181: Chapter 181 Breaking Through the Abyss to Face the Calamity

Eight hundred zhang underwater, deep within the basalt walls.

Inside the hidden Immortal Cave, completely wrapped in special titanium-carbon alloy and energy-absorbing gel, it had already turned into a zone of absolute gravitational anomaly.

Gu Shen sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion, his eyes tightly closed.

At the center of his Dantian Qi Sea, the walnut-sized [Nirvana Star Core] completed its ten-thousandth rotation. The surface of the star core displayed a dead, grayish hue, but the surrounding space experienced visible light distortion due to the immeasurable physical mass and Fusion kinetic energy within it.

The extreme Yang vitality of the kongqing spirit marrow and the extreme Yin destruction of the nirvana nuclear crystal were completely locked within the star core's crystal lattice by this Dao foundation, which fused the great power of the Origins of two worlds. The two Origin powers acted as grindstones against each other, ceaselessly spewing out deep cyan, mercury-heavy mutated True Qi.

Foundation Establishment was complete.

The mutated True Qi fed back through the Extraordinary Meridians. The Dark Gold Thunder Bone rumbled with thunder beneath his skin and flesh, and his entire body's Qi and blood were like a fully ignited humanoid reactor.

"Click, click..."

Around the Immortal Cave, the titanium-carbon alloy bulkhead, capable of withstanding heavy artillery bombardment, was now caving inward at a terrifying arc under the pull of the star core gravity unconsciously overflowing from Gu Shen's body.

The polymer energy-absorbing gel emitted sounds of tearing under the unbearable strain. The [Xuanming Heavy Water Array] Formation Plate, already depleted of spiritual energy, finally collapsed completely. The formation patterns snapped, and the Formation Plate turned into a puff of fly ash.

"Master! The Dao foundation magnetic field has broken through the confinement limit of the physical shielding layer!"

The black iron buckle clipped to his collar vibrated violently. Crab's single-machine electronic voice, carrying shrill noise under high pressure, came through bone conduction, "The thunder power of the external Heavenly Dao is locking onto us using absolute coordinates. The titanium-carbon alloy and basalt layers of this Immortal Cave cannot withstand a destructive strike of that level!"

Gu Shen slowly opened his eyes.

Deep within his profound pupils, two golden-blue interwoven thunder rays pierced through the dim Immortal Cave like cold electricity.

He stood up tall, his gaunt chest swelling with tough muscles containing immense power as the deep cyan True Qi circulated.

"Withdraw."

With a wave of his large sleeve, the eleven nuclear-powered Demon Bone Iron Guards standing guard at his side, their surfaces covered in gray-blue frost, turned into streams of light and vanished into his Storage Ring.

Against this cleansing thunder sent by the Heavenly Dao to target heretics, dead Puppets could not share any damage; leaving them outside would only result in their senseless destruction.

Gu Shen looked up, his gaze seemingly piercing through several feet of titanium-carbon alloy, thousands of tons of basalt layers, and the eight hundred zhang deep, dark, and gloomy lake water, staring directly at the black tribulation lightning crazily collapsing above the Yunmeng Great Swamp.

"This thief of a Heaven is truly cold and ruthless. Just because of this bit of Karma on its Heavenly Dao ledger, it wants to seal my accounts."

Gu Shen bent his knees slightly, his Dark Gold Thunder Bone accumulating terrifying kinetic energy in his legs capable of shattering mountains.

"If you want to destroy the foundation of my Dao and erase me from this world, then I will go and meet you."

Boom!

The iron floor beneath his feet was stomped into a deep crater. Gu Shen's figure shot up from the ground like a peerless, unsheathed mad blade.

The thunder shadow boots flared with deep blue light.

Gu Shen's powerful Physical Body of extreme Foundation Establishment turned into pure kinetic energy, crashing violently toward the dome above the Immortal Cave.

Bang!

The top plate of special titanium-carbon alloy was instantly torn apart like fragile cardboard before his powerful Physical Body of extreme Foundation Establishment. The polymer energy-absorbing gel was scorched with a large hole by the high-temperature True Qi.

Gu Shen's momentum did not diminish as he crashed into the thick basalt layer above.

The hard rock shattered inch by inch under the impact of the Dark Gold Thunder Bone. Bringing sparks and debris with him, Gu Shen plowed a straight, vertical tunnel through the underground rock veins.

In just two breaths, the rock layer was pierced through.

