Even as thunderstorms bashed his head and flesh exploded, ready to be annihilated by the Heavenly Punishment at any moment, Ye Chen remained neither sad nor joyful, as if harboring a resolve undaunted by facing death nine times over.

It was only when the Heavenly Punishment descended that Ye Chen suddenly realized!

He was not afraid of the Heavenly Punishment; on the contrary, he was somewhat looking forward to it!

Perhaps it was in his nature; Ye Chen aimed to conquer all directions, feeling an ever-growing resilience amidst setbacks. The experience of dancing with death and escalating power even brought him a hint of joy.

He relished this mode of growth, battling against the Heavenly Punishment was like challenging the heavens themselves, tempering his very being!

Ye Chen, with a sharp aura, aimed his sword at the sky and fought against the heavens!

"Rumble!"

The power of specters and deities shockingly vibrated around Qianyue Bing. She was only a hair's breadth away from perfection, on the verge of becoming an invincible Land God!

"Specters and deities invincible, breakthrough on the spot!"

All of a sudden, the Chaos Qi from all directions was absorbed by Qianyue Bing, pushing her aura beyond the peak limits and reaching an unprecedented level!

"Powerful!" Qianyue Bing's beautiful eyes shone as her small hand grasped and extinguished the void.

She had ascended, becoming the invincible Land God!

"Boom!"

Right after Qianyue Bing's breakthrough, an infinite force exploded from around her.

Yalina had made her breakthrough!

"Whew!"

Endless Golden Light entered Yalina's body, elevating her momentum to the absolute pinnacle.

"I have also ascended to become a Land God!" Yalina's eyes burned with the fire of war. "Moreover, I've leaped to become a high-level War God. I'm not even weaker than Athena now, just curious about how much she has grown after acquiring the flower from the Other Shore!"

Yalina was from the Ten Dragons Taboo, her accumulation far surpassing that of the Nine Dragons. Thus, the moment she ascended, she immediately became a high-level War God, significantly stronger than ordinary deities.

Qianyue Bing and Yalina exchanged glances, both sensing the excitement in each other's feelings.

Destined to ascend, they leaped to become deities and reached the pinnacle of the world! From now on, the vast sea awaited their exploration, the boundless sky their flight!

"A hundred zhang of Chaos Qi has created two War Gods, and dozens of zhang remain; maybe it can still create another Land God!" Yalina looked at the Immeasurable Divine Light in front of her. She and Qianyue Bing had leaped to become deities, using up most of the hundred zhang of Chaos Qi, leaving quite a bit remaining.

"Yalina, Ye Chen is still being struck by thunder. Should we save him?" Qianyue Bing suddenly asked, her tone carrying an inexplicable sense of guilt.

They had conspired against Ye Chen, pushing him into a do-or-die situation, while they alone reaped the benefits of the Immeasurable Golden Light to ascend as Land Gods.

At this moment, Ye Chen was being bombarded by thunder, which filled her with a sense of remorse.

"Ye Chen has triggered the Heavenly Tribulation by breaking through his boundaries; how are we to save him?" Yalina said. "If we get anywhere near him, we'll be affected by the Heavenly Punishment. Though the heavenly thunder can temper our bodies, I really don't want to be struck by lightning and explode!"

"..." Qianyue Bing fell silent, for she didn't want to be struck by lightning either.

"Ye Chen is a Grandmaster Peak, he didn't ascend through the Nine Dragons in a conventional way but chose to leap to the Ten Dragons Taboo as a Grandmaster Peak. He deserves to be struck by heavenly thunder for such an act!" Yalina spoke with a mix of envy and resentment.

Yalina herself was an extraordinary talent, but when she broke through to the Ten Dragons, she first became one of the Nine Dragons and, after a long time of accumulation, fortuitously ascended as the Ten Dragons took flight.

However, Ye Chen was violently breaking boundaries, aiming to skip the Nine Dragons entirely and directly become a forbidden existence as a Grandmaster Peak. This exceptional talent was enragingly enviable.

"Within Ye Chen's Heavenly Punishment Thundercloud, there seems to be Bloody Sky Thunder!" Qianyue Bing suddenly exclaimed in shock.

"What!" Yalina was also startled.

She looked and saw a streak of Bloody Thunder, carrying an aura of terrifying destruction, bombarding Ye Chen.

"Ye Chen has triggered the Bloody Thunder, a kind of Heavenly Punishment that even we would struggle to survive..." Qianyue Bing said, her tone filled with deep worry.

Heavenly Punishments are of varying degrees, and only advancing to Land God would trigger the Bloody Thunder.

The fact that Ye Chen, as a Grandmaster Peak, could summon such terrifying Bloody Thunder had shocked and terrified both Yalina and Qianyue Bing.

"This is the trial of a Land God. Just how hateful must Ye Chen be for the heavens to punish him like this!" Qianyue Bing said with a baffled tone.

"Perhaps Ye Chen is so strong that even the heavens can't stand him anymore, and that's why such a severe Heavenly Punishment was sent to destroy him," Yalina said.

The power of the Heavenly Punishment varies from person to person. The more defying one's strength, the more ferocious the resulting Heavenly Punishment.

Ye Chen aimed to create an unprecedented miracle, ascending from a Grandmaster Peak to the Ten Dragons. Such an achievement, never seen before, was outrageously defying the natural order, which is why it triggered a Land God's tribulation.

"Rumble!"

Suddenly, the aura from the Other Shore erupted, the majestic divine might shocking all directions. In an instant, the void shattered, the colors of the world faded, the terror reaching its peak.

The invincible Corpse King devouring powers from all ten directions was finally about to break through at this moment.

