38: Chapter 38 The Death of a Son Entrusted to His Father!

Outside the Megalithic City-State.

Leader Yan Er was bare-chested, his originally strong muscles covered in bone-deep corrosive scars left by the splashing toxic water.

His eyes were bloodshot, resembling a lone wolf driven into a desperate situation, staring fixedly at the crumbling defense line ahead.

"Hurry! Push that massive boulder down! Block the gap tightly for my sake!"

"Don't stop! Soil, gravel, and the skeletons of those poisoned mutated beasts, fill it all in for me! Absolutely do not let this black water overflow the defense line!"

Leader Yan Er's roar, hoarse to the point of breaking, sounded extremely tragic amidst the torrential rain-like roaring.

Countless human warriors rushed forward like moths to a flame, using crude tools, or even their own flesh and blood, to frantically reinforce that hastily built massive dam.

"Block it! It must be blocked!"

This was the only thought in Leader Yan Er's mind.

The Central Plains had flat terrain; if these alpine toxic lakes were allowed to pour down, the entire Central Plains hinterland would instantly turn into a death swamp, and the last spark of the human race would be completely extinguished.

Under his frantic command, a miracle seemed to have truly occurred.

The towering boulder dam forcibly cut off the path of the flood peak, and the turbulent black toxic water rolled violently in front of the dam, its water level continuously rising, yet it could never cross the boundary by a single step.

"It's blocked! Leader, we've blocked the flood!"

On the city wall, the exhausted warriors embraced and wept, letting out cheers of surviving a catastrophe.

Leader Yan Er's tense nerves finally relaxed a fraction; he collapsed into the mud, panting heavily.

However, this effectiveness was merely drinking poison to quench thirst.

xuanming heavy water, containing the terrifying power of laws, was by no means ordinary water.

Forced to be blocked, the water level not only did not recede, but instead frantically accumulated even more devastating kinetic energy behind the dam!

The more fiercely the water was blocked, the more horrifying the rebound force would be!

Just on the third night after the dam was built.

"Crack..."

A subtle yet horrifying cracking sound abruptly rang out in the silent night.

Leader Yan Er snapped awake from his light sleep, his heart gripped tightly as if by an invisible giant hand.

He rushed to the top of the city wall, watching in despair as a deep crack had burst open on the surface of the boulder dam, which had consumed the painstaking efforts of countless clansmen.

Black toxic water was frantically gushing out along the cracks!

"No... Run! Everyone, retreat quickly!!!"

Leader Yan Er roared at the top of his lungs, but it was already too late.

"Boom—!!!"

The terrifying water pressure that had accumulated for several days and nights ushered in its most thorough release at this moment!

The heavy dam was instantly torn apart like it was made of paper, and a black wall of water dozens of meters high slammed down with heaven-destroying and earth-shattering power!

That force was more than ten times greater than when the dam burst previously!

The moment they contacted this flood peak, the several painstakingly cultivated fields below and the newly established defense watchtowers didn't even go through the process of shattering; they were directly ground into nothingness.

Countless warriors who didn't have time to evacuate had even their screams drowned out by the raging waves.

"Ah—!"

Leader Yan Er knelt on the city wall, his hands clutching his hair tightly, the corners of his eyes splitting open and bleeding tears.

He was wrong.

He thought that man could conquer nature, and that he could block this disaster of the laws with flesh and blood, but he never expected that this foolish decision would exchange for even more tragic casualties.

That night, the Megalithic City-State was filled with cries of woe everywhere.

When the first ray of morning sunlight painstakingly penetrated the toxic mist and spilled onto Leader Yan Er,

the guards on the city wall were shocked to find that their tower-like and invincible leader, Leader Yan Er,

had all his pitch-black hair turn into dazzling snow-white overnight!

Time passed ruthlessly on this suffering land.

On the Far North Ice Field, the wind and snow still raged.

However, the ten-year-old boy who bathed in the toxic lake back then had now grown into a robust man with soaring vital energy under the time flow of the Divine Kingdom!

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, a huge first-order mutated ice field elephant was forcibly sent flying by a violent figure, heavily smashing and shattering an iceberg.

Yushi was bare-chested, his muscles bulging high like pieces of the most perfect rock, exuding a terrifying pressure all over his body like an ancient primitive beast.

The dark blue ice-light mark between his eyebrows had now completely solidified, exuding a heart-palpitating eerie glow.

Around him, the xuanming heavy water, which meant instant death upon contact for ordinary people, was transforming into docile black water dragons, lingering around his fingertips, allowing him to toy with and control them at will!

He was not afraid of water hazards, and could even transform this disaster into his own power!

On an ice cliff not far away,

Yan San coughed violently, and every cough brought out a large mouthful of black blood mixed with fragments of internal organs.

He was too old, and too weak.

The hidden injuries left from clearing wasteland in his youth, coupled with the omnipresent cold poison erosion on this ice field, had completely hollowed out this old leader's vitality.

