"Even if you unleash your aura with all your might, you still won't be able to crush me like you did last time!"
He growled as he spoke, a faint trace of madness brewing within his heart.
This was not Ye Chen losing his composure under Chu Ge's overwhelming pressure.
Rather, he understood clearly that if he wished to use weakness to overcome strength and defeat Chu Ge, ordinary methods would be utterly insufficient!
Only through madness—only through frenzy—
could he possibly glimpse a sliver of hope!
"Heh…"
Chu Ge merely let out a light, indifferent chuckle.
"Ye Chen, Ye Chen… what exactly gave you the illusion that I'm already going all out?"
Ye Chen's pupils shrank violently, and he roared in rage, "Impossible!"
"Chu Ge, stop putting on airs! Come fight!!!"
With that furious roar, in the very next instant, Ye Chen's figure flashed violently and appeared right before Chu Ge!
He flexed his fingers into claw shapes, as if transforming into a flood dragon incarnate, intent on tearing everything apart with the sharp talons in his hands!
Yet Chu Ge did not even lift his eyes. He simply raised his hand slowly, extended a finger at an unhurried pace, and tapped it against Ye Chen's palm.
"Pffft—!"
That single finger of Chu Ge's was like a razor-sharp sword, easily piercing straight through Ye Chen's hand!
Blood instantly sprayed outward!
"Your power is insufficient, and your speed is too slow!"
"Ye Chen, is this all you amount to? If so, then today will be your end."
Chu Ge's cold words drifted into Ye Chen's ears.
In the next instant, Ye Chen's vision blurred—Chu Ge transformed that finger into a fist and slammed a punch into his cheek!
"Boom!"
Ye Chen's entire body was blasted away like a cannonball, crashing violently into the ground!
The terrifying impact carried his body along, smashing a huge crater into the earth!
Chu Ge did not press the attack. Instead, he waited calmly and at leisure.
Several breaths later, Ye Chen crawled out from the crater.
He spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, along with several shattered teeth.
Like surging tides, blood-red radiance began to flow out from Ye Chen's body, enveloping him completely.
A ferocious flood dragon entirely formed from blood light appeared behind him!
"What a terrifyingly violent aura!"
"This kid is no ordinary one either—today alone this is already his third breakthrough, isn't it?"
A great expert clearly sensed the changes in Ye Chen. The astonishment in his eyes grew even stronger.
Today, Ye Chen had undergone multiple breakthroughs!
Although not all of them were increases in cultivation realm itself, every single one caused his battle power to skyrocket.
If the initial Ye Chen, when his cultivation was merely at the late Third Heaven, had a battle power comparable to an ordinary mid-stage Fourth Heaven cultivator—
and thus weaker than Li Mingfeng by one tier—
Then after breaking through to the pinnacle of the Third Heaven, Ye Chen's battle power had already surpassed Li Mingfeng,
standing between the late-stage and the peak of the Fourth Heaven!
And after his moment of enlightenment, Ye Chen's overall battle power had truly reached the peak level of the Fourth Heaven!
Now, under the crushing high pressure imposed by Chu Ge, with yet another breakthrough, Ye Chen could already rival some cultivators who had just stepped into the Fifth Heaven!
To be able to leap an entire major realm in battle power was undoubtedly the mark of a top-tier heaven-defying prodigy!
And yet, despite all this, hardly anyone was optimistic about Ye Chen.
Because compared to Ye Chen, the feeling Chu Ge gave them was even more shocking—far more terrifying!
With only peak Third Heaven cultivation, the aura he exuded was already making even those at the Sixth Heaven faintly feel threatened!
Such a thing—utterly like a fairy tale—was now unfolding before their very eyes!
No matter how they wracked their brains, these great experts simply could not comprehend how in the world Chu Ge cultivated.
At the Foundation-Building level of the Lower Three Heavens, just how much of his latent potential had he excavated,
and just how solid and unshakable a foundation had he laid?