Chapter 1042 Huge Growth (1/2)

The root cause was naturally the twin tower battle with the Great Five Alliance. Although many did not understand the deeper implications behind this battle, they could feel that it would substantially impact the war between these two enormous entities.

There was one issue that the Tianyuan Region kept arguing over: the preliminary participant list.

Numerous Heavenly Sun experts signed a petition to change the participant list, but the higher-ups ultimately suppressed it. However, a forceful suppression only further incited them. For a time, it seemed impossible to put a rest to the dissenting voices.

The internal conflict naturally drew the attention of the other factions in Hunyuan Heaven. All of them could not help but sigh at how far the Tianyuan Region had fallen from its former glory.

Regardless of the details, the twin tower battle had undoubtedly become the focal point of the various Hunyuan Region factions over this period.

Some of the sharper factions could faintly sense that it was no simple clash between the two sides. After all, there had originally been a large-scale war between the two parties. But in the blink of an eye, it had suddenly turned into a lukewarm tower battle?

There was definitely more to this matter than the eye could see.

They had a feeling that the tower battle would greatly change the situation in Hunyuan Heaven.

Such a grand occasion naturally drew countless factions over. The various factions gathered around the tower battle sites, making it seem as if a storm was gathering on the Tianyuan Region’s two borders.

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Tianyuan Utopia, a certain underground lava lake.

Terrifying heat filled the underground cavern, constantly melting the surrounding rock walls.

The lava lake had shockingly shrunk from its initial size, and only a small lava pool remained of the once giant lake.

A figure was silently seated at the center of the pool, allowing the boiling-hot magma to flow over him. Faint ancient scarlet-red markings were on his body, seemingly stretching across his skin like red stripes.

It was naturally Zhou Yuan.

He had undergone a tremendous transformation. His body seemed to have grown several sizes larger, and his skin was scarlet red. It looked as if magma was flowing under his skin while an extremely domineering aura brewed within his flesh. Each quiver of his muscles rippled the surrounding space.

Moreover, if one took a closer look, one would realize that Zhou Yuan was slowly absorbing the surrounding magma, draining it little by little.

His body had nearly devoured the enormous lava lake!

Gugu!

A strange noise suddenly sounded in the silent underground, originating from Zhou Yuan’s flesh.

Instead, his mind was in an untouchable state of calmness.

He could feel the dreadful power circulating in his body.

Zhou Yuan opened his mouth and sucked. The remaining magma immediately whizzed into the air, turning into a river of red as he swallowed it into his body.

Ssss!

Thick white fog rose from Zhou Yuan’s body, the frightening heat distorting the air. His large body began to shrink bit by bit as the ancient scarlet-red markings slowly receded. In the end, he returned to his normal state.

Zhou Yuan lowered his head and slowly clenched his fist.

Rumble!

Scarlet-red lava flowed out from his fist and covered his entire arm.

Boom!

Zhou Yuan threw a punch. The ground below his feet crumbled, cracks extending in every direction. The entire underground cavern shook violently as boulders began to tumble from the ceiling.