At the bottom of the Cold Dragon Blood Abyss.
The enormous demon dragon skeleton, hundreds of yards long, lay like a winding, pale mountain range amid mud and rubble.
Sun Yu sat cross-legged before the massive skull of the dragon.
In his hand, he held the last piece of dragon marrow, dripping with dark blue blood.
Without hesitation, Sun Yu opened his mouth and bit down on the marrow, which contained the very essence of a Divine Sea Realm great demon, crushing it and swallowing it whole.
"Gulp."
His Adam's apple bobbed.
An entire mid-stage Divine Sea Realm Ice Calamity Dragon had been devoured clean in less than two hours. Not even a shred of flesh remained.
As the last piece of dragon marrow slid down his throat—
"RUMBLE!!!"
It was as if a thousand volcanoes had erupted inside Sun Yu all at once.
The extremely vast essence of qi and blood was frantically ground down by the Five Viscera Furnace, turned into surging magma, and rushed in its entirety into his dantian.
Inside his dantian, the pale golden lake of true essence had already expanded to the absolute limit the Fetal Transformation Realm could contain.
The lake boiled, churning up monstrous waves.
Every drop of true essence was as heavy as lead and mercury, as sharp as Sword Qi.
A terrifying sensation of swelling filled every inch of Sun Yu's body.
Dark red Asura Demonic Marks raced wildly across the surface of his cold, pale skin, desperately holding back the vast energy inside him, which was on the verge of running amok.
He was waiting.
In his chest, his powerful heart beat like the most precise war drum.
"Thump."
"Thump."
As the final heartbeat faded—
From the darkness above the abyss, which blocked out the light of day, came what seemed to be some intangible rhythm.
Midnight. The hour of the Rat.
Silver light rippled violently across his retinas like boiling water.
The panel appeared with a crash!
This time, the panel was unlike its usual calm self.
Under the impact of the Ice Calamity Dragon's vast reserves of qi and blood, the entire system panel was stained a glaring crimson.
"Let's begin."
A fervent light blazed in Sun Yu's eyes.
His will became a heavy hammer and slammed into the crimson plus sign!
"WHIRR!"
The vast dragon blood qi inside him, which had nearly burst him apart, instantly found an outlet.
The system domineeringly extracted every last bit of the essence of qi and blood, turning it into the purest infusion of power and sending it straight into the depths of Sun Yu's dantian.
[Eight Desolations Prison Suppressing Technique (Major Accomplishment)]!
The bottomless black hole in his dantian instantly collapsed inward, shrinking tenfold!
The black hole spun faster than ever before, letting out an extremely shrill whine.
Measured from the outside—
The Prison Suppressing Force Field around Sun Yu expanded with a roar, from thirty yards to two hundred!
Gravity surged directly from fiftyfold to three hundredfold!
"Crack, crack, crack, crack!"
The Divine Sea Realm demon dragon skeleton around Sun Yu, a hundred yards long, couldn't withstand it for even a single breath.
Under three hundredfold gravity—
The incomparably hard ancient dragon bones began to crumble from the top, then were instantly crushed into a carpet of pale bone dust!
The abyssal rock within two hundred yards sank ten yards with a crash, as though a heavenly god had stomped on it.
The following day.
Sun Yu took a deep breath.
Facing the energy still rampaging inside him, he slammed his will down once more!
[Eight Desolations Prison Suppressing Technique (Perfection)]
"RUMBLE!!!"
Great Perfection!
In that instant, the bottomless black hole inside Sun Yu stopped spinning.
It collapsed directly into an infinitesimal singularity, yet one of immeasurable weight.
Then the singularity exploded!
It didn't destroy everything around it. Instead, in an exceedingly strange manner, it merged with every inch of Sun Yu's flesh and blood!
Bones, muscles, fascia, blood, cells.
Every inch of his body turned into a miniature black hole, capable of generating terrifying gravitational force on its own.
The Prison Suppressing Force Field was no longer an outward domain.
It had become an instinct of his physical body!
