106: Chapter 106: Ten Killed, Three Flee; Liu Rurao's Furious Outburst

When Xu Ruyu uttered the words "My turn," the air on the Law Execution Platform seemed to freeze solid.

The 'Acetylene Array,' woven from four silvery-white threads of fire, unfolded upon the ruins of the collapsed crimson Formation Plate, possessing a geometric beauty utterly distinct from the Formations of the Cultivation World.

That flame was not the usual fire-attribute spiritual power, but a more violent release of energy—the purest combustion reaction of hydrocarbons during complete oxidation, a scientific-Cultivation creation forged by Xu Ruyu using Taixu True Qi as the catalyst and carbon and hydrogen elements enriched and separated from the air via a modified version of the *Qi Induction and Return to Origin Art* as the materials.

Fairy Caidie was the first to sense the danger.

Having cultivated the Meiying Sect's Cultivation Technique for a century and experienced countless life-or-death battles, she possessed an almost instinctual intuition for peril.

When the silvery-white flames began to flow along the Acetylene Array's trajectory, every hair on her body stood on end!

"Retreat!"

She shrieked sharply, her figure exploding backward!

But it was already too late.

Xu Ruyu's hands formed an extremely bizarre seal before his chest—not any known hand sign from the Cultivation World, but a simplified symbol from his past life's memory representing the reaction condition "ignition" after balancing a chemical equation.

"Acetylene Array - Prototype—"

"Deflagration."

Two words, spoken lightly.

Then, the entire world seemed to have its mute button pressed.

It wasn't that there was no sound.

Rather, the sound was devoured by something even more terrifying—

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM————————！！！！！！

The four silvery-white threads of fire increased in brightness a hundredfold in the same instant!

Transforming into four blinding pillars of light!

The pillars of light collided, intertwined, and fused, forming a silvery-white fireball three zhang in diameter!

The fireball appeared with extreme abruptness, as if born from nothing.

Yet, the intense heat it radiated caused the deep red light shield of the Life and Death Isolation Array to tremble violently, even showing melting-like ripples on its surface!

"Not good!" On the high platform, Elder Hu's face changed dramatically. "This temperature... Protect the Disciples below the platform, quickly!"

Several Elders of the Hehuan Sect acted simultaneously, erecting three more layers of protective barriers around the periphery of the Law Execution Platform.

Even so, Disciples closer by could still feel a scorching pain on their skin!

And inside the array—

"Aaaaaah—!!!"

Piercing screams nearly tore through eardrums.

Three Meiying Sect Disciples closest to the fireball, without even time to react, were engulfed by the silvery-white flames!

Their protective spiritual power, upon contact with the flames, vanished like ice meeting boiling oil, failing to hold out for even a single breath!

The flames burned through the spiritual power, burned through flesh and blood, and even began to scorch the bones!

This was not ordinary flame burning.

It was the devastating strike of temperatures exceeding 3000°C produced by acetylene during complete combustion—in this Cultivation World, such temperatures already approached the core heat of certain earth-fire essences, sufficient to melt most low-grade Magic Treasures!

Three breaths.

In merely three breaths' time, the three Meiying Sect Disciples turned into three charred skeletons, which in the next breath, crumbled into flying ash.

Dead and gone, utterly clean, not even their Divine Souls managing to escape.

"No—!!!"

Fairy Caidie's eyes nearly burst from their sockets!

Among these three Disciples was her own Junior Brother, who had followed her in Cultivation for thirty years, one of her best "companions"!

And now, just like that... just like that, gone?!

"Xu Ruyu! I'll make you pay with your life!!!"

She went completely berserk, recklessly driving all the spiritual power within her body, even releasing the Restriction suppressing her cultivation—the aura of the Golden Core Initial Stage erupted with a boom!

Her pink soft sword transformed into a hundred-zhang sword rainbow, carrying the full-force strike of her lifelong Cultivation, and shot straight towards Xu Ruyu at the center of the fireball!

