Chapter 765
Breaking Through the Mysterious Barrier
"A companion spirit?"
Su Chen slowly raised his head, enduring the immense gravity that could crush stars.
His spinal dragon roared wildly within his body, producing a thunderous boom.
"Stop patting yourself on the back."
"A true symbiotic spirit will drain the host's bone marrow?"
"Would a true guardian turn this place into their private territory?"
Su Chen's voice wasn't loud, but it pierced through layers of gravity and clearly reached the ears of the Purple-Gold Spine Dragon.
"I was drinking the soup from the Golden Bone Clan downstairs just now, and I felt that the taste was a bit bland."
"So... all the best stuff is with you!"
"He absorbed the marrow of an ancient god for 30,000 years, and fattened himself up to be this fat..."
Su Chen licked his lips, a gesture that, in the eyes of the Purple-Gold Spine Dragon, was more terrifying than that of a demon.
"You must taste... really good, right?"
"Arrogant!!! Die!!" the Purple-Gold Spine Dragon roared, its claws crashing down.
At this critical moment.
Su Chen moved.
He neither dodged nor used any supernatural powers to defend himself.
He made a move that surprised everyone.
He also extended a hand.
A hand that looks even smaller than a dragon's fingernail.
"Origin Law - Definition: My power... has no upper limit!!"
"Ancient God - Heaven Shattering!!"
boom----!!!
One large and one small, one purple-gold and one green-jade, their two palms (claws) collided violently in mid-air.
At this moment, time seemed to stand still.
Followed by.
A visible white shockwave swept across the entire Thirty-Third Heaven, centered on the point of impact.
The rolling sea of clouds was instantly evaporated.
The incredibly solid purple-gold platform sank a full three feet!
"roar?!!!"
The Purple-Gold Spine Dragon let out an incredulous cry of pain.
It felt as if its dragon claw had struck an unshakeable ancient divine needle. Not only did it fail to kill the ant, but it also received a powerful and overwhelming counterforce from the other's palm!
Click!
A crisp sound of bone cracking rang out.
The strongest middle finger bone of the Purple-Gold Spine Dragon actually... cracked!
"This...how is this possible?!"
"That's five thousand times the force of gravity! How could your physical body possibly withstand that?! And you can even retaliate?!"
The Purple-Gold Spine Dragon tried to retract its claws in terror.
But it found it was too late.
Su Chen's hand, though small, was like an iron clamp, tightly gripping its dragon finger.
"You think you can just leave already?"
Su Chen stood still, with a deep pit several meters deep beneath his feet, but his posture remained as upright as a pine tree.
He looked up at the terrified dragon and revealed his white teeth.
"That slap just now, the massage pressure was alright."
"Now, it's my turn."
"Get down here!!"
With a roar, Su Chen's muscles bulged like an angry dragon, and dark golden divine patterns instantly covered his entire body.
With a sudden burst of strength from his arms, he combined his waist and stance, using his back as a pivot, and actually managed to pull the ten-thousand-foot-long purple-gold spine dragon...
He started swinging it!
"No!! Release me!! I am a dragon!! A divine dragon!!"
The Purple-Gold Spine Dragon screamed in terror and struggled frantically, trying to crush Su Chen with the laws of gravity.
But at this moment, Su Chen's [Origin Dao Fruit] was running wildly within his body, and the [Gluttony] Law transformed into black hole vortexes, attaching to his body surface.
Do you apply gravity?
I'll eat it!
You're using rules to suppress me?
I chewed it up and swallowed it!
"Are you a dragon?"
"I think you're a mudfish!!"
boom!!!
Su Chen swung his arm and slammed the massive dragon body onto the purple-gold platform like a whip.
Boom-! ! !
The entire spinal ladder trembled violently under this blow.
The Hun Tian Demon Lord and others, who were far away in the thirtieth section, felt the ground beneath their feet shake and almost lost their footing.
"My lord... what are you doing up there? Demolishing things?" The Demon Lord of Chaos swallowed hard, his face filled with horror.
Return to the thirty-third heaven.
At this moment, the Purple-Gold Spine Dragon was completely disoriented from the fall, and its entire skeleton was about to break apart.
But this is only the beginning.
"rise!"
Su Chen exerted his strength again and swung his sword once more.
boom!!
Smash it to the left!
"Rise again!"
boom!!
Smash it to the right!
boom!boom!boom!boom!
The following scenes became extremely brutal and rhythmic.
That tiny human was like someone slapping a piece of dough covered in dust, grabbing the claws of a giant dragon and thrashing it wildly across the earth.
Each impact sent a large amount of purple-gold bone fragments flying.
With each impact, the "dragon might" of the Purple Gold Spine Dragon weakened a little.
