Sun Yu curled the fingers of his right hand.
True Qi roared through his Dantian.
The rules of gravity across a hundred-zhang radius around him were instantly rewritten.
Three hundredfold Prison Suppressing Gravity swept outward in a fan from his fingertips, cutting across the sky.
Tens of thousands of steel Armor-Piercing Heavy Crossbow bolts shrieked through the air, having just entered the space ten zhang above Sun Yu's head.
They stopped dead.
As if they had crashed into an invisible wall of iron ten thousand zhang tall.
The next instant.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
A dense barrage of metallic explosions rang out, shaking the heavens.
The steel bolts, powerful enough to pierce city walls, were instantly blasted into clouds of fine black iron powder beneath the absolute crush of three hundredfold gravity.
Stripped of all momentum, the iron powder fell straight to the ground.
It formed a thick layer of iron grit around Sun Yu's feet.
Not a drop of blood touched Sun Yu's pale, cold Brocade Robe, and not a single wrinkle appeared.
He lowered his right hand and looked toward the steel fortress in the distance.
In front of the fortress,
Gu Qianxing sat astride a Dragon Blood Horned Horse, the corners of his eyes twitching violently.
Tens of thousands of Armor-Piercing Heavy Crossbows had fired in unison, yet they had not even grazed the other man's clothes.
Such bizarre control over gravity completely defied the common sense of martial arts.
Gu Qianxing gripped the thousand-jin Coiling Dragon City Breaking Halberd with both hands, his knuckles turning white.
"Change formation!"
Gu Qianxing roared hoarsely.
The Heavenly Punishment Guard truly lived up to its name as the Great Yan Dynasty's most cold-blooded killing machine.
Tens of thousands of Blood Washing Realm soldiers did not make a sound.
The heavy shieldmen in the front rank slammed their shields into the ground, while the spearmen behind them poured their True Qi without reserve into the bodies of their comrades ahead.
The army formation flowed, their blood and energy connected.
The faces of tens of thousands of Heavenly Punishment Guards turned deathly pale. Their True Qi was forcibly drained by the formation, and every vein bulged beneath their skin.
Above the fortress,
the dense cloud of blood-colored Killing Intent churned wildly, then abruptly contracted inward.
A hundred-zhang-long crimson spear, formed entirely from solidified military Killing Intent, took shape in midair.
Countless contorted, howling skulls appeared across its surface.
They were the boundless resentment the Heavenly Punishment Guard had accumulated by slaughtering a million living beings.
Gu Qianxing sprang into the air from his horse.
His vast mid-stage Divine Sea Realm True Qi poured into the hundred-zhang blood spear like a dam bursting.
He seized the spear by its butt with one hand.
Its pressure surged.
The aura of destruction radiating from the blood spear forcibly surpassed the limits of the mid-stage Divine Sea Realm, closing in on the late stage!
The Baleful Intent clinging to the spear corroded the surrounding space, sending up wisps of white smoke with a sizzling hiss.
The military formation.
The power of ten thousand, gathered to slay the supreme expert.
That was the true source of the Heavenly Punishment Guard's power to suppress an entire province.
From on high, Gu Qianxing looked down at Sun Yu, who stood alone.
"Sun Yu!"
Gu Qianxing's voice, infused with the rolling True Qi of the Divine Sea Realm, crashed down like thunder from the heavens.
"No matter how strong your body is, you're still made of flesh and blood!"
"This formation gathers the blood and energy of ten thousand Heavenly Punishment Guards of Great Yan. It exists to execute vermin like you!"
Gu Qianxing raised the hundred-zhang blood spear in both hands, its tip aimed at the center of Sun Yu's brow.
"Today, I shall pass your death sentence on behalf of the Great Yan Dynasty!"
Sun Yu stood on the official road.
He tilted his head back and gazed at the hundred-zhang blood spear in the sky, which radiated a rank stench and a crushing aura of destruction.
He listened to Gu Qianxing's lofty pronouncement.
Sun Yu smiled.
His smile was utterly unrestrained, brimming with undisguised violence.
"Pass my sentence?"
Sun Yu slowly raised his right hand.
Palm facing upward.
His fingers curled slightly.
"What do you think you are?"
As the words fell,
a raging tempest rose within Sun Yu's Dantian Divine Sea.
Pale golden True Qi surged wildly into his right arm through his thick meridians.
Beneath his cold, pale skin, the dark red Asura Demonic Mark blazed with dazzling crimson light.
At the same time,
Sun Yu brutally tore away the three hundredfold Prison Suppressing Gravity that covered the hundred-zhang radius around him.
Using his Extreme Dao Monster Force, he forcibly kneaded and compressed three extremely violent forces into the tiny space of his palm, barely three inches across.
Ssssss!
The air ground violently against Sun Yu's palm, letting out a piercing shriek.
The surrounding light twisted instantly, dragged toward the terrifying mass in his palm.
A palm-sized seal, dark red throughout and solid as a real object, condensed out of thin air in Sun Yu's hand!
Its base was smooth as a mirror, perfectly square.
With every flicker, fine black cracks appeared in the surrounding space beneath its weight.
Annihilation World Suppressing Seal!
This was the first time Sun Yu had used this killing move in actual combat since fusing it into his Asura Undying Body.
Heavy.
Impossibly heavy.
The palm-sized dark red seal pressed Sun Yu's right wrist down by half an inch.
The Dark Gold Tendons in his right arm bulged like Horned Dragons, and his bones rang with a clear, swordlike chime as he strained to hold up its world-shattering weight.
"Die!!!"
In midair, Gu Qianxing roared furiously.
He abruptly exerted his strength.
