Chapter 612: The Martial Atmosphere at Its Peak

"What a sight!"

Gazing at the glowing great characters in that stretch of starry sky corresponding to the 'Guidance Battle,' Li Yuan clicked his tongue in mild astonishment.

What is a Upper God?

According to the little mother dragon, that was a being whose cultivation had reached an extremely high realm, whose will could illuminate all domains, who received worship from all domains, and whose will could even illuminate a Fang You Jing—a hegemon-class existence!

"Indeed, just as the little mother dragon said, the martial atmosphere in Tian Shi Yuan is very strong—no, perhaps not just Tian Shi Yuan, the San Yuan Fa Jie domain, but even other domains…"

Li Yuan's mind was sharp; he had only roughly scanned this 'Battle Hall' once, and already had quite a few thoughts.

This Battle Hall was very unusual!

The various clans and sects of Tian Shi Yuan, and even the true inheritors, Dao children, and God children of the five great grotto-heavens could be set aside, but even those Upper Gods had actually joined in, and as long as one had incense offerings, one could even invite an Upper God to descend…

This was somewhat beyond his expectations.

"Incense offerings—no, the importance of Yuan Fire is probably even greater than I imagined, and the killing and warfare in Tian Shi Yuan, or between the various domains, is probably very brutal… That's right, after the fall of the Origin Divine Dynasty, no faction has been able to subdue all the domains…"

Daoist Li thought a great deal.

From the Battle Hall, to Yuan coins and incense offerings, to the various sects and holy lands, to Upper Gods… his thoughts drifted all the way to the relationships between the various domains.

"No!"

Suddenly, Li Yuan thought of Dong Dong Ershisan in the Ba Fang Mi Jing; this seated-door puppet clearly attached great importance to the path of battle and killing.

Originally, he had assumed Dong Dong Ershisan valued battle and killing because of the temple trial, but this Battle Hall…

"Killing and warfare…"

Li Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly and swept his gaze toward that stretch of starry sky.

【Requesting the Poison Dragon God to guide in battle arts, requires 990,000,000 Yuan coins…】

Nearly a billion Yuan coins, converted into seventh-tier incense offerings…

"A hundred thousand strands of seventh-tier incense offerings just to exchange for one guidance—this price is a bit too steep. Huh, there's actually someone issuing a challenge right now? Too bad I can't spectate…"

Li Yuan's eyelids twitched wildly—at such a price, someone still went to request it? His thoughts turned, and he had a guess:

"Could it be related to becoming a god?"

……

The Battle Hall resembled a starry sky.

Rankings, challenges, spectating, guidance battles, bounty battles… patches of starry sky were clearly divided, but what they shared was that they were all hung with densely packed 'stars.'

On the stone platform's cattail hassock, Li Yuan sat for a full two days before he had roughly scanned through most of the starry sky, and roughly understood the rules of this Battle Hall.

"The brighter the star, the more people are watching or participating… The brightest is the still-resetting 'Tian Shi Yuan Battle Ranking,' followed by the Battle Platform…"

Li Yuan's gaze landed on the glowing Battle Platform in the starry sky.

The stars encircling the Battle Platform flickered on and off, indicating that at this moment there were still an extremely large number of people fighting fiercely within.

"The rules of the Battle Hall are very straightforward—spend Yuan coins to challenge someone, and if you can attract enough spectators, you can earn Yuan coins… However, probably not many can earn Yuan coins here; who would watch some unknown nobody?"

Calming his emotions, Li Yuan tried to communicate with this Battle Hall.

【Participate in a random battle?】

【Because the rankings are resetting, the outcome of this battle will not be counted in the ranking…】

【Entry requires ten Yuan coins; victory in battle returns them, plus an additional five Yuan coins…】

"Tsk, this sense of déjà vu is way too strong."

On the stone platform, Li Yuan's eyes were very bright; staring at the Origin Divine script floating before him, he was briefly struck by a sense of having returned to his past life.

"Yes!"

Li Yuan took a deep breath and nodded in agreement.

