Projection of the Heavens: I prove my immortality through slaughter.

Lin Xuan's warning was like a cold spring, instantly extinguishing the joy that had just begun to ignite in the Rock Tribe.

"Prepare for war!"

The old priest Cang's voice, filled with unwavering resolve, resounded throughout the entire tribe.

After a brief period of panic, everyone quickly sprang into action, led by several Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Women and children were placed in the deepest part of the tribe, in a newly carved stone cave. All the tribespeople with fighting ability, whether they were practicing Qi cultivation or building a foundation, gathered around the tribe's perimeter with sharpened bone spears and stone axes, relying on simple wooden fences and newly built low walls to form a battle formation.

Their faces showed tension, even fear, but deep in their eyes burned a flame they had never seen before—a flame of self-defense against their own destiny after being empowered by the Xuan Tian Divine Lord, and an absolute trust in that invisible being.

The entire tribe, like a frightened hedgehog, huddled together, raising its still-tender quills.

The atmosphere was so oppressive it was suffocating; even the wind seemed to have stopped.

The wait wasn't long.

In the distance, a blazing silver light first appeared on the horizon, followed by a low rumble of thunder that grew louder as it approached. At first, it was faint, but in the blink of an eye, it transformed into a roar that tore through the sky!

"Boom—!"

The once clear sky was swallowed up by thick, churning clouds of lightning at a visible speed! The sunlight was completely blocked, and the earth was plunged into darkness. Only the blinding flashes of lightning that kept breaking through the clouds illuminated pale but resolute faces.

A terrifying pressure, as if the entire sky were collapsing, accompanied by destructive thunderous energy, descended with a deafening roar!

Against this backdrop of thunderous roar, a towering figure enveloped in endless silver lightning descended slowly from the center of the rolling dark clouds, like a thunder god descending to earth. He stood nearly three zhang tall, with four pairs of enormous wings entirely formed from lightning sprouting from his back. Each flap of these wings caused the lightning elements within a hundred miles to leap and resonate wildly. His face was cold and stern, his pupils pure silver-white, as if boiling pools of lightning were churning within them. Tiny sparks of electricity danced around him, scorching the very air with subtle black marks.

It was none other than Lei Yi, the divine son of the Lei Ze clan!

On his left and right sides were the Fire Lizard King, whose body was engulfed in dark red flames and who wielded a giant lava axe, and the Shadow Demon Leader, who was like a twisted shadow and exuded a cold, deathly aura.

Behind them followed hundreds of fierce and varied elite divine and demonic servants, riding on raging winds or ominous clouds, like a moving cloud of disaster, pressing down on the Rock Tribe.

Lei Yi hovered a thousand feet above the tribe, his silver eyes indifferently sweeping over the toy-like defensive fortifications below, and the humans who, in his eyes, were no different from ants and were on high alert.

His gaze finally settled on the simple altar in the center of the tribe, where a subtle yet powerful alien aura emanated, a presence that even his father god found remarkable.

"Those who blaspheme God, appear and die."

His voice wasn't loud, but it was like billions of thunderbolts simultaneously exploding in the depths of the souls of all living beings! Some of the lower-level Qi Refining stage clansmen groaned on the spot, blood seeping from their ears and noses, and they almost lost their balance.

The sound alone possesses such divine power!

However, he was met with silence.

Lin Xuan's projected divine sense remained hidden and did not manifest immediately.

"Stubborn to the end." A hint of impatience and killing intent flashed in Lei Yi's eyes. "Then... let us be buried here."

He said no more and slowly raised his right hand. As he moved, the endless thunderclouds in the sky seemed to be summoned by a king, frantically converging towards his palm! Countless thick silver lightning bolts, like rivers flowing into the sea, compressed and condensed in his palm, finally transforming into a lightning sphere, no more than a foot in diameter, yet radiating a light that violently distorted space and seemed capable of destroying a small world!

The core of the sphere of light is an extremely bright white, with jet-black spatial cracks leaping around its edges!

"Destroy".

