Demon God: I'll be out soon! Lin Yuan: No, you don't want to.

Dead silence.

After the Blood Fiend Emissary was erased, the entire underground cavern fell into a deathly silence.

In the air, that incomparably sharp Sword Intent still lingered, along with a faint scent of blood.

The hundred soldiers from Tianshu Base remained in their upward-gazing postures, mouths agape, as if collectively struck by a freezing spell, unable to snap out of it for a long time.

Everything that had just happened had completely exceeded the limits of their cognition.

Forming a Formation with a single thought, unleashing ten thousand swords at once, and erasing a terrifying Juyuan Realm expert from the world...

What kind of heaven-defying method was this?!

This was no longer within the Realm of human capability!

This was a god! This was a true miracle!

Su Li's cold phoenix eyes were also fixed firmly on Lin Yuan's back, the stormy waves rising in her heart unable to calm down for a long time.

She had originally thought she had overestimated this man's strength as much as possible.

But now she realized.

What she had seen was perhaps still just the tip of the iceberg.

How many secrets was this man still hiding?

And just what kind of unfathomable Realm had his strength reached?

However, right in the midst of this shocking and eerie silence, a sudden change occurred!

"Hum—!!!"

In the center of the cavern, the white jade altar, which had originally returned to calm, suddenly erupted with a blinding blood-red light!

On the altar, those eerie runes previously carved by the Blood Fiend Emissary and the others did not dissipate because of the caster's death. Instead, they seemed to have been injected with some kind of catalyst and began to operate at an even more frenzied speed!

Immediately after, a terrifying pressure—a hundred times more horrific than that of the Blood Fiend Emissary, filled with wild, ancient, evil, and chaotic energy—descended from the core of the altar like a bursting cosmic storm!

"Thump! Thump!" The hundred soldiers who had only just stood up from the ground could not offer even the slightest resistance under this pressure!

They only felt as if their Souls had been grabbed by an invisible ancient Vicious Beast and then ruthlessly crushed!

Over ninety percent of them didn't even manage to let out a groan before their eyes rolled back, and they were knocked unconscious by this terrifying pressure!

The remaining few were bleeding from their seven orifices, lying on the ground, their bodies convulsing violently like chaff, and it was clear they wouldn't last much longer!

Even Su Li, this Peak Huagang Realm expert, had her pretty face turn instantly pale as paper!

She let out a muffled groan, and a mouthful of blood sprayed out uncontrollably! She was forced down onto one knee, her spear thrust firmly into the ground, barely preventing her from being completely crushed!

But her body was still trembling violently and uncontrollably, and her eyes were filled with unprecedented shock and Fear!

What... what on earth was this?! This aura, even just a wisp of it leaking out, was a hundred times, a thousand times more terrifying than when the Blood Fiend Emissary erupted with full power!

"Roar—!!!" A roar that seemed to come from the primeval wilderness, filled with endless rage and tyranny, suddenly erupted from the twisted space directly above the altar!

That sound did not seem to travel through the air but instead exploded directly in the depths of everyone's Souls.

Su Li felt as if her head had been struck hard by a ten-thousand-ton giant hammer; her vision went black, and she nearly fainted on the spot.

Enduring the Soul-tearing pain, she struggled to lift her head and looked toward the space above the altar.

She saw that the space, which had originally been only slightly distorted, was now being forcefully torn open, revealing a pitch-black rift!

Inside the rift, it was all Chaos, filled with an aura of destruction and ill omens. And deep within that endless Chaos, a terrifying figure, so massive it defied description, was slowly emerging!

Although she could only see a vague outline, the terrifying aura—which was enough to make space collapse and all things wither just by its mere existence—had already revealed the identity of its owner!

The Primeval Demon God! That truly terrifying existence sealed deep within the ancient ruins!

Although the Divine Court's plan had been interrupted, the summoning ritual they initiated had already caused the Seal to loosen! This Primeval Demon God, suppressed for countless years, was about to break free!

Once it descended, let alone this ruin, the entire Dragon Xia Kingdom would likely be reduced to a living hell!