The dark, gloomy lake water poured in instantly, and terrifying water pressure squeezed in from all directions. Gu Shen was completely unaware; he did not even cast the Water Avoidance Technique on his body surface. Relying solely on his Physical Body to displace the water, the terrifying kinetic energy compressed the surrounding lake water until it boiled, forming a huge white cavitation bubble a hundred zhang long.

Like an intercontinental heavy torpedo breaking out of the sea, Gu Shen drew a straight white line in the deep water, shooting straight into the sky.

...

Above the water surface.

Behind the thick muddy water wall covering a hundred miles, the Sea-Covering Black Flood Dragon, Ao Mie, and the Myriad-Year Kongqing Lotus, The Green Lotus, were staring intently at the celestial phenomena above the Yunmeng Great Swamp from a great distance.

Deep in the firmament, ten thousand miles of tribulation clouds collapsed into a pitch-black funnel.

At the center of the funnel, the Nirvana black thunder had already gestated to its Peak. Fine black cracks appeared in the surrounding space, and the terrifying destructive power of the Heavenly Dao's operation turned into tangible thunder power, crazily leaping within the thunder clouds.

"It's here."

Ao Mie's massive dragon body coiled on the lake bottom, its vertical pupils constricting. It could feel the absolute coldness contained within that black thunder. It was a Heavenly Dao punishment that stripped away all vitality and wiped out all anomalies.

Just as the black thunder was about to break free from the shackles of the tribulation clouds.

"Boom—splash!"

The dark, gloomy water surface in the center of the Great Swamp exploded.

A towering water column with a diameter of several dozen zhang rose from the ground, shooting a hundred zhang into the sky. The turbulent waves filling the sky turned into a torrential downpour and poured down.

At the top of that sky-piercing water column, a tall figure in a gray robe broke through the water and stood in the air beneath the ten thousand zhang of heavenly might.

Gu Shen steadied his figure, the violent wind blowing his gray robe until it snapped loudly. The bronze half-mask transformed by Thousand Faces clung firmly to his cheeks, concealing his true face.

The black tribulation lightning in the sky seemed to have sensed the appearance of its target.

"Boom!"

There was no deafening thunder, only the ear-piercing sonic boom of space being forcibly torn apart. That pitch-black destructive black thunder transformed into a black spear connecting heaven and earth, bringing the unquestionable nature of the Heavenly Dao, and struck fiercely at Gu Shen's crown.

Before the black thunder arrived, the hundred-zhang water column beneath Gu Shen's feet instantly vaporized under the pressure of the Law of Destruction.

Ao Mie, watching from afar, even subconsciously squeezed its vertical pupils shut, ready to endure the aftermath of the heavenly might at any moment.

In mid-air.

Gu Shen watched the pitch-black tribulation lightning approaching his face quietly, his body as straight as a spear.

He did not bring out the [Alienated Profound Turtle Shield].

He did not draw the [thunder pattern gold-slaying blade] at his waist.

Even at the last moment when the black thunder was about to hit his body, he voluntarily dispersed the green light of the Wood Armor Technique on his body surface, and even the spiritual energy circuit of the [black flood dragon black gold armor] he wore close to his body was cut off by him.

He seemed to have completely given up on defense.

"Master! High-frequency destructive energy is about to come into contact with your body in 0.1 seconds! Your current physical defense value is zero!" Crab's electronic voice screamed crazily.

"This level of heavenly might cannot be defended against."

Gu Shen lowered his arms, his chest completely open, welcoming the judgment of the Heavenly Dao.

"I can only take it."

Sss—!!!

The pitch-black tribulation lightning struck the top of Gu Shen's head without any obstruction.

The Law of Destruction surged in crazily along the Baihui acupoint. The flesh on Gu Shen's body surface melted and peeled off in large areas the moment it touched the black thunder, like ice and snow splashed with hot water. Before the blood in his body could spurt out, it was completely evaporated by the high temperature.

The power of the Heavenly Dao Law contained in this black thunder was intended to forcibly erase the two Origin powers in Gu Shen's body that did not belong to the Great Yu Heavenly Dao.

The black thunder was like a violent steel brush, stabbing straight down along the Twelve Meridians towards Gu Shen's two hundred and six bones.

However, when this power of Heavenly Dao erasure collided with the layer of dark gold bones beneath his flesh, it encountered unprecedented stubborn resistance.

The foundation of the second layer of the Bone Refining Art, the Thunder Bone Perfection, erupted completely at this moment. The deep blue thunder patterns on the surface of the bones actually made a joyful clanging sound under the stimulation of the Heavenly Dao black thunder.

