Peerless Immortal Emperor in City

Chapter 562 561 Do Ants Know Their Sins?

Thunder, the pivot of heaven and earth!

Hence, thunder is the decree of the heavens, its authority supreme, all within the myriad heavens subject to its command!

Even among the Immortal Gods, there is fear of the might of thunder tribulations!

Qin Heng stood in the sky, Mana coursing through him, fingers forming spell seals, surrounded by strands of lightning as though the Thunder God himself had descended, making the Thunderclouds and lightning above seem merely a backdrop awaiting his command!!

Gradually, the Thunderclouds grew denser and more ominous. The pure lightning seemed to catch fire, with tinges of red appearing amidst it, the aura of destruction becoming increasingly overpowering!

Within the area shrouded by dark clouds and lightning, everyone felt as if a mountain weighed upon them, so heavy they couldn't catch their breath! It was as if the very sky was collapsing!!

"What is that!? Can Qin Xuantian actually command the natural forces of heaven and earth? How is this possible!!"

"Incredible! It's unbelievable! Such power is truly that of a legendary Immortal. Who exactly is Qin Xuantian!!"

"Too strong! Truly too strong. I'm finding it hard to breathe, I can barely catch my breath, it's so oppressive! How can this strength possibly just be at the pinnacle of the Innate Realm!?"

Du Zhong and Huang Song had been numbed by the shock of Qin Heng's displayed power. Thinking back to how confident they had been before, they almost wished they could kill their former selves! Merely twenty Semi-Saints dared to come and kill such an aberrantly powerful person! It was utter madness! Truly mad, completely a death wish!!

"My God! What is Qin Heng doing! He can actually control thunder as well? What kind of martial skill is this, it feels even stronger than Thunder God Puhua's!"

"How can this be! That's impossible! The Thunder God Puhua cultivated the peerless Divine Skill 'Nine Heavens Thunder Lord Scripture', the legacy of the true Lord of Thunder from the Heavenly Court!!"

Lu Jianjia and Qu Linglong were also watching Qin Heng in utter shock, their hearts tremendously shaken. The sight of the celestial thunder submitting to him, something not even the Thunder God Puhua of the Myth Organization could achieve—and he was a pinnacle Semi-Saint who converted to thunder Martial Dao! How powerful was Qin Heng, really!? It was as if his limits were forever out of reach, terrifyingly so!!

RUMBLE!!

Thunderclouds churned, lightning flashed, and a radius of several kilometers became a world governed by thunder! One after another, streaks of lightning tinged with red fire flickered within the dark clouds, sometimes weaving through the sky like a net, sometimes like a long red thunder serpent tearing half the sky apart, the dazzling lightning illuminating half of Ru'nan with its brilliance!! This spectacle was truly terrifying, terrifying to the extreme!!

At least, in Zi Can's eyes, that was the sensation!! The red lightning in the sky was truly dreadful. It even made him feel as if his soul were trembling, as though the very foundation of his life was on the brink of annihilation!!

"What is this, what is this!?" Zi Can screamed incredulously at the thunder in the sky, "Qin Xuantian! What is this, what kind of thunder is this!??"

Qin Heng formed spell seals with his hands, surrounded by thunder as if commanding divine retribution. His eyes gleamed with red lightning, lofty and supreme, looking down indifferently as he said, "In the Immortal Cultivation World, from Divinity Transformation to Returning to Empty stands a thunder tribulation called the Forty-Nine Red Sky Tribulation. To transcend it is to infuse the Yang Spirit into the void, to entrust the True Spirit to the Dao, henceforth enjoying boundless life, eternal and undying! If one cannot transcend, naturally the Yang Spirit is destroyed, the body perishes along with the Dao, ceasing to exist without even a chance for reincarnation. A Martial Dao Deity, I presume, is not much different!"

Martial Dao Deity! Placed among Cultivators, it is akin to the Divinity Transformation Stage, where in the Starry Sky Immortal Cultivation World of Qin Heng's former life, one could suppress a star system, commanding a major sect as a Divine Monarch—certainly a power to be reckoned with!!

However, for Qin Heng, it was nothing significant. After all, in his previous life, he began Qi Refinement at seven, reached the Nascent Soul at eight, and truly cultivated the Yang Spirit, stepping into the Divinity Transformation Stage at just nine. This Realm was all too simple! Everything about this Realm held no secrets in his eyes!!

Although Martial Dao Deity and Divinity Transformation Stage bear differences, their Realm levels are equivalent. In Qin Heng's view, the so-called power of rebirth from a drop of blood was actually nothing at all. Even though he was still at the pinnacle of Qi Refinement, breaking the so-called Divine Blood force within Zi Can was not a difficult feat. After all, the "Divine Blood" within Zi Can's body had been passed down for countless generations and could be said to be extremely diluted.

