Chapter 217 – Extreme Realm! This battle was too difficult!

All of this happened in the blink of an eye! Five Peak Tier experts vanished from the Void Battlefield.

“What happened?”

The High-Tier Giants observing the battle in the Void Battlefield were stunned!

Everything happened too quickly—from the appearance of the eerie black chains to the disappearance of the five Peak Tier experts, it all occurred in an instant.

Some High-Tier Giants didn’t even clearly see what had just transpired.

Time passed minute by minute, but the five Peak Tier experts never reappeared.

This scene left everyone watching on their television screens equally bewildered.

In the Void Battlefield, after waiting for a long time without the five Peak Tier experts returning, one of the High-Tier Giants suddenly attacked the person beside him.

This acted like a fuse, reigniting the Void Battlefield and steering it back onto the path of conflict.

Especially after witnessing the disappearance of the five Peak Tier experts, the flames of ambition rekindled in the eyes of many High-Tier Giants.

The absence of the five Peak Tier experts meant they once again had a chance to seize the title of Provincial Top Scholar.

A great battle erupted, plunging the Void Battlefield into chaos.

…

After an unknown amount of time, the Void Battlefield grew quiet.

A High-Tier Giant hovered in the air, coughing up blood continuously, yet his eyes burned with intense excitement!

Now, he was the only one left in the entire Void Battlefield.

With the disappearance of the five Peak Tier experts, did this mean the title of “Provincial Top Scholar” had fallen upon his head?

“Hahaha! I never expected it… I truly never expected… that in the end, I would be the one to claim victory.” The High-Tier Giant laughed heartily, his laughter echoing throughout the Void Battlefield.

This scene left everyone watching on their television screens dumbfounded.

Could it really be this dramatic?

Could it be that the ultimate champion of Nanming Province had ended up with this person?

Where exactly had the five Peak Tier experts gone?

Swish!

In the silence, a figure suddenly materialized.

This person was no stranger to everyone.

“A Saint?!” The High-Tier Giant stopped laughing, turned his head, and was startled upon seeing the newcomer.

He hadn’t expected the Reincarnation Sage, who had been meditating in the dark starry expanse, to descend in person.

The Reincarnation Sage glanced at him, then gazed deeply into a certain direction and sighed, “Young people these days really don’t let anyone rest easy!”

As he spoke, the Reincarnation Sage raised his withered hand and lightly traced a line in the Void, creating a spatial gate. He then stepped through it.

“What… what exactly is happening?” The High-Tier Giant scratched his head. “With only me left in the normal Federation Grand Examination, why hasn’t the Saint declared me the Provincial Top Scholar?!”

At this moment, he wasn’t the only one confused; so were the countless people watching on their television screens.

They were all waiting—the live broadcast hadn’t ended, so there must be more developments to come.

Everyone also wanted to know where the five Peak Tier experts had gone.

Even the Reincarnation Sage had personally appeared.

…

In a gray, misty space, Ye Sheng sat cross-legged.

Not far away, four clusters of shattered flesh floated in the air.

Swish!

At that moment, a hunched figure stepped into the Nightmare Ghost Realm. He looked up at the four clusters of shattered flesh, then turned his gaze to Ye Sheng, who sat cross-legged in the Void.

“This kid… is truly extraordinary!” The Reincarnation Sage shook his head.

At this moment, Ye Sheng sat in the Void like a black sun.

This black sun was extremely pure, without a single trace of red or any other color.

It was like a black hole, devouring all light around it.

“Ultimate Realm!” The Reincarnation Sage nodded, rarely showing appreciation for someone.

What ordinary people didn’t know was that above the Peak Tier, there was actually another realm, called the ‘Ultimate Realm’!

It was just that too few… far too few could step into this realm!

When Peak Tier cultivators operated their Breathing Technique, it produced a red Aura Radiance.

But when reaching High Tier Peak, a touch of black would appear within the red Aura Radiance.

When the red completely faded away, turning entirely black, that was the ‘Ultimate Realm!’

Not long ago, after Ye Sheng dragged Xu Xiao and the other three into the Nightmare Ghost Realm with Ghost Chains, he single-handedly fought against four High Tier Peak cultivators.

Xu Xiao and the others used their lives as a furnace and the Emperor Venerable’s Treasure Body Dao Fruit as fuel, fighting Ye Sheng to the death.

