Chapter 1054: Chapter 666: Prestige Repels the Enemy

Secret Realm, Desolate Wilderness.

Dozens of Warriors clad in bright yellow Battle Armor were besieging a pack of Stele Demons.

The Warriors coordinated seamlessly, forming a battle formation that sliced the Stele Demon Battalion into several smaller chunks, using numbers to crush the few, taking them out one by one. Blades and swords flashed and crossed, Spiritual Energy fluctuations surged in all directions, the roars of the Stele Demons and the shouts of the Warriors tangled together, echoing across the vast, empty wilderness.

The leading Tier Seven master was seated at the center. He didn’t personally strike, but his Spiritual Energy aura shrouded the entire battlefield, like an invisible giant hand firmly controlling the situation.

Under his command, the Warriors moved as smoothly as flowing clouds and water, advancing and retreating in perfect order. The Stele Demons were numerous, but under this kind of crushing tactical coordination, they couldn’t stir up any waves at all.

In just the time it takes for one stick of incense to burn, the last Stele Demon crashed heavily to the ground, its pitch‑black Demon Blood soaking into the cracked earth.

Vahag Yunus raised his hand. As Spiritual Energy surged, countless Tombstone Spirit Fragments flew out from the bodies of the Stele Demons, like a swarm of fireflies tracing arcs through the air, finally converging in his palm into a Tombstone Spirit Fragment the size of a thumb. He weighed the fragment in his hand, the corner of his mouth lifting slightly in a satisfied smile.

"Not a bad stroke of luck."

Vahag turned his head to look at his adjutant, Suti, and said with a relaxed smile, "I actually planned to slack off today, wander around somewhere more remote, but I didn’t expect to bump into a pack of isolated Stele Demons. This haul is enough for us to go back and report."

"My lord is riding a wave of fortune."

A faint smile appeared on Suti’s face too, and he offered a well‑timed flattery, "A stray group of Stele Demons like this isn’t easy to find. Only you could have this kind of luck. If it were someone else, they might wander around for a whole day and still not run into any."

Vahag laughed heartily and was just about to say something—

"Boom!"

A sudden peal of thunder erupted in the distance, so loud it sounded like the heavens collapsing and the earth cracking, even the ground beneath their feet trembled faintly.

The shockwave wasn’t coming from the ground, but crushing down from the sky, carrying a kind of oppressive Will that made one’s heart pound.

The Warriors of the Yunus Clan immediately grew alert, turning in unison toward the source of the sound.

In the next moment, a look of shock appeared on everyone’s face.

What was that?

Far off at the edge of the sky, the heavens were completely blotted out by dark clouds. These weren’t ordinary rain clouds, but ink‑black and mountain‑thick, as if the entire sky were shrouded by a massive black curtain.

Streaks of purple‑gold Thunder burst out from the clouds, like electric serpents tumbling and weaving through the Yun hai, thunder rolling endlessly, one crash after another, growing more and more frequent, louder and louder, as if a Thunder God were roaring in fury above the cloud sea.

"That has to be a Tier Eight Powerhouse fighting, right?" Suti’s mouth hung open in shock for a long moment before he managed to close it. "What a racket... must be a Tier Eight Powerhouse with Thunder Bloodline. Could it be the Adinson Clan? No, probably not—their main base is too far from here. Then it’s some other Golden Bloodline powerhouse who excels in Thunder."

"I don’t think so."

Vahag’s eyes narrowed slightly, his gaze locked tightly onto that distant thundercloud as he spoke slowly, "This looks like the Celestial Thunder Tribulation of the Celestial Human Three Tribulations."

What? Celestial Thunder Tribulation?

Suti’s body jerked violently, the surprise on his face twisting into sheer shock.

"The Celestial Human Three Tribulations can descend even inside the Celestial Stele Secret Realm?" Suti couldn’t help asking.

"The Celestial Human Three Tribulations are the Cosmos’s Will descending upon High Tier Spiritualists as a trial. No matter where you are, you can’t escape the lock‑on of the Cosmos’s Will."

Vahag said in a deep voice, "If entering a Secret Realm could let one avoid the Celestial Human Three Tribulations, then every Tier Six Peak Spiritualist would rush into a Secret Realm before attempting their breakthrough, and we wouldn’t see so many geniuses die under these three tribulations."

He paused, then added with a frown, "I can say for certain—that’s the Celestial Thunder Tribulation of the Celestial Human Three Tribulations. The Celestial Punishment Power contained in that Thunder is something no Thunder Element Spiritualist could ever replicate. But... who has the guts to冲击 the Celestial Human Three Tribulations inside the Celestial Stele Secret Realm? Aren’t they afraid of being interrupted by others or by Stele Demons?"

Suti thought for a moment, then asked, "My lord, what should we do now? Do we go over and scout out the situation, or stay far away to avoid getting dragged into trouble?"

Just as Vahag had said, attempting the Celestial Human Three Tribulations inside the Celestial Stele Secret Realm was absolutely unwise.

During this process, the Tribulation Crosser was at their most vulnerable, yet that person in the distance had chosen to do exactly that.

Either they’d run into some kind of desperate situation, forcing them to break through to Tier Seven no matter what, gambling on it even at the risk of being interrupted.

Or they had something to rely on, making them fearless of any threat.

Suti was more inclined toward the latter.

Vahag stared at the thundercloud in the distance, his eyes flickering. After thinking for a moment, he finally made his decision:

"We’re going over."

"We’re really going?" Suti couldn’t help asking again.

"Yeah."

Vahag’s eyes narrowed as he spoke slowly, "Suti, haven’t you considered—if we want to seize a more advantageous position in the final Celestial Stele baptism, we must gather as many Tombstone Spirit Fragments as possible. Aside from hunting Stele Demons, there’s another way."

Suti instantly understood the implication behind Vahag’s words.

Aside from hunting Stele Demons to obtain Tombstone Spirit Fragments, killing other Spiritualists could do the same—often with far greater Speed.

And that Spiritualist undergoing tribulation in the distance was now in their most dangerous, most weakened state.

If he died under the heavenly tribulation, they could loot the corpse and take everything he had.

If he survived the tribulation, his body would still go through a brief adjustment period, and he wouldn’t be able to fully exert his strength.

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