We Agreed You’d Just Play the Divine Son, So How Did You Become the Forbidden Zone Emperor?

Chapter 157. Successive Breakthroughs

Even Chu Feng himself had never expected such astonishing progress.

Subconsciously, Chu Feng clenched his hand and discovered that the sinews, bones, and muscles throughout his body had undergone a substantial transformation.

He felt as though his entire body was overflowing with power.

In the next second, an earth-shaking roar suddenly erupted from within the chaotic mist.

Rumble, rumble...

The sound was deafening. It was not only Jin Wuwei, who was standing guard outside the chaos, who felt that powerful force—even the entire mountain they were standing on began to tremble noticeably.

This was an exceptionally distinct and terrifying surge of spiritual power. Its fluctuations were like raging tidal waves, and it shook the heart itself. One could clearly feel that immense spiritual power battering the body as it swept instantly in all directions.

The chaotic mist was shaken into violent turbulence, and streak after streak of dazzling seven-colored divine light broke through the chaos with a force that seemed capable of piercing the heavens. Interwoven with the surging Nine Netherworld Emperor Flame within Chu Feng’s body, it formed a breathtaking phenomenon.

Chu Feng let out a long, forceful breath. Although Jin Wuwei had already told him that this was his best opportunity, one that could allow his cultivation to advance greatly and break through to a higher realm, he had never expected the effect to be this overwhelming.

Chu Feng sat down cross-legged, and brilliant radiance burst from every pore of his body, as though he were about to undergo a complete Rebirth Through Transformation.

Every strand of that blinding radiance contained world-destroying power, and it was now gradually changing all his skin and bones.

A few seconds later, a hazy phantom unexpectedly appeared behind Chu Feng.

This phantom was extremely strange. One moment it was transparent, and the next it seemed solid and real, making it look profoundly unreal.

Only after it stabilized somewhat did they realize that this phantom was actually the towering shadow of a Nine Netherworld Imperial Palace, suppressing the eternal heavens!

“Th-This... what is this? What is happening? How did it suddenly become like this?”

Cailin sat kneeling to one side, her beautiful eyes wide as her delicate body trembled uncontrollably.

Faced with that towering phantom, Cailin felt an intense sense of unease throughout her body.

A very peculiar pressure came crashing over her, making her instinctively clutch at her heart.

She even felt as though that phantom meant to suppress her completely, which was why such panic had seized her.

She had just been about to ask Chu Feng what was going on, but the moment she turned her head, she discovered that Chu Feng was radiating overwhelming spiritual energy.

That spiritual energy carried an astonishing pressure. Cailin could not help retreating several steps to the side.

She feared that pressure might injure her.

In the end, Cailin could only watch helplessly as Chu Feng’s cultivation aura rose higher and higher.

At first, only a layer of pale yellow spiritual light shrouded Chu Feng’s body. Then, right before Cailin’s eyes, that spiritual light gradually transformed into seven-colored radiance, and the glow continued to shift and evolve.

“The Self-Severing Realm… Peak of the First Level, Second Level, peak of the Second Level, Third Level… Th-This... there is actually someone who can break through the Self-Severing Realm so easily, even directly reaching the peak of the Third Level... Th-This... that cannot be possible. Absolutely impossible.”

Cailin was filled with disbelief, her lovely, watery eyes opened impossibly wide.

But the more impossible it seemed, the faster Chu Feng broke through.

At the instant he reached the Third Level of the Self-Severing Realm, not only Cailin, but even Chu Feng himself was so shocked that he abruptly opened his eyes.

Perhaps because of the chaos, the moment he opened them, Chu Feng felt that everything before him was blurred, as though nothing was truly clear.

Chu Feng closed his eyes again and, with a speed faster than thunder, sank his qi into his dantian...

When Chu Feng opened his eyes once more, the chaos before him suddenly vanished, and everything became crystal clear. His pupils, too, seemed to have undergone a heaven-shaking transformation.

It was as though he now possessed Double Pupils...

Cailin was utterly dumbfounded. She stared at Chu Feng in disbelief. In such a short time, he had undergone such earth-shattering changes.

Yet even more shocking things were still to come. Before Cailin had time to digest any of it, she saw two beams of divine light shoot from Chu Feng’s pupils straight into the sky, as though they could pierce through heaven and earth.

This light was completely different from the radiant glow surrounding Chu Feng’s body. It carried an indescribable spiritual essence. Merely looking at it, one could sense its purity and its power of purification.

It tore two pitch-black rifts through the chaotic mist, and those rifts remained for a long time without dispersing, as though even the void itself had been pierced through by his gaze.

That penetrating power was simply too terrifying. Cailin even felt that, at this rate, anyone standing before Chu Feng would be completely transparent. He could likely see straight through a person’s body.

Just hearing of such an ability was already enough to make one shudder in fear.

If that was the case, then whether one was human, demon, or immortal, before Chu Feng, one would be no different from a sheet of transparent white paper.

No matter what methods one intended to use, Chu Feng would be able to perceive everything with perfect clarity.

Cailin could not stop trembling, her entire body filled with dread.

At first, Cailin had thought that so long as she complied with Chu Feng’s demands, he might eventually let her go, and let her childhood companion go as well.

But seeing the situation now, Cailin suddenly felt lost.

She did not even dare beg Chu Feng anymore.

With Chu Feng’s current strength, a mere flick of his finger—or even a casual breath—could reduce both her and Yuntian to ashes.

Even more terrifying was the fact that mysterious runes began to emerge around Chu Feng’s body.

These runes also began to shine with seven-colored halos. It was the perfect manifestation of her Seven-Colored Spiritual Aura fusing with Chu Feng’s own Dao Laws.

“I never knew... that there was such a strange power within me,” Cailin could not help murmuring.

Although Cailin had known since birth that she possessed a kind of Seven-Colored Spiritual Aura, she had never known that when it combined with Chu Feng’s special physique, it would produce such immense changes and effects.

“My Seven-Colored Spiritual Aura... it was completely refined by you, and fused with your own Dao Laws to such an extent?”

A storm surged in Cailin’s heart, and she did not even know what she was feeling anymore.

On the one hand, she was shocked that the Seven-Colored Spiritual Aura within her could have such an effect. On the other, she was reluctant to see the spiritual aura she had painstakingly nurtured be completely absorbed by Chu Feng.

To Cailin, as a member of the Ancient Royal Clan, she herself was already an exceptionally noble existence. And after finally nurturing her Seven-Colored Spiritual Aura to such a level, it had now all been absorbed by Chu Feng.

Cailin was, after all, a woman. Naturally, she felt that something so precious ought to be reserved for her future partner.

Although the Ancient Royal Clan consisted of all manner of divine beasts, it was precisely because of that that they were incomparably loyal to their other halves.

In this regard, they were even more devoted than humans, those of the Immortal Realm, or those of the Demon Realm.