Zongwang: Unspeakable fear!

Beneath the slightly whitening sky, the former believers, their eyes filled with fanaticism, surged like a tide. Scenes that had only existed in his memory reappeared vividly before Gao Yang's eyes.

On the black earth, trampled countless times by the ancient believers, the ancient bishop, after the previous bloody battle, has now turned into a lump of flesh, bones, and tentacles.

As for Vitas and the others, the priest and Holt are dead, and the fate of the mage Wolf and Vitas is unknown, so he is the only remaining fighting force.

After countless battles, Gao Yang discovered that the former bishop who had once posed an unparalleled threat of death to him now seemed to have changed beyond recognition.

The oppressive feeling of death that the other party once exerted on him is now completely gone.

The old bishop, who had already transformed into a huge mass of flesh, surged forth with rolling waves of flesh, his body constantly being reshaped.

Gao Yang withdrew his gaze and sensed his current state. In just a moment, he had a comprehensive understanding of his current body.

During this period, his physique was not strong; in fact, it could be described as extremely weak, but it was enough.

Although he didn't bring any of his abilities with him, he didn't miss a single memory of the battles he'd fought so far. His rich combat experience was enough to support him in facing the old bishops who had once posed a strong threat of death to him.

However, defeating the old bishops was not his true goal.

If he had only needed to defeat the old bishop, he wouldn't have needed to bring his unique skill: the Body Forged Through Time.

Unique Specialty: Body Forged Through a Hundred Refinements. As Gao Yang's only specialty acquired during his second Abyss Trial, its effect is extremely powerful.

Each time he suffers a severe injury, his physical attributes are correspondingly enhanced.

Unfortunately, this effect no longer works after reaching the extraordinary level, a conclusion that Gao Yang later discovered.

This also means that for Gao Yang, the only special skill he possesses, the Hundred Refinements Body, is simply used to enhance various resistances.

But things are different now. Gao Yang, with his Hundred Refined Body, reversed time and returned to his weaker state, all to take this opportunity to enhance the physical attributes of his Hundred Refined Body.

For his current main attribute of over fifty points, every percentage point increase brought by the Hundred Refinements Body is a huge boost.

Gao Yang's minimum goal is to increase the physical attribute bonus of the Hundred Refinements Body to 20%. 20% is an attribute increase of up to eleven points, which will directly raise Gao Yang's strength, physique and willpower attributes to more than 67 points.

This improvement is beyond terrifying.

If this bonus is increased to 30% or even 40%, the resulting improvement in basic attributes will be a qualitative change.

For Gao Yang, achieving all of this is not particularly difficult at present.

The only thing to be careful about is avoiding getting too badly injured and dying while farming attributes.

"Roar!!"

A beast-like roar came from inside the fleshy sphere not far away. Without any obstruction, the flesh began to condense and churn, and a tall humanoid figure quickly took shape.

Under Vitas's puzzled gaze, Gao Yang remained standing in place, still holding Obsidian, and did not interfere with the restoration of the Old Ones.

Vitas looked at the old bishop who had been fully restored and closed his eyes in despair.

The old bishop stood on the earth once more, his towering three-and-a-half-meter-tall body devoid of skin, with long, thin tentacles intertwined, like armor covering his rock-built physique. Two enormous bone blades replaced his hands, and two broad, fleshy wings slowly flapped from his back.

Combined with its pair of pure white eyes that radiate fanaticism, a ferocious and insane aura emanates from it.

Holding the obsidian greatsword, Gao Yang calmly strode toward the old bishop under Vitas's astonished and puzzled gaze.

Tap tap tap~
Facing the Old Ones who had already revealed their full form, he stood calmly in front of them, his obsidian pointing diagonally at the earth.

In that instant, Vitas felt that the person standing in front of them was no longer a brave recruit who had just emerged from the flames of war, but a profound and majestic martial arts grandmaster, a god who held the power of life and death!

"Roar!!!"

The old bishop looked down at the humans before him, his violent desire for destruction no longer able to be suppressed, and let out a ferocious roar at Gao Yang.

The sound waves transformed into impacts, blowing Gao Yang's wispy hair.

The next instant, he and the former bishop charged at each other simultaneously.

clang!
The black greatsword collided with the grotesque bone blade, creating a shockwave that kicked up layers of dust around them.

