The wandering souls outside the array all retreated at the instant it activated, swiftly leaving the area.
This was likely the final time the teleportation array of the Nether Battlefield would ever open. The cultivators inside the formation showed expressions of relief after surviving calamity, vanishing one by one within the array.
Yun Che kept his eyes fixed on the movements inside the formation. Each time someone disappeared, he silently counted the time in his heart.
Zhou Zihong and the other two hesitated, unsure whether to leave. As they wavered, they suddenly heard Yun Che’s indifferent voice.
“You three go first. Wait for me on the other side.”
The three immediately relaxed, hurriedly took out their jade talismans, released a trace of spiritual power, and vanished in an instant.
After all the cultivators inside the formation had left, Yun Che muttered to himself:
“Three seconds!”
A sharp glint flashed in his eyes. His body shot forward instantly toward the teleportation array. At the same time, he flipped his right hand and took out the jade talisman used for teleportation.
He moved with extreme speed, reaching the defensive light barrier outside the array in a blink. The moment he passed through it, a dark, ghostly thread suddenly appeared around him. Yun Che’s eyes flickered, but he did not dodge, allowing the black thread to shoot toward him like lightning.
At the instant the thread neared his body, a flash appeared at his brow. Forty-nine symbols manifested outside his body, automatically blocking the dark thread.
The thread broke through forty-three symbols before its energy was exhausted and it vanished.
All of this happened in the blink of an eye. Unharmed, Yun Che rushed into the array. The jade talisman in his hand immediately glowed dimly, connecting with the teleportation formation.
Anxiety filled his heart. From his earlier observations, he knew that the jade talisman required three seconds to fully connect with the formation. Those three seconds would be the danger period. If he could endure them, he would successfully teleport away.
First second!
Dozens of dark threads suddenly appeared, shooting in from every direction like arrows released from bows. Yun Che knew that he could not move his body over a wide range, or it would interfere with the teleportation. But small movements would be useless—the threads were too fast to dodge.
He had already calculated all of this.
His face darkened. His brow flashed rapidly as sets of forty-nine-symbol formations appeared one after another around his body.
Earlier, Yun Che had created twenty-one such sets. Excluding the one already consumed, nearly a thousand symbols now protected him.
Cracking sounds rang out continuously like shattering ice crystals. In the span of one second, the symbols around him broke apart rapidly. Dozens of dark threads pierced through nearly nine hundred symbols before exhausting their energy and disappearing.
Yun Che did not relax. Instead, his expression grew even more solemn. He knew his preparations could only last this long. The next two seconds would require him to endure by force.
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Without hesitation, he threw out the three storage bags on his body. With a sweep of divine sense, countless magic treasures flew out, dazzling in multicolored brilliance—at least several hundred pieces.
He had examined these storage bags before; there were items he could use. Few would dare control so many treasures at once. Even with Yun Che’s vast divine sense, it felt somewhat strained.
The jade talisman’s connection with the formation had entered the mid-stage. One second had passed. This was the second.
Yun Che’s pupils contracted sharply.
Silently, hundreds of dark threads appeared and shot toward him. Fewer than a hundred symbols remained—they were shattered upon contact.
Then came the magic treasures. Explosions rang out as they were reduced to fragments. Yun Che sighed inwardly—without refinement, they could not unleash their full power.
Even so, nearly half the dark threads were exhausted and dissipated after colliding with the treasures. The remaining half pierced directly into Yun Che’s body.
The threads entered him, and destructive energy erupted instantly. His immense divine sense was blasted apart, yet he struggled stubbornly, refusing to let his soul be extinguished.
He forcibly endured the second.
His face twisted as he stared into the void and roared with wild laughter:
“What bullshit world law! Come! Try to stop me from going back! I’ve already died once—this time, no one can stop me!!!”
The Extreme Realm—exhausting all limits.
This state originally stemmed from a cultivator’s spiritual power. Yet although Yun Che now possessed no spiritual power, a strange transformation of the Extreme Realm occurred within his soul and divine sense.
