After saying these words, Xie Antong seemed to have her last shred of consciousness completely devoured. Whether it was her own feelings or those of Jealousy, everything began to rapidly dissipate.
Merging swiftly with the power of Pleasure within her body.
Of course, in Sun's eyes, this wasn't much different from being possessed by the power of Pleasure.
After all, in the eyes of high-ranking players, this form of power wasn't something they were particularly willing to accept.
"To actually... such high spiritual energy."
Looking at Xie Antong before him who seemed to be undergoing "ascension," Sun couldn't help but feel emotional at that powerful aura.
Casually, he also glanced at the nearby "Sin" and mockingly said,
"How much must she hate you? She's really trying every possible method, huh?"
"Never thought the first person to deeply contact that kind of power would actually be her."
"This is the woman you provoked back then. Never expected it, did you? You didn't finish her off, and now she's come back to cause you trouble. Hahahahaha!"
Amid Sun's arrogant laughter, "Sin's" pink face showed complete indifference.
Instead, that ferocious smiling expression on his face expanded even further.
Indeed, she wasn't a docile person either. She had similarly chosen the steeper path.
Our game has begun... When he said those words back then, he never specified who "we" referred to.
It was Lu Ce and Xie Antong.
But it was also Jealousy and Pleasure!
Sneering as he watched the energy vortex before him, he wasn't in any hurry to take action.
But after hearing Sun's words, his entire expression underwent an instant transformation, becoming sharp and impatient.
"Blabbering nonsense, what does it have to do with you?"
"Don't you feel completely redundant here right now? Like someone crashing a party without an invitation."
"Flaming clown."
Jealousy's mouth remained as venomous as ever, capable of insulting anyone. After speaking, he stomped hard with his foot, causing energy tides to surge outward like waves.
The surging energy crashed toward Sun. The three-meter-tall giant firmly planted his legs deep into the ground, but was still violently pushed backward by this energy.
Scraping across the ground for dozens of meters, Sun stubbornly refused to bend his waist!
When fighting against "Sin," he seemed even more resolute and focused compared to when he fought Yu Huan earlier.
This had already become his habitual action after multiple battles.
Additionally, after the enhancement from the Divine Might Baptism, his strength had reached another level. From the very beginning, he had planned to properly fight once to test his condition.
Meanwhile, Lu Ce didn't have much time to observe him at the moment. Right now, he was tilting his chin up, watching the "ritual" before him.
That violent divine power fluctuation had gradually begun to disperse, slowly turning inward, converging into a single point.
At the center of that "point," Xie Antong's figure slowly descended, landing on the ground.
Ding.
Her toes touched the ground. Though it was just a light step, it sounded like a silver vase shattering.
The shoes on her feet shattered piece by piece. That not yet fully stable state made ordinary shoes unable to withstand this body's power, turning them to dust.
Standing barefoot on the ground, her previously closed eyes slowly opened, divine light retracting within.
From her appearance, Xie Antong seemed to have grown slightly taller, her figure appearing more slender and taller than before.
The massive external divine power had nourished her body, warmed her bones and blood, and stimulated her to undergo a second complete development.
The clothes on her body originally couldn't withstand this body's energy either, but just as they were about to crack and turn to dust, the divine power reversed course, stabilizing the external garments.
Her eyebrows raised slightly as she locked eyes with Lu Ce before her.
Raising her hand, she reached for the All-Seeing Eye helmet on her head.
As her fingers brushed over it, the helmet instantly turned holographic, contracting and folding to become minimized.
Only a light blue lens remained before her left eye, one end fixed near her ear root, with data streams rapidly flashing across it.
Gently shaking her head, she let her waist-length hair free from the helmet's restraint, cascading wantonly through the air like a waterfall.
Though she was still the same person, her appearance gave people the feeling that she had become someone completely different.
The expression between her hair strands carried strong aggressiveness. She glanced around, a slight upward curve at the corner of her mouth.
In that instant, the player with the lowest combat power in high-level matches seemed to become the focus of this entire realm.
Moreover, due to the foundation of her powerful strength, her beauty at this moment was filled with "aggressiveness."
This brand-new transformation left some people in the outside world utterly stunned.
Chiyo Eine had just finished her game and "casually" opened Blank's game page, wanting to see if her game was still ongoing.
Coincidentally, she happened to witness this very scene, and her eyes immediately went wide!
Chiyo Ji, who had teamed up with her and emerged at the same time, was somewhat speechless.
"Sis?... Sis!"
"You seem to be drooling. Anyway, what just happened to this Blank? Why does she suddenly feel so powerful?"
"Shut up." Chiyo Eine frowned, directly reaching out to mute him. "This should all be within her expectations."
And the impact of her transformation at this moment was enormous on a global scale.
If the game's viewer count had a backend, then across all player streams worldwide, audiences were rapidly decreasing, madly flooding into Xie Antong's screen.
Because her transformation seemed to completely validate a theory that had emerged not long ago - one that everyone anticipated but ultimately never got to see.
—Ascension!
[Comment: Holy crap holy crap! She looks so strong just from appearance! What changes happened?]
[Comment: No idea, seems like she merged with some 'god's power or something? How come all the top experts have such top-tier looks too.]
[Comment: Does this count as an Ascendant? Is this what an Ascendant looks like?!]
[Comment: No wonder she dared to directly reveal her hand and challenge "Sin." So she had this kind of opportunity, truly unexpected...]
Since this game's rankings were announced, this was the first time someone's viewer count had approached Lu Ce's!
This sudden attention was absolutely an unprecedented spectacle. Even within the Dragon Group, they had opened one of her streams.
"Finished? Heh, troublesome enough."
Jealousy had no idea about the external situation - he never cared. At this moment, his piercing voice spoke up.
"Heh, it feels..." Xie Antong also spoke. "Absolutely perfect!"