The 23rd year of coming to Athletic Island.

After completing a 143-game winning streak, Cao Lie stepped on the stairs to the Arena of the Gods.

Kappa, who has been with him for 23 years, continues to lead the way, telling him about the special aspects of the Arena of the Gods, and the anticipation for his future performance can be heard.

If Cao Lie's dream in the past 23 years is to get out of the arena and return to the human empire.

Kappa's dream for the past 23 years is to grow up to the point where he can challenge the God of Wrath and put on a good battle for the God of Wrath.

With their own purposes, they have been together for 23 years.

When Cao Lie stood on the god arena for the first time, a crimson eye appeared above the ring, and countless god phantoms suddenly descended on the audience.

Looking down at the arena that looked like jade under his feet, a smile appeared on the corner of Cao Lie's mouth.

"That's a good thing."

According to Kappa's explanation, this god arena was built with a level 10 resource mixed with a level 8 resource, which was extremely expensive.

If it can be dismantled and brought back to the Human Empire, it will be comparable to the benefits of bringing back more than 100 core resource islands for decades.

At this moment, a burly figure with a height of nearly three meters and his hands clasped around his chest appeared in front of him.

The arriving opponent had a humanoid form, standing there like a statue hewn out of the flames of war, the muscles coiled and the dragon surging under the copper-colored skin, each piece containing strength and tenacity, the face looked resolute, angular, indifferent eyes seemed to be able to penetrate all vanity, looking directly into his eyes.

The thick beard of the chin is tangled together like iron threads, adding a bit of wildness and uninhibitedness.

He was wearing a purple armor made of unknown metal, and a large dark red battle axe hung from his back, the blade of which shimmered with cold light.

Just standing there, he brought Cao Lie an unshakable momentum like a mountain.

Even the breath is as shocking as thunder, and the breath is rhythmic.

When the crimson eyes above the arena blinked, the momentum of the alien warrior changed abruptly.

Like a fierce beast lying on its stomach in the wilderness, it opened its eyes, and the domineering aura swept in like a wave.

When he raised his hand, the huge dark red battle axe behind his back fell into his hand.

Rumble!

Before the tomahawk could be cleaved, the shadow of the axe was already pressed into the sky.

But Cao Lie didn't choose to dodge, he turned on the power of the iron pilot at this time, and the golden light on his body surfaced appeared, turning into a big bell to resist the attack of the axe shadow.

In the fierce collision, the golden bell continued to burst with golden points of light.

The body of the tomahawk also fell at this time.

Boom!

The dull sound of crashing echoed over the ring, and Cao Lie's expression changed with it.

As Kappa said, the strength of the Arena of the Gods was much higher than that of the previous arena by more than one level.

Even the God of Rage, who defies life, is willing to give the fighters of the Arena of the Gods a chance to start over after defeat, which is enough to see the potential of every warrior who steps into the Arena of the Gods, and even the God of Rage cannot bear to destroy it easily.

Compared to the other fighters in the Arena of the Gods, Cao Lie, who has a soul prison, thinks he is superior.

But his advantage is built on cheats.

And the fighters who can go to the Arena of the Gods are all warriors with unlimited potential.

Their abilities are no longer limited to what they have learned in the Soul Skill Pavilion, and they have already honed their fighting skills and styles in battle.

This is something that Cao Lie can't do.

His growth relies on cheats, but every fighter in the Arena of the Gods is a super genius.

The warriors who can be captured and enter the Athletic Island have very good soul potential, and they can even be said to be the top existence in a race.

And being able to walk to the Arena of the Gods is the best existence in this group of geniuses.

Looking at the bottom arena, it seems that he only needs to win ten games to qualify for promotion, but in the tenth battle, his opponent is also a competitive fighter with nine wins.

The real competition is far more brutal than imagined.

This is also the reason why the Bottom Arena needs to constantly capture new fighters to join.

A god arena warrior was able to walk here, and it was the path to heaven paved by the corpses of hundreds of millions of lives.

This is enough to see their growth potential and strength.

This battle put Cao Lie in a bitter battle.

Although he narrowly won in the end, he was also seriously injured.

It was also the first time he had suffered such a serious injury after five wins, rather than a crushing victory.

In the decades that followed.

Every three new moons, Cao Lie would experience a fierce battle.

This level of combat has also made his strength improve by leaps and bounds, and he has become more proficient in the combination of various abilities.

In the process of progressing, Cao Lie can also see the growth of other God Arena opponents.

There are even many warriors in the Arena of the Gods who have studied his fighting style and used targeted tactics to confront him.

