127: Virtual God Battlefield

The nearly hundred Prodigies who survived looked at their 'companions' who had vanished into thin air, and at the nine giant stone pillars that had long since returned to their deathly silence, yet seemed to contain endless killing intent. On each person's face was an uncontrollable mix of fear and... relief.

They finally experienced firsthand the cruelty of this Void God Realm!

This was not a paradise filled with Opportunity.

Instead, it was a... Shura field where one could be doomed forever with a single misstep!

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

That vast, majestic, and unquestionable ancient will, like the ultimate judge, slowly resounded.

"The first trial ends."

"Congratulations to you all, for obtaining the qualification to enter the Upper Realm."

"However, within the Void God Realm, dangers lurk everywhere, and the strong are respected. A single trial is not enough to prove that you are qualified to stand at the Peak of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds."

"The second trial—'Void God Battlefield'—is about to begin!"

Before the words even finished!

Rumble!!!

The entire starting platform trembled violently at that instant!

The incredibly hard grayish-blue ground in the center of the platform slowly sank downwards like melting ice and snow, revealing a pitch-black... giant vortex!

A scent filled with blood and savagery suddenly surged from the depths of that vortex!

Just by coming into contact with it, all the Prodigies present, including Lin Ye and Su Qingyue, felt their Divine Souls about to be completely... frozen by that terrifying Aura!

"Wh-what is that?!"

"S-such a terrifying Aura!!"

Just as everyone was filled with terror, that ancient, majestic voice resounded again!

"This is the 'Void God Battlefield'!"

"A shattered... ruined world from the ancient Divine War!"

"Within it, Laws are chaotic, space is broken, and countless ancient Vicious Beasts that have long been extinct in the Myriad Heavens and Worlds have been bred!"

"Your mission is to enter it, hunt Yao Beasts, and obtain 'Beast Cores'!"

"Beast Cores of different Ranks will correspond to different points."

"Spirit Rank: ten points." "Form-shaping Rank: hundred points." "Golden Law Rank: thousand points." "Earth Spirit Rank: ten thousand points!" "Heavenly Rule Rank: one hundred thousand points!"

"As for the legendary 'Dao Transformation' Rank Vicious Beasts, whose Dao has been integrated into the Laws and whose strength is comparable to a Human Race God Emperor... there are none here."

"The second trial will last... one month!"

"After one month, the battlefield will close! The top ten in the point rankings will receive the supreme reward personally bestowed by the Will of the Void God Realm!"

"Now..."

"Enter—the—Battlefield!"

The moment the words fell!

The pitch-black vortex suddenly erupted with an irresistible, terrifying suction force!

Before anyone could react, their bodies, like fallen leaves in a gale, were uncontrollably... swallowed whole!

...The world spun!

When Lin Ye's consciousness regained clarity, he found himself in a completely different world!

As far as the eye could see, there was a dim, blood-red sky that seemed to stretch endlessly.

Beneath the sky were continuous, dark black, rugged mountain ranges.

Flowing between the mountains were not clear rivers, but viscous blood rivers emitting a strong stench of blood and decay!

The air was filled with a nauseating, terrifying smell of sulfur, charcoal, and endless death!

"Is this... the Void God Battlefield?"

Lin Ye frowned deeply. He could clearly feel that the Heavenly Rules here were even more... chaotic! Even more... violent! than the outside reception platform.

His vast spiritual power, which had long reached the Dharma Body Realm, felt like it was trapped in a swamp, extremely sluggish. His strength was actually suppressed by nearly... thirty percent!

"Lin Ye!"

Just then, a clear, cold voice filled with both surprise and worry sounded beside him.

It was Su Qingyue.

Her luck was quite good; she had been teleported not far from him.

At this moment, her beautiful face was also filled with solemnity. Clearly, she too had sensed the unusual suppression and... danger of this place.

"This place is not suitable for long stays." Lin Ye did not hesitate at all, "Let's find a place first and figure out the situation."

The two exchanged glances, their figures flickered, and like two phantoms merged with the darkness, they silently snuck towards the slightly flatter black mountains in the distance... "Roar—!!!"

Just as the two had been sneaking for less than half an incense stick's time, a terrifying roar, filled with endless savagery and hunger, suddenly exploded from a valley not far ahead of them without warning!

Immediately after!

Rumble!!!

The ground trembled violently!

A hideous giant beast, nearly ten zhang long, covered in thick black carapace, and resembling an ancient demonic scorpion, suddenly emerged from the pitch-black valley like an Earth Dragon breaking through the ground!

Its compound eyes, like blood-red lanterns, locked onto Lin Ye and Su Qingyue. Its huge tail stinger, covered in barbs, was raised high, emitting a chilling, faint blue light that made one's heart palpitate!

Golden Law Rank Peak!

An existence equivalent to the Treasure Body Realm Peak in the outside world!

"Be careful!"

Su Qingyue cried out, and her ice soul divine sword instantly unsheathed!

A terrifying cold Qi, capable of completely freezing the Soul, erupted like a cold wind from the Nine Netherworlds!

