177: Luo Mu

PS: I reviewed the previous text today and found that I made a mistake in the chapter about passing the Xiantian Golden Core Realm assessment.

Initially, I wrote that the assessment was passed in two years and nine months, including in the chapter title. However, in the next chapter, I wrote three years and nine months, and then in subsequent chapters, I went back to writing two years and nine months.

This happened not because of AI, but because my original outline had it as two years and nine months. On the day I wrote it, my brain short-circuited and I suddenly felt that two years was a bit short, so I changed it to three years and nine months.

The next day, I forgot I had changed it, so my memory was still set to two years and nine months. Thus, it remained two years and nine months thereafter, and I only realized today that I had previously written three-plus years.

Anyway, since things have come to this, let's not make it three years; I'll change it back to two-plus years! In the future, I will try to change the outline as little as possible, as I'm making myself look foolish.

Also, some previous minor detail errors were due to changing the outline or my mind getting muddled while writing.

Apologies, apologies. I will try to reread when I have time, and as soon as I find an error, I will correct it immediately... "Boom! Rumble!"

Endless dazzling purple lightning bloomed in the Void Realm.

What a magnificent, powerful, and dazzling bolt of lightning this was!

Seeing this lightning, at this moment, everyone could not help but feel a surge of great terror rising from the depths of their hearts instinctively.

It was like an ordinary person facing a giant beast of the deep sea, or an ant facing a terrifying boulder.

Even if the beast and the boulder were not targeted at them, just facing them made them unable to stop trembling in fear!

Under this earth-shattering purple lightning, Lin Yi, who was incredibly powerful in the Void Realm and had slain the number one on the Heaven Ranking with a single strike, dissipated almost instantly in the void!

He vanished silently. Aside from the peerless divine weapon starfall saber, whose surface was covered in cracks from the blast and had lost all its divine charm, not even a trace of 'ash' was left behind!

"What! Lin Yi! Aaaaaahhh!!!"

Seeing this scene high in the sky, Yan Hui Old Ancestor's eyes turned red.

He let out an agonizing roar of fury, his body instantly transforming into a streak of green light that charged into the sky.

Then, looking at the domineering man in black dragon robes hidden within the clouds, Yan Hui Old Ancestor wasted no words and directly raised his hand to strike a palm toward the domineering man.

"Rumble!"

Terrifying Martial Saint True Qi erupted in the sky. Simultaneously, the Wind Dao between heaven and earth was also stirred at this moment, and in an instant, massive green wind tornadoes whipped up in the air.

Then, the Martial Saint True Qi and the green gale converged rapidly, forming a massive green palm print nearly a hundred meters long, like a small mountain, which finally hurtled toward Yuan Emperor.

"Yan Hui, you old waste who is barely at the Late Stage Martial Saint Realm, you dare to raise a hand against this Emperor? You're looking for death!"

Seeing Yan Hui Old Ancestor's strike, Yuan Emperor gave a disdainful cold laugh and simply extended a finger to tap lightly in the void.

In an instant.

"Boom! Crack!"

A bolt of dazzling purple lightning, as thick as a water bucket and a hundred meters long, flashed through the void in an instant.

Its power was so immense that ripples appeared in the void, as if it could not withstand this terrifying strike.

Its speed was even more boundless, faster than Yan Hui Old Ancestor's giant green palm by a margin, finally colliding with the giant green palm with a roar.

"Rumble!"

"Boom! Crack!"

...A series of incredibly loud explosions echoed in the sky. At this moment, it was as if nuclear bombs were detonating in the air simultaneously.

Accompanied by massive mushroom clouds rising, at the core of the battle, that giant green palm had almost no power to resist and was crushed by the purple lightning almost instantly.

Afterward, the purple lightning's power remained vast as it crashed into Yan Hui Old Ancestor.

"Crackle! Pop!"

Streaks of lightning bloomed upon Yan Hui Old Ancestor's body. Under this powerful lightning, the green robes he wore were instantly pulverized.

His powerful Martial Dao Sacred Body was also mangled in the blink of an eye, charred everywhere, with drops of crimson blood flowing from many of the scorched wounds.

As for the internal situation, it was even more wretched. Aside from his heart, which was fully protected by a large amount of Martial Saint True Qi, his other internal organs were all shattered, some even split into dozens of pieces—a shocking sight!

This was the true strength of the number one expert of the Nine Provinces Continent—Yuan Emperor.

