As for the Celestials, Lu Yuan had long since made up his mind. They were his enemies. The relationship between him and them was already irreconcilable. Now that they had met again, he naturally would not hesitate in the slightest.

An enemy had to be utterly suppressed. Not because Lu Yuan was tyrannical or overbearing. Rather, he understood very clearly that the Celestials had always harbored hostile intentions against him and wished to eliminate him as quickly as possible. It was only because they presently lacked the strength and opportunity that they had continued to endure in silence.

Their purpose was simply to wait for the best possible chance. For instance, if one day Lu Yuan were gravely wounded, the Celestials would certainly never let him off.

Since that was the case, why should he leave behind such a threat? It was far better to wipe them out the moment they crossed paths.

Lu Yuan took a step forward. The aura around his body immediately began to surge, interweaving with his golden vital qi as wave after wave swept outward.

The Great Sun's Furnace trembled into motion, releasing an incomparably scorching aura that caused the seawater below to start boiling.

The Celestials, including the Ranker Lei Chong, were certain that there was no longer any possibility of escape.

Lu Yuan was in the Lesser Sage Realm, and in this realm, his combat power was terrifying to an extreme.

With no other choice, Lei Chong along with the other 3 Celestials took a step forward without hesitation.

"I refuse to believe you're truly invincible," Lei Chong said as the power of thunder and lightning around him erupted at once.

Rumble!

Violent thunder roared. High in the void, tens of thousands of bolts of lightning appeared, shattering the clouds.

The Celestials controlled the powers of wind and thunder, similar in some respects to Yinglong. The difference was that their display of power was even more violent and terrifying. After all, thunder was one of the most explosive forces between heaven and earth.

Under the control of the Celestials, those myriad bolts of lightning in the sky converged directly, illuminating the heavens above. They gathered together into a gigantic bolt of thunder, one that seemed capable of piercing through heaven and earth itself.

The seawater below instantly surged upward to a height of over a thousand meters. The mutated sea beasts fled without cease.

The aura was simply too terrifying, plunging the surroundings into an incomparably violent state. One had to understand that Lei Chong and the others were all in the Sage Realm, and each of them possessed powerful bloodlines and talent. Now that they had unleashed them, the result was naturally horrifying.

Even Ao Ze was shaken when it saw the scene and immediately prepared to move forward. It felt that this power was truly formidable, and it was unwilling to let Lu Yuan face it alone. Even though it knew that in its current state, it would be difficult to help much, it still did not hesitate.

"There's no need. I alone am enough," Lu Yuan spoke at that moment. His expression remained as calm as ever as he stepped forward.

Opposite him stood four Celestials with wings of wind and thunder, their entire form wrapped in endless arcs of lightning. Their appearance was indeed intimidating, like gods out of legend. And in terms of strength, they were truly powerful as well. A race capable of ranking among the top hundred starfields was naturally a powerful race.

Yet Lu Yuan seemed not to take any of it to heart.

Faced with that immense thunder that seemed like it could bring about the destruction of the world, he merely lightly raised a hand.

Jade Emperor's Divine Thunder Art!

Crackle!

Another violent peal of thunder rang out, seemingly capable of shaking heaven and earth alike. Endless leaden clouds gathered, directly blotting out the sky above.

At the same time, an even more powerful force slowly began to take shape.

But unlike what the Celestials had displayed, the power Lu Yuan controlled carried an imperial grandeur, a perfectly righteous and blazing yang force, as though it represented the will of heaven itself.

The Jade Emperor's Divine Thunder Art bore the name of the Jade Emperor. Naturally, it was no ordinary technique. This was a true borrowing of the power of heaven and earth.

And now, what Lu Yuan intended to do was use thunder arts to crush thunder arts.

Rumble!

High above, endless thunder converged, and a thunder dragon took shape almost instantly.

Lu Yuan faced the Celestials and gave a slight wave of his hand. The thunder dragon's body swelled by a thousand meters and shot forth.

"Go!" Lei Chong shouted.

The Celestials instantly sensed an overwhelming crisis. They poured all of their power into their thunder, then drove it forward to collide head-on with the thunder dragon.

Boom!

In an instant, heaven and earth shook.

The two bolts of thunder slammed together directly, instantly exploding into endless light. The clouds above were annihilated in a single moment. The seawater below surged wildly.

The overwhelming power shook everything without cease; it seemed as if this stretch of heaven and earth itself was about to be shattered.

The scene was incomparably terrifying. After all, the power of thunder was inherently destructive, let alone when wielded by two sides equally adept in that path.

Buzz!

Then came another heavy, muffled sound.

Lei Chong and the other three Celestial Sages were hurled backward. At the same time, blood sprayed from the mouths of every one of them. Their auras became incomparably weak.

"This... how is this possible? In a pure clash of thunder, we actually lost outright? Not even the slightest advantage?"

When Lei Chong saw that the combined attack of all four of them was so easily crushed, he was instantly dumbfounded.

The Celestials controlled the powers of wind and thunder. It was an innate force born with their race.

Yet now, they had lost. They had been defeated in their strongest domain, and utterly so.

Lei Chong truly found it difficult to accept.

However, Lu Yuan clearly had no intention of giving them time to ponder over that; he did not wish to waste time, so he simply stepped forward again.

Rumble!

In an instant, another overwhelming pressure erupted from within Lu Yuan. He had already resolved himself earlier to collect interest. He was ready to kill.

"I am a Ranker of the Celestials. A prodigy valued greatly by my clan," Lei Chong couldn't help but blurt out. He was just too alarmed. Although he knew that those words were unlikely to change Lu Yuan's will, he still said them.

Deep down, he was truly afraid. He wanted to seize upon any chance at survival. He had never imagined that, despite trying so hard to avoid crossing paths with Lu Yuan, things would still come to this.

At this moment, Lei Chong truly did not want to die. He hoped that by saying these things, the man before him might feel at least some measure of restraint.

Unfortunately, just as he had expected deep in his heart, after hearing those words, Lu Yuan did not even frown.

Lu Yuan merely said calmly, "A Ranker? It's not as though I haven't killed one before. One more makes no difference."

With that, he directly raised his hand.

Above, thunder gathered once more. An intense killing intent that reached the absolute extreme radiated from him.

"Fight to the death!"

At the side, the other Celestials had no intention of sitting still and waiting for death.

One by one they roared in fury, drawing out the power within their bodies as they tried to fight once more. Bolts of lightning continuously surged from their bodies, while their twin wings of wind and lightning beat madly.

They had no choice. If they did not act now, were they simply supposed to wait to die?

But it was already too late. Not to mention Lu Yuan now that he had stepped into the Lesser Sage Realm. Even when he had only been in the Void Sage Realm before, he could already crush these people without the slightest suspense. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Lu Yuan slowly lowered his hand.

At this moment, he was like a god pronouncing the death sentence of the four Celestial Sages.