189: Chapter 189 The Corpse Demon's Fist Challenge

Lin Yuan shook the blood from his fists, covered his entire body with the Ultimate Path Astral Qi he had just comprehended, and took heavy steps to begin his climb once more.

He had just reached the starting point of the final thirty thousand stone steps.

"Boom!"

The Great Dao Pressure of the Divine Mountain suddenly underwent a qualitative change!

The originally invisible pressure had become so concentrated here that it solidified directly, transforming into a bolt of physical lightning that crashed down frantically from the mist!

"Bang!"

The first bolt of golden lightning struck Lin Yuan's shoulder.

This was no ordinary natural lightning; it was a hammer of punishment containing the laws of the Ancient Great Dao!

Lin Yuan's whole body sank violently, and the stone steps beneath his feet were crushed into a spiderweb of cracks.

The Astral Qi on his shoulder vibrated violently from the strike, and the muscle beneath exploded into a cloud of blood mist.

A pain that pierced to the very marrow!

But Lin Yuan did not retreat a single step.

"Is this all the strength you have? Again!"

He roared wildly and took a resolute second step against the golden lightning raining down from the sky.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Every hundred steps he climbed, Lin Yuan's physical body would endure an unimaginable destructive blow.

Arms, thighs, chest... the skin on his body constantly exploded into blood mist, and blood flowed down his pant legs, staining the bronze stone steps beneath him a crimson red.

This was a desperate dash where every step wept blood.

Lin Yuan treated this terrifying lightning pressure entirely as an ancient hammer forging a peerless divine weapon!

Every time his flesh exploded, the Ultimate Path Astral Qi within his body would forcibly re-suture and condense the shattered flesh.

Under the constant hammering of the lightning, those ten thousand tons of Astral Qi became increasingly pure and solid, like thousand-times tempered divine iron.

He walked very slowly, each step leaving a shocking bloody footprint on the stone stairs.

Lonely and solemn, yet it exuded a madness and passion that echoed the sentiment: "To hear the Dao in the morning and die in the evening."

Even though there wasn't a single piece of intact flesh on his body, and even though he had become a striking figure of blood, Lin Yuan's spine grew straighter and straighter.

The aura on his body was no longer the unrestrained violence from before; instead, it was restrained to the extreme, like a peerless malevolent blade!

Time lost its meaning in this endless hammering.

One day.

Two days.

Three days and three nights!

When Lin Yuan's combat boots finally crossed that last bronze stone step.

The golden lightning filling the sky stopped abruptly, and the soul-crushing Great Dao Pressure receded like a tide.

Lin Yuan panted heavily as he stepped heavily out of the chaotic mist.

He had finally reached the summit!

Presenting itself before his eyes was a vast and boundless White Jade Plaza.

The white jade was flawless, emitting a soft halo.

And in the very center of the plaza sat a huge pool about a hundred feet wide.

Inside the pool, a golden liquid of extreme purity was boiling!

A single scent of its fragrance made one feel as if their entire body was about to ascend, and it radiated continuously from the boiling liquid.

The Golden Divine Blood Pool!

This was the ultimate creation left behind by the Ancient God-Demon lineage!

It was a supreme divine object that could allow a pure-blood descendant to completely transform!

Looking at the hundred-foot-wide Divine Blood Pool, even Lin Yuan, with his heart of iron, could not help but breathe heavily.

He dragged his battered and broken body, taking large strides as he prepared to walk toward the blood pool.

"Crack..."

Just as Lin Yuan was less than fifty meters from the blood pool.

On the white jade platform at the edge of the Divine Blood Pool, a corpse sitting cross-legged, so shriveled that only skin and bones remained, suddenly moved.

The shriveled corpse slowly raised its head, and its lifeless, pupil-less eyes snapped open!

Death energy of the utmost purity!

This was a monster evolved over tens of millions of years from a top-tier genius of the ancient era who failed to charge into the Divine Blood Pool, fueled by overwhelming resentment and unwillingness—the Spirit-Guarding Corpse Demon!

The corpse demon stiffly twisted its neck, its eyes locking onto the blood-soaked Lin Yuan.

"Another one... a pure-blood descendant who vainly attempts to reach the heavens..."

"A mere ten thousand tons of weak blood qi..."

The corpse demon spread its skeletal claws: "And you also dare to lay hands on the Divine Pool?"

"Boom!"

Facing this dried-up corpse demon, Lin Yuan didn't even bother to say a single word.

He suddenly bent his right leg, directly crushing the white jade bricks beneath his foot!

His figure pulled into an afterimage, and he instantly closed in on the corpse demon.

"Die!"

Lin Yuan's right arm aimed at the corpse demon's skeletal face and threw a violent punch!

Where the fist passed, the vacuum was blasted apart, letting out a deafening sonic boom.

However, facing this heavy punch, the shriveled corpse demon, which looked as if it would fall apart with a puff of wind, did not dodge or avoid it, but merely raised a skeletal claw lightly.

"Slap!"

Lin Yuan's thunderous heavy punch landed squarely in the palm of the corpse demon.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, nor were there any violent airwaves rolling.

Lin Yuan felt that his ten thousand tons of immense force were steadily caught by that withered skeletal claw!

"What?!" Lin Yuan's pupils shrank violently.

Before he could pull back, a hint of mockery flashed in the corpse demon's eye sockets.

The five finger bones gripping Lin Yuan's fist suddenly tightened, and its wrist flipped inward.

Immediately after, an incredibly strange Bone-Penetrating Shock Force surged from the corpse demon's claws and stabbed into Lin Yuan's arm!

This hidden force was peerlessly domineering, directly ignoring the defense on Lin Yuan's body surface, driving straight through his meridians and exploding within his internal organs!

"Pfft—!"

Lin Yuan felt as if he had been struck by lightning, his eyes bulged, and he spat out a large mouthful of blood.

Like a kite with a broken string, he was smashed hundreds of meters away by this strange shock force, then slammed heavily onto the ground.

"Cough, cough..."

Lin Yuan supported himself with one hand, struggling to stand up as he clutched his churning chest, blood dripping continuously through his fingers.

The defense he was so proud of was actually useless against this corpse demon's shock force!

"Too slow, too weak."

The corpse demon stood in place and slowly lowered its skeletal claw: "With just this crude brute force, you dare call yourself 'Ultimate Path' before me?"

Before its voice could fade, the corpse demon's figure vanished from its spot without warning!

"So fast!"

Alarm bells rang in Lin Yuan's heart, and he instinctively raised his arms to protect his head.

"Bang!"

The corpse demon clung to Lin Yuan's back like a ghost, its thin knee carrying a devastating Bone-Penetrating Shock Force as it struck Lin Yuan's spine!

"Crack!" His vision went dark, his Protective Astral Qi was ignored again, and he was sent flying upward by the force.

Before its death, this Ancient Spirit-Guarding Corpse Demon was definitely a body cultivator expert standing at the peak.

Its combat techniques had already transcended the shackles of forms, reaching a realm of returning to one's true self.

Every strike was exquisite to the finest detail, specifically targeting the weak points in Lin Yuan's blood qi circulation!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The corpse demon's figure turned into countless grayish-white afterimages in mid-air, as its fists, palms, fingers, elbows, and knees fell upon Lin Yuan like a torrential storm.