126: Trial Rewards

All the Prodigies who were still bitterly fighting with the Yao Beast phantoms, no matter which Great World they came from, no matter how arrogant their Heart-Nature, at this moment, they all stopped stiffly as if frozen in place!

Their gazes, as if they had seen a ghost, were fixed on the young man who slowly withdrew his fist, the young man who seemed to have casually swatted a buzzing fly, looking calm and indifferent!

And, hundreds of steps below, Thunder Roaring Heaven, who had already fallen, was a bloody mess and completely lifeless!

K-killed in an instant?!

That arrogant Prince from the Upper Realm "Thunder Roar Great World"! That top-tier Prodigy in the Middle Stage of the Dharma Body Realm, whose strength was enough to rank among the top fifty in this trial!

Was actually... killed with one punch?!

This... this could no longer be described simply as "powerful"!

"Gulp."

Someone, though it was unclear who, swallowed hard, making an extremely faint sound. But this sound, in the dead silence, was like a thunderclap, clearly reaching everyone's ears, forcibly pulling them back to reality from the endless shock.

They looked at the young man who slowly withdrew his fist, the young man who seemed to have casually swatted a buzzing fly, looking calm and indifferent, and their eyes no longer held any of the previous disdain or contempt.

All that remained was a deep... reverence and fear from the depths of their Soul!

Especially those followers from the Thunder Roar Great World who had previously been behind Thunder Roaring Heaven, speaking rudely and mocking Lin Ye and Su Qingyue! At this moment, they were already scared Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, their faces pale, their legs trembling violently like sieves, not even daring to look up at Lin Ye!

They were afraid that they would be next!

However, Lin Ye seemed not to have seen them at all.

He didn't even spare another glance at the already cold corpse.

It was as if that punch, to him, was merely a casual flick to remove an annoying speck of dust, not worth mentioning at all.

He stretched out his hand and put the diamond-shaped token, which glowed with purple lightning and had emerged from the back of Thunder Roaring Heaven's hand, into his pocket.

Immediately, he turned around, no longer paying attention to the terrified Prodigies on the steps, but instead looked up at the mist-shrouded, endless Peak of the ten thousand beast ladder.

In his dark eyes, a trace of... worry flickered, difficult to detect.

He knew that although Su Qingyue's Sword Dao was profound, under the suppression of Law and the consumption of energy, reaching the summit would be far from easy.

After a slight contemplation, he swayed and moved towards Su Qingyue!

...ten thousand beast ladder, 900th step.

The void origin qi here was already so dense that it was almost tangible! Each Yao Beast phantom formed from it exuded a terrifying aura comparable to the Early Stage of the Dharma Body Realm!

Moreover, their intelligence seemed higher! They even knew how to form simple battle formations! Cooperating with each other, their power multiplied!

"Ding—!"

A clear, loud, earth-shattering sword cry, as if it would completely freeze the Soul, suddenly resounded through the sky!

A figure in snow-white clothes was seen, tightly surrounded by dozens of grotesque and ferocious Earth Spirit-grade Yao Beast phantoms!

Su Qingyue!

Her beautiful face had lost all color, becoming as pale as paper! A trace of crimson blood hung at the corner of her mouth! Her slender hand, holding the ice soul divine sword, was trembling slightly!

Clearly, she had reached her limit!

However, just as she was about to be completely engulfed by the endless tide of beasts!

A voice suddenly sounded.

"I'm here."

Su Qingyue suddenly looked up!

She saw a familiar yet unfamiliar slender figure, stepping closer, one step at a time, from behind the impenetrable beast tide in front of her!

It was him!

Lin Ye!

In Su Qingyue's cold eyes, which had dimmed slightly from exhaustion, a dazzling radiance instantly bloomed, enough to make the heavens and earth lose their color!

"Move aside."

Lin Ye slowly spoke, raising his right hand.

"Buzz—"

A terrifying aura, full of extreme yang, extreme rigidity, and ultimate dominance, suddenly erupted from his body!

His seemingly ordinary right hand, under the astonished and uneasy gaze of all the Yao Beast phantoms, suddenly ignited with a blinding, deep-red flame, as if it wanted to completely ignite the entire Void Realm!

Heaven Burning Heart Sutra!

"Roar—!!!"

Feeling the terrifying Divine Might capable of burning mountains, boiling seas, and purifying all evil in the world, those Earth Spirit-grade Yao Beast phantoms, which were originally unafraid of death, seemed to have met their nemesis!

They instinctively retreated, making a path for Lin Ye!

Lin Ye ignored them.

He just calmly walked to the front of that beautiful, already swaying figure.

He reached out his hand.

"Let's go."

Su Qingyue looked at his hand, which was burning with fierce flames, yet filled with endless warmth and a sense of security.

On her beautiful face, which had been frozen for ten thousand years, a beautiful smile bloomed, enough to make all flowers lose their color.

"Okay."

She gently placed her cold, soft, boneless slender hand into his palm... When Lin Ye, holding Su Qingyue's hand, finally stepped onto the empty highest platform that symbolized the end—

"Buzz—!!!"

In the center of the platform, the nine giant stone pillars, a thousand zhang tall, once again, without warning, simultaneously burst forth with a golden light that was even more brilliant and... vast than any previous time!

That ancient will, full of supreme majesty and a sense of desolation, descended again, like a awakened creator deity!

This time, its voice was no longer the previous coldness and indifference, but carried a very faint ripple of surprise and... approval!

"Trialists... Lin Ye! Su Qingyue!"

"From... the lower plane numbered 77493, 'Tiannan Realm'!"

"Time taken... one incense stick and three breaths, successfully ascended the ten thousand beast ladder!"

