"Cough—"
A wisp of golden blood spilled from the corner of Ye Chen's true body's mouth, dazzling and eye-catching, shimmering with brilliant golden light.
Even with the Human Sovereign Pagoda floating above his head, accompanied by myriad strands of primordial Chaos Qi descending to envelop and protect him, he was still wounded at this moment, coughing up large mouthfuls of blood.
After all, in Ye Chen's current state of converting divine power and having his Supreme Dao Body attack, it was difficult for him to actively control the Human Sovereign Pagoda; it was mostly passive defense.
The primordial Chaos Qi was extraordinary—a single strand could crush mountains and rivers, let alone thousands upon thousands of them descending, forming an impregnable defense.
However, these were all Strongest Prodigies, the strongest young talents from various Ancient Universes, all top-tier Heavenly Kings. There were more than a dozen such supreme figures launching attacks, terrifyingly powerful, shattering the heavens and earth. The waterfall formed by the primordial Chaos Qi could not completely protect him; some of the attack power penetrated through the Chaos Qi and struck Ye Chen's body, causing even him, with his perfect Battle Saint physique, to cough blood and be wounded.
One could imagine how fearsome the attacks of these Strongest Prodigies were. If it were any other Strongest Prodigy, they would have been utterly pulverized.
Yet Ye Chen did not die. The golden blood energy within his body rumbled and boiled, and the Saint Body Regeneration Art autonomously circulated, repairing all injuries.
Moreover, his divine nature was immortal. The mysterious ten-layered divine halo seemed like a true Ancient Universe empowering him, making him radiant and holy, possessing an ethereal aura of being impervious to all laws, making his defense even more extraordinary.
Seeing that so many terrifying attacks could not truly severely wound the human Battle Saint, with most being blocked by the primordial Chaos Qi, the other Strongest Prodigies' expressions changed slightly, and they frowned.
They hadn't expected him to be so tenacious and difficult to deal with. Simultaneously, they felt an increasing sense of wariness toward this human Battle Saint King, their killing intent boiling—they absolutely could not let him survive.
However, Ye Chen's situation was also unfavorable because the appearance of these Strongest Prodigies directly disrupted this stretch of heaven and earth, making even absorbing the world's spiritual energy difficult.
After all, vast amounts of spiritual energy were directly dispersed, making it hard to proceed.
Fortunately, he had other contingencies. He had set up spirit-gathering arrays in other territories of the fifth trial continent, which could transfer energy through the void.
The conversion of divine power continued.
At the same time, golden light blossomed as Ye Chen's Supreme Dao Body reassembled. The divine power expelled from his true body was transferred into the Dao Body.
As long as the divine power remained unbroken, it was an undying, indestructible body. Moreover, wielding the Primordial Battle Body and the Sun God Spear, it pointed toward the many powerful foes, reigniting a great battle to intercept them, allowing the true body to safely continue converting divine power.
Ye Chen was too powerful. Even though his true body did not fight, the Supreme Dao Body possessed the same combat power as the true body, single-handedly restraining seven Strongest Prodigies in a terrifying, fierce battle there.
Heaven-Shaking Hand, Heaven-Severing Finger, Human Sovereign Seal, Heaven-Summoning Art, Mountain-Embracing Seal... all divine abilities and secret techniques were employed. Golden blood energy wantonly boiled, and the Supreme Dao Body's essence, energy, and spirit were elevated to their peak, accompanied by strands of primordial Chaos Qi, fearsome beyond measure.
Even these seven powerful Strongest Prodigies could not immediately break through the defense of Ye Chen's Supreme Dao Body, being restrained there, unable to approach the true body.
However, reaching this point was also the limit. The Supreme Dao Body could not restrain more, and its current situation was precarious, narrowly escaping death several times, its body covered in wounds, golden blood splattering everywhere, with several wounds deep enough to reveal bone, even piercing through front and back.
But under the autonomous operation and repair of the Saint Body Regeneration Art, all injuries were quickly restored, posing no problem—truly like being undying and indestructible. This gave the many Strongest Prodigies a headache and made them sigh at the heaven-defying nature of the Battle Saint lineage's healing secret art.
The other Strongest Prodigies also knew the Supreme Dao Body could not be exterminated in a short time. They had the seven Strongest Prodigies restrain the Dao Body while they turned to attack Ye Chen's true body.
Even with the Human Sovereign Pagoda floating and the primordial Chaos Qi descending, they continuously attacked. Wave after wave of terrifying power constantly penetrated the Chaos Qi; even weakened, it caused more golden blood to spill from the corner of Ye Chen's true body's mouth.
Some attacks even injured his foundation, making it difficult for even the Saint Body Regeneration Art to repair.
"Human Battle Saint King, if you know what's good for you, obediently hand over the Immortal Divine Spring Water. This king can take charge and spare your life."
