Chapter 482: Stripping Away Divine Power

"Do you really need to ask?"

After saying this, Fu Young suddenly extended his right hand. He used his thumb to channel a strand of force and lightly sliced the pad of his index finger. A drop of blood flowed out, and the wound immediately healed without leaving a trace.

That drop of blood fell from his index finger onto the ground.

The moment the blood touched the earth, the entire ground began to shake violently.

However, unlike when All Laws Forbidden was activated, the shaking earth did not give rise to towering trees.

Instead, countless dense roots suddenly grew from every part of the ground, spreading throughout the enormous city, inside and out.

Before anyone could react, the roots wrapped around everyone and bound them tightly.

Not only Yun Liuying and the surrounding people, but even the red-haired young woman was caught among them.

All of them were entangled and restrained by the roots, unable to move at all.

At the same time, all of them felt the divine aura deep within their bloodlines being stripped away by the roots wrapped around their bodies.

They became mortals without the slightest trace of divine aura!

Everyone tried to resist, but nothing worked. Panic, fear, and pain filled the city as miserable cries rang out.

Physical strength was useless.

Martial cultivation was useless.

Divine cultivation was even more useless...

The red-haired young woman held her breath, her face filled with an expression of endurance.

She had already experienced the pain of having her divine power origin stripped away once before, and she had long since prepared herself to endure it again.

However, when she actually experienced this pain once more, she realized that the preparation she thought she had made was nowhere near enough to withstand even one ten-thousandth of the agony.

It was unbearable.

It was even more painful than death.

It felt as though a part of her body was being slowly torn away piece by piece...

How could this be?

Yun Liuying possessed divine cultivation. When the roots wrapped around her, they would first absorb her divine cultivation before drawing out the divine aura within her bloodline.

Therefore, even after being trapped, she still had enough strength to panic and angrily shout, "How dare you! Who exactly are you? How dare you come to my Cloud River City and plunder divine power?"

"Plunder divine power? Since you put it that way, it would be too much of a loss if I didn’t take all of it. In that case, I’ll just have to work a little harder!"

Fu Young smiled brightly and spoke in a tone that was practically designed to infuriate people to death.

He then clenched his right fist.

There were no verbal commands.

No hand seals.

No spiritual energy guidance...

In the next moment, countless roots suddenly grew even finer rootlets, denser than hair and incredibly slender, extending toward every direction.

They covered the entire area inside and outside the River God Domain of Cloud River City.

Not only the mortals working tirelessly, but also flying birds and beasts, flowers and grass, fish and insects, trees and rivers, mountains, rocks, and earth were all covered by the rootlets growing from the roots.

One after another, these rootlets continuously drew the power of the divine Osmanthus Tree from all these living and non-living things.

This was the power that the people of the Myriad Gods Realm called divine power.

Heavenly Dao!

This is what you wanted me to do, right?

Recover all the power of the divine Osmanthus Tree in this realm, causing divine power to wither and resources to run dry.

You wanted me to witness the ugliness of the people in this realm and loosen the restraints I placed upon myself, so that I would learn to treat beings weaker than myself like dogs and beasts, enslaving and slaughtering them at will.

I will do as you wish.

I will recover all the divine power.

Because this power originally belongs to me.

However, I will not fall into your trap and become such an ugly person.

Not only do I myself hate such things, but if I became someone like that, my Master would surely despise me.

Therefore, I will use another method to accomplish my goal of recovering my power and becoming stronger.

Watching everything unfold before him, Fu Young silently thought to himself.

At this moment, in the huge river at the very center of the city, which was covered by countless rootlets, a powerful current filled with immense divine power suddenly surged upward, tearing through the roots.

A blue figure completely enveloped in divine light flew out.

As he rushed toward Fu Young, he angrily roared, "Beast! You have gone too far! How dare you plunder my divine power? I, Yun Qing, will kill you!"

"Yawn!"

Fu Young boredly yawned.

The roots moved according to his will, lashing toward the incoming figure one after another. Every time they struck him, they stripped away a portion of the divine light covering his body.

Again and again.

Before he could even reach Fu Young, the divine light protecting his body had already weakened considerably.

Then the countless rootlets produced by the roots formed layer upon layer of densely packed nets around him.

Only then did Fu Young smile faintly and say, "So what if I bully you? Your descendants and your people all agree with my ideas. They believe that people with weak divine power have no right to exist. If that is what they believe, then how could beings whose divine power is weaker than mine possibly have the right to possess something as noble as divine aura?

"So, before I leave, I’ll take the trouble to clean everything up for you. Especially those who agree with my ideas. I’ll take special care of them. I absolutely won’t allow such ugly existences to continue living in this world."

As expected of that lord. His every move is extraordinary, and his poisonous tongue has not weakened in the slightest!