However, before her sword move could fully unfold!

Lin Ye's figure had already appeared before the demonic scorpion beast like a phantom!

"Seeking death!"

The demonic scorpion beast let out a roar filled with disdain. Its huge pincers, like cast iron, carried a terrifying force capable of snapping mountains, and clamped down fiercely on Lin Ye's seemingly tiny figure, which appeared as small as an ant!

Lin Ye, with two fingers like a sword!

"Clang—!!!"

A clear, resonant, heaven-shaking sword cry, as if it would tear apart this blood-red sky, suddenly erupted from his seemingly ordinary body!

Wind Chasing Sword Technique—Perfection!

A green Sword Qi, faster than lightning, thin as a cicada's wing, yet seemingly containing the sharpness to cut through everything in the world, flashed and disappeared like the first ray of dawn cutting through the night!

"Pfft."

A very subtle sound of a blade entering flesh.

The huge body of the demonic scorpion beast, which had been so aggressive, suddenly stiffened!

It lowered its head in disbelief, looking at its huge pincers, capable of snapping mountains... they were cleanly severed in the middle!

The cut was smooth as a mirror!

And that green Sword Qi, after severing its pincers, did not lose any of its power! It was like a maggot in the bone, burrowing into its body along the cracks in its carapace!

"Sizzle la la la—"

A grating sound of flesh being cut echoed!

Beneath its indestructible thick carapace, in an instant, it was churned into a cloud of... blood mist by that pervasive, terrifying Sword Qi!

"Thud."

Its massive body fell heavily onto the cold ground, twitched a few times, and then completely... lost its life.

A diamond-shaped Beast Core, shimmering with a faint black light, slowly emerged from its brow.

Instant kill!

Another... instant kill!

Su Qingyue looked at the thin figure slowly withdrawing his finger, and a hint of indescribable... complexity flashed in her clear, cold eyes.

She found that she seemed to... understand this young man less and less...

With the first experience, the subsequent hunt became much smoother.

Lin Ye's combat intuition, which had long been refined by the System to be like a Prodigy's, and his terrifying Physical Body, which was comparable to the Dharma Body Realm Peak, were simply... dimensionality reduction attacks on this battlefield filled with primitive slaughter!

Whether it was groups of Golden Law Rank Vicious Beasts, or Earth Spirit Rank Great Yao with rudimentary intelligence who knew how to encircle and ambush!

Before his overbearing Heaven Burning True Fire and his Wind Chasing Sword Intent, which had long reached Perfection, they were all as vulnerable as chickens and dogs!

And Su Qingyue, like the most perfect shadow, always maintained a not-too-far, not-too-close distance from him.

Her fierce Sword Intent, like the Nine Heavens Profound Ice, always cleared away the harassing small fry for Lin Ye at the most critical moment, or delivered that final fatal blow!

The two, one firm and one gentle, one attacking and one assisting.

In just half a day, they were like two indestructible sharp swords, forcefully cutting through this hundred-li expanse of black mountains!

The Beast Core points in their hands accumulated like a snowball, rapidly increasing! They had long since left behind the other Prodigies who were still cautiously exploring!

However, just as the two were about to rest for a while and continue pushing deeper into the battlefield—

Without any warning!

An indescribable, terrifying Aura, filled with endless wildness, ancientness, and... seemingly transcending all Laws of this world, suddenly... awakened from the Peak of a seemingly ordinary black mountain not far ahead of them!

Rumble!!!

The entire world trembled violently at that instant!

The previously dim blood-red sky was instantly torn open by an invisible, terrifying force filled with destructive Aura, creating a hideous rift a thousand zhang long!

Endless Chaos Gale, like the death roar from the Nine Netherworlds, poured madly down from the rift!

And on the Peak of that black mountain, a pair of dark golden vertical pupils, seemingly larger than mountains, filled with endless Divine Might and indifference, slowly opened!

That gaze, just a casual sweep!

Lin Ye and Su Qingyue felt their Divine Souls about to be completely... frozen! Crushed by that terrifying pressure!

"Heavenly... Heavenly Rule?!"

Su Qingyue's clear, cold voice, for the first time, carried an uncontrollable... tremor and horror!

That was the supreme Divine Might that only ancient Vicious Beasts, who had Cultivated their Dao to the extreme, thoroughly integrated into the Heavenly Rules, and whose strength was comparable to a Human Race Demigod, could possess!

They were actually so "lucky" to encounter the most terrifying... existence in this battlefield?!

Before they could recover from the terrifying pressure!

"Roar—!!!"

A terrifying roar, as if from the primordial wilderness, capable of making the sun, moon, and stars fall, suddenly exploded from the Peak of the mountain!

A hideous giant beast, nearly a hundred zhang long, covered in dark golden scales, with two wings on its ribs, and a spiral horn on its head, slowly rose from the shattered mountain!

Just standing there, it seemed to be about to completely... collapse this world!

Its dark golden vertical pupils indifferently looked down at the two tiny... ants below, who were like dust in its eyes.