Yan San's cloudy eyes stared fixedly at Yushi, who was beating up a second-order ferocious beast, a flash of resolute light crossing his eyes.

"My time is up in these few days."

Yan San muttered to himself, his withered palm stroking the battle axe beside him: "This Far North Ice Field can no longer trap this true dragon. The water hazards in the Central Plains are monstrous, and that kid Leader Yan Er is probably running out of endurance!!!"

"Yushi is born divine and is the only hope to break the deadlock! Before I die, these old bones of mine must send him on the last leg of his journey!"

Without a moment of hesitation,

Yan San gathered the few remaining elites in the tribe, took Yushi with him, and embarked on the long journey southward to the Central Plains.

When the towering silhouette of the Megalithic City-State finally appeared on the horizon,

Yan San's burly body had withered like air-dried dead wood.

The battle axe in his hand was full of nicks, and the animal skins on his body were corroded by toxic water to the point of being tattered.

Leader Yan Er, with full white hair and looking extremely weathered, rushed out quickly with a group of high-ranking officials.

Seeing the arrivals, Leader Yan Er's footsteps came to an abrupt halt, his pupils shrinking violently.

They were once mortal enemies who fought to the death.

Back then, in order to fight for the dominance of the tribe, the two fought so fiercely that the heavens and earth turned dark.

In the end, Leader Yan Er was slightly more skilled, stepping Yan San under his feet, stripping him of all his glory, and banishing him like a stray dog to the bitter and barren Far North Ice Field.

For decades, this humiliation and hatred should have gnawed at Yan San's heart like a poisonous snake.

Leader Yan Er even thought that Yan San came back this time to take advantage of the fire and exact revenge.

However, when Leader Yan Er saw that former mortal enemy who once fought the heavens and earth and was peerless, now only hanging on by a single breath with his entire body covered in fatal ulcers corroded by toxic water, the defense line in his heart instantly collapsed.

Leader Yan Er, a dignified and towering man, had his eye sockets turn completely red instantly, his both knees heavily kneeling into the mud and bloody water.

"Yan San..." Leader Yan Er's voice was hoarse beyond recognition, carrying a tremor he himself hadn't noticed.

"Er... Put away that weak look of yours, I'm not completely dead yet."

Yan San split his chapped lips, revealing a wild smile that was uglier than crying.

Through all tribulations brothers still remain, a smile upon meeting washes away all grudges!

Yan San tremblingly extended his only remaining hand, tightly grabbing the thick wrist of Yushi behind him, pulling him forward in one go, and shoving him heavily toward Leader Yan Er.

"Back then I lost to you, and I accepted my fate! But these decades of bitter cold on the ice field were not endured in vain!"

Yan San's voice was as faint as a gossamer thread, but his eyes burst forth with an astonishing bright light as if experiencing a flash of lucidity before death.

"Look at him... His name is Yushi."

"This water hazard, only he, only he can cure it!"

"Er, I hand over the hope of the Far North and the future of our human race to you!"

Having said that, Yan San slowly raised his head, his cloudy gaze passing over the towering city wall and looking toward the endless firmament.

At that very last moment of his life, hallucinations seemed to appear before his eyes.

He saw the youth Leader Yan Er from decades ago who fought side by side with him on the wasteland, high-spirited and fighting the heavens and earth; then, the scene shifted, and the figure of that youth gradually overlapped with Yushi before him, who was born divine and wild and unrestrained.

"That's wonderful!!!"

The corners of Yan San's mouth curled into a relieved smile.

The instant his voice fell,

the breath that Yan San had been holding onto all along completely dissipated.

"Roar—!!!"

Feeling the severance of Yan San's aura, Yushi on the side suddenly raised his head and let out a heartbreaking, frantic roar.

Above the firmament, the black toxic flood that was originally raging actually paused briefly amidst this frantic roar of his!

Above the nine heavens, in the real world.

Inside the dim rented apartment, the dark blue light emitted by the holographic screen illuminated Lin Yunfei's bloodless, bloodshot face, making his expression flicker uncertainly.

"Dammit! No... This plan won't work either!"

Lin Yunfei operated the optical brain frantically with irritation, his hands moving so fast they almost turned into afterimages.

On the screen in front of him, hundreds of data pages were densely opened.

There was too much theoretical data, but very few practical operators and specific plans, not to mention those high-tier water-suppressing wondrous items that required exorbitant resources at every turn.

"Could it be that I can only watch helplessly as the Central Plains are swallowed by the toxic water?!"

Lin Yunfei gritted his teeth, a huge sense of powerlessness almost drowning him.

Just in this near-suffocating desperate situation,

"Beep—beep—beep!"

The encrypted special communication frequency band of the creation terminal suddenly emitted a piercing alarm sound!

Lin Yunfei abruptly straightened his body, looking at the communication request popping up in the top right corner of the screen.

Major General Lu Shuang!