novelTele Chapter 296 The entire audience went mad with fear! The abyss was revealed; this was no human being!
Chapter 296 The entire audience went mad with fear! The abyss was revealed; this was no human being!
"boom--!!!"
A colossal pillar of purple-gold lightning, imbued with the destructive power of a mid-level Spirit King's furious attack, slammed fiercely into the dragon head of the five-colored warship.
In the square, many timid female cultivators had already covered their eyes.
However, the horrific scene of the ship sinking and people dying that was expected did not occur.
"hold head high!"
The earth dragon, which was perched at the bottom of the ship, merely raised its eyelids lazily, and the thick layer of earthy yellow divine light on its body shone slightly.
That was an absolute defense emanating from the Earth Mother's Qi.
"Bang."
A muffled thud.
The lightning pillar, powerful enough to shatter mountains, was like an egg smashed on granite, not even causing a ripple, and shattered directly into countless arcs of electricity that dissipated into the air.
Even the tattered lantern hanging at the bow of the boat, with the words "Bean Fairy" written on it, only swayed twice and didn't fall down.
"..."
The entire room fell silent.
In mid-air, the figure that was rushing towards the warship, wrapped in lightning, suddenly stopped, abruptly halting fifty meters in front of the warship.
The newcomer was a middle-aged man wearing a purple-gold robe with thunder patterns. His face bore a seven-tenths resemblance to Lei Wuji, but at this moment, his dignified face was filled with astonishment and anger.
Lei Lie, the deputy head of Lei Ling Hall.
Level 46, Mid-level Spirit King.
He stared intently at the earthen dragon, his eyes twitching wildly.
That's... the Breath of Earth?!
This wasteful thing uses the legendary Breath of Earth as the hull of a ship?!
"Vice Hall Master Lei."
Lu Sheng stood atop the dragon's head, still holding the half-eaten spirit fruit in his hand, looking down at Lei Lie with a cold gaze as if he were looking at a moth that had no sense of its own mortality.
"Your nephew just brought me two appetizers. What, are you in such a hurry to die too?"
"You arrogant brat!!"
Lei Lie was so angry that he was trembling all over, and his finger pointing at Lu Sheng was shaking.
Fellow practitioners!
Lei Lie suddenly turned around and roared angrily at the onlookers from various forces in the square below. His voice was filled with grief and indignation and echoed throughout the entire Kunlun Heavenly Gate.
"These wicked creatures of Ascension Island are cruel and bloodthirsty!"
"On his way to Kunlun, he intercepted my Thunder Spirit Hall's flying boat without cause, brutally murdered two Spirit King protectors, and even tortured my nephew Wuji to death!"
"Such demonic behavior is tantamount to challenging the order of the entire True Sea!"
"If this vile villain is not eliminated today, what fairness will remain in the Holy Land Grand Competition?! What rules will remain?!"
These words were spoken with tears streaming down his face, each word dripping with blood.
Whoosh—!
The crowd erupted in chaos.
"What? Those two protectors of the Thunder Spirit Hall are dead?"
"Even Lei Wuji was killed? My God, he was one of the top geniuses of our generation!"
"That's too ruthless... Everyone's here to compete, is it really necessary to go to such extremes?"
Public opinion instantly shifted in favor of the "victim," Lei Lingtang.
at the same time.
Within the crowd, several auras that had been gathering momentum erupted in perfect unison.
"Brother Lei is right! This boy is too violent; he cannot be allowed to live!"
An old man carrying an ancient sword and exuding a sharp aura strode out, followed by dozens of sword cultivators dressed in purple.
Purple Cloud Sword Sect!
"Hmph, my young master Jun Yiran of Tianhai City was also ruined by this brat!"
On the other side, a group of cultivators dressed in sea-blue robes surrounded them with grim faces. The leader was an old woman with one eye, who slammed her cane heavily on the ground, exuding a chilling killing intent.
"A life for a life, a debt for a debt! An explanation is due today!"
Several second-rate sects that were affiliated with these major powers changed their tune quickly and unleashed their magical treasures, spreading out in a fan shape to completely block the retreat route of the five-colored warships.
In just a few breaths.
Above the white jade square, spiritual light soared into the sky, and a murderous aura spread like a net.
A total of seven or eight Spirit King Realm experts, along with hundreds of Spirit Sect and Spirit Master level elites, formed a terrifying encirclement capable of flattening a small sect.
At the edge of the square, those who remained neutral retreated, their eyes filled with schadenfreude and disdain.
"It's over."
Someone sighed softly, "Dengxian Island has incurred the wrath of the masses this time."
"This is what you call being unworthy of your position. A fallen family that has been declining for two hundred years, still wants to put on airs like others? Now look what's happened, they can't even get in the door and are about to be dealt with."
"With only two Spirit King Elders to back us up, how can we possibly compete?"
On the deck of a warship.
Li Xiaoyao's face was ashen, and the Qingfeng sword in his hand hummed, yet felt as heavy as a thousand pounds.
He glanced at the dense, hostile gazes around him, and felt a chill run through him.
