167: Chapter 167 Even in the most corrupt and depraved world, there will be those who wield knives to pave the way.
"Wuu..."
In the collapsing Void Realm, the second form of the [Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun] activated its Taboo Rule!
Layers of Taboo Domains unfolded around it.
Countless Kin poured out from its Rule Domain!
These Kin were all hideous and twisted; every single one was incredibly terrifying!!
They were like individual sources of Chaos, emitting polluting Taboo Rules that caused one's SAN value to plummet.
"Gegege..."
"Hehehe..."
"Jiejiejie..."
These Kin of the [Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun] shrieked.
Their voices converged, forming movements of an absurd, terrifying, and all-distorting movement of corruption.
With the empowerment of the movement, the pink mist thickened once again over the dried-up and collapsing sea.
In the haze, Lin Chuan faintly saw an incredibly imposing and terrifying figure standing behind the [Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun]!
From the silhouette, he could vaguely tell it was a woman.
She floated quietly in mid-air, her entire body seemingly composed of petals, presenting a strange sensation of being half-illusory and half-real.
The woman's face was blurred, and her eyes were tightly shut.
She was clearly there, yet Lin Chuan had a feeling... she didn't belong to this dimension, or even this plane of existence!
Her existence clearly transcended the scope of the taboo.
"A demigod? Or a true... God?!"
A massive wave of shock surged within Lin Chuan's heart.
In the woman's hands, she held dense, fine threads.
Two of those threads fell upon the [Celestial Standing Venerable] and the [Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun], respectively.
The two fearsome taboo Dominators seemed to be nothing more than her marionettes.
Lin Chuan stared intently at the woman's figure, wanting to see her clearly.
Unfortunately, even though he activated Rule Power, he could not perform Peeping on the woman's original face.
"Is the gap in status too great?"
With a thought, Lin Chuan immediately activated the rule... [Mountain-Moving Strongman].
He intended to test if he could sever the black threads behind the [Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun] and the [Celestial Standing Venerable]!
He also wanted to see what exactly would happen if those two black threads were cut.
Lin Chuan wasn't worried that his actions would lead to uncontrollable consequences.
He could sense that although the woman appeared to be standing in mid-air, her true body was clearly not in this world.
It seemed some kind of restriction was preventing her descent!
"Roar!!"
At the moment the rule surged out, the black Mountain-Moving Strongman appeared out of thin air!
He let out a roar, his massive body like a meteor chasing the moon, carving a brilliant light through the darkness as he charged straight behind the [Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun].
Then, he threw a punch!
Clang!!
Rule Power rippled through the Void Realm!
However, those two fine threads attached to the [Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun] and the [Celestial Standing Venerable] remained completely unmoved!
These two threads were not composed of physical matter, nor were they constructed from Rule Power.
Its existence was incredibly bizarre; neither physical force nor Rule Power could affect it.
"It doesn't work?"
Seeing this, Lin Chuan stopped trying to sever the two threads and instead controlled the Mountain-Moving Strongman giant to punch out at the surroundings!
In an instant, countless Kin of the [Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun] were obliterated!
But the number of [Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun]'s Kin was simply too great.
Even if the Mountain-Moving Strongman could kill hundreds or thousands with one punch, it was still futile.
Although these Kin had low Terror Levels, their sheer numbers could still affect Lin Chuan's side.
Just as Lin Chuan was about to activate a Taboo Rule to clear these Kin on a large scale, the voice of Daoist Tianji suddenly rang out from a distance:
"True Buddha, there is no need to worry about these small fry."
"This humble Daoist will deal with them."
"Fusheng Wuliang..."
As he spoke, a handful of beans appeared in Daoist Tianji's hand.
These beans were all engraved with runes, and within each bean, the faint weeping of ten thousand ghosts could be heard.
"One bean, one world; Scattering Beans to Form an Army..."
With a wave of Daoist Tianji's hand, the beans flew in all directions and then crashed down with a pitter-patter like heavy rain.
The beans fell and transformed into blue-faced, fanged humanoid anomalies.
They were either holding blades, raising spears, or carrying staves...
The Terror Level of every anomaly was at the A-rank level!
Those beans in Daoist Tianji's hand were actually evolved from some kind of Taboo Rule.
When the beans were scattered, the rule would erupt.
In an instant, countless Kin of the [Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun] were swallowed and suppressed by the rules within the beans...
In the end, these Kin of the [Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun] were also dragged into the 'beans' and returned to Daoist Tianji's hand.
"Good stuff..."
In the distance, Zhao Linfeng looked at the beans in Daoist Tianji's hand, a sharp glint flowing through his eyes.
He was already thinking about what means he should use to get a few beans from Daoist Tianji for research.
Lin Chuan, at this moment, was focused on fighting the [Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun].
Dr. Liu and the others were also becoming more frenzied!
Both sides were seeing red!
Especially Dr. Liu; he carried a "bone blade" made of unknown Materials and approached the black setting sun in the sky step by step.
"Everyone, cover me!"
Dr. Liu shouted to the pillars of Bureau 749.
He was covered in blood, his body enduring both the backlash from Taboo Items and the rule erosion from the [Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun].
But his expression remained unchanged.
"This strike of mine... can cleave out a future for the Yanlong Empire!"
"For the civilization Legacy, even if I die, I have no regrets!"
"The galaxy is brilliant; may there be successors who end the era of horror!!"
Dr. Liu murmured softly.
His consciousness was already hazy, and even the words he spoke were gradually losing logic.
He was able to hold on until now entirely because of the conviction in his heart.
Clang!!
Finally, he approached that massive [Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun] and swung an extremely brilliant strike.
The bone blade sliced through the void and shattered the darkness, as if to re-establish the order of heaven and earth amidst the Chaos!
On the blade, dense eyes opened, all glaring at the [Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun].
"Dr. Liu..."
The pillars of Bureau 749 had complicated feelings.
Everyone hesitated to speak.
They looked at Dr. Liu's figure, feeling sorrowful and helpless...
For Subject 004 and to create a "Dominator" for the Yanlong Empire, Dr. Liu did not hesitate to sacrifice his life to tear a rule fragment from the [Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun].
Lin Chuan sat in the Void Realm, also staring at Dr. Liu's actions.
In Dr. Liu, he saw madness, fanaticism, and also the courage and obsession of humanity...
Even in the Five Turbidities Evil World, there are people who will shoulder everything and clear a path for the civilization behind them.
Crack!!
Between Lin Chuan's thoughts, Dr. Liu's body had already turned into a pile of withered bones.
But he still maintained his blade-holding posture and used his last shred of strength to throw a wriggling tentacle in front of Daoist Tianji.
This tentacle was actually a part of the [Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun]'s true body!
That bone blade in Dr. Liu's hand was quite extraordinary!
Lin Chuan even suspected it was a relic of a deity!
With just one swing, Dr. Liu's life was completely drained by the bone blade!
But the Rule Power erupted by the bone blade was also extremely terrifying!
With one strike, it sent the [Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun] into a semi-dormant state and even directly severed a piece of its body!