Chapter 764
Jade Bone and Golden Marrow
After the Golden Bone Clan was wiped out, the entire Spine Ladder fell into an eerie silence.
The deathly silence wasn't because there were no living beings, but because all living beings were trembling in fear. Whether they were the native monsters or the self-proclaimed noble human prodigies and alien powerhouses who had cultivated here for hundreds of years, they all wished they could bury their heads in their crotches at this moment.
Because the man named Su Chen had eaten his fill.
"belch--"
A satisfied burp echoed through the quiet mountain path like a thunderclap, startling several "rock demons" that were trying to disguise themselves as stones, causing them to split open on the spot.
Su Chen patted his flat stomach, which was free of any excess fat. Under the pressure of a thousand times the gravity, his green robe clung tightly to his body, outlining his seemingly thin but powerfully muscular physique.
At this moment, his skin had a warm, jade-like color that was almost transparent. If you looked closely, you could see that beneath that jade-like color, there flowed bone marrow that looked like liquid gold.
【Jade Bones and Golden Marrow】!
This is an important milestone on the path to physical sanctification.
At this moment, Su Chen's physical defense alone was enough to withstand the full force of a perfected Great Luo Golden Immortal's attack without suffering any damage.
"Hun Tian, can you still walk?"
Su Chen turned around and looked at the team behind him that had fallen far behind.
The Demon Lord of Chaos had now manifested a hundred-zhang-tall ancient demonic body, his entire body burning with demonic energy to resist the increasingly abnormal gravity. But with each step he took, his knees made a teeth-grinding "crunching" sound, and the divine bone rocks beneath his feet were crushed to pieces.
"Lord...Lord..."
The Demon Lord of Chaos was panting heavily, his voice hoarse as if he were working a bellows.
"Your subordinate... Your subordinate can still hold on! A mere... two thousand times gravity... is nothing to worry about!"
Although he said that, his trembling legs and his body, already soaked in sweat, betrayed his current state of extreme condition.
As for the demon army and natives of the Desolate Bone City behind them, a large number of them had already collapsed by the twenty-eighth chapter.
That is the dividing line of 2,500 times gravity, and also the extreme forbidden zone of the physical body of a true immortal.
"Alright, stop being stubborn."
Su Chen shook his head, his gaze piercing through the swirling clouds above (actually liquefied spiritual energy) and looking at the last three sections that pierced the sky.
"The road ahead cannot be traversed by willpower alone."
"That's a selection process based on the level of life."
Su Chen stopped and looked up at the thirty-third vertebra, which seemed to connect to another dimension.
There, space itself was distorted by excessive gravity, and light formed bizarre halos around it. Faintly, one could hear muffled, thunderous breathing coming from above the clouds.
"Hun Tian, lead the brothers to set up camp and rest at the thirtieth section."
"This is an order."
The Demon Lord of Chaos felt a tremor in his heart, a mixture of shame and gratitude. He knew his master feared they would be crushed into mincemeat by the gravity above.
"Yes, sir! Be careful! The aura above... is very strange!"
Su Chen smiled, turned around, and walked alone towards the steps leading to the thirty-first section.
Something's not right?
Su Chen twisted his neck, producing a series of crisp sounds like firecrackers exploding.
"That's right."
“The more unusual the place, the more exquisite the ingredients tend to be.”
……
[Spine Ladder - Section 32 - Absolute Gravity Zone]
This is truly a "forbidden zone of the gods".
Gravity, two thousand eight hundred times!
The air here is no longer gaseous, but rather a viscous semi-solid state; every step forward feels like swimming in solidified cement.
However, in this desolate place where even the wind cannot stir, two figures sat cross-legged.
The man on the left, his body as if sculpted from rock, was lifeless, with only a faint, earthy-yellow light flickering from his heart. He was the [Stone Saint], a top-tier body refiner from a vast world outside. In pursuit of the Divine Bone Realm, he had sat here for five hundred years, trying to adapt to the gravity here.
The person on the right was a blurry black shadow, seemingly not existing in this space; only a pair of ghastly green eyes could be seen. He was the [Void Walker], who cultivated the Great Dao of Space, attempting to use the laws of space to counteract gravity, but he had already reached his limit.
The two men stood facing each other like statues for a century, neither able to take another step up to the thirty-third section.
Because the gravity in that last section is three thousand times greater!
That was a qualitative change!
