Ming Dynasty: pacifying the rebellion and defending the border, dominating the world

Chapter 287 Defying Heaven VS Defying Heaven
"kill!!!"

The eighteen death row inmates seemed to sense a life-or-death crisis the moment Xiao Luoyang appeared. The dazzling starlight above their heads shone brightly, and the Ziwei Doutian Formation, which had been gathering power for a long time, instantly filled the entire world with killing intent.

"Such murderous intent..."

Xiao Luoyang's expression changed slightly, and his nonchalant attitude instantly turned serious.

Zhu Jinzhen also raised an eyebrow slightly: "Even a terrestrial immortal would have his innate fighting spirit diminished by such overwhelming killing intent."

"boom!"

The Ziwei Doutian Formation transformed into a terrifying killing array. As the bodies of the eighteen death row inmates visibly turned to ashes, it finally unleashed its most astonishing move.

Like stars collapsing, covering an area ten miles outside Dongsheng City.

Even the stars beyond the nine heavens seemed to be stirred, about to unleash a terrifying massacre.

Its brilliance instantly overwhelmed the entire battlefield and everything in the world.

Not only in Dongsheng City, but also in Datong, Wanquan Commandery, and Kaiping Guard, this astonishing phenomenon was noticed.

"what is that?"

"Since ancient times, there have never been two suns in the sky. Such bright and brilliant starlight is like daytime, which is simply unbelievable."

"The moon suddenly disappeared in the south, and tonight the night is as bright as day. Could this be some terrible omen?"

"Such a terrifying phenomenon has appeared out of the sky. Could it be that there are terrestrial immortals, or even terrestrial celestial beings, fighting?"

The garrison and civilians of Dongsheng City, as well as the people and experts from Datong, Wanquan Commandery and other places further away, all stopped or climbed to high places to look out, hoping to see the truth.

Boom! ! !
Eighteen Vajra Realm experts, having burned their entire Harmony Formation's killing blow, amplified by the Purple Star Heaven-Fighting Formation, unleashed the most terrifying damage in the history of the Martial World, leaving a scene resembling the collapse of stars.

The ground cracked like a spider web, and a huge crater several meters deep appeared. The aftershocks turned the surrounding area for hundreds of meters into scorched earth.

Outside Dongsheng City, a small, hundred-zhang-tall mountain peak was blasted in half, creating a huge gap. Boulders tumbled down like rain, and before they even hit the ground, they were shattered into dust in mid-air, raising a dust storm that blotted out the sky.

"What ferocious power!"

"The Vajra Realm, through risking its life and burning everything, gains power that can temporarily reach the level of a terrestrial immortal. Such a formation is truly terrifying."

Although Xiao Luoyang was unharmed and his purple robes were spotless, he did not show any contempt. On the contrary, he took him very seriously. Xiao Luoyang was a cultivator above the Celestial Realm, capable of destroying a mountain with a flick of his finger.

However, when the Ziwei Doutian Formation unleashed that peerless killing blow, he was so shocked that he had to use the power of a terrestrial celestial being to completely neutralize it.

In other words, if it had been another terrestrial deity who had taken that attack head-on...

Even a terrestrial immortal at the peak of cultivation would be severely injured, if not killed.

"If even Vajra Realm cultivators are like this, what if Finger Profound Realm cultivators were to use their skills..." Yan Yimei's voice trembled slightly. Eighteen Vajra Realm cultivators fighting to the death could threaten a terrestrial immortal. If eighteen Finger Profound Realm cultivators were to come, wouldn't a terrestrial immortal be easily killed with a single blow if they were not careful?
What about the Grand Master of Celestial Phenomena?

Could it directly threaten beings above the terrestrial celestial beings?
"We'll discuss this idea after the test."

"Yimei."

"Yes!"

Yan Yimei seemed to wake from a dream, suppressing the burning passion in her heart, and quickly nodded to the secret guards behind her.

Soon, one Teyvat omelet after another was used on the condemned prisoners who had been burned to ashes.