This is a setup.
These people have no intention of reasoning with each other. They just want to use the pretext of "righteousness" to completely crush Dengxian Island right under Kunlun's nose!
"Lu Sheng..."
Luo Tianfei climbed out of the cabin, clutching her still throbbing ribs, her face pale as she looked at the scene: "What should we do? Should we give up on this competition?"
She may be arrogant, but she's not stupid.
In this situation, a direct confrontation would only lead to certain death.
"give up?"
Lu Sheng took the last bite of the fruit and casually tossed the pit into the air.
Snapped.
The fruit pit struck Lei Lie's protective aura precisely, bounced, and fell to the ground.
It is not very harmful and extremely insulting.
"Old man."
Lu Sheng ignored Luo Tianfei and the indignant enemies, and simply turned to Li Xiaoyao and said indifferently, "Stop the boat steadily, don't scratch my dragon."
Li Xiaoyao was taken aback: "What do you want to do?"
"What are you doing?"
A chilling smile curled at the corner of Lu Sheng's lips as he slowly pulled his hands out of his pockets.
"Since they say I'm a demon..."
"Wouldn't I be disappointing them if I didn't do what a villain should do?"
Boom!
Lu Sheng took a step forward, and his body fell directly from the hundred-meter-high dragon head.
There was no buffering action.
It was like a meteorite weighing hundreds of millions of tons, crashing straight to the ground.
"boom------!!!"
Baiyu Square trembled violently.
Centered on Lu Sheng's landing point, the finest white marble floor tiles within a radius of 100 meters were instantly reduced to dust.
Spiderweb-like cracks spread rapidly in all directions, like wildly growing vines, forcing the cultivators at the front of the encirclement to retreat in a sorry state.
The smoke and dust cleared.
Lu Sheng stood in the center of the ruins, patted the dust off his trousers, and slowly raised his head.
Those eyes were very dark, as dark as a night sky without stars.
However, there was no violent spiritual energy fluctuation around him, only a faint, grayish-white mist that silently seeped outwards from the soles of his feet.
That was "wilderness".
It is the end of all life.
"Who was it that demanded an explanation just now?"
Lu Sheng shifted his gaze, bypassing the clamoring henchmen, and locked it onto Lei Lie.
When Lei Lie was met with that gaze, his heart skipped a beat. It felt as if an ancient ferocious beast had its eyes on his throat.
But he was, after all, a mid-level Spirit King, and in front of everyone, how could he show weakness?
"It's me!"
Lei Lie stepped forward, his body crackling with lightning as he tried to dispel the oppressive atmosphere, and roared, "You wicked creature! The evidence against you for slaughtering your fellow cultivators is irrefutable. What else do you have to say?!"
"Evidence?"
Lu Sheng smiled.
He laughed so hard his shoulders were shaking, as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world.
"Does killing a few dogs require evidence?"
Lu Sheng raised his right hand and gently hooked his index finger.
"I'm standing right here."
"Those who want justice, those who want revenge, those who want to wag their tails and show their loyalty to those Kunlun lords..."
His voice wasn't loud, but it clearly penetrated everyone's ears, carrying an extremely arrogant provocation.
"Let's all come at him together."
"It saves me the time of searching for them one by one."
mad!
That's outrageous!
The entire audience erupted in uproar.
"You ignorant fool!"
The one-eyed old woman from Tianhai City was the first to lose her temper, slamming her cane down abruptly: "I will now deliver you from this world!"
"Do it!!"
Lei Lie's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and he stopped talking nonsense.
He keenly sensed something.
This Lu Sheng did not release any Dharma form from beginning to end.
Even when facing enemies several times his size, he simply relied on his physical strength to withstand the attacks.
Is he hiding his true abilities?
Or... does he have some unspeakable secret?
"No matter what you're hiding, you'll have to reveal your true form before absolute power!"
Lei Lie sneered inwardly, a recording stone appearing in his hand.
The order he received this time was not only to kill, but more importantly—to force Lu Sheng to reveal his trump card and record all his data!
"Purple Cloud Sword Formation, activate!"
"Raging tides of the heavens and seas, suppress them!"
"Thousands of thunders struck the sky!!"
Rumble—!!
For a moment, the sky above Baiyu Square was filled with colorful lights.
Flying swords rained down, ocean waves surged, and thunder destroyed the world.
The simultaneous attack of several Spirit Kings created such terrifying power that even caused tiny cracks to appear in the surrounding space.
Faced with this overwhelming and devastating blow.
Lu Sheng did not dodge.
He simply stood there quietly, watching the stream of light fall from the sky, a hint of disdain flashing in his eyes.
"Too weak."
He shook his head.
Deep within the spine, the nascent form of the "Desolate Heavenly Emperor" trembled slightly upon sensing its master's fighting spirit.
But Lu Sheng pressed it back down.
Such lowly fry are not worthy of the Emperor's attention.
"Human-Dragon Form - Activate!"
hum! !
