The Decaying World

Moments later...

"He’s here!" The Hai Guang Witch’s eyes snapped open. Her red pupils rose, piercing through layer after layer of walls to gaze at a suburb several kilometers away.

At some point, a tall, imposing figure had abruptly appeared there.

A black Longsword hung from the figure’s waist. His entire body seemed to be shrouded in an invisible, distorted aura, making it impossible to see his features clearly.

One could only make out that his proportions were perfect. With his head slightly bowed, he was walking slowly toward them.

The strange thing was, while his pace seemed unhurried, the distance he covered was astounding.

It was like a slide show. One second he was over a hundred meters away, and the next he had already crossed a vast distance.

In less than ten seconds, he was within a kilometer of the private club.

"Mr. Lin, regarding the matter of the Celestial Court, could we please discuss it again? Both of our sect’s Supremes are present this time, and they are willing to discuss the situation with you in detail. If you are facing any difficulties, perhaps we can come up with a new solution after talking it over? It doesn’t have to escalate to something as serious as linking to the Celestial Court." As his acquaintance, Yao Ying was the first to speak via voice transmission.

With two Heavenly Immortals standing behind her, along with their sect’s strongest formation and a series of other measures, her confidence had grown considerably.

Lin Hui’s steps paused. He looked up and gazed ahead.

"In other words, you want me to reconsider my decision?"

"Precisely. You may be aware that linking to the Celestial Court is an extremely dangerous affair. Quite a few Heavenly Immortals and Holy Spirits have died because of it in the past..." Yao Ying continued.

"...Unfortunately for me, the effort required to change my decision is no less than the effort required to deal with you..." Lin Hui cut her off, his gaze rising to the drizzling, overcast sky.

PSHH.

A starlight glinted in his eyes.

The Black Clouds in the sky swirled and rapidly dispersed.

The rain stopped, the sky cleared, and the thunder faded away.

"Try and stop me."

He slowly gripped Ruyi and drew his sword. The invisible aura completely intercepted all their voice transmissions. Faced with their nonsense, he chose to simply block them out.

’No matter what, my investigation of the Celestial Court is to reverse all abnormalities, to correct all the world’s mistakes.’

’This is a rescue.’

’To save everything, some necessary sacrifices are unavoidable...’

’The only difference is that my own moral code will lead me to choose targets that are more deserving of being sacrificed...’

’And unfortunately, the Iron Buddha Temple and the Slender Cloud Pavilion both fall into that category.’

’The Iron Buddha Temple was a den of filth and engaged in human trafficking. To be precise, the major Buddhist temples, led by the Great Golden Yun Temple, were all involved in similar shady dealings. This was the fundamental reason they were purged after the nation’s founding.’

’The Slender Cloud Pavilion is no different.’

’A major power that could live so splendidly and comfortably through chaotic times could never be truly benevolent.’

"He’s refused all communication!!"

Inside the club, at the center of the formation, Yao Ying’s expression was grim. She turned to look at the Supremes.

"Don’t panic. Let’s test the waters first," the Hai Guang Witch said calmly, waving her right hand.

The special forces unit under her command, which combined modern weaponry with Magic, quickly advanced.

Dozens of heavy sniper rifles were already aimed. Upon receiving the signal, alloy bullets engraved with dense, complex magic sigils exploded from their chambers, shooting out violently.

The magic-enhanced bullets, traveling at over five times the speed of sound, carried terrifying kinetic energy as they instantly crossed the one-kilometer distance and flew toward Lin Hui’s chest.

But... all the bullets seemed to hit a phantom. They struck no physical entity and passed straight through Lin Hui’s body.

The various power-enhancing sigils on the bullets were completely useless.

However, this was only the Slender Cloud Pavilion’s first probe. The forces they had mobilized were far greater than this.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Immediately after, a dense carpet bombing of artillery shells erupted from a distance.

A rain of magic-enhanced shells, moving at a similarly high speed, intensively bombarded the hundred-meter area around Lin Hui.

They didn’t seem to care that the surrounding residential buildings were caught in the crossfire.

On the ground, red formation patterns rapidly lit up in the eyes of all the Cultivators. It was a grand formation designed to slow, bind, and lock down, its purpose being to ensure the magic-enhanced shells could more effectively lock onto and hit Lin Hui.

Unfortunately... ten-odd seconds later.

The artillery fire had not even ceased, but Lin Hui’s figure had already appeared within five hundred meters.

He was only a short distance from the club!

"Activate the formation!"

At that moment, Pavilion Master Sun Hanshuang took a step forward. Her voice sharp, she raised her hand and formed the activation Seal Decision.

Instantly, she and the dozen or so Earth Immortals and Human Immortals positioned around her exerted their power. All of their Cultivation gathered into the grand formation beneath their feet, condensing into a vast and powerful energy that brutally locked onto Lin Hui’s body from below.

At the same time, hundreds of Slender Cloud Pavilion Cultivators and witches standing within the formation far away also poured their full Cultivation into it. They combined their strength, transforming it into a formidable, red-glowing formation energy, which converged from afar into the energy nexus controlled by Sun Hanshuang and the others.

This further elevated its quality to the level of a Heavenly Immortal.

The red-light energy surged up from the ground, transforming into a hundred-meter-tall red flower. With Lin Hui at its center, it materialized naturally, layer upon layer.

The next instant, the red flower closed rapidly, its petals enfolding Lin Hui layer by layer.

This time, he couldn’t phase through it to evade, because the formation exerted its power continuously. It had truly trapped Lin Hui at its core.

"It worked!!" Seeing this, Sun Hanshuang let out a huge sigh of relief.

She had been worried that he would evade the formation as well, but now that she could genuinely sense a physical body, she could finally relax.

"Something’s wrong!"

