Chapter 1228: Peak of the Cloud Sea: Heaven Defying Disappears! (Third update)

Up and down, front and back, left and right—at this instant, they were completely permeated by the countless Restrictions Wang Lin unleashed. Under the collective Seal, it was like a scattered sphere rapidly re-condensing.

The elder within the Jade Pendant's light was already showing despair, but just then, a shriek came from inside the Jade Pendant. A pitch-black mist suddenly dispersed from the Jade Pendant, transforming into a massive centipede whose body was several hundred zhang long!

This centipede was entirely black, and it had a golden line running down its back, making it look extremely ferocious!

After it appeared, it immediately spun around and sprayed a mouthful of poisonous mist toward Wang Lin, who was pursuing it from behind! This mist contained a powerful toxin; the Restrictions condensing in front of Wang Lin instantly collapsed upon contact with the mist.

Wang Lin's eyes flashed. Without the slightest pause, he sped forward, raising his right hand to point at the sky, and shouted, "Thunder of Heaven and Earth, heed my command!"

As the words left his mouth, endless thunder suddenly erupted in the sky above the Moruo Continent. These bolts of thunder transformed into countless streaks, replacing the sky and earth, rumbling as they shot straight toward the massive, materialized centipede.

The ferocious centipede shrieked skyward, showing signs of fighting desperately. The moment the thunder arrived, a strange scene immediately unfolded: black mist appeared again from within the Jade Pendant, materializing six hundred zhang centipedes!

A total of seven centipedes roared frantically, their poisonous mist filling the heavens and earth, colliding violently with the incoming thunder.

Earth-shattering explosions sounded at this moment, mixed with miserable shrieks. Three of the seven centipedes instantly collapsed, turning into Void Realm, while the remaining four rapidly retreated.

Wang Lin's gaze flashed. His body flickered and rushed directly into the thunder's attack range. He raised his right hand and struck forward fiercely. Amidst the roar, two of the four remaining centipedes collapsed again!

The last two remaining centipedes rapidly retreated with sharp shrieks, intending to return inside the Jade Pendant.

But how could Wang Lin let them return? He flicked his right hand, and his Storage Space suddenly appeared. Two short swords flew out from within, shooting straight toward the two centipedes.

Thumping sounds echoed as the two short swords swept past, transforming into sword light. The two retreating centipedes immediately trembled and collapsed!

All seven centipedes were dead. The Restriction Seal Wang Lin had cast around them was now unimpeded, furiously condensing and completely locking down the area around the Jade Pendant, preventing it from escaping again!

The series of Divine Abilities Wang Lin had used up until now were enough to kill a nirvana shattering Middle Stage Cultivator, yet even after destroying the seven centipedes, the Jade Pendant remained completely undamaged!

The more Wang Lin looked at the Jade Pendant, the more extraordinary he felt it was; it must be some extremely powerful Magic Treasure. When he calculated his chance of survival, the final image of vitality was Liu Jinbiao. Now, Wang Lin was ten-tenths certain that his chance of survival was closely related to this Jade Pendant!

Now, within the Restriction Seal, Wang Lin took a step, approaching the edge of the Jade Pendant's light. He raised his right hand, about to grab the Jade Pendant, but at that exact moment, a monstrous, fierce flame roared out from inside the Jade Pendant.

The black mist of the Jade Pendant surged again, and a centipede nearly a thousand zhang long rushed out. At this moment, Wang Lin was too close to the Jade Pendant. The centipede had just materialized and was practically pressed against Wang Lin. The moment it opened its massive mouth and sprayed poisonous mist, it lunged to swallow Wang Lin whole.

At the same time, Liu Jinbiao, who was inside the Jade Pendant, grew ferocious in expression and roared, "Jade Pendant, swallow him!!! He is a nirvana shattering Old Monster, and he surely has many treasures and Origin Crystals on him. Swallow him, and I won't take a single thing; they're all yours!"

Just as the thousand zhang centipede ferociously lunged to swallow him, Wang Lin's expression remained unchanged. Given his intellect, how could he not have prepared defenses against this strange Jade Pendant? The moment the thousand zhang centipede arrived, Wang Lin's eyes flashed, and he opened his mouth in a roar!

Roar!!

This was not a Cultivator's roar, but the Roar of an Ancient God! It was the furious roar of a nearly six-star Ancient God of the Royal Clan! This sound shook the heavens and earth, seeming capable of tearing a hole even in the sky!

The earth rumbled, countless distant mountain peaks instantly collapsed, and rivers even reversed their flow, letting out roars!

This Roar of an Ancient God, combined with Wang Lin's current cultivation and delivered at such close range, could directly shatter all Nirvana Cleansing Cultivators. It could cause the Physical Bodies of nirvana shattering Early Stage Cultivators to collapse, and it could shock the minds of nirvana shattering Middle Stage Cultivators, causing them to vomit blood and suffer severe injuries!

It could cause the ears of nirvana shattering Late Stage Cultivators to ring, bleed from all seven orifices, and lose all sensation! Even a nirvana shattering Great Perfection expert would be injured and experience a momentary buzz at such close proximity!

The thousand zhang centipede had not even begun to swallow when it immediately let out a miserable shriek. Its body trembled violently, as if a fierce gale had swept through it, or as if a carriage weighing millions of catties had violently crashed into it!

With a boom, the thousand zhang centipede's body instantly collapsed, completely disintegrating and vanishing into thin air!

Its miserable shriek before death still echoed through the heavens and earth, becoming a final resonance!

After losing the centipede, the Jade Pendant's light immediately dissipated, but a soft glow faintly surrounded the outside of the Jade Pendant. This soft glow seemed incompatible with all other light in the world, as if this Jade Pendant should not exist in this world and did not belong to it!

