Lex looked down at the open mouth shooting towards him like a rocket. He still did not move, but instead summoned a lightning bolt beside him a golden colored one. Changing the color of the bolt was merely an aesthetic choice since he had somewhat become fond of the golden color.

What did have an impact on the lightning bolt, though, was that Lex kept strengthening it even as he changed its shape into that of a trident. All this, he did without moving a muscle.

When the worm finally reached close enough that it needed only slam its mouth shut and Lex would be trapped inside its mouth, he spoke.

"You need a breathmint, but you'll have to suffice for this."

The lightning trident launched into the worm's mouth with a thunderous roar, mimicking to a great extent the lightning Lex himself had absorbed. In fact, it was because Lex had been using his cultivation technique while being bombarded with trident lightning that he had built up an affinity for it, making it easier for him to copy it. Since he had even risen in his realm, the actual might of his lightning tridents were actually greater than what he himself suffered!

A devastating explosion rocked the worm, launching its flying body

downwards. But instead of relieving the pressure on Lex, that is when the true obstacle course began.

The crystal ceiling acted as a kind of energy barrier, blocking a lot of the Primordial energy out, thus leaving the interior somewhat barren. This was why it was actually a popular spot for immigrants to the Primordial Garden. All those who arrived from the Crystal realm usually settled here.

But for the locals, this resulted in severe energy deprivation, putting them in a state of survival. It made them more aggressive and more ferocious.

Lex's most recent attack was like an open declaration to the whole region that he was a walking, talking battery, attracting all their attention.

Lex's instincts didn't even warn him of the impending danger. They, instead, just told him to clench his buttcheeks and get ready for a beating.

Gravity around him suddenly increased exponentially, surpassing even that of a black hole. Before he could understand what was happening, his chariot was pulled from the sky, crashing into the ground in a devastating crash. But there was no time for him to recover.

The hole that had been created from his slam into the ground suddenly closed, as if even the ground itself had a mouth, burying Lex underneath.

The soil, pressed down upon Lex, began sucking the energy out of his body in great torrents, forcefully stealing anything and everything it could get!!!

The ground was not sentient, but even so it manipulated gravity to steal Lex's energy.

Lex abandoned the chariot and let go of his control over the sharks as he tried to teleport away, yet the space around him too was sealed. The ground of the Primordial Garden was not something a casual weakling could step upon!

If space did not work, Lex had other options. He entered into the Soul state, and then tried to enter the Soul plane! Bad idea.

A boiling energy, one even more potent than Primordial energy, filled the soul plane so that the moment Lex entered, his soul began to burn! The souls of Primordials were born from the creation of the universe - what other being was born as obscenely strong as them?

Lex switched, entering the Shadow plane. The shadows beneath the crystal ceiling were especially rich, and extremely old. They contained secrets and powers the light refused to shine on.

When Lex entered, the plane wanted nothing more than to welcome Lex into its eternal embrace, turning him too into one of the secrets it hid.

"Blood hell, why is everything so intense?" Lex exclaimed as he turned back into his normal, physical form.

Nothing was easy here, everything was hard. Lex simply had to choose the hard he preferred.

Buried alive, tortured by multiple planes, targeted by the very soil all around him, Lex felt a lot of pressure - both physical and psychological! Yet that pressure gave him an idea, and within a split second he created his first Lawcraft as a Heaven Immortal.

"Volcanic Arts: Human Volcano!" Lex roared, activating his Lawcraft, perfectly emulating a volcanic eruption. In fact, he was more than perfect. He had encapsulated the devastating might of the lightning tribulation - to be more specific, the Primordial lightning tribulation which had taken the form of a volcano to attack Lex.

The ground around him erupted, creating a crater hundreds of times larger than before as Lex's body shot out of the ground. Yet instead of casually enjoying like he was before, Lex began to run.

This obstacle course was seriously messed up, he couldn't take a single second to rest.

The following events proved his thoughts to be true as dozens of worms jumped out of the ground to try and eat him.

If that was all, it would be nothing new. But on the backs of those worms were tarantulas, with two strings of web going to either side of the worm, holding the spiders in place as they rode atop their bodies!

Lex's drastic escape put him outside the line of the worm's jumps, but the tarantulas were not ordinary - they were Vanishing Tarantulas! More importantly, they knew far better than Lex how to traverse the space of the Primordial realm!

The worms vanished in thin air, before appearing all around Lex, encircling him.

"You asked for this," said Lex as he summoned Naraka. There was no time for showing off or catchy oneliners! He needed to move!

When Lex controlled Naraka with his spirit sense, its speed was unmatched, yet when he controlled it with his hands, the strength behind his swing was something else entirely!

He cut open a path for himself, not bothering to waste energy on trying to kill. After all, he had realized one additional difficulty that the obstacle course presented him with: it was constantly absorbing his energy.

He was on a timer, and if he ran out of energy before reaching the belt, it would be an automatic defeat!

"Do you think he's shouting the names of his attacks out for us?" Harriot asked as it looked at the human curiously.

"That does make sense, doesn't it," Eclipse said, realizing how thoughtful Lex was being.