Great Wilderness Imprisoning Heaven Finger

Deep in the mine tunnel, the stench of blood filled Lu Ze's nostrils.

Lu Ze sat cross-legged in the cavern. In his mind, the vast insights concerning gravity and suppression were condensing, compressing, transforming, and engraving themselves into his mind at an astonishing speed.

The progress on the panel finally broke through the last barrier.

[Derivation progress: 99%, 100%.]

[Ding! Year-spanning derivation complete. Great Wilderness Imprisoning Heaven Finger, incomplete first order.]

[Description: The Great Wilderness Imprisoning Heaven Finger originates from a supreme method of suppression from a higher dimension. It uses Dou Qi to condense the laws of gravity. With the descent of one finger,

all things are imprisoned. The current version is incomplete, allowing only one move: Imprison Heaven and Earth.]

The instant the stream of information faded, Lu Ze snapped his eyes open. Deep within his pupils, a gray, misty void seemed to flash past. This was not the keen edge of Sword Qi brought by the Grass Character Sword Art, but a more primal, more domineering power.

He seemed to see an enormous hand descending from the sky between heaven and earth.

The Great Wilderness had lain silent for countless ages, preserving this peerless ancient art through the dust of time.

Heaven and earth changed color, wind and clouds reversed their course, and a vast, ancient presence surged from the depths of nothingness, as though crossing endless ages from the primordial Great Wilderness to descend upon this place.

The Great Wilderness Imprisoning Heaven Finger consisted of five fingers. One Finger Imprisons Heaven and Earth.

It could make the void thunder and space shatter!

Lu Ze seemed to see a sky-supporting finger tearing through the curtain of heaven, covered in mottled, ancient Dao Patterns bearing the imprints of all beings in the Great Wilderness bowing in submission and the flourishing and withering of mountains and rivers.

The enormous finger stretched across the firmament, heavy as a mountain, as though an ancient divine emperor had raised his hand to imprison this stretch of heaven and earth.

The ground split apart, shattered rocks rose into the air, and all the surrounding Dou Qi was drawn in, forming chains that wound toward the enemy to constrain their form and seal their path.

"Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!"

Just then, a dull tremor came from deep within the mine tunnel.

An Iron-Armored Earth Dragon nearly ten feet long, its body covered in gray-brown scales, charged over, following the scent of blood.

An early Tier 2 Magical Beast, its defenses rivaled a Da Dou Shi's Dou Qi Gauze Robe. Ordinary blades could not even leave a white mark on it.

The Earth Dragon opened its bloody maw and lunged at Lu Ze with a nauseating gust of fetid wind.

He did not draw his sword. He merely raised his right hand slowly, held his index and middle fingers together, and pointed lightly at the charging Earth Dragon. "Imprisoning Heaven Finger."

The voice was so soft it was almost inaudible.

But in the next instant, the air in the mine tunnel seemed to freeze.

Three feet above the Earth Dragon's head, the void abruptly collapsed, and a translucent phantom finger as thick as a water vat condensed out of thin air.

Dou Qi shone over the enormous finger's surface. Rings of visible ripples in the air twisted wildly, as though even light had been warped by the pull of that terrifying gravitational field.

The enormous finger descended without a sound.

"Splat!"

An utterly muffled, dull thud rang out.

The rampaging Tier 2 Iron-Armored Earth Dragon did not even have time to scream.

The instant the enormous finger touched it, its hard scales, bones, and massive body were crushed from the inside out like a watermelon struck by an iron hammer, becoming a puddle of pulp pressed flat against the ground.

Only an enormous pit dozens of feet deep remained, its edges as smooth as a mirror.

At the bottom of the pit, a slightly deformed Tier 2 Magic Core lay pressed into a pool of blood, all alone.

Lu Ze withdrew his fingers and drew a deep breath, sensing that more than half his Dou Qi had been drained in that instant.

"Using it against Tier 2 Magical Beasts now really is like using an ox-cleaving blade to kill a chicken.

"It's just like the Grass Character Sword Art, though. The Dou Qi consumption is far too great."

Then he took out pills to replenish his Dou Qi.

The core of the Grass Character Sword Art was cutting, while that of the Great Wilderness Imprisoning Heaven Finger was crushing. One ignored defenses; the other ignored size.

With the two moves combined, Lu Ze was certain no one at his level could harm him in the slightest.

