Cultivating with Top Enlightenment Chapter 807 - 340: Palm Annihilates Brahma Heaven (Part 2)
Previously on Cultivating with Top Enlightenment...
No need to speak of Fei Bing and the cultivators from the Vast Realm, for Brahma Heaven and Mu Zhutian were gripped by a deep sense of shame.
Brahma Heaven clenched his teeth, cast a sidelong glance at Mu Zhutian standing nearby, and uttered, "You've finally appeared; you've truly caused us immense suffering!"
His voice carried a far milder edge than previously, as if Ning Qi's formidable strength had subdued him, stripping away any boldness to issue orders.
"Commander Brahma, Commander Mu, what's with this sudden courtesy in your words toward me? Weren't you moments ago scheming to rally them against me and my Three Domains forces?"
Ning Qi gestured toward Fei Bing and his companions, his words delivered with cool detachment.
At these words, Brahma Heaven and Mu Zhutian lifted their arms, jabbing fingers at Ning Qi while stammering, "Y-you... what nonsense are you spouting!"
"Trying to deny it?"
Ning Qi lifted his right hand and launched a powerful palm strike.
In the heavens above, a colossal five-colored hand materialized, morphing into a grinding millstone that pulverized the pair into nothingness!
They had no chance to respond before Ning Qi extinguished them in a flash.
Right up to their final moments, it never crossed their minds that Ning Qi would boldly slay them in plain sight, given their status as heirs to the two Domain Masters!
"Leaning on your fathers won't protect you!"
The Vast Realm forces down below gazed up at Ning Qi with terror in their eyes.
Has this fellow lost his mind?
To execute key figures from the Mountain and Sea Realm directly under the watchful eye of the realm's will?
Though unaware of the precise regulations the Mountain and Sea Realm imposed on warriors in the Spirit Realm conflict, they figured it mirrored the Vast Realm's own.
Fellow allies from the same side were absolutely forbidden from turning on one another!
But even after he effortlessly dispatched two foes, the lurking presence of the Mountain and Sea Realm's will showed no inclination to penalize Ning Qi.
Ning Qi swept his gaze over the Vast Realm cultivators beneath him and, without hesitation, his form dissolved into mist like drifting clouds.
Fei Bing and his group let out heavy breaths of relief, a mix of astonishment and gratitude washing over them.
It appeared Ning Qi held no designs on them, sparing them from instant doom for the moment.
All eyes swiftly turned toward where Blood Slaughter Enemy and the other twenty Unity Realm experts had positioned themselves, certain that Ning Qi had headed in that direction.
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A thousand miles distant.
Blood Slaughter Enemy along with the other twenty Unity Realm powerhouses who had severed their own cultivation confronted the overwhelming surge of Mountain and Sea Realm authority.
Each of them bobbed like isolated vessels amid stormy seas, barely holding against the crashing billows; one tiny error could spell their watery end!
Yet, armed with the insight of the Unity Realm, they swiftly conferred on the optimal path to flee.
One could observe brilliant radiance erupting from their forms, signaling that their personal might had been driven to its utmost limit!
Beyond that, they assembled into a vast formation that, viewed from a distance, looked like a pointed arrow.
By merging their collective energies, they sought to punch through the barrier before the Mountain and Sea Realm's will could fully encircle them.
Escape to a zone free from the Mountain and Sea Realm's influence was their only shot at clashing with Ning Qi on equal footing.
Failing that, battling him within his domain was akin to hauling a shark ashore to scrap with land-dwellers.
No matter its ferocity as ruler of the deeps, the shark stood helpless against humans on solid ground, ripe for easy slaughter.
Ning Qi's arrival was naturally detected by the entire group.
Among those twenty Unity Realm individuals who had self-slashed their cultivation, Sun Lei bellowed in fury, "Ning Qi, if you dare, confront us squarely. Hiding behind the Mountain and Sea Realm's will—do you deem that courageous? Even should you fell us, I refuse to yield!"
"You lot have slashed your own Unity cultivation, yet possess the audacity to demand I, a mere Integration Realm practitioner, duel you fairly?"
Clad in pristine white, Ning Qi scoffed and unleashed a direct palm assault!
While his true form's prowess dominated the Unity Realm without equal, his reborn incarnation hadn't yet ascended to that stage.
These self-crippled Unity Realm adversaries offered an ideal chance to gauge his reborn self's capabilities, all without tapping his primary body's reserves—perfect sparring dummies.
Facing Ning Qi's enormous five-colored divine light palm, the twenty self-slain Unity Realm fighters held back from a united counter.
They dreaded the Mountain and Sea Realm's will far more than Ning Qi himself!
