Saint Emperor Devourer of Heaven

Some more time passed.

Jun Wuxie had been in the ten-times accelerated time barrier for over half a year.

During these days, his realm continued to improve.

Now, he had cultivated to the peak of the Eternal Saint Realm's Great Celestial Realm, and was advancing towards the Great Celestial Realm's Completion.

As he expected, he couldn't raise his realm to the Extreme Celestial Realm this time.

Currently, the resources that could quickly increase his cultivation were almost exhausted.

At this moment, he was devouring the relic from the Ten-Foot Golden Body Demon Buddha.

Now that he had reached this realm, the amount of resources needed to break through each small realm was far from comparable to the past, and each realm continued to increase, resulting in an extremely terrifying demand for resources.

How vast was the energy contained within the relic of the Ten-Foot Golden Body Demon Buddha?

However, after being purified by his Millstone of Annihilation, part of it was lost, and the remainder could only allow him to advance from the peak of the Eternal Saint Realm's Great Celestial Realm to Completion.

Jun Wuxie wasn't bothered by his inability to break through to the Extreme Celestial Realm.

He was quite satisfied with the cultivation speed he had achieved in these days.

How many days had passed in the outside world?

Yet his realm had risen from the Eternal Saint Realm's Lesser Celestial Realm to the peak of the Eternal Saint Realm's Great Celestial Realm, and he was about to step into the Realm of Completion.

Thus, when encountering powerful enemies again, he wouldn't need to use the taboo effect of the 'Dou' Character Secret, which would greatly reduce his own consumption and increase the endurance of high-intensity battles.

Moreover, even if he used the normal effect of the 'Dou' Character Secret, he could forcibly enter the Extreme Realm domain of the Eternal Saint Realm for a certain period of time, a height that couldn't be reached by using the taboo effect before.

The main function of the taboo effect of the 'Dou' Character Secret was to forcibly elevate one to the perfect realm of a major realm during the initial stages of that realm, in order to better challenge those of higher levels.

However, in the later stages of a major realm, the taboo effect no longer had much use, and its increase in combat power was inferior to the normal effect at that stage.

Jun Wuxie's breakthrough this time meant that the normal effect of his 'Dou' Character Secret could not only allow him to step into the Great Perfection of the Eternal Saint Realm's Extreme Realm for a certain period of time, but also increase his overall strength by several times on this basis due to the remaining effect of the 'Dou' Character Secret.

This was because the normal effect of the 'Dou' Character Secret was to forcibly increase one's realm by ten minor levels.

If starting from the Great Celestial Realm Completion of the Eternal Saint Realm, it was only eight minor levels to reach the Extreme Realm Great Perfection, and the remaining two minor levels would become a multiple increase in attack and defense, which could increase the intensity by four times.

In the ten-times accelerated time barrier, more time passed.

On this day, Jun Wuxie, whose every pore was gushing with golden light, suddenly erupted with a terrifying momentum within his body.

It was as if endless oceans were roaring, shaking the entire time barrier incessantly.

His body blazed with intense chaotic golden light, with hundreds of millions of strands of light shining brilliantly and dazzlingly, his entire body permeated with a rich divinity, and some faint innate aura.

His realm had broken through again!

Eternal Saint Realm, Great Celestial Realm Completion!

Now, he was only one minor realm away from the Extreme Celestial Realm of the Eternal Saint Realm.

Feeling the vast power within his body, the immense blood energy and divine power, he opened his eyes, feeling very comfortable and extremely satisfied.

Immediately, he calmed down, entered the Everlasting Divine Palace, stepped into the Weapon Tomb, and accepted the forging and tempering of weapon intent.

After tempering for a period of time, his realm was completely stabilized and consolidated, his foundation was strengthened, and he reached the perfect state of his current realm.

Only then did he stop, walk out of the Weapon Tomb, and leave the Everlasting Divine Palace.

"The current situation has indeed reached a perfect state. If I meticulously refine my realm with the Innate Chaos True Scripture, I can break through the limit of perfection and reach the pinnacle of achievement.

It's a pity that there's no time for that now. This matter will have to wait until later, depending on the situation."

Jun Wuxie pondered, then stretched his arms, moved his muscles and bones, and his blood energy and divine power surged.

Just a slight extension of his arms caused the space to twist and deform, showing how terrifying his divine power was.

It should be known that he didn't release any laws, just purely extended his arms, and only the pure physical strength caused such a scene, which can be said to be quite shocking.

"I've been in secluded cultivation for these days, and I don't know what's happening outside. It should be very exciting."

He was very clear that after the news of his arrival at the Second Eternal Gate spread, coupled with the Yin-Nether Tribe in the Netherworld of the Life Forbidden Zone speaking out strongly outside the city, it would inevitably make some people have different thoughts.

The Eternal Road had opened, and the number of cultivators from all over the starry sky was simply too large.

Now, in this city, geniuses were like carps crossing the river, and heroes gathered.

