278: Peak Emperor!

“Supreme One! Glory!!!”

Along with the shattering of the Demon Mountain, the originally indestructible barrier vanished without a trace.

The great roar that shook the starry sky was like a surging, turbulent tide, wildly propagating with an unstoppable momentum, penetrating directly into the Realm bordering the Yao Race's Mangyu Sacred Court.

In that instant.

Within countless stars, innumerable Yao Race citizens looked up in shock.

What is that sound?!

Faces possessing Emperor Rank cultivation or higher all revealed expressions of terror, their eyes filled with dread and disbelief.

This sound!!!

How is this possible?!

Why could it penetrate the Demon Mountain and transmit inside so intensely?!!!

The shock in their minds had not yet subsided.

Boom—!

A tremendous noise was then heard.

An incomparably powerful Divine Thought, like a sky-shrouding storm, quickly enveloped everything around them.

At the same time, the Supreme One's Aura boomed like rolling thunder throughout this expanse of heaven and earth.

An astonishing scene suddenly appeared before the eyes of all the Yao Race members within this Realm.

It was a boundless starry sky filled with darkness and chaos, where endless black-gold fierce flames covered and permeated every inch of space like a sweeping tide.

Within these blazing flames, a gigantic figure stood towering over heaven and earth.

This giant was as robust as a mountain range, his right hand steadily holding up a magnificent, colossal Pass. He stood proudly like an eternal God of War, his extremely cold eyes deep as an abyss, showing no emotional fluctuation whatsoever.

Just as everyone looked fearfully at the towering giant.

They saw him raise his left hand and slowly press it down, an invisible pressure spreading out.

Powerful, resonant words echoed, like the sound of a great bell.

“I grant you... death!”

This voice was like rolling thunder, shaking heaven and earth, making everyone's eardrums ache.

When the sound of this Supreme One's judgment finally fell.

Numerous star rivers throughout the entire Realm roared and surged like enraged beasts, and the faintly shining stars became incredibly frenzied, trembling violently.

In the face of this indescribably powerful force, everything seemed so small and fragile.

Skyscrapers collapsed like building blocks, mountain Peaks instantly shattered into countless fragments rolling down, and surging rivers, defying the Law of nature, began to flow backward, forming spectacular yet terrifying sights.

Facing this sudden disaster, all the Yao Race citizens within the stars panicked and fled in all directions.

However, no matter how hard they ran, they could not escape this catastrophe.

For a moment, roars, cries, pleas for help, and screams of terror rose and fell continuously.

“No! No, no, no!!!”

Desperate shouts echoed through the sky, but to no avail.

With crisp “crack” sounds, the violently trembling stars finally could not withstand the pressure and burst apart with a roar.

Accompanied by a series of earth-shattering explosions, dazzling light suddenly bloomed from within the stars, which then burst open like fireworks.

Innumerable Yao Race citizens were instantly swallowed by the violent energy before they could react, turning into negligible nourishment in this starry sky, vanishing forever from this world.

The scene rotated rapidly like a shooting star.

Lin Yan, still standing in the starry sky before the shattered Demon Mountain, retracted his left arm, his expression completely calm.

Compared to the many Human Race Quasi-Emperors and Great Emperors who might have guessed what he had just done, Yi Ming and the four True Immortals who had clearly witnessed the entire scene exchanged glances, a flicker of pity crossing their eyes.

That was the resources of an entire Realm, wiped out by this Lad in an instant.

Of course.

They also knew that compared to a life-and-death racial war, the resources of one Realm were not that important.

After all, every second right now was too crucial for them.

Therefore, when Lin Yan, holding the Chixuan Pass in his hand, stepped out again, they immediately followed.

“Lad Lin.”

“Start the timer.”

Hearing Yi Ming's voice coming from the Land of Nothingness, Lin Yan's expression remained unchanged as he continued to cross broken star rivers, carrying the Pass forward.

“Mm.”

He naturally knew what Yi Ming meant.

The moment the Demon Mountain shattered and this Yao Race Realm was destroyed by him, it was destined that the Yao Race would immediately discover the anomaly here, and the news would quickly spread across the entire starry sky.

To put it simply, the matter of the Chixuan Pass would soon be known by all the Ten Thousand Races of the Starry Sky, and they would be completely exposed very quickly.

Therefore, the Yao Race and even the Supreme Experts of the other four races would soon rush over.

The window of time before their arrival was the absolute opportunity for them to continue their rapid advance.

Once the worst-case estimated time arrived—which was five days later—they would have to start retreating.

Thinking of this.

Lin Yan swept his consciousness over the System to check his recent gains.

[Holding the Imperial Pass, Proud in the Starry Sky! The Host led the Great Emperors to reclaim two Realms, saving countless clansmen from deep distress. domineering index is super star level, charge value 600%]

[Imperial Pass Smashes Demon Mountain! A Single Thought Destroys a Realm! The Host used overwhelming strength to smash the True Immortal of the Demon Race's Supreme Treasure—the Demon Mountain, killing billions of Yao Race Martial Artists, and sweeping away countless beings in one Realm with a single thought. domineering index is super star level, charge value 1000%]

[the overbearing charge value]: 2000%

He slightly raised an eyebrow.

It was neither more nor less than expected.

After all, although the deeds seemed spectacular and grand, they were far too simple for his current cultivation.

Furthermore, merely smashing a Demon Mountain and eradicating a Realm would not have a particularly large effect on the war currently sweeping the starry sky.

Therefore, based on his understanding of the System, the fact that these low-impact and effortless events yielded this amount of charge value was likely just the result of the sheer accumulation of Yao Race citizens and Martial Artist numbers.

So 2000%... a trace of contemplation flashed in Lin Yan's eyes.

“Raise cultivation to Peak Great Emperor, and raise the Law to the eighth layer!”

The command was issued.

Lin Yan's black and gold interwoven robes, already imposing pressure across the starry sky, suddenly billowed wildly.

Yi Ming and the four Human Race True Immortals following him in the Land of Nothingness frowned slightly, suddenly looked down, and their pupils contracted violently.

What?!

Under their clear perception, they saw Lin Yan's Early Stage Great Emperor cultivation rapidly soaring at a visible speed.

Middle Stage Great Emperor... Late Stage... Pea!!! Peak!!!

Not only that!

They distinctly felt that the power of Law within Lin Yan's body also experienced a sudden surge!

What the heck!

The five people stopped in their tracks, nearly stumbling, their eyes filled with disbelief.

It had only been a few days since the great battle at Chixuan Pass!

They hadn't sensed his previous leap from Saint Rank across Quasi-Emperor to Great Emperor clearly then, but that was fine!

What was this now?!

Breaking through like this right in front of them?

It made absolutely no sense! A small Realm Breakthrough in the Great Emperor stage typically required tens of thousands or even tens of years of arduous effort, yet he had continuously broken through in the blink of an eye!