179: Three punches and two kicks

More than a dozen divine lights tore through the Evil Qi, descending fiercely! The terrifying pressure was almost tangible, completely enveloping the basin!

The three Upper Heavenly Gods leading them wore standard divine armor, their gazes coldly fixed on Lin Jingyu, their killing intent undisguised.

Behind them, ten Middle Celestial Gods quickly spread out, forming a battle Formation, sealing off the four directions with practiced and ruthless movements.

"Lin Jingyu! By order of the God King, we are here to apprehend you, a scoundrel from the Lower Realm! Surrender now, and you can avoid the torment of Soul Searching and Spirit Refining!" the stern-faced Upper Heavenly God in the center roared, his voice like thunder, carrying an air of supreme judgment.

Lin Jingyu picked his ear, looking impatient: "Old Dog Tian Xing's lackeys? So much nonsense. If you want to fight, then fight. Once I kill you all, I can go back and refine my treasure."

"Arrogant!"

Another Upper Heavenly God laughed in extreme anger. "A mere Lower Heaven God, who by chance killed some small fries, dares to despise the God King's authority? Form the array! Suppress and kill him!"

Buzz!

Ten Middle Celestial Gods simultaneously unleashed their Divine Power, and the battle Formation's radiance shot into the sky, transforming into chains of Law that enveloped Lin Jingyu like a net from heaven and earth. A terrifying suppressive force instantly descended, enough to crush an ordinary Upper Heavenly God!

At the same time, the three Upper Heavenly Gods also attacked!

"Sky Splitting Divine Claw!"

"Nine Nether Cold Evil!"

"Meteor Shattering Fist!"

Three incomparably powerful attacks, imbued with complete Law power, tore through the sky, striking Lin Jingyu from three different directions!

The offensive was vicious, and their coordination was seamless, clearly aiming for a single, fatal blow!

Facing this deadly situation, Lin Jingyu merely twisted his neck.

"Flashy but useless."

He moved!

Instead of dodging the Law chains, he stomped his foot fiercely!

Boom!

The earth trembled violently!

A force of extreme savagery exploded with him at its center!

The descending Law chains shattered inch by inch like fragile spiderwebs, torn apart by this pure force!

The ten Middle Celestial Gods forming the array simultaneously grunted, suffering Divine Power backlash, and their Formation instantly disintegrated!

"What?!" The pupils of the three Upper Heavenly Gods contracted, their attacks already upon him!

Lin Jingyu didn't even look, striking with both hands!

His left fist simple and direct, smashed towards the tearing divine claw!

His right fist slammed into the Nine Nether Cold Evil that froze the Void Realm!

As for the Meteor Shattering Fist light descending from the sky, he simply looked up—

And spat out a stream of Chaos Qi Flow!

Bang! Crack! Boom! Pfft! Thump!

Three sounds rang out almost simultaneously!

Under his left fist, the Sky Splitting Divine Claw directly exploded, and the Upper Heavenly God who cast the move screamed, his entire arm bursting into a bloody mist!

Where his right fist passed, the Nine Nether Cold Evil seemed to meet its nemesis, instantly evaporating and dissipating. The force of the punch struck the Upper Heavenly God from a distance, caving in his chest, shattering his divine armor, and sending him flying back, spitting blood!

And that stream of Chaos Qi Flow, like an invisible heavy hammer, surged upwards, directly dispersing the Meteor Shattering Fist light, and with undiminished momentum, sent the third Upper Heavenly God flying high into the air!

In a single exchange! The three great Upper Heavenly Gods were severely wounded and sent flying! The battle Formation was broken!

All the Sky Patrol Guards were dumbfounded, as if they had seen a ghost!

"Impossible! He's just a Lower Heaven God!" "Monster! He's a monster!"

Lin Jingyu didn't care what they thought; his figure vanished like a phantom.

The next moment, he appeared before the Upper Heavenly God with the severed arm.

"The first one."

A cold voice sounded, and his fist was already imprinted on the man's forehead.

Pfft!

The head exploded like a watermelon! Red and white splattered everywhere!

[Ding! Killed one Upper Heavenly God! Obtained 25,000,000 origin points!]

His figure flickered again, catching up to the Upper Heavenly God with the caved-in chest who was flying backward.

"The second one."

He stomped down with one foot, like a divine mountain pressing down!

Boom!

That Upper Heavenly God didn't even let out a scream, directly exploding into a cloud of blood mist, his divinity shattering!

[Ding! Killed one Upper Heavenly God! Obtained 25,000,000 origin points!]

The last Upper Heavenly God, who had been sent flying, was scared out of his wits and burned his essence blood to frantically flee!

"Can you escape?"

Lin Jingyu threw a punch from a distance!

Void Shock Fist!

Dong!

In the distant sky, the Upper Heavenly God's body suddenly stiffened, then exploded from the inside out!

[Ding! Killed one Upper Heavenly God! Obtained 25,000,000 origin points!]

In the blink of an eye, the three great Upper Heavenly Gods were all annihilated!

The remaining ten Middle Celestial Gods were already terrified, letting out a cry and scattering in all directions!

"Want to run now? Too late!"

