"Brat, whoever you are, you must die today!" Elder Wu Chen's voice was hoarse, filled with towering rage.
In the very next instant, two rays of light erupted simultaneously from Wu Shuang and Wu Chen.
Boom! Boom!
Wu Shuang and Wu Chen both pushed their strength to its limit. They were already at late radiant body strength, and in their fury, they unleashed unprecedented spiritual power.
The light of their spiritual power dimmed even the sky!
At that moment, there seemed to be three suns in the sky!
Yet this was not what shocked everyone most. What truly stunned the cultivators came afterward!
Wu Shuang and Wu Chen were clearly exerting themselves, yet they remained kneeling in midair, utterly motionless.
No one had expected their eruption of strength to amount to loud thunder and little rain!
Refusing to accept it, Wu Shuang and Wu Chen continued pouring out more spiritual power, straining with all their might to rise in midair.
Yet things went against their wishes. They had given it their all, but nothing changed in the slightest.
Crack... crack...
A grating sound rang out, and soon, some cultivators realized that it was actually the sound of bones breaking!
Beneath the setting sun, Elders Wu Shuang and Wu Chen knelt in midair, their faces flushed crimson and their legs grotesquely bent, clearly under immense pressure.
Even so, they did not give up. Through continued effort, they gradually managed to rise halfway.
All the cultivators could not help holding their breath. The sight was so surreal that many could not believe it was real!
Two late radiant body realm experts had actually been suppressed to such a state!
"Not bad, not bad. Keep trying!" On the other side, Lin Yu watched the two men who refused to concede and clapped as though encouraging them. Then he gently turned the Primordial Compass in his hand.
"Two thousandfold spiritual power pressure!"
Boom! Boom! After two thunderous crashes, Elders Wu Shuang and Wu Chen were flattened against the void.
One thousandfold spiritual power pressure had already required their full strength to resist, let alone two thousandfold!
By now, Wu Shuang and Wu Chen were no longer stubborn. There was even a trace of fear in their eyes as they looked at Lin Yu's figure!
"Who exactly are you?!"
"How can you possess such strength?!"
Their voices trembled as they lay prostrate in the void, looking up at Lin Yu's illusory image.
Lin Yu did not answer their questions. His slender fingers reached toward the Primordial Compass beside him again.
By now, Elders Wu Shuang and Wu Chen had lost all their earlier arrogance, and both wore expressions of fear.
"Wait! Hall Master of the Primordial Hall, please show mercy! We brothers know our mistake now. Please stay your hand and leave us a way to live!"
"My eighth brother is right. We are elders of the Supreme Sword Sect. After this encounter, we are willing to forge an eternal alliance with the Primordial Hall and promise never to turn our blades against you!"
Wu Shuang and Wu Chen spoke in turn.
Unfortunately, Lin Yu was not tempted in the slightest by their proposed terms. Without the slightest hesitation, his fingers moved the Primordial Compass again!
Boom! Boom!
"Three thousandfold spiritual power pressure!"
Wu Shuang and Wu Chen naturally could not hold out in the void. By now, they had long since lost any ability to fight back, and they did not even have the strength to beg for mercy.
As the three thousandfold spiritual power pressure descended, Wu Shuang and Wu Chen both spat blood. Their bodies, tempered many times over, were also on the verge of collapse, with repeated cracking sounds coming from within.
Only then did Lin Yu speak unhurriedly. "The Primordial Hall's rankings are impartial. We will never form an alliance with any individual or faction."
"But if anyone strikes first to provoke us, the Primordial Hall will never let them off lightly!"
"This is the consequence."
As his final words fell, Lin Yu turned the Primordial Dial again.
This time, it was five thousandfold spiritual power pressure!
"You bastard, stop!"
Just as the pressure was about to descend, a furious voice rang out from the horizon.
Boom!
The heavens were cleaved open out of nowhere. A sword radiance a thousand feet tall emerged from within and charged straight toward Lin Yu.
Lin Yu's gaze did not change. Yet the seemingly overbearing sword radiance abruptly veered just before it touched him, wrapping around Wu Shuang and Wu Chen like two supple willow branches.
"Hmph." Lin Yu snorted coldly, leaning against the back of his chair without budging.
The five thousandfold spiritual power pressure descended all the same!
The supreme sword intent amounted to nothing before Lin Yu. In an instant, the pressure pierced through it and killed Wu Shuang and Wu Chen outright.
The radiant body realm experts of a moment ago turned into two clouds of blood mist in the blink of an eye. Heaven and earth hummed, and faint sounds of weeping could actually be heard.
This was a phenomenon that only appeared when an expert fell. For some unknown reason, it had appeared today for two radiant body realm cultivators.
"Hall Master of the Primordial Hall, you're courting death!"
The voice on the other side of the rift was now filled with fury. Countless sword lights broke through the heavens and condensed into a gigantic blood-colored sword in the void, pointing straight at Lin Yu.
For a moment, heaven and earth lost their light, as though only a crimson sword remained. Lin Yu's gaze was icy as his fingers brushed the Primordial Compass again!
"You refused the toast, so drink the forfeit! Ten thousandfold spiritual power pressure!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Successive waves of spiritual power erupted. Waves of azure light shone from the Primordial Compass and collided head-on with the crimson blood sword. At first, they were evenly matched, but the battle gradually tilted in favor of the azure light!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Another wave of spiritual power erupted. The azure compass still had strength to spare, but the red blood sword had already lost its luster. With a slight tremor, it turned into a fine rain of blood.
Victorious in a single stroke, the azure compass drew in its light and began to sway gently like a flower petal.
Lin Yu's gaze seemed able to pass through the rift and land directly on the Supreme Sword Sect's sect master. His eyes were cold. "I will say this one last time. Anyone who dares provoke the Primordial Hall will not be spared!"
With that, Lin Yu's figure vanished into thin air, leaving only the pattering rain of blood to prove that everything that had just happened was no illusion shared by the cultivators.
All the cultivators who had wanted to watch were now kneeling on the ground, silently looking in the direction where Lin Yu had disappeared.
On the other side of the rift, the flesh on the Supreme Sword Sect master's face also quivered. This time, not only had he lost two elders, but the Supreme Sword Sect had also lost face. It truly pained him.
"Hmph, a mere Primordial Hall dares oppose the Supreme Sword Sect! The day we emerge will be the day the Primordial Hall is destroyed!"
Unfortunately, the Supreme Sword Sect master had barely finished his threat when he felt an intense pressure, one that was especially familiar to him.
"This is-no!" The Supreme Sword Sect master turned to flee, but it was already too late. The pressure bore down on him, blanketing heaven and earth!