The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 657 - 621: Hunyuan Big Sun Chart_1

Chapter 657: Chapter 621: Hunyuan Big Sun Chart_1

Amidst the grey, foggy sea, Lie Yang stood tall.

This supreme being, long renowned in the Fifth Realm, had not engaged in combat with relish for many years.

It wasn’t that he was unwilling, but rather, he truly did not wish to squander the hard-won radiance of the Sun God.

After the seven Heavenly Tribulation Pillars were erected, powerhouses like him seemed like beasts riveted into place, unable to break free from the seal of those pillars.

The seven Heavenly Tribulation Pillars were the "Heaven Forbidden" of their Fifth Realm, making it difficult for them to ascend to the skies.

He was a supreme being of the Yao Clan, whose most potent divine skills, within his bloodline and Divine Bones, required the brilliance of the sun to unleash their full might.

In the Purgatory Fourth Realm, one could not even glimpse the sun, moon, and stars, let alone in the Fifth Realm?

After the existence of the Tribulation Pillars, he spent years scheming and secretly communicating with the dissenting Human Race, exchanging tremendous sacrifices for rare minerals like Sun Glow Stones and Gold Friday Stones.

Only through those stones and the Power of the Sun contained within them could he strengthen his bloodline and Divine Bones.

For this very reason, unless absolutely necessary, he would never willingly waste the power that was so difficult to obtain.

Due to his repeated forbearances, the Yao Clan often fared poorly in infighting with other Fifth Realm clans.

For a long time, his clanspeople were looked down upon.

Not until his ascension to the heavens, not until Lie Yang finally bathed in the sunlight did the world realize his strength.

In the Raging Sun Sect on the Universe Profound Continent, with its many Spirit Stones and treasure mines containing the Power of the Sun, he could channel the Sun God Glare into his body using the resources and arrays of the Raging Sun Sect.

No longer did he have to restrain himself!

"You, Pang Jian, have a Divine Artifact; my Yao Clan too has an ancestral Divine Artifact at its disposal. For your sake, I will give it a minor test today to see if the might of my Yao Clan’s Divine Artifact is as formidable as our ancestors claimed,"

Qi Xu, I ask that you do not intervene when I make my move,"

"In my long life, a day like today where the strong prey on the weak already stains my name. If I were to require your help, Qi Xu, furthering this cowardly advantage, I might as well dash my head against a rock and be done with it."

The current clan leader of the Yao Clan solemnly regarded Qi Xu, forbidding her from wielding the "Divine Fire Sword" any longer.

"As you wish."

Qi Xu bowed slightly and retreated back into the "Fire Domain."

The Flaming Meteors, flames, and Fire Crystals disappeared with her into the burning "Fire Domain."

"I want you to remember, at no time are you to intervene! Even if I can’t defeat him, even if I am slain by Pang Jian, you are only to watch from the sidelines!"

"I’ve lived many years, I have things I must uphold, and I would rather die than join you in bullying the younger generation!"

"Hunyuan Big Sun Chart!"

Lie Yang snorted coldly as a peculiar golden circular pattern emerged behind him.

At the very edge of the pattern resided four Golden Crow Divine Birds, tail to head in a continuous circle.

Inside, twelve golden elongated leaves rotated leftward toward the center.

The entire pattern was symmetrically balanced and dynamic, aligning with the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.

The four birds seemed to symbolize the four seasons, whereas the twelve golden leaves represented the twelve months.

At the pattern’s very heart, a golden toad crouched with a pointed head and bulging eyes, its mouth poised as if to devour the essence of the sun.

This artifact was immense, unfurling gradually behind Lie Yang and in an instant blanketed the sky.

In comparison to the ancestral divine artifact of the Yao Clan, Lie Yang suddenly seemed as insignificant as mosquitoes and flies, as if the golden toad could swallow him whole at any moment.

"Croak!"

The toad suddenly emitted a hungry cry.

All the miniature suns that had earlier obliterated many divine thunders were now swallowed whole by the toad.

As the Golden Toad fed on the sun, the four Golden Crow birds also let out dissatisfied screeches, strenuously circling the outer rim of the pattern.

