46: Thunder Prison in a Bottle

Heavenly Punishment descends!

That purple-black Tribulation Thunder, tearing through the sky, was no longer in the form of lightning; it was more like a giant spear of world destruction hurled down from the Nine Heavens!

The spear's body was entwined with billions of constantly annihilating and regenerating spatial cracks, and its tip condensed a point of pure, ultimate Extinction Light that made all things return to the Void Realm!

It targeted not only the Listening Wave Pavilion but also Mo Yuan's Soul Origin and the greedy, out-of-control magic bottle!

The Heavenly Dao's will, mercilessly crushing!

"Roar—!!!" The Stone-skinned Turtle's roar carried unprecedented determination and tragedy!

Its massive, dark-black body instantly swelled to its limit!

On its shell, the originally gentle and flowing jade Talismans ignited like a sea of stars, erupting with emerald green flames that pierced the sky!

Innumerable more ancient, more profound defensive runes, seemingly containing the Origin of the earth's mountains and rivers, surged forth and intertwined madly!

In the blink of an eye, a shield—the Buzhou Mountain Shield—more than ten zhang in diameter and a zhang thick, composed entirely of a condensed, emerald-colored phantom of mountains and rivers, bravely met the world-destroying Tribulation Thunder!

The moment the shield formed, the entire Listening Wave Pavilion's Restrictions shattered silently like paper!

The ground tiles turned to dust!

The terrifying pressure made all living beings in Qingyang City feel as if their throats were choked, suffocating and prostrating!

Boom—!!!!!!!!!!

An indescribable collision!

The world-destroying Tribulation Thunder slammed fiercely into the Buzhou Mountain Shield!

Time seemed to freeze at this moment!

The dazzling purple-black Extinction Light and the brilliant emerald mountain and river light instantly swallowed all colors between heaven and earth!

Sound was completely stripped away!

Space shattered inch by inch like fragile glazed glass!

An incomprehensibly violent shockwave exploded in an absolute spherical shape, with the point of impact as its core!

The main building of Listening Wave Pavilion silently annihilated like a sandcastle!

Wherever the shockwave passed, large sections of the Wang family's mansion, including its pavilions and courtyards, were wiped away as if by an invisible giant hand!

The ground was scraped several zhang deep!

The outer city walls collapsed with a thunderous roar like dominoes!

The entire Qingyang City seemed to have experienced a doomsday earthquake!

At the core of the light!

The Buzhou Mountain Shield vibrated violently!

The condensed phantom of mountains and rivers on its surface twisted and flickered madly!

The shield body caved inward with a huge, shocking curvature!

Countless fine cracks instantly covered the shield's surface like a spiderweb!

Behind the shield, the Stone-skinned Turtle's body, which was like an ancient bedrock, trembled violently for the first time!

On its dark-black shell, the emerald light dimmed at a visible speed!

In its black eyes, as warm and lustrous as jade, the will to protect remained firm, but it was tinged with an undisguised fatigue and cracks!

Stalemate!

It only stalemated for one breath!

Crack—!

A sound, as if from the very Foundation of the world, rang out!

In the center of the Buzhou Mountain Shield, a terrifying, penetrating crack suddenly appeared!

Boom—!!!

A portion of the Extinction Light contained within the Tribulation Thunder, as if finding an outlet, instantly pierced through the giant shield's crack!

Like a red-hot iron skewer, it fiercely stabbed towards the Stone-skinned Turtle's main body behind the shield!

"No!!!" The Dark Moon Rabbit's faint blue eyes instantly turned blood red!

The Dark Moon Claw Blades tore through space, desperately slashing at the penetrating Extinction Light!

"Caw!" The Thunderclap Sparrow's silver wings spread wide, and its ultrasonic waves condensed into a solid silver cone, also bravely colliding with it!

Sizzle!

Puff!

The Dark Moon Claw Blades and the Thunderclap Cone instantly melted and disintegrated upon touching the Extinction Light, like ice and snow encountering boiling oil!

They only managed to weaken the momentum of the destructive light by a negligible amount!

Puff—!!!

The Extinction Light fiercely pierced into the Stone-skinned Turtle's absolutely defensive dark-black shell!

"Roar—!!!" The Stone-skinned Turtle let out an unprecedented, earth-shattering roar, mixed with pain and defiance!

The area of the shell that was pierced instantly turned charred, cracked, and melted!

A pure and profound vital essence, imbued with the life force of the earth, was forcibly evaporated!

