Chapter 221: Squeeze to Death!

"You two hold the flanking passages; I'll kill him."

As Turus transmitted his message, flames of blazing light instantly erupted across his entire body.

His two companions immediately pulled apart to either side.

They all knew how powerful Turus was—even close-range exposure to the unleashed energy of a World God could severely injure them.

"Boom—!"

Simultaneously, amid surging energy flows, one of the two was clad in countless thunderbolts, like a divine judge of punishment, while the other raised both hands, cradling a brilliant star as radiant as a sun.

Clearly, both were using combined divine arts, each guarding one of the two passages.

"Boom!!"

At that moment, the flame-like blazing light on Turus's body fully erupted—endless, scorching energy exploded outward like a nuclear blast, instantly coalescing into a colossal World God towering to the heavens.

A World God bathed in firelight.

In an instant, terrifying pressure and aura spread out.

"Turus has grown stronger—Ran Kong Secret Art, plus a World God—no wonder he passed the Yu Xingyuan's tenth layer..."

"His gene index is probably higher than last time he fought? This aura—it's at least five hundred times the cosmic standard! Truly terrifying..."

Turus's two companions couldn't help but silently marvel, deeply shaken.

They themselves were legendary geniuses from two major Level-Two civilizations, also descendants of Void Beings, yet their gene indices barely reached a hundred times the cosmic standard—far behind Turus. Only the ancient Lun Civilization, blessed with Level-Three heritage, possessed such rare gene optimization!

Not to mention Turus's Ran Kong Secret Art—that terrifying technique allowing preemptive use of spatial energy, granting near-infinite power and its own innate force comparable to the tenth layer of the Yu Xingyuan!

Generally, even a legendary genius from a Level-Two civilization, though mastering a combined divine art, could only reach peak Level-Eight, bordering Level-Nine.

Only those with a World God or Creation Genesis—the most perfect combined divine arts—or those with extremely high gene indices possessed true Level-Nine combat power.

But Turus had truly entered Level-Ten!

With such power, even weaker Void Beings had to go all-out to defeat him; once he became a Star God, he could even slay Void Beings—undoubtedly one of the absolute top geniuses in the Void Sea!

"Do you understand the gap between us now, inferior from a low-level civilization?"

The massive voice echoed through the labyrinth passage. Turus, transformed into the World God, stomped forward with immense power, his foot crashing down toward Lin Qing: "I heard you've mastered the World God too? Today, I'll show you that even among World Gods, there are differences!"

"Full-form World God?"

Lin Qing slightly narrowed his eyes, his pupils reflecting the colossal footstep that completely blocked out the sky above.

The next instant—

"Boom!!!"

Amid an explosive outburst of endless dark-gold light and earth-shattering thunder, terrifying power surged wildly in all directions!

A massive sphere, like an infinite sun, instantly appeared in the passage. Under the explosive force, the first target was Turus's World God.

"This..."

Turus initially sneered in contempt, but then froze in utter shock.

Beneath the terrifying dark-gold energy explosion, he felt his World God's footstep had stepped onto a detonating Five-Phase Void Energy bomb.

The overwhelming force instantly exceeded the World God's defense limit—his leg's skin shattered, the flesh composed of Ten Thousand Spirits and Mother River blood dissolved into sludge, and even his strongest Celestial Pillar bone cracked apart!

"No... I..."

In an instant, the colossal World God radiating endless firelight was flung backward like a star had struck it, crashing violently into the labyrinth wall.

Protected by his World God body, Turus wasn't injured—but he was utterly stunned.

"How is this possible... I..."

His mind went blank. "This can't be... He's only just unleashed the initial burst before forming his World God—how could it have this power?"

The energy released during World God formation is powerful, but it's merely incidental, wide-area shockwave—far weaker than the true might of the World God's body itself, merely a preliminary move.

But...

Just this initial shockwave had inflicted such grievous damage on him?

Even if he had Level-Three heritage, he was still from a single-planet civilization—how could this be?

Turus's mind was utterly empty.

The two companions guarding the flanks were also completely stunned.

In their eyes, Turus—nearly invincible, the strongest genius of the Lun Civilization in generations—couldn't even withstand his opponent's opening move?

"You're Turus?"

As Lin Qing's voice echoed through the labyrinth passage, the endless dark-gold energy instantly coalesced into a World God identical in size to Turus's—yet differing in appearance, form, and energy nature.

