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Chapter 441: Chapter 437 Perfect Divine Power
"Boom!"
Sword’s radiance mixed with thunder covered a kilometer, instantly piercing through Guang Ye’s body.
As a top Martial King, his physique had been tempered to the ultimate peak, far stronger than ordinary Martial Kings, and coupled with his past atrocities under the name of an Out-of-Control, he had amassed a considerable fortune and was even wearing a Supreme Grade Spirit Armor.
Despite the Thunder Sword piercing his body, it did not kill him on the spot.
Barely coping with the paralysis and rigidity brought about by the rampant thunder, his brewing Divine Skill began to lose control, and he stared fiercely at Gu Jinlai: "Gu... Gu Jinlai... Look clearly... Today these people... all die because of you!"
"Stop!"
Gu Jinlai bellowed.
"Hahahahahaha!"
In a bout of somewhat mad laughter, a force so powerful that even Guang Ye himself couldn’t control exploded from him, forming wind blades of Gang Qi that resembled supreme divine weapons and a level 18 hurricane, wildly slashing in all directions.
Wherever the Sword Gang passed, terrified townspeople were shredded to pieces, not sparing even those hiding in their houses.
The violent power contained within the Sword Gang directly sliced all buildings within several hundred meters into pieces, causing countless buildings to collapse, and the hurricane engulfed with dust roared toward a kilometer away.
The very core of the town was almost reduced to flat ground by this strike.
"Swoosh!"
Gu Jinlai’s swiftly moving figure arrived above the town, and with a wave of his hand, he swept away the rolling dust.
Looking at the town center, which was lively before, now had turned into a purgatory, and the surrounding townspeople who were screaming in agony from being sliced by Gang Qi and crushed by falling houses, Gu Jinlai’s eyes were filled with uncontrollable coldness.
Madness!
Guang Ye’s final actions could only be described as insane!
Just to make him feel guilty, to prevent him from consolidating his Martial Arts Will, he was willing to destroy half the town, causing thousands of casualties.
This method...
Was nothing short of heinous.
"Damn it."
Gu Jinlai, looking at the chaotic and panic-filled town, moved swiftly like a flash of light, directly flying over the Thunder Origin Sect.
"Thunder Origin Sect colludes with the Out-of-Control plotting rebellion, now the prime culprit has already been executed, leaving the disciples a chance to mend their ways. Descend immediately and aid the townspeople, those who perform well may be considered for lighter punishment," he declared.
His voice, by special means, quickly spread throughout Thunder Origin Sect.
As Lei Dao had already shattered the formation covering Thunder Origin Sect’s core area in the last moment, everyone witnessed the scene of Gu Jinlai slaying Lei Dao, the Martial King.
Furthermore, his subsequent actions of eliminating the top Martial King Guang Ye and Guang Ye’s behaviors...
were indeed the actions of an Out-of-Control.
Following his order, a large number of Thunder Origin Sect disciples descended the mountain to aid the townspeople.
After all, many of them were originally residents of the town, who had joined Thunder Origin Sect only after passing assessments.
Their parents and families were still in the town.
After ordering the disciples to descend the mountain, Gu Jinlai’s gaze fell on Fu Youguang.
Suddenly, the Deputy Dean of the Law Enforcement Court, who had witnessed Gu Jinlai displaying absolute power, fell to his knees, weak at the knees: "Dean... I... I was blinded for a moment, and that’s why..."
"There’s no need for explanations."
Gu Jinlai said sharply: "Organize the rescue. Once the rescue is over, take your own life. I will not take out my anger on your family."
"Take my own life..."
Fu Youguang’s face immediately turned extremely pale: "You... you can’t do this, we are both members of the Law Enforcement Court..."
"I don’t believe you didn’t receive benefits from the Bai Family and the Zhang Family people. The moment you took those benefits and framed your superior, you already violated the laws of the Holy Dynasty, belonging to the criminally charged, and you still dream of being in the same category as me?"
Gu Jinlai looked coldly at Fu Youguang: "If you refuse to organize the rescue, then so be it. I will execute justice on the spot now. You better hope that the items and money that the Bai Family and Zhang Family people bribed you with have not been used by your parents and wife and children; otherwise, I will have people recover every penny of these illicit funds, compensating fully for what was used."
"I’ll go, I’ll go."
Fu Youguang hastily pleaded: "My family is not aware of this matter, please Dean, show mercy. I will organize the rescue right away, and after the rescue..."
At this point, his tone paused slightly, his eyes filled with remorse and pain: "I will give you an explanation, Dean."
With that, he quickly rushed down the mountain, calling out to Thunder Origin Sect’s disciples.
Most disciples responded to the call of Gu Jinlai and Fu Youguang to join the rescue.
However, not everyone had such awareness; some with ulterior motives took the opportunity to leave Thunder Origin Sect while mingling in with the crowd of descending disciples.
But they didn’t know that from his vantage point, Gu Jinlai saw all of this unfold.
Those disciples and elders who didn’t have much Karma were let go.
But those whose bodies were tainted with bright red and even light red Karma, after fleeing a certain distance, soon faced the Thunder Sword launched from the sky by Gu Jinlai.
