Chapter 1089: Golden Ao Island Sinks Baoji's Royal Capital, Blood Rain Falls from the Heavens, Millions Slain

Under the lingering celestial music, one corner of an island was pulled out from the void by Lu Ding. The space kept shattering, revealing more and more of it, the terrifying black shadow blotting out the sky and sun, gradually covering the entire Royal Capital.

The Spiritual Energy within Lu Ding's body was being rapidly drained.

Even [Refine Essence into Energy] couldn't fill the emptiness inside him in time.

Pure, refined suppressive force cascaded down.

All beings equal.

With a single, booming CRASH!!!!

[Golden Ao Island] slammed heavily onto the already battered and scarred land of Baoji Kingdom's Royal Capital.

In that instant.

A shockwave brimming with celestial might mercilessly ravaged everything in its path.

The Royal Capital collapsed, the sky trembled, the earth quaked, as if a heavenly calamity had descended; the five elements were thrown into utter chaos, and the order of Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind collapsed in an instant.

Violent earthquakes continuously rippled outward.

Rivers were cut off, mountains crumbled, and ridges toppled.

The impact wasn't limited to the Royal Capital; even the surrounding cities of Baoji Kingdom's Royal Capital suffered this unwarranted disaster.

The destructive force was immense.

It inflicted irreparable and heavy losses on Baoji Kingdom's livelihoods and economy.

With just one move,

Lu Ding's ears rang with the constant notification sounds of monsters being successfully contained.

Of course, they were all minor skills, not particularly valuable.

They didn't amount to much.

And those were just the monsters.

The lives that died under this single strike numbered in the millions, no less.

One move, [Golden Ao Island], turned the joking claim of sinking Baoji Kingdom's Royal Capital into reality.

A massive crater of Heavenly Retribution replaced the former prosperity of Baoji Kingdom's Royal Capital.

If committing evil and slaughtering accumulated karma,

Then Lu Ding's move here could probably have directly allowed him to become a great demonic cultivator, a premium subscriber to one of the eighteen levels of hell.

Heaven grew wrathful, the people resented it.

Above the firmament.

Blood clouds gathered, and a rain of blood fell, mourning the countless lives devastated on this land.

The royal palace that the Empress of Baoji was piloting was nearly completely shattered.

Her figure was revealed amidst the ruins of the royal palace, tears welling in her eyes, her perfect body covered in cracks that seeped blood.

It was over.

Everything was over........

Baoji Kingdom could never rise again.

The Royal Capital was Baoji Kingdom's economic center, and the surrounding cities were its vigorously developed economic hubs.

One could say that this entire area outward from the Royal Capital, including the Royal Capital itself, shouldered over sixty percent of Baoji Kingdom's GDP.

With this one move from Lu Ding, the residual force battered the surrounding cities so badly they couldn't even get back up.

As for the experts from other nations who had been in the chaotic melee, besieging Lu Ding and his group, more than half were directly killed.

In the distance.

Cao Lie and his three companions watched this scene of mountains and rivers collapsing, blood rain falling from the sky, and the heavens weeping for the people.

They were utterly dumbfounded.........

A technique so indiscriminate, treating all beings equally, was simply too powerful, its range far too vast.

No matter which nation it was used against, it would be an unimaginable catastrophe.

Only those places governed by sects and holy lands might fare a little better.

Because they didn't care as much about the people's livelihoods.

For a nation, this was no different from the nuclear weapons that emerged during the early development of the Third Circle.

The deterrent power was enormous.

And Lu Ding was only at Spirit Refinement Eighth Layer now.

If he reached the God Sealing realm!!

This move would become a sanctioned weapon of deterrence that all nations would fear.

Absolute suppressive force represented the impossibility of resistance and effective defense.

The absolute mass and power upon landing were the source of all disaster.

At this moment.

Cao Lie and his three companions felt relief in their hearts.

Relief that the Great Han had unearthed a genius like Lu Ding.

Relief that the Great Han had recruited him into 749.

Relief that Lu Ding hadn't strayed from the right path and adhered to the Great Han's central ideology.

Otherwise, no matter what Lu Ding did, he would be a ticking time bomb.

You never knew when he might just explode in your face.

Gongyang Qingrou also couldn't understand. Standing on Lu Ding's shoulder, she was somewhat dazed.

She didn't get it.

She didn't comprehend.

Spirit Refinement Eighth Layer, how could he unleash such an attack!?

It was like an eight-year-old kid just... lifting a heavy-duty truck on the spot—and yes, exactly like a heavy-duty truck, because even a God Sealing expert couldn't achieve such a terrifying area-of-effect attack as Lu Ding did.

It completely shattered her worldview.

Of course, Lu Ding, who was going all out with [Golden Ao Island], didn't escape without a price.

Right now, he was already having trouble sustaining the combined technique of [White Flame World] and [Dharma Form].

Moreover, the life force in this area of the Royal Capital had already been drained dry by him. If he expanded further outward, the efficiency, quantity, and quality of absorbing Spiritual Energy to replenish his internal deficit would all decrease.

He had no choice.

He could only deactivate [Dharma Form],

Leaving only the [White Flame World] state active on his body.

That way, he could conserve a little energy,

Slowing down the depletion rate of his internal Spiritual Energy.

But it was worth it!!

Because that one move just now had taken care of a lot of annoying flies!

Although not all of them were killed—after all, it was a wide-area attack, and there were bound to be some that slipped through—compared to the battle situation from just a moment ago, things were much better now.

Returning to his normal size, Lu Ding panted heavily, his face somewhat pale.

He instinctively staggered a step.

Gongyang Qingrou and Wang Qingge supported him on either side.

Around Lu Ding, three Dinghai Pearls automatically began to rotate, circling him.

"Senior Gongyang, I'm leaving the main DPS duty to you. Don't let any of them leave alive!"

Lu Ding was a man of his word.

He said today that he would kill all these experts from other nations right here, so there was no way he would let a single one of them escape!!!

Gongyang Qingrou: "Leave it to me!"

She shot forward with a burst of speed.

The battle continued.

Only now, the main DPS had shifted from Lu Ding to Gongyang Qingrou.

The three-three system never goes out of style.

One main DPS, one sub-DPS, and one support.

The sub-DPS was a flexible position, capable of stepping up as main DPS when needed or dropping down to support.

As long as two members weren't taken out simultaneously,

A three-man squad would always have some combat power remaining.

The battle that followed was rather protracted.

Lu Ding's [Golden Ao Island] had served as the final filter; those who remained were the true experts sent by each nation this time.

Even though Gongyang Qingrou was fierce,

In the remaining fights, she still found it difficult to achieve rapid, large-scale kills.

She could only slowly chip away at them.

This battle lasted for three days.....

Fought until all the surrounding nations knew of the devastation in Baoji Kingdom's Royal Capital.

Fought until Lu Ding's reputation exploded once more, stepping completely into the spotlight, becoming a star in the Great Han's vast galaxy that could not be ignored.

The name [Golden Ao Island] was successfully marked in red in Lu Ding's file because of this battle!!!

It was the ultimate "burn the boats" kind of thing.

Although the National Campaign involving troop deployments from various parts of Baoji Kingdom continued,

The pressure and probing against the Great Han's side also began anew.

Previously,

There had been an agreement among many nations that no matter how big the trouble got, they couldn't use ultra-large-scale, humanity-obliterating methods.

But now, the aftermath of Lu Ding and the others' battle, the consequences brought about by [Refine Essence into Energy] and [Golden Ao Island], were already more terrifying than many so-called ultra-large-scale, humanity-obliterating methods.