226: Chapter 226 The Pride of the Ultimate Path and the Goddess? A Cheat-Like Family's Dimensional Reduction Attack!

Sure enough, it didn't keep the Myriad Races waiting for long.

The trial vortex representing the [Golden Immortal Stages 1-3] power level suddenly erupted with an extremely violent flash of fire!

The third figure spat out by the Trial Grounds was none other than the twin-tailed tyrannosaurus carrying that iconic giant hammer—Shen Youchu.

"Thud!"

Shen Youchu landed heavily on the Reception Dao Platform. Before she could even catch her breath, her free right hand instinctively and skillfully clamped over her small mouth, fearing that a moment of excitement might cause a string of curses from her belly to slip out, thereby breaking the [Nine-Character Mantra] buff she had worked so hard to accumulate.

Although in the trial space just now, she faced a version of herself with double the combat power, it was highly ironic that the mirror image possessed only brute force and could never replicate the Heaven-Defying divine fetus in her belly, which was born with the embryonic form of the [Mantra Divine Body]!

Shen Youchu didn't even bother using her trump card, the [Nine-Character Mantra]; relying directly on the terrifying Comprehension Ability and Law suppression brought by the divine fetus, she smashed the mirror image—which was still busy analyzing her weaknesses—into a pulp with a single hammer blow!

Lin Fan, seated high above in the Void Realm, took in everything. In those eyes that seemed capable of peering through the Universe, a rare ripple of surprise emerged.

"These people from the Su Family really don't play by the rules," Lin Fan thought, shaking his head with a wry smile.

The original intention behind setting up this mirror trial was to provide a rare Opportunity.

By battling a version of themselves with double the attributes, challengers could comprehensively expose and identify their own weaknesses in the application of Martial Skills, Divine Sense, and Laws, thereby addressing them in a targeted manner to reach a state of "clarity of heart and understanding of self and enemy."

This was supposed to be a bitter battle filled with sweat and Epiphany.

However, these three humans were something else!

Su Feng, relying on his own terrifying foundation, went in and blasted his mirror image into slag within a single breath.

As for the other two pregnant women, they relied on that Heaven-Defying Bloodline in their bellies—which even the Heavenly Dao could not replicate—and directly utilized the "cross-generational" cheat attribute to carry out a brutal, dimensional reduction strike against their mirror images!

However, what surprised Lin Fan of the Major Thousand Worlds even more was yet to come.

"Hum—!"

The trial channel for the [Golden Immortal Stages 4-6] power level flashed with an extremely sharp, blood-colored sword light.

The fourth figure spat out by the Trial Grounds landed steadily.

Surprisingly, it was still a Human Race!

Nearly forty thousand Prodigies from various races, representing the top combat power of the Three Thousand Upper Realms, had entered the Trial Grounds. Yet, the first four who broke out of the trial space were, without exception, all damn humans?!

If Shen Luoyu and Shen Youchu were cheating by relying on the bonuses from their Heaven-Defying unborn children, then what trump card did this human girl, representing the Golden Immortal Stages 4-6, use to clear the trial so quickly?

It wasn't that the Myriad Races weren't paying attention to the combat process of these four, but rather that these four... were simply too damn fast!

In the center of the trial platform.

The Jidao Empress "Jiuyou" wore a tight-fitting demonic robe interwoven with red and black, her figure slender and graceful. With her back to the Myriad Races camp, she performed a perfectly elegant, blood-colored sword flourish before slowly sheathing the longsword in her hand.

"Hoo..."

The Jidao Empress gently exhaled a breath of turbid air, her dark golden eyes filled with the arrogance and confidence unique to an Extreme Dao Great Emperor.

In her view, this kind of mirror trial, which perfectly replicated one's own double attributes, was definitely the most difficult and despair-inducing of all trials.

It tested not only an extremely perverse explosive martial power, but also the depth of one's understanding of Laws, the ultimate insight into the battle situation, and an unbreakable Dao Heart when facing a "self" that was always twice as strong as you!

Ordinary Prodigies, when facing such a mirror image, would at best struggle in the trial space for several hours, racking their brains to find that minuscule weakness to secure victory, even if they weren't broken on the spot.

