I became a god through frontier slaughter, and I crushed the academy's prodigies!

Ryan withdrew his gaze from the celestial monument and took a deep breath.

The enormous drop felt like a heavy hammer blow to his chest.

One hundred thousand points—that's an astronomical number that makes people feel hopeless.

"Is this the true potential of the Dragon Kingdom's prodigies?"

Ryan murmured to himself.

He gripped the heavy, broadsword, which was three meters long, and his dark gold armor gleamed with a metallic sheen in the dim light.

As the strongest of the younger generation in the Western Sea Federation, he has his own pride and bottom line.

Even if there is an insurmountable mountain in front of him, he will never be a deserter.

Ryan raised his head, his golden eyes rekindling with fighting spirit.

He started walking and headed deeper into the ruins.

The environment here exudes a desolate and lifeless atmosphere.

Beneath their feet lay a dark red, cracked earth, covered with a layer of white salt crystals. Countless enormous ancient creature remains, like small hills, stretched across this magic-free world.

The dry, cold wind whipped up bone dust from the ground, emitting a mournful wail.

After hiking for more than ten kilometers.

The ground in front of them suddenly collapsed.

The ground within a radius of one kilometer suddenly subsided, and countless salt and alkali crystals shattered.

A colossal creature emerged from the earth. It was a Void Crocodile, nearly eight hundred meters long, its skeleton as thick as a bridge pier, covered with a layer of dark red keratin. Black void matter flowed down from between its ribs like viscous asphalt.

The pressure of a late-stage seventh-tier cultivator!

This oppressive force was like a tangible tsunami, instantly engulfing the space for several kilometers around, even distorting the chaotic spatial rifts in the surrounding area.

"Finally, we've found a high-value prey."

Ryan stopped and narrowed his eyes.

He did not back down.

He gripped the sword hilt with both hands, and his mid-stage seventh-tier blood and qi erupted.

Golden radiance rose from his body like a blazing sun, forcefully dispelling the surrounding darkness and illuminating an area of ​​several hundred meters.

The crocodile let out a low hiss.

Its massive body unleashed a speed completely disproportionate to its size, transforming into a dark red afterimage as it hurtled straight at Ryan.

The colossal maw, hundreds of meters long, suddenly opened wide, its dense, serrated bony teeth pulling at the black void currents, as if it were about to devour the entire space itself.

"cut!"

Ryan roared, his body advancing instead of retreating.

The heavy, broad blade tore through the air, producing a sonic boom.

The golden power of the Abyss was forcibly compressed onto the blade, transforming into a crescent-shaped light blade three hundred meters long, which slashed head-on at the upper jaw of the Nether Crocodile.

when--!

A deafening metallic clang rang out.

A violent shockwave rolled outwards, shattering the piled-up bones around them into dust.

The light blade struck the crocodile's nasal bone, only creating a wound several meters deep.

This wound is hardly a problem for a massive crocodile.

The void substance covering the bone surface writhed rapidly, and within a few breaths, it filled the gap again.

The immense recoil force traveled along the hilt of the sword, causing Ryan's arm muscles to bulge. His body was thrown hundreds of meters away like a cannonball, his feet carving two deep furrows into the hard ground.

The Dark Crocodile gave Ryan no chance to breathe. Its massive tailbone, like a steel whip, swept across with terrifying power, tearing through the sound barrier.

Outside, in front of the giant screen on Earth.

The audience from the Western Sea Federation stood up in unison, with countless people covering their mouths and turning pale.

"God bless us, this is a late-stage seventh-tier ancient overlord!"

In the live stream, the invited high-level martial artist frowned and hurriedly explained:

"This Void Crocodile appears extremely tough, with a layer of void matter acting as a buffer on its surface. Although Lord Ryan's Radiant Abyss Power is formidable, it also consumes a great deal of energy. In the ancient ruins, an environment where the power of heaven and earth cannot be replenished, his attack methods are severely hampered!"

The comments scrolled by very quickly.

"Run, Ryan! Don't fight this monster head-on!"

"You've seen too many monsters being torn apart by Shen Tian, ​​don't you think late-stage seventh-tier monsters are weak? Those are catastrophic beasts capable of destroying a city of a million people!"

