"At last... a worthy opponent."
Ye Tian murmured to himself, yet his voice echoed clearly through the deathly still illusion realm.
Wiping the blood from his lips, he made the chaotic qi-blood around him roar and boil once more. He actually dismissed the Five Great Divine Swords circling behind him, drawing them back into his body to nourish them.
Was he actually going to face this peerless fiend barehanded?!
"What... what is he doing? Abandoning his swords?"
"Has he gone mad? That fiend's aura is already approaching a true god's! How can he contend with it without his invincible sword arts?!"
The spectators outside burned with anxiety, unable to understand.
But in the next instant, they understood Ye Tian's intent!
Ye Tian drew a deep breath, and his entire bearing abruptly changed!
No longer sharp as a sword, he became weighty, majestic, and brimming with the most primitive, savage power!
A terrifying rumble came from within his body, like ten thousand gods and devils beating war drums, like a river of stars surging forth!
His body shone—not with the radiance of a divine ability, but with the precious light erupting from his own flesh, sinews, and bones!
It was crystalline and translucent, yet packed with explosive strength!
"His body... he means to fight with physical strength alone?!"
A powerful body cultivator shrieked in horror, convinced Ye Tian had truly gone mad!
The peerless fiend seemed enraged by Ye Tian's provocation as well.
Rather than immediately releasing the destructive energy in its enormous hand, which resembled an embryonic universe, it clenched that hand into a fist. Simple and direct, with the bearing of something that would crush all before it, it punched toward Ye Tian!
Where its fist passed, space did not shatter. It dissolved directly into a chaotic state of