Chapter 1567

The fierce battle finally ended after paying a huge price. The seventh-stage exotic beast lost its vitality and collapsed with a loud bang.

In this battle, there were no less than hundreds of wounds on the exotic beast's body. Blood was gushing out from every wound, but the most fatal one was the huge bloody hole in its jaw that went straight to its head.

This bloody hole was covered by the others. Zi Chen had risked his life to create it. Fortunately, his attack was successful. Otherwise, Zi Chen would have been torn to pieces by the seventh-stage exotic beast.

In this battle, Zi Chen and the others were all seriously injured. Wu Xie's injuries were the most serious.

Because he had an immortal body, he was once again used as cannon fodder by Zi Chen.

Next were Zi Chen and Man Shi. In comparison, Shang Guan Hong and Dong Qing were slightly better.

Looking at Lu Guangcheng's group of five, only Lu Ming was left. The other four had activated their teleportation tokens and left. As for whether they were still alive, it was unknown.

Just as the seventh-stage exotic beast died, Zi Chen, who was about to fall, suddenly saw two balls of light floating out of the huge lake in front of him.

The two balls of light represented two kinds of power. They were the two kinds of power that Zi Chen had sensed earlier. At the same time, they rushed toward Zi Chen and merged into Zi Chen's body.

These two kinds of power were very pure and very powerful. Zi Chen didn't have time to react at all. After the power entered his body, it began to wreak havoc inside.

Helpless, Zi Chen could only sit down cross-legged and control his Domain World to forcibly absorb these two kinds of power and refine them in his Domain World.

These two balls of light looked very small, but the power contained in them was very pure.

Seeing Zi Chen sitting cross-legged, the others didn't know what was going on, but they didn't disturb him. Instead, they staggered toward the large pile of power fragments.

Immediately after, the four of them and Lu Ming used the pure power in the power fragments to heal their injuries.

Such a scene left the outside world speechless. This was too extravagant.

Just as these two kinds of power entered Zi Chen's body, the two beings in the balls of light in the depths of the lake felt the power disappear.

The expression of the Six-Winged Being became somewhat unsightly. The light in the eyes of the lightning holy beast disappeared, and it lay down on the ground again.

The confused outsider began to ponder the situation. A moment later, he suddenly laughed loudly. "Hahaha! Someone who can take away my power must be one of us."

He then looked coldly at the Lightning Saint Beast and said, "This time, you are completely finished."

The Lightning Saint Beast curled its lips and remained silent.

The power of the strange races was indeed very strange, but the power of the Thunder Clan was not to be underestimated.

Now that both of their powers had disappeared, it was hard to say who would be the one to win.

In Zi Chen's Domain World, after these two forces were injected, they still had their own spirituality and were still resisting Zi Chen's refinement.

It turned out that the two forces had turned Zi Chen's body into another battlefield.

Zi Chen didn't get angry. He just smiled faintly as hundreds of sharp blades that completely destroyed the laws of nature appeared in his Domain World.

These sharp blades continuously slashed at the two forces.

After hundreds of attacks, the two forces were scattered one after another, and the spirituality within them was completely destroyed. Only then did Zi Chen start to refine these forces.

During this time, Zi Chen's powerful physique was also recovering from its injuries.

Apart from Zi Chen, the first one to recover from his injuries was Lu Ming.

After recovering from his injuries, he left the lake full of power fragments and stood outside to protect the four people.

His strength had already reached the peak of the sixth layer, and once he broke through, he would reach the seventh layer. At that time, he would lose the qualification to participate in this competition.

If it were someone else, and the opportunity to break through was right in front of them, they would definitely choose to break through instead of participating in this competition.

However, Lu Ming couldn't do that. He came here with a mission, and this mission was much more important than breaking through.

Therefore, even if the opportunity to break through was right in front of him, he still chose to ignore it.

Lu Ming, who didn't care about whether he should break through or not, didn't know that when some other cultivators at the peak of the sixth layer obtained an opportunity to break through to the seventh layer, the teleportation token on his body automatically activated and disappeared with his body.

When one reached the seventh layer, the token would be activated and they would be forcibly teleported away.

For Man Shi and the other three, they didn't have to worry so much.

They were only at the middle of the fifth layer, and they were too far away from the seventh layer. Even if they refined all the power fragments, it wouldn't be enough for them to break through to the seventh layer.

Not to mention the seventh layer, even the sixth layer was impossible.

Therefore, Lu Ming stood there and protected the four of them for a whole month.

After a month, the four of them shook with traces of power, and this power directly caused the energy of heaven and earth to riot.

The four of them turned into four vortexes, and the power fragments around them exploded one after another, turning into pure power and entering the vortexes.

