15: Ancient battles dazzled the eyes; mortal bodies shook immortals.

Chaos! Tearing! Weightlessness!

Chen Feng felt like a withered leaf caught in the Nine Heavens Gale, tumbling and colliding in the violent spatial turbulence. Each twist and fold of space brought excruciating pain, as if his entire body was cracking open. His newly reconstructed Chaos Immortal Body, comparable to an Earth Immortal's, still appeared fragile before this chaotic spatial storm.

The only thing giving him a sense of direction was the faint pulling force from the fragment of the fate plate in his hand. That gray light, imbued with an aura of annihilation, pierced through the violent, multicolored turbulence like a lighthouse in a raging sea, stubbornly pointing towards the unknown distance—the Guanghan Ruins where Su Wanzhao was located.

"Hold on... I must hold on..." Chen Feng gritted his teeth, his cracked arms desperately shielding his head, his body curled up, allowing the chaotic spatial energy to repeatedly slice his body like billions of invisible blades. Blood mixed with tiny spatial fragments constantly seeped from the cracks, then slowly healed under the nourishment of the faint airflow from the chaos base point, a cycle of torture.

He didn't know how long passed, perhaps an instant, perhaps ten thousand years.

Boom!

A muffled, ultimate roar, accompanied by the excruciating pain of his entire skeleton nearly falling apart, slammed him back into "reality"!

A cold, hard sensation, along with the strong smell of rust and decaying dust, instantly rushed into his nostrils. Beneath him was not the smooth, milky-white ground of the Immortal Transformation Pool, but uneven, hard ground covered with sharp gravel.

"Cough, cough..." Chen Feng coughed violently, each tremor pulling at the cracks all over his body, bringing agonizing pain. He struggled to prop himself up and looked around.

Dead silence. Desolation. Despair.

This was a boundless gray plain. The sky was leaden gray, low and heavy, as if it could collapse at any moment, with no sun, moon, or stars visible, only a suffocating dead silence. The earth was scorched black, covered with huge, bottomless fissures and terrifying, crater-like depressions. Countless broken weapon remnants, gigantic beyond imagination, lay half-buried in the scorched earth like the skeletons of colossal beasts—broken greatswords the size of mountains, shattered tower shields like collapsed city walls, rusty long spears impaled in the earth, their tips pointing towards the dim sky, exuding endless sorrow and murderous aura.

The air was thick with an unresolvable mixture of blood, rust, decay, and a chilling evil aura. There was no wind, only a bone-chilling, soul-freezing stillness. The "spiritual energy" permeating this place... no, this was absolutely not spiritual energy! Instead, it was a viscous, heavy, and infinitely resentful, murderous, and destructive... battlefield evil qi!

This evil qi was far more violent, more defiled, and more filled with chaotic negative will than the earth vein evil qi of the Dragon Severing Ravine! It was like maggots clinging to bones, trying to penetrate Chen Feng's body through every pore, corroding his cracked Chaos Immortal Body!

"Ugh!" Chen Feng groaned, the fine cracks on his body stinging faintly as they came into contact with the dense evil qi, as if being corroded! The chaos base point vibrated slightly, releasing a faint chaotic airflow that circulated throughout his body, barely managing to resist the omnipresent evil qi's invasion.

"What kind of hellish place is this?" Chen Feng's heart sank. This was definitely not a blessed land of the immortal realm; it was more like an ancient battlefield that had been completely destroyed and cursed into oblivion! The Guanghan beacon guided by the life plate became extremely weak in this silent evil domain, almost imperceptible.

Just then, the silent, dim fragment of the fate plate in his sea of consciousness vibrated ever so slightly, and a piece of information was transmitted with difficulty:

[Arrived... unknown spatial fragment...]

[Energy Environment: Ancient Battlefield Evil Qi (Concentration: Extremely High! Corrosiveness: Extremely Strong!)]

[Spatial Laws: Broken, chaotic, spatial rift traps exist.]

[Guanghan Beacon: Severely interfered by evil qi... Direction: Northwest... Distance: Unknown...]

[Warning! Detecting highly active... evil qi aggregate... approaching! Speed: Fast!]

Highly active evil qi aggregate?!

Chen Feng's pupils constricted! He suddenly looked up, his crimson eyes fixed on the front!

Hundreds of feet away, on a "small hill" composed of countless broken weapons, charred bones, and viscous foul blood, a twisted figure was slowly "standing" up!

