Chapter 13: A punch blasts through the bottom of the death row cell, and there's something even bigger hidden down there!

"Roar—!"

A vast elephant's trumpet, as if crossing eternal time and space, exploded within the Sword Tomb on the ninth floor of the Demon Suppressing Death Prison!

This sound was not a physical sound wave, but an ancient pressure acting directly on the depths of the Soul.

Kneeling a dozen yards away, Tantai Jinyue felt her vision go dark. An uncontrollable phantom of a terrifying Divine Elephant, treading on the sun and moon while carrying the stars on its back, emerged in her mind. Before this phantom, her proud Divine Soul as the Demon Sect Head was as fragile as a candle in the wind.

"Just what level of Body Refining Divine Ability is the Young Master Cultivating?!"

Tantai Jinyue lay trembling on the ground, not even daring to lift her head. She could clearly feel an extremely domineering, completely unreasonable pure physical power frantically Awakening within Lin Yuan's body!

One thousand particles!

Three thousand particles!

Eight thousand particles!

"Rumble—"

As the medicinal power of that hundred-thousand-year earth core jade marrow was drained without reservation by the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art, a full ten thousand Divine Elephant Particles Awakened within Lin Yuan's body!

"Crackle..."

The moment Lin Yuan slowly opened his eyes, the space around him actually produced a tooth-aching sound of distortion.

Without using a single shred of Nascent Soul Stage Spiritual Qi, nor leaking even a bit of the Heaven-Slaying Draw-Sword Technique's Sword Intent. At this moment, Lin Yuan was merely sitting there, and the gravity and density contained within his Physical Body itself were already more than the surrounding Void Realm could bear!

"Phew..."

Lin Yuan let out a long breath of turbid Qi. The airflow was like two white sharp swords, instantly piercing through a piece of basalt ten yards away!

"The pure Physical Body strength of ten thousand ancient Divine Elephants... this feeling... it's as if I could blow up an asteroid with a single punch."

Lin Yuan clenched his fist, feeling the terrifying power flowing through his fingertips, an extremely excited glint flashing in his eyes.

He now completely understood what it meant for "absolute strength to overcome all skills."

If that Saint Chu Tiankuo were still standing here, Lin Yuan wouldn't even need to use any Divine Ability or Spell. He would only need to lightly flick a finger to produce an air shockwave comparable to a nuclear explosion, turning the opponent directly into a bloody mist!

"However, feeling alone isn't enough; I need to find something to test my punching power."

Lin Yuan stood up from the red sandalwood reclining chair.

He looked around, his gaze sweeping over the walls pitted by Sword Qi, and finally shook his head.

These outer walls of the death prison were too brittle; they couldn't withstand a casual strike from him now. If he really tested his punching power here, a single punch might cause the entire Demon Suppressing Death Prison and even half of the Taixuan Main Peak to collapse. Then, his quiet Holy Land for idling would be gone.

"Young Master, have you... have you finished your Breakthrough?"

Seeing Lin Yuan stand up, Tantai Jinyue finally dared to cautiously raise her head, her blood-red beautiful eyes full of awe.

For some reason, although Lin Yuan looked like an ordinary, handsome youth at this moment, in her perception, he was like an ancient Vicious Beast in human skin, his entire body radiating a suffocating masculine vitality.

"Yeah, just stretched my muscles a bit."

Lin Yuan waved his hand casually, his gaze suddenly locking onto the deepest part of the death prison—right beneath the Demon Slaying Platform where he had previously pulled out the zhutian demonic sword.

The original owner's memory and his three years of observation told him that the Demon Suppressing Death Prison was actually built upon a natural Nine Netherworld Earth Veins. The Taiji Heaven-Sealing Array not only sealed off the top but also firmly suppressed a certain terrifying aura deep within the earth veins.

"The foundation under this Demon Slaying Platform was cast as a whole by the Taixuan Ancestor using the hardest 'Nine Heavens Star-Falling Rock' in the Shenhuang Continent. It's claimed to be unbreakable by ten thousand Spells, and even a Soul Transformation Stage powerhouse couldn't leave a single white mark on it."

Lin Yuan walked to the broken Demon Slaying Platform and rubbed his chin. "Perfect, I'll use it to test my strength."

"Young Master! You mustn't!"

Hearing that Lin Yuan wanted to test his punch on the foundation, Tantai Jinyue turned pale with fright. "Below this is connected to the Nine Netherworld Depths! Legend has it that the Taixuan Ancestor established the Sect here specifically to suppress an Ancient Demon Abyss Fissure deep underground! If you break it..."

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. I'll just give it a light tap."

Lin Yuan interrupted the demoness's exclamation and casually loosened his right wrist.

Subsequently.

Without assuming any power-gathering stance or channeling even a tiny bit of Spiritual Qi, he simply threw out a punch toward the pitch-black Star-Falling Rock foundation below in an extremely plain manner.

"Hum—"

The moment this punch was thrown, there was no earth-shattering sonic boom.

Because the speed of the punch had already surpassed sound, even exceeding the reaction limit of the surrounding spatial Laws!

It was the ultimate resonance of ten thousand Divine Elephant Particles exploding simultaneously!

"BOOM————————!!!"

Within Tantai Jinyue's extremely constricted pupils.

