Getting Serious (Author is Lying Down, Respectfully Lying Down First!)

"This Shenrong Chong... he really chose a bad time to arrive!" Lei Zhan frowned. He had just finished a fierce battle with that Black-Toothed White Elephant great demon. Although his Qi Refining Path cultivation had improved, allowing him to conserve his divine power, he was ultimately not at his peak.

He had been maintaining the Law of Heaven and Earth divine ability while fighting the Black-Toothed White Elephant, and having just used the Star-Plucking Hand divine ability, only eighty percent of his divine power remained.

"The North Dark Sea is fraught with danger. With only eighty percent of my divine power left, I must save some to guard against unforeseen circumstances." Lei Zhan looked into the distance at the tall giant who had already manifested Three Heads and Six Arms, a terrifying battle intent suddenly erupting in his eyes.

"Then I shall be serious and end this quickly!"

He had yet to fully unleash the great divine ability, Star-Plucking Hand, passed down by his master, Daoist Sanshou!

"Brat, die!" Shenrong Chong's face was filled with madness. His three massive heads spoke in unison, sounding like three night owls screeching at once.

"Die? Hmph!" Lei Zhan let out a cold snort. "Three Heads and Six Arms? Is this your trump card?"

Rumble rumble~~~

Lei Zhan's body swayed, and four additional arms sprouted from his incredibly tall and burly divine body, while two more heads grew upon his shoulders.

"Shenrong Chong, come to your death!" Killing intent permeated Lei Zhan's entire being as he instantly transformed into a streak of light and charged toward Shenrong Chong.

"Hahaha! A mere deathbed struggle!" Shenrong Chong held a black staff in each of his six arms. The next moment, his figure moved like lightning, and three massive black staves smashed down violently.

"In terms of cultivation, I am at the late Myriad Phenomena stage. In terms of divine abilities, my Law of Heaven and Earth is stronger than yours! In terms of magic treasures, if I'm not mistaken, your Divine Demon Blood-Refined Divine Weapon barely rivals the Earth-grade! What are you using to struggle on your deathbed?" Amidst his madness, there was a hint of arrogance. "Die!"

Just as the three black staves reached before Lei Zhan, Lei Zhan instead put away the Cold Shadow Divine Spear in his hand. Three large hands, like palm-leaf fans, suddenly gripped the ends of the black staves.

The three black staves, which contained immense power, went from extreme motion to absolute stillness. The entire space seemed to freeze for an instant.

"What?" Shenrong Chong was suddenly shocked.

Although his magic treasures were also Divine Demon Blood-Refined Divine Weapons, they had absorbed vast amounts of baleful energy, killing intent, and malice, making every one of them comparable to a top-tier Earth-grade magic treasure!

And yet, they were just caught in Lei Zhan's bare hands like this?

However, battles between immortal cultivators were incredibly fast. Before Shenrong Chong could fully react, the Star-Plucking Divine Patterns, complex and intricate, flowed across the remaining three empty hands and suddenly lit up.

"Who did you just say was struggling on their deathbed?" Lei Zhan's voice rumbled like thunder, the sound waves rolling out and piercing into Shenrong Chong's mind like a physical force, causing his brain to buzz.

Slap! Slap! Slap!

The three black staves were tightly gripped by Lei Zhan as he exerted his full strength into the Star-Plucking Hand. Before Shenrong Chong could release his divine weapons, the remaining three hands, large as palm-leaf fans, expanded in an instant and lashed out, striking Shenrong Chong's complex-looking face one after another.

"You just said my cultivation is inferior to yours?"

"Said my divine abilities are inferior to yours?"

"Said my magic treasures are inferior to yours?"

Lei Zhan's expression was icy. "Since you came looking for trouble, is this what you relied on?"

"D-damn it!" Shenrong Chong's three heads immediately realized what was about to happen, but the Star-Plucking Hand divine ability Lei Zhan was using was ranked in the top ten of all great divine abilities in the Three Realms!

Although Lei Zhan had only cultivated it to the first level, the pair of hands alone could rival Heaven-grade magic treasures based on the divine ability itself. After activating the Three Heads and Six Arms divine ability, how could a mere Shenrong Chong, an unimportant member of the Shenrong Clan, withstand six Heaven-grade magic treasures under the full force of the Star-Plucking Hand?

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The three massive palms descended. Shenrong Chong's entire body seemed as if it were about to be swatted away, but since the black staves were still tightly gripped in Lei Zhan's hands, it was naturally impossible for him to escape so easily.

The three pale-faced heads instantly burst apart like exploded watermelons.

Shenrong Chong's God-Devil Body Refining was at the Myriad Phenomena level; although his heads were vital points, he would not die immediately just because all three were shattered.

However, it was inevitable that his control over his own divine body would become pitifully weak, leaving him only able to perform some simple measures.

Although Shenrong Chong possessed various life-saving methods, he could only act like a lamb waiting for slaughter before the fully unleashed Lei Zhan.

Whoosh~~~

The headless giant with six arms trembled. Under the control of Shenrong Chong's faint consciousness, divine power surged rapidly, and flesh began to grow at the neck above his shoulders.

"Die!"

Lei Zhan's gaze sharpened. Looking at Shenrong Chong, who had almost completely lost the ability to resist, he unleashed the full power of the Star-Plucking Hand with his Three Heads and Six Arms, his massive palms smashing down madly.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

How terrifying was the fully unleashed Star-Plucking Hand? Even though the North Dark Sea was vast and empty, the massive booming sounds still traveled very far.