A Strongest Prodigy strode closer. He was very domineering, his true form being a Mysterious Turtle. Although he had taken human form, his turtle shell had transformed into a set of immortal battle armor worn on his body. His defensive power was astonishing, ranking among the strongest defenders, making other Strongest Prodigies quite wary because it was difficult to breach his defense.
While speaking, he actively attacked, engaging in a fearsome collision with Ye Chen's Supreme Dao Body. Relying on his invincible turtle shell for defense, he pressed forward aggressively, unafraid of Ye Chen's assaults.
"Kill!"
Ye Chen's Supreme Dao Body wore an indifferent expression, employing the Four Extremities Connecting to Saints Style, Five Elements Golden Realm, and numerous supreme divine abilities to attack. The Primordial Battle Body and Sun God Spear were projected out to restrain others, temporarily cutting off the attacks of other Strongest Prodigies. Meanwhile, he himself charged over to engage the Mysterious Turtle King in close-quarters combat.
"Battle Saint King, you're seeking death!" the Mysterious Turtle King roared, his fist transforming into a ferocious turtle claw, sharp beyond measure, accompanied by terrifying law dao marks.
"Scram!"
Ye Chen shouted, his eyes widening as he swung his sacred fist, accompanied by vast, mighty golden radiance, directly blasting the Mysterious Turtle King away, causing blood to spill from his mouth, filled with shock.
One must know that the defensive strength of his Mysterious Turtle battle armor was such that even ancient great sages would marvel at it. Yet he hadn't expected this human young generation's supreme could actually injure him—truly somewhat unbelievable.
However, Ye Chen also frowned because this Mysterious Turtle King's defense was truly too extraordinary, beyond imagination. Even if other Strongest Prodigies endured this blow, they would surely be severely wounded, yet this Mysterious Turtle King only had blood trickling from his mouth.
Being called the strongest defender wasn't just empty talk; he indeed had the qualifications to reign supreme in this aspect.
Yet that was all. Even if hailed as the strongest defender, so what? He possessed the strongest offensive power. The so-called turtle shell was nothing in his eyes; given time, it would inevitably shatter.
However, the two only had this one close-quarters collision because soon, the other six Strongest Prodigies broke through the restraint and charged together toward Ye Chen's Supreme Dao Body, making his blood boil as he faced seven heroes alone!
Boom—
At the same time, Purple Nine King appeared. He was imposing and majestic, with dark light and black radiance swirling around his body. Nine horns soared from his head, erupting with nine terrifying purple beams that surged skyward, continuously attacking Ye Chen's true body.
Moreover, a fearsome great blade appeared in his hand as he closed in to kill. Dark light shimmered, and a terrifying dao diagram of mountains of corpses and seas of blood manifested—countless beings had died under this blade, as if a great god of slaughter had arrived.
From another direction, the Blood Lion King, Strongest Prodigy of the blood lion race, descended, holding that divine spear stained with godly blood, treading upon a sea of blood as he advanced, like a world-destroying beast venerable. His massive crimson form oppressed others to the point of suffocation.
Ancient Xun King arrived holding a pitch-black divine sword, dark light coiling around it, demonic aura overwhelming the heavens, also like a great demon god.
Strongest Prodigies from all sides arrived one after another, killing their way over, terrifying and overwhelming, creating an extremely fearsome atmosphere that struck awe into the heart.
These were all the most terrifying figures. Having one or two come ordinarily was already extremely fearsome, let alone more than a dozen arriving at this moment—truly a dead end.
They split into two groups. Seven Strongest Prodigies completely restrained Ye Chen's Supreme Dao Body, showing signs of overpowering it.
On the other side, nine Strongest Prodigies attacked, assaulting the Battle Saint King's true body under the protection of the Human Sovereign Pagoda.
On the distant horizon, other Strongest Prodigies descended, each like gods or demons, divine radiance vast, gazing at the scene from afar, watching covetously.
"Kill!"
Ye Chen's Supreme Dao Body took the initiative to attack. The Primordial Battle Body revived nearly halfway, endless golden light erupting, joining with the Sun God Spear to sever the long sky.
He directly charged toward the isolated Blood Lion King, because this Strongest Prodigy was one of the first to attack, wanting to seize the opportunity to deal with Ye Chen and seize the Immortal Divine Spring Water on him. He was also one of the most ferocious attackers among the Strongest Prodigies.
"Die!" The Blood Lion King was unafraid. Even alone, he dared challenge this illustrious human young generation's supreme. After all, he was also a Strongest Prodigy who had risen from an Ancient Universe, his heart filled with invincible fighting spirit.
Boom—
This was a great collision, like a comet striking a meteor, stirring up ten thousand layers of waves, with dazzling light tearing apart the firmament, causing the mountains and ravines of this vast wilderness territory to shake violently, the earth completely cracking apart.
