120: Chapter 120 Trial Tower

Just as he was about to exit the Public Domain, a line of information appeared in his Mental Power vision.

[Top 10 Battle Power Ranking access unlocked]

[Trial Tower]

Chen Mo's Mental Power paused for a moment.

He then opened the Trial Tower.

A colossal tower with no visible end appeared in his Mental Power vision.

It spanned across the center of the Universe, standing tall between heaven and earth, its height impossible to measure by any scale.

Star Domains containing hundreds of millions of stars and clusters were merely dust beside it.

Chen Mo held his breath, his Mental Power slightly stilled.

It contained all the Systems developed by every race within the coverage of the entire Spirit Energy Universe.

The developer of every System had left a corresponding combat projection in this tower, which was an Incarnation of the System itself.

You can challenge any System to test the true gap between your own System and theirs under equal Battle Power conditions.

The rules appeared line by line in his mind.

The base Battle Power of both combatants is standardized.

Each person only has one challenge opportunity every ninety days.

If the challenge is successful, you can continue to challenge upwards; if you fail, you are directly exited and must wait for the next cycle.

Chen Mo's eyes lit up slightly.

When both sides battle under the premise of completely equal Battle Power, what matters is not who has accumulated longer, but the strength of the System itself, one's own control, and abilities.

This is a testing ground.

He can see where the Source Power System stands among all Systems—whether it is strong or weak.

Without relying on the extra accumulation advantage of Infinite Growth, is it inferior to the opponent, or does it overwhelm everything?

Then, the Tier 4 area unfolded.

The interior of the tower was filled with countless spatial gates, each leading to a projection of a System.

The number of gates extended continuously in Chen Mo's perception, numbering in the hundreds of millions.

They were arranged from low to high in the tower; the higher the position, the stronger the comprehensive strength of that System at the same tier.

Each System had been evaluated by the Spirit Energy Universe, and the sole criterion for evaluation was the actual combat capability of that System and its developer under equal Battle Power.

Chen Mo looked towards the very top.

At the highest point of the Tier 4 area, a name was suspended.

[Yuan]

The System is also called "Yuan". Currently Tier 7.

It stood at the pinnacle of the hundreds of millions of Systems at Tier 4.

There were no other race labels or morphological descriptions, and these could only be known the moment Chen Mo challenged it.

A Tier 7 existence.

He did not know how strong it was, nor could he deduce it with his current understanding, but Chen Mo noted the name.

He withdrew his gaze and began his first challenge.

He could only choose the last one on the tower.

Residual Breath System.

Laru Las.

The battle began.

The scenery in his Mental Power vision switched instantly.

He was teleported into a virtual space, and his perception coverage range was recalibrated the moment he entered.

The area was about one million square kilometers, capable of sustaining Tier 4 level battles.

The environment was an ocean, with a bottomless body of water beneath his feet; there were no clouds in the sky, and the light source was the same as a real sun.

All battle information appeared synchronously in his mind.

Base Battle Power: 10,000.

All other abilities were retained, including System characteristics, force-exertion techniques, combat experience, and consciousness reaction speed.

Only the base Battle Power was locked at this number, and the opponent was the same.

Teleportation complete.

All rule information for the battle had been provided, accompanied by one sentence.

[Message from Yuan.]

["There is no strongest System, only the strongest person and the strongest talent."]

Chen Mo was slightly taken aback.

There is no strongest System.

The strongest person.

This was the first lesson for all challengers.

A top-tier System can increase the utilization rate of Battle Power to an appalling degree.

Only the strongest person combined with the strongest talent can bring the power of a System to its extreme.

A challenger possessing both is the only true top-tier existence.

Before Chen Mo could think further, his opponent appeared.

One hundred kilometers ahead.

On the sea surface, a humanoid lifeform standing 3.2 meters tall stood on the crest of a wave.

Its skin was deep blue, covered with a very thin layer of mucus that reflected a faint cold light under the illumination.

Both sides of its cheeks were abnormally swollen, and there seemed to be some kind of cavity inside slowly contracting and expanding.

Laru Las, the developer of the Residual Breath System.

He stood in place without any unnecessary movements, just staring at Chen Mo with those all-black eyes.

Chen Mo quickly deduced the nature of the Residual Breath System.

The name contained "Breath", which was related to breathing.

Swollen cheeks, contracting and expanding cavities; the respiratory System was highly specialized.

The core of this System was highly likely a combat technique that fused physical breathing with energy release.

Every breath was an energy charge, and every exhalation could be directly converted into some kind of attack.

The next second, Laru Las rushed towards him.

The speed was extremely fast; the distance of one hundred kilometers was compressed, and his sprint only took a few seconds.

At the same time, he opened his large mouth, and an ice-blue breath shot out from his oral cavity at high speed.

It drew a condensed trail in the air, containing a cold power that could directly freeze everything.

The speed was extremely fast, several times faster than his own sprint; before the breath even arrived, the sea surface had already been pre-cooled into a white ice belt.

But in Chen Mo's perception, the speed of this attack was still too slow.

His Mental Power covered hundreds of kilometers, and the moment Laru Las's respiratory cavity began to contract, he had already made a Prediction of the attack's trajectory, speed, and landing point.

He just tilted his body slightly, shifted his shoulders by a few degrees, and moved his center of gravity by less than a fist's distance.

The ice-blue breath grazed his left shoulder, freezing the sea surface behind him into a floating ice sheet dozens of kilometers wide.

After the first contact, Chen Mo had already completed his assessment of Laru Las.

Laru Las's base power was the same as his, but his control over power was too poor.

The ejected energy diffused into a wide-angle fan shape rather than focusing, and the radiation power of the energy was also too weak.

His System, "Residual Breath", seemed to lean more towards breathing loops and energy attachment. Perhaps the Residual Breath System had more efficient attack methods, but based on Laru Las's current operations...

This power posed no threat to Chen Mo.

Chen Mo did not test any further.

He appeared above Laru Las.

His body movement speed increased several times under the amplification of his Inner World.

The Spirit Energy Universe allowed System developers to use all their own techniques and control, only limiting the base values.

He concentrated all his power.

Under a 13.1-fold amplification, his base power of 50,000 tons erupted with an output exceeding 600,000 tons.

He threw a punch.

As his fist descended, the air was pushed by the force of the punch, forming a visible layer of compressed air beneath the fist's surface.

The air did not have time to escape; it was trapped between the fist and the target, and its molecular structure began to decompose under the pressure and the impact of Source Power.

At the last moment, Laru Las tried to twist his body to avoid his vital points.

His respiratory cavity contracted rapidly, wanting to spray out a new breath to recoil and dodge.

But it was too late.

The fist landed on his head.

Laru Las's head instantly exploded.

The punch force poured in from the head, from top to bottom, pressing the entire body along with the surrounding dozens of kilometers of sea surface into a huge depression.

The seawater was pushed away by the punch pressure, and the vaporized blue blood sprayed into the air and was then dispersed like mist by the punch force; the shockwave spread outward from the center of the depression, raising a ring of giant waves dozens of meters high.

The moment Laru Las's body disappeared, the ice-blue breath escaped from the exploded body.

Leaving a circle of rapidly melting white floating ice on the sea surface.

The virtual space determined the battle result.

A notification box popped up:

Match over.

[Source Power System, Chen Mo, Victory.]