Chapter 58: Void Refinement Expert Lei Yun, Heaven-Earth Life-Extinguishing Formation
Chapter 58 – Void Refinement Expert Lei Yun, Heaven-Earth Life-Extinguishing Formation
“Roar!”
A heaven-shaking roar tore through the clouds, and an apocalyptic sea of thunder instantly swallowed the sky across a radius of a thousand miles.
The monstrous beasts observing from five hundred miles away were violently caught in the crossfire.
Unadulterated rage!
At this moment, this was the solitary emotion burning within Lei Yun’s heart.
Since the primordial birth of the Thunder Clan, no living being had ever dared to treat a Thunder Beast as prey.
Yet today, an existence viewed them as mere livestock fit for the slaughter. This was not merely a personal indignity; it was a profound desecration of the entire Thunder Clan’s bloodline.
“Dammit!”
“Has Lei Yun gone completely mad?”
“Does he truly believe his Thunder Clan is invincible under the heavens?”
The monstrous beasts trapped beneath the lightning domain hastily retreated, cursing vehemently as they fled.
After all, suffering the wrath of heavenly lightning for no reason was an indignity no sovereign beast could swallow.
The boundless ocean of thunder raged for a full quarter of an hour.
When the devastating tempest finally ceased, the mountain forests across a thousand miles had been reduced to a desolate expanse of scorched earth.
“Show yourself!”
Lei Yun’s furious bellow caused the very earth to shudder.
Although sweeping the area with his Divine Sense failed to reveal the architect of this blasphemy, Lei Yun remained absolutely certain the perpetrator lingered nearby.
“Why the impatience? I am right here.”
The moment the words faded, countless figures crawled from hidden subterranean tunnels. Over thirty thousand tribesmen of the Wu Clan emerged, completely encircling the Thunder Clan from every direction.
Glaring down at the insignificant specks of life, Lei Yun growled, “Command the master behind you to step into the light.”
“A flock of two-legged sheep like you lacks the profound foundation to slaughter my son.”
“Hehehe!”
“Such grand words. The Thunder Beast lineage is not invincible under the heavens, so why couldn’t we be the ones to harvest his life?”
“With your profound cultivation, it should not be difficult to discern the lingering essence of your son upon our flesh.”
“Your instincts are correct. Your son’s flesh has already become our sustenance.”
Hearing Chen Changsheng’s calm declaration, Lei Yun’s gaze plunged into absolute, freezing zero.
“A sharp tongue. I pray your spirit remains this unyielding when I rip your mind apart with Soul Searching.”
In truth, Lei Yun never believed for a fraction of a second that the figure standing before him had executed Lei Shan.
This human cultivator merely exuded the meager aura of an early-stage Soul Formation realm.
Lei Shan had already broken through to mid-stage Soul Formation. Coupled with his innate bloodline divine abilities, even a late-stage Soul Formation expert would struggle to claim his life.
Therefore, the true executioner remained hidden in the shadows.
Seeing that Lei Yun refused to acknowledge him as the killer, Chen Changsheng shook his head in mild disappointment.
“Innate bloodline abilities are indeed tyrannical, but they are not omnipotent.”
“There is a profound reason why the human race remains rooted upon this harsh earth.”
“Today, I shall allow you to witness humanity’s own ‘innate divine ability’!”
With a calm exhale, Chen Changsheng drove his right palm into the earth. Instantly, the geomancy across a thousand miles warped and violently shifted.
A breath later, an abyssal, light-devouring darkness swallowed the sky.
As the vast Formation ground into motion, a cold sliver of unease finally pierced Lei Yun’s arrogant heart.
Yet, when he attempted to summon his ancestral lightning to shatter the ward, he realized his connection to the Heavenly Dao had been entirely severed.
Observing his struggle, Chen Changsheng pulled back his lips into a cold smile. “What is wrong? Can you no longer commandeer the Heaven and Earth Aura?”
“Allow me to formally introduce this burial ground. This Formation is known as the Heaven-Earth Life-Extinguishing Formation.”
“It extinguishes the Heavens, extinguishes the Earth, and naturally, it extinguishes life!”
Hearing the proclamation, Lei Yun cast a dead-eyed glare toward Chen Changsheng.
“The Formation is profoundly vicious, but it is a pity you lack the lifespan required to fully activate it.”
Boom!
Before his words could even hit the dust, Chen Changsheng’s body was sent hurtling backward.
The cataclysmic kinetic force drove him violently through the bedrock of three separate mountain peaks.
Pfft!
Coughing up a mouthful of darkened blood, Chen Changsheng slowly pulled himself from the shattered rubble.
Lei Yun already stood upon the exact spot Chen Changsheng had occupied a fraction of a second prior.
Relying purely on the tyrannical physical might of his beastly form, Lei Yun had gored Chen Changsheng with the supreme horn atop his head.
