The portal swallowed Victor in a flash of white light, and the surrounding noise of the metropolis abruptly disappeared.
When his vision cleared, he found himself standing in the center of a vast, desolate arena. The floor was made of an unyielding dark-gray stone, while the sky above was a swirling vortex of dim star energy. There were no spectators, no walls, and no visible exits, only an open expanse designed purely for combat.
A shimmering beam of light materialized ten paces in front of him. As the light faded, a figure emerged.
It was a humanoid warrior clad in heavy iron armor, wielding a massive broadsword. The energy radiating from the warrior clearly indicated that it was in the early stages of the Domain Master Realm.
Victor did not even draw his weapon.
He took a single step forward, his figure blurring as he closed the distance in a fraction of a second. Before the iron-clad warrior could raise its broadsword, Victor delivered a simple, straight palm strike directly to its chest.
A sharp cracking sound echoed through the arena.
The energy construct shattered like brittle glass, dissolving into pure white particles that drifted through the air.
Floor one cleared.
A low, mechanical chime echoed through the space, followed by a floating projection that appeared before him.
The projection displayed three distinct reward options: a medium-grade energy crystal, a bottle of soul-cleansing pills, or a rank-five defensive talisman.
Victor barely glanced at the descriptions.
He was not here for pills or crystals. His spatial rings were already filled with items he had no use for.
He casually tapped the floating image of the energy crystal, taking the smallest reward available simply to complete the prompt.
The crystal dropped into his hand.
Victor tossed it into his storage ring without another thought.
Without any delay, a glowing circle appeared beneath his feet, transporting him directly to the second floor.
The second floor was structurally identical to the first, but the opponent waiting for him possessed a mid-stage Domain Master cultivation.
This time, it was a four-armed lizardman holding dual scimitars.
The creature roared and rushed forward, leaving trails of green acid in its wake.
Victor shifted his weight, sidestepped the incoming scimitar strike, and tapped the creature’s neck with the tips of two fingers.
A small burst of compressed physical force passed through the construct, shattering its core instantly.
Floor two cleared.
Once again, the reward selection appeared.
Victor chose a random vial of healing liquid without reading its effects, grabbed it, and stepped into the ascending beam of light.
The third, fourth, and fifth floors passed in a rapid blur.
Whether it was a fast-moving shadow assassin on the third floor, a defensive earth elemental giant on the fourth, or a twin-sword master on the fifth, none of them could force Victor to take even a single step backward.
Every opponent at the middle stages of the Domain Master Realm was swept away with a single casual strike.
He selected whatever reward his hand happened to touch first, completely indifferent to the rare herbs, high-grade weapons, and ancient scrolls being offered.
By the time he reached the eighth floor, the environment had altered slightly, becoming a volcanic wasteland surrounded by rivers of liquid fire.
His opponent was a flame demon standing over ten feet tall, its body wrapped in roaring flames.
The demon roared and launched a massive wave of magma toward him.
Victor raised his right hand, making a slight pinching motion with his fingers.
The air around the demon suddenly imploded.
The surrounding fire laws collapsed instantly, and the massive construct was crushed into dust.
Reward prompt.
Random selection.
Ascension.
Finally, Victor materialized on the ninth floor.
The atmosphere here was remarkably heavy.
The arena was suspended in the middle of a thunderous void, with blue lightning crackling through the air.
Standing at the center was a human construct dressed in silver robes and holding a slender rapier.
The energy emanating from this opponent was dense, refined, and perfectly controlled.
This construct represented the absolute peak of the Domain Master Realm, a cultivator who had maximized every aspect of their current stage.
The silver-robed construct moved the instant Victor appeared.
It did not charge blindly.
Instead, it merged with the surrounding lightning, appearing directly behind Victor with a thrust aimed at his heart.
The speed was impressive, easily capable of killing ordinary peak Domain Masters before they could even react.
Victor tilted his head slightly to the side.
The rapier grazed past his ear, cutting a few strands of his hair.
"Interesting."
Victor turned his body, grabbed the blade of the rapier with his bare fingers, and exerted a small amount of force.
Crack!
The weapon snapped in two.
Before the construct could retreat, Victor swept his leg across, striking the opponent’s chest.
