But under this insane pressure, Ryan Ling felt like his body was getting hammered by a force strong enough to melt a planet. The pain was off the charts—after all, this was seventeen peak Human Immortals working together, and their combined power could literally vaporize a whole world. To hit one guy with all that? Forget just a newly advanced ninth-layer Heaven-Tribulation cultivator—even a Human Immortal at great-perfection would be toast!
But even though it hurt like hell, Ryan could vaguely feel his Heaven-Tribulation power getting purer. Back when he broke through in the Netherworld, he shot straight from Heaven-Tribulation Stage 1 to 5, then rocketed up to Stage 9 in outer space—all in one go, and all pretty rough-and-ready.
A ton of channels and joints inside him still weren’t fully opened up!
Honestly, the whole process was a mad rush—level up just to level up. But now, under the crazy pounding from all these Human Immortals, Ryan could feel the leftover killing intent in his lightning getting blasted away. His Heaven-Tribulation power was turning gentler. That kind of transformation? Super rare!
What is an Immortal, really?
It’s someone totally at one with heaven and earth!
Their power is supposed to be natural and gentle. If a Human Immortal is all about killing intent and rough Heaven-Tribulation habits, breaking into higher realms gets way harder. Only by softening up, by turning power gentle, can you beat brute force and keep climbing!
But what really made Ryan happy was, not only was his Heaven-Tribulation power getting purer, his Primeval Heavenwood was also starting to evolve in some wild way.
Right now, that Primeval Heavenwood was crazy good at absorbing stuff—and the power these Human Immortals were blasting out was at least half immortal qi. As soon as the Heavenwood started sucking it in, it began to grow like mad. Ryan could sense the immortal qi it was storing was shooting up, bit by bit!
“Weird. Why isn’t this guy melting?” One of the Human Immortals finally blurted out, totally confused by what he was seeing.
When he said that, the other Human Immortals started getting suspicious too. Ryan’s defense wasn’t breaking down—instead, it was actually getting tougher!
“Ryan Ling, you’re seriously full of surprises. You can actually turn their power against them in a situation like this!” Celia Shaw’s eyes were full of shock; clearly, Ryan’s trick was blowing her mind.
“Melt him! Melt him down! As long as he’s alive, there’s no way he can hold out!” roared Lu Youding at the top of his lungs.
In an instant, the seventeen remaining Human Immortal experts cranked up their power again!
Boom! The space around Ryan exploded like crazy—honestly, it was way more dramatic than any end-of-the-world movie!
But just then, when Ryan was nearly cornered, he suddenly burst out with a thunderous roar. His Heaven-Tribulation power hit an all-time high—lightning dragons and thunder gods erupted from his body, surging out in every direction!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Human Immortal slaughter formation around him started cracking instantly. The robes of several Human Immortals shredded apart, and Ryan sucked away their essence and qi in a flash.
“No way! Is this guy even human?” Lu Youding was totally stunned. Not only was Ryan impossible to kill, he was actually fighting back at the critical moment. This was just getting ridiculous!
“Don’t let up! Activate the slaughter technique—the strongest one we’ve got!” The steward shouted, jumping into the fray to join the Human Immortal slaughter squad.