143: Fist of the Four Directions

"Roar—!!!"

The Demon Saint roared, like a thunderclap from the Nine Nether!

The entire thousand-zhang bone tower trembled violently, and the death fog at its peak boiled!

The dark-gold scaled claw, extending from the cave entrance, was entwined with lava-like demonic patterns, carrying a deathly gale that tore through space, and clawed down at Lin Jingyu as he charged forward!

Before the claw even arrived, the terrifying pressure, bordering on the edge of a Domain, crashed down like a myriad-peaked divine mountain!

The blood-colored bone bricks on the plaza ground cracked inch by inch!

Qin Shanhe and the others were once again forced to spit blood, almost kneeling!

"Brother Lin, be careful!" Qin Shanhe's eyes were bloodshot.

Chaos divine light burst forth from Lin Jingyu's eyes!

Not only did he not retreat, but his speed increased by another thirty percent!

Facing the terrifying beast claw that blotted out the sky, the muscles in his right arm instantly tightened like countless divine golden chains, Chaos Qi Flow surged and roared, and the newly acquired fragment of the rule of strength boomed within his flesh and blood!

"Break!"

With a fierce shout, a Chaos fist imprint blasted out, Heaven-Defyingly!

Wherever the fist strike reached, space shattered inch by inch like fragile glass!

There was no dazzling light, only the purest, most primitive, and utterly concentrated power of creation!

Fist and claw collided!

Boom—!!!!

An indescribably terrifying explosion erupted!

It was a hundred times more intense than a bone mountain collapsing!

A destructive shockwave, mixed with Chaos Qi Flow, dark-gold Devilish Qi, and deathly Protective Aura, spread wildly in a spherical shape!

Crack! Rumble!

At the edge of the plaza, several gigantic divine skeleton pillars, dozens of zhang thick, supporting the dome, were snapped in half like rotten wood and collapsed with a thunderous roar!

The ground was scraped away by a thick layer!

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!

The already heavily injured experts of the Demon Suppression Division were like withered leaves in the wind, violently flung away, crashing into the distant bone wall, and completely knocked unconscious!

Qin Shanhe plunged his xuanhuang greatsword firmly into the ground, and his entire body was pushed, plowing a dozens-of-zhang deep furrow before he barely managed to stabilize himself, his tiger's mouth split open, blood staining the sword hilt, his eyes filled with horror!

At the center of the collision, the energy Turbulence was like a boiling sea of Chaos!

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Lin Jingyu's body shook violently, retreating three steps!

Each step shattered large sections of bone bricks, leaving deep pits!

The sleeve of his right arm exploded, revealing golden muscles as gnarled as Dragons, and a Chaos vortex spun wildly beneath his skin, forcefully resisting the tearing power!

A trace of pale golden blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, but his eyes burned even more fiercely and wildly!

In contrast, that dark-gold scaled claw was actually blasted high into the air by this punch!

Most of the dense Death Qi covering it dissipated, several dark-gold scales cracked, and lava-like black blood seeped out!

From deep within the bone tower, a more furious and slightly incredulous roar of pain echoed!

"Nothing more than this!" Lin Jingyu sneered, his Battle Intent soaring to the sky! He forcefully suppressed his churning Qi and blood, and the Primordial Creation Scripture operated at its limit!

"Strike while the iron's hot!"

He gave the Demon Saint no chance to breathe!

Taking advantage of the moment the giant claw was forced open, his figure transformed into a Chaos lightning bolt that tore through space, instantly bypassing the giant claw and rushing straight towards the huge hole at the bottom of the bone tower!

His target was directly the core inside the tower!

"Stop him! Don't let him in!"

A sharp shriek rang out.

It was actually Ancestor Wan Hun, who had been injured by Lin Jingyu's roar earlier and miraculously survived!

He was currently hiding behind a huge bone shield, his ten thousand souls banner tattered, but greed overshadowed fear in his eyes as he shrieked at several other heavily injured evil cultivators and Martial Artists who had retreated to the edge: "He took a direct blow from the Demon Saint and is at the end of his rope! Kill him! Seize his fortune!"

"Kill!"

"Fortune favors the bold!"

Several evil cultivators and Martial Artists at the Fifth or Sixth Heaven of Dharma Manifestation Realm, whose minds were clouded by greed, flashed fierce light in their eyes, and one after another, they unleashed their ultimate techniques, pouncing on Lin Jingyu from the side!

A scarred man holding the peculiar weapon "Zi Wu Yuanyang Yues" crossed his twin yues, slicing through space, aiming directly for Lin Jingyu's waist and abdomen!

An old corpse-herding Daoist, commanding three golden-armored Corpse Kings, ordered the Corpse Kings to spew out foul corpse poison, blocking the path ahead!

Ancestor Wan Hun even bit his tongue, spitting a mouthful of essence blood onto the tattered ten thousand souls banner, causing the banner's black light to surge, condensing into a giant skeletal ghost claw that grabbed towards Lin Jingyu's back with Soul-devouring power!

"Seeking death!" A cold glint flashed in Lin Jingyu's eyes; he didn't even bother to turn around!

