122: Chapter 122 Instantaneous Transformation into a God

The summit of Zhongtian Divine Peak, the Ascension Platform.

Shattered golden light rained down from the sky like grand fireworks, scattering across the pristine white jade plaza.

That peerless grand array, which had protected the Heavenly Secret Pavilion for ten thousand Years and was claimed to be indestructible, had completely turned into the dust of history.

"Clack... Clack... Clack..."

Crisp footsteps echoed across the deathly silent Ascension Platform.

Holding a folding fan, Lin Que's black robes fluttered slightly in the cold wind of the sea of clouds.

He walked very slowly, not using any Shrinking Ground to an Inch Divine Ability, looking just like a wealthy Young Master taking a stroll in his back garden after a meal.

But in the eyes of the eight Guiding Envoys slumped on the ground, these unhurried footsteps were ten thousand times more terrifying than the death knell of a reaper from Hell!

"You... don't come any closer!!"

The Second Elder clutched his chest, which had been shattered by the array's backlash, coughing up blood frantically as he desperately crawled backward.

His cloudy old eyes were filled with extreme fear of the unknown.

"We are the Guiding Envoys appointed by the Upper Realm! If you dare to kill us, you will completely sever the connection between the Central Continent and the Upper Realm! Once the Immortal Envoy descends, even if you flee to the ends of the earth, your soul will be extracted and refined!!"

"Shut up, old dog."

Lin Que stopped ten yards away from them, glancing down at them from a height.

That look was like he was watching a few Chihuahuas barking wildly by the roadside.

"One 'Immortal Envoy' after another—have you developed a sense of superiority from being dogs?"

Lin Que shook his head, not even having the interest to draw his saber.

He looked up and surveyed his surroundings.

This Ascension Platform was extremely vast, spanning a hundred miles.

In the very center of the platform was a massive Starlight Altar, incredibly complex and reaching straight to the nine heavens.

Within the patterns of the altar, there still remained the Origin Aura of the ninety-nine dragon veins of the Central Continent that Lin Que had just forcibly severed.

"So this is the interface for that straw."

Lin Que walked to the center of the altar, feeling the vast energy within his body that had begun to run wild, nearly bursting him after gorging on the spiritual energy of the earth veins.

The Major Achievement Demon God Body let out a roar of longing, and purple-gold blood surged beneath his skin like lava.

Within his Dantian, the burgeoning inner heaven and earth was expanding violently, and the three-leafed world tree sapling was emitting a rapid humming sound.

"I've eaten a bit too much; I need to digest it."

Lin Que suddenly did something that caught everyone off guard, including the hundred-thousand-strong army on the warships below.

He actually sat down cross-legged right in the center of that Starlight Altar, which represented the majesty of the Upper Realm!

"What is the Lord doing?!"

Below, the Chen Family Old Ancestor's eyes widened.

"This Aura... this pressure..."

Su Qingyu clutched her heaving chest, her beautiful eyes filled with shock.

"The Lord is going to... Breakthrough to Soul Transformation right here and now?!!"

In the enemy's lair, on the altar used to receive Immortals, going into seclusion to Breakthrough right in front of the enemy? What arrogance! What contempt!

"Crazy... you're a lunatic!!"

The Second Elder and the other Guiding Envoys looked at the eye-closed Lin Que, a sense of extreme absurdity rising in their hearts.

But immediately following that, a trace of malicious ecstasy flashed in their eyes.

"To Breakthrough to Soul Transformation, one must completely empty their Divine Sense and Physical Body to communicate with the Laws of heaven and earth! At this moment, he is completely defenseless!"

"Kill him! Kill him now while we have the chance!!"

The eight Half-step Spirit Transformation Realm old monsters looked at each other, endured the agonizing pain of their heavy injuries, simultaneously burned their remaining Lifespan, and sacrificed their respective Lifebound Treasures. They turned into eight streaks of world-destroying light, lunging straight at the cross-legged Lin Que!

However.

"Buzz—!"

Before the attacks of the eight could even get within ten feet of Lin Que, a dark gray current of air, purely refined and transcending all spiritual power in the Central Continent, suddenly erupted from within him!

World Power!

"Crack, crack..."

The eight aggressive high-grade Magic Treasures, upon contact with this air current, seemed to fall into a mire of time and a meat grinder of space. They instantly lost all spirituality and were ground into scrap metal!

"Pfft-ah!"

The eight Guiding Envoys suffered the backlash of their destroyed Lifebound Treasures again, screaming in unison as they were sent flying like broken sacks to the edge of the Ascension Platform, completely losing their combat capability.

