15: Slay the Quasi-Emperor Kong Yuan!

Violent thunderous power surged through the gaps in his Protective Aura, mercilessly scorching his imperial body and whipping his Divine Soul!

He felt as if he were a moth crashing into a boundless pool of lightning!

The power contained within that thunder was overbearing, pure, and carried a judgment attribute that transcended his Dao of Annihilation, crazily destroying his vitality and eroding his Dao Foundation!

The black light dissipated instantly, and Kong Yuan's figure was wretchedly forced back by the giant lightning force. His imperial robes were charred and torn in many places, the exposed skin covered in burn marks left by the lightning strikes, and a trail of shocking imperial blood spilled from the corner of his mouth!

He forcibly steadied his figure, looking around in terror.

As far as the eye could see, it was no longer the familiar sky, but a boundless, terrifying Thunder Hell composed of pure, violent purple thunder!

Countless Dragons of thunder shuttled and roared within the prison, the lightning light shining, illuminating his face in a pale purple hue.

Space was completely sealed, the Laws were forcibly rewritten, and only the endless power of thunder remained, raging and roaring!

This was the land of the Dominator of thunder, the absolute Domain of Lin Changxiao!

"Lin Changxiao!" Kong Yuan's voice trembled uncontrollably as he roared, his tone fierce but cowardly, "We are both Quasi-Emperors, why must you push me to the brink? Let me go, and today's matter will be considered finished! I swear to the heavens that I will never offend the Lin family again! Otherwise... otherwise, I will destroy my own Dao and drag your Lin family to the grave with me!"

He tried to threaten him with mutual destruction.

However, the response he received was Lin Changxiao's icy, emotionless gaze and his slowly raised right hand.

"Mutual destruction? You are not worthy!"

Lin Changxiao's right hand, fingers spread, palm facing downward, pressed down virtually against Kong Yuan in the center of the Thunder Hell.

"Thunder Punishment · Heavenly Execution!"

Rumble —!

The Nine Heavens Thunder Hell erupted completely!

It was no longer a net, but had transformed into a raging tide of world-ending destruction!

Billions of purple divine thunders, of varying thickness and shape—some dancing like angry Dragons, some piercing the sky like divine spears, some splitting the heavens like giant axes—carried the supreme will to judge all evil and execute all wickedness. Like the Nine Heavens Milky Way pouring backward, they tore through every inch of the Thunder Hell, pouring down crazily toward Kong Yuan in the center!

There was nowhere to hide! Nowhere to escape!

"Annihilation Heavenly Wheel! Protect my true form!"

Kong Yuan was terrified, letting out a desperate roar.

He formed hand seals, and the remaining Quasi-Emperor Yuan Qi within his body, along with the Origin of the Dao of Annihilation, poured out without reservation!

A giant wheel phantom, with edges burning with pale white flames and a center of absolute darkness that swallowed all light, instantly condensed above his head!

The wheel rotated slowly, attempting to block the world-ending thunder tide!

Chi chi chi chi —!

The torrent of Thunder Punishment slammed into the Annihilation Heavenly Wheel!

"Boom!!!"

Purple lightning danced wildly, black light shattered!

The Annihilation Heavenly Wheel, containing Kong Yuan's life's cultivation and Dao Origin, supported by the endless impact of the Thunder Punishment, lasted less than three breaths!

Then it shattered with a boom!

Crack! Crack —!

The ear-piercing sound of shattering was like the wail of Kong Yuan's Dao Heart cracking!

Boom!

In the third breath, the Annihilation Heavenly Wheel phantom exploded completely!

It turned into fragments of black Law dancing in the sky, instantly purified and swallowed by the subsequent torrent of Thunder Punishment!

"Pfft —!" His innate Divine Ability was forcibly shattered, and Kong Yuan felt as if he had been struck by a ten-thousand-ton hammer, violently spraying a large mouthful of purple-gold imperial blood containing fragments of the Dao!

His Aura instantly withered to the extreme, his imperial body covered in charred lightning marks deep enough to see bone, and his whole body tumbled and sank in the violent sea of lightning like a kite with a broken string, mercilessly whipped by countless bolts of thunder!

Defeated!

Completely and utterly defeated!

A crushing defeat without any suspense!

The shadow of death, like cold tide water, instantly engulfed Kong Yuan.

He could clearly feel his imperial body rapidly disintegrating under the endless Thunder Punishment, his Divine Soul burning with excruciating pain, and even his core Dao Foundation beginning to show cracks!

If this continued, within ten breaths, he would surely be destroyed in body and Soul, completely falling in this Thunder Hell!

"No —!!!"

In Kong Yuan's eyes, unprecedented madness and unwillingness erupted!

"Lin Changxiao! This is what you forced me to do!!"

Kong Yuan let out a beast-like roar, filled with the determination to perish together, "Even if I fall into the eternal abyss, destroyed in body and Soul, I will make you pay the price! I will make your Lin family be buried with me!"

"Burn my imperial blood! Burn my imperial Soul! Dao of Annihilation... give me... burn!"

Boom —!!!