But beside her, Tang Shiling’s expression changed. She stared intently, sensing the core of the formation-flower not far away.

With a series of cracks,

a white figure, still steady, continued to move forward at an unhurried pace.

Beneath his feet, countless strands of red light, like lotus roots pulled apart but still connected by fibers, desperately tried to pull him back and stop him.

But the entire Heavenly Immortal-level red light formation couldn’t even slow his steps.

With every step the figure took, swaths of the red light formation’s bindings were forcibly torn apart.

PFFT PFFT PFFT!!

The next moment, the red light formation was completely ripped asunder. In the distance, the hundreds of Cultivators coughed up blood and collapsed.

Sun Hanshuang and the others also turned pale. Their Cultivation was instantly damaged, and they stumbled back several steps.

"Fall back!!" Hai Guang stood up, gripping her golden staff, and took two steps forward.

BANG.

The staff slammed heavily into the ground, unleashing a transparent shockwave.

The formation, which had been on the verge of collapse, now reconverged, desperately clinging to Lin Hui’s legs.

Bolstered by the power of a Heavenly Immortal, the formation’s strength instantly increased nearly tenfold.

But...

CRACK.

The reinforced red light was once again forcibly snapped.

Pfft.

Even Hai Guang turned pale and her body trembled.

"Something’s not right! This person is not normal!!"

"Let me help!" The Apricot Blossom Fairy’s figure flickered and appeared directly beside Hai Guang. She reached out and grabbed the golden staff.

With their combined strength, the power of the red light was enhanced once more.

But this was not their true killing move. That lay in the ground directly in front of Lin Hui.

There, in a cavity concealed by layers of formations, batches of high-powered explosives were being rapidly moved and gathered by Magic.

At this moment, realizing something was wrong, Hai Guang and the Apricot Blossom Fairy exchanged a look and made a swift decision.

With a command from their Heart and Spirit, the detonation puppet controlled by the Apricot Blossom Fairy in the underground cavity suddenly exploded.

A speck of crimson light flared up.

The next moment.

KABOOOM!!!

The earth trembled and split apart. Countless tons of dirt and rock shot into the sky like a colossal wave.

Within the gray-black cloud of dust, crimson and golden explosive flames, enhanced by Magic, expanded and detonated at over ten times the speed of sound.

In an instant, it engulfed the entire hundred-meter area.

A massive shockwave, accompanied by a small, rising mushroom cloud, spread out rapidly.

All the residents of the small city of Mei’an were left numb and trembling from the immense explosion.

Countless people fell to the ground, their ears ringing painfully, unable to get up.

CRACK.

But just then.

At the main entrance of the club, which had been blown open by the blast’s aftershock, an imposing figure once again stepped unhurriedly over the threshold. His black boots landed softly on the rubble-strewn ground, making a faint sound.

Lin Hui was surrounded by an invisible aura. Not even a single piece of his clothing was out of place. His expression was calm as he looked up at the senior members of the Slender Cloud Pavilion on the first floor of the club.

"Perhaps despair will grant you a new meaning?"

"A reason to live...?"

"??!" The women didn’t know why he had suddenly stopped.

But this was undoubtedly their last chance.

After a series of attempts, after layers of countermeasures had failed to stop his approach, they had already realized that the man before them was likely a hidden, peak-level expert of the mortal world from one of the most powerful major sects.

Such an expert, while also only at the Heavenly Immortal Realm, was on a completely different level from them. The gap between them was enormous.

This was the fundamental reason why powers like the Great Golden Yun Temple and the Qiankun Monastery could dominate the northern and southern Cultivator factions in the country.

It was also the biggest difference between them and second-tier powers like the Iron Buddha Temple and the Slender Cloud Pavilion.

In that instant, the Hai Guang Witch and the Apricot Blossom Fairy attacked simultaneously. The golden staff and the verdant apricot blossom branch both unleashed a dense fluid of immortal power composed of innumerable golden runes.

The two streams of golden fluid, infused with the full might of the Magical Treasure, the Insect Scripture, descended to cover the area where Lin Hui stood.

One instantly increased gravity a thousandfold, while the other caused a terrifying, active poison—lethal even to Heavenly Immortals—to seep into the skin through the pores.

"Wind."

Lin Hui raised Ruyi horizontally and whispered.

BOOM!!!

The next instant, an unbelievably ferocious and terrifying shockwave exploded outward from him.

The clouds in the sky spun as countless streams of black smoke gathered, forming a terrifying vortex that covered the entire city.

A gale raged, tearing the air. The terrifying, wailing currents, like the cries of ghosts and howls of gods, faintly coalesced into phantom monsters that were neither dragon nor serpent. They coiled around Lin Hui and forcibly shattered the pincer attack of the two great immortal powers.

Within a hundred-meter radius, all buildings were flattened in that moment.

Sun Hanshuang and the others were struck as if by lightning. They were thrown through the air, coughing up blood and severely wounded, before crashing to the ground in the distance, unable to move.

Only Hai Guang and the Apricot Blossom Fairy remained, their bodies hunched over as they struggled to stay upright against the violent torrent of air.

But judging from the flickering golden immortal power around them, they too were on the verge of exhaustion.

"How... is this possible!? This power...!? Why aren’t you restricted by the Tianluo at all!?" The Apricot Blossom Fairy stared at Lin Hui in disbelief, golden blood constantly trickling from her mouth and nose.

Beside her, the Hai Guang Witch desperately clung to her golden staff, which was embedded in the ground’s formation, and stared at Lin Hui with the same terror in her eyes. Clearly, she shared the same question.

Looking at the massive Black Cloud vortex churning in the sky, it was obvious that he was using his power without any restraint, completely unconcerned whether the Tianluo would directly devour and dissipate it.

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