That was no living creature! It was a monster forcibly pieced together from countless battlefield remnants! Its main body was a giant skeleton three zhang tall, clad in tattered bronze heavy armor, but its chest cavity was not filled with organs, but rather squirming, foul-smelling blood sludge and twisted resentful souls! Its left arm was twisted from a dozen broken giant spears, their tips shimmering with eerie green poisonous light; its right arm was a massive, rusty, spiky meteor hammer remnant! Its head was even more horrifying, forcibly fused from three giant skulls of different races, with three balls of eerie green ghost fire burning in its hollow eye sockets, filled with endless malice and murderous desire!

A terrifying pressure, a mixture of decay, blood, and brutality, instantly enveloped Chen Feng like a tangible tide! The aura of this monster had subtly reached... the peak of Qi Refinement! And in this dense battlefield evil qi environment, its strength seemed to be continuously increasing!

"Roar—!!!"

The three skulls simultaneously opened their twisted jaws, emitting a silent yet soul-piercing roar of malice! The body, composed of foul blood sludge and resentful souls, violently shook, and the giant meteor hammer right arm, carrying a tearing shriek through the air, whipped up a viscous black evil qi storm, like a collapsing mountain, smashing fiercely towards Chen Feng! Its speed far exceeded that of ordinary Qi Refinement cultivators!

Mortal body shakes immortals? What a joke! This monster's single blow was enough to smash a true peak Qi Refinement cultivator into a pulp!

The shadow of death descended instantly!

Chen Feng's muscles tensed instantly! Dodge? With his current heavy, cracked "immortal body," unable to mobilize any spiritual power, it was impossible to dodge this lightning-fast, terrifying blow on this chaotic, rocky ground! Block? With what? He had Earth Immortal-level physical strength but couldn't even condense a shred of defense!

In the nick of time! The fragment of the fate plate vibrated again!

[Detecting... host unable to access chaos base point energy...]

[Activating... emergency mode...]

[Plan: Guide ancient battlefield evil qi... use body as a furnace... forcibly... temper cracks...]

[Risk: Evil qi entering body... corroding divine soul... physical body collapsing...]

[Proceed... with guidance?]

Guiding evil qi into his body to temper the cracks?! This was like drinking poison to quench thirst! But... there was no other choice!

"Guide it!" Chen Feng's eyes burst with a wolf-like ferocity, and his will firmly commanded!

Buzz!

The fragment of the fate plate tightly held in his hand suddenly became scorching hot! The most central crack on its surface lit up with gray light again! A strange suction force instantly formed, as if an invisible vortex had appeared around Chen Feng's body!

Boom!

The violent black evil qi storm accompanying the monster's meteor hammer, upon contact with Chen Feng's body, was forcibly guided and diverted by the fragment of the fate plate! A portion of the evil qi, like a tamed wild horse, brutally poured into the fine cracks all over Chen Feng's body!

"Ahhhhhh—!"

Agony! Indescribable agony!

The violent battlefield evil qi, filled with chaotic resentment, murderous will, and destructive aura, was like billions of burning hot poisonous needles, fiercely piercing into the cracks, drilling into his flesh, bones, and even attempting to corrode his soul! It was more painful than the spatial turbulence's cutting! More brutal than the infusion of immortal spiritual energy!

The chaos base point vibrated frantically, releasing more chaotic airflow to try and neutralize and transform this incoming violent evil qi. But this evil qi was too strong, too defiled! The chaotic airflow could only barely protect the core spiritual light from being corroded, doing nothing to alleviate the physical pain!

Chen Feng's body trembled violently, the cracks on his skin, with the influx of evil qi, subtly emitted an ominous black-red glow, like burning hot brands! He felt like an iron embryo thrown into a purgatorial furnace, being repeatedly hammered and forged by the most violent forces!

And amidst this extreme agony—

Bang!!!

The huge meteor hammer, constructed from meteorite remnants, had lost most of its evil qi enhancement, but still carried terrifying physical impact, smashing heavily onto Chen Feng's crossed arms blocking his chest!

Crack! Crack!

The bone-chilling sound of bones cracking clearly rang out! Fine cracks instantly appeared in Chen Feng's arm bones! The immense force sent him flying like a cannonball!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

His body successively crashed through three huge, arm-thick metal broken spears, which were diagonally stuck in the ground, before heavily slamming onto a collapsed, rune-covered remnant of a giant tower shield! A deep human-shaped dent was smashed into the hard surface of the tower shield!

