The night was deep, the bright moon hung high, its pure moonlight draping the Demonic Beast Mountain Range like a silver veil, making it appear even more mysterious.
At this moment, when all things were silent and everything slumbered, a terrifying, unimaginable fluctuation suddenly erupted from the depths of the Demonic Beast Mountain Range. Nearby peaks trembled, rumbling with long echoes.
Visible to the naked eye, surging radiance soared into the sky there, illuminating all directions, clearly perceptible even from dozens of miles away.
"A Martial God realm expert!"
Ye Chen reacted first. His perception was exceptionally sharp, immediately judging this to be the divine energy fluctuation belonging to the Martial God realm; the Xiantian realm simply could not reach this level.
The terrifying fluctuation shook the great mountains, the rumbling sounds unceasing.
"Roar!"
A dreadful roar shook the entire vast mountain range, like spring thunder exploding, filled with majesty, as if the king of beasts was roaring. The previously rising and falling roars of demonic beasts within the mountains instantly vanished, leaving only this one roar echoing.
Immediately, a massive black shadow soared into the sky from the depths of the mountain range, directly standing in the air. It was a huge green ox, as large as a small hill, with eight sharp, massive horns on its head, a ferocious face, and huge, blood-red ox eyes. It stood in the void, howling at the sky, its terrifying aura soaring upward, scattering the clouds.
Throughout the entire mountain range, countless demonic beasts in all directions trembled at this moment, submitting to the giant ox, not daring to move, even Xiantian demonic beasts were no exception.
Ye Chen's expression turned slightly grave, recognizing the giant ox's identity—the Eight-Horned Green Ox!
This was a demonic beast king surpassing the Xiantian realm, a terrifying super demonic beast comparable to the Martial God realm, recorded by the world, rumored to dwell in the Demonic Beast Mountain Range, seen from afar by people. Seeing it today confirmed it.
However, the terrifying aura was not limited to the Eight-Horned Green Ox alone. On another side, another powerful aura, not inferior, bloomed, confronting the Eight-Horned Green Ox from a distance.
That was a true human cultivator, tall and burly, clad in battle armor, holding a divine sword, standing aloft in the void—a legendary Martial God realm super expert.
Standing in the void was the hallmark of the Martial God realm, the ability to leave the ground and truly travel through the air.
At this moment, the human Martial God rippled with dazzling divine radiance, flowing with brilliant colors, his aura overwhelming, as if a legendary supreme deity, lofty and aloof, treading the void.
The divine sword pointed distantly at the Eight-Horned Green Ox, the Martial God's imposing manner stern, uttering only a simple word: "Hand it over!"
He was extremely overbearing, his supreme Martial God realm aura soaring skyward, his armor and weapons clanging, shining with surging brilliance, his momentum grand and imposing, possessing an invincible air that looked down upon the world.
However, the Eight-Horned Green Ox was furious at this moment. Seeing the human Martial God expert's overbearingness, it was equally unwilling to show weakness. An aura not the least bit inferior to the human Martial God erupted, colliding with the human Martial God's aura. With a loud boom, an unknown number of trees in that area were affected and blasted away, leveled to the ground.
This made one shudder. Truly worthy of the Martial God realm—merely the collision of auras was terrifying to this extent. If they truly attacked, who knew how powerful it would be.
The Eight-Horned Green Ox actually emitted a deep, resonant voice from its mouth: "Human, do not go too far. This is not your human territory; it belongs to my demonic beast race. Yet you still dare to covet... Do you truly seek death?"
Ye Chen was not surprised by a demonic beast speaking human language, because demonic beasts were not without intelligence. Especially the more powerful the demonic beast, the higher its wisdom. Upon reaching the Martial God realm, condensing a Primordial Spirit, its intelligence evolved to a level comparable to humans; the ability to speak was no difficulty at all.
Faced with the Eight-Horned Green Ox's threat, the human Martial God paid it no heed. On the contrary, he appeared very overbearing, snorting coldly: "You are not qualified to kill me. Hand it all over, or do not blame me for being merciless."
"Human, you have angered me."
The Eight-Horned Green Ox's voice suddenly turned icy cold. With a loud boom, powerful blood energy erupted from its body like a volcanic explosion, dyeing heaven and earth red, its pressure terrifying and overwhelmingly oppressive in all directions.
Two thick streams of breath sprayed from its ox nostrils like two white smoke pillars. The Eight-Horned Green Ox's blood-red eyes gazed distantly at the human Martial God, then charged forward, treading the void, causing heaven and earth to tremble violently, the mountains shaking.
The human Martial God stood firm and unafraid, holding a peerless divine sword that bloomed with infinite, blazing divine radiance, sword light overwhelming, splitting heaven and earth, clashing against the Eight-Horned Green Ox.
With a single sweep of the divine sword, it instantly transformed into thousands upon thousands of sword lights, attacking the Eight-Horned Green Ox. Each one was extremely terrifying; gathered together, they were enough to slice apart mountains and split heaven and earth.
Moreover, the human Martial God formed seals with his left hand, performing divine arts, communing with heaven and earth.
Suddenly, heaven and earth trembled. He actually summoned surging, seven-colored power of heaven and earth, gathering it above his head, dazzling and beautiful. Yet one could clearly sense the terrifying might contained within, strong enough to annihilate this entire area in an instant, jointly attacking the Eight-Horned Green Ox.
