Outside Blood Crystal Valley, the human overlord sensed the faint aura emanating from the armored demon within as it advanced in rank. He was about to make a move, but was instead fixed in his gaze by the savage demon opposite him.
"Three hundred breaths. After each of our races breaks through to the third realm, we need three hundred breaths to consolidate our power. Don't forget, Chen Xiaolan." The gigantic demon's lips curled into a smile several meters long.
[How could three hundred breaths possibly allow a powerful warrior to stabilize their strength? Even a second-rate martial artist couldn't maintain their composure. This time is the "reward time," allowing the opponent to unleash their fury as a reward for their breakthrough.]
The humans inside the valley have only two options for survival: either escape to the outside of the valley, but not stray too far from the human overlord Chen Xiaolan; or remain inside the valley for three hundred breaths, at which point the demon will cease its attack.
The savage demon remained calm and composed. The demon race's breakthrough signified that their strength had surpassed the limits of the second realm, and with Jia Lie's talent and power, success was inevitable!
[After 107 years, this time it's finally the Demon Clan's turn to break through to the third realm in the valley!]
[But now, at the bottom of Blood Crystal Valley—the body of King Jia is riddled with holes, leaking everywhere, like a balloon being inflated but punctured several times.]
Having undergone five levels of sublimation, its accumulation is already sufficient, and it has a 60-70% success rate even without using concentrated blood crystal liquid. However, the success rate has been declining: 30%, 20%, 10%...
[The King of Aces has halted its progress; its breakthrough has been stopped, its years of accumulation are almost exhausted, and its future looks bleak.]
[It is currently at the "Peak of All Spirits" with twelve times the strength, but it can only be considered a half-finished product. And for such an incomplete half-finished product to become a true overlord, it is even more difficult than before!]
Before its breakthrough, it was a "healthy ten-year-old boy who had been training since childhood," but after its failure, it became "a spiky-headed creature whose body was rapidly grown to the size of a sixteen-year-old in just half a month using veterinary drugs."
[For a sharp-headed man to become a "peak 25-year-old muscular hunk" is even more difficult than for a healthy boy; a failed breakthrough will severely damage his future potential!]
[Killing intent—rising forth!]
[A battle worthy of the strongest among the most powerful has erupted!]
[Forget about a normal Celestial Perfection cultivator; even Beichenguang, at Celestial Perfection, couldn't last more than twenty moves against the current King Jia's son!]
"Unless you wear armor... but that's just toughing it out."
[You fought your way for thousands of miles, and most of those remaining inside Blood Crystal Valley were demons. Some of them tried to intervene and stop you, but before they could make a move, the enraged son of the Armor King blasted a huge hole in their chests.]
"This human is my prey!"
The land you fought on is a scene of devastation, the ground shattered over a radius of a thousand meters. Even a single punch from the King's son could create a dust storm!
[Sand and stones flew, the earth cracked and mountains collapsed!]
Above Blood Crystal Valley, the human overlord Chen Xiaolan roared angrily, "Failed to advance? You wouldn't be trying to circumvent the rules with such despicable methods, would you?"
Chen Xiaolan sneered: "Even a defeated one can be considered a hegemon. There are still 219 breaths left. If it doesn't come up, I will definitely make my move!"
[But to his surprise, the barbarian opposite him also looked on incredulously.]
"How is this possible... How could Prince Jia Lie, who has undergone five levels of sublimation, fail to break through!?"
The battle continues in the valley.
[The battlefield stretches for thousands of miles, the numerical monsters ignore all difficult terrain and human obstacles. Your instantaneous future body, due to its previous over-exploitation, is now smoking and making you feel dizzy and lightheaded.]
But we still have to use it; without it, we wouldn't survive more than a few rounds.
[Buzz—]
An invisible pressure suddenly appeared, and you realized that you had actually escaped to the area of the half-palm fragment of that supreme fighting body.
You've come up with a little plan.
[If you escape to a distance of several hundred meters from the half-palm, and if the positions of the King of Armor and your own son are aligned, this line will not collide with the half-palm of the fighting body.]
[It's not stupid. It won't see you standing right in front of the wreckage and foolishly charge towards it, only to be dodged by your big jump and end up crashing into it and getting injured in the process.]
That's so stupid.
However, since the straight line between the two doesn't pass through the third point: the half-palm remnant, its safety in rushing forward is greatly improved.
[Failed to advance, but its size still exploded to seven meters, making it practically a giant tank-sized rocket, hurtling straight at you without even a knight's lance—that equipment was no longer worthy of its current form.]
[Just as the King's son crashes into you, you once again overclock your Setsuna Future form!]
[Every choice you made in that instant led to a future three seconds later... Of dozens of futures, you seized the most correct one when the armored demon attacked!]
"Super devilish Z-shaped shaking!"
Your dodge triggered the armored demon's claws, causing it to change direction!
And you slid right between its legs with a pretty incredible effort!
[Under your divine skill, it forcibly changed direction to attack you while you were dodging, and just as it realized you were sliding away—BOOM!]
[You've already decided my future; I'm crashing straight into half a palm-sized wreck!]
It could barely move by stepping on air as if it were steel, but to reduce its speed to zero in a mere instant was impossible!
"Didn't expect that, did you? This is my style of attack!"
[The half-palm fragment was once the battle body piloted by the Supreme Being. When fully unleashed, it could blast through thousands of miles. In a future before this event, you were injured by the backlash from merely slapping it.]
And what about the armored demon that charged straight at them?
[You see a layer of rock peeling off, like a piece of skin falling from half a palm, and beneath this skin, several meters thick, is exposed a purplish-blue, solidified, high-energy substance!]
That's the fighting body, the fighting body itself that has been sealed away by the stone skin until now!
The solidified purplish-blue substance is extremely beautiful; it's a beauty of absolute intensity, especially when it gently ripples outwards.
You frantically ran away!
Thirty, fifty, seventy, ninety... a hundred times the speed of sound!
The King A's offspring was still on the ground, recovering from the recoil of the initial collision. Although it was seriously injured, it needed to rest for a while.
[King Jia's son sneered as he watched your departing figure: Now you understand, right? The recoil from the remnants of the fighting body won't seriously injure it. It will catch up soon and make you run away like a dog with its tail between its legs.]
"Human, I'll give you a 300-mile run first, and I'll be there in an instant!"
A fragment of stone fell to the ground nearby. The armored demon looked up at the sound, then looked up again.
The purplish-blue fighting body seemed to be trembling or vibrating.
[Approximately three hundred breaths have passed. The human overlord Chen Xiaolan and the barbarian demon rushed towards the source of the earlier battle, approaching within a hundred miles of the half-palm wreckage.]
"You just happened to be fleeing here," the barbarian demon twitched his fingers, but ultimately didn't make a move.
Chen Xiaolan then grabbed you: "Young man..."
Before he could finish speaking, a large, purplish-blue sun rose from the earth a hundred miles away.
Everything that had been enveloped in it was shattered...
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