242: Damn, how come there's another one of these monsters?

Buzz—!!!!

A crimson radiance, more brilliant than the sun and hotter than magma, suddenly exploded from her petite body!

This radiance swept across a hundred-mile radius in an instant with an unreasonably overbearing posture!

Wherever the radiance passed, seawater evaporated and space distorted!

A kingdom of flames, filled with the aura of divinity and destruction, descended into the real world by force!

The sinister grins on the faces of the 'Three Heroes of the Vast Sea' froze instantly!

The three supreme attacks they launched were like clay oxen entering the sea the moment they touched that crimson Domain; they failed to stir even a single ripple before being instantly melted and vaporized by the terrifying high temperature and Law power!

"No... what is this?!"

"A Domain! It's Domain power! She... she's also at the tenth level?!"

The confidence and ruthlessness on the three men's faces were completely replaced at this moment by an emotion called 'extreme horror.'

They felt as if they had suddenly been thrown into the core of the sun. Their protective spirit source was like ice and snow under a scorching sun, melting frantically at a terrifying speed!

Even more terrifyingly, an absolute suppression originating from the level of life itself acted like invisible shackles, firmly imprisoning their bodies, making it incredibly difficult for them to even move a finger!

"Chirp—!!!"

A clear, high-pitched Phoenix cry, sharp enough to pierce metal and crack stone, resounded through the clouds!

Within the crimson Undying Divine Phoenix Domain, a magnificent Phoenix phantom with a wingspan of over a hundred meters, constructed entirely from the purest crimson divine fire, slowly took shape.

Its proud Phoenix eyes looked down indifferently at the three trembling 'ants' within the Domain.

This genuine Domain pressure, which completely did not belong to the ninth level, was like a nuclear bomb dropped into a calm lake, instantly detonating the entire battlefield!

Undying Divine Phoenix

All the experts currently fighting, whether humans or Drowned Ones, seemed to have been hit by a body-freezing spell, stopping with stiff movements.

They looked in horror at that newborn crimson Domain filled with the aura of divinity and destruction, their expressions frozen in ultimate disbelief.

"An... another one?!"

"Another ninth level... has opened a Domain?!"

"Heavens! Is this world going crazy? What kind of day is it today?!"

Those tenth level existences hidden in the Void Realm, who had originally closed their eyes again, suddenly snapped them open the moment they felt this aura!

Their Divine Thoughts collided frantically in the void, filled with intense fluctuations of disbelief!

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"To produce one ninth level extreme realm in an era is already a blessing from the heavens! How could two appear on the same day, in the same place?!"

A white-haired Dao Protector from a top-tier human Grotto-Heaven, whose aura was as deep as the abyss and as vast as the sea, cried out in alarm, his voice filled with a trembling he hadn't even noticed himself.

Everything that happened today had completely subverted the understanding of these old monsters who had lived for hundreds of years!

Their gazes toward that crimson Domain were filled with shock, greed, and... a deep trace of wariness.

First, there was a monster who achieved Sanctity of the Physical Body and blew apart a tenth level Royal Clan member with one punch.

Now, there was another peerless Prodigy with Bloodline Atavism who wielded the Divine Phoenix Domain at the ninth level!

Where on earth did these two people... pop out from?!

Inside the much-anticipated Divine Phoenix Domain, the three once-unbeatable 'Three Heroes of the Vast Sea' were currently experiencing the most desperate moment of their lives.

They discovered in horror that the pervasive purple divine fire actually ignored all their spirit source defenses and even penetrated their Physical Bodies, beginning to directly... burn their Souls!

"Ah—!!!"

"My Soul! My Soul is burning!!"

"No! Mercy! Queen, have mercy!!"

Heart-wrenching, inhumanly shrill screams drifted out from the Domain.

Those sounds contained no physical pain, yet were filled with endless fear and despair originating from the depths of the Soul, enough to make any listener shudder.

The Physical Bodies they were proud of and their indestructible wills became jokes at this moment.

Faced with absolute Bloodline and Law suppression, they couldn't even manage to self-detonate.

They could only watch helplessly as their Souls were burned to ashes, bit by bit, by that purple divine fire.

The pain of one's Soul being scorched was the most extreme torture in the world.

Under the watch of tens of thousands of horrified gazes, those three ninth level experts who were invincible not long ago twisted and struggled frantically in Luo Tianfei's Divine Phoenix Domain.

Their Physical Bodies remained intact, but from their seven facial orifices flowed ignited Soul energy that emitted a burnt stench.

Those shrill screams lasted for less than three seconds before coming to an abrupt halt.

Because their Souls, along with every trace of their existence in this world, had been completely erased under the burning of the Divine Phoenix Fire.

Both body and Soul were utterly extinguished.