"Rule violation!" someone below the platform exclaimed in alarm. "She released her suppression!"

But Xu Ruyu seemed to have anticipated it.

The moment Fairy Caidie's aura surged, his hand seals changed once more.

"Acetylene Array - Variant—"

"Directed Jet."

The silvery-white fireball abruptly deformed!

Stretching from a sphere into a slender jet of flame, merely three inches in diameter but reaching ten zhang in length!

Even more terrifying, the temperature at the tip of the jet further concentrated, its color shifting from silvery-white to a blinding incandescent white!

The hundred-zhang sword rainbow collided head-on with the incandescent white jet—

Hiss—!!!

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

Only a teeth-grating sound, like a red-hot branding iron plunged into cold water.

The hundred-zhang sword rainbow melted away inch by inch as if meeting its nemesis!

Fairy Caidie's pupils contracted sharply. She wanted to withdraw her sword and retreat, but it was already too late.

The incandescent white jet surged upstream along the sword rainbow, reaching the hilt in the blink of an eye!

"Let go!"

Xu Ruyu coldly shouted.

Fairy Caidie only felt an unbearable high temperature transmit from the hilt, her five fingers instinctively loosening.

The pink soft sword flew from her grasp, completely swallowed by the incandescent white jet mid-air, turning into a pool of crimson molten iron that dripped onto the dark jade stone surface, burning out deep pits.

"My Lifebound Treasure!"

Fairy Caidie's heart ached as if wrung, a mouthful of blood spraying out!

With her Lifebound Treasure destroyed, her mind and spirit were wounded, her aura instantly wilting.

And Xu Ruyu seized this opening.

His figure vanished from his original spot like a ghost, reappearing behind another four Meiying Sect Disciples who were attempting to form an array in resistance.

These four Disciples were all at Mid-stage Foundation Establishment. Although their Realms were suppressed, their combat awareness remained.

Seeing Xu Ruyu close in, the four attacked simultaneously with tacit agreement—two targeting his upper body, two his lower, sealing off all dodging space.

But Xu Ruyu didn't even spare them a glance.

He merely raised his right hand, fingers forming a loose grip.

Within his palm, four slender wisps of silvery-white flame simultaneously appeared.

"Acetylene Array - Micro-manipulation—"

"Bone-clinging Flame."

The four wisps of flame shot out silently, precisely disappearing into the backs of the four Disciples' hearts.

At first, the four only felt a warmth on their backs, paying it no mind.

But the next instant—

"Urgh aah!!!"

Heart-rending screams erupted simultaneously from the mouths of all four!

They felt a bizarre high temperature erupting from deep within their bodies, not burning their flesh and blood, but directly igniting their spiritual power, their Meridians, even their Dantians!

"Wha-what kind of fire is this?! Why won't it go out?!"

One Disciple frantically channeled water-attribute spiritual power trying to extinguish the flames, only to discover in horror that the fire did not die upon meeting water, but instead burned even fiercer!

Another Disciple tried to sever the ignited Meridians, but the flame seemed alive, spreading throughout his body along the flow of spiritual power!

In no more than three breaths, the four Disciples fell to the ground together. Their body surfaces showed no burn marks, but wispy green smoke drifted from their seven orifices—the sign of a Divine Soul being completely scorched away.

Four more dead.

Thus, of the thirteen Meiying Sect Disciples, seven were already dead.

The remaining six, including Fairy Caidie, were all scared out of their wits.

"De-demon! He's a demon!"

One female Disciple's spirit broke. Screaming, she charged towards the edge of the Life and Death Isolation Array, frantically pounding on the deep red light shield: "Let me out! Let me out! I surrender! I surrender!"

Xu Ruyu watched her coldly, raised his hand, and pointed.

A wisp of flame shot out, disappearing into the back of her head.

The screaming ceased abruptly.

The female Disciple collapsed limply, endless terror lingering in her eyes.

The eighth.

"Enough!!!"