156: The Great Sage Ancestor intervened. [Thanks to 'xY钻风' for the gift]
At the same time.
Deep within the core of Lihuo Star No. 3.
Here was an ocean formed by the Flame Law.
At the center of the ocean floated a magnificent palace crafted from "Solar Gold Crystal."
In the deepest part of the palace, an old man with white hair and beard, dressed in a grey robe, sat cross-legged.
His body had already merged with the surrounding environment.
With every breath, he stirred the pulse of the entire planet.
He was the Li family's pillar of support, the Great Saint Realm ancestor who had been in seclusion for three thousand years—Li Wuji!
Suddenly!
A blood-red stream of light pierced through the sea of magma, through the layers of the palace's restrictions, and sank into the space between his eyebrows.
Li Wuji's eyes, which had been closed for three thousand years, suddenly snapped open!
Boom!!!!
Two golden divine lights shot out from his eyes, instantly piercing through the palace walls and plowing two bottomless trenches deep within the planet's core!
An aura that was ancient and full of Decay, yet carried a terrifying power capable of destroying heaven and earth, erupted from his body!
"Who...?"
"Dares to touch the foundation of my Li family?!"
A hoarse, cold voice echoed throughout the entire core space.
The next second.
His figure vanished directly from the palace.
When he reappeared, he was already outside the atmosphere of Lihuo Star No. 3, looking down at the azure planet below.
His divine sense, like an infinite giant net, instantly enveloped the entire planet.
On the planet, every living being's joys and sorrows, every ant's cycle of Life and Death, were within a single thought of his.
Soon.
He saw the tragic state of the Li family.
He saw Li Xuanfeng's despair and madness.
And he saw the source of it all—the Infant lying in a dilapidated shack in the slums, legs crossed, humming a little tune.
"Domain Transformation Realm First Level?"
Li Wuji frowned.
He couldn't quite believe it.
An Infant could actually push the Li family he personally founded to such a state?
This made no sense.
But the truth was right before his eyes.
"Hmph."
"No matter what sorcery you used."
"And no matter who stands behind you."
"If you dare touch my Li family, you must die."
There was no anger in Li Wuji's eyes, only an indifferent, deathly silence.
To an old monster like him who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years, the so-called family and bloodline were merely minor embellishments in his long Life.
However, that didn't mean anyone could just come and trample on them.
His majesty was not to be provoked!
He didn't even bother to descend in person.
He simply pointed a finger casually toward the bustling Star River City below.
Then, he tapped lightly.
"Buzz!"
A Divine Light of Destruction, thin as a hair yet containing enough power to pierce through stars, erupted from his fingertip.
There was no world-shaking momentum.
No heaven-rending phenomena.
That divine light, silently and at a speed exceeding that of light, plummeted toward the center of Star River City!
He didn't just want to kill Su Jue.
He wanted to... level that city!
Level the land that had witnessed the Li family's shame!
In his eyes, the hundreds of millions of living beings in that city were no different from ants on the ground.
Crushing them to Death was just crushing them to Death... The slums.
Su Jue was lying on his bed, happily calculating how to spend that over one hundred billion.
Suddenly!
A terrifying sense of crisis that made his hair stand on end exploded from the depths of his soul!
"Holy crap?!"
He leaped up from the bed!
"Great Saint?!"
Su Jue's expression instantly became incredibly grave.
He remembered the fear of being dominated by the Gold-Devouring Rat Emperor on the Barbaric Star.
This aura was even more powerful than that of the Gold-Devouring Rat Emperor back then!
"Boss! Boss! This is bad!"
Beside him, the virtual screen in front of Capybara was no longer filled with gibberish.
It was a sea of blood-red!
In the center of the screen, only two large, flashing words remained!
[ESCAPE!!!!]
Escape?
Escape where?
Su Jue's soul power spread out frantically, and he soon sensed that Divine Light of Destruction descending from the sky, locked onto the entire city!
Before that divine light, his Space Folding, Gravity Domain, and even his pride and joy, Chaos Unity, seemed so laughable and powerless!
This wasn't even a confrontation on the same level!
Taking it head-on meant Death!
Not even dust would remain!
"Dammit!"
"I've overplayed my hand!"
Do I have to call my parents again?
No! It's not time for that yet!
The only way... Su Jue's gaze gradually turned crazed!
The only way was to use his own dimensional universe to withstand this strike head-on!
"I'm gambling on this!"
Damn it all!
So what if it's a Great Saint?!
"Come at me!!!"
He let out a youthful roar that was filled with endless battle intent!
His tiny body soared into the sky, crashing directly through the roof and hovering in mid-air!
Facing that divine light of Death capable of destroying everything, he opened his arms wide as if to embrace the whole world!
At that very moment.
A phantom yet real embryonic universe suddenly expanded with his body as the center!
The next second.
That Divine Light of Destruction finally descended.
Under the terrified, despairing, and dazed gazes of the hundreds of millions of citizens in Star River City.
The sky was torn open.
A golden pillar of light descended from the heavens, like a god's sword of judgment, intending to completely purify this filthy mortal world!
It's over.
That single thought was all that remained in everyone's minds.
They couldn't even manage a scream.
Under that terrifying pressure capable of freezing the soul, their brains had gone completely blank.
They could only watch helplessly as Death drew closer and closer.
However!
Just as that pillar of light was about to touch the city's tallest building—the Li Group headquarters building!
A sudden change occurred!
A faint spatial ripple quietly spread out directly beneath the pillar of light.
Immediately afterward.
That Divine Light of Destruction, capable of evaporating the entire city, simply... vanished into thin air.
Like a drop of water merging into the ocean.
Like a grain of sand falling into the desert.
Silent and soundless.
As if it had never existed.
The entire world fell into an absolute silence that lasted for three seconds.
Three seconds later.
"...I, I'm still alive?"
A survivor tremblingly touched his own face.
Warm.
There was a heartbeat.
"What happened? What was that just now?"
"A miracle! It must be a miracle! A god has appeared and saved us!"
The ecstasy of surviving a disaster swept through the entire city like a virus!
Countless people knelt on the ground, weeping uncontrollably, kowtowing frantically toward the azure sky that had returned, thanking the unknown deity for saving their lives.
They would never know.
That just moments ago.
In another dimension.
A fragile universe that had only recently been born had paid such a tragic price to save them!
...Inside the dimensional universe.
"Pfft—!"
Su Jue's avatar of will, that god-like phantom standing tall between heaven and earth, couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of golden blood!