756: Chapter 757 Collective Breakthrough

Dong Li's scream shattered the absolute silence of the Thunder Eye, and almost at the exact same moment—

"Boom!" "Hum!" "Clang—!"

Five distinct yet equally majestic and vast Auras erupted simultaneously from the five people sitting in meditation!

The Dao Rhyme, which had been restrained to the extreme, acted like a long-suppressed volcano at this moment, breaking through all the constraints of the surface and pouring out frantically in all directions!

Crack—

With Xiao Ruobai at the center, the incredibly solid floor of the Thunder Eye, which bore ancient Dao patterns, instantly exploded with countless cracks. They spread outward like a spiderweb, as if unable to withstand the War God divinity about to burst from his body.

Xiao Ruobai snapped his eyes open. The lightning scar on his chest had long since healed, replaced by a War God Pattern that looked like a divine brand, shining brilliantly on his well-defined chest.

"Hah!"

With a low exhale like a clap of thunder, it felt as if a sleeping Primordial War God had awakened within him.

Middle Stage Immortal King!

No, to be precise, it was the Peak of the Middle Stage Immortal King! Only a single step away from the Late Stage!

The pale-gold War God Blood-Qi surrounding him was more refined and heavy; every drop contained the mighty power to collapse mountains and fill seas.

It wasn't just an increase in strength, but a fundamental understanding of the Dao of War. Every movement carried a Divine Might that could suppress the ages.

Almost at the same instant, on the other side, Fang Hanyu's longsword unsheathed itself by half an inch, letting out a sword hum sharp enough to tear eardrums.

As if coming from the creation of the world and returning to the silence of the end of all things, Fang Hanyu still kept his eyes closed, but the longsword in his arms had unsheathed itself by three inches!

Above his head, a ten-thousand-foot sword shadow, formed entirely from condensed Chaos air currents, hung suspended.

Around the sword shadow, the Void Realm continuously annihilated and reorganized. Pitch-black lightning sizzled upon it, yet it couldn't leave even a single mark.

Middle Stage Immortal King!

Fang Hanyu's Aura became increasingly profound and unpredictable. He opened his eyes, and what was reflected in them was not a human figure, but a collapsing expanse of Chaos.

"The Sword Dao has reached the divine."

He murmured softly, his voice sounding as if it came from beneath the Nine Netherworlds, without a hint of worldly emotion.

"Roar—!"

Around Mo Yu, his dormant Qilin blood energy erupted like a volcano suppressed for eons!

A tyrannical, violent surge of majestic blood-qi carrying prehistoric majesty soared into the sky, condensing behind him into a solid, hideously scaled, blood-colored Qilin phantom that roared at the heavens!

Mo Yu's Physical Body emitted popping sounds like roasting beans. Every inch of his skin flowed with a jade-like luster, yet contained terrifying power capable of tearing the sky and splitting the earth.

Pure, extreme physical strength forcibly smashed through the bottleneck of his Realm!

His Breakthrough was simple, direct, and overbearing—a victory for pure life force and Bloodline.

Middle Stage Immortal King!

A monstrous, ominous Aura belonging to a prehistoric exotic beast soared upward, faintly forming a stance of equal rivalry against the Silent Lightning Sea outside the Thunder Eye.

"Brush, come!"

Wang Xiaopang suddenly gave a low shout, and the Talisman Brush he had been holding as it trembled flew into the air!

In his eyes, countless tiny phantom Talismans flickered in and out of existence, as if reflecting the natural Dao patterns inside that great dao source trace.

He raised the brush and rapidly sketched against the void. Complex and profound pale-gold Talismans emitting a faint Aura of Chaos were generated out of thin air.

He was no longer simulating the power of heaven and earth, but directly invoking and combining the most fundamental Origin spiritual energy and Dao principles!

These Talismans automatically circled and danced around him, forming an endless Talisman Array. The moment the array was completed, the majestic spiritual energy accumulated in his body and his comprehension of the Talisman Dao fell into place, and the Realm barrier shattered at the sound!

