The Loneliness of a Genius!

"Rumble!"

The space around Great Demon Qijing trembled slightly, and he felt as though something had fixed its gaze on him. He instinctively took a step back, only to see Lin Yunji's figure suddenly appear.

"You!"

Seeing Lin Yunji face-to-face made Great Demon Qijing's heart jolt, and fear appeared in his blood-red eyes. "You... how could you possibly command the Space Principle?!"

In the Primordial World, the Principles were no more than these.

Time was supreme, space was sovereign! Strength was the highest, fate the most benevolent!

Anyone capable of comprehending the power of the Space Principle between heaven and earth had become a mighty figure in their own right!

Just like those renowned figures: Dijiang, foremost of the Witch Clan's Twelve Ancestral Witches, and the hollow willow Ancestor Yangmei, one of the three thousand Chaos Heaven Demon Gods.

They were powerful beings who had comprehended the Space Principle and commanded its power. For them, crossing a thousand miles took no more than the snap of a finger, while a single thought could create turbulent spatial currents out of thin air. They could even tear apart the void and shatter space!

It was no wonder Great Demon Qijing was terrified in the face of such formidable power!

Facing Lin Yunji made him realize the gap between them all the more clearly. He had no chance of defeating him!

"Brat! If you dare lay a hand on th-me today, you'll face the Demon Race's unending vengeance! You... aren't you afraid of the Heavenly Emperor and Eastern Emperor's wrath?" Gripped by fear, Great Demon Qijing no longer dared put on airs. He retreated without leaving a trace as he roared, using his voice to bolster his courage.

He invoked the names of Heavenly Emperor Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi, hoping to make Lin Yunji wary and free himself from his current predicament. After all, he had not cultivated bitterly for thirty thousand years just to come here and die today!

"Buzz!"

Lin Yunji, however, had no desire to pay him any attention. He formed Hand Seals with one hand, and a hum echoed between heaven and earth, as though some power had been stirred.

In the blink of an eye, Great Demon Qijing felt as though even the air around him had stopped moving. He was clearly standing in midair, yet the sky seemed impossibly far away, while the ground now resembled an endless abyss!

Space had actually been locked down!

Every hair on Great Demon Qijing's body stood on end. Boundless killing intent locked onto his true body, and heaven and earth were no longer a place where he could roam freely. Instead, they had become a natural prison. The air seemed to turn solid, pressing in from every direction and squeezing his true body.

"Rumble!"

A thunderous rumble rang out. Violet-gold lightning, like divine thunder from the nine heavens, seemed to pour down from the void. It churned and intertwined, crossing boundless space before adhering to the walls of the spatial prison around him.

Feeling the terrifying pressure radiating from the violet-gold lightning, Great Demon Qijing could no longer stand calmly in place. His eyes nearly split open, and his ferocious face was filled with despair.

"No-"

He roared wildly, but his voice was confined within the spatial prison, barely carrying a few steps away.

Great Demon Qijing screamed madly, driving the Law Power in his body to its limit. The several small worlds on his back all manifested as well, but their light and shadows were confined. Even as they swelled, they were squeezed into the space, looking absurd and laughable.

The demons in those small worlds all revealed their true forms. Flames, ice, foul water... He desperately unleashed every powerful attack he could muster, but the spatial prison still stood there in the distance, as though it had suffered no impact at all. It did not even tremble!

All his efforts against the spatial prison were like eggs thrown against a rock!

"Bang!"

In but an instant, Great God Qijing watched in despair as his true body was slowly crushed by space. His furious roars gradually turned to pleas, then to final curses, but no one could tell what he was saying, for even his voice was sealed away!

At last, his flesh was silently crushed into a cloud of bloody mist, shattering in the void.

Great Demon Qijing's Primordial Spirit slipped out of his body and stared venomously at Lin Yunji, but in the next moment, it too was utterly pulverized!

Who could have imagined it!

Demon God Qijing, the great demon king who was one of the Heavenly Court's Ten Great Demon Gods, had been wiped out just like that!

"He was so damn noisy!"

Lin Yunji looked at the bloody mist still firmly confined within the spatial prison and raised his brows. The disgust in his voice was completely undisguised. "He started yapping the moment he got here and never stopped. Was his mouth rented? Was he in a hurry to give it back?"

Muttering to himself, he released the Hand Seal with his right hand. As soon as the spatial prison vanished, the bloody mist spread through the void, filling the air with a pungent stench of blood.

Lin Yunji waved a hand, summoning a fierce wind to blow it away.

[Beep! The system has detected that the host exceeded the requirements of the random mission-kill Demon God Qijing. System reward: Cultivation Points x200000!]

[Beep! The system has detected that the host obtained 200000 Cultivation Points. The Secret Method "Heaven and Earth Furnace Cauldron" will automatically extract fifty percent, or Cultivation Points x100000. The host currently has Cultivation Points x100000!]

