128: Strange movements of bronze fragments

“Roar—!!!”

A deafening roar, carrying terrifying sound waves capable of tearing apart the Soul, exploded!

The Heavenly Rule-level Vicious Beast, nearly a hundred feet long and covered in dark golden scales, fixed its blood-lantern-like vertical pupils on the two tiny ants below, which were like dust in its eyes!

A terrifying pressure, filled with endless savagery, ancientness, and a sense of being above all Laws of this world, descended like an awakened primordial divine mountain!

“Pfft!”

Su Qingyue bore the brunt. Her magical power, already sluggish due to Law suppression, instantly collapsed like paper in the face of this terrifying pressure! A mouthful of crimson blood spurted from her mouth! The color drained from her beautiful face, turning it ashen white!

Even her Dharma Body, which had long resonated with heaven and earth, let out a mournful “buzzing” under this pressure, as if it could be crushed at any moment!

Lin Ye's situation was no better.

Although he barely avoided spitting blood on the spot like Su Qingyue, thanks to his powerful Physical Body, he still felt as if he was firmly imprisoned in place by a terrifying power filled with a viscous, bloody scent, from all directions—above, below, left, and right!

His bones were creaking! As if they could be completely crushed into powder by this terrifying pressure at any moment!

Within his Dantian Qi Sea, the nine-zhang tall black-and-white Dharma Body was like it had fallen into ten-thousand-year-old profound ice, its operation speed forcibly suppressed by nearly ninety percent!

The gap!

An absolute gap, like a chasm!

This was the terror of a Heavenly Rule-level Vicious Beast!

They had long Cultivated their own Dao to the extreme, initially integrating into the Laws of this world! Their strength was comparable to the Demigods among the Human Race, who had long transcended the mundane and initially grasped the power of Laws!

Let alone them, whose strength was less than one-tenth of their Peak due to Law suppression, even a Peak Dharma Body Realm expert at their full power would only be able to offer their neck for slaughter in front of such an existence!

“Lin Ye!” Su Qingyue struggled to lift her head, and for the first time, a trace of helpless despair appeared in her clear, cold eyes, “Go… you must go!”

She knew that any struggle was futile against such an insurmountable existence!

Lin Ye did not respond.

He just clenched his teeth, his dark eyes already filled with a cold, abyss-like, fierce killing intent!

Go?

Go where?!

Under the terrifying Divine Thought lock of the Heavenly Rule-level Vicious Beast, which could cover a hundred-mile radius, they had no escape!

The only chance of survival was… to fight!

Even if it was like a mayfly trying to shake a tree, overestimating oneself!

“System!”

He let out a hysterical, silent roar in his heart!

“Burn all my resources… completely!”

“Target—God-Demon Prison Suppressing Body!”

“Give me… accelerated idling!!!”

[Command confirmed! Detecting that the host is in a life-or-death crisis…]

[Ultimate acceleration mode activated!]

Boom!!!

As the System's cold prompt sounded, Lin Ye felt that within his Storage Ring, the mountains of Top-Grade Spirit Stones, thousand-year Spirit Medicines… everything, at this moment, simultaneously ignited!

They transformed into a vast and boundless torrent of energy, like the Nine Heavens' Milky Way breaking its banks, surging madly into his limbs and bones!

His Physical Body, which had been almost unable to move due to the terrifying pressure, once again erupted with a terrifying power capable of shaking mountains and rivers under the infusion of this vast energy!

He pushed his Golden Bell Shield to the extreme! A three-foot thick, seemingly substantial, brilliant golden light suddenly erupted from his body, like an inverted golden bell, firmly protecting him and Su Qingyue beside him!

However, all of this, in the eyes of the Heavenly Rule-level Vicious Beast, was merely… the last struggle of an ant.

A hint of human-like… disdain flashed in its dark golden vertical pupils.

It raised its colossal, mountain-like, dark-golden-scaled, ferocious giant claw.

Then, it swatted down at the two tiny “bugs” below!

The movement was so casual, so… nonchalant.

But it was this seemingly casual claw that seemed to stir the Laws of the entire world!

Lin Ye only felt that the blood-colored sky above his head suddenly darkened! As if all light, all Laws, were completely… swallowed by that slowly descending giant claw at this instant!

An extreme sense of crisis, originating from the deepest part of his Soul, instantly enveloped his entire body!

He had no doubt that his proud Golden Bell Shield at Perfection, capable of withstanding a full-power strike from a Middle Stage Dharma Body Realm expert, would absolutely… not last a single breath in front of this seemingly slow giant claw!

It's over!

This time, he was truly… doomed!

However, just as Lin Ye's heart was about to sink completely into the endless abyss—

An anomaly suddenly occurred!

Without any warning!

The mysterious bronze fragment in his arms, which had been silent since entering the Void God Realm, suddenly trembled!

An extremely scorching heat, as if it would completely ignite his Soul, instantly erupted from the fragment!

Immediately after!

Buzz—!!!

A brilliant green light, filled with endless vastness and profound aura, suddenly shot up into the sky from the fragment!

The light was so pure, yet so… mysterious!

The moment it appeared, the terrifying pressure around them, as if encountering its nemesis, let out a distressed “sizzling” sound, being frantically… purified and dissolved!

“Hmm?!”

The Heavenly Rule-level Vicious Beast, which had been high and mighty, suddenly stiffened its massive body!

A trace of genuine… astonishment appeared in its dark golden vertical pupils!

Before it could react!

The brilliant green light, which shot up into the sky, seemed to possess life, transforming into an ancient bronze mirror, as thin as a cicada's wing, yet seemingly containing a world!

The mirror's surface was smooth as water, yet it seemed to reflect the myriad stars! The mirror frame was covered with mysterious runes, already mottled and eroded by time!

It just hung there quietly above Lin Ye's head, facing the ferocious giant claw that could shatter heaven and earth!

“Sizzle—”

A grating sound, like boiling oil poured on ice and snow!

The arrogant, terrifying giant claw, containing a trace of the world's Law power, suddenly stiffened the moment it touched the ancient bronze mirror!

Immediately after!

Under Lin Ye and Su Qingyue's incredulous and horrified gazes, the terrifying power of destruction contained within the giant claw, like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, was frantically… absorbed and devoured by the seemingly fragile ancient mirror?!

In just a moment!

The ferocious giant claw, which had been overwhelmingly powerful, seemed to have been drained of all its strength, its light dimmed, and finally, with a “bang,” it transformed into a sky full of… void origin qi!

Vanishing into thin air!

And the bronze mirror, having absorbed the vast energy, had its previously blurry pattern of myriad stars on its surface instantly become clearer!

The mirror itself, as if having eaten and drunk its fill, let out a satisfied, faint… hum!

It was at this moment!

In Lin Ye's mind, the cold System prompt sounded again!

[Ding!]

[Detecting energy of the same origin… same origin as the 'Void God Key' (fragment) within the host's body!]

[bronze fragment charging… progress 1%…]

Energy of the same origin?!

Charging?!

Lin Ye looked at the ancient mirror above his head, emanating an endless profound aura, then looked at the Heavenly Rule-level Vicious Beast in the distance. A never-before-seen brilliant gleam burst forth from his dark eyes!

He seemed to… grasp something!