The Jade Emperor Must Die
"Oh no, the Heavenly Thunder Pool has been spilled!"
Zhang Xuezhou had seen thunder rumble in the sky, but he had never seen thunder pour down from the sky like a river.
The immense power of heaven and earth had exceeded the scope of human understanding. For a moment, Zhang Xuezhou wanted to go directly into the void to escape the disaster, and abandon his physical body.
After all, Zhang Xuezhou was not afraid of physical damage. As long as his soul could survive, he could simply choose another artificially cultivated body to start over.
He even sensed Houtu's murderous intent once again. To Houtu, anything that did not conform to her judgment would inevitably be annihilated.
It wasn't until Zhang Xuezhou heard Hongjun's faint voice and Zhang Xuezhou's angry response that he realized this was the best possible outcome.
Houtu's control over the Void Heaven Palace was already very weak, and Hongjun was also very likely to have lost control due to the great distance, causing the Heavenly Thunder Pool of the Void Heaven Palace to go out of control.
According to the information Zhang Xuezhou obtained, the Heavenly Thunder Pool was not entirely a punishment, but rather fortuitous opportunity to temper the Demon Race race.
Those demons who survived gained extraordinary physical bodies, while those who couldn't turned to ash.
This selection process is ruthless, but it aligns with the Demon Race's belief that strength is paramount.
If you survive, you'll become a super monster; if you don't, you'll be eliminated.
When Zhang Xuezhou recalled the scenario predicted by Zhang Manqian, he couldn't help but steel himself.
Zhang Xuezhou, having entered the True Self Realm, did not complete his Technique Method. He couldn't copy the Realm Technique, but he had no problem copying the steps of fusing the Twelve-Zhang Golden Body Technique with himself.
The tilted Heavenly Thunder Pool is very large, but it will also allow him to quickly form a golden body.
"Rise!"
My mind was filled with countless thoughts, but most of them vanished in an instant.
Even before Zhang Xuezhou had a thought, his body was already instinctively responding.
"Xuanming, you can't accept defeat!"
When Zhang Xuezhou's body transformed into a golden form, fear appeared in Hu Yu's eyes.
The origin of the world and invincible regenerative power become insignificant in the face of such vast power of heaven and earth.
Hu Yu was filled with furious rage. He didn't understand anything about Donghua, but he had heard about the Four Saints.
This led him to conclude that the Great God Xuanming had found his roots and was seeking revenge. He was locked on and had no way to avoid it. The power of the world's origin was also surfacing occasionally, like a dried-up spring, which horrified Hu Yu.
He cursed angrily, only to feel his fur instantly burned off. The cloud wings that he had forcibly reattached to his body burst open, and his body exploded and then kept regenerating.
Intense pain surged through him, but what horrified Tiger Feather even more was that the very origin of his world had malfunctioned; if it couldn't recover, he would surely be reduced to ashes.
The current treatment is ongoing, but his limbs and mind have begun to feel numb.
As he groaned in agony while enduring this thunderous blow, Tiger Feather could only look at the other one.
As his gaze swept across, Hu Yu saw a golden body continuously growing, rising upwards amidst the torrents of lightning that seemed to crash down like a river.
"The Twelve-Foot Golden Body Technique, personally taught by the Jade Emperor Zhang Jian and Hongjun, you are doomed! No matter what method you use to attain sainthood in the Three Realms in the future, I will personally kill you!"
A wave of intense, clenched-teeth mental energy surged through him, and Demon Lord Hu Yu felt his numb mind begin to hallucinate.
He clashed with Zhang Xuezhou, but seemed to be drawn into a fight involving another, different entity.
Hu Yu didn't know any Jade Emperor Zhang Jian or Hongjun. He was just a cultivator who had obtained a heaven-defying fortuitous opportunity while pioneering a new world, and he was also a cultivator who wanted to ascend to a higher dimension and rush to the Great World. He knew nothing about the situation in the Great World.
