Perfect: I am Shi An from Shicun, and I am Huang’s brother!

Chapter 422 Slaying Heavenly Thunder
The dust surged towards the vortex of the starry river like a waterfall flowing backwards, and wherever it passed, the buildings that symbolized Zhan Tianlei's centuries-old power and foundation vanished silently.

Amidst the billowing smoke and dust, a terrified figure was revealed inside—Zhan Tianlei!

He staggered, trying to steady himself against the all-consuming power of the stars; his former majesty had long been swallowed by fear.

The tremor that originated from the depths of his soul, the completely uncontrollable primal lightning runes—all proclaimed a fact he could not accept.

The ant that he could crush with a flick of his wrist back then has now grown into a terrifying being that he must look up to!
"Boom!"

The hundred-foot-tall thunder tower completely collapsed. The billions of fragments did not explode, but were restrained by an irresistible force, rolled back into the air, and silently disappeared into the deep, rotating galaxy vortex, without even a speck of dust falling.

The thunder pool, nurtured within the tower for millennia, dried up instantly, the thunder drums fell silent, and the dazzling thunder crystal divine stone turned into ordinary, unyielding rocks, before shattering. All laws and divine power related to the Dao of Thunder were forcibly stripped away, suppressed, and reduced to nothingness under the oppressive force of the descending starry river.

"What you did in the past, you are reaping today. Back then, you relied on your divine status and treated us like straw dogs, trying to frame us. How arrogant you were!"

Shi An's voice rang out again, no longer a cold shout, but a calm statement, devoid of any emotion, yet more oppressive than thunder, like a judgment of heaven, resounding deep within the souls of Zhan Tianlei and all the powerful cultivators in Tianhe City.

His and Yunxi's figures had somehow appeared suspended beneath the vortex of the starry river, their robes fluttering as they calmly looked down.

Yunxi stood beside Shi An, her gaze cold and detached as she quietly observed this belated reckoning.

"How...how could you..."

Zhan Tianlei's eyes widened in fury, utterly unable to comprehend how his opponent had grown to such an extent in just a few short years. It was as if the difference between heaven and earth were vast.

His divine power surged and struggled within him, but under the shroud of that vortex of starry sea, he was like a mosquito trapped in a swamp, unable to ignite even a spark of law.

The vast power of the stars did not destroy, but rather absolutely "suppressed," completely sealing and imprisoning his proud Thunder Dao origin, cutting off any possibility of his resistance.

Smoke and dust filled the air, and debris was swept back into the Milky Way.

Zhan Tianlei staggered across the ruins, the raging lightning snakes around him long since vanished, leaving only his gray beard and hair drifting helplessly in the remaining turbulent energy. He looked up at the two figures who seemed to have descended like gods, his eyes filled with a mixture of madness and fear.

"No! I am a true god! I wield thunder! How dare you, a mere junior, blaspheme me!"

He roared hoarsely, trying to squeeze out the last bit of divine power.

"Buzz!"

Suddenly, the dazzling lightning pattern between his brows lit up. It was the original divine seal he had painstakingly cultivated for a thousand years, his ultimate reliance for communicating with the thunder of the nine heavens!
"boom!"

With a loud bang, the Thunder Seal shone brightly, forcibly drawing upon the thunderous laws within a radius of a thousand miles, and temporarily tore open a crack under the suppression of the Star River Vortex.

Immediately afterwards, a twisted, dark purple divine lightning bolt, imbued with an aura of destruction, lashed out like the fangs of a dying beast, striking fiercely towards Shi An and Yun Xi high in the sky!
This strike far surpassed his peak performance, carrying the resolute power to shatter divine souls and obliterate laws!

What shocked the onlookers in the shadows was that, despite Zhan Tianlei's desperate attack, Shi An's expression remained calm and unchanged.

He didn't even raise his hand; he merely shifted his gaze slightly, and in the depths of the swirling starry sky in his eyes, a more ancient and vast rune seemed to flash faintly.

The next instant, the fierce and incomparably powerful dark purple divine lightning, a hundred feet away from him, seemed to have hit an invisible barrier. It suddenly changed direction and, with an even more terrifying speed and carrying an even more magnificent power of lightning, turned against its master!

"puff!"

With a deafening roar, Zhan Tianlei's protective divine light shattered like paper, his chest pierced by his own primordial divine lightning, leaving a charred hole. The lightning raged wildly within his body, destroying every inch of his divine bones and meridians.

