Chapter 399 Powerful, Annihilate

A flash of fury filled the eyes of the three-eyed aberrant man.

"Winning by a narrow margin just now seems to have made you smug."

"I shall now make you accept the punishment of the Netherworld!"

The moment his voice fell, vast Demon Qi began to churn within him. The deep vertical eye on his forehead widened slightly, bulging veins spreading across his brow as it emanated a profound, dark light, brimming with terrifying Demonic Qi.

"Netherworld Celestial Communication Technique!"

The three-eyed aberrant man brought two fingers together, placing them over his vertical eye. Then, from that deep eye, he suddenly unleashed a terrifying beam. Imbued with the light of the Netherworld, it pierced heaven and earth. Carrying an aura of absolute destruction, it tore through layers of the void, hurtling toward Gu Yun to annihilate him!

"Hm?"

Witnessing this, Gu Yun, his deep eyes flickering with Thunder Arcs, felt a faint sense of danger. A solemn expression appeared on his face.

This attack from the vertical eye had actually made him feel a slight sense of crisis. Even if it couldn’t kill him, it was enough to warrant his full attention. Immediately, the vast Magical Power in his body surged. A Heaven-Reaching power erupted, and Dao Rhythm revolved around him. The terrifying might seemed to blast outward, causing heaven and earth to tremble violently.

"One Palm Imprisoning Heaven and Earth!"

A cold glint flashed in Gu Yun’s eyes. He drew upon the energy of heaven and earth, stirring up the winds like a storm scattering clouds. Amidst the howling gales, an enormous golden palm appeared. It shimmered with resplendent golden light and crackling arcs of electricity, stretching for thousands of miles as if it had traveled through the void to suddenly descend upon this world.

SHHHH!!

The next moment, the giant palm—shining with brilliant golden light, containing terrifying might, and spanning thousands of miles—violently crushed through layers of space. Arcane, gnarled patterns were etched into its surface, as if it held an entire world within. It then descended with overwhelming force, smashing down toward the Netherworld beam that pierced the sky.

BOOM!!

In just an instant, the golden palm, radiating dazzling light and boundless might, violently collided with the terrifying beam that seemed to have emerged from the Netherworld itself, dark and silent. At that moment of impact, the world seemed to fall completely silent, like a tranquil grayscale landscape painting.

RUMBLE!

The next instant, the two supremely powerful attacks erupted in a world-shaking explosion. Ripples, like waves on the sea, spread out in all directions. Wherever they passed, space itself shattered, revealing an endless, pitch-black abyss of void. From within, terrifying astral winds rushed out like stampeding beasts, exuding a shudder-inducing might.

High above the Void Celestial,

brilliant golden light and endless dark light intertwined. It was as if two worlds were colliding, emitting infinite radiance that illuminated the land for ten thousand miles around!

「A moment later.」

CRACK, CRACK!

The sound of shattering suddenly echoed through the world. The terrifying dark beam—shot from the vertical eye on the three-eyed aberrant man’s forehead, piercing heaven and earth with its heaven-reaching, ghostly power—was abruptly and violently smashed to pieces by the golden palm.

"Th-This is impossible!"

"Absolutely impossible!"

Below, standing on the shattered earth amidst billowing dust, his clothes whipping wildly and his body wreathed in terrifying Demon Qi, the three-eyed aberrant man stared up at the sky. His pupils were wide, his face a mask of shock, as if he had just witnessed the unbelievable.

That was an Innate Divine Ability of his Ghost Eye Race, a clan of Demon Fiends!

A terrifying Technique that could connect to the heavens, plumb the depths of Jiuyou, and destroy everything!

And it... it was just shattered by his opponent like that!

SHHH!

After crushing the beam that had pierced the sky, the dazzling golden palm, imbued with terrifying Dao Rhythm and an aura of utter annihilation,

continued on like a vast ocean, crushing through layers of space. With boundless might, it plunged toward the three-eyed aberrant man to utterly suppress and kill him!

’Damn it!!’

After his initial shock, the three-eyed aberrant man stared at the boundless palm in the sky. It grew larger and larger, like an entire world pressing down on him. His pupils contracted violently, his face twisting with panic and fear as a sense of infinite crisis flooded his mind.

In that moment, he felt inescapably locked on by this aura, as vast as the might of the heavens. He couldn’t dodge. He couldn’t escape.

