Martial Ascent to Divinity-Chapter 518 - 501: The Guardian of Order

Vast universe, Celestial Region of the Star Court.

In an ancient gray-gold great hall, variously shaped demigods sat within.

Along the walls on both sides of the hall, countless light spots appeared.

These light spots slowly rotated on the walls, forming immense spiral galaxies, numbering in the billions.

Some of the light spots were white, some blue, and others red.

Suddenly, a white light spot turned blue.

A demigod looked towards it, and while the light spot on the wall didn’t change, in his eyes, it transformed into an endless starry sky, rapidly closing in as countless galaxies receded.

After a full three seconds, the starry sky before him halted, revealing a colossal remnant of a continent, suspended in the dark void, orbiting a sun.

The remnant was dozens of times larger than ordinary planets, shrouded in dark clouds.

The demigod blinked, and the image before him drew closer again, as if he was hovering above this broken expanse, overlooking the land.

He gently turned his head, his gaze sweeping over the entire land.

"The broken ancient trial ground, abandoned for years, activated formally for the first time..."

"Added to the elementary trial quota... reporting..."

"Approval complete, initiating trial monitoring..."

"Detected slight pollution from a foreign god... elementary civilization involved... power level too weak, no need..."

"Commencing record filing, obtaining primordial imprints of all trial takers for high-level civilization pre-selection..."

"The ancient blood count remains unchanged, incorporated into the Tai Life Star Court..."

"Application to activate the Ascension to Divinity ring, connect to the Celestial Ladder, project the Preserver..."

He remained silent, exchanging rapidly with the star wall in front of him through his thoughts.

In just the blink of an eye, he looked up at the Celestial Ladder above the great battlefield.

In an instant, a pale white glow swept across, like a gust of wind.

Beneath the Celestial Ladder, a white jade stele emerged, its base a star turtle named Preserver, supported by eighty-eight thick legs forming a turtle shell of gathered stars.

Behind the turtle shell, a large azure-scaled dragon body extended, coiling upward to encircle the white jade stele.

Atop the white jade stele, there was nothing.

The demigod blinked, and everything vanished, returning him to the star wall.

From start to finish, it was less than ten seconds.

The next light spot changed, and he immediately entered observation, as everything before was just a trivial matter to him.

Not even as important as the moon meal weighing on his mind.

The great battlefield.

A black sun intestine suddenly lifted its head, staring at the sky.

The Celestial Calamity Envoy glanced for a moment, then continued forward.

There lay what he needed.

A complete demigod body of the starry sky race, capable of bearing more of his power to descend onto the Demon Purgatory.

Not far from the Remnant Heaven Bone camp.

Zhou Leng alone, waged a great battle against two Great Innate Beastmen who had sacrificed life to unleash berserk power.

The berserk beastmen, far surpassing any ordinary Great Innate Demon previously encountered.

The two beastmen, swinging massive hammers and clubs madly at Zhou Leng.

Zhou Leng casually picked up the legendary giant hammer of a slain beastman, gripping it with both hands, clashing wildly with the two beastmen.

Whoosh... whoosh... whoosh...

Clang... clang... clang...

The weapons sliced through the air, colliding continuously, producing sounds like tolling bells, increasingly rapid and ear-piercing.

As if three savages were fighting desperately.

From the third clash on, the hands of the two Great Innate Beastmen began to bleed.

By the eighth clash, Zhou Leng’s hands began to crack.

Zhou Leng, single-handedly, faced two adversaries.

The two beastmen, eyes red, nearly lost to reason, ceaselessly swinging their weapons, as if the wounds and blood on their hands didn’t exist.

Similarly, Zhou Leng’s hands continuously split open, but the blood didn’t flow out, firmly sealed within the wounds.

Zhou Leng’s gaze was far calmer than that of the two beastmen.

Zhou Leng’s Great Innate combat experience was minimal; the previous Great Innate opponents were far inferior to these two.

Now was the perfect opportunity to accumulate Great Innate combat experience.

As both sides clashed repeatedly, he gradually familiarized himself with the strength of the two beastmen.

Suddenly, taking advantage of an opening in the opponent’s attack, Zhou Leng twisted, using the rotational force to hurl the giant hammer fiercely.

Clang!

A beastman’s large axe was struck, almost causing it to slip from his hands, and he staggered backward.

Seizing the opportunity, Zhou Leng lunged at the other beastman wielding a large metal club.

The beastman grinned savagely, swinging at Zhou Leng.

Zhou Leng unexpectedly raised both hands to catch the giant club head-on.

The crazed beastman grinned wider, as if he foresaw the human before him being smashed into pulp.

In the next instant, Zhou Leng employed the power of the Celestial Tide Palm, sidestepping, with both palms striking the side of the club simultaneously.

The strange Celestial Tide power and True Qi landed on the club.

The beastman suddenly grunted, as the club in his hand flew out at an incredible angle, spinning through the air, sailing dozens of meters away.

Boom!

The earth shattered beneath, dust swirled, and Zhou Leng, like an enormous elephant, charged forth. Approaching the beastman’s side, his right palm enveloped in waves of white True Qi, his whole being resembled a giant whale plunging into the sea.

He smashed his palm into the beastman’s flank.

This beastman was incredibly fierce and brave, knowing he couldn’t escape, he clenched his massive fist, larger than a human’s head, and smashed it heavily onto Zhou Leng’s forehead.

The beastman flew backward along the ground, his entire left waist exploded, internal organs scattered, intestines flew around, the hip bone shattered, and the entire left leg was bent.

Zhou Leng was entirely enveloped in the Taiqing Sea Robe, and when hit on the forehead by the beastman, he merely leaned back slightly, stepping back half a step.

