174: Combat strength assessment exceeded 100 million feathers

Rules revealed: Unleash your full strength and attack the monument! (You may not use Origin Law skills; only basic combat power will be measured.)

The Nine-Layer Heaven-Sealing Ruler will provide a comprehensive assessment based on three dimensions: the intensity of the Origin Law contained in the attack, the energy level, and the essence of destruction. It will display the specific value (Unit: 10,000 Yu).

The ruler is divided into nine layers, with each layer representing a threshold of 10 million Yu of combat power! Breaking the first layer (10 million Yu) grants a base score of 500, and for every layer broken thereafter, the score increases by 100! If one can shake the sixth-layer scale, they will achieve a perfect score of 1000!

As soon as these rules were revealed, the entire arena was in an uproar! One must understand that in the Taichu Divine Continent, the base combat power of a Martial Artist in the Dharma Domain Realm is merely a few thousand Yu; breaking the first layer requires a massive force of 10 million Yu! And breaking six layers? That is almost a myth, beyond the reach of human capability!

The Destruction Battle Intent in Luo Hou's eyes boiled like molten lava as he strode forward. His Destruction War Spirit instantly and perfectly overlapped with his physical body, and he seemed to transform into a massive Chaos giant axe intent on splitting the heavens and earth!

There were no fancy tricks, only the will of the Destruction Origin condensed to its limit! He gripped the air with both hands, as if holding an invisible axe handle, and with everything he had, he struck down with all his might at the blood-red Great Mountain-Suppressing Monument!

"Break—!"

A dark red, nearly black, and solid-looking beam of Destruction axe light tore through the Void Realm! Wherever it passed, space was ruthlessly sliced open like fragile cloth, leaving behind pitch-black cracks that could not heal for a long time, emitting an Aura of annihilation that devoured everything! The axe light struck the center of the monument with unstoppable momentum!

Rumble—!!!

It was like two primordial stars colliding head-on! A violent and peerless shockwave exploded outward in a ring of destruction; if not for the ancient divine formation guarding the plaza, the nearby Prodigies would likely have been ground into dust!

The red monument shook violently, and countless honeycomb holes on its surface spewed out scorching hot gas columns like molten lava! The Nine-Layer Heaven-Sealing Ruler floating above the monument erupted with a blazing golden light that pierced the firmament!

The first-layer scale was instantly filled with a blood-prison-like red light! Immediately after, the second-layer scale lit up! The light surged upward, struggling to tear through the barrier of the third-layer scale, and finally stalled at nearly 80% of the third layer, the light appearing like congealed blood.

[Destruction Temple Luo Hou Peak combat power: 28 million Yu, Final Score: 680]

28 million Yu! Luo Hou retracted his axe, his chest heaving violently, and the Aura of destruction receded like a tide. He was clearly extremely satisfied with this terrifying, logic-defying result, and his gaze, filled with naked, destructive provocation, locked onto Lin Yuan.

Luo Shen drifted forward, and the Eternal Light flowed and condensed between her slender, jade-like palms, transforming into a delicate, translucent ice crystal spear that seemed to have been carved from the core of ten-thousand-year black ice. Her posture was as elegant as a goddess offering a sacrifice, and she threw it gently.

The ice crystal spear silently sank into the red monument. There was no earth-shattering explosion, but a coldness of absolute zero suddenly erupted! The entire Great Mountain-Suppressing Monument, along with the hundred-zhang space around it, was instantly frozen! It turned into a colossal red ice crystal exuding an Aura of eternal immortality! Inside the ice crystal, time seemed to have been extracted, and all things were frozen.

Crack... crackle... Faint yet heart-stopping cracking sounds rang out. Countless dense, spiderweb-like cracks appeared out of thin air inside the ice crystal, and finally, with a crisp, mournful sound, it collapsed, turning into dust of ice crystals filling the sky! The golden light of the Heaven-Sealing Ruler above the monument jumped wildly, breaking through the third-layer scale with unstoppable force, and settled steadily on the fourth-layer scale, its light cold and constant!

[Eternal Temple Luo Shen Peak combat power: 31 million Yu, Final Score: 710]

31 million! One step better than Destruction! The absolute freezing and collapse of the Eternal Law displayed another kind of ultimate destructive power that transcended brute force!

It was Lin Yuan's turn. His expression remained as calm as an ancient well, and he walked forward slowly, standing before the red monument that emitted rolling heat waves like a primordial volcano, his posture as casual as if he were strolling in a courtyard. He did not even summon the Creation War Spirit that had shocked the ages, but simply raised his right fist in an unremarkable manner.

The moment his five fingers slowly closed, the vast power within him—which had fused the four Origin Laws of Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind, had been tempered by the supreme chaos green lotus, and was perfectly carried by his Innate Dao Body—suddenly found its only outlet, like billions of silent Star Domains!

Not a single shred of Law brilliance leaked out, and there was no earth-shattering pressure. All the power, enough to overturn the heavens and earth, was compressed and collapsed within the square inch of his fist, forming an extreme "restraint" that caused space itself to collapse and twist! The air around his fist presented an eerie, absolute darkness where light was devoured!

