Li Qingshan neither dodged nor evaded, but soared into the sky, his fist striking directly at the thunder!
"Come!"
"Thump!!!!"
The fist collided with the lightning bolt, creating a deafening roar that shook the entire world!
Chaotic lightning exploded, transforming into billions of electric snakes that scattered in all directions, completely engulfing Li Qingshan's figure. The next moment, however, he burst out of the sea of lightning, his entire body bathed in electric light. Not only was he unharmed, but his aura became even more powerful and majestic!
"Happy!"
With a loud laugh, he deliberately plunged into the depths of the tribulation clouds!
This action ultimately enraged the heavens.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Five bolts of Chaos Thunder struck down simultaneously, each several times thicker than the previous one. Even more terrifying, within the lightning, the faint shadows of five ancient palaces appeared—the ruins of the Ancient Heavenly Court, inscribed in ancient legends!
" Ancient Heavenly Court Tribulation!" Blood Moon King's pupils suddenly contracted.
This is an unparalleled heavenly punishment recorded in the forbidden chapters of the divine scripture. Only extraordinary geniuses who defy the Heavenly Dao and have the potential to attain enlightenment will be triggered. Throughout history, only a handful of people have survived this tribulation, and even fewer have managed to walk out alive!
"This child must not be allowed to live!" Blood Moon King's killing intent boiled.
However, just as he was about to make a move, his expression suddenly changed drastically.
Li Qingshan, leading the five bolts of tribulation lightning that carried the phantom of the Ancient Heavenly Court, changed direction and charged towards the depths of Blood Moon Ridge, towards himself!
"Old man, catch it!"
Li Qingshan's voice pierced through the sea of thunder, carrying a hint of cold mockery.
"You!!!" The Blood Moon King was filled with shock and rage, but it was too late to escape.
Five Ancient Heavenly Court Tribulation lightning bolts, drawn by his aura, tore through the sky and crashed down upon him! Even more terrifying was that the laws of the heavenly tribulation had already locked onto him, drawing him into the tribulation domain as well!
"Damn it!" Blood Moon King roared, holding nothing back. His withered body suddenly swelled up, transforming into a ten-thousand-foot-tall blood-red demon god!
The demon god wore a blood crown and the Ten Thousand Souls Battle Armor, and held a scarlet spear forged from the spines of countless Saint. He aimed at the descending tribulation lightning and thrust the spear against the heavens!
" Blood Moon Heaven-Slaying Spear!"
"Boom,!!!"
The spearheads collided with the tribulation lightning, unleashing a destructive storm! Deep within Blood Moon Ridge, the Great Hall of Bones, which had stood for millions of years, collapsed in the storm. The thirteen newly awakened Saint-level Blood Puppets, before they could even unleash their power, were swept away by the aftershocks of the tribulation lightning and instantly turned to ashes!
"Pfft!" The Blood Moon King spat out a mouthful of Black Blood, his ten-thousand-foot-tall demonic body falling thousands of miles, carving a bottomless abyss into the ground.
He looked up at the sky, and a deep sense of fear finally flashed across his eyes.
Because of Li Qingshan's heavenly tribulation,
It's just begun.
"Boom!"
Calamity clouds surged, and the sea of thunder boiled.
The second wave of heavenly tribulation has arrived!
This time, what fell was not lightning, but a vast sea of stars! Billions of stars poured down from the tribulation clouds, each one a condensed beam of destructive divine light, crashing down on Li Qingshan and the Blood Moon King simultaneously!
"This calamity has come to this?" The Blood Moon King felt a chill run down his spine.
He tried to escape, but found that the entire Blood Moon Ridge space had been completely locked down by the laws of heavenly tribulation, leaving him nowhere to run!
" Li Qingshan! You've gone mad! You've triggered this cataclysmic calamity, and you yourself are doomed!" The Blood Moon King roared furiously, his voice shattering amidst the thunder.
From the depths of the Thunder Sea came Li Qingshan's calm response:
"Who will live and who will die is still unknown."
He actually went to meet the falling sea of stars, his arms outstretched as if to embrace this light of destruction.
"Swallow!"
As soon as he uttered the word, Li Qingshan's pores opened up, and he began to frantically devour the destructive power in the starlight! These tribulations, which were enough to annihilate even Saint, not only did not cause damage after entering his body, but were instead refined by the origin of his Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo, turning into the purest essence of heaven and earth, nourishing his physical body and tempering his soul!