Whoosh—

A sea breeze blew past, and the three empty shells that had lost their Souls silently turned into flying ash, dissipating into the air like weathered sand sculptures.

The entire process was clean and efficient, yet filled with a bizarre beauty that made one's skin crawl.

Luo Tianfei gave a cold snort, her stunningly beautiful face still covered in a layer of unmelting frost.

She slowly withdrew the crimson Divine Phoenix Domain as if she had merely swatted three annoying flies.

She didn't even look at the airspace that had long since turned into nothingness. With a flap of the fire wings on her back, she turned into a streak of light and charged toward the Ascension Road that led to higher levels without looking back.

She left behind a proud and cold, beautiful silhouette, exactly like Lu Sheng's before her.

The entire battlefield fell into a deathly silence once again.

If Lu Sheng brought them a fear and despair of pure power, like a natural disaster descending,

Then Luo Tianfei brought them a more bizarre horror that struck directly at the Soul.

One used violent suppression, the other used divine fire to incinerate Souls.

These two were simply an unreasonable pair of monsters!

All the young experts who considered themselves Geniuses now had faces as pale as death and dim eyes.

They finally realized with agony that between them and these true Prodigies lay an eternally unbridgeable chasm called the 'extreme realm'... Meanwhile,

At the summit of Dengxian Island, where clouds swirled and Immortal Qi permeated,

Inside an ancient, magnificent bronze palace that seemed as old as heaven and earth,

Several elders with unfathomable auras, who seemed to merge with the entire world, sat around a giant water mirror, silently observing everything happening outside.

When they saw Luo Tianfei also erupt with the ninth level extreme realm and incinerate three experts of the same level with thunderous means, the originally peaceful atmosphere in the hall was completely shattered.

"Good! Good! Excellent!"

A middle-aged man wearing crimson battle armor, with an aura as violent as fire and even a red beard, slapped his thigh and laughed loudly, his voice like a great bell.

"Refreshing! Truly refreshing! To think that my Human Race could produce two ninth level extreme realm Prodigies in this era! Hahaha, the heavens bless my Human Race!"

Beside him, a beautiful woman in palace attire with a graceful figure covered her red lips, her beautiful eyes sparkling with brilliance, clearly also pleasantly surprised.

However, the elder sitting in the main seat, who had white hair and a youthful face, and whose aura was the deepest and most distant—like an ancient pine tree—did not have a trace of joy on his face.

He only frowned and shook his head with a grave expression.

"Elder Li, why do you sigh?" the woman in palace attire asked in confusion, noticing his abnormality. "Isn't it a great joy for two extreme realm Prodigies to appear simultaneously?"

The white-haired elder called Elder Li slowly raised his head. His weathered eyes, which seemed able to pierce through time and space, swept over everyone in the hall, his voice low and heavy.

"Don't celebrate too early."

As soon as these words were spoken, the hall instantly fell silent.

Everyone's gaze converged on Elder Li.

Elder Li sighed and dropped a bombshell heavy enough to shake the entire True Sea.

"Just half an hour ago, news came from Penglai Immortal Island in the East Sea..."

He paused, every word seemingly weighing a thousand tons.

"Over there... a tenth level extreme realm has appeared."

Boom!!!

tenth level extreme realm?!

These four words were like a bolt of creation thunder, striking hard at the hearts of everyone in the hall!

"What?!"

The red-armored middle-aged man with the violent aura stood up abruptly from his seat, his face full of disbelief. "Elder Li! Is this true?! How can an extreme realm exist for the tenth level?!"

A ninth level extreme realm was already a monster that broke the Laws of heaven and earth.

Then what kind of Heaven-Defying existence would a tenth level extreme realm be?!

That was no longer a Genius, but a myth! A taboo!

"It is absolutely true."

Elder Li nodded slowly, his tone heavy to the extreme. "The news was personally sent by the Penglai Island Master; there is no falsehood. That tenth level extreme realm is said to have broken through against the tide during the Abyss Demon Tide, suppressing an entire demonized sea area single-handedly. He has been accepted on the spot as a closed-door Disciple by the Penglai Island Master and given the name... 'Dao Yi'."

Dao Yi!

The hall fell into a deathly silence once again.

Enormous waves surged in everyone's hearts.

They knew very well that from today on, this name would be like an insurmountable divine mountain pressing down on the hearts of all Prodigies of this generation.

Elder Li's gaze turned toward the water mirror once more.

In the image, the figures of Lu Sheng and Luo Tianfei had already stepped onto the latter half of the Ascension Road, one after the other.

His eyes became more serious and complex than ever before.

"Originally, I thought that the 'Mandate of Heaven' of this era would be born from one of these two children..."

"But now it seems..."

"It will be difficult."