70: Chapter 70 They've gone mad... They've both completely gone mad!!!

Crazy... The two of them were completely, utterly crazy!

The wave of slaughter heat from the entire mountainous forest battlefield swept across the arena unbridled through the tournament barrier.

One hundred thousand spectators completely plunged into a dead silence, everyone staring fixedly at the floating giant screen, their bodies turning cold and their minds trembling.

Originally, everyone thought this was merely a grudge duel and a battle for ranking seats between geniuses, but fighting to this point, the crowd finally fully woke up: this was by no means a competitive martial arts contest, but a life-and-death slaughter battle of endless attrition and root-destroying extinction.

"Crazy... The two of them are completely, utterly crazy!"

"This is hardly fighting for a top-ten spot; this is meant to completely destroy each other's Dao path and cripple them entirely today!"

"Ye Feng gambled away one-fifth of his family's foundation to fight to the death, and Lin Ye forsook the Quanzhou No. 1 and abandoned his rewards, solely to exterminate his foe completely. Just how massive of a mortal grudge must this be!"

Whispers rose and fell across the spectator stands, everyone wearing expressions of shock, having never seen such a tragic and obsessive matchup appear in the State Competition arena.

In past prodigy matchups, no matter how fierce the competition was, they would still leave room for mercy and stop before going too far, yet these two, from the very beginning until now, used fatal moves at every step and root-destroying strikes with every blow, leaving not a shred of buffer room.

In the contestant lounge, the remaining twenty-odd top Quanzhou prodigies all wore solemn expressions, a surging chill welling up in the depths of their hearts.

Even the SSS-grade peerless prodigy Bai Ruoxue completely withdrew the gentleness from her holy brows and eyes at this moment, the sacred pressure of her Six-Winged Angel quietly tightening, and her gaze looking heavily toward that purgatorial battlefield.

She had seen countless slaughters and games of strategy, but she had never seen anyone carve a murderous obsession into their bone marrow, forsaking all glory and future solely to annihilate an enemy—such a state of mind was far too terrifying.

Xiao Qingyu stood quietly to the side, a rare trace of emotion emerging on her cold and aloof face, her eyes filled with solemnity.

She knew the entanglement between the two best, yet she had never expected that a grudge of merely a few days could ferment to such an endless, fish-die-net-splits extent.

Zhou Mingzhi, who controlled the eerie Undead Legion, clenched his palms in secret; his own immortal slaughter was already sinister and ruthless enough, but compared to Lin Ye's ultimate ruthlessness of sparing no cost and cutting the weeds by the roots, he was still several shades inferior.

On the VIP seats, the various prestigious school instructors, military higher-ups, and government officials had already straightened their postures, their expressions solemn to the extreme.

They had seen prodigies vie for supremacy and bloody battles in the arena, but they had never seen two new-generation talents in an official tournament fight to the point of abandoning their rankings, rewards, and future, solely to completely annihilate each other.

This was no longer a simple prodigy game; this was a fated life-and-death battle destined to be recorded in the annals of the Nantan Prefecture State Competition!

Within the arena, the slaughter continued to spread endlessly.

Under the shroud of the Thunder Domain's holy radiance, Ye Feng's remaining kindred abruptly self-destructed.

Bolts of divine punishment lightning roared and exploded, purple-gold thunder light tearing apart malevolent qi and incinerating flesh and blood, and every single self-destruct could take away the lives of several berserk evil-type kindred.

Lin Ye's kindred lost their rationality entirely, knowing neither pain nor fearing life and death, rushing wave after wave toward the sky-filling thunder fire and divine punishment lightning, forcefully paving a path of attack with their flesh and blood.

Charred corpses of Shahun Hounds and Demonic Blood Pythons piled up before the passage, sky-filling Soul-Devouring Owls exploded into shattered feathers in the thunder light, and countless Plague Seed Mosquitoes were burned to ashes in the thunder fire.

The tragic charge lasted for a full several minutes.

Lin Ye paid a painful price of nearly two thousand kindred perishing for this; a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood paved the entire passage entrance, and finally, he forcefully tore apart Ye Feng's last thunder defense line!

Rumble—!

The thunder barrier, stretched to its absolute limit, completely shattered, and the sealing barrier of the divine kingdom passage collapsed with a roar!

A burly commander-grade Shahun Hound with condensed malevolent qi stepped forward first, treading on the scorched earth and leftover corpses all over the ground, heavily stepping into Ye Feng's divine kingdom territory.

The moment this first step landed, Ye Feng, far outside the battlefield, suddenly stiffened, his entire body's vital energy flowing backward, and the last shred of luck in the depths of his eyes completely shattered.

He understood clearly that from the moment the enemy's top-tier ferocious beast stepped into his divine kingdom, he had already completely lost.

The divine kingdom was a God controller's foundational hinterland; once invaded by the enemy's ferocious beast legion, with territory damaged, vitality seized, and the core exposed, there was no longer any possibility of reversing the defeat.

Yet matters having reached this point, Ye Feng had already completely gone mad like a demon.

He no longer cared about the spread of plague in the divine kingdom, no longer felt heartache over the demise of his kindred, and no longer hoped to guard his ranking and foundation.

