The first-place winner of the eighth stage had yet to be decided.
Emperor Tianyun had originally been the most likely candidate, yet no one had expected Kuifang to charge into the eighth layer of the Cloud Sea on sheer brute force.
After Kuifang, Demon Venerable Qingyu, Emperor Liuyuan, and Venerable Napushe also entered the eighth layer of the Cloud Sea in succession. For a time, Jiang Sheng was the only one left in the seventh layer.
Jiang Sheng did not care in the slightest. Again and again, he slammed into the hardened sea surface, using the rebounding force to invigorate his body and spur the medicinal power within him. The condition of his physical body was steadily improving.
This change was not confined to his flesh alone. His flesh, bones, meridians, acupoints, and even his five viscera and six bowels were transforming amid the vibrations and the nourishment returned by the medicinal power. Even Jiang Sheng's divine soul had become somewhat clearer.
This state was excellent, as though he had gone through a warm-up and was now ready to meet an intense, violent battle.
The restrictions of the seventh layer of the Cloud Sea no longer had much effect on Jiang Sheng either.
Thus, when Divine Lord Chunqiu, Hundred-Blossom Fairy, Yingtian Demon Monarch, Daoist Duo Ming, and the others arrived at the seventh layer of the Cloud Sea, they sensed a soaring, heaven-piercing edge.
"What is that?!"
Divine Lord Chunqiu looked over and saw an Azure Rainbow shooting straight into the heavens, stirring ten thousand rippling waves. Amid the churning clouds and mist of the Cloud Sea, surrounded by countless coils of fog, that Azure Rainbow actually burst directly through the sea surface of the seventh layer and plunged into the eighth layer of the Cloud Sea.
"That is..."
"Penglai