Ye Chen, standing in the void, looked towards the three Willow Demons, took a deep breath, and then exhaled slowly.
Ye Chen's breath became incredibly stable in an instant.
Yet, the fighting spirit in Ye Chen's eyes blazed furiously!
Ten days ago, he battled the Willow Demon, and both sides suffered injuries, neither able to best the other!
Ten days ago, only with the help of the Golden Monkey was he able to drink from the Fire Elemental Spring.
Now, fifteen days later, Ye Chen was finally ready to challenge the Willow Demon again, to make another assault on the Fire Elemental Spring!
Even if he still couldn't overcome the three Willow Demons this time, Ye Chen would continue his arduous cultivation, continue to improve his strength, as he must defeat the Willow Demon and secure the Fire Elemental Spring!
Ye Chen had promised the Golden Monkey that he would freely enjoy the waters of the Fire Elemental Spring together.
He was certainly going to keep that promise!
"Golden Monkey, you stay on the side and watch the battle; I will fight these three great Willow Demons once more,"
Ye Chen, burning with fighting spirit, looked at the Golden Monkey on his shoulder and said softly.
The lively and intelligent Golden Monkey, upon seeing Ye Chen about to make a move, jumped directly into the void, standing there to watch the battle unfold.
The little fellow even waved its tiny fists in the air, as if to cheer Ye Chen on!
After smiling at the Golden Monkey, Ye Chen turned towards the three great Willow Demons, his fighting spirit surging forth.
Instantly, he released a towering Gang Yuan True Qi, measuring a hundred and seventy to eighty meters high.
As the astonishing Gang Yuan True Qi whirled around him, like a mighty silver dragon dancing in the air, a pair of True Qi wings suddenly appeared on Ye Chen's back.
Ye Chen had brought out the Wind-Thunder Wings once again!
Having achieved the ability to fly after entering the Spirit Sea Realm, Ye Chen rarely used the Wind-Thunder Wings, but in the past ten days of hunting giant beasts in real combat, he had been pondering how to increase his speed in movement, just like the Golden Monkey.
Through constant exploration, Ye Chen finally found the way to integrate the Wind-Thunder Wings with his flight supernatural ability.
The two methods of supernatural powers could combine, and in doing so, Ye Chen's speed indeed improved once more!
This was the harvest of real combat, the fruit of comprehending martial techniques!
Enormous Wind-Thunder Wings, tens of meters long, appeared behind Ye Chen, who quickly spread them as his flying supernatural ability was unleashed, and the two silver-white wings even emitted a sound of tearing through the void, like a combination of wind and thunder!
Amidst the sound of wind and thunder, a great light burst forth as Ye Chen, with his Wind-Thunder Wings and flying supernatural ability, covered a distance of more than ten miles in the blink of an eye, arriving before the three great Willow Demons.
Spurt! Spurt! Spurt! Spurt! Spurt!
These three great Willow Demons, capable of slaughtering even hundreds of high-ranking Great Demons and exceedingly perceptive, sensed Ye Chen's improved strength as he launched an attack. They abruptly shot out over eight thousand willow branches towards Ye Chen.
These eight thousand plus willow branches, hundreds of meters long and flying wildly through the air, glowed even redder than they had done ten days before.
Clearly, during this period, the strength of the three Willow Demons had also increased!
In the blink of an eye, the eight thousand plus willow branches were slashing down upon Ye Chen, who was approaching at high speed.
As the eight thousand willow branches shot towards him, the rolling Gang Yuan True Qi enveloped Ye Chen's entire body, shielding him, while at the same time, an incredibly magical golden monkey light abruptly surged into his palms.
In an instant, Ye Chen's palms displayed a series of crimson golden, extraordinary patterns!
This was the sign of Ye Chen touching the Fourth Layer of the Nine Transformation Fighting Body.
The Nine Transformation Fighting Body consists of Nine Transformation Divine Art; the first transformation manifests a giant Golden Monkey phantom exterior to the body, the second fuses the Golden Monkey phantom inside the body, while the third involves the burning of the Golden Monkey phantom.
These first three transformations are at the level of Spirit Sea realm combat power.
But entering the fourth transformation, advancing to a more powerful Heaven-grade technique, reaches the level of combat power of the Rotating Pill stage.
Upon reaching the fourth transformation of the Nine Transformation Fighting Body and cultivating the "Nine Transformation Golden Body Talisman Pattern," when one fights, the entire body is covered with extraordinary golden patterns, and the strength grows to inconceivable levels—one could even smash a mighty mountain with a wave of the hand!
One could even kill a Half-Step Rotating Pill with a flick of the wrist!
Ye Chen couldn't yet achieve the fourth transformation's incredible covering of the whole body with extraordinary golden patterns. He had just touched upon this fourth layer of technique, and could only manifest the Nine Transformation Golden Body Talisman Pattern on his hands.
As the three great Willow Demons unleashed their eight thousand branches shooting towards Ye Chen, his hands glowed with the Nine Transformation Golden Body Talisman Pattern, reaching out to grasp the incoming branches.
Both his hands grabbed onto seventy to eighty willow branches.
Then, with a fierce tug and the brilliant light of the Nine Transformation Golden Body Talisman Pattern on his palms, Ye Chen actually tore apart the more than one hundred willow branches with his bare hands!
