The Divine Finger
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The pale, colossal finger descended through the shattered sky, compressing the atmosphere until the air turned into solid, burning glass. The sheer weight of the Upper Realm deity's gaze immobilized Li Tian, trapping his feet deep within the cracked stone of the Judgment Plaza.

[Ding! Warning! Host is targeted by an immortal-level entity from the Higher Plane!]

[Estimated impact time: 0.8 seconds. Survival probability: 0.0001%]

"Livestock?" Li Tian spat, blood spraying from his lips as his new Core Formation base groaned under the immense gravity. He forced his head upward, staring directly into the giant blood-red eye in the void. "You high-and-mighty gods think you can use this continent as your breeding ground?!"

"Master! Step back!" Shao Qing screamed.

The silver-haired Demon Empress didn't wait for his permission. The absolute slave contract inside her soul pulsed with a blinding black light, sensing his imminent death. She lunged forward, her silver hair turning completely purple as she forcefully burned thirty percent of her sealed demon core.

BOOM!

Nine massive, spectral purple tails erupted from her back, stretching across the sky to form a defensive dome directly above Li Tian. The demonic energy clashed with the descending pale finger, creating a shockwave that completely leveled the surrounding peaks of the Heavenly Sword Sect, turning the white palaces into fine dust.

CRACK!

Shao Qing let out a sharp, agonized cry as the pale finger effortlessly pierced through her purple tails, fracturing her spectral form. She was thrown to the ground beside Li Tian, vomiting translucent, silver soul-blood.

"Boy, give me control of your body!" Jian Wudi’s phantom form roared within Li Tian’s consciousness. The founder's soul was fading rapidly, burning away its final remnants of golden essence. "I didn't conquer the nine heavens just to watch some nameless immortal squish my successor like a bug!"

"No!" Li Tian roared inside his mind. "If you burn your soul, you're gone forever! I'm the Master of the Dead—I don't need dead men to fight my battles!"

Instead of surrendering his body, Li Tian pushed his newly formed Core Formation base beyond its structural limits. He turned his gaze inward and reached for the absolute center of the Heaven-Breaking Jade.

The golden artifact in his soul, reacting to his unyielding rage and absolute refusal to submit, suddenly cracked.

[Ding! Hidden condition met: Complete synchronization with the Founder's True Inheritor Bloodline!]

[Activating Heaven-Breaking Jade Origin Ability: Absolute Defiance!]

A pillar of pure, radiant, and blinding white-gold celestial energy exploded from Li Tian's chest, tearing through his black robes and piercing straight up toward the heavens. This wasn't normal spiritual energy; it was the original, unadulterated cosmic law that Jian Wudi had used to conquer the world twelve thousand years ago.

The white-gold light shot up his right arm, wrapping around his six-foot gray blade of Primordial Death-Sword Qi. The metallic gray energy violently combined with the celestial gold, transforming into a terrifying, lightless black blade that hummed with the law of total annihilation.

"Sovereign Domain..." Li Tian howled, his veins bursting and spraying blood across his own face. "...DEATH-SWORD SLASH!"

He lunged upward, thrusting his pitch-black blade directly against the tip of the descending immortal finger.

CRASH—!

The collision did not produce a sound. Instead, an absolute, vacuum-like shockwave of black and white light rippled across the entire Eastern Continent. The space between the lower world and the Upper Realm began to tear apart like cheap paper, exposing a swirling, multicolored void filled with chaotic spatial currents.

The pale, colossal finger actually froze mid-air. A single, hairline fracture appeared at its very tip.

"What?!" The ancient, booming voice from the void lost its calm indifference, replacing it with a sudden spike of genuine shock. "The law of annihilation? How can a lower-realm ant wield the power to damage an immortal body?!"

[Ding! Successfully deflected 1% of the Immortal's strike!]

[System Alert: Spatial feedback loop created. The surrounding space is completely collapsing!]

Li Tian’s body was covered in deep, bleeding fissures from the sheer recoil of the clash. His Core Formation base was fractured, and his gray blade shattered into raw energy fragments. But the damage to the immortal's finger had disrupted the spatial matrix keeping the blood-red eye anchored to the lower world.

"Ant! This deity will remember your soul aura!" the voice roared as the giant red eye began to be forcefully dragged backward into the closing spatial rift. "When the main boundary gate opens in three years, your entire world will burn!"

"Then I'll climb up to the Upper Realm in three years and rip your eye out myself!" Li Tian spat, his voice hoarse but filled with a lethal, unshakeable intent.

BOOM!

The spatial rift violently snapped shut, but the resulting explosion of dimensional energy created a massive, bottomless black hole right where the Judgment Plaza used to be. The vacuum force began dragging the ruins of the mountain range into the chaotic void.

Li Tian’s consciousness was fading fast, his body completely numb from the backlash. Beside him, Shao Qing’s weakened form was also being pulled toward the pitch-black vortex.

Before he could even attempt to channel any remaining energy, the unstable system barrier around the continent shattered. The chaotic spatial currents slammed into Li Tian, tearing him away from the mountaintop and plunging his bleeding, broken body headfirst into the unpredictable, swirling dimensional void.

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