True Dragon and True Phoenix, Stepping into Saint Grade! (Four Thousand Words in One Chapter)

Deep within the Divine Sea, time quietly slipped by.

Half a year had passed since Mu Chen broke through to Earthly Sovereign.

The once-boundless sea of divine beast essence blood had now dwindled to little more than a shallow pool.

Rumble-!!!

Without warning, thunder exploded through this independent space!

Mu Chen's closed eyes snapped open the instant the thunder rang out.

Chaotic light swirled within his Double Pupils. In an instant, his gaze pierced the thick, scarlet sea of essence blood and turned toward the place elsewhere in the Divine Sea where Nine Nether was cultivating in seclusion.

At some point, immensely heavy, pitch-black thunderclouds had completely shrouded the sky above that stretch of sea!

The thunderclouds churned violently. Countless silver lightning serpents, each as thick as a giant python, danced wildly within them, weaving back and forth with scalp-prickling crackles.

Destructive power swiftly gathered within the thunder, turning the sky over that region a warped, somber shade. The air seemed to freeze, filled with suffocating pressure.

"Was Nine Nether about to break through too?"

Mu Chen's gaze sharpened slightly as understanding dawned on him. This sight did not surprise him.

Just as human cultivators had to undergo the Supreme Spiritual Tribulation when breaking through to Earthly Sovereign, the evolution of a divine beast's bloodline-especially its transformation into a higher form of life-would also prompt the laws of heaven and earth to descend with a trial. This was heaven and earth tempering those who broke the shackles of life!

Boom, boom, boom-!!!

High overhead, a dazzling point of light suddenly erupted at the center of the pitch-black thunderclouds, where power had gathered to its limit!

In the next instant, a silver pillar formed entirely of destructive lightning tore through layer after layer of thunderclouds. Like a spear of punishment hurled