High Martial: I Grind Professions

Chapter 439: Chapter 277: Fall of the Four Emperors

That Primordial Spirit defensive artifact, clearly of an extremely high quality, was facing the supreme power of the All Things Return to Ruins Finger—a power that simulated the final collapse of the universe.

It held on for less than a single breath before it shattered violently, dissolving into a sky full of dark green specks of light.

Even so, this Bone Shield had absorbed the vast majority of the annihilating force.

Although the residual power of the finger was still formidable, it slammed into the Bone-Eroding Demon Emperor’s Primordial Spirit.

It caused his Primordial Spirit to tremble violently and its light to dim. The structure of his sea of consciousness also suffered considerable damage, inflicting a soul-tearing agony.

But ultimately, it failed to completely annihilate his Primordial Spirit.

At the same moment his Primordial Spirit suffered this heavy blow...

...the Bone-Eroding Demon Emperor’s killing blow—a punch fueled by his burning blood essence and containing his entire life’s cultivation...

...also landed solidly on Li Wen’s chest!

Facing the Bone-Eroding Demon Emperor’s desperate counterattack, one fueled by his burning blood essence and all his might...

...a destructive torrent of energy powerful enough to shatter stars instantly engulfed Li Wen!

BOOM—!!!

At the core of the energy explosion, space shattered inch by inch.

Turbulent streams of berserk energy swept across the heavens. The piercing light outshone everything on Blue Star.

The hearts of every member of the Human Race who witnessed this leaped into their throats, fear and despair nearly choking the breath from them.

The three Venerables—Ye Qin, Xingxuan, and Gu He—were horrified, about to rush forward recklessly.

However, as the light receded, a figure remained standing tall at the center of the blast’s aftershock.

Around Li Wen, a close-fitting Magical Robe glowed with a soft, cyan-gold light, its surface fluctuating intensely.

It weakened and neutralized the Bone-Eroding Demon Emperor’s cataclysmic energy impact, layer by layer.

Arcane runes flowed across the surface of the Magical Robe. Although its light had dimmed slightly, it was completely undamaged.

Beneath the Magical Robe, Li Wen’s resilient body—which had been tempered multiple times through his Martial Dao profession and had long since reached the Saint Realm—...

...forcefully withstood the impact of the berserk power that seeped through.

The immense impact only forced him to slide back several hundred yards.

His face was a little pale and his qi and blood churned within him, but his gaze remained as sharp as a blade. Shockingly, there were no visible wounds on his body.

”H-how is this possible?!”

The savage grin on the Bone-Eroding Demon Emperor’s face froze instantly.

It was replaced by unprecedented horror and disbelief, his voice contorting from the sheer shock.

This all-out strike of his had unleashed his bloodline power and burned a third of his blood essence.

It contained his entire life’s ultimate understanding of physical power.

Even an ordinary Saint Realm cultivator who specialized in the physical body would have been critically injured and on the brink of death if they took it head-on.

But this human before him, a Venerable Level cultivator who specialized in the Primordial Spirit, was... was almost completely unscathed?!

This completely overturned his understanding of the world!

”Nothing is impossible,” Li Wen’s voice rang out coldly, as if stating the simplest of facts.

He forcibly suppressed his roiling qi and blood. Taking advantage of the momentary pause in the Bone-Eroding Demon Emperor’s assault, caused by his mental shock, he unhesitatingly raised his finger again!

”All Things—Return to Ruins Finger!”

Within his sea of consciousness, although the light of the ninety-thousand-foot-tall golden avatar of his Primordial Spirit had dimmed by more than half...

...and it appeared exhausted, its eyes still burned with an unyielding will.

As Li Wen’s will moved once more, the golden Primordial Spirit avatar’s raised giant finger jabbed forward abruptly.

Another phantasmal giant finger, dark gold in color and imbued with the concepts of annihilation and rebirth, of the universe’s final end...

...tore through the still-turbulent spatial storm, carrying a relentless and unforgiving determination.

