57: Master has made his move! He crushed the Alliance Leader with a single finger.

The wind stopped.

The clouds dispersed.

Between heaven and earth, it seemed as if only that figure in white robes remained.

Facing the spit-flying, judgmental clamor of True Man Tiangang, Li Daoxuan showed no anger, nor did he offer a rebuttal.

He simply sighed, very softly.

"Sigh."

This sigh was very light.

But to the ears of the million Cultivators, it sounded like a thunderclap, exploding deep within their Sea of Consciousness.

The clamorous battle cries that had been shaking the heavens actually froze for a split second at the sound of this sigh.

Li Daoxuan slowly lifted his eyelids.

Those eyes were as calm as an eternal, frozen deep pool, reflecting the dense masses of living beings below, who looked like mere ants.

"Originally, I intended to reason with you."

"After all, I am a person who detests killing and fighting; that is the conduct of a barbarian."

Li Daoxuan's voice was not loud, yet it clearly spread across a radius of a hundred miles.

It carried an irresistible magical power.

"What a pity."

"You insisted on seeking death."

"Since you are in such a hurry to be reincarnated, then I shall... fulfill your wish."

The moment his voice fell.

Li Daoxuan moved.

He did not bring out any earth-shattering Magic Treasure.

Nor did he unleash any flashy Divine Ability.

He simply, slowly, raised his right hand.

Then.

He extended an index finger.

Towards True Man Tiangang, who was riding on a White Jade Qilin with a look of righteous indignation, he pressed down gently.

It was just like...

wanting to squash a bug crawling on a table.

"Arrogant!"

True Man Tiangang laughed in extreme anger, his beard crooked from his rage.

"A single finger?"

"Li Daoxuan! You look down on me too much!"

"This Seat is at the Peak Soul Transformation Stage! A half-step Void Refining! Who do you think you are? A Mahayana Venerable?!"

"Since you are seeking death, this Seat will first cripple your hand, then..."

His harsh words were not yet finished.

Suddenly.

He felt the sky darken.

An indescribable, terrifying shadow instantly shrouded the top of his head.

True Man Tiangang subconsciously looked up.

The next second.

In those old eyes, previously filled with contempt and killing intent, his pupils instantly contracted to the size of pinpricks.

He saw that above the firmament.

The wind and clouds were rolling backward, and space was collapsing.

A finger.

A massive finger, unimaginably large, like a pillar supporting the sky, broke through the clouds and descended slowly, carrying the supreme might to crush eternity and suppress the heavens!

On that finger, the lines were clearly visible.

Every fingerprint was like a surging Law of the Dao; the airflow swirling around the fingertip was like Chaos gale strong enough to slice through the Void Realm!

Before that finger.

What million-strong army, what Soul Transformation Old Ancestor.

They were as tiny as particles in the dust!

"This... what is this?!"

True Man Tiangang's brain went "buzz" and turned blank.

Fear.

Unprecedented fear flooded his reason like a tidal wave.

He wanted to run.

But he discovered that the space around him had been completely locked down.

Even before the finger fell, that terrifying pressure had already nailed him firmly in place; even moving his little finger had become a luxury.

"No!!"

"This is impossible!!"

"Protective Divine Qi! Activate!"

"Lifebound Treasure! Taiyi Splitting Light Shield! Appear!"

Under the extreme pressure of life and death, True Man Tiangang unleashed the greatest potential of his life.

He frantically burned his essence blood, his Lifespan plummeting.

Layer upon layer of defensive light shields lit up on his body, thick as a turtle shell.

A top-grade Spirit Treasure shield, shimmering with seven-colored divine light, expanded in the wind, transforming into the size of a small hill, blocking above his head.

This was his strongest defense!

He was confident it could withstand even a strike from a Void Refining expert!

However.

Before that finger of Li Daoxuan.

All of this was like a paper toy.

"Crack!"

The finger touched that top-grade Spirit Treasure shield.

There was no stalemate.

No sparks.

It was as easy as popping a soap bubble.

That Taiyi Splitting Light Shield, claimed to be indestructible, was instantly covered in cracks, and then, with a "bang," exploded into powder filling the sky!

Immediately after.

It was those thick layers of protective spiritual light.

"Pop pop pop pop—"

It didn't even block it for a microsecond.

That finger, carrying peerless, unstoppable, absolute power, drove straight in!

"Spare me—!!!"

True Man Tiangang finally collapsed.

He let out the last, and most miserable, scream of his life.

"Puchi."

A muffled sound.

Like a ripe watermelon being stepped on and exploded.

That massive finger ruthlessly pressed down on True Man Tiangang.

Along with the person and the White Jade Qilin beneath him.

Instantly.

They vanished.

On the ground.

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

Only dust rose slightly.

When Li Daoxuan slowly withdrew his finger.

Everyone saw that suffocating scene.

Where True Man Tiangang had just been standing.

A bottomless, pitch-black hole had appeared.

The hole was a perfect circle.

The diameter was no more than three feet.

But the depth... one could not see the end, as if it led directly to the Nine Nether Hell.

And that Alliance Leader, who had shaken the Eastern Desolation and was known as the Peak Soul Transformation Stage.

At this moment.

Had been forcibly pressed deep into the earth, truly like an ant pressed into the soil.

The kind that couldn't even be scraped out.

Along with his Nascent Soul and Divine Soul, they were completely annihilated under that one finger.

Silence.

Deathly silence.

The entire Fallen Mountain Range seemed to have been pressed with a pause button.

The wind stopped blowing.

The clouds stopped moving.

Even the scent of blood drifting in the air seemed to have solidified.

Those million Righteous Path Alliance Cultivators remained frozen in place, each maintaining their charging or shouting posture.

Their eyeballs were about to pop out of their sockets.

Their mouths were open wide enough to fit a fist.

Their hearts seemed to have stopped beating.

At this moment.

Their worldview collapsed.

Shattered all over the ground, impossible to piece back together.

That was True Man Tiangang!

A Peak Soul Transformation Stage expert!

In the Eastern Desolation, that was a god-like existence!

And the result?

Just like that...

By a finger...

Squashed to death?!

Without even kicking up a splash?

Without even having time to finish writing the word "death"?

"Gulp."

I don't know who it was that swallowed a mouthful of saliva first.

This sound seemed exceptionally harsh in the silent valley.

Immediately after.

"Clang!"

Someone's weapon fell from their hand.

This was like a signal.

"Clang, clang, clang—"

The sound of countless weapons hitting the ground connected into one, like a rain of steel.

Fear.

Boundless fear, like a plague, instantly spread throughout the million-strong army.

Everyone's legs were going weak, trembling.

They looked at the Youth in White Robes on the edge of the cliff, who still maintained his reaching posture, his clothes not even ruffled.

Their eyes changed.

No longer looking at a Devil Head.

But looking at a... forbidden God-Demon from the primordial era!

"What... what the Hell is this Realm?"

Sect Master of Ziyang Sect felt his legs go weak and knelt directly on the ground, his teeth chattering, making a "clatter-clatter-clatter" sound.

"Soul Transformation? Impossible! A Peak Soul Transformation Stage was insta-killed!"

"Void Refining? Doesn't look like it either! How could a Void Refining stage have such terrifying pressure?"

"Could it be... the legendary Dao Integration?!"

"Or even... an Undergoing Tribulation expert?!"

In the crowd.

An aged Cultivator trembled as he looked up, tears streaming down his face, his voice hoarse like a broken bellows.

"No... not right..."

"This aura that controls the heavens and earth, regarding all living things as straw dogs..."

"This old man once saw a record in an ancient book..."

"This is clearly..."

"A Terrestrial Immortal!!!"