Also Middle Stage Immortal King!

As his cultivation surged, his understanding of the rules of heaven and earth underwent a qualitative change.

Talismans that originally required meticulous drawing and the consumption of large amounts of Materials could now often be formed by heaven and earth Origin Qi with just a thought.

With a casual wave of his hand, a half-finished Silent Lightning Talisman was instantly completed. The electric light flowing within the Talisman was even more pure and overbearing than the thunder patterns collected before.

"It's done!" Wang Xiaopang's face turned red with excitement. Looking at his hands, he seemed to see the grand sight of countless top-tier Talismans blooming over the heads of his enemies.

Finally, it was Ling Xi.

She still kept her eyes closed, but the originally turbulent devouring vortex around her had now transformed into a perfect Yin and Yang fish pattern, rotating slowly.

Late Stage Immortal King! Having devoured a massive amount of lightning power and endless Dao Rhyme, her cultivation leaped to the Late Stage of the Immortal King Realm, making her the one with the highest cultivation among them.

Her Aura no longer had any fluctuations, as if she had merged into one with the Dao patterns beneath her feet and the great dao source trace above her head. She opened her eyes, and there seemed to be countless stars being born and destroyed within them; they were calm and waveless, yet made one afraid to look directly at them.

The commotion of the Breakthrough was too shocking, even attracting the residual Silent Lightning Sea from the periphery of the Thunder Eye. Countless pitch-black lightning snakes crawled in through the cracks, only to be automatically repelled and annihilated by the Domains formed by the six people as they broke through.

Only then did the charred humanoid object that Dong Li had thrown away crash heavily to the ground with a dull thud, attracting the gazes of the six people whose Auras were at their peak after their Breakthroughs.

Xiao Ruobai's brow furrowed slightly, Fang Hanyu sheathed his sword, Mo Yu retracted the Qilin phantom, and Ling Xi calmed her Aura.

Wang Xiaopang gripped his Talisman Brush tightly, while Dong Li hid behind Xiao Ruobai, poking half his head out to look at the "charred corpse" with lingering fear.

"What is this thing?" Mo Yu asked in a muffled voice, his tone carrying a beast-like alertness.

At the exact moment of the collective Breakthrough when the Dao Rhyme was boiling, he had clearly captured a trace of a familiar fluctuation from that body's chest—one that was incredibly weak yet unbelievably tenacious.

In that fluctuation, Silent Lightning was mixed in, but at its core was a wisp of indomitable Battle Intent and a lingering scent of blood-qi belonging uniquely to a certain special Physique.

Xiao Ruobai's figure flashed as he crouched beside the charred corpse. His finger hovered over the scorched chest, and his usually calm face rarely showed extreme gravity and shock.

"Se... Senior Brother?" Wang Xiaopang leaned in, looking at the charred remains and then at Xiao Ruobai's expression, his voice tight.

Xiao Ruobai didn't answer. He simply closed his eyes to sense carefully with his newly refined and pure War God Blood-Qi.

After a few breaths, he snapped his eyes open and stared intently at the charred body that looked like it could turn to ash at any moment. Word by word, his voice was dry but carried an earth-shattering certainty:

"Wang Zhan?!"

Those two words were like a clap of thunder, exploding in the hearts of everyone who had just finished their Breakthroughs and were still immersed in the joy of their increased strength.

"What? Wang Zhan?" Fang Hanyu, Ling Xi, Mo Yu, and Wang Xiaopang all lost their voices in shock.

Dong Li, the fox, froze on the spot. His ears shot up into straight lines, and with a completely bewildered look, he spoke up in a daze:

"Wang Zhan? Who is Wang Zhan?"

He stared at the charred, slightly smoking body on the ground. His mind suddenly whirred, and he remembered.

"Oh right! He's the one in the top hundred of the heavenly pride list, the one who forced his way onto the Heavenly Ladder while only in the Heavenly Immortal Realm! You guys know him?!"