Great Desolate Imprisoning Heaven Finger!

Immediately afterward, a crisp cracking sound abruptly rang out in the quiet Arena.

Everyone's eyes widened as they stared into the air.

At the center of the giant Yuan Power hand Lin Langtian had casually formed, where it met Lin Dong's fist.

A hairline crack had actually appeared.

The crack spread rapidly, covering the entire palm in the blink of an eye!

"Break!"

With Lin Dong's low roar.

The lightning radiance on his fist surged once more.

Boom!!!

That giant Yuan Power hand, bearing the pressure of the advanced Qi Creation Realm and powerful enough to crush a small mountain.

Was forcibly blasted into a skyful of Yuan Power fragments by Lin Dong's punch, before the utterly horrified eyes of hundreds of thousands of spectators!

The shattered light fluttered down like a shower of radiance from above the Arena Stage.

The fierce winds dispersed.

Lin Dong still stood as straight as a javelin in the center of the Arena Stage.

He slowly withdrew his fist, the arcs of lightning on his body gradually fading, his breathing not even the slightest bit quicker.

Silence.

Throughout Lin City's enormous Arena, with its hundreds of thousands of people, even a pin dropping could have been heard at that moment.

The Lin Family's Inner Clan elders in the stands were so shocked that they tore hairs from their beards.

In the Qingyang Town branch family's seating area.

Lin Zhentian and his son Lin Xiao stared blankly at that completely unscathed figure on the Arena Stage.

Their mouths hung wide open, tears lingering in their eyes; they had even forgotten to cry.

"He... he blocked it?"

"Dong'er shattered Lin Langtian's attack with one punch?!"

Even Lin Xiao's voice trembled. The violent shock of rising from hell to heaven in an instant left him barely able to stand.

Meanwhile.

On the Douluo Continent, everything instantly erupted like a pot of boiling water.

The gamblers who had just been waving banknotes, waiting to count their winnings, were all dumbstruck.

"Fuck! How is that possible?!"

"Isn't he some poor country boy? How could he block an attack like a god's?!"

"Rigged! This is definitely rigged!"

Countless people who had lost everything cursed wildly in the streets.

On Shrek Academy's training grounds.

The rational, disdainful expression on Tang San's face froze completely at that moment.

He felt as though someone had slapped him hard across the face, leaving it burning with pain.

"That's impossible..."

Tang San stared fixedly at Lin Dong in the screen of light, his breathing becoming extremely rapid.

"The gaps between cultivation realms in that world are so huge. How could he cross such an enormous gulf through physical strength alone?"

"What kind of body-refining cultivation method is that? It actually makes him a hundred times tougher than my Mysterious Jade Hand!"

Towering waves surged through Tang San's heart.

The Hidden Weapons and Tang Sect Secret Arts he took such pride in seemed as laughable as toys made of paper before the sheer violence Lin Dong's punch had just displayed.

In a rear courtyard in Lin City.

The venomous smile on Yu Xiaogang's face also froze completely as he lay beside the sewage ditch.

He rubbed his eyes, unable to believe what he had seen.

That youth who had refused his tactical guidance, whom he had declared would not last a single move.

Had actually relied on himself to blast apart that so-called main family's genius's attack with one punch?

"This... this defies reason..."

Yu Xiaogang swallowed a mouthful of saliva that tasted of feces, a trace of doubt arising for the first time about his "invincible theories."

And in a corner of the Arena.

Hu Liena, who had just inwardly dismissed Lin Dong as worthless and prepared to seduce Lin Langtian.

Was now as dumbfounded as a wooden chicken.

She watched the youth in green robes bathed in that shower of light on the Arena Stage, her beautiful eyes filled with complicated emotions and shock.

"He... he can actually contend with a monster of that level?"

Hu Liena bit her red lip, a powerful surge of regret immediately welling up within her.

Had I just picked the wrong side?

On the Arena Stage.

Lin Dong brushed the dust from his clothes, slowly raised his head, and looked at Lin Langtian on the raised platform again.

"Cripple me with one move?"

An undisguised sneer curled Lin Dong's lips.

"Lin Langtian, it seems that over these ten years, apart from learning to sit up high and put on airs, your strength hasn't improved at all."

"If these are all the tricks you have today."

"Then I'm afraid I'll be collecting the debt you owe my father today, principal and interest alike."

Lin Dong's voice carried clearly throughout the entire Arena.

On the raised platform.

Lin Langtian's handsome face, originally so aloof that he seemed untouched by mortal affairs.

Finally showed an almost imperceptible trace of darkness upon hearing Lin Dong's mockery.

He slowly lowered the hands held behind his back, a nearly tangible killing intent gradually rising in his star-bright eyes.

"No wonder you dared come to Lin City and run wild. So you're relying on a decent body-refining martial art you've cultivated."

Lin Langtian gave a cold laugh.

He finally abandoned that lofty posture and stepped forward, walking straight down through the air from the stands dozens of meters above.