Several hours later, daylight blazed at the mine tunnel's exit, the sunlight dazzling.

Jia Lie Shan sat on a large rock with one leg crossed over the other, holding a bowl of cheap liquor and chatting and laughing with two trusted subordinates beside him.

"Counting the hours, that good-for-nothing must have been in there for five or six hours by now, right?"

Jia Lie Shan gulped down some liquor, his face full of gloating delight.

"The Iron-Armored Rock Rat Pack in the Grade Bing mine tunnel could strip half the skin off even a Dou Shi who went in.

"A Two-Star Dou Zhe? He's probably already been hacked apart until not even bone fragments remain."

"You're wise indeed, young master!" the subordinate on the left said with a flattering smile.

"Once Lu Ze dies, we'll have an answer for the clan leader.

"Then you can claim credit with the Great Elder, and the resources of the Grade Jia Courtyard..."

"What's Grade Jia worth?" Jia Lie Shan snorted smugly.

"Once the matter of the South City Mine Vein is settled, I, Jia Lie Shan, will be the foremost of the family's younger generation. Then..."

His words suddenly caught in his throat.

At the entrance to the mine tunnel, a youth dressed in coarse hemp clothing walked out unhurriedly, stepping over the scattered stones.

Sunlight fell on the youth's face, clean and calm.

Even his clothes were not damaged in the slightest.

Jia Lie Shan's bowl fell to the ground with a crack and shattered.

"Lu Ze?" Jia Lie Shan sprang to his feet, his eyes nearly bulging from their sockets.

He instinctively peered into the mine tunnel.

But the tunnel was empty. Never mind corpses-he could not see even a single drop of blood.

"How could you still be alive?" Jia Lie Shan's voice changed pitch.

"Where's Xiao Ning? Where's Xiao Ning? Where is he?"

Jia Lie Shan demanded urgently, only to realize afterward that he should not have asked that.

But he still could not believe it-or perhaps had to believe it. Xiao Ning, the Xiao Clan's Three-Star Dou Zhe, had probably really met with disaster inside the mine tunnel.

Still, this was a great thing for their Jia Lie Family. Lu Ze remaining alive, however, was no good thing for Jia Lie Shan.

Lu Ze stopped about ten paces from Jia Lie Shan.

He looked at Jia Lie Shan's two Four-Star Dou Zhe subordinates, then at Jia Lie Shan's twisted face, which was frightened and furious yet still had to wear a smile.

His tone was as flat as though he were discussing something utterly trivial:

"Xiao Ning is already dead."

"What?"

Jia Lie Shan shuddered all over.

"I've already killed him, along with the five people he brought.

"Xiao Ning counted as a deacon of the Xiao Clan, didn't he?

"I've completed the task Clan Leader Jia Lie gave me."

Deathly silence.

The two subordinates behind Jia Lie Shan exchanged a glance, each seeing towering waves of shock in the other's eyes.

Xiao Ning was a Three-Star Dou Zhe with five elite fighters, yet a Two-Star Dou Zhe had actually wiped them all out.

"Bullshit!" Jia Lie Shan snapped out of it.

"You really killed them?

"Wonderful! With a genius like you in our Jia Lie Family, heaven truly smiles upon us!"

Then he placed his hand behind his back, signaling them to strike.

The two Four-Star Dou Zhe gritted their teeth, drew their long sabers, and unleashed the Dou Qi within them, lunging at Lu Ze from the left and right.

Several hours had already passed, and Lu Ze's Dou Qi had long since recovered to its peak.

He was even considering whether to use the Grass Sword Art.

Or should he use the Great Wilderness Imprisoning Heaven Finger?

Then he slowly raised his right hand, and a visible ripple in space began to condense above his index finger.

At this, the two subordinates were instantly dumbfounded.

Space?

That thought flashed through their minds, but it was already too late.

"Imprison!"

The enormous phantom finger descended out of thin air.

This time, rather than targeting just one as he had with the Iron-Armored Earth Dragon, Lu Ze suspended the enormous finger overhead.

A terrifying gravitational field enveloped a radius of a hundred feet.

Before the two Four-Star Dou Zhe could even touch the hem of Lu Ze's clothes, their bodies were slammed into the ground as though struck viciously by an enormous invisible hand.

"Crack! Crack!!"