Though it sounds slow, all of this was completed in the blink of an eye.

At the same time.

"Water-Fire Grinding Disc, go!" With a thought from Lei Zhan, dense swarms of Rahula Divine Needles suddenly appeared before him.

With the Rahula Divine Needles as the frame, endless gale winds, boundless azure seawater, and endless raging flames swirled and intertwined to form flesh and blood, together composing a massive grinding disc with terrifying power.

The grinding disc was a hundred feet wide, threads of the true meaning of the Dao permeated it, and within it, strands of astonishingly powerful spear light emerged.

Crack! Crack!

The headless corpse, three stories tall, waved its six arms instinctively, but before the hundred-foot Water-Fire Grinding Disc, it was nothing more than a slightly larger stone.

"No—" The fear of life and death made Shenrong Chong's entire soul tremble; despair even gradually drowned him completely.

But with his heads unable to fully recover, no amount of methods could be deployed quickly.

Suddenly, Shenrong Chong flipped his hand, and a Golden Dao Talisman appeared in one of his arms.

"Not good!" Lei Zhan's pupils constricted. The talisman was only the size of a palm, but the terrifying power it radiated made even Lei Zhan feel alarmed.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" Lei Zhan's eyes turned bloodshot instantly. Deep within his flesh and blood, the Star-Plucking Divine Patterns surged frantically across his six arms, each hand brimming with heaven-shaking might.

At the same time, the massive Water-Fire Grinding Disc, under Lei Zhan's control, spun wildly to crush and annihilate everything. Combined with the Star-Plucking Hand divine ability, Shenrong Chong's arm, which was clutching the Golden Dao Talisman, was the first to be smashed into powder.

With a flick of his mind, Lei Zhan snatched up the Golden Dao Talisman, which radiated terrifying power, in a split second.

Having his arm smashed was merely the beginning. Immediately following that, Shenrong Chong's entire divine body of flesh and blood was ground down and annihilated.

With an unstoppable momentum, Shenrong Chong's tough divine body was quickly ground into fly ash.

Shenrong Chong was dead!

"Whew!" Lei Zhan slowly let out a breath, and he immediately retracted his Law of Heaven and Earth and Three Heads and Six Arms divine abilities.

With a wave of his sleeve, he gathered up the magic treasures and valuables left behind by Shenrong Chong, along with the three Divine Demon Blood-Refined Divine Weapons.

"Having used the Star-Plucking Hand divine ability in succession, my divine power is now less than thirty percent of its peak..." Lei Zhan sensed the divine power circulating within his body, his expression turning grave. "Thirty percent—it can support me in using the Star-Plucking Hand at most six or seven more times..."

Although using the Star-Plucking Hand in tandem with Three Heads and Six Arms had been incredibly exhilarating just now, the consumption of divine power was immense. In just a single breath of combat, nearly fifty percent of his divine power had been depleted.

Of course, the effort was worth it. Had he not unleashed his full power, no one could have known what might have happened had Shenrong Chong crushed that Golden Dao Talisman.

Lei Zhan scanned his surroundings quickly, his gaze lingering for a moment on a patch of clouds and mist far away.

"The commotion during the fight with Shenrong Chong was too great; I fear it has already spread quite far."

"Time to go!"

A Dragon-Head Great Ship appeared out of thin air. Lei Zhan boarded the magic treasure at once, turning into a streak of light and vanishing from this sea area.

Whoosh~~~

Only a moment later.

High in the sky, the space rippled.

Above the sea surface, which had just calmed slightly, a cultivator in purple robes suddenly appeared.

"This Lei Zhan... he actually killed a disciple of the Shenrong Clan?" The purple-robed cultivator stood high in the sky, his eyes flickering with a faint golden light.

He scanned his surroundings, a trace of shock on his face.

As an intelligence officer for Tianbao Mountain tasked with verifying information in the field, he had seen many battlefields left behind by cultivators.

These intelligence officers of Tianbao Mountain all practiced special ocular techniques. Although they were not like the Celestial Immortal ancestors who could thoroughly understand a scene through time regression, these unique ocular techniques were equally capable of gathering a vast amount of intelligence.

He had seen the terror of Lei Zhan.

"A cultivator who practices the Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Map at the ninth level can generally only rival the early stage of the Myriad Phenomena realm in the God and Devil Body Refining Path. Yet, this Lei Zhan actually relied on his own strength to kill a disciple of a major clan who was at the late stage of the Myriad Phenomena realm in the God and Devil Body Refining Path."

"This Lei Zhan must undoubtedly be a disciple of Immortal Juhua!" the purple-robed cultivator whispered softly.

"This intelligence must be transmitted back to Tianbao Mountain immediately!"

Street-Pavement Diary II

Sigh~~~ The street-pavement author sighs.

The new book's performance is poor. I just learned that even getting into the second round of recommendations is a bit of a stretch. If nothing unexpected happens... I guess this is as far as it goes.

As for writing, I will still write as usual. I'll try to keep up three chapters a day if I can! And then, I'll just completely slack off.

However, compared to those who didn't get a contract, I am already very lucky. I am very grateful for the support of my brothers; at least you let me drift on the new book list in the fantasy category for a few days.

New book... please keep reading!