As though an invisible staircase supported his body, he slowly descended onto the obsidian Arena Stage as leisurely as if strolling through a courtyard.

The moment Lin Langtian's feet touched the ground.

The Heaven and Earth Yuan Power surrounding the entire Arena Stage let out an uneasy humming.

"Lin Dong."

Lin Langtian stared at the youth before him, condescension in his eyes.

"You've successfully angered me."

"That attack was merely a casual gesture to send a beggar away."

"Since you want to see how I've cultivated over these ten years."

"I'll grant your wish."

As his words fell, Lin Langtian slowly raised his right hand.

Hum!

A terrifying surge of Yuan Power, countless times stronger than before, instantly poured wildly from his body.

In his palm, that immense Yuan Power rapidly gathered, actually transforming into a giant Yuan Power seal covered in profound runes and exuding an ancient, timeworn aura!

The moment the giant seal appeared, even the surrounding space faintly distorted.

A ferocious aura that made people's scalps prickle instantly enveloped the entire Arena Stage.

[Martial Universe martial art: Great Heavenly Phoenix Seal!]

[One of the Lin Clan's finest Creation Martial Arts, powerful enough to collapse mountains and split the earth!]

The captions beneath the sky screen appeared again.

At the sight of the giant seal in Lin Langtian's hand, radiating an aura of destruction.

The clamor throughout the Arena instantly vanished, and everyone held their breath.

Even Lin Zhentian and Lin Xiao in the Qingyang Town seating area, whose hearts had only just settled, felt them leap into their throats again.

Lin Langtian was getting serious!

On the Arena Stage.

Feeling that terrifying pressure bearing down on him, Lin Dong's gaze turned utterly sharp as well.

He slowly spread his hands, the Origin Pill within him revolving furiously.

"Getting serious, are you..."

"Perfect. I also want to see just how much you, the main family's so-called greatest genius, really amount to!"

Boom!

As Lin Langtian slammed his palm downward.

The Great Heavenly Phoenix Seal, radiating its destructive aura, transformed directly into a dazzling mass of light dozens of zhang across.

The mass of light twisted wildly in midair, actually taking the form of a gigantic energy heavenly phoenix that spread its wings and cried out!

"Screee!"

A phoenix's cry capable of piercing metal and splitting stone resounded through the clouds.

Bearing terrifying pressure powerful enough to shatter mountains, that energy heavenly phoenix plunged like a falling meteor toward Lin Dong in the center of the Arena Stage.

Everywhere it passed, even the air was forcibly compressed until it burst, producing a string of deafening sonic booms.

"Creation Martial Arts..."

The Lin Family's Inner Clan elders in the stands all wore grave expressions and could not help drawing sharp breaths.

"That child Langtian actually used the Great Heavenly Phoenix Seal right away?"

"It seems he intends to erase that branch family brat outright with the most thunderous methods, establishing his authority."

"Ah, for that Qingyang Town brat to force Langtian to strike ruthlessly, his death will at least have been worthwhile."

To every member of the Inner Clan, once a Creation Martial Art appeared, this so-called challenge was already over.

Advanced Qi Creation Realm cultivation, combined with a top-tier Creation Martial Art.

Never mind a branch family youth-even a veteran expert of the same level would have to avoid its edge!

On the Arena Stage.

The violent wind pressure sent Lin Dong's black hair streaming wildly behind him.

He raised his head slightly, his pitch-black eyes fixed on that diving energy heavenly phoenix.

Not only was there not the slightest retreat on his youthful face, an utterly frenzied ruthlessness rose upon it instead.

"Creation Martial Arts?"

"Lin Langtian, do you think you're the only person in the Lin Clan who knows any?!"

Lin Dong abruptly drew a deep breath, his hands suddenly forming an ancient, unwieldy seal before him.

Hum!

The instant he completed the hand seal.

The Heaven and Earth Yuan Power above all of Lin City actually began to boil, as though answering a summons even more overbearing than the Great Heavenly Phoenix Seal!

A vast, ancient, terrifying aura, as though it had crossed over from the primordial wilderness.

Swept from Lin Dong's body like an awakening, peerless Ferocious Beast!

"What is this aura?!"

Feeling that sudden, boundless pressure, the expressions of several Lin Clan supreme elders at the very top of the stands changed dramatically, and they shot to their feet.

Before they could react.

Lin Dong had already stamped heavily on the ground, brought his right index finger into alignment, and pointed through the air at the energy heavenly phoenix above.

"Great Desolate Imprisoning Heaven Finger!"

"Half a finger shatters mountains and rivers!"

Rumble!!!

As Lin Dong's thunderous low roar fell.

The void above the Arena Stage actually shattered like a fragile mirror, splitting open into an enormous spatial rift.

Immediately afterward, a Heaven-Supporting Giant Finger a full hundred zhang in size, dark yellow throughout and covered in countless ancient, timeworn runes.

