117: Chapter 117 Overwhelming the Entire City, Demanding Justice

The afternoon in Baifeng City was the most bustling and prosperous time of the day.

Gu Garden, Training Grounds.

Gu Yan stood with his hands behind his back, gazing gently at the small figure in the arena.

Six-year-old Gu Xuan was sitting cross-legged on a huge bluestone, eyes closed, his tender little face solemn.

Around him, red fire-attribute Spiritual Qi intertwined with invisible, mysterious Dao rhythms, faintly forming a visible small Qi vortex.

"Condense!"

Following a tender yet firm shout, Gu Xuan suddenly opened his eyes. A spark of fire bloomed at his fingertips, then transformed into a nimble little fire snake, circling and dancing in the air, lifelike.

"Father! I did it! I've mastered the first level of the Blazing Fire Art!"

The little guy ended his cultivation, jumped off the bluestone excitedly, and ran to Gu Yan on his short legs to claim credit, his big, dark eyes shining with a desire for praise.

"Not bad, your foundation is solid, and your control of Spiritual Qi is quite refined."

Gu Yan did not spare his praise, reaching out to ruffle his son's soft hair. "But remember, the path of cultivation requires a balance of tension and relaxation; do not become arrogant or complacent."

"Yes! Xuan'er will remember!" Gu Xuan nodded heavily.

Looking at this scene of fatherly love and filial piety, a picture of peaceful times, a warm current surged in Gu Yan's heart.

This was everything he wanted to protect with all his might, the meaning of his putting down roots in this cultivation world.

However.

Just at the moment when this warm atmosphere was at its peak.

Thump!

Gu Yan's heart skipped a beat, heavily and without warning.

It was not excitement, nor was it joy.

It was a kind of... extreme trembling, born from biological instinct, that only occurs when facing a natural predator!

The wind stopped.

The originally noisy cicadas, the sounds of people on the distant streets, and even the floating dust in the air were, at this moment, forcibly pressed to a halt by some irresistible power.

Between heaven and earth, a suffocating silence fell.

"Father... I... my chest feels so tight..."

Gu Xuan's little face instantly turned pale. He clutched his chest, gasping for air, his eyes filled with inexplicable fear.

Gu Yan did not answer.

He suddenly raised his head, his gaze like lightning, piercing the originally azure sky above.

He saw that in the northern sky, the originally white clouds were scattering in all directions at an eerie speed, as if some behemoth was arrogantly pushing its way into this world.

The sky darkened.

A huge, despair-inducing shadow silently projected onto the land of Baifeng City, shrouding half the city in darkness.

Immediately after.

A giant flying boat, pitch-black all over, dozens of zhang long, with countless hideous ghost head reliefs carved on its hull, slowly emerged from the depths of the clouds...

Pressing down!

Black Cloud Boat!

It hovered directly above Baifeng City, blocking the sunlight, blocking hope, like an ancient demonic mountain that could topple at any moment!

"What... what is that?"

"Such a huge boat... how can it fly in the sky?"

The Mortals in the city looked up at the behemoth that blotted out the sky, their eyes filled with confusion and terror.

However, before they could react.

Boom————————!!!

A terrifying Aura, indescribable and vast to the extreme, was unleashed from the black flying boat, without reservation, towards the city below...

Crushing down with a roar!

This Aura was no longer the Spiritual Qi fluctuations of the Qi Refinement Stage, nor was it the Aura projection of the Foundation Establishment Stage.

It was a kind of... absolute crushing at the level of life itself!

It was a kind of... magnificent Heavenly Might, like a prison of Divine Might!

Thud! Thud! Thud!

In the instant this Aura descended, within Baifeng City, whether it was merchants haggling, soldiers on patrol, or children playing...

Millions of Mortals, like wheat waves when a gale passes, simultaneously and uncontrollably... fell to their knees!

Their knees hit the hard stone slabs heavily, making a dull sound, but they felt no pain.

Because that fear, originating from the depths of their Souls, had stripped away all their sensory abilities.

They could only lie prone on the ground, shivering, without even the courage to look up.

Next, it was the Cultivators!

"Puff!"

On the streets, in shops, in Immortal Caves, countless low-Rank Cultivators in the Qi Refinement Stage felt as if their chests had been smashed by an invisible heavy hammer, and a mouthful of blood sprayed out wildly!

Under this Aura, the Spiritual Qi within their bodies instantly solidified, like frozen river water, unable to circulate even a fraction!

