Chapter 1246: The Power of the Heavenly Dao
The oppressive pressure of a Divine Lord was absolutely terrifying, enough to overwhelm Divine Kings and Divine Sovereigns to the point of mental and physical collapse, making it extremely difficult to even move a finger, let alone struggle or resist.
Yet Yun Che reacted instantly, counterattacking in that same moment... showing no signs of being suppressed at all.
But, that was Luo Guxie's power. To anyone watching, his counterattack seemed as feeble and insignificant as a withered leaf beneath a hurricane.
The Thunder Dragon roared through the world, charging head-on into the storm. The moment the two forces collided, space shattered with an exaggerated violence. Then, under the utterly horrified gaze of everyone present... the Thunder Dragon tore through the storm, piercing straight through.
"What... what!?" This scene caused the jaws of countless profound practitioners to slam heavily onto the ground.
That storm was the power of a Divine Lord, and not just any Divine Lord, but a late-stage Divine Lord, one of the absolute pinnacles of the Profound Way. Particularly, to avoid harming Luo Changsheng, Luo Guxie had compressed the storm's power range, making it even more penetrating and lethal, absolutely enough to punch straight through a small star.
And yet it was torn apart... by a Thunder Dragon thrown by Yun Che!?
Even more terrifying was the fact that the torn storm force did not split into two streams to explode outward. Instead, as it was ripped apart, it dissipated layer by layer along with the piercing charge of the pale Thunder Dragon. By the time the pale Thunder Dragon had completely torn it apart, this storm force from Luo Guxie had vanished without a trace, not even leaving behind a shred of residual power.
Zhou Tian Shen Di and the Dragon God Emperor, who were rushing forward with all their might, both halted simultaneously, expressions of shock that hadn't been seen in ten thousand years appearing on their faces.
After tearing apart the storm force, the pale Thunder Dragon showed no sign of weakening whatsoever. Its speed remained swift as lightning as it charged straight at Luo Guxie... The latter had attacked in a rage, fully believing Yun Che would face certain death. She never could have dreamed such a thing would happen in a million years. Caught completely off guard, she was struck directly in the chest by the white Thunder Dragon...
Crackle!!
The pale thunder exploded. Luo Guxie's protective profound energy, the ultimate defensive force of this world, instantly shattered. A hole simultaneously blasted open in her chest and back as the pale Thunder Dragon pierced through her body, shooting straight into the sky and disappearing from everyone's sight in an instant.
BOOM
In the distant heavens, a ten-thousand-mile thunder domain erupted. Under the endless white radiance, a massive spatial black hole appeared. The entire Zhou Tian God Realm shook violently... it continued to tremble for several breaths before finally calming down as the white thunder light and spatial black hole vanished.
This scene was like the descent of heavenly might... and that pale thunder light was indeed the most terrifying form of heavenly might.
A gaping hole, a full half-foot wide, had appeared in Luo Guxie's chest. Her face was stiff, her gaze dim. She lowered her head bit by bit, staring blankly at the huge hole in her chest as if her soul had left her body...
Everyone's eyes were riveted to that hole... The world was deathly silent, eerily quiet.
PUFF!!
Blood gushed out like a fountain, quickly drenching half of Luo Guxie's body. Her pupils lost their luster as she plummeted straight down from the air.
"Gu... Guxie!!"
Luo Shangchen snapped awake as if from a nightmare, flying over to catch her... This esteemed Realm King of the Shengyu Realm actually stumbled as he rose, nearly falling flat on his face.
"Ah..."
"H-How... how could this..."
"Fairy Guxie... was actually... actually..."
Luo Shangchen caught the falling Luo Guxie, releasing all his profound energy, channeling it through her body, and carefully covering her terrifying wound.
Luo Guxie's pupils were unfocused in a way Luo Shangchen had never seen before. It was as if she had sunk into the most terrifying, most absurd nightmare, her entire aura rapidly draining away...
"Chang... sheng..." she murmured in a daze, her body shuddering before she fell unconscious.
"M-Master!" Luo Changsheng knelt trembling on the barrier, letting out a pained roar.
The Feng Shen Platform remained eerily quiet. The impact of everything that had just happened was almost as great as the world-shaking Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation.
