Ye Chen's entire body shone with divine radiance, his form as dazzling as a deity, illuminating the heavens and filling the sky with brilliance. His peerless divine bearing was such that anyone who saw it would feel compelled to prostrate themselves in worship.
In the distant sky, the Divine Desolation Venerable One felt an immense, overwhelming pressure descending from above, suppressing him to the point of panic.
However, Ye Chen could sense that his Chaos Saint Body could not be completely restored just like that. The Dao injuries remained, and these were no ordinary Dao injuries. They involved the accumulated effects of suppression by a Super Great Power, an Emperor Body, an Ancient Monarch, and an Emperor's Curse. It was extremely serious and could not be easily healed by merely a few pills. Only a ninth-rank immortal pill could achieve that.
But after consuming several pills, his injuries had recovered to a great extent. The remaining Dao injuries only needed to be suppressed; they would gradually heal over time as his cultivation gradually increased.
Only then did Ye Chen truly begin to sense his own cultivation level: the peak of the Great Power Triple Heaven!
Due to the constant life-and-death battles over the past month and the great accumulation leading to a sudden outburst during his slumber, he had smoothly broken through to the Great Power Triple Heaven level and had completely stabilized his realm. He was steadily advancing towards the Fourth Heaven, separated from the Great Power Fourth Heaven by only a hair's breadth.
Feeling the vast and majestic divine energy filling every limb and bone in his body—a power even significantly greater than before his slumber—Ye Chen couldn't help but feel a trace of helpless lament.
Because the further one progressed in cultivation, the more difficult it became to advance.
In the beginning, basically every time he broke through a major realm, he would also advance two or three minor realms along with it.
Although this was partly due to his exceptionally profound accumulation, which caused a state of great accumulation leading to a sudden outburst once a major realm was broken through.
Even so, the advancement during that time still seemed relatively fast.
Yet now, after experiencing a life-and-death battle, being severely wounded and near death, and slumbering for three years, he had only advanced one minor realm. He was still a hair's breadth away from truly reaching the Fourth Heaven.
However, if other Great Powers knew of Ye Chen's thoughts, they would surely curse him out.
The further one progressed in cultivation, the more difficult advancement became.
Especially for Great Powers. Although their lifespan could reach a hundred thousand years, throughout the ages, countless Great Powers never crossed into the Seventh Heaven realm in their entire lives.
Because advancing each minor realm required a Great Power to accumulate power for thousands of years to truly advance. If they encountered a bottleneck, they might never break through to the next minor realm in their lifetime.
Now, Ye Chen, after just a month of life-and-death battles and three years of slumber, had nearly crossed two minor realms. Such speed could be called monstrously freakish, making countless Great Powers envious beyond measure.
If he was still dissatisfied with this, how would those Great Powers who took thousands or even tens of thousands of years to advance a single minor realm feel?
Naturally, Ye Chen knew this. But the pressure he faced was immense. The blood-stained future, being peerless yet utterly alone in the world, made him feel tremendous pressure and unwillingness to face it. Thus, he hoped to increase his cultivation level even faster.
He also understood clearly that he was not merely a Great Power, but a Chaos Great Power. Advancing each minor realm required far more power—many times more—than an ordinary Great Power to truly achieve.
But being stuck at the peak of the Great Power Triple Heaven, unable to take that final step, left him somewhat unwilling.
After all, taking that final step would likely require who knows how much more time before he could truly succeed.
"The Fourth Heaven?"
Ye Chen's gaze sharpened. Then, as if inspired by fortune, he summoned the Chaos Great Cauldron and even threw the two half-refined Super Great Power corpses into it. Within, Dao Fire blazed fiercely, erupting with dazzling chaotic light that shot forth for ten thousand zhang.
Visible to the naked eye, the corpses of the two powerful Super Great Powers were being refined at a rapid pace.
The Divine Desolation Venerable One in the distant sky, witnessing Ye Chen's earth-shattering methods and the blazing Dao Fire steaming with intense chaotic light, felt a sense of lethal crisis from the depths of his heart. He deeply sensed the terror of this person and that he absolutely must not be provoked.
Boom! Boom! Boom!—
Half a day later, the lid of the Chaos Great Cauldron flew open. Beams of dazzling light shot out from within, piercing through the star domain and vanishing into the vast star clouds, illuminating this dim border wasteland star domain of the universe many times brighter.
In the end, six Great Power Pills brimming with fiery treasure light were refined. They contained incomparably abundant Great Dao Divine Energy, far surpassing ordinary refined Great Power Pills by many times.
This was because the main materials used for refinement were two genuine Super Great Powers. If this news spread, it would inevitably cause a fearsome hurricane sweeping across the entire Ancient Universe.
Seeing the appearance of the six Super Great Power Treasure Pills, the Divine Desolation Venerable One's eyes once again burned with intense heat, shining conspicuously.
However, after glancing at Ye Chen, that fiery gaze directly dimmed.
Because he deeply knew that if he dared to make a move, this terrifying humanoid creature who had recovered considerably after consuming a large number of immortal pills and wondrous medicines would likely directly suppress and kill him—and it would be a one-sided suppression, without any suspense.
Gazing at the six Super Great Power Treasure Pills, Ye Chen grabbed them. Under the Divine Desolation Venerable One's stunned gaze, he actually grabbed all six at once and completely swallowed them.
"Holy—"
The Divine Desolation Venerable One almost blurted out a curse. This was too insane! The Super Great Power Treasure Pills refined from two Super Great Power corpses were just swallowed and refined like that. Probably even another Super Great Power wouldn't dare to be so reckless. There was a high chance they would be burst to death by the boundless divine energy contained within the six Super Great Power Treasure Pills.
This was simply suicidal behavior.
Yet the Divine Desolation Venerable One stared dumbfounded. Because before his eyes, Ye Chen not only didn't have his body burst apart; on the contrary, his physique shone with light. One could easily sense the vast Great Dao Divine Energy surging within his body, making the Divine Desolation Venerable One tremble. He murmured to himself, "This is just too crazy."
Boom!—
The six Super Great Power Pills were truly refined, directly transforming into streams of pure and abundant Great Dao Divine Energy that circulated between his limbs and bones, vast and mighty, filling every inch of his meridians.
The Saint Body Regeneration Art operated, instantly refining all the Great Dao Divine Energy into life divine energy, once again suppressing the Dao injuries within his body.
At the same time, his entire body shone with light. Every inch of his limbs and bones flowed with incomparably intense radiant light, as if containing rounds of blazing suns. His entire person seemed like a new sun, incredibly conspicuous. The light even penetrated endless distances, illuminating this dim star domain many times brighter.
Boom! Rumble!—
The six Super Great Power Treasure Pills were transformed from two Super Great Power corpses. Although they couldn't compare to two genuine Super Great Powers, the divine energy they contained combined was absolutely comparable to one Super Great Power.
The vastness of that divine energy was simply unimaginable, enough to allow a Super Great Power to advance one or two minor realms.
Originally at the peak of the Great Power Triple Heaven, Ye Chen, after receiving the vast divine energy from the two Super Great Power Treasure Pills, directly began to charge through the barrier.