These willow branches had once pierced through high-ranking Great Demons!
These willow branches had once pierced through Ye Chen's body, creating blood holes!
Now, under the fourth transformation of the Nine Transformation Fighting Body, these ferocious willow branches turned out to be no match for Ye Chen's bare palms!
The three Willow Demons, whose branches Ye Chen had torn off in handfuls, thrashed their countless willow branches wildly. The wildly dancing willow branches compressed the air until it exploded, emitting strange cries like that of a Great Demon.
Clearly the three Willow Demons were enraged!
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
Without the slightest hesitation, each of the three Willow Demons unleashed tens of thousands of willow branches. With over thirty thousand willow branches in total, they shot towards Ye Chen like a shower of arrows.
The Willow Demon's attack power against Ye Chen had unexpectedly reached tens of thousands of branches.
This level of combat power could easily kill countless warriors at the Half-Step Rotating Pill stage, and even the very top warriors at this stage would not dare to easily touch such a terrifying killing force.
Tens of thousands of willow branches surged wildly, as if a storm capable of annihilating everything had swept through the void, tearing the very space apart wherever they passed.
Enveloped in the vortex of the willow branch storm, Ye Chen roared and "whoosh whoosh whoosh", countless Swords of True Qi appeared around him.
This time, the Swords of True Qi numbered no less than nine hundred and ninety-nine!
The number of ninety-nine!
This was none other than the Heavenly Gang Sword Formation, a powerful Sword Formation painstakingly understood and practiced by Ye Chen, which reached the intermediate level of Sword Formations!
The moment the nine hundred and ninety-nine Swords of True Qi floated out, they suddenly formed the might of a Sword Formation, with surging Sword Intents beginning to circulate upon each Sword of True Qi.
The next moment, the entire Sword Formation shot out a beam of starlight Sword Intents!
In the past, when Ye Chen practiced the Star Gathering Sword Formation, he was only able to condense a bit of starlight, but this time the Heavenly Gang Sword Formation unleashed an entire beam of starlight!
With the sweep of the starlight, it collided with the tens of thousands of willow branches descending from the sky.
The entire void exploded violently under the collision of these two powers.
The explosive blast waves even flipped the soil in the valley, creating gullies one after another.
In the endless waves of explosions, the Heavenly Gang Sword Formation, powered by the immense Gang Yuan True Qi, actually matched the horrifying killing force of the tens of thousands of willow branches in a fight!
The three Willow Demons, slicing through the air, caused the void to cry out wildly once more. One move failing to overpower Ye Chen, the myriad surging willow branches recoiled and gathered again, shooting towards Ye Chen with renewed lethal power.
And Ye Chen, in the midst of a long True Qi howl, once more combined the Heavenly Gang Sword Formation, again engaging in battle with the Willow Demon.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
As the frenzied battle continued and Ye Chen's Wind-Thunder Wings fluttered beneath the giant Willow Demons, the terrifying sounds of True Qi explosions swept across the entire area of the willow trees. Every place Ye Chen passed, explosions resounded.
In the end, after dozens of exchanges between Ye Chen and the Willow Demon, the area of several hundred meters engulfed by the three Willow Demons was filled entirely with exploding True Qi!
The entire void had fallen into chaos.
This endless barrage of explosions not only tore the earth apart with countless fissures but even caused the normally unchanging Fire Elemental Spring to boil over, its waters tumbling wildly amidst the blasts.
The little monkey standing in the void outside the valley, witnessing Ye Chen and the Willow Demon fighting so fiercely, even forcing the three Willow Demons to tear the void asunder, let out continuous howls.
The little monkey's two black gem-like eyes were incredibly bright.
The youth it followed was indeed remarkably powerful!
To be able to fight three Willow Demons to such an extent after merely ten days of arduous practice!
As heaven-shaking explosions filled the air, and the earth was ripped asunder, even as the waters of the Fire Elemental Spring boiled wildly, the three Willow Demons, having fought dozens of exchanges and still unable to suppress Ye Chen, suddenly revealed a new transformation.
Clearly, with even the Fire Elemental Spring boiling over, the three Willow Demons dared not hold back their strength any longer.
They aimed to exterminate Ye Chen completely, just as they had the hundreds of Great Demons, to quell the furious turbulence of the Fire Elemental Spring!
Amidst the new transformation, divine and unmatched fiery red light burst from the trunks of the three massive Willow Demons, all hundreds of meters tall.
This fiery red light coursed through the trunks and eventually spread throughout the bodies of the three Willow Demons, reaching branches, leaves, and tips alike.
At last, the three trees had turned into Fire Willows!
Once the fiery red light was fully unleashed, flames ignited along all the branches of the Fire Willows. As the flames blazed fiercely, it seemed as if the three Willow Demons had turned into three flame-wreathed Great Demons!
These roaring flames were no ordinary fire; even a mere flicker that fell onto the earth pierced straight through it leaving a terrifyingly vast and deep crater quite a number of meters wide and deep.
In the end, as all the branches surged forth and all the flames poured down, Ye Chen was completely engulfed in the canopy of willow branches and the overwhelmingly terrifying flames!