Chapter 793: Retreat, Retreat, Retreat!

In an instant, a sacred white light, reaching the absolute limit of brilliance and dazzling to the extreme, erupted from Li Er's body!

This light was not the purifying Holy Light filled with religious connotations like Gabriel's, but rather a light of Law carrying righteous awe and embodying the ultimate principles of heaven and earth!

Like a rising sun, the Holy Light opened up an absolute Domain with a radius of dozens of meters beneath the dim and oppressive thunderclouds!

Beneath this Holy Light, Li Er's hair and beard stood completely on end!

His graying beard and long hair danced wildly in the turbulent airflow. His originally hunchbacked body stood straight and tall like a pine tree, resembling a living Saint walking out of ancient mythology—majestic without anger, sacred and inviolable!

The Human Emperor beneath the thunder, preparing to welcome the final baptism, was startled by this sudden, awe-inspiring Aura.

His hollow eye sockets, burning with purple flames, turned toward Li Er at the center of the Domain.

"Hmm?"

Feeling that Law force which made him extremely uncomfortable, the Human Emperor let out a heaven-shaking, booming interrogation:

"Who are you?!"

"How dare you trespass into My place of Undergoing Tribulation?!"

However, Zhou Huai had no intention of answering his question. Villains died from talking too much, and he always believed in the truth of striking while the iron was hot.

The thirty-second duration of the Saints Domain was extremely precious; not a single second could be wasted!

His gaze fixed on the Human Emperor, who was at the critical juncture where his old strength was exhausted and his new strength had yet to be born.

Li Er slightly opened his mouth, his tongue blooming with spring thunder.

"Retreat!"

With a single word uttered, heaven and earth were shocked!

Under the supreme might of the Word of Law, bolstered by the blessing of the Saints Domain, it transformed into an irresistible rule!

The Human Emperor, who had originally stood proudly between heaven and earth and prepared to withstand the final heavenly lightning head-on, trembled throughout his body!

"Bang!"

His massive body actually retreated a large step backward out of control!

This was not just as simple as stepping back!

This step back was like pulling the floodgates of a reservoir, directly interrupting the Heaven-Defying Aura that he had managed to accumulate with great difficulty and was steadily climbing!

A fatal crack appeared in that invincible Concept of daring to contend with the heavens!

The Human Emperor's expression changed drastically, and the purple flames in his eye sockets flickered violently, almost extinguishing.

"Damn it!"

"You actually blocked my Breakthrough!!!"

"I will kill you! I will hack you into a thousand pieces!!!"

The Human Emperor let out a frantic roar, his voice filled with the resentment and reluctance of falling short at the final hurdle. He frantically mobilized the remaining power within his body, wanting to grind this white-haired old man who ruined his good deed into minced meat.

"Kill me?"

Controlling Li Er, Zhou Huai sneered derisively, "You talk fiercely enough, but unfortunately… you don't have that chance anymore!"

Just as the Human Emperor was shouting about killing, the thunderclouds above the firmament sensed the weakening of this Heaven-Defying person's Aura.

"Rumble—!!!"

The final and most terrifying deep purple apocalyptic wild lightning smashed down with the might to destroy everything in its path!

Under the suppression of the purple lightning, the Human Emperor didn't even have the strength to raise his hand, let alone any chance to attack Li Er!

Seizing this excellent opportunity, Zhou Huai drove the remaining Law force within his body to the absolute limit.

Looking at the Human Emperor whose spine was bent by the lightning, he spat out three bone-chilling words consecutively.

"Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!"

Word of Law, triple-stacked!

"Hum! Hum! Hum!"

Three invisible rule ripples slammed fiercely into the Human Emperor's chest.

"Thud! Thud! Thud!"

The Human Emperor's charred body, as if continuously struck by three invisible giant hammers, retreated three steps completely out of control!

After completing these three steps of retreat, the Heaven-Defying Aura he had previously accumulated dropped to the absolute extreme, like a completely punctured balloon!

"No—!!!"

He could no longer contend with that heaven-destroying purple lightning above his head.