With a flick of his finger, Lei Yi sent the lightning orb, containing destructive energy, crashing down like a meteor, carrying a terrifying aura that could annihilate everything, slowly descending towards the center of the Rock Tribe!

Before the ball of light had even truly landed, the emanating thunderous pressure had already caused the wooden fence surrounding the tribe to spontaneously combust and crumble, and the stones on the ground to be crushed into dust by an invisible force! All the tribespeople were desperately channeling their true energy to resist, but in the face of this heavenly attack, their resistance seemed so futile, and despair once again rose in their hearts.

Just when the entire tribe was about to turn to ashes—

"Buzz!"

An invisible barrier suddenly unfolded, centered on the altar! The barrier was a pale purple-gold color, with tiny starlight and power patterns flowing on it. It looked thin, but it steadily supported the slowly descending lightning orb!

Where the lightning sphere touched the barrier, a blinding light erupted, accompanied by a terrifying hissing sound of energy annihilation! The stray arcs of electricity lashed the barrier like wildly dancing silver snakes, yet they could not budge it in the slightest!

"Hmm?" Lei Yi's silvery-white pupils contracted slightly.

The next moment, under the watchful eyes of everyone (including the gods and demons), a solid figure slowly emerged from the sky above the altar, transforming from the ethereal to the tangible.

He still had that handsome face, black hair and black eyes, but at this moment, the Dharma body formed by this wisp of projected divine thought was clearer than before, with purple-gold Dao aura flowing around him, and his eyes were as deep as the starry sky, calmly gazing at the Thunder Wings above.

"A mere projection dares to block me?" Lei Yi sneered as he saw Lin Xuan's state, his killing intent intensifying. He realized that Lin Xuan was not his true form, which calmed him down slightly, but the fact that the other party could so easily block his lightning sphere made him abandon his last bit of contempt.

"To stop you?" Lin Xuan finally spoke, his voice calm yet carrying an aura of authority that surpassed even thunder. "With me here, how dare you act so presumptuously?"

Before he finished speaking, he pointed his fingers like a sword and gently tapped the stalemate of the lightning orb above.

"Nirvana".

An invisible Daoist aura, seemingly capable of ending all things and reducing the laws to nothingness, rippled out like water and instantly invaded the core of the lightning sphere!

The originally violent and destructive lightning sphere seemed to have been drained of all its vitality. The lightning on its surface dimmed and extinguished at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the lightning energy compressed to the extreme inside seemed to have gone through countless ages, decomposing and dissipating on its own. Finally, with a "pop," it vanished silently into the air like a punctured bubble.

With a casual gesture, he defused a world-ending blow!

The people of the Rock Tribe below, seeing the Xuan Tian God manifest his true form and resolve the crisis with such incredible means, erupted in thunderous cheers, their faith surging like a volcanic eruption!

On Lei Yi's side, the Fire Lizard King, the Shadow Demon leader, and their divine and demonic servants all had drastic changes in expression, their eyes filled with shock and horror.

Lei Yi's face darkened completely, and lightning surged in his silver eyes.

"This demon from another realm certainly has some tricks up his sleeve." He stared intently at Lin Xuan. "But this is the Ancient Desolate Realm! Thunder is my domain!"

"Thunder Prison... Descends!"

He roared to the sky, and his four pairs of lightning wings suddenly expanded to their maximum extent! Above the sky, the endless thunderclouds completely erupted! No longer a single silver lightning bolt, but crimson sky-burning lightning, pitch-black annihilation lightning, cyan wood lightning... countless lightning bolts with different attributes and terrifying power, like an army that had received a command, transformed into a destructive lightning inferno covering the entire sky, crashing down on Lin Xuan and the Rock Tribe below him!

This time, it was no longer a single attack, but a true, indiscriminate, law-level suppression of the domain!

Faced with this thunderous inferno that seemed to represent the might of heaven and earth, Lin Xuan's projected avatar finally moved.

He slowly raised his head, gazing at the torrent of thunder. In his deep black eyes, instead of fear, a hint of... eager fighting spirit ignited.

"I'll show you what...the ultimate power truly is."

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