In the end, the once majestic purple-gold spine dragon was left barely alive, lying on the ground like a dead snake, too weak even to scream.
"call……"
Su Chen casually tossed the dragon claw aside and clapped his hands.
"solid."
"I have to say, your bones are definitely much stronger than those crispy golden chickens down there."
"It didn't fall apart even after being dropped like that."
Su Chen walked up to the dragon's enormous head and stepped on its nasal bone.
"Now, can we have a proper talk?"
"Little bug."
The Purple-Gold Spine Dragon was now completely devoid of any temper; its soul fire was dim and on the verge of extinction. Its eyes, fixed on Su Chen, were filled with utter terror.
This isn't a human being.
This is an ancient ferocious beast disguised as a human!
"Sir...sir, please spare my life..."
The Purple-Gold Spine Dragon sent out a faint divine message begging for mercy.
"I am willing to submit... I am willing to be your mount... to take you to the heavens and the earth..."
"I'm giving you all the treasures I've accumulated over the years..."
"Mount?"
Su Chen shook his head, squatted down, and stared at the dragon head with his green eyes.
"I don't lack the strength to walk."
"Besides, you're too ugly, all bones, it's uncomfortable."
Su Chen reached out and gently stroked the dragon's spine, which shimmered with a purplish-gold luster.
Wherever your fingers touch, you can clearly feel the surging, vast energy essence within, like a mighty river.
That is the core of the ancient god's spine, the [Heavenly Pillar Bone Marrow]!
This "worm" stole and ate the wealth that had been accumulated over tens of thousands of years!
"I already said that."
"I am calcium deficient."
“So…” Su Chen’s fingers suddenly plunged into the gap between the dragon’s spine.
"Ah—!! What are you doing?!" The Purple Gold Spine Dragon let out a desperate scream.
"What?"
Su Chen grinned, a smile that, in the eyes of the Purple-Gold Spine Dragon, was the call of death.
"Of course it's... a muscle cramp!"
"Skin them alive!"
"Sucking marrow!!"
"Origin - Gluttony - Divine Essence Plunder!!"
*Sizzle!*
With a chilling tearing sound, Su Chen exerted force with both arms and actually pulled out the most core "Origin Dragon Tendon" from the body of the Purple Gold Spine Dragon!
As soon as the dragon tendon emerged, the entire dragon instantly went limp, like a lump of mud.
And on those dragon tendons, there was a thick, purplish-gold liquid that was so concentrated it was almost impossible to dissolve—it was the essence of essence!
"Gudu!"
Without any hesitation, Su Chen opened his mouth wide and bit into the dragon tendon that was still dripping with divine essence.
"No—!! That's mine! That's the foundation for my godhood!!!"
The Purple-Gold Spine Dragon howled in despair, watching helplessly as its accumulated Dao Fruits of ten thousand years turned into snacks for others.
"Suck it-"
Su Chen swallowed the several-foot-long strand of primordial essence into his stomach in just a few bites, as if it were a chewy noodle.
boom!!!
As the divine essence entered his body, Su Chen's body instantly exploded with dazzling purple-gold light.
The spine inside the body began to undergo earth-shattering changes!
The original jade-colored bones began to transform into a more noble purplish-gold. Natural dragon patterns appeared on each vertebra.
The spine, like a dragon, soars into the sky!
"Roar--!!!"
This time, the dragon's roar was no longer emitted by the fake dragon.
It was Su Chen himself!
At this moment, his spine truly transformed into the majestic Mount Buzhou, capable of supporting heaven and earth!
Physical transformation into an ancient god... 90% complete!
Su Chen slowly stood up, feeling the terrifying power within his body that seemed capable of piercing the heavens.
He glanced at the Purple-Gold Spine Dragon at his feet, now completely destroyed and reduced to a pile of bones, and kicked it into the abyss.
"Thank you for your hospitality."
"The taste... is very moist."
Su Chen raised his head, his gaze passing over the spine and looking at the area directly above that was filled with the unknown and mysterious—the [base of the skull].
There, a gate called the "Gate of Life and Death" is tightly closed.
Beyond the gate lies the brain of the ancient gods—the Divine Court!
"We've eaten and drunk our fill."
Su Chen twisted his newly evolved purple-gold spine, which emitted a thunderous boom.
"Next."
"It's time to knock on the door."
"Hopefully, what's in that brain..."
"It's chewier than these insects."
……
The thirty-third heaven at this time was no longer the purple-gold platform it had been before.
As Su Chen ripped out the purple-gold spine dragon that had roamed for millennia, skinning and devouring it, the oppressive power of the rules here remained, but the suffocating "dragon might" had vanished. In its place was an even more violent and primal—the divine might of origin.
