116: Chapter 116 The Hidden Dragon Emerges from the Abyss, Tearing Through Space

"Its... its chest has been pierced through!!"

On the city wall, someone screamed at the top of their lungs.

"Lin Mo pierced through the chest of a Fifth-Order Beast King in a single strike!!"

"This... how is this possible!!"

Meanwhile, in the shadows of the distant ruins, the face of that fifth-order Mimic had undergone a sudden, drastic change.

Cold sweat soaked his back, and his entire body froze in place as if he had been struck by lightning.

"This... this is impossible..."

His voice was trembling, and he could barely form a complete sentence.

"He's only third-order! How can a third-order have this kind of combat power!!"

That was a Fifth-Order Beast King!

Before this giant beast, even he, a fifth-order Mimic, could only flee in panic.

But that youth named Lin Mo...

Pierced it in one hit!

"No... I must tell Lord Cao Shen!"

Trembling, he pulled a black communication stone from his robes and transmitted a message filled with terror:

"Lin Mo is suspected of mastering an SS-rank or higher lightning-type combat technique... his combat power has already surpassed the fifth order..."

Having finished the transmission, he remained hidden in the shadows, staring intently at the battlefield, but the fear in his eyes was impossible to hide.

Lord Cao Shen... your plan might be in serious trouble...

On the battlefield.

Lin Mo hovered in mid-air, frowning slightly as he looked at the bowl-sized bloody hole in the Mountain-Hugging Demon Ape's chest.

"Not dead?"

He murmured.

At the giant beast's chest, the muscles were writhing frantically, actually managing to force the gushing blood to stop.

As expected of a Fifth-Order Beast King; its physical body was so powerful that a normal Awakener would have died long ago from having their chest pierced.

"Aow..."

The Mountain-Hugging Demon Ape let out a weak whimper, but in its eyes, fear had been replaced by rage.

It was enraged.

Completely enraged!

This tiny ant actually dared to wound its noble body!

It was going to tear this ant before it limb from limb!

With this thought, the demon ape endured its injuries and raised its scar-covered fists, slamming them down toward Lin Mo.

It put all its strength into this strike.

The giant palms brought a whistling wind, blotting out the sky as if to crush Lin Mo and the earth beneath him into dust. Where the wind from the palms passed, the air was compressed into a visible wall of gas, letting out a sharp whistle.

"Lin Mo! Watch out!!"

Countless people on the city wall cried out in alarm.

That was the full-strength strike of a Fifth-Order Beast King!

Even a small mountain would be flattened!

However—

Lin Mo stood his ground, looking at the sky-blotting giant palms without the slightest hint of fear in his eyes.

Instead... a satisfied curve hooked at the corner of his mouth.

"Instant Shadow."

He spoke softly.

In the next instant, his figure vanished from the spot.

The giant palms hit nothing but the ground, blowing open a crater dozens of meters wide. The shockwave spread outward, kicking up a cloud of dust that filled the sky.

Meanwhile, Lin Mo had already appeared a hundred meters away.

He stood with his hands behind his back, his robes snapping in the wind, his expression calm and composed.

The Mountain-Hugging Demon Ape was stunned.

It looked around but could not find that tiny figure.

"Looking for me?"

A voice came from above its head.

The demon ape snapped its head up.

Lin Mo was hovering in the air, looking down at it with indifferent eyes, like a deity scrutinizing an ant.

"You're too slow."

He said.

Then, Lin Mo performed an action that left everyone dumbfounded.

He sheathed his blade.

The combat blade Longyuan slowly returned to its scabbard with a crisp metallic click.

"He put his blade away?!"

On the city wall, Chu Tianye's eyes widened.

"Lin Mo! Are you crazy! Don't get cocky, kill it quickly!!"

That was a Fifth-Order Beast King!

How could an empty-handed Lin Mo possibly win?!

But Lin Mo acted as if he hadn't heard.

He slowly raised his right hand, fingers splayed, aiming at the Mountain-Hugging Demon Ape.

No one understood what was happening.

What was he going to do?

The next second—

"Hidden Dragon Emerging from the Abyss."

Lin Mo's voice was very soft.

But these five words fell upon everyone's ears like a thunderous roar.

BOOM—!!!

A terrifying aura erupted from Lin Mo's body!

That aura was ancient and majestic, as if coming from the primordial era, carrying the vicissitudes of ages and the weight of immense power.

The vortex in the sky changed once more.

The purple-black clouds were torn apart by an invisible force, revealing the deep void behind them. A beam of cyan-gold light descended vertically from the void, enveloping Lin Mo's entire body.

Within the light beam, countless ancient runes flickered in and out of existence, as if some lost heritage was being awakened.

At Lin Mo's right hand, the cyan-gold light condensed frantically, transforming into a dragon claw phantom several meters in size.

The dragon claw was lifelike, radiating a terrifying aura that seemed capable of destroying everything.

As the dragon claw clenched, pitch-black spatial rifts appeared out of thin air, like torn fabric, revealing the deep void behind the cracks.

Those were true spatial rifts!

"This is... Spatial Laws!!"

On the city wall, Chu Tianye's expression changed drastically, his voice trembling.

"It must be an SSS-rank cultivation technique! He has mastered an SSS-rank technique!!"

Everyone went wild.

"SSS-rank?!"

"Isn't that a legendary technique grade?!"

"He's only third-order! How could he possibly master an SSS-rank technique!!"

But no one could give them an answer.

Because Lin Mo's attack had already arrived.

"Go."

Lin Mo waved his hand gently.

The dragon claw phantom slammed down with a crash!

ROAR—!!!

An earth-shaking dragon roar rang out again, but this time it wasn't the roar of a lightning dragon, but the roar of something even more ancient and terrifying.

Four spatial rifts spread forward, driven by the dragon claw.

Everywhere they passed, everything was turned into nothingness.

The air was torn apart, forming a vacuum zone.

The earth was grazed by the rifts, and like tofu cut by a blade, it was neatly severed in half.

As for the Mountain-Hugging Demon Ape...

It didn't even have a chance to dodge.

"Aow—!!!"

The demon ape let out a shrill scream as its massive body was hit head-on by the dragon claw.

The moment the spatial rifts touched its arms, something terrifying happened; its flesh and blood were directly devoured by the spatial power!

Large chunks of muscle vanished into thin air, revealing the stark white bones beneath.

The bones shattered into countless fragments under the tearing of the spatial rifts, and then those fragments were also swallowed by the rifts, disappearing without a trace.

The dragon claw continued downward, tearing through the demon ape's chest, abdomen, and legs.

The spatial rifts were like hungry beasts, frantically devouring everything they touched.

The demon ape's body began to deform under the tearing of the rifts, as if an invisible giant hand was kneading it into a ball. Its muscles were devoured, its bones were bitten to pieces, its internal organs were swallowed...

"Aowoo—!!"

The demon ape let out a desperate howl, but its voice had already become fragmented and broken.

Finally, when the dragon claw phantom dissipated, what appeared before everyone was a completely deformed giant beast.

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