’This blow might kill me!’

’Even with my immense Life Force, I will still die!!’

At this thought, the three-eyed aberrant man’s heart sank, plummeting into the bottom of an abyss as if swallowed by endless darkness.

"I won’t die!"

"As a Demon Fiend of the great Ghost Eye Race, how can I die at the hands of a native of the Human Race from the Celestial Essence Realm? I absolutely... will not allow it!!"

As if seeing a glimmer of light in the endless darkness, the three-eyed aberrant man’s face became ferocious. His eyes turned savage, and the vertical eye on his forehead widened, veins bulging as he let out a furious roar.

The vast and boundless Demon Qi within him erupted in its entirety. A sky-full of profound Demon Qi surrounded him, like a great ocean, surging up to resist the descending, boundless golden palm.

"Is that your limit?"

"I’ve barely even started, and I’ve already seen through your limits. So just die completely, you mongrel!!"

Suspended in the void, Gu Yun’s face held a hint of savagery, and a flash of ultimate, bone-chilling killing intent crossed his eyes.

His black hair danced wildly and his robes whipped about. The sea of Magical Power within him roiled like dragons and snakes, and a terrifying Dao Rhythm revolved, invisibly exuding the aura of a ’Dao Domain’. Raising his hand in mid-air, he formed a palm with his five fingers and pressed down fiercely.

The golden palm—covering the sky, blotting out the sun, boundless and vast, containing limitless might—now shone with even greater brilliance. With the ease of splitting bamboo, it crushed the ocean of terrifyingly profound black gas, continuing on to smash into the three-eyed aberrant man’s body, pulverizing and annihilating him in the void.

BOOM!!

After annihilating the three-eyed Demon Fiend’s body with the ease of snapping dry weeds, the terrifyingly vast golden palm slammed viciously into the earth below. It blasted out a massive, sunken Palm Seal that stretched for thousands of miles, spreading outward and tearing countless fissures in the ground. The terrifying aftershocks rushed out and dissipated ten thousand miles away.

At this moment, high in the Void Celestial, the white-robed young man stood, his robes fluttering and his long hair dancing. His face was cold, his body wreathed in a terrifying Dao Rhythm. With eyes that flickered with Thunder Arcs, he looked down at the spot where the Demon Fiend had utterly vanished from the world, a scene of nothing but ruined, shattered land.

He couldn’t help but mutter to himself,

"Trying to get a power-up just by roaring? Who do you think you are, Little Dust?"

He paused, then added in a low voice, ’Still, to be able to withstand two of my moves... your strength was probably quite formidable among Demon Fiends.’

’Hm? What’s that?’

Gu Yun’s Divine Thought seemed to sense something. His eyes, flickering with Thunder Arcs, looked toward the spot where the three-eyed aberrant man had fallen. A palm-sized, round crystal was floating in the void. It emitted a dazzling dark light and contained an extremely dense and pure source of Demon Power.

Seeing the Demon Crystal, which shone with a brilliant dark light and contained an immense, ultimate Demonic Power, Gu Yun’s heart began to pound. It was as if some magical force was deeply attracting him.

’What in the world is this?’ A solemn look flashed in Gu Yun’s eyes. ’For this thing to have such a strong pull on me...’

With that thought, Gu Yun took a light step forward, sending out ripples as if on water. His figure instantly flashed before the round crystal, which was suspended in mid-air, radiating a brilliant Netherworld light and possessing a vast, pure Demon Power.

’Is this what that Demon Fiend dropped?’ A thought flashed through Gu Yun’s mind as he stared intently at the Demon Crystal emitting its Netherworld light.

BOOM!

Just then, the Great Dream Star Soul Refining Technique in his mind began to operate on its own. It drew upon the supreme Star Force from beyond the vast cosmos, high above the nine heavens. Specks of starlight gathered, like a celestial river, and poured into Gu Yun’s mind.

At the same time, Gu Yun’s mind began to race, his Divine Thought multiplying exponentially. In that instant, his eyes became utterly indifferent, as if he were an incarnation of the Celestial Dao itself—supremely rational!

Gu Yun’s cold eyes stared at the round Crystal Stone before him—glowing with Netherworld light and containing an ultimate, pure Demon Power—and he spoke in a frigid voice:

"Devour!!"