Chapter 632 — The Strongest in the Cosmic Sea and the Strongest in the Overlord's Domain

Her beast-taming space, at this very moment, began to crack beneath that deterrent force. Within the phantom of the Eleventh Heaven, the form of a nine-tailed fox gradually emerged; the nine-tailed fox wore a panicked expression, its body trembling uncontrollably.

"Look, quick—Ting Yu of the Ting Clan——"

At this moment, Ting Yu's wretched state was projected across the starry sky. The powerful experts of Origin Star watched her, their hearts quaking. With those ancient prodigies slumbering and absent from the world, Ting Yu was the strongest god-tier in the Overlord's Domain today.

She was also the one people believed most likely to pass the Glory Challenge.

Yet even she, facing the majesty of a cosmic overlord, was struggling desperately, on the verge of being crushed.

Ting Yu's gaze was filled with a lifeless, vacant color; her consciousness had nearly collapsed beneath the overlord's majesty. In that moment, she seemed to have undergone countless deaths, to have watched countless starfields shatter before her eyes.

"As expected, still a bit short of the mark." The Kings spoke in the starry sky. Through the ages, countless prodigies had undertaken the Glory Challenge, but only upon truly experiencing that moment could one know how terrifying the lingering majesty of the cosmos's strongest could be.

It was not that they were too weak, but that the cosmic overlord was too strong.

The deterrent force before them had already been suppressed to the god-tier, but the god-tier in the mind of the cosmos's number one expert and the god-tier in the minds of these "ordinary folk" were inevitably not the same thing.

"A god-tier of the Eleventh Heaven, and utterly powerless to resist!" Countless experts were stunned. Even some transcendent gods felt shock in their hearts; even through mere perception, they were somewhat terrified, believing that they themselves could not withstand a deterrent force of this caliber.

Was this truly a deterrent meant to test the god-tier?

"So, have you found your direction now?" Old Man Ting Xiang watched his granddaughter from Origin Star. Many prodigies who had endured the cosmic overlord's deterrent had sunk utterly, their willpower extinguished—but some had found a new direction and grown ever fiercer. He hoped his granddaughter would be among the latter.

Failure was not frightening; so long as one absorbed the experience, it counted as success.

"Pfft!!!" In less than a minute, Ting Yu was violently vomiting blood beneath the cosmic overlord's deterrent. Her five viscera and six bowels and her very marrow were crushed flat; her beast-taming space had already collapsed by several layers, and she truly felt the crisis of death.

As her consciousness gradually faded, Ting Yu saw Shi Ying's figure. She could scarcely believe it, for Shi Ying was in far better condition than she was—merely pale of face.

Indeed, after witnessing Ting Yu's wretched state, most people also noticed Shi Jin, the man said to be the strongest god-tier in the Cosmic Sea today.

Compared to Ting Yu, Shi Ying was in far better condition—so much better it was hard to believe. Beneath such a long-standing deterrent, he still stood in the starry sky in his true body, showing little reaction at all.

Just now, people had assumed he was not truly enduring the deterrent, but on closer observation, they could see that the level of deterrent force he bore had been exactly the same as Ting Yu's all along.

"What's going on with this Shi Jin?" Countless people were astonished.

"How frightening, so this is the cosmic overlord's deterrent. It's just a single deterrent it left behind—its true body isn't even here—and yet it feels like it could instantly kill Shi Jin." Baoshi Xu spoke from below.

"Why isn't it instantly killing you?" said the owl.

"Shi Jin... he's... holding on??" Over at the Zijian Special Squad, the Collapse Divine Ox was panicked and tense.

"It's not over at all. The Glory Challenge's deterrent lasts three minutes, and every minute it grows a little stronger. This is only the beginning..." Zijian said.

A three-minute challenge—and before even one minute had passed, Ting Yu, a god-tier of the Eleventh Heaven, had already fallen. Countless god-tiers and transcendent gods fell silent.

So then, did the cosmic overlord truly want anyone to meet it?

No one thought Ting Yu was weak; they simply recognized once again how absurd the Glory Challenge was.

"Come back."

Seeing that Ting Yu had lost consciousness, the Kings pulled her straight back, effectively helping her abandon the challenge. Had she persisted further, once the one-minute mark of accumulated pressure passed, Ting Yu would surely have died.

Now, having pulled Ting Yu back, the Kings looked at Shi Jin in amazement.

Hum!

One minute had passed. The deterrent force bearing down on Shi Jin had finally reached an unimaginable level. As Shi Jin stubbornly raised his head to look upon that overlord orb of light, the phantom of his space behind him was forced into being as well.

Rumble, rumble.

Dazzling light, layer upon layer—the full phantom of a twelve-tier beast-taming space, like a starry pavilion, stood behind Shi Jin. Within the spatial phantom, the Chaos Panda, the Azure Dragon, the Celestial Emperor Ginseng, the Sword Maiden, the Star Sea Spirit, the Era Divine Rin, and countless powerful lifeforms gathered there.

Compared to Ting Yu's single familiar, Shi Huo's familiars—Shi Tan's side—were far too many. Though their levels of strength were uneven, on the whole they were still exceedingly powerful and terrifying.

With all of them united in purpose, they could now fully withstand the cosmic overlord's deterrent.

"So much stronger than I imagined... but that's what makes it interesting. Come on!" Shi Jin marveled inwardly. His beast-taming space opened, the Twelve Heavens spanning the starry vault, and countless people stared wide-eyed.

This... was...

"God-tier Twelfth Heaven? How is that possible—that realm even exists???" On Origin Star, countless god-tiers were horrified, and even some transcendent gods were seeing this terrifying realm phenomenon for the first time.

To think he was a whole level above Ting Yu. What kind of monster was this Shi Jin?

No wonder he could hold out so long.

"So that's it—he's already reached this step." The Kings were greatly astonished as well. After all, even among the slumbering ancient prodigies, those who had reached the god-tier Twelfth Heaven were exceedingly few.

"No wonder he could deal with Vabra." In a distant starfield, a transcendent god expert was also watching this place. The Western General looked upon the phantom of the Twelve Heavens behind Shi Jin and murmured to himself—worthy indeed of the strongest god-tier in the Cosmic Sea.

The moment the Twelfth Heaven appeared, regardless of rank, every observer who witnessed this astonishing phenomenon felt a different emotion stir within them—shock, envy, jealousy, disbelief.

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