In such an environment, no matter how loud his reputation was, it was impossible for all his peers to be afraid of him. On the contrary, it would make some people have ideas.

He had anticipated these situations before he went into seclusion, so he told Yueyao that.

He removed the ten-times accelerated time barrier and other barriers.

He pushed open the door and walked out.

Yueyao was in the courtyard. Seeing his door open, her beautiful eyes immediately had a gentle look, and she hurried to meet him.

"Wuxie-gege's realm has improved quite a bit during these days."

Yueyao could naturally see through his realm, and she wouldn't be on guard against Yueyao.

"With those Demon Buddha relics, plus I'm a Tenth-Order Primal Saint Inscriptionist, it's impossible for my realm not to improve quickly."

He smiled and held Yueyao's hand, and was about to ask her what had happened today when his eyes swept to the letters piled on the jade table under the lush tree in the courtyard.

He couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, "Are those the challenge letters received during these days?"

There were so many challenge letters on the table, piled up in a huge pile, estimated to be several hundred, which was really a bit exaggerated.

Jun Wuxie knew that someone would definitely come to challenge him.

After all, his current reputation was too loud, and it wouldn't be strange for some people who were very confident in themselves to have the idea of using him as a stepping stone.

Moreover, it was also possible to curry favor with the Yin-Nether Tribe and build a relationship with the Life Forbidden Zone.

Under such circumstances, there would definitely be many people choosing to challenge him.

However, what he didn't expect was that the number would be so large, far beyond his expectations.

Because he was very clear that Yueyao couldn't accept every challenge letter. The ones that could be placed in this courtyard must only be a part of them.

It meant that there were even more challenge letters that hadn't been sent here.

The actual number of people who wanted to challenge him was at least several times more than the number of these challenge letters.

"Yes, only a small part, but the number is already quite a lot.

Wuxie-gege, you don't know how many people in this Second Eternal Gate City want to challenge you.

The innkeeper of the Hengqi Inn doesn't do anything else every day. He specializes in handling the matter of sending challenge letters to you.

If the innkeeper hadn't set a threshold, I'm afraid he would have been too busy."

Yueyao immediately told the situation in detail.

Jun Wuxie frowned upon hearing this.

"The younger generation in the starry sky is very crazy. I really don't know where so many people get their confidence.

Perhaps in their view, as long as they succeed this time, they can directly stand above all their peers.

For this reason, many people are willing to take the risk."

Jun Wuxie sighed after speaking.

Immediately, he pulled Yueyao to the jade table. The Golden Flame Divine Dragon was also here, and its body had become very small, only a few meters long.

"Master, these self-unaware guys should be taught a lesson.

This time, Master should take them as a deterrent, otherwise, there will be many such challenges along the way."

The Golden Flame Divine Dragon said this.

Jun Wuxie didn't speak, just casually flipped through the challenge letters on the table.

The full name of the challenge letter was the Eternal Gate Life-and-Death Challenge Letter.

Because, once such a challenge letter was issued, and both parties agreed, then they had to step onto the Life-and-Death Stage of the Eternal Gate to determine the outcome, or even life and death.

On the Life-and-Death Stage, one was responsible for one's own life and death. If one party died, the other party didn't have to bear any responsibility.

"It seems that these people are all here to determine victory or defeat, and to decide life and death."

Jun Wuxie successively flipped through dozens of Life-and-Death Challenge Letters, and found that without exception, every word and every sentence in these challenge letters contained sharpness and cold killing intent.

The people who wrote the challenge letters condensed their thoughts and killing will into the words of the challenge letters, on the one hand, to show him a strong posture, and on the other hand, to show him confidence and determination.

"Five Heroes of the Northern Alliance, Holy Son of Yuan Magnetism..."

Jun Wuxie looked at those challenge letters that Yueyao had placed aside separately.

The words in these challenge letters, whether it was fighting spirit or killing, were much stronger than the others.

Obviously, the people who wrote them were stronger.

Yueyao immediately talked about the information of the Five Heroes of the Northern Alliance and the Holy Son of Yuan Magnetism, etc.

Jun Wuxie listened quietly until Yueyao finished speaking.

Afterwards, he looked at all the challenge letters on the table and said, "Since they all want to kill me to 'prove their Dao', then I will fulfill all of them.

What the Golden Flame Divine Dragon said just now is right. If I don't establish my prestige this time, there will be many similar challenges in the future.

If I ignore them, as the supreme ruler of the Dawn Dynasty, it will damage the dynasty's reputation. If I accept them, I will be annoyed to death."

There were too many cultivators on this Eternal Road, and he needed to deter them.

It should be very difficult to deter everyone, because there were always blindly confident or relatively inflated people.

But it should still be possible to deter most of the contemporary cultivators, so that there wouldn't be a situation where any genius dared to run over and challenge him casually.

Immediately, he found the innkeeper of the Hengqi Inn and expressed his gratitude for his help during these days.

