The pain was as if thousands of sharp blades were simultaneously slicing off pieces of flesh from his body, almost suffocating him.

Yet, while the Thunder Tribulation was ruthlessly destroying Ye Xiaofan’s body, he was desperately using the "Thunder Tribulation Body Refining Technique," nearly forgetting the operation of the "Heaven-Seizing Technique."

It must be said that this magic truly lives up to being the Empress’s Body Refining Technique. The moment Ye Xiaofan operated it, his physical body was wildly regenerating; while endless flesh was destroyed and disappeared by the thunder, new flesh was swiftly sprouting.

Moreover, the new flesh that was sprouting was even stronger and more terrifying.

Even so, Ye Xiaofan still underestimated the horror of the Thunder Tribulation. In just a short encounter, his entire being was thoroughly destroyed, all his flesh turning to nothingness, leaving only a skeleton standing at the heart of the Thunder Tribulation.

Everyone watching this scene was as if struck by lightning, like a thunderbolt on a clear day.

"Dead... Is he dead?"

A peak representative of the Self-Slaying Realm couldn’t help but speak, dazedly staring at the skeleton that was still struggling slightly. The person who was alive just a moment ago had turned into a skeleton the next; how could that not send chills down one’s spine?

As all of Ye Xiaofan’s flesh evaporated into nothingness, the terrifying thunder also completely fell upon the skeleton, repeatedly scouring its bony form, seemingly trying to destroy it as well.

But what was astonishing was that at this moment the skeleton seemed to be wrapped by a Secret Power, no matter how the Thunder Tribulation scoured the bones, it always preserved them just before they were about to evaporate. Each scour by the Thunder Tribulation reinforced the bones significantly.

Of course, at this moment Ye Xiaofan couldn’t make any desperate cries, but what shocked him was that his consciousness still existed and, while frantically operating the "Thunder Tribulation Body Refining Technique," he was also desperately operating the "Heaven-Seizing Technique" and the "Heaven-Seizing Art."

Not only that, veins and flesh were rapidly regenerating above that sea, as if truly reviving the dead and regrowing flesh and bone, which greatly shocked Ye Xiaofan.

The Empress’s Body Refining Technique truly deserved its reputation; such an against-the-heavens method could indeed be called a great terror, actually using Thunder Tribulation to strengthen the body.

Yet, while Ye Xiaofan was the first to sense the change, countless peerless prodigies might not necessarily capture it.

At this moment, everyone stared dully at the skeleton, their eyes wide and near bursting.

"Junior Brother Ye?" Luo Qingxian looked at the skeleton, a rare trace of sorrow surfacing in her beautiful eyes. To everyone, that figure was already considered fallen.

Even Luo Qingchen, Xiao Yan, and Xu Qinghe were full of despondency and helplessness. They couldn’t understand; no one could understand why he didn’t go all out to cross the tribulation but instead so simply handed over his life.

"Brother Ye, why did you do this?" Xiao Yan shook his head painfully at the skeleton at the center of the endless Thunder Tribulation. Though the two only appreciated each other without many life-and-death bonds, in his heart, that figure had already become different.

The most promising existence in Star Moon City to break out from this region, a familiar figure who had gone from weak and could only survive amidst spit, trampled like an ant, had finally struggled to today, yet ended up like this.

"The Thunder Tribulation, truly not something an ordinary person can successfully pass, let alone a Thunder Tribulation summoned prematurely."

"Perhaps he already knew that with his current cultivation, it was impossible to survive the Thunder Tribulation, so he gave up resistance."

"It’s over, everything is over."

"Unbelievable, the Sword Saint’s heir, an awakener of the Forbidden Martial Soul, a peerless prodigy who merged with the ten major Golden Spiritual Essences, ended up with such an ending."

Many peerless prodigies of the Hundred Sects kept shaking their heads. While feeling relieved, they couldn’t help but feel a hint of regret, just like when Qin Yi fell years ago; the killing intent was there, but so was the pain of regret.

It’s said that the dozens of near-hundred peak powerhouses of peerless prodigies who joined forces to ambush Qin Yi back then also lingered in the ’Valley of Space-Time’ for a long, long time, as if mourning the fall of an astonishing figure.

Of course, not everyone felt regret; those most excited at this moment were the cultivators from Divine Maiden Sect and sects like Qinghe Sect, Cyan Cloud Sect, and Yunlan Sect. These peak representatives of peerless prodigies looked at the swaying skeleton in the Thunder Tribulation, with an uncontrolled smile at the corners of their mouths.

Some peak representatives of the Self-Slaying Realm couldn’t help but sneer coldly, full of ridicule and disdain, saying, "What peerless prodigy, just a flash in the pan. In the end, it’s just an ant’s fate."

"It’s better this way; dying in the Thunder Tribulation is better than dying at our hands. I don’t want to carry the reputation of killing a Spiritual Essence Realm ant my whole life."

"A waste remains a waste; the waste that spread like wildfire in Star Moon City, even if it fortunately climbed to the peak, it was just a waste’s momentous rise."

Facing the cold ridicule of several terrifying figures, the senior and junior brothers and sisters of the Divine Sword Sect fell silent, their eyes gleaming with unwillingness and regret.

Even Li Mofeng and Jian Wushuang sighed slightly, especially Li Mofeng, whose mood was extremely complicated; he both hoped for the person’s fall and yet didn’t hope as much. After all, if such an existence survived, it would have been a chance for the Divine Sword Sect to change their fate.

Luo Qingxian, clutching the pure white Ancient Sword, stared blankly at the skeleton within the rolling thunder and even slowly closed her beautiful eyes, helplessly sighing deeply.