His aura was rising at a visible speed!
"Monster, you are a monster!" The Blood Moon King trembled with fear, no longer daring to hold back in the slightest. He resolutely burned his ancestral blood, unleashing the Blood Moon Clan's supreme forbidden secret technique.
" Blood Moon Sacrifice, Ancestral Spirits Descend!"
The blood pool beneath his feet boiled violently, forcibly awakening countless dormant ancestral souls, which transformed into countless crimson runes that all entered his demonic body. His aura began to surge wildly, climbing from the early stage of Saint King all the way up, and he even briefly stepped into the peak of Saint King!
" Li Qingshan! Die!"
The Blood Moon King roared, and the spear in his hand, forged from holy bones, burst forth with a blinding blood light that swallowed the heavens and the earth. With a single thrust, the Void for thousands of miles collapsed, and the spearhead even pierced through the starlight, pointing directly at Li Qingshan's brow!
This spear, imbued with his life's cultivation and sacrificed for the ancestral soul power accumulated by the Blood Moon Clan over countless ages, possessed enough power to wound Great Saint!
Faced with this devastating blow, Li Qingshan finally stopped devouring the stars.
He turned around and looked at the crimson spearhead that was tearing the sky apart. A trace of solemnity flashed in his eyes, but what burned deeper within him was a boiling fighting spirit.
"Good timing."
He formed hand seals, and the Five Great Secret Realms within his body simultaneously erupted with divine light: the Sea of Bitterness, the Dao Palace, the Four Extremes, the Dragon Transformation, and the Immortal Platform. The five great Divine Treasures roared together, and finally all the power converged into his right fist.
Five-colored Xuanhuang Mother Qi Five-Colored Divine Light flowed endlessly on the fist, and a wisp of primordial energy coiled around it like a dragon, radiating supreme power to suppress all heavens and reverse reincarnation.
This punch was an invincible fist technique he created by integrating all his life's learning, combining the Wu Shi Emperor Scripture, the Jade Pool Ancient Scripture, and his own Dao.
"I possess a fist capable of suppressing mountains and rivers, severing the sun and moon, and reversing the cycle of reincarnation."
"This fist technique is named,"
" Eastern Exalt."
A punch is thrown.
The world lost its color.
Time and space lost their meaning in the face of this punch.
The Blood Moon King only caught a glimpse of a golden light as the Heaven-Slaying Spear, which he had unleashed with all his might, shattered like glass! Immediately afterward, the golden light pierced through his ten-thousand-foot-tall demonic body, bursting out from his chest and exploding into a Void black hole with a diameter of ten thousand miles behind him!
"Puff,!"
The Blood Moon King looked down at the huge hole in his chest, which was completely open from front to back, his eyes filled with a blank and empty look.
At the edge of the hole, flesh and blood were rapidly being annihilated; even the indestructible holy body of Saint King could not stop this fundamental destruction.
"What kind of fist technique is this?" he asked with difficulty, his golden pupils beginning to dilate.
"The fist that will kill you."
Li Qingshan withdrew his fist, stood with his hands behind his back, bathed in the dazzling light of the calamity, like a war god descending upon the world.
The Blood Moon King opened his mouth, but ultimately could not utter another word. His body began to disintegrate from his chest, the disintegration spreading rapidly. In less than three breaths, his ten-thousand-foot-tall demonic body was completely reduced to ashes, leaving not a trace.
Only the gleaming white skull-shaped wine glass remained, falling from the sky.
Li Qingshan reached out and caught it.
He looked down at the remaining bloodstains in the glass, remained silent for a moment, and then whispered:
"Rest in peace, senior."
"Today, I offer the blood of the entire Blood Moon Royal Clan to your spirit in heaven."
Bring your five fingers together.
"Click."
The skull goblet, stained with the eternal humiliation and bloodshed of humanity, turned into fine dust and scattered into the Void with the wind.
As one of the most ferocious royal families in ancient times, the Blood Moon Clan possesses unfathomable strength. Even though the Blood Moon King, who was the pillar of the heavens, has fallen, there were other Ancestor King in the clan who could have succeeded to the throne and maintained the clan's survival.
