163: Chapter 163 The Spirit-Severing Weak Water? A single punch caused it to collapse; the system requests you to absorb the poisonous miasma!
Deep within the Ancient Star Sea Battlefield,
The core of the God-Demon Fall Zone.
If the outer periphery of the ancient battlefield was a desolate ruin of silence, then this core area was a grand mausoleum that truly buried the glory of the Primordial Era.
In the endless darkness of the starry sky, a ring-shaped starry river, millions of miles wide and appearing as a deathly grayish-white, flowed silently.
This river made no sound of water, and not even a feather could float upon its surface.
In the center of the starry river, two ancient bronze divine gates stood faintly, towering into infinite dimensions.
Behind those gates lay the place that drove countless Star Sea experts into a frenzy—the 【Half-Step Dao Integration Realm · Ancient Divine Kingdom Cemetery】!
"Plop!"
"Aaaaaah!! My magic power! My Nascent Soul is melting!! Help me!!!"
A shrill scream to the extreme rang out at the edge of the starry river.
A Nascent Soul Perfection Star Sea Loose Cultivator was forcibly kicked into that grayish-white water by several guards wearing Taiyi Glazed Golden Armor.
In less than half a breath, the Cultivator didn't even have time to sacrifice a Magic Treasure before his flesh and blood, along with a thousand years of painstakingly cultivated magic power, completely dissolved like melting snow in the grayish-white water, turning into a stark white skeleton that slowly sank to the bottom.
"What a bunch of trash. They can't even stir a single ripple in the Weak Water."
In the safe void a thousand zhang away from the riverbank,
Aboard an extremely luxurious interstellar sports car, Lei Xiao, the Young Lord of Heavenly God Heavy Industry, was boredly playing with two star core orbs that radiated the Law of Thunder.
He looked at the terrifying starry river ahead, the lightning mark on his brow exuding a gloomy ferocity.
"This 【spirit-severing weak water】 is formed from the resentful blood of fallen primordial gods. Let alone Nascent Soul or Soul Transformation, even a Late Void Returning Realm expert would have a hundred years of cultivation forcibly stripped away if they touched even a single drop!"
Lei Xiao kicked over an intelligence officer beside him and roared:
"That 'River-Crossing Key' cast from primordial bronze, which can bypass the Laws of the Weak Water, is in the hands of that lowly white-robed Loose Cultivator on the Black Market Star!"
"The ten billion bounty has been out for so long, where is he?!"
"If you delay this Young Lord's great task of seizing the divine kingdom's fortune, you'll all be sent to the stellar furnace to serve as fuel!"
The tens of thousands of elite Heavenly God Heavy Industry guards and the bottom-tier scavengers forcibly conscripted as cannon fodder were so terrified they didn't dare to breathe.
"Young... Young Lord, please appease your anger!"
The intelligence officer knelt on the ground, kowtowing frantically.
"We have set up an inescapable dragnet around the outskirts of Skeleton Star City. As long as that kid is still in the Black Desolation Star Domain, he definitely won't be able to escape..."
Tap. Tap. Tap.
Just then.
A series of light footsteps, yet ones that seemed to step on everyone's Soul nodes, slowly approached from the dark matter nebula behind the crowd.
Lei Xiao abruptly looked up.
Tens of thousands of guards and Loose Cultivators also turned around in unison.
In the churning pitch-black nebula, a young man dressed in snow-white robes with a bright red cloak swaying slightly in the deathly astral wind emerged, strolling leisurely with his hands tucked in his sleeves.
He didn't release any world-shaking magic pressure, but as he approached, the ancient battlefield's gravity—which could devour even light—strangely warped and yielded around him!
"It's him!! It's the person who killed Captain Scar on the Black Market Star!!"
"The person from the portrait! The white-robed fiend with the ten billion bounty!"
In the crowd, someone let out a sharp cry of alarm!
In an instant, the gazes of everyone present became extremely greedy and fanatical.
Ten billion star sea coins!
Three top-grade star veins!
This kind of overwhelming wealth was enough to make these Star Sea outlaws, who lived on the edge of a blade, completely lose their reason!
"Kill him! Take his head and exchange it for ten billion!!!"
"Snatch his storage ring! Charge!"
There was no need for Lei Xiao to give the order.
The thousands of Soul Transformation Stage and even a dozen Early Stage Void Returning Star Sea mercenaries on the periphery were like a pack of hungry wolves smelling blood. Their eyes turned red as they sacrificed sky-covering high-dimensional Magic Treasures and destructive Formations, bombarding toward Lin Que with overwhelming force!
