Chapter 790: Competing with the Heavens (Part 4)

Zhou Huai manipulated Hou Yi, transforming into a stream of light as he descended at the entrance of the Abyss of Mist ruins.

He originally wanted to rely on Hou Yi's high mobility and long-range suppression power to first stall the skeleton legions crawling out from underground for a while, waiting for other Clones to revive or rush over to reinforce.

As a result, he never expected that after arriving, he would see such a creepy scene.

Not only were the Great Xia Military Department soldiers stubbornly defending the distant highlands dumbfounded, but even Zhou Huai himself, hidden in the dark, was quite surprised.

Right under his gaze, the interwoven purple lightning net all over the sky, like a living thing, locked onto those thousands of newly emerged skeleton soldiers.

Not a single one was missed!

The thunderstorm descended, directly vaporizing all of them, not even leaving a single scrap of bone for this world.

"These purple thunderstorms… are actually all aimed at the undead reviving in the cave."

Too terrifying.

Such terrifying lightning power, even a Peak SS-Rank Professional without activating defense skills wouldn't be able to endure it, right?

Just a single pillar of lightning could obliterate an SS-Rank Peak undead war general.

"Whose handiwork is this anyway?"

Zhou Huai calculated frantically in his heart.

The Great Xia military? Impossible, if Marshal Zhao Qingcang could mobilize this kind of power, he would have used it long ago when dealing with Kujo Naruya.

Mr. Duan of the Dawnbreaker Guild? That's not right either. Mr. Duan went to great lengths to collect life energy just to awaken these ancient and primordial era surviving clans and monsters; how could he possibly call down lightning himself to strike dead his hard-earned awakened masterpieces?

"Could it be…"

In Zhou Huai's mind flashed the four words Mr. Duan had once spoken—version replacement!

"This is not human effort! This is the self-cleansing mechanism of the world's Laws!" Zhou Huai muttered to himself, his eyes filled with shock.

"These monsters that should have been buried in the old era want to forcibly revive, touching the taboos of this realm, so… they brought down Heavenly Punishment!"

Just as Zhou Huai was guessing, the anomaly upgraded once again.

"Dong——! Dong——! Dong——!"

Deep inside the bottomless cave, that desolate, ancient sound of war drums not only didn't stop because of the bombardment of heavenly thunder, but instead became increasingly loud and berserk!

Tens of millions of people's hearts beat violently at the same frequency!

"Woo——!"

The low horn sound pierced the darkness, shooting straight into the clouds.

In this sound, there was no fear of lightning, no awe of heavenly punishment; what remained was only endless Battle Intent and anger!

They were still putting up the most intense resistance against the sound of thunder above the sky!

The next second, a thick, low man's voice resounded between heaven and earth.

The voice was like a giant bell or a large drum, deafening!

"Once driving fierce winds to break ten thousand layers!"

"A thousand autumns of hegemony like cold ice!"

"Though the body decays, the bone and Soul still remain!"

"Drawing swords, still daring to compete with the heavens!!!"

A loud sound spread out—!!!

As the four words "competing with the heavens" echoed between heaven and earth, a massive, terrifying Death Qi rushed into the sky from the bottom of the cave like a volcanic eruption, directly shattering several stray purple lightnings in midair!

Hou Yi, suspended high in the air, was violently shaken by the impact of this wave of Qi, and Zhou Huai had to manipulate him to fly backward for hundreds of meters before barely stabilizing his footing.

"What a 'competing with the heavens'."

Heaven-Defying.

What a grand bold spirit!

This is a peerless overlord who has truly experienced the ups and downs of eternity, and even if his Physical Body rots and turns into withered bones, he will never bow his head to the rules of the world!

"All troops on guard! Whatever crawls out from inside, give me all heavy firepower to suppress it!" Regimental Commander Zhang roared at the top of his lungs, the corners of his eyes even cracking open with bloodshots due to extreme tension.

