Chapter 328 - 178: Powerful as a God, Thunder Shatters the Darkness

The sky was a clear, azure blue, with pale clouds drifting by like colts. The blazing sun hung high, its myriad rays of light pouring down upon the world.

WHOOSH!

A shadowy streak of light tore across the sky, vanishing in an instant. It produced a powerful sonic boom, crossing thousands of miles in a flash.

"Damn it!

’He’s actually coming after *me*!’ Feng Xiu cursed inwardly, feeling the terrifying aura behind him drawing ever closer.

’I thought for sure he’d go after Wei Qingming, the weaker one. But I never expected him to lock onto me and refuse to let go.’

"Fellow Daoist, I have not provoked you. Why do you pursue me so relentlessly?" Feng Xiu projected his voice with Magical Power. The majestic, profound sound instantly crossed thousands of miles, reaching Gu Yun’s ears with perfect clarity.

"Not provoked?"

"The only reason you say that is because I’m the one with the upper hand. If I were weaker, things would be different, wouldn’t they? Would you have spared me then?" Gu Yun’s voice was bone-chilling, filled with icy killing intent. "Besides, when I want you to die, you die!"

The words had barely left his lips when Gu Yun’s speed increased yet again. He moved with the agility of a swimming dragon, as fast as a thunderclap, tearing through space and creating a sonic boom of Powerful Qi. At this incredible speed, he crossed five thousand miles in an instant!

Feng Xiu, however, was only covering four thousand miles in the same amount of time. With the gap closing, it wouldn’t be long before Gu Yun caught up to him.

"Damn it all!" Feeling the terrifying aura closing in, Feng Xiu gnashed his teeth, his voice turning frigid. "Don’t push me!"

His icy voice seemed to cause the very temperature of the world to drop.

"Don’t push you?"

"Hah. I’m not just going to push you, I’m going to kill you!"

Gu Yun’s eyes were glacial, his tone frigid, brimming with an irrepressible killing intent.

’If I hadn’t had a massive stroke of luck on this trip and broken through to the Tongxuan Realm...’

’If I hadn’t found the Holy Origin Seven-Star Tower... After I emerged, I would have had to face several Tongxuan True Monarchs—including a Tongxuan Realm Middle Stage expert—as a mere Half-Step Tongxuan in a Mortal Body. Against a lineup like that, my death would have been certain!’

’But fate is a fickle thing. I broke through to the Tongxuan Realm. I have the Celestial Thunder Dao Body, a powerful Physique, a vast Divine Sense, and all sorts of Magical Techniques and Divine Skills. With my current strength, I wouldn’t even be intimidated by a Tongxuan Realm Late Stage expert!’

’No, I can’t let this continue.

’If I don’t pay a price, I won’t survive this tribulation!’

Feng Xiu, who was streaking through the sky like a shadowy comet, felt the terrifying aura drawing ever nearer. His heart sank. Then, as if he had made up his mind, a dark glint flashed in his eyes, and a resolute aura erupted from him.

"Umbral Devouring Annihilation!"

A terrifyingly dark Dao Rhythm surged madly around Feng Xiu. The horrific aura it released seemed to make the very world around him collapse. With one hand, he formed a series of profound Seals.

In an instant, the terrifying, deep Dao Rhythm began to spin wildly, coalescing into a frightening black vortex. The heavens themselves roiled as winds swept the clouds clean. It was a power that could swallow the world and extinguish creation. All matter, both tangible and intangible, was sucked into the pitch-black abyss.

In mere moments, the black vortex swelled, hanging high in the sky. It spanned a thousand miles, a terrifying maelstrom that devoured all creation, its aura radiating a promise of absolute consumption and destruction!

"Go!"

With his hand held in a seal, a dark light flashed in Feng Xiu’s eyes. He gave the command.

The terrifying black vortex tore through the sky, devouring everything in its path as it surged toward Gu Yun to annihilate him.

"You’re courting death!"

Gu Yun’s cold gaze fell upon the massive, thousand-mile-wide black vortex that was tearing through space to obliterate him. Despite its power to devour and annihilate all matter, his expression remained unchanged. He let out a cold snort as a bolt of lightning flashed in his eyes—a brilliant spark in the dimming world, radiating an unprecedented light!

BOOM!

The abyssal sea of Tongxuan Magical Power within him erupted. Instantly, the space for hundreds of miles around began to crack like a mirror hit by a tidal wave. A thousand miles of sky turned oppressively dark, shot through with a tangled, chaotic dance of lightning arcs. Innumerable bolts of Thunder ripped through the heavens, radiating a dazzling, brilliant light!

In the blink of an eye, a thousand-mile radius had transformed into a terrifying Thunder Domain.

Gu Yun hovered within his Thunder Domain, standing upon the air itself. His posture was ramrod straight, his clothes whipping about him and his hair dancing wildly. Streaks of Thunder coiled around him, covering his entire body in the blink of an eye. His eyes swirled with a tide of Thunder Arcs, deep and terrifying!

He raised an arm, fingers splayed, and slowly pushed his palm upward toward the sky.

KABOOM!

The myriad bolts of Thunder in the sky tore through space, gathering and converging in his palm.

Countless terrifying bolts of lightning flickered around his body. He looked like a fearsome Thunder God in command of the heavens and the earth.

"Thunder Annihilation!"

The next moment, lightning flashed in Gu Yun’s eyes. He slammed his raised palm forward.

Instantly, the myriad bolts of Thunder that had gathered in the sky tore through the firmament. Like a Celestial Punishment descending upon the mortal world, they radiated a majestic heavenly might capable of destroying all things. The thunder pierced through layer after layer of space, a world-covering deluge crashing down upon the massive black vortex that devoured and annihilated all!

CRACK-BOOM!!

Thunder shattered the darkness!

The thousands of bolts of Thunder, invisibly imbued with a trace of the aura of a Celestial Tribulation, annihilated the massive black vortex the very instant they touched it. They crushed it with the ease of snapping a dry twig, obliterating it along with its dark core into the void. Then, the thunder continued, piercing through the sky in a world-covering torrent, surging toward Feng Xiu to strike him down!