Nine giant Fire Serpents, each a thousand feet long, roared skyward and then dove down.
They hurtled towards Ye Chen in the empty space above the Ten Thousand Feet Platform!
This scene had all the warriors watching from around the platform completely hold their breath.
These were nine Fire Serpents with combat power reaching the pinnacle of the mid-stage Heavenly Saint Realm!
No one had expected that a bet duel between two young teenagers would escalate to such a situation. Even more so, no one had foreseen that their combat strength would continue to rise, far surpassing the early stages of the Heavenly Saint Realm and actually reaching the mid-stage level.
And within the mid-stage of the Heavenly Saint Realm, they were engaged in top-level combat!
The advantage shifted back and forth between the two sides, at times towards Ye Chen, at other times towards the young girl. Now, under the assault of nine top mid-stage Heavenly Saint power Fire Serpents, could Ye Chen withstand it?
What move could he use to defend?!
All eyes were focused on Ye Chen.
At this moment, watching the nine thousand-foot-long, wildly surging Fire Serpents dive towards him, Ye Chen's eyes shone with brilliance.
He had not expected that the young girl, after the anomaly, could unleash such a deadly move, nor that she could break through realms consecutively, escalating directly from early Spinning Pill stage to the mid-stage of the Heavenly Saint Realm.
Ye Chen had never before seen a Cultivation Technique that could directly boost one's realm !
"This power... it's probably not the girl's own, but something she's borrowing."
"Strange Fire Crystal, all this power must come from the mysterious flame mark between her eyebrows, from that mark's space where the Strange Fire Crystal suddenly flickers!"
A thousand thoughts flashed through Ye Chen's mind as he finally witnessed the means of the top geniuses from continents outside the Barbaric Wilderness Continent. These methods truly did not disappoint him.
"Jiang Yao also possesses mysterious Bloodline Secret Skills. Initially groping in the dark without any Divine Phoenix Clan members to instruct her, she was able to battle across realms! Now, under the tutelage of two true gods, she must be mastering the true methods of the Divine Phoenix Clan, and her combat power is likely to be unimaginable!"
"This young girl, along with Jiang Yao, and the other talents from the thirty-three continents and even the Minor Spirit Realm that I've not yet seen... The world is vast, and geniuses are countless. Although I have many techniques and encounters, others have their own encounters as well. To stand at the pinnacle, I absolutely cannot afford the slightest slack!"
Amidst his racing thoughts, the most urgent matter for Ye Chen was to defend against the incoming assault of the nine giant Fire Serpents.
As the first thousand-foot Fire Serpent took the lead in the attack, Ye Chen stepped through the void, and the power of his flesh, trained by the eight hundred and ten forms of the Icebound Divine Body, exploded. The tremor of this power made the very void tremble and burst with a compressive explosion.
Then, all of his physical strength, along with the Divine Arts of fire, earth, and water already activated, formed towering Fire Armor, Earth Armor, and Water Armor, directly resisting the onslaught of the first thousand-foot Fire Serpent.
With that collision, the heavens and earth shattered!
The void above the Ten Thousand Feet Platform was completely torn apart, and even the shockwaves reached beyond the platform, tearing apart large swathes of land in the farther reaches.
If the Ten Thousand Feet Platform and the viewing area hadn't been personally crafted by late-stage Heavenly Saint experts, this collision could have completely destroyed both the platform and the viewing area!
But even if the Ten Thousand Feet Platform and viewing area could withstand this force, the weaker warriors standing in the viewing area were swept out thousands of feet away by the violent power fluctuations. Even many of the Heavenly Saint Realm experts were blasted back dozens of meters before they could barely steady themselves.
But everyone was no longer concerned with their own dishevelment, all eyes turned to Ye Chen, who was confronting the top-level mid-stage Heavenly Saint Realm Fire Serpent head-on.
The onlookers only saw that in this collision, the first Fire Serpent was sent flying again, while Ye Chen, as if struck by a meteor, was directly smashed onto the Ten Thousand Feet Platform. Before Ye Chen could get up, the second thousand-foot Fire Serpent bombarded down!
Despite all the methods Ye Chen had used, the power of the first giant Fire Serpent had still forced him to spit out a large mouthful of blood. Now facing the attack of the second giant Fire Serpent, it seemed very likely that he would be killed outright!
"This young man, during the bet duel, had produced a 'Great Capturing Void Talisman' crafted by a late-stage Heavenly Saint expert. Now that it has come to this point, he must use that talisman."
"If he uses that Great Capturing Void Talisman, he could still bring out other treasures to replace his bet. If not, under the joint strike of the Nine Serpents, he might not have any chance of survival!"
It was common for combatants to fall in a bet duel.
After all, at the most critical moment of the fight, a slight lapse in attention could bring about an unpredictable and tragic end.
Just when everyone thought Ye Chen would use that Great Capturing Void Talisman, facing the second oncoming thousand-foot Fire Serpent, Ye Chen suddenly unleashed a new surge of power from his body. This power was the sword qi for nurturing flying swords, bursting forth to the extreme from the acupoint on his brow.
Although Ye Chen had spat out a large mouthful of blood, under the foundation of the Icebound Divine Body's eight hundred and ten styles, bolstered by the power of the three Divine Arts, he could withstand this first assault from the Fire Serpent. Furthermore, nurtured by the three hundred and fifty-two Five Apertures Rotating Pills, his injuries instantly healed.
Now, having felt the power of the giant Fire Serpent, Ye Chen was ready to bring out the "Great Five Elements Sword Light," a technique from the Beiming Secret Tome.
Use the Great Capturing Void Talisman?
Forget the talisman, Ye Chen still had many external aids he could rely on.
But Ye Chen did not plan on using any external forces until the very last moment. He wanted to see just where the limit of his own power was and just how much pressure he could bear!
As the unmatched sword energy burst forth, Ye Chen's Great Five Elements Sword Light also shot out from his body all at once. Around Ye Chen, there was not only the power of the Fire-Attribute Divine Art, Earth-Attribute Divine Art, Water-Attribute Divine Art, and the foundational force of the Icebound Divine Body, but now also the power of the Sword Dao!
The Great Five Elements Sword Light, along with all of Ye Chen's major power sources, erupted fully, shaving off thirty percent of the massive aura surrounding the second huge Fire Serpent. However, the remaining seventy percent of the Fire Serpent's power still hit Ye Chen squarely.
Ye Chen was once again smashed into the Ten Thousand Feet Platform!
This time, Ye Chen's flesh cracked open with lines of blood, and he was on the verge of becoming drenched in blood.
But at this time, before the third Fire Serpent could strike again, the cracked bloodstains on Ye Chen's body healed at an incredibly fast rate. Meanwhile, a fourth Law Divine Art emerged within Ye Chen.
Wood-Attribute Divine Art!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
When the fourth type of Law Divine Armor, the towering Wood Armor, which was not weaker than the Fire, Earth, and Water Armors that formed from corresponding Divine Arts, suddenly appeared around Ye Chen, the warriors watching from the sidelines were completely taken aback, "He can use a fourth Law Divine Art? Could this young man have cultivated Divine Arts for all five elemental laws?!"
At this moment, in the void, the little girl radiating a chilling and charming aura after her transformation, with the mysterious fire mark in her forehead gleaming with the fire crystal, and flame light flowing over her body, her cold, charming eyes also showed a different kind of fluctuation, "He blocked the second serpent's attack, and now it seems he can block the third serpent's attack as well."