Chapter 529: Thunder Tribulation Self-Destruction

Spatial rifts were inherently unstable, to say nothing of being bombarded by three incredibly tyrannical forces!

A deafening BOOM erupted from the rift. The man in black, Li Si, was violently thrown out, spewing a mouthful of blood. He was grievously injured!

In a flash, Li Si pulled out an Elixir and stuffed it into his mouth. Immediately after, he casually tore open another spatial rift and plunged inside. Just as his body was about to vanish, he looked back, his venomous gaze sweeping over the people below as if to burn their faces into his memory.

At this moment, Qin Li couldn’t care less about shocking the world. If Li Si escaped today, there would be endless trouble. Not just for the Ji Family—even Qin Li himself would likely face the Saint Emperor Lineage’s frenzied retaliation.

Qin Li instantly summoned the seal he had been nurturing in his Dantian for so long. The seal shot out with unbelievable speed!

BANG!

With an earth-shattering crash, the spatial rift was once again completely blasted to smithereens. Li Si’s incredibly tyrannical body, however, wasn’t blown to bits!

Instead, he was thrown out once more. But this time, it was far worse than just spitting blood and suffering grave injuries!

Even a supreme expert of the Thunder Tribulation Realm could not withstand the might of a Treasure Artifact!

However, Qin Li had still underestimated the resources of the Saint Emperor Lineage. At the critical moment, a blue light had erupted from Li Si’s body, instantly forming a protective barrier of blue light around him.

Therefore, although Li Si’s body slammed hard into the ground and carved out a large crater, he was still very much alive!

Qin Li’s expression remained unchanged. Since he had decided to use the Treasure Artifact, he was already prepared to bear any and all consequences. The seal shot toward Li Si once more like a streaking meteor.

The blue light barrier rippled violently, but it did not break!

At this moment, Ji Yuyan and Ji Ren had also charged forward, frantically bombarding Li Si on the ground.

Li Si’s eyes filled with despair. ‘I can’t believe I’d run into a Martial Artist with a Treasure Artifact in the Ji Family’s territory! And this young man has no trace of Primordial Power fluctuations. How can he use a Treasure Artifact?’

The item he carried was called the Star of Water Blue! It, too, was a Treasure Artifact passed down from Ancient Times!

The current Saint Emperor, pitying that he couldn’t openly join the Saint Emperor Lineage as a son with rights of succession, had given this Treasure Artifact to him.

But Li Si had never used it before. When he was first attacked, he had even forgotten he possessed it. It was only when Qin Li attacked him with a Treasure Artifact that he suddenly remembered he had a defensive Treasure Artifact of his own!

‘But this thing can’t hold out for long. At most, it’ll last for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea before they break through. When that happens, I’ll be a fish on the chopping block!’

Li Si had never anticipated a situation like this. Otherwise, with his strength, he could have fought them head-on. He would have been injured, but taking out at least one of them wouldn’t have been a major problem.

But now, look at them—completely unscathed. And him… he was already grievously injured, a spent force!

“Kid, who are you?! I am of the Saint Emperor Lineage! Aren’t you afraid of an endless hunt from the Saint Emperor Lineage?” Li Si’s roar echoed throughout the valley.

“Afraid? Of course, I’m afraid,” Qin Li said coldly. “And it’s because I’m afraid that I absolutely must kill you today!”

“You!” Li Si flew into a rage, but then he immediately began to chuckle. “You must have gotten something good from the Ji Family, right? Whatever the Ji Family gave you, I’ll double it! No, I’ll triple it! Just get me out of here! I’ll give you half of the entire Ji Family’s assets in the future! Seventy percent is fine too!”

“Good from them, my ass! I just don’t like the look of you!” Qin Li cursed while commanding his seal to relentlessly bombard Li Si’s defensive barrier.

“Kid, you’re doing this the hard way! You will face an endless hunt from the Saint Emperor Lineage! You think killing me will solve your problems? HAHAHA, just you try it! My father knows I’m at the Ji Family’s home. If I die, he’ll know you did it! None of you will escape! The Ji Family… just you wait for your annihilation!” Knowing there was no peaceful resolution today, Li Si began to curse wildly.

“If anyone’s dying, it’ll be you first!” Ji Ren roared with laughter. “Li Si, you bastard born of a woman who was nothing but a toy for two men! Go to hell!”

Ji Ren, enhanced by the concoction, now possessed the attack power of the Thunder Tribulation Realm. Combined with the frenzied attacks from Ji Yuyan—who now largely understood the situation—and Qin Li’s Treasure Artifact, Li Si’s death was a foregone conclusion.

At that moment, Li Si, protected by his Treasure Artifact, shot a look of desperate madness from his eyes and laughed maniacally. “Fine! If I’m going to die, you’re all coming with me!”

As he spoke, he violently reversed the flow in his meridians, sending a tyrannical force blasting back toward his own Dantian.

With the self-destruction of a Thunder Tribulation Realm expert, the entire Ji Family Valley would likely be annihilated!

