# 757
Chapter 758: Thunder Beast Unleashed
Beneath Tokyo Tower.
The Disaster God's body blossomed into a dazzling fireworks display across the nearby night sky, scattering like a meteor shower into the metropolis below.
Lin Qiye's expression grew even more grave at the sight.
"It seems, now the only Oracle Envoy remaining is me." The Disaster God's face held no trace of anger anymore, instead resembling the depths of a tranquil abyss.
Ever since the destruction of Pure Land, the Disaster God knew that the Oracle Envoys were finished. Since that was the case, there was no point in maintaining any pretense of divine authority. Now, he had returned to what he was before the Mist descended—the chairman of the Pure Land Corporation, a capitalist yearning to touch the realm of gods.
When Yuzuri Takishiro appeared, he had believed he was close to witnessing that divine miracle...
But now, he understood. Humans were, after all, just humans.
"Don't worry. I won't kill you." Lin Qiye placed both hands on the hilts at his waist and spoke calmly. "As long as you remain alive, the Thunder Beast won't be activated. I will trap you forever within this Human Enclosure... until the arrival of destruction."
"Destruction?"
The Disaster God had no knowledge of the Oath Society's plans, nor did he know that Takamagahara's "Human Enclosure" had become the eye of the world's storm. In his view, the only threat facing the Human Enclosure now was simply Lin Qiye and his companions.
Lin Qiye shook his head, having no intention of explaining to the Disaster God. He instantly drew the White Slash and vanished into the void.
The surroundings fell into deathly silence.
The Disaster God's eyes narrowed slightly. No matter what means he employed, he couldn't locate Lin Qiye's position. He索性闭上双眼，静静站在原地，一动不动。索性闭上双眼，静静站在原地，一动不动。
A wisp of inky blade light slashed through the void, coming to rest before the Disaster God's throat.
Lin Qiye gripped the White Slash in one hand and the Black Rope in the other, his brow furrowed tightly.
"Why don't you dodge?"
"Why should I dodge?" The Disaster God coldly laughed. "That strike you landed with the five Magatsu Blades already destroyed most of my body. The other Oracle Envoys have all perished. Even if we continued fighting, I wouldn't be a match for you all...
Go ahead. Kill me.
Let me witness what kind of spectacle unfolds when the artifact spirit Thunder Beast destroys the world."
Lin Qiye gazed into the Disaster God's impassive eyes, his brow creasing.
"You're insane."
"No, I'm not insane." The Disaster God shook his head. "If you too had stood above all living beings, looked down upon them for a hundred years, witnessed humanity's cycles of rise and fall with your own eyes, you would also grow weary...
Humanity's world is too small, too meaningless.
Day after day, year after year, they eternally scramble for those laughable things—money, power, procreation. Like leeches, they are born wave after wave. Like ants, they drift through society. Those who lack something covet it; those who obtain it want more.
Though there truly are some exceptional individuals who crawl through this world of filth while holding onto their original intentions, what of it?
In mere decades, they still become a handful of yellow earth.
People are, ultimately, just that."
The Disaster God slowly raised his head, gazing toward the Thunder Beast crouching above the thunderstorm, and spoke calmly:
"For this century, I have grown weary. I no longer wish to witness this tedious human world, nor do I wish to continue living in such emptiness...
One cannot escape the sea of suffering until one becomes a god.
But the one thing I have learned over these hundred years is... that humanity, ultimately, has its limits.
Humans simply cannot become gods.
Since I cannot achieve godhood, there is no point in continuing to struggle.
At the very least...
I want to witness, in my dying moments, one more glimpse of that... divine might that lies beyond reach!"
As the Disaster God's words fell, a sharp gleam flickered in his lifeless eyes. He swiftly raised his right hand and pressed it against his own chest!
Lin Qiye's pupils constricted!
He reacted instantly, attempting to stop the Disaster God's movements, but several black prison bars shot up from the earth, dragging against his feet.
In that instant, the Disaster God's right hand pierced violently into his shattered body, snapping two deformed black steel ribs, and gripped the beating crimson heart within!
Then...
He crushed it with all his strength!