Those Cultivators who were flying on artifacts were like birds with broken wings, screaming as they fell from mid-air, suffering broken bones and tendons!

Despair!

Powerlessness!

This was the might of a Golden Core!

Deep within the City Lord's Mansion.

The City Lord, who was in seclusion comprehending a Formation, as well as those Foundation Establishment Stage Old Ancestors from the Chen and Li families who were usually high and mighty and shook the region, were currently experiencing the greatest nightmare of their lives.

Crack!

The grand chair beneath the City Lord instantly shattered.

He knelt half-way on the ground, his hands pressing hard against the floor, veins bulging on his forehead, sweat pouring down like rain. He tried his best to stand up, only to find himself as if carrying a towering mountain!

"This Aura... this power that makes one unable to even conceive the thought of resistance..."

The City Lord raised his head with difficulty, looking through the window at the black flying boat in the sky, which looked like the chariot of a god or demon, his eyes filled with deep shock and despair.

"A... Golden Core Master?!"

"Baifeng City... when did it provoke such a terrifying existence?!"

Gu Garden, Training Grounds.

[Warning! Warning! Warning!]

[Level 1 Red Highest Alert! Detected 'Extinction-Level' high-energy reaction source!]

[Threat Level Assessment: Golden Core Stage!]

In Gu Yan's mind, the System's voice, which usually carried a bit of mockery and laziness, had now turned into a series of sharp, piercing electronic alarm sounds filled with extreme terror and panic!

[Host! Run! Run quickly!]

[Forget about the mission! Forget about your wife and children! Hurry up and activate all your escape Talismans! Run as far as you can!]

[According to this System's big data calculation model, the survival rate of a Foundation Establishment Early Stage Cultivator in front of a Golden Core Stage expert... is only... only 0.001%!]

[This is not a battle! This is a massacre! It's a dimensional strike!]

[I'm not doing this damn KPI anymore! What's the point of doing it if you're dead? As long as the green hills remain, there's no need to worry about firewood! Saving your life is what's important, Host!]

This was the first time Gu Yan had heard the System lose its composure like this.

It was also the first time this System, which had always seemed omnipotent, had shown such complete... cowardice when facing an enemy!

Gu Yan's expression was ugly to the extreme.

His legs were as heavy as if filled with lead.

That terrifying Aura was mainly locked within the range of Gu Garden!

He could feel his bones groaning under this pressure, unable to bear it, and the circulation speed of the Foundation Establishment True Essence within his body was as slow as a snail.

Escape?

Under the Divine Sense lock of a Golden Core Master, escaping was nothing but a joke.

What's more...

He turned his head and looked at his son, Gu Xuan, beside him, who had been knocked unconscious by the Aura and had blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.

He looked towards the inner courtyard, where his wife, his daughter, his everything were.

If he fled, they... would certainly die!

"Hoo..."

Gu Yan let out a long breath of turbid air, forcibly suppressing the surging fear and despair in his heart.

His spine, under the immense pressure, bit by bit, slowly... straightened up!

Even if he died, he would never abandon his Family to live!

On the flying boat.

Golden Core Master Wu Yong stood with his hands behind his back, his black robe rustling in the gale.

He looked down from above, with a gaze that was indifferent to the extreme, as if a god were looking down at ants, sweeping across the city below that had completely surrendered at his feet, now like a dead zone.

The pleasure of controlling everything, of dominating life and death, made his heart, which had long since become cold due to Cultivating Demonic Technique, feel a trace of joy.

Ants.

All of them are ants.

As long as he wished, with just a backhand slap, he could completely erase this seemingly prosperous city.

"People of the Gu Family..."

Golden Core Master Wu Yong spoke slowly.

He did not deliberately raise his voice, but his voice, bolstered by pure Golden Core magic power, sounded like rolling thunder, exploding in the sky, turning into visible sound waves that swept in all directions!

"Get out here..."

"And die!"

The last two words were like divine punishment!

Boom!

Above Gu Garden, the light curtain of the [Four Symbols Heaven-Locking Array] that had been silently protecting the Family, under this shout containing the might of a Golden Core, only lasted for an instant before letting out a mournful cry and shattering with a roar!

Transforming into spots of light across the sky, dissipating without a trace!

Pfft!

The Formation was broken, and Gu Yan, as the person leading the Formation, was struck as if by lightning; a mouthful of blood sprayed out violently!

But he still did not fall.