"Boom!"
The divine punishment came very quickly, almost instantly taking shape and falling, giving Huaiyu no time to prepare before striking her hard.
As for the elusive immortal branch and the alternate dimension, she had already hidden them immediately and they were not struck by the lightning.
Huaiyu must have known that Heaven and Heavenly Punishment were dissatisfied with him, so he had already covered himself with heavy shields before revealing himself.
She had no intention of escaping whatsoever, because she knew that if she dared to hide, the divine punishment that followed would be even more severe.
She had learned this lesson too many times in the past few years. If she dared to delay, Heaven would have a perfect excuse to intensify the divine punishment, and the residual power would last longer.
To avoid suffering, she had long been accustomed to undergoing divine punishment as soon as it was triggered.
Anyway, with the Immortal Decree in place, whether it's divine punishment or someone from the Immortal Realm, they'll always spare her life.
Thinking of this, Huaiyu sneered, facing the descending divine punishment with a mocking expression.
Then, she was severely punished by heaven. The intensity was about the same, but the force of the punishment was several times greater.
When Huaiyu was struck and thrown to the ground, her whole body turned black and grime, surrounded by crackling lightning. Her hair exploded, the defenses of her robes failed, and her body began to twitch involuntarily.
Most importantly, she discovered that this tribulation was very different from the usual ones, as the heavenly punishment was imbued with purple power of rules.
The power of rules is even more terrifying than divine punishment. Huaiyu's expression changed drastically, and he finally became serious, even considering trying to avoid it.
However, it seemed as if the heavens could guess her thoughts, and gave her no chance to escape. She tried several methods, but ultimately failed to break free.
Knowing that the other party was determined to teach her a lesson, Huaiyu became frightened and began to flee in all directions, trying her best to avoid divine punishment.
Even at the very end, in order to avoid being seriously injured as the other party wished, she actually summoned all her subordinates through the master-servant contract to shield her from the calamity.
This included Hu Ling and Qing Nian, who were respectively given the third-to-last and second-to-last lightning punishments.
Qing Nian was alright, but Hu Ling, who was already seriously injured, was immediately struck unconscious and fell into a coma. He was breathing weakly, motionless, and his immortal power was showing signs of dissipation.
However, Huaiyu's gaze towards him was not filled with pity, but rather with resentment and murderous intent, as if she were still blaming him for ruining her plans.
His gaze was so gloomy that even Qing Nian, who happened to catch a glimpse of it, felt her heart leap into her throat. She quickly looked away, afraid of being discovered.
However, Huaiyu clearly did not notice her abnormality, because Huaiyu still had one last heavenly punishment to overcome.
She originally intended to use the same trick again, finding human punching bags to block the shots.
But the moment the thought crossed her mind, she instinctively felt herself locked onto by some terrifying force, and the summoning contract, which was already halfway through, was forcibly terminated.
And so, she could only watch helplessly as this final divine punishment, with the force of thunder, mercilessly descended upon her.
Another loud "boom" followed, and with Huaiyu's shrill scream, she completely lost consciousness.
The hidden Immortal Branch and the alternate dimension fell out again, and the Immortal Branch tried to escape with the alternate dimension wrapped around it.
However, the moment it made a move, it was locked onto, and a heavenly punishment carrying destructive power descended upon it—this was the heavenly punishment of the Immortal Branch of No Trace.
The Immortal Branch, being a plant-like creature, is inherently extremely afraid of heavenly lightning.
In addition, over the years, it has not only used its own alternate dimension to help Huaiyu cultivate the raw materials for the Spirit-Binding Powder, but also helped Huaiyu deceive the heavens and the sea to absorb the fortune of the lower realm.
In addition, its alternate dimension is filled with countless corpses and the wronged souls of countless living beings trapped within it, whose flesh and immortal power have long been completely absorbed by it.
This is why it was so powerful and could deceive the eyes of all the Immortal Emperors, because it cultivated evil arts, evil arts given to it by Huaiyu.
This ancient immortal plant, which should have lived on the righteous path, has long since become an evil entity that aids and abets evil and is rife with sins.
Without Huaiyu's protection, and burdened with his own sins, Wuzong Immortal Branch undoubtedly failed to even withstand half of the heavenly punishment.
Even as the Immortal Branch was completely shattered by the Heavenly Punishment, it was still thinking that if it had never been discovered by Huaiyu and had never made a pact with Huaiyu, would things have turned out this way?
Unfortunately, there's no going back in life; the regret came too late, and it was all too late.
Perhaps out of repentance, or perhaps for other reasons, the Immortal Branch, in the last moment before it completely dissipated, managed to become a good immortal plant for once.
First, he proactively opened the alternate dimension, returning the fortune to the wronged souls inside, allowing them to regain their sanity.
Immediately afterward, while releasing them, they also introduced divine punishment into the other dimension, destroying the entire space-time.
With a final thought, he destroyed all the items that Huaiyu had taken away, or that he had directly or refined into various immortal artifacts and spiritual weapons and placed in different small worlds for concealment.
With a final sigh, it was completely annihilated, turning to ashes and disappearing from the world forever.
At the same time, some deeply hidden schemes and plots in the lower realms gradually came to light as the lower realms self-destructed, and were discovered by the powerful beings of their respective worlds.
Soon, a purge operation began, and Huaiyu's few remaining henchmen were eliminated one by one.
Several of the bodies she had rebuilt and attempted to possess were also destroyed in this operation.
The outermost layer of concealment in that tomb chamber, which she had buried deep inside, has also crumbled.
Without this crucial layer of protection, the exposure of the tomb chamber behind it, and the people inside, is only a matter of time.
At that time, everything Huaiyu has done will be revealed to the world, and the whereabouts of the Immortal Decree will finally be revealed.
However, Huaiyu herself is unaware of all this.
She was already stunned by the divine punishment, and then the Immortal Branch vanished without a trace. As someone who had signed a life-bound contract with the other party, she naturally suffered a backlash as well.
Her current situation is no better than Hu Ling's; she is barely clinging to life.
It was Qingnian, the maid, who fed her the elixir and then busied herself sending her back to where she had been in seclusion.
But given her current injuries, it would be absolutely no problem for her to remain in a coma for over a hundred years, just like in the Millet and Potato Plan.
Meanwhile, Shushu did not directly witness the entire scene.
But just as Huaiyu fainted and the Immortal Branch of No Trace fell, Shushu, who was meditating inside the shuttle boat, suddenly had many images flash through his mind.
These images flashed by quickly, like a fleeting glimpse, finally settling on a handsome man sleeping soundly in a tomb.
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