The bodies of Li Xuekuang and Tie Zhan were still warm.
A deathly silence hung over the Blackstone Plaza.
Prefecture Lord Xiao Tiannan stood behind the bronze table, gripping its edge so tightly his fingers dug into it.
His nails had curled back, blood seeped out, yet he felt nothing.
His gaze was nailed to Sun Yu.
Two moves.
He had killed two peerless experts who had burned their vital essence and lifespan.
That was the destructive power of a half-step Divine Sea Realm expert!
Yet before Sun Yu, they had been nothing but paper dolls. They hadn't even left a scratch on him.
Fear, like ten thousand icy steel knives, savagely carved at Xiao Tiannan's nerves.
He was the mighty Prefecture Lord, an early-stage Divine Sea Realm expert and a prominent figure who represented the Imperial Court in suppressing a region. Yet at this moment, he couldn't even muster the courage to turn and flee.
He could tell that Sun Yu's speed had surpassed the Sound Barrier.
Turning his back on that monster meant death.
Beg for mercy?
In Sun Yu's eyes, ringed with dark red, there was only the indifference one reserved for the dead. There was no room for negotiation.
"You think you've won?"
Xiao Tiannan's whole body trembled violently, and a wail like that of a vengeful ghost squeezed from his throat.
He suddenly bit through his steel teeth, blood streaming wildly from the corners of his mouth.
His reason had completely collapsed.
Only an absolute madness that would take them both down remained.
"I am an Imperial Court official! I serve by the Mandate of Heaven! What right does a mere commoner like you have to kill me?!"
Xiao Tiannan's right hand curled into a claw and plunged straight into his chest.
"Pfft!"
His fingers pierced his official robes, tore through flesh, and seized his heart.
He didn't pull out his heart. Instead, from the deepest blood orifice within it, he forcibly dug out a square seal that blazed with dazzling golden light.
The Prefecture Lord's Official Seal!
This was a prefecture-suppressing treasure bestowed by the Great Yan Imperial Court upon every prefecture's highest official.
The moment the seal left his body, Xiao Tiannan's Divine Sea Realm True Qi surged into it like a bursting dam, without the slightest reservation.
And it wasn't just his True Qi.
His Vital Essence Blood, even his soul!
The seal greedily devoured everything Xiao Tiannan had.
His once-plump body rapidly withered before everyone's eyes. His black hair turned snowy white in an instant, and his skin dried like tree bark.
He used his life to fully ignite this Imperial Court treasure!
"Vmmm!!!"
The Prefecture Lord's Official Seal let out a piercing dragon's cry.
A thick pillar of golden light shot from the seal into the sky, piercing the clouds.
Then the earth of the entire Great Wind Snow State let out a violent resonance!
The Earth Vein's energy, three thousand li beneath the ground, along with the Imperial Court's fortune throughout the Great Wind Snow State, was forcibly drawn out by the seal. It crossed space and surged toward it in a torrent!
Endless fortune and Earth Vein power poured into the seal.
Its aura climbed higher and higher.
Mid-stage Divine Sea Realm!
Late-stage Divine Sea Realm!
Peak Divine Sea Realm!!!
Terrifying pressure, like a heavenly tribulation made tangible, crashed down upon Blackstone Plaza.
"Crack, crack!"
The sturdy bronze table before Xiao Tiannan instantly crumbled into a heap of copper dust beneath that pressure.
Nearby, the dozen or so Aristocratic Clan heads who had already collapsed on the ground—
They didn't even have time to scream.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Their bodies couldn't withstand the crushing force of peak Divine Sea Realm fortune. They exploded on the spot, becoming a dozen clouds of glaring blood mist.
Large sections of Blackstone Plaza's foundation caved in.
Xiao Tiannan's bony hands held up the Official Seal, now shining with boundless golden light.
"Die!"
He used the last of his strength to hurl the seal into the air.
The seal left his hand.
It swelled against the wind!
Ten zhang! Fifty zhang! A hundred zhang!
In the blink of an eye, the palm-sized seal became a hundred-zhang golden mountain that blotted out the sky and sun!
The mountain was made entirely of the nation's fortune and Earth Vein power.
On its base, four enormous seal-script characters, deep as ravines, blazed with blood-red light: "By the Mandate of Heaven!"
This was no longer a martial artist's attack. It was the will of heaven and earth, the absolute suppression of a state's fortune!
The hundred-zhang golden mountain tore through the air with a terrifying sonic boom, locked onto Sun Yu, and crashed down upon him!
Before the mountain even arrived, its berserk pressure had already forced the ground beneath Sun Yu's feet three zhang down.
Sun Yu stood at the center of the crater.
His cold-white brocade robe was plastered against his flesh by the astral wind bearing down from the mountain.
His long hair whipped wildly.
He didn't use Swimming Dragon Steps to dodge.
Against a wide-area treasure suppression locked onto one's aura, dodging would only make the fortune pursue him until it ground him into a paste.
Sun Yu raised his head.
His pitch-black eyes, ringed in dark red, stared straight at the hundred-zhang golden mountain crashing down overhead.