This was the means of a Martial God realm existence. Upon reaching this step, condensing a Primordial Spirit, one could commune with the vast heavens and earth, mobilize the boundless power of heaven and earth for one's own use. That kind of power was simply unimaginable.
Worldly rumors said Martial God realm existences could move mountains and shift seas. It seemed exaggerated, but upon truly reaching such heights, it was indeed so.
This was also the true power that truly surpassed the Xiantian realm.
It must be said, this was a terrifying offensive method, truly worthy of the legendary Martial God. The divine sword traversed the sky, the power of heaven and earth operated, dual methods striking out, directly collapsing several nearby small mountains, causing landslides, ground fissures, and dust soaring skyward.
The Eight-Horned Green Ox roared and howled, its huge, hill-like body flowing with green light, resisting the attacks. The eight large horns on its head shimmered with silver light, unleashing thick green thunderbolts that shattered the firmament, attacking the human Martial God.
Not far away, two small mountains struck by the green thunderbolts exploded with a loud boom, their bodies blasted apart, dust blotting out the sky, terrifying beyond description.
Human and demon directly collided like this, shaking heaven and earth.
It could be said this would be a grand, attention-grabbing Martial God-level battle. Whether the human Martial God or the Eight-Horned Green Ox, both were super existences surpassing the Xiantian realm. Once they fought, the intensity of the battle would absolutely exceed worldly imagination, causing immense destructive power.
Boom—
Heaven collapsed and earth split. The two sides had only just collided when they erupted with terrifying destructive fluctuations, directly causing several small mountains to crack and collapse with loud booms, dust soaring skyward.
Furthermore, vast stretches of forest were annihilated into nothingness, leveled to the ground. The earth was torn open with huge fissures, and within them, numerous demonic beasts were killed, unable to escape.
This was the powerful might of the Martial God realm, surpassing the Xiantian realm, possessing the true power to collapse heaven and split earth, unimaginable to the world.
The human Martial God charged forward, his entire body blooming with boundless light, the divine sword clanging, drawing destructive sword light that sliced off a small mountain and even severed one of the Eight-Horned Green Ox's horns, turning it into a Seven-Horned Green Ox from then on.
"Human, you have gone too far. Today, I will definitely make you die."
This thoroughly enraged the Eight-Horned Green Ox, because the eight large horns on its head were not only its offensive weapons but also a symbolic emblem, not to be desecrated.
Now, having one horn severed was equivalent to challenging its dignity, more important than life and death. Immediately, even more terrifying thunderbolts continuously struck out, tearing the earth, attacking the human Martial God.
The human Martial God snorted coldly: "Make me die? You are not qualified. Even the overlord of this Demonic Beast Mountain Range lineage is not. You should know I come from the Martial God Hall. Does your Demonic Beast Mountain Range truly dare to offend the Martial God Hall?"
"What Martial God Hall? Ridiculous. If the master of our domain were to act, do you think the Martial God Hall Master would dare to fight? Better worry about your own life."
Boom—
These two Martial God realm peerless existences, one human and one demon, were too powerful. As they fought, they leveled this entire area to the ground, collapsing seven or eight small mountains, countless trees falling, and many demonic beasts being implicated and killed.
Finally, the two Martial God realm existences, one human and one demon, fought their way out of this mountain range, shifting and killing into another mountain range, continuously splitting the earth, leaving behind stretches of lifeless scorched earth.
Ye Chen gazed distantly at this receding Martial God realm battle, feeling somewhat emotional.
This was the true power of a cultivator. Only by stepping into the Martial God realm could one be considered a true cultivator. Otherwise, below the Martial God realm, even Xiantian experts did not qualify.
Because only by stepping into the Martial God realm could one truly master the power of heaven and earth, travel through the air, like the immortal deities in the beliefs of worldly mortals, capable of unleashing earth-shattering, heaven-shaking power with a mere gesture.
As for Houtian and Xiantian, no matter how powerful, they were limited, unable to possess infinite power.
Currently, he still had some distance to go before reaching this realm.
Elder Yan suddenly drifted out, pointing distantly at the place where the two Martial God realm existences had just fought, saying: "Little Chen, go over there. There is an extraordinary treasure there."
"Alright!"
Since Elder Yan spoke, there must be a true treasure. Moreover, he indeed wanted to know what kind of supreme treasure could make two Martial God realm existences fight to the death over it.
Ye Chen, relying on his extremely strong perception ability, vaguely sensed and confirmed that the two Martial God realm existences had left this area for a sufficiently distant region. He immediately rushed quickly into that devastated area.
That place, originally dense forest, was now completely leveled, severely damaged. Several small mountains were reduced to dust, almost nowhere intact. Moreover, many demonic beasts had unfortunately died in this calamity, corpses strewn everywhere, flesh and blood blurred.
This was the terrifying destructive power of Martial God realm existences; even huge mountains could be easily destroyed.
However, there was an area about three zhang wide that was actually completely unharmed, not affected in the slightest.
It was a pool of emerald-green water, clear and deep, bottomless. Above it was a simple stone platform, only about a zhang in size, plain and unadorned.
In the center of the stone platform lay a snow-white bone fragment the size of a palm. Under the moonlight's illumination, the bone fragment shimmered, faintly revealing blurred patterns that flashed by, resembling a map.
Ye Chen was astonished: "A treasure map?"