Inside the ruins.

Faced with the sweeping giant tail, Ryan had no way to avoid it.

He held the greatsword horizontally in front of his chest, pressing his left hand against the blade, and golden battle aura transformed into a thick, hexagonal light shield.

boom!

The giant tail lashed out at the light shield, unleashing a muffled thunderous sound.

The light shield flickered violently, but shattered after only half a second, turning into countless points of light.

Ryan was sent flying backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing into three rocky hills before barely managing to regain his footing in mid-air and falling into a pile of ruins.

He knelt on one knee, and a large dent appeared on the breastplate of his dark gold armor.

The Dark Crocodile pressed its advantage, unleashing thousands of sharp black bone spikes from the void on its body, like a barrage of black arrows that blocked all of Ryan's escape routes.

"We must act quickly."

Ryan looked at the sky full of bone spikes and wiped the blood from his chin with the back of his hand.

He knew very well that if he continued to expend his energy, once his life force was depleted, he would become a lamb to the slaughter in this world where magic was forbidden.

"Release the seal of divine retribution!"

A sharp glint flashed in Ryan's eyes.

He gripped the hilt with both hands and plunged the heavy broadsword into the rock beneath his feet.

Immediately afterwards, the seventh-level Qi and blood in his body erupted out like a volcano without reservation.

A golden aura emanated from him, spreading outwards in a ring, pulverizing all the incoming black bone spikes into dust.

On the surface of the greatsword, the intricate dark gold patterns seemed to come alive.

Click!

The heavy broadsword split in the middle, disintegrating into hundreds of floating, sharp metal fragments.

Drawn by Ryan's immense life force and the power of Yaoyuan, these fragments soared into the sky and rapidly assembled in mid-air.

In the blink of an eye, a giant golden sword of judgment, a thousand meters long, appeared in the sky.

The greatsword was as if it were cast in gold, and its surface was filled with a sacred and fiery power of the Abyss.

The chaotic void energy around them emitted a cracking sound, like shattering glass, under the pressure of the giant sword.

This giant sword contains seventy percent of Ryan's power.

The audience was stunned by the scene, and after a brief silence, gasps of amazement filled the air.

"ruling!"

Ryan's eyes widened, and he swung his right hand downwards.

A thousand-meter-long golden giant sword, trailing a long tail of light, resembled a fallen sun as it pierced straight down towards the Void Crocodile below.

The crocodile sensed a deadly threat.

It let out a mournful howl, and the void matter all over its body surged violently upwards, condensing into a black crystal shield tens of meters thick above its head.

Boom—!

The tip of the golden greatsword collided violently with the black crystal shield.

A blinding golden sun exploded in the center of the battlefield, its intense light instantly engulfing everything around it.

The shockwave, visible to the naked eye, swept outwards along the ground, completely shearing away a layer of saline-alkali land within a five-kilometer radius.

The deafening roar made viewers outside the screen feel their ears ringing.

clack clack...

After a three-second standoff.

Dense cracks appeared on the surface of the black crystal shield.

"Break it!"

Ryan clenched his teeth, his body even trembling slightly from exhaustion.

The golden greatsword shone brightly, piercing through the shield and then penetrating the massive skull of the Void Crocodile.

The blazing power of the Abyss exploded inside the skull, instantly incinerating the black void matter that supported the body.

The crocodile let out a deep, mournful cry.

The enormous body, stretching 800 meters long, lost its support and collapsed helplessly to the ground, kicking up clouds of dust.

The battle is over.

A dazzling red light, several times larger than that of an ordinary monster, floated out from the remains of the Nether Crocodile, streaked through the air, and plunged straight into Ryan's arm.

The exhausted body received a warm nourishment, regaining some strength, and the wounds under the dark gold armor stopped bleeding.

Ryan raised his heavy right arm, connected with the red light runes, and sensed the stone tablet in the outside world.

The numbers are jumping.

"1150 points."

He snapped out of his daze, sat down against a broken black rock, and took out a crystal from his pocket, holding it in his palm.

"How exactly did Shen Tian get that monster score?"

Ryan murmured softly.