At the bottom of the Cold Dragon Blood Abyss.
There was no light.
Only a thick, overpowering stench of blood and bone-piercing cold.
"Roar!!!"
A savage dragon's roar exploded beneath Sun Yu's feet.
Mud and碎 stone churned wildly.
A colossal creature over a hundred zhang long, its entire body covered in ghostly blue ice-crystal scales, suddenly burst out of the silt at the bottom of the abyss.
A mid-stage Divine Sea Realm Ice Calamity Dragon!
The Calamity Dragon had been hungry for three hundred years. The instant it caught the scent of blood and qi on Sun Yu, it went completely berserk.
It opened its cavernous jaws, large enough to swallow a palace, and spat out a blast of ghastly white frigid breath straight at Sun Yu in midair.
Sun Yu plummeted at breakneck speed.
Facing a Divine Sea Realm breath that could freeze even true essence, he didn't even try to dodge.
His right fist clenched.
Dark red Asura Gang Qi exploded around his knuckles.
He met the frigid breath head-on and smashed down with one punch!
"Bang!"
The ghastly white column of breath was forcibly split down the middle by Extreme Yang Gang Qi.
Extreme cold collided with extreme heat, exploding into a vast cloud of white steam.
Sun Yu's figure was like a red-hot blade, ripping through the breath before crashing straight into the Ice Calamity Dragon's enormous head.
"Boom!"
A dull, earth-shaking impact.
Sun Yu landed firmly on the dragon's head.
The force of the blow drove the Ice Calamity Dragon's head sharply downward, smashing it against the stone wall of the abyss.
"Roar!"
The Calamity Dragon cried out in pain and flew into a rage.
Its hundred-zhang-long body writhed wildly. Its thick tail, carrying enough force to demolish a mountain, lashed at Sun Yu atop its head like a whip.
"Trying to turn the tables?"
A savage glint flashed in Sun Yu's eyes.
Deep in his dantian, the bottomless black hole abruptly reversed.
"Vmmm!"
Centered on Sun Yu, the space within a radius of thirty zhang collapsed.
Fiftyfold gravity!
Without warning, it crushed down on the Ice Calamity Dragon's head and forequarters like an entire mountain range of cast iron.
"Rumble!!!"
The dragon's head, which had just lifted, was slammed back to the ground by the terrifying gravity.
The hard rock at the bottom of the abyss caved into a huge crater beneath its skull.
The tail that had lashed at him had barely entered the field before the fiftyfold gravity dragged it down, making it crash helplessly against the stone wall.
"Grr..."
The Calamity Dragon let out a frightened, muffled growl.
It desperately urged the mana of the Divine Sea Realm, trying to push off the crushing weight on its back.
Ghostly blue frost mana surged outward.
But it was no use.
Sun Yu stood between its two horns.
Beneath his pale skin, the Dark Red Demonic Patterns blazed.
The Asura Undying Body.
The stronger the gravity, the steadier his body became.
Sun Yu bent down.
He reached out with both hands and clamped his fingers around the Ice Calamity Dragon's two crystal-clear horns, each thicker than a tree trunk, like iron hooks.
"Break!"
A low growl rumbled in Sun Yu's throat.
The muscles in his arms swelled in an instant, and his Dark Gold Tendons writhed like Horned Dragons.
With three times the Extreme Dao Monster Force of the Blood Washing Realm Peak, combined with the downward crush of fiftyfold gravity,
he braced his waist and wrenched both arms upward!
"Crack!!!"
A sharp, hair-raising snap echoed through the abyss.
"Roar!!!"
The Ice Calamity Dragon let out a scream of unbearable agony.
The two ancient dragon horns, said to be capable of smashing magical treasures, were ripped out of its skull, roots and all!
Scalding ghostly blue dragon blood sprayed from the two huge holes in its head like fountains.
Sun Yu casually tossed the horns aside.
He didn't stop.
Following the wounds gushing with dragon blood, he dug both hands straight into the gaps between the scales on the Ice Calamity Dragon's neck.