"breathe……"
Shi Sheng struggled to inhale and exhale the surrounding spiritual energy, each rise and fall of his chest accompanied by the sound of rocks cracking.
"Old ghost, you're not dead yet?" Shi Sheng transmitted his voice with divine sense, his voice heavy like a millstone.
"Heh heh... I didn't die even after you were shattered." The Voidwalker let out a sharp, cold laugh. "However, it seems we can only stop here. This final barrier of the Ancient God's spine is not meant for living beings."
"That is the realm of God."
Just as the two peerless experts were mocking each other and lamenting their ill-fated destinies...
嗒。
A crisp, rhythmic footstep suddenly reached their ears.
The sound was very soft, but to them it was like a thunderclap.
How can it be? !
In a place with nearly three thousand times the normal gravity and air as thick as iron, how could anyone possibly make such a leisurely, strolling sound?!
Both of them struggled to turn their necks and look down at the mountain path.
The next second, their pupils (and the will-o'-the-wisp) contracted violently, as if they were witnessing the most incredible sight in the world.
The clouds and mist parted.
A young man dressed in a green robe, with his hands behind his back and a "tooth pick" he had taken from the Golden Bone Clan dangling from his mouth, slowly walked up.
He did not activate his protective divine light.
No defensive magic items were used.
Even... the clothes on his body didn't wrinkle at all due to gravity!
He walked up step by step, as if he were taking a stroll in the back garden after dinner.
"This...this..."
Shi Sheng's jaw, as hard as iron, dislocated with a crisp "crack" sound.
"Hallucination! This must be a hallucination caused by gravity pressing on the nerves!"
The Voidwalker was so frightened that his entire body was engulfed in black mist, and he almost lost his footing.
You have to understand, they used every ounce of strength they had to resist the gravity here; every muscle was screaming and every inch of their soul was trembling.
But this young man...
What is he doing?
He was even... humming a little tune?!
"We ordinary people are truly happy today..."
Su Chen hummed an unknown tune as he walked up to the two men. He stopped and looked at them with some curiosity, examining the two specimen-like figures.
"Wow, that's quite unique."
Su Chen reached out and poked Shi Sheng's cracked, rocky skin.
"So hard? Or is it solid?"
"It would be nice to take it back and use it as a whetstone."
Shi Sheng: "..."
He wanted to roar, to rebel, to tell this arrogant brat that he was the supreme ruler of the realm!
However, the moment Su Chen's finger touched him, a vast and terrifying abyss-like blood energy gently pressed down on his body through that fingertip.
Pfft!
The Stone Saint, who was still able to sit cross-legged, was knocked to the ground by this foreign aura, which was the "last straw," and he collapsed to the ground, smashing a large, human-shaped crater into the hard divine bone ground.
"Oh, why are you being so polite?"
Su Chen withdrew his hand, looking completely innocent.
"Kowtowing upon meeting someone is too much of a formality; I didn't bring any red envelopes."
"you you……"
The Voidwalker beside him, seeing this, was terrified and desperately tried to escape into the void. "Don't run!"
Su Chen turned to look at him, a hint of amusement flashing in his cyan-gold eyes.
"Spatial laws?"
"That's interesting. The road up there is a bit crowded, so you shouldn't take up space."
Su Chen waved his hand casually.
boom!!!
No complicated spells were used; it was merely the physical force generated by the swing of the arm.
With the force of three thousand times gravity, this gale was instantly compressed into a tangible air cannon.
"what--!!"
The Voidwalker let out a miserable cry, like a leaf swept up by a gale, and was sent flying by the slap, leaving a black trail in the air before disappearing into some unknown corner.
After doing all this, Su Chen didn't care at all, as if he had just swatted a mosquito.
He raised his head and looked at the last step that was so close at hand—the thirty-third heaven.
The gravitational field there has formed a black barrier that is visible to the naked eye.
"The final step."
Su Chen took a deep breath.
The Jade Bone and Golden Marrow within his body began to tremble wildly, emitting bursts of dragon roars and tiger howls.
"Open it... for me!!"
Su Chen took a step forward.
There were no fancy moves, just pure brute force!
Rumble—!!!
The gravity barrier that had blocked countless powerful individuals and was considered a "forbidden zone for mortals" shattered instantly under Su Chen's impact, which was comparable to a humanoid Tyrannosaurus Rex!
Su Chen's figure, like a divine spear piercing the sky, forcefully ascended to the top!
