Destiny is ashes

Chapter 1168 Resentment (24)

The stars are shining.

An immense light shone from the very center of the sky, so bright that even martial artists could hardly look directly at it, only able to vaguely see a cyan-gold light shining brilliantly at the top of the boundless sky from the corner of their eyes.

The entire capital was originally shrouded in the shadows of ruins and city fragments floating in the sky, but in that instant, an incredible burst of light, born from the condensation of spiritual energy, illuminated, penetrated, and even ignited the entire world.

All colors were fading, vaporized soot rose from the top of the building, the jade on the ground was dissolving and turning into platinum lava, and wherever the divine light passed, everything was ionized, vaporized, and turned into nothingness, leaving only a vacuum trail.

Its target is the God-Slaying Platform!
"You scoundrel! You actually dare to use such supernatural powers in the capital?!"

"Do you truly have no pity for the hundreds of millions of ordinary people?!"

As the countdown to Anjing began, on the execution platform, many officials glared angrily. The actions of the four great families had bought them some time. Ultimately, however, they were the ones who truly controlled the Divine Capital Formation, and each of them was a hero of their time.

After quickly adapting to the spirit network attack and defense techniques of the Tianyuan Realm, the officials who were almost banned from the Heavenly Officials' Register and reduced to mortals were both shocked and furious. They never imagined that An Jing, who had always been 'peaceful and had the demeanor of a grandmaster,' would be so arrogant and crazy, directly aiming to destroy the Divine Capital at the slightest disagreement—of course, this was a minor matter, since if a war really broke out, the enemy Heavenly Lord Lingxiao would have attacked the Divine Capital immediately anyway, and would have slaughtered all living beings as well.

What truly enraged them was the fact that their power had been stripped away, and they had almost been kicked to death like stray dogs on the street!
"Get into formation!"

Minister of Personnel Lü Hengdian was the first to soar into the sky. This stern middle-aged man with a long beard had regained a portion of his power. He also possessed the 'Heavenly Register' and was one of the twelve 'Heavenly Gods' in the Great Chen Heavenly Official system who 'wielded divine power and performed sacred rites'. It was he who had just noticed that An Jing was secretly eroding the Divine Capital's Great Array during the earth-shattering phenomenon of his descent, and immediately led the officials to fight back.

At this moment, his body was filled with surging azure energy, which spread rapidly like ripples, directly altering the nature of the air wherever it passed.

[Heavenly Law - Your Divine Duty]

In that instant, a blue-green glazed jade wall appeared out of thin air within a 180-degree radius centered on the front of the God-Slaying Platform. It rapidly thickened at an astonishing speed, instantly becoming a mountain nearly a hundred miles long and fifteen miles thick. The interior of this wall was pitch black, because it would take a hundred years for light to cross even an inch.

Behind him, the officials formed a formation and worked together. At the deepest part of the capital's earth veins, a huge change suddenly occurred. A huge array plate, like a sun, broke through the city and streets and slowly floated up from the depths of the earth, just like a giant god awakening.

Heaven and Earth, Human World

This array plate is entirely made of dark gold, with irregular edges, resembling a broken gear, uneven and incomplete. On it, the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, and countless living beings are depicted, flowing as if they were alive.

As soon as it appeared, a completely different 'feeling' began to spread rapidly, as if...

It's a different world.

At that very moment, a blazing white light struck the glass wall.

The Heavenly Law grants you a divine duty, which can alter the essence of all things, imbuing them with power they did not originally possess. It can make a road infinitely smooth, make a flame devour heat, and naturally prevent air from interacting with light, causing it to refract and halt the movement of light.

Lu Hengdian's power was enough to cover the entire capital, making the atmosphere as hard as iron and the rain as sharp as magic weapons. Now, all his power was contracted and concentrated, intending to block An Jing's Tai Shi Tian Zhu Divine Light.

Then it was crushed to pieces.

"what?!"

Lü Hengdian didn't even have time to open his eyes wide, only managing to utter a final exclamation: "Reversing the Four Symbols, Primordial Beginning..."

With a flash of light, he too turned to ashes. The Heavenly Punishment Divine Light, condensed to its extreme, was enough to restore the time and space before it advanced to a period close to the beginning of the creation of heaven and earth, just by moving forward. In that time, earth, water, fire, and wind had not yet separated, the primordial power had not yet degenerated into yin and yang and the five elements, and all acquired laws were powerless against this divine light, which was almost entirely composed of primordial primordial evil.

In almost an instant, the glazed jade wall and half of the atmosphere of the capital were ignited, boiled, and then exploded. The Primordial Heavenly Punishment Divine Light, which had not weakened in the slightest, directly struck the array plate that had been summoned by the court officials.

Immediately following was a deafening roar.

The shockwave, powerful enough to shatter stars, pushed open the atmosphere. If it exploded, the originally sparse material layer would become incredibly dense. It would spread rapidly in all directions, comparable to real people wielding divine steel shields and charging at full force. The surface of this shield would be burning with a layer of fire at over a million degrees, shattering and evaporating all matter.

If viewed from the top of the sky, one could see a miniature sun expanding outwards from the God-Slaying Platform, dazzling and radiant.

Unlike Lü Hengdian and his supernatural powers, the Heavenly Punishment Divine Light, which was different from Huai Xu's laws of heaven and earth, expanded dozens of times, making it look more magnificent and terrifying. However, this also meant that the energy condensed inside it had become loose and could be shifted and deflected.

Even so, one can still see that the various array patterns on this huge array plate are being rapidly smoothed out in the light, turning into a mirror surface. Then, countless light patterns appear on this mirror surface, like cracks, spreading like a spider web.

Then, it jolted violently.

As the vast space-time trembled, the remaining power of the Primordial Heavenly Punishment Divine Light was scattered, and at the same time, the formation of the officials was also scattered by the counter-shock.

blocked.

But it remained deathly silent.

Because, in the direction in which the Primordial Heavenly Punishment Divine Light traveled, only the spherical space shrouded by the Heaven and Earth Human Array Plate, namely the God-Slaying Platform and the city streets with a radius of fifty miles, remained intact. Everything above, below, left, and right of it, whether it was the sky or the earth, was evaporated and dissolved.

From a distance, it looks like a charred sphere, suspended in a giant, golden-red lava crater, surrounded by a storm of scorching blue ions.

Not only that, the aftershocks of the Primordial Heavenly Punishment Divine Light were still spreading. The shockwave, exceeding the limits of atmospheric tolerance, swept through, and the buildings, streets, and those who chose to stay in the capital city were instantly and painlessly turned into dust. Their shadows were first imprinted on the walls, then the shadows of the walls were imprinted on the earth, and then the earth itself turned into charred ashes and disappeared into the world.

And these dead people, in their last moments before death, still did not look at An Jing.

In the last moments before they turned to ashes, they still looked at the officials and imperial guards who had been thrown back and were in a sorry state.

resentment.

Of course, they weren't on An Jing's side—how could they dare to resent the martial artist who came from beyond the heavens and dared to kill them without mercy? They didn't even dare to look in An Jing's direction, for fear that even their souls would be burned away.

Their resentment was, of course, directed at Da Chen.

Why...why?!

—If An Jing can use the Tai Xu Divine Power to teleport, why can't you do the same…

Why...didn't you protect us?!
"Damn it, these unruly people! They could have left and weakened Anjing's forces, why didn't they leave? Why did they have to stay?!"

Most of the officials who were thrown back by the recoil suffered internal injuries, their internal organs burning. They gritted their teeth and said, "We gave you ten breaths to get out of here, and you still wouldn't leave. You deserve it!"

(End of this chapter)