This battle was extremely difficult even for Ye Sheng, after all, these four were fighting him at the cost of burning their lives!

Ye Sheng coughed up blood, staining his white robe red.

This was extremely rare. Since he had entered the cultivation world, he had always dominated effortlessly. When had he ever been struck until he vomited blood?

Xu Xiao and the others had achieved it at the cost of their lives!

However, this was the Nightmare Ghost Realm!

Especially since the Nightmare Ghost Realm had recently automatically upgraded to lv2,

With the Amplify from the Nightmare Ghost Realm, Ye Sheng briefly stepped into the ‘Ultimate Realm!’

The moment he entered the Ultimate Realm, the red Aura Radiance completely receded, leaving only pure black!

This made the four despair and feel incredulous!

But Ye Sheng stepping into the Ultimate Realm also meant this battle was over. In the end, the four were blasted apart by Ye Sheng!

…

The Reincarnation Sage withdrew his gaze from Ye Sheng. The power of the Ultimate Realm was not easy to control; it was a force even a 5th Revolution Ghost King would be wary of.

Black energy swirled, causing Ye Sheng’s body to crack.

But the Reincarnation Sage understood that Ye Sheng would also benefit from this misfortune!

Entering the 5th Revolution Ghost King realm through the ‘Ultimate Realm’!

His foundation would be unimaginably solid. All those who achieved the Imperial Realm had once stepped into the Ultimate Realm.

Whoosh!

A vertical Reincarnation eye appeared in the center of the Reincarnation Sage’s brow, shooting out a blood-red light that enveloped four masses of flesh shattered beyond recognition.

In the next moment, astonishing retroactive power erupted.

Those four masses of flesh were visibly restoring their human forms at a speed discernible to the naked eye.

This was the work of a Sage, second only to the Imperial Realm.

In the end, the figures of Xu Xiao and the other three reappeared, but each had their eyes closed, as if they had all fallen into a deep sleep.

“Fortunately, I arrived in time…” The Reincarnation Sage shook his head. Completing this action seemed to have consumed much of his origin, making his hunched body bend even more.

After all, the Treasure Body Dao Fruit involved the power of the Imperial Realm, hindering the Sage’s retroactive power.

“Although I’ve preserved the lives of these four, there’s nothing to be done about their incomplete Treasure Body Dao Fruits.” The Reincarnation Sage waved his hand, storing the four away, then left the Nightmare Ghost Realm without looking back.

Not long after the Reincarnation Sage left,

Ye Sheng opened his eyes. The black Aura Radiance outside his body dissipated, and his expression returned to calm. “So this is the power of the Ultimate Realm? Unfortunately, I can only enter this level within the Nightmare Ghost Realm…”

Ye Sheng shook his head. The Ultimate Realm was not so easy to enter.

He had only barely entered this level by using Heavenly Manifestation supplemented by the Nightmare Ghost Realm.

If he left the Nightmare Ghost Realm and went outside, he would still only be at the High Tier Peak.

“But Ghost Chains can’t drag people in every time.”

“Forget it, no point dwelling on it. I should head out first!” Ye Sheng stood up, took a step forward, and left the Nightmare Ghost Realm.

…

In the Void Battlefield, the sole remaining High-Tier Giant, after a brief moment of confusion, regained an excited expression.

“That’s right! I am this year’s Provincial Top Scholar.”

“Hahaha! The Provincial Top Scholar of Nanming Province—this will be a lifelong honor!”

The High-Tier Giant laughed heartily, his laughter echoing throughout the vast Void Battlefield.

In front of television screens, many watched.

Some were already feeling frustrated.

Especially in Ghost Mountain City, many in the teahouse shouted, “Damn it, did this guy just get lucky?”

“Isn’t he getting off too easy?”

“He doesn’t deserve the title!”

“Ye Sheng should have been the Provincial Top Scholar…”

“This guy’s Provincial Top Scholar title came way too easily, didn’t it?”

In teahouses and bars, many complained, yet none knew what had happened to the final five Peak Tier individuals.

Even in the City Lord’s residence, Lan Tingxu and the others watched the screen in speechless silence, feeling nothing but regret!

Ye Sheng’s displayed Combat Power was undeniable, yet in the end, someone else had taken the prize.

Just then, in the Void Battlefield, a spatial rift tore open, forming a doorway, and a figure in white robes stepped out from within…