Its aura plummeted madly like a broken dam!

Its massive body was for the first time blasted backward, plowing deep furrows in the annihilated ground!

The emerald Talisman's light dimmed to its extreme!

The first Tribulation Thunder was finally blocked!

The cost—the Stone-skinned Turtle was critically injured!

The light and dust slowly dissipated.

In its place, only a terrifying sinkhole, hundreds of zhang in diameter and bottomless, remained!

The pit walls were smooth as a mirror, with dark red lava flowing down them!

Listening Wave Pavilion, along with half of the Wang family's mansion, had completely vanished!

At the edge of the sinkhole, the Stone-skinned Turtle's massive but cracked and charred body lay prostrate like a broken mountain range, its aura as faint as a candle in the wind.

The Dark Moon Rabbit and Thunderclap Sparrow landed beside it, their auras weak, their eyes filled with grief and resolve.

In the center of the sinkhole, the only remaining thing was the small patch of charred ground where the secret chamber had been.

The Restrictions had long since shattered, and Mo Yuan's seated figure was exposed at the bottom of the sinkhole.

He bled from all seven orifices, his skin was cracked all over, constantly seeping dark golden blood and leaping arcs of electricity.

The magic bottle in his arms no longer trembled with greedy devouring but with a wail on the verge of shattering!

On the bottle's body, a penetrating, black lightning-like crack appeared hideously!

Strands of chaotic, unclear black Qi, seemingly capable of swallowing all light, were uncontrollably seeping out from that crack!

The Heavenly Dao's lock, instead of disappearing after the Tribulation Thunder fell, became even clearer and heavier!

Above the Nine Heavens, the terrifying thundercloud vortex not only did not dissipate but spun and compressed madly!

At the center of the vortex, a massive, indifferent, and ruthless eye—the Eye of Heavenly Punishment—composed of countless purple-black destructive thunderbolts, was slowly opening!

An even more terrifying world-destroying power was gathering!

The second, third... would surely follow!

The Stone-skinned Turtle was no longer able to block!

The magic bottle was on the verge of shattering!

Mo Yuan's own Soul was severely damaged!

A situation of certain death!

"The bottle... is going to... break..." In the excruciating pain of his Soul tearing, Mo Yuan perceived the desperate wail transmitted from the magic bottle.

The crack on the bottle's body was like a death mark carved by the Heavenly Dao!

Once the magic bottle completely shattered, it would not only be the destruction of this supreme treasure but also the countdown to his Soul being completely erased by the Heavenly Dao!

No!

Absolutely not!

In Mo Yuan's bloodshot dark golden pupils, the violent and unyielding nature, originating from the deepest part of his Thunder Spiritual Root, like a primordial Vicious Beast, was completely ignited by this desperate situation!

The dying magic bottle was wailing?

Dying Vicious Beasts are the most dangerous!

"You want... to eat me?" Mo Yuan's broken, hoarse voice was like a ghost crawling out of Hell, "Then... let's... die together!"

An utterly insane thought exploded in his Sea of Consciousness!

"Bottle! Open the Grotto! Thunder Pool!"

"Sequence! All of you! Go in!"

"Guide... the Heavenly Tribulation! Into the Thunder Pool!!!"

He wanted to actively open the Bottle Grotto!

To expose the roaring dark golden-purple Thunder Pool at the core of the magic bottle Small World to the Eye of Heavenly Punishment!

He wanted to throw all his Sequence Legions into the Thunder Pool!

Then... guide the Heavenly Tribulation into the bottle!

To use the power of the Heavenly Dao to temper his Sequences!

To repair the magic bottle!

To gamble on that one in ten thousand chance of... breaking and then establishing!

This was suicide!

It was also a desperate gamble to seize life from Heaven!

"Roar!" The Stone-skinned Turtle, sensing its master's desperate, all-or-nothing intent, let out a low, death-defying response.

"Yes!" The Dark Moon Rabbit and Thunderclap Sparrow said without hesitation.

"Squeak!" The Gold-Sniffing Rat let out a fearful but determined shriek from the corner.

"Open—!!!" Mo Yuan's will was like a final roar!

Buzz—!!!!

The critically broken magic bottle's body erupted with a blinding black light, like a final flash before death!

The bottomless darkness of the bottle's mouth instantly expanded into a spatial portal, a zhang in diameter, with chaotic Qi flowing along its edges!

Inside the portal, it was not pitch black, but clearly reflected a scene of an independent Small World—a platform intertwined with vines, flowing emerald spiritual springs...

