Chapter 146: SS-Class Dou Tian Shenlei! Crazy Cross-Rank Kill!

"Hm?"

Seeing a plus sign suddenly appear on the system panel's ability slot, Xu Jingming froze in surprise.

Immediately followed by a surge of joy.

He never expected his long-desired ability upgrade to occur under such circumstances!

"If that's the case, then come on!"

Xu Jingming's gaze sharpened.

Without the slightest hesitation, he directly clicked the plus sign behind the ability!

'Ding! Ability evolution initiated. S-class Zi Xiao Shenlei evolving 10%... 20%... 30%......'

The instant Xu Jingming's ability began evolving.

Above the demon lair, several clouds condensed into existence!

Unlike ordinary white clouds, these clouds were dazzling gold!

The light emitted by the golden clouds rivaled even the sun hanging on the horizon!

Boom—

From within the golden clouds, a deep rumbling of thunder and lightning erupted!

The thunder sounded like a god's whisper, brimming with authority and holiness!

Xu Jingming's eyes half-closed, his body slightly levitating.

His breathing subtly synchronized with the golden clouds above!

Crackling—

Dense golden lightning surged from the clouds and struck Xu Jingming.

In this process, the blue-purple lightning swirling around him also transformed into brilliant gold!

'Evolution progress: 80... 90%... 95%......'

As the blue-purple lightning evolved into sacred, radiant golden lightning, Xu Jingming's rank remained merely Third-Stage Lower.

Yet the aura emanating from him grew increasingly dangerous!

"Faking divinity!!"

Dong Sheng's face darkened; flames surged violently toward Xu Jingming!

Even the sunflowers nearby did not directly touch the flames.

They ignited spontaneously from the extreme heat transmitted through the air!

Such flames could melt C-class alloy, let alone fragile human flesh!

"No!"

Far away, Song Qiuyun, who had just broken through, watched in despair.

She was still too far from Xu Jingming; even activating her protective talisman could not shield him!

Song Qiuyun slumped helplessly into the sea of sunflowers.

Her delicate face, at some unknown moment, had already become covered in tears.

She could almost see each thread of the searing flames.

Their distortion of the air slowly engulfing Xu Jingming.

So the TV drama trope—where the heroine sees her beloved die and time slows down—wasn't exaggerated after all.

Song Qiuyun suddenly thought.

But why were the flames moving slower and slower?

No, wrong!

The flames stopped!

In Song Qiuyun's incredulous gaze, the terrifying heat waves rushing toward Xu Jingming.

Mid-air, they sank as if into thick swamp, their momentum steadily weakening.

Finally, they halted a full meter before Xu Jingming.

There they hung suspended, like lifelike flame specimens, utterly motionless!

'Ability evolution progress: 98%... 99%... 100%, ability evolution successful! S-class Zi Xiao Shenlei has evolved into SS-class Dou Tian Shenlei!'

Xu Jingming's eyes snapped open!

His former blue-purple dragon-like vertical pupils had transformed into molten-gold golden eyes!

Like the sun itself, unbearable to look upon!

In the sky, the golden clouds quietly receded.

Dense, powerful golden lightning surged around Xu Jingming, as if welcoming a sovereign's return.

The flames capable of melting C-class alloy were instantly swallowed by the sacred, radiant golden lightning!

Like Xu Jingming, Song Qiuyun did not believe in religion or gods, yet this scene.

Made her unconsciously recall a passage from the Bible she'd glimpsed in high school.

When Yahweh created the world, the ocean's waves endlessly crashed against the earth.

Yahweh set them a boundary, saying: "Thus far you shall come, but no farther."

The arrogant waves ceased.

Wasn't this exactly what was happening now—the terrifying heat waves held at bay?

No! This scene was different!

In the Western world, Yahweh was a merciful creator who merely halted the waves.

But the man she loved had swallowed the ocean's endless waves whole.

He was not a merciful creator, but a domineering and mighty king who would one day rule over all!

In the golden sea of sunflowers, Xu Jingming's body was wreathed in terrifying golden lightning.

Within his molten-gold pupils, there was still not a single trace of emotion.

The next second,

Xu Jingming lifted his head to look at Dong Sheng nearby, whose face was filled with horror, and merely slightly raised his right hand:

"Heavenly Thunder."

Crackle!!

The light flared suddenly, and a thick bolt of golden lightning that pierced heaven and earth came crashing down!

Dong Sheng, a peak fourth-tier, didn't even have time to react.

He didn't even have time to let out a scream before being blasted into flying ash by that bolt of golden lightning!

*Ding. Killed one peak fourth-tier Divine Blood Emissary. Ability Points +2000. *

The pleasant system notification sounded, but Xu Jingming was completely unmoved.

Like a god of death in charge of the book of life, he called names one by one:

"You, you, you—all of you, go die."

Crackle! Crackle! Crackle!

Three bolts of golden lightning struck down in succession, killing off the remaining three Tianming Sect black-robed figures one by one!

When Xu Jingming's molten-gold, golden dragon pupils looked toward Jilan, he was so startled he gave a jolt and hurriedly raised his hands in surrender:

"Don't, Xu Jingming, I was being coerced earlier too. I didn't make a move against you."

While raising his hands to surrender, a wave of shock also welled up uncontrollably in Jilan's heart.

Xu Jingming, this S-rank of the Great Xia—what kind of monster is he?

A breakthrough in the midst of battle would be one thing, but after breaking through he could actually instant-kill a peak fourth-tier Dong Sheng!

This was something he hadn't expected.

Besides, what exactly did Xu Jingming break through to? His rank hasn't even changed!

Gazing at the golden lightning wreathing Xu Jingming's body, a color unlike any before.

Jilan's pupils suddenly contracted.

Did his ability break through?!

Upon thinking of this possibility, another doubt immediately rose in his heart.

Abilities—can they break through on one's own?

But just then, the exasperated voice of the Archbishop rang out from the sky:

"The Holy Son is dead?!"

The Archbishop's surging qi and blood slightly receded from the pure-white beast bone in his hand, and in the next instant his body vanished from the sky.

With a ferocious face, he appeared right in front of Xu Jingming, his pitch-black beast claw carrying a terrifying aura clawing toward Xu Jingming:

"Xu Jingming! I'll have you buried with him!"

The pitch-black beast claw drew closer and closer to Xu Jingming's body, under the crushing pressure of a seventh-tier Grandmaster's immense aura.

Xu Jingming, merely a lower third-tier, had no way to dodge at all!

And if he took this claw head-on, it would surely mean certain death!

But when the beast claw was still five centimeters from Xu Jingming, it was as if it had to cross an endless gulf—no matter what, it just couldn't get any closer!

"This is... a spatial-type ability?!"

The Archbishop's face changed drastically.

At the same time, the figure of a barefoot woman in black ancient-style attire stepped out from the void.

Her beautiful face was covered in ice-cold—it was none other than the vice principal of the Demon Academy, Hearing Ling Shuang!

PS: Three updates done. Begging for some free gifts and urging for more updates, thanks so much!