Luo Guxie, one of the absolute pinnacle existences of the Eastern Divine Region, had suddenly attacked Yun Che, a junior who had just broken through the Divine Tribulation Realm and was less than thirty years old. Yet in return, Yun Che had shattered her storm with a single Thunder Dragon and dealt her a severe blow...
All the most absurd, unbelievable things they had seen in their entire lives combined couldn't compare to that single moment.
"It's the power of the Heavenly Dao... It's the Heavenly Dao power from just now!" Mo Yu, the foremost of the Tianji Three Elders, said tremblingly. "He actually... harnessed the power of the Heavenly Dao!"
The power Yun Che used to severely wound Luo Guxie was definitely not his own strength, but a trace of the Heavenly Dao Calamity Thunder that should have dissipated, which Yun Che had forcibly retained.
Master Mo Yu was correct, and not exaggerating. Although the time was short, he had indeed harnessed the power of the Heavenly Dao, and moreover, it was a strand of the highest-level Heavenly Dao power.
But what was the concept of "harnessing the power of the Heavenly Dao"? Those who didn't understand would be utterly bewildered, but anyone with even a slight grasp of it would feel their heart and soul shaken violently.
The various Divine Emperors exchanged glances, seeing the violent shock trembling in each other's eyes. Then, suddenly thinking of something, they simultaneously turned their heads to look at Yun Che.
Yun Che's expression was incredibly calm, as if he had just done a trivial little thing. The pale thunder light on his body had disappeared, and the aura that had made the Divine Emperors feel an inexplicable palpitation had also vanished.
With the pale thunder light gone, Yun Che's own profound energy aura was finally fully revealed.
"Divine Spirit Realm... Level Five?" Mu Bingyun muttered, slightly dazed.
"Divine Spirit Realm Level Five!? That's..." Zhou Tian Shen Di's brow furrowed deeply.
There were far too many astonishing things about Yun Che, so many that people had become numb. By now, anyone could tell Yun Che was definitely an anomaly who couldn't be judged by common sense. But the profound energy aura he was now revealing still shocked everyone greatly.
After a profound practitioner weathered the heavenly tribulation and broke through the Divine Tribulation Realm, their cultivation would naturally transition to Divine Spirit Realm Level One...
But Yun Che, who had just weathered the heavenly tribulation, actually possessed the profound energy aura of Divine Spirit Realm Level Five!
From Divine Tribulation Realm Level Nine, he had stepped directly to the middle stage of the Divine Spirit Realm!
This was a complete violation of the principles and common knowledge of the Profound Way, something that had never happened before!
"This kid... is far more than just a monster," Shui Qianheng murmured.
As the Realm King of Liuguang Realm, he was definitely among the top five existences below the King Realms of the Eastern Divine Region. But he didn't consider himself a match for Luo Guxie... yet he had personally witnessed the supposedly invincible Luo Guxie being severely wounded by Yun Che and falling unconscious to the ground.
He had attracted the Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation but not only survived; his injuries had fully healed, and his profound strength had jumped straight to Divine Spirit Realm Level Five...
Shui Qianheng frantically thought to himself: Is this a demon or a monster? A god or a ghost?
Definitely not human!!
"My god... Just what kind of monster did the Yin Xue Realm stumble upon..." Huo Rulie said, eyes wide.
"Severely wounding the number one figure of the Eastern Domain with one strike... Divine Spirit Realm Level Five..." Yan Juehai vigorously shook his head, unable to say another word.
Qianye Ying'er's chest rose and fell. She heaved a heavy sigh of relief at this moment, cold words spilling from between her lips: "This old witch nearly ruined my plans!"
Far away in the clouds, Mo Li's expression relaxed slightly. But she didn't look at Yun Che again. Instead, she quietly closed her eyes.
When the terrifying heavenly tribulation descended, if there was one person who wasn't worried at all that Yun Che would be buried under it, it was Mo Li.
Because she was the most familiar with the secrets on Yun Che's body.
What was the power of the Heavenly Dao? It was the most basic force of order and law within the chaos of space. Any object, any living being that existed within this chaos was under the control of the Heavenly Dao's power.
Not just the myriad things and beings of the present, but even the True Gods of the ancient era could not defy the Heavenly Dao.
But, there was one kind of existence that stood above the Heavenly Dao...
The Creation Gods!
