Chapter 111: The Descent of the Divine King (Third Watch, Ten Thousand Words Completed, Kindly Support with Votes)

Hearing the system’s notification, Ke Bei’s heart began pounding wildly. The chain of missions for the Nine Yang Divine Skill had finally been completed—finally!

Unable to suppress the excitement surging from the depths of his heart, Ke Bei’s body trembled faintly. The Nine Yang Divine Skill meant far too much to him. Although the internal energy of the sixth level was already enough to give him the strength to kill high-level members of the God Race with ease, his current power was still nowhere near sufficient to break into the top three of the Azure Dragon Rankings. And if he could not do that, visiting Han Lingyue, who had been imprisoned beneath Azure Dragon Lake because of him, would remain nearly impossible—let alone forcibly freeing her.

Ke Bei disliked owing others anything, but he owed Han Lingyue far too much. He had completed the first stage of the Nine Yang Divine Skill mission only because of her help. The Blood Sword Alliance had also been dealt with secretly by Han Lingyue. And if not for her, he would already have been killed by Hei Qin.

He owed her an enormous debt of gratitude.

Yet because he was too weak, he could only watch helplessly as Han Lingyue remained sealed beneath the frigid waters of Azure Dragon Lake. This feeling of powerlessness weighed on his heart like an invisible mountain, crushing him relentlessly.

Now that the chain of missions for the Nine Yang Divine Skill had finally been completed, Ke Bei had no idea how far the perfected skill would raise his strength. But surely entering the top three of the Azure Dragon Rankings would no longer be a problem. Although he still could not free Han Lingyue, being able to see her would at least be something.

“Whew…”

Ke Bei drew in a deep breath of cold air and shook his head sharply, temporarily suppressing the chaotic thoughts in his mind. Thinking too much was useless. Only becoming stronger was the true path.

“Claim the reward!”

Ke Bei’s expression gradually returned to calm. With a thought, he spoke slowly.

Whoosh!

As soon as the thought arose, a beam of golden light appeared from nowhere and enveloped Ke Bei completely.

“Seventh level!”

“Eighth level!”

“Ninth level!”

In an instant, the entire cultivation method of the Nine Yang Divine Skill appeared in Ke Bei’s mind. At the same time, he comprehended the skill to the perfected stage. The sensation was incredibly strange, as though he had cultivated the Nine Yang Divine Skill for many years. There was not the slightest trace of awkwardness.

Boom!

The golden light pierced through Ke Bei’s body and struck directly into his dantian. The moment the Nine Yang Divine Skill was imprinted into his mind and he fully comprehended it, the internal energy within his dantian suddenly surged violently.

At the seventh level, the internal energy of the Nine Yang Divine Skill increased threefold.

At the eighth level, it increased fourfold.

At the ninth level, it increased fivefold.

The instant the golden light struck his dantian, Ke Bei’s internal energy suddenly increased twelvefold—and it continued growing stronger. Boundless internal energy flooded his dantian, as though it were about to forcefully burst it apart.

“Pain!”

Ke Bei’s expression abruptly changed as an unbearable agony erupted from within his dantian.

“Roar!”

The excruciating pain twisted the muscles of his face together. The veins on his forehead bulged, and the blood vessels throughout his body swelled visibly.

Pop, pop, pop!

The fine sound of blood vessels rupturing rang out. Ke Bei’s body was instantly stained with blood as every capillary in him burst open at once.

An unprecedented agony swept through his entire body. Every muscle convulsed, and his body suddenly trembled before crashing heavily to the ground.

Crack!

With a crisp sound, the teeth Ke Bei had clenched together shattered.

“Roar!”

Blood seeped from the corners of Ke Bei’s mouth. As he threw back his head and let out a furious howl, the two rows of broken teeth were blasted from his mouth.

Ke Bei had no idea how long the torment lasted. Every second felt longer than a century. He could not understand why receiving the inheritance of the Nine Yang Divine Skill had to be so painful. Just as he was about to lose consciousness, his mind growing hazy from the agony, the unbearable pain suddenly receded like a tide.

Drip.

The internal energy that had nearly burst Ke Bei’s dantian suddenly compressed into itself. With the clear sound of a falling drop of water, a single droplet of liquid radiating a faint golden glow slowly fell into his dantian. Only after that droplet appeared did the pain throughout Ke Bei’s body gradually subside.

As the first golden droplet fell, all the internal energy of the Nine Yang Divine Skill abruptly compressed together. Amid a series of faint crackling sounds, the energy that had nearly burst his dantian transformed into droplet after droplet of golden liquid, falling into his dantian.

In the blink of an eye, the internal energy that had filled his entire dantian became a small pool of golden liquid.

Feeling the pain slowly fade away, Ke Bei opened his eyes. He took the jade bottle from the pouch at his waist, poured all the Azure Spirit Fluid into his mouth, tilted his head back, and swallowed the cool liquid in one gulp.

