Great Void Realm

"This... this was a breakthrough?" Ji Ruxue stared at the upright, mountain-like figure in midair, her tear-stained face filled with disbelief.

Not just her—Xuanyuan Hao, the two maidservants beside him, Huang Hao, who had emerged from his ostrich state, and the crowd watching from afar—

Every one of them stood dumbfounded, unable to believe what their eyes were seeing.

The man who, in their eyes, had been covered in filthy blood and battered beyond measure, looking as if his body would fall apart and he would breathe his last at any moment, had risen again!

The torrent of Hua Qiang's blood and qi suddenly exploded, golden and dark cyan-black light intertwining into a spiraling pillar that shot into the heavens.

Accompanied by a dragon's roar and a crocodile's bellow that shook the Nine Heavens, the aura within him soared like a rocket.

The shattered Dragon Scales and Crocodile Scales regenerated at a visible speed. What poured from his wounds was no longer blood, but golden motes brimming with boundless vitality.

In merely a few breaths, the pressure of the fifth level of the Star Sea Realm swept outward like a tsunami. Power several times greater than before sent ripples through space itself, and even Ji Ruxue in the distance felt that vast, irresistible force, covering her mouth in shock.

At that moment, Hua Qiang's Dragon Scales and Crocodile Scales had fused perfectly. His left eye blazed with the golden flames of a divine dragon, while his right eye flowed with the dark blue radiance of a giant crocodile. Under the fifth level of the Star Sea Realm, the two ancient bloodlines had completely merged into one, and the pressure they emitted made heaven and earth lose color.

Hua Qiang flexed his limbs, every bend and stretch of his joints erupting