The moment the words left his mouth, the gray, deathly light engulfed the entire dense forest.
The wind has stopped.
Birds and beasts cried mournfully, and insects fell silent.
All sound returns to nothingness.
The light was distorted, dim and murky, and the whole world was shrouded in a deathly gray.
This is not a domain, yet it is more bizarre than any domain.
The scent of decay and end materialized, pressing in from all directions.
Countless vicious murmurs shrieked deep within Su Yu's mind, tearing at his soul.
The vegetation withered and turned to ashes at a rate visible to the naked eye.
The solid rock showed signs of decay and was crumbling from the inside.
Divine Soul Purgatory.
The Divine Mystic Realm Fifth Level Peak of the Profound Realm.
In mid-air, the old woman's figure emerged from the gray mist.
Her pure black fox eyes reflected Su Yu's figure, filled with cruel pleasure.
She wanted to watch this little beast's soul be crushed, his life force stripped away, and he ultimately become a perfect shell at her mercy.
However, in the next instant...
The pleasure on her face froze.
At the center of "purgatory," Su Yu still stood upright.
The impact, powerful enough to crush Mystic Realm soul, failed to alter his expression in the slightest.
How is that possible?
A strong sense of unease rose in the old woman's heart.
The instant the thought arises.
Buzz--
A dazzling golden light suddenly erupted from Su Yu's body!
A set of ferocious armor, in gold and black and covered with mysterious patterns, emerged from beneath his skin and covered his entire body!
[ Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor ]!
Golden power of will, black Sha Qi!
The moment the armor was completed, a sacred and vast Buddhist aura and the ancient, suppressing Sha Qi of the black iron merged and erupted!
Golden Buddhist light formed a barrier, enveloping Su Yu.
The pervasive gray death energy, upon contact with the Buddha's light, emitted a "sizzling" sound and was rapidly purified as if ice and snow were melting!
Su Yu's body was three feet wide, forming a pure land of its own!
Amidst the swirling gray fog outside, he remained steadfast and unmoved.
"Buddhist vows... Mystic Iron Essence... What kind of armor is this?!"
The old woman screamed, her voice filled with incomprehensible horror.
Her [ Divine Soul Purgatory ] was the nightmare of all Body Refinement artists; her mental attacks were simply too much for the physical body to withstand.
But this armor actually contains the power of the Buddha to suppress all evil!
Natural nemesis!
Su Yu looked up, calmly gazing at the old woman in mid-air through the Buddha's light and gray mist.
That's it?
Two simple words, yet they were like the loudest slap in the face.
"You little beast, you're asking for it!"
The old woman was completely enraged; shame, anger, and murderous intent drove her mad.
She suddenly clasped her hands together, and the Kumu cane floated in front of her, into which she poured her gray divine power without reservation.
"Refine!"
A roar.
The entire [ Divine Soul Purgatory ] contracted violently, and all the deathly energy condensed into sharp arrows, chains, and ghostly claws, bombarding the golden Buddhist light on Su Yu's body!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The dull thuds of impact continued incessantly.
The golden Buddhist light flashed intensely, rippling outwards. The " Tribulation-Delivering Runes " on the [ Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor ] shone brightly, dissipating more than 90% of the impact.
However, the furious outburst from the Mystic Realm Fifth Level Peak still caused Su Yu's blood and qi to surge.
Simply relying on defense will eventually lead to exhaustion.
It must be a fatal blow!
A murderous intent flashed in Su Yu's eyes.
His right hand slowly rose, pointing towards the sky.
The old woman, who was frantically channeling her divine power, suddenly froze.
A fear originating from her very soul gripped her heart.
She suddenly looked up.
Above the [ Divine Soul Purgatory ], the gray sky had been replaced by a deeper, more ominous, pitch-black tribulation cloud.
Amidst the calamity clouds, all was deathly silent.
An aura of pure "end" and "destruction" leaked from the depths of the clouds.
This aura...
The old woman's pure black fox eyes shrank to their smallest size.
"This is?"
This scene felt somewhat familiar to the old woman; she recalled what she had witnessed when she arrived near Nanhe County.
At that time, she thought it was some powerful figure in the Mystic Realm Late Stage casting a thunder spell.
It was because she witnessed that scene that she chose to wait outside Nanhe County for a whole night, only daring to show herself after Su Yu and the others left the city.
Thunder magic is clearly effective against demons, especially those who specialize in Spirit Refinement powers.
"No... impossible... how could you...?"
The next moment, fear overwhelmed her reason, and she couldn't even form a complete sentence.
escape!
We must escape immediately!
This thought became her only instinct.
However, Su Yu did not give her any chance.
" Baleful Intent Lightning."
A cold, majestic voice emanated from the golden light of Buddha.
" World Annihilation!"
Tear--
The sky was pierced by a pitch-black crack.
A jet-black lightning bolt, thicker and more solid than the one in Nanhe County, fell Soundless from the clouds of calamity.
It ignored the [ Divine Soul Purgatory ], ignored space, and directly locked onto the old woman's collapsing soul!
"No--!"
The old woman let out the most piercing and desperate scream of her life.
The thousand-year-old Soul-Nourishing Wood cane in front of her Soundless turned to dust the moment it touched the black lightning pillar.
Immediately afterwards, the jet-black lightning that represented "the end" completely engulfed her hunched body, along with her soul that had existed for hundreds of years.
There was no explosion.
There was no shockwave.
There was only absolute silence.
The old woman's body and soul disintegrated and vanished inch by inch under the dark lightning.
However, Su Yu frowned slightly at this moment.
The system notification tone did not sound, which meant that the old woman was not dead.
At that very moment, in the area that was about to be completely obliterated by the Baleful Intent Lightning, an extremely faint gray dot of light tore through space at an incredible speed and shot off into the distance!
It was the severely injured old fox demon!
At this moment, her aura was extremely weak, and her divine sense, which Mystic Realm Fifth Level, was also rapidly declining!
"Want to leave?"
Su Yu's armor dissipated, lightning flashed beneath his feet, and he activated the [ Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon Steps ] to its maximum, transforming into a bolt of lightning as he chased after the fleeing enemy.
He wasn't about to let go of the Slaughter Points that were about to be his.
However, the old fox demon used her divine sense to lift it up, ignoring the terrain, and her speed was astonishing.
It disappeared into the horizon in the blink of an eye.
Su Yu chased after them for several miles, but seeing the distance between them widening, he finally stopped.
The inability of the Mystic Realm Body Refinement martial artist to fly is a weakness he cannot ignore.
He stood in the ravaged forest, watching the lingering soul disappear into the horizon.
The clouds and gray fog dissipated, and sunlight shone down once more.
There was no trace of annoyance on Su Yu's face.
He closed his eyes.
In his perception, a Law of Destruction aura unique to [ Sha Lightning Destroys the World ] was firmly imprinted on that wisp of escaped remnant soul.
That aura, like a maggot clinging to bone, torments one for eternity.
Unless a master of lightning magic intervenes, this injury is incurable.
If she wanted to delay her death, she had only one choice.
I'll come back to him.
Su Yu slowly opened his eyes, a cold smile appearing on his calm face.
He wasn't in a hurry.
The prey cannot escape.