The Heaven-Slaying God Emperor Mo E, the Order Creation God Xi Ke, the Life Creation God Li Suo, and the one who was once the Element Creation God, later the Evil God.
The Heavenly Dao would fear, would tremble, would spare no expense to send down the most extreme Ninefold Calamity Thunder to try and destroy Yun Che, all because a mere human actually possessed the power of a Creation God!
Mortals cultivating the divine path, merely touching upon it slightly, incur the Heavenly Dao's punishment, let alone the power of a real Creation God!
If what Yun Che possessed was the power of any of the other three Creation Gods, even the strongest, the Creation God Emperor Mo E, he would surely have been buried under the calamity thunder... But as luck would have it, what Yun Che possessed was the power of the Evil God.
The Evil God was once the Element Creation God, possessing the most extreme and most primal elemental power in the world.
The Heavenly Dao was supreme, and the calamity thunder was on a level far beyond human reach... But it could never surpass the elemental power of the Evil God!
So, not to mention the Ninefold Calamity Thunder, even if it were nine hundred or nine thousand layers of pure calamity thunder, it could not harm a single hair on Yun Che's head.
On the contrary...
"The Great Dao Pagoda Art has broken through again..." Mo Li murmured. "In less than twelve short years, reaching the Fifth Realm... Big brother, he has completely surpassed... you back then..."
She didn't know whether to be happy or uneasy.
Under the Ninefold Calamity Thunder, his strength had soared, as if reborn. But he had also released a brilliance far, far too dazzling... a brilliance so intense that the world would never forget it.
And that meant... he was destined to never return to peace, never to safely return to Lan Ji Star.
Yun Che's Great Dao Pagoda Art had indeed broken through under the heavenly tribulation.
After breaking through to the Fourth Realm on the Primordial Mystic Ark back then, although the Great Dao Pagoda Art had been slowly increasing, enhancing his physical strength, there had been no qualitative change. In Lan Ji Star, he once thought it was a limitation of the plane, but even after arriving in the God Realm, he still couldn't find the opportunity for a breakthrough.
A long time ago, he had deeply felt that the Great Dao Pagoda Art had reached the bottleneck of the Fourth Realm. But over the past few years, no matter what he did, he couldn't break through.
When the Heavenly Dao Calamity Thunder came crashing down, the extremely high-level Heavenly Dao laws and Heavenly Dao spiritual energy immediately created cracks in the bottleneck of the Great Dao Pagoda Art that had stagnated for several years.
By the time the seventh layer of calamity thunder fell, the bottleneck was completely shattered, and he advanced straight into the Fifth Realm.
The Fifth Realm of the Great Dao Pagoda Art would no longer merely absorb ordinary world spiritual energy. It could truly absorb the aura of the Heavenly Dao!
Under normal circumstances, Heavenly Dao spiritual energy could be described as ethereal and thin. But within the Heavenly Dao Calamity Thunder, there was an extremely dense concentration of Heavenly Dao spiritual energy. The final ninth layer of calamity thunder, in particular, contained the highest level of Heavenly Dao power.
The newly born Desolate God power absorbed almost madly, pulling Yun Che's profound strength from the just-broken-through Divine Spirit Realm Level One all the way up to Divine Spirit Realm Level Five.
If the Heavenly Dao power hadn't dissipated, rising straight to the Divine King Realm would have only been a matter of time!
Yun Che raised his hands, took a slight breath, and felt the power within him. Every major realm breakthrough and improvement in the Great Dao Pagoda Art brought significant changes to his perception of the world. This double breakthrough had caused changes that could be described as earth-shattering.
The Divine Spirit Realm—after passing through the foundations of Divine Origin, Divine Soul, and Divine Tribulation, this was truly the first step onto the Divine Path.
Everything that had happened shocked everyone as if they were in a dream, and he himself felt the same way.
But now was not the time for him to be sentimental. Before him, the blood-soaked Luo Changsheng slowly rose, his body seething with an extremely violent aura of malevolence and murderous intent.
"Yun... Che..."
Luo Changsheng's voice was hoarse and dark, like a beast whose throat had been torn. The pale lightning on Yun Che's body had vanished, and so had the aura that made his heart tremble with fear. In its place was merely the aura of the Divine Spirit Realm.
It no longer gave him even the slightest feeling of oppression.
"I will make you... wish you were dead!!"