141: Lin Yu made a move

It worked!

A twisted smile, a mixture of madness and ecstasy, appeared on Li San's face.

On the blade of the "Soul-Extinguishing Dagger," the hideous skull rune flared with brilliant light, and an invisible rule of death flowed instantly through the dagger and into Lin Yu's body.

"Instant Death Judgment," triggered!

The most powerful effect of this Epic Rank weapon, usable by those below level 100, had been activated.

As long as the target's level was below 100, and as long as their life form was not an undead or a special elemental entity, they would undoubtedly die!

He had bet correctly!

This so-called "Boss," this young man putting on airs, was not some peerless expert at all! He was just a soft persimmon with a low level who only managed to give orders by relying on some stroke of luck!

Li San could even imagine the scene in the next second: this young man before him would have his soul annihilated and his body turned to dust.

He would become the hero who ended this battle!

He would gain Master Ao's appreciation!

He would survive!

One second. Two seconds. Three seconds. Time passed.

The ecstasy on Li San's face slowly froze.

The expected scene of his soul disintegrating did not appear.

The young man before him, whose kidney he had pierced, did not even sway in the slightest.

Lin Yu merely lowered his head and looked calmly at the black dagger plunged into his body, as if it were not his own body at all.

What was going on?

Li San's brain crashed.

What about the "Instant Death Judgment"?

He had seen the activation light clearly, so why... was there no effect?

Could it be that this kid's level exceeded 100?

Impossible! Throughout all of Linzhou, the number of known level 100 experts could be counted on one hand! How could he be one?

Or was it... that he wasn't a living person at all? Was he an undead creature?

One absurd thought after another exploded in Li San's mind, completely washing away his last shred of reason.

He looked at Lin Yu's side profile, which was eerily calm, and a chill, deeper than death itself, shot up from his tailbone to the top of his head.

Today, he seemed to have done the two most wrong things of his life.

The first was accidentally killing that old man called Seventh Master.

The second was right now.

Lin Yu was indeed a bit angry.

A cold, soul-targeting malice was rampaging inside his body. But for him, having already mastered "Physical Control," this power was like an insignificant cool breeze that dispersed as soon as it blew over.

He couldn't even be bothered to deal with it.

What truly displeased him were two other things.

First, behind him.

That shrill roar belonging to Wang Han still echoed in his ears.

For this Uncle Wang, Lin Yu still had a favorable impression.

Second, the feeling of joy from creating miracles that had just been interrupted.

"Vitality Nourishment" was effective on the dead.

The characteristics of "Primordial" rank skills could be imbued.

These two discoveries had almost opened a door to a brand-new world for him, allowing him to find countless possibilities. That clarity and joy of seeing the blue sky after parting the clouds was something he had never experienced in his five years of lying low.

And then, this joy had been rudely interrupted by an idiot with a broken dagger.

How annoying.

Lin Yu raised his hand. From a distance, he snapped his fingers gently.

"Primordial Snap—Micro-Object Manipulation"

The metal throwing blade that was about to shoot into Wang Han's heart suddenly stopped, less than a centimeter from his skin.

Then, silently, it turned into powder.

After doing all this, Lin Yu slowly turned around and, for the first time, looked directly at the assassin who had stabbed him.

That's fine, too. I was just worrying about not finding a place to test the new idea that just sprouted.

In Li San's pupils, which had constricted sharply due to extreme fear, Lin Yu's aura changed.

It was no longer that calm like an ancient well.

Instead, it was an indescribable, absolute pressure that seemed to want to bring the entire world under his control!

Hum! Ghost Card, Multiplication.

1,048,576 cycles!

A phantom image of a card emitting an eight-colored halo flashed and vanished before him.

"Ghost Card Replication," "Skill card," "Eight Desolations Return to Origin (Primordial)"!

Wind, fire, earth, electricity, light, darkness, space, spirit...

Eight types of the most primordial elemental powers were crazily amplified by the million-fold cycle, transforming into eight invisible torrents of rules that roared and poured into Lin Yu's limbs and bones!

Lin Yu's body did not undergo any changes.

But the space around him began to distort.

The various energy particles drifting in the air seemed to have received an emperor's summons, crazily gathering toward him, submitting.

At this moment, the sky itself dimmed by half.

Chen Ao and Zhao Tianyang, who were clashing madly, involuntarily slowed their movements for a beat, and simultaneously cast their suspicious and uncertain gazes toward the ground.

That power... what was it?

The small leader with the severed arm had his pupils shrink to the size of pinpoints.

He could feel a terrifying power, one that transcended everything, awakening within that young man.

Li San had completely lost the ability to think.

He only felt that what he was facing was no longer a person, but a starry sky that had condensed the entire universe—vast, boundless, and bottomless.

He wanted to escape. He wanted to pull the dagger out and then use everything he had learned in his life to flee for his life.

But his body, his soul, under that pressure, couldn't even move a single finger.

He could only watch helplessly. Watch as Lin Yu raised his other hand.

Watch as that card cycle leading to infinity appeared once again before Lin Yu.

A golden card was thrown into it.

"Lightning Spell (Golden Epic)"

A common, dime-a-dozen basic skill.

Cycle, start!

A million times the energy was mobilized again.

But this time, it was no longer gentle life energy.

It was violent, destructive, representing divine punishment... thunder!

Crackle!

A tiny, almost negligible wisp of golden electric light appeared at Lin Yu's fingertip.

Li San's gaze was locked tightly onto that wisp of electric light.

He instinctively felt fear, a fear stemming from the deepest part of life, of being completely erased without leaving even a trace.

"No... don't..."

He finally regained his ability and let out a mosquito-like whimper.

Lin Yu did not pay him any mind.

He simply aimed his index finger, which was wreathed in golden electric light, at Li San before him from a distance.

The violent energy continued to stack up.

With the million-fold "Eight Desolations Return to Origin" as the foundation, it provided near-infinite elemental support for this "Lightning Spell."

The million-fold "Lightning Spell" itself compressed and purified this energy, turning it into the purest law of destruction capable of piercing through everything.

There was no expression on Lin Yu's face.

Only in his pitch-black eyes was reflected that wisp of increasingly dazzling golden electric light.

And Li San's face, which had been completely swallowed by despair.

In the next instant, that tiny wisp of golden electric light suddenly flared.