63: Chapter 63 I See You as the Nine Heavens Responding Thunder God Universal Transformation Heavenly Venerable

Qin Ling saw everything that happened in the alley.

Pei Se crouched beside the gourd, gritting her teeth without a sound.

Huang Zu raised his claws and moved closer to Pei Se.

A yellow weasel asking for a title!

Qin Ling was naturally not unfamiliar with this, a flash of light passing through his eyes.

What kind of Huang Zu? In the end, he was just a yellow weasel.

He suddenly had an idea and wanted to try whether those old tricks still worked.

He raised his hand and gently blew a breath.

A beam of golden light drifted from his fingertips like a wisp of smoke, passing through the narrow alley and drilling into Pei Se's ear.

Pei Se, who was gritting her teeth, paused for a moment.

She heard a calm voice ringing in her ear.

"Tell it that it looks like Jiutian Yingyuan Leishen Puhua Tianzun."

Pei Se was stunned for a split second.

She didn't know who was speaking to her, nor did she know what Jiutian Yingyuan Leishen Puhua Tianzun was.

But since she didn't have any other options, she might as well just trust it once!

Pei Se opened her previously tightly clenched teeth and shouted at Huang Zu in the alley.

"I think you look like —— Jiutian Yingyuan Leishen Puhua Tianzun!"

Her shout echoed in the alley.

Huang Zu's footsteps came to a halt.

He stood there, his official robe straight, his black gauze hat upright. His shoulders moved slightly, and he inexplicably shuddered.

Jiutian Yingyuan Leishen Puhua Tianzun?

A look of doubt flickered in Huang Zu's pupils.

He didn't know what that thing was, and this name had never appeared in his memory.

But at the very moment the woman shouted it out, he felt a clear sense of palpitation.

Qin Ling raised his head and looked at the sky above him.

The reason why he asked Pei Se to shout this name actually came from his own thoughts.

He wanted to verify his guess.

...

Heavenly Court.

Thirty-Three Heavens.

There was no light.

Those golden glows that should have flowed endlessly, and the auspicious clouds that should have illuminated the heavens, were now all gone.

There was only gray left, only a kind of silence remaining.

The sky was gray, and the palaces standing in the sea of clouds were also gray.

Some had collapsed, some were cracked, and some were slanted.

Most of the glazed tiles on the eaves of the hall were shattered, revealing the pitch-black wood underneath, and things that shouldn't grow were growing on the wood.

Black ones, like mold spots, were slowly crawling and writhing.

Among them, a magnificent palace still had its plaque.

"Jiutian Yingyuan Leishen Puhua Tianzun."

The characters were gold, but most of the gold lacquer had peeled off, leaving only a few lingering traces that occasionally flashed with light under the gray sky.

Outside this palace, evil spirits were crawling all over.

Black, huge, and shapeless evil spirits.

Some looked like chunks of meat, and some looked like tentacles.

Some looked like a mass of flesh where countless faces were squeezed together, their facial features indistinguishable from one another.

They stuck to the palace walls, coiled around the pillars, and blocked the doorway, wrapping the entire hall tightly.

They were slowly writhing.

Inside the palace, it was pitch black.

There were no lamps, no fire, and no light.

There was only darkness and silence.

Suddenly.

In the deepest part of that darkness, something moved.

Like something that had been dormant for unknown years turning over.

A speck of light lit up from the depths of the darkness.

This light was neither gold nor white.

Instead, it was a purple that split the heaven and earth and tore everything apart.

It was thunder light!

That bolt of thunder rushed out from inside the hall, crashing open the hall doors and shattering the evil spirits blocking the doorway and coiling around the pillars.

Wherever the purple light passed, those black, massive evil spirits were melted like wax and blown away like ash.

There were no screams, no struggles, only a bolt of thunder that struck out from the deepest part of the Thirty-Three Heavens, passing through the collapsed halls, cracked walls, and slanted pavilions.

Passing through that gray canopy of heaven, it struck straight down.

Striking toward the mortal world!

After the lightning flashed, the Thirty-Three Heavens returned to dead silence once more.

The evil spirits torn apart by the thunder light began to recover.

The chunks of meat shattered into slag gathered again, and the ash that had been blown away drifted back, sticking to the palace walls and coiling around the pillars.

A giant, eyeless head hung down from the palace eaves, pressing against the plaque, blocking the very last bit of light from those peeling golden characters.

The inside of the palace grew dark again.

Deep within that darkness, that speck of purple light had extinguished.

There was only dead silence left, only those still-writhing evil spirits left, swallowing this palace that once ruled the thunder of the world into the darkness bit by bit.

...

Qin Ling had kept his posture of looking up at the sky.

He was waiting.

Waiting for the response that might or might not exist.

But after waiting for a while, he didn't wait for anything at all.

Just as Qin Ling was about to give up, suddenly.

A bolt of purple light split the firmament, and wherever it passed, the firmament seemed to split in half.

This bolt of purple light fell straight down just like that.

Qin Ling's expression changed when he saw this thunder light.

To think that...

It really came!

In the alley, Pei Se, who was confronting Huang Zu, looked up.

Her pupils shrank violently, she raised her head, her mouth open, yet she couldn't make a sound.

Purple lightning?

She had never seen this kind of thunder in her life.

Pei Se had seen some legends in the ancient books of the Demon Slayer Association.

According to legend, heavenly thunder was divided into nine ranks, and the highest grade was called "Zixiao Divine Thunder".

It had only ever appeared in legends; no one had ever seen it.

Until today, when she saw it with her own eyes.

Huang Zu naturally saw this bolt of purple lightning as well.

When that purple light struck down from the sky, he was raising his foot, preparing to make a move against Pei Se.

His foot hovered in mid-air, unable to fall down.

Huang Zu could feel that the purple light had locked onto him!

He raised his head, watching that purple light fall from the sky.

Run.

He had to run!

Huang Zu's entire body's demonic power exploded in this single instant.

The incense stolen from dozens of villages and the blood Qi sucked from boys and girls all burned up.

Wrapping around him, it turned into a bloody wind and swept toward the outside of the village.

That bloody wind was too fast to see clearly; only a gray shadow could be seen darting out from the alley, skimming over the low eaves and sweeping toward the outside of Qin Family Village.

He ran faster than when he came, faster than any time in his life!

But compared to the purple lightning, his speed was no different from a snail's.

Huang Zu ran outside Qin Family Village, and the purple lightning followed closely behind.

The purple light landed on top of Huang Zu's head.

At that instant, all sounds between heaven and earth disappeared.

The world was pressed with a mute button, leaving only that bolt of purple lightning.

The purple lightning crashed right into the center of that gray bloody wind, striking Huang Zu directly.

The next moment, the surrounding ground collapsed.

With Huang Zu as the center, the ground within a radius of ten zhang suddenly caved in, the soil was squeezed into powder by immense force, and crushed stones were blown away by the air wave.

The pit at the very center was the deepest, reaching several people deep. The soil at the bottom of the pit was baked by high temperature into a glazed hard shell, gleaming with an eerie purplish-black luster.

Huang Zu was lying right at the bottom of that pit.

Then the thunder came.

The thunder rolling down from the sky shook the entire Guanhai County.