And at its very core, that dark golden-purple Thunder Pool, like a boiling furnace, constantly roaring and churning, emanating an extremely potent, destructive aura!

"Enter!" Mo Yuan's will locked onto all Sequences!

The Stone-skinned Turtle's dying massive body was the first to transform into a streak of light, carrying its will to protect, rushing into the spatial portal without hesitation, directly smashing into the most violent area of the Thunder Pool!

The Dark Moon Rabbit's faint blue figure followed closely, submerging into the edge of the Thunder Pool!

The Thunderclap Sparrow flapped its silver wings and plunged into the sky above the Thunder Pool!

The Gold-Sniffing Rat transformed into a golden thread, disappearing into the portal!

Even the Illusion Lizard and the Venomous Stinger Worker Bees that had been lurking in the corner... all Sequence creations, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, instantly surged into the Grotto portal, their target directly the core Thunder Pool!

The moment all Sequences submerged into the Thunder Pool!

Mo Yuan's charred Thunder Hell Demon Hand suddenly lifted, and the purple-gold muzzle core in his palm lit up frantically and desperately!

This time, it no longer condensed destructive energy but transformed into a spatial-distorting tractor beam, fiercely stabbing towards the cold, ruthless Eye of Heavenly Punishment that was opening above the Nine Heavens!

"Come on!!!"

Rumble—!!!

As if completely enraged by the ant's provocation!

The Eye of Heavenly Punishment suddenly opened!

A purple-black Tribulation Thunder, even thicker and more condensed than before, carrying an absolute will to obliterate, tore through space, ignoring time and distance, and fiercely struck towards Mo Yuan, towards the spatial portal in front of him!

Its target was precisely the Thunder Pool at the core of the Grotto!

Just at this critical moment!

Buzz!

In Mo Yuan's arms, the dark yellow spatial Talisman, which had long been dim and covered in cracks, as if ignited by its last strength, suddenly erupted with a blinding silver light!

Whoosh—!!!

A spatial rift, condensed like a solid but covered in cracks along its edges, was forcibly torn open a mere inch in front of Mo Yuan!

Within the rift, Han Li's phantom was even more solid than before, and his ordinary face carried an unprecedented solemnity and a hint of deep... helplessness!

"magic bottle backlash... guiding Heavenly Tribulation into the bottle... You're insane!"

"The Thunder Pool in the bottle... is the only way to live... and also... the only way to die!"

"Endure... refine the Heavenly Tribulation into fire! Forge the Sequence Legion into soldiers!"

"Fail to endure... and both body and Soul will be annihilated! No Reincarnation!"

"Heavenly Dao... backlash... has just begun... use the Thunder Crystal Cannon with caution!"

Han Li's will, like a final warning, with urgency and caution, was deeply imprinted in Mo Yuan's Sea of Consciousness!

The moment his words fell, the spatial rift, along with the Talisman, completely turned to ash!

Han Li's phantom dissipated!

Endure!

Refine the Heavenly Tribulation into fire!

Forge the Sequence Legion into soldiers!

Han Li's words were like a spark in the darkness!

A final madness erupted in Mo Yuan's eyes!

He no longer looked at the descending tribulation lightning; all his will, all his power, sank into the magic bottle!

Sank into the Thunder Pool Small World that was about to face Heavenly Punishment!

"Bottle! Devour for me! Refine!"

Boom—!!!

The second World-Ending Tribulation Lightning fiercely struck the ten-foot-square Grotto portal!

Inside the Bottle Grotto, at the core of the Thunder Pool.

Time flow rate, 1:5!

One instant outside, five breaths had passed in the Grotto!

The moment the destructive purple-black light of the second World-Ending Tribulation Lightning tore through the Grotto's barriers and poured into this Small World!

The entire Bottle Grotto was wailing!

Space violently warped!

The vine platform shattered inch by inch!

The Jade Spirit Spring instantly evaporated!

Only that dark gold and purple Thunder Pool, as if sensing a destructive power of the same Origin but higher level, not only showed no fear but erupted with an unprecedented roar, like a cheer!

The tribulation lightning's target was incredibly precise—straight for the Thunder Pool's core!

And at the same moment the tribulation lightning poured into the Thunder Pool!

All of the Sequence Legion, under Mo Yuan's absolute command, had completely sunk into the boiling, roaring thunder plasma!

"Roar—!!!" The first to bear the impact was the Stone-skinned Turtle, which crashed into the Thunder Pool's core!