The collapsing Nether Battlefield suddenly resounded with a heaven-shaking thunderclap. Half the battlefield shattered instantly. Countless space fragments tore open rifts.
A tremendous pressure descended from the void.
Even Yun Che’s three neighboring entities shrank trembling into the Nirvana Space. The wandering souls fled in terror through nearby spatial cracks.
The jade talisman’s connection entered its final stage.
Third second!
Yun Che’s gaze was manic yet icy, ferocious yet calm. Though his divine sense was shattered, an indescribable aura filled it.
It was the aura of the Extreme Realm—an unyielding will that no being could obstruct.
If the pressure were Mount Tai pressing down, Yun Che was an unbreakable sword.
Even if crushed, the sword would leave through the teleportation array.
A giant hand composed of countless dark threads extended from the void toward him.
At its appearance, the Nether Battlefield completely collapsed. Massive chunks shattered like ice struck at the edges. In an instant, the battlefield vanished, leaving only four teleportation arrays suspended in emptiness.
The third second was a clash between the Extreme Realm and the laws of the world.
The moment the giant hand struck, Yun Che’s divine sense collapsed. Yet each collapse was followed by immediate reformation under the mysterious power of the Extreme Realm.
Within that second, his vast divine sense collapsed and reformed tens of thousands of times. It gradually shrank, becoming purer. The aura of “Extreme” fused completely within it.
Throughout history, cultivators who possessed the Extreme Realm only contained its aura in their spiritual power. Only Yun Che, through layered coincidences, branded the Extreme Realm upon his divine sense.
The result was driven entirely by the world law’s giant hand.
His soul had already fused with the Heavenly Nether Pearl, containing a faint trace of Extreme. Without pressure, it would have eventually dissipated. But under immense external suppression, his divine sense shrank while the Extreme expanded—until they achieved unprecedented fusion.
This fusion was still in its infancy. His divine sense was not wholly Extreme—impurities remained.
Extreme is singular. If spiritual power holds Extreme, everything develops upon that. Now, Yun Che’s Extreme was imprinted upon his divine sense. From this day on, his spiritual power would no longer possess previous might, but his divine sense could easily annihilate all at the same level—ignoring early, middle, or late stages.
Yet the endpoint of the Extreme Realm was Nascent Soul late stage.
Throughout history, no Extreme cultivator had ever broken past Nascent Soul—save perhaps one ancient doubtful case.
The scholars of antiquity speculated: when an Extreme cultivator attempts breakthrough, heaven and earth will mercilessly erase them.
The laws do not permit an Extreme cultivator beyond Nascent Soul.
Compared to the world law, however, Yun Che’s Extreme was still insignificant.
As the giant hand neared, his divine sense collapsed faster than it reformed. Finally, with a roar, it shattered completely. Yet with its collapse, impurities vanished as well.
What remained was a strand of near-origin Extreme Consciousness.
Without the world law’s pressure, Yun Che could never have refined this in his lifetime. Now it came naturally.
Even the giant hand paused at its appearance.
The third second ended.
The teleportation array activated.
Yun Che’s figure gradually faded within the light.
The giant hand hovered unwillingly in the void—but did not strike again.
Far away, at the teleportation array of Yanfen Nation, Zhou Zihong, Yang Xiong, and Lin Tao waited anxiously.
A flash of light.
Yun Che appeared within the array.
- Yun Che imprinted the “Extreme Realm” onto his divine sense rather than the conventional spiritual power—do you think this is a fortunate opportunity, or a hidden danger?
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If the laws of heaven truly forbid the Extreme Realm from breaking past the Nascent Soul stage, is Yun Che destined to stand in opposition to the heavens?
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In the moment when the giant hand hesitated, do you believe it was the world law wavering—or the intervention of a higher existence?
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Extreme Divine Sense vs. Extreme Spiritual Power—which path of growth do you favor?