The hundred-zhang blood spear tore through the air with a terrifying sonic boom, plunging toward Sun Yu like a crimson bolt of lightning!
Before the spear even arrived, its savage military Killing Intent had cracked the official road beneath Sun Yu's feet to pieces.
Sun Yu watched the hundred-zhang blood spear descend.
The muscles in his right arm tensed in an instant.
He turned his wrist.
Palm facing down.
He met the spear, which had gathered the blood and energy of more than ten thousand elite soldiers.
And calmly brought his palm down.
"Go."
The dark red seal flew from his hand.
The instant it left his palm, the palm-sized square seal swelled against the wind.
Ten zhang!
Fifty zhang!
A hundred zhang!
In the blink of an eye, the dark red seal became a square mountain that blotted out the sky!
The pure force of gravity and the absolute destructive power of Asura Gang Qi intertwined perfectly.
RUMBLE!!!
The hundred-zhang seal and the hundred-zhang blood spear collided in midair.
At that instant, heaven and earth fell utterly silent.
The force compressed to its absolute limit erupted.
A ring of visible dark red ripples swept outward from the point of impact like a tsunami. The clouds were cleaved apart, revealing the dazzling sunlight.
The military blood spear Gu Qianxing had prided himself on, formed from the blood and energy of tens of thousands of Blood Washing Realm soldiers,
could not withstand even half a breath when it touched the dark red seal.
Crack!
The spearhead shattered outright!
Then,
the destruction spread from the tip down the shaft, breaking it apart inch by inch.
The solidified military Killing Intent was crushed like fragile ice beneath three hundredfold gravity and Extreme Yang Gang Qi, ground to powder, then vaporized by the heat until nothing remained!
"This is impossible!"
Gu Qianxing's eyes nearly bulged from their sockets as he stared in terror at the blood spear shattering in his hands.
The seal smashed through the spear without slowing, continuing its crushing descent with the force of an avalanche!
The backlash struck at once.
In front of the fortress below,
tens of thousands of Heavenly Punishment Guards in formation threw their heads back and spat out mouthfuls of black blood in unison.
The military formation collapsed on the spot.
The shieldmen's arms were pulverized, and their Mysterious Iron shields exploded into fragments.
The spearmen's internal organs shattered, and blood gushed from all seven orifices.
Ranks of black-armored soldiers fell like wheat beneath a scythe.
And this was only the beginning.
The dark red seal was like a collapsing sky, locking onto the entire Heavenly Chasm Fortress below before crashing down!
"Fall back! Fall back, now!"
Gu Qianxing had completely lost the will to resist.
He frantically burned his mid-stage Divine Sea Realm True Qi and turned to flee beyond the seal's reach.
Too late.
The three hundredfold Prison Suppressing Force Field carried by the seal had already locked down the space for several li around the fortress.
Under the crushing gravity, Gu Qianxing's body felt as if it had been filled with mercury, and his speed plummeted tenfold.
Boom!
The dark red seal slammed squarely into Gu Qianxing's back.
A mid-stage Divine Sea Realm commander of his generation.
His Protective True Essence exploded in an instant.
His purple-gold Devouring Beast Armor was crushed flat.
The instant the seal's base touched him, Gu Qianxing's bones, muscles, organs, and blood were compressed into a lump of flesh less than half an inch thick!
The seal continued downward.
It slammed into Heavenly Chasm Fortress.
RUMBLE!!!
The earth trembled; the ground shook.
The enormous fortress, built entirely of indestructible Obsidian blocks, each one reinforced with molten iron,
was flattened beneath the heads of the tens of thousands of Heavenly Punishment Guards howling in despair.
The walls collapsed. The towers crumbled.
The hundred-zhang-tall central structure was forcibly crushed, layer after layer.
Tens of thousands of Blood Washing Realm elites, along with their Dragon Blood Horned Horses and the steel weapons in their hands,
were all crushed by that single strike into a mixture of the finest dust and pulped flesh.
The seal slammed into the ground.
The earth within a radius of several li was forcibly driven down thirty zhang!
Dust billowed into the sky, blotting out the entire horizon.
The violent shock wave swept in every direction, uprooting distant dead trees and shredding them into splinters.
A moment later,
the dust was incinerated by the dark red Gang Qi.
The dark red seal's energy ran out, and it slowly faded away into the air.
Ahead.
The once-majestic Heavenly Chasm Fortress had vanished without a trace.
The army of more than ten thousand arrogant Heavenly Punishment Guards had been wiped out to the last man.
Gu Qianxing, their commander at the middle stage of the Divine Sea Realm, had been reduced to a lump of mush.
All that remained on the ground was a perfectly square pit, thirty zhang deep and several li wide.
The bottom of the pit was smooth as a mirror.
The extreme gravity had crushed all matter into a layer of hard, dark red crust.
It was the result of flesh, armor, and Obsidian being forcibly compacted together.
Sun Yu stood at the edge of the enormous square pit.
He gazed at the obstacle, utterly erased from existence.
Then he lowered his right hand.
His pale, cold-colored Brocade Robe remained spotless.
He raised his foot and began to walk.
He followed the smooth edge of the pit down.
His leather boots struck the hard, dark red crust with steady footsteps.
Sun Yu strode across the ruins, formed from more than ten thousand elite soldiers and the fortress.
His gaze fixed straight ahead, toward the far end of the ruins.
There lay the Heavenly Chasm Thunder Pool, separating Great Wind Snow State from Divine State.
Purple lightning rolled through the clouds, radiating an aura that could destroy heaven and earth.
Before the Thunder Pool.
A terrifying pressure, ten times, a hundred times stronger than Gu Qianxing's, swept across space like an awakened abyssal beast and locked firmly onto him.
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