At the four blood-red characters, "By the Mandate of Heaven."
The corners of Sun Yu's eyes slowly split open.
His lips curled upward.
He smiled.
His laughter grew from a chuckle to a roar, until it became a wild peal that shook the four corners of the land!
"You think you can crush me with an official seal?"
Sun Yu's voice was like rolling spring thunder, tearing straight through the mountain's crashing roar.
"By the Mandate of Heaven?"
"What bullshit heaven!"
Sun Yu laughed wildly without pause. He stamped down, shattering the earth, and surged forward instead of retreating!
Not only did he refuse to defend himself, he leaped straight up to meet the hundred-zhang golden mountain crashing down!
"Watch me suppress it with my body!"
Sun Yu roared.
Within his dantian, his pale-golden Divine Sea surged in ten-thousand-zhang waves.
The ultimate profundity of Great Perfection! The body becomes a world!
All two hundred and six Sword Bones in Sun Yu's body, every drop of Lead-Mercury Blood, every fiber of muscle—
In that instant, they all became miniature black holes that devoured everything.
He released no force field.
He locked all gravity, all attraction, and all the foundations of the Extreme Path inside his flesh with domineering force.
At that moment, his body became heavier than a ten-thousand-zhang mountain range of Mysterious Iron.
Denser than a star.
In midair,
Sun Yu bent his knees slightly, drove power through his waist and abdomen, and straightened his spine in an instant, like an ancient wild dragon awakening.
He raised both arms.
His fingers spread wide.
Both hands held up the sky!
Dark red Asura Gang Qi gathered over his palms into two tightly compressed Destruction Halos.
Extreme Cold and Extreme Yang, vitality and annihilation, wove together in perfect harmony.
He met the hundred-zhang golden mountain, weighing hundreds of millions of jun and bearing the fortune of an entire state.
He pushed up against it without the slightest retreat!
"Rumble!!!!"
Impact!
His mortal hands collided squarely with the bottom of the hundred-zhang golden mountain!
In that instant, heaven and earth seemed to lose all sound.
Only a blinding light too intense for the naked eye to behold burst from the gap where Sun Yu's palms met the mountain.
Then came a circular shock wave, powerful enough to slice through all things.
It swept out in every direction.
The cliffs at the edge of the abyss were shaved flat in an instant.
Blackstone Plaza vanished entirely, reduced to a barren wasteland of ruins.
The mountain bore down.
Power crashed against power.
The muscles in Sun Yu's arms bulged to their absolute limit.
Beneath his cold-white skin, his Dark Gold Tendons writhed like thick steel cables wound to the breaking point.
The blood-red demonic markings shone like magma.
"Creak!"
Every bone in Sun Yu's body rang out in a continuous, high-pitched Sword Song.
The peak Divine Sea Realm pressure carried by the hundred-zhang golden mountain crushed down relentlessly. The nation's fortune tried to burrow into Sun Yu's body and destroy his internal organs.
Sun Yu held the mountain's base in an iron grip.
His feet struck rings of tangible sonic booms in midair.
The mountain's weight forced his body down three chi.
Only three chi.
Then he held firm.
"Suppress!"
Sun Yu's eyes blazed open, and the dark red rings spun at full tilt.
The power of his Extreme Devil Body burst forth.
Asura Gang Qi streamed from his palms, bracing against the four blood-red characters on the mountain's base.
Extreme Yang burned! Extreme Cold froze!
Under the frenzied erosion of the Asura Gang Qi, the golden mountain's base let out an ear-piercing hiss.
Golden light and dark red astral energy viciously tore into each other.
"H-he stopped it?!"
Among the ruins below, Xiao Tiannan knelt, reduced to skin and bone, blood pouring from his seven orifices. He stared desperately upward.
He looked at the scene in midair.
That tiny human, no bigger than an ant, held up the sky with both hands.
He had actually stopped the hundred-zhang golden mountain with sheer strength!
He didn't bend his back.
He didn't buckle his knees.
Sun Yu was like a pillar holding heaven and earth apart, bearing the crushing force of peak Divine Sea Realm fortune!
That was the Official Seal, drawing on the Earth Veins of the entire Great Wind Snow State!
That was an Imperial Court treasure capable of crushing any rebel to death!
How could a mere body hold it up?!
"No! This is impossible! Crush him! Crush him to pieces!"
Xiao Tiannan kowtowed madly, wringing the last trace of vitality from his body and pouring it into the golden mountain from afar.
The hundred-zhang golden mountain blazed even brighter, its weight doubling!
The bones in Sun Yu's arms made an extremely dangerous grinding sound.
Pale-golden True Essence blasted from his pores.
Bracing against the mountain, he raised his head.
The muscles in his cold-white face were taut, yet his smile grew ever wilder.
"That all you've got?"
Sun Yu's ten fingers, like peerless steel spikes, slowly and savagely pierced into the solid golden light beneath the mountain.
He dug deep into the four characters, "By the Mandate of Heaven."
"The Imperial Court's rules—"
Sun Yu's arms shook violently, his blood and qi deep as an abyss, vast as a prison.
"Can't crush me!"
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