It pressed down fiercely toward the nearby Bone-Eroding Demon Emperor, whose mind was in disarray!

At this critical moment, the Talisman Emperor, who had been planning to circle back and look for a chance to attack...

...personally witnessed the terrifying scene of Li Wen taking the Bone-Eroding Demon Emperor’s strongest attack and emerging almost unscathed.

The last shred of hope in his eyes was utterly shattered, completely consumed by boundless fear.

’The dignity of a Demon Emperor, the camaraderie of my race—all of it is worthless in the face of the absolute threat of death.’

’It’s over... The Bone-Eroding Demon Emperor is finished!’ This was the only thought left in the Talisman Emperor’s mind.

He abandoned all intention of attacking without hesitation. He didn’t even spare the Bone-Eroding Demon Emperor another glance.

He abruptly changed direction, unleashing all his Demon Power without reserve, and transformed into a streak of light several times faster than when he had arrived.

He fled for his life, hurtling desperately toward the slowly fluctuating entrance of the world projection that led to the Demon Realm.

’I just have to get back! As soon as I’m in the Demon Realm, I can immediately destroy the foundation of this world projection!’

’It would be even better if the Bone-Eroding Demon Emperor, Shadow Claw, and the Tiger Emperor were all dead. The entire Demon Realm would belong to me, Fu Li, and me alone!’

’All the resources, all the secrets, they’ll all be mine! I’ll still have a chance to make a comeback!’

”Fu Li!!!” The Bone-Eroding Demon Emperor was trying with all his might to gather his Demon Power to resist the finger of death that was right upon him.

When he suddenly sensed that the Talisman Emperor had actually abandoned him to flee for his own life, a surge of furious rage and despair from being utterly betrayed shot through him,

causing him to let out a heart-wrenching roar filled with endless, venomous hatred.

The shadow of death had completely enveloped him.

The phantasmal, dark-gold giant finger ignored the layers of Demon Power shields he had hastily erected and once again slammed precisely into his sea of consciousness.

RUMBLE—!

The world of the Bone-Eroding Demon Emperor’s sea of consciousness seemed to be welcoming an apocalyptic heavenly punishment once again.

A force of ruin, even more berserk than before, raged through it.

The walls of his sea of consciousness, already on the verge of shattering, were instantly covered in a spiderweb of cracks, looking as if they would completely disintegrate at any moment.

The blood essence in his body began to burn wildly again as he tried to gather his final strength to resist. At the same time, a shrill roar came from his mouth:

”Saint Venerable of the Human Race! Spare my life! Spare me! I... I am willing to offer you all my collections! All my treasures! I’m even... even willing to become your slave! Just spare my life!”

Faced with the Bone-Eroding Demon Emperor’s hoarse pleas for mercy, Li Wen’s expression didn’t waver in the slightest.

The motion of his pointing finger didn’t pause for a moment. His voice was calm, yet it held an unquestionable killing intent:

”Once you’re dead, your treasures will naturally be mine.”

’More than two hundred years of the Human Race’s blood and tears. Countless lives plunged into misery and suffering, entire homelands shattered—all because of the ambition of these Demon Emperors.’

’How could a blood feud of this magnitude be offset by mere treasures? Forgiveness? Absolutely impossible!’

Seeing that begging was useless, a final glint of madness flashed in the Bone-Eroding Demon Emperor’s eyes. He threatened hoarsely:

”You can’t kill me! If you kill me, it will only hasten the demise of your Human Race! My blood brother... Etian!

He left this world long ago. He is now a Star Lord Level powerhouse whose might shakes the galaxy! If you kill me, he will definitely sense it!

He will definitely come back! To avenge me! When that time comes, you, and your entire Human Race, will be buried with me! The wrath of a Star Lord is not something you can withstand!!”

”A Star Lord?” The corner of Li Wen’s mouth curled into a cold arc. The power in his finger actually intensified. ”Then let him come! I, Li Wen, will be waiting right here!”

