419: Extreme sublimation

Ji Hao was repeatedly forced back and finally couldn't hold on, spewing out a mouthful of fresh blood.

Wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, his eyes showed no fear, but instead were full of fighting spirit.

"Again!"

After shouting, he continued to attack Wang Teng.

The Mountain and River Seal in his hand trembled slightly, emitting a low hum, as if echoing the heavens and earth.

"To be able to fight me to this extent, you have reason to be proud, but..." After forcing Ji Hao back again, Wang Teng first praised him a few words, then continued.

"Look at your shattered body; it's probably already in a terrible state."

In fact, Ji Hao knew his own body without Wang Teng needing to say anything.

The destructive power spreading through his body like a parasitic growth was constantly ravaging his physical form.

Even with the sealing and suppressing power of the Mountain and River Seal, he could only barely slow it down.

And with each exchange, new injuries were added to his body, combining with the original power to further destroy him.

His meridians were mostly damaged, and his internal organs were essentially shattered; his insides were more dilapidated than his outward appearance suggested.

"The power of the Earth Immortal Realm is indeed extraordinary." Ji Hao took a deep breath, and the aura around him surged again.

"But the Four Profound Heavens will not be slaughtered at will!"

Before he finished speaking, he forcefully suppressed the indescribable pain in his body and re-gathered his strength.

This time, Ji Hao's aura was several times stronger than when he was at his peak just moments ago.

A martial artist's strength is cultivated step by step; it's impossible for it to suddenly increase so much at once.

Seeing Ji Hao's current state, Wang Teng immediately realized something.

"Extreme Sublimation! Are you crazy?" Wang Teng's voice carried a hint of incredulous shock.

Extreme Sublimation is when a cultivator, in a desperate situation, burns everything within them to temporarily gain power beyond their limits.

But up until now, Ji Hao hadn't reached the point of complete defeat; if he wanted to escape, Wang Teng wouldn't be able to stop him with the power of the Mountain and River Seal.

After using this move, regardless of success or failure, Ji Hao would surely die.

Ji Hao, however, smiled faintly and said, "I came into this battle with the determination to die.

And..."

He looked up at the sky, "And I also want to use this to see the scenery of Immortals!"

Wang Teng's eyes showed a hint of disdain upon hearing this. "You, a mere Great Accomplishment Sacred Lord, want to break through to the Immortal Realm?"

"Don't you understand yet? What restricts us from breaking through has never been..."

Boom!

Wang Teng clearly wanted to say more, but before he could finish, he was interrupted by a massive sound.

Ji Hao's aura continuously surged, reaching Wang Teng's level in a blink of an eye, and even surpassing it.

Upon reaching a certain critical point, the speed slowed down, but it was still rising with difficulty and slowly.

Crack!

Finally, throughout the heavens and earth... the entire Four Profound Heavens clearly heard a crisp sound like breaking glass.

The sound was neither too loud nor too soft, just like someone speaking into one's ear.

But every living being in the Four Profound Heavens clearly heard this sound.

What followed was a pressure, a pressure emanating from Ji Hao.

A pressure originating from status and plane, continuously rising, continuously spreading.

Its range was extremely vast, causing the people still fighting below to stop their movements, unable to budge.

Wang Teng, being closest to Ji Hao, was affected the most.

But seeing his enemy about to break into the Immortal Realm, he wasn't worried at all, showing no panic about the other party succeeding and coming to settle scores with him.

Under the gaze of all, this was truly under the gaze of all!

...Eastern Sea, the easternmost reaches.

A robed figure sat cross-legged on a black reef at the edge of the island, facing the sea, with his back to everything.

He seemed to sense something, and focus gradually appeared in his eyes.

He looked back towards the west, which was the direction of the Central Profound Domain.

"Such a powerful aura, is this what an Immortal is?"

Before he finished speaking, an endless surge of sword intent erupted from him.

Any single wisp of this sword intent was hundreds, even thousands, of times stronger than when he had annihilated that group of Envoys.

As the sword intent emerged, it instantly annihilated everything around him into nothingness.

These sword intents seemed to be summoned by something, and then re-gathered in front of the robed figure, forming the shape of a sword.

But at this moment, all the sword intents spontaneously dissipated.

Including the sword that had just taken shape, it also vanished without a trace.

"What a pity!"

...In the spatial crack of the Four Profound Heavens.

A blue-robed man was aimlessly wandering.

With each step he took, he arrived in an unfamiliar small world.

With another step, he either returned to the spatial crack or went to another small world.

A ripple came, as if he sensed something, and he also looked in a certain direction.

"Has it begun?"

"Soon, soon..."

Facing such a scene, he did not appear eager like the East Sea Sword Saint.

He seemed to have already anticipated what would happen next.

He withdrew his gaze and continued to move forward aimlessly.

"Immortal..."

...Earth Immortal Realm.

"What the hell?"

Chen De's current strength, in terms of individual combat power without considering world bonuses, could be said to be at the pinnacle of the Mortal Realm.

Naturally, he sensed such a huge commotion, and his work at hand stopped because of it.

It was so obvious that he didn't even need his Four Profound Heavens clone to send him a signal to know what had happened.

"Someone is about to break through to the Immortal Realm?"

After endless years, has someone finally reached this step?

Who could it be?

At this moment, information also came from the Four Profound Heavens clone, stating that the one breaking through to the Immortal Realm was the Divine Martial Emperor, Ji Hao.

This made Chen De feel a bit strange; in terms of accumulation, Wang Teng was immeasurably stronger than Ji Hao.

If anyone in the Four Profound Heavens was most likely to break through now, it would be Wang Teng and the East Sea Sword Saint.

However, the East Sea Sword Saint cultivated the Way of the Sword, and Chen De didn't detect any sword intent from the commotion just now, so it shouldn't be him.

He didn't expect it to be Ji Hao.

But then Chen De sensed... in a certain place deep beneath the Four Profound Heavens.

A cyan-gold light flashed, and the entire underground began to tremble.

Accompanying it was a certain extremely terrifying aura... Four Profound Heavens, above the Imperial Capital of the Shenwu Empire.

Wang Teng was struggling immensely to keep himself from falling.

At the same time, he stared intently at Ji Hao's figure in front of him.

Ji Hao, after breaking through, floated there for a long time before turning to glance at Wang Teng.

Subsequently, Ji Hao's body aura rapidly plummeted, and countless spiritual energies surged wildly from within him.

It was so powerful that it formed a spiritual energy storm, almost a natural disaster.

And before Wang Teng's eyes, Ji Hao's body gradually faded and disappeared.

Wang Teng also remained motionless, quietly watching this scene.