"Let's die together! Lin Changxiao! Annihilation Soul Explosion!!!"

He wanted to drag Lin Changxiao, along with the Lin family ancestral land below, into the eternal abyss of annihilation!

Facing this desperate strike that burned his imperial blood, imperial Soul, and even the Origin of the Dao of Annihilation, a strike that transcended the third heaven of Quasi-Emperor at the cost of total extinction...

Lin Changxiao naturally did not dare to be careless.

He slowly raised his right hand.

With his action, the entire Nine Heavens Thunder Hell suddenly fell into absolute silence!

The billions of thunderbolts that were roaring and raging the second before were instantly throttled by an invisible giant hand, all frozen in mid-air!

The lightning light still shone, but it had lost its sound, lost its motion, as if it were a still, magnificent mural composed of pure thunder!

An indescribable, ancient, vast, supreme will of thunder, seemingly originating from the beginning of the Universe, before the Grandmist was divided, quietly permeated from Lin Changxiao as the center.

This will transcended judgment, transcended ruling; it was thunder itself, the nest that nurtured all thunder, the source of... all thunder!

Lin Changxiao's lips moved slightly, his voice not loud, but like the first thunderous sound of the creation of the world, clearly ringing through the frozen Thunder Hell, and also ringing in the depths of the burning Divine Soul of the desperately rushing Kong Yuan:

"Return of the Thunder Source..."

He pressed his right hand downward sharply against the blood-flame meteor that was crashing toward him, radiating an Aura of incinerating everything!

Boom —!!!

The frozen Thunder Hell instantly came to life! But it was no longer the violent disorder from before!

Centered on Lin Changxiao, high above, the purple firmament constructed by the Laws of thunder suddenly collapsed downward!

Like the sky overturning!

An endless amount of purple lightning plasma, condensed to an unimaginable degree, poured down like the Milky Way of the Nine Heavens!

Below, on the ground of the entire Thunder Hell, countless thunder runes flashed, combined, and condensed crazily, forming a huge, bottomless vortex!

This vortex emitted a terrifying devouring power, as if it were connected to the final destination of thunder — the Return to Ruins Thunder Pool!

The blood-flame meteor that Kong Yuan had transformed into slammed into that piece of purple "Thunder Pool"!

Within the Thunder Pool, all thunder returned to its source, dissolving all Laws!

"Uh... ah... im... pos... sible..."

Kong Yuan's remaining Divine Soul emitted the last, extremely faint consciousness fluctuation, filled with endless despair and disbelief.

He could clearly "see" that his power, which was enough to destroy the heavens and the earth, was instantly wiped out in that purple Thunder Pool, which looked calm but actually contained the ultimate Profound Truth of thunder!

The explosion he exchanged for everything was, in front of this power of all thunder returning to ruins, as small as dust!

Ten thousand ages form a pool! Refining an Emperor into a source!

When the last remaining Divine Soul mark of Kong Yuan, filled with unwillingness and resentment, was completely scattered and turned into nothingness by an inconspicuous tiny arc of electricity in the deepest part of the Thunder Pool...

The entire Nine Heavens Thunder Hell suddenly shrank inward!

Boom!

The giant purple thunder net covering the sky and earth instantly dissipated.

The Quasi-Emperor Kong Yuan, who was arrogant just a moment ago, died!

The world returned to clarity.

Sunlight spilled down again, shining on the messy but still standing Lin family ancestral land.

The wind blew gently, carrying the fresh scent of grass and trees after the disaster.

Above the high sky, there was only one figure, standing with his hands behind his back, his clothes fluttering.

The Aura around his body was completely restrained, as if the Thunder Emperor who had just refined a Quasi-Emperor and acted on behalf of the heavens was just an illusion.

Below, there was dead silence.

Within the Lin family, one could hear a pin drop.

All the clansmen stared blankly at that empty, tranquil sky, as if they were still looking for the figure of the once arrogant Quasi-Emperor.

It was over?

That aggressive Quasi-Emperor Kong Yuan, who threatened to destroy the Lin family... was just... gone?

Refined by the Old Ancestor... just like wiping away a speck of dust?

The huge contrast made everyone's minds fall into a brief blankness.

After a brief dead silence —

"The Old Ancestor's Divine Might —!!!"

"The Old Ancestor's Divine Might! Peerless in the world!"

All the clan elders, all the stewards, all the young disciples, regardless of age or gender, at this moment, all knelt down from the depths of their Souls, using all their strength to emit deafening shouts filled with ecstasy!

"Hahaha, Great Ancestor's Divine Might!!!"

"Great Ancestor is too fierce! Worthy of being my idol!"

...

The shouts rose wave after wave, sweeping across the entire Lin family ancestral land like a tsunami, lingering for a long time.

Lin Changxiao quietly accepted this tsunami-like worship, a kind smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Alright, get up. The enemy is dead, everyone disperse."

"Cultivate well, the future of our Lin family depends on you!"

After Lin Changxiao finished speaking, he returned to the Tianyun Sea.

The Lin family also returned to tranquility...