Thunder is similar in Origin.

Although the black thunder was mixed with the Heavenly Dao erasure Law, its physical manifestation was still extreme charge and energy.

Under the scouring of the black thunder, the Dark Gold Thunder Bone was not only not shattered but was greedily absorbing the terrifying thunder kinetic energy within the black thunder. The Impurities deep in the bone quality were completely removed by this supreme Heavenly Dao thunder, and the color of the bones was slowly transforming from dark gold to a more profound, cold, cold-jade texture.

The black thunder seemed to have sensed the "rebellion" of the Thunder Bone, and in its rage, it split off a thicker mainstream, heading straight for Gu Shen's Dantian Qi Sea.

Destroying the Dao foundation—this was the ultimate goal of the Heavenly Dao.

The black thunder blasted open the Qi Sea barrier, crashing into the grayish star core suspended in the center with the momentum of destroying heaven and earth.

In Gu Shen's Sea of Consciousness, the AI Crystal erupted with dazzling brilliance, and dozens of threads established a data observation model on the microscopic battlefield.

"The first line of defense has been breached. Black thunder energy is entering the core reaction zone."

"Star core gravity field, activate." Gu Shen spat out a cold command in his heart.

In his Dantian, the seemingly dead [Nirvana Star Core] suddenly increased its rotation speed the moment the black thunder descended.

The nirvana nuclear energy from the Wasteland inside the star core intertwined with the ten-thousand-year vitality of the kongqing spirit marrow, forming a miniature black hole force field with infinite mass.

The Great Yu Heavenly Dao's black thunder struck the star core.

The imagined shattering of the Dao foundation did not happen.

The star core's gravity field was like a greedy abyss giant mouth, biting firmly onto the front end of the black thunder.

The Heavenly Dao erasure Law of the Cultivation World met the physical Fusion and decay Law of the Wasteland world.

At this moment, the star core displayed unparalleled assimilation ability. The Law power in the black thunder that tried to destroy the heretic was forcibly crushed and stripped away by the star core's extremely high rotation speed, and then turned into pure dark energy to the extreme, forcibly dragged into the interior of the star core and added as firewood for the Fusion reaction!

"Click, click, click..."

Gu Shen's Physical Body trembled violently in mid-air. Under the carbonized flesh, new granulation tissue grew crazily under the nourishment of the deep cyan True Qi, only to be shattered again by the residual thunder.

He was enduring pain like being sliced by a thousand cuts, but his aura did not decline; instead, it climbed steadily in this one-sided "devouring."

The black funnel in the sky seemed to sense the arrogance of the "heretic" below. The tribulation clouds rolled violently, attempting to forcibly unleash a second, thicker black thunder.

But it was too late.

The Nirvana Star Core inside Gu Shen's body had already drained the essence of the first black thunder.

The star core's rotation speed stabilized at a heart-stopping frequency, and the deep cyan Foundation Establishment magic power turned into tangible Protective Aura, suddenly bursting out of his body.

Gu Shen suddenly raised his head.

In his pair of eyes, the original black and white colors seemed to be replaced by the gray-blue and sky-cyan interwoven like a vortex.

He slowly raised his right hand toward the black tribulation clouds above the firmament. His five fingers clenched tight, forming an unadorned uppercut, striking straight into the sky.

Star core kinetic energy fully activated. The Thunder Bone that had just transformed from dark gold to cold jade seemed to let out a dragon roar that resounded through the world.

Bang!

A visible translucent spatial shockwave surged up from Gu Shen's fist.

This power, a mixture of pure physical kinetic energy and star core True Qi, was like an invisible heavy punch, slamming into the bottom of the tribulation clouds in mid-air.

Boom—

The tribulation clouds were already re-accumulating Law power. Forced to interfere by this invisible heavy punch, the thick black leaden clouds were actually punched with a huge hole in the center.

The storm stalled. The thunder misfired.

When facing this "rascal" that was soft and hard to eat and even sucked blood in return, the Great Yu Cultivation World's Heavenly Dao ledger seemed to have finally exhausted its current erasure budget.

The remaining tribulation clouds rolled unwillingly in mid-air, and finally, like a sandcastle that had lost its center of gravity, dissipated in all directions.

Above the Yunmeng Great Swamp, the haze was swept away. The sunlight shone down on this vast expanse of water again.

Gu Shen stood in the void.

The scorched blood scabs on his body fell off one after another in the cold wind, revealing the newborn skin underneath that was as perfect and flawless as jade, yet faintly exuding the pressure of thunder.