99: Ying Yi fights for his life in a desperate situation! The Heart of God loses control!

“Boom—!”

“Boom—!”

“Boom—!”

The continuous explosions shook the entire underground space, sending rubble clattering down and filling it with smoke and dust.

“Hmm?”

Xuan Sacrificial Priest frowned slightly; he could no longer sense Shadow One's aura.

“Interesting. To be able to evade this old man's perception.”

Xuan Sacrificial Priest's voice echoed in the cavern, “But do you think you can escape this old man's grasp like this? In the domain of this heart of god, this old man is the sole master!”

Before his words finished, the energy flow in the entire underground cavern suddenly changed direction.

The previously scattered energy now seemed to be drawn by an invisible force, beginning to converge towards the bone staff in Xuan Sacrificial Priest's hand.

The eerie blue gem at the top of the bone staff glowed brightly, emitting an even more terrifying pressure than before.

“Little mouse, the game is over.” Xuan Sacrificial Priest's voice was like the chill of the Nine Nether, “Let this old man see where you can run.”

A thick, earthy yellow halo spread out from the bone staff as its center!

Wherever the halo passed, the air shrieked under the strain, and even space itself seemed to subtly warp.

This attack was unavoidable!

The shadow where Shadow One was hiding seemed to be dispelled by the halo's power, and his figure was exposed in an instant.

At the brink of death, he took a deep breath, all the spiritual energy in his body erupting without reservation, his hands clasped as if holding an invisible long saber.

“Ghost Saber Strike!”

He infused all his spiritual energy into this clasped “blade,” gathering all his strength, and swung it forward fiercely.

The invisible edge collided with the earthy yellow halo in the confined underground space with a thunderous crash.

“Boom—!”

The violent energy shockwave spread out in all directions like a tsunami, the entire underground cavern shook violently, countless massive rocks fell from the ceiling, and the ground cracked open with hideous fissures.

Shadow One felt an overwhelming force surge through his arms, and his internal organs felt as if they had shifted.

He grunted, his body flying backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily against a rock wall, and spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood.

“Pfft!”

“Oh? Not dead yet?” Xuan Sacrificial Priest seemed a little surprised, but then a cruel smile appeared on his face, “Your vitality is quite tenacious. However, this is as far as it goes.”

He raised his bone staff, preparing to deliver the final blow to Shadow One.

Just then, an unexpected change occurred!

“Rumble!”

A more violent tremor suddenly came from the ground of the refinery, not from underground, but from… above!

“What's happening?” Xuan Sacrificial Priest frowned, his attack temporarily halted, and he looked up at the ceiling of the cavern.

…

Outside the refinery.

Lin Ye, along with several core members of “Dawn,” arrived at the outskirts of the abandoned refinery.

They could clearly feel the terrifying energy fluctuations emanating from deep underground, as well as the despair-inducing pressure of a tenth-rank being.

“Boss, this… this power is too strong! Mr. Shadow One he…” The young man with blood-soaked bandages wrapped around his arm was now pale as a sheet.

Lin Ye gritted his teeth; he knew Shadow One was in grave danger.

But they couldn't just stand by and watch.

“According to the original plan, create chaos on the periphery to attract attention!” Lin Ye made a decisive call, “Delay them for as long as possible, create an opportunity for Mr. Shadow One!”

“But, Boss, that's a tenth-rank being!” The man with a burn scar on his face said, his voice trembling slightly.

“So what if he's a tenth-rank?” A hint of madness flashed in Lin Ye's eyes, “When has our 'Dawn' ever feared death? Shi Potian is also a tenth-rank, and we still rebelled, didn't we? Now there's one more tenth-rank, at most we'll all die together! But before we die, we must bite off a piece of flesh from them!”

He pulled several dark metal spheres from his in arms; these were powerful explosives they had made with their limited resources, each capable of blowing up a small section of a building.

