Chapter 593 - 246: Atavistic Celestial Dragon? Stunning Everyone! Phase 5 Mission
Chapter 593: Chapter 246: Atavistic Celestial Dragon? Stunning Everyone! Phase 5 Mission
Dong Dongchen subconsciously glanced at the popularity index in the top-right corner of the stream.
He was now considered a million-follower streamer in the Martial Arts District of the Starfire Live Platform.
At this moment, the number of real-time viewers in his stream had audaciously broken the 800,000 mark and was still climbing at a terrifying rate.
Before long, that number would likely catch up to his total follower count, or even... surpass it.
An overwhelming flood of traffic had just been unceremoniously dumped on him.
Dong Dongchen took a deep breath. Seeing the gray "Spectate" button in the center of the screen suddenly light up, he clicked it in less than a hundredth of a second, acting almost on muscle memory alone.
[Loading battle scene...]
After a short loading screen, when the picture came into focus, Dong Dongchen and the nearly one million viewers in his stream found that the two combatants were now in the middle of a ruined urban battlefield.
Broken overpasses, half-collapsed skyscrapers, and the flaming wreckage of vehicles littered the streets.
The entire area was thick with the stench of gunpowder and death.
Dong Dongchen didn’t dare to waste a second. He immediately pulled up Lin Ye’s opponent’s profile on his secondary screen and began commentating at lightning speed, "Folks, this Quan Ershisan’s officially certified strength is the Mid-stage of the Divine Realm!"
"His weapon of choice is arm-gauntlets. He should be a close-quarters combat type of Martial Artist."
"In this group, although his rank is over eighty thousand, putting him at the bottom, his realm is the real deal! There’s nothing inflated about it!"
"And Lin Ye... he should still be at the Late Stage of the Gang Condensation Realm. He hasn’t had a breakthrough!"
The gap was an entire major realm!
In the stream, every viewer’s heart leaped into their throat.
They might not all be Martial Artists, but they still had the most basic knowledge of the martial arts.
They knew just how massive the gap of a major realm was.
It wasn’t a simple matter of one plus one equals two.
The gap between the Meridian Opening and Gang Condensation Realms could perhaps be overcome through various means.
But between Gang Condensation and the Divine Realm...
In the path of martial cultivation, the later the stage, the more the barrier between major realms becomes like an insurmountable chasm, utterly unbreakable.
It was a leap in the very level of one’s being, a qualitative transformation!
Just as everyone thought Lin Ye was about to meet his Waterloo, the cold countdown ended.
Several dozen meters in front of Lin Ye stood a burly Martial Artist, his arms encased in heavy metal gauntlets.
He stood his ground, showing no intention of taking the initiative to attack.
A trace of surprise appeared on Quan Ershisan’s face.
He couldn’t understand why the system would match him with an opponent who was only at the Gang Condensation Realm and looked absurdly young.
’Did the system bug out?’
But the battle had already begun. Out of respect for the martial way, and for any opponent, he didn’t show the slightest bit of contempt. He stomped his foot down hard!
BOOM!
The ground beneath his feet instantly spiderwebbed with cracks, and Quan Ershisan shot forward like a cannonball fired from its chamber.
A dense, heavy, earth-yellow Gang Sha swirled around his fists as he rocketed toward Lin Ye’s chest at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye!
The speed of the Divine Realm was on full display!
But in the next moment, his fist passed through Lin Ye’s body without any resistance.
The punch missed its mark.
Lin Ye’s figure, at the very instant the fist was about to connect, turned illusory, like a wisp of intangible blue smoke.
"It’s dematerialization! One of Lin Ye’s Martial Arts Spiritualities!"
Dong Dongchen was speaking so fast his mouth was almost a blur.
"He used his life-saving ability right at the start! Is the pressure from the Divine Realm just too much for him after all?!"
However, no sooner had the words left his mouth than in the next instant, a savagery and violence that defied description, as if from a primordial, ancient era, erupted from the illusory figure!
A savage aura, so tyrannical it was suffocating, spread out like a tsunami!
Lin Ye’s height began to balloon at a visible rate.
With a series of cringeworthy CRACKS and POPS, his bones were forcibly stretched and reshaped. The combat suit on his upper body instantly burst, turning to shredded cloth.
Blue-black dragon scales, shimmering with a cold, metallic luster, grew from beneath his skin, covering his entire body in a seamless layer.
His ten fingers transformed into jet-black claws that glinted with a cold light. From the sides of his forehead, two magnificent dragon horns sprouted upward. His once placid, dark eyes were now replaced by a brilliant, blazing gold, morphing into cold, ruthless vertical slits!
A thick, powerful dragon tail whipped out from behind him, creating a deafening CRACK in the air!
Quan Ershisan’s pupils contracted. Without a moment’s hesitation, he shot backward, creating several sonic booms as he kicked through the air to put nearly a hundred meters between them.
He hovered in mid-air, cold sweat beading on his forehead, his eyes wide. He stared in utter disbelief, as if he had seen a ghost, at the nearly two-and-a-half-meter-tall... monster, covered in savage Scale Armor and radiating an endless, ferocious might!
Dong Dongchen felt as if an invisible hand was clamped tightly around his throat. His entire body trembled uncontrollably.
This was despite the fact that he was only spectating from an omniscient point of view.
Yet, from the depths of his soul, he still felt a tremor of fear, a primal, instinctual dread.
Lin Ye hadn’t even used his Gravity Spirituality to float into the air.
He had merely completed his transformation and was standing there quietly.
But a single, casual glance from those blazing golden dragon eyes made Dong Dongchen feel as though even breathing was a sin, as if that gaze would utterly annihilate him, body and soul, in the very next second!
"Ho... holy shit..."
"What the hell is going on?!"
"Oh my god... that pressure... I can feel my legs going weak, and I’m just watching through a screen..."