Chapter 2463 - 2563: Cruelty—Nothing but Qi! (First Update)

Chapter 2463: Chapter 2563: Cruelty—Nothing but Qi! (First Update)

Su Chen felt as if he had returned to the womb.

That sensation of drifting within absolute energy, where the concept of time and space vanished.

His entire being transformed, leaving only thoughts.

He could no longer feel his physical body.

It seemed as if his body had melted away.

He could hear his own heartbeat, a terrifying beat that grew increasingly frightening, each thump capable of shattering a Plane, even a Universe, yet he seemed to be a third party, standing from a divine perspective, unaffected and unharmed by the heartbeat’s power.

It was a strange sensation.

Gradually.

Su Chen found his thoughts becoming unclear, accompanied by a drowsy confusion, as if he were asleep.

The Li Family Ancestor had long since returned to the surface above the underground cave.

With trembling hands, he reconfigured the formation.

"It seems that young boy Su truly... truly is the one. The one predicted by the Patriarch of the Li Family in the Ancient Era. Young boy Su is the master of the Broken Stele." The Li Family Ancestor muttered to himself, his words filled with shock, the utmost shock.

To have predicted it beforehand was one feeling, but witnessing it firsthand and having it completely confirmed was another feeling entirely.

In the Ancient Era, the Patriarch of the Li Family merely attained a fraction of the Broken Stele’s essence, yet was able to guide the Li Family to become the strongest first-class force of the time.

Then, as the master of the Broken Stele, possessing and eventually fully integrating with the stele, how great must Su Chen’s achievements be?

He dared not imagine.

"I should keep watch here." After some thought, the Li Family Ancestor made a decision. Now, Su Chen’s importance in his heart had rapidly escalated. Su Chen was nearly 100% safe within the underground cave, and under the formation’s concealment, no one should know he was inside, but what if?

The Li Family Ancestor decided everything must be 100% foolproof.

He opened a small void space in the space above the cave and hid within it.

Keeping watch here.

Time.

Passed by.

A day.

Ten days.

A hundred days.

Ten years.

......

Time seemed free of cost, speeding by.

——————

Saint Academy.

Saint Origin Pavilion.

At this moment, Huang Zhi appeared like a true solar.

Scorchingly hot to an unimaginable degree.

Around this solar were tens of thousands of treasures.

Some treasures had developed a spirit.

Wanted to escape.

Yet they couldn’t break free.

Once illuminated by the solar, it felt as if they were being pulled by an irresistible force.

Gradually, these treasures melted.

Transforming into pure, vast energy.

Then absorbed by that solar.

Every day.

Huang Zhi devoured and absorbed at least a thousand treasures.

Continuously.

He was like a devouring mouth that could never be filled.

Outside the Saint Origin Pavilion.

Every few days, a scarlet-golden fiery sun aura would appear.

This aura, initially around a thousand meters in diameter, gradually grew to over ten thousand meters.

Each time this scarlet-golden fiery sun aura appeared, all students and leaders of the Saint Academy knew that Huang Zhi had broken through again.

At the beginning, the fiery sun aura’s thousand-meter diameter didn’t affect the students inside the Saint Academy, but later, as the fiery sun aura grew in diameter to ten thousand meters or more, every occurrence felt like the entire academy descended into a sea of fire.

Extremely scorching.

Even with the Mysterious Qi Protective Shield raised they couldn’t resist.

The scorching heat seemed capable of penetrating the heart, marrow, and soul.

Gradually, the fear towards Huang Zhi from both the Heavenly Saint Academy and Ancient Holy Academy intensified!!!

Deepened!

On this day.

Early morning.

The weather was clear, fog spread, especially under the Holy Mountain within the Saint Academy, where clouds steamed, resembling an Immortal Realm.

Saint Academy students, routinely cultivating martial arts in the training field at the foot of the mountain in the mornings.

Suddenly.

An unbearably scorching aura, like a surging tsunami, rushed forth crazily.

In an instant, the faces of tens of thousands of Saint Academy students at the Martial Training Field changed dramatically.

Without hesitation, they raised their Mysterious Qi Protective Shield.

Raised their gaze towards the direction of the Saint Origin Pavilion.

And saw.

A scarlet-golden fiery sun aura, dense to the point of seeming liquefied, bubbling.

"Why has it suddenly... suddenly become this large?!"

"Thirty thousand meters in diameter?!!!"

"Just what kind of breakthrough has Huang Zhi made?"

"It’s too hot, I-I-I can’t take it, my Mysterious Qi Protective Shield can’t hold on!"

"Retreat! Retreat!! Quickly retreat!"

......

On the Martial Training Field, many Saint Academy students, terrified and pale-faced, shouted loudly.

Soon, quite a few of the weaker students from the Heavenly Saint Academy fled backward, away from the Saint Origin Pavilion.

Yet even then.

During their flight, some students found their Mysterious Qi Protective Shields directly scorched into void.

"No!!!" Piercing cries of agony echoed one after another.

Those students whose Mysterious Qi Protective Shields were scorched into void faced their physical bodies and Divine Souls directly vaporizing into gas.

Within the Saint Academy, temperatures now exceeded a hundred thousand degrees.

Crucially, they were still rising wildly.

In that instant, hundreds of relatively weaker students from the Heavenly Saint Academy died.

Soon.

Elder Xuu, Elder Wang, and Elder Guo appeared.

Hovering above the summit of the Holy Mountain.

The three joined forces.

Raised a gigantic light screen.

Enveloping the Saint Origin Pavilion.

Within the Saint Academy, the temperature gradually decreased.

The students who survived the ordeal trembled, some quivered, some crawled, some sweated profusely, and some wailed loudly.

At the foot of the Holy Mountain, the Martial Training Field lay in ruins.

"Huang Zhi has cultivated the Divine Skill of the Indestructible Golden Light Body." Elder Guo spoke solemnly, his voice filled with excitement, uncontrollable excitement...

"So many students died at once." Elder Xuu sighed: "A disaster indeed!"

"Huang Zhi himself probably didn’t anticipate this? He couldn’t control the fluctuation of energies during his divine skill cultivation." Elder Wang paused for a moment, then said: "Should we enforce punishment?"

"A grand era has arrived, having a top-level monster capable of leading the entire academy should be cherished," Elder Guo shook his head. Although it seemed unfair to the students from the Heavenly Saint Academy who perished due to the scarlet-golden aura’s vaporization, to be brutally honest, the value of those hundreds of students added together, even multiplied by ten thousand, couldn’t match a tiny bit of Huang Zhi.

The martial arts cultivation world.

Is truly brutal.

Imposing punishment on Huang Zhi for the sake of those hundreds of weaker students...

The three Grand Elders certainly wouldn’t opt for it.

Moreover, in their view, Huang Zhi hadn’t done it intentionally.

Just then.

Suddenly.

The doors to the Saint Origin Pavilion opened.

A figure emerged.

The person wore splendid golden attire, remarkably handsome, exuding a dominant aura, with even the space retreating.