He threw a punch! Fast! It was so fast that it exceeded the cognitive limits of all the Prodigies present! It was so fast that it was as if a frame of time had been stolen! His arm seemed to have never moved, yet that fist, containing destructive, restrained power, had already lightly imprinted itself onto the absolute core of the red Great Mountain-Suppressing Monument, which was condensed from countless divine irons and molten lava!

There was no sound. There was no shockwave. Time seemed to have been throttled by an invisible giant hand, frozen for a ten-thousandth of a second. Immediately after—Hum!!!

The Great Mountain-Suppressing Monument, that terrifying monument cast from Divine Realm refined gold and Earth core lava, which had withstood the frenzied bombardment of countless peerless Prodigies over endless eras, was as if a Creation singularity had been thrown into it! From the point where Lin Yuan's fist landed, a chaotic light that was indescribable and impossible to look at directly erupted suddenly! This light did not shine from the outside in, but was the Origin light released by the instant excitation and annihilation of the substance at the very core of the monument!

Rumble rumble rumble—!!! It was not an explosive roar, but a final, deep rumble that pierced to the bone, as if coming from the shattering of the cosmic membrane and the return of all things to Chaos Return to Ruin!

The entire red Great Mountain-Suppressing Monument, in the eyes of everyone whose Souls were frozen, was like a sandcastle thrown into a Law furnace. Starting from the point of impact of his fist, it silently disintegrated and annihilated at a speed that defied understanding! It did not crack into rubble, nor did it melt into molten iron, but directly transformed into the most basic, primitive stream of energy particles flickering with the color of Chaos! It was as if wiped away by an invisible giant hand!

The chaotic beam of light did not stop, like a world-destroying torrent, piercing straight into the sky! The protective divine array light curtain above the plaza, capable of withstanding the full-force bombardment of a Peak Myriad Dao Realm expert, was easily pierced like thin paper in the face of this pure, extreme violence, tearing open a colossal hole with edges flowing with the Aura of Chaos! The beam of light rushed into the depths of the endless Void Realm, and wherever it passed, the spatial structure was violently twisted, torn, and shattered, leaving behind a pitch-black void trajectory like a cosmic scar that could not be calmed for a long time!

And the illusory Nine-Layer Heaven-Sealing Ruler atop the monument, which symbolized rules and measurement, seemed to lose its anchor and meaning the moment the red Great Mountain-Suppressing Monument was completely erased, flickering violently, twisting, and emitting a silent, rule-based lament!

The nine scales on the ruler, symbolizing different levels of power, were like ignited star rings. Starting from the first layer, they lit up upward in a dominant, unstoppable manner that crushed everything, frantically and without any resistance! First layer! Second layer! Third layer! Fourth layer! Fifth layer! Sixth layer! Seventh layer! Eighth layer!

The chaotic golden light did not weaken in the slightest, and with a barbarity that would trample even the rules themselves, it brazenly broke through the ninth-layer scale—the ceiling of 90 million Yu of Divine Power, which was considered absolutely unreachable for the Dharma Domain Realm!

All nine scales transformed into boiling, burning, blindingly bright chaotic golden flames!

But this was still not the end! After breaking through the ninth-layer scale, the chaotic golden flames did not stop in the slightest. Like a world-destroying mad dragon that had broken free from its shackles, it directly pierced through the illusory body of the Heaven-Sealing Ruler! The ruler's body expanded and twisted crazily, revealing countless spiderweb-like cracks, and finally, with a rule-based lament that resonated through the source of the Soul, it exploded! It turned into fragments of Laws burning with chaotic flames, dissipating between heaven and earth!

[Peak combat power: 120 million Yu, Final Score: 1600]

Dead silence! An absolute silence where even heartbeat and breath seemed to have been stripped away! One punch! Just one punch! Without gathering momentum, without roaring, yet it caused the most shocking, cognition-defying consequence! It blew up the Red Flame Great Mountain-Suppressing Monument! It burst the Nine-Layer Heaven-Sealing Ruler! 120 million Yu! This had completely and thoroughly transcended the Dharma Domain Realm, reaching a cognitive limit that even many Myriad Dao Realm powerhouses would feel their Souls tremble at!

"Clang!" Luo Hou's face was as pale as gold paper. The Destruction battle axe in his hand slipped from his unconsciously loosening, slightly trembling fingers and slammed heavily onto the white jade ground, making a crisp, harsh sound. Yet he seemed not to hear it, his eyes staring fixedly at the chaotic trajectory in the void and the burning "1600". A storm of unprecedented magnitude stirred deep within his Destruction Dao Heart, almost swallowing his will.

Luo Shen's eternally calm eyes were now stirred with towering waves, filled with extreme shock that could not be understood or deduced. She subconsciously took half a step back, as if the residual ripples of that Fist Intent could freeze her eternity.

Clear Emptiness clenched his hands tightly, his finger bones groaning under the excessive force. His eyes were unfocused, almost greedily staring at Lin Yuan's back, which appeared ordinary but contained endless terror; the bronze ancient jade in his hand was already covered with cracks.

On the high platform, the nine examiners who had experienced the vicissitudes of life and seen many storms collectively lost their voices, like nine statues cast with a petrification Spell. The white-robed old man's snow-white beard trembled violently and uncontrollably, his lips opening and closing silently, but he could not utter any syllable. Only the void trajectory piercing the sky and the 1600 chaotic golden flames were reflected in his eyes, filled with endless horror and bewilderment.