novelraw Chapter 157 : Complete Eruption
Chapter 157 : Complete Eruption
Chapter 157: Complete Eruption
Extreme brilliance, dazzling radiance, and energy so pure it reached its limit rippled along the cracks of the Nascent Soul.
At this moment, the faces of the Ancestor of Heavenly Blood and the powerhouses of the Three Sacred Lands had completely darkened. The aura of destruction and savagery surged forth, the suffocating sense of death had entirely engulfed them.
「No, I don’t want to die! We can still talk this out！」
They screamed, but the explosion of Li Tianwei’s Nascent Soul showed not the slightest sign of weakening.
He didn’t care whether they regretted it or not—dead, they were still useful.
At this moment, before the explosion triggered by absolute mass, all techniques and spells were meaningless. Everything was vaporized in an instant.
The Ancestor of Heavenly Blood and the others still clung to life, desperately casting all sorts of spells and fragmented divine abilities. Yet even so, it only delayed their utter annihilation by a brief moment.
Soon, the Ancestor of Heavenly Blood was engulfed by the boundless brilliance of energy.
「No… no……！」
Feeling the arrival of this power—this cataclysmic explosion of energy at ultimate temperature—these cultivators finally understood that once strength reached its extreme, no matter what means one possessed, they were as fragile as thin paper before absolute power.
The slowing of space and time, the strength of various formations—all of it was crushed and obliterated by this overwhelming force.
The power of the Nascent Soul’s great eruption tore the sky apart, stretching and expanding until a single white point at its center began piercing through everything.
Under such a terrifying detonation, Li Tianwei’s expression remained unchanged as he lifted a hand and waved the Saint Soul Banner.
At the same time, he sent a message to the consciousness within—the System.
「System, system, you know what to do, right！」
At that moment, Li Tianwei’s words transmitted into the System, making it jolt.
Hearing his command, the System didn’t immediately respond—for it truly didn’t understand what Li Tianwei wanted it to do.
【Host, what exactly are you asking me to do?】
「You’ve followed me this long, and you still don’t know what I mean when I call you？」
Li Tianwei frowned slightly. He had assumed that after being with him so long, the System would have developed a bit of perceptiveness—but apparently not!
The System was genuinely confused. It truly had no idea why Li Tianwei was calling for it in the midst of a Nascent Soul explosion. Then, all of a sudden, it understood his intent.
Who could have guessed such a thing? It couldn’t help but be impressed by this man, Li Tianwei.
【Host, I know what to do now.】
The System replied.
Only then did Li Tianwei nod in satisfaction.
「Do it properly. Back in the Forbidden Land of Taixu, even the spirit of that Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator was completely obliterated—what a waste. This time, I don’t want that happening again.」
The System understood Li Tianwei’s plan.
Through Li Tianwei’s consciousness, it looked down upon West-Ling City and the Ancestor of Heavenly Blood’s group.
「Take my Saint Soul Banner and collect all those sinful beings. With your computational power, the System should be able to manage that, shouldn’t it！」
Li Tianwei swiftly raised the Saint Soul Banner in his hand, directing the System to act.
Seeing this, the System extended its power, controlling the Saint Soul Banner as it drifted throughout West-Ling City. Seizing the chaos of Li Tianwei’s Nascent Soul explosion, it slew the spirits of those evil cultivators not protected by the Scripture of Supreme Virtue and Radiant Purity and absorbed them into the Saint Soul Banner.
【You really don’t waste a thing, huh！】
As it continued gathering the sinful souls with the Saint Soul Banner, the System couldn’t help but sigh in admiration.
When Li Tianwei had first commanded it, the System had been dazed, unable even to hear his inner thoughts. But after spending so much time with him, it had begun to grasp his intentions instinctively.
Li Tianwei’s plan was indeed as it had surmised—he had to maintain the Nascent Soul explosion and couldn’t spare a hand to collect the souls of the evil cultivators he had slain.
If left unchecked, their spirits would be completely annihilated in the eruption.
Thus, he needed the System to act—calculating precisely when they perished in the blast, then swiftly reaping their souls.
The System couldn’t help but feel admiration for this man.
In the past, it was always the System assigning tasks and rewards to its hosts, commanding them to act. But now, with Li Tianwei, everything was reversed.
He was the one commanding it. For the System, the more work the better—perhaps it could even earn merit, maybe even a promotion!
With that thought, it worked even more diligently, harvesting the souls at an increasing pace.
At that moment, the System couldn’t help but think of the other entity connected to Li Tianwei—the Book Spirit within the Radiant Wheel—that had not been summoned here.
【It seems my abilities still surpass yours.】
The System sighed. The Nascent Soul’s explosion still showed no signs of stopping.
The expanding energy tore through the heavens, a beam of light cleaving across vast stretches of land.
The Ancestor of Heavenly Blood and the others were completely engulfed. The first to collapse were those few Out-of-Body Realm cultivators from the Three Sacred Lands.
In the instant before death, they still attempted to let their souls escape, hoping for a chance to seize another body and revive.
Unfortunately, before absolute power, all such efforts were meaningless.
When the force of the explosion was great enough, it vaporized all things, erased all things. Even time, space, and light could not escape annihilation.
With the disappearance of those Out-of-Body Realm cultivators, the next to perish was Yun Danzhi. As a Union Realm expert, his body and soul were one; unless one possessed power beyond the Union Realm, he was nearly untouchable.
That was why Li Tianwei’s earlier attacks had no effect on the Ancestor of Heavenly Blood—but now, things were different.
Even the Union Realm meant nothing before such disparity in might.
The saying “One force to shatter ten thousand techniques” was fully displayed here—the collapse and fusion explosion of stellar mass already possessed such destructive potential.
In Li Tianwei’s former era, even the smallest stellar detonation could obliterate everything within several light-years.
His current Fusion Golden Core, even by the most conservative measure—and especially with the explosion concentrated in a smaller range—held power sufficient to annihilate everything completely.
Even though a Union Realm cultivator could transform between body and soul, it was meaningless before such might.
Thus, Yun Danzhi died.
As the powerhouses of the Three Sacred Lands perished, the System hastily drove the Saint Soul Banner to collect their souls.
Though Li Tianwei thought poorly of it, the System’s computational ability was undeniably monstrous, allowing it to swiftly gather the various spirits even amidst such devastation.
Below, West-Ling City was under Li Tianwei’s protection. As long as he deemed someone harboring goodwill toward him, he ensured the explosion’s power would not touch them.
Of course, that mercy applied only to ordinary people—for those like the Ancestor of Heavenly Blood and the demonic cultivators, it was another story entirely.