……
【The Pinnacle of the Spine - The Thirty-Third Heaven】
The moment he passed through the barrier, Su Chen felt his body suddenly sink.
Gravity, three thousand times!
If the area below is carrying a mountain on its back, then this area is carrying a planet on its back.
Even Su Chen's body, which had been tempered through countless trials, couldn't help but emit a "crunching" sound as his bones rubbed together.
But he did not bend down.
Not even an inch bent.
His spine stood straight, like a majestic monument, proudly standing at the pinnacle of heaven and earth.
"Is this... the end of the spine?"
Su Chen looked around.
This is a vast circular platform paved with the purest purple-gold divine bones. All around are churning clouds, and above, the starry sky is dazzling.
In the very center of the platform, a colossal creature was lurking.
That was a dragon.
A colossal dragon, its entire body composed of purple-gold bones, stretching for tens of thousands of feet, exuding an ancient, noble, and domineering aura!
It coiled around a massive bone pillar (the cervical vertebrae leading to the skull), two purple soul flames burning in its eye sockets, coldly looking down at Su Chen, who had just intruded into this place.
An immense pressure, countless times more terrifying than the previous "Force Barrier" and "Storm," erupted from the bone dragon, instantly sealing off the entire platform.
"Roar--!!!"
With a dragon's roar, the sound waves transformed into tangible ripples, shattering the surrounding space.
"mortal!!"
A grand and indifferent voice exploded directly in Su Chen's mind.
"This is a forbidden area of the gods!!"
"Why don't you kneel before me?!"
The voice carried a superior pressure from the depths of the soul, as if it were the master of this world, a god that all living beings must worship.
If it were anyone else, even a fifth-realm expert, under the dual pressure of this dragon's might and three thousand times the gravity, they would probably lose their composure and kneel down on the spot.
But Su Chen...
He stood in the gale, his robes fluttering and his long hair dancing wildly.
He looked at the arrogant dragon, and a slow smile crept onto his lips, revealing his signature, chilling grin that struck fear into the hearts of countless enemies.
"kneel?"
Su Chen raised his hand and picked at his ear.
"In this life, I will only kneel to heaven and earth, and to my parents."
Who do you think you are?
"One..."
The Origin Eye in Su Chen's eyes suddenly activated, and two golden beams of light instantly pierced through the dragon's seemingly sacred disguise, revealing its filthy and greedy nature deep within its marrow.
"A maggot parasitizing someone else's bones?"
"You dare make me kneel?!"
boom!!!
Before he finished speaking, Su Chen's aura suddenly erupted.
It was no longer that warm, jade-like color, but had turned into a raging dark red!
That's the craving for gluttony! It's the hunter's excitement at spotting his prime prey!
"What are you pretending to be, some real dragon?"
"Show me your true form!!"
……
……
"What did you say?!!!"
The purple-gold spine dragon, coiled atop the bone pillar, suddenly unleashed a terrifying killing intent and... a trace of shame and anger at being exposed in its originally haughty soul-fire eyes.
"Maggots?!"
"I am the 'Spirit of the Heavenly Pillar,' born alongside the ancient gods! I am the master of this spine! I am destined to become a true god and the Sixth Mirror!!"
"You lowly ant! How dare you blaspheme the gods!!"
"Die! Die for me!!"
Rumble—!!!
The Purple-Gold Spine Dragon was utterly enraged.
Its massive body shuddered violently, and the already terrifying three thousand times gravity surged even higher at this moment!
Four thousand times!
Five thousand times!!
This is its innate ability—the Gravity Domain.
As a creature that has long resided at the top of the spine, it has long since usurped the ancient gods' control over the laws of gravity. Here, it is the king of gravity!
"Click-click-click—"
The purple-gold ground beneath Su Chen's feet instantly cracked, revealing countless bottomless fissures.
The space around him was compressed into a solid form, like a giant transparent amber, trying to seal him off and burst him!
"Kneel down and repent before me!!"
A giant claw of the Purple-Gold Spine Dragon descended from the sky, carrying an aura powerful enough to crush eternity, and slammed down on Su Chen's head.
This claw strike gathers the power of the entire Spine Ladder's rules. Not to mention the physical body, even the soul of a fifth-realm expert would be reduced to ashes under this strike!
however.
Despite being at the center of the storm, Su Chen's expression remained completely devoid of fear.
On the contrary, his eyes grew brighter and brighter, filled with the fervor of seeing delicious food about to be served. (End of Chapter)