167: Chapter 167 You brat! Put your middle finger down right now!!

Despair, fear, trembling.

This is the instinctive reaction of a low-level Cultivator when facing high-level Laws.

Only Cao Kun remained standing straight.

He withstood the pressure, which was enough to crush mountains, and slowly raised his head.

His gaze looked directly at the looming, majestic figure within the rift in the sky.

That was not the main body.

It was merely a Dharma Image Clone projected from tens of millions of miles away.

“Body Integration Stage, huh...”

“Quite a grand display, but who are you trying to scare?”

Cao Kun smacked his lips, showing no fear; instead, a fanatical Battle Intent ignited within him.

Ever since leaving the support of the Sentient Beings Line of Hehuan Province,

He had always wanted to test his current limit in combat power.

He wanted to see exactly how far he was from the true top tier of the cultivation world.

Inside his body, the Chaos Unity Art began to circulate.

The domineering Emperors Law surged out of him, transforming into a dark-gold phantom of a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon circling above his head.

It stood its ground against the pressure of the Body Integration Stage.

The two immensely powerful auras collided in mid-air, erupting in a piercing sonic boom.

“Master...”

A weak call came from beside him.

Yu Linglong's current situation was not good.

Even with the Domain power of the Paradise Desire Realm protecting her,

Under the absolute pressure of the Body Integration Stage, her charming face still turned pale.

Her purple fox ears drooped weakly.

She even seemed to be swaying, barely able to stand.

The gap in Realm was simply too vast.

The upcoming hard battle was definitely not something a Middle Stage Soul Transformation could intervene in.

Even if she were touched by just a bit of the battle's aftershock, Yu Linglong would end up with her Divine Soul utterly destroyed.

Cao Kun turned his head and looked at his little fox's pitiful appearance.

With a flash of golden light in his palm, the all-heavens and myriad-realms demon suppressing tower emerged.

The little tower spun rapidly, casting down a soft curtain of light that enveloped Yu Linglong.

“Go inside for now.”

Yu Linglong knew that she absolutely could not cause trouble for Cao Kun at this time.

She rose into the air, following the pulling force of the demon suppressing tower.

Before entering the tower, she was full of worry and delicately urged him:

“Master, please be very careful~”

After Yu Linglong entered the demon suppressing tower, Cao Kun no longer had any worries.

With a wave of his right hand, the chaos divine sword fell back into his palm.

In the sky's rift, that figure took all of this in.

An ant at the Early Soul Transformation Stage, facing his divine punishment, did not kneel and beg for mercy, nor did he stretch out his neck for slaughter.

He actually had the leisure to protect the woman beside him?

What utter contempt!

“Die!”

A thunderous shout rolled out from the rift.

It was as if the thunder of the Nine Heavens had exploded by his ear.

The space below the rift boiled violently.

Endless Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was forcibly drained, converging into a translucent palm of spiritual power a thousand zhang in size.

Carrying a destructive power that suppressed all things, it struck down directly toward the top of Cao Kun's head.

Before the giant palm even landed,

The soil on the ground of the long street had already begun to vaporize in large areas.

“Good timing!”

Cao Kun did not choose to evade.

The ferocity in his eyes surged as he compressed the hundred-zhang Domain of the Paradise Desire Realm to within three feet of his body.

Pink and dark-gold light intertwined, forming a materialized Law armor on his body's surface.

His main body and the black-and-white Clone beside him moved in perfect unison.

At the same time, they tightened their grip on their sword hilts.

From bottom to top, they slashed out with all their might.

“One Sword Decides Life and Death!”

Cao Kun and his Clone shouted in unison.

All their spiritual power, blood Qi, and Law power were poured entirely into the sword blades.

Two thirty-zhang-long black Sword Qi rose into the sky, crossing in mid-air.

They met the descending green giant palm head-on.

“BOOM—!!!”

A blinding light of energy erupted from the center of the collision.

Instantly, it stripped all the Cultivators in the city of their sight and hearing.

The downward momentum of the giant palm halted.

Immediately after.

The black cross-shaped Sword Qi sliced into the spiritual power giant palm.

The corrosive attribute attached to the Chaos Sword Qi erupted, ignoring the quality suppression of the Body Integration Stage spiritual power.

It sliced a massive cross-shaped rift into the center of the giant palm.

