879: Chapter 868 600 Hertz!!

"That curse seal is problematic."

A look of fear appeared on Saintess Qian Xi's beautiful, ethereal face.

She now finally understood—why Qin Yan hadn't activated the curse seal to force her to appear back then, and why that youth had left so calmly and composedly without even turning his head.

It turned out that none of this required him to do it himself; that curse seal planted deep within her Soul was itself a slow but irreversible process of sinking.

It would imperceptibly erode the will and spirit of the one implanted with the seal, planting the thought of "submission" deep within her Soul like a seed.

Then it would let it take root, sprout, and grow on its own, until it completely replaced her original self.

"There are still ten days left; I must hold on."

Saintess Qian Xi gritted her teeth, held her breath, and focused, struggling with all her might against the increasingly intense desire for submission deep within her heart.

However, no matter how hard she tried, within her spiritual world, pitch-black, ink-like dark runes were emerging from all directions like a silent army.

They densely covered her entire conscious space.

Every time those runes flickered, they carved a deeper brand into the depths of her Soul, rapidly encroaching upon her mind with an unstoppable momentum.

"Fight!"

Qin Yan's voice sounded like a thunderclap, exploding in the silver seawater.

His figure turned into a black streak of light, merging into the Dark Emperor Golden Body.

The instant the two became one, he immediately sensed the difference brought about by this baptism of heaven and earth—his Mental Energy was now surging to an unprecedentedly powerful level.

If the previous 599 Hz was a lake firmly blocked by a dam, then now, the water level of this lake was level with the dam; it only needed one more drop of rain to overflow—the Breakthrough to 600 Hz was within reach.

Qin Yan didn't say a word; he reached his right hand into the three dark light wheels behind him and slowly drew out the dark firmament scepter.

The dark firmament scepter was now even more profound and unfathomable than before the baptism; liquid-like dark radiance flowed across the surface of the pitch-black scepter, as if it had been forged from solidified eternal night.

Within the void space inside the black halo floating at the head of the scepter, countless fine dark runes were vaguely flickering on and off.

Every time the runes pulsed, an ancient and forbidden aura permeated from within.

And at the very moment Qin Yan gripped the dark firmament scepter, his Mental Energy, which was already on the verge of a critical point within him, under the enhancement of the scepter, crashed through the chasm that lay between 599 Hz and 600 Hz.

It steadily stepped into the brand-new Realm of 600 Hz.

The already immense dark aura on the Dark Emperor Golden Body surged violently at this moment.

That terrifying pressure, which had suddenly climbed to a whole new level, turned into a visible black shockwave that violently spread in all directions.

Yue Chenyuan, who was closest, bore the brunt; her Dark Golden Body hadn't even had time to react before it was hit head-on by that irresistible pressure.

The entire 99-zhang-tall, towering Golden Body was violently sent flying like a leaf in a gale, tumbling through the silver seawater for hundreds of zhang before barely managing to stabilize her figure.

Yue Chenyuan lifted her head with difficulty, her eyes filled with incredulous shock.

"600 Hz Mental Energy—how is this possible!"

She squeezed these words out from between her teeth.

One must know that while there seemed to be only a difference of 1 Hz between 599 Hz and 600 Hz, this 1 Hz gap lay across a chasm that an ordinary Spiritual Power Cultivator could never cross in their entire lifetime.

Mental Energy would undergo a qualitative leap every hundred Hz; the Breakthrough from 599 Hz to 600 Hz, the quality of Mental Energy would undergo an even more fundamental transformation, becoming purer, more refined, and more domineering.

Even though her own Mental Energy, with the enhancement of her 99-zhang Golden Body, had already reached the Peak of 599 Hz, it was still a vast, unreachable distance away from 600 Hz.

Yet the other party had just broken through to 600 Hz right before her eyes, just like that.

"Is this the Golden Body after experiencing the baptism of heaven and earth? It is truly powerful."

Qin Yan felt the unprecedentedly surging Mental Energy within him, and he was secretly thrilled.

However, an even greater surprise was yet to come—he discovered that his Spirit Weapon Skill, Hand of the Dark Abyss, had also changed.

Originally, at the Rank 7 Realm, the limit for the Hand of the Dark Abyss was only being able to summon one.

But now this restriction had been broken—he could summon two Hands of the Dark Abyss at the Rank 7 Realm.

A single Hand of the Dark Abyss had powerfully defeated the combined forces of the Temple of Time's Saintess Qian Xi and Saint Son Chen Xun.

Now with both out, combined with his current 600 Hz Mental Energy enhancement, Qin Yan couldn't even imagine the power.

Qin Yan regained his composure and cast his gaze toward Yue Chenyuan, who had just stabilized her figure in the distance.

He raised the dark firmament scepter high in his hand, and the black halo at the top of the scepter began to spin rapidly.

Immense Darkness Power gathered crazily toward the scepter like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, and the outline of a pitch-black tentacle was already looming within the halo.

Seeing that the attack, capable of destroying heaven and earth, was about to descend, Yue Chenyuan's urgent and anxious cry came from afar: "Qin Yan, stop! I surrender!"

Yue Chenyuan was truly anxious.

600 Hz Dark Spiritual Power against her 599 Hz; there was no point in fighting this.

With her current strength, she could barely fight an ordinary Great Grandmaster, but Qin Yan himself was a peerless Prodigy who was not inferior to her in the slightest.

His 600 Hz Dark Spiritual Power and ordinary 600 Hz were completely different concepts.

If this strike really landed, she would be severely injured even if she didn't die.

Although she had a few life-saving spirit talismans in her storage space, she didn't want to waste a precious spirit talisman in this kind of sparring match.

Upon hearing this, a flash of undisguised disappointment appeared in Qin Yan's deep eyes.

He had just broken through to 600 Hz and hadn't even had a chance to properly experience his new power, yet his opponent had already raised the white flag.

However, he still withdrew the attack in his hand as requested—striking down would yield no benefits other than offending Yue Chenyuan, which would be a loss that outweighed the gain.

Qin Yan dispelled the Dark Emperor Golden Body, and that towering, 99-zhang-tall Golden Body turned into countless dark light spots and dissipated into the silver seawater.

Losing the enhancement of the Golden Body, his Mental Energy fell back to 599 Hz, and that suffocatingly immense pressure also dissipated.

In the distance, Yue Chenyuan also dispelled her own Dark Golden Body, flashed, and arrived in front of Qin Yan.