen Mo was stunned.

He could feel that the Kong Hanshu in front of him seemed quite a bit "younger" than the one in Chen Mo's memory.

"Younger" here did not refer to appearance. In fact, most gods who had requirements for appearance would fix their looks at their peak moment, and Kong Hanshu was no exception.

But many things were not just about the surface; Chen Mo could sense a kind of "youthful heroism" from this person.

That defiant look in his eyes was definitely not something the real Kong Hanshu outside would ever show.

"Later generations, remember this day. This is the beginning of my rise, but it will never be the end."

Kong Hanshu spoke slowly, staring at Chen Mo with an attitude of looking down at people.

At the same time, a mysterious and profound aura suddenly expanded outward with Kong Hanshu as the origin.

In the blink of an eye, the entire arena, a space spanning a thousand miles, underwent some subtle changes.

The next second, Chen Mo suddenly rose into the air—no, it should be described as falling.

He, who was originally on the ground, suddenly fell from the ground into the sky.

At this moment, the rules of heaven and earth seemed to have been completely reversed; space became a toy in Kong Hanshu's hands, and Chen Mo, who was in the space, was likewise his toy.

However, compared to Chen Mo's astonishment, Kong Hanshu, who was watching the battle using the illusory tower pearl, was gritting his teeth.

"Crack!" The image shattered again, but it wasn't Chen Mo's doing; it was Kong Hanshu who had turned it off himself.

"Han Shu, why did you stop watching?"

Director Lu Yu looked at Kong Hanshu, whose social anxiety had reached the terminal stage, and teased.

"Please don't make fun of me. Who hasn't had a time of youthful arrogance? You also know that at that time, I had just created the Infinite Space, and having suppressed it for three years in my heart, so I just..."

Kong Hanshu looked embarrassed, his toes curling into his shoe soles repeatedly.

And in his heart, he was cursing a certain disgusting mechanism of the illusion tower over and over again.

As for what that mechanism was:

It was the "image storage" mechanism. The moment a Student walked into the illusion tower, they actually left their own image inside.

Some Students favored by the illusion tower could not only set their own image as a "gatekeeper," but also leave behind some words in the image.

God knows what he was thinking at the time to have left such cringe-worthy lines.

"Sigh! My lifelong reputation is ruined. Fortunately, only Chen Mo and Old Lu saw it. Old Lu shouldn't go around talking, and I'll warn Chen Mo later; this matter will be over. Yeah... that's what I'll do."

Kong Hanshu couldn't help thinking in his heart, but what he didn't know was...

"Holy crap, who is this cringey guy? Kong Hanshu?"

In the laboratory, Professor Xu Bo's eyes were shining with intense gossip fire!

Shen Xinghe stood silently to the side, but in his heart, he mourned for Kong Hanshu for three minutes.

He, a small third-level researcher, naturally wouldn't dare to spread it around.

But Professor Xu Bo was famous among the professors for having a "tight mouth"!

"Minor completion of Space Law! Fourth-order Space Divine Art."

Chen Mo, who had fallen into the sky, felt a jolt in his heart. At this moment, he no longer had the time to care about Kong Hanshu's cringey performance.

What he needed to think about now was how to break the situation.

In his perception, the entire space had been completely disordered.

Heaven was not heaven, and earth was not earth.

And he was like someone who had fallen into a borderless tumble dryer; even stabilizing his posture was a luxury.

Chen Mo endured the dizziness brought about by the chaos of heaven and earth, and a certain divine art already poised in his body instantly bloomed.

Flesh withered, soul withered.

But the 21 points of divinity within his body bloomed with dazzling brilliance at this moment.

Fourth-order, three laws fused, enhancement-type divine art, Wither and Flourish Tribulation!

"Boom!"

A mental fluctuation far exceeding the fifth turn of a demigod exploded in front of Chen Mo.

With just mental power, Chen Mo forcibly stabilized the space within three meters around him, but this was only the beginning.

Under Kong Hanshu's shocked gaze, Chen Mo easily broke free from the space cage he had created.

The fluctuation of the Law of Earth flashed and vanished; before he could react, Chen Mo had already arrived in front of him.

Spirit is the amplifier of divine arts and laws.

After upgrading to the fourth order, the basic attribute bonus of Wither and Flourish Tribulation also increased from 100 points to 150 points.

Combined with the 21 points of divinity, that was a full 360-point increase in all attributes.

At the demigod rank, this was a formidable value sufficient to crush all opponents of the same level!

"Sorry!"

Chen Mo, shrouded in the dazzling light of divinity, raised his right hand. The divine art radiance of Spiritual Connection gathered at his fingertips and pointed at Kong Hanshu, who was close at hand.

"This is my era!"