Faced with this saturated attack capable of instantly blowing an ordinary planet to dust,
Lin Que stopped his pace.
He stopped at the shore of the grayish-white 【spirit-severing weak water】 starry river. Behind him was the dead water that could melt all things, and before him was a sky full of killing intent.
"Exchanging me for a bounty?"
In Lin Que's heterochromatic eyes, there was no warmth, only an extreme indifference as if looking at dead men.
He slowly withdrew his right hand from his sleeve.
On that right arm, which shimmered with a warm dark-gold luster, the first hidden aperture—the "quchi point"—suddenly lit up with a faint yet profoundly deep dark-gold starlight!
At this moment, Lin Que's internal Realm was firmly suppressed at the Peak Mid-stage Void Returning Star Domain Realm, but his pure physical strength had already reached the unprecedented extreme of fifty million catties!
"Since you all love money so much."
Lin Que slowly closed his fingers into a fist.
Casually, without even assuming a proper martial stance, he threw a straight punch toward the sky full of Magic Treasures and people ahead.
"Then I'll send you to the underworld to spend it slowly."
“Great Desolation Star-Fall Body— First Aperture, Starfall Collapse!!!”
BOOM————!!!!
There was no deafening explosion, nor any brilliant Spell light effects.
The moment Lin Que threw this punch, the cosmic void in front of him simply—collapsed!
The starfall aperture lit at the quchi point, combined with the terrifying mass of fifty million catties, directly created a pure physical black hole a hundred zhang in diameter with the extreme gravitational pull of a "stellar collapse" at the tip of Lin Que's fist!
Crack... crack crack crack...
The high-level Magic Treasures, Flying Swords, and spiritual energy beams bombarding from the sky didn't even stir a ripple upon contacting this physical black hole; they were weirdly twisted and snapped,
Then they were brutally sucked inside and ground into cosmic dust finer than atoms!
"No... what kind of gravity is this?! My body is disintegrating!!!"
"Help!! Hold onto me!!"
The over a thousand Soul Transformation Stage Loose Cultivators and the dozen or so Early Void Returning old monsters at the very front let out screams of ultimate despair!
Their proud protective true essence was as fragile as paper under this physical collapse capable of tearing planets apart.
Like a swarm of ants swept into a drain, over a thousand people were violently sucked into that fist-wind black hole, being squeezed and crushed with "poof poof poof" sounds, turning into a dense bloody nebula that slowly drifted in the void!
One punch.
No magic power used, no weapons used.
Relying purely on his Physical Body to create a black hole, he instantly killed over a thousand high-level Cultivators!
Gulp...
Standing in the distance, Lei Xiao and the top-tier guards of 【Heavenly God Heavy Industry】 beside him all involuntarily swallowed a mouthful of saliva with great difficulty.
What kind of physical strength is this for a human to possess?!
This was absolutely a primordial starry sky behemoth wearing human skin!
However.
The physical aftershocks of Lin Que's punch not only crushed the enemies but the terrifying gale also violently stirred the 【spirit-severing weak water】 starry river behind him.
Sizzle sizzle sizzle—
The originally dead Weak Water was whipped into waves by the gale,
In an instant,
Massive amounts of grayish-white eerie water vapor (Spirit-Sunder Poison Miasma) spread out, completely enveloping Lin Que as he stood on the shore!
This Spirit-Sunder Poison Miasma was even more insidious than the Weak Water itself. Once inhaled, even a Late Void Returning expert would have their Lifespan stripped away and their Meridians rotted instantly!
"Hahaha! He inhaled the Weak Water poison miasma!!"
Seeing this, Lei Xiao's previous fear instantly turned into wild joy.
"So what if your Physical Body is strong? Before the primordial Spirit-Sunder Laws, you'll still turn into a pool of pus! Once he's dead, that bronze key will belong to this Young Lord!"
Within the poison miasma.
Lin Que closed his eyes and took a deep breath of this terrifying poisonous mist that could make Star Sea experts pale at the mere mention of it.
"Hiss... this flavor has quite a kick."
Lin Que didn't just not hold his breath; instead, he greedily let the poison miasma enter his body through his nasal cavity.
The **Blood Scripture** inside him immediately surged forward like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey, attempting to refine it.
But the primordial side effects contained in this poison miasma—stripping magic power and corroding Lifespan—were indeed troublesome, as they began to run wild frantically within Lin Que's Meridians.