At that moment, Sun Yu's body grew heavier than a thousand-yard-tall mountain range of Mysterious Iron!
The Eight Desolations Prison Suppressing Technique had reached its utmost limits—his body had become its own world!
His body was an absolute divine prison, suppressing the Eight Desolations!
At the very instant his physical body reached Great Perfection—
His dantian, freed from the constraints of his flesh, finally underwent a true transformation.
"Crack."
The barrier of the Fetal Transformation Realm was like a flimsy sheet of paper, pierced through once and for all.
His dantian expanded without limit.
Under the combined catalysis of the dragon clan's blood qi and the system's infusion, the pale golden lake of true essence surged outward!
Tenfold! A hundredfold! A thousandfold!
The lake became an ocean!
A vast, boundless sea churned into being within Sun Yu, its pale golden waves rolling endlessly.
Divine Sea Realm!
Waves crashed against the shores of the Divine Sea, roaring loud enough to shake the heavens.
Every drop of seawater was highly compressed Innate True Essence.
True essence met the Asura Undying Body.
The dark red Asura Demonic Marks on Sun Yu's skin, which had previously faded after battle, now blazed with an exceedingly dazzling light.
Then, like red-hot brands, the marks burned themselves deep into his cold, pale skin.
They had become permanent!
The demonic marks were no longer manifestations of energy. They had become natural patterns growing upon his Extreme Devil Body.
His blood slowed.
Yet every heartbeat pumped out pale golden blood, filled with enough vitality to make a Blood Washing Realm martial artist explode.
He shed his skin.
His final shedding.
A nearly transparent layer of dead skin, shaped like a cicada's molt, slowly peeled away from Sun Yu.
At that moment, every last connection to his mortal body was severed.
He was no longer human.
He was a walking demon god.
Early-stage Divine Sea Realm.
Asura Undying Body.
Sword Marrow at Great Perfection.
Prison Suppressing Force Field at Great Perfection.
Sun Yu kept his eyes shut, feeling the terrifying power within him, a power beyond all words.
Slowly, he opened his eyes.
His pupils were no longer pure black.
Deep in their darkness, a ring of dark red—the Extreme Devil Ring—had appeared.
Sun Yu sat where he was, unmoving.
He simply lifted his right hand, which had been resting on his knee, with the utmost casualness.
He braced it against the rock beside him.
He was about to stand.
"Screee!"
The instant Sun Yu's palm pressed down—
The space within three feet of him let out a piercing shriek, as if silk were being torn apart!
The density and power of his body alone had reached the limit this world's space could bear.
Before the naked eye—
The air around Sun Yu warped and folded with startling intensity.
Light passing beside him was forcibly dragged into bizarre curves.
And so, with the space around him twisting, he slowly straightened up.
"Thud."
His feet settled.
He hadn't released any true essence or activated any force field.
The hard rock of the abyss beneath him sank half a foot, soundlessly.
Sun Yu raised his head.
His long black hair stirred without a breeze.
He tilted his face upward, his gaze piercing the dense darkness above the abyss.
He looked straight toward the heights ten thousand yards overhead.
There, a thick, earthen-yellow formation barrier hung like an enormous dome, sealing the exit of the entire Cold Dragon Blood Abyss.
Ancient inscriptions flowed across the formation, radiating powerful restrictive force enough to trap even a late-stage Divine Sea Realm expert.
In Sun Yu's eyes, ringed with dark red—
There was only the utmost disdain of one looking down from above.
"The Seal Mountain Great Array?"
Sun Yu rolled his neck.
His joints shifted, ringing out with a piercing Sword Qi cry that seemed to split clouds and shatter stone.
The corner of his mouth curled into a cruel, chilling sneer. Dark red Asura Gang Qi dripped slowly from his fingertips, corroding the ground into one bottomless black hole after another.
Sun Yu's voice echoed through the empty depths of the abyss, filled with undisguised savagery and arrogance.
"You didn't lock me down here."
"You locked yourselves out."
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