The power of the World-Ending Tribulation Lightning, mixed with the Thunder Pool's own violent thunder, like billions of hammers of destruction, fiercely slammed onto its cracked, charred shell!

Crack!

Crack!

The already crumbling shell, under the destructive impact of the dual thunder power, disintegrated and peeled off in large sections!

Exposing the deeply corroded flesh beneath!

The Stone-skinned Turtle let out a painful Soul roar, but its will to protect burned to its extreme in the intense pain!

However, amidst this destructive torrent!

A miracle was also unfolding!

Under Mo Yuan's desperate activation, the magic bottle's power frantically guided that incredibly pure Heavenly Dao destructive Origin contained within the tribulation lightning, mixed with the Thunder Pool's own extreme Yang power, like the most overbearing furnace fire, forcefully infused and refined into the depths of the Stone-skinned Turtle's shattered shell!

The shattered, charred old shell was instantly vaporized!

Countless Thunder Crystal particles, shimmering with purple-gold luster, carrying the destructive Dao rhyme of the Heavenly Dao's tribulation lightning and the thick Origin of the earth, rapidly condensed and grew in the flames of destruction!

Like the most precise forging, a brand new, thicker, more profound Thunder Crystal shell, flowing with dark gold thunder patterns and jade runes, was Reborn through Nirvana amidst destruction!

The extreme roar of pain gradually transformed into a deep rumble of Rebirth and power!

The Stone-skinned Turtle's aura, in the tug-of-war between destruction and new life, was like a dormant volcano, accumulating even more terrifying explosive power!

On the other side.

The Dark Moon Rabbit was submerged in the relatively gentle yet still violent thunder plasma at the edge of the Thunder Pool.

The aftermath of the World-Ending Tribulation Lightning swept over, instantly charring and curling her dark blue fur!

Her [Phantom] ability was almost ineffective under the absolute might of the heavens!

However, the magic bottle's power guided a trace of pure destructive Dao rhyme from the tribulation lightning, mixed with the Thunder Pool's Yang Sha power, fiercely tempering her Claw Blades and Origin!

Chii chii chii!

The Dark Moon Rabbit's proud [Dark Moon Claw Blades] melted and reformed in the thunder fire!

Becoming longer, darker, with fine purple-gold destructive thunder patterns flowing along their edges!

Each slight tremor of the Claw Blades caused subtle ripples in the surrounding space!

[Destructive Sharpness] evolved into—[Extinction Thunder Claw]!

At the same time, her dark blue fur shed its charring in the thunder fire, transforming into a deep color like the night sky, with specks of silver light flowing within it; her [Phantom] ability, tempered by destruction, became even more eerie and unpredictable!

"Lì—!" The Thunderclap Sparrow circled above the Thunder Pool, enduring the dual baptism of tribulation lightning and the Thunder Pool.

Its silver-white wings were scorched by the thunder fire, yet they were Reborn under the nourishment of the Heavenly Dao Origin guided by the magic bottle!

The purple-gold thunder patterns on the edges of its wings became more complex and profound; each flap of its wings created subtle spatial ripples!

Its [Ultrasonic Wave] ability underwent a qualitative change under the tempering of the tribulation lightning!

The invisible sound waves began to contain a trace of the Heavenly Dao's tribulation lightning's power to dispel evil and illusions!

[Thunder Sound Illusion Breaker] evolved into—[Tribulation Thunder Sound]!

The Ant King roared in the depths of the Thunder Pool; its red copper carapace melted and reformed in the thunder fire, its power escalating wildly!

The Green Vine Demon's vines frantically absorbed the immense vitality and destructive power contained within the Thunder Pool and the tribulation lightning, becoming tougher and thicker, with thunder patterns entwined on their surface!

The Venomous Stinger Worker Bees underwent baptism at the edge of the Thunder Pool; their carapaces became darker red, and their stingers shimmered with destructive thunder light!

The Gold-Sniffing Rat's golden fur became even more brilliant in the thunder fire; the Perception runes on its large nose seemed to be branded with the marks of the Heavenly Dao!

The Illusion Lizard's skin transformed more freely, even able to simulate a trace of thunderous aura!

The entire Thunder Pool became a gigantic furnace of destruction and Rebirth!

The Heavenly Punishment tribulation lightning was the fire!

The magic bottle was the furnace!

The Sequence Legion was the iron!

Under Mo Yuan's frantic activation, using his own Soul as fuel, an unprecedented Nirvana tempering was taking place!

