Chapter 178: Wild “Internal Training” and a Family’s “Shipping Route”

Space was no longer a chaotic vortex.

Floating chunks of land drifted slowly through the endless void, the shattered remains of a colossal beast after its collapse.

Zhang Daniu and Zhao Wuji were thrown onto one such landmass.

The moment Zhao Wuji landed, his knees went weak. He braced himself against a jagged, grotesque rock as his stomach churned violently.

All the pent-up, turbulent energy accumulated from the bumpy journey was expelled in one go.

His face turned sallow, his breathing was chaotic, his internal organs felt completely displaced, as if a mad bull had rampaged through his body.

When the nausea finally subsided, he shakily straightened up, instinctively wanting to deliver a speech.

“Regarding the urgent need to optimize employee travel experience, I suggest installing anti-vertigo formations…”

The words reached his lips, only to be abruptly jammed by the scene before his eyes.

Zhang Daniu was in a hundred times better condition than him.

He stared ahead with a pair of huge, bell-like eyes, his gaze glued in place, his face filled with obsession and fanaticism.

This was an ancient and magnificent coliseum.

Towering stone sculptures rose from the ground all around, each reaching hundreds of zhang in height.

Their forms were varied—some glared with fury, some sank their qi into their dantian, some threw punches like mountains, others kicked like raging winds.

Every sculpture displayed the beauty of human strength to its absolute limit.

Those bulging muscle lines looked as if they had been cast from steel and iron, ready to break free from their stone shells at any moment and unleash power capable of splitting mountains and seas.

The air was filled with a masculine, blazing aura—the intermingling of sweat and rust—flooding the lungs and stirring the most primal savagery.

At the center of the coliseum stood a massive weapon rack forged from an unknown metal.

It was densely packed with heavy weapons of exaggerated shapes and astonishing size.

Giant swords like door panels reflected a cold,幽幽 gleam along their edges, capable of cleaving stars.

Enormous axes like meteor hammers had heads covered in barbs, making one’s scalp tingle just by looking at them.

There was also a massive iron staff, pitch-black from end to end, engraved with ancient runes and exuding a heavy, archaic aura.

“My dear mother…”

Zhang Daniu’s drool burst its banks.

He felt like a rat that had starved for three days and then plunged headfirst into a granary. Every inch of his skin, every pore, was cheering with joy, yearning to merge into this ocean of strength.

“Calm down! Daniu! Keep it together! This is a trap! A trap!”

Zhao Wuji reacted quickly and grabbed Zhang Daniu, afraid that a moment of impulse would cause him to scrap himself on the spot.

He hurriedly pulled out his little notebook, his eyes instantly turning professional and vigilant, just like a top-tier venture capital analyst facing an unknown blue ocean project.

“According to Article Seven of the Group’s ‘S-Level Project Risk Response Plan’, upon encountering an unknown inheritance site, one must first conduct an ‘environmental safety assessment’ and an ‘investment return rate analysis’!”

“Absolutely do not blindly ‘experience the product’! Otherwise, it will result in irreversible loss of ‘assets’, and may even face the risk of ‘forced delisting’!”

He muttered nonstop as his pen flew like a dragon.

[Preliminary Due Diligence Report on the Inheritance Site Project (ID: SL-001):]

[Project Name (tentative): Overlord Body Sect Gym Mandatory Experience Zone.]

[Environmental Assessment: Spiritual qi concentration at medium-high level, containing ‘Iron-Blooded Killing Qi’. Suspected to have significant value-adding catalytic effects on ‘body-cultivation assets’, capable of stimulating ‘wolf mentality’.]

[Core Assets: Suspected inheritance of an ancient body-refining sect, with a complete product line.]

[Potential Risks: No guides, no instruction manual, no trial period, no refund policy! High probability of ‘overlord clauses’ and ‘forced consumption’ traps! Entrants must bear extremely high risks of loss to ‘physical and mental assets’!]

Zhang Daniu could not understand any of that.

In his eyes, those stone sculptures had come alive. Every single one was beckoning to him, issuing silent invitations.

He shook off Zhao Wuji’s hand and dashed in a single bound toward a stone sculpture holding a giant hammer.

The sculpture’s posture was steady and imposing, its aura vast and overwhelming.

Without the slightest hesitation, Zhang Daniu imitated the sculpture, clumsily yet earnestly striking the same pose.

“Boom!”

The instant his posture aligned, the stone sculpture—silent for who knew how many tens of thousands of years—suddenly lit up with two brilliant beams of golden light from its eyes!

The golden light was almost tangible, shooting with pinpoint accuracy onto Zhang Daniu.

A vast and surging torrent of power, mixed with countless methods of muscle exertion, qi-blood circulation, and sinew-and-bone tempering, brutally poured into his mind, instantly flooding his limbs and body, threatening to burst him apart!

