220: Chapter 220 The Corrupted Lord's Core

“Roar!!!”

More than 500,000 elite soldiers, who had been fighting hard across the battlefield but always maintained their battle formation connection, roared simultaneously with a sound that shook the heavens!

Their long-suppressed Battle Intent, unyielding will, and hatred for that filthy thing transformed into 500,000 streaks of crimson smoke rising into the sky, converging frantically toward Lin Feng in the air!

“Boom!!!”

A Crimson Sun Holy Soul, a thousand meters tall, its entire body burning with blazing white-gold flames that seemed capable of purifying all the filth in the world, its face as majestic as an ancient God of War, and the giant flaming spear in its hand appearing able to pierce through the stars...

It descended powerfully between this polluted heaven and earth like a pillar supporting the sky!

Its brilliant Divine Might was like a scorching sun hanging in the sky!

The terrifying pressure of Saint-Grade 1-star was like a physical tsunami, exploding outward with the Saint Soul at its center. Wherever it passed, low-level Polluted Monsters were like snowflakes thrown into lava, turning into fly ash in swathes!

Even the filthy blood moon's glow seemed to be suppressed and dispersed at this moment by this pure light of war and destruction!

“Wh... what!”

The dark purple phantom, which had just been incredibly arrogant and whose aura had Breakthrough to diamond rank 8-star, had its wild laughter cut short!

Its body, composed of filthy energy and which should have been ethereal, was now trembling violently and uncontrollably, even making a “clacking” sound like bones rubbing together.

It “watched” that thousand-meter Battle Soul, which seemed to have stepped out of myth, radiating a pure aura of purification and destruction that made its very Soul tremble and scream.

A terrifying fact it could neither understand nor accept stabbed deep into its consciousness like the coldest poisonous thorn.

Saint... Saint-Grade?

This human general, who had never shown such a form or such power in its “observations”...

How could he possibly possess Saint-Grade power!

It was over.

All its calculations, all its arrogance, and all its certainty of victory collapsed before this heaven-propping Crimson Sun Battle Soul, turning into the deepest fear and despair.

“That was close...”

Lin Tian, riding on Chi Yan's back, looked at the heaven-propping Crimson Sun Battle Soul and the dark purple phantom opposite it, which had instantly stiffened and was so terrified it was almost about to dissipate.

A hint of lingering fear involuntarily flashed through his heart.

He had no doubt that this ghostly pollution source had targeted them long ago, observing their every move like the most patient hunter and evaluating their strength.

It had even figured out the details of Lin Yin, Lin Yan, and the others.

Then, it had launched this long-premeditated and incredibly large-scale encirclement!

If his subordinate, Lin Feng, didn't possess Command of a Thousand Armies, today's army of millions might have truly been worn down and surrounded to death by this endless ocean of monsters and this creature that could level up by “eating corpses”!

The loss would have been more than just heavy; it would have been crippling, even shaking the very Foundation!

“Fortunately... I still had this trump card up my sleeve.”

Lin Tian regained his composure, his gaze turning sharp again.

With the arrival of the Battle Soul, the battlefield situation reversed instantly!

Lin Yin felt the terrifying dark purple phantom being locked onto and suppressed by the Battle Soul's aura, and her pressure decreased drastically.

She didn't linger in the fight; her moon-white figure flashed, leaving the core battle circle like moonlight weaving through, heading toward several other defensive lines that were in peril due to a lack of high-end combat power.

“Full Moon Judgment!”

She shouted softly, her jade hand brushing across the moonlight divine bow, firing brilliant arrows wrapped in purification power like meteors toward several powerful Polluted Monster leaders that were rampaging and radiating low-star diamond rank fluctuations.

“Puff! Puff! Puff!”

Precision kills!

Those monster leaders didn't even have time to react before their cores were pierced, turning into fly ash amidst shrill howls.

The monster swarm's offensive immediately stalled after losing their leaders.

Lin Yin didn't stop, her figure continuing to flash across the battlefield, specifically picking out the hard bones to deal with, quickly stabilizing the various defensive lines.

The core battlefield was a completely one-sided crushing.

“No! This is impossible!!”

The dark purple phantom let out a scream of extreme terror, frantically waving its bone bow and firing streams of filthy purple energy, trying to block the approaching holy flames that were making its Soul burn.

However, before the Saint-Grade 1-star Crimson Sun Holy Soul, its power—which had barely reached diamond rank 8-star by devouring blood and Qi—was like a firefly to the bright moon!

“Kill!”

The Crimson Sun Holy Soul let out Lin Feng's deep and powerful roar, and the thousand-meter giant flaming spear made a simple thrust!

There were no fancy techniques, only absolute power, speed, and the brilliant Holy Might that incinerated all evil!

“Boom!!”

The purple torrent was like waves hitting a reef, instantly collapsing!

The giant flaming spear's momentum didn't slow as it stabbed hard into the dark purple shield the phantom had hastily condensed.

“Crack!”

A tooth-gritting sound of cracking rang out as the shield became covered in cracks like glass, then shattered with a bang!

The phantom let out a scream of ultimate agony as its entire body was hit by the terrifying power and purifying holy flames contained within the Spear Glow, melting and dissipating rapidly like snow under a scorching sun!

It tried to flee as a streak of light, but the space was firmly locked by the Battle Soul technique Lin Feng had deployed.

Its body, composed of filthy energy, continuously evaporated under the attack, becoming thinner and more transparent.

“No! I cannot die! I am... I am...”

It wailed in despair and indignation, but its words were already blurred and unclear.

In just a few minutes, the dark purple phantom, which had been incredibly arrogant and possessed an overwhelming aura, had its form completely broken apart.

Only a small, extremely dim dark purple energy ball remained, struggling futilely and no longer having the strength to fight back.

“Destroy it; it's an eyesore.”

Lin Tian gave the order indifferently from a distance.

An evil thing like this, which grew by devouring the flesh and blood of living beings, was a hazard for every moment it remained.

“As you command!”

The Crimson Sun Battle Soul's spear shook, and a more intense white light erupted from the tip, like a miniature sun descending, completely engulfing and purifying that last bit of dark purple energy!

“Sizzle!”

Like cold water poured into boiling oil, the last of the dark purple energy was completely annihilated, leaving not even a trace of smoke.

In its place, only a crystal about the size of a fist remained, its surface covered in strange purple-black cracks, with a faint dark light pulsing slowly at its center, radiating a thick aura of misfortune and corruption.

It was the lord core that the phantom had relied on to exist, now polluted beyond recognition.

The moment this polluted lord core appeared, a prompt flashing with a striking red light automatically popped up on the System panel in front of Lin Tian:

[Warning! Highly polluted and completely twisted 'lord core' discovered!]

[This core has been deeply eroded by a high-level pollution source, becoming a pollution diffusion node and energy source.]

[Detected that the holder (Lin Tian) possesses purification Aptitude and corresponding strength.]

[Emergency mission triggered: Purify the Polluted Core!]