Free Web NovelChapter 335: Chapter 170: The Battle for the Top, The Endgame
Amid a piercing scrape, his fingers plowed five deep gouges into the ground, barely halting his momentum at the very edge of the ring.
If he had fallen, he would have been declared the loser instantly.
RUMBLE...!!
Lin Ye saw that the bowl-sized hole in Dongfang Zhen’s abdomen—a wound that pierced straight through him—was not bleeding. Instead, it was gradually being filled by a mass of purple lightning that pulsed with a searing glow.
At the same time, a terrifying wave of heat blasted toward him!
Lin Ye’s eyes narrowed.
He knew Dongfang Zhen was about to risk it all.
Dongfang Zhen slowly straightened up. The lightning in his abdomen grew blindingly bright. He looked at Lin Ye, his voice hoarse from the excruciating pain, but his tone was unnaturally calm.
"Lin Ye, this battle today has made me realize there’s always someone stronger."
"That there are true geniuses like you in this world!"
"Given time, you will surely surpass me."
"But I don’t think that day is today. And it is not now."
The moment he finished speaking, Dongfang Zhen’s figure began to blur and distort in Lin Ye’s vision, like a TV signal suffering from severe interference.
Lin Ye felt as though what stood before him was no longer human.
But... lightning itself.
When he focused his gaze again, Dongfang Zhen was nowhere to be seen on the ring. All that remained was a humanoid silhouette completely enveloped in frenzied purple plasma!
RUMBLE...!!
Nie Cang, Zhang Daoxuan, and the others felt a destructive aura wash over them and instinctively shot backward.
They didn’t stop until they were over a hundred meters away, their hearts pounding with fear as they stared at the battlefield, which had become a completely forbidden zone.
Within a hundred-meter radius of the ring, nothing solid could be seen.
It was an ocean of pure lightning interwoven with snakes of electricity. The frenzied energy tore at the space itself, producing a heart-stopping SIZZLE.
In the center of this sea of lightning, Dongfang Zhen’s form was undergoing a drastic transformation.
His simple, silver Fist Armor melted away inch by inch, replaced by a coat of what looked like liquid purple lightning flowing over his skin.
His body grew taller and taller amidst the lightning, his bones cracking audibly. In the blink of an eye, he had transformed into a majestic giant over three meters tall, like a figure straight out of myth.
His feet no longer touched the ground; he slowly levitated into the air.
The Thunder Pattern Halberd he had previously thrust into the ground began to hum, then shot into the sky as a streak of light and landed in his hand.
The moment the solid halberd touched his palm, it too began to break down and reform, ultimately becoming a war-halberd made entirely of condensed lightning.
His current form was no longer that of a human Martial Artist, but a Purple Thunder Monarch who wielded Thunder Punishment.
"Dongfang Zhen’s Martial Arts Spirituality... has it reached the fourth level?"
Nie Cang’s voice was dry as he watched the final battle, a fight that had already surpassed his imagination.
This time, Yin Liulan didn’t give him a reproachful look.
Because she was just as shocked.
She stared at the figure in the center of the ring, who looked like a descended Thunder God, before offering her judgment a moment later.
"It’s more than that."
"His Martial Arts Spirituality has fully entered the fourth level, and he has cultivated his family’s Nine Tribulations Thunder Prison Cultivation Technique to a whole new stage."
"This Thunder Monarch Dharma Aspect... the last time I saw it was on his father, Dongfang Hao. That’s a form one can only display after passing the sixth tribulation."
There was a trace of astonishment in Yin Liulan’s tone.
"But Dongfang Zhen, relying on his extreme compatibility with this Cultivation Technique, has forcibly manifested the Dharma Aspect at only the fourth tribulation."
"His future is equally immeasurable!"
Before her voice had faded, the Thunder Monarch Dharma Aspect made its move.
Dongfang Zhen simply swung the Thunderlight Celestial Halberd in his hand, casually making a vicious slash in Lin Ye’s direction.
It was just a simple motion.
A colossal purple lightning Slash, over five meters wide, instantly shot from the halberd’s blade. It tore through space at a speed the naked eye couldn’t possibly follow, sweeping everything in its path!
The Slash was too fast, its scale too terrifying.
Lin Ye’s pupils constricted slightly.
’With my P1 stage stats... I can’t dodge this!’
At that moment, he held nothing back.
As quick as a thought, a crystal wall several meters thick, formed from countless dark purple crystals instantly compressed and condensed, materialized in front of him.
At the same time, golden Liquid Gang Sha surged forth, forming a skin-tight suit of armor over his body.
However—
RIIIP!
The moment the lightning Slash made contact with the crystal wall, it didn’t slow in the slightest.
The wall was as fragile as paper. It was pierced through and instantly disintegrated into a cloud of fine crystal dust.
The lightning Slash, its momentum undiminished, struck Lin Ye squarely.
PFFT!
Lin Ye let out a muffled grunt, feeling an irresistible, destructive energy explode in his chest.
The sturdy, golden Gangsha Armor on his body shattered on impact. The aftershock of the Slash still left a horrifying wound across his chest, stretching from his left shoulder to his right abdomen, so deep that bone was visible!
Along the scorched-black edges of the wound, fine arcs of purple electricity still danced, draining his life force.
After passing through Lin Ye’s body, the Slash continued unabated, finally striking the alloy wall at the far end of the Virtual Space. It left a colossal, bottomlessly deep gash that nearly split the entire space in two.
-4479!
A bright red damage number flashed before Lin Ye’s eyes, and his health bar instantly dropped by a chunk.
’I still underestimated Dongfang Zhen’s do-or-die move.’
WHOOSH!
Before Lin Ye could recover from the searing pain, a flash of lightning appeared and vanished in an instant, like a fleeting shadow.
In the next moment, Dongfang Zhen’s colossal Thunder Monarch Dharma Aspect appeared before Lin Ye, moving with what was practically teleportation.
