Chapter 594 - 246: Atavistic Celestial Dragon? Shocking the Entire Audience! The Phase 5 Mission
Chapter 594: Chapter 246: Atavistic Celestial Dragon? Shocking the Entire Audience! The Phase 5 Mission
In the stream, after a moment of dead silence, the bullet comments erupted like a flash flood, completely overwhelming the screen!
A few seconds passed.
Dong Dongchen finally found his voice. He took a deep breath and said, his tone a mixture of terror and fanaticism, "Ancestral Regression..."
"It’s an Ancestral Regression type of Martial Arts Spirituality!"
"I can’t believe it, he also possesses an Ancestral Regression Martial Arts Spirituality... and... it’s a regression to the Dragon Race!"
"Among all Ancestral Regression spiritualities, this is absolutely in the highest, most powerful tier!"
"However..."
Dong Dongchen’s tone shifted, a grave look in his eyes. "All Ancestral Regression spiritualities have one huge problem: control!"
"They must not only control the body reshaped by Barbaric Power. They must also control the endless, primal desire for slaughter that surges from the depths of their bloodline!"
「On the battlefield.」
Fist Twenty-Three was suddenly horrified to find that his fists, encased in heavy armguards, were trembling violently and uncontrollably.
He couldn’t believe it.
He didn’t come from some top-tier martial arts family. He was a ruthless man who had carved a bloody path with his own two fists on the Celestial Abyss battlefield, and he had faced countless terrifying and monstrous foreign races.
He knew his own strength wasn’t at the absolute peak.
But the courage he had forged in mountains of corpses and seas of blood was second to none.
Yet now, his fists were trembling.
His body, his very instincts, were screaming at him, warning him to run!
It seemed that just to throw a punch at this creature from myth and legend would take every last ounce of his courage.
He felt his will to fight melting away like ice under a scorching sun, all under the gaze of those Molten Gold Vertical Pupils.
’No!’
’I can’t accept this!’
"HRAAAGH—!"
Fist Twenty-Three let out a ferocious, beast-like roar, his eyes shot with blood. He forcibly cast aside his fear and most of his reason. A Martial Artist’s dignity and his resolve to fight to the death overrode his instinct for survival.
BOOM!
Once again, he charged forward like a meteor!
Seeing this, a flicker of delight flashed through Lin Ye’s cold Molten Gold Vertical Pupils.
’As expected of someone in the Divine Realm. Their willpower is truly firm.’
The opponents he had previously faced in the New Star Sequence could barely last a second under the draconic pressure he unconsciously emitted. They would either suffer a mental breakdown or lose all will to fight completely.
Battles like that gave him no effective combat experience whatsoever.
’Now, I can finally get what I wished for.’
This time, Lin Ye finally moved.
He met the iron fist, which glowed with a heavy, earthy-yellow halo, by raising his own right fist, now covered in blackish-green dragon scales.
BANG—!!!
The next moment, under the disbelieving gazes of nearly a million viewers, the Earth Attribute Gang Sha—famed for its indestructible Defense Power—shattered like fragile glass the instant it made contact with Lin Ye’s fist!
Immediately after, a figure was sent flying backward like a broken sack, several times faster than he had charged in!
BOOM!!!
He slammed violently into the side of a distant skyscraper, creating a terrifying roar as the entire building shuddered violently. Countless glass curtain walls shattered and rained down.
"PFFT!"
Deeply embedded in the wall, Fist Twenty-Three violently spat out a large mouthful of blood.
His right fist was a mangled mess of flesh and blood.
From his knuckles to his forearm, the heavy metal armguard was twisted and deformed. Countless sharp, white bone fragments had pierced through muscle and skin, exposed to the air.
Broken.
And it was completely shattered.
With just one punch, his right arm was completely ruined!
Meanwhile, Lin Ye stood his ground, looking at his own unscathed right fist as he slowly opened and closed his fingers.
In his mind, however, he was critiquing his own punch.
’That’s not right...’
’The way I exerted my strength was wrong.’
He had a nagging feeling that, as a dragon...