Winning or losing was no longer important; his only remaining thought at this moment was to drag Lin Ye down into the abyss together!

"The entire army abandons defense! Exchange life for life! Fight to the death!"

Ye Feng's hoarse, frantic roar resounded through heaven and earth, completely abandoning all defense and purification, letting the plague within the divine kingdom spread wantonly and corrode his foundation.

The remaining several thousand kindred all discarded their formations, no longer stubbornly defending the passage or avoiding damage, pouncing forward like mad demons, not seeking to kill the enemy and win, but only seeking to self-destruct with their own lives to heavily injure Lin Ye's evil-type kindred—even trading for one more head was profit!

For a time, a dual bloody battle inside and outside the battlefield erupted.

In the outer mountainous forest, the remaining soldiers frantically self-destructed to trade lives, and thunder explosions rang endlessly; inside the divine kingdom, the invading evil-type legion advanced at full speed, breaking through like a hot knife through butter.

The remaining Plague Seed Mosquitoes took the opportunity to pour into the hinterland of the divine kingdom, like sky-filling nirvana black fog, scattering and flying everywhere, omnipresently spreading the ultimate corrupted origin of the plague.

Visible gray-black miasma rapidly covered Ye Feng's divine kingdom territory, and the divine kingdom's land, originally rich in spiritual energy and lush with vegetation, withered and turned scorchingly yellow at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Verdant plants and trees quickly withered and died, gurgling spiritual springs became turbid and dried up, and the pleasant insect chirps and wind whistles between heaven and earth all dissipated.

The vitality of the entire divine kingdom rapidly faded, dead silence quietly spread, grass gradually withered, and all things withered.

The top-tier fertile divine kingdom soil, once piled high with resources and nurtured by the Ye family, was rapidly degenerating into a desolate wasteland.

Meanwhile, Lin Ye's kindred were completely unaffected by the enemy's frantic life-trading, maintaining their ultimate murderous instinct, ignoring self-destruction damage and remaining thunder fire, and advancing swiftly all the way toward the deepest part and core hinterland of Ye Feng's divine kingdom.

Smashing through everything along the way, corrupting all vitality along the way.

A moment later, passing through layers of withered woodlands and depleted spiritual veins, and crossing countless remnant corpses of kindred who fought desperately to self-destruct, a core area suffused with thick golden light and bearing all the origin power of the entire divine kingdom suddenly appeared before the eyes of all the evil-type kindred.

Ye Feng's divine kingdom core was completely exposed!

That was a round, translucent golden crystal core suspended beneath the divine kingdom's dome, circulating the last origin spiritual light of the entire divine kingdom, and serving as the fundamental basis of Ye Feng's years of cultivation, personal strength, and entire foundation.

As long as this core was shattered, Ye Feng's divine kingdom would instantly collapse, his lifelong cultivation would be completely invalidated, and he would completely degenerate into a useless person!

Standing outside the battlefield, Lin Ye locked his crimson eyes fixedly onto that golden crystal core, his mind free of any stray thoughts, without hesitation or doubt—only the purest, coldest thought of destruction remained.

Destroy.

Destroy everything before him, annihilate all of Ye Feng's foundations, and conclude this endless grudge!

Inside the divine kingdom, the commander-grade Shahun Hound raised its head and emitted a heaven-shaking ferocious roar, the dark red malevolent qi around its body surging to its limit, its massive body leaping high, and its sharp, slender pitch-black claws condensing the nirvana power of the entire battlefield to strike heavily toward the golden divine kingdom core with the might to shatter everything!

As long as this claw fell, the dust would settle and everything would be over!

Yet at the exact instant when the sharp claw was about to touch the divine kingdom core, and victory, defeat, life, and death were about to be settled—

Hum—!

A boundless, heaven-suppressing mighty force suddenly enveloped the entire arena, crushing the ten directions of heaven and earth!

The air instantly congealed, and all slaughter, explosions, and ferocious roars came to a complete standstill, the berserk kindred stiffening in place, and the sky-filling thunder light and malevolent qi instantly subsided.

The figure of the State Competition chief referee appeared out of thin air in the center of the battlefield, wearing a majestic and solemn expression, with extreme solemnity and unarguable firmness in the depths of his eyes.

He finally intervened!

"Tournament rules prohibit damaging a contestant's divine kingdom core! This battle is terminated immediately!"

The low and majestic voice resounded through the arena of one hundred thousand spectators, carrying the absolute authority of a top-tier federal referee to suppress all murderous and belligerent aura.

The next instant, endless rule divine light descended, precisely shrouding the connecting passage of the two divine kingdoms.

Crack—!

The invisible divine kingdom link was forcefully and violently severed!

All the evil-type kindred that had flooded into Ye Feng's divine kingdom, including that commander-grade Shahun Hound about to shatter the core, as well as all the corpses of his kindred, were forcibly enveloped by an irresistible, mighty force, instantly leaving Ye Feng's divine kingdom territory to be repatriated along the original route, all returning into Lin Ye's malevolent-qi divine kingdom.

The grandiose, endless life-and-death nation-destroying battle was forcibly ended at its most perilous, most extreme peak moment!