17: The first cry of chaos, the evil bones swallowing the sky.

"Buzz—!"

Chen Feng's chaotic, gray eyes suddenly lit up like two stars dormant for eons! Deep within the grayness, dark-gold malevolent runes flowed like dragons, and faint Nirvana lightning flashed and flickered! An ancient, profound, all-encompassing yet infinitely malevolent primordial aura burst forth from Chen Feng's body, which was covered in dark-gold chaotic fissures, like a ferocious beast breaking free from its chains!

The Skeleton Tyrant's terrifying bone claw, burning with Heaven-Scorching Malevolent Flames, carried a second, even more violent wave of destructive power, now less than three feet above Chen Feng's head! The intense heat warped the air, and the will of destruction froze the soul!

However, this time, Chen Feng's eyes held no trace of fear or despair, only an icy indifference, as if he were looking down upon ants!

He moved!

Not dodging, not blocking!

His left arm, which had just forcefully mended some fissures in the destructive storm and now flowed with a dark-gold chaotic luster, suddenly lifted upward like a fierce dragon waking from a ten-thousand-year slumber! His five fingers splayed open. There was no dazzling spiritual light, no profound magical seals, only raw, extreme brute force, powered by the chaos base point and tempered by the Ancient Malevolence Source!

He met the Heaven-Scorching Bone Claw, which blotted out the sky, with his palm!

"Seeking death!" Ferocious flames erupted in the Skeleton Tyrant's six crimson compound eyes, as if it had witnessed the most ridiculous scene in the world! A mere ant daring to shake the heavens?

Boom—!!!

Palm met claw!

The anticipated scene of the ant being instantly smashed into paste did not occur!

Time seemed to freeze at this moment!

Chen Feng's small palm, covered in dark-gold chaotic fissures, slammed violently against the Skeleton Tyrant's terrifying, mountain-like bone claw, which was burning with Heaven-Scorching Malevolent Flames!

There was no earth-shattering explosion!

There was only a terrifying, dull thud, heavy enough to make the heart stop, like two Divine Metal Stars grinding against each other!

Zzzzt—Chichichichi—!

A harsh, intense grinding sound, like strong acid corroding metal, instantly erupted! The scorched earth beneath Chen Feng's feet suddenly collapsed several feet, as if struck by an invisible giant hammer! A violent shockwave exploded outwards in a ring centered on him, instantly sending the remaining giant weapon skeletons flying and shredding them!

The dark-red Heaven-Scorching Malevolent Flames seemed to have met their nemesis! The moment they touched Chen Feng's palm, the flames, containing destruction and corruption, were frantically devoured and neutralized by the gray chaotic currents and the Ancient Malevolence Source circulating in the dark-gold chaotic palm lines! The flames rapidly dimmed and shrank as if they had been thrown into a black hole!

The Skeleton Tyrant's massive bone claw was even more like striking a red-hot, continuously spinning Chaos Millstone! The obsidian-like bone armor, tougher than refined gold, groaned under the overwhelming pressure of Chen Feng's terrifying brute force and the erosion of the chaotic aura! Clear fissures spread rapidly like a spiderweb, centered on the point of impact!

"Hah?!" For the first time, disbelief and astonishment appeared in the Skeleton Tyrant's six compound eyes! It felt as if its bone claw had struck a continuously spinning Chaos Divine Mountain that devoured everything! Not only could it not shake it in the slightest, but a terrifying, irresistible rebound force, mixed with a Chaotic Devouring Will that made even its source malevolence tremble, fiercely rebounded up the bone claw!

Crack! Crackle crackle!

A dense sound of teeth-jarring shattering rang out! The sharpest, hardest tips of the Skeleton Tyrant's massive bone claw cracked inch by inch under the rebound force of Chen Feng's chaos base point-infused brute strength! Dark-red malevolent flames splattered everywhere like blood gushing from severed veins!

"Aooo—!!!" The Skeleton Tyrant let out an earth-shaking roar mixed with pain and fury! Its massive body staggered backward a step, jolted by the terrifying rebound force! The ground shook violently!

A mortal body shaking a Foundation Establishment expert! One blow shattered the claw!

Chen Feng's body also shook violently! Several of the dark-gold chaotic fissures that had just mended on his left arm reopened, and dark-gold blood mixed with faint chaotic currents seeped out! Taking on Foundation Establishment level terrifying power head-on, even with the chaos base point supporting him, his physical body was still under immense pressure!