The giant palm's structure was destroyed, and its internal spiritual power spiraled out of control, violently disintegrating less than ten zhang above Cao Kun's head.

The sky was filled with dissipating green light.

But a strike from the Body Integration Stage, even if broken, still possessed terrifying residual power.

The storm of dissipating spiritual power slammed into the Domain barrier within three feet of Cao Kun.

“Crack, crack...”

The surface of the Paradise Desire Realm barrier was covered in cracks.

Cao Kun felt a massive force smash into his chest through the air.

He gave a muffled groan, his feet plowing two half-foot-deep furrows into the ground, retreating more than a dozen steps before stabilizing his figure.

His blood Qi churned, and his internal organs vibrated and shifted.

Just then, the Myriad Laws Return to Silence Dao Wheel floating above his head turned once more.

The light flickered.

The residual Body Integration Stage spiritual power that had struck the barrier was forcibly sucked into the Dao Wheel.

After being converted, it became gentle and pure nutrients, feeding back into Cao Kun's entire body.

His churning blood Qi instantly calmed, and his damaged organs began to heal.

After this strike, Cao Kun had an accurate measure of his strength in his heart.

With all his current trump cards out, combined with the sharpness of the chaos divine sword and the defense of the Myriad Laws Return to Silence Dao Wheel,

He could barely go toe-to-toe for a couple of moves against a Divine Thought Clone of an old monster at the Body Integration Stage.

But if the opponent's true body descended, or if they attacked a few more times, he would definitely die.

The Body Integration Stage was indeed the watershed for top-tier experts.

Above the sky,

The figure in the rift fell into a brief silence.

Holy Lord of Taichu's Clone looked at the unharmed young man below with some surprise.

That palm strike of his, although just a casual blow from a Clone,

Was absolutely not something a Soul Transformation Stage could withstand.

“The secrets on your body are even greater than this seat imagined.”

The Holy Lord's voice rang out again.

This time, besides anger, there was a hint of greed in his tone.

“Hand over the treasures on your person, and this seat will leave you an intact corpse!”

“Leave your mother's head! Fine, I'm done playing with you, old geezer.”

Cao Kun knew when to quit.

Having gauged the strength gap, his goal had been achieved.

Staying here to fight to the death against a Body Integration Stage would mean he had a hole in his brain.

He flipped his wrist.

From his Storage Ring, he took out the Teleportation Jade Talisman Pei Qinglan had given him earlier.

“Crack!”

The jade talisman was crushed in one go.

Array patterns surged from the jade talisman fragments,

Delineating a miniature Spatial Teleportation Array beneath Cao Kun's feet.

Spatial power began to fluctuate, enveloping his body.

The Holy Lord in the sky sensed the fluctuation of the Law of space and was immediately furious.

“Little beast! You killed my Holy Land's Elder and crippled my Holy Land's successor, and you still want to escape?! Stay for this seat!!!”

Within the rift,

An even more solidified hand reached out, grabbing directly at the forming teleportation array below.

Attempting to forcibly smooth out the spatial fluctuations.

The teleportation light grew brighter and brighter, and Cao Kun's body had already begun to become translucent.

Facing the grasping giant hand, he arrogantly raised his middle finger!

His voice, full of vigor and wrapped in spiritual power, spread throughout the entire city.

“The Body Integration Stage is nothing more than this!”

“Taichu Holy Land, right? I've noted this debt! Sooner or later, I'll go and dig up your Holy Land's ancestral graves!”

“Bye-bye to you!”

As his voice fell,

A silver teleportation pillar of light shot into the clouds.

“Boom!”

The giant hand crashed down, grasping the original position of the pillar of light.

However, the palm was empty.

Cao Kun's figure, along with the light of the teleportation array, had completely disappeared without a trace.

The highest-grade Teleportation Jade Talisman produced by the main Treasure Pavilion headquarters.

Once activated, the spatial coordinates would be disrupted and reorganized.

Even a Body Integration Stage powerhouse would be unable to lock onto the trajectory of his escape in a short time!

“Aaaargh!!! This brat deceives me too much!!!”

From above the sky came the exasperated roar of Holy Lord of Taichu.

Meanwhile, millions of Cultivators throughout the city were shivering in fear.

They remembered that madman who had withstood the Body Integration Stage, raised his middle finger, and even wanted to scatter the ashes of someone's ancestors!

Yu Linglong