"Using the Laws of the Lower Realm to strike me, the creator of this inner heaven and earth?"

Lin Que didn't even open his eyes, a mocking curl appearing at the corner of his mouth.

At this moment, he was completely immersed in the mysterious qualitative change within his body.

The Blood Scripture was operating at its limit, and the power of his Physical Body became the sturdiest barrier, locking the violent earth vein spiritual energy firmly inside. Within Lin Que's Sea of Consciousness, that Soul Transformation-level Primordial Spirit took a sudden step forward, following his Meridians and diving straight into the inner heaven and earth in his Dantian!

This step was the greatest difference between Lin Que and an ordinary Soul Transformation!

Ordinary Soul Transformation involves entrusting the Primordial Spirit to the external Major Thousand Worlds, subject to the Heavenly Dao.

But Lin Que was merging his Primordial Spirit into the world tree sapling within his own body!

"Rumble!!!"

Within the inner heaven and earth, Chaos was beginning to split!

The inner heaven and earth, having absorbed the Origin of ninety-nine dragon veins, expanded frantically from its original five-hundred-mile radius to one thousand... three thousand... five thousand miles!!

The sky was clear and the earth turbid; the sun and moon had not yet appeared, but the Laws of space and time had already perfectly formed under the support of the World Tree!

Just as Lin Que's Primordial Spirit completely fused with the World Tree and was about to pluck the supreme Dao fruit representing the inner heaven and earth Soul Transformation Realm.

Outside, a sudden change occurred!

"Boom-crack!!!!!"

The sky above Zhongtian Divine Peak suddenly turned an eerie blood-red!

This was no ordinary Lightning Tribulation cloud; it was the most vicious World-Destroying Nine Heavens Divine Lightning, sent down by the Upper Realm after sensing someone in the Lower Realm attempting to "escape control and create their own world"!

"Heavens... that's a red Lightning Tribulation!!"

"Ancient records state that only when a Heaven-Defying Great Demon is born will the Upper Realm send down such an obliterating lightning! This tribulation strikes not only the Physical Body but also the Divine Soul and Luck!!"

The thirty-six Old Ancestors below were scared out of their wits. Even from dozens of miles away, the residual power of the Lightning Tribulation pressed down so hard they couldn't lift their heads.

"Hahaha!! Lin Que! You have gone against heaven, and the Upper Realm has sent down the World-Destroying Lightning Tribulation! You're dead!!"

The Second Elder, slumped in the distance, let out a frantic laugh at the sight.

"Sizzle—!"

The first bolt of blood-red lightning, as thick as a water vat and carrying the terrifying will to destroy all life in a world, tore through the sky and struck straight at the top of Lin Que's head on the altar!

Facing such heavenly might, Lin Que still did not open his eyes.

He simply called out in his mind, with extreme familiarity and laziness:

"System. This delivery rang the wrong doorbell; sign for it for me."

[Warning! High-dimensional destructive energy (World-Destroying Nine Heavens Divine Lightning) lock detected!]

[Analysis: This energy contains the 'Law of Destruction' and an extremely high purity 'Lightning-Attribute Immortal Qi Origin'!]

[Logic Reorganization Initiated—'Intelligent Transformer and Photosynthesis' mode!]

[Operation 1: Intercept destruction command! Forcibly modify the underlying logic of 'Lightning Tribulation Strike'!]

[Operation 2: Conceptual Tampering! Reclassify the 'High-Voltage Destructive Lightning Strike' as the 'Full-Spectrum High-Energy Photosynthetic Light Source' that the host's inner heaven and earth World Tree desperately craves!]

[Operation 3: Initiate lossless step-down transmission, importing pure lightning Origin into the inner heaven and earth!]

"Thanks to the heavens for the meal. Charge it up for me!"

Boom—!!!

Under the terrified, shocked, and even numb gazes of everyone present.

That blood-red divine lightning, powerful enough to turn a Soul Transformation Middle Stage old monster into ashes, struck Lin Que's crown with a vengeance!

However, not even a single strand of Lin Que's hair was singed!

The violent blood-red lightning, the moment it touched Lin Que's scalp, became as docile as noodles and zipped straight into his body!

"Burp."

An incredibly ill-timed sound, like a burp after a full meal, came from Lin Que's throat.

He even puffed out a tiny ring of blood-red electric sparks.

"This... how is this possible?!"

The eyes of the eight Guiding Envoys at the edge of the Ascension Platform nearly popped out of their heads.

That was the World-Destroying Divine Lightning! You ate it like it was a spicy snack?!