In that instant, the ring of light in his left eye contracted. Black prison bars erupted from the ground, piercing deep into the Disaster God's body, forming an inescapable cage that trapped him死死地。
鲜血喷溅而出，他的生机急速地消散！
他的心脏已经停止了跳动。
毫无生机的身体中，只有他的眼眸，依然明亮无比！
他的意识依然还在。
了断自己生命的瞬间，他用能力，给自己打造了一座囚禁灵魂的"牢笼"，短暂的维持住了自己的意识！
这座"牢笼"在囚禁了意识的同时，也锁住了他左眼中的自爆系统，眼球中的黑色光圈急速的消退，最终像是失去了电力供应的屏幕，彻底沦陷于黑暗。
正如他所说的那样，
他要亲眼见证神迹的降临。
Lin Qiye见此，脸色顿时阴沉了下来，他抬头仰望天空。
那匍匐于云层之上的雷兽，像是察觉到了什么，缓缓从云端站了起来。
它的眼眸扫过人间，那双漠然平静的瞳孔中，迸溅出刺目的雷光！
吼——！！！！
雷兽的咆哮声，回荡于天际。
……
"嘶！！！"
另一边，Baili Pangpang听到那来自于云端的吼声，身形一顿，倒吸一口凉气。
"你怎么了？"Cao Yuan已经退出了疯魔状态，将直刀插回鞘中，见Baili Pangpang色变，疑惑地问道。
Baili Pangpang抬头盯着那从云端上站起的深蓝巨兽，表情有些僵硬，他咽了口唾沫，有些沙哑的开口：
"糟了……它怎么要下场了？"
"谁？"
"那个器灵啊！"
Baili Pangpang指着即将从云端跳下来的雷兽，说道，"以前不管我怎么调戏它，它都躲在云上不动的，最多就往地上吐口口水……奶奶的，它怎么要从云上下来了？！
以前我没少抓它尾巴……它这要是下来了，估计第一个就要找小爷我算账！"
Baili Pangpang现在就是后悔，非常后悔。
他刚来到这个国家的时候，第一次动用禁墟就发现了雷兽的存在，不过在他发现雷兽竟然是一个器灵之后，事情就向着奇怪的方向发展了……
他的万物缴械，能够对八咫镜的器灵起作用。
虽然无法伤害到它，但是每当Baili Pangpang动用万物缴械的时候，就像是有一只无形的大手，突然拽了一下雷兽的尾巴，将对方气的暴跳如雷。
第一次的时候Baili Pangpang还有些收敛，但后来当他发现雷兽不会从云端跳下来之后，就变得逐渐放肆了起来。
Blood sprayed forth as his vitality rapidly faded!
His heart had stopped beating.
In the lifeless body, only his eyes remained brilliantly bright!
His consciousness persisted.
In the moment he ended his own life, he used his ability to construct a "prison" for his own soul, briefly maintaining his consciousness!
This "prison," while imprisoning his consciousness, also locked away the self-destruct system in his left eye. The black ring of light in his eyeball rapidly faded, eventually like a screen losing power supply, utterly succumbing to darkness.
As he had said,
He wanted to witness the descent of divine miracles with his own eyes.
Lin Qiye's expression darkened at this sight. He raised his gaze to the sky.
The Thunder Beast crouching above the clouds, as if sensing something, slowly rose to its feet from the clouds.
Its gaze swept across the mortal realm. In those impassively calm pupils, brilliant lightning erupted!
ROAR—!!!!!!
The Thunder Beast's howl reverberated across the heavens.
...
"Hiss!!!!"
On the other side, Baili Pangpang's body stiffened upon hearing the roar from the clouds. He drew a sharp breath.
"What's wrong?" Cao Yuan had already exited his Madness state and sheathed his Straight Blade. Seeing Baili Pangpang's face change, he asked in confusion.
Baili Pangpang stared at the deep-blue giant rising from the clouds, his expression somewhat stiff. He swallowed hard and spoke in a hoarse voice:
"Damn it... Why is it coming down?"
"Who?"
"That artifact spirit!"
Baili Pangpang pointed at the Thunder Beast about to leap down from the clouds. "No matter how I provoked it before, it always hid in the clouds and wouldn't move. At most, it would just spit at the ground... Damn it all, why is it coming down now?!
I used to grab its tail all the time back then... If it comes down now, it's probably going to settle scores with me first!"
Baili Pangpang was regretful now, extremely regretful.
When he had first arrived in this country, he discovered the Thunder Beast's existence the first time he used a Forbidden Ruin. But after discovering that the Thunder Beast was actually an artifact spirit, things took a strange turn...
His "Universal Disarmament" ability could affect the Yata Mirror's artifact spirit.
Though unable to harm it, every time Baili Pangpang activated Universal Disarmament, it was as if an invisible hand suddenly yanked the Thunder Beast's tail, driving the creature into a furious frenzy.
The first time, Baili Pangpang had still exercised some restraint, but later, after discovering that the Thunder Beast wouldn't come down from the clouds, he became increasingly reckless.