Desperate Thunder Sound

Before the Snake Consort finished speaking, her figure vanished from its original spot like a phantom. The next moment, she appeared directly in front of the rock ledge where Lin Feng was, standing in mid-air!

Her dark green scales shimmered with a faint, cold light in the dimness. The black fiendish energy coiling around her writhed like a living creature, making her appear like a dark night succubus who commanded death.

She didn't use any weapons, merely slowly raised her delicate hand, the same one that had just effortlessly killed her subordinate. With her fingers slightly spread, she aimed at the area where Lin Feng was and gently pressed down!

"Myriad Snake Poison Prison!"

BOOM!

As her palm pressed down, the space within tens of meters around Lin Feng seemed to instantly freeze!

The Profound Yin Fiendish Wind in the air let out a piercing shriek, converging madly to form countless condensed black poisonous snakes, made of pure fiendish energy and potent poison, dense and overwhelming!

These snakes were lifelike, their scales bristling, their scarlet tongues flickering, emitting bone-chilling hisses as they lunged at Lin Feng from all directions, above and below!

Each snake contained a terrifying toxicity capable of corroding metal and freezing blood, further amplified by the immense power of a Martial Master, sealing off all possible escape routes!

This attack far surpassed the scope of the Martial Artist Realm; it was a true killing technique!

Lin Feng was instantly plunged into an unprecedented desperate situation!

His skin felt a stinging pain, like needles pricking him – an erosion caused by the poison even before it made contact!

The protective lightning around him fluctuated violently under the onslaught of countless poisonous snakes, emitting crackling sounds of dissolution!

He couldn't retreat!

There was nowhere to retreat!

"Aaaargh--!"

Lin Feng let out a roar like a wounded beast, his eyes instantly bloodshot, an extreme ferocity erupting from his very bones!

He simultaneously circulated the cultivation techniques of the Thunder Foundation Establishment Chapter and Nine Heavens Thunder Blade to their absolute limit, disregarding the tearing pain in his meridians!

"Thunder Gang! Protect me!!"

All the Thunder True Qi within him surged out with unprecedented madness. Instead of condensing at a single point, he desperately pushed it outward, forming a thick, fiercely burning shield of lightning around his body, crackling with countless wild and violent purple electrical snakes!

"RUMBLE--!!"

Countless black poisonous snakes slammed violently into the lightning shield, erupting in continuous roars!

Black energy and purple lightning intertwined madly, annihilating and exploding! The lightning shield visibly dimmed and thinned at an alarming rate, as if it would shatter at any moment!

"Pfft!"

Lin Feng's face turned pale, and he spat out a mouthful of blood – a sign of severe True Qi depletion and damaged meridians!

But the madness and determination in his eyes did not diminish in the slightest. His feet were rooted to the rock ledge as if they had grown there, enduring this terrifying attack without taking a single step back!

"Oh?"

The Snake Consort, still hovering in the air, let out a soft exclamation, a hint of surprise flashing across her alluring face once more.

She hadn't expected a mere late-stage Martial Artist to withstand her "Myriad Snake Poison Prison," an attack capable of killing an ordinary early-stage Martial Master, with just his protective Thunder Gang. The grade of this lightning technique was likely far beyond her estimation!

"Let's see how long you can last!"

A cold glint flashed in the Snake Consort's eyes, and she increased the force with her jade hand again!

"Crack!"

A clear crack finally appeared on the lightning shield! It was immediately followed by a chain reaction, with the cracks spreading rapidly!

As the shield was on the verge of shattering and Lin Feng was about to be devoured by the myriad snakes!

At this critical juncture—

Something in Lin Feng's mind seemed to shatter!

All along, the incomplete core energy channeling method for the second level of the Nine Heavens Thunder Blade, which required self-discovery and completion, suddenly became crystal clear under the immense pressure of life and death!

It wasn't a deduction by the System, but a natural culmination of his own will, potential, and life-and-death insights!

Outside, the myriad snakes hissed, and poisonous gas filled the air.

Within his heart, however, a strange silence descended at this moment.

It was as if he had returned to the Thunder Listening Pavilion, facing the Lightning Attracting Wood that had withstood ninety-nine heavenly lightning strikes without falling.

It was as if he saw the ferocious gaping maw of the Thunder Lizard Leader lunging at him in the Secret Realm.

It was as if he felt the unyielding will that shattered gravity with every step on the Cloud Climbing Ladder.

Destruction, rebirth, defiance, dominance... all sorts of insights finally converged into a lightning bolt that tore through the darkness!

He suddenly looked up, his blood-stained face revealing eyes that shone with terrifying brilliance, like two purple stars!