Had Chen Changsheng not foreseen the lethal strike and reflexively manifested the golden page to block, his mortal vessel would have been instantly reduced to pulverized gore.
Seeing the fragile human still breathing, a flicker of genuine surprise crossed Lei Yun’s bestial face.
“To endure a direct strike from my sovereign form and live… you are somewhat capable.”
“I now believe you possess the means to have murdered Lei Shan.”
“Pah!”
Spitting out the lingering blood from his mouth and casually tossing aside his shattered golden scale armor, Chen Changsheng straightened his posture.
“Your cultivation realm must have broken through to the sixth great boundary. My lineage is rather unorthodox, so I am unfamiliar with its proper title.”
“Care to enlighten me?”
“Void Refinement.”
Hearing the solemn term, Chen Changsheng nodded deeply.
“My thanks.”
“Now, regarding the burial arrangements: do you plan to line up one by one, or step into the grave together?”
“I will not grant you a merciful death. Every single soul here shall be kept alive.”
“But your tormented wails shall echo through heaven and earth.”
“Understood. Commence the slaughter!”
Chen Changsheng bellowed his command. The entire Wu Clan seamlessly split into cohorts of five hundred, knitting together into lethal battle formations to reap the weaker Thunder Beasts.
The military formations of the Xuanwu Kingdom were universally renowned. Having spent decades digesting every scroll within the Xuanwu Pavilion, Chen Changsheng wielded this knowledge flawlessly.
Ten years of meticulous orchestration culminated in this single bloody dawn.
Instantly, the cacophony of slaughter saturated the battlefield. Witnessing his invincible kin genuinely falling to mere mortals,
Lei Yun felt a profound wave of shock!
Even stripped of the Heaven and Earth Aura by the grand Formation, the Thunder Clan’s bloodline inherently brimmed with boundless lightning.
Yet, the human vanguard below seemed completely immune, their bodies shrugging off the lethal electrical currents.
Moreover, every thrust of their spears unerringly pierced the most obscure, fatal apertures of the Thunder Beasts.
In that fraction of a second Lei Yun’s focus wavered, Chen Changsheng’s ancient, cold voice echoed from the side.
“Law of Heaven and Earth!”
Chen Changsheng’s physical vessel expanded at a terrifying rate, his bones popping and flesh tearing as he swelled to match Lei Yun’s titanic bulk.
He had invoked his absolute trump card—the supreme martial divine ability birthed from the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art: Law of Heaven and Earth.
The Law of Heaven and Earth was a Peerless divine art etched into the ancient scripture.
Its core essence lay in embodying the very cosmos. Though the Heaven-Earth Life-Extinguishing Formation severed external Qi,
as the undisputed master of the Formation, Chen Changsheng could seamlessly draw upon the vicious energy of the array itself.
Torrential streams of pitch-black death Qi poured from the Heaven-Earth Life-Extinguishing Formation into his gargantuan frame, dyeing his towering phantom projection absolute black.
Under this infusion, his cultivation violently Ascended, crashing right into Soul Formation Perfection.
“Enter the coffin!”
Chen Changsheng roared, stepping heavily into the void as he unleashed the nameless fist technique of the Hundred Defeats Immortal Venerable directly at Lei Yun.
Witnessing the fragile human manifest such terrifying, heaven-defying means, Lei Yun finally discarded his arrogance and fought with his full, unbridled might.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The earth groaned in agony. The cataclysmic clash between Lei Yun and Chen Changsheng ground mountain ranges to dust and diverted ancient rivers.
This primordial duel of titans struck deep, existential dread into the monstrous beasts spectating from a thousand miles away.
Never in their longest lifespans did they imagine a mere human from the Hundred Thousand Mountains could manifest such world-ending might.
Since comprehending the Hundred Defeats Immortal Venerable’s nameless fist, Chen Changsheng had performed the kata exactly once every day, unyielding through rain, wind, or the passing of centuries.
A century of relentless, rhythmic tempering had pushed his martial intent straight into the realm of Transcendence.
Furthermore, the core philosophy of the Hundred Defeats Immortal Venerable dictated that the fist grew exponentially heavier the longer the crucible of combat lasted.
Chen Changsheng transitioned from being brutally suppressed in the opening exchanges, to gradually meeting Lei Yun’s terrifying strikes blow for blow.
As the bloody minutes ticked by, the invisible jaws of the Heaven-Earth Life-Extinguishing Formation slowly clamped shut.
In the exact breath the Formation achieved Perfection, Chen Changsheng flipped his palm, manifested a gargantuan, pale bone from the void, and viciously smashed it against Lei Yun’s skull.
Clang!
The deafening metallic toll echoed across the battlefield, causing every Thunder Beast to freeze in shock. Chen Changsheng, however, was equally perplexed.
Chen Changsheng: ???
It clearly could have dodged just now, so why didn’t it?
Whatever, I’ll just hit it a few more times with the bone first.
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