Phoenix Spirit's words had also piqued Ye Chen's interest.
"A treasure as my opponent?"
"What kind of treasure? Can it really have battle strength equivalent to the Rotating Pill Realm and be able to fight?"
"Interested, Lady Phoenix Spirit? Of course, I'm interested in taking on the challenge."
Ye Chen was curious to see for himself the opponent that Phoenix Spirit said was more suitable than the giant spider in the secret cave.
Phoenix Spirit played coy and did not explain straight away, she smiled and said, "Come on, once we get there, you'll know when you see them."
After speaking, Phoenix Spirit led the way, with Ye Chen following her, moving through the corridors within the Azure Blue Mansion.
After passing through dozens of corridors, Phoenix Spirit stopped outside a side hall.
"Is it here?"
Ye Chen stopped behind Phoenix Spirit and looked at the side hall. The doors were tightly shut, and the plaque above bore three large characters—"Battle Spirit Hall."
"Battle Spirit Hall?"
"My opponent is inside this Battle Spirit Hall?"
A thought stirred in Ye Chen's heart. In that moment, Phoenix Spirit lightly tapped towards the doors of the Battle Spirit Hall with her feathered wings, and with a resounding "boom," the doors swung open.
Initially, Ye Chen thought the side hall would be just an ordinary great hall, but upon following Phoenix Spirit inside the Battle Spirit Hall, he was amazed to find that it was a place like no other!
Stepping into the Battle Spirit Hall was like stepping into a vast and immense world. Within this realm stood countless statues, each three to four meters tall and carved from giant Spirit Stones that radiated vast True Qi!
The ground of the Battle Spirit Hall was also paved with countless Spirit Stones, linked with the statues. The quantity of Spirit Stones within the entire hall was truly staggering!
The Spirit Stones were astonishing, and so was the number of statues. At a single glance, Ye Chen couldn't even begin to count how many there were. There must be thousands upon thousands!
At this point, Phoenix Spirit finally said with a smile, "Ye Chen, your opponents are these statues!"
These statues were the treasures that Phoenix Spirit said could battle him?
Phoenix Spirit's words made Ye Chen scrutinize the statues even more closely.
Ye Chen noticed that every single one of the numerous statues had a different face. And what was even more miraculous was that each statue had ice-blue Spiritual Patterns on their foreheads, identical to the Spiritual Patterns that appeared on Jiang Yao's forehead when activating her bloodline secret methods!
Could it be that these statues were all inscribed based on members of the Divine Phoenix Clan?
As Ye Chen was pondering, Phoenix Spirit began to explain, "Ye Chen, this 'Battle Spirit Hall' represents a battle sanctuary of our Divine Phoenix Clan. These statues, known as 'Battle Spirit Statues,' were placed here."
"Members of my Divine Phoenix Clan, when they cultivate to the utmost limit of each realm and wish to break through to the next realm, they will seek out the clan's great mystics. These mystics would engrave their combat techniques into the statutes, turning them into 'Battle Spirit Statues,' and placing them in numerous Azure Blue Mansions."
"With countless clan members of the Divine Phoenix Clan inscribing a Battle Spirit Statue at each realm, ultimately a multitude of Battle Spirit Statues are formed.
These statues possess battle strength across various realms, from the first to the twelfth layer of the True Qi Realm, to the early, middle, and late stages of the Spirit Sea Realm, the early, middle, and late stages of the Rotating Pill Realm, the early, middle, and late stages of the Heavenly Saint Realm, and there are even statues of Void Sky True Gods!"
"Countless statues, countless clan members' combat techniques from different stages; they are the best opponents you could ask for and provide an excellent means for our clan members to enhance their strength!"
"Rotating Pill level combat skills, indeed exceptional!"
Watching the approaching Battle Spirit, and seeing the enormous figure that had grown to over eighty zhang, Ye Chen also inhaled deeply.
He had never seen this kind of fighting method!
This was his first time battling someone of the Rotating Pill level, and moreover, a member of the Divine Phoenix Clan at that level, which caused Ye Chen's battle spirit to surge.
"Come on!"
In an instant, Ye Chen's surging True Qi was also unleashed, and the newly cultivated, extraordinarily unique Primordial True Liquid immediately turned into billowing black smoke, rolling out to envelop an area several hundred zhang around him.
Although Ye Chen's stature was smaller than that of the expanding Battle Spirit, his aura in no way felt inferior.
Boom, boom, boom!
On one side was the Battle Spirit hurtling crazily towards him, its forceful impact even causing a violent gale to ripple through the sky.
On the other side, Ye Chen, shrouded in billowing black smoke, also unleashed his technique at once. The Nine Transformation Fighting Body was activated, and Ye Chen's whole body shimmered with the Nine Transformation Golden Body Talisman Pattern. His strength rapidly increasing, he too shot toward the Battle Spirit.
When these two powers collided, the entire sky burst forth with a tremendous light of explosion, and endless shockwaves even rolled out for thousands of zhang. If it weren't for the protective prohibition guarding the other Battle Spirit Statues below, that explosive shockwave could have blown away all the unactivated statues!
Phoenix Spirit, observing the battle, remained unmoved amidst the billowing shockwaves, but her gaze worriedly turned towards the collision point of the two forces.
This was Ye Chen's first time battling a power of the Rotating Pill level. Though Ye Chen was confident, she still worried that he might be injured.
In Phoenix Spirit's gaze, amid the massive light of the explosion, both figures in the sky were not knocked away but instead, rose up again.
In this first exchange, Ye Chen indeed withstood the impact of the Battle Spirit!
The Battle Spirit, finding that one move hadn't been enough to suppress Ye Chen, underwent another transformation. Amidst the flickering of the Spiritual Patterns on its forehead, its stature soared again, reaching an imposing height of more than a hundred zhang, turning into an astounding giant!
At the same time, its body turned a greyish-brown color, which was the furious stimulation of the earth elemental laws. The Battle Spirit at this moment was nothing short of a powerful, surging mountain!
Seeing the Battle Spirit's body enlarge again, Ye Chen, who was in combat with it, revealed a trace of solemnity in his eyes.
The previous exchange, though not losing ground, had nevertheless given Ye Chen a sense of the Battle Spirit's terror; the power of the Rotating Pill level was indeed astonishing.
If it weren't for the fact that his newly cultivated Primordial True Liquid could rival Rotating Pill level True Qi, and he had the technique of the Nine Transformation Fighting Body's Fourth Transformation, he might well have been eliminated by the Battle Spirit on that crash!
And now, as the Battle Spirit's aura soared once more, it was clear that he couldn't counter with the same moves as before.
Realizing this, as the Battle Spirit changed its strategy, Ye Chen varied his tactics as well.
Boom!
Almost instantly, the billowing black True Qi around Ye Chen transformed into a dazzling blue light, and at the same time, a gigantic Black Tortoise Physique phantom emerged outside his body.
Upon the emergence of the Black Tortoise Physique phantom, it enshrouded an area of several hundred zhang, and with a heavenward roar, Ye Chen's surrounding blue light immediately turned into myriad blue droplets, encircling his entire body.
Each blue droplet seemed to contain a tremendous force, and the myriad droplets radiated a power that stirred heaven and earth.
This was clearly the grand divine technique of the Black Tortoise power!