It was over... Looking at the increasingly clear, massive figure and feeling that aura of despair that could make the world tremble, Su Li's heart sank to the bottom. This was the true apocalypse!

However, right in the midst of this apocalyptic scene that would make even gods despair, that figure who had stood there from beginning to end without even frowning finally moved, looking impatient.

"Tsk." Lin Yuan made a sound of disdain. "Just finished swatting away a bunch of flies, and now a noisier one comes along."

He glanced at the Primeval Demon God's figure, which was struggling frantically and trying to squeeze out of the space rift. He then looked at the ancient Spirit Crystal within the altar's beam of light, which was providing the massive energy for the ritual. A look of determination appeared on his face.

Better a short pain than a long one. Only by solving it once and for all could he ensure long-term peace. Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated.

He slowly raised his hand and grabbed at the ancient Spirit Crystal enveloped by the heaven-reaching beam of light! "Come here."

Boom! An invisible, incomparably overbearing force of extraction erupted! The energy beam protecting the Spirit Crystal, which was strong enough to withstand a full-force strike from a Juyuan Realm expert, couldn't even hold on for a second against this power before shattering with a bang!

That beautiful, seven-colored Spirit Crystal, which seemed to contain the stars of the Universe, instantly broke away from the altar, turned into a streak of light, and landed steadily in Lin Yuan's hand.

With the removal of the Spirit Crystal, the energy supply to the summoning Formation was instantly cut off! Inside the space rift, the Primeval Demon God's figure paused abruptly and let out an even more furious roar!

However, Lin Yuan ignored it entirely. He looked down at the Spirit Crystal in his hand, which contained massive energy, and felt the pure and vast power within it. Then, under Su Li's gaze of utter shock, he clenched his five fingers tightly!

"Crack—!" A crisp, heavenly sound of shattering echoed throughout the entire cavern! That ancient Spirit Crystal, which would have driven all experts in the outside world crazy—even to the point of waging war to seize it—was just like that... crushed into pieces by him!

"Boom—!!!!" The next second! A torrent of seven-colored energy, pure to the extreme and impossible to describe in words, erupted from the center of Lin Yuan's palm! That power was so vast, so immense! It was like a supernova exploding brilliantly in his palm! The entire underground cavern was completely submerged in this seven-colored light!

Su Li was blown away again by this energy shockwave. But this time, she didn't feel any pain; instead, she felt her body bathed in a warm ocean. Her previous injuries were actually healing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

She struggled to lift her head and looked toward the center of the storm. There she saw Lin Yuan, quietly floating in mid-air, bathed in that torrent of seven-colored energy, his robes fluttering, looking like a god!

He did not absorb this power. Instead, he controlled it in a way that Su Li could not understand at all! He slowly raised his other hand and gently pointed at the blood-red altar below, which had become dim from losing its energy but was still operating.

"Reverse." A single word, as if it contained the most fundamental Law of heaven and earth! The evil Formation laid down by the Divine Court to summon the Primeval Demon God trembled violently at that moment!

On the altar, all the blood-red runes were instantly erased by an even more overbearing force! Replacing them were golden divine patterns, constructed from pure seven-colored energy, that were even more ancient and profound!

The Formation circuits originally used for "summoning" were forcefully reversed by Lin Yuan, using his top-tier understanding of the Dao of Formations! It was transformed into a peerless Formation used for "sealing"!

"Seal!" Lin Yuan spat out another word. Boom! The reversed Formation erupted with ten thousand zhang of golden light, transforming into billions of golden chains that shot into the sky and flooded frantically into the pitch-black space rift!

"Roar—!!!!" From the other side of the rift came the painful, angry wail of the Primeval Demon God! That massive figure, which had just poked halfway out, was forcefully dragged back into the endless Chaos by the billions of golden chains!

The pitch-black rift, under the repair of the golden divine patterns, healed and shrank rapidly... Finally, accompanied by one last wail filled with endless resentment and unwillingness, it closed completely! The whole world was finally, completely silent.