A violent, almost irresistible force surged into the arm through the obsidian blade. Gao Yang twisted his body and swung his sword, the obsidian blade grazing the bone blade and sparking a series of fires. In the next instant, it had already pierced the old bishop's ribs from below the bone blade.

The greatsword pierced his body, and the old bishop roared, his bone blade sweeping across instantly.

After the greatsword pierced his body, Gao Yang withdrew and retreated. His head tilted back, the bone blade grazed his throat, and the air blade formed at the tip of the blade grazed the skin on his neck, causing a trickle of blood to seep out.

Avoiding the descending bone blade, Gao Yang exerted his strength again, squeezing precisely into the gap in front of the old bishop, and Obsidian once again left a half-meter-long slash on its chest.

Vitas, supporting his heavily injured body, looked at Gao Yang, who was dancing on the edge of a knife, not far away. The surprise and confusion in his eyes turned into horror.

This leisurely, strolling posture, with its exquisite control of distance, meant that no matter how the former bishop roared and attacked wildly, he could never even touch the hem of Gao Yang's clothes.

Furthermore, during this process, one injury after another accumulated on its body, causing its movements and speed to gradually decrease.

laugh!
The former bishop let out a painful roar as one of his fleshy wings was severed cleanly at the root by Gao Yang's sword.

It reflexively swung its bone blade, slashing at Gao Yang behind it.

A burst of light flashed in Gao Yang's eyes. The bone blade that was slashing towards him slowed down again and again in his eyes. The bone blade was displayed in front of him as if in slow motion.

In just a moment, he adjusted his posture and angle.

The next instant, the bone blade slashed across Gao Yang's waist and abdomen, piercing through his armor and leaving a deep, bone-revealing wound on his chest and abdomen.

Despite the intense pain, Gao Yang's expression remained completely unchanged.

Even at this moment, he still had time to look at the holographic display in the upper left corner of his retina.

"Network notification: You have suffered a serious injury. Your damage reduction has increased by 1.3%, and your physical attributes have increased by 2.3%."

Seeing the notification appear at the corner of his eye, Gao Yang smiled. Although traveling back in time with the Hundred Refined Body had reset the increase to his physical attributes, now, even a single injury that only affected his flesh and blood had increased his attributes by 2.3%. If he suffered such an injury four times, he could catch up with the progress of his physical attributes that he had accumulated before.

Given Gao Yang's current level of self-control, this level of injury was not a fatal blow that he could not accept.

Vitas's heart skipped a beat the instant Gao Yang was struck by the bone blade.

However, he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Gao Yang's movements were completely unchanged.

He almost thought that Gao Yang would be cut in half at the waist by that attack.

In retrospect, it seems that his judgment was wrong.

The battle continues. For Gao Yang, the fight against the former bishop is no longer a life-or-death struggle, but a surgically precise inflict of injury.

He was like a top-notch animal trainer, always maintaining a sense of control and authority over the beasts he trained. Every move of the beasts was under his control, without the slightest deviation.

The battle continued, and blood stained the ground where the two sides fought, including that of the old bishops and Gao Yang.

Although Gao Yang was able to control the injuries inflicted on him by the former bishop, his physique was far too weak. His control over his body hadn't diminished much, but the constant loss of blood was still seriously affecting his condition.

Even with the help of battle qi, it could only slow down the rate at which his condition declined, but it could not make him completely immune to the effects of bleeding.

With another sword strike, the former bishop let out a fierce but cowardly roar.

By now, its two fleshy wings had been completely severed, one of its arms, which had turned into bone blades, was broken off, and one of its thighs had been severed at the knee.

Opposite him, Gao Yang had more than a dozen wounds of varying sizes, including slashes and penetrating wounds. The blood was no longer gushing out in large gushes under the influence of his battle qi, but it was still seeping out from the wounds.

Gao Yang tightened his grip on the obsidian sword hilt and glanced at the notification from the online system.

After the battle, at the cost of seventeen injuries, he increased the attribute amplification of his Hundred Refinements Body to 38%.

This increase is already much greater than before, but it's still not enough!

Gao Yang took a deep breath, adjusted his state, and charged forward again with his sword drawn.