At the same time, he responded uniformly to all the challenge letters accepted through the Hengqi Inn, saying that he would accept the challenges and meet them on the Life-and-Death Stage tomorrow morning.

All of a sudden, the entire Second Eternal Gate City boiled over.

Having waited for so long, and not seeing the Dawn Monarch God show his face, many thought that there were too many challengers and that, after weighing the pros and cons, he didn't plan to accept the challenge.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, he suddenly responded, very strong and domineering, stating that he would accept the challenge of everyone who had sent a challenge letter to him.

Discussions filled the streets and alleys of the city.

Soon, some businesses in the city began to set up bets, wagering on who would win or lose this life-and-death duel.

The Dawn Monarch God was on one side alone, and all the others who issued challenges were on the other side.

Such a betting arrangement seemed very unfair.

It meant that the challenging side would only lose if everyone was defeated, while the challenged side would lose if even one person defeated him.

Many large businesses in the city began to act as bookmakers, making the entire city extremely lively, with countless people heading to various betting points to place their bets.

Some bet on Jun Wuxie, and some bet on the challengers.

The odds were outrageous. Betting on Jun Wuxie to win had a payout of five times the stake, while betting on the challengers to win had a payout of only 1.1 times the stake, a huge difference.

Obviously, the people who set up the betting were not optimistic about Jun Wuxie.

Although they knew that the Dawn Monarch God was incomparably powerful and that few of his generation could match him.

But the current situation was not a one-on-one fight.

There were too many challengers, hundreds of them. Even a gauntlet match could exhaust someone to death.

The Dawn Monarch God's response was tomorrow morning, and he didn't say anything else.

This meant that from tomorrow morning, he would have to face the challenges of all those who had issued challenge letters.

In other words, unless those challengers voluntarily gave him time to breathe, they could completely use a gauntlet match, leaving him with no rest, and exhausting him to death.

Life-and-death duels have rules.

Once both sides agree, when the time comes, they must go to the arena, and without the consent of one party, the other party must not leave. At that time, there will be Hengguan enforcers present to supervise, to ensure that the rules of order are not violated.

Originally, the Dawn Monarch God could have responded to each challenge individually, separating the times of the duels.

But he didn't do so, whether it was because he was unfamiliar with Hengguan's life-and-death duel rules and procedures, or for other reasons.

By doing so, he put himself in a very passive position.

"Come, come, place your bets, no more bets!"

"The most exciting life-and-death duel in Hengguan, watch the pride of the heavens fight each other, earn a fortune, a lot of resources, if you miss this, I'm afraid there will be no such opportunity again."

… …

The major betting points in the city were all promoting it, with people shouting loudly, their voices traveling far, clearly audible even across many streets.

Each betting point was packed with people, impossible to squeeze into, too many people were betting.

After some consideration, most people ultimately bet on the challenging side.

It wasn't that they didn't support the Dawn Monarch God.

In fact, many in the public wanted the Dawn Monarch God to win, to continue his glory and legend.

But this time the situation was special.

Those who dared to initiate a challenge, and who passed the standards set by the Hengqi Inn's manager, weren't they all outstanding existences among the geniuses?

They were all true dragons among dragons, with strong bloodlines and amazing talents.

Tomorrow, hundreds of people will duel with the Dawn Monarch God. How can he win alone?

Knowing that defeat was inevitable, why bet on the Dawn Monarch God? Wouldn't that be going against the Holy Spirit Pills on their own bodies?

No one嫌聖靈丹多 (idiomatic expression meaning no one thinks they have too many Holy Spirit Pills).

This kind of thing is hard currency that can be used to buy various resources.

Now, why not take the opportunity to make a fortune and miss such a chance?

… …

Similarly, in a secluded courtyard of the Hengqi Inn, a young man surrounded by a powerful field was quietly watching the pond in the courtyard, a faint smile on his face.

He had his hands behind his back, and someone beside him was bowing his head, reporting something to him.

"This is in line with his character."

"I have long heard that this person is arrogant by nature, so this Holy Son doesn't believe that he would hide."

"Well, he finally accepted the challenge, and he responded uniformly, starting tomorrow morning, welcoming the life-and-death duels of all challengers."

"Interesting."

"Although the Dawn Monarch God has encountered many strong people in the past, in the eyes of this Holy Son, they are just some straw bags."

"He has bullied too many children, and thinks that he is really invincible in his generation."

"Holy Son is absolutely right."

The servant beside him hurriedly echoed, flattering him: "Although the Dawn Monarch God's strength is not weak, compared with you, Holy Son, the gap is still very large."

"In this world, the truly powerful geniuses are usually low-key for many years, never showing their mountains or revealing their water, like you, Holy Son."

"Tomorrow's battle will definitely show the world what is truly supreme divine posture, invincible in the starry sky!"

Hearing this, the young man with the powerful field glanced at the servant beside him, nodded slightly, and said: "From tomorrow onwards, I am afraid that we will not be able to keep a low profile even if we want to. Strength does not allow it."