Compared with the life-and-death struggle in the lower arenas, the learning atmosphere in the god arena is strong.

Because the ultimate goal of all the fighters in the Arena of the Gods is the same, stand out from here and get the handpicked of the Wrathful God to fight with them.

The Wrathful God has also created the perfect environment for them to grow up.

In addition to competitive battles, the Rage God would regularly send a batch of precious level 8-9 spiritual materials for them to grow and consume.

As long as you have a breath left in each competitive battle, you can restore your peak state through an almost unlimited amount of spiritual plant offerings.

During this period, Cao Lie's Soul Prison also continued to add newcomers.

In the 35th year of coming here, a total of 482 strong souls have been imprisoned in the Soul Prison.

Cao Lie copied all of their abilities, and his own soul strength also grew to an unimaginable level.

Since stepping into the Arena of the Gods, he has not tasted defeat.

The growth rate gradually widens the gap between other god warriors.

More than a thousand soul combat skills are imprinted on the soul, so that he has no combat shortcomings, and he can quickly find a way to deal with any opponent.

With his gradual familiarity with the opponents in the Divine Arena, the advantage of having many abilities allows Cao Lie to combine various restraint methods, coupled with the advantage that he has no shortcomings, it is difficult to stop the undefeated streak.

This advantage has been further amplified over time.

But the pressure on Cao Lie's heart is also increasing day by day.

He knew that his undefeated streak must have attracted the attention of the Wrathful God, and sooner or later he would be invited by the Wrath God to embark on the road to the end of the arena and fight the Wrathful God.

He thought he was strong, but he also understood how difficult it was to defeat the wrathful God.

He doesn't even need to appear in the Furious God Body, he only needs a divine clone to be the target that he can't defeat with all his might.

The Soul Prison allowed him to grow and become stronger quickly, but he didn't think he was strong enough to fight the Legion Leader he believed in, the Lord of Famine.

But the Lord of Famine is no match for the wrathful doppelganger.

In contrast, the gap between him and the furious god was like a barrier that was difficult to cross.

He also thought about delaying time through defeat in the Arena of the Gods, accumulating more strength until he challenged the Wrathful God when he had the power to defeat him.

But that's not realistic.

The improvement of his strength requires him to continuously collect more strong souls, and by imprinting their soul skills, he can grow himself, but he can't find any other way to obtain souls except for the Soul Skill Pavilion.

And the souls of the strong people in the Soul Skill Pavilion have all been taken into the soul prison by him, and he can't find a way to replenish the new souls.

The power of pain continued to be produced, but there were not many soul skills that could make him imprinted.

This also means that his growth is about to reach a bottleneck, and he cannot continue to improve.

In the Arena of the Gods, every time he beat his opponent to a near-death state, he had an inexplicable urge in his heart to use the "Soul Hook" ability to drag the souls of the dying into the soul prison.

But the Arena of the Gods is an area monitored by the Raging God, and doing so is undoubtedly a gravedigger**.

That's why he's always on a winning streak.

In the case of limited strength growth, it does not make much difference whether this battle comes late or early.

In addition to the continuous sharpening and improvement of combat skills, it is difficult to improve physical fitness and soul strength.

……

Came to the 78th year of the Arena of the Gods.

Cao Lie was already recognized as the strongest in the Arena of the Gods.

But what puzzled Cao Lie was that his winning streak was supposed to fight against the Wrath God, but he never waited for the Wrath God's invitation to fight.

Kappa was asked, and after thinking for a long time, Kappa only gave a plausible guess.

said that his rapid growth and fury God always looked at him, thinking that his talent was excellent, and he didn't want to kill him so soon, and wanted him to continue to maintain the momentum of growth, and expected him to meet the peak battle with a stronger attitude.

This explanation makes sense.

The Rage God spends a lot of resources to build the Athletic Island, and in addition to pleasing himself through battles, he is also looking forward to the birth of a powerful opponent in the arena to fight with him.

But the exact reason is known only to the angry God.

Three years later.

Arena of the gods.

Cao Lie stood in the ring, and countless gods and phantoms sat in the audience.

Standing in front of him is a competitive fighter named "Stinger", a strong man who has trained every part of his body into a lethal weapon.

This is not the first time Cao Lie has fought with Stingers, and the other party's ability characteristics have long been familiar.

Facing him, Stinger's expression also looked very helpless, but he had no intention of giving up the battle.

In fact, the battle rules in the Arena of the Gods are much less restrictive than those in the lower arenas, and the only taboo is that you can't keep your hand or give up during the battle.

As long as you do this, you will be directly killed by the divine power descended by the angry god.

