Ye Xiwen could feel that, in the Third Stage, he might have reached a realm unprecedented before him and never to be surpassed after him.
His strength was still continuously expanding and rising. The energy of the World Tree Fruit was simply too powerful, augmenting his cultivation, elevating his realm, cleansing his fleshly body, and allowing him to contain even vaster reserves of power, reaching a realm unprecedented before him and never to be surpassed after him.
That was why he was not worried about Heavenly Fire God Lord's counterattack. Any retaliation was nothing in his eyes.
So long as Heavenly Fire God Lord had not entered the Fourth Stage, none of it held any meaning to him.
Everything was within his control. He feared neither Heavenly Fire God Lord's rebound nor attempts to stall for time. Those were all trifles, because as time passed, he would only grow stronger, and the speed of his advancement would far surpass Heavenly Fire God Lord's rate of recovery.
The more time passed, the more Heavenly Fire God Lord's apparent chances of victory shrank bit by bit, until they vanished altogether.
Heavenly Fire God Lord panted heavily, his eyes bloodshot as he stared at Ye Xiwen. He seemed unable to understand how the man he had once regarded as no more than an ant had grown to this point, even injuring him.
He was several times stronger than ordinary peak Third Stage Celestial Venerables. Defeating them had never posed any difficulty. Yet now he discovered that Ye Xiwen had also become this powerful. Unlike him, who relied on accumulated cultivation and comprehension of higher Celestial Venerable realms, Ye Xiwen had simply charged headlong and fought his way into this realm.
Even if he had been a fool, he understood by now that it