Why am I so unlucky?
Tiger Feather couldn't resist this being; he even felt that his strength after ascending to a higher dimension was inferior to its opponent's.
The arrogance that once soared to the heavens now seemed like a mockery, and the higher-dimensional world that I had longed for did not seem as wonderful as I had imagined.
Tiger Feather's goal is to become a god and achieve eternity, and then explore the myriad mysteries of the world. He does not ascend to a higher dimension to become a grasshopper that can be easily crushed by others, nor would he ever become anyone's slave.
But reality dealt him a harsh blow.
Defeating the Xuanming God gave him a strange sense of confidence, but now he realized his own insignificance.
His full-force freezing whirlwind only covered a few hundred meters around him, at most a few miles in radius, nothing compared to the opponent's casual strike that could cover the entire city.
This wasn't even the world the other party lived in, and the distance between them was unknown, so the power they unleashed was certainly not at its peak.
Everything was within reach, yet they still failed at the last minute.
When Hu Yu was numb, he could only blame his bad luck.
"Hongjun!"
The mental fluctuations and clashes across the distance, the chaotic aftershocks of the heavenly thunder spreading everywhere, the explosion turning the black and gray world into a ghastly white, also illuminating the insignificance of everyone.
"Three zhang!"
"Five zhang!"
"Seven zhang!"
"Nine zhang!"
Zhang Xuezhou retraced his steps with remarkable speed.
The thunder in the Heavenly Thunder Pool is not ordinary lightning, but rather a powerful demonic force imbued with intense stimulation.
The body grows if it can withstand stimulation, and dies if it cannot.
As Zhang Xuezhou continuously promoted the growth of his physical body, he could even sense that the body's Poison Avoidance Instruction was constantly operating, seemingly eliminating various harms that were eroding his body.
As his supernatural Divine Ability, based on the Poison Avoidance Technique, continued to improve, he clearly enjoyed excessive benefits.
Regardless of the method of forceful advancement, any stimulation of growth that does not conform to his principles will inevitably be prevented.
After his physical body grew to the nine-zhang golden level, Zhang Xuezhou's rate of improvement slowed down rapidly. After all, there was no homework to copy for the nine-zhang level and above, and he really needed to tough it out.
Zhang Manqian's foresight into the future is indeed true; his current state is no different from what Zhang Manqian described.
But the thought of the Jade Emperor taking the blame made Zhang Xuezhou feel a little better while he was suffering.
It must be said that there is a reason why Cultivation Method should not be passed on indiscriminately.
At this moment, Zhang Xuezhou had already implicated the Jade Emperor with his Twelve-Zhang Golden Body Technique. If Hongjun were to intervene as well, it would be a logical loop, leaving the Jade Emperor with no way to defend himself.
"Houtu has finally left!"
As Houtu's angry voice faded into the distance, Zhang Xuezhou breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as Houtu does not control the Void Heaven Palace, they will not be subjected to continuous heavenly lightning strikes, but rather there will be an end to it.
Zhang Xuezhou didn't care whether Hu Yu could hold on; he just needed to persevere until he could get through the ordeal of the Void Heaven Palace.
This was destined to be an ordeal, far more difficult than what he had endured on the other side of the Lingxiao Palace's secret realm.
However, when his body could no longer withstand the force, Zhang Xuezhou would use the Lightning Avoidance Instruction to divert some of the energy away, preventing his golden body from exploding.
Heavenly lightning, golden body, and Lightning Avoidance Instruction formed a rather strange balance in him. While enduring the continuous all-round bombardment of heavenly lightning, his golden body continued to grow upward from nine zhang.
Like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, he grew a little bit every second until he reached a higher level of golden body.
In the dim light, Zhang Xuezhou sensed something forming within the golden body.
Like a seed sprouting and breaking through the soil, he even felt the rebirth of breaking through his initial cultivation realm.
It seemed as if a new door had been opened, and he vaguely sensed the path ahead.