At the top of the Vientiane Tower lies the "Time Purgatory".

In the vast white void, suddenly, thick clouds began to gather from nowhere. The clouds swirled, and the electric arcs within them contracted rapidly, quickly turning into a dazzling purple.

Boom!

The purple lightning, capable of easily piercing the heavens and earth, suddenly struck down, hitting a figure standing quietly below.

Shen Qian's body trembled slightly, and his flesh shuddered slightly, but he frowned instead, seemingly dissatisfied with the result.

He held a jet-black scale in his hand. He exerted force with his palm, a terrifying power that could easily crush the hardest alloy into dust, yet it only caused the scale to bend slightly.

However, under the pressure of this immense force, the Ancestral Dragon's Reverse Scale, stimulated by the force, also emitted an even more dazzling seven-colored light.

Rumble!

The clouds gathering in the void above spun even faster, and bolts of purple lightning began to strike down relentlessly.

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After being struck by lightning repeatedly, Shen Qian's body finally showed signs of tearing.

The life force within his body began to be extinguished under the relentless bombardment of the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning.

You should know that when Shen Qian's physical body was only at the first level of forbidden realm, it could barely withstand a single bolt of lightning, and its body was directly destroyed.

As one of the earliest mythical creatures, the Ancestral Dragon was even more advanced than the Candle Dragon. It was also one of the earliest life forms to emerge from chaos, not much later than Nuwa or Pangu.

Born alongside thunder, it possesses the strongest physical body among all mythical creatures, yet the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder can still enhance its physical form, demonstrating just how terrifying the power of this thunder itself is.

Even though Shen Qian is now completely different from before, with his physical body reaching almost the peak of the seventh level of forbidden power, he still cannot withstand such a dense baptism of lightning.

If it were anyone else, even an ordinary king or noble, their physical body would probably have been reduced to ashes long ago if they were struck by more than a dozen bolts of purple lightning in that short time.

But aside from frowning because of the physical pain, Shen Qian had almost no expression. Instead, he felt a sense of excitement as he sensed the annihilation of his physical life force.

It wasn't because he was abnormal, but because the extinguishing of life meant that he finally had the chance to touch the second barrier between life and death.

From the sixth to the ninth level of the physical body, one must go through three stages. According to Jiang Huan's past experience, because at this level, if the body wants to undergo a complete transformation, it must go through a great tribulation and test of "being put in a life-or-death situation". Therefore, these three stages are called the "life-and-death test".

But this is actually a paradox.

If you don't experience real danger, how can it be called a life-or-death ordeal? But if it is real danger, it often means that it is out of control, and you will most likely really die.

This is the fundamental reason why it becomes increasingly difficult to break through forbidden areas as you progress.

Of all the geniuses and prodigies throughout history who have explored forbidden areas, only Jiang Huan has truly reached the pinnacle in the realm of the physical body.

Now that Shen Qian has also embarked on this path, his rate of progress is already quite astonishing.

Even including the time spent at the top of the Tower of Babel, it only took him a few decades to enter the Seventh Forbidden Zone. Unfortunately, he didn't have as much time as Jiang Huan to explore step by step. He could only rely on his own understanding and, without being fully prepared, directly force his way into the second life-or-death barrier.

Although he wasn't fully prepared, Chen Qian wasn't entirely without confidence. At least before starting today's final tempering, he had spent two months in this "Time Purgatory" constantly exploring his limits.

Compared to the outside world, it's like several hours have passed, but it's actually an extreme luxury.

Because the human race is in dire straits, no one knows whether the Witch Emperor will break free of his shackles and descend to Earth in his true form in the next minute.

Boom!

After a long period of buildup, another bolt of lightning, several times thicker than the previous one, descended from the clouds and struck Shen Qian hard.

Before sinking, his consciousness became hazy, and he seemed to no longer be able to feel the existence of his own body.

"That's about enough..."

Shen Qian knew that his body had finally shattered completely, and he was teetering on the edge of life and death.

However, for his current level, this is still not a true dead end, because the powerful vitality contained within his body will begin to repair his body in the next second.

For the previous two months of exploration, the sinking process basically stopped here.

Because he knew that there was only one chance to try and fail.

If he makes a mistake, he will truly perish; this is the "taboo".

With his mind becoming serene, Chen Qian directly activated the Ancestral Dragon's Reverse Scale once again with his spiritual power.

boom!

Another bolt of Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, as thick as a bucket, struck Shen Qian's mangled body. The instant it hit, Shen Qian's body began to turn to ash.

In that extremely subtle moment, driven by Shen Qian's consciousness, a power that had been suppressed deep within his body began to awaken.

That power was extremely yin and pure, like a jar of fine wine aged for millions of years, mellow and moving, and in just an instant it surged through Shen Qian's entire body.

His body began to be torn between destruction and rebirth, entering a state of being both life and death.

This power comes from Ji Ruoshui's most precious gift.

Last time, it was under the impact of this force that Shen Qian broke through the first barrier of the Seven Forbidden Realms, the "Life and Death Barrier," without even feeling anything.

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