“Everyone else, proceed as planned! I'll go detonate the biggest one!” Lin Ye pointed to a warehouse in the refinery that they had already scouted, where a large amount of abandoned ore and fuel was stored, “Even if we can't save Shadow One, we'll turn this place upside down!”

“Boss!”

“Brother Lin!”

The others wanted to say more, but Lin Ye had already darted out.

“Damn it, let's go with the boss!” The blood-bandaged youth gritted his teeth and led a few others towards another weak point.

Several minutes later.

“Boom—! Rumble—!”

A series of violent explosions erupted across the abandoned refinery, with flames soaring into the sky and thick smoke billowing.

Lin Ye successfully detonated the fuel warehouse, and the massive explosion directly blew up half of the refinery.

Countless burning debris flew in all directions like meteors, creating a spectacular scene.

This sudden dramatic change even affected the heart of god cavern deep underground.

Xuan Sacrificial Priest was about to deliver a fatal blow to Shadow One but was interrupted by the successive violent tremors and energy impacts.

He could feel that some important supporting structures on the surface were being destroyed.

“Damn it! What's happening outside?!” Xuan Sacrificial Priest roared, his meticulously arranged secret base suffering continuous heavy blows within the same day.

Shadow One seized this fleeting opportunity, enduring his injuries, and once again activated Shadow Jump.

This time, he did not choose to escape, but instead, using the cover of the explosion and Xuan Sacrificial Priest's momentary distraction, he charged at the flickering heart of god crystal with astonishing speed!

Since he couldn't escape, then… he would perish with it!

He would destroy this source of evil!

Xuan Sacrificial Priest's face changed drastically upon seeing this: “How dare you, you brat!!”

Xuan Sacrificial Priest's roar echoed in the shaking underground cavern; he never imagined that in such a situation, the opponent would not flee but instead choose to attack the heart of god itself!

That dark red crystal was the core of the entire Panshi City, and even their centuries-long plan, and absolutely could not be lost!

“Gravity Imprisonment!”

Xuan Sacrificial Priest roared, the eerie blue gem on his bone staff flared brightly, and an invisible force field instantly enveloped Shadow One.

He wanted to pin Shadow One in place, to prevent him from even having a chance to self-destruct.

However, Shadow One's speed was too great; Shadow Jump, combined with his current desperate burning of potential, almost reached his lifetime's peak.

Before the imprisonment fully formed, his fingertips had already touched the dark red heart of god crystal.

There was no earth-shattering explosion as imagined, nor was there a violent energy backlash.

The moment Shadow One's fingertips touched the crystal, a cold, evil, yet strangely “living” sensation of rhythmic movement emanated.

At the same time, countless desperate wails and grievances of children seemed to flash through his mind.

“Buzz—”

The heart of god crystal trembled violently, and the strange patterns on its surface seemed to come alive, emitting silent cries of sorrow.

Immediately after, an even more violent energy, far exceeding anything before, erupted from within the crystal, but it did not attack Shadow One; instead, it… spread indiscriminately outwards!

“This is bad! The heart of god is out of control!” Xuan Sacrificial Priest's face changed dramatically, and for the first time, a look of panic appeared in his eyes.

He ignored Shadow One and hastily mobilized all his soul power, attempting to appease the out-of-control heart of god.

The turbulent energy torrent swept through the entire underground cavern like a breaching flood.

The remaining gray-robed figures were swallowed by the energy and turned to ash before they could even let out a scream.

Shadow One was also sent flying by this sudden energy impact, his already severely injured body worsening, but with his last shred of strength, before being completely submerged by the energy, he created a brief buffer, and at the same time, used his last bit of strength to crush a specially made signal talisman.

“Rumble—!”

The entire abandoned refinery area shook as if a magnitude 12 earthquake had occurred.

The ground collapsed layer by layer, huge fissures spread, and pillars of energy smoke, mixed with dark red light, erupted from deep underground, shooting straight into the sky.