"It's a bit troublesome, sure. But I happen to love this kind of highly nutritious, high-dimensional poison."
Lin Que's lips slowly curled into a demonic, cruel smile amidst the grayish-white poison miasma.
In his mind, he skillfully summoned that rogue cheat that belonged only to him.
"System. I'll keep the high-dimensional God-Demon Origin contained in this poisonous gas."
"As for these side effects of cultivation-dissolving and life-stripping..."
Lin Que's heterochromatic eyes snapped open, locking onto Lei Xiao and his tens of thousands of guards sitting in their sports car watching the show a thousand zhang away.
"Package them for me, Priority Express, and air-drop them to those fools on the other side!"
【Ding! side effect transfer system activated!】
【Detected Primordial Extreme-Danger Debuff: Spirit-Sunder Calamity (Magic Power Reset, Lifespan Rapid Decay).】
【Locking Transfer Target: Heavenly God Heavy Industry Young Lord Lei Xiao and all units of his faction!】
【Logic reconstruction complete! Karma lines forcibly linked to all targets!】
【Mass transfer, beginning!!】
Hum————!!!
The moment the notification sound fell in Lin Que's mind,
The grayish-white poison miasma enveloping Lin Que suddenly lost all its destructive power, turning into pure primordial energy that was smoothly swallowed in one gulp by Lin Que's 200,000-mile starry sky inner heaven and earth!
Meanwhile, in the safe void a thousand zhang away.
"Young Lord, look! That kid's aura hasn't dissipated yet, could he... ugh, aaaaaah!!"
A Heavenly God Heavy Industry guard commander who was in the middle of flattery suddenly let out a shrill scream before he could finish!
He discovered in horror that his Void Returning Realm magic power, which he had cultivated for eight thousand years, was leaking out at a terrifying speed like a punctured tire!
His originally burly body shriveled up visibly to the naked eye, and his face was instantly covered in wrinkles!
"What's happening?! My magic power!! My Lifespan!!"
"No!! The Weak Water poison miasma is clearly still a thousand zhang away! How did this poison get here?!!"
In an instant!
Tens of thousands of elite Heavenly God Heavy Industry guards fell in the void like a row of dominoes!
They clawed frantically at their throats, watching helplessly as their life force and cultivation were forcibly stripped away by a completely illogical causal weapon!
In just ten breaths, a large number of Soul Transformation Stage guards died of old age, turning into withered corpses!
"This... this is impossible!!!"
Lei Xiao sat in the sports car. Although he wore several expensive Half-Step Dao Integration Realm protective treasures that blocked most of the life-stripping backlash for him, he still spat out a mouthful of blood, and his originally handsome face instantly aged by ten years!
He looked at the white-robed youth who remained completely unharmed and whose aura had become even more unfathomable after the poison miasma dissipated. In his high-and-mighty eyes, an unprecedented, ultimate fear finally surged.
Lin Que stood on the shore.
He enjoyed the final bit of filtered primordial energy he had absorbed.
He patted the dust off his bright red cloak.
Then, under Lei Xiao's terrified gaze,
Lin Que slowly raised his right foot.
He didn't use any flying Spells, nor did he sacrifice any Magic Treasures.
He actually had the audacity to step directly onto the surface of the 【spirit-severing weak water】 river that could melt even a True Immortal!
"Bang!"
Fifty million catties of extreme physical pressure!
Beneath Lin Que's foot, the Weak Water, which originally had zero buoyancy, was forced into a sunken pit by his terrifying physical density!
The river water was forcibly pushed aside by physical mass, as if forming a layer of hard crystals to support the sole of his foot!
As long as my body's physical mass exceeds the bearing limit of this body of water, then this Weak Water is just flat ground to me!
Tap. Tap. Tap.
Lin Que strolled across the primordial starry river that could dissolve gods and demons with his hands tucked in his sleeves, step by step, as if walking in his own courtyard, calmly heading toward the opposite bank.
He reached the middle of the river and stopped.
Lin Que casually took out that green-rusted primordial bronze fragment (the River-Crossing Key) from his robe and lazily spun it a few times on his fingertips.
He looked up, his heterochromatic eyes fixed on Lei Xiao—the Central Star Sea noble who was now shivering with fear a thousand zhang away—and his lips curled into a mocking smile:
"You said just now..."
"Whoever dies, this key belongs to whoever is left?"
"What a coincidence."
"I was thinking the exact same thing."