Yet she, had only used a mere ten breaths!

That's right, just ten breaths of time!

Relying on the Extreme Dao micro-manipulation from her past life, where she suppressed the starry sky for a hundred thousand years, and her extremely sharp understanding of the [Heaven-Devouring Demonic Body], she directly saw through the minuscule lag in the mirror image when it circulated its Devilish Qi, and shattered it with a single sword strike!

"Ten breaths to clear. Who else?!"

A proud sneer curled the corners of the Jidao Empress's lips as she slowly turned around, preparing to greet the shocked, adoring, and even worshipful gazes of the Myriad Races with an extremely aloof posture.

However.

When she fully turned around and saw the scene in the human preparation area, the sneer on the Jidao Empress's face instantly froze. That Extreme Dao Emperor Heart, which had been as firm as rock since her Rebirth, experienced a rare and violent shaking and collapse at this moment!

What was going on?!

There, at the very front of the human preparation area, Su Feng was sitting lazily on a grand chair, naturally embracing Shen Luoyu, who was sporting a large belly and a rosy complexion.

Beside them, that twin-tailed Shen Youchu was covering her mouth, forcing herself to remain silent.

"This... this is impossible!!!"

The Jidao Empress's brain instantly crashed.

They had all entered their respective trial channels at the same time, so how... how could the three of them have come out before her?!

This wasn't right!

This was illogical!

One had to know, she was the reborn Jidao Empress! Clearing in ten breaths was already an extreme micro-manipulation that defied common sense!

How could they be faster than her?! How did they do it?!

Refusing to believe it, the Jidao Empress turned her head, her dark golden eyes scanning the vast preparation area of the Myriad Races like a radar.

Empty!

Not a single contestant from any other race had come out of the Trial Grounds!

"Hoo~"

The Jidao Empress took a deep breath.

"It seems... the three of them must have just been lucky, finding some sort of bug or loophole the moment they entered the trial."

The Jidao Empress firmly consoled herself in her heart. Possessing the absolute arrogance of an Extreme Dao Great Emperor, she absolutely refused to believe that in this Three Thousand Upper Realms, anyone could clear the trial faster than her in terms of raw strength and talent!

Just as the Jidao Empress was frantically trying to build herself up mentally.

Thirty breaths passed.

"Hum—!"

The trial vortex for the [Golden Immortal Stages 1-3] power level lit up once again with an extremely brilliant, holy white light.

The fifth figure spat out by the Trial Grounds slowly descended.

This person wore a simple white divine dress that seemed woven from moonlight, and behind her, twelve pure white wings radiating endless divine brilliance and spatial cutting power were gracefully unfurling.

It was none other than the God Race's highest hope with the most Heaven-Defying Aptitude in billions of years—the Twelve-Winged Goddess, Jialuo!

As the strongest in terms of Bloodline Power among the God Race, although Jialuo was currently only at the Golden Immortal Stage 3, the terrifying divinity originating from the depths of her Bloodline made her cross-Realm combat power extremely frightening.

"Thirty breaths. With such a result, no one should be faster than this Goddess, right?"

Jialuo slowly opened those pure golden eyes that contained not a trace of worldly fire, looking down at the entire scene like a true deity, her voice ethereal and confident:

"Although this mirror image has double the attributes, in front of my unique Angel's Heart, any flashy technique is futile."

"I only need to condense these twelve wings into divine light blades, and I can rely on the purest hard strength to crush it head-on."

Jialuo possessed absolute pride.

In her eyes, even that Heavenly God Old Ancestor who was invincible ten thousand years ago would never have been able to clear the trial in thirty breaths with pure power like she did when facing a perfect mirror image with double his combat power at the Golden Immortal Early Stage.

In these Three Thousand Upper Realms, she was the only one who could be called a true Prodigy powerhouse!

Jialuo elegantly folded her twelve wings, preparing to receive the worship of the Myriad Races.

However, she discovered that the gazes of the God Race looking at her lacked the fanatical adoration she expected; instead, there was a sense of complexity and pity.

Realizing something was wrong, Jialuo immediately scanned the empty Myriad Races territory.

Finally, her gaze locked onto the four figures hovering above the Human Race territory.