"Holy crap, what insane power! This is absolutely nuts!" Down below, Marshal Zhong Kui was totally stunned—he could hardly believe Ryan Ling could unleash this kind of monstrous strength.
The three SSS-class fiends looked like they'd seen a ghost. Their faces went sheet-white and they couldn't help but shrink back, totally freaked out inside!
But hey, these guys are SSS-level monsters for a reason. Even with their trump card—the Sevenfold Heavenwood Tower—getting wrecked, they weren't about to just roll over and die. All three suddenly shot up into the sky, madly sucking in the surrounding tribulation lightning. In a flash, they whipped up a killer defensive aura, and for a moment, it actually held back Ryan's charge.
"No wonder they're sixth-layer Heaven-Tribulation monsters! Not only can they lock down space, their lightning control is on a whole other level—way beyond anyone under fifth-layer!" Even the Ghost Elder couldn't help but blurt out in awe at their lightning skills.
Ryan Ling just smirked, "Relax. I don't care if they can punch through the heavens, I'm still gonna wipe them out!" Right now, these sixth-layer freaks were absolutely not his match. Sure, he was technically still peak third-layer, but Primeval Heavenwood had leveled up like crazy. What used to be just a tree a few stories tall was now a monster hundreds of meters high.
The Demon-Snaring Bowl couldn't hold it anymore. So Ryan locked down a chunk of space and planted Primeval Heavenwood right at the heart of his own domain. Even a top-tier hydrogen bomb couldn't crack this zone.
With the essence of the Sevenfold Heavenwood Tower pouring in, Primeval Heavenwood's aura was getting purer and purer. Ryan was carefully savoring that one precious wisp of immortal qi!
Even though it was just a single wisp, for Ryan, it was a total game-changer!
That tiny bit of immortal qi was worth way more than all those Heavenwood fruits combined.
No way was Ryan gonna waste it now—the immortal qi was way too rare, and honestly, way too massive for even a third-layer Heaven-Tribulation cultivator like him to fully absorb. Still, just getting a taste of it was already a huge boost.
Ryan set aside one Heavenwood fruit for the Divine Dragon, and the rest were slowly melting down inside him, ready to give him a massive power-up at crunch time. Heck, if he wanted, he could even break straight into fourth-layer Heaven-Tribulation before mopping up the three monsters!
Everything was locked and loaded!
Ryan didn't hesitate for a second—he just shot up into the sky, bare-handed and ready to rumble!
Every surveillance satellite on the planet zeroed in on him. In a flash, Ryan Ling was the center of the world's attention!
At that very moment, statues of Ryan Ling were popping up all over Europe, Africa, even South America—people were straight-up worshipping him like a god.
If Ryan wiped out the three top dogs of the Kunlun League, he'd basically be a living deity in the eyes of humanity.
"Hold him back! Hold him back! I refuse to believe we can't stop him with everything we've got!" The three fiends were losing it, screaming like mad. At this point, they didn't care about killing Ryan—they just wanted to survive the fight and maybe limp away in one piece.
So besides throwing up defenses, they were desperately scrambling for escape routes!
BOOM BOOM BOOM! In a heartbeat, a swarm of tribulation lightning, thunder snakes, and thunder dragons came crashing down on Ryan.
The three sixth-layer Heaven-Tribulation monsters were going all out, turning the skies over America into an absolute spectacle. It looked like the heavens were getting nuked—sky ripping apart, thunder everywhere!
Every single lightning strike was on a whole other level—billions, even hundreds of billions of bolts at once! If any expert got hit by that, they'd be vaporized. Not even a scrap left behind.
But get this—Ryan Ling was totally unfazed. Around him, a freaky, top-tier defense field took shape, and it looked just like a giant tree. People watching couldn't even process it!
"Damn, what a beast! He really is the reincarnation of a thunder god! I'm so hyped—I actually gave my first time to a guy like this! So worth it!" Jean Chen was screaming with excitement inside his body. She used to be shy about being naked, but now she was totally letting loose, arms wide, shouting her lungs out—even though she was still crazy sore down there.
"This kid's a monster! At this point, even seventh-layer Heaven-Tribulation experts might have to watch out. Seriously, Lord Yama hit the jackpot making him his son!" The Ghost Elder was shouting too, overflowing with excitement.
Down below, Marshal Zhong Kui was so pumped he couldn't even form words. Zoe Zhong was all smiles. All across America, the Pacific, and China, soldiers and civilians were quietly praying for Ryan Ling. It was obvious—he was leading everyone into a whole new era!
"No way! How is this possible? Who the hell is this guy? He's basically a god!" The three fiends were totally losing it. They'd stopped trying to fight—now all they wanted was to run. But the space around them was locked up tight by Ryan, and it was clear he was out for blood.
"Die!" Ryan finally made his move!
One punch.
That punch packed tribulation lightning, saintly power, dragon-dao, and the endless life force of Primeval Heavenwood.
With a thunderous boom, a fist imprint flashed across the sky, powerful enough to split the earth. In an instant, every barrier the three monsters set up shattered, and they were blasted away like rag dolls.
This time, the monsters weren't looking so tough. Their bodies were wrecked, blood pouring out everywhere—they were barely hanging on!
"Yes! That's the way! Kunlun League is toast—today's the day they finally get what's coming!" All the people who'd suffered under KL were cheering at the sight of the monsters coughing up blood.
"Surrender now, and I'll let you keep your corpses intact!" Ryan Ling stared at their pale faces, pausing for effect.
"Screw it—team up! Suck in all the tribulation lightning and unleash our strongest move! Even if we die here, we'll drag him down with us!" The three monsters stood back to back, panting and bleeding, but surrender was not in their vocabulary. Their faces were pure hate.
"Damn right! If we're going down, he's coming with us! No way we're letting him walk away!" another monster shouted.
All three roared together, and suddenly, a torrent of cosmic starlight crashed down from high orbit, swirling above their heads and lighting up everything around them.
"Careful, Ryan! That's star-domain power—usually only eighth-layer Heaven-Tribulation monsters can handle it! I can't believe these three are pulling it off together. This is some scary stuff, don't take it lightly!" The Ghost Elder was freaking out inside, totally shook.
"Star-domain power?" Ryan Ling just gave a cold grin. Back in the day, maybe he'd have worried, but now he had a wisp of immortal qi in his body—and that stuff made star-domain power look like a joke.
"Die, Ryan Ling!"
"Ryan Ling, there's no way you can survive this!"
"Ryan Ling, let's die together!"
...
The three monsters had totally snapped. That flood of star-domain power slammed toward Ryan, setting the skies over America—and all of North America—ablaze!
"Oh crap, we're doomed! The whole country is finished!" High-ranking officials in America were freaking out, eyes wide with terror. The explosion was like a hundred hydrogen bombs going off at once—nobody could even imagine that kind of destruction!
But Ryan didn't hesitate for a second. He instantly swallowed two Heavenwood fruits for defense, then pushed that wisp of immortal qi straight out!
In a flash, a streak of golden light shot out from the top of Ryan's head. It looked soft, but it blocked the star-domain power like it was nothing...