The sky was gloomy, and a light, dreary rain pattered down.

The Electro-Serpent shrieked, frantically charging into the heavenly ocean of lightning to battle one thunder beast after another.

Meanwhile, Fang Yang strolled casually among them with his hands behind his back. He would only act when he spotted a thunder beast containing Thunder Marrow.

The rest of the time, he mostly let the Electro-Serpent train on its own. Even if it was covered in wounds, he wouldn’t offer much help.

’So this is what it feels like to be invincible?’ Fang Yang lowered his gaze, lost in thought.

Ever since defeating Desert Dragon and Su Xi one after another, he had basically stopped encountering worthy opponents.

Even the cultivators who managed to make it this far were no match for him, falling in a single move.

Besides the lack of opponents, what troubled him more was the growing difficulty of finding thunder beasts that carried Thunder Marrow.

’Perhaps it’s time I thought about which Magic to choose as my fourth Lifebound Skill.’

Fang Yang’s expression was calm. With a casual swat of his hand, he obliterated a powerful, Griffin-shaped thunder beast, turning it to dust.

Cultivating a fourth Lifebound Skill should ideally be done in a safe environment, such as the Fang Clan’s ancestral lands.

However, with his current power, he was safe enough even here in the thirty-sixth pass.

Of course, his primary task was to stand guard against any challengers. Choosing a fourth Lifebound Skill was merely a convenient secondary objective.

At this very moment, he was contemplating whether to choose the *Whale Swallowing Skill* as his fourth Lifebound Skill, or the *Carp Eagle Indestructible Body*.

*Whale Swallowing Skill* was an Eating Skill, a supportive type of Magic that could help a cultivator grow rapidly. More ingeniously, it was faintly related to the Kunpeng.

The *Carp Eagle Indestructible Body* could draw upon celestial thunder and Earth Flame to temper one’s physique, gradually transforming it into one resembling the Wild Beast Carp Eagle—indestructible and brimming with boundless vital energy.

’After the Hundred Veins Martial Convergence, I’ll be heading to the Thunder Saint Academy to train...’ Fang Yang’s gaze began to brighten.

In that instant, he made his decision: he would cultivate the *Carp Eagle Indestructible Body*.

He had learned from his bloodline dreams that the Thunder Saint Academy possessed top-tier Grotto Heaven minor worlds like the "Ocean of the Thunder Pool" and the Saint Fire Divine Realm.

With the right opportunity, he might be able to evolve the *Carp Eagle Indestructible Body* into the *Kunpeng Indestructible Body*.

Moreover, he had yet to fully utilize the immense vital energy granted to him by the heart of the Black Moon Water Kun.

Furthermore, if he could successfully obtain and refine the wings of the Golden Sun Wind Roc, his physical strength alone would be enough to make the prodigies of his generation fall into deep despair!

...

Time flowed on, and the situation grew ever more turbulent.

Aside from the Marquis of Shiwu on the long road of Tier Three, who remained unshakable, the Marquises on the other roads were replaced in quick succession.

For example, the initial Marquis of Shiwu on the long road of Tier Five was Ji Juyun, but he was eventually crushed by the might of Lin Shenghuang!

Now, only Fang Yang remained, holding firm control over his pass!

Even after the Hundred Veins Martial Convergence concluded, he still remained, firmly guarding the pass.

Fang Yang, from Marquis to King.

He became the First Martial King, a title not seen in a thousand years, leaving everyone speechless. This was because being a First Martial King was synonymous with one thing: being a young Great Saint!

HISS—

At this realization, many gasped, a chill running down their spines.

With the Fang Clan’s resources, how could they possibly support a young Great Saint? Even producing a young Saint would have been a sign of immense ancestral blessing.

And yet, here Fang Yang was.

"Unbelievable. Fang Yang actually pulled off such a legendary feat."

"Now that he’s been crowned King, he’s on the path of a Great Saint. Even Longevity Heaven will take notice of him!"

"He’s become a force of his own. Once he achieves Sainthood, he’ll be another peerless divine general."

"No... it can’t be. How did he actually make it this far?"

"So this is how wide the gap between me and Fang Yang has become..."

Disbelief, shock, doubt, confusion.

Because of Fang Yang, a storm of emotions swept through the crowd at Broken Cloud Cliff.

Among his peers, the faces of Lin Tianxue and Cyan Aura fell. Zhang Ye shut himself away and refused to come out.

Su Xi bit her lip so hard that it bled. Su Dao stood with his hands clasped behind him, his gaze inscrutable.

Fang Lanxi and Fang Xuan were ecstatic, and the Fang Clan elders began preparing a grand banquet to celebrate.

Aside from the disciples of the Fang Clan, Sen Hui was also overjoyed for him.

In contrast, Chen Ying could only let out a soft sigh.

Chen Ying was happy for Fang Yang, but she also felt a sense of loss.

With such an extraordinary performance, it was now certain he would enter the Thunder Saint Academy instead of the Daoist Mansion of Eternal Life.

She feared that her fated connection with Fang Yang ended here.

Fang Yang was the victor!

...

At Broken Cloud Cliff, there was a sea of people.

Under the gazes of the multitude, clouds and mist once again rose to fill the sky, obscuring everyone’s vision.

The five long roads gradually grew illusory. In their place, the phantoms of the five celestial beasts—the Cyan Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and others—reappeared.

RUMBLE... Streaks of multicolored divine light, each as thick as a mountain, flashed and weaved through the air, stunning all who witnessed it.

Amidst the spectacle, the proctors began to emerge from the long roads, returning to the cliff.

Just then, space twisted and swirled as a white vortex slowly took shape.

From it emerged a figure clad in a black-and-white Daoist robe, his demeanor calm and composed.

With his appearance, it was as if all the light in the world dimmed in his presence.

Every eye at Broken Cloud Cliff was now fixed upon this figure.

Fang Yang!

Fang Yang’s aura suddenly exploded outward, surging like a bursting dam. He had leaped from Tier Three Peak to the realm of Tier Four Elementary!

A scene like this should have been shocking, but the crowd was merely numb. Fang Yang had already given them too many "surprises."

It was getting to the point where they were starting to see a Tier Four cultivator in his early twenties as normal... Normal, my ass!

Countless faces stared at Fang Yang, their expressions filled with alarm. The older generation of cultivators, in particular, felt a genuine chill run down their spines.

The debut of Sen Yue and Sen Wei was one thing, but now even Fang Yang was this formidable. Didn’t this prove that another great era of cultivation was dawning?

For prodigies, a great era of cultivation was a time of opportunity. But for ordinary cultivators, it was a time of cruelty!

’Tier Four Elementary,’ Fang Yang thought, the corners of his mouth curling up in delight.

Before he had even begun his cultivation journey, he had learned from various ancient texts that breaking through the Tier Three realm was a major hurdle.

After Tier Three, every single step of the cultivation path was a hurdle.

His clan sister, Fang Min, for example, had broken through to Tier Three Elementary at an early age. Yet after all these years, she had only managed to reach Tier Four Peak.

This was because she had encountered one bottleneck after another on her path.

For Fang Yang, however, such troubles were entirely foreign.

HUUU...

Fang Yang let out a long breath of turbid air.

Then, with a light tap of his foot, he began to walk on the air itself, heading straight for the cliff’s edge.