63: Send him a gift

That purple light wasn't a natural phenomenon; it was an ongoing massacre show.

Su Chen adjusted the focus; in the lens, a humanoid monster radiating lightning was stepping on the top of the ruins.

The metal pole in his hand, likely torn from a streetlight, was currently wrapped in crackling electric arcs.

Every swing left a scorched, foul-smelling afterimage in the air.

The surrounding aquatic monsters trying to besiege him were electrocuted until they were charred on the outside and tender on the inside before they could even get close, twitching as they tumbled into the river like dumplings into a pot.

Zhao Gang!

Su Chen recognized this face.

This was clearly the same Zhao Gang he had encountered when he went out to investigate the acid rain!

Wasn't he dead?

How could he appear here!

Moreover, judging by his aura, he was at least at the early stage of the Third Order.

He was even a notch stronger than the Second Order Water Fiend, Luo Li!

One must know that Su Chen's current strength was only at the Second Order of awakening; a Third Order was considered a formidable enemy.

No wonder the system had just detected a high-energy reaction; this guy had turned into a monster!

At this moment, Zhao Gang also seemed to notice this steel behemoth driving against the wind and rain.

He was stunned for a moment, then a look of brutality and greed appeared on his face.

"Living humans... I want to eat..."

Zhao Gang's voice, carrying the sizzle of electricity, echoed at the entrance of the canyon, making the car windows buzz.

Instead of showing any intention of making way, he raised that electrified spear with one hand and slammed it into the precarious rock wall overhead.

Boom!

The purple lightning, like a whip, shattered the support points of the rocks.

Tons of boulders collapsed with a roar, landing right on the only path, kicking up a cloud of dust and completely blocking the way.

Zhao Gang stood atop the pile of rubble, his greedy gaze sweeping over the graceful figures looming behind the car windows.

"So much food... I want to eat..."

As he finished speaking, he actually transformed into a bolt of lightning and charged toward the bus!

Not good!

Su Chen cursed inwardly.

But he didn't panic; expressionlessly, he released the accelerator, letting the speed of the vehicle gradually decrease.

Treating them as food?

He should see who this vehicle belongs to.

"Lin Mengyao, Qin Ya."

Su Chen didn't even look back, his voice as calm as if he were ordering what to have for dinner.

"Go, press your palms against the metal keels on both sides of the carriage."

"Su Chen, the road ahead..."

Lin Mengyao looked at the pile of rubble several meters high, her brows furrowed, but her body instinctively executed the command.

"Do it."

"Everyone else, press your palms against the vehicle body."

Although they didn't know what Su Chen was up to, Chen Wei's fate was still fresh in their minds, and the desire to survive made these girls explode with incredible execution.

Soon, all the girls on the bus pressed their fair palms against the vehicle body at the same time.

"Sacred Yang Divine Body, full power output!"

Su Chen took a deep breath, and a scalding hot current in his dantian instantly boiled over, rushing along his spine into his four limbs and hundred bones, finally pouring frantically into the steering wheel and center console through his hands.

If there were infrared vision, one could see Su Chen looking like an erupting volcano at this moment.

The extreme yang qi roamed wildly along the vehicle's metal beams, creating a wondrous resonance with the biological static field formed when the girls touched the vehicle body.

The bus, which was originally just a vehicle, now emitted a low roar as if it were alive.

[High-purity Extreme Yang energy injection detected...]

[Assimilating vehicle body metal molecules...]

[Temporary unlock: Thunder Power Module (100% power)]

The sound of the originally roaring diesel engine changed, turning into a screech similar to that of a turbojet fighter.

A layer of pale golden flowing light appeared on the vehicle's surface, wrapping the entire bus like a chariot of a descending god.

Several girls' waists instantly went soft, and they bit their lips hard to keep from crying out; the sensation was like their entire bodies had become conductors on a high-voltage wire, numbing them to the depths of their souls.

A cold sneer curled on Su Chen's lips as he slammed the accelerator to the floor.

So what if he's Third Order?

With his Sacred Yang Divine Body and the entire class of girls providing him with energy, he had absolutely no fear!

"Sit tight; let's give this monster a meeting gift."

Boom—!

The modified bus was like a mad bull clad in golden armor.

Instead of slowing down, it exploded with a startling second-stage acceleration when it was less than fifty meters from the rubble pile.

Zhao Gang, who was charging toward the bus, instantly showed a look of uncertainty and alarm on his face.

Almost without hesitation, he chose to avoid its brunt and retreated back onto the rubble pile.

He had no choice.

The aura emanating from the bus at this moment was simply too staggering!

In the next second, the golden flowing light violently slammed into the rock barrier.

There was no tragic collision as imagined.

The moment those hard rocks came into contact with that layer of golden shockwave, they instantly disintegrated, shattered, and exploded!

The rubble shot out in all directions like shotgun pellets.

Zhao Gang gave a strange cry.

That was originally the obstacle he used to block the road, yet it was crushed so easily?

He dodged clumsily among the scattered rocks, but before he could even find his footing, the steel behemoth had already rushed before him, carrying an overbearing gale.

As the distance closed, Zhao Gang saw Su Chen's eyes, which were as cold as if they didn't belong to a living person.

At the moment they crossed paths, time seemed to stretch.

Su Chen held the steering wheel with his left hand, and without warning, he thrust his right hand through the window, striking out a palm toward the void.

Tongbeiquan, Penetrating Force!

This palm strike didn't touch Zhao Gang's body; it was even three or four meters away.

But the Sacred Yang True Qi within Su Chen's body had already reached an incredible level under the amplification of the entire class of girls.

Striking now, it seemed like a simple palm, but in reality, it had become an invisible "air cannon."

"Pfft!"

Zhao Gang felt as if his chest had been struck hard by a heavy hammer, and his protective lightning barrier shattered instantly like it was made of paper.

He was sent flying backward, a mouthful of blood spraying two meters high.

Under the intense pain, the object he had been clutching tightly in his palm involuntarily flew out of his hand.

It was a fist-sized crystal core flickering with deep purple electric arcs.

This was a core he had barely managed to condense after killing over a hundred Water Ghosts, and he hadn't even had time to absorb it!

"Thanks."

Su Chen's arm blurred in the air, accurately catching the crystal core as it tumbled through the sky.

The bus didn't stop for a second.

Black smoke billowed from the exhaust pipe, and like a heartless scumbag, it instantly disappeared into the end of the curtain of rain.

Leaving behind only a mess on the ground and Zhao Gang twitching in the muddy water while clutching his chest.

Inside the carriage, that suffocating feeling of overload finally vanished.

Lin Mengyao and the others slumped in their seats, gasping for breath, the look of awe in their eyes as they looked at Su Chen's back deepening.

In that instant, the vehicle seemed to have come to life, and Su Chen was the tyrant wielding divine punishment.

Su Chen toyed with the Thunder Crystal, which still carried Zhao Gang's body heat, with one hand.

The thing felt heavy in his hand, and the lightning elements contained within were violent and pure, more than a level stronger than ordinary Zombie Cores.

That guy probably wanted to save it to break through to the Fourth Order, but now it had all benefited him instead.

"Good quality; it's just the startup source I needed."

Su Chen narrowed his eyes, his gaze landing on an empty energy slot on the center console.