Crushed its way straight out of that spatial rift like a heavenly pillar capable of piercing the firmament!

The moment that ancient giant finger appeared.

Lin Langtian's fiercely advancing energy heavenly phoenix was forcibly halted in midair.

"What?!"

On the raised platform, Lin Langtian's originally indifferent expression finally changed completely at that moment.

His pupils abruptly contracted as he stared at that ancient giant finger.

Never in his dreams had he imagined that a useless branch family member he regarded as an ant could unleash a Creation Martial Art even more terrifying than his Great Heavenly Phoenix Seal!

"Break!"

Lin Dong gave no one any time to react.

He jerked his finger upward.

That ancient Heaven-Supporting Giant Finger, carrying the ultimate violence that could shatter mountains and rivers, slammed straight into the energy phoenix.

BOOM!!!

The giant finger collided with the heavenly phoenix.

There was no flashy stalemate.

Before the utterly horrified eyes of hundreds of thousands of spectators, the Great Heavenly Phoenix Seal that Lin Langtian took such pride in, the instant it touched that ancient giant finger-

It was as though it had struck an unshakable primordial divine mountain.

Crack! Crack!

Sharp cracking sounds rang out in rapid succession.

That haughty energy phoenix was actually crushed from head to tail by the ancient giant finger, reduced to specks of light that filled the sky!

"Impossible!"

Lin Langtian roared, his body jolting violently as he staggered back two steps.

And although the ancient giant finger that had crushed the heavenly phoenix had dimmed considerably, it still carried its remaining might as it pressed straight down toward Lin Langtian in the stands!

"How dare you, brat!"

Just as the giant finger was about to press down on Lin Langtian-

The two supreme elders of the Lin Family in the stands could finally sit still no longer.

Both struck at once, their tremendous Yuan Power forming two enormous shields in front of Lin Langtian.

Bang!

The giant finger slammed into the shields and exploded.

The violent shock wave forced even those two supreme elders half a step back, while the aftershocks left Lin Langtian's hair disheveled, making him look quite bedraggled.

Silence.

Every last disciple of the Lin Family's Inner Clan gaped, staring blankly at the blue-robed youth on the Arena Stage, who still held his finger extended.

He had broken it.

Not only had he broken Lin Langtian's Creation Martial Arts, he had even forced the supreme elders to intervene personally just to keep Lin Langtian from disgracing himself in front of everyone!

How was that possible?!

In the seating area for the Qingyang Town branch family-

Lin Xiao's legs gave out, and he collapsed into his chair.

He looked at his son, shining with boundless brilliance on the Arena Stage, and tears streamed down his face like a flood bursting through a dam.

He covered his mouth to keep himself from crying aloud, but his shoulders shook violently.

Ten years.

For ten whole years, he, a father, had been trampled beneath Lin Langtian's feet like a dog.

Today, his son had used the most domineering means to deliver a resounding slap to Lin Langtian and the entire Lin Family's Inner Clan, right before the whole Great Yan Dynasty!

Meanwhile-

On the Douluo Continent.

Every gambling den had fallen utterly silent.

Those who had bet on Lin Langtian killing his opponent in a single move failed even to notice their money pouches dropping to the floor.

They stared at that ancient giant finger in the screen of light, feeling their legs go weak.

On the grounds of Shrek Academy.

Tang San stared at the screen of light, his face as white as paper.

"What level of martial arts was that...?"

"A single finger could actually tear through space?"

Tang San unconsciously swallowed.

Among the Tang Sect Secret Arts he took such pride in, was there anything that could compare with an attack like that?

No!

Even if he cultivated the Mysterious Heaven Skill to its highest level, even the strongest hidden weapon in his possession, the Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus, would be nothing but a joke before such pure destructive power!

If I were facing that finger...

Tang San simulated it in his mind.

The result was that the Purple Demon Eye he took such pride in would be blinded instantly, and his hidden weapons would be ground into iron powder by that wind pressure before they could even get close to his opponent.

As for the Twin Martial Souls he took such pride in, before such absolute power, he would not even have a chance to release them!

The worldview Tang San took such pride in began to develop irreparable cracks beneath this single finger of Lin Dong's.

And below the stands of the Arena-

Hu Liena, hiding in a corner, now had both hands pressed tightly against her chest.

She gazed at that slender figure on the Arena Stage, his back like that of a god of war, her breathing as rapid as though she had just run a marathon.

"He won. He actually broke that Lin Langtian's technique..."

There was no longer the slightest hesitation in Hu Liena's eyes.

All that remained was an almost overflowing fervor and a sick obsession.

This is the man I've been looking for!

To hell with Spirit Hall, to hell with the Supreme Pontiff!

As long as I can latch on to him, as long as I can become his woman, who in this world would dare touch a single hair on my head?!

Hu Liena bit her red lip, her gaze at Lin Dong already filled with naked possessiveness.