Everyone knew how powerful Ye Chen's sword was.

However.

The decayed body that emerged from War Soul Mountain, after taking Ye Chen's full strike, had only a small portion of its shoulder cut, and its bones even trapped Ye Chen's sword.

It was unbelievable!

"Roar!"

The decayed body let out a low growl like a beast, and its two decayed hands directly grabbed Ye Chen's Celestial Mark Sword, trying to snatch it from Ye Chen's hand.

Ye Chen furrowed his brow.

The power of the unity of spirit and martial burst forth!

At the same time, the Overlapping Waves Force unfolded, stacking four layers of power!

Countless Sword Qi shot out from the Celestial Mark Sword, shattering the two decayed hands.

Ye Chen withdrew his sword and struck down with another powerful blow.

Golden Extreme Sky-breaking Sword!

"Swish!"

The fierce edge finally sliced the decayed body in half!

However... this wasn't the end at all.

The decayed body split in half by Ye Chen shockingly kicked off with a single leg, attempting to rush past Ye Chen to attack Sun Siming and others.

Shocked in his heart, Ye Chen didn't hesitate and executed the Heaven-Burning Sword!

A raging sea of fire swept out from the Celestial Mark Sword, incinerating the two halves of the decayed body to ashes.

"This thing must have been a warrior who fell in the ancient battlefield, lost consciousness, but because of this space, the body remains indestructible, and its obsessions from its lifetime still linger, making it so troublesome. Unless the corpse is thoroughly shattered, even if just a finger remains, it will continue to fight!"

Fatty came forward and said.

Just after Fatty finished speaking.

Roars echoed from other directions.

Clearly, every team climbing the mountain encountered the same situation.

Hearing Fatty's words, Ye Chen felt a bit heavy-hearted.

These warriors were clearly human before they died.

What did they experience? Even after death, their obsessions linger, wanting to continue fighting!

Just then.

Luo Qingyi's transmitted voice echoed in Ye Chen's mind.

"Obsessions linger because there's something they still want to protect."

Ye Chen's expression remained unchanged as he secretly communicated with Luo Qingyi, "Elder Qingyi, are you saying there's a treasure within this ancient battlefield fragment space?"

"The thing to protect might be an item, a person, or a belief they guard.

If there were truly treasures in this battlefield fragment space, they would have been found and taken a long time ago, so don't think too much about it."

Ye Chen gave a small nod and then looked at Sun Siming, "Senior Brother Sun, let's keep climbing."

For these corpses, complete death is also a form of release.

The group continued to climb the mountain.

Not long after, four more corpses appeared.

Ye Chen and Sun Siming each charged at a corpse.

Fatty, Ouyang Xiaoling, and Qu Xiao teamed up to handle two corpses!

Ye Chen used the Wood Extreme Thousand Entwined Sword to pin down a corpse, followed by a Thunderbolt Sword with overwhelming force to shatter it.

With a spear in hand, Sun Siming pierced through a corpse's chest, pinning its body to the rocky mountain, then followed with his fists, crushing the corpse with his immense power.

Holding a colorful ribbon, Ouyang Xiaoling wound it around the two corpses.

Fatty used a spirit skill, transforming the spirit seal into a circular disk, perfectly integrating his six spiritual patterns into the disk, smashing a corpse into a pulp.

Qu Xiao slashed out a gigantic blade aura, with fierce winds howling, tearing the corpse into pieces!

The battle ended, and everything went relatively smoothly.

The group continued up the mountain.

As the frequency of the corpses' appearances increased, the gap between the top-tier teams and the ordinary teams began to widen significantly.

As for the scattered Martial Arts Academy people following at the lower end of the teams, they weren't gaining any advantage, as these corpses were everywhere.

Soon.

The strong ones responsible for maintaining order started getting busy.

Wherever things couldn't hold up, they'd appear, taking people away.

Continuing to fight would result in fatalities.

Before long.

The Dean of Emperor Star Martial Arts Academy, Xu Changqing, along with Sixth Prince Zhou Chengqian and leaders of the top thirty ranking academies, all entered the ancient battlefield fragment space, arriving at the foot of War Soul Mountain.

At this moment.

Their climb was led by Emperor Star Martial Arts Academy, unsurprisingly.

Four Mortal Transformation Realm individuals and a Tier Five Earth Seal Spirit Master made their overall capability very formidable.

The second would be Cangxing Martial Arts Academy.

Although Cangxing Martial Arts Academy had only Sun Siming in the Mortal Transformation Realm, Ye Chen's combat power was strong.

Moreover, Ouyang Xiaoling and Yu Hui, the granddaughter of Ouyang Shang and the grandson of Yu Sheng, respectively, had strong heritages.

Even Qu Xiao, whose background was relatively simple as the Prefect's daughter, performed outstandingly, having experienced the Demon Suppression Valley battlefield, with a battle consciousness unmatched by the average person.

Third, would be the team from Tongming Martial Arts Academy, with He Xiao, Qin Yi, Jiang Shiyin, three in the Mortal Transformation Realm, one in the Primordial Embryo Realm Ninth Layer, and a regular Tier Five Top-level Spirit Master, making their upward momentum quite fierce.

"Luofeng Martial Arts Academy is falling behind." Someone said.

Luofeng Martial Arts Academy, previously ranked fourth, indeed was not performing well and was struggling to maintain a position within the top ten.

Yu Bihua wasn't bothered by this, stating, "It's still early to talk about rankings, fighting these corpses with such effort has no meaning.

Once we near the mountaintop, all these teams will clash, and that's when the true results will be known."

Several people nodded in agreement.

Indeed.

Right now, nothing can be gleaned.

......

Midway up the mountain.

Ye Chen and his group encountered significant trouble.

Suddenly, more than a dozen corpses charged out!

Ye Chen and Sun Siming each engaged with four corpses.

Fatty and the others combined forces to deal with five corpses.

They were all in a tight spot!

The situation turned precarious!

Ye Chen was preparing to execute the Myriad Sword Returning to Origin.

Suddenly, Sun Siming shouted, "Junior Brother Ye, save some energy, the individual competitions ahead are crucial for you, leave the team battle to me!"

As his words fell.

Sun Siming let out a roar.

"Desperate Path!"

This was a move he comprehended on his own, severing his own path as well as the opponent's!

With the execution of this move.

In the middle of the Broken Soul Mountain, it seemed as though another mountain peak appeared horizontally!

The spear stood like a mountain!

At this moment.

Many eyes were drawn to this mountain-like spear shadow.

Ye Chen felt the impact of Sun Siming's move most deeply, having exchanged blows with him before.

Compared to before, the power of this move had increased significantly for Sun Siming.

This was related to Sun Siming's slightly opened mind, as well as his adaptation to the power of the Mortal Transformation Realm.

After Sun Siming executed this move.

The four corpses were smashed into pieces.

Soon after, Sun Siming rushed beside Ye Chen, helping to relieve the pressure by facing two corpses on his own, easing the situation significantly, and solving it in a short time.

Immediately.

Ye Chen and Sun Siming then went to assist Fatty and the others.

The trouble was eliminated.

Sun Siming's face was somewhat pale, yet he had no intention of taking a break, determined to secure a good result for Cangxing Martial Arts Academy in the team competition.

For Sun Siming, Ye Chen gave up the individual competition entirely for the sake of achieving good results in the team competition!

Team competition is the standard for determining the rankings of the academies.

Regarding the results of the team competition, Sun Siming simply gave up on the individual competitions.

Without a pause.

Ye Chen glanced at the mountaintop, then turned to Sun Siming, his face resolute: "This time, for Cangxing Martial Arts Academy, we have to win first place!"

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