Chapter 3062: Elyonâs Utter Shock
In that moment, the cultists realized something far more terrible than death:
They were nothing.
Not even ants.
They werenât simply outmatchedâthey were irrelevant.
A few survivors dropped to their knees, unable to withstand the weight of his presence alone.
"Mercy!" one cried.
"Please! We surrender!" another screamed, his voice raw.
But Lin Muâs expression didnât change.
He wasnât here for revenge. He wasnât here to play the hero or to relish superiority.
He was here for answers.
And he would carve truth from stone if he had to.
While all this happened, the wolfkin was going through a flurry of emotions.
Elyon stood stillâsilent, stunned, and small.
He watched the twin swords dance.
The moment Ocean Raker joined Afternoon Pine, a strange pressure settled in Elyonâs chestânot from the blades themselves, but from the man who commanded them.
Lin Mu stood between the two, his robes rippling as if stirred by unseen tides. Sword qi sang around him, flowing like celestial wind. Then he moved.
No flash of blinding light. No bombastic explosion.
Just a clean, surgical strike.
The golden-yellow arc and the ocean-blue slash crossed in midair, and with a sound like paper being cut by silk thread, the entire top of the fortress... slid.
Elyonâs pupils shrank.
It didnât fall. Itslid.
The upper half of the massive stone structure glided away like a severed lid from a lidded box, revealing the fragile inner workings of a fortress that moments ago seemed impenetrable.
Stone cracked. Enchantments shattered. Dust bloomed.
Hundreds of cultivators were laid bareâdozens already dead, the rest blinking and stunned, standing exposed and helpless.
And Lin Mu descended upon them like a divine sword given form.
Even Elyon, despite standing far behind, felt his legs tense and his breath grow short. His fur bristled all over again. A wolfkinâs instincts were rarely wrong, and everything inside him screamed one thing:
Do not provoke him. Do not speak. Do not move.
Lin Muâs voice broke through the haze like a blade through silk.
"Iâll give you one chance. Surrender now. Reveal everything I ask. Or die."
Elyon could scarcely believe the confidence in his tone.
No shouting. No rage.
Just cold certainty, delivered without egoâonly the authority of one whocouldend you, and didnâtneedto say it twice.
And still, the fools hesitated.
One man, likely their leader, shouted back with fanatical defiance.
Seventh Tribulation Stageâstrong by any measure. Elyon could feel the raw pressure from his cultivation. The manâs qi surged, his eyes manic with zealotry.
But Lin Mu?
Lin Mu just said two words.
"Then perish."
The world changed.
No other way to describe it.
Elyonâs knees buckled instantly. Not from a blow. Not from spiritual suppression. From somethingdeeper.
Gravity.
Not natural gravity.
Dao-infused gravity.
The air seemed to harden. The ground rippled as invisible force slammed down like a black hammer. The very marrow in Elyonâs bones vibrated from the sudden pressure.
He gaspedâand realized he couldnât even hear himself over the sound of his own pulse pounding in his skull.
The stone beneath the cultists cracked.
Bodies caved in.
Muscles imploded. Flesh burst. Hundreds of immortalsâactual immortalsâwere crushed into ruin like rotten fruit under a millstone. Blood sprayed in thick arcs. Cries were cut short as entire skeletons shattered under force they had no time to resist.
Eighty percent dead in less than five seconds.
Elyon watched, breath caught in his throat.
And Lin Mu?
Not even panting.
Not a bead of sweat on his brow.
Not a glow of exhaustion on his face.
He stood in midair, suspended by his own power, expression unreadableâlike a judge atop a silent mountain.
âHeâs not eventrying,â Elyon realized.
He had heard of Gravity Dao before.
Who hadnât?
One of the rarest paths in all the immortal realms. Incredibly hard to sense, nearly impossible to comprehend, and even if one did... the exertion required to use it usually outweighed the benefit.
It was said that even among Top Immortal Clans, only a handful of prodigies in a hundred thousand years managed to awaken aGravity Dao Embryo.
And yet Lin Mu hadmasteredit?
Noâwieldedit.
Casually.
Elyonâs mind reeled.
He thought of what he had seen so farâwhatlittlehe knew of this man called Lin Mu.
Sword Daoâone at the Sword Heart Stage, at minimum. Possibly close to reaching a higher realm.
Space Affinityâhe could blink across distances and teleport with no delay, rip open the spatial fabric like it was paper and even tear through defensive formations.
Body Defenseâhis body withstood High Elder Yan Daoâs full-strength strikes without flinching.
Something he had learned from Meng Bai telling him the story in this past month.
Elemental Affinityâhe absorbedfire,earth, andmetalelemental energy like they were meals to fuel his body.
And now...Gravity.
Elyon wasnât even sure if Lin Mu was still human.
"How long...?" Elyon whispered to himself. "How long would it take to train in so many Daos? A thousand millenniums? Ten thousand millenniums?"
It didnât make sense.
To master one Dao, most needed a thousand years.
Two Daos? a couple thousand years more.
But Lin Mu hadfive?More?
And they included two rare Daos! Space and Gravity
And not weakly. He wasnât some jack-of-all-trades dabbling in shallow pools. He was diving to the bottom ofeverysea.
Elyon shivered againânot from fear, but from sheer disbelief.
He thought he had seen power before. He had served nobles, fought alongside Sect warriors, and witnessed mighty beings in battle. But never like this.
Never so effortless.
Never so...final.
The cultists left alive now trembled in Lin Muâs shadow. Their leader, the old man, had been reduced to a half crumpled man on stone, still alive but barely. The rest were too broken to even resist.
Lin Mu hadnâtkilledthem.
He hadendedthem.
Like snuffing candles in a breeze.
Elyon fell to one knee, not out of reverence or worshipâbut in silent admission.