"This is bad! The Corpse King has devoured the power of the ten directions and is actually about to Transcend the Other Shore and become supreme!" Both Yalina and Qianyue Bing's faces changed.

They ascended to become Land Gods, possessing power that was peerless in the world. Yet the state of Transcend the Other Shore remained enigmatic, a realm unreachable even by gods and spirits.

If the King of the Dead were to successfully transcend, even if they were mighty War Gods, they couldn't avoid encountering disaster.

"The aura of Transcendence of the King of the Dead is forming, but he hasn't completely transcended yet. Now is the crucial time for his breakthrough; we must stop him from advancing to the Other Shore! Otherwise, not only will we die, but the entire world will face annihilation!"

Yalina swung the divine sword, cutting through the air with Immeasurable Divine Light, slaughtering towards the invincible King of the Dead to forcefully disrupt his transcendence.

"Buzz!"

Qian Yue Bing held her war saber and vanished into the void, also attacking the King of the Dead.

"The sixth Blood Thunder… the seventh… the eighth…!"

Ye Chen endured eight bloody thunders, only the last and strongest one left!

However, he was bleeding from every orifice, appearing on the verge of collapse, his condition extremely grim. It seemed at any moment he might be overwhelmed and meet his end.

"How terrifying will the ninth Blood Thunder be? It's been brewing for over a dozen minutes; why hasn't it struck yet?" Ye Chen wiped away the blood around his eyes, thinking maliciously to himself, "Could it be that the heavens are constipated?"

Ye Chen also noticed the King of the Dead making his advance towards the Other Shore, but he simply had no time to be concerned about it.

The final Blood Thunder's refusal to descend left Ye Chen always feeling a sharp threat at his back, a sense of absolute terror.

Ninefold Blood Thunder, each more formidable than the last, Ye Chen had borne all up to this point, nearly pulverized into dust by the heavenly thunders more than once.

However, having been through life and death trials, the benefits he gained were unimaginable.

Ye Chen had now reached the level of Ten Dragons Soaring to the Sky, his combat power wild and formidable to an unprecedented degree!

That level of strength was indescribable, giving him the confidence to wage war on the gods, the formidable nature of the Ten Dragons Taboo!

Moreover, Ye Chen's foundation was extraordinarily strong; now that he had leaped to Ten Dragons, it was naturally no ordinary feat.

Ye Chen suddenly remembered someone, that South Sea Dragon King, Na Wudao, with whom he had a pending battle.

Yun Zheyue had once evaluated him, saying that Na Wudao was strong to an invincible extent. Though only at the Ten Dragons Soaring to the Sky level, he could thwart even those high-end War Gods from the island country!

Ye Chen originally couldn't understand how Na Wudao could be so strong, but now he did, as he had also reached that realm.

"This ninth Blood Thunder is too terrifying. Even before it falls, it darkens my heart, as if my soul is plummeting into hell!" Ye Chen looked up at the thunderclouds, suddenly wiping the blood from his face, overtaken by an unprecedented solemnity.

Ye Chen's power seemed still capable of rising, and the critical point for that breakthrough was this very last Heavenly Tribulation!

But this last thunder was absolutely terrifying, making Ye Chen's soul tremble, evoking an unparalleled sense of crisis and fear.

In the midst of that intense feeling of danger, Ye Chen pulled out a heap of elixirs and began to consume them aggressively, aiming to return to peak condition to withstand the Blood Thunder.

Ye Chen had a very direct feeling that if he continued to put on airs and didn't take the elixirs to recover to peak form, he might indeed die!

"Boom—"

In the distance, Holy Light shone throughout the world, Yalina fiercely battled the King of the Dead, fully demonstrating the power of a high-end War God.

Qian Yue Bing's shadowy figure executed deadly strikes, unleashing the power of ghosts and gods, slicing away large chunks of flesh from the King of the Dead, revealing stark white bones.

"Damn it, I didn't come to kill you, yet you dare to attack me, interfering with my transcendence!"

The invincible King of the Dead roared in madness; he was in the critical phase of ascension, and the combined push from Yalina and Qian Yue Bing suddenly disrupted his promotion.

"If we don't halt your ascension, are we supposed to wait for you to come and kill us?" Yalina, holding the divine sword, charged forward indomitably, now having the qualification to clash head-on with the King of the Dead after ascending to a Land God.

"Boom!"

Qian Yue Bing was quiet and reserved, executing her strongest killing techniques and severing several of the King of the Dead's ribs.

"You dare to attack me; I'll make sure to kill you both, chew you up one bite at a time," the King of the Dead shouted in his frenzy.

Yalina and Qian Yue Bing, having ascended to Land Gods, exhibited terriyingly formidable combat strength. Their joint might was able to wound the King of the Dead!

They were indeed shockingly extraordinary! After all, the King of the Dead was terrifying and invincible, needing just a hair's breadth to Transcend the Other Shore.

"Qian Yue Bing, even if we can fight the King of the Dead momentarily, we simply can't defeat him!" Yalina transmitted her thoughts to Qian Yue Bing.

Their attacks were fierce, capable of tearing off large sections of flesh from the King of the Dead and even severing his bones.

But the body of the King of the Dead was simply too large, towering to a terrifying extent. The wounds inflicted upon his colossal form were akin to mosquito bites.

Even with their powers unleashed to the extreme, they stood no chance of killing the King of the Dead.

"I know. Once Ye Chen endures the Heavenly Punishment or dies failing, we'll immediately escape from the cavern!" Qian Yue Bing responded.

"Wonderful, talking with someone smart is so effortless. I'm really starting to like you more and more!" Yalina said.

"Though I may be proud and aloof, I too like men, you stand no chance!" Qian Yue Bing said, somewhat unexpectedly.

"..."

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