But the terrifying aura and pressure radiating from it far surpassed Turus's by countless times!

"I remember you said... you could crush me, a lowly one from a planetary civilization, with a single squeeze?"

The dark-gold World God stared coldly at the fallen Turus, then moved—its colossal divine body accelerated with impossible speed within the labyrinth's crushing gravity.

"Whoosh!"

In an instant, the dark-gold World God appeared before Turus and stomped down upon the head of Turus's World God.

At that moment, his foot condensed a darkness that devoured all—Primordial Annihilation!

Primordial Annihilation!

"Bang!"

Turus's World God head instantly shattered into energy streams, then dissolved into nothingness.

Before Turus could retaliate, Lin Qing reached out with one hand—his World God's fingers wrapped in annihilation's darkness, tearing through the strongest defense at the center of Turus's chest and pulling Turus out.

Turus's five-meter-tall, muscular body, now unprotected by his World God, was like an ant in Lin Qing's colossal palm—ready to be crushed at any moment.

"No..." Turus looked at Lin Qing in fear, voice trembling: "I underestimated you before. I withdraw from this Star God trial. Spare me! From now on, you'll have the friendship of the Lun Civilization!"

He was truly terrified.

Not just because Lin Qing's power was terrifying—almost on par with the most legendary geniuses of 2.9-level civilizations.

The key is that he cannot die!

Although the genius souls of Level 2 civilizations are protected by the Masters of Secret Realms, and his Life Imprint is also with the Holy Lord of the Ancient Wheel Civilization, allowing him to resurrect even after death, such resurrection requires him to cultivate from the very beginning!

The gene-optimizing treasures he obtained by chance before, the rare items for cultivating the Burning Void Secret Art, and so on—finding a second set of these is simply dreaming!

Once dead, even if resurrected, in the Ancient Wheel Civilization he would only count as a second-tier genius.

Moreover, having failed the Star God Trial, he could never receive such cultivation support again!

By then, his status would absolutely plummet.

"Friendship?"

Lin Qing's lips curled slightly, forming an arc of pure coldness: "Do you think... I need these?"

"No..."

Before Turs could speak again, he simply clenched one hand lightly, as if crushing an ant, instantly turning Turs into nothingness!

Turs, the strongest genius beneath the Star Deity officials of the Ancient Wheel Civilization, fell here and now.

The two companions of Turs observing this scene from afar were stunned. Lin Qing looked at them with cold eyes.

"Not good!"

"He's going to kill us! Run!"

"I surrender!"

"I surrender!"

The two companions of Turs immediately snapped out of it, fleeing without hesitation in two different directions while simultaneously declaring their surrender, waiting for the maze to teleport them out.

At this level of combat, even after shouting surrender, one must wait three seconds; that amount of time is still too long.

They also understood that fleeing together meant certain death, so they fled separately into two different passages.

Only then was there a chance of survival.

"Flee?"

No mistake, one sentence, one release, one content, one look inside!

Lin Qing swept his gaze, a hint of a smile rising on his lips.

In the next moment, he immediately dissolved the fusion state of the Black Flame Clone; the Black Flame Clone instantly detached from his body, burst out of the World God Body, and then directly chased after one of them.

He, the original World God, chased after the other.

Even without the bonus of fusion, with his strength reduced to only ten percent, he was still truly at the tenth layer of the Yu Xingyuan!

Once the Black Flame Clone ignited its life, relying on the combined divine technique of the Yu Xingyuan Demon, the "Seven-Colored Fire," it too possessed the strength of the tenth layer of the Yu Xingyuan!

In the blink of an eye, Lin Qing caught up with one of them.

With just one step down, he turned that person, along with billions of Lei Ting, into nothingness.

The Black Flame Clone also ignited its life, instantly transforming into a streak of seven-colored firelight, chasing after that person with astonishing speed, and piercing through instantly.

"Huff!!"

That terrifying flame, which simultaneously burned matter, flesh and blood, soul, will, energy, and so on, instantly turned him completely into ash and nothingness.

After letting the Black Flame Clone turn to ash, Lin Qing created it anew, directly restoring the Black Flame Clone to its peak state.

Silence returned to this maze passage.

As if nothing had ever happened.

"Continue."

After fusing with the Black Flame Clone once more, Lin Qing continued forward along the maze passage.

Wasted a tiny bit of time; I hope I'm still first.

The boundless void sea, where waves formed by endless source energy lashed against a massive secret realm world shaped like an oval egg.