"Pfft—!" Chen Feng spat out a large mouthful of foul blood mixed with fragments of internal organs and black-red malevolent energy! The intense pain from his arms almost made him faint, and his chest felt as if it had been struck by a giant hammer, his blood and qi churning! The cracks all over his body, under the dual effects of malevolent energy erosion and physical impact, were like a porcelain vessel about to shatter, with black-red light flickering erratically and excruciating pain penetrating deep into his bones!

Seeing that one blow failed to completely smash Chen Feng, the ghostly fires in the eyes of the monster's three skulls leaped with rage! It took heavy steps, pieced together from huge leg bones and metal components, each step causing the earth to tremble slightly, and pursued Chen Feng in the direction he was sent flying! The dozen or so sharp spears twisted together on its left arm gleamed with a sinister green poisonous light, stabbing fiercely at Chen Feng, who was deeply embedded in the tower shield's dent!

A killing blow!

Excruciating pain! Dizziness! A sense of powerlessness engulfed Chen Feng like a cold tide. His arms were fractured, his internal organs injured, and malevolent energy raged wildly within his body. The conversion speed of the chaos base point was far from keeping up with the destruction. Looking at the approaching forest of spears, radiating a fatal poisonous light, the cold grip of death once again seized his heart.

Is this how it ends? Su Wanzhao... No!

Just as the spear tips were about to touch the dent in the tower shield!

In Chen Feng's bloodshot eyes, that spark of indomitable will, repeatedly tempered by pain and despair, suddenly erupted with an unprecedented ferocity!

"You want to kill me?!"

A beast-like roar rumbled from his throat! Enduring the intense pain of his fractured arms, his right fist, covered in black-red malevolent energy cracks, struck the edge of the giant tower shield remnant beneath him with a brutal force that originated from the deepest part of the chaos base point, instinctively erupting under the stimulation of malevolent energy, a mix of the earth's profoundness and destructive annihilation!

Boom!

This giant tower shield, which had endured countless years and remained incredibly sturdy, was actually slammed by Chen Feng's resentful punch, causing it to sharply flip up! The massive shield surface, like a collapsing city wall, slammed with immense force towards the skeletal monster that was charging forward!

Timing! Angle! Perfect to the extreme!

The monster clearly hadn't expected Chen Feng to have such brute strength for a counterattack and was caught off guard! The huge tower shield remnant slammed heavily into its chest cavity, which was composed of foul blood sludge and vengeful spirits!

Bang!!!

Like a heavy hammer smashing mud! The viscous, foul-smelling blood sludge was splattered in all directions by the immense force! Countless distorted faces of vengeful spirits let out silent screams, and more than half of them were instantly scattered! The monster's massive body staggered backward from this powerful blow, and the forest of spears thrust from its left arm also lost its aim, grazing Chen Feng's scalp and fiercely embedding into the scorched earth behind him!

Opportunity!

Chen Feng's eyes burst with sharp light! Completely disregarding the excruciating pain of his fractured arms and the bleeding from the cracks all over his body, his body, like a fully coiled spring, suddenly shot out from the tower shield's dent! He abandoned defense, abandoned evasion; all his will, all his strength, all the ferocity ignited by malevolent energy, converged on his only movable right leg!

Target—the three fused skulls within the monster's chest cavity! That was the source of its sinister green ghostly fire!

"Break for me—shatter!!!"

Chen Feng let out a roar that tore through the night sky! His right leg, covered in cracks and swirling with black-red malevolent energy, swung high like a battle-axe, carrying a scream that ripped through the air and all his strength, fiercely kicking towards the monster's exposed, ghost-fire-burning skull, revealed due to its injury!

Speed! Power! Angle! At this moment, Chen Feng's meticulously honed Chaos Immortal Body brought them to their extreme! The movement was full of primitive, savage, yet precisely deadly violent aesthetics!

The skeletal monster had just regained its balance and hadn't had time to react—

Crack!!!

A crisp, bone-chilling shattering sound!

Chen Feng's right foot, imbued with all his strength and comparable to a divine weapon, plunged fiercely into the eye socket of the largest skull in the middle, like a red-hot poker into rotten wood!