He casually swung his left fist backward! Chaos Qi Flow condensed into a grey fist imprint the size of a millstone, carrying an indomitable will to crush everything, and slammed into the skeletal ghost claw and the surging corpse poison!

Bang! Rip!

The skeletal ghost claw shattered like paper!

The foul corpse poison was instantly evaporated and purified by the supremely rigid and potent Chaos fist wind!

The fist imprint, with undiminished momentum, slammed heavily into the nearest golden-armored Corpse King!

Boom!

That golden-armored Corpse King, capable of resisting attacks from the Sixth Heaven of Dharma Manifestation Realm, was smashed into pieces like a broken sack! Stinking corpse fragments splattered everywhere!

[Ding! Destroyed 1 Golden-Armored Corpse King at the Sixth Heaven of Dharma Manifestation Realm, gained evolution points: 60,000 points!]

"My treasure!" The corpse-herding Daoist shrieked in pain.

Lin Jingyu's movements didn't stop. Facing the cutting Zi Wu Yuanyang Yues, he didn't dodge or evade, but instead, his right leg swept out sideways like a Chaos divine whip!

Clang—!!!

An ear-splitting explosion!

Those incredibly sharp and Protective Aura-breaking peculiar yues were actually deformed and sent flying from his leg!

The scarred man's arms were broken, and he was utterly terrified!

Lin Jingyu's leg shadow swept across his head!

Bang!

Like a watermelon exploding! Red and white splattered!

[Ding! Killed an enemy (scarred man) at the Sixth Heaven of Dharma Manifestation Realm, gained evolution points: 60,000 points!]

"Run!" The remaining corpse-herding Daoist and another evil cultivator were scared out of their wits and turned to flee.

Lin Jingyu flicked his fingers repeatedly!

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Two Chaos finger winds arrived later but struck first, instantly piercing through the backs of the two men's hearts! Their bodies fell to the ground.

[Ding! Killed 2 enemies at the Fifth Heaven of Dharma Manifestation Realm, gained evolution points: 100,000 points!]

Ancestor Wan Hun was scared senseless, no longer daring to harbor any thoughts, transforming into a dim black smoke, and desperately fled into the shadows at the edge of the plaza, vanishing.

All of this happened in a flash of lightning!

Lin Jingyu's footsteps didn't even pause for a moment; while killing several people, his figure had already shot like a cannonball into the huge hole at the bottom of the bone tower!

"Brother Qin! Guard outside! Don't let any small fry in!" A cold voice came from inside the hole.

"Alright!"

Qin Shanhe forced a breath, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and held his xuanhuang greatsword horizontally in front of him, guarding the entrance like a door god, vigilantly scanning the messy plaza and the distant darkness.

His heart was filled with indescribable shock: "Directly confronting a Demon Saint... instantly killing a group of enemies... just how strong is Brother Lin?!"

Inside the tower, it wasn't the darkness he expected.

What greeted his eyes was an enormous skeletal space, like the abdominal cavity of a giant beast!

The tower walls were built from countless huge, twisted skeletons emitting various eerie glows, and between the bone gaps flowed viscous, blood-like dark-red energy, resembling blood vessels and meridians, ultimately converging towards the center of the space!

There, an altar, formed by countless pale white giant spinal bones coiled together, floated!

At the top of the altar, it wasn't a physical Demon Saint, but a vast and suffocating dark-gold Demon Saint Skeleton!

This skeleton resembled a giant ape, with three pairs of incomplete bone wings on its back and a spiraling single horn on its head!

It was not inanimate; two lava-like dark-gold Soul flames burned in its hollow eye sockets, exuding monstrous ferocity and primeval aura!

Countless blood-colored energies were extracted from the skeletons of the tower walls, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, surging wildly into the skeleton!

As the energy was injected, the faint dark-gold luster on the skeleton was slowly recovering, especially at the point where its right arm bone was half-missing; the energy gathered most violently there, subtly about to condense a new bone claw!

The entire space was permeated with an nauseatingly dense Death Qi and a more ancient, purer abyssal Demonic Nature!

This Demonic Nature was of the same origin as the abyssal entanglement on the two fragmented claws of the sovereign and the bone yama demon core in Lin Jingyu's embrace, but it was hundreds of times more powerful!

Buzz! Buzz!

The fragmented claw of the sovereign in his embrace was now like a red-hot branding iron, vibrating wildly!

The dark-gold demonic patterns blazed to the extreme, and a terrifying desire to devour and possess, like a tsunami, impacted Lin Jingyu's Sea of Consciousness!

The black Qi on the bone yama demon core solidified, emitting a silent shriek!

Their target was directly the Demon Saint Skeleton on the altar!

Especially the severed arm!

"Indeed... it's after this skeleton!" Lin Jingyu's eyes were as cold as blades.

He forcefully suppressed the fragmented claw that was almost breaking out of his body, his gaze fixed on the Demon Saint Skeleton on the altar.

"ant... trespasser... holy skeleton... die!"

A grand, broken, and infinitely tyrannical will fluctuation suddenly vibrated from the Soul flame in the skeleton's head, sweeping through the entire space!

