"Impossible!!! The Heavenly Fire just now, and your physical strength—that had to be your strongest power! Don't think you can fool me! Are you trying to crush my fighting spirit? Heh, you think such a petty trick would work?!" Chi Mo roared madly, disbelief written all over his face.
"Before that? Oh, the Six Paths Flame Susanoo? That was from three versions ago," He Yiming smiled faintly. "Three versions… by your understanding, that's about three hundred years ago."
The next instant—
"BOOM!!!"
A vast and overwhelming aura erupted!
Middle-stage Nascent Soul Realm!
"As expected, the system reward's top-grade Nascent Soul Transformation Pill is incredibly powerful! Though… it's also because I accumulated for so long at the Heavenly Pill Realm, and because my Azure Emperor Longevity Body broke into the Nascent Soul Realm twice before," He Yiming thought to himself.
Before entering Ten Thousand Beast City, He Yiming had finally decided to swallow the Nascent Soul Transformation Pill and step into the Nascent Soul Realm!
What he hadn't expected was that this breakthrough not only succeeded in one go but also skipped an entire minor realm, directly into the middle-stage Nascent Soul Realm!
This was likely because he had long since comprehended and wielded Nascent Soul-level power!
Moreover, his Azure Emperor Longevity Body had once reached minor accomplishment in the Nascent Soul Realm, only to fall back to the Heavenly Pill Realm during the Heavenly Dao's Five Calamities—The Famine Drought.
Later, with the help of a fragment of Breath Soil, he stepped back into the Nascent Soul Realm again!
Combined with the tremendous medicinal power of the system's top-grade Nascent Soul Transformation Pill, these three factors together allowed him to smoothly break into the middle-stage Nascent Soul Realm!
The power of the Nascent Soul Realm was something the Heavenly Pill Realm could never compare to!
Only after truly stepping into it did He Yiming fully realize how powerful he had become!
At this moment, inside his body, a small figure—his Nascent Soul—sat cross-legged where his Heavenly Pill once was.
Beneath that little figure—
Was a five-colored lotus flower!
On the lotus flower rested a half-bloomed bud, and He Yiming's Nascent Soul sat atop that bud.
The sight was astonishing!
Even He Yiming hadn't expected that after breaking through, the five-colored lotus seed he had long nurtured within his Heavenly Pill would sprout, grow, and form a bud!
But the most shocking part—
Were the eight differently colored patterns covering his Nascent Soul!
Four major-completion sword intents:
Heaven-Piercing, Convergence, Gale-Chasing, and Army-Breaking!
Major-completion Formation Intent!
Major-completion Gravity Intent!
Major-completion Heavenly Rain Intent!
And a brand-new Intent comprehended from the Artifact Tome born from the Origin of Artifacts while forging the players' twenty-two Divine Artifacts—
Major-completion Artifact Intent!
If described in upper-realm terms—
He Yiming possessed an Eight-Dao Nascent Soul!
However…
The five-colored lotus emitted a vast and majestic Wood aura, perfectly merging with his Azure Emperor Longevity Body, forming a ninth Intent that continuously nourished his Nascent Soul!
This ninth Intent was incomparably majestic—far beyond major completion!
It can be said that it is truly at the level of Awakened Intent level… perhaps even stronger!
Thus, He Yiming named this new Intent born from the fusion of the five-colored lotus and his Longevity Body:
Five Fold Emperor Lotus Intent!
The name had flashed into his mind spontaneously, so he adopted it without hesitation.
Which meant—
He Yiming was now truly and genuinely…
A Nine Dao Nascent Soul!
"Crack—crack—crack—"
The moment He Yiming released his true cultivation, the boundless aura of nine Intent transformed into nine layers of Dao Patterns, spreading endlessly outward!
Wherever these Dao Patterns passed—
Chi Mo's Sea of Blood World was forcibly crushed, splitting apart with visible cracks!
He Yiming hadn't even made a move yet!
Merely the eruption of his Dao Pattern aura had already shattered Chi Mo's blood domain into countless fractures!
"N-nine-Dao Nascent Soul? That's impossible! How the hell is that possible?!" Chi Mo was nearly driven insane.
Chi Mo himself had only comprehended one Intent—and that was inherited from the Red Emperor bloodline!
In other words, he was living off ancestral capital, relying entirely on bloodline power!
Without the Red Emperor's bloodline, Chi Mo wouldn't even possess a single true Intent of his own—he would be no different from the roadside trash pseudo–Heavenly Pill cultivators!
At that moment—
Chi Mo finally understood why he was completely no match for He Yiming.
Not to mention anything else—just in terms of cultivation!
He Yiming was at the mid-stage Nascent Soul Realm, and possessed Nine Dao Nascent Soul!