However, who could have predicted that Li Qingshan would arrive so quickly and with such ruthless methods? In just a few breaths, the five Ancestor King and the Blood Moon King were all killed, and all the Blood Moon Clan within the ancestral land had no power to resist and perished under the vast heavenly calamity.
"With the blood and tears of my human ancestors as a sacrifice, Blood Moon Ridge shall be utterly erased from the annals of history today!"
Amidst the overwhelming tribulation light, Li Qingshan's figure appeared both god and demon, his furious roar accompanied by rolling thunder that shook the entire world. He was no longer merely undergoing tribulation, but was using this supreme lightning punishment as a hammer and the entire Blood Moon Ancestral Land as an anvil to carry out the final judgment.
At the same time, the heavenly tribulation in the sky entered its final stage.
"Roar,!!!"
From the depths of the Thunder Sea came a roar that shook the entire universe.
Nine colossal thunder dragons, each a million feet long, emerged from the tribulation clouds, each radiating a terrifying aura comparable to that of Saint King! Even more terrifying, on the spines of each dragon stood a blurry Humanoid Lightning, some wielding Emperor Weapon, some suspending ancient mirrors, and some stepping on divine furnaces—clearly manifestations of the Dao traces of Ancient Great Emperor in their youth!
" Nine Emperors Tribulation,"
Li Qingshan took a deep breath, his eyes blazing with an unprecedented fighting spirit.
This is the true ultimate killing move of the Heavenly Tribulation, imprinting the peak Dao Fruit of nine Ancient Great Emperor in their youth for the final trial!
Throughout history, no one has been able to survive this calamity.
But Li Qingshan was not afraid. For him, such a tribulation was just a normal way to temper himself.
"Come!"
He roared, his figure soaring into the sky, and charged towards the nine thunder dragons!
This battle was so fierce that the heavens and earth trembled, and the sun and moon lost their light.
Li Qingshan fought a bloody battle, using his fists to directly confront the nine humanoid Humanoid Lightning of the Emperors. He was blasted down time and time again, but each time he surged back up. His physical body was constantly shattered and reassembled in the tribulation of lightning, every inch of his bone was repeatedly tempered by the lightning, and every drop of his blood was infused with the chaotic Dao light.
This is the cruelest trial, but also the most precious Fortune.
Three days later.
The last humanoid Humanoid Lightning was shattered by Li Qingshan's punch.
Above the nine heavens, the calamity clouds gradually dispersed, and strands of auspicious divine light pierced through the clouds and fell down. The great Dao's imperial decree resounded between heaven and earth, golden lotuses sprang from the earth, and celestial flowers descended from the sky.
Li Qingshan hovered in the Void, his body covered in wounds, yet his aura was more than ten times stronger than before!
Within his Sea of Bitterness, the Bitter Sea had transformed into a golden ocean, Life Spring gushed forth chaotic energy; within the Dao Palace, five deities solidified into tangible forms; the Four Extremes connected to the heavens, supporting the Four Extremes of heaven and earth; the Dragon Transformation Nine Changes, his spine awakened like True Dragon; on the Immortal Platform, the four-tiered Heavenly Ladder was about to be completed, and his primordial spirit sat cross-legged within, his countenance solemn and dignified, his divine radiance contained within.
Immortal Platform Third Heaven, perfect.
He has already stepped halfway into the realm of Saint.
He slowly opened his eyes and looked down at Blood Moon Ridge, which had been reduced to ruins.
Under the heavenly calamity, the Blood Moon Ancestral Land, spanning tens of thousands of miles, was completely leveled. All the blood pools dried up and collapsed, and the ancient killing arrays were annihilated. The entire clan, regardless of age or strength, perished in the sea of lightning.
This infamous Primordial Royal Clan, which had committed evil for hundreds of thousands of years, was wiped off the map on this day.
Li Qingshan stood silently for a long time before finally turning around and leaping into the air.
The figure in black disappeared into the Northern Region horizon, leaving only a whispered message that drifted away on the wind:
This is just the beginning.
On this day, the Northern Region was shaken to its core, and all races were alarmed.
Li Qingshan, the Eastern Exalt the Human Race, single-handedly stormed into the infamous ancestral land of the Primordial Royal Clan, slaying six Ancestor King of the Blood Moon Clan and even the Blood Moon King, a veteran Saint King. His audacity and ruthlessness far exceeded the imagination of all living beings.