"It's useless!" Qin Ming grabbed him and roared, "That's a King! The King in their mouths! Against an existence of this level, our weapons simply cannot break his defense!"

As they spoke, a massive human figure slowly crawled out of the cave amidst a set of teeth-aching bone-grinding sounds.

It was precisely that giant skeleton sitting high upon the throne of white bones, revered as king by the countless skeleton army!

He didn't ride any mount, nor did he bring a single soldier or private, just like this alone, dragging that tattered black cloak, stepping onto the surface step by step.

In those hollow skeleton eye sockets, two clusters of purple Soul flames burned fiercely, staring at the thundercloud above his head that was depressed to the extreme.

"Crack——Bang!"

The purple lightning in the sky felt this ultimate provocation, becoming increasingly condensed and thick.

The purple plasma was as viscous as water in the clouds, making a deafening roar, issuing the final and most severe warning to this king of the old era!

This is the will of the Heavenly Dao!

However, the giant skeleton was completely unfearful.

He slightly lifted that pale white skeleton skull, unexpectedly letting out a harsh, wild laugh.

"I am the Human Emperor! This heaven cannot trap me!"

Having said that, without the slightest retreat, he heavily took a step forward.

"Dong!"

Right when he planted his foot, a shocking scene occurred.

On that originally pale white, withered giant skeleton frame, dark red blood threads unexpectedly began to squirm and grow at a speed visible to the naked eye!

The blood threads quickly intertwined into muscles, and tough dark cyan skin began to cover the muscles.

He was actually reshaping his Physical Body!

To forcibly plunder the vitality between heaven and earth with this lifeless white bone body, reversing the Laws of life and death!

However, the purple lightning representing the will of the world would not allow such a rule-breaking anomaly to exist!

Nor would it humor him!

"Bang-rumble——!!!"

A terrifying purple lightning pillar with a diameter exceeding five meters, carrying the divine punishment might of destroying heaven and earth, directly tore through the Void Realm, roaring down fiercely!

The speed of this strike was too fast, so fast that even Hou Yi's vision could only capture purple afterimages.

"Bang——!"

The lightning hit dead center on the top of the giant skeleton's head!

The berserk lightning attribute Law wreaked havoc frantically, the earth collapsed, and centered around the Skeleton King, a huge deep pit tens of meters deep and over a hundred meters in diameter was forcefully blasted out!

The piercing lightning made the Great Xia soldiers on the highlands scream and cover their eyes.

"Is he dead?!" Regimental Commander Zhang lay behind the cover, his face covered in mud, shouting and asking.

"No… not yet!" Qin Ming endured the piercing pain in his eyes, staring at the center where the lightning light was wreaking havoc, "He's still moving!"

The smoke and lightning scattered away.

At the bottom of the deep pit, that king was charred all over by this divine punishment strike.

The tiny bit of flesh and blood he had just grown was burned into charcoal by the high temperature of the lightning, and even on his proud dark gold skeleton, shocking tortoise-shell cracking patterns appeared.

His appearance was extremely disheveled.

But he did not fall down.

"Click… crack…"

He supported the ground with one hand, forcefully climbing up from the bottom of the deep pit.

The skull slowly raised, and although the purple flames in the eye sockets dimmed a bit, that unyielding wild intent became increasingly intense.

He roared, braving the residual purple electricity constantly leaping across his body, striding with charred legs, stepping on the edge of the deep pit, still stubbornly wanting to walk out!

One step! Two steps!

With every step he took, the cracks on his body healed by a fraction under the repair of strange powers, and new flesh and blood stubbornly began to grow again.

The thunderclouds in the sky were completely infuriated.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Thunderclouds rolled, and the vault of heaven roared.

As a result, before the Skeleton King could walk out of the range of the deep pit,

yet another pillar of purple lightning thicker than before, with a color so deep it was almost black, carrying the supreme mighty power of obliterating everything, violently struck down!