Suddenly, two system notifications sounded in Lin Yunji's mind.

What?

Great Demon Qijing was clearly the one who came rushing over to take revenge on me. How did it become a random mission?!

That's fucking random, all right!

"This piece of trash came rushing over to make trouble for me, and even after dying, he had to drag me into a huge increase in cultivation!"

Lin Yunji looked around and saw that not even a trace of Great Demon Qijing remained between heaven and earth, which made him feel even more stifled.

However, Lin Yunji smiled again after hearing the second system notification.

He was immensely grateful that he had previously obtained the Secret Method Divine Ability "Heaven and Earth Furnace Cauldron." The system had directly extracted half his Cultivation Points and given them to the Secret Method. Otherwise, even with a reserve of five hundred thousand, it would not have been enough for the system to squander!

It could also be called a blessing in disguise!

"Whoosh!"

Lin Yunji could not linger any longer. He flashed through space and landed beside Lady Nüwa.

She knew Lin Yunji was tremendously powerful in battle, which was why she had remained where she was without intervening. Even so, she had not expected Lin Yunji to finish him off with a casual move.

"That fellow was also an Early-stage Daluo Golden Immortal, just like you," Lady Nüwa said. "I didn't expect you to kill him so easily!"

"You really are someone who has comprehended the three thousand Principles. Little Jade Bamboo, you're incredible!"

Even with Lady Nüwa's breadth of knowledge, she could not help exclaiming in heartfelt admiration.

After all, she knew very well that in the vast Primordial World, there was no one else like Lin Yunji, who was nearly invincible against those at the same realm!

As everyone knew, the higher one's realm, the greater one's margin for error. Moreover, most powerful cultivators at high realms had exceptional Law Treasures to protect them, so their means of preserving their lives were plain to see. How could they possibly be killed with a casual move just like that?

Time and again, Lin Yunji revised her understanding of the Primordial World. Truly, there was always someone stronger, and cultivation had no end!

"That lunatic, um... I mean Great Demon Qijing, nearly pissed himself the moment he saw my Space Principle..." After saying this, Lin Yunji felt it was too vulgar and not quite proper to say in front of Lady Nüwa.

So he coughed lightly a few times and started again. "He lost his fighting spirit outright just now and even made several mistakes with his incantations. Less than thirty percent of his strength remained, so it was no accident that I could destroy him body and soul so easily!"

Hearing Lin Yunji speak so freely in front of him, Lady Nüwa merely blushed, yet she also felt closer to him. She stole a glance at Lin Yunji, only to hear him continue, "Of course, he would have been very difficult for me to deal with at full strength!"

"Difficult?"

Lady Nüwa burst out laughing. She did not believe him for a moment!

"What? You'd have trouble dealing with a mere Early-stage Daluo Golden Immortal demon?" She fluttered her long eyelashes, her beautiful eyes brimming with amusement. "Why do I get the feeling that if you went all out, you could even fight a Late-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal?"

Lin Yunji looked back at Lady Nüwa with a deliberately troubled expression. "Now that you mention it, I suddenly feel I was being far too modest!"

"What am I to do? I'm outright invincible against anyone at the same realm! I suppose this must be the loneliness of a genius!"

Lady Nüwa had been wondering what he was about to do with that expression on his face. Who would have thought those words would follow? She was so amused that she could not stop laughing.

"Hehehehe, Little Jade Bamboo, your skin has grown much thicker again!" Lady Nüwa's laughter was light and pleasant to the ear. She shook like a flowering branch, her pretty face flushed from laughing, and looked utterly delectable.

Seeing Lin Yunji staring at her, she suddenly straightened her face and shot him a coquettishly angry glare. "But don't forget, Great Demon Qijing was one of the Demon Race's Ten Great Demon Gods, personally appointed by Dijun and Taiyi. You must be extremely careful in your dealings lately! Don't give those people a chance to take advantage of you!"

"So?" Lin Yunji's eyes shifted, and he could not help looking Lady Nüwa up and down.

His gaze made Lady Nüwa uncomfortable all over, and she could not help raising her brows. "Whatever you want to say, just say it!"

"Then I'll say it!" Lin Yunji nodded in agreement, then changed the subject. "He had Dijun and Taiyi backing him, but I have a powerful backer too!"

Seeing the confusion in Lady Nüwa's eyes, Lin Yunji teased, "She seems far away at the edge of the heavens, but she's right before my eyes! Lady Nüwa, it's you! Would you be willing to be my powerful backer and let me cling tightly to your thigh?"

"Pah, what are you talking about?!" Lady Nüwa spat at him and snorted. "Who said you could cling to my thigh? Do you think my thigh is so easy to cling to?"

After saying that, she too felt something was amiss. Then she saw the culprit laughing nonstop beside her and glared fiercely at him.

But she had already made up her mind.

"As long as I'm here, Little Jade Bamboo, no one will dare touch you, not even a single hair on your head!"