Su Chen stood at the end of the platform, facing a precipice.
Above the precipice, there was not the sky, but a chaotic, hazy gray mist. In the deepest part of that gray mist, two tightly closed, towering bronze gates, thousands of feet high, could be vaguely seen.
There was no lock on the door, only countless distorted human face reliefs, their eyes closed, their expressions pained, as if enduring eternal torment.
This is the "gateway between life and death".
This refers to the location of the "foramen magnum" in human anatomy—the only passage connecting the spinal cord and the brain.
"Phew... I finally caught up."
The Demon Lord of Chaos, dragging his nearly broken demonic body, led the remaining few thousand elite demon soldiers (the others stayed below to adapt to gravity) and finally climbed up to the thirty-third section.
The moment it showed itself, the Demon Lord of Chaos was so frightened by the sight before him that he almost knelt down.
His master was radiating a noble purple-gold luster, his back ramrod straight, and a ferocious dragon shadow could be faintly seen roaring behind him. At his master's feet, the once invincible purple-gold dragon was now nothing but a pile of grayish-white bone fragments, drifting in the wind.
"That dragon...was it really eaten?"
The Demon Lord of Chaos swallowed hard, watching Su Chen's retreating figure, his awe turning into fanatical faith.
"Master! That's the threshold between life and death!"
At this moment, the Skeleton Lord (floating on Su Chen's shoulder), who had recovered some of his soul power, looked at the giant bronze door, his voice trembling.
"This door is not a door in the physical sense; it is a barrier separating 'consciousness' from 'body'!"
"Back then, it took Chen and me a full hundred years to get here. We used our souls to sense the resentment of the wronged spirits on the door and search for a frequency of resonance before we could barely open a crack and squeeze in."
"This door... you can't just smash it open! It's connected to the ancient god's divine court and possesses the rule of 'absolute defense'!"
"Absolute defense?"
Su Chen looked up at the massive door that exuded an aura of despair.
In his eyes, gold and silver light flowed (beginner application of the Eye of Origin), and his gaze penetrated the surface to see the flowing, regular lines inside the gate.
Indeed, as the Skeleton Lord said, this door is a product of the "combination of the real and the virtual." Physical attacks are rendered virtual, and mental attacks are reflected.
"Skeleton Lord, the methods of your era are too slow."
Su Chen twisted his neck, making a crisp "crackling" sound.
"Resonance? Sensation? Asking it to open the door?"
"In my life, the thing I hate most is asking for favors."
"and……"
Su Chen bowed slightly, took a half step back with his right foot, and made an extremely strange starting stance.
His hands were not clenched into fists, but rather pressed tightly against his thighs.
His whole being was stretched taut like a bowstring!
"Besides, I just had a new spine replaced and I was worried about not having anywhere to test its stiffness."
Om-! ! !
As Su Chen moved, the purple-gold spine inside his body began to tremble wildly.
Each vertebra was rubbing and squeezing, emitting a low growl like the roar of an engine. That was the eruption of the "Heavenly Pillar Marrow" it had just devoured, that was the roar of the resentment of the ten-thousand-year-old spinal dragon!
What is he doing?
The demon soldiers behind them stared wide-eyed, unable to understand their lord's actions.
"This posture... could it be..." The Demon Lord of Chaos's pupils contracted.
"Using your body as a bow and your head as an arrow?!"
The Skeleton King screamed, "Master! Don't be impulsive! That's a head! That's a brain! If you break it, you'll become stupid!!"
"Shut up."
Su Chen's voice was deep and calm, yet it carried an undeniable madness.
"Origin Law Definition: My head... is harder than it!!"
"Ancient God - Heavenly Dragon Impact!!!"
boom!!!
Su Chen moved.
This movement was as powerful as thunder.
The purple-gold platform beneath his feet shattered instantly, and his entire body transformed into a purple-gold streak of light. He didn't use his hands or feet, but rather his head, which didn't seem that large, to smash fiercely and irrationally into the so-called "absolute defense" barrier between life and death!
This is the most primal form of violence!
This is the ultimate form of savagery!
This is also the greatest contempt for the so-called "rules"!
"Thump—!!!"
A deafening roar, beyond description, exploded in the void rift.
The sound was no longer a sound wave, but a devastating shockwave.
The gray fog that stretched for thousands of miles was instantly dispersed.
The Hun Tian Demon Lord and others behind him didn't even have time to assume a defensive stance before being thrown away by the aftershock, rolling back to the thirty-second section like gourds.
At the center of the impact.
Time seemed to freeze for a moment.
Followed by.
"Crack..."
A crisp cracking sound resonated clearly deep within the souls of every living being present. (End of Chapter)