Sitting cross-legged at the top of the Divine Mountain, Ye Chen's mind and spirit grew increasingly calm.
Having settled at the pinnacle level of an Upper God King for countless days, Ye Chen had enough confidence to overcome the Divine Tribulation, allowing his combat power to make another great leap forward.
Ye Chen closed his eyes to rest, adjusting his Essence, Qi, and Spirit to the utmost level.
Then, he descended from the mountain peak and entered the grand hall of this Divine Mountain he had chosen.
Ye Chen looked closely at the Divine Objects within the Divine Mountain, fully aware of everything.
When the second day arrived and all the prohibitions on the Divine Objects were lifted, Ye Chen directly took dozens of items required for the breakthrough and returned to the peak where he would break through his realm.
Then, Ye Chen sat cross-legged on the peak and began to summon the Divine Tribulation.
The Divine Tribulation.
It is the most mysterious phenomenon of the universe, experienced from True God to Divine King, Divine Venerable, Sovereign, and even at higher realms like Divine Master and Master in the Cosmic Sea.
The Divine Tribulation is a great secret of heaven and earth, a great secret of the universe.
It brings endless destruction, yet also endless creation.
The so-called destruction means that if one cannot pass the Divine Tribulation, at best all their cultivation will be lost, at worst they will lose their life within the Divine Tribulation.
All creation refers to how the Divine Tribulation has brought increasingly powerful beings to this universe, bringing more and more Heaven-Earth Innate Divine Methods.
When Ye Chen, who had accumulated to the extreme at the pinnacle level of an Upper God King, summoned the Divine Tribulation, the Trial Clouds began to shroud the sky above the Divine Mountain where he was.
It was not just Ye Chen.
As Ye Chen began to summon the Divine Tribulation, all ten top contestants from the other three realms also started summoning their Divine Tribulations on the mountain peaks.
Each Divine Mountain stood far apart.
From the fourth level of the Void God Temple, looking across the whole region, the thirty contestants' mountain peaks began to gather thick Trial Clouds, becoming increasingly formidable.
At this moment, within the space at the highest point of the Starry Sky Waterfall, the great powerholders of the Ancestral God Temple could clearly see the condition of the Trial Clouds above each contestant's chosen Divine Mountain.
"The denser and more vast the Trial Clouds, the more terrifying the eventual Divine Tribulation will be. However, the sudden progress it brings will also be greater."
"Even if they are all breaking from True God to Divine King, from Divine King to Divine Venerable, from Divine Venerable to Sovereign, each person's Divine Tribulation is entirely different."
The great powerholders of the Ancestral God Temple peered into the Divine Mountain. When they saw that the Trial Clouds above Ye Chen's mountain were about to enshroud the entire Divine Mountain, thick to the extreme, these powerholders could not help but widen their eyes.
"Ye Chen's Divine Tribulation is quite unusual!"
Looking towards the other Divine Kings at this time, the Trial Clouds summoned by the other Divine Kings were also thick and vast, yet far from comparable to the Trial Clouds summoned by Ye Chen. Even the shallow Trial Clouds could not compare to Ye Chen's.
Just as the powerhouses of the Ancestral God Temple were exclaiming in astonishment.
An even more unexpected event occurred.
Although the Trial Clouds enshrouding Ye Chen had already completely wrapped the Divine Mountain where he was, they had not stopped gathering, continuing to gather. And as they gathered, these dark clouds began to transform into a brilliant starry light color!
Starry light colored Trial Clouds!
One must know, even if the great powerholders of the Ancestral God Temple had seen three-colored Trial Clouds, five-colored Trial Clouds, and even Trial Clouds of various colors, they had never heard of a Divine King breakthrough summoning starry light colored Trial Clouds!
This is virtually a situation only seen when powerhouses of the Cosmic Sea are breaking through!
"Ye Chen's Trial Clouds are overly terrifying!"
Upon seeing this scene, all the powerhouses of the Ancestral God Temple stood up, without any joy, only profound concern.
One needs to know that even the Divine Masters of the Cosmic Sea, when facing Divine Tribulation, run the risk of falling!
Even though Ye Chen's current Divine Tribulation is not a genuine Divine Master-level Trial Cloud, this special color undoubtedly indicates a great terror within it.
Within which certainly hides great opportunities.
But if Ye Chen fails to break through, there is a very real possibility he could perish!
Ye Chen is one of the geniuses the Ancestral God Temple values most in this Stellar Domain Genius Battle, they would rather Ye Chen gain less from the Divine Tribulation than anything happen to him, so naturally, they are worried.
"Intervening in the Divine Tribulation, nothing can be done by others, otherwise it will bring greater disasters to the one undergoing the Tribulation."
"Whether he can overcome this Divine Tribulation depends entirely on Ye Chen himself."
"For extreme geniuses, there are generally two situations when undergoing a Divine Tribulation, one is breakthrough with great realm leaps, the other is breakthrough with great crises, it seems Ye Chen is the latter!"
Finally, the great powerholders of the Ancestral God Temple could only watch the Divine Mountain where Ye Chen was, murmuring.
At this time, Ye Chen also felt a great crisis in his heart.
Ye Chen did not expect that after successfully summoning the Divine Tribulation, he also discovered the threefold shackles within himself for breaking through to the Divine Venerable Realm, but these threefold shackles were entirely different from the rumors.
The rumor is that the shackles when breaking from Divine King to Earth Divine Venerable, Earth Divine Venerable to Heavenly Divine Venerable then to Immortal Divine Venerable, are of "red, purple, silver" colors, locked within the body.
But Ye Chen discovered that his threefold shackles were all gold.
And Ye Chen found that his threefold shackles appeared countless times more terrifying than those in the rumors, as if a hidden space existed within them, the entire space being a shackle, blocking his breakthrough!
Inside his body, it seemed as if there was a large space sealed, difficult to unravel.