"Whoosh! Whoosh, whoosh!"

The twelve willow-leaf-shaped golden leaves also began to revolve around the center, casting off twelve rays of golden divine light.

Pang Jian, who had been eagerly observing the artifact, was caught off guard by the twelve rays of Sun God radiance, as if twelve Sun Gods were descending upon him.

Twelve figures clad in golden armor, emanating light and heat, all filled with a vast Divine Aura.

They either stood atop the Fierce Sun, rode in golden chariots drawn by many Three-legged Golden Crows, mounted golden divine beasts, or sat upon Divine Platforms.

Godly visages shimmered within the twelve strands of golden divine light, each emanating a distinct aura!

The Yao Clan had worshipped twelve Sun Gods in all.

Over tens of thousands of years, they had gathered the characteristics and Divine Power of these Sun Gods and infused them into the "Hunyuan Big Sun Chart," augmenting the might of their divine artifact.

Upon glimpsing the images of those ancient Sun Gods within the Sun God radiance, Pang Jian’s soul was already scorched.

His Immortal Primordial Spirit suffered instantaneous injury.

"Croak!"

"Whoo, whoo!"

The Golden Toad and the Golden Crow birds cried out together.

The "Hunyuan Big Sun Chart" expanded outward, forming ninety-nine layers of sunlight rings, transforming into ninety-nine celestial bodies and lands illuminated by the Great Sun.

The stars outside the Mysterious Fog and the "prison" worlds within it, any place where life left its mark, all responded in some way within those ninety-nine layers of sunlight.

Pang Jian, in a fleeting glance, even caught sight of tracts of land within the Dark Prison and the bizarre sights of the Thunder Prison.

"Boom!"

His Immortal Primordial Spirit surged to an immense stature and, without a moment’s hesitation, he invoked the "Star River of the Five Elements," arranging five mysterious and vast primordial star rivers around himself.

His divine form rose high into the firmament, as if he was a Divine King ruling over five great star rivers.

In this form, the "Five Thunders Bombardment" divine pillar became a colossal stone cudgel that he could firmly grasp with one hand.

He swept his cudgel towards the twelve strands of golden divine brilliance, annihilating the shadowy figures of the Sun Gods concealed within along with numerous thunders.

"Boom! Boom boom!"

Those wildly spreading rings of sunlight then took the opportunity to strike.

Pang Jian’s towering, multicolored body was as if being compressed by the heavens and earth of different worlds, with foreign laws of the Great Tao from those worlds suppressing the divine power within his body.

Under the bombardment of those foreign worlds, he began to retreat step by step until he was forced back into the "Fire Domain" that Qi Xu had prepared in advance.

"Lie Yang, truly the pillar of our strength, possesses such a peerless divine artifact and should be able to fight Zhu Ji to a standstill. No wonder Li Bai and Jiu Luo were so displeased with him," commented Qi Xu, who refrained from unleashing divine power within the "Fire Domain."

Her Divine Fire Sword, along with the mysterious "fire seeds" she had earlier buried within the "Fire Domain," remained utterly still.

She remembered Lie Yang’s instructions before the fight.

At no time, even if Lie Yang were about to die, could she interfere with the battle between the two.

From the moment Lie Yang brought out the "Hunyuan Big Sun Chart," from when he started to make his moves, she had to maintain her position as a bystander throughout.

"Sun God Rings, encircling heaven and earth, I will shatter your divine body!"

Lie Yang, not tall in stature, appeared minuscule in comparison to the "Hunyuan Big Sun Chart." Yet, as he harnessed the power of ninety-nine layers of rings enveloping the force of heaven and earth, striking continuously at Pang Jian’s divine body, he dared to close in.

"Swish!"

Lie Yang transformed into a streak of Sun God brilliance and leaped high into the air.

His small figure suddenly surpassed Pang Jian’s towering divine body and, like a mayfly shaking a great tree, he swung his fist downwards from above.

Between his fingers, Sun God Fire flowed, his fist wrapped in the thick Filth Alien Power of the Fifth Realm.