Each scale was as large as a door and harder than iron.
But before Sun Yu's fingers, edged with the sharpness of Major Accomplishment Sword Marrow, they were as fragile as roof tiles.
"Riiip!"
Sun Yu yanked both arms outward.
A huge patch of ice-crystal scales, still attached to flesh, was violently torn away!
Blood and flesh flew everywhere.
The Ice Calamity Dragon writhed in agony, smashing its enormous body against the rocks at the bottom of the abyss and shattering them.
But its head was pinned to the ground by Sun Yu's Prison Suppressing Force Field, unable to move.
"Rip!"
"Rip!"
Sun Yu's expression didn't change.
His hands were the cruelest butcher's knives.
One scale after another was torn off by force.
Soon, a vast, bloody patch had been stripped bare along the dragon's neck.
Beneath it lay dark blue true-dragon flesh, brimming with terrifying vitality.
"Divine Sea Realm meat ought to be pretty chewy."
Sun Yu gave a cold laugh.
He clenched his right fist.
The dark red Asura Gang Qi compressed to its limit, forming a devastating halo around his knuckles.
He aimed at the unprotected neck.
And punched down!
"Bang!"
Extreme Yang Gang Qi pierced the muscles in an instant and slammed straight into the dragon's cervical vertebrae.
The dragon's bones shattered.
The Calamity Dragon's scream cut off abruptly.
Only violent, reflexive spasms remained.
Sun Yu didn't stop.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
His fists lashed down like a violent storm, one after another striking the exact same spot.
Blood and flesh flew; bone fragments scattered.
Both frigid and scorching Internal Breath rampaged through the Calamity Dragon's body, destroying its vitality.
On the tenth punch,
"Boom!"
Sun Yu smashed the Ice Calamity Dragon's thick neck clean in two!
Its enormous head was completely severed from its body.
A mid-stage Divine Sea Realm great demon.
Beaten to death with his bare hands!
Above the abyss.
The Blackstone Plaza.
A deathly silence.
Before the bronze table,
Prefecture Lord Xiao Tiannan, Blood Saber Gate Master Li Xuekuang, and Iron Clothes Fortress Lord Tie Zhan
stared rigidly at the enormous water mirror suspended in midair, like statues sculpted from clay and wood.
The water mirror was a supplementary magical treasure of the Seal Mountain Great Array. It clearly reflected everything happening at the bottom of the abyss.
"Gulp."
Li Xuekuang struggled to swallow, his Adam's apple bobbing.
The hand gripping his supreme-grade blood saber was trembling uncontrollably.
"It's dead... That Calamity Dragon... He beat it to death?"
His voice shook with undisguised fear.
That was an ancient demon from the mid-stage Divine Sea Realm!
Even the three of them together could only barely trap it with the help of the formation. There was no way they could kill it.
And yet the young man in white in the water mirror
had used no weapons,
no spells,
only his bare fists to snap the dragon's horns, tear off its scales, and smash its head clean off!
Tie Zhan's prized fine-steel heavy armor felt like it had turned to ice, chilling him to the bone.
"He... What kind of body-tempering cultivation method does he practice? That body... Is he even human?"
Tie Zhan stumbled half a step backward, crashing straight into the bronze table.
He was afraid.
Terrified.
He recalled the sight of the Wang family's Ancestor and the other two having their skulls crushed by gravity. Then he looked at the Calamity Dragon, smashed in half in the water mirror.
Tie Zhan had no doubt that if Sun Yu came up now, one punch would flatten him, armor and all.
Xiao Tiannan's face was pale as paper.
His flawless plan to borrow another's blade to kill had become a colossal joke.
The blade had been snapped in the prey's bare hands.
"Madman... A complete and utter monster!"
Xiao Tiannan gritted his teeth, the fear in his eyes turning to utter madness.
He abruptly turned to Li Xuekuang and Tie Zhan.
"We must not let him out!"
"That Calamity Dragon was in the Divine Sea Realm, with vast stores of blood and qi. Killing it must have drained him badly!"
"Come with me to the Formation Eye at once! Pour all your True Qi into it!"