"This is … a breakthrough." Lu Ming was stunned when he saw this.

A month ago, the four of them had just entered the middle of the fifth layer, but in just a month, they broke through again.

This breakthrough speed was too fast, wasn't it?

In contrast to Lu Ming's shock, the cultivators outside were in an uproar when they saw the four of them break through again.

It should be known that these people had just broken through not long ago.

Although the others occasionally had breakthroughs when they were training in the small world, it was definitely not as fast as the four of them.

However, the four of them did break through, but the price was that they used up all the power fragments. The price was so great that it made people speechless.

And Zi Chen just happened to refine the two powers at this time. Fortunately, his realm did not break through, and he only reached the peak of the early stage, which made people feel a little better.

However, the others didn't know that Zi Chen's breakthrough to the peak of the early stage was even more shocking than the four of them breaking through a small realm.

This was because Zi Chen's breakthrough was accompanied by a unified improvement of the Perfect Series around him, and his battle strength increased exponentially.

After refining the two types of energy, Zi Chen opened his eyes and saw the four people who were overjoyed after breaking through. Then, he saw the empty lake and frowned slightly. He stood up and asked, "Where are the energy fragments?"

The four of them who were still happy couldn't help but feel embarrassed because they had used up all the power fragments.

Zi Chen said unhappily, "We agreed to split them fifty-fifty."

Lu Ming hurriedly said, "It's not a problem. I'm the only one left, and those power fragments are useless to me. Giving them to me is just saving them, so it's better to give them to them to break through."

Lu Ming had already chosen to give up on those power fragments a month ago.

Now that Zi Chen mentioned it again, his mood became better.

If Zi Chen didn't mention it, even if he was willing to give them up, he would still feel a little disappointed.

In fact, Lu Ming's idea was very simple. He would follow Zi Chen and the other four and use Zi Chen as a big tree to improve Lu Guangcheng's ranking.

This time, Lu Ming's mission was not to advance, but to maintain his ranking.

And since they hadn't fought for a whole month, their ranking had already fallen.

Lu Ming obviously didn't care much about the power fragments, so Zi Chen didn't pursue it.

"Are we going to go deeper next?" Man Shi asked.

"No, we're going to look for someone next," Zi Chen said.

"Someone? Who are we looking for?" The others didn't understand.

"We're looking for the right people."

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Shuntian City was still in second place, and their total points had surpassed three hundred thousand. It was an enormous number.

Currently, they were only five thousand points away from first place, Destiny City.

Five thousand points was only enough to kill five sixth-level exotic beasts.

Shuntian Dao was sitting on a hill, leaning against a giant boulder.

He was chewing on a stalk of dried grass and looking up at the blue sky. Beside him was an open flask of wine, its fragrance wafting out.

A fifth-level cultivator was roasting meat clumsily at the foot of the hill.

Ever since he'd met Zi Chen, he'd been drinking a little in his spare time.

In this small world, many forces appeared to be very anxious for the sake of ranking. They were racing against time to snatch the counting points.

Shuntian Dao's team was the only exception, drinking and chatting leisurely.

They didn't look like they were here for training, but for sightseeing.

Even so, Shuntian Dao remained in second place, closely following first place. At the same time, Shuntian Dao's cultivation had increased by a minor level.

"I wonder how Zi Chen and the others are doing."

Spitting out the stalk of grass, Shuntian Dao stretched and sat up straight. He picked up the flask of wine and glanced at the busy cultivator below. "Are you done yet?"

"Almost, almost."

The clumsy cultivator was flustered by Shuntian Dao's question. He even felt a little wronged.

Indeed, a mighty Domain realm cultivator had never personally cooked something like this.

After taking a sip of wine, Shuntian Dao shook his head. "You guys just lack experience. I remember someone saying that you can't drink to your heart's content without meat. You're all grumbling when I ask you to roast meat. You think you're all high and mighty, but in my opinion, you're just biting off more than you can chew and biting off more than you can chew."

Shuntian Dao gazed into the distance while his thoughts flew to the Domain Realm. He recalled the battles that had taken place in the past.

After living for so many years, Shun Tiandao admired the most. In the past, it was Old Shun Tiandao, who was his master.

However, after meeting Zi Chen, he began to admire Zi Chen.

Thus, he began to lecture the four of them. "Zi Chen is the strongest cultivator I've ever seen in the same realm. Back in the Domain Realm, although we didn't fight, I knew I wasn't Zi Chen's match as we fought together. The fortune-teller didn't say anything, but I saw the admiration and reverence in his eyes when he looked at Zi Chen. I think he also knows he's no match for Zi Chen."