No longer passively defending, he opened his mouth towards the endless tide of poisonous snakes before him.

No sound was emitted.

But an invisible force, imbued with the fundamental fluctuations of the True Meaning of Thunder, emanated from him like ripples from a stone dropped into a calm lake, creating visible, space-distorting pale purple waves!

Wherever these ripples passed, the frenzied, hissing black poisonous snakes suddenly slowed and stiffened, as if restrained by an unseen power!

The energy structures within them, composed of fiendish energy and poison, became extremely unstable under the impact of these peculiar fluctuations containing the heavenly might of thunder, even beginning to collapse and disintegrate on their own!

It wasn't shattered by lightning, but rather, from its very origin, it was overwhelmed and annihilated by a higher-level "intent"!

"Thunder Sound Soul Suppression!"

This wasn't a martial skill, but a unique application that Lin Feng, in his desperate situation, had comprehended by combining his own True Meaning of Thunder with his Spiritual Power!

While it lacked direct destructive power, it targeted the very source of energy and the core of the spirit, possessing potent effects of suppression and disintegration! It was especially effective against energies with sinister and chaotic attributes!

"What?!"

The composure and mockery on Snake Consort's face vanished for the first time, replaced by profound shock and disbelief!

"Intent manifesting form, interfering with reality?! How is this possible?! You're just a Martial Artist!"

She could clearly feel that the energy structure of the "Myriad Snake Poison Prison" she had unleashed was rapidly disintegrating under the invisible sonic waves of thunder!

This was by no means a simple attribute counter; it involved the crushing power of a much higher level of "intent"!

Just as Snake Consort's mind reeled and her attack faltered for a moment—

"Now!"

A fierce glint flashed in Lin Feng's eyes. His right fist, which had been gathering power, unleashed all its remaining force from the shattered lightning shield, along with the surging fighting spirit in his chest that he couldn't hold back any longer, smashing down onto the ground before him!

"RUMBLE!!"

His fist's power plunged into the rock strata, not to attack, but to—gain leverage!

The immense recoil caused the rock platform beneath his feet to collapse and shatter!

And his body, using this force, became like a cannonball shot from its barrel, rapidly rocketing backward and upward, its target the exit of the canyon, shrouded in the howling Black Whirlwind!

Escape!

Facing a fully recovered Martial Master expert, all his trump cards had been played, and he had only managed to secure this sliver of a chance to survive!

If he had continued to fight head-on, death would have been the only outcome!

"Trying to leave? Stay here, by my command!"

Snake Consort instantly snapped out of her shock, fiendish energy boiling in her eyes! She absolutely would not allow a mere Martial Artist Realm brat to escape her grasp time and time again, especially one who had revealed such terrifying potential!

She made a grasping motion in the air with her jade hand, and five solidified black claw shadows tore through the air, striking faster than his escape, aiming for the center of Lin Feng's back! The claw winds were sharp enough to pierce metal!

Sensing the fatal crisis approaching from behind, Lin Feng, still in mid-air, twisted his body sharply. Lightning once again condensed forcefully on his left arm, and he counter-attacked with a punch towards the five claw shadows!

"Bang!"

The thunder fist collided with the claw shadows. Lin Feng's left arm throbbed with pain, as if his bones were about to shatter. The immense force propelled him like a meteor, smashing him towards the raging Black Whirlwind at the canyon's exit at an even faster speed!

"Pfft!"

The moment his body disappeared into the whirlwind, Lin Feng spat out another mouthful of blood, but his eyes shone with terrifying brilliance.

Snake Consort flashed to the canyon's exit, looking at the violently churning Profound Yin Fiendish Wind, which had pulverized even her claw shadows, her face a terrifying shade of grimness.

Even she wouldn't dare to easily venture deep into the fiendish wind of this core region.

Behind her, the last remaining guard stepped forward fearfully, "My Lady, should we pursue..."

"Pursue? Go in and die?" Snake Consort shot him a cold glance, and the guard immediately fell silent, intimidated.

She gazed at the Black Whirlwind that had swallowed Lin Feng, her cold vertical pupils flickering uncertainly.

"Well done, Lin Feng... Well done, True Meaning of Thunder..."

"You can't run far... The clue to the 'key' must be on you!"

"Pass down the order: seal off the hundred miles around Black Wind Valley! He's heavily injured and forcibly entered the core of the fiendish wind; he absolutely won't last long! We must capture him alive, and if he's dead... we must still retrieve his head and cultivation technique!"

"Yes!"

Snake Consort stood in place, the wind whipping her long hair and armor, her allure intertwined with killing intent.

She had a premonition that if she couldn't completely eliminate this child today, he would surely become a major threat to the Shadow Kill Pavilion in the future!