Chapter 598 - 248: Ferocious Beast Showdown, Ultimate Crushing
A one-hit kill!
In Dong Dongchen’s stream, tens of millions of viewers fell silent.
The screen seemed to freeze at that moment.
It wasn’t until several seconds later that Dong Dongchen’s roar, filled with boundless shock and fervor, echoed throughout the stream.
"Lin Ye... he’s serious this time!"
"I get it now! He was holding back in his previous fights!"
"He went easy on his own countrymen! This is his true, full power in his atavistic form!"
"My God... is this his real strength? Someone at Divine Realm Perfection... couldn’t even take a single hit from him?!"
The bullet comments went wild.
"Serves him right! Pop the champagne! Good riddance to that mutt!"
However, on the battlefield, Lin Ye, who had "instantly killed" his opponent, showed no hint of joy.
His Molten Gold Vertical Pupils snapped toward an empty spot in the void behind him.
Driven almost by pure combat instinct, the thick dragon tail behind him whipped out without warning, cracking through the air like a black steel whip toward that very spot.
CRACK!!!
The air was instantly blasted apart!
A spectral figure that had just emerged from the void let out a muffled grunt, drifting back several dozen meters before managing to stabilize itself.
It was Kujo Akiyoshi!
However, his body was now in a translucent state, the wound on his chest and abdomen healing rapidly. The one Lin Ye had crushed was merely a substitute doll made of white paper.
"Impressive perception."
Kujo Akiyoshi held a folding fan, his expression grim as he stared at Lin Ye. The disdain in his eyes was long gone, replaced by an unprecedented gravity and a hint of... madness.
"It seems I won’t be able to kill you without getting serious."
As his voice fell, the most alluring and powerful specter among the ghostly figures behind him slowly emerged.
It was the ethereal form of a breathtakingly beautiful woman with a graceful figure, but she had nine enormous fox tails.
"Tear him to shreds..."
He pointed his folding fan at Lin Ye, his voice turning sharp and venomous.
"—Tamamo-no-Mae!"
ROAR!!!
The beautiful female specter instantly shot out from his body, transforming in mid-air into a ferocious giant fox several meters in size. Its nine tails, like nine white pythons, blotted out the sky as it opened its cavernous maw and lunged down at Lin Ye’s head.
Lin Ye sidestepped and lashed out with a sweeping whip kick.
However, the kick seemed to sweep through empty air, passing directly through the giant fox’s body.
It was a pure soul attack!
The giant fox’s bite also landed on Lin Ye, but it caused no physical damage.
"It’s useless!"
Kujo Akiyoshi let out a maniacal laugh. "You’re just a mere Gang Condensation Realm Martial Artist, you don’t even have a Primordial Spirit! How could you possibly harm my shikigami? And Tamamo-no-Mae will slowly but surely devour your soul completely!"
As he spoke, he snapped his fan shut and stomped his right foot heavily on the ground.
"Domain Expansion—"
"Ghost Night Walk!"
BOOM!
A ring of pure darkness erupted from him as the center, spreading wildly in all directions like ink dropped into clear water.
In the blink of an eye, the entire quaint courtyard had transformed into a pitch-black Netherworld of Ghosts and Demons!
Countless shrill shrieks and mournful wails rose from the darkness as tens of thousands of ghosts and evil creatures surged like a tide from all directions, fearlessly pouncing on Lin Ye at the center of the domain.
"Is that so?"
Facing this ghostly realm that seemed capable of devouring everything, Lin Ye simply asked a question in return.
The next moment, he raised his dragon claw again and swiped it through the air at the giant fox, Tamamo-no-Mae.
SLASH—!
Five black arcs of wind from the claw flashed and vanished once more!
But this time, the edges of those arcs were coated in a strange, dripping, dark green liquid.
[Soul Melting Bone Erosion]!
"AWOOOO—!!!"
A bloodcurdling scream, unlike that of any living creature, suddenly erupted from the mouth of the giant fox, Tamamo-no-Mae.
The five dark green claw marks, like the most terrifying aqua regia, instantly erupted with hissing white smoke the moment they touched its Spirit Body.
Its Spirit Body was being corroded and dissolved at a visible rate!
At the same time, the fearless ghosts and evil creatures that pounced on him met their bane. As soon as they touched the invisible force field around Lin Ye that emanated the aura of [Soul Melting Bone Erosion], they instantly melted into puddles of black water without even a chance to scream.
Lin Ye, bathed in the assault of ten thousand ghosts, moved as if strolling through an empty courtyard, completely unhindered.
Step by step, he walked through the endless tide of ghosts and, under Kujo Akiyoshi’s horrified gaze, instantly closed the distance between them once more.
Those Molten Gold Vertical Pupils, burning with divine fire, stared at him indifferently.
"Kneel."
That single word, like a divine oracle from the highest heavens, crashed into the depths of Kujo Akiyoshi’s soul.
An overwhelming dragon’s might poured down without reservation.
Before, with countless shikigami acting as a buffer, he could barely maintain his composure.
But now, as he directly faced this terrifying pressure originating from the very apex of life itself, he felt his soul tremble.
Cold sweat instantly drenched his back.
Before he could even react,
BOOM!!!
A terrifyingly immense gravity, heavier than anything imaginable, descended upon him.
Under the crushing twin pressures of the dragon’s might and the gravity, Kujo Akiyoshi could no longer stand. His legs gave out.
THUD!
And so, under the watchful eyes of nearly ten million Great Xia viewers in the stream and countless Martial Artists watching from all over the world, this top genius from East Japan, the future hope of the Yin Yang Academy, just like that, dropped stiffly to his knees before Lin Ye.