Even without using his full power or his peerless divine weapon, a single strike instantly heavily injured a Late Stage Martial Saint expert like Yan Hui Old Ancestor, causing him to lose his fighting capacity immediately, making him unable to even speak.

"Old fellow!"

High in the sky, looking at Yan Hui Old Ancestor's miserable state, the high-and-mighty Yuan Emperor in his black robes did not strike again. Instead, a faint smile appeared on his face as he said:

"For daring to strike at this Emperor this time, according to my past temper, I would have certainly executed you on the spot."

"However, considering your grief over losing your grand-Disciple, and that you old fellows can be troublesome, plus the fact that this Emperor is in a good mood today, I did not use my peerless divine weapon and spared your old life."

"But if you still don't know what's good for you next time and dare to oppose this Emperor, then this Emperor will not show mercy again!"

"Boom! Crack!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Yuan Emperor transformed into lightning again, carrying Yuan Jingyi away rapidly, leaving behind only the incredibly furious Yan Hui Old Ancestor, who was covered only by a thin layer of Spiritual Qi gauze and unable to move.

Until a moment later... "Huff! Puff! Huff! Puff..."

As Yan Hui Old Ancestor breathed continuously, a large amount of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi surged into his body.

Under the effect of this Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, his shattered body was continuously repaired.

He continued to recover for about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn before he finally regained his composure.

"Aaaahhh! Lin Yi, it is I, Yan Hui, who was incompetent and failed to protect you!"

"Damn it! Damn Yuan Emperor! Damn Great Yuan Dynasty! Revenge! I must have revenge! Yuan Emperor, just you wait!"

High in the sky, Yan Hui Old Ancestor roared with bloodshot eyes for a while, then quickly transformed into a streak of green light and fled toward the distance at extreme speed.

"Lin Yi!"

Seeing everything come to an end, endless sorrow and regret flashed in the eyes of Gu Changsheng and Chu Haitian.

For Gu Changsheng, it went without saying; he had watched Lin Yi grow up step by step. Although there was no master-Disciple relationship between them, in Gu Changsheng's heart, Lin Yi's status was no less than that of his own Disciple. Seeing Lin Yi perish like this now, he naturally felt deep pain.

As for Chu Haitian, although he had some unpleasantness with Lin Yi in the past, those matters had long been resolved.

To him now, Lin Yi was the hope for the Heavenly Mountain Sect's rise.

With Lin Yi's talent, if he could grow up one day, then under his leadership, even if the Heavenly Mountain Sect could not unify the Nine Provinces and reach the level of the legendary Sacred Martial Dynasty, it would be easy to rival the Three Great Sacred Lands and the Great Yuan Dynasty.

And as a major Family within the Heavenly Mountain Sect, his Chu Family would naturally also reap endless benefits at that time.

But now, everything was gone!

The two sighed continuously.

As for the Disciples below, although they could not see the faces of the people high in the sky, they could vaguely see the result of the battle.

At this moment, they were both saddened that Grand Elder Lin was gone and shocked by Grand Elder Lin's strength.

Of course, what shocked them even more was that on the Nine Provinces Continent, the Innate Golden Core Grandmaster level of the Heaven Ranking was not the end.

Above them, there were actually even higher Realms.

For example, that "Yuan Emperor" who killed Grand Elder Lin, and that streak of green light that rushed out from their Heavenly Mountain Sect after Yuan Emperor killed Grand Elder Lin.

The strength of these two beings was clearly far beyond Grand Elder Lin's, but they did not know what Realm these two were actually at.

The Disciples and Elders were all shocked and curious, but thinking of this, they felt even more regret over Lin Yi's fall.

After all, given Grand Elder Lin's talent, he would definitely have been able to break through to a Realm above the Innate.

At that time, their Heavenly Mountain Sect would have had two experts above the Innate; how invincible would that have been?

Unfortunately, that expert called Yuan Emperor was too shameless, actually bullying the younger generation and personally dealing with Grand Elder Lin.

And before such a peerless expert, no matter how brilliant Grand Elder Lin's talent was, he could only fall in sorrow now.

"Damn Yuan Emperor! Damn Great Yuan Dynasty!"

Thinking of this, the Heavenly Mountain Sect Disciples and Elders cursed one by one, their teeth gnashing in hatred.

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of miles away, in a remote ancient forest in Dragon Mansion, Qing Province.

"Whoosh!"

Accompanied by a distortion in the void, a figure tumbled out from the void in the next moment.