Lin Jingyu's figure was like lightning, flickering in the basin.

Bang! One punch blew one up! Slap! One palm crushed one! Tear! One was ripped apart alive!

Like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, he cut them down like chopping vegetables!

[origin points +8,000,000!] [origin points +8,000,000!] ...The System's notification sounds frantically flooded the screen!

In just a few breaths, all the pursuers were annihilated! Not a single one remained!

The basin once again returned to dead silence, with only the thick, clinging smell of blood and lingering energy fragments proving the brief slaughter that had just occurred.

The Sky Patrol Guards who had miraculously survived in the distance collapsed to the ground, their pants soaked, staring at the figure like a demon god, not daring to even breathe heavily.

Lin Jingyu shook the blood off his hands, his expression unreadable.

"A bunch of trash, wasting my time."

He felt the slightly more abundant origin points within him and was quite satisfied.

Just as he was about to leave and find a safe place to refine the Source Seed of Strength, the System prompt sounded again.

[Warning! Extremely faint King-level Divine Thought scan residue detected! Source determined: Heavenly Punishment God King (main body)! Suspected to have been triggered through Restrictions within the fallen Upper Heavenly Gods! host's location may have been exposed! Suggest immediate departure!]

Lin Jingyu's gaze sharpened.

"Old Dog Tian Xing's main body's Divine Thought? Interesting."

Instead of fear, he grinned, revealing his stark white teeth.

"It seems that killing these small fries has finally alarmed the main character?"

"Good, that saves me the trouble of finding you later."

He glanced at the deeper parts of the Burial God Abyss, where the Evil Qi was denser and the Laws more chaotic.

"Want to find me? Then come play in the depths of this abyss!"

His figure flashed, and he rushed without hesitation towards the more dangerous core region of the Burial God Abyss!

The roles of hunter and prey were about to reverse once more!

Lin Jingyu transformed into a streak of Chaos light, plunging without hesitation into the deeper parts of the Burial God Abyss.

The deeper he went, the denser the Evil Qi became, almost solidifying into a black-red mist that corroded everything.

Shattered Law fragments were like invisible blades, cutting through space.

The environment here was extremely harsh; an ordinary Heavenly God stepping in would probably not last long before being corroded into white bones.

But Lin Jingyu's Chaos Divine Light circulated outside his body, and the Great Dao Furnace Art operated on its own, drawing all the encroaching negative energy into his Dantian furnace, refining it into pure energy for absorption, turning it into a tonic instead.

He went deeper, his Divine Sense sweeping, searching for a suitable place to cultivate in seclusion.

Finally, deep within the ruins of a collapsed ancient divine palace, he discovered a dried-up "blood pool."

This blood pool seemed to have once been used to sacrifice to some ancient existence. The pool walls were covered with twisted runes. Although long defunct, the residual Formation patterns could still gather and suppress the violent energy of the place, forming a relatively stable area.

"This is it!"

Lin Jingyu landed at the bottom of the blood pool and sat down cross-legged. With a wave of his hand, he sent out several streams of Chaos Qi Flow, simply sealing off the entrance.

"System, block external detection. If a strong enemy approaches, warn me in advance."

[Ding! Consumed 1,000,000 origin points! Elementary Chaos Concealment Barrier has been deployed! Can block Divine Sense probing below the God King level!]

After doing all this, he carefully took out the dark golden "Source Seed of Strength (Weak)."

As soon as the Seed of Origin appeared, an indescribable sense of heaviness and power permeated the area. The surrounding air seemed to become viscous, and the rocks on the pool walls groaned under the burden. Although it was weak, it contained the most fundamental Rule of Strength mysteries!

"Once I refine it, my Rule of Strength will definitely advance further!" Lin Jingyu's eyes gleamed with brilliance. Without hesitation, he opened his mouth and swallowed the Seed of Origin into his abdomen!

Boom!

The moment the Seed of Origin entered his abdomen, it was like cold water dripping into boiling oil, instantly exploding!

A vast, pure, yet incomparably tyrannical Origin energy of strength, like billions of volcanoes erupting simultaneously, furiously surged and rampaged within his body!

If his Chaos Divine Body had not reached Major Achievement, comparable to an Upper Divine Artifact, this alone would have been enough to make him burst!

"Ugh!" Lin Jingyu grunted, countless fine bloodstains instantly cracking open on his body's surface, his entire being seemingly on the verge of disintegration! Intense pain assailed him, but his eyes grew even brighter!

"Such powerful energy! Refine for me!"

He frantically circulated the Great Dao Furnace Art. The furnace phantom in his Dantian spun at an unprecedented speed, Chaos Qi surging within the furnace, grinding and refining the immense Seed of Origin energy like a millstone!

[Ding! Detected supreme Rule of Strength Origin energy! Great Dao Furnace Art operating at full power! Rule of Strength comprehension increasing! Consuming origin points to accelerate refinement!]

[origin points -10,000,000...] [origin points -10,000,000...]

The System's notification sounds rang out rapidly, and a massive amount of origin points were consumed like a floodgate opening, used to accelerate and stabilize the refining process.

