Lu Yuan fully stood up from the ground.

He quietly examined his current body, as if admiring a unique masterpiece of art.

Around the crimson sphere pattern on his chest, a dense tangle of blood vessels, meridians, and muscles intertwined. With the blood sphere as the center, they extended outward in concentric circles, outlining a shape akin to a blooming flower.

It was bewitching and magnificent, yet possessed an indescribable demonic quality.

It reminded Lu Yuan of the blood-red lotus-eye pattern that had grown on his back when he had previously delved deep into his Ultimate Outburst after his third transformation.

Lu Yuan had previously wondered about the reason for this pattern's appearance.

Later, after his physique was reforged and he advanced to Grandmaster, the pattern vanished, so he hadn't delved further into it.

However, now, this lingering question was finally answered—

"So... this is the external manifestation of the Flower of Flesh, one of the Three Flowers!"

lv1 [Three Flowers] (Flower of Flesh): Physical strength increases threefold.

Beneath this bewitching flower, Lu Yuan's muscles were as dense as a plant's root system, vast and intricately interwoven in an orderly fashion. His blood flowed serenely, illuminating the exquisite beauty of his flesh and bones.

"The blood-red lotus eye I saw back then was when I inadvertently glimpsed a trace of the Flower of Flesh's mystery. What I see now... *this* is the true, perfect bloom of the Flower of Flesh," Lu Yuan mused, light flickering in his pupils as his memory drifted back to the Elephantman Dynasty, to the instant he had unleashed that terrifying, blood-red axe-light.

「 」

The vertically cleaving blood-red axe-light transformed into a scarlet bloodline, reflected in Lu Yuan's eyes, as if splitting his very pupils in two.

In that pure scarlet light, Lu Yuan once again saw the boundless sea of blood with floating corpses, and the black Demon Mountain standing upon it.

He barely had time to think.

lv4 [Grandmaster Domain] and lv4 [Grandmaster Universe Qi] activated simultaneously.

A terrifying, invisible force abruptly spread out from Lu Yuan's body.

Then, he took a deep breath. The concealed blood sphere in his chest quietly emerged, spinning rapidly.

In his mind, a point of pure gold light quietly bloomed, linking to the blood sphere. A massive amount of dark, ethereal light then erupted from the countless pores of his Ming King Body.

This ethereal light condensed above his head, and in the span of a breath, it formed a ten-meter-tall, three-headed, six-armed Elephant God Dharma.

"Grandmaster God Elephant Sect. Domain Suppressor!"

Lu Yuan and the Dharma moved in unison, all twelve arms pressing their palms together.

In an instant, countless dark ripples spread out from Lu Yuan and the Elephant God Dharma, layer upon layer, forming an almost tangible dark barrier...

The next second, the scarlet axe-light descended.

Without much resistance, the axe-light silently sliced through the layers of black ripples surrounding the Elephant God Dharma, then split the Dharma itself in two.

Next were the Domain Suppressor ripples Lu Yuan released.

Then, his Grandmaster Domain.

His Protective Universe Qi.

Seeing the axe-light, imbued with the might of the Sea of Blood and Demon Mountain, break through his multiple layers of defense with its power still unspent, Lu Yuan's pupils contracted sharply. Finally, he activated—[Three Flowers]...

「 」

"Thankfully, I held on,"

His consciousness returned to reality. Lu Yuan casually glanced at the gray-white giant axe lodged in his neck and couldn't help but sigh softly.

With this sigh, the muscles in Lu Yuan's neck began to squirm like living things. The root-like muscles of the flower squeezed the embedded axe blade out bit by bit, and the blood at the wound began to flow back...

Finally, the gray-white giant axe was completely squeezed out of Lu Yuan's body.

The light from the blood-like crimson sphere on the axe's surface had dimmed considerably, as if the previous strike had consumed too much of its power.

"Phew—"

Lu Yuan exhaled a long breath. The scalding air sprayed onto the face of the Elephantman King before him, who was of comparable size, almost like his twin brother.

The Elephantman King was still in a ferocious, power-exerting stance, the single eye on each of his three heads a solid crimson. Apart from intense bloodlust and savagery, hardly any other emotion could be discerned.