The Wrathful God does not allow any flinching on the part of both sides of the battle, and such warriors are deemed unworthy of being in the Arena by the Wrathed God.

The battle was won without suspense in a crushing posture, and Cao Lie finally chose to spare Stinger's life.

The battle was over, and just as he was about to leave, his crimson eyes hovering above blinked.

A powerful energy enveloped him, and with it a strong sense of weightlessness.

When Cao Lie saw his surroundings clearly, he found himself in the crimson space full of volcanoes.

In front of him, a majestic figure stood.

His skin was like fire-burned lava, as hard as iron, every muscle texture was filled with endless violence and cruelty, and his deep eyes were like two burning coals, shimmering red as if they could devour all life.

Behind Him were a pair of blood-colored wings, which were hot as they unfolded.

Just standing there, the strong sense of oppression emanating from his body made Cao Lie feel breathless.

He knew that the invitation of the wrathful gods had finally come.

Standing in front of him was the God of Wrath, or a doppelganger of the God of Wrath.

"Prove to me how powerful you think you are."

A hideous smile appeared on the face of the furious god, and the sound was deafening like rolling thunder, echoing in every corner of the red space, and the earth trembled with it.

Taking a deep breath, Cao Lie's eyes changed.

Even if he knew that he would be defeated, he would attack with all his strength and return to the emperor as a warrior.

In the midst of the roar, a variety of soul skills were released at the same time.

In the face of the angry God, he no longer had any reservations.

With the opening of the "Soul Release" ability, countless soul phantoms appeared behind Cao Lie.

Dragon's roar, birdsong, beast's roar...... More than a thousand strong souls imprisoned in the soul prison descended at the same time.

Exposing secrets is death, and dying in battle is also death.

Why not fight with all your might.

At this time, Cao Lie's body condensed the remnant soul power of more than a thousand people who challenged the defeat of the Wrath God, and the momentum on his body also continued to rise.

Seeing this scene, the eyes of the furious god did not change, and Cao Lie did not even see a trace of surprise in his eyes.

The soul power quickly converged towards his right hand, and Cao Lie took the initiative to bully the furious god who was still on the spot, and threw a punch at him.

At the same time as this punch was thrown, thousands of souls behind him roared at the same time, lending their power to Cao Lie.

Rumble!

Cao Lie's heavy punch struck the chest of the Furious God, and the terrifying power caused the earth to collapse and sink, and the Furious God was instantly knocked away by this punch, turning into a streamer and disappearing at the end of his sight.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Cao Lie also followed and turned into a phantom and pounced.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

Under the continuous attack of fists to flesh, the body of the furious god flew in the air.

But Cao Lie's expression was extremely solemn.

It seemed that he had an absolute advantage, but the God of Rage never made a move, and more importantly, he found that his heavy punch did not leave a trace on the God of Wrath, and the force of the shock caused him damage.

After more than ten minutes of continuous storm attack, Cao Lie landed and looked up at the furious god.

But I saw that the angry god slowly stood up from the ground, and a hideous smile appeared on his face:

"It's kind of interesting to gather the power of the remnants of the losers...... If you can muster the power of their heyday, this avatar will definitely not be your opponent, but alas. ”

Hearing these words, Cao Lie's heart sank.

This was already his full force, but it couldn't hurt the angry god in the slightest.

What can be expected is that there is no suspense about his defeat.

Gritting his teeth, Cao Lie was about to attack again, but when he saw the furious god, he shook his head and said:

"There is no need to continue this battle, your strength is only so...... You go, I'll let you go. ”

Cao Lie, who had already prepared a desperate battle until his soul returned to the emperor's cultivation, was instantly stunned when he heard this.

The momentum of seeing death as if it were home on his body has also been removed a lot:

"Huh?!"

"Why?" Cao Lie, who was puzzled, immediately asked.

The furious god raised his head, looked him in the eye with a flaming cruel look, and spoke:

"Boy, you have an aura that I am particularly familiar with, if I guess correctly, the power you inherited is from the same place as me, and you are from the Terrans, a force that has successfully survived the end of the era, maybe in the future we will cooperate to meet the Kuroshio moment together...... But only if the Terrans of the New Age have the ability to enter the legendary sea and take their place there. ”

Speaking of this, the furious god paused:

"Before I met Ling, I had a fight with a guy from your human race, and I chose to let him go for the same reason as you, you all have an aura that I am familiar with, and our strength comes from the same source."

"Go outside and get stronger, I look forward to you setting foot in the legendary sea someday in the future and fighting my true body."

"As for you now...... Unworthy. ”