155: Divine Projection

Li Dong stared at the flickering, twisting spatial rift, nearly laughing out loud.

They made such a big fuss, sacrificing the entire city and modifying demons, yet the main entity could not even enter through the door? This God Lord was truly humiliating.

All that magnificence and vastness, in his eyes, looked like a lagging video with a ridiculously poor signal.

"Is that it?"

He curled his lip, too lazy to even voice this self-muttered comment.

The moment he thought this, the unstable rift trembled violently!

As if provoked by his disdain, a terrifying will, far surpassing any before it, descended with a boom!

Inside the rift, the blurry, twisting light and shadow suddenly condensed. It was no longer a void shadow, but a massive silhouette constructed from pure divine radiance. One could not see its face, nor its specific form, but the very act of its descent was enough to make the Laws of the entire underground cavern wail in response.

The next moment, a hand—a giant hand formed entirely from white divine radiance—reached out from the rift.

It was not large; relative to that blurry silhouette, it even appeared somewhat slender. Yet, the moment it appeared, Li Dong felt the weight of the entire world pressing down upon him.

There was no wind, no sound, only a pure, unreasonable concept of "crushing."

The giant hand slowly descended, aiming directly at Li Dong, who was as small as dust before the altar.

"Getting serious, are we?"

Li Dong raised his eyelids.

[Spiritual Domain]!

Hum—!

The hundred-meter wide Domain was no longer the gentle purple halo it had been before; it instantly transformed into a brilliant golden barrier, shooting into the sky to precisely meet the descending giant hand.

There was no earth-shattering roar, only an extremely muffled impact, like two continental plates colliding slowly yet irresistibly.

Rumble...

The ground beneath Li Dong's feet trembled violently. The hard rock layer, like brittle biscuits, cracked inch by inch, with spiderweb-like fissures spreading in all directions.

Where the golden barrier met the divine giant hand, the space itself twisted visibly to the naked eye.

A force, vast and irresistible, passed through the Domain and slammed heavily onto Li Dong.

He groaned, his feet instantly sinking half a foot into the ground, his blood and Qi churning.

Strong!

Truly ridiculously strong.

But this was not enough!

What was more lethal was the erosion. The divine power attached to the giant hand acted like billions of invisible venomous insects, crazily burrowing into his body along the contact surface of the Domain, attempting to pollute his Dao foundation at the root and dismantle his will.

For any other Golden Core Cultivator, or even a Nascent Soul Old Ancestor, under this level of divine pollution, they would likely be assimilated into the most devout Puppet in an instant.

But they had chosen the wrong target.

As soon as these divine powers invaded Li Dong's body, before they could wreak havoc, the [Perfect Dao Body] spontaneously activated. Like an impregnable filter, it completely isolated the fanatical will and polluting information belonging to the God Lord.

Immediately after, the [Source of Purification] in his Sea of Consciousness, like a cat smelling fish, suddenly erupted with a craving suction force.

Those purest divine powers, with their Impurities filtered out, were instantly devoured by the [Source of Purification].

Streams of extremely pure energy were fed back, rapidly repairing his Physical Body, which had been damaged from resisting the force, and even continuously cleansing his Meridians and Divine Soul.

Li Dong's tense body, under this terrifying pressure, actually began to relax slowly.

Not only was he not injured, but... he felt even more comfortable?

He even had the illusion that he was not fighting a god, but enjoying a top-tier Spiritual Qi sauna.

This feeling was fantastic.

"Roar—!!!"

An invisible roar exploded in the depths of everyone's Soul.

The God Lord projection clearly realized something was wrong. Its own power, instead of crushing this ant, had become the other party's tonic?

This was the ultimate blasphemy against a god!

Light and shadow churned within the rift, and more divine creatures were rudely squeezed out. They were no longer the previously modified demons, but monsters condensed from pure divine power. They had various forms, but all radiated an aura of fearlessness and a singular drive for destruction.