That Nine Heavens Star-Falling Rock, which was claimed to be unbreakable by ten thousand Spells and had suppressed the Taixuan Dao Sect's earth veins for thousands of years, was instantly reduced to nothingness finer than dust by an indescribable terrifying force the moment it touched Lin Yuan's punch wind, like a piece of fragile tofu dregs!

Immediately after.

A counter-force sufficient to destroy heaven and earth vented frantically toward the depths of the earth!

"Crack, crack, crack—"

Centered on Lin Yuan's fist, the ground of the bottommost floor of the Demon Suppressing Death Prison instantly split open into a terrifying, bottomless abyss fissure hundreds of yards long!

The entire death prison space shook violently. If not for the Taiji Heaven-Sealing Array holding it firmly from above, this physical shockwave would have been enough to flip the Taixuan Main Peak above like a volcano!

"Is this... is this still the strength of a human?!"

Tantai Jinyue gripped a protruding rock nearby tightly, barely managing not to be blown away by the aftermath of that terrifying punch wind. Looking at the abyss fissure that Lin Yuan had smashed out with pure Physical Body strength, she was completely numb.

No Spiritual Qi used! No Laws used!

This was just a "basic attack" in the sense of a Mortal!

"Didn't control my strength well; it was a bit too heavy."

Lin Yuan withdrew his fist and looked at the great rift valley he had smashed out, curling his lips somewhat helplessly.

He had underestimated the absurdity of the God Elephant Prison-Suppressing Strength. The overlap of ten thousand ancient Divine Elephants caused its destructive power to increase geometrically; this was already a dimensional reduction strike.

However.

Before Lin Yuan could carefully check if the skin on his knuckles was broken.

"ROAR————!!!"

Suddenly!

From that bottomless abyss fissure smashed open by Lin Yuan, an earth-shattering, terrifying roar suddenly erupted!

This roar carried endless vicissitudes of time and bloodthirsty brutality. Along with the roar, a surge of Nine Netherworld extreme cold frost Qi, a hundred times denser than above and even liquefied into substance, gushed out from the fissure like a volcanic eruption!

The temperature inside the death prison dropped to absolute zero in an instant!

Even the Spiritual Qi suspended in mid-air was instantly frozen into ice-blue powder, fluttering down.

"Crackle..."

A massive creature hundreds of yards long, its entire body covered in hard ice-blue Dragon scales and possessing two horns, slowly poked a huge, hideous head out from the underground fissure, accompanied by an overwhelming extreme cold storm!

It was a Dragon!

An Ancient Extreme Cold Ice Dragon that had been suppressed beneath the Taixuan Dao Sect for an unknown number of ages, its aura ten times more terrifying than the Taixuan Sect Head outside!

Its pair of Dragon eyes, like two huge red lanterns, locked onto Lin Yuan and Tantai Jinyue standing at the edge of the fissure in the darkness.

The Soul Transformation Stage pressure belonging to an Ancient Great Demon was released without reservation!

"Who is it?! Which ant that doesn't know death dares to disturb this seat's slumber?!"

The Ice Dragon opened its bloody maw, exhaling a breath of cold air sufficient to instantly freeze a city into ice sculptures, its voice exploding like thunder within the death prison. "Have the old Daoists of the Taixuan Dao Sect finally all died out?! To let this Seal loosen! Hahaha, this seat is finally going to see the light of day again!"

Feeling this terrifying Dragon might that almost froze her Soul.

Tantai Jinyue, who had just been scared out of her wits by Lin Yuan's physical basic attack, once again experienced what true despair felt like.

"A... Soul Transformation Stage Great Perfection Ancient True Dragon?!"

The demoness's voice was trembling. "What kind of monster did the Taixuan Ancestor suppress under this death prison back then! Young Master, this... the Dragon Clan's Physical Body is incomparably strong and invincible among its peers, not to mention it has been nourished by the earth veins for tens of thousands of years, we..."

Just as Tantai Jinyue thought she was going to die in the Dragon's mouth today and even prepared herself to take a hit for Lin Yuan.

*Slap.*

Lin Yuan somewhat disdainfully brushed off the frost that the cold breath had sprayed onto the corner of his clothes.

He ignored that ancient Ice Dragon, which was frantically shouting and trying to break free from the underground chains, and instead turned his head to look at Tantai Jinyue very seriously.

"Jinyue."

"Y-Young Master, your servant is here!" Tantai Jinyue swallowed hard in nervousness.

Lin Yuan pointed at the massive Ice Dragon head in the abyss fissure, which was emitting extreme cold Qi, an extremely pure light of a foodie flashing in his eyes:

"Do you know how to make Dragon meat sashimi? Or... braised Dragon ribs would work too."

"This thing has been frozen in an underground cold storage for tens of thousands of years; the meat must be very firm. It's just right for us to have an extra dish tonight."

As soon as these words were spoken.

The Ancient Extreme Cold Ice Dragon, which had been frantically shouting with overwhelming arrogance, suddenly had its huge Dragon mouth freeze.

The roaring stopped abruptly.

An extremely eerie silence fell over the death prison.

One Dragon, one demon, both stared fixedly at this crazy youth who was planning to have a Soul Transformation Stage Great Perfection True Dragon for an extra dish, with looks as if they had seen a ghost.