150: Destroy the fifth-tier alien beast's nest

Countless fragments of flesh and blood, burning bones, and scalding lava shot out in all directions like the most brilliant yet cruel fireworks! At the core of the explosion, a brief but blinding sphere of light, even brighter than the sun, ignited!

The shockwave of the explosion, like a world-ending tsunami, followed closely, violently slamming into the more than twenty fourth-tier lairs surrounding it! The defenses of these lairs were fragile and vulnerable before the destructive torrent of the fifth-tier main lair's self-detonation combined with a double recoil! Like sandcastles swept by a hurricane, they were instantly torn apart, destroyed, and sucked into the vortex of the explosion!

The shockwave continued to spread, sweeping away the Lava Colossus that had gathered, the diving flying exotic beasts, and the Lava Hound spitting fireballs... in swathes, like clearing trash, they were flung, torn, and melted in the destructive energy storm!

The entire Furnace Zone seemed to have been violently wiped by an invisible giant hand! Dazzling light swallowed everything, the deafening explosions were incessant, and the earth violently undulated and shattered like waves! Terrifying smoke and dust mixed with energy turbulence shot into the sky, forming a huge, slowly rising mushroom cloud!

The moment the explosion's shockwave struck, Lin Yuan's figure was firmly protected by his Origin Dharma Body and chaos heavenly evolution robe. At the same time, he unhesitatingly activated the Swallowing Origin Mending Heaven Art for the first time today, applying it to himself! Even so, the world-destroying energy aftershock still caused his Dharma Body to fluctuate violently, and the Chaos runes on the surface of the heavenly evolution robe flickered erratically!

As the light of the explosion gradually dimmed and the smoke and dust slowly settled.

What appeared before Lin Yuan was a death zone completely turned into scorched earth and ruins.

At the center was a gigantic, bottomless charred pit, over ten kilometers in diameter, with cooling lava and crystallized flesh and blood residue flowing at its edges. The thousand-meter-high Flesh and Blood Furnace, along with the surrounding twenty-odd fourth-tier lairs, and all exotic beasts within the pit's range, had vanished without a trace, completely erased from the world!

Outside the pit, the ground was scraped down several meters, as if plowed, leaving only charred, broken rocks and scattered, smoking exotic beast remains. The few exotic beasts lucky enough to survive at the edge of the explosion had long been terrified, whimpering and fleeing into the depths of the ruins.

Lin Yuan stood at the edge of the explosion, his chaos heavenly evolution robe stained with some smoke and dust, his aura slightly fluctuating, but his eyes were still as sharp as ever. He looked down at his wrist.

The information on his wristband refreshed frantically, finally settling on:

[Destroyed Fifth-Tier Exotic Beast Lair, Flesh and Blood Furnace x1, Glory Points +10,000!]

[Destroyed Fourth-Tier Exotic Beast Lair x26, Glory Points +26,000!]

[Killed Fifth-Tier Exotic Beast, Lava Colossus x9 (Lord Rank), merit points +450,000!]

[Killed Fifth-Tier Exotic Beast, Shadow Winged Demon x53 (King Rank), merit points +1,590,000!]

[Killed Fourth-Tier Exotic Beast... (huge quantity)... merit points +1,245,000!]

[Killed... (other large quantities of low and mid-tier exotic beasts)... merit points +3,780,000!]

This chain of destruction caused by a single recoil explosion alone boosted Lin Yuan's Glory Points by 36,000 points! His merit points increased by an astonishing seven million points! The number in the [Glory Points] section on his wristband had reached a height that other trial-takers could only dream of!

On the intelligence light screen in the center of the base, the [Lair Destruction Progress] column jumped significantly!

Lin Yuan took a deep breath, suppressing the slightly turbulent Qi and blood in his body from continuously using powerful Spells. He glanced at the giant charred pit, then his gaze returned to the deeper parts of the ruins, the area shrouded in a denser, more viscous darkness. The energy fluctuations emanating from there were faintly more obscure and dangerous than those of the Flesh and Blood Furnace.

"Myriad Heavens Life and Death Wheel, nine uses left." Lin Yuan silently calculated his uses for the day, and his Origin Dharma Body once again unfolded, transforming into a streak of light, and unhesitatingly shot towards the unknown depths of the darkness.

The earth-shattering aftershocks of the explosion in the Flesh and Blood Furnace Zone still echoed above the ruins, and the smell of char and sulfur had not yet dissipated. However, Lin Yuan's figure had already transformed into a gray streak of light, tearing through the dim sky, and shot without hesitation into the deeper parts of the Thousand Absolute Star City ruins. The astonishing numbers of merit points and Glory Points on his wristband did not stir many ripples in his heart. Deeper meant higher-tier lairs and richer Glory Points.

As he delved deeper, the environment changed significantly. The sky was completely covered by a viscous, seemingly light-absorbing, gloomy substance. The earth was no longer charred and molten, but covered with a thick layer of slippery, cold, deep-purple moss, emitting a strong scent of decay and coldness. The air was no longer filled with scorching energy turbulence, but pervasive, Soul-shivering coldness and mental pollution. Huge architectural ruins were completely enveloped by twisted, black vein-like vines, some of which even bore pale fruits emitting a faint phosphorescence, watching intruders like ghostly eyes.

The light here was extremely dim, like eternal twilight, and Divine Sense perception was also greatly suppressed and distorted by this dense, gloomy energy. The purple Qi emanating from his Primordial Dao Body circulated more actively on his body's surface, forming a thin purifying halo that isolated the cold and defiling energy attempting to invade his Physical Body. The vitality provided by his Innate Dao Body was like a warm hearth, resisting the bone-chilling cold and mental erosion.

Lin Yuan's objective was clear—below the ruins.

Based on his perception of the chaotic energy flow and the increasingly clear high-energy lair signals pointing underground on the intelligence light screen, he concluded that a large part of the core secrets of the Thousand Absolute Star City ruins were buried deep underground in this gloomy area.

Soon, in a ruin surrounded by giant, twisted black tree-like mutated plants, he discovered a huge, downward-sloping entrance. Broken tracks and rusted metal frames remained at the entrance, clearly once a transportation hub leading underground. Now, the entrance was pitch black, like the gaping maw of a giant beast, emitting a heart-pounding suction and even denser mental pollution.

Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Yuan retracted the light of his Origin Dharma Body, maintaining only the minimum defense, and with a flash of his figure, he plunged into the bottomless darkness.

The moment he entered the underground passage, it was as if he had passed through a layer of viscous liquid. The faint light from outside completely disappeared, and absolute darkness enveloped everything. Even with Lin Yuan's eyesight, he could only see a few meters illuminated by the protective light of his Origin Dharma Body. The air was cold and damp, carrying a heavy earthy smell and an indescribable, sweet, fishy scent similar to rotting brain matter. The passage was extremely wide, but the walls and ceiling were covered with thick, pulsating dark purple fleshy fungal mats, and some places had sticky, dark green filamentous growths hanging down.