Chapter 547: Chapter 540: Unfinished
’I should have known. Only he could make this body so excited.’
Beside Andy, the black-robed man muttered to himself. He could clearly feel his body trembling faintly with an excitement that was beyond his control.
He slowly pulled back the hood covering his head, revealing a face that was both familiar and strange to Zhou Yuanjue.
Sharp, righteous features and white hair coiled high on his head. But the black eyes that should have been filled with resolve now held a pair of bizarre, blood-red pupils, brimming with an indescribable evil.
He was Zhang Dongwei, and yet he wasn’t.
Their gazes crossed through the jungle and the darkness, locking once more.
"Stay out of the coming battle,"
the black-robed man said to Andy.
"For a King Level like me, for this body to tremble uncontrollably with excitement over a mere mortal... If I cannot erase him with my own hands, it will be a lifetime of shame and a permanent stain on my honor."
"How could he possibly be worthy of comparison to me?!!"
A savage smile split across the black-robed man’s face.
VMMM!!
A deep blue light, as thick as amber, radiated from his body. His physical form began to change dramatically.
CRACK! CRACK!!
His skeleton rapidly elongated as his metabolism accelerated.
In an instant, he grew nearly a meter taller. A long tail sprouted from his back, fangs emerged from his mouth, and his entire body became covered in leopard-like spots. His muscles were like steel.
In a flash, he had revealed his strongest form.
His Celestial Demon form, fully manifested in the flesh.
An intense, invisible pressure radiated from his body.
RUSTLE! RUSTLE!!
SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH!!
SCREECH! SCREECH! SCREECH!!
The once-silent jungle erupted into a massive commotion. Within a ten-kilometer radius, countless birds and beasts, sensing an immense threat, fled from their hiding places without a moment’s hesitation.
It was a spectacular sight.
Swarms of birds filled the sky above the jungle, a dense, dark cloud.
On the ground, cheetahs and rabbits ran side-by-side. The distinction between predator and prey vanished, as fear overrode all their instincts.
At this moment, the black-robed man was the undisputed king of this ecosystem.
’King Level...’
Zhou Yuanjue murmured to himself. He too was affected by that powerful aura, by that overwhelming, primal threat to life itself.
His skin tightened involuntarily, and his body trembled slightly.
His body was afraid.
It was a biological instinct, one his body had not yet completely severed.
This was something that had never happened since he achieved his dual sublimation.
But to Zhou Yuanjue, this sensation was exquisite.
Only fear could strike directly at the soul.
He hadn’t felt his soul so viscerally touched since his dual sublimation.
’This trip was definitely the right choice.’
Watching that familiar yet strange figure, Zhou Yuanjue murmured to himself. Amidst the immense sense of threat, he slowly closed his eyes.
At that very moment, the black-robed man moved.
FWOOSH!!!
Unleashing a torrent of violent power, he snapped thick branches as his figure vanished into the night at a terrifying speed.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!
The surrounding vegetation was instantly blasted aside by his powerful charge. Anything standing in his path was crushed effortlessly.
In this ecosystem, nothing could stand in the King’s way.
"This..."
Watching the image projected by the two clan elders’ magnetic fields, the crowd gathered by the pool let out a collective gasp.
They knew that was the core of the third King-Level Seal’s territory. The area was planted with all sorts of powerful, specialized vegetation. Every single plant there possessed unimaginable strength and resilience.
And yet, under the King Level’s charge, all that special vegetation might as well have been ordinary plants—they were instantly and utterly destroyed.
’What terrifying power!’
In the span of three blinks, the black-robed man’s figure had already broken through layers of special vegetation, crested the mountain peak, and appeared before Zhou Yuanjue.
And yet, Zhou Yuanjue’s eyes remained tightly shut, and he made no move.
’Putting on a show.’
A mocking smile touched the corners of the black-robed man’s lips.
He wasn’t worried about any potential schemes. Before a power that had surpassed all limits, any plot was as fragile as paper.
’Rest in peace.’
The black-robed man raised his palm high. The dark blue light, as thick and solid as amber, gathered at his fingertips, coalescing into the shape of a ferocious turtle’s head.
’Divine Soul Power!’
Though it was only a thin layer, its power was far beyond what any mortal could withstand.
At the same time,
CRACK! CRACK!!
a powerful, grating sound of vibrating bones erupted from within his body.
His arm moved like a long snake, power flowing through it section by section. The bones within had been reconstructed into a spine-like structure, allowing him to unleash even more terrifying physical strength.
He thrust his palm forward!!
Through the image on the water’s surface, everyone clearly saw the air on the mountaintop collapse, creating a void more than ten meters wide.
’Disappear from this world forever!’
Killing intent surged in the black-robed man’s eyes.
Just then, an unknown magnetic field slammed into Zhou Yuanjue’s body, and his eyes snapped open.
A powerful enemy before him, a destructive attack inches away!!
It was like a nation facing an unprecedented crisis, a formidable enemy at its gates.
Instantly, all of his activated cells resonated and vibrated in unison. Zhou Yuanjue entered the same optimal state that Beichuan Xuanxin had achieved during his "Self-Severing."
Every cell resonated in concert; all of his power twisted into a single, unified force.
Physical strength, magnetic field, willpower, Spirit... all of it surged in that single instant.
Deep within himself, Zhou Yuanjue seemed to hear countless, deafening roars erupting from his own body.
VMMM!!
His body’s transformation into the Star Magnetic Field completed in an instant. The Southern Dipper Six Stars flared in the sky, casting down countless points of starlight that elevated his abilities to their absolute peak.
’This was exactly the state he wanted!’
The next moment, under the black-robed man’s watchful gaze, he raised his arm and threw a punch straight at the descending palm.
’How naive!’
’To think he’d dare to clash with a power beyond all limits using nothing but his physical body.’
’He’s courting death!’
But in the next instant, his pupils shrank to pinpricks.
A brilliant silver-white light gathered at Zhou Yuanjue’s fist. It pulsed and converged, finally forming a layer of amber-like condensed light in the shape of a Divine Bird’s sharp beak.
BOOM!!!
Fist and palm collided. A massive ripple of air expanded outwards, and the surrounding vegetation was flattened by the shockwave.
’Is this...?’
’Divine Soul?!’
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