Lu Yuan looked at him calmly. "You've been swallowed by the sea of blood..."

He slowly twisted his neck, stretching his body. The blood-colored flower on his chest bloomed, becoming even more bewitching and demonic.

"You've lost yourself in a power that doesn't belong to you."

A sound like boulders grinding came from within Lu Yuan's body. An immense shadow began to rise rapidly from his back, inch by inch.

"Let me..."

Lu Yuan looked at the Elephantman King before him, his six arms spreading out and clenching into fists simultaneously. A hint of condescending pity appeared on his face as he spoke softly, "redeem you."

He finished speaking.

"God Elephant Devours Dragon x6!"

"ROAR!"

A roar, as if from a Flood Dragon or Demon Elephant, echoed from the bottom of the massive sand pit.

Then, six black suns suddenly bloomed, rising...

"BOOM!"

The crowd of spectators standing on the edge of the sand pit felt the ground beneath their feet tremble violently, as if the world before them was shaking.

Then, they saw a massive figure, as large as a small mountain, arch its back and get blasted out of the sand pit like a cannonball.

Another ferocious, three-headed, six-armed figure followed like a shadow.

The two collided violently in mid-air, then plummeted like meteorites, smashing a giant crater into the ground.

"ROAR!"

The earth quaked incessantly. These were two Forbidden Ferocious Beasts from ancient times, tearing at each other, locked in a deadly struggle!

...

"Uhh....."

Yin Muqing stared blankly at the intense battle below, her mind still not having recovered from the recent scene.

"He blocked it... That Elephantman... actually blocked it..."

She had personally experienced the might of the Evil God's Mystic Treasure, the crimson axe-light, and knew it all too well.

Merely the peripheral aftershock was enough to shatter her long knife, dim her Star Caves, and make her feel as if her body was about to disintegrate.

Xilin, who was stronger than her, had almost been disemboweled.

And the second axe strike the Elephantman King had just unleashed was more than ten times mightier than the one he'd used against them.

The result.... He actually managed to block all of that?! Just how terrifying is the strength of this second three-headed, six-armed Elephantman?! This isn't a monster that an ordinary SSS-rank Secret Realm could produce... It's a Sub-legendary entity, infinitely close to the true Legendary Level! Yin Muqing mumbled.

She subconsciously glanced over at the Egersis group and saw that the faces of both Xilin and Koyle were filled with shock.

After a moment's thought, Yin Muqing decided to approach the two.

"What are your thoughts?" she asked bluntly.

Her gaze settled on Koyle.

Although the strongest on the Egersis side was Xilin, the Beast, ranked sixty-sixth on the Supernova Leaderboard, the one truly leading the team was Koyle, who hailed from the true Havel lineage.

Koyle looked at her and asked back, "What do you think?"

Yin Muqing replied calmly, "We retreat first. Report the situation, then organize reinforcements and return."

Koyle's brows furrowed, his eyes glinting as he said, "Actually, I think this is the perfect opportunity...."

"I know what you're thinking."

Yin Muqing interrupted Koyle, her gaze falling to the battle below as she said coolly, "During my exploration, I gathered some confidential information about the Elephantman tribe of the Elephant God Religion. There cannot be two three-headed, six-armed Elephantmen within the tribe simultaneously. The current battle is one to decide the succession of the Elephantman tribe's king..."

"That's precisely why it's a good opportunity." A glint flashed in Koyle's eyes. "To use a saying from your Sum Country, when two tigers fight, one is bound to be injured. We wait until they've both suffered heavy losses, then we make our move..."

"Heh..." Yin Muqing couldn't help but let out a derisive laugh. Watching the battle below, she said in a low, grave voice, "Do you think it's possible for this to develop into a situation where both sides are crippled?"

Their gazes turned to the battlefield. There, they saw the Elephantman King, wielding his giant axe, being utterly thrashed by the other Elephantman, the one with the bewitching flower pattern on his body!

The two were of comparable size, but the difference in their strength and technique was simply too vast.

