Today's Battle, Defy the Gods!

"You're insane. You're truly insane." Second Senior Brother scrambled away on hands and knees. Though he had no idea what was happening or what madness had seized Lin Huang, he could feel the terrifying might descending from above, as if a divine sword hung over his head, ready to split heaven and earth with a single stroke.

Lin Huang's gaze remained calm, utterly ignoring Second Senior Brother's roars. He silently calculated when the giant hand above would fall, as well as Xiong Renjie, who was charging madly toward him from nearby. His eyes swept over the Twelve Heavens Divine Array, then over the arriving Spring-Autumn King. With a turn of his hand, he fully activated the six stone walls engraved with True God's Handwriting.

"Blasphemer, die!"

A voice like a great bell and thunderous drum rang out abruptly from a spacetime that seemed to exist and not exist. There were only four words, yet each struck like thunder, forcing Lin Huang to retreat, retreat, retreat.

After retreating four steps, Lin Huang coughed up a mouthful of blood. His soul shook violently, nearly annihilated.

"So strong. Is this divine might?"

The thought flashed through Lin Huang's mind instinctively. Then he saw the True God's Handwriting on the six stone walls ignite in an instant. Sacred light gathered, forming a majestic figure with no visible face. It raised a hand and pointed.

This finger destroyed heaven, extinguished earth, crushed the Six Paths, tore apart the rules. No law could stop it, and no one could stop it!

This was a god!

A god that could not be profaned!

So Lin Huang could only retreat. He could not take this finger, did not dare take it, and would not be able to take it.

In that instant, Lin Huang recalled a novel he had once read. This finger truly was as it had been described there: touch it and perish, brush against it and die.

Lin Huang did not retreat very quickly, because the manifested palm of that great figure in the distant White Jade Capital stretched across a hundred li overhead and crashed down at precisely that moment.

Attacked from both sides—certain death?!

No! The manifested palm had barely appeared above Lin Huang when it shattered inch by inch. Before the Finger of the Deity, even that great figure, hailed as the person most likely to become a god, possessed not the slightest ability to resist. He was, in the end, no god.

Pfft!

Far away in White Jade Capital, the great figure had manifested a palm while preaching from his altar. He had thought he was casually crushing an ant, but before a Divine Being, he was the ant.

The manifested palm was defeated almost instantly. Divine might spread forth, severely wounding the great figure in White Jade Capital. He spat out a mouthful of blood, fury and shock mingling on his face. "Arrogant! Utterly arrogant! He actually dared offend divine might!"

Before he had even finished speaking, the great figure fainted. Exchanging a blow with a Divine Being without any preparation and surviving was already proof enough of his strength.

"Sure enough, when a god wishes to kill someone, no one else can kill them."

Seeing the Finger of the Deity effortlessly shatter the manifested palm, Lin Huang felt a measure of relief despite still being unable to escape the threat of death.

What was a god? One who used one's own Dao to replace the Heavenly Path was a god.

When a god wished to kill someone, no one could kill in that god's stead.

Such was the majesty of a god, not to be profaned.

After shattering the manifested palm, the Finger of the Deity did not weaken. It continued toward Lin Huang.

Lin Huang could only retreat again and again, until he retreated before Xiong Renjie.

Xiong Renjie was no fool. Even with the Zhongnan Divine Sword in hand and the Twelve Heavens Divine Array empowering him, after personally witnessing the Finger of the Deity shatter the manifested palm, he knew no one could block that finger. No law could block it. But Xiong Renjie was not as fast as Lin Huang.

It was that simple, that suffocatingly humiliating. Xiong Renjie could only glare at Lin Huang furiously, then throw caution to the wind and summon the full power of the Twelve Heavens Divine Array, completely unleashing the Zhongnan Divine Sword's strength as he met the Finger of the Deity that was pursuing Lin Huang.

"If I survive, Lin Huang, I will definitely kill you. I swear it!"

Great sound was rarely heard; great form was without shape.

So silently, the Finger of the Deity pointed past. The sword broke, the man died, and the array was destroyed.

Lin Huang looked back and sucked in a sharp breath. He had long known that gods were powerful and insurmountable. Yet with such casual ease, a finger that did not even count as an avatar first shattered the manifested palm of the great figure said to be most likely to become a god, then broke the Zhongnan Dojo's sect-defending divine sword with one finger, and destroyed the Twelve Heavens Divine Array with another.

And now, though the Finger of the Deity had dimmed somewhat, Lin Huang knew that gods were immortal. Though much of its power had been consumed after pointing once, bolstered by a god's immortal will, that finger would madly absorb the power between heaven and earth and restore itself to its original strength.

Therefore, Lin Huang could no longer run. Unless this finger killed him, it would not end.

"In the end, I still have to bear it myself. But at least it has consumed quite a bit of energy."

Lin Huang spoke calmly. His gaze shifted toward the Spring-Autumn King, who stood a hundred paces away with terror written across his face.

The Spring-Autumn King was flustered and afraid. He had not felt such emotions for a very long time, but now they filled his heart, reminding him of how he had felt years ago when he first entered the Heaven Mending Pavilion and met the old pavilion master.

It was the panic of being unable to resist, of being utterly powerless.

"You're a madman!" The Spring-Autumn King suddenly roared, then turned and fled without looking back. But it was too late, because Lin Huang had already run ahead of him. With a backhanded palm strike, he shoved the Spring-Autumn King toward the Finger of the Deity.

"Three thousand years make a spring, three thousand years make an autumn! One Year of Spring and Autumn!"

The Spring-Autumn King roared. Under the threat of death, he unleashed all his strength. Every divine artifact on his body was activated, all in the hope of surviving beneath this finger.

Bang!

At the faintest sound, Lin Huang abruptly stopped.

Because the Spring-Autumn King had not died. Though that finger had shattered every divine artifact on him and blasted him away like a meteor to some unknown distance, Lin Huang had seen that the Spring-Autumn King had not died.

So Lin Huang stopped. With a faint smile, he straightened his chest and faced that finger.

The finger pressed down, like a red-hot knife cutting into butter. Lin Huang's chest instantly caved in, exposing golden blood and bone.

His heart, liver, spleen, stomach, kidneys, meridians, blood vessels, bones, and skull were annihilated inch by inch. In the end, only a section of Golden Spine engraved with six-colored totems of Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind, Yin and Yang barely sustained Lin Huang's soul and prevented it from perishing.

"I can't stop it. I'm going to die. You... still won't make a move?"

With only a section of spine left to preserve his soul, Lin Huang's soul trembled. He seemed to sigh, or perhaps speak to himself.

But soon, with a sigh, an imprint that Lin Huang himself did not know where it had been hidden in the depths of his soul suddenly appeared. It blazed with light, divine might spreading forth as it likewise transformed into a finger and struck out, blocking the Finger of the Deity.

A thunderous explosion erupted.

The two fingers, as though capable of opening heaven and splitting earth, collided fiercely. The rules tore apart. Within a hundred zhang, Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind were recreated, dividing Yin and Yang.

The twelve floating islands of the Zhongnan Dojo, which had seemed to exist for eternity, crashed down and collapsed. In the end, they were annihilated together with the Finger of the Deity and the suddenly appearing imprint. The instantaneous burst of power tore open the earth, sending earthfire soaring into the sky and magma raging as it blasted Lin Huang millions of li away.

"You're mine. You can't escape."

A furious voice rang in Lin Huang's heart, then vanished completely.