197: The Ultimate Power

The power god crystal glowed with seven-colored divine light, attracting the two like a magnet!

"Get lost! ant!" The Netherworld God Lord roared, his giant bone hand, like a sky-obscuring shadow, grabbed towards the divine crystal. Terrifying Netherworld Law formed a restraining force field, attempting to isolate Lin Jingyu.

"It's mine!" Lin Jingyu's speed was even faster. The Chaos Evasion Technique was pushed to its limit, and he appeared in front of the divine crystal as if teleporting. He then threw a backhand punch at the grasping bone hand!

Bang! Fist and bone clashed again, and energy exploded! Both were momentarily stunned.

In this flash of lightning, Lin Jingyu's other hand shot out like lightning, grabbing the power god crystal that was within reach!

"Don't even think about it!" The soul fire in the Netherworld God Lord's eye sockets flickered wildly. He suddenly opened his mouth and spewed out an extremely condensed dark beam of light, arriving later but striking first, directly at Lin Jingyu's back! This was a feint, forcing him to defend!

If Lin Jingyu insisted on taking the divine crystal, he would inevitably be severely injured by this beam of light containing the God Lord's Origin!

"System! Take the hit! Devour!" A flicker of madness flashed in Lin Jingyu's eyes. He completely ignored the deadly beam of light, his palm firmly grabbing towards the divine crystal!

[Ding! Overloading Chaos Divine Body! Consuming remaining ancestral dragon essence blood energy!]

Pfft! The dark beam of light fiercely struck Lin Jingyu's back! His body shook violently, a mouthful of golden blood spurted out, his back was charred black, and even his bones, shimmering with chaotic luster, were visible! The injury was extremely severe!

But he also successfully grabbed that power god crystal!

The moment it was in his hand, an indescribably vast Origin of power surged madly into his body through his arm!

"Ah—!" Lin Jingyu couldn't help but let out a long cry of both pleasure and pain; the energy was too immense and too pure!

"Seeking death!" Seeing that the opponent took a direct hit just to get the divine crystal, the Netherworld God Lord was both shocked and enraged. His giant bone hand slammed down again, intending to crush Lin Jingyu along with the divine crystal!

"Old dog! You're finished!"

Lin Jingyu endured his injuries and directly pressed the newly acquired, unrefined power god crystal against his chest!

"System! Help me with the Fusion!"

He actually intended to forcibly fuse this supreme treasure in the midst of battle!

[Ding! Detecting supreme energy source 'power god crystal'! Initiating Fusion! Consuming all energy reserves!]

The Chaos Great Dao Scripture circulated wildly at an unprecedented speed!

The tiny prototype divine kingdom within Lin Jingyu's body devoured the divine crystal's energy like a hungry beast!

Crack crack!

The dark golden Dragon scale phantom on his body instantly solidified several times over, becoming even thicker and more ancient!

His bones let out thunderous cracks, and his flesh and blood were reorganizing and evolving! The injury on his back recovered at a visible speed!

More importantly, his comprehension of the Rule of Strength surged wildly at an unprecedented speed!

107%...180%...190%... The Netherworld God Lord's giant palm had already slammed down!

"Die!" The Netherworld God Lord roared.

Just as the giant palm was about to strike!

Lin Jingyu suddenly looked up, as if billions of worlds were being born and destroyed in his eyes, and endless Rule of Strength runes flowed and reached Perfection within them!

199%!

200%

Rule of Strength, Extreme Realm!

"Scram!"

With just a low growl, an invisible force field ripple naturally emanated from his body!

The giant bone hand, which contained the full power of the Netherworld God Lord's strike, upon contact with this ripple, was actually forcefully bounced back with a thunderous roar, as if it had hit an unshakeable cosmic barrier! Even its finger bones shattered again!

"Rule of Strength Perfection?! This is impossible!" The Netherworld God Lord shrieked in disbelief, its soul fire almost popping out of its eye sockets! Rule Perfection, this was a Realm that countless God Lords dreamed of! How could a Lower God King achieve it?!

"Impossible? I'll send you to see what's truly impossible right now!"

Lin Jingyu felt the boundless, perfectly integrated power within his body. His injuries were fully recovered, and his condition was unprecedentedly good!