There were no earth-shattering phenomena, only the powerful force of the rules, as if time were reversed, that made the eighteen Vajra Realm death row inmates, who had just turned to ashes, reappear intact before everyone.

Zhu Jinzhen was also moved by the scene before him, his heart pounding wildly: "Indeed, the game's rules, or rather the system's rules, have absolute dominance over the so-called annihilation. For ordinary people, even ordinary cultivators, the price of being beyond redemption, even having their souls burned away, is nothing compared to the heaven-defying game item like Teyvat Egg."

"Is this what they mean by the mysterious inevitably yielding to a higher mystery? Rules yielding to a higher rule?"

Zhu Jinzhen once again witnessed the incredible and terrifying nature of game rule-based items.

Death that turns to ashes means even the soul is burned away.

For any cultivator, this would mean certain death.

As a result, Teyvat doesn't care how you died, whether you were reduced to ashes or your soul was scattered; it simply ignores all rules and logic and forcibly resurrects you.

The only limitation is that it's a 24-hour period.

This is truly defying the heavens!

After calming his surging emotions, Zhu Jinzhen looked at Yan Yimei and Xiao Luoyang beside him and nodded, "Continue. This time, there's no need to deliberately cut off their finger bones and flesh. I want to see if they can be resurrected after they've completely burned away. If they can, then raise them to the Finger Profound Realm and continue testing. I want to see where its limits are!"

In the previous tests, Zhu Jinzhen specifically ordered his secret guards to cut off a bit of flesh or a finger from the eighteen death row inmates for the purpose of resurrection.

This time, he plans to do nothing.

Test a few more times.

It wasn't to test the limits of the Ziwei Doutian Formation, but rather... the limits of the Teyvat Fried Egg.

……

The next test.

Neither the Teyvat Fried Egg nor the Ziwei Battle Formation disappointed Zhu Jinzhen.

The former truly disregards all real-world logic and rules. Even if eighteen death row inmates are elevated to the Celestial Realm and reduced to ashes, it can still resurrect them completely as if rewinding time.

Zhu Jinzhen was also astonished by the limit of the Ziwei Doutian Formation. He had thought that with the improvement of his cultivation strength, it would be impossible for the Ziwei Doutian Formation to really continue to advance two more major realms.

The result was far beyond expectations.

In the second test, he still advanced from the Vajra Realm to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm, and the power of his attack was comparable to that of a terrestrial immortal.

In the second test, the eighteen death row inmates who were forcibly elevated to the Finger Profound Realm by relying on the great medicine within the secret guards and the empowerment of several secret guards, could unleash the ultimate power of the Ziwei Doutian Formation, which was completely comparable to the full-force attack of an ordinary terrestrial celestial being.

In the third test, when all eighteen death row inmates at the Celestial Realm burned out, the power of the Ziwei Doutian Formation that erupted was even stronger than the combined attack of the eighteen terrestrial celestial beings, completely shattering the void.

If Zhu Jinzhen hadn't personally intervened, their attack would have been enough to turn everything within a hundred miles into dust.

"Your Highness, shall we test again?"

When Yan Yimei asked the question, her voice trembled. Anyone who saw eighteen Celestial Realm cultivators burning everything to gain a temporary terrestrial Celestial Realm cultivation, and then unleashing power beyond Celestial Realm through the power of the formation, as if pulling down the stars above their heads, would not be able to remain calm.

If the Celestial Realm is already like this, what about the terrestrial immortals who go even further?

Wouldn't that mean they could slaughter the immortals and Buddhas in heaven at will?
If Zhu Jinzhen hadn't personally intervened and killed them with a single sword strike, Yan Yimei felt she would have had to die to have any chance of withstanding that attack.

She was like that, and so was Xiao Luoyang.

"Let's leave it at that for now!"

Zhu Jinzhen gazed at the eighteen death row inmates who had broken free from the mind-controlling spell, and at the battlefield from which they had just been fighting: a massive crater tens of feet deep and thousands of feet wide, and the surrounding mountains shattered, turning dozens of miles into a plain. The panic that was already palpable in Dongsheng City prevented them from continuing their tests.

(End of this chapter)