But there was no fear in his eyes; instead, a fiercer, more blazing predatory light erupted! Using the rebound force, his cracked left leg stomped hard on the ground!

Boom!

A shallow crater exploded in the ground! His heavy body shot forward like a chaotic cannonball leaving the barrel, moving forward instead of retreating! His right hand, tightly gripping the dark-gold malevolent bone, now emitted an unprecedented heat and dazzling light! The dark-silver runes on the bone fragment looked like a burning galaxy, frantically extracting the Battlefield Malevolence and continuously transforming it into pure Ancient Malevolence Source, pouring it into Chen Feng's body!

"My turn!" A low roar, like that of a primordial fierce beast, rumbled from Chen Feng's throat! Using the momentum of his charge, his right fist, gripping the dark-gold malevolent bone, carried an indomitable resolve and all the brute force powered by the chaos base point, smashing viciously toward the Skeleton Tyrant's chest cavity framework, which was exposed due to the injury and flowed with magma-like malevolence!

The target—the massive dark-red Malevolence Core, hidden beneath the thick obsidian bone armor and slowly beating like a heart!

This punch was devoid of flashiness! Only power! Absolute power—bestowed by the chaos base point, tempered by the Ancient Malevolence Source, and fused with the Will of the Nirvana Heavenly Condemnation!

Wherever the fist passed, the space emitted a low, overwhelmed hum! The dense Battlefield Malevolence was savagely pushed aside, forming a momentary vacuum channel! On the surface of the fist, dark-gold chaotic currents intertwined with faint Nirvana lightning, radiating an aura of destruction that froze the soul!

The Skeleton Tyrant sensed a fatal threat! Its six compound eyes instantly constricted to the extreme! Its massive bone tail, shrieking with a sonic boom, whipped violently toward Chen Feng's back like a raging giant python! Simultaneously, the massive dark-red Malevolence Core in its chest cavity pulsated frantically, spewing out Destructive Malevolent Flames, sticky like magma, attempting to block the fatal punch!

Attack the enemy's vital point! Besiege Wei to rescue Zhao!

A flash of frantic calculation crossed Chen Feng's scarlet eyes! He completely ignored the terrifying bone tail whipping toward him from behind, which was powerful enough to smash him in half! All his will, all his power, and all the might of the chaos base point were concentrated on his right fist, which gripped the malevolent bone and was smashing toward the opponent's core!

A life-or-death situation! Fighting for a sliver of survival!

"Break!!!"

The punch shot out! Like the Dawn of Chaos! Like the fall of a star!

Bang—!!!!!

An indescribable, terrifying roar!

Chen Feng's right fist, burning with chaotic gray light and dark-gold Ancient Malevolence, smashed violently onto the magma-like malevolent flames spewing from the Skeleton Tyrant!

The anticipated fierce explosion did not occur!

The sticky, scorching Destructive Malevolent Flames, powerful enough to melt refined gold and iron, were instantly torn apart, swallowed, and neutralized by the dark-gold chaotic currents and the Ancient Malevolence Source the moment they met Chen Feng's fist! Where the fist passed, the malevolent flames were forcefully ripped open like a fragile curtain, creating a massive gap!

The momentum of the punch! It didn't decrease! It increased instead!

Carrying an indomitable will of destruction, the punch fiercely pierced through the Skeleton Tyrant's torn malevolent flame defense, solidly slamming into the massive dark-red Malevolence Core in its chest cavity, which was covered with obsidian bone armor!

Crack—Rumble!!!

This time, it was truly earth-shattering!

The incredibly tough obsidian bone armor, capable of withstanding the bombardment of ordinary Magical Artifacts, instantly became covered in spiderweb cracks like fragile glass before Chen Feng's ultimate punch, which concentrated the chaos base point, the Ancient Malevolence Source, and the Nirvana Heavenly Condemnation Imprint, and then violently shattered!

Countless sharp bone fragments, shimmering with an obsidian luster, scattered like shrapnel!

Chen Feng's right fist, without any hindrance, deeply penetrated the massive dark-red Malevolence Core!

"Awooo—!!!"

The Skeleton Tyrant let out an unprecedented, horrifying shriek filled with pain, fear, and disbelief! Its gigantic body instantly stiffened as if paralyzed! The six crimson compound eyes flashed frantically, their light rapidly dimming!

The moment Chen Feng's right fist penetrated the core!