As for himself, Chi Mo had only just broken into the Nascent Soul Realm with the help of the Evil God's power—and was only a single-Dao Nascent Soul!
How the hell was this supposed to be a fight?!
"Kill him! Hurry, kill him!!!" Chi Mo waved his hand, and within the Sea of Blood World, the Great Emperor's Will condensed into a several-thousand-meter-tall figure, like a heaven-shaking giant!
However—
"Heaven-Flipping Seal!!!" He Yiming moved first!
The next instant—
"BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!"
A terrifying colossal hand, nine thousand meters in size, covered in nine layers of Dao Patterns, descended from the sky—blotting out the entire Sea of Blood World and shaking it to its core!
"!"
Chi Mo stared blankly at the sky, completely frozen on the spot.
"BOOM!!!"
The Heaven-Flipping Seal crashed down. With a single strike, it smashed the several-thousand-meter blood giant—the Great Emperor's Will itself—into pieces!
"PUAH!!!"
Chi Mo let out a miserable scream. The meridians throughout his body shattered simultaneously, blood gushed out, and his Nascent Soul suffered yet another heavy injury!
The Sea of Blood World could no longer be maintained and shattered outright!
"Cough cough… Gu Aotian, save me!!!"
The first thing Chi Mo did after falling out of the Sea of Blood World was turn around and cry out to Gu Aotian for help.
At this point, Chi Mo had exhausted all his trump cards and was grievously wounded. If not for the Evil God's power sustaining him, he would have been slapped to death by that Heaven-Flipping Seal!
However—
"Damn it, can you stop squeezing?!"
"Your head's too big, you're blocking me!"
"Ugh, couldn't they make this BOSS bigger? The corpse is too small—there's no space to stand!"
A group of players were standing on a massive corpse, taking photos and constantly changing poses.
That corpse—
Was Gu Aotian.
Gu Aotian was in no position to save Chi Mo anymore. After being repeatedly attacked and brutally beaten by the numerous players, especially when he tried to counterattack at death's door.
"Quick! The BOSS only has a sliver of HP left!"
"Damn it, hurry and ult! The kill is mine!"
"Holy crap, drop your ult!!! Aaaaah!"
All the players brainlessly unleashed their ultimate moves. Gu Aotian didn't even manage to release his final counterattack before being beaten to pieces!
Even his shattered corpse wasn't spared—it became the backdrop for commemorative group photos.
"How… how could this happen? Then my guards… PUAH!"
Chi Mo turned his head—and spat blood again.
"Invincible… why is it so lonely… huh?"
On top of a small mountain formed by the corpses of more than forty beast race geniuses, a figure sat domineeringly.
Smoke curled behind him, while the classic BGM "Invincible Is So Lonely" echoed in the air.
If You Don't Show Off at the Beginning, You Lose Half the Game struck a classic pose, a twig in his mouth, a great cape fluttering behind him—don't ask where the wind came from in this sealed underground space.
"Brother Show Off is too handsome!"
"That screenshot is amazing!"
"Brother Show Off, look over here!"
God King Enel, Demon Uchiha Itachi, and a group of third beta test players kept changing angles and snapping pictures.
"AAAAAH!!!"
Chi Mo completely collapsed.
But at that moment—
"Looks like… I'll have to activate the backup plan."
A cold voice suddenly rang out.
The next instant, another mutation occurred!
The projection of the Evil God's Will—who had been guarding the Evil God Labyrinth—mysteriously appeared behind Chi Mo. Whispering hoarsely, it transformed into a strange wisp of smoke and drilled directly into Chi Mo's head, entering his body.
"AAAAH! No—you can't do this! Lord Evil God, this isn't what you promised?!"
Chi Mo suddenly feigned weakness and cried out in panic.
"Gu Aotian's abilities was too trash. He couldn't even withstand a mere strand of this Evil God's will. I originally thought that, as a disposable tool, he could at least complete the summoning ritual!"
"Didn't expect he couldn't even accomplish that!"
"So I have no choice but to use the backup plan! Chi Mo, offer up your soul, your body, your bloodline! With your abilities, you can barely withstand a strand of this Evil God's will!"
The Evil God's Will projection whispered hoarsely—and seized everything from Chi Mo!
"BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!"
The next instant, Chi Mo's aura completely changed!
From the corpses of all the Evil God priests previously killed by the players, countless dark green auras burst forth!
From within the Evil God Labyrinth, and from every being in Ten Thousand Beast City that had ever been corrupted by the Evil God's power, endless dark green streams of energy flew out—
Evil God power!
Like a tidal wave, these countless strands of Evil God power converged!
In the end—
All of it flowed into "Chi Mo's" body!
"Young ones from another world… greetings."
"My name is…"
"Ancient God, Suruk."