The elders of the Wu family, who were preparing to surround and kill Mu Jinyu, turned pale with fear when they saw that even the aftershocks of the thunder tribulation had reduced several False Merged Path Realm individuals to ashes, their expressions like they'd swallowed a dead rat.
"Alas, a failure to form a pill ends only in ashes. I generously offered you a chance at transformation, but alas, you are not blessed to endure it,"
Mu Jinyu sighed softly as he gazed at the traces of black ash.
The elders of the Wu family were so enraged by Mu Jinyu's words that they almost spat blood.
Damn it, they had the cultivation of the False Merged Path Realm, how could they have not attempted to transcend the tribulation of Hedao?
It was only because they failed their tribulation that they fortunately managed to escape with their lives, thus becoming False Merged Path Realm.
The tribulation they underwent wasn't nearly as terrifying as Mu Jinyu's; they estimated that the final strike of thunder they faced only had the same might as Mu Jinyu's first strike.
They couldn't even get through tribulations that were dozens of times weaker than Mu Jinyu's, yet Mu Jinyu now subjected them to a world-ending thunder tribulation that was dozens of times stronger—how could they possibly endure that?
And now this guy claims he's offering them a fortune?
"Go!"
The elders of the Wu family forcefully suppressed the urge to rush and fight Mu Jinyu, raising their heads to look at the gigantic hole in the golden protective shield above Mu Jinyu's head, created by the thunder tribulation.
They knew that with the clan protection array malfunctioning and the shield's defensive capabilities pushed to the limit, they couldn't break through the shield to escape the Wu Family Ancestral Home. Their only chance of escape lay in the path carved open by the thunder tribulation above Mu Jinyu's head.
This was the path afforded by fate; even in a death trap, there was a slim chance of survival.
But of course, one needed sufficient strength to grasp this slim chance.
Otherwise, they feared that they wouldn't even reach the hole before the thunder struck them dead.
Immediately, one of the elders attempted to escape from the path above Mu Jinyu, taking advantage of the fact that the third strike of Mu Jinyu's Heavenly Tribulation Hedao had not yet come.
"Hoo..."
Unfortunately, how could Mu Jinyu give them this opportunity?
He came to the Wu family to undergo tribulation precisely to send these people along as well. If he let some escape, he would be doing too much injustice to those who had already died.
Mu Jinyu let out a light shout, his figure shifting swiftly; in an instant, he was hovering over the only path to survival above his head, cross-legged, blocking it completely. To walk this path, one must first defeat him!
At this moment, the elder of the Wu family had also just rushed to Mu Jinyu, his eyes almost splitting with fury as he saw Mu Jinyu blocking the way, letting out an angry shout and aiming a punch at Mu Jinyu's heart!
"Kill!"
He wants to carve a path to survival.
As his words fell, the heaven and earth resonated.
"Roar!"
He punched out, accompanied by a shocking lion's roar, and a phantasmal image of a golden lion's head appeared above his fist, as if a terrifying Golden Lion King were pouncing towards Mu Jinyu.
Unfortunately, Mu Jinyu, while at the peak ninth layer of the Fanxu Realm, had already killed False Merged Path Realm experts wielding incomplete heaven-reaching spiritual treasures; he was now halfway into the Unity Realm Stage. This kind of opponent merely relying on fists and being at the False Merged Path Realm, was inconsequential to him.
Mu Jinyu disdained to spare him a glance, punching with a simplicity that was unstoppable, effortlessly shattering the phantasmal Golden Lion King, dispersing it like a dream.
Afterward, his palm struck the opponent's heavenly spirit cover with a loud crack, like a watermelon bursting open, sending red and white matter splashing down, while a headless corpse weakly fell from the sky.
"Fourth Elder!!"
"Fourth Elder!"
The elders below, who had been watching the battle for survival above with hopeful eyes, now saw the elder killed beneath Mu Jinyu's palm, their eyes turning red as they collectively howled in despair.
"Crack!"
The remains of the Fourth Elder of the Wu family fell, shattering several green tiles laid out on the ground, but at this point, none paid him much mind.
"Mu Jinyu, do you really intend to utterly annihilate us?!"
"You dare to act this way towards us today? Tomorrow, the Wu Family Head will unquestionably not spare anyone around you!"
The elders of the Wu family looked at Mu Jinyu with eyes almost splitting in anger, shouting furiously and unwillingly.
Yet at this moment, they dared not recklessly charge to fight Mu Jinyu, for they knew the third strike of Mu Jinyu's tribulation was imminent.
"Hehe..."
Mu Jinyu heard their accusations, an icy smile blooming on his face as he said indifferently, "It's already a never-ending battle to the death. Why can't I utterly annihilate you? It sounds as if by sparing you today, the Wu family would spare those around me, but if I remember correctly, your Wu family, days ago, had already issued a bounty for me and a few friends across major powers..."
"Boom!!"
Before he finished speaking, the rolling dense clouds suddenly roared, and a more terrifying, dazzling thunder light illuminated the entire Kunlun Ruins Central Domain, striking downward at Mu Jinyu.
At that moment, every person and beast in the Central Domain of the Kunlun Ruins, regardless of whether they had stepped onto the path of cultivation, felt a rushing fear, as if nearly frightened to death.
"What's happening?"
"Is it the end of the world?"
"It's so bright over at Wu Family City, could it be that some heavenly materials and earthly treasures are emerging?"
"..."
Wu Family Ancestral Home.
Mu Jinyu, facing this thunder tribulation, also felt quite a bit of pressure, stopping his mockery of the elders, focusing completely on combating this thunder tribulation.
"Boom!"
"Zzz!!"
Frighteningly intense thunder light enveloped Mu Jinyu, arcs of electricity sparkled over him, snakes of silver danced, and soon he could not withstand the thunder tribulation, his skin tearing open, blood splattering.
What an incredible occurrence.
Mu Jinyu's pure physical strength originally had the power of nine elephants; his physical body was terrifying, and after cultivating in Dragon Lake, he not only pushed his cultivation from the seventh layer of the Fanxu Realm to the peak ninth layer, but his body refining also reached the strength of One Jiao.
He was essentially like a humanoid Flood Dragon.
Given his body's resilience, he was still struck by the thunder tribulation to the point of his skin splitting open, exposing his white bones, showing the horror of this third thunder tribulation.
If it were someone else, not to mention the peak ninth layer Fanxu Realm genius attempting the Unity Realm Stage, even a Unity Realm Stage expert at one or two layers wouldn't withstand such a thunder bombardment.
"Ugh!!"
Mu Jinyu, with a solemn posture, let out a low shout, exerting the Dragon Elephant Prison Suppression Scripture to temper his body with the thunder tribulation.
Instantly, his torn body shed countless layers of dead skin and stagnant blood under the tempering of the tribulation...
Afterward, his muscles everywhere surged, as if worms were squirming inside him, yet with every surge of his muscles, his physique grew increasingly closer to perfect.
Not long afterward, Mu Jinyu experienced a metamorphosis; with a tearing sound, he expelled waste bones from his body.
The sight left the elders below astounded.
At this moment, Mu Jinyu was entirely renewed, his body gleaming with a bronzed sheen, muscles outlined in infinitely perfect lines, bathing in the thunder light while cultivating, arcs of electricity playing on his skin but causing him no harm, like the descent of a Thunder God.