Thus, merely three, Sun Lei included, stepped up to engage.
They stayed within the protective array, as the other seventeen kept powering it, racing to pull away with haste.
Golden brilliance poured from Sun Lei's frame, and he hurled a fist at the approaching five-colored colossal palm.
A gigantic golden fist phantom emerged before the assembly, akin to a Demon-Subduing Pestle, brimming with overwhelming might and enveloped in a sacred aura poised to cleanse all wickedness.
The golden glow blazed radiantly, bathing the emptiness in light, and smashed violently into the five-colored divine light palm.
"Boom!"
A thunderous blast erupted, fracturing the void at the point of impact, though the luminosities on either side held firm undimmed.
Ning Qi keenly sensed and dissected the makeup of Sun Lei's golden fist radiance.
That golden fist radiance wove together three distinct forces: the Rule of Gold, the Rule of Light, and a power that suppressed malevolence.
True to form for a Unity Realm rival, these elements synergized seamlessly, transcending mere addition.
This Sun Lei outshone the Cyan Profound Immortal Sect's Sikong Xuan, whom Ning Qi had faced before, by a wide margin!
Nevertheless, Ning Qi simply channeled extra power; the swirling five-colored divine light palm swiftly demolished the foe's golden fist radiance and pressed onward toward the group.
The assembly couldn't suppress their awe at this turn.
They knew Sun Lei's potency well, and for Ning Qi to shatter his blow so effortlessly explained why the Vast Realm dispatched twenty in unison.
Earlier, they'd deemed the Vast Realm's will overly alarmist, yet now it dawned on them they'd misjudged Ning Qi's depth.
In the blink of thought, Sun Lei's two allies sprang into action with their own strikes.
One swept a sideways blade, its qi weaving in crosses, infused with the Rule of Blade and the bursting vigor of the Fire Rule, hacking savagely at the five-colored divine light palm.
The other deployed a sword art, launching a Spirit Sword from behind that splintered into myriad shadows darting like schools of fish across the void, syncing flawlessly with the prior assault to hammer Ning Qi jointly.
"Another sword cultivator and blade user? How unoriginal."
Ning Qi dismissed their onslaughts, remarking offhandedly.
"You insolent whelp, sharp tongue indeed—endure our blows before you boast!"
Ning Qi refrained from boosting the five-colored divine light palm further; instead, a soft white luminescence seemed to bloom from his vicinity.
This white light, utterly pristine, seeped into every hue of the incoming barrage.
Suddenly, dismay etched across the faces of the two assailants.
Their blade qi and sword gleams abruptly veered off course, lashing back at their own ranks as though Ning Qi had commandeered full command!
"Impossible!"
This spectacle left the observers dumbfounded; after all, they were Unity Realm experts, and despite the self-inflicted reduction in cultivation, their grasp of rules still dwarfed that of Integration Realm peers.
Allowing Sun Lei's golden fist light to shatter earlier made sense under the Mountain and Sea Realm's will, with Ning Qi as Domain Master, probably drawing on the realm's own force.
But these two potent barrages rebounding against them couldn't be chalked up to the Mountain and Sea Realm Power alone.
It was clear that, despite his Integration Realm standing, Ning Qi's command of rules eclipsed theirs!
This truth shook them to their cores.
With Ning Qi wielding such rule mastery, his ascent to Unity Realm was merely time's delay?
The scorching blade qi and endless sword phantoms whipped back with shrill whistles; fortunately, one defender among them rapidly conjured a massive, sturdy stone barrier ahead to repel the backlash.
This stone barrier, plain and radiating a dull gray luster, was embedded with various crystals across its face.
Some formed a sleek, diamond-like coating, while others were rare, ultra-durable ores concealed inside.
Blade qi and sword beams struck it, unleashing a storm of clanging echoes and flying sparks, but it stood firm without a scratch.
The group exhaled in temporary ease, only for Ning Qi's voice to ring out once more.
"That defensive approach has a touch of intrigue, though it lacks true fusion, failing to meld every mineral seamlessly."
No sooner had he finished than the five-colored divine light palm surged forward, slamming into the gray stone barrier; a horrifying impact promptly reduced it to rubble!
Even their escape formation buckled under the pressure.
Their eyes bulged as they watched the stone barrier disintegrate under Ning Qi's palm, the once-solid defense exploding into jagged shards in a heartbeat.
The five-colored divine light palm, whirling like a relentless grinder, pulverized certain fragments to powder, while others, rich in minerals, ballooned outward under Ning Qi's manipulation, morphing into blazing meteoroids hurtling toward the cluster!