After swiftly killing more than a dozen disciples and elders, the rest of them quickly became honest and wholeheartedly joined the rescue team.
The incident had already occurred, all he could do was try his best to make reparations rather than being mired in self-blame, incapable of extricating himself.
Several hours later, Tang Zhengxiao led a team to the small town.
While organizing a rescue, he brought some elite members to the Thunder Origin Sect.
At the foot of the mountain, he already knew what had happened, and now seeing Gu Jinlai in the main hall of Thunder Origin Sect browsing through some books, he immediately clasped his hands and said, "Dean, it was our inadequate investigation that led you into this perilous situation, please punish me..."
"This matter has nothing to do with you."
Gu Jinlai put down the books and waved his hand, then asked, "How is the situation below?"
"Thanks to Fu... the martial artists lent their strength to assist, and all those buried underground have been found, and the injured have received medical treatment," said Tang Zhengxiao.
"What about the casualties?"
"We’re still tallying them, preliminary figures... there are over one thousand six hundred dead... and about two thousand three hundred injured."
The number approached four thousand.
This was the destructive power a Martial King could unleash unchecked.
The reason why there were only about four thousand casualties was largely due to Gu Jinlai’s critical strike with the Thunder Sword; otherwise...
With the Martial King’s strength, it would take little time to level the town and kill everyone in it.
"I shall return, the Zhang Family still has a Martial King alive, you handle the aftermath well," Gu Jinlai instructed.
"Yes."
Tang Zhengxiao responded firmly.
"I’ve said that I won’t pursue the guilt of the ordinary disciples and elders of Thunder Origin Sect, but Thunder Origin Sect can no longer exist from now on, it should be moved back to the Law Enforcement Court," Gu Jinlai stood up and put down the booklet he was just browsing through.
This was the Martial King inheritance of Thunder Origin Sect.
Yet such a level of inheritance was now beneath his notice, at best it could serve as a reference.
"Understood," Tang Zhengxiao said, his tone pausing, "I’m just worried that some may not cooperate..."
After all, aside from the three great Martial Kings, Thunder Origin Sect also had dozens of Martial Sects and military generals.
"Don’t worry, those who were unwilling to cooperate have all been dealt with."
Gu Jinlai spoke, "It’s unlikely there will be anyone else stubbornly resisting."
"With those words from the Dean, I am reassured," Tang Zhengxiao nodded.
Thereupon, Gu Jinlai left the Thunder Origin Sect, carrying with him relatively valuable spoils and headed straight for Wind and Rain City.
As a high-level Deva, Bai Fengyu didn’t possess just one Supreme Grade Spirit Armor but also a Quasi-Dao Artifact level flying sword.
Although the Spirit Armor was damaged by Gu Jinlai and required considerable resources to repair, the Quasi-Dao Artifact level flying sword was intact and had suffered no damage.
Compared to Supreme Grade Spirit Artifacts priced around one hundred million, Quasi-Dao Artifacts often reached a billion.
Just this one Quasi-Dao Artifact alone would allow him to pay off all his debts.
If not used to repay the loans, he could completely study several Divine Skills and ten Martial Saint inheritances.
These were just the spoils obtained from killing Bai Fengyu alone.
The other Martial Kings, almost every one of them, had one or two Supreme Grade Spirit Artifacts on them.
Because Gu Jinlai decimated them with overwhelming force this time, many people’s Spirit Artifacts were preserved, with only occasional damage, which was not severe.
The total value of these Spirit Artifacts and resources was definitely also above a billion.
Just one battle allowed him to completely leave poverty behind, struggling from the subsistence line to a stage of wealth.
Gu Jinlai glanced over the Spirit Artifacts, keeping two supreme-grade Spirit Swords for himself.
The rest were to be sold.
Once the inventory was completed, he turned his attention to his spirit world.
Not every Martial King who ambushed him was burdened with Karma; among them were two with only Light Red Name level, but there were also those like Guang Ye, deeply buried in Karma, dark as ink.
Along with some elders of Thunder Origin Sect similarly enveloped in Karma, a round of slaughtering increased his Qingguang by sixteen strands.
Sixteen strands of Qingguang...
Gu Jinlai immediately channeled the strands of Qingguang into the Thunder Sword.
Each strand of Qingguang allowed him to gain deeper insights into this Divine Skill.
When he infused the seventh strand of Qingguang, the Thunder Sword finally reached its peak transformation.
All the mysteries and variations became clear in his mind.
Among these, the Thunder Power in the Thunder Sword would not only cause damage and paralysis but also further disrupt a cultivator’s neural signals, preventing signal transmission, which would further increase the disjunction between their mind and body.
In other words, the paralyzing effect was enhanced.
"Had I achieved Cultivation Perfection in this Divine Skill earlier, Guang Ye hit by the Thunder Sword would have had no chance to release a ’Jade and Stone Burn Together’ strike," said Gu Jinlai.
He pondered deeply for a moment, then glanced at the light sphere representing the Thunder Sword.
Thunder Sword: Mahayana → Perfection.