Just then, an earth-shattering power erupted from Ji Ren’s entire body. He suddenly blasted Qin Li and Ji Yuyan into the sky, one after the other.

Neither of them was prepared for it and were instantly launched into the air. They both suffered minor injuries in the process, because although Ji Ren’s power was immense, he wasn’t attacking them—he was saving them!

Ji Ren let out a tremendous roar, “Yan’Er, Uncle is sorry! I’m sorry to you, and I’m sorry to your parents…!”

BOOM!

Before he could finish his words, a colossal explosion erupted from below!

The mountains crumbled and the earth split apart!

This unimaginably powerful force instantly blew away the roiling dark clouds in the sky, revealing a canopy of stars in an instant!

The moment Ji Ren blasted them away, Qin Li rushed over, grabbed Ji Yuyan, and continued flying upward.

Pushed by this incomparably powerful force, the two of them were sent soaring ten thousand meters into the sky!

Only then did the force gradually begin to weaken.

Qin Li coughed, spitting out a mouthful of blood. With one arm around Ji Yuyan’s waist and the other clutching the Treasure Seal, he looked down to see a giant mushroom cloud rising. The entire Ji Family Valley, and everything in it, had been obliterated!

It triggered a chain reaction of landslides and ground-splitting fissures. The glaciers for hundreds of miles around were all affected!

Avalanches! Collapsing and shattering glaciers! Enormous crevasses appeared!

The corner of Qin Li’s mouth twitched violently. ‘If Ji Ren hadn’t blasted us away, we probably wouldn’t have had time to escape, even if we had noticed Li Si’s intent.’

‘The self-destruction of a Thunder Tribulation Realm expert is this terrifying! The power is almost comparable to the ultimate weapons of my past life—nuclear bombs!’

Ji Yuyan, for her part, was completely stunned. She remained unresponsive in Qin Li’s arms, her body trembling slightly. Faced with such a scene, even someone with the strongest mental fortitude would be dazed. After all, in people’s minds, a Thunder Tribulation Realm Martial Artist would never self-destruct!

Therefore, even other Martial Artists at the Thunder Tribulation Realm would almost never experience something like this. Only someone like Qin Li, who had truly danced with death, could make the correct judgment in that most critical instant.

“Uncle… my uncle! Uncle!” Ji Yuyan, still in Qin Li’s arms, suddenly seemed to snap back to her senses. She frantically broke free from his grasp and flew downward, letting out a piercing shriek.

“Uncle!”

Her voice carried far into the night sky.

Qin Li gave chase immediately, but Ji Yuyan was too fast. By the time Qin Li landed, she was kneeling lifelessly at the bottom of the thousand-meter-deep crater, completely motionless.

The original Ji Family Valley—with its countless Tree Lotuses, its magnificent flora, its mountains, lakes, and streams—had all vanished into thin air.

“Uncle is gone, and my parents’ graves are gone too… Gone. Everything is gone,” Ji Yuyan murmured to herself, kneeling there with a blank expression.

Qin Li landed beside Ji Yuyan and comforted her softly, “Yuyan, it’s okay. It’s all over now. You have to be strong. Your parents were killed by that man in black, and he’s already dead!”

“Qin Li, I’m fine. I just suddenly feel so empty… so hollow… as if everything is gone in an instant. I’m so tired. Can you hold me?” As Ji Yuyan spoke, she suddenly fainted.

Qin Li caught Ji Yuyan and held her in his arms.

As he looked at the ground beneath his feet, he felt a surprising warmth. A thought unrelated to the battle suddenly occurred to him. ‘I think I understand why this Land of Extreme Cold Ice and Snow can contain so many Blessed Lands. The answer must lie underground!’

‘Beneath every Blessed Land, there must be flowing magma. It’s suppressed by the extremely thick layer of ice, so it never erupts, but the heat it gives off is what forms these Blessed Lands!’

Qin Li shook his head, pushing the thought aside. He looked at Ji Yuyan, who seemed to be asleep in his arms, her face etched with exhaustion and grief. Qin Li knew that in the span of a single day and night, this seemingly strong girl had gone through too much. She had experienced in one day what many people never encounter in their entire lives.

‘If she could still be cheerful and chatty after all this, she’d either be heartless or an idiot.’

Even Qin Li himself felt utterly exhausted at this moment.

However, Qin Li knew it was the emptiness that follows a great battle. It would pass after some rest.

The commotion here had alerted the entire Ji Family. Ji Chang soon arrived, leading a group of the Ji Family’s core Direct Lineage members and upper echelons.

Looking at where the once-beautiful Ji Family Valley had been, now a terrifying, deep crater like the maw of a beast waiting to devour someone, everyone was stunned into silence.

“What… what… what in the world happened here?” a core member of the Ji Family, a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties, asked dumbfoundedly from beside Ji Chang.

“I’d like to know that too.” Ji Chang’s aged face was also written with shock.