113: Chapter 113 Breakthrough to the Fourth Rank, Confronting the Seventh Rank!

Lin Yuan roared to the heavens, his hands forming seals as he completely released the restraints on the Taotie behemoth within his body.

god-demon furnace: Full Power: Devouring Heaven and Earth!!!

Rumble...!!!

A black hole vortex, a hundred zhang tall and as dark as ink, emerged behind him without warning!

It was domineering, greedy, and devoured everything!

The golden energy storm that was ravaging Lin Yuan's body suddenly seemed to be pulled by a higher dimension; they screamed and struggled, but were ultimately swallowed by the black hole!

[Ding! High-purity Stellar Energy detected!]

[god-demon furnace is converting!]

[Warning! Energy overload! Host's meridians are about to burst!]

"Suppress it for me!!!"

Lin Yuan gritted his teeth, relying on the terrifying physique brought by the true dragon marrow to forcefully withstand the massive energy that could have burst ten Fourth-Rank Martial Artists.

He guided this torrent, frantically washing against the invisible boundary of his cultivation realm.

Once!

Twice!

Ten times!

A hundred times!

Every impact was accompanied by soul-tearing pain, but Lin Yuan didn't even let out a grunt.

Until!

Crack.

The sound of shackles breaking.

Boom...!!!

The next second, a pillar of dark gold light, so brilliant it seemed to pierce through heaven and earth, shot up from Lin Yuan's crown!

This pillar of light not only dispersed the surrounding energy storm but also punched through the hundred-meter-thick dome of the Titan Palace, shooting straight to the surface!

Roar...!!!

Accompanied by an ancient dragon roar that shook the nine heavens.

Behind Lin Yuan, the previously blurry god-demon phantom finally solidified a bit more.

It stood with its head against the firmament and its feet on the galaxy, surrounded by chaotic currents, reaching out a hand that blotted out the sun to grab the escaping energy of the Heart of the Titan, and then...

Swallowed it whole!

At this moment, the world changed color.

The gravity field within the entire ruins instantly became chaotic. Outside, City Lord Thousand Faces was pushed back hundreds of meters by this sudden surge of aura, looking at the youth in the center of the light pillar with horror.

"This... this is a breakthrough to the Fourth Rank?!"

Thousand Faces felt his worldview collapsing.

What kind of Fourth Rank breakthrough causes such a commotion?

He'd even believe it if someone said a person was attaining the rank of a Seventh-Rank Grandmaster!!

[Ding! Congratulations to the host! Life shackles broken!]

[Realm Upgrade: Initial Stage of Fourth Rank (Grandmaster Candidate)!]

[Body recasting complete! All attributes doubled!]

[Current Strength: 200 tons -> 500 tons!]

[Obtained Innate Divine Ability: Titan Divine Power (Passive)!]

[Description: Having absorbed the essence of the Heart of the Titan, every strike will now carry a 'Shatter' effect! Strength attribute increased by an additional 300%!]

After a long time, the pillar of light slowly dissipated.

The violent energy storm also became gentle because Lin Yuan had devoured most of it.

Lin Yuan remained sitting cross-legged; the wounds on his body had long since vanished, replaced by skin as flawless as white jade.

But beneath that skin, a dark gold divine light faintly flowed, and every muscle fiber seemed to contain the power to shatter stars.

"Whew..."

Lin Yuan slowly opened his eyes.

At that moment, his eyes seemed to contain two galaxies slowly rotating—deep, majestic, and impossible to look at directly.

He stood up and stretched his neck.

Crack, pop!

With a casual wave of his hand, the fifty-times gravity that had previously pressured him now felt like a gentle breeze, as light as walking on the moon.

"Fourth Rank..."

Lin Yuan clenched his fist, feeling the vast, surging power within his body.

That feeling... it was as if he could punch through the planet.

"Is this what it feels like to break the shackles?"

Lin Yuan's lips curled up as he walked out of the storm's center step by step, his aura rising with every stride.

By the time he stepped out of the energy field and stood before the dumbfounded City Lord Thousand Faces, his aura was no longer that of a newcomer, but that of a truly awakened... ancient beast.

"City Lord."

Lin Yuan looked at the Seventh-Rank Grandmaster, whose expression was shifting and who had subconsciously activated his telekinetic defense.

"Just now you said..."

"Who is looking for death?"

"You are looking for death!!"

Looking at the youth bathed in dark gold light, pressing forward like an ancient beast, Thousand Faces' ever-changing mask finally fixed upon a furious and hideous face.

As a veteran Seventh-Rank Grandmaster who had guarded Starry Sky Thirty-Sixth City for fifty years, when had Thousand Faces ever suffered such a humiliation?

Even if the other party had just triggered a world-shaking phenomenon, and even if the dangerous aura emanating from him made Thousand Faces feel a surge of palpitations, so what?

"Fourth Rank is still Fourth Rank! Even if you broke the shackles of heaven and earth, even if you absorbed the Titan energy, you are still just an ant who has only just touched the threshold of the middle ranks!"

Thousand Faces laughed in anger, his voice echoing through the empty Titan Palace with a soul-shivering resonance:

"The gap between realms is like a chasm!"

"Below the Seventh Rank, all are ants! Today, I will show you, frog in the well, what truly belongs to a Grandmaster... Rule Power!"

The moment his voice fell.

Boom—!

The purple robes on Thousand Faces moved without wind, and a vast, icy Seventh-Rank mental power erupted from his body like a volcanic eruption!

Seventh-Rank Grandmaster Exclusive: Domain Expansion!

Thousand Faces Illusory Killing Domain!!

In an instant, the surrounding air twisted violently like boiling water.

The magnificent Titan energy hall disappeared, replaced by a bizarre space filled with endless purple mist.

In this space, spatial orientations were completely disrupted, and the flow of time seemed to slow down.

Then, a scalp-numbing scene appeared.

Within the purple mist, one, ten, a hundred... thousands of figures of Thousand Faces emerged out of thin air!

Every clone wore that eerie mask, every clone emitted a terrifying mental fluctuation comparable to a Sixth-Rank Peak, and each held a dagger condensed from pure telekinetic force.

The real and the fake were indistinguishable!

Killing intent lurked everywhere!

This was the terror of a Seventh-Rank Telekineticist; within his domain, he was the creator, able to let his enemies be sliced into a thousand pieces amidst endless illusions and fear!

"Ah!!!"

As soon as the domain expanded.

Dragon Battle, Ancient Sword Soul, Ji Hongyi, and the others, who had just managed to climb the steps, were instantly swept into this terrifying illusion before they could even react.

"Get away! Don't come near me!!"

Ancient Sword Soul's eyes were blood-red as he swung his longsword like a madman, slashing wildly at the air.

In his vision, countless malevolent ghosts were crawling out of hell, tearing at his flesh.