Invincible Beyond Heavens: Cultivating With A Broken EXP System

But amid the crushing pressure, Li Yun slowly lifted his head.

That faint smile remained on his face, unchanged in the slightest.

The suffocating might descending from Huang Chen was enough to make younger disciples collapse where they stood. It was powerful enough to force seasoned elders to tighten their expressions and silently circulate qi to steady themselves. Yet Li Yun looked as though he were merely standing beneath a stronger gust of wind.

There was no panic in his eyes. There was no strain in his posture. Even the hand holding his sword remained steady and relaxed.

Then he laughed softly.

“So this is the pressure of the third rank of the Hidden Dragon Rankings?”

His eyes brightened with interest rather than fear.

“Interesting.”

The next moment, the aura around Li Yun changed completely.

He stood straight within the shattered arena and slowly closed his eyes for a single breath, as though ignoring the heaven-crushing force pressing down upon him. That calmness alone caused many hearts to tighten.

Then all three of his cultivation arts began circulating at once.

The Overlord Thunder Scripture roared to life first.

The Great Sun Flame Scripture followed immediately after.

Then the Wind God Raging Art awakened in full force.

All three had reached the thirteenth layer.

A violent burst of blue lightning erupted from Li Yun’s body first, tearing through the air like enraged dragons breaking free of chains. Thick arcs of electricity coiled around his limbs, shoulders, and back, filling the battlefield with destructive force. Every spark that touched the ground blasted small pits into the broken stone.

Immediately after, scarlet-gold flames surged from within him like the birth of a miniature sun. Waves of scorching heat spread outward in circles, distorting the air and causing the frost left behind by Ice God Valley to evaporate instantly. Steam hissed upward from every direction.

Then came wind.

Invisible currents exploded outward from Li Yun’s center and spiraled around him with terrifying force. Broken stones, dust, shattered wood, and fragments of ruined weapons were hurled into the sky as if caught inside a storm vortex. Robes across the summit whipped violently in the gale.

The three elemental forces did not reject one another. They did not clash or become unstable. Instead, they merged into one terrifying presence.

Then another pressure burst from Li Yun.

The already ruined ground beneath his feet exploded apart completely. Layers of stone were pulverized into powder, and a crater spread rapidly outward beneath him as though the earth itself could no longer endure the force radiating from his body.

The damaged remains of the arena sank another level. Jagged cracks tore through the platform in every direction.

Many disciples cried out and retreated farther back in alarm.

“What is happening?”

“He released pressure too!”

“That ground is collapsing from aura alone!”

Li Yun slowly opened his eyes.

There was now a blazing sharpness within them.

Then his pressure surged upward.

It rose like a dragon ascending toward the heavens. It rushed directly into Huang Chen’s descending might without the slightest hesitation.

Deep and terrifying booms echoed continuously throughout Heaven Dew Peak.

The air between the two men distorted violently. Invisible waves smashed into one another high above the summit, creating ripples that spread through the clouds. Dust storms rose below while banners on all three flying boats snapped wildly in the wind.

Neither pressure yielded. Neither side retreated.

It was as though two unseen mountains had collided in the sky.

The entire Heaven Dew Peak trembled beneath their clash.

The expressions of everyone present froze.

Han Li stared blankly, hardly believing what he was witnessing.

“He blocked it?”

Han Xue’s lips parted in disbelief.

“That was Huang Chen’s pressure. How can Li Yun resist it?”

Qin Ling’s usually calm eyes widened.

“This is impossible. Even many Essence Qi Realm elders were shaken.”

Shi Xing clenched her fists so tightly that her nails bit into her palms.

“So this bastard was still hiding more?”

Standing near Li Yun, Elder Fan’s face turned ugly. Several palace geniuses had already gone pale.

Even Yan Luo’s cold expression cracked for the first time.

She had expected Li Yun to struggle beneath the weight. She had expected him to kneel in disgrace before Huang Chen. Instead, he was countering Huang Chen directly before everyone.

On the flying boat of Martial Ascension Gate, Peak Lord Shen Ming stared intently at Li Yun.

Then his expression changed sharply. “Wait…”

“That pressure…” The peak lord of the Profound Mystery peak also muttered in shock.

“It is not one cultivation art,” the peak lord of the Human Origin Peak said with disbelief.

“It is three.”

Those words spread through the summit like thunder.

“Three?”

“Three cultivation arts?”

“All mid-grade Profound Rank?”

“And all at the thirteenth layer?”

The summit erupted into complete shock.

To cultivate even one mid-grade Profound Rank art to the thirteenth layer while still young was enough to be called a genius. To cultivate two was exceedingly rare.

To cultivate three simultaneously, all to the thirteenth layer, while making them coexist without conflict, was monstrous beyond common sense.

Even Elder Mu’s icy composure wavered.

Mu Lan looked at Li Yun below, her heart trembling. She had known he was extraordinary, but even she had not imagined this extent.

High above them all, Huang Chen’s eyes narrowed for the first time since arriving.

He had expected some futile resistance from Li Yun but not this.

Below him, Li Yun stood wrapped in lightning, flame, and roaring wind, smiling faintly as their pressures continued colliding in the air.

The booming sounds above Heaven Dew Peak did not stop.

Huang Chen looked at Li Yun for a long moment before a trace of coldness surfaced in his eyes.

At first, he had regarded Li Yun as nothing more than an unexpectedly talented junior who had seized the momentum of today’s chaos to rise into prominence. In his mind, the uproar at Heaven Dew Peak had been caused by surprise, circumstance, and the weakness of those Li Yun had faced before.

Now he understood that judgment had been shallow.

Anyone who could endure his pressure directly while circulating three mid-grade Profound Rank cultivation arts at the thirteenth layer was no ordinary genius. Such a person had already stepped beyond common standards and entered the realm of true monsters.

And anyone worthy of such recognition was worthy of being tested personally.