"Sun God Fist!"

Dry, blazing, and wildly violent Filth Alien Power, mixed with the aura of destruction and the toxins of the Fifth Realm, converged in the fist that he smashed downward.

His fist was small, but the force of its descent was like the sunset, earth-shaking.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Pang Jian’s shoulders, as broad as city walls, suddenly caved in several places, his Divine Bones cracking.

His suspended divine body was continuously forced downward by Lie Yang’s seemingly insignificant fist.

"My son, Lie Yi, died by your hand in a fair fight. As a warrior of the Yao Clan, my son died in the battle to ascend to the heavens, and he met a fitting end."

"But still, I am resentful! He shouldn’t have been that weak; his Yao Clan Bloodline Divine Power could have rapidly surged."

"Having escaped that Eternal Darkness on the lower realm and able to gaze at the Star River under the sunlight every day, evolving his bloodline, he shouldn’t have died so soon."

The father, now without a son, was behind the radiating circles of the "Hunyuan Big Sun Chart," employing the cosmic forces of celestial stars to bombard Pang Jian.

He then detached himself from the divine artifact, using the "Sun God Fist" he had painstakingly comprehended, activating the Filth Alien Power infused into his viscera and flesh, and struck Pang Jian’s divine body from above.

Before escaping the Fifth Realm, before stepping into the higher realms of heaven and earth, his standing, along with that of Shajia of the Heaven Clan, was not at the foremost of the strongest.

However, once they got to see the true sun, when Shajia stood under the day and stars, his and Shajia’s combat power instantly experienced explosive growth.

Now, the two of them were the strongest of the tenth level warriors of the Fifth Realm.

Even Li Bai now ranked below him.

"Whoosh!"

Layers of divine power formed into a Firm Cover around Pang Jian.

Within the Firm Cover, thunder and lightning zipped by, cold auras surged, and the divine powers of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth manifested as five-colored divine radiances, resisting the force of Lie Yang’s fist strikes.

They also blocked the bombardment of rings from different heavens and earth.

In the Mysterious Fog outside of Purgatory, Pang Jian, who had experience slaying Low-rank Gods and battling Middle-level God Yang Luo, once believed the supreme beings of the Fifth Realm were not to be feared.

But Lie Yang of the Yao Clan made him realize just how wildly wrong he was.

Lie Yang had not yet stepped out of the Purgatory World simply because he had previously been unable to leave the Fifth Realm, unable even to touch the Heaven Forbidden.

Yet even so, this supreme being of the Yao Clan, naturally disadvantaged in the eternal darkness of the Fifth Realm, was vastly superior to most Low-rank Gods!

Pang Jian even felt that if Lie Yang were freed from the shackles of Purgatory and allowed to reside in the sun beyond the heavens...

The current Sun God presiding above might not be able to keep Lie Yang down!

Given time, Lie Yang could very well surpass that Sun God to become a Sun God who illuminated the entire Star River, revered by countless God Spirits.

While thinking this, Pang Jian ignited within himself a Fierce Sun, stirring his own Sun God Glare.

A speck of light appeared in the palm of his hand, coalescing into a small sun.

He infused it with divine power, gathered the flames from his heart, and then stimulated the "Original Demon Fusion Spell," continuously fueling the sun.

A sun belonging to him grew rapidly from small to large, shining brilliantly from his chest.

At the core of this fierce sun, a Flame Melting Pool boiled over, steaming with wisp after wisp of demonic smoke.

Slowly, the sun turned into a blue-black sun, a blend of great sun, flame, and the "Original Demon Fusion Spell," named "Demon Sun."

The "Demon Sun" also unleashed circular aureoles, using the momentum that melted the myriad stars and heavens to break through the incoming rings.

"Whoosh!"

Pang Jian pushed his palm forth, lifting the Thunder Pond into the sky.

This terrifying Thunder Pond, with the divine might to obliterate demons and ghosts, blasted the "Sun God Fist" raining down like rolling suns, causing them to explode.

Lie Yang was also blown sky-high by the power of the Thunder Pond, his whereabouts unknown.

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