“Graaahhh—!”

Zhang Daniu let out a roar that was both agonizing and exhilarating, filled with primitive savagery, shaking Zhao Wuji’s eardrums painfully.

Crackling sounds erupted throughout his skeleton, like beans being stir-fried.

His muscles expanded and bulged at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his clothes exploded instantly.

A layer of pitch-black, foul-smelling impurities seeped out from his skin, wrapping around him like a barbaric behemoth crawling out of a mire.

“Holy shit! Daniu! You triggered ‘paid content’! Bundled sales! And it comes with automatic upgrades?!”

Zhao Wuji was badly startled and rushed over, trying to drag Zhang Daniu out of the golden light.

Before he could get close, an invisible qi wall suddenly exploded outward, flinging him back several zhang.

Immediately after, all the stone sculptures in the coliseum came alive.

Their eyes lit up with golden light in unison, beams interweaving into an airtight net that completely enveloped Zhang Daniu.

A grand and ancient voice, tinged with mechanical coldness, echoed throughout the space.

“Detected ‘Overlord Body Bloodline’ perfect compatibility candidate. Initiating ‘Ancient Inheritance Trial’!”

“Trial Stage One: Ten Thousand Jun Body Tempering!”

“Endure ten thousand jun of pressure to temper the flesh!”

“Failure results in on-site execution, becoming nourishment for the inheritance!”

As the voice fell, a small mountain formed out of nothing above the coliseum, condensed from extremely refined heavy water.

The mountain was crystal clear, yet radiated an unimaginably heavy aura. Carrying the might of ten thousand jun, it crashed straight down toward Zhang Daniu’s head!

“Damn it! There’s even KPI assessment?! Zero-tolerance KPI?! This is even more wolfish than our Group’s ‘wolf culture’!”

Zhao Wuji was completely dumbfounded.

This ancient inheritance was way too “hardcore”!

He hurriedly took out a transmission talisman to try to contact Chu Feng, only to find that the spatial laws here were in chaos—the talisman had already failed.

He could only watch helplessly as Zhang Daniu struggled and roared amid golden light and crushing pressure, frantic with anxiety yet utterly powerless.

……

At the same time, in another relatively calm region of the void.

Feng Zhiruo’s situation was far more elegant.

She floated within a cyan light screen, pinching between her fingers a leaf emitting a faint cyan glow.

This leaf was extraordinary. It was a replica of the “Jianmu Leaf” obtained by the Feng Family’s ancestor, containing a trace of Jianmu’s origin aura, capable of guiding the most stable route through chaotic spatial currents.

As a direct-line prodigy of the Feng Family, a top-tier force in the Mortal Realm, Feng Zhiruo’s foundations and methods were far beyond those of ordinary cultivators. Even though Chu Feng’s crooked logic had shaken her Dao heart, she remained exceptional.

Her spiritual power circulated with exquisite precision, her divine sense probed with meticulous detail. Even in a desperate situation, she remained calm and composed.

“Chu Feng… Ascension Group…”

She recalled scene after scene from the secret realm.

That man’s demeanor—laughing and chatting in desperate situations, overturning the board with unfathomable methods, turning certain death into opportunity—lingered in her heart.

That domineering attitude of treating everything as “assets”, viewing everyone as “tools”, even being able to “reject” death itself, stirred an inexplicable tremor within her.

“Treating everything as ‘assets’… can such a Dao truly be walked? Or is this itself a deeper form of the ‘Demonic Path’?”

She shook her head and cast aside the stray thoughts.

Now was not the time to dwell on such matters.

What mattered most was finding the others and locating the exit of this shattered space.

After all, she still owed Chu Feng a share of the “Divine Kingdom Cooperative Development Agreement”. She could not let him undergo “bankruptcy liquidation” in this spatial turbulence.

She urged her spiritual power forward. The “Jianmu Leaf” in her hand shone even brighter, dense ancient patterns emerging and pointing through the endless darkness toward a coordinate emitting a faint glow.

Though the light was dim, it was extraordinarily stable—a lighthouse in a stormy sea, guiding the way.

That place was certainly the core hub of the entire spatial turbulence, and also the final convergence point for everyone.

“Found it.”

Feng Zhiruo’s gaze sharpened. Without hesitation, her figure transformed into a streak of cyan rainbow light and sped toward the direction of that lighthouse.

She had a strong premonition that everyone swept into this space would ultimately converge there.

And that place would inevitably become the… final stage that decided everyone’s fate.

Just as she was about to reach her destination, a sudden thunderstorm tore through the heavens from within that faint light ahead!

Immediately after, there came a howl that was utterly inhuman, filled with boundless despair and unwillingness.

The sound made her heart suddenly tighten.

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