Chapter 518: Avatar's Strength Surges

The terrifyingly powerful Thunder Star Beasts surrounding Saint Mountain were filled with joy and anticipation.

According to past experience, a faster rate of energy absorption would form a lightning vortex.

And the formation of a lightning vortex meant there was a chance for the Thunder Punishment Talent to fully awaken!

Unaware of the powerful beings’ joy, all Li Yang’s Thunder Star Beast clone had to do right now was absorb, and keep absorbing!

‘Is this energy continuously tempering my physical body?’

Li Yang’s consciousness was perfectly clear. He could feel his physical body gradually growing stronger under the influence of the lightning energy.

One hour… two hours… five hours…

Time flowed on, and yet the body of Li Yang’s Thunder Star Beast clone was still continuously growing stronger!

After just one day, Li Yang felt that the body of his Thunder Star Beast clone had become several times stronger!

‘Can my physical body alone easily defeat ordinary Deities now?’ Li Yang rejoiced internally.

His Thunder Star Beast clone was nothing special. It hadn’t refined any treasures to boost its strength. If it were to use techniques like the Destruction Spear Skill, its power would be immense, surpassing even Deities.

But he couldn’t use those skills; he had to keep them hidden.

Therefore, relying solely on his comprehension of the laws of a Four Elements World Realm wasn’t enough to cause a qualitative leap in his power.

His overall strength wasn’t that great; it might not have even reached the Divine Realm.

But under this lightning energy, his physical body just kept getting stronger!

Lightning, by its very nature, tempers the body. Many powerful experts specifically construct lightning fields for this very purpose.

‘Keep going! My body can still get stronger!’

Realizing this benefit, Li Yang grew completely excited and continued to absorb the energy.

His original body, thanks to the Dragon Scale Insect and Primordial Dragon Essence Blood, had a foundational strength that could rival even Tri-System Deities.

‘Without relying on the Primordial Dragon Essence Blood or anything similar, just how strong can this Thunder Star Beast clone become?’

…

「A day and a half later…」

SWISH!

On Saint Mountain, the expression of a young Thunder Star Beast changed drastically, a hint of indignation flashing in his eyes.

‘This is bad!’

His expression flickered. He felt a powerful repulsive force wash over him. Faced with this force, he was completely powerless to resist and was instantly ejected from Saint Mountain.

“Too weak. His energy absorption speed is so slow, less than one-thousandth of Mu Xuan’s. To think he was eliminated after only a day and a half!”

“With so little time, even if his Thunder Punishment Talent did awaken, it would be as good as not having awakened at all.”

“A waste of a spot.”

…

Seeing this youth get eliminated, the terrifyingly powerful beings of the Thunder Star Beast clan frowned slightly.

A performance like this would normally not even qualify him to enter Saint Mountain.

“The level of talent in our clan has really declined compared to the past.”

“A slight decline doesn’t matter. The appearance of Mu Xuan more than makes up for it!”

“That’s right. With Mu Xuan, who cares if our clan doesn’t produce another genius for a hundred million years?”

“Judging by the way Mu Xuan is absorbing energy, he’s still far from his limit.”

After their brief displeasure, these powerful beings turned their gazes back to Li Yang, and their eyes once again filled with joy and anticipation.

…

Time continued to pass, and as it did, more and more youths were eliminated from Saint Mountain.

One was eliminated after three days, and another after five.

Finally, after ten days, the second-to-last participant was eliminated, leaving Li Yang’s Thunder Star Beast as the only one left on Saint Mountain.

The vortex above his head was still present, and a torrent of energy continued to pour into his body.

The process showed no signs of slowing down at all.

Ten days… twenty days…

This absorption process went on for an entire month!

At this moment, Li Yang felt his entire body thrumming with a strange energy. It permeated every part of him: his skin, his flesh, his internal organs, his very bones, and even down to each individual cell.

His entire body trembled with excitement from this energy.

‘Am I saturated?’

Li Yang’s consciousness within his Thunder Star Beast clone had remained perfectly clear for the entire month. Now, however, he felt his body begin to swell. The energy had filled every one of his cells to the brim, but it was still pouring in relentlessly!

It was like a balloon being continuously inflated. Li Yang’s body had reached its absolute limit, swelling up like an overfilled balloon about to burst, yet the energy kept pouring in.

‘This is excruciating!’

Right now, Li Yang had only one thought: he had to vent this energy!

But he couldn’t find an outlet and could only continue to endure it.

One minute… two minutes… five minutes…

After ten agonizing minutes, Li Yang’s Thunder Star Beast clone finally couldn’t take it anymore!

Its entire body suddenly expanded violently. Originally three hundred meters long, it doubled in size in a matter of moments, explosively growing to a length of six hundred meters!

As its body swelled, the pent-up energy seemed to finally find an outlet and was unleashed in an instant!

RUMBLE!

In that instant, the sky itself seemed to change color. A massive field of lightning formed around Li Yang’s Thunder Star Beast, like a personal domain, completely enveloping him.

The excruciating pressure vanished instantly. As Li Yang felt the lightning that now formed a sphere around him, a peculiar look appeared in his eyes.

‘What a wondrous feeling.’

He reached out with his right claw, and bolts of lightning gathered in his grasp, not harming him in the slightest.

With a mere thought, the terrifying energy contained within the lightning bolts poured directly into his body to be absorbed.

As he absorbed the energy, the aura emanating from his body began to surge dramatically!

At this moment, high above Saint Mountain, a six-hundred-meter-long behemoth resembling a flood dragon coiled in the void!

The gargantuan beast had a rock-like texture, its body entirely purple. It had four sharp claws and a thick tail nearly as long as its body.

Its body was covered in what looked like mystical, lightning-shaped patterns, which now seemed to have come alive.

Behind the coiling beast, a single, solitary eye had appeared. It scanned the surroundings, and all the lightning energy in the area radiated from it!

As the one at the center of it all, Li Yang could feel a terrifying power now at his effortless command.

‘So this is the Thunder Punishment Talent?’ Li Yang marveled through his Thunder Star Beast clone.

After a month of frantically absorbing the lightning energy, the physical strength of Li Yang’s clone had skyrocketed! He could feel that his body’s power was now approaching the level of a Dual Pantheon!

And upon activating the Thunder Punishment Talent, his power increased tenfold once more!

Without the aid of the Primordial Dragon Essence Blood, his Thunder Star Beast clone now possessed the foundational strength of a Tri-System Deity!

“Haha! Mu Xuan’s Thunder Punishment Talent has successfully awakened!”

“I knew Mu Xuan wouldn’t let us down!”

“Including Mu Xuan, our clan now has a total of six members who have fully awakened their Thunder Punishment Talent!”

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Just then, a series of joyful voices rang out as several figures appeared before Li Yang’s Thunder Star Beast clone.

There were three powerful experts in total, one of whom was none other than the Ancient Remains Dominator.