Boom!

As the Azure Spirit Fluid entered his stomach, Ke Bei’s body slowly recovered. His ruptured capillaries reconnected, and his shattered teeth grew back.

A full ten minutes passed before Ke Bei’s body had completely recovered. The moment he was restored, he hurriedly sank his mind into his dantian, for the violent pain had originated from there.

Moreover, he faintly sensed that some incomprehensible change had taken place within his dantian.

The instant Ke Bei’s consciousness entered his dantian, he froze.

His internal energy was gone.

The internal energy that had once filled his entire dantian had suddenly vanished, leaving the entire space seemingly empty. Apart from a small pool of pale golden liquid, not a trace of internal energy remained.

“What happened?”

Panic rose in Ke Bei’s heart. If all his internal energy had disappeared, his strength would be drastically reduced.

Yet amid his panic, a faint doubt also surfaced. This made no sense. Logically speaking, after receiving the inheritance of the final volume of the Nine Yang Divine Skill, his internal energy should have increased enormously. How could it have suddenly vanished?

“Could it be because of this golden liquid?”

Ke Bei swept his consciousness across his entire dantian. Apart from that pool of liquid shimmering with a faint golden radiance, there was nothing unusual. Naturally, he attributed the sudden disappearance of his internal energy to the golden liquid.

Carefully, Ke Bei shifted his consciousness toward it.

Boom!

The instant his consciousness touched the golden liquid, a blazing torrent of internal energy suddenly erupted. The force hurled Ke Bei bodily more than thirty meters into the air.

“Damn!”

Suspended in midair, Ke Bei abruptly opened his eyes. He looked at his hands, and a wild delight suddenly spread across his face.

“Hahaha! My internal energy hasn’t disappeared! It hasn’t disappeared!”

Ke Bei burst into crazed laughter in midair. He understood now. The internal energy of the Nine Yang Divine Skill had not vanished at all. It had simply become too immense for his dantian to contain, so it had been compressed into that golden liquid.

Wanting to test the true extent of his internal energy, Ke Bei gathered his thoughts and casually struck downward with one palm.

Boom!

As his palm descended, a terrifying force of internal energy surged forth. Accompanied by a thunderous explosion, the entire ground suddenly caved in by half a meter.

A crater more than ten meters in diameter and roughly half a meter deep appeared in the earth.

“Holy hell!”

Ke Bei stared incredulously at his palm, then at the deep crater below. His body slowly drifted back to the ground. He was utterly unable to remain calm. The power of the Nine Yang Divine Skill was far more terrifying than he had imagined.

When he had completed the second stage of the Nine Yang Divine Skill mission, his internal energy had increased tenfold in an instant. When receiving the inheritance of the final volume, Ke Bei had assumed that his internal energy would increase by at most another ten times.

But he had been wrong—spectacularly wrong.

From the third level to the sixth, his internal energy had increased tenfold. But from the sixth level to the ninth, it had increased by at least twenty times.

With a foolish grin on his face, Ke Bei stood dazed for a long while before gradually returning to his senses.

“I should leave this place.”

Ke Bei glanced at the God Race outpost, now reduced to devastation, corpses, and ruin. With a thought, he launched into the Wave-Walking Steps. Driven by his immense internal energy, his speed instantly surpassed three times the speed of sound. Amid a piercing sonic boom, his body shot westward.

The destruction of a lower-tier God Race outpost would probably reach the ears of the God Race’s higher-ups very soon. Although Ke Bei had absolute confidence in his current strength, the mission had already been completed, so there was no need for him to remain and fight the God Race’s experts to the death.

After all, this place lay beyond the territory of humanity. If a God King suddenly appeared, the consequences would be disastrous.

Ke Bei felt that he had become extremely powerful, but against an existence on the same level as a Battle God, he still had no confidence that he could emerge victorious.

Whoosh!

Ke Bei’s body transformed into a series of afterimages as he raced westward. The human sphere of influence was only a little over three hundred kilometers away, and at his current speed, he would be able to return in no time.

Less than a minute after Ke Bei left the God Race outpost, a God King clad in purple battle armor suddenly appeared above it.

Seeing the devastated outpost and the shattered corpses of zombies strewn across the ground, a murderous aura erupted violently from him.

“Human!”

The cold, low voice slowly escaped the God King’s lips. His demonic face had darkened to an extreme degree. That human’s talent was far greater than he had imagined. For a Transcendent expert to kill one hundred high-level members of the God Race, one thousand mid-level members, ten thousand low-level members, and hundreds of thousands of zombies within only three hours was extraordinarily difficult.

Yet that human had done it.

“This child must not be allowed to live!”

The purple-armored God King narrowed his eyes slightly and gazed far toward the west. Stepping through the void, his body vanished in an instant as he gave chase.

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