"How is this possible..."
Ye Chen’s brows were tightly knitted as he stared at the battle puppet on the ground, which had long since lost even a shred of spiritual fluctuation. His grip on his palm slowly tightened.
At that moment, his Dao Heart was likewise struck with awe by Divine Son Ye Xiao.
With the might of his Holy Body, he was still incapable of resisting a single Mahayana Realm battle puppet.
Yet Divine Son Ye Xiao had utterly imprisoned and torn it to pieces with just a single glance?
"I'll give you a chance. Let the ancestral Qi infuse your body," Divine Son Ye Xiao said with an indifferent expression and a calm tone.
"What?"
Hearing this, Ye Chen’s pupils trembled. Never had he been looked down upon with such utter contempt.
Yet given his current strength, it was indeed difficult for him to defeat Divine Son Ye Xiao. The only way was to break the fifth Saint's Body shackle...
Ye Chen took a deep breath, stepped directly onto the peak of the mountain, and walked toward one of the white jade prayer mats.
"Rumble!"
A terrifying peal of thunder suddenly sounded from the edge of the firmament.
A bolt of golden lightning cleaved down from the sky like a cascading divine waterfall, instantly enveloping Ye Chen’s body.
The next instant, under the stunned gazes of everyone present, numerous cracks suddenly split open across Ye Chen’s skin.
As fresh blood spattered, Ye Chen’s miserable scream immediately echoed throughout the entire Ye Family ancestral grounds.
"Ah!!"
This sight once again made the various Ye Family descendants flinch, their faces etched with expressions of bitter anguish and dread.
As the Second Descendant of the Ye Family, Ye Chen's Primordial Chaos Holy Body was a true Taboo, bound by the shackles of the Heavenly Dao.
Yet at this moment, beneath this Saint's Path thunder punishment, he had barely managed to hold on for three breaths before his Body Refinement Realm was nearly blasted to pieces.
"Alas, even Ye Chen's Primordial Chaos Holy Body isn't enough..."
Before the ancestral hall, the elders of the Ye Family sighed softly, a look of disappointment filling the depths of their eyes.
"I don't believe it!!"
Accompanied by an angry shout, nine golden shackles suddenly materialized around Ye Chen.
The Great Dao roared, and at that moment, the sound of the Dao seemed to resound across the entire sky above the Ye Family, shaking the vast firmament.
"Crack."
Before the shocked gazes of the crowd, four of those nine shackles shattered with a crash.
Ye Chen’s aura surged abruptly, showing faint signs of breaking through to the Mahayana Realm.
Even more terrifyingly, ancient and primal Divine Runes began to emerge all over his skin.
Mountains and rivers, towering peaks, and ancient divine palaces slowly unfolded across Ye Chen's body like a scroll from a bygone era.
At that moment, the spiritual energy of the entire heaven and earth converged into his body, violently colliding with that stretch of Saint's Path thunder punishment.
"Hm?"
Divine Son Ye Xiao’s gaze grew slightly cold as he looked up at the terrifying tribulation clouds, lost in thought.
If Ye Chen could not endure the tempering of this thunder punishment, then presumably not a single one of the remaining Ye Family descendants would be able to bear it.
"Pfft."
Accompanied by a muffled groan, the Primordial Chaos Dharma Idol above Ye Chen’s head shattered violently, on the verge of being obliterated by the thunder tribulation.
"No..."
His eyes widened in fury, golden runes flashing as a trace of genuine fear and despair surfaced in the depths of his gaze.
With his Primordial Chaos Dharma Idol shattered, he no longer possessed the strength to resist this thunder tribulation.
"Hum."
Right at that moment, a slender hand suddenly reached out from the void above Ye Chen’s head, tearing through layers of lightning, and grabbed him by the shoulder, yanking him out from that white jade prayer mat.
"Hm?"
Instantly, the thunderclouds and divine punishments in that area came to a bizarre halt.
Ye Chen swallowed hard, turning his head to look at the tall, upright figure in white standing behind him, his eyes filled with a deep and complex emotion.
"Thank you..."
"Mm."
With an indifferent expression, Divine Son Ye Xiao suddenly stepped forward and walked toward the first white jade prayer mat.
"Divine Son... Ye Xiao."
Gritting his teeth, Ye Chen sighed softly, "This divine punishment not only tempers the flesh, it also erodes the soul..."
"Oh?"
Hearing this, Divine Son Ye Xiao nodded faintly without another word, stepping directly onto the first prayer mat.
The next instant, under the shocked gazes of the Ye Family powerhouses and descendants, he unexpectedly took another step forward toward the second prayer mat.