Along with this will, the skeletal ground beneath the altar suddenly cracked open!

Three slightly smaller but equally fierce bone beasts crawled out!

One was a bone Dragon entwined with black lightning, one was a giant crocodile covered in bone spikes, and the last was a half-human, half-scorpion bone demon!

Green Soul flames flickered in their eye sockets, exuding terrifying fluctuations of the Eighth and Ninth Heaven of Dharma Manifestation Realm, and they roared as they pounced on Lin Jingyu!

At the same time, at the top of the altar, the hollow eye sockets of the Demon Saint Skeleton turned towards Lin Jingyu, and the surging Death Qi and abyssal Demonic Nature gathered at its broken right arm instantly condensed, transforming into a dark-gold energy giant claw that blotted out the sky, entwined with lava demonic patterns, and carrying the power of the rule of death that could freeze a Soul, it grabbed down fiercely again!

This time, its power was even greater than outside the tower!

Ahead were three fierce bone beasts!

Above was the Demon Saint Skeleton's ultimate claw strike!

Inside the tower, Death Qi and abyssal Demonic Nature formed a terrifying force field, fiercely suppressing intruders!

A desperate situation!

Lin Jingyu's eyes, however, showed no fear; instead, a blazing Battle Intent that could incinerate the eight wastes burned within them!

The Primordial Creation Scripture roared wildly at an unprecedented speed!

At his heart, golden-red heart fire resonated with the fragment of the rule of strength, erupting with dazzling light!

Behind him, the phantom of the Primordial Chaos Divine Demon Manifestation automatically materialized, towering to the heavens and earth, emitting a silent roar!

"Excellent! Just what I need to hone my fists!"

He let out a long howl, and Chaos Qi Flow exploded around him! Facing the three pouncing bone beasts, he advanced instead of retreating, actively meeting them!

"Die!"

Facing the bone Dragon that was the first to pounce, spewing black death breath, Lin Jingyu was simple and brutal, unleashing a punch! The Chaos fist imprint was condensed like a mountain, directly confronting the breath!

Boom!

The death breath was shattered by a single punch! The fist imprint, with undiminished momentum, slammed heavily onto the bone Dragon's hideous head!

Crack! Boom—!

The bone Dragon's head, along with half of its spine, instantly exploded! Bone fragments flew everywhere!

[Ding! Killed 1 Bone Abyssal Demonic Dragon (projection) at the Eighth Heaven of Dharma Manifestation Realm, gained evolution points: 80,000 points!]

The bone-spiked giant crocodile's massive tail swept over like a divine whip tearing through space!

Lin Jingyu's left arm muscles bulged, entwined with Chaos Qi, his five fingers like hooks, directly grabbing the giant tail!

Rip—!

A bone-chilling sound of bones breaking!

That incredibly hard bone tail was actually torn off by him!

He threw it backhand, and the bone tail, like a javelin, pierced through the chest of the half-scorpion bone demon that was about to pounce, nailing it to the skeletal tower wall!

[Ding! Severely wounded 1 Skeletal Poisonous Crocodile (projection) at the Ninth Heaven of Dharma Manifestation Realm, gained evolution points: 50,000 points!]

[Ding! Severely wounded 1 Nether Scorpion Bone Demon (projection) at the Eighth Heaven of Dharma Manifestation Realm, gained evolution points: 40,000 points!]

And at this moment, the energy giant claw of the Demon Saint, blotting out the sky above, had already descended with a roar! The shadow of death enveloped his entire body!

"Break for me!"

Lin Jingyu roared wildly, his feet stomping heavily, shattering the skeletal ground beneath him! All his strength converged in his right fist!

The power of Primordial Creation surged, the fragment of the rule of strength boomed, and the phantom of the Chaos Divine Demon Manifestation merged into his fist strike!

One punch! Giving his all!

Fist and claw collided again!

This time, there was no earth-shattering explosion.

Only an incredibly dull, terrifying thud, as if the cores of two worlds had collided!

Buzz—!!!

Centered on the point of collision, space violently twisted and collapsed like water ripples!

Forming a temporary Chaos black hole!

The violent energy Turbulence was frantically devoured!

Pfft!

Lin Jingyu was hit hard, spitting out a mouthful of pale golden blood, his body crashing into the skeletal ground below like a meteor, creating a huge deep pit!

The muscles in his right arm tore, his golden bones hummed, and a piercing pain shot through him!

However, the energy giant claw condensed by the Demon Saint Skeleton also shattered by more than half under this punch!

Dark-gold Devilish Qi wildly dispersed!

The Soul flame in the skeletal head's eye socket flickered violently, letting out an extremely furious roar!

Evidently, this strike also caused a backlash to it!

Within the deep pit, smoke and dust permeated.

The Demon Saint Skeleton's Soul flame locked onto the deep pit, and Death Qi and Demonic Energy once again condensed at its broken arm.

Suddenly!

A cold, domineering voice, filled with an endless will of power, like the first ray of light that split heaven and earth, pierced through the smoke and dust, echoing throughout the skeletal space:

"System! Consume all evolution points! Deduce the Primordial Creation Scripture! Goal—break the limit! Create the heavens!"