This is within the Northern Sea region of this void sea, where the renowned Ancient Wheel Civilization is located.

Deep in the very center of the secret realm, inside a towering divine hall floating high in the sky, an ancient, massive turning wheel slowly rotated in mid-air, with an eyeball at its center.

Beneath the ancient turning wheel, upon the black jade Wang Zuo, sat a tall and majestic figure.

"Holy Lord."

The eyeball of the Ancient Wheel suddenly turned slightly. "Turs, who went to participate in the Star God Trial, has died. His soul has already been reborn within the source of the secret realm. Should we resurrect him now?"

"Turs is dead?" The tall and majestic Holy Lord said casually. "With his strength, on the Star God Trial, only those three factions' most top-tier peerless geniuses could possibly have killed him, right?"

"Yes."

The eyeball of the Ancient Wheel projected beams of light screen information. "According to intelligence, the five peerless geniuses from those three 2.9-level civilizations recorded in history did not participate in this Star God Trial. It was originally estimated that Turs had a sixty percent chance of successfully passing the trial."

"Could it be the hidden geniuses of those three factions?" the Holy Lord said indifferently. "Or perhaps geniuses outside those three factions?"

The eyeball of the Ancient Wheel suddenly moved. "We have already received news from the Black Moon Civilization. The genius they sent to participate in the Star God Trial this time acted together with Turs. Before dying, they sent intelligence stating that the one who killed them was a genius from a Real Universe Planet Civilization, named Lin Qing."

"Oh?"

The Holy Lord spoke in a calm voice. "I have heard of him. A planet civilization possessing the legacy of a Level 3 civilization. Even though he is from a planet civilization and obtained the legacy of a Level 3 civilization, being able to exert such strength is indeed rare."

The eyeball of the Ancient Wheel projected a massive amount of deduction information, then said, "This is very strange. A genius from a planet civilization, lacking the cultivation environment and world rules of a Void Secret Realm, even with the legacy of a Level 3 civilization, the probability of reaching this step is infinitely close to zero."

The Holy Lord, however, said calmly, "Infinitely close to zero is still not zero. The universe contains infinite possibilities."

The eyeball of the Ancient Wheel said, "Based on deduction, that Lin Qing is most likely a naturally awakened Authority Bearer."

"It seems that within the void sea, a new Level 2 civilization secret realm will appear before long..." The Holy Lord slightly narrowed his eyes, his fingertips lightly tapping the armrest of the Wang Zuo.

"Should the Holy Lord immediately resurrect Turs to make him explain clearly?" the eyeball of the Ancient Wheel asked.

"Nothing worth asking." The Holy Lord said casually. "His judgment was insufficient; he provoked the wrong person. This is his fate. Now that he has failed the Star God Trial, he can only take another path. He is no longer worthy of being listed among the Host Heaven Positions. Should we consume the secret realm's source to resurrect him?"

His fingertips paused. "The Qingtian Sect Leader has been somewhat presumptuous recently and has spoiled Turs quite a bit. Then remove Turs from the Heaven Positions and delay his resurrection. As for the charge or reason, you think of one."

In his tens of millions of years of long life, geniuses like Turs, appearing only once every several generations, he had seen countless numbers of them.

Among generations of geniuses, even if one occasionally emerges who is dazzling enough to warrant a second glance, that is all there is to it.

If it's gone, then it's gone.

"Yes." The Ancient Wheel's eyeball asked again, "Then how should Lin Qing be handled?"

The Holy Lord pondered for a moment and said, "A lucky and talented little one. He cannot be killed now. What happens in ten million years is irrelevant for now. I have not yet figured out the Great Cang Realm inheritance I obtained last time, so there is no need to waste effort with other old fellows to seize it from him..."

He paused, then said, "Notify the geniuses of my Ancient Wheel civilization and its subordinate civilizations to avoid Lin Qing whenever they encounter him."

"Yes."

"Boom!"

Within the black hole space of the dark void, Lin Qing suddenly unleashed his power, causing the layers of binding spatial forces to instantly crumble and scatter.

Lin Qing then burst straight out of this dark void, appearing in a bright plaza.

"Congratulations, you have passed the Black Hole Labyrinth."

A woman's voice, tinged with a hint of amusement, came from nearby. He turned his head and saw, to his surprise, the black-robed, white-haired 'my lord' of the Mirror.

"How many have passed before me?" Lin Qing could not help but look around.

(End of this chapter)