"Good!"
"Burn this guy to death!"
"Good riddance, the creatures that died at his hands must number in the thousands, his hands are drenched in blood. He deserves to be burned by the karmic fire, leaving no place for burial!"
"Hmph, let's see how he gets through this tribulation!"
The young members of the Wu Family watched as Mu Jinyu's entire body caught fire, and his flesh was consumed in an instant, leaving only white bones struggling within the karmic flames.
Witnessing this scene, their previous panic and helplessness disappeared, replaced by excitement and venom, wishing to see Mu Jinyu perish completely in the Pure Karma Fire Calamity!
Unfortunately, after ten full minutes, the white bones engulfed in the fire were not yet completely destroyed, which made them both anxious and resentful!
They wished the flames would retreat temporarily, so they could smash apart the bones with a spiritual treasure!
And let the fire burn the ashes clean.
So that Kunlun Ruins would have no more of such evil.
"To kill for salvation, to sever karma, not to slay people!"
Suddenly, a calm voice came from the void.
Then, everyone saw two beams of white light rising from the eye sockets of the white bones, bursting forth like sword light, extinguishing each one of the dark shadows clinging relentlessly to the bones as if they were swords of divine punishment.
Accompanied by piercing wails, the strands of evil thoughts were eradicated by the gaze of the bones.
"Hoo..."
With the evil thoughts severed, the karmic fire burning the bones, like rootless fire without fuel, quickly faded away into the void.
"Boom!"
With a roar of thunder, the rolling black clouds above the Wu Family Ancestral Home also dispersed with a crash.
Allowing sunlight to once again illuminate the entire Wu Family City, letting the city's populace finally catch their breath.
"Could it be... he has transcended the Heavenly Tribulation?"
"Never mind that, kill!!"
"Kill, avenge the elders!"
The young members of the Wu Family, seeing the scene of the dispersing black clouds, were taken aback. They looked up at the white bones sitting in the void, unsure if Mu Jinyu had passed the Hedao Tribulation.
Finally, they gritted their teeth and decided, regardless of whether Mu Jinyu had transcended the tribulation, to charge at him while he hadn't recovered, crushing him to dust!
Under the lead of a few surviving elders of the Wu Family, a large group of young members in the eighth or ninth layer of the Fanxu Realm soared into the sky, deploying divine skills to strike at Mu Jinyu, now mere white bones.
"I have an immortal heart, long sealed in a dusty prison..."
At this moment, from the white bones sitting in the void, a calm voice resonated again.
With the voice's emergence, those divine power attacks capable of destroying the world, toppling mountains, and filling seas melted away like snow meeting the blazing sun, vanishing before they could touch Mu Jinyu's skeleton.
"When the dust is gone and light appears..."
The words fell.
Flesh immediately grew upon the bones, tendrils of muscle entwining the skeleton, and soon a perfect, flawless body, like the most perfect creation of the Creator, emerged in the void.
With a flash of green light, a robe woven from Life Source Energy draped upon Mu Jinyu.
A gentle breeze blew, and Mu Jinyu sat in the void, the green robe swaying with the wind, long black hair slightly fluttering, and a relaxed smile on his handsome and masculine face. His whole being exuded an ethereal, extraordinary aura, like a banished immortal descending to the mortal world!
The surrounding Wu Family members, seeing Mu Jinyu's astonishing transformation, were instantly ashen-faced!
They all understood that Mu Jinyu had successfully transcended his Hedao Tribulation, truly stepping into the Unity Realm Stage, not a False Merged Path Realm like those elders.
"To illuminate mountains and rivers thousands of miles!"
As Mu Jinyu spoke his final words, though he took no apparent actions, the standing Wu Family members in the void fell like dumplings into a boiling pot, plummeting from the sky with thuds, sporting bruised and battered faces.
Afterwards, the thousands of young members from the Wu Family's Ancestral Home suddenly discovered with horror that their cultivation had been completely annihilated.
From this point on, unless they encountered heavenly materials and earthly treasures reversed against fate, they would remain ordinary mortals, unable to cultivate ever again.
Mu Jinyu slowly stood up from the void, his eyes scanning the ashen-faced Wu Family crowd below with a detached gaze, then stepped out and swiftly left Wu Family City.
He chose not to slaughter the thousands of Wu Family people, for during the Pure Karma Fire Calamity, he realized randomly committing acts of slaughter would make future tribulations more difficult, inevitably leading to his demise from grudges.
Though these people harbored great malice against him, Mu Jinyu decided to abolish their cultivation, letting them live peacefully as ordinary mortals, no longer burdened with thoughts of killing and forcing him into acts of slaughter.
Leaving Wu Family City,
Mu Jinyu set out towards the place where he parted ways with Wen Rou and Jian Ruyan.
On the way, he introspected within his own Dantian Sea.
Now, in his Dantian Sea, along with a constant flow of Life Source Energy forming a small green lake, there hovered a green danwan, the size of a lychee, above it.
This is the Golden Core that Mu Jinyu formed after entering the Unity Realm Stage, condensing his entire True Yuan, Divine Power Seeds, Intents, Domain, and Law Fragments!
With its presence, Mu Jinyu could control a small portion of the Heaven and Earth Laws. For this reason, Mu Jinyu was able to with a wave of his sleeve, easily abolish the cultivation of thousands of people!
Looking at this Golden Core he painstakingly condensed, Mu Jinyu's expression showed neither joy nor sorrow, no excitement, just a calmness as if it were a natural outcome.
His mindset had become very tranquil, as if he were a different person from before.
For during the earlier Pure Karma Fire Calamity, the rewards he gained far exceeded the physical damage inflicted.
Not only did he use the Pure Karma Fire to extinguish the myriad murderous thoughts and evil notions entangling him.
At the same time, Mu Jinyu finally realized why recently, he had become somewhat domineering. Due to Wu Yumeng's malicious manipulation, attempting murder through another, he had chosen not to abolish her cultivation but instead swiftly killed her with one slash.
The reason lay in the "Only Me" Intent Domain he cultivated!
His "Only Me" Intent Domain had been absorbed from a Sword Intent Fragment in the Heavenly Sword Pool, and strictly speaking, it was not an Intent Domain he personally comprehended.
This laid a seed of potential catastrophe for him.
Though later, in the duel with Li Zhexiong, Mu Jinyu's understanding of the "Only Me" Intent Domain grew deeper, surpassing what he originally absorbed.
However, the Intent Domain Fragment he absorbed contained someone's deep-seated obsession, not easily eliminated.
This continually influenced his personality changes.
Before reaching the Unity Realm Stage, this influence wasn't too significant, just making Mu Jinyu quicker to resort to violence, self-centered.
But during the tribulation, this obsession nearly overthrew his mind, almost leading to total ruin.
Fortunately, his will was sharp as a blade, and he finally eradicated this obsession.
Allowing him to restore his original disposition and successfully navigate through the Pure Karma Fire Calamity.
Therefore, after successfully merging paths, Mu Jinyu chose not to engage in a massacre, but instead deprived the thousands from the Wu Family of their cultivation, letting them reflect on their actions.
Otherwise, with his previous disposition, the Wu Family would have been a river of blood, and the young members would have met certain death in the end.