He clenched his fist, and without even needing to deliberately circulate his Cultivation Technique, the ultimate Rule of Strength naturally condensed.

He threw a punch.

This punch seemed ordinary, without earth-shattering phenomena or the momentum of shattering the Void Realm.

But the Netherworld God Lord felt an unprecedented sense of mortal danger! It frantically mobilized all Netherworld Laws to protect itself, forming layers of dark barriers!

The fist arrived.

Those Netherworld barriers, which were capable of withstanding attacks from a High-ranking God Venerable, silently melted and annihilated like ice and snow under the sun, failing to block the fist for even a moment!

The fist mark landed on the Netherworld God Lord's giant skeletal chest.

Time seemed to stand still for a moment.

The next moment.

Crack... crack crack crack... Centered on the fist mark, countless cracks instantly spread across the Netherworld God Lord's entire body!

"No—!!!" It let out one last desperate, unwilling roar.

Boom!!!

The massive black jade skeletal frame exploded with a crash!

It turned into countless fragments, and these fragments were further annihilated into the most primitive particles under the extreme power!

Only a pure, dark orb of light containing a portion of the Origin of the Great Dao of Netherworld, and two burning soul fire cores remained.

[Ding! Killed Netherworld God Lord (Incarnation)! Gained origin points 50,000,000,000! Gained Origin of the Great Dao of Netherworld (partial)! Gained God Lord Soul Fire x2!]

[Ding! power god crystal Fusion successful! Rule of Strength 100% Perfection! Chaos Supreme Divine Body promoted to Advanced! Chaos Dragon Strength prototype divine kingdom stabilized! Realm increased to Middle God King!]

A massive amount of origin points poured in! The System's notification sound was like celestial music!

Lin Jingyu floated in the air, feeling the earth-shattering changes within his body.

Middle God King! Divine Body Advanced! Rule Perfection! Divine Kingdom stabilized!

Now, he felt like he could fight ten of his previous selves!

He reached out and collected the Netherworld God Lord's remaining Origin and soul fire; these were all top-grade treasures.

The entire divine hall began to shake violently, losing the support of the Netherworld God Lord's power, and was about to collapse.

Lin Jingyu's Divine Thought swept over, instantly covering the entire divine hall, and he immediately discovered many treasures collected by the Netherworld God Lord, including some top-tier divine materials, divine medicines, and several powerful Divine Artifacts.

He was not polite, with a wave of his hand, he collected them all into the System space.

Having done all this, he stepped out and vanished from the spot.

Less than three breaths after he left.

Rumble!

The massive Netherworld Divine Hall completely collapsed, turning into a pile of ruins.

In the distance, those from the Star Source Merchant Guild who hadn't escaped far saw the divine hall collapse and felt the terrifying God Lord aura disappear, all turning ashen with fright.

"It's... over?"

"That Senior... won?! He killed the Netherworld God Lord?!"

"Quick! Immediately send the news back to headquarters! The Ancient God Burial Ground has changed! It's suspected that a Divine Venerable-level or even... stronger existence has killed the Netherworld God Lord!"

...And at this moment, Lin Jingyu had already appeared in the outer reaches of the Ancient God Burial Ground.

He needed to find a place to digest this harvest.

Fifty billion origin points, a partial Origin of the Great Dao of Netherworld, God Lord Soul Fire, and various treasures... these were enough to elevate his strength to another huge level!

At the same time, with the Rule of Strength at Perfection, he also understood the direction of his next step.

After the Rule, it was to condense his own Great Dao! And his Great Dao, without a doubt, was the Great Dao of Strength!

But to condense a Great Dao, it required even greater accumulation and a deeper understanding of the Rule.

"It's time to go back." He thought of Qing Li; perhaps the clues left by her father contained records about condensing the Great Dao.

He tore through space and rushed towards the agreed meeting point with Qing Li.

This trip to the Ancient God Burial Ground yielded far more than expected.

Not only did he resolve the hidden danger of the Netherworld God Lord, obtain the power god crystal, and his strength surged, but he also verified the power of the Rule of Strength.

What if it was a God Lord? He would still kill them without hesitation!

Lin Jingyu believed that once he completely digested his gains, even if he faced a true, complete God Lord, he would have the power to fight!

His steps would never stop here.

The Great Dao of Strength, and ultimately the Eternal Realm, were his goals!