novelraw Chapter 139 : Life-and-Death Race! Carrying the Divine Kingdom into Exile!
Chapter 139 : Life-and-Death Race! Carrying the Divine Kingdom into Exile!
Chapter 139: Life-and-Death Race! Carrying the Divine Kingdom into Exile!
“Boom——!”
The earth shook and the mountains trembled!
A violent quake, a hundred times stronger than when the Soul King awakened earlier, suddenly erupted from all directions on the western side of the Divine Kingdom!
The ground beneath everyone’s feet was like a mirror struck by a gigantic hammer, instantly covered in spiderweb-like cracks. From the bottomless fissures, destructive spatial turbulence surged forth.
From the dome of the cavern, massive chunks of rock mixed with solidified fragments of laws crashed down with thunderous force!
Through those ever-expanding spatial rifts, they could see that the outside world was heading toward annihilation.
The sky was being torn apart, the land was collapsing, and countless vengeful souls that had no time to escape were shredded by the spatial turbulence, letting out piercing wails before instantly turning to dust.
“Wh… what’s going on?!”
“The heavens are falling! This world is about to be destroyed!”
The Feng Family members, who had just finished signing their “sell-themselves contracts,” had barely shown relief at surviving a catastrophe when it was instantly replaced by even deeper despair.
Uncle Feng’s face turned ashen, and he cried out in a hoarse voice:
“It’s that old bald donkey from Nirvana Zen Monastery! He detonated the source of the Divine Kingdom! He wants to perish together with us!”
“President! Let’s run! If we don’t leave now, it’ll be too late!”
Zhao Wuji was so frightened that his fat face turned pale. He could feel a destructive energy, powerful enough to instantly tear apart even Nascent Soul cultivators, rapidly gathering at the core of the Divine Kingdom.
Yet in the face of this apocalyptic scene, there was not the slightest trace of panic on Chu Feng’s face.
Instead, a nearly insane flame ignited in his eyes!
“Run? Why should we run?”
“Assets delivered right to our doorstep—why would we push them away?”
“A company on the verge of bankruptcy and liquidation is exactly the best timing for us ‘vulture capital’ to enter, carry out ‘debt restructuring,’ and conduct ‘asset mergers and acquisitions’!”
Chu Feng’s words left everyone dumbfounded.
At a time like this, and you were still talking about business?
“Madman! You’re a complete madman!”
Feng Zhiruo could not help but scream,
“This world is about to explode! We’ll all die here!”
“Die?”
Chu Feng bared his teeth in a grin, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.
“Miss Feng, your perspective is still too narrow.”
“Others go exploring to take treasures.”
“But when I, Chu Feng, go exploring…”
His voice, amid the thunderous collapse, clearly reached everyone’s ears, carrying an arrogance that looked down upon all under heaven.
“…I take the entire pot, package the whole map, and carry it away!”
Before his words even fell, his figure moved. Guided by the memories he had just devoured, he charged straight toward the deepest part of the cavern.
There lay the core of the shattered Divine Kingdom!
“Zhang Daniu, Zhao Wuji, and you, Uncle Feng!”
Chu Feng’s voice rang out.
“Protect me! Anyone who dares to disturb me—kill without mercy!”
Zhang Daniu and Zhao Wuji did not hesitate in the slightest and immediately followed.
As for Uncle Feng, after a brief struggle, he looked at that resolute back, then at the increasingly terrifying spatial rifts around them. In the end, he gritted his teeth and followed as well.
Now, this madman was their only hope!
At the end of the cavern, everyone saw the core of the Divine Kingdom.
It was a fragmentary divine spark, no bigger than a thumb, yet seeming to bear the weight of an entire world.
It was like a shattered crystal, quietly suspended in midair, its surface covered in cracks. Yet within it surged a horrifying energy that made one’s heart tremble, rapidly spiraling out of control.
“No time to explain—hold it together for me!”
Chu Feng sat cross-legged, his gaze unprecedentedly grave.
He opened his mouth and inhaled, directly swallowing that fragmentary divine spark into his body!
“Boom!”
An indescribably vast energy instantly exploded within him!
For any other cultivator—even a Deification Ancestor—to so crudely devour a divine spark would have only one outcome: their body exploding into oblivion!
But Chu Feng was different!
Within his sea of consciousness, that financial giant crocodile opened its greedy eyes at this very moment!
“Beginning asset evaluation…”
“Target: one fragmentary divine spark, ownership chaotic, containing massive non-performing assets…”
“Initiating ‘leveraged buyout’ model!”
“Establishing ‘risk hedging’ mechanism!”
“Commencing analysis of core laws, searching for ‘controlling stake’ vulnerabilities…”
At this moment, Chu Feng’s body became a server operating at ultra-high speed!
He did not use any refining methods from the Cultivation World. Instead, he employed the financial models he had been most proud of in his previous life to analyze, deconstruct, and restructure the underlying rules of this divine spark!
Cracks spread inch by inch across his skin, blood flowing freely. Blood seeped from all seven orifices.
Forcibly using a Foundation Establishment cultivator’s mortal body to bear and refine a divine spark pushed the burden on him far beyond the limit!
“President!”
Zhang Daniu watched with eyes about to split, yet he dared not step forward.
Time passed, second by second.
The collapse of the Divine Kingdom had reached its final moment!
A massive spatial black hole formed above their heads, releasing a terrifying suction force that devoured everything!
Just at the final instant, when that annihilating suction was about to engulf everyone—
Chu Feng suddenly opened his eyes!
Within them, it was as if stars were born and destroyed, worlds revolving in cycles!
“收!”
He exhausted his last bit of strength and roared out a single word!
Outside, above the Black Wind Mountain Range.
The abbot of Nirvana Zen Monastery was sneering, waiting for Ten Thousand Souls Cavern to completely explode into nothingness.
However, the earth-shattering explosion he had anticipated never came.
He only saw a burst of dazzling, ultimate radiance flash from the bottomless entrance of Ten Thousand Souls Cavern.
Then…
Then there was nothing.
The entire Ten Thousand Souls Cavern—that forbidden land that had existed for untold tens of thousands of years—along with that lone mountain peak, along with everyone inside, along with the imminent destructive energy…
Vanished into thin air!
As if an invisible giant hand had forcibly wiped it from this world!
“Pfft——!”
The abbot spat out another mouthful of blood. This time, what filled his eyes was no longer fury, but ghostlike terror and bewilderment.
“This… how is this possible?!”
At this moment, Qingyun Sect, Ascension Group headquarters.
Inside the quiet chamber where Leng Yanran resided, protected by layer upon layer of formations.
A streak of light, without any warning, pierced through all formation restrictions and appeared within the room.
As the radiance faded, it revealed a palm-sized, crystal-clear miniature mountain range model, like a crystal palace—precisely the “Ten Thousand Souls Cavern Divine Kingdom” that Chu Feng had refined and packaged!
It slowly hovered above the snow-white-haired, barely breathing Leng Yanran, scattering gentle, incomparably pure soul-power light rain that nourished her nearly exhausted life origin.
And at the core of the Divine Kingdom model, Chu Feng’s body lay straight and stiff, eyes tightly shut, unconscious, already fallen into deep coma.