The dark-gold malevolent bone tightly gripped in his hand seemed to have smelled the ultimate delicacy in the world, suddenly erupting with an unprecedented, terrifying suction force, like a black hole! The dark-silver runes on the bone fragment spun frantically, transforming into a miniature Devouring Vortex!

The massive, pulsating dark-red Malevolence Core within the Skeleton Tyrant's chest cavity twisted and collapsed frantically, like a star thrown into a black hole! The terrifying malevolence, refined to the extreme and containing its Source Will, was frantically swallowed and extracted like a breaching flood by the vortex formed by the dark-gold malevolent bone!

"Roar... no...!" The Skeleton Tyrant's massive body trembled violently, shriveling and shrinking at a visible speed like a deflated bladder! The dark-red malevolent flames burning on its surface rapidly extinguished, its ferocious bone tail dropped powerlessly to the ground, and the light in its six compound eyes quickly dimmed and went out!

Its terrifying body, pieced together from countless remnants, began to groan under the strain as it lost the support of the source malevolence, and countless bone joints, armor plates, and metal components disintegrated and fell off!

Chen Feng, however, stood like an ancient tree rooted in the center of the storm! His right arm, which had pierced the core, became the bridge for the dark-gold malevolent bone's devouring! Vast amounts of source malevolence, refined to the extreme, surged wildly into his body along his right arm like raging magma!

Intense pain! Tearing! Swelling!

This power was too immense! Too violent! Far exceeding any malevolence he had absorbed before! Even with the chaos base point stabilizing him and his newly tempered Immortal Body, Chen Feng felt like a balloon about to burst! The meridians, flesh, and bones of his right arm groaned under the strain. The dark-gold chaotic fissures on his skin were once again stretched open by the violent energy, and dark-gold blood flowed out like small streams!

"Ugh, ahhh—!" Chen Feng roared in agony, his eyes blood-red! But he clenched his teeth, tightly gripping the dark-gold malevolent bone, which was like a bottomless pit, and frantically operated the chaos base point!

Devour! Refine! Assimilate!

The chaos base point spun frantically, like an insatiable furnace! Gray chaotic currents surged at an unprecedented speed, forcefully tearing, devouring, and transforming the violent source malevolence flooding into his body! A portion merged into the slowly rotating Chaotic Vortex, causing its volume to expand again and making the dark-gold malevolent runes in the gray currents clearer and more condensed; the other portion was guided, like the most savage carving knife, fiercely scouring his bones, flesh, and meridians!

Destruction and rebirth! Breaking and reshaping!

This played out again on an even more violent level! Chen Feng's body was like a massive battlefield where the chaos base point and the Ancient Malevolence Source fiercely clashed and merged! Every scour brought the pain of being shattered, and every reshaping was accompanied by a slight tingling sensation, like a complete metamorphosis!

Under the impact of the violent source malevolence, the fissures on his body were forcefully torn open and expanded again, but then forcefully mended in a tougher, heavier dark-gold chaotic form, protected by the chaos base point and nourished by the Ancient Malevolence Source! Where they mended, divine light was contained within, as if they were cast from Chaos Divine Gold!

His aura soared frantically like a rocket during the process of devouring the Skeleton Tyrant's source! The realm barrier, which was originally so weak as to be almost nonexistent, shattered with a crash like a fragile eggshell under the impact of the chaos base point's massive energy!

Qi Condensation First Layer! Mid-stage! Late-stage! Peak!

The bottleneck barrier was tottering under the impact of this violent energy! It launched a fierce assault toward the threshold of Foundation Establishment!

And right at this critical moment of devouring and breakthrough!

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Three streaks of light, different in color but all radiating cold killing intent, arrived instantly before Chen Feng from three different directions, like venomous snakes tearing through the gray sky!

One streak, pale white like bone, radiated Chilling Death Energy that froze the soul, stabbing directly toward Chen Feng's glabella!

One streak, black as ink, surging with Corrupt Demonic Light that devoured light, shot toward Chen Feng's heart!

One streak, blood-red, burning with Venomous Flames that incinerated everything, lunged toward Chen Feng's right arm, which was gripping the malevolent bone!

The three attacks were launched at cunning angles and ruthless timing! They were clearly three Malevolent Creatures lurking at the edge of the battlefield, whose auras had also reached the Peak of Qi Condensation, or even subtly touched the threshold of Foundation Establishment! They had obviously coveted the dark-gold malevolent bone for a long time and seized this perfect opportunity—while Chen Feng was devouring the Skeleton Tyrant's source and preoccupied—to launch a fatal sneak attack!

A deadly predicament!