What plunged the entire Northern Region into a state of deathly silence and turmoil was the outcome of that battle.
The Blood Moon King has fallen.
All six Ancestor King perished.
His grandson, Xuan Tuo, perished both in body and spirit.
The ancestral land of the Blood Moon Clan, which had been passed down for countless years, was reduced to scorched earth in the seemingly endless Chaos Thunder Sea, except for the scattered forbidden areas in the deepest part protected by the Great Saint Sage's array patterns. The entire clan was nearly wiped out.
"How could such a formidable Saint King have fallen? That Human Eastern Exalt hasn't even broken through to the Saint Realm; there's absolutely no way he could possibly defeat Saint King! It must be the ancient foundation of Jade Pool, wielding Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, that has made their move!"
The Northern Region was in complete uproar, and the Ancient Races were in an uproar. The death of the Blood Moon King was too mysterious and swift, and no one wanted to believe that it was the work of the Eastern Exalt. Even though he had crushed the Blood Moon Clan's ancient Kui Xing in front of the Five Fingers Mountain, there was an insurmountable chasm between an ancient king and Saint King. Even Ancient Emperor and Great Emperor in their youth could not have gone against the grain and attacked their superiors in such a way.
"It must have been Ancient Saint of the human race who intervened! And it must have been a terrifying being far superior to the Blood Moon King secretly intervened!" Almost all the speculations pointed to this theory. Otherwise, there would be no way to explain this illogical ending.
Although there are scattered rumors that Li Qingshan was seen undergoing tribulation at Blood Moon Ridge that day, people prefer to believe that Li Qingshan was just a pawn in the open, and that the one who truly annihilated the Blood Moon Clan was the terrifying Ancient Saint in the shadows, who might even be Saint King of the Heavenly King level. Only this fits their deduction.
The undercurrents instantly transformed into raging torrents. A suffocating storm gathered in the skies above the Northern Region, and the long-dormant war between the Ancient Saint seemed poised to erupt at any moment.
This is undoubtedly a monstrous wave that is about to sweep across the world.
Previously, Jade Pool Eastern Exalt's suppression of the Blood Moon Clan's Half-Saint had already stirred up a storm. Who knew that three months would pass quietly, and just when everyone thought the matter would be settled, a shocking event occurred, shaking the entire world: the Blood Moon Clan was actually annihilated by an unknown Ancient Saint!
This dramatic change far exceeded the expectations of the Primordial Myriad Races and even the major human powers.
This was an incredibly resounding slap in the face, a brutal blow to the faces of all the radical Ancient Races.
"How could they be so insane! That's the Blood Moon Royal Clan, with an endless lineage, yet they suffered such a annihilation right after their birth!"
"That was a hard slap! Look at those royal families who used to be so arrogant and looked down on humans, where is their face now? Who dares to say that our human race has no strong warriors!"
The world was in an uproar. Countless cultivators were dumbfounded, horrified and unable to believe this earth-shattering result. The radical royal families were even more caught in a brief moment of bewilderment and rage. They never expected that the human race's counterattack would be so fierce and so ruthless.
"Ancient Saint of Humanity! You are declaring war on my Primordial Myriad Races!" Soon, other royal clans' Saint King roared in fury, their grand Daoist voices carrying overwhelming holy might, rippling through the mountains and rivers of the Northern Region, "Secretly annihilating a royal clan and destroying its ancestral land, do you intend to turn the Eastern Wasteland into a land of mountains of corpses and rivers of blood once again?"
Faced with this roar that carried both righteous indignation and murderous intent, Jade Pool's response was more defiant and sharper than anyone had anticipated.
The voice was clear and cold, directly naming the most active and radical royal families in the Northern Region:
" Spirit Valley, Azure Ghost Clan, Purple Lightning Clan,"
Why bother barking and howling like a stray dog?
His words trailed off, but his killing intent surged like Heavenly Blade being drawn from its sheath, its cold light illuminating the Northern Region.
"Let's see whose blood will stain the Eastern Wasteland. Which of your races will be the next to perish?"
Strong, domineering, and fearless.
This was Li Qingshan's reply transmitted through Jade Pool.