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All cultivators—regardless of their rank—simultaneously felt an indescribable tremor rising from the depths of their souls.

It is a kind of awe that comes from the instinct of life, like an ant looking up at the sky, or a mayfly glimpsing eternity.

"What's this?"

Taiyi Gate, a Taoist temple atop the mountain.

Zhang Shundao's eyes, which had been slightly closed, suddenly opened, and an unprecedented glint of light shot out from his cloudy old eyes.

The cup of spiritual tea in his hand, which he had been holding for half an hour, trembled slightly, and a few drops of amber-colored tea splashed out, but evaporated into nothingness before hitting the ground.

The old Taoist priest slowly got up, walked to the edge of the cliff outside the temple, and looked up at the sky.

He saw it.

What appears as an empty sky to most people has, in his perception, become completely different.

The laws are being reorganized, energy is running rampant, and heaven and earth... are surrendering!

“This kid…” Zhang Shundao’s lips curled into an extremely complicated smile, a smile that was neither a smile nor a sigh, “He’s made a bigger commotion than I imagined.”

"The Law Realm... Is this the power of an eighth-order cultivator? It's definitely on a completely different level!"

Standing beside him was Lin Qingxuan, the white-clad youth who had become an internet sensation for slaying a strange beast with his sword.

At this moment, Lin Qingxuan was completely frozen. The young man's hand holding the sword hilt trembled slightly. As a sword cultivator, his keen perception of spatial fluctuations made him realize even more clearly how solid the locked space above Shenzhou was!

Let alone a fifth-order cultivator, even if he forced his way in, he would probably be suppressed instantly!

"Master, Master... this is..." Lin Qingxuan's voice was a little hoarse.

Zhang Shundao slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, his eyes filled with complex emotions: "Watch, Qingxuan. This is... the gap between us and the eighth-order Law Realm."

"Eighth-tier?? Law Realm??!"

Lin Qingxuan was dumbfounded. When did an eighth-rank expert appear in Shenzhou?! Was he hallucinating because he was so badly beaten by those two guys from the Shangguan family back then?

Previously, apart from his own teacher who had reached the peak of the seventh rank, the strongest person in the world was only at the late stage of the seventh rank!

How could an eighth-tier being suddenly appear?!

This is a realm that even a god-like figure like one's own teacher would aspire to!

Just as Lin Qingxuan was deeply moved by his teacher's words about an eighth-level expert.

The answer was revealed the next moment.

Chapter 342 The Emperor of the End: Good Son-in-Law!

On the eastern coast of China, above the Shangguan family mansion, a figure slowly emerged.

He stood there calmly, as if he had existed in that sky from the very beginning.

Shangguan Yun wore a simple white shirt and black trousers today, looking like an ordinary college student, with her short black hair slightly messy.

He seemed somewhat casual, but it was precisely this casual demeanor that made the hearts of all the powerful individuals who sensed him clench painfully.

Because the moment he appeared, everyone clearly "senses" it—not by seeing it with their eyes, nor by scanning it with their divine sense, but by a deeper kind of feeling, as if the very rules of the world were announcing his arrival to them.

"This is Shangguan Yun?" Long You, a seventh-level expert in the military, swallowed hard. "Shangguan Che's second son? That kid who just broke through to the seventh level not long ago?"

"What the hell?! He just broke through to the seventh rank?!"

Some seventh-tier experts started cursing.

This is a level seven item, he'll just eat it!

That kind of tremor originating from the soul, that sense of oppression at the level of life, has definitely far surpassed the seventh level!

Eighth Rank!!!

That's definitely an eighth-tier being! There really are people in this world who can break through to the eighth tier!

Not only were the many powerful figures in Shenzhou shocked by Shangguan Yun's display of eighth-level cultivation, but the powerful figures from other continents also turned their astonished gazes toward Shenzhou, with many looking completely bewildered.

No, everyone is doing fine at the seventh rank, how come an eighth rank suddenly appeared in your Divine Continent?

If it weren't for the apocalypse, and if war broke out between countries, they couldn't imagine how they would react to facing an eighth-tier being.

Fortunately, it's the end of the world, and everyone is united against a common enemy. The existence of an eighth-tier being has rekindled the hope of the group, who were initially somewhat desperate in the face of the impending crisis.

Above the neon lights, surrounded by flames, Shangguan Jin, like a god in flames, gazed towards the direction of Shenzhou.

Sensing the terrifying power of the eighth rank, his tense face suddenly relaxed, and he looked at the beast egg in the sky, which also seemed to be frozen in time, and the corners of his mouth turned up.

Since his younger brother had already taken care of it himself, he naturally didn't need to put in any effort.

The members below, including Hachiman, stared in disbelief at this miraculous scene.

At the Shangguan residence, Shangguan Che clicked his tongue in disapproval.

"No wonder he's my son, he's awesome!"

Murong Xue was also in shock when she heard Shangguan Che's nonsensical words. She rolled her eyes and pinched him in annoyance.

"The children are all here, don't talk nonsense!"

Kaguya Shinomiya, Ai Hayasaka, and the others looked at the ethereal figure in the sky, feeling both worried and incredibly proud.