The Elephantman King's giant axe, his main source of power, seemed to be in a "cooldown period," no longer displaying its previous terrifying might. Consequently, he was utterly powerless against the fearsome Elephantman, reduced to a sandbag taking a passive beating.

Large, rock-like cracks had already appeared all over the Elephantman King's body, and these wounds were continuously widening.

"...The old Elephantman King might barely count as a tiger. But without the enhancement from the Mystic Treasure, he's at best a sick, toothless tiger."

"'But the other one...'" Yin Muqing watched the composed Lu Yuan, whose six arms moved in concert, continuously striking the Elephantman King's body, creating bursts of black suns and layers of ripples. Her voice was low and grave as she continued, "'He's not a tiger at all. He's a Tyrannosaurus Rex! He's destined to become the new king of the Elephantman tribe! Once he kills the Elephantman King, obtains the Mystic Treasure in the King's hands, and gains the power of that Mystic Treasure, we probably won't even have a chance to flee!'"

As Yin Muqing spoke, Koyle's expression became conflicted and hesitant.

Yin Muqing glanced at him and said coolly, "I've said my piece. Whether you listen or not is up to you. Regardless of whether you all retreat, I'm leaving now...."

Having said this, Yin Muqing was about to turn around and leave.

However, just then, an immense aura suddenly erupted from beside Yin Muqing.

Immediately after, an arrogant and icy voice slowly resounded.

"Retreat?"

"Why retreat?"

"The ultimate winner... will definitely be me!"

"BOOM!"

Terrifying cosmic energy surged, creating a monstrous wave of power in the air. Yin Muqing whirled her head around.

The moment she saw the scene before her clearly, her face filled with shock and utter disbelief.

Xilin, whom she hadn't been paying much attention to, was slowly rising from the void.

At this moment, his entire body was enveloped in an intensely dazzling radiance.

Four brilliant points of light rapidly revolved around him. Faintly, a fifth point of light seemed to be forming!

Not only that, but an immense Spiritual Power also surged from Xilin, continuously converging and refining...

Under the interweaving of these two powers, the wound on Xilin's lower abdomen, which had nearly disemboweled him, healed at a rapid pace.

His deathly pale face regained its color at a visible rate, and then began to radiate an incomparably dazzling divine luster!

"A... a breakthrough on the battlefield?!!"

"And both his Spiritual Power and Star Caves are advancing? His Spiritual Power is breaking through to the fourth rank, and he's about to open his fifth Star Cave!"

Yin Muqing was stunned, somewhat unable to believe her eyes.

The probability of a breakthrough during battle was already small. Moreover, this was within the Evil God's Secret Realm, isolated from cosmic energy, making the probability even smaller, minuscule even.

Yet Xilin had actually encountered such a minuscule probability?

It was simply outrageous!

"Hahaha, good, very good!"

Koyle, who was with Xilin, was now filled with unconcealable joy, so excited he even clenched his fists, a stark contrast to Yin Muqing's shock.

In just a few breaths, Xilin, who had been severely injured and his aura flagging, underwent a complete metamorphosis!

His entire being was bathed in resplendent radiance. Every pore on his body gushed with a hazy, colorful light, and his forehead blazed with brilliant luminescence. Five dazzling points of light, like comets, rapidly revolved around him, stirring up visible ripples of energy, one after another. He stood proudly in the void, his body erupting with a terrifying aura many times stronger than his previous peak state.

An arrogant, domineering, cold, and violent aura shot straight into the heavens. He himself was like a brilliant, dazzling, and unstoppable Supernova.

He looked down from on high, his gaze fixed on the distant battle. His eyes burned, and it seemed as if lightning and electricity were weaving within them.

"New king, old king of the Elephantman tribe... Relics that have crawled out from the dust should be reburied in the dirt! Watch me shatter you all! The Mystic Treasure is mine!"

With a wild laugh, Xilin, like a comet streaking towards the moon, shot towards the two massive figures locked in fierce combat below.

As Yin Muqing watched Xilin's plunging figure, she murmured in a trance, "Given his current strength...once he leaves, he would probably be qualified to challenge for the top fifty on the Supernova Leaderboard, or even the top forty..."

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