The purple lightning pillar pierced through his defense without any hindrance, fiercely hacking onto his dark gold skull covered in cracks.

"Ugh ahhhhh—!!!"

A scream, piercing to the extreme and filled with endless despair, resounded throughout the entire Abyss of Mist.

Amidst everyone's terrified and horrified gazes,

this former Human Emperor of the old era, who once stirred up winds and clouds and was only half a step away from transcending the rules, had his huge charred body fall backward like a collapsing mountain.

In the end, he crashed heavily into the bottomless cavern abyss behind him.

Endless darkness engulfed this king of the old era.

The earth stopped trembling, and the ancient battle drum sounds also abruptly ceased.

Between heaven and earth, it fell into a dead silence.

Above the firmament, after losing its target, the deep purple thunderclouds hovered and rolled in mid-air for a few turns.

Afterwards, the edges of the thunderclouds began to dissipate, turning into specks of purple light that merged into the Void Realm.

Sunlight pierced through the gloom and sprinkled onto the scorched earth on the periphery of the Abyss of Mist.

Zhou Huai had no mind whatsoever to appreciate this scenery of surviving a catastrophe.

When the Human Emperor fell off the cliff, he had already extracted his consciousness from the body of Great Sage Li Er, transferring it to a high ground in the distance and attaching it to Hou Yi's body.

Hou Yi gripped the longbow in his hand tightly, staring at the white-haired old man dozens of meters away who was still standing in the golden light of the Saints Domain.

"Come on… let me see just how terrifying this backlash really is." Zhou Huai gritted his teeth inwardly.

Just now, he manipulated Li Er to forcibly intervene in the World Will's cleansing Lightning Tribulation.

That was a heavenly punishment that even Transcendents had to fear by three points!

Even if the Saints Domain skill could forcibly reduce ninety percent of the backlash effect, the remaining ten percent was still not something a level 21 Professional could withstand.

Zhou Huai had even made the worst-case plan—Li Er would be reduced to ashes on the spot, entering a twenty-four-hour resurrection cooldown period.

Although it pained him, in order to obliterate the huge variable that was the Human Emperor, this deal was worth it no matter how he calculated it.

One second.

Two seconds.

Five seconds…

Time passed bit by bit, and the air was very quiet.

However, the heaven-destroying thunder representing the punishment of the rules that he expected had not arrived for a long time.

Li Er's hunchbacked yet upright body still stood steadily in place. Let alone being reduced to ashes, not even a corner of his clothes was scorched.

Even as the thirty-second time limit of the Saints Domain ended and the white light dissipated, the old man very comfortably stroked his graying beard, looking spirited and robust.

"What's going on?"

Hou Yi, possessed by Zhou Huai, frowned, "Is Heavenly Dao blind? Or did Word of Law bug out?"

Just as he was in doubt and uncertainty, deep within his mind, a series of crisp, melodious, and ethereal System notification sounds exploded without warning!

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining Karma: 10,000,000 points!]

When the notification sound fell, Zhou Huai was completely stunned, his brain buzzing with a blank mind.

"One… ten… hundred… thousand… ten thousand… one hundred thousand… one million… ten million!"

Zhou Huai's consciousness counted the long string of dazzling zeros on the panel in his Sea of Consciousness. His breathing grew heavy, and even Hou Yi's hand holding the bow was shaking.

"Ten million!!!"

"A full ten million Karma points!!!"

Previously, he had made Li Er wander the streets of Great Xia Country catching Ancient Remnant Clan members to act as power banks. Working himself half to death, he had only accumulated a little over one million Karma points.

Now, just because he helped old heaven shout three 'retreats' at a critical moment, he instantly became super rich?!

"Hahaha! So that's how it is! Turns out this is the correct way to unlock Word of Law and Karma!"

Zhou Huai shouted frantically in his heart, "The Human Emperor is a Heaven-Defying person, and Heavenly Dao wants to strike him dead. I helped Heavenly Dao stomp on him, and not only did the System not judge me for interfering with the Lightning Tribulation, but instead treated me like a helpful citizen and directly issued a huge bonus for acts of righteousness!"