In the distance, Man Xinghu, who was running and occasionally looking back, was horrified. That punch, even a rock would be pulverized, yet it didn’t even leave a red mark on the forehead.

Whoosh...

An axe from another beastman swung down, and Zhou Leng bent back on the spot, avoiding the giant axe that barely grazed his nose tip.

The giant axe carried terrifying witchcraft blood power, which would have ripped an ordinary muscle martial artist’s face apart.

But the Taiqing Sea Robe only rippled like waves on the surface, not harming the skin.

Zhou Leng pressed his hands to the ground and with a kick of his feet, his body shot backward like a cannonball, leaping more than ten meters away to avoid the next wave of attacks.

The beastman whose left waist was broken by Zhou Leng swallowed a Blood Bone pill, took out a beast skin from the Magic Spirit Bag, wrapped it around his waist, covering the left waist with his left hand, and wielding his right fist, charged again.

Even though his left hip was fractured and his left leg lost support, he limped without hesitation, charging like a zombie, fearlessly fierce and brave.

"Good!"

Zhou Leng saw how ferocious the beastman was and charged forward to fight alongside with the two beastmen.

One was already crippled, losing its threat, so Zhou Leng took these two Great Innate Beastmen as opponents to test his martial arts and muscle stage strength.

Life-and-death struggle, and a cross-level battle against two Great Innate beastmen with vast combat experience, there was no absolute invincibility.

Zhou Leng was hit several times by the opponents, but relied on the powerful Taiqing Sea Robe to endure it.

Even the giant axe of the powerful Great Innate Beastman, after breaking through the Taiqing Sea Robe, was deflected by the Body-Protecting Divine Techniques, leaving only a less than a centimeter cut on Zhou Leng’s skin.

Without the giant axe, their fists couldn’t even break the Taiqing Sea Robe.

Zhou Leng fought more vigorously and excitedly.

The battle at this level was almost approaching the rank of a grandmaster.

The basic standard of a grandmaster is supersonic combat.

The speed of Zhou Leng and the beastmen both exceeded 300 meters per second.

However, the beastmen barely reached 300 meters per second, while Zhou Leng’s burst speed exceeded 330 meters per second, nearing the speed of sound at 340 meters per second.

A battle close to the speed of sound was entirely different from the previous fights.

The three of them fought into the city ruins.

Zhou Leng seized the opportunity, kicked out, sending the beastman flying, crashing through a one-meter-thick giant wall, leaving a large hole.

Zhou Leng passed through the dust-clouded hole and kicked again, but the beastman rolled away to dodge.

"Die!"

Another beastman suddenly charged, slamming into Zhou Leng, smashing through wall after wall, bursting through five walls, collapsing four giant houses before stopping.

Large chunks of wall and roof crashed down, burying the two, forming a mountain of ruins.

The mountain of ruins lightly quivered and exploded with a roar, sending debris and dust flying everywhere.

Watching the beastman fly backward, Zhou Leng gently leaped, landing on the roof nearby, holding a beastman’s arm.

Engaged in close combat with a martial artist skilled in martial arts, the beastman’s mind indeed wasn’t sharp.

Of the two beastmen, one had a shattered waist and hip, and the other lost a right arm, their strength greatly reduced.

The furious glow in their eyes finally began to fade.

Deep in their pupils, there flickered beast-like madness and panic.

At this moment, the two beastmen finally understood why Man Xinghu suddenly ran away.

"You were hiding your strength before!" The beastman’s brain, in a state of fury, rarely cleared up.

"That’s enough..."

This was Zhou Leng’s first battle after ascending to the muscle stage, and he gained a lot, throwing down the beastman’s severed arm, crouching slightly, smashing the wall, charging towards the two beastmen.

Knowing they were doomed, the two beastmen actually unleashed their last potential, each swallowing a beast fang.

The blood and flesh of their bodies suddenly swelled, turning into armor of muscle and bone, enveloping their entire bodies.

The original injuries were all healed, even the severed limbs were temporarily filled in by the flesh armor. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

The two flesh giants swung their fists, crazily pounding at Zhou Leng.

Zhou Leng, thrilled by the challenge, immediately responded with the Celestial Tide Palm.

Two palms against four fists.

The beastmen’s four fists continuously landed on the Taiqing Sea Robe.

Zhou Leng’s Celestial Tide Palm also punched one big hole after another in the two beastmen.

But in the blink of an eye, the flesh armor spewed flesh, filling the big holes, restoring them to their original state.

The bodies of the two beastmen continuously sprayed flesh and continually healed.

The Taiqing Sea Robe on Zhou Leng began to shake more violently, but it never shattered.

Both sides exchanged hundreds of blows, seemingly without any sign of exhaustion, as if they could keep fighting eternally.

Zhou Leng suddenly withdrew his palm, formed his right hand into a sword with his fingers, and gently thrust forward.

Swoosh...

The Void-Breaking Finger Sword Qi pierced a beastman’s navel, then drew a circle.

A large chunk of flesh burst away, fell to the ground, and slowly squirmed like a living thing.

The wounds caused by the Celestial Tide Palm quickly healed, but the large hole left by the Void-Breaking Finger Sword Qi wouldn’t heal.

The wound had its vitality severed.

Zhou Leng used the Void-Breaking Finger to slice one chunk of flesh after another from the two beastmen.

Before long, the ground was covered with squirming beastman flesh.

The two beastmen’s flesh armor became less and less, resembling a honeycomb structure, their bodies were hollowed out by Zhou Leng.

Without the suppression of the flesh armor, one beastman screamed miserably, and with a bang, his whole body exploded.

The other beastman followed with a loud scream, his entire body exploded, flesh and blood turned to mud, bones shattered, scattering all over the place.