352: Chapter 353 Annihilation in a Flick of the Finger!

As this terrifying scene unfolded before his eyes, Divine Lord Yangyan immediately realized that there was a world of difference between his strength and Gu Changsheng's!

Divine Lord Yangyan couldn't help but scream in terror.

"Activate the Nine Suns Heaven-Burning Array! Quickly! Activate the array!"

This was now his only hope!

The Elders of the Divine Court, who were similarly scared out of their wits, woke up as if from a dream and scrambled toward the Formation nodes located throughout the divine temple.

"Quick! Start the array!"

"All Disciples, return to your positions immediately and inject your Divine Power!"

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Don't just stand there! Do you want to die?!"

In an instant, the entire Yanyang Divine Court fell into complete chaos.

Panic spread among the hundreds of thousands of Cultivators like a plague.

No trace of their previous fanaticism or pride remained; only the instinct for survival was left.

Buzz!

As streams of Divine Power were injected into the formation cores, the entire divine city floating in the sky began to vibrate violently.

The nine blazing suns hanging in the sky erupted with brilliant light at that moment, and scorching energy poured down like a flood breaking through a dam.

Golden Formation patterns lit up from every building and every street of the divine city, quickly connecting into a single whole.

Ultimately, they formed an incredibly massive golden light shield that enveloped the entire divine city.

Above the light shield, the phantoms of the nine blazing suns slowly rotated, emitting a terrifying pressure that was more than ten times stronger than Divine Lord Yangyan's fire dragon from before!

The Nine Suns Heaven-Burning Array!

This was the Sect-Protecting Array passed down through the Yanyang Divine Court for hundreds of thousands of years, personally laid down by a true Formation Great Emperor during ancient times.

It was said that once this array was fully activated, it was sufficient to incinerate all living beings below the level of a Great Emperor!

This was their final trump card and their greatest reliance!

Seeing the array successfully activated, the indestructible golden light shield finally brought a sense of security to everyone inside the divine city.

Divine Lord Yangyan scrambled up from the ground, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and looked at Gu Changsheng in the sky, a hint of crazed ferocity reappearing in his eyes.

"Gu Changsheng! You are indeed very strong! Stronger than I could have imagined!"

He panted heavily, shouting in a hoarse voice.

"But your greatest mistake was coming to my Yanyang Divine Court alone!"

"This is my Divine Court's Nine Suns Heaven-Burning Array, a true Emperor-grade array! Even if a Great Emperor were to come in person, they could not hope to break it easily!"

"You are now a turtle in a jar! Today, I shall use this array to refine you alive! I will wipe out your Divine Soul and ensure you never find peace in the afterlife!"

His voice echoed above the divine city, as if he were encouraging himself as much as the hundreds of thousands of Cultivators within the city.

"The Emperor Lord is right! We have an Emperor-grade array!"

"No matter how strong he is, he's just one person! Can he really be stronger than an Emperor array?"

"Exactly! Once the array refines him, everything he has will belong to our Divine Court!"

The morale that had originally hit rock bottom was forcibly pulled back up under Divine Lord Yangyan's instigation.

Everyone pinned their hopes on this supposedly invincible Emperor array.

Up in the sky.

Gu Changsheng looked down at the array that resembled a golden turtle shell, a look of contempt appearing on his face.

"This kind of trash dares to claim it can incinerate a Great Emperor?"

"What a joke."

His words caused Divine Lord Yangyan's face below to instantly turn the color of pig liver.

"You... you're talking nonsense!"

He trembled with rage, pointing at Gu Changsheng and cursing, "What do you know about Formations! This was left by the ancestors of my Divine Court and possesses infinite power! You're just putting on a front, trying to shake our morale!"

"Is that so?"

The corner of Gu Changsheng's mouth curled into an arc, his smile carrying a hint of playfulness.

"In that case, I'll let you see just how vulnerable this turtle shell you're so proud of really is before me."

As his voice fell.

He reached out his hand.

There was no earth-shattering Aura, nor any world-destroying power.

He simply and plainly extended his right hand, fingers spread, and slowly pressed down toward the massive golden light shield below.

"Break... for me."

As his last word fell.

A giant hand that blotted out the sky, condensed from pure Law power, appeared out of thin air above the Yanyang Divine Court.

That giant hand was so large it seemed as if it could hold the entire Northern Desolation in its palm.

The nine dazzling suns above the divine city appeared as small and insignificant as nine marbles before this giant hand.

Upon the giant hand, Great Dao runes flowed, and galaxies were born and destroyed, emitting a pressure...

That caused the Laws of the entire Xuantian True Domain to tremble and submit at that moment!

This was power that surpassed the Return to One Realm—the true power of a Half-step Great Emperor!

"What... what is that?!"

Inside the divine city, Divine Lord Yangyan looked up blankly at the slowly descending giant hand, the color draining from his face in an instant.

From that giant hand, he felt a despairing Aura that left him without even the thought of resisting.

That was... Emperor's Might!

It was genuine Emperor's Might!

He isn't in the Return to One Realm! He is... he's a Great Emperor?!

A thought so absurd it made him want to laugh exploded in his mind.

"No...!"

He let out a shrill scream that didn't even sound human.

"Fully activate the array! Block it! Block it for me!"

Inside the divine city, all the Cultivators went mad.

They frantically poured their Divine Power into the array, regardless of the cost to their lives.

The golden light shield's radiance surged to its limit, and the phantoms of the nine suns rotated wildly, condensing their strongest power in an attempt to withstand the descending giant hand.

However, it was all in vain.

Before absolute power, any struggle appeared pale and weak.

BOOM!!!!

The sky-blotting giant hand and the golden light shield collided violently.

There was no stalemate as one might imagine, not even for a single moment.

The Nine Suns Heaven-Burning Array, which supposedly could withstand the attack of a Great Emperor and was seen as the final hope of the Yanyang Divine Court, was as fragile as an eggshell beneath that giant hand.

Only a crisp "crack" was heard.

A tiny crack appeared on the light shield.

Immediately following, that crack spread across the entire light shield like a spiderweb before everyone's despairing eyes.

BANG!!!

A loud explosion rang out.

The indestructible golden light shield shattered violently!

It turned into countless golden specks of light, dissipating into nothingness.

The array was broken.

"Puff!!!"

"Puff! Puff! Puff!"

The moment the array was broken, every Cultivator in the divine city who had participated in activating it, regardless of their cultivation level...

From Divine Lord Yangyan and the various Elders down to the ordinary Disciples, all felt as if they had been struck by a heavy blow. They violently spat out large mouthfuls of blood, and their Auras instantly withered.

More than half of the Cultivators didn't even have time to let out a scream before their Divine Souls were shattered on the spot by the terrifying backlash. They bled from their seven orifices and collapsed to the ground, dead.