"Broke the... record of this Realm's ten-thousand-year trial!"

"Should be... rewarded!!!"

One incense stick?!

Ascended to the top?!

Broke the record?!

They were all petrified, completely stunned on the spot! Their minds were blank!

Especially those Prodigies who had previously considered themselves from Upper Realms and were full of contempt and disdain for Lin Ye! At this moment, their faces burned, as if an invisible large hand had slapped them countless times in public!

Just then, on the starting platform, the endless golden light emanating from the nine giant stone pillars, as if guided by some mysterious force, madly converged towards the tops of Lin Ye and Su Qingyue's heads!

A wisp of mysterious energy, only as thick as a hair, dark golden in color, seemingly unremarkable, yet seemingly containing the most fundamental mysteries of this Universe's creation!

As soon as this energy appeared, it emitted an indescribable, vast aura full of endless vitality and "divinity"!

Just looking at it, Lin Ye felt that his Divine Soul Origin, which had already reached the Early Stage of the Dharma Body Realm, buzzed with joy and longing, as if it had encountered a supreme tonic!

"This... this is... Divine Origin?!"

Lin Ye's heart suddenly skipped a beat!

He could clearly feel that the power contained within this seemingly weak wisp of energy was tens of thousands of times purer than the thousand-year Spirit Medicine and Top-Grade Spirit Stone he had absorbed in the Enlightenment Hall before!

This was truly a... Heavenly Treasure in the truest sense!

Before he could recover from his shock, that wisp of dark golden mysterious energy, as if possessing life, transformed into a streak of light, and with a "whoosh," instantly plunged into his ancestral aperture between his eyebrows!

Boom!!!

An indescribable, warm, comfortable, vast warm current, as if returning to the mother's womb of life's Origin, suddenly exploded deep within his Divine Soul!

His body, which had been extremely weak due to the forced exchange of 'Myriad Law Source Exegesis' and the consumption of nearly half of his Origin Qi and blood, actually recovered at a visible speed under the nourishment of this warm current!

His Dantian Qi Sea, which had already dried up, became full again, as if after a long drought, and was even more... vast than before!

And his Divine Soul Origin, which had already merged with the System, grew and solidified madly, as if it had taken a powerful tonic!

Just then!

In his mind, the light blue System panel suddenly trembled!

A series of cold prompts, yet causing Lin Ye's heart to skip a beat, frantically flooded the screen!

【Ding! Detected unknown high-grade energy... 'Divine Origin'... Now absorbing...】

【Absorption complete!】

【System energy reserve replenished! Hanging up efficiency limit lifted!】

【Ding! Absorbing 'Divine Origin' energy, System is undergoing adaptive upgrade...】

【Upgrade complete! Unlocked new functional module — 【Law Comprehension Acceleration】!】

【Unlocked new Realm prompt — 【Demigod】!】

【Ding! Detected host has reached the Peak Bottleneck of the Dharma Body Realm, the path to 【Demigod】 is about to open!】

【Conditions for promotion to 【Demigod】:】

【One: Need to comprehend any main Cultivation Technique to the 'Law' level!】

【Two: Need to absorb a massive amount of 'Divine Origin' to condense one's own unique... 'Divine Spark' within the Dantian Qi Sea!】

【Once the Divine Spark is formed, one can transcend mortality and initially control the power of Law, becoming a... Demigod!】

Demigod!!!

Divine Spark!!!

Looking at the two golden characters on the System panel, radiating endless majesty and temptation, Lin Ye's heart was completely stirred into a tumultuous wave!

This was the true Dao above the Dharma Body Realm!

"Divine Origin..."

He slowly clenched his fists, and his dark eyes gleamed with an unprecedented brilliant light!

He knew that from this moment on, his primary goal in this Void God Realm was no longer simply to improve his cultivation or learn Cultivation Techniques.

Instead, it was to... find and plunder, at all costs, the Divine Origin that would allow him to condense a Divine Spark and ascend to heaven in one step!

...Just as Lin Ye set his new goal and was immersed in endless aspirations for the future.

On the ten thousand beast ladder, the cruel trial finally, gradually, came to an end.

One after another, disheveled figures, covered in blood, stumbled down the steps like stray dogs.

Among them were Human Race Prodigies who had been arrogant before, but now their wings were broken, and they were barely breathing.

There were also giant Prodigies, who were once as majestic as mountains, but now their bodies were cracked, almost disintegrating on the spot.

Out of nearly ten thousand Prodigies, ultimately, fewer than a hundred successfully reached the summit!

And among these hundred, except for Lin Ye and Su Qingyue, all the others were severely injured and in a sorry state!

They looked at the slender figure who still stood calmly in the center of the platform, as if his clothes had not been ruffled even slightly from beginning to end.

In their eyes, in addition to awe and fear, there was a more... indescribable complexity.

Gap!

This, then, was the... gap?

Just then, the nine giant stone pillars once again glowed brightly!

That vast, majestic, unquestionable ancient will, like a final judgment, slowly sounded.

"First trial, ended!"

"Those who ascended to the top, gain the qualification to enter the 'Upper Realm'!"

"All others..."

"Annihilate!"

Boom!!!

Before those Prodigies who were slumped on the platform, still holding onto a glimmer of hope, could react, an indescribable, terrifying power full of endless destructive aura suddenly erupted from the nine stone pillars!

"No!!!"

Accompanied by cries of endless despair and unwillingness, the several thousand Prodigies who failed to reach the summit, along with their Divine Souls, were instantly and completely... purified, evaporated, and annihilated by that terrifying power!

Vanished into thin air!

In just an instant!

This starting platform, which had been full of noise and bloodshed, was left with only a mere... fewer than a hundred people!