The "Heavenly Dao" above the firmament seemed to be enraged by Lin Que's insulting behavior.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The remaining eight bolts of World-Destroying Divine Lightning didn't follow any rules of progression; they converged all at once into a blood-red ocean of lightning, pouring down toward Lin Que!

"Perfect! My World Tree was just worrying about the lack of sun!"

Lin Que snapped his eyes open!

Four-Colored Exotic Fire erupted from his body, violently clashing with the downpouring blood-red lightning sea!

But this wasn't resistance; it was consumption!

The System went into full gear, forcibly converting that sea of lightning into the purest "Heavenly Dao Origin Power Bank"!

Within Lin Que's inner heaven and earth.

The three-foot-tall world tree sapling underwent an explosive growth under the photosynthesis of this massive amount of high-energy lightning!

Three feet... ten feet... a hundred feet... a thousand feet!!

The purple-gold canopy was like a giant unfolded umbrella, completely stabilizing the five-thousand-mile space of the inner heaven and earth!

[Ding! Congratulations to the host! Lightning Tribulation Origin absorption complete!]

[inner heaven and earth expansion complete! The world tree sapling has entered its growth phase!]

[Breakthrough! A natural progression!]

[Current Realm: inner heaven and earth · Soul Transformation Early Stage!]

[Actual Combat Power Rating: Body as the World, Words as Law! Within this Realm, the host is the Heavenly Dao and can obliterate an ordinary Soul Transformation Great Perfection with a single thought!]

"Boom—!!!"

A terrifying pressure, unprecedented, noble, and filled with the Aura of a "Creator," erupted from within Lin Que!

This pressure held no violent Killing Intent, only a divinity that made one want to prostrate themselves in worship!

The thick blood-red tribulation clouds in the sky, under the impact of this pressure, seemed to have seen a ghost and instantly vanished, retreating completely!

The sky cleared.

A breeze drifted across the Ascension Platform.

Lin Que slowly stood up.

He felt the terrifying power within him that could tear through the Central Continent's Void Realm with a simple gesture, and he lightly clenched his fist.

No excess true essence leaked out; all the power was perfectly restrained beneath that Major Achievement Demon God Body.

Returning to simplicity—this was the true Soul Transformation!

"Finished watching?"

Lin Que turned his head toward the eight Guiding Envoys at the edge of the Ascension Platform, who were completely petrified and had even forgotten to beg for mercy.

He didn't even draw his saber.

He simply extended his index finger and lightly tapped toward them.

"Years."

Buzz.

The Law of Years from the inner heaven and earth instantly descended!

The eight Half-step Spirit Transformation Realm old monsters didn't even let out a scream before their physical bodies were instantly eroded by ten thousand Years of time.

"Whoosh."

A gust of wind blew, and the eight turned directly into a pile of dust, completely erased from this world!

Even their Karma was severed by Lin Que's finger!

"A bunch of trash not even fit to be fertilizer."

Lin Que withdrew his finger.

Just as he was about to turn around and call the army up to take over the Ascension Platform.

"Rumble—!!!"

Beneath Lin Que's feet, the altar that had been etched with the starlight array suddenly erupted with a blinding white light of the Immortal path that did not belong to the Lower Realm!

This white light was extremely pure, carrying an absolute arrogance and coldness!

This Guiding Array had actually activated itself without a Guiding Envoy controlling it!

Or rather, a mighty being from the Upper Realm had forcibly reverse-activated the array at a great cost!

"Audacious creature..."

A misty, cold, and emotionless sigh drifted from the pillar of light gradually forming in the center of the altar.

Following that, a foot wearing a pure white Immortal-gold war boot slowly stepped out from the pillar of light.

A pressure ten times more terrifying than the previous World-Destroying Lightning Tribulation instantly enveloped the entire Zhongtian Divine Peak!

Even from across the distance of the Immortal-Slaying Array, the hundred-thousand-strong army on the warships below was pressed down until they all knelt on the deck, coughing up blood!

"An Immortal Realm projection at Soul Transformation Great Perfection?"

Instead of retreating, Lin Que stepped forward toward the blinding Immortal light.

His right hand gripped the starfall mo dao behind his back.

On the blade's edge, the Four-Colored Exotic Fire and the dark silver Law of Years intertwined frantically!

Having just broken through to Soul Transformation, he was just looking for someone to practice on.

"You haven't even paid the admission fee, yet you dare to stick your foot over here?"

Lin Que looked at the Immortal figure about to fully solidify within the pillar of light, a wildly arrogant smile spreading across his face:

"This foot of yours—I'm cutting it off!!"