When he reached this point, what he saw was not hope, but pressure.
Along the way, the experts Yang Chen had come to admire were not limited to Mad God Lord. There were quite a few others who had earned his heartfelt respect. If they had not been inside Bloody Purgatory, they would certainly have been elites of their own regions, overlord-level figures beneath the Enlightenment Stage.
But within Bloody Purgatory, there was always someone stronger among the strong. Their excellence could only be replaced by something even more outstanding.
Thus, standing here, the pressure upon him became incomparably immense.
He found it difficult to imagine what level of opponents he would encounter if he continued upward.
However, Yang Chen had no reason to stop.
He had to keep moving upward.
Yang Chen barely paused to think. At the seven-thousand-zhang mark, he did not linger in the slightest before taking a step straight into the sky.
He encountered a new opponent—Sky Dragon Divine Lord!
Defeated!
Divine Lord Fahai was likewise defeated.
Yang Chen continued onward and reached a height of seven thousand five hundred zhang. Upon arriving here, he began to feel increasingly unable to keep up. He encountered a new opponent, Changkong Divine Lord. After a fierce battle, he only barely managed to defeat him with the God Piercer Drill.
There had truly been an element of luck involved. But if luck favored him once, it would not necessarily tilt toward him a second time.
After Changkong Divine Lord, Yang Chen encountered a new opponent—Shadow Divine Lord.
This Shadow Divine Lord gave Yang Chen an enormous headache. During their first clash, Yang Chen had failed to grasp his methods and returned in crushing defeat.
The techniques Shadow Divine Lord used seemed simple enough, merely layer upon layer of black