Qin Heng's mastery of the Dao was so profound that even the Forty-Nine Red Sky Tribulation, a terrifying thunder tribulation that would make most Divinity Transformation Stage Divine Monarchs tremble in fear, was nothing more than a minor Spell that he could simulate in his eyes. Even though he was only at the peak of the Qi Refinement Realm, with his lofty cultivation and innately high Divine Sense, he didn't need to exert much effort. With just a slight application of a Spell, he was able to create a simplified version of the Forty-Nine Red Sky Tribulation!

That's right, the terrifying black clouds and lightning in the sky were actually just a simulation of the thunder tribulation produced by Qin Heng, containing a fraction of the power of the true Forty-Nine Red Sky Tribulation, enough to destroy the "Divine Blood" passed down to the offspring by Martial Dao Deities! The true Forty-Nine Red Sky Tribulation could envelop the entire sun, with its aftermath capable of obliterating Perpetual Stars—a cataclysm of such terror that Qin Heng's current cultivation level would still find it challenging to simulate through Spells.

Zi Can did not understand some of the terms Qin Heng mentioned, such as the Immortal Cultivation World, Divinity Transformation Stage, and Returning to Empty. These words were incomprehensible to him. However, that did not prevent him from piecing together the meaning from Qin Heng's previous and following statements.

"The Forty-Nine Red Sky Tribulation you're talking about—is this it?!" Zi Can looked at the lightning in the sky, incredulous. Could this really be the tribulation capable of destroying Martial Dao Deities?

"No! This is impossible! Absolutely impossible; how could such lightning, such mighty power between heaven and earth, be within your control at the peak of Innate?! I don't believe it! I don't believe you can kill me! Qin Xuantian, you must be bluffing; I don't believe, I don't..."

BOOM!!

Red lightning illuminated half of the sky, lighting up the cosmos, striking Zi Can squarely without bias, cutting off his words, and instantly reducing him to charred remains!!

On the charred corpse, Divine Blood shone brightly, racing through his body, trying to regather the spark of life and dispel the deathly aura. But the moment the Divine Blood shone, the Thunderclouds in the sky seemed to receive a tremendous stimulus and suddenly exploded!!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!!

The red lightning fell like a dense rain, ceaselessly pouring down, and it all hammered onto Zi Can's body. No matter how brightly the Divine Blood shone, it was overwhelmed by the seemingly infinite barrage of lightning!!

This spectacle stunned everyone watching, and they truly felt what it meant to say, "Thunder, the pivot of heaven and earth!" Such power was too strong, too terrifying! Of course, what was most horrifying was Qin Xuantian, the dreadful powerhouse who had summoned the thunder tribulation out of thin air!!

BOOM!

BOOM! BOOM!!

As a colossal bolt of lightning struck down, the seemingly endless rain of red lightning finally began to subside, and the Thunderclouds in the sky gradually dissipated, returning to clear skies once more.

Qin Heng still stood in the sky, but the son of the King of Shang, Zi Can, was now gone without a trace—no resurrection, no body left behind. This Semi-Saint of the Heaven Rankings seemed to vanish completely—Incinerated to nothingness!!

The thought crossed the minds of everyone present, and their gaze towards the young man in the sky turned even more fearful, and despairing!! It's over! Totally over!! Qin Xuantian came to Yu State not just to kill Zi Can, but to annihilate the martial families of Yu State!! Now, with Zi Can dead! Who in the entirety of Yu State could stand against him? Not a single one!!

CRACK!

Just at that moment, the sound of the void being torn apart rang out, grating and so vivid it made everyone's scalp tingle!!

The recently cleared sky suddenly dimmed again, as if the sun was obscured by some formidable force, plunging the entire world into darkness.

Qin Heng frowned slightly. "A powerful entity crossing dimensions?" he mused, then shook his head. "No, the Spiritual Energy has not yet fully recovered, and the Laws are still dormant. Those who can cross dimensions are at most Saints. This aura... It seems like a powerful entity has sent a sliver of their consciousness here?"

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!!

The sound of wind suddenly rose between heaven and earth. It was not strong, but it was distinctly noticeable, so much so that everyone felt it, and then all eyes turned in one direction, towards the source of the wind! In that direction, a crack opened in the void, as if connecting to another world. A giant dark bird spanning more than a hundred miles flew in from another dimension, covering the skies.

Then, a mighty voice resonated throughout the cosmos, filled with rage.

"The Heavenly Mandate Perpetual Bird, descending to birth the Shang dynasty—how exalted! You ant, you killed my Yin Shang kinsman; do you know your crime?"