558: Chapter 558 Forest of Divine Steles

"This is—"

Chen Yi looked up at the steles, a wave of inexplicable shock rising in his heart.

It felt too outrageous, didn't it?

"God Stele Forest!"

Zhao Zhao stood beside him, looking up at the steles, her eyes filled with reverence, "The God Stele Forest is the manifestation of the steles that record the long river of time!"

"Since Chen Yu created the prosperous age of the Void Realm, countless world malice have been born, and countless world malice have perished!"

"Their demise does not mean they completely disappear into the long river of time; rather, they are remembered by time, eventually forming these steles."

"In other words, what is recorded in these steles are all the spirits of the past."

"You can verify your own strength by challenging these spirits of the past."

Chen Yi's gaze swept over the steles.

Spirits of the past?

Does that mean countless powerhouses from tens of millions of years are all here?

That's interesting!

"How do I challenge them?"

"Just find any stele and inject your Soul intent into it, and you can start the challenge!"

Zhao Zhao suddenly remembered something and said, "Oh right, challenging the God Stele Forest is an anonymous mode! After starting the challenge, you can choose a name as your challenge name, just like a screen name!"

Chen Yi raised an eyebrow.

These world malice sure know how to play!

Zhao Zhao found a stele, sat cross-legged, and closed her eyes.

Her Soul intent turned into a pale purple light and merged into the stele.

Chen Yi watched her figure disappear into the light and walked to another stele.

He sat cross-legged and took a deep breath.

He closed his eyes and probed his Soul intent into the stele.

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The next second, Chen Yi found himself standing in a void space.

The surroundings were endless darkness, the sky overhead was a brilliant galaxy, and under his feet was a transparent Void Realm. Looking down, he could see countless points of light swirling in the depths, which was very peculiar!

The air was filled with extremely dense spiritual power, and every breath he took allowed him to feel his strength recovering.

He tried absorbing some; the spiritual power was indeed replenishing, but it stopped at a certain critical point.

This place could only be used to recover injuries and strength; it could not be used for a Breakthrough.

That was also quite strange!

Countdown, ten seconds.

Chen Yi looked up and looked forward.

There, a figure was slowly condensing.

The figure was about two meters tall, holding a long halberd, with an unclear face, only a blurry light and shadow on it.

But its Aura was as domineering as a mountain, as if it were a Martial God walking out of an ancient battlefield!

Just standing there gave one an unshakable sense of oppression!

[Challenger has not yet performed a challenge!]

[Challenger Ancient Divine-Grade ranking: nine digits!]

[Please defeat the enemy as quickly as possible!]

Chen Yi was stunned for a moment.

Nine digits?

That meant at least one hundred million.

One hundred million Ancient Divine-Grade powerhouses?

"Does that mean that in these tens of millions of years, hundreds of millions of Ancient Divine-Grade powerhouses have been born?"

"Damn, that's way too many, right? I thought they were very rare people!"

"Looking at it this way, I feel like God Emperor isn't that rare either?"

Chen Yi rolled his eyes, suddenly feeling that he wasn't so special anymore.

But on second thought, the time span of tens of millions of years was indeed hard to truly comprehend.

The Void Realm itself didn't have fewer world malice than the people of Blue Star, and the era Chen Yu ruled created an unprecedented glorious age.

It seemed understandable that hundreds of millions of Ancient Divine-Grade powerhouses were born?

The countdown continued to tick.

Five! Four! Three! Two! One!

The battle began.

Chen Yi almost didn't hesitate.

He took a step forward, his figure turning into a golden stream of light, rushing straight at the figure!

The figure raised the long halberd, about to meet the attack, but Chen Yi had already arrived.

He threw a punch.

The golden fist wind, carrying overwhelming power, slammed directly into the figure!

Wherever the fist wind passed, the space trembled!

The figure didn't even have time to react and was instantly blasted into a sky full of light spots.

The long halberd spun in the air a few times, fell to the ground, and also dissipated into light spots.

Too fast!

So fast that the red light of the countdown hadn't even completely dissipated!

So fast that the figure's long halberd had only just been raised halfway!

So fast that Chen Yi even felt like this was just a warm-up!

[Congratulations on successfully defeating the enemy!]

[Battle duration: 1 second!]

[The next battle will take place in 30 seconds!]

Chen Yi looked at the prompt, stunned for a while.

Wait, it's already over?

Is this thing really Ancient Divine-Grade?

Or is he already so strong that he can instantly kill powerhouses of the same Rank?

"Whatever!"

Chen Yi absorbed some spiritual power from the surroundings to recover his strength, "Since it's so simple, let's continue, continue!"

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About an hour later, Zhao Zhao jumped out of the stele and landed steadily on the ground.

She patted her skirt, took a deep breath, and her small face was filled with a satisfied flush.

That was the pleasure of a hearty battle, and also the pride of being extremely satisfied with her own results!

The stele she entered and the stele she exited were not the same one.

When challenging, the Soul travels between different steles, so when coming out, one naturally appears randomly at some location in the God Stele Forest.

She looked around and found that she was separated by more than a dozen rows of steles from where she had just entered, and the stele Chen Yi entered in the distance was also completely blocked.

This was normal!

She didn't think there was any problem; the challenge was over, she would just wait for him.

Just at this moment, giant signboards located all over the City of Extreme Evil, like commercial billboards, lit up at the same time!

Each of those signboards was dozens of zhang high, embedded in the most important intersections and central squares of the city; they were specially used to publicize the challenge results of the God Stele Forest!

Usually, they were dark; they only lit up when someone achieved a result in the God Stele Forest!

On one hand, it satisfied the vanity of the rankers, and on the other, it was convenient for major factions to discover talent!

At this moment, dozens of signboards erupted with dazzling silver light at the same time!

On the signboards, a line of huge text slowly emerged.

[Name: Summon Little Sun]

[Rank: Ancient Divine-Grade]

[Test ranking: six digits]

The light lingered for a full half-minute before slowly dissipating.

At this moment, the entire City of Extreme Evil exploded.

"Six digits? It's actually six digits!"

"Holy crap! Is someone challenging the God Stele Forest again? And it's Ancient Divine-Grade? Six-digit ranking, that's awesome!"

"Looking at it this way, it should be a Prodigy who broke through to Ancient Divine-Grade a long time ago!"

"This name is the first time I've seen it, I guess she must have endured for a long time, right?"

"I guess she was Cultivating in other regions before, and only rushed over to test her strength recently after hearing that the Moonlight Festival was going to be held here. A six-digit ranking, it's probably unrealistic to compete for the top three seats, but competing for the top hundred shouldn't be a big problem!"

"Top hundred? You underestimate six digits too much! Among the Ancient Divine-Grade powerhouses over tens of millions of years, those who can have a six-digit ranking are already the top 0.01 percent. With this kind of strength, the top hundred seats of the Moonlight Festival are absolutely guaranteed!"