Like streaks of white lightning, they threw themselves at Li Dong from all directions, disregarding everything, attempting to completely overwhelm him with sheer numbers.

Li Dong frowned.

These things were endless, and they would constantly consume his energy.

The longer time dragged on, the more stable the spatial rift became. Once that fellow's main body fully descended, it would truly be the end.

He had to end this quickly!

He no longer defended passively, and lightning flashed in his eyes.

[Spirit Transformation Demon Suppression Thunder Seal]!

This time, he did not throw the Thunder Seal out, but detonated it directly inside the [Spiritual Domain]!

Sizzle—!

The purple lightning and the golden Source of Purification fused perfectly, transforming into a raging ocean of thunder that swept out in all directions with him at the center.

Those fearless divine creatures collided head-on into this sea of thunder, like ice cubes falling into molten lava.

The divine radiance on their bodies was rapidly stripped away and dissolved by the purification power contained within the lightning. They emitted silent shrieks, their bodies becoming dim and void-like at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Wherever the lightning passed, nothing remained.

Even the divine giant hand overhead, under the scouring of this thunder sea fused with purification power, dimmed slightly, and the massive projection even showed signs of unstable flickering.

Effective!

Li Dong's heart stirred, and he prepared to press the advantage and completely shatter the projection.

But just then, an unexpected change occurred.

As a large number of divine creatures were purified and massive amounts of divine fragments were absorbed by the [Source of Purification], Li Dong suddenly sensed that something strange had appeared in his [Spiritual Domain].

It wasn't pure energy, but some... fragments of Laws?

They were Law fragments concerning "Annihilation," "Corrosion," and "Control."

These had all just been stripped from that God Lord projection and the divine creatures!

A crazy and bold idea instantly formed in his mind.

Since he could strip them, and absorb them...

Could he... use them?

Li Dong moved his mind, tentatively mobilizing one of the "Annihilation" Law fragments he had just absorbed into his Domain.

He wrapped this fragment with his own spiritual power, then... imitating the aura of the God Lord projection, released it back out!

Hum!

An imperceptible white speck of light shot out from his Domain, striking precisely at the fingertip of the divine giant hand overhead.

The next second.

A bizarre scene unfolded.

The giant hand, constructed from pure divine power, after being struck by this white speck of light, acted like metal dripped with strong acid; the fingertip portion silently dissolved, disintegrated, and turned into void!

It wasn't defeated, it wasn't purified, but on the level of Laws, it was "annihilated"!

Using their own methods against them!

"..."

That high and mighty God Lord projection showed a clear hesitation for the first time.

It seemed unable to understand why a Mortal could use the authority that belonged to it.

It was like the creator of a program being attacked by the code they had written themselves; it was absurd and incomprehensible.

"So that's how it is; your power isn't omnipotent either."

Li Dong laughed.

He seized the moment of the opponent's hesitation, his figure transforming into a bolt of lightning. No longer entangled with the giant hand, he circled in a wide arc and charged straight towards the core of the battlefield—the spatial rift at the center of the altar!

Capture the ringleader to capture the gang; destroy the door to destroy the house!

As long as this channel is destroyed, no matter how awesome you are, you can only stare helplessly from the other side!

His speed was extreme, crossing hundreds of meters in an instant, arriving before the spatial rift that radiated an endless, terrifying aura.

However, just as he prepared to repeat his trick and attack the rift using the knock-off version of "Divine Authority" he had just mastered, his gaze was firmly drawn to a few items at the edge of the rift.

What were those?

Embedded at the irregular edges of the rift were three palm-sized black crystal fragments.

These fragments were made of a special material; they did not reflect light but seemed capable of devouring all light, as deep as the purest darkness in the Universe.

They were like three nails, firmly "fixing" this unstable space here, maintaining the rift's existence.

Li Dong's heart skipped a beat.

He subconsciously reached into his embrace.

The black crystal he had obtained from Bone Scythe was slightly hot.

These fragments, and it...

They were the same thing!