High Martial: I Grind Professions

Chapter 420: Chapter 260: The Might of the Peak Saint Realm

He felt the terrifying power of his Primordial Spirit in his sea of consciousness—a power so vast and boundless it felt as if a single thought could reverse the Star Rivers and overturn the cosmos.

An indescribable sense of heroic pride surged through his chest.

Without needing any tests, his Primordial Spirit’s perception, which had reached the Transformation Realm, told him clearly.

The power contained within his current nine-thousand-zhang Primordial Spirit Dharma Idol alone...

...was enough to unleash the terrifying might of an ordinary Saint Realm expert with a mere gesture.

If he were to combine it with the peak Primordial Spirit offensive Secret Technique—the All Things Return to Ruins Finger...

...its power would absolutely be on par with the Peak of Saint Realm!

Li Wen’s figure flickered and vanished from his spot.

The next moment, he appeared on the Trial Star located in outer space.

The desolate, dead-black earth and the endless range of towering peaks remained unchanged for eons.

Standing on a vast black plain, Li Wen had a mere thought.

He formed no hand seals, chanted no incantations, and didn’t even mobilize any Laws of Heaven and Earth.

It was just a single thought. Deep within his sea of consciousness, the nine-thousand-zhang Primordial Spirit Dharma Idol’s eyes snapped open.

RUMBLE—!!!

An indescribably terrifying pressure descended in an instant!

It was as if the entire sky of the Trial Star had been viciously clenched by a giant, invisible hand.

The clear sky, stretching for thousands of miles, was instantly replaced by roiling, chaos-colored energy clouds.

Countless thick bolts of lightning, flashing with destructive light, crackled and slithered madly through the clouds.

The ground trembled violently and cracked like a fragile eggshell, letting out a deafening wail.

Space rippled violently and distorted like the surface of water after a stone is thrown in, threatening to shatter completely at any moment.

Li Wen had merely mobilized a small fraction of the vast Primordial Spirit power in his sea of consciousness, condensing it into an invisible shockwave of will.

He lightly ”glanced” at the most majestic black peak before him, one that was several thousand meters tall.

In absolute silence!

The giant peak, along with the vast land dozens of miles around its base, instantly melted and disintegrated like ice and snow thrown under a scorching sun.

All that remained was a massive, circular crater, smooth as a mirror and bottomlessly deep.

At its edge, the chaotic energy aftershocks crackled.

HUMMM—!

On the surface of the Trial Star, the ancient and powerful Defensive Array activated in response.

The 1st Layer, a thick golden screen of light covered in countless profound runes, instantly lit up.

It covered the entire attacked area, the screen of light fluctuating violently.

It barely managed to withstand the aftershocks of this pure Primordial Spirit power.

The light flickered unstably, clearly under immense strain.

’I’m almost at the level of a top-tier Saint Realm expert!’

A divine light shone in Li Wen’s eyes, satisfied with the power of this attack.

But this was only the beginning.

Immediately after, his gaze sharpened, and he slowly raised his right hand.

He pointed from afar toward an even vaster, thousand-mile region of overlapping mountain ranges!

”All Things Return to Ruins Finger!”

In his sea of consciousness, the nine-thousand-zhang Primordial Spirit Dharma Idol suddenly rose.

A majestic and vast Primordial Spirit power, carrying the rhythm of the source of Laws, gathered madly at its right index finger.

At the same time, outside, a dark golden light that could pierce the universe erupted from Li Wen’s fingertip.

KRAKOOM—!!!

The sky completely collapsed!

The very space of the Trial Star seemed to have been thrown into a meat grinder, emitting a soul-shattering sound of fragmentation.

The phantasm of a colossal, dark golden finger, too large to describe with words, descended with a roar from the depths of the roiling chaos clouds!

The giant finger was entwined with countless black and dark red chains of Law, representing the source of ”Annihilation” and ”Disintegration.”

Wherever it passed, space didn’t just shatter; it was directly reduced to the most primal nothingness.

A terrifying aura capable of ending all things and making gods fall enveloped the entire planet.

Before the giant finger even arrived, vast swaths of the land below were silently annihilated.

When it finally landed on the ancient golden defensive screen of light—

KRAK! BOOM—!

The 1st Layer of the defensive screen, said to be able to withstand Saint Realm attacks, only lasted for less than half a breath.

It shattered with a bang like fragile glass, dissipating into a rain of light that filled the sky.

With no more obstacles, the finger’s annihilating might fully erupted.

A silent annihilation!

With the point of impact as the center, an unimaginable ripple of destruction instantly spread out.

Wherever it passed, whether it was the black peaks thousands of meters high or the canyons ten thousand meters deep...

...or the incomparably hard black earth...

...all matter, all energy, and even space itself...

...under the corrosion of the dark golden light and the Law of Annihilation...

...were completely disintegrated, dissolved, and returned to nothingness from the most microscopic particle level.

RUUUUMMMBLE...!!!

The earth was sinking! The sky was wailing!

A huge circular basin, over three hundred miles in diameter and nearly ten thousand meters deep, appeared as if the Creator had viciously scooped it out with a giant ladle.

It formed abruptly on the surface of the Trial Star amidst a deafening yet strangely muffled roar.

The bottom of the basin was as smooth as a mirror, with wisps of a dark golden annihilating aura and constantly twisting spatial rifts that tried to mend themselves, exuding a despairing stillness.

HUM! HUM! HUMMM—!

From deep within the Trial Star, the lights of the second and even a faint 3rd Layer of the Defensive Array—more powerful, more ancient, and never before activated—lit up frantically.

