Chapter 459 - 182: The Shattering of Everything

Xu Lei had previously obtained Jue Gen’s Spatial Ring, and its internal space was quite large, though not as large as Yuan Kong’s.

Xu Lei, of course, had also filled Jue Gen’s Spatial Ring with explosives. His own Storage Bracelet and Yuan Kong’s basketball-court-sized Spatial Ring were also packed full of explosives.

Originally, Xu Lei had planned to take out all the explosives, teleport his Spatial Magical Artifacts back to safety, and then detonate everything.

But he hadn’t expected the Saint Master to attack him just then.

And with a thundering strike, he actually caused cracks to spread across the body of Xu Lei’s black alms bowl.

He was slightly surprised that the first strike hadn’t killed Xu Lei. Immediately, he followed up with another swift attack.

With a BANG, Xu Lei’s black alms bowl shattered completely.

This time, it wasn’t just the golden shield of light from the black alms bowl that burst; the entire artifact itself had been shattered.

One could only imagine just how powerful this Saint Master was.

’When the Saint Master first acquired this Celestial Palace,’ Xu Lei figured, ’he must have also obtained some Dharma Gates and Treasures left behind by the legendary Ancient Immortals and Buddhas.’

’That must be why his Cultivation had made him so powerful; he’s on a completely different level from the other Cultivators of the current Dharma Decline Era.’

As the Saint Master’s palm came crashing down...

Knowing he wasn’t fast enough to escape, Xu Lei had no choice but to teleport the Round Tube Magical Artifact itself back.

As for all the other Spatial Magical Artifacts—the Space Bracelet, Jue Gen’s and Yuan Kong’s Spatial Rings, and some Qiankun Cloth Bags he had obtained before—he didn’t have time to teleport any of them back.

After all, they still contained a huge amount of explosives.

Under the pressure from the Saint Master’s attack, Xu Lei’s Spatial Magical Artifacts cracked open one after another, and an avalanche of explosives came pouring out.

"Saint Master, you think you’re all that? Let’s see if you can survive this!"

Xu Lei roared.

He ignited the explosives.

In an instant, piles of explosives equivalent to the area of two basketball courts detonated.

After all, Yuan Kong’s Spatial Ring alone contained a space the size of a basketball court, with a height of four to five hundred meters!

And the combined space of Xu Lei’s Space Bracelet, Jue Gen’s Spatial Magical Artifact, and the various Qiankun Cloth Bags he’d collected over time was just about equal to the space in Yuan Kong’s artifact.

Therefore, in that moment, explosives filling a space roughly the size of two basketball courts detonated almost instantly.

In that instant of detonation...

Xu Lei himself was completely buried in explosives—there was just too much.

Initially, a large amount of the explosives hadn’t even finished pouring out of the Spatial Rings.

But as the explosives detonated, the Spatial Rings shattered completely.

This exposed even more explosives, which in turn were also detonated.

The chain reaction of the detonations was extremely fast.

It was as if it all happened in the same instant, compounding into a single, terrifying explosion!

In any case.

RUMBLE...

An absolutely terrifying explosion erupted in the plaza outside the Celestial Palace’s Daoist Scripture Hall.

The shockwave swept over everything around it. Even the flagstones of the Celestial Palace’s plaza were torn asunder, breaking apart into countless fragments.

The Celestial Palace’s AI-like Artifact Spirit let out a blood-curdling scream, as if it had been killed instantly.

"AAAAH!"

At the same time, Xu Lei also cried out in pain. His vision went black, and he lost consciousness.

Xu Lei had been even closer to the epicenter than the Saint Master; the moment the blast occurred, he was utterly annihilated.

It was too much dynamite exploding at once.

And Xu Lei didn’t waste any Magical Power to resist.

’After all,’ he thought, ’I knew I couldn’t block it, and even if I died, I would just be reborn. My Magical Power would be preserved for my next life; there was no need to waste it now.’

So Xu Lei took the blast head-on with his physical body. He couldn’t withstand it in the slightest and was instantly obliterated.

The Saint Master also let out a frenzied scream. "AAAAAHHH!"

He was in utter disbelief, frantically using his Magical Power to defend himself.

The shockwave slammed into him, tearing his Magical Power to shreds and scouring his entire physical body!

The shockwave left him charred and blackened, his skin completely sloughing off!

And yet, he somehow managed to withstand it!

He hadn’t been directly annihilated by the blast wave!

Then, he activated a Treasure similar to a Spatial Talisman.

His Spatial Talisman seemed to be of a higher grade than Xu Lei’s; it actually allowed him to teleport from within the terrifying blast wave.

However, the Spatial Talisman’s range was limited. He hadn’t left the Celestial Palace at all, merely transferring to another location within its sky.

The shockwave still washed over him, sending him flying once more and forcing him to spit up blood from the force of the impact.

He had only been spared a worse fate because his Spatial Talisman had moved him.

"Impossible!"

The Saint Master coughed up blood. "How could a mere cultivator at the Third Tier of Bodhisattva Realm unleash such an attack!"

Just then, the Saint Master discovered in horror that the entire Celestial Palace seemed to be shattering.

It wasn’t that the explosion Xu Lei had just set off had directly shattered the entire Celestial Palace.

Rather, the initial blast had torn open the Celestial Palace, which in turn triggered the Arrays within it to explode.

This led to even more violent explosions and destruction.

Explosions were erupting everywhere within the Celestial Palace. With a final, great RUMBLE, the entire structure disintegrated into countless fragments of all sizes.

"No! My Celestial Palace! My Celestial Palace!"

The Saint Master tried to control his Magical Artifact, the Celestial Palace, but discovered he had completely lost control!

He could only watch as his Celestial Palace was actually, truly blown to smithereens by Xu Lei’s one attack.