Nothing is more pride-inducing than having someone you admire admired by the masses!

Others who weren't that close to Shangguan Yun and only escaped the apocalypse because their daughters or sons were his friends were even more shocked, their mouths agape.

Ordinary people who had been in despair and preparing for death were stunned by this scene. Some even knelt down and kowtowed, muttering things like "God has shown his power."

The many powerful beings from other worlds connected to this world were also trembling with fear at the sudden appearance of the eighth-tier aura.

The Emperor of the End laughed heartily in his world. Countless powerful figures who had been subdued by his ruthless methods listened to the Emperor of the End's world-renowned praise of his "good son-in-law" with blank expressions, and finally understood why the Divine Realm had been suddenly destroyed.

Countless people envy, are jealous of, and hate the Emperor of the End.

Damn it, with an eighth-level expert as a son-in-law, I could do it too!

Deep within the Sea of ​​Curses, Cecilia held the thunder talisman that Shangguan Yun had given her as a return gift, feeling even more strongly that her previous friendship with him was the best decision she had ever made in her life.

The promise of an eighth-tier powerhouse! Enough to ensure the Naga race's peaceful continuation for countless years!

Shangguan Yun ignored the countless shocked gazes.

He raised his head and looked at the thousands of alien beast eggs frozen in space in the sky, a slight smile playing on his lips.

"The quality is a bit poor, but the quantity is sufficient."

The moment he finished speaking, he slowly raised his right hand.

"boom--!!!"

The world has changed.

The sky, which was originally gloomy but still relatively clear, was swallowed up by endless thunderclouds in a fraction of a second.

Those were no ordinary dark clouds, but "calamity clouds" formed purely from the laws of thunder!

Purple lightning crackled and swirled wildly in the clouds, each bolt containing destructive power enough to tear the void apart.

The clouds churned, as if billions of thunder dragons roared, struggled, and brewed a world-destroying blow within them.

The area covered by the thunderclouds—including the entire land of China, including neon lights!

Everyone's vision was enveloped by the boundless, thunderous sky.

"Oh my god..."

On the ground, some people collapsed to the ground, some knelt and kowtowed, and some stood there dumbfounded.

In the live stream room, the chat completely disappeared—everyone had lost the ability to type and could only stare blankly at the scene that seemed to be the arrival of a mythical era.

Those low-level cultivators who were originally prepared to fight to the death were now completely stiff, unable to even muster the strength to take flight.

Faced with such divine might, their meager cultivation was as insignificant as dust.

……

Right in the center of the thundercloud.

Shangguan Yun stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes turning a deep blue, crackling with lightning, his five fingers spread wide, pointing towards the sky.

The gesture was so casual, almost like a greeting, but it was such a simple gesture—

"Buzz—Boom—!!!"

The thunderclouds stretched for thousands of miles and suddenly went berserk!

"Roar--!!!"

The first to sense the deadly crisis were the fifth-tier beasts that had already torn through their egg membranes and were eager to arrive.

They came in all shapes and sizes; some resembled giant apes with bony spurs on their backs, others looked like ferocious, hundred-legged flying centipedes, and still others resembled mutated monsters that were a fusion of machinery and flesh… But at this moment, all the strange beasts reacted in the same way—

Roar! ! !

Hundreds of screams filled with violence, madness, and... terror exploded simultaneously from the sky!

They desperately tried to accelerate, attempting to escape the area covered by the thunderclouds, desperately seeking a glimmer of hope on the ground!

But the space was completely sealed off, and they could not move at all except to roar, and could only quietly wait for death to come.

……

What awaits them is the purest, most extreme, and most brutal destruction!

"Sizzle—!!!"

A bolt of pure purple lightning struck down from the deepest part of the thundercloud, hundreds of meters thick and of immeasurable length, as if piercing the boundary between heaven and earth.

Wherever the lightning passed, space shattered like glass, revealing the pitch-black void behind it.

"boom--!!!"

Hundreds of millions of fine purple electric snakes spread wildly in all directions in a spherical shape!

Each bolt of lightning precisely locked onto a beast egg, or a monster that had just hatched.

fast!

Incredibly fast!

From the moment the purple lightning struck to the moment the electric snake exploded, the entire process happened in an instant.

Most people didn't even see what happened; they only saw a purple ball of lightning suddenly explode in the sky, covering their entire field of vision, and then—

A deathly silence.

All the alien beast eggs, all the monsters that hatched, all the ferocious roars, all the violent energy fluctuations...

Everything has disappeared.

It's as if it never existed.

……

Chapter 343 Global Shock!

There were no explosions or screams, and not even any debris falling.

Those thousands of alien beast eggs, radiating fifth-order pressure, and the monsters conceived or already born within them, were completely transformed into the most primordial particles and dissipated into the world after the billions of purple lightning snakes swept past.

Not even a speck of ash remained.

……

Time seemed to stand still for three seconds.

Then--

"hiss……"

Someone gasped in surprise.

Immediately afterwards, gasps, exclamations, and incredulous murmurs rose like a tide from every corner of the land.

"Disappeared?"

"All...all wiped out?"