Chapter 382: Bringing Trouble Upon Oneself, Cannot Avoid Punishment

The Venerable Duyu widened his eyes, as if straining to the utmost to see the scene before him more clearly, and perhaps even more to scrutinize the young man standing there.

No matter how hard he racked his brains, he could not fathom what kind of power this was, to be so terrifying; he could feel that the entire sect-protecting grand array, the spiritual veins, and the power of the stars were being frantically consumed beneath this might!

"No... impossible!" The Venerable Duyu roared. "This is an ancient array passed down in our sect from remote antiquity... the Ancestor clearly said... it could even trap and kill a Quasi-Immortal!"

"Impossible! Utterly impossible!" he muttered to himself, looking like a madman.

But just then, he witnessed an even more horrifying sight: in the very center of the giant Bagua diagram in the sky, which was formed entirely of gathered spiritual energy, a crack suddenly burst forth.

Following closely behind came two, three, four...

Innumerable cracks manifested upon it, and the entire grand array was on the verge of collapse!

The disciples and elders of the other two great sects, Xuanzhong Mansion and Mount Yuxu, could not help but raise their heads at this moment, gazing up at the distant horizon in sheer terror at this horrifying scene that resembled the end of the world.

"What is that?!"

"It is from the direction of the Taixi Sect!"

The moment they witnessed this, the terror and shock in their eyes reached an absolute peak!

Inside the Half City shop and the Jiuhua City shop.

Cultivators and warriors who had not yet played The King of Fighters stood up in horror: "This... what is this?!"

Even Ningbi stood up. In the past, she had only witnessed Orochi's overwhelmingly dominant strength in the game, but she had lacked any reference point recognized by her own understanding to measure it by, making it difficult to truly appreciate the power of these moves. Now, however, this move, "The Sun Shines Everywhere," was being unleashed in reality.

Such a shock was countless times more intense than seeing it within the game!

Her pair of jade-like eyes stared straight ahead, transfixed upon the white light on the screen and the continuously crumbling grand array: "I've decided, from now on I must practice playing The King of Fighters properly!"

Daoist Master Xichi also stared blankly at the large screen with wide eyes: "Yun'er, what did you say this is?! Can such a move be learned inside the shop?! How come I have never seen it?!"

"That is because you do not play The King of Fighters, Master," Liu Ningyun said with a perfectly solemn face.

"Then can Yun'er teach me how to play The King of Fighters?!" Daoist Master Xichi asked excitedly. "If this move could be integrated into our sect's Nanhua Heavenly Light..."

She had already begun to envision the prospects of the future.

"..."

...

"Hahaha! Destroyed... all destroyed!" At this moment, the Venerable Duyu looked at the continuously collapsing sect-protecting grand array of the Taixi Sect. Even the extremely miraculous Jasper Butterfly, which had previously rescued him from the Twenty-Third Sword, was breaking apart inch by inch. His eyes were nearly splitting with rage and his face was as grotesque as a ghost's as he tumbled from the sky, drenched in blood.

He glared fiercely at Fang Qi in the sky, speaking with bitter hatred: "Our Taixi Sect has always had no grievances or enmity with you, why on earth must you strike with such a ruthless hand! To be so lawless, are you not afraid of being struck down by heavenly tribulation in the future?"

At least in his view, the Taixi Sect had never personally taken action against Fang Qi before.

"I have come for those disciples of various great sects whom you imprisoned and tortured," Fang Qi said earnestly.

"What torture?!" the Venerable Duyu roared. "Tianleizi, where is Tianleizi?!"

He laughed maniacally: "So it was all for these worthless, unprogressive trash. Today, this old man shall make these wastes be buried along with my Taixi Sect!"

"Tianleizi!"

"Venerable! Venerable, save me!" Just at this moment, another figure with a face covered in blood flecks fled over in utter terror, and behind him were hundreds of disciples from various sects who were angry to the absolute extreme.

"Old scoundrel, do not run! You shall taste the agony of the thunder punishment yourself today!"

"Old scoundrel, I regarded my master as my own father, and my sect originally viewed me as their own flesh and blood, an debt of gratitude as heavy as a mountain. But now, given this situation, even if I return to the sect, I have nothing but a 'chilled heart' left. Today, the bond of several decades of nurturing between my master and me has been entirely destroyed by your hands. You shameless people, how do you still dare to live blindly in this world?!"