Countless chains of impossibly complex runes materialized and interwove in the void.

They erupted with unprecedented energy fluctuations, emitting a hum of being overwhelmed.

Only then did they barely manage to contain the aftershocks of this world-destroying strike within the basin, preventing the destruction from spreading further.

The entire planet quaked violently, as if it might disintegrate at any moment from this power that surpassed its limits.

The smoke—or more accurately, the residual energy dust left after complete vaporization and annihilation—slowly dispersed.

Li Wen hovered at the edge of the breathtakingly huge basin.

Looking down at the hellish, abyssal scene he had created with his own hands, his eyes held only calm confirmation.

”Peak of Saint Realm... It truly lives up to its name,” he muttered to himself, his voice echoing over the dead-silent basin.

Meanwhile, on Blue Star, hundreds of thousands of miles away, on the rear mountain of Enlightenment Peak at Xinhuo University.

The two Venerables, Ye Qin and Xingxuan, who were in secluded cultivation, snapped their eyes open in horror at almost the same time.

They whipped their heads toward the silent, starry sky, their eyes filled with unprecedented shock and disbelief!

”This... This is... Peak of Saint Realm?! No!... It seems even stronger! Is that Li Wen?!” Venerable Ye Qin’s voice trembled slightly.

...

Above the Trial Star, Li Wen stood suspended in the air.

Below him was the shocking, enormous basin that had just been blasted out by the All Things Return to Ruins Finger.

Spatial rifts, like a black spiderweb, slowly writhed at the basin’s edge, exuding a heart-pounding aura of destruction.

Far away on Blue Star, hundreds of thousands of miles away, Venerable Ye Qin and Venerable Xingxuan had already been stunned by the power fluctuation that far exceeded the Peak of Saint Realm.

But Li Wen, at the center of the storm, wore a calm and focused expression.

”The All Things Return to Ruins Finger truly is a peak-level legacy for Primordial Spirit attacks. Its power is just as I expected.”

Li Wen muttered to himself, his gaze retracting from the basin.

He turned to look at several other intact, towering black peaks on the Trial Star.

His figure shifted, and space rippled almost imperceptibly.

Li Wen had silently appeared in another vast, flat area.

The terrain here was the same as the area he had just destroyed.

Several giant peaks, thousands of meters tall, of various shapes, and with a texture harder than astral refined iron, stood like silent behemoths.

He took out the Jinghong long saber, which had accompanied him in battle for many years, from the spatial bracelet on his wrist.

The saber’s body was simple and archaic, but at this moment, faint violet-gold lightning runes were flowing across it.

’Next, it’s time to test the fusion effect of my Primordial Spirit power with my True Aura and physical body.’

With a slight thought from Li Wen, a wisp of pure, vast Primordial Spirit power, imbued with the rhythm of Law, flowed out from the core of the nine-thousand-zhang Primordial Spirit Dharma Idol in his sea of consciousness.

This wisp of power wasn’t for attack, but like a gentle stream.

It instantly merged into the surging Venerable Level True Aura within his body.

HUM!

The long saber let out a soft hum.

The space around the saber’s blade instantly became blurry and distorted, as if unable to bear this fused power.

Li Wen casually raised his arm and swung his saber effortlessly toward a distant black peak shaped like a sharp sword.

There was no earth-shattering fanfare, only an extremely condensed, almost transparent, violet-gold saber gleam.

It silently traversed several thousand meters of space as if slicing through thin paper.

SHIIINK!

On the distant, indestructible peak that was thousands of meters high...

...a perfectly smooth cut, gleaming with a glassy luster, suddenly appeared at its waist.

Immediately after, the massive upper half of the mountain began to slide slowly down along this perfect cut.

It moved faster and faster, finally crashing down onto the lower half of the mountain with an earth-shattering, terrifying roar.

BOOM—!!!

The ground trembled violently, and dust shot into the sky, forming a huge mushroom cloud.

’Although its power is far less than the All Things Return to Ruins Finger, it has still increased by more than tenfold.’

Li Wen assessed the might of this strike, understanding it clearly.

’Just by fusing it with my True Aura, it has already surpassed the power I unleashed when my Primordial Spirit was at the eighth layer and fully merged with my physical body. I’m just a step away from the Saint Realm threshold.’

This result invigorated him, and the light in his eyes grew even brighter.

’So, what if I fuse it with my entire body?’

Without the slightest pause, the majestic Primordial Spirit power within his sea of consciousness suddenly began to boil.

It was no longer a trickle but a torrent like a bursting Star River, instantly flooding every fiber of his being.

It fused with his every cell, every strand of muscle and bone, and every inch of his flesh.

His blood seemed to be on fire, his bones glowed with a jade-like luster, and beneath his skin flowed violet-gold lightning and the light of his Primordial Spirit.

His entire aura underwent a world-shaking transformation.

He was no longer a reserved Venerable, but a terrifying existence on the verge of erupting with enough power to shake the Star River.

His physical combat power, which was already at the level of a normal Venerable Peak...

...and now, with the full enhancement of this vast Primordial Spirit power, his strength, speed, defense, and energy level—all of his attributes—leapt several dozen times over.

The incomparably sturdy barrier to the Saint Realm was now like thin ice before him, shattering completely with a light touch.

”Hah!”

Li Wen let out a low shout, needing no fancy moves.

He simply poured his will—fused with the full power of his Primordial Spirit, True Aura, and physical body—into the long saber in his hand.

Then, he slashed out toward a more distant mountain, one with a tougher texture, shaped like a giant black shield.