168: Chapter 168 A Net of Heaven and Earth

"This is going too far! Do you really think you can ignore everything just because you have money?!"

The successor of the Starry Sky Spirit Clan was thoroughly enraged by this overwhelming display of wealth!

As a prodigy with supreme mental power, when had he ever suffered such an insult from "money power"?

"A nouveau riche without any Law fluctuations dares to humiliate me? Die!"

He brazenly ignored the rules of the Central Star City auction house, condensing his terrifying mental power—enough to strangle the soul of a Sixth-Rank Grandmaster—into an invisible needle, and thrust it toward the center of Lin Yuan's brows in Sky Box No. 1!

"Watch out!"

"A mere parlor trick."

Lin Yuan sat on the sofa, too lazy to even stand up.

Facing the mental piercing that was capable of tearing apart a soul, Lin Yuan did not use any system techniques, nor did he bring out any mental defense artifacts.

He scoffed disdainfully.

"BOOM!!!"

The instant Lin Yuan scoffed, a terrifying furnace of blood energy materialized!

"Sizzle—!"

That terrifying mental power vanished without a trace.

Not only that, but that surge of blood energy even followed the causal line and smashed back into the mind of the Starry Sky Spirit Clan successor!

"AH!!!"

That arrogant successor of the Starry Sky Spirit Clan had blood spraying frantically from his seven orifices like a fountain!

"Holy Son! Holy Son, what's wrong?!" The guards were terrified.

The successor of the Starry Sky Spirit Clan couldn't even say a word; he rolled his eyes back, convulsed violently, foamed at the mouth, and passed out on the carpet of the box right then and there!

Instant kill!

He hadn't even moved a finger, relying purely on the backlash of his physical blood energy to directly shock a successor of a great Starry Sky Clan into an idiot!

"My money is an astronomical figure far beyond your reach."

"If you're not convinced, you can continue to bid, or..."

Lin Yuan's lips curled into an even deeper smile: "I welcome anyone to try and assassinate me at any time."

The entire venue was deathly silent.

Even the previously arrogant Holy Son of the Gold Horn God Clan was now huddled in his seat like a quail, frantically wiping away cold sweat.

Spending one hundred billion on scrap metal, stunning a successor of the Starry Sky Spirit Clan with a single scoff—where the hell did this powerful outsider come from?!

"Bang!"

Old Mo swallowed, and his hand trembled as he brought down the auction hammer.

"One hundred billion... Sold! Congratulations to the VIP in Sky Box No. 1!"

"Beep—!"

"Two trillion starry sky essence successfully deducted! Wishing you great martial fortune!"

In the supreme backstage of the Star Dome Grand Auction, as the notification sounded, Lin Yuan didn't even blink as he readily transferred this astronomical sum, enough to buy hundreds of low-level star systems.

In front of him, two supreme treasures emitting extreme fluctuations floated silently.

An ultra-long-distance space wormhole generator, forged entirely from Ninth-Rank Star Meteor God Iron, which seemed to contain a miniature universe within it!

And that rusty fragment of the primeval tiger tally that made Lin Yuan's blood boil with excitement!

"Store."

"Lord... Lord Lin Yuan..."

The auction house manager wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, his voice trembling: "Your treasures have been paid for and delivered, but..."

The manager swallowed and pulled up a holographic star map, which was densely packed with blinding red dots: "According to intelligence from our Star Dome Pavilion, joint fleets from over ten top-tier clans have completely blockaded all major shipping lanes out of the city!"

"Those jealous Holy Sons of the royal clans are all waiting for you to come out!"

The manager bowed obsequiously: "My Lord, as long as you are willing to pay a five billion security fee, our Star Dome Pavilion can make an exception and dispatch three Eighth-Rank Grandmaster-level chief retainers to escort you safely out of Central Star City!"

"Five billion? To escort me?"

Lin Yuan was adjusting the collar of his trench coat; upon hearing this, his movements paused slightly.

"No need."

Lin Yuan refused without hesitation: "I'm afraid your retainers will follow too closely... and steal my kills."

With that, Lin Yuan put his hands in his pockets and strode out of the Star Dome Temple!

Ten minutes later, a dark Kunlun-class stealth ship silently sailed out of the Central Star City of Ten Thousand Races.

It completely exited the "Absolute Martial Prohibition Zone"!

This was the desolate starry sky on the outskirts of the star city.

However, the moment the Kunlun exited the protective shield!

The originally silent and dark cosmic space suddenly shattered with countless terrifying spatial rifts!

"Hum! Hum! Hum!"

Immediately after, the continuous roar of warship engines tore through the vacuum!

The Celestial Race crusade starships, the Gengjin battleships of the Golden Horn God Clan, and dozens of terrifying Starry Sky Giant Beasts the size of asteroids that had been lying in ambush...

All appeared simultaneously in this shattered starry sky!

A full thousand heavy warships!

They surrounded the small Kunlun stealth ship, leaving no room for escape!

"Hahaha! That arrogant nouveau riche from the auction has finally decided to come out of his turtle shell!"

On the bows of the three largest super-flagships.

Stood the Holy Son of the Celestial God Clan, the Holy Son of the Gold Horn God Clan, and a successor of the Starry Sky Giant Beasts covered in barbs.

"Don't give him any chance to space jump! Form the formation!"

The Holy Son of the Celestial God Clan spread his six dazzling light wings, raising high a Holy Sword of Light that exuded an aura of world-destroying power!

BOOM—!

The light erupted simultaneously from the thousand warships of the joint fleet, and a Spirit-Severing Killing Formation covering a full hundred thousand kilometers in radius roared into operation!

Within this hundred-thousand-kilometer dead zone, all interstellar distress signals were instantly cut off!

Spatial coordinates were completely locked!

The most fatal aspect was that this Spirit-Severing Killing Formation would domineeringly drain all spiritual energy from this space!

In their view, without spiritual energy, regardless of what trump cards these three nouveau riche possessed, they could only be reduced to mortals waiting to be slaughtered!

"The dagger is revealed at last..."

In the main control room of the Kunlun, Ancient Sword Soul felt the completely exhausted spiritual energy outside; instead of panicking, he gripped his Star Core Purple Gold sword tighter.

Spirit-Severing?

These mad dogs had no idea that what their Starry Sky Expeditionary Force was best at was unreasonable, pure physical violence!

"Beep—"

The public communication channel was forcibly accessed.

The Holy Son of the Celestial God Clan appeared as a massive holographic projection, arrogantly projected outside the Kunlun.

He stared at Lin Yuan in the main control room as if a god looking down upon ants.

"Country bumpkin! Weren't you very arrogant? Didn't you use money to crush us until we couldn't lift our heads?"

"Now, your money can't save your life!"

"I'll give you ten last seconds!"

He licked his lips greedily, issuing an ultimatum: "Hand over the wormhole generator, the primeval tiger tally fragment, and that god-level technique you modified at the Myriad Laws Pavilion immediately!"

"Then, take your two lowly followers, get out of the ship, kneel in the vacuum, and cripple your own cultivation!"

"I'm in a good mood today, so perhaps I might consider... leaving your corpses intact!"

In the eyes of the Holy Son of the Celestial God Clan, trapped in the Spirit-Severing Killing Formation and facing the joint forces of the three major royal clans, these three Fourth-Rank individuals must be so scared that they had already wet their pants and could only kowtow and beg for mercy.