...he shouldn’t be fighting with his fists.
He should be using... his claws!
With that last punch, his unfamiliarity with this method of striking had actually limited his attack’s power.
Just as Fist Twenty-Three struggled to free himself from the wall, gathering Gang Sha in his left hand to prepare for a final, desperate struggle...
Lin Ye’s figure flickered and vanished.
The next instant, he reappeared in front of the skyscraper Fist Twenty-Three was in. He opened his right hand, now a sharp claw, and swiped at the building from a distance!
SHIIING—!
Five streaks of inky-black claw wind flashed and vanished the moment he swiped!
The building made no sound, but five terrifying, bottomless claw marks appeared out of thin air on its facade!
The claw marks cut straight through the entire building, their edges as smooth as a mirror.
Then, under the pull of gravity, the entire skyscraper collapsed with a thunderous roar, turning into a sky-blotting cloud of dust!
But Lin Ye’s gaze wasn’t on the collapsing building. Instead, he snapped his head to look at a spot behind him and to his right.
Almost on pure combat instinct...
...with no warning whatsoever, the thick dragon tail behind Lin Ye whipped violently in that direction!
THWACK!!!
After a sickeningly dull thud that made the hearts of every spectator skip a beat...
...a Primordial Spirit battle phantom, wreathed in earthy-yellow flames, had just emerged from the void. Before it could even fully form, it was struck squarely in the chest by Lin Ye’s savage tail whip!
The Primordial Spirit battle phantom shattered instantly!
Its master, Fist Twenty-Three, stumbled out as well. His sternum was visibly caved in, and the blood he coughed up was mixed with fragments of his internal organs.
Under the terrifying force of that tail whip, his heart and most of his other organs had been crushed like a popped balloon, bursting in an instant!
All anyone saw was Fist Twenty-Three crashing into another skyscraper, his life force fading rapidly like a candle in the wind.
Primordial Spirit, extinguished.
[Battle Concluded]
[Goblin Soldiers Victorious!]
The words "Battle Concluded" appeared in the center of the screen.
One punch, and he crippled the arm of his opponent, a master in the Mid-stage of Divine Realm.
One claw, and he forced his opponent to burn their Primordial Spirit in a final, desperate gamble.
And one tail whip, which ended the fight cleanly.
The vast gap between major realms, which countless Martial Artists considered an insurmountable chasm...
...was utterly shattered and ground to dust before these three simple, brutal attacks.
The spectator view faded to black.
Dong Dongchen sat stunned in his gaming chair, his body still trembling uncontrollably. His eyes held nothing but pure horror.
In his stream, the overwhelming flood of bullet comments had bizarrely frozen the moment the "Battle Concluded" text appeared.
Dead silence.
Millions of viewers were collectively struck speechless.
A few seconds later, a storm of bullet comments, ten, even a hundred times more intense than before, swept across the entire screen!
"He... he was one-shotted?"
"Someone in the Mid-stage of the Divine Realm... was taken out in three hits?"
"What the hell did I just watch... Is this even a real fight?!"
"Is this the number one rookie Martial Artist in our Great Xia...?"
"This is insane... The whole world has gone insane..."
...
「In stark contrast to the uproar outside.」
Inside the Battle Hall of *Martial Arts Peak*, Lin Ye’s figure reformed.
He glanced at the post-battle summary, feeling little emotion.
He clicked to start matchmaking again.
However, the instant his finger pressed down, the cold, familiar system prompt rang in his mind without any warning.
[Ding! Host has been detected showcasing their prowess in the World Sequence!]
[Special Phased Mission has been issued!]
[Mission: The World’s Gaze Is Upon You!]
[Description: A frog at the bottom of a well knows nothing of the vast sky and sea. You have reached the pinnacle among your peers in one nation, but this is not the end. Go to a grander stage, and let the entire world take notice of your rise and your arrival!]
[Mission Objective: Reach #1 in the *Martial Arts Peak* Youth Elite Division (World)!]
[Mission Rewards: EXP +10,000,000, Skill Points +60, Evolution Points +100, Unlock New Phase: P5!]