”No! I can’t die!” Seeing Li Wen was showing no mercy, the Bone-Eroding Demon Emperor let out a despairing roar.

He attempted a final struggle, even going so far as to burn his remaining life-bound blood essence to stabilize his sea of consciousness.

However, without the protection of a Primordial Spirit defensive treasure, his resistance seemed so pale and feeble before the power of Li Wen’s Ninth Layer of Primordial Spirit.

PFFT—!

The continuous phantasmal, dark-gold giant fingers, like the drumbeat of the god of death, crushed down heavily, one after another.

The Third Finger!

The Fourth Finger!

The Fifth Finger!

The walls of the Bone-Eroding Demon Emperor’s sea of consciousness finally shattered with a deafening crash, like glass struck by a sledgehammer!

The berserk power of ruin instantly swept through the entire space of his sea of consciousness.

Annihilating everything within—his consciousness, his memories, his powerful Primordial Spirit—like ice and snow thrown into a furnace, utterly wiping them out, reducing them to nothingness!

”NO—!!!!”

A shrill, wretched scream filled with endless unwillingness, venom, and fear became the Bone-Eroding Demon Emperor’s final echo in this world.

His savage and enormous demonic body instantly lost all signs of life.

Still in its forward-charging posture, it was as if all its bones had been removed.

Limp and stiff, it plummeted toward the ravaged earth below.

At the same time, the Talisman Emperor had already reached the edge of the world projection’s entrance.

The distorted spatial vortex was just within reach, and the familiar aura of the Demon Realm washed over him.

He could even feel the pulse of the Demon Realm’s land on the other side of the entrance.

’I made it!’ The Talisman Emperor was ecstatic, and the immense relief of surviving the ordeal nearly made him laugh out loud.

’Just one step, just one more step! Back in the Demon Realm, I’ll be the one and only emperor! Even if this invasion of the Human Race was a total failure, I’m still the ultimate winner!’

The very instant his body was about to touch the spatial ripples—

an extremely intense sense of mortal danger exploded without warning deep within his soul.

His scalp instantly went numb, and every hair on his body stood on end!

It was as if he had been locked onto by a terrifying behemoth lurking in an endless, dark abyss!

SWISH—!

An intangible and formless Primordial Spirit spike, so fast it transcended the concepts of time and space, silently tore through the void.

It didn’t come from the front, nor from behind.

It seemed to have been born directly from the Talisman Emperor’s own fear, piercing into his sea of consciousness with unerring precision and no resistance!

This was not the imposing All Things Return to Ruins Finger, but the Primordial Spirit Secret Skill that Li Wen had arduously cultivated for a long time—the Shocking God Stab!

Under Li Wen’s precise control, this Shocking God Stab, which condensed the full power of his Peak of Ninth Layer Primordial Spirit, was far more powerful than it had ever been before.

Like the sharpest soul-shattering awl, it carried an ultimate will of penetration and destruction.

It easily tore through the Talisman Emperor’s mental defenses, which had been shaken by fear.

It viciously pierced the center of his sea of consciousness, which had been left completely unguarded in his haste to escape.

SCHLICK!

The fragile sea of consciousness was instantly pierced through!

The Talisman Emperor’s Primordial Spirit, which was sitting cross-legged at the core of his sea of consciousness and still formulating thoughts of escape...

...didn’t even have time to react before it was precisely impaled through the brow by this maximally condensed Primordial Spirit spike.

”Ugh...” The ecstatic joy of a survivor on the Talisman Emperor’s face froze instantly.

It was replaced by boundless confusion, astonishment, and a final shred of incredulous despair. ”H-how is this possible...”

His consciousness, like a candle in the wind, was extinguished in an instant.

All the light in his eyes rapidly faded. Due to immense inertia, his body’s upper half had already entered the vortex of the world projection.

But his lower half remained stiffly in the skies above Blue Star.

Then, the soulless body of the Demon Emperor slid limply down.

And with that, all Four Demon Emperors had fallen!