He suddenly spat out a mouthful of divine blood containing lightning arcs, his body trembling violently, his face filled with disbelief, horror, and despair.

"Why...you...what level have you reached?!"

His voice was hoarse and broken, filled with a sense of utter despair.

The opponent didn't even make a move; with just a thought, he caused the opponent's strongest attack to backfire on him. What an incredible level of crushing power!

Shi An slowly descended from the sky, stepping onto the cold ruins, his clothes fluttering, untouched by dust.

Yunxi followed closely behind, her cold gaze sweeping over Zhan Tianlei's miserable state without the slightest pity.

"Realm?" After a short while, Shi An spoke calmly, his voice carrying ultimate authority: "Just enough to sever your realm!"

He walked step by step toward the exhausted Zhan Tianlei. With each step he took, the ruins beneath his feet silently turned into finer dust, as if even the fundamental laws that constitute matter were surrendering and being reorganized beneath his feet.

Zhan Tianlei struggled to retreat, but found that the space around him was completely sealed off. He was like a mosquito trapped in amber, and even blinking became extremely difficult. He could only watch helplessly as the deadly figure continued to approach.

The shadow of death was thicker than ever before, completely engulfing this once-powerful god.

"No...you can't kill me!"

Zhan Tianlei screamed, his voice trembling with fear, "I am an elder of the Zhan Clan! If you kill me, you will face the Zhan Clan's wrath that will never end! There will be no place for you in the Three Thousand Continents!"

Seeing the other party still shouting even as he was dying, Shi An couldn't help but curl a very faint but chilling smile at the corner of his mouth, and then stood about ten feet in front of him.

"The War Clan?"

He repeated the sentence softly, then shook his head: "If they dare to come, I'll kill them all."

Before Zhan Tianlei could say anything more, he had already pointed his fingers like a sword. There was no dazzling divine light at his fingertips, only an extreme darkness, as if it had swallowed all light and contained the true meaning of returning to nothingness and ending. He then lightly touched Zhan Tianlei's brow.

"Do not!!!"

Upon seeing this, Zhan Tianlei immediately let out his last desperate and unwilling roar.

"collapse!"

The finger falls.

"..."

The sound stopped suddenly.

Zhan Tianlei's ferocious and terrified expression froze on his face, and the light in his pupils instantly dissipated and died.

His physical body, like a sand sculpture weathered for ten thousand years, began to disintegrate silently from the point where his finger touched his forehead, turning into the most primitive particles that drifted into the air without leaving a trace.

Its very essence, its very soul, had no chance to escape or reincarnate; it was completely erased and returned to nothingness by that single point of dark finger force.

The true god who had ravaged Tianhe City for many years, the once invincible Zhan Tianlei, was annihilated, his body and soul completely vanished into the world.

In the sky, the enormous galaxy vortex slowly stopped spinning and then disappeared. The churning leaden clouds, as if they had lost their core, began to dissipate gradually, and the terrifying pressure that had oppressed the entire city receded like a tide.

The last rays of the setting sun finally pierced through the clouds once more, casting a golden-red glow upon the ruins of Lei Yin Pavilion.

Countless cultivators in the city were still immersed in the devastating yet swiftly subsided divine power, their minds reeling and unable to recover for a long time.

They knew that the world in Tianhe City had changed.

In the backyard of Juxian Pavilion, Lin Feng stood by the window, gazing at the energy fluctuations gradually dissipating and the setting sun casting its rays in the direction of Leiyin Pavilion. The spiritual tea in his teacup had gone cold.

After a long while, he let out a long sigh, his expression complex and unreadable, and finally uttered only a soft whisper: "Cause and effect... are over."

Amidst the ruins, Shi An turned to look at Yun Xi beside him and smiled slightly: "Let's go!"

"it is good!"

Upon hearing this, Yunxi nodded slightly to him, her eyes gentle yet firm.

Then, the two figures swayed slightly and, just as they had come, silently merged into the void and disappeared.

All that remained behind was a scene of ruins and the city of Tianhe, which was about to be thrown into turmoil by the fall of the true god.

As the sun completely sank below the horizon and night quietly descended, the Milky Way gradually appeared, as if nothing had happened, yet everything seemed different.

(End of this chapter)