143: Visitors from the Abyss

Chen Ao’s heart wasn’t just sinking to rock bottom.

It was utterly crushed, turned into dust.

What he blocked was merely a fuse.

A trivial spark… used to ignite an entire forest.

He looked at the young man, the one slowly raising his other hand, as if to embrace the entire sky.

At this moment, Chen Ao finally understood everything Li Mo had said.

Abyss Domain.

Strong cultivators.

Showing goodwill.

He was wrong.

Terribly wrong.

This wasn’t a question of whether he could afford to offend him.

It was that the other party simply didn't consider him to be on the same level of existence.

Does an ant need to consider how to show goodwill to a dragon?

No.

Because the dragon wouldn't even notice it.

Unless, by accident, it blocked the dragon's path.

“Ha…”

Chen Ao suddenly laughed.

It was a pure sense of relief, after completely letting go of all dignity, all arrogance, all unwillingness.

So, the pressure of death felt like this.

Lin Yu’s hand paused in the air.

Only for a moment.

He recalled the days and nights of his five-year dormancy.

He recalled the white hair at his parents' temples and their worries.

He recalled the greedy faces of those capitalists when his sister Lin Yao awakened.

He recalled Seventh Master’s death and Old Ghost’s sorrowful cry.

Enough.

All of this should end.

From today onwards, he would let everyone know that some people are existences they can never touch.

He was already qualified to sit at the table.

Lin Yu’s other hand decisively fell.

No words.

No pronouncements.

Only one action.

The sky collapsed.

The massive lightning net, covering eight thousand square kilometers, lost all its support the moment that hand fell.

The entire canopy, composed of pure destructive energy, collapsed towards the earth, towards the center of this ruin, towards the very spot where Chen Ao stood!

Time lost its meaning at this moment.

Space was twisted and deformed by the extreme energy at this moment.

In everyone’s vision, only a pure, constantly falling white light remained.

That was an ocean of thunder.

That was the heavenly tribulation itself!

“Bring it on!”

In the last moments of his life, Chen Ao erupted with the final madness and pride belonging to the King of Linzhou.

He didn’t flee.

He also knew he couldn't escape.

The already dim purple lightning orb on his body reignited in an instant, its light even more brilliant than ever before!

He poured all his lifelong cultivation, all his energy, all his spirit into it!

“Break… for me!”

Accompanied by a soul-shaking roar, Chen Ao actively charged towards the falling heavenly tribulation!

He wanted to use his last life to shake this god-like power!

Even if he could only stir up a trivial ripple!

However.

The purple lightning orb, upon touching the golden sea of lightning,

Didn’t even stir up a ripple.

Like a snowflake thrown into the sun.

It was silently evaporated.

Along with Chen Ao’s last bit of pride.

Chen Ao’s body began to decompose before that golden ocean.

Death was at hand.

He was even ready to embrace the annihilation of his soul.

But at this moment.

Rip!

A sharp sound of tearing cloth abruptly rang out in front of Chen Ao.

The space before him seemed to be cut open by an invisible sharp blade, and a pitch-black, bottomless crack appeared out of thin air!

Immediately after.

Two figures, one after another, stepped out from that spatial rift.

The one walking in front was a middle-aged man in a black trench coat with a stern face.

The moment he appeared, he didn't even glance at Chen Ao, who was about to be swallowed by the sea of lightning; he merely raised his head and looked at the world-destroying golden lightning.

His reaction was incredibly swift.

“Defend!”

An ancient syllable escaped his lips.

He extended his right hand, fingers spread.

A pure black, octagonal shield, seemingly made of the deepest dark matter, instantly unfolded above his head!

Upon the shield, countless mysterious silver runes circulated endlessly, forming complex and profound array diagrams.

Boom boom boom boom—!!!

The collapsing sea of lightning finally descended!

Billions of tons of lightning were poured entirely onto that small black shield!

The entire world lost its sound.

Only an extremely dazzling white light remained.

And the energy ripples, capable of tearing space, generated as the black shield and the endless sea of lightning fiercely collided and annihilated each other!

“Pfft!”

The man in black trembled violently, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

The ground beneath his feet, along with hundreds of meters of surrounding ruins, instantly turned to dust under this recoil, forming a massive circular crater!

But he, astonishingly, managed to hold on!

That black octagonal shield, under the onslaught of the sea of lightning, vibrated violently, the silver runes on its surface flickered erratically, and even faint cracks appeared.

But it ultimately did not shatter immediately!

It stood like a black reef in a world-ending torrent, stubbornly blocking that golden ocean of death!

The person following behind him was also dressed in black, but his figure appeared somewhat illusory, as if he could merge into the air at any moment.

He glanced at his struggling companion, then at Chen Ao, who was completely terrified next to him, and finally, he cast his gaze towards the source of that sea of lightning.

The young man standing atop the ruins, one hand in his pocket, the other having just lowered.

“Your Excellency, you’ve gone too far.”

He spoke, his tone flat, yet carrying a condescending question.

This scene left everyone in the distance stunned.

Wang Han and his daughter, Old Ghost, Zhao Tianyang.

None of them had expected that under such a world-destroying attack, someone could still stand out.

And even block it!

Lin Yu also raised an eyebrow slightly.

Interesting.

This power did not belong to the Blue Star system.

No wonder he could block it.

But, it was only blocking it.

The golden electric light on Lin Yu’s fingertip began to condense again.

If once wasn't enough, then again.

For him, this was merely a Lightning Spell.

If not for the Ghost Card’s long pre-cast time for multiplication, he could use it as a basic attack.

“Your Excellency, you’ve gone too far.”

The flat question echoed above the silent ruins.

The later-appearing man in black, with his illusory figure seemingly merged with the shadows, gazed at Lin Yu with a natural sense of judgment.

However, among everyone present, the most intense reaction was not from Lin Yu.

It was Li Mo.

The moment the man in black appeared, the moment the pitch-black spatial rift tore open, Li Mo's face, hidden beneath his hood and mask, completely lost its color.

Abyss Domain!

It was the aura of the Abyss Domain!

This pure, condensed energy, with the unique spatial law fluctuations, he would never mistake it even in death!

He was like a rabbit targeted by its natural predator, every hair bristling, every cell screaming danger.