"You scoundrels!" The round-faced girl of fifteen or sixteen years old also cried out, "You deluded my father into luring me here, making me live a life worse than death every single day. Now, even if I go back, my family is no longer a family, and my sect is no longer a sect..."

"No... do not look for me!" Tianleizi, upon seeing the Venerable Duyu, felt as if he had found his savior, pointing at him and saying, "It was him! He instigated it all, it has nothing to do with me! Look, he even wants you all to be buried with him!"

"Scoundrel, today we will let you taste the flavor of the thunder punishment yourself!"

"Aaaah——!" Before Fang Qi could even move, the man was already submerged by the utterly furious crowd. A burst of lightning transformed from various spiritual energies erupted violently within the mob, and a chorus of shrill shrieks resounded across almost the entire mountaintop.

...

Meanwhile, the Dharma Boat fleet of Mount Linglang, following the instructions transmitted by their "superiors," slowly steered the vessels to the designated location, but in the next instant, what awaited them was only a terrifying light of thunder.

"This is..."

"The war spells of the Gongshu family?!"

"How is that possible? Has the Gongshu family joined the war as well?!"

"The surrounding... how are there arrays deployed around us?!"

"Not good! We have fallen into an ambush!"

"..."

Cries of alarm and shrieks echoed continuously. The vast Dharma Boat fleet, caught on the spot under the pre-arranged arrays and the regional spells of a large number of armored war vessels captured from the Gongshu family, suffered extremely heavy losses!

"Send word quickly! We are ambushed!"

There was no response; all transmissions were like a stone sinking into the ocean. It was only when the cultivators of Mount Linglang fled in utter defeat, with most of their high-level figures captured, that the cultivators of Mount Yuchiu slowly set out.

The excellent situation where the various great forces originally surrounded and attacked the Great Jin Kingdom had quickly become a disjointed struggle, like headless flies plunging one after another deep into the interior of the Great Jin Kingdom.

...

"Strange... why has it been so long and there is still no reply from Elder Xue?" The Sect Master of Mount Yuchiu pinched the transmission jade with a strange expression.

"Could it be that they are dazzled by the treasures of the Great Jin Kingdom?!" The old Daoist of the Longhai Daoist Palace remarked curiously. At this time, they had not even considered the possibility of defeat.

Just then, a commotion suddenly sounded outside the hall, followed by: "Listen, those inside, you have been surrounded! Please surrender your Dharma artifacts immediately and lay down your arms!"

"What?!" Everyone showed a look of displeasure. "We received no transmission... who is playing tricks on us outside?!"

Stepping out of the palace doors to look, they saw a sky of white clouds and blue air. In the boundless heavens, more than ten of the highest-grade armored war vessels of the Gongshu family had already slowly revealed their true forms above the city.

...

And back at the Taixi Sect, within the crowd, one could only smell a scorching stench produced by intense lightning passing through bodies.

"What audacity!" Several powerful auras descended from the sky.

A man and a woman appeared with extremely potent auras, at least at the late stage of the Divine Sea Realm. The man wore a purple-gold crown and a purple Daoist robe with gold patterns, possessing handsome features and an extraordinary martial air.

The woman wore a white Daoist robe with jade patterns, appearing ethereal and detached, with an extraordinary bearing.

The two stared coldly at everyone present: "You actually dare to commit such an unprincipled act! With such ruthless methods, not even letting the dead rest, are you not afraid of inner demons breeding and heavenly punishment descending in the future?"

Owner Fang took his time, lighting a cigarette: "You ought to ask them exactly what they did to make the furious disciples of the various sects lose their composure so entirely."

He gently tapped the ash off the end of his cigarette with his finger: "Of course, if your three sects share a common hatred and choose to make no distinction between right and wrong, I can accompany you at any time."

Even though their cultivation had reached such a realm, a cold shiver involuntarily arose in the hearts of the two individuals.

Recalling the terrifying light that had shot down from the firmament just moments ago, they stood frozen on the spot, at a complete loss for what to do.

"Beep, task 'World-Shocking Might' completed."