The Blood Lion King came from another Ancient Universe—a complete Ancient Universe with a perfected Tenth Heaven cultivation environment. Moreover, he had cultivated for many years, no less than Ye Chen, extremely powerful, wielding the divine spear stained with godly blood to attack, breaking through layer after layer of void, tearing apart everything.
However, Ye Chen was even stronger. His golden body was immortal, more valiant than gods or demons, carrying overwhelming blood energy fluctuations, charging recklessly, swinging his immortal sacred fist, immediately unleashing the most powerful Heaven-Opening, Earth-Splitting Fist.
Because he did not want to waste time; too many Strongest Prodigies had come, and he needed to resolve this quickly.
Boom—
Ye Chen was like a human-shaped true dragon, swinging his sacred fist, pouring all his essence, energy, and spirit into it, charging forward to collide with the Blood Lion King.
Crack—
The Blood Lion King was as if struck by a hand of a Supreme Emperor. His battle spear shattered, countless bones and tendons throughout his body broke, flesh exploded, and he was completely dazed.
At the same time, Ye Chen's second fist followed, also crashing down with a boom. The Blood Lion King was considered powerful, yet he could not withstand it either—his body was smashed to pieces, utterly killed!
Two fists killed the Blood Lion King.
This scene deeply shocked the others. The Blood Lion King was a Strongest Prodigy, yet he was completely killed with just two fists—too terrifying. If it were any other Strongest Prodigy, no one believed they could achieve this.
Was this the cultivation level of the human young generation's supreme?
However, they did not know that these one or two fists represented the limit elevation of Ye Chen's entire essence, energy, and spirit—his strongest two fists, equivalent to condensing ordinary thousands of moves into these two punches, hence extremely powerful. Otherwise, wanting to kill such a top-tier prodigy, even a peerless, matchless supreme genius like Ye Chen absolutely could not do it, because it was too difficult; at the very least, it would require over a hundred moves.
Similarly, the toll on Ye Chen was also immense.
Pfft—
At the same time, Ye Chen also coughed blood because other Strongest Prodigies were attacking, targeting him directly, with all sorts of terrifying attacks crashing onto his body.
On the mountain peak, Ye Chen continued converting the divine power within his body, getting closer and closer to the Great Perfection stage, but he still needed some time to completely achieve Great Perfection.
"Kill! We absolutely cannot let him succeed completely!"
Purple Nine King roared. Ancient Xun King, Liu Shen King, and other alien race Strongest Prodigies were the most wary. More and more Strongest Prodigies were joining the attack.
Purple Nine King arrogantly overlooked all directions, his nine purple horns continuously brushing out waves of surging purple light, sweeping outward, endlessly assaulting Ye Chen.
From distant locations, one Strongest Prodigy after another continuously descended, all with cold expressions, their gazes suddenly turning icy, all falling upon Ye Chen, killing intent deep—clearly having the impulse to attack.
Boom—
At the same time, on the distant horizon, the vague outline of a massive ancient gate appeared—the gate connecting to the Strongest Prodigies of the fourth trial. It was said that a true young generation's supreme would descend from within, a truly invincible being. Once appearing, they would be unstoppable; these Strongest Prodigies would be no match, because those were all true Tenth Heaven Great Perfection cultivators.
There were no lack of Emperor's sons among them.
Ye Chen's Supreme Dao Body was under immense pressure. Although he was truly powerful, in the midst of the great battle, he was also smashed to pieces several times because too many Strongest Prodigies were attacking; he alone could not defy the heavens.
If not for the protection of the Human Sovereign Pagoda for his true body, he would have long been pulverized. Yet the situation was not optimistic.
Boom—
Golden light blazed brilliantly as Ye Chen's Supreme Dao Body exploded once again, golden light filling heaven and earth. The Primordial Battle Body and Sun God Spear were blasted away, and the attacks of other Strongest Prodigies crashed onto Ye Chen's true body like a tidal wave.
Cough—
Ye Chen coughed up large mouthfuls of blood, the front of his robe completely dyed golden by his blood, his complexion very pale.
"Everyone, attack! Kill the human Battle Saint King!" Purple Nine King shouted, taking the lead. The other besieging Strongest Prodigies did the same; none held back, terrifying attacks about to be unleashed.
Boom—
At this moment, boundless holy light suddenly erupted, vast and mighty, sweeping through this region, catching the many Strongest Prodigies off guard and sweeping them away.
"Who is it?"
Being Strongest Prodigies, they quickly steadied themselves, not suffering much harm, but angrily questioned the one who attacked.
Swish—
Among them, a man in snow-white robes appeared, his entire body bathed in boundless holy light, surging endlessly, like a son of a god, arrogantly overlooking all directions.
"Who are you?" The Strongest Prodigies from all sides slightly changed expressions, sensing the newcomer's power was extraordinary, not ordinary.
"I am the Light King!"
The newcomer slowly spoke, divine radiance brilliant, holy light surging!