Chapter 424: One Punch Shatters the Law, Shakes the Heaven's Pride

The entrance to the second layer was a collapsed mountainside ruin.

When Lei Qianjue and the others used the Compass transformed from the Primeval War Seal to determine their direction and arrived here, what they saw was this scene.

The entrance is just behind this rubble.

Lei Qianjue pointed forward, his tone firm.

Without him needing to say more, the attendants behind several heaven's pride already acted, immortal light surged, sword qi crisscrossed, and in an instant cleared the mountain-like pile of rubble, revealing a deep spatial gate emitting chaotic spacetime fluctuations.

Everyone exchanged a glance, seeing solemnity and vigilance in each other's eyes.

The first layer had been looted clean; competition for the second layer would only be more brutal.

After a brief standoff, Lei Qianjue was the first to step inside, Hun Yuan Xue closely followed, and Feng Lingyun, Mo Wuxin, Jin Tuo Zi, and the others entered in single file.

Passing through the gate, the sight before them left everyone stunned.

The space of the second layer was far smaller than the first, yet the heavenly laws here were more solid, and the ancient immortal qi flowing in the air grew even purer.

Looking ahead, the ground was no longer a continuous expanse of relic treasures, but instead stood tall white jade steles reaching ten thousand zhang in height.

Each stele was inscribed with profound Dao patterns, seemingly some ancient inheritance.

Surrounding these steles lay a vast plain.

Upon the plain wandered various beings of different forms.

Some resembled qilin, their bodies ablaze with golden flames; others resembled flood dragons, surrounded by black killing qi.

These were the native beings of the Send Heaven Hall, descendants of exotic beasts left from the primordial era, each possessing strength comparable to a True Immortal, walking embodiments of the Primeval War Seal.

Yet at this moment, nobody's gaze fell upon those exotic beasts.

Their eyes were fixed firmly on the white jade steles that should have stored the inheritance.

The steles……are empty.

The Dao patterns on them were dim and lusterless; the inheritance imprints within had been completely extracted, leaving only an empty shell.

"Again……again empty?"

A voice from the Lei family's heaven's pride trembled.

If the first layer being looted could be explained as coincidence, now the second layer also being robbed carries a meaning enough to make everyone present who calls themselves heaven's chosen feel a chill down their spine.

A mysterious thief, in a way they cannot comprehend, has gone ahead of them all, treating this Send Heaven Hall as his own backyard.

"Hun! Yuan! Xue!"

A roar suppressed to the extreme, as if squeezed from between the teeth, broke the silence.

Lei Qianjue suddenly turned, his eyes blazing with lightning locking firmly onto Hun Yuan Xue.

He had lost his reason, or rather, he needed an outlet for venting.

"Besides you, who else could it be?! You must have used some secret treasure hidden from the light to do this so silently!"

"Lei Qianjue, did a donkey kick your brain?"

Hun Yuan Xue was also seething with anger, and she retorted without courtesy,

"If I really had that ability, I'd first twist your stupid head off and use it as a chamber pot!"

"You're courting death!"

Lei Qianjue flew into a complete rage; knowing arguing with Hun Yuan Xue would be futile, he turned his gaze and landed on the trembling natives behind her.

In the end, his gaze settled on Gu Yuan (avatar), who had remained calm from start to finish.

A chilling killing intent erupted.

"A lowly ant from the lower realms, also worthy to walk alongside us heaven's pride?"

Lei Qianjue's voice was ice-cold and piercing, full of lofty contempt.

He needed to establish authority, needed to vent, and the native before him who seemed the most insignificant was undoubtedly the best target.

Before his words even fell, he launched a fierce attack!

He didn't even use that thunder war spear, simply pointing a finger forward.

Boom!

A strand of purple-black electric arc, finer than a hair, burst from his fingertip, instantly piercing the void and swelling into a lightning pillar that devoured light!

Where the lightning pillar passed, all laws retreated, spacetime wailed, and the destructive laws entwined upon it could instantly vaporize an ordinary mid-stage True Immortal expert, along with their Dao fruit and soul, into nothing!

This finger, swift and urgent, aimed clearly to, before Hun Yuan Xue's eyes, grind her chief enforcer into ashes!

"You dare!"

Hun Yuan Xue was both shocked and angry; she hadn't expected Lei Qianjue to act so disregarding his status against a junior.

To Hun Yuan Xue, whether Gu Yuan lived or died, she didn't really care.

But Lei Qianjue's attack clearly showed he didn't take her seriously.

He was slapping her Hun Yuan Xue's face!

No matter what, she would stop him and give Lei Qianjue a lesson!

However, at the instant when that lightning pillar capable of destroying everything was about to strike Gu Yuan (avatar)'s face,

Gu Yuan (avatar), moved.

Even his speed surpassed Hun Yuan Xue's!

He neither dodged nor deployed any treasure, nor even activated his protective immortal essence.

He simply raised his hand and clenched his fist.

Then, facing the oncoming lightning pillar, he simply threw a punch.

In everyone's eyes, this scene looked utterly ridiculous.

Like a mantis waving its ludicrous arms, trying to block a charging chariot.

But the next moment.

That purple‑black lightning pillar, capable of piercing the true immortal Dao fruit, silently collapsed the instant it touched Gu Yuan's (clone's) fist tip.

One punch — breaking the law!

The whole world fell into a deathly silence.

Everyone stared blankly at the black‑clad youth slowly retracting his fist, their minds empty.

They weren't mistaken, were they?

A native from the barren wasteland, an existence they deemed lower than an ant, actually… with one punch, he directly shattered the full‑force strike of the Thunder Emperor's close grandson?

How is this possible?!

"No…… this is absolutely impossible!"

Lei Qianjue was the first to recover from the shock, replaced by extreme humiliation and madness.

He couldn't accept it!

As the proud heir of the Thunder Emperor clan, a top‑tier heavenly prodigy who had opened ninety‑eight immortal meridians, he actually suffered such a great loss in front of a native!

"I will kill you!"

He roared, and behind him the thunderous dharma manifestation formed from the illusory shadows of the ninety‑eight immortal meridians burst forth!

"Thunder Emperor's true form — myriad laws extinguished!"

He had gone completely mad; as soon as he moved, he unleashed his strongest killing technique!

However, Hun Yuan Xue's figure stepped in front of Gu Yuan's (clone) at this moment.

On her arrogant, pretty face now overflowed with wild joy and an indescribable excitement; her gaze at Gu Yuan's (clone) was like discovering a new continent, filled with surprise and possessive desire.

"Lei Qianjue, do you still have any shame?"

She stood with hands on her hips, her phoenix eyes brimming with killing intent, yet her tone was unspeakably smug,

"If you can't beat the junior, you resort to your true form? Are all of you Lei family people such sore losers?"

She waved her hand, and dozens of shining treasures radiating an immortal king's aura were tossed like trash before Gu Yuan's (clone).

"Yuan, well done! These are all rewards for you!"

"Keep going, Miss! If today you can beat him until he defecates, I'll have my father adopt you as my sworn son when I go back!"