Berserk power erupted instantly! The hard, massive skull, made of unknown material, covered instantly with spiderweb-like cracks, like fragile glazed pottery, in the face of Chen Feng's ridiculously brutal physical attack!

"Aooo—!!!"

The three skulls simultaneously let out a silent, soul-piercing shriek! The three clusters of sinister green ghostly fire burning in their eye sockets swayed wildly, flickering erratically! The skull that was kicked rapidly developed cracks around its eye socket, which then spread throughout the entire skull. The sinister green ghostly fire, like a candle in the wind, was on the verge of extinguishing!

The monster's massive body violently swayed as if its backbone had been removed! The countless remnants forming its body let out groans of unbearable strain, and foul blood sludge gushed out from the cracks in its chest cavity like a bursting dam!

Severely wounded in one blow!

Chen Feng, having landed a successful blow, gave the opponent no chance to catch its breath! He used the recoil force to land, enduring the intense pain from his right leg (his foot bones seemed to be fractured too) and the dizziness from the cracks all over his body, his bloodshot eyes locked onto the shattered skull!

"Die!!!"

He roared, pouncing again! This time, it was his left fist, covered in malevolent energy cracks and protruding knuckles! Its target was the flickering ghostly fire in the skull's eye socket!

The skeletal monster seemed utterly enraged! The remaining ghostly fires burst forth with terrifying light, and its massive meteor hammer-like left arm swept towards the pouncing Chen Feng with a desperate, suicidal frenzy, disregarding everything! At the same time, the remaining foul blood sludge in its chest cavity churned violently, and countless faces of vengeful spirits shrieked and lunged out, transforming into streams of chilling black energy that coiled around Chen Feng!

Trading injuries for injuries! Risking life for life!

There was no fear in Chen Feng's eyes, only a more blazing madness! He completely ignored the sweeping meteor hammer and the coiling black energy of vengeful spirits; all his spirit, all his strength, were locked onto the ghostly fire in that shattered skull!

"Shatter!!!"

His left fist, like a cannonball, smashed fiercely into the shattered eye socket!

Splat!

Like smashing a rotten watermelon! Hard bone fragments mixed with viscous, foul-smelling black "brain matter" (actually highly condensed core of resentment) splattered everywhere! The huge skull, burning with sinister green ghostly fire, completely burst open under Chen Feng's decisive punch!

"Aooo—!!!"

The remaining two skulls let out desperate shrieks, and the ghostly fires in their eye sockets instantly dimmed by more than half! The monster's massive body collapsed with a crash, as if it had lost all support! Countless remnants, foul blood, and vengeful spirits scattered across the ground like a landslide, leaving only some unconscious twitching limbs and broken arms.

Chen Feng was also fiercely grazed on the back by the sweeping remnant of the meteor hammer!

Bang!

Like being hit by a rampaging giant elephant! He was once again sent flying, and a clear sound of bone cracking came from his back! The coiling black energy of vengeful spirits, moreover, was like maggots clinging to bone, desperately trying to burrow into the cracks on his body surface!

"Pfft!" Chen Feng slammed onto the scorched earth, spitting out another mouthful of foul blood. The burning pain in his back almost suffocated him, and the screams of vengeful spirits echoed madly in his mind, trying to erode his sanity!

He struggled, using his last ounce of strength to roll over, lying face up on the cold scorched earth, gasping for air. Each breath carried a heavy scent of blood and malevolent energy, and each heartbeat pulled at the bursting wounds all over his body. Fractured arms, suspected fractured foot bones in his right leg, severe injury to his back, malevolent energy and resentment raging wildly within his body... A tragic victory! The cost was heavy!

But, he was still alive! With this "Immortal Body" that couldn't mobilize spiritual power and could only rely on brute force, he had brutally killed a malevolent energy monster at the peak of Qi Refinement!

In his Sea of Consciousness, the fragment of the fate plate vibrated slightly:

[Target... eliminated...]

[Absorbing... scattered malevolent energy... resentment...]

[chaos base point... activity... slightly increased...]

[Flesh cracks... under the action of malevolent energy and base point... partially fused... strength... slightly increased...]

[Warning! The malevolent energy here... attracting... more powerful... existences... approaching...]

On Chen Feng's face, covered in blood and malevolent energy, he bared a cruel smile mixed with intense pain and madness.

"Come on..." He whispered hoarsely to the gloomy, dead silent sky.

"I'm... not completely dead yet..."