Chapter 860: Chapter 859: The Sixteenth Wave of Attacks!
As time went by.
Within the light screen, the disciples from the seven peaks had each already broken through their respective trials and were heading toward the end point. Seeing this scene, the several Supreme Elders watching all revealed satisfied smiles.
In their eyes.
Ye Qingchen had already perished in the Black Nether Profound Sea, with almost no room for surprise!
Meanwhile, Lu Yanwu, Zhou Hai, Han Buxiu and the others grew increasingly despondent. Clearly, the last trace of hope in their hearts was being consumed with every passing second!
The matters of the outside world.
Ye Qingchen knew nothing of them!
He, who was in bitter cultivation, was jolted awake by a thunderous roar of raging waves.
"The eleventh assault is about to begin!"
"The others, their assessments are probably more than halfway done by now, right?"
"I wonder what kind of assault I’ll be facing this time?"
Ye Qingchen slowly stood up, staring at the sea waves before him.
Splash!
Amidst a series of booming crashes.
He saw it.
The vast surface of the sea was split open by a colossal behemoth; it was a Profound Black Immortal Turtle! Its size was even more enormous than a dragon turtle’s, and it was said to carry the bloodline of the Ancient Divine Beast, the Black Tortoise!
Its tail was like a flood dragon, like a true dragon, and its four limbs were like dragon claws!
Its gigantic body floated on the sea’s surface, simply like a moving, gigantic sea island!
Moreover.
Almost the moment this Immortal Turtle appeared, the vast sea roiled as if boiling. One Profound Black Immortal Turtle after another surfaced. In the blink of an eye, the originally vast and majestic Black Nether Profound Sea, in Ye Qingchen’s eyes, had been forcibly transformed by these Profound Black Immortal Turtles into a continuous mountain range!
"The eleventh assault is about to begin!"
When these Profound Black Immortal Turtles appeared, the Three-Eyed Profound Ape’s attention returned once more to Ye Qingchen.
It must be known.
The difficulty of these trials increased by multiples.
In its view.
With Ye Qingchen’s cultivation, blocking the first nine assaults should have been relatively easy. But the further he went, the more strenuous it would become. Especially the tenth assault—compared to the previous ones, it was simply terrifying!
Not only had the strength of the demonic beasts increased, but their number had also risen from a single one to several dozen.
Back then, quite a few trial-takers had fallen in that wave of assaults.
However.
Ye Qingchen’s performance left it utterly astonished.
Even when facing demonic beasts several times his number, Ye Qingchen still slew them in an incomparably relaxed manner. What delighted the Three-Eyed Profound Ape even more was that Ye Qingchen clearly still had strength to spare.
The eleventh wave!
The twelfth wave!
The thirteenth wave!
The fourteenth wave!
When Ye Qingchen had withstood the fourteenth wave of assaults, the Three-Eyed Profound Ape could no longer suppress the ecstasy in its heart.
"Too strong!"
"He actually managed to withstand the fourteenth wave of assaults, and his strength is still continuously rising. This is something those Earth Immortals who entered this place before could simply never achieve!"
Although.
The Spiritual Qi density of this Profound Nether Black Sea was several times higher than that of the outside world, other people cultivating here had never increased their strength as fast as Ye Qingchen!
Moreover.
It could feel that Ye Qingchen’s growth in strength was as if it had no end in sight!
"Could it be that he really can pass the trial, obtain the inheritance, and take me to search for Master?"
The Three-Eyed Profound Ape looked at Ye Qingchen in delight.
It had to be said.
The ones who had entered this place before, even the best of them, had only been able to withstand the fourteenth wave of attacks, yet now Ye Qingchen had perfectly endured the fifteenth wave of assaults!
This had already completely surpassed the previous record!
"Next will be the sixteenth wave of assaults!"
"No one has ever, with only a Half-Step Earth Immortal cultivation, made it this far like he has!"
"Only the last three layers remain!"
"I wonder if he can pass Master’s assessment!"
The Three-Eyed Profound Ape quietly watched Ye Qingchen, its eyes full of hope.
...
"Next will be the sixteenth assault."
Ye Qingchen quietly gazed at the endless sea before him.
The closer to the end.
The more terrifying the assaults he faced became. Not only were the demonic beasts stronger, but their numbers also kept increasing. Especially the Profound Black Immortal Turtles of the eleventh wave—their strength had even surpassed existences like Bai Yujing, Ning Yukong, and Ye Xuan!
Hundreds of Earth Immortals; even Ye Qingchen had to face them with caution.
If he had not cultivated for a long time during the intervals between the previous waves of assaults, that one wave alone might have utterly brought him down.
And the twelfth wave of assaults was even more terrifying; they were flood dragons and chi dragons, soaring on clouds and mist, raising boundless, towering waves!
The thirteenth wave of assaults was the Profound Dragon Whales, their bodies even more massive than the Profound Black Immortal Turtles!
...
In the fifteenth wave of assaults, what he encountered were Merfolk whose entire bodies were covered in blue patterns, with the upper half of their bodies like human cultivators and the lower half like fish tails! Each one was several dozen zhang tall, and their strength was shockingly powerful!
Having withstood the fifteenth wave, Ye Qingchen had already cultivated on this Black Nether Profound Sea for a full forty-five days, tempering and cultivating without rest each day, causing his strength to advance by leaps and bounds. At this moment, he had even gradually touched the threshold of the Earth Immortal realm.
Besides that.
The "Silver Blood" of the fourth Chapter of his Ancient Dragon Elephant Technique had also been cultivated to Great Success. The Qi Blood within his body was as dense as liquid mercury and surged endlessly like a waterfall!
And the "Star River Chapter" of his Nine Revolutions Star Technique was drawing ever closer to completion; the surging starforce True Qi in his Dantian had almost condensed into a Star River.
He had even.
Driven both the Heaven-Repairing Fragment and the Great Freedom Heaven-Trapping Sword to their extremes!
The current Ye Qingchen had long surpassed ordinary Early-stage Earth Immortal experts, possessing strength equivalent to a Late-stage of the Earth Immortal First Realm powerhouse. It was precisely by relying on this that he had defeated the Merfolk of the fifteenth layer!
"I wonder what the sixteenth wave of assaults will be?"
Ye Qingchen gripped his sword, staring in utmost vigilance at the vast sea before him. Yet this time, the assault did not manifest directly before him as it had before.
The Profound Nether Black Sea, which had been a raging ocean, actually quieted down without a sound. From afar, it looked like a gigantic black mirror; even when the sea breeze brushed past, not the slightest ripple arose!
However!
Ye Qingchen could clearly feel an extreme sense of crisis ferociously closing in. This feeling caused the hair all over his body to stand on end.
"What on earth is going on?"
"Could it be?"
Ye Qingchen paused, then suddenly looked down at the sea beneath his feet.
He saw it.
The sea at his feet was already covered by a massive patch of shadow, pitch-black and unfathomable. Within that shadow, countless red lights gleamed—it was actually pairs upon pairs of scarlet eyes!
In an instant, it was as if the abyss itself was staring at him.
"Splash!"
The next moment, gigantic waves surged up!
The black shadow surfaced!
The colossal thing struck!
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