The impact sent the silver-robed figure crashing into the ground, where it disintegrated into light.
The reward prompt for the ninth floor offered a high-grade spatial artifact, a rare flame core, and a top-tier domain cultivation manual.
Victor clicked the spatial artifact at random.
The artifact fell into his palm.
He glanced at it for less than a second before tossing it away.
Nine floors cleared in less than ten minutes.
The ascending light surrounded him once again.
But this time, the transition took longer.
The space around him folded and warped violently, reflecting the massive jump in difficulty he was about to face.
When the light faded, Victor stepped out onto the tenth floor.
The surroundings had transformed completely.
He was no longer in a simple stone arena.
Instead, he stood on a floating island surrounded by endless darkness.
The atmospheric pressure was hundreds of times heavier than before, pressing down on his shoulders with terrifying weight.
Opposite him stood a massive creature.
It possessed the lower body of a serpent and the upper body of an armored titan. Six arms extended from its massive torso, each holding a different weapon.
The energy surrounding this creature was not the fluid, domain-based power of a Domain Master.
It was absolute.
Condensed.
And it carried an overwhelming sense of world pressure.
A World Realm opponent.
In the cultivation hierarchy, the gap between the Domain Master Realm and the World Realm was an abyss.
A World Realm cultivator did not merely manipulate energy within a domain. They possessed an internal world that supplied them with near-limitless energy and absolute spatial control over lower-realm beings.
The six-armed titan raised all six weapons simultaneously.
An oppressive wave of spatial pressure locked down the space around Victor, attempting to crush his body before the battle had even begun.
Victor felt his bones creak slightly under the immense pressure.
Then, for the first time since entering the tower, a genuine, excited smile appeared on his face.
"This is what I came for."
Instead of dodging, Victor took a deep breath.
He did not use standard elemental energy, nor did he rely purely on physical strength.
He released his core foundation.
Boom!
A dark, chaotic aura erupted from Victor’s body, expanding violently outward.
The light around him was instantly swallowed, replaced by a deep-gray sphere that resisted the World Realm’s spatial pressure.
Within this sphere, two distinct and terrifying forces spun around each other like a cosmic vortex.
On one side was the absolute power of destruction, erasing the incoming spatial pressure.
On the other side was the power of creation, continually generating raw, primal energy to sustain the domain.
The Chaos Domain.
The moment Victor unleashed his domain, the six-armed titan charged.
All six weapons descended simultaneously, carrying enough force to split a planet apart.
Victor stepped forward.
His eyes burned with dark-gray light.
Then he met the attack head-on.
Far above the Resource Tower, in a realm separated from ordinary reality, several massive projections floated within the dark void.
These were the true overlords of the Chaos Seas, supreme entities who watched the Resource Tower competitions as a form of casual entertainment.
When Victor unleashed his Chaos Domain, several pairs of glowing eyes opened within the darkness.
A massive, shadowy figure surrounded by black flames let out a cold laugh.
"Look at that. A human actually managed to awaken a Chaos Physique? How pathetic is that universe to let such a rare gift fall into the hands of an inferior race?"
Beside the shadowy figure, an ancient creature covered in golden scales hummed softly.
"It is not just the physique. Look closely at his domain. He has already comprehended the Laws of Destruction and Creation to an advanced degree. Balancing those two laws at the Domain Master Realm is practically impossible for ordinary beings."
The golden-scaled creature leaned forward, its eyes reflecting Victor’s battle on the tenth floor.
"Let us make a bet. I bet he will pass the fifteenth floor before his energy runs out."
A third voice, deep and resonant like rolling thunder, snorted in disdain.
"What if he is a chosen one? At the end of the day, he is still a pathetic human with limited bloodline potential. A World Realm opponent on the higher floors will crush his fragile body. I bet one thousand drops of Chaos Essence that he will fail before reaching the fifteenth floor."
The golden-scaled creature laughed heartily, the sound vibrating through the void.
"One thousand drops of Chaos Essence? You are feeling very generous today. Very well, let us place the bet and see how far this human can push himself."
Down on the tenth floor, oblivious to the supreme beings gambling on his performance, Victor slammed his fist directly into the six-armed titan’s chest.
Boom!
The titan’s world pressure shattered completely.
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