Wang Lin grabbed into the Void Realm with his right hand and immediately took the Jade Pendant!

The moment he grasped the Jade Pendant, Wang Lin's mind suddenly roared. An indescribable power violently surged out from the Jade Pendant, rushing into his body. As it swept through, the Heaven Defying Bead within his Primordial Spirit actually emitted light, shining in resonance with the Jade Pendant!

Under this resonance, the Jade Pendant in Wang Lin's hand abruptly dissipated and completely merged into his body. It appeared outside the Heaven Defying Bead within his Primordial Spirit, and the Heaven Defying Bead fiercely sucked, drawing the Jade Pendant inside Heaven Defying!

At this exact moment, the Heaven Defying Bead violently… collapsed! It vanished within Wang Lin's Primordial Spirit, as if it had never existed! Yet, Wang Lin could clearly sense the existence of Heaven Defying. He even had a faint feeling that at this moment, he had become Heaven Defying!

This feeling was vague, but Wang Lin had no time to ponder it because the moment Heaven Defying dissipated, his mind roared, and scenes of memories that did not belong to him appeared.

In those memories, everything was pitch black. A Jade Pendant was buried deep within the earth. After countless tens of thousands of years, it remained completely unchanged until one day, the soil near the Jade Pendant loosened. Eight small centipedes burrowed through the earth and stopped beside the Jade Pendant. As if their intelligence had been awakened by the Jade Pendant's power, they began to absorb its aura.

Time slowly passed, and the years were endless. As the eight centipedes absorbed the energy, they faintly developed the aura of Dao Cultivators. Then, one day, the bodies of the eight centipedes trembled and died, but the Primordial Spirits they had Cultivated rushed into the Jade Pendant, gradually transforming into something resembling an artifact spirit.

However, since this artifact spirit was formed by external factors, it could not fully control the Jade Pendant's power; it could only utilize one-thousandth of it!

Innumerable tens of thousands of years passed again. During another trembling of the earth, the mountains and rivers changed. The Jade Pendant, which had been deeply buried underground, had a corner exposed above the surface.

An elder, bruised and swollen, fled quickly in panic. Faint curses and sounds of people calling him a swindler could be heard echoing behind him.

While fleeing, the elder's injuries seemed to flare up, and he spat out a mouthful of blood. By extreme coincidence, this blood landed on the corner of the Jade Pendant exposed above ground. The Jade Pendant immediately emitted light, causing the fleeing elder to notice it.

The elder picked up the Jade Pendant, glanced at it, and immediately fled again… Wang Lin suddenly woke up. All of this seemed slow, but in reality, only half an instant had passed. Outsiders could not discern any clues. Liu Jinbiao stared blankly at Wang Lin, having personally witnessed the Jade Pendant in Wang Lin's hand mysteriously vanish.

Furthermore, his mind was stung with pain, as his connection to the Jade Pendant was severed.

But right now, compared to his life, the Jade Pendant was nothing at all. Terror appeared in Liu Jinbiao's eyes. He plopped down onto his knees, wailing loudly.

"Senior, spare my life! Senior, spare my life! This Junior has never taken a life in his entire existence. I only occasionally swindle and scare people, taking some property at most, but I have never committed murder! My crime is not punishable by death! Senior, please let this Junior off this one time. This Junior will certainly repent and turn over a new leaf, behaving properly from now on and absolutely never committing fraud again…"

Liu Jinbiao continuously kowtowed there, his courage completely shattered by Wang Lin. He pleaded with a pale face.

"This Jade Pendant is too astonishing. Eight ordinary centipedes could Cultivate cultivation comparable to nirvana shattering Cultivators within it! Liu Jinbiao used this to roam the Cloud Sea, committing countless frauds without ever being exposed!" Wang Lin took a deep breath, unwilling to listen to Liu Jinbiao's rambling. With a flick of his sleeve, he immediately took the man into his Storage Space.

"This person's crime is indeed not punishable by death. His years of fraud have nothing to do with me, but since he swindled the Guiyuan Sect, he deserves a slight punishment! Xu Ligou, you always complain about being lonely. I'm giving this person to you. Give him a good lesson!" Wang Lin transmitted his Divine Thought to Xu Ligou, who hadn't left the Storage Space for many years.

Xu Ligou had originally been listless, constantly cursing internally over the past century, missing the beauty of the outside world. He especially reminisced about the 'wicked fun' he had in the Luotian Star Domain, continually savoring the memory and often hoping to experience it again.

Just as he was feeling lonely, he suddenly heard Wang Lin's transmission and saw Liu Jinbiao drop into the Storage Space. He couldn't help but perk up, his eyes shining with excitement, almost roaring in delight.

"Master, don't worry! Haha, Little Xu Zi will definitely give this blind fool a good 'lesson' and let him know how formidable Xu Ligou is!" Xu Ligou excitedly rubbed his hands together, wearing a malicious grin, and slowly approached the elder named Liu Jinbiao. In Liu Jinbiao's terror, the light in Xu Ligou's eyes grew brighter and brighter!

"Damn it, how many years has your Grandpa Xu been lonely? How many years?! Today, Heaven finally opened its eyes and let you old fellow offend that Star of Calamity! Good! It's great that you offended him!" Amidst his laughter, Xu Ligou pounced forward, though his laughter sounded somewhat lecherous… It is already the three updates, but the scarcity of monthly votes made Er Gen, who was silently typing and suddenly saw the results, feel a roar brewing in his heart! Fellow Daoists, today is an explosive release!! It's an explosive release of at least four chapters!!!

Unlike others, Er Gen does not trade monthly votes for updates, but the slow growth of monthly votes during an explosive release was like cold water poured over his head, extinguishing even the most passionate state.

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