The old bishop, seeing Gao Yang suddenly approach, unleashed a violent and destructive desire in its fanatical, pure white eyes. It roared and crawled on the ground like a wild beast, using its only remaining arm and leg to rampage across the earth, like a runaway chariot, crashing towards Gao Yang.

thump~
The clanging of metal rang out again, and Gao Yang's body was thrown backward uncontrollably, a deep wound that revealed bone appeared on his chest, blood spurting out.

The old bishop let out an excited roar and charged forward again, raising his bone blade high before slashing down like a thunderbolt.

Gao Yang sighed with some regret. The berserk old bishop was far stronger than him in every aspect, and the danger he posed was greatly increased.

Seeing the progress increase by four percentage points due to that blow, a decisive glint flashed in Gao Yang's eyes.

The next instant, his battle aura erupted, and he took a step down. Although he was stepping in the air, it produced a dull thud as if he were stepping on the ground.

Gao Yang charged toward the oncoming Old Bishop like lightning, a faint but brilliant sword light bursting forth from the obsidian, reflected in its eyes.

laugh!
The obsidian blade pierced straight in, entering through the old bishop's forehead and exiting from the back of his head.

With just a slight release of sword energy, the old bishop's brain was instantly shredded, his neck severed in jagged pieces, and his massive body lost all strength, crashing heavily onto the blood-stained ground due to inertia.

Gao Yang flicked his wrist, and the obsidian sword emitted a buzzing sound, spraying all the blood off its blade.

He turned around, looked at Vitas in the distance, and smiled.

Then, to the astonishment of the other party, he lost all his strength and collapsed forward into the blood-soaked ground.

Gao Yang's consciousness detached from his original body and flew towards the pale sun in the sky.

Soon, he arrived before the pale sun.

Looking at the power projection of the Pale Lord in front of him, Gao Yang made a fist with his right hand, and the stream of will light gathered together, transforming into a greatsword of will that was exactly the same as Yongyao.

Then, he calmly slashed down with his sword, his extremely concentrated will bursting forth, transforming into an invisible blade that struck the pale sun.

Click!

After a soft sound, a dark slash appeared on the pale sun. Then the pale sun cracked open and fell to both sides, revealing the dim yet warm and hot sun within.

Gao Yang glanced at the sun, and his consciousness quickly rose to the surface.

wow~
His consciousness leaped from the river of time, transforming into a stream of light that rushed into Gao Yang's towering, illusory figure.

As his consciousness flowed into his body, Gao Yang immediately turned around and sprinted towards his original location in the River of Time.

He looked at the god who was going upstream in the lower reaches of the River of Time. The other's huge body carried an unparalleled oppressive force, but he had no time to think about these things at this moment. He strode towards the lower reaches of the River of Time.

Soon, he arrived at the location of the River of Time where he originally was, and his huge body transformed into a stream of light and crashed into the River of Time.

The next instant, his consciousness returned to his body, and Gao Yang, who was in the plane, suddenly opened his eyes. Brilliant light of will burst out from his eyes, like two heavenly swords, piercing through the entire plane in the blink of an eye.

Rumble~
A violent roar resounded from Gao Yang's body. His heart was pounding wildly, his blood was surging like a river, his bones and meridians began to collide with each other, and everything in his body was undergoing an extremely astonishing transformation.

Gao Yang sat cross-legged on the ground, his face calm, using his brilliant will to suppress his body, allowing himself to complete this earth-shattering transformation at the fastest speed.

The Hundred Refinements Body currently increases physical attributes by 42%. After removing the original 8%, his main attribute fluctuates around 50 points.

Now, with the Hundred Refinements Body specialty reintegrated into his body, Gao Yang's various attributes have all increased dramatically. His Strength, Constitution, and Willpower attributes have increased by around 20 points, while the other attributes have increased by 15 points or more.

Such a revolutionary improvement is not something that can be easily digested.

If Gao Yang had not already mastered the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts, achieving a perfect fusion of his physical body and soul, such an exaggerated change would have inevitably led to the collapse of his body, resulting in his death and the dissipation of his Dao.

However, now, due to the simultaneous improvement in both his willpower and physical attributes, Gao Yang is able to barely maintain this berserk level of power. (End of Chapter)