Chapter 1166, The Formidable Jin Mi

Translator: Silavin

  

*Hummm…*

 

Beneath the stunned gaze of the crowd, as that terrifying Yuan Energy poured in, the Reincarnating Flame Ghost Staff in Jin Mi’s hand abruptly swelled. It began to slowly fuse with that peculiar Demonic Beast.

 

In the moment of their fusion, a strange ripple emanated outward through the surrounding world.

 

It was as though the energy of Heaven and Earth had been thrown into disorder by the mere fact of this thing existing.

 

Holding the fire staff, Jin Mi resembled an incarnation of the Flame God. A fearsome aura spread ceaselessly from within him, surging through the sky.

 

He had clearly driven his own true strength all the way to its absolute limit.

 

Throughout the Thunderous Blessings Mountain Range, the countless savage Demonic Beasts that normally regarded everything as prey, as though sensing something terrifying that they wanted absolutely nothing to do with, had all at once fled. A large number of them were huddled in their own territories, shivering in a manner that was too undignified for apex predators.

 

Within the area, countless gazes fixed in stunned reverence upon Jin Mi, who looked for all the world like the Flame God. They understood that when he erupted, it was going to be something on an entirely different level of alarming.

 

Watching Jin Mi, whose entire being radiated a horrifying energy, countless hearts seized with shock. A Peak Stage Martial Ancestor was capable of this. This fact was frightening to an almost unreasonable degree.

 

Even an ordinary Saint might not be able to block it.

 

It made one marvel at the might of the Golden Flame Race. They were simply absurdly powerful.

 

“Jin Mi has even pulled that out.” In the distance, Qing Luan’s expression had grown very grave. Even he could detect the distinct flavour of extreme danger.

 

It seemed Jin Mi had now surpassed him by a considerable margin in terms of strength.

 

“I wonder how he intends to handle this.”

 

“This kind of assault is already beyond what a Martial Ancestor can resist.”

 

“To have pushed Jin Mi to this extent. I must admit, that young man has actually done remarkably well.”

 

Gazes drifted toward Qin Yichen, opposite Jin Mi, carrying some sympathy, some amusement, and a certain air of the audience settling in for a conclusion.

 

What gave them pause was that, faced with this terrifying energy, Qin Yichen’s face still wore no trace of panic whatsoever. He looked rather as though he had long since made his peace with life and death, and found the arrangement agreeable.

 

By now, the Reincarnating Flame Ghost Staff and the peculiar Demonic Beast had completed their fusion. With that merging came the sense that even the sunlight overhead had been dimmed. Yet the brilliant light emanating from the fire staff itself grew ever more intense, until at last it blazed with a radiance comparable to a blazing Sun in full glory.

 

Simultaneously, an extremely violent energy spreads outward in waves, ripple after visible ripple, pulsing outward through the air.

 

“You bastard! Today, I shall show you what the limit of the Martial Ancestor Realm truly looks like!” As that brilliant light erupted, Jin Mi’s cold voice rang out suddenly across the Heavens.

 

“Golden Flame Reincarnating Flame Ghost Staff!” The shout rang out. The surrounding World Energy shuddered violently.

 

The sky, as though torn apart by a pair of invisible giant hands, was cleaved open. A brilliant pillar of light shot upward, condensing into a colossal column well over a hundred metres in size.

 

Within that pillar, an extremely terrifying energy raged with absolute abandon.

 

Beneath that energy, countless experts’ expressions grew painfully solemn. One by one they drove their own Yuan Energy to its limits, bracing against the sheer force of the shockwave washing over them from where they stood.

 

“Golden Flame Reincarnating Flame Ghost Staff?”

 

Across from him, watching the horrifying momentum of that attack, Qin Yichen’s eyes contracted slightly. It was evident that this assault had indeed surpassed the limits of what a Martial Ancestor should technically be able to produce.

 

But to be perfectly honest with himself, an attack that others regarded as completely unresistable struck him as rather ordinary.

 

Within the Dangerous Territory, any residual divine technique, picked at random, was immeasurably more terrifying than this.

 

“Too flashy. Just a fire heated stick.” Qin Yichen smiled faintly. Not a single note of contempt in his tone was hidden.

 

*Hmph!* Hearing that taunt, Jin Mi’s expression went cold. He raised both arms in a wide arc as though physically hauling that brilliant pillar of light and hurled it with savage force toward Qin Yichen.

 

*Boom!*

 

The enormous pillar of light had not yet fully descended, but the terrifying shockwave it generated had already collapsed what remained of the already-wrecked ground beneath it. The entire Thunderous Blessings Mountain Range seemed, at that moment, to convulse. Boulders were tumbling as though the end of the world had found a convenient venue.

 

Qin Yichen tilted his head back slightly, watching the light pillar expanding rapidly within his eyes. A cold smile curled at the corner of his mouth. Along his arms, the veins rose like green cords, and terrifying layers of force were stacking, compounding, building up speed.

 

*Boom!*

 

A deep, low reverberation echoed ceaselessly through the sky. That terrifying energy covered Qin Yichen completely in an instant.

 

**Crack!* *Boom!**

 

With a deafening explosion, the vast Thunderous Blessings Mountain Range trembled as a whole beneath the impact. Jagged cracks spread across the ground from where the assembled experts stood.

 

At the very centre of that explosion, a crater appeared. It was several hundred metres across, and of a depth that could not be measured at a glance.

 

Wisps of white smoke drifted upward from within the crater, curling lazily into the air. There was no trace of the slender figure that had stood there moments before.

 

Surveying the shattered landscape, the faces of countless experts were painted with shock.

 

The destructive force of this was simply too extreme.

 

Beneath an assault of this magnitude, forget an ordinary Martial Ancestor, even an ordinary Saint would have had nothing to look forward to but being ground flat.

 

Jin Mi had already reached a level of power that was mind-boggling.

 

“He… has finally been dealt with.”

 

“Jin Mi is too terrifying. With techniques like this, among his peers, rivals would be very difficult to find.”

 

“That young man was actually rather impressive. It is a shame that the one he had to face happened to be Jin Mi.”

 

“*Hmph.* On this continent, is this sort of flash-in-the-pan genius truly so rare? He has only himself to blame for being too arrogant.”

 

After a long while, murmured conversations began to ripple quietly through the Thunderous Blessings Mountain Range.

 

Two thousand or so young prodigies from various Races, coordinating to surround and capture one Late Stage Martial Ancestor. Over a hundred dead or injured. And in the end it had still taken Jin Mi himself stepping forward, using his trump card, to finish the job.

 

A battle record of that kind was, even across the continent, truly rare.

 

*Hummm…*

 

And then, while the crowd were still absorbed in their reflections, someone with keen senses noticed that something had changed.

 

The World Energy of the surrounding world, which had been in chaotic disorder, appeared suddenly drawn by something, rushing with gathering speed toward the depths of that bottomless crater.