Lin Jingyu's body became a battlefield, with the violent impact of the Seed of Origin on one side, and the frantic refinement of the Furnace Art and the forced absorption of the Chaos Divine Body on the other.

His muscles, bones, internal organs, Meridians, and even his Divine Soul were torn apart repeatedly in this process, and then repaired and strengthened by the refined pure energy again and again!

Painful! Yet joyful!

He could clearly feel his comprehension of the Rule of Strength skyrocketing at an unprecedented rate!

81%...82%...83%... Not just control and application of strength, but a fundamental understanding, as if he had touched the most basic Rules that constitute 'power' in this world!

Outside his body, the Chaos Qi Flow was no longer scattered but began to condense, vaguely forming a more solid, more majestic furnace phantom. Ancient, blurry patterns began to appear on the furnace body, as if recording the ultimate truth of strength.

[Ding! Great Dao Furnace Art has absorbed the mysteries of the Source Seed of Strength and begun to evolve! Progressing above the Heavenly God Chapter—God King Chapter ( embryonic form)!]

[Ding! Rule of Strength comprehension has broken through 85%! A qualitative change has been triggered! Strength has begun to contain divinity, capable of initially interfering with and even suppressing other lower-level Laws!]

The refinement continued, and Lin Jingyu was completely immersed in this wonderful feeling of rapidly growing stronger... He didn't know how much time had passed, perhaps an instant, perhaps several days.

At the bottom of the blood pool, Lin Jingyu suddenly opened his eyes!

Boom!

Two streams of Chaos Divine Light, condensed as if solid, shot out from his eyes, directly piercing through the thick pool wall in front of him and shooting towards the distant abyss, shattering countless skeletal mountains!

He slowly stood up, the surging power within him like billions of Dragons awakening. With just a slight movement, the surrounding space emitted twisting groans!

He clenched his fists, feeling the terrifying power surging within him, as if he could shatter stars with a single punch!

"Rule of Strength, 87%!" Lin Jingyu felt his own state, extremely satisfied.

At this moment, he was several times stronger than before refining the Seed of Origin! He was confident that if he encountered a God King-level Divine Abomination like before, he could blast it apart with one punch, without needing to entangle in a fight!

[Ding! Source Seed of Strength (Weak) has been refined! Great Dao Furnace Art has advanced to God King Chapter (Minor Achievement)! Chaos Divine Body strength has increased! Infinitely close to a God King Artifact!]

"Good! It's time to go out!" Lin Jingyu felt the abundant power within him, urgently needing a battle to verify and adapt.

His figure flickered, breaking through the barrier he had set up, appearing outside the ancient divine palace ruins.

However, as soon as he appeared, his brow furrowed.

Outside the ruins, an dark-red light curtain had appeared at some unknown time. Runes flowed on the light curtain, emitting a heart-pounding Seal and suppressive force!

The strength of this light curtain was far beyond the Formations of the previous Sky Patrol Guards, having clearly reached the God King level!

"Oh? Finally, a decent minion has arrived?" Lin Jingyu was not surprised but rather delighted, his gaze sweeping into the distance.

Beyond the light curtain, a figure stood with hands behind his back, radiating terrifying pressure that stirred the surrounding Evil Qi.

This person was tall, his face hidden beneath a dark golden divine helmet, revealing only a pair of cold, emotionless eyes. He wore divine armor inscribed with patterns of thunder and punishment, his aura vast, clearly a true Lower God King!

"Lin Jingyu?" The God King spoke, his voice like metal grinding, cold and piercing. "This King is Thunder Prison God King, one of the Punishment Divine Generals under the Heavenly Punishment God King! It is your honor to die by this King's hand."

Lin Jingyu picked his ear, a look of disdain on his face: "Another one coming to die? Old Dog Tian Xing himself doesn't dare to come, only sending out small fries to offer their heads?"

"Presumptuous!" Thunder Prison God King roared, his voice like thunder exploding. "Sharp-tongued! This King will capture you now, extract your soul and refine your spirit, let's see if you can still be arrogant!"

He suddenly raised his hand and pressed downwards!

"Thunder Prison Divine Prison! Suppress!"

Boom crackle!

The dark-red light curtain enveloping the ruins suddenly erupted. Countless dark-red lightning bolts, like violent giant pythons, split out from the light curtain, instantly forming a massive lightning cage that fiercely pressed down towards Lin Jingyu!

Every lightning bolt contained God King-level thunder punishment Law power, its might terrifyingly absolute!

At the same time, a war hammer entwined with lightning appeared in Thunder Prison God King's hand. The might of a God King Artifact permeated the air. He stepped forward, merging into the Thunder Prison, and the war hammer, carrying world-destroying power, smashed towards Lin Jingyu's head!

The offensive was ferocious, showing no mercy! It was a deadly strike right from the start!

Facing an attack that would make an ordinary Lower God King change color, Lin Jingyu merely grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.

"Just broke through, perfect for trying out my new strength on you!"

He didn't dodge or evade; the Rule of Strength within him erupted, and Chaos Divine Light shot into the sky!

He punched upwards!

Pure strength against God King Laws and a Divine Artifact!