Lu Sheng's skin instantly turned grayish-white, and layers of ferocious bone armor emerged from his body, enveloping him and turning him into a humanoid killing machine.
He did not use any spiritual energy.
With only the base force of 1350 tons after being tripled, he threw a punch at the densest rain of swords directly in front of him.
A simple, unadorned punch.
"Bang!!!"
The air exploded.
A visible white vacuum ripple, originating from the fist, spread wildly outwards in a fan shape.
Those flying swords, powerful enough to cut through gold and jade, were like fragile toothpicks in the face of this pure violence, snapping and breaking into pieces.
Then came the waves, and then the thunder.
They were all shattered by a single punch!
The force of the punch remained undiminished, striking the one-eyed old woman directly in the chest.
"puff--!!"
Before the old woman could even scream, she was sent flying hundreds of meters away like a rag doll hit by a train, crashing heavily into a white jade dragon pillar and instantly losing consciousness.
One punch, shattering all laws!
The entire venue fell into a suffocating silence once again.
Those second-rate forces who were originally preparing to rush up and beat the drowning dog stopped in their tracks, their faces pale and their legs weak.
monster……
This is a complete monster!
Lei Lie was also sweating profusely, and he almost dropped the recording stone in his hand.
What sequence of physical strength is this?
Even attacks from a Spirit King level couldn't break through its defenses?!
"What's wrong? It's not moving?"
Lu Sheng withdrew his fist, his gaze sweeping across the entire room, his tone icy: "Weren't you shouting quite loudly just now?"
He strode forward.
With each step forward, the besieging crowd retreated a step.
One man's power was enough to suppress hundreds of powerful figures, making them unable to raise their heads!
Who do you think you are?
Lu Sheng finally stopped in front of Lei Lie, his face covered in bone armor drawing close, his voice hoarse and low: "Just now, were you the one who shouted the loudest?"
Lei Lie felt a strong smell of blood and desolation wash over him, and his heart pounded.
But he cannot back down.
Behind them lies Kunlun Tianmen; if they retreat, Lei Lingtang will utterly lose face!
"Lu Sheng! Don't be so arrogant!"
Lei Lie gritted his teeth and roared, his voice trembling with fear, "This is the Kunlun Holy Land! Above us is the Haotian Demon-Revealing Mirror! Your cruelty and tyranny must be due to your cultivation of demonic arts! Let's see if you dare let the Demon-Revealing Mirror shine upon you!!"
He's gambling.
Lu Sheng dared not undergo the examination.
If Lu Sheng refuses, it will confirm his guilt, and when the Kunlun Law Enforcement Team takes action, no one can save him!
however.
To everyone's surprise.
Lu Sheng neither refused nor refuted.
He simply looked up and glanced at the enormous bronze mirror hanging above the Heavenly Gate, its light constantly flickering.
"Mirror?"
Lu Sheng's lips curled up slightly, revealing a set of gleaming white fangs.
"You want to see it?"
"Then I'll let you see as much as you want."
Before he could finish speaking...
Lu Sheng stopped suppressing the restless black energy within his body.
Those were the remnants of the "Abyss Demon Hand" that he had previously devoured, impurities that had settled in the deepest part of his dantian after being refined by the Five Elements Dragon Wheel.
Or rather, it was a little "seasoning" that he deliberately left behind.
"boom!!"
Within Lu Sheng's body, an aura as black as ink, carrying extreme chaos and evil, suddenly surged into the sky without warning!
This aura wasn't his true source, but to outsiders, it looked as if he was emitting black smoke from his entire body.
"Buzz—!!!!"
The Haotian Demon-Revealing Mirror, which had been in standby mode, seemed to have been subjected to some kind of intense stimulation.
On the mirror, the originally soft divine light instantly turned into a blinding blood-red alarm light!
A thick beam of light instantly locked onto Lu Sheng.
Everyone held their breath, staring intently at the enormous mirror.
All that could be seen was the smooth, water-like surface of the mirror.
What was reflected was not Lu Sheng's grayish-white bone armor body.
Instead, it was a twisted, enormous, terrifying shadow that drove people's sanity to the brink of madness.
There was no dragon head or human face in the shadows.
There's only one...
A gigantic demonic hand covered with countless black eyes and dripping corrosive black water from its fingertips!
Those eyes darted wildly in the mirror, staring intently at everyone in the square, as if trying to pierce through the lens and drag everyone's soul into an abyss.
"hiss--!!!"
The entire audience gasped, as if bellows were being pulled.
Lei Lie was so frightened that he fell to the ground with a thud, his face ashen white. Pointing at the mirror, he let out a terrified scream:
"The...abyss!!"
"He is a demon from the abyss!!!"
"Quickly! Quickly summon the elders of the Holy Land to suppress this monster!!!"
The square was in complete chaos.
Standing at the center of the storm, Lu Sheng looked at the reflection in the mirror that had terrified everyone, but his smile grew even brighter.
It even carried a hint of the satisfaction of a successful prank.
"You're scared already?"
Lu Sheng murmured softly, his voice revealing a hint of madness.
"The real show... has only just begun."