"The ancient Seal Mountain Great Array can trap even a late-stage Divine Sea Realm cultivator. Even if he's an Extreme Dao martial artist, once we seal the abyss, he'll have no spiritual energy to replenish himself. Sooner or later, he'll starve to death down there!"
Li Xuekuang and Tie Zhan snapped out of their daze and nodded frantically.
Now that they had completely fallen out with Sun Yu, if he came up, he would slaughter every last one of them.
The three men no longer cared about the dignity of important figures.
They rushed beneath the bronze table and pressed both hands firmly against the core of the Formation Eye.
True Qi from the peak of the Fetal Transformation Realm and the early Divine Sea Realm poured into the array like floodwaters bursting through a dam.
"Vmmm!"
A thick, ocher-colored curtain of light instantly lit up above the entire Cold Dragon Blood Abyss.
Like an enormous inverted bowl, the light curtain sealed the abyss's exit shut.
Impenetrable.
At the bottom of the abyss,
Sun Yu paid no attention to the formation's curtain of light overhead.
As far as he was concerned, whether the formation was sealed or not didn't matter now.
The Fetal Transformation Creation Art had turned his true essence into a lake, but the lake had yet to reach its true limit.
He needed an enormous amount of energy to fill the final energy pool of the Fetal Transformation Realm.
Sun Yu brought his fingers together like a blade, and Asura Gang Qi spat from them.
"Shrrk!"
He cut straight through the scales still clinging to the Ice Calamity Dragon's belly.
He plunged both hands into the dragon's body and brutally tore through flesh, pulling out a dragon beast core the size of a human head, radiating terrifying cold and pressure.
Without even looking at it, he shoved it straight into his mouth.
"Crunch!"
He chewed it to pieces and swallowed.
The Ice Calamity Dragon's frenzied Divine Sea Realm power exploded in his stomach.
The Five Viscera Furnace roared into motion, while the Yin Yang Qi Vortex madly ground away the savage consciousness within the dragon's power.
Right after that,
Sun Yu stamped his right foot down, shattering a boulder beside him.
Dark red gang qi surged from his palm.
"Boom!"
A massive blaze of Asura Gang Qi sprang into existence at the bottom of the abyss.
Sun Yu grabbed the Ice Calamity Dragon's flesh with both hands.
He didn't even bother with a blade. He tore off hundreds of pounds of dragon ribs, dragon heart, and dragon liver with his bare hands.
He tossed them straight into the Asura fire.
The scorching gang qi instantly roasted the tough dragon meat until it sizzled and dripped with grease, its skin turning golden-brown as an enticing aroma filled the air.
Sun Yu sat down on the ground.
He grabbed a roast dragon rib weighing dozens of pounds and tore into it.
He chewed and swallowed.
The Ice Calamity Dragon's flesh, from a mid-stage Divine Sea Realm beast, contained blood and qi essence utterly beyond what the beasts on the outer perimeter could offer.
Every mouthful that went down
turned into a stream of boiling lava, rushing madly into Sun Yu's dantian.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
A continuous rumbling echoed from within Sun Yu's body.
It was the sound of his true essence lake expanding wildly.
He ate at incredible speed.
The entire dragon's body, dozens of zhang long, became an endless supply of meat as the Asura fire roasted it.
Beneath his cold, pale skin, the Dark Red Demonic Patterns grew ever brighter.
Pale golden true essence surged through his body, gradually reaching an utterly terrifying tipping point.
The Sword Qi deep in his marrow was thoroughly nourished, and his internal organs were like divine iron forged in a furnace.
Half an hour.
An hour.
Sun Yu ate the entire Ice Calamity Dragon until only a massive skeleton remained.
Sun Yu swallowed the last bite of dragon heart.
He stopped moving.
He slowly rose to his feet.
He closed his eyes.
At that moment, the qi and blood and true essence within him completely filled the final energy pool required for the Fetal Transformation Realm.
The utmost fullness.
The utmost perfection.
The barrier to the extreme realm lay right before him.
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