Then...
The third prayer mat, the fourth prayer mat...
Until immortal radiance lit up all nine white jade prayer mats, and the aura of the entire Saint's Path suddenly turned incomparably violent.
"Rumble."
Between heaven and earth, thunderclouds gathered, and golden lightning hovered in the void, resembling an ancient divine dragon brewing a world-destroying tribulation.
"What is Ye Xiao doing?"
"He... he has simultaneously triggered the inheritances of all nine ancestral Qi sources, along with the nine-fold thunder tribulation punishments!!"
"He's mad!! Ye Xiao has lost his mind..."
Even Ye Chen felt a heavy wave of shock flickering in his pupils at that moment.
With his Primordial Chaos Holy Body, he still found it difficult to resist even a single thunder punishment, yet Ye Xiao was actually provoking all nine calamities to punish his body at the same time?
"As expected of the man I've set my sights on..."
Only Ye Linglong wore a serene expression, her red lips curving upward into a mad, obsessive, and alluring smile.
"Rumble."
As the first bolt of golden divine thunder plummeted, the entire Saint's Path instantly collapsed and shattered.
Immediately afterward, bolts of divine thunder pierced through the void like primordial divine dragons, crashing straight down upon Ye Xiao's head.
Nine great thunder punishments, nine heavenly tribulations!
In an instant, the surrounding ancient forests, mountains, pavilions, and palaces were brutally pulverized into dust.
And Divine Son Ye Xiao’s figure was instantly swallowed by this mighty thunder punishment, vanishing into the firmament.
"Xiao'er..."
"Ye Xiao!!"
Ye Zhantian and the others drastically changed expression. Just as they were about to step forward, their eyes suddenly narrowed, as if they had seen something utterly inconceivable.
At that moment, they saw a wisp of pure radiance rising within the sea of golden lightning.
The divine sounds of the Great Dao rose and fell in succession, and in the blink of an eye, ten thousand wondrous visions obscured the sky.
Great phoenixes, true dragons, and auspicious omens suddenly appeared.
Purple Qi surged eastward across the endless millions of miles of mountains and rivers within the Ye Family ancestral grounds, while innate Dao rhythms rose one after another.
From the midst of it all, a tall figure in white stepped out, standing proudly beneath ten thousand thunder punishments, surrounded by leisurely Dao rhythms and manifesting his Dharma Idol to the heavens.
Across his chest, a wisp of innate Dao light faintly bloomed, suppressing the mysterious yellow of eternity!!
"All karma converges upon me, shatter to pieces for me!!"
A deep shout echoed through the firmament, and that wisp of innate pure radiance surged leisurely, resembling the light of the heavens as it forcefully tore the thunderclouds apart.
"This is!!"
At that moment, the entire Ye Family was once again plunged into a frenzy.
Meanwhile, Ye Futian and Ye Zhantian exchanged glances, a sense of sudden realization dawning in the depths of their eyes, filled with boundless joy and shock.
With a mortal body, he had forcefully withstood the nine ancestral tribulations!!
"Hum."
Deep within the Ye Family ancestral grounds, a wisp of vast and upright true Qi suddenly rose, sealing the heavens and veiling all phenomena.
"This aura... it's the Eighth Ancestor!!"
Heaven and earth fell silent!
Everyone stared at that figure in white standing proudly in the firmament, looking at his white robes fluttering as fiercely as an immortal, and their faces were filled with heartfelt awe and devotion.
Innate Dao Bone!
As it turned out, the monstrous variable within the Ye Family who had previously awakened supreme talent was none other than Divine Son Ye Xiao!
"Hum."
At the same time, immortal runes coiled around the nine white jade prayer mats, and the ancestral Qi revived.
"Ye Family descendants, follow me. Let the ancestral Qi infuse your bodies."
With an indifferent expression, Divine Son Ye Xiao descended from the sky, landing right upon the central prayer mat.
Hearing this, whether it was Ye Chen, Ye Xuan, or the others, their expressions all tightened, their mouths slowly dropping open in utter astonishment...
Especially Ye Linglong, who trembled all over with excitement. A flush rose across her fair and stunning face, her gaze hazy like a lunatic.
At that moment, inside her mind, Divine Son Ye Xiao was putting her through absolute agony.
"Divine Son..."
The next instant, not daring to hesitate in the slightest, the crowd stepped forward one after another and sat cross-legged upon the prayer mats, allowing those wisps of profound ancestral Qi to pierce their flesh, cleanse their marrow, and reforge their divine abilities!