Ye Ling observed Tian Ji's current state, noting a difference in his usual power, and realized Tian Ji had prepared a trump card, becoming wary.
On the other side, the Inner Demon also sensed something amiss with Tian Ji. His eyes narrowed slightly, and he transmitted a message to Ye Ling: "Other me, be careful. There's another power within Tian Ji, one that has even suppressed the power of the Primal Soul King."
"Understood."
Ye Ling nodded slightly, then smiled at Tian Ji, "Tian Ji, it's been a while. What fortunes have you gained to become so strong?"
"You'll know soon enough."
Tian Ji chuckled, then his entire being scattered into a mass of red garbled code, charging towards Ye Ling and the Inner Demon!
Seeing Tian Ji attack, Ye Ling's gaze sharpened, and he condensed a Source Text barrier in front of himself!
Boom!!!
Tian Ji's red garbled code collided with Ye Ling's black Source Text, and the entire space exploded. The garbled code and Source Text rapidly dissolved.
The Inner Demon, standing nearby, grinned. He had no insistence on a one-on-one fight. His body dissolved into black mist, reforming behind Tian Ji. His palm transformed into a blade, striking down fiercely!
Swoosh!
The Inner Demon's palm cleaved through Tian Ji's red garbled code. A large amount of black energy surged from his palm, forming numerous sharp black spikes within the garbled code, quickly erasing Tian Ji's power.
"The power of 'Brain'? How did you learn that?"
Seeing the Inner Demon's technique, a trace of shock flashed in Tian Ji's eyes. He couldn't understand where the Inner Demon had obtained such power.
"If you let me catch you obediently, I'll tell you!" the Inner Demon said with a smile, his five fingers forming a claw as he lunged at Tian Ji, who had transformed into garbled code.
After witnessing the Inner Demon's power, Tian Ji's eyes also showed apprehension. He dared not confront it directly, immediately scattering his garbled code in all directions to evade the Inner Demon's attack.
Tian Ji reformed into a human shape on the central altar. He glanced at Ye Ling and the Inner Demon, whose powers were drastically different, and said, "Interesting... one person evolving into two independent entities, possessing two distinct and powerful forces... Ye Ling, it seems I still underestimated your potential."
"However, the greater your potential, the more it proves that all my efforts are worthwhile."
With that said, Tian Ji grabbed the dim light orb on the central altar with one hand. One of his arms completely transformed into red garbled code, adhering to the orb's surface.
Rumble...
The entire bottom space began to shake violently. Tian Ji started to continuously absorb the power of the dim light orb, and his aura began to skyrocket at an incredible speed!
Observing Tian Ji's transformation, both Ye Ling and the Inner Demon felt a sense of foreboding. Without hesitation, they attacked Tian Ji from both sides.
The Inner Demon attacked from the left, unleashing surging black energy, while Ye Ling attacked from the right, his body condensed with vast amounts of Source Text.
Tian Ji, in the center, rapidly decomposed into infinite red garbled code, finally condensing into a blood-red lotus!
The current battle was akin to when Ye Ling and Tian Ji had joined forces to fight "Brain"!
Bang!!!
The combined powers of Ye Ling and the Inner Demon struck Tian Ji's blood-red giant lotus. The Source Text and the Inner Demon's black energy were both supreme forces, rapidly eroding the blood-red giant lotus.
However, the blood-red giant lotus formed by Tian Ji was merely a barrier. Its sole purpose was to buy Tian Ji a little more time.
Clearly, the blood-red giant lotus had succeeded.
The moment Ye Ling and the Inner Demon broke through the blood-red giant lotus, Tian Ji had finished absorbing the power from the dim light orb. He transformed into a giant over three meters tall, his body covered in a layer of red bone armor.
"Hoo—!"
Tian Ji stood up from the blood-red giant lotus, exhaled a breath of turbid air, and his two massive palms easily grasped Ye Ling and the Inner Demon's arms. He then grinned, "Too weak!"
Tian Ji swung Ye Ling and the Inner Demon around like a top, then hurled them away forcefully!
Bang! Bang!
Ye Ling and the Inner Demon crashed violently into the surrounding mechanical walls like meteors. Large amounts of red garbled code surged from the mechanical walls, transforming into chains that bound Ye Ling and the Inner Demon.
"Ye Ling!"
Tian Ji looked at Ye Ling, who was bound to the wall, and laughed again. He charged towards Ye Ling at extreme speed, his mountain-sized fist smashing into Ye Ling's face!
Boom!!!
The mechanical walls rippled, and cracks appeared on the surface of the barrier that sealed the space!
After landing one punch on Ye Ling, Tian Ji followed up with a series of rapid-fire blows, all directed at Ye Ling!
Bang bang bang!
Dense impact sounds echoed through the space. Tian Ji laughed, his punches growing faster and faster.
Meanwhile, the Inner Demon was also somewhat disoriented. He tried to break free from the crimson garbled code缠绕ing him, only to find that the garbled code could negate his power while making his entire body go limp, as if drugged.
"Where did this guy get his power from?"
The Inner Demon watched Tian Ji brutally beating Ye Ling, attempting to break free from the garbled code's restraints while using the power of the Primal Soul King to observe Tian Ji's internal power.
When the Inner Demon activated the Primal Soul King's power, he discovered a golden orb within Tian Ji's body. All the power Tian Ji was currently unleashing originated from that golden orb!
"That orb... it's the one Tian Ji absorbed from the central altar just now! It had no power before, so how did it become so potent after entering Tian Ji's body?"
Seeing the situation within Tian Ji's body, the Inner Demon was slightly startled, and then immediately manipulated the Primal Soul King's power to analyze Tian Ji's current physical state.
Although the Inner Demon could now directly rescue Ye Ling with the Primal Soul King's power, he considered the Primal Soul King, as one of his trump cards, to be too costly to use just to save Ye Ling from a beating.
While the Inner Demon was searching for the reason behind Tian Ji's newfound strength, Ye Ling, who was enduring Tian Ji's brutal assault, was not idle.
Ye Ling had quietly activated his Ink Domain. Every punch Tian Ji landed on him allowed his Ink Domain to analyze some of Tian Ji's attributes.
Although Ye Ling appeared to be taking a beating on the surface, with enough hits, the signal for Ye Ling's counterattack could be sounded.
"Ye Ling, even if you absorbed the power of the Five Kings, what of it? I am invincible now... you are no match for me!"
Tian Ji laughed, continuously striking Ye Ling with his fists, as if intending to smash Ye Ling into a pulp!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
In this vast space, only the sounds of flesh meeting flesh echoed, sounding incredibly terrifying.
However, as Tian Ji finished one round of attacks and threw another punch at Ye Ling, Ye Ling suddenly broke free from the garbled code's restraints and blocked Tian Ji's massive fist with one hand.
Hum—!
The Ink Domain suddenly expanded, and the red bone armor on Tian Ji's body rapidly dissolved into text!
Ye Ling, his head bleeding, looked at Tian Ji and said sternly, "Don't you know the principle of not hitting the face when fighting?"
As he spoke, Ye Ling drove his knee into Tian Ji's abdomen, followed by a right hook that landed squarely on Tian Ji's face!
Boom!!!
Tian Ji's colossal body flew out like a meteor, crashing through the floor!