The next instant, he only felt the cattail hassock beneath him grow hot, and his whole person had already become like a streak of flowing light, plunging into the Battle Platform ringed by stars. Hum~

Starlight flowed like water around his body.

"This is…"

Li Yuan focused his perception and vaguely sensed something sweep across him.

【…First entry into Battle Platform…Grand Void sensing in progress…realm, Entering the Dao…】

【…Talent…fifth-tier World-Shaking (Upper)…Divine endowment…Mid-Lower…】

"This Grand Void Divine Realm really can sense the endowment and strength of those who enter…"

Li Yuan's heart stirred slightly.

He always acted with caution first; upon entering the platform he had not activated the augmentation of the Divine Armillary Records, so what this Grand Void Illusory Realm sensed was his own endowment and realm without any augmentation.

"World-Shaking…my own endowment is too low; even after the Ten Thousand Forms Transformation, it's still within the World-Shaking tier, not reaching Zhao Tianxing tier… They say Tian Shi Yuan has other means to transform endowment…"

Before Li Yuan could think further, the starlight flowing around his body suddenly scattered.

!

The next moment, he had already appeared in a stretch of mountain forest. He looked around—grass and trees were lush, there were beast roars and bird calls in the forest, and faintly the sound of waterfalls and flowing water. What met his eyes had no end in sight, and upon careful sensing, it was incomparably real.

"This Grand Void Divine Realm…"

Li Yuan was inwardly shocked; this stretch of mountain forest was delicate and real, no less than a Ba Fang Mi Jing.

However, he only sensed it briefly before gathering his thoughts, focusing his gaze on another stretch of mountain forest several hundred li away, where a majestic, heavy aura was rising:

"Just a little brat who's just entered the Battle Platform?"

Hoo~

While the words were still drifting, the newcomer had already arrived a hundred li away—about eight chi tall, face like black iron, voice like a great bell:

"I am Yu Yue Zhongtian—state your name, kid!"

"Prison Dragon Clan…"

Li Yuan's gaze shifted slightly. It wasn't that his eyesight was that good, but as the newcomer spoke, starlight surged before his eyes:

【First-Tier Combat Platform】

【Prison Dragon Clan, Prison Yue Zhongtian (First Tier), realm: Great Completion of Dao Entry, talent Third Tier (World-Shaking Aptitude), divine endowment lower-middle…】

"Tch, registering…"

Li Yuan didn't even stumble: "Human Race, Eighty Thousand Li."

"Human Race?"

A hundred li away, Prison Yue Zhongtian's gaze sharpened slightly.

Among the myriad races of all domains, those born unable to enter the Dao made up the great majority, yet the Human Race was the most special among them — for no other reason than that on the Three Enclosures Myriad Races Ranking, the Human Race held first place.

The Human Race, born frail, those who could enter the Dao — whether in talent or in disposition — were incomparable to ordinary people.

【Even if it's a newcomer, I can't underestimate them…】

While Prison Yue Zhongtian's thoughts flashed like lightning, starlight surged before his eyes:

【Human Race, Eighty Thousand Li (First Tier), realm: Initial Completion of Dao Entry, talent Fifth Tier (World-Supreme (Upper)), divine endowment middle-lower…】

"?!"

World-Supreme, upper!

"Fifth Tier? This is quasi-Sixth Tier! A quasi-Sixth Tier newcomer just entering the Combat Platform! How the hell did they assign this one to me?!"

Prison Yue Zhongtian's heart sank, panicked but not flustered:

"Quasi-Sixth Tier… fortunately it's a newcomer, probably the true-seed disciple of some Human Race sect, a genius who just entered the Dao and hasn't yet been tempered by the Combat Platform… with my rich combat experience,

this battle, I can win!"

But then came a thunderous 'BOOM—', a hundred li away true qi gushed forth, a crimson demonic bull roared and leapt skyward, plummeting down like a meteor,

its momentum tremendous — how could it be anything less than overwhelming?!

(End of Chapter)