At the same time.

The black crack running through the magic bottle's body, under the frantic clash of the tribulation lightning's power and the magic bottle's own Origin, not only did not expand but was forcibly fused and repaired by traces of pure purple-black energy, containing the destructive Dao rhyme of the Heavenly Dao's tribulation lightning!

Although slow, it was truly healing!

The magic bottle's near-shattering wail gradually transformed into a painful yet vibrant hum!

Refine the Heavenly Tribulation into fire!

Forge the Sequence Legion into soldiers!

Repair the magic bottle's injury!

The "only path to survival" Han Li referred to was being practiced by Mo Yuan in the most desperate way in this dire situation!

Fifty breaths of Grotto time passed (ten breaths outside).

The power of the second tribulation lightning was finally exhausted by the Thunder Pool and the Sequence Legion.

The Thunder Pool's volume had shrunk by nearly half, but its color was deeper and more restrained, as if it had undergone the tempering of refined steel.

The Stone-skinned Turtle lay prostrate at the core of the Thunder Pool, a brand new Thunder Crystal shell covering its entire body, as heavy as a mountain, flowing with dark gold thunder patterns and jade Talisman light, its aura as deep as an abyss, far surpassing its previous state!

It faintly exuded the pressure of the Foundation Establishment Stage!

The Dark Moon Rabbit hovered at the edge of the Thunder Pool, its night sky fur glowing with a faint light, a pair of [Extinction Thunder Claws] gently moving, leaving faint black cracks in the Void Realm!

The Thunderclap Sparrow's silver wings spread, its [Tribulation Thunder Sound] held back, looking extraordinarily majestic!

All of the Sequence Legion, as if completely transformed, their auras surged; on their carapaces, fur, and vines, fine purple-gold thunder patterns were entwined, exuding an aura of destruction and new life!

Mo Yuan's Soul, in guiding this astonishing tempering, was like a flickering candle in the wind, extremely weak.

But he could clearly sense that the crack in the magic bottle's body had been largely repaired!

The black Qi of backlash entwined around the Thunder Crystal Cannon's core also seemed to have been diluted a bit by this "fighting poison with poison" tribulation lightning power!

Just as he relaxed his mind slightly, preparing to face the third and most terrifying tribulation lightning!

Above the Nine Heavens, that indifferent Heavenly Punishment Eye seemed to have "noticed" the struggle and "theft" of the ants below!

Its merciless pupils, formed of destructive thunder, suddenly contracted!

Rumble—!!!

The third tribulation lightning did not strike immediately!

Within the thundercloud vortex, which was rotating and compressing to its extreme around the Heavenly Punishment Eye, countless tiny purple-black electric snakes frantically gathered and fused!

An aura of extinction, even more terrifying and purer than the previous two tribulation lightning combined, was rapidly brewing!

At the center of the thundercloud vortex, a pitch-black Origin point, pure to the extreme, as if it could swallow all light and hope, was slowly emerging!

That was no longer tribulation lightning!

That was... the Heavenly Dao's will condensed... the Origin of Extinction!

Representing ultimate obliteration!

Once it descended, the Bottle Grotto would instantly turn into absolute nothingness!

The Sequence Legion, along with the magic bottle, would be completely annihilated, leaving no trace!

The true fatal blow!

Had arrived!

Mo Yuan's Soul, locked onto by the aura of the Origin of Extinction, felt as if it had fallen into an ice cave of absolute zero!

The sliver of hope that had just risen due to the Sequence's transformation was instantly crushed!

"Not... enough..." Mo Yuan's remaining consciousness roared! Although the Sequence Legion was strong, facing this Origin of Extinction, they were still like a mantis trying to stop a chariot! The Thunder Pool couldn't block it! The magic bottle couldn't block it either!

Just at the edge of this final abyss of despair!

Mo Yuan's charred Thunder Hell Demon Hand, the purple-gold cannon core in its palm, suddenly began to pulse wildly, uncontrollably!

A more violent, more chaotic, more... uncontrollable destructive energy, originating from the deepest part of the magic bottle, mixed with the chaotic, unknown aura and the destructive Dao rhyme of the tribulation lightning, was uncontrollably gathering deep within the cannon core!

The Thunder Crystal Cannon... stimulated by the Heavenly Punishment Eye... contaminated by the chaotic aura from the magic bottle's crack... catalyzed by Mo Yuan's near-collapsing Soul will... was it going to... self-destruct?!?