204: Chapter 204 Sword Overturns the Vast Sea, White Crane Youth
The pink mist surged like a wild tide.
The first to be affected was the Dongsheng Continent, which was closest to Neon Country!
Piercing air-raid sirens instantly tore through the night sky of every city in the Yanlong Empire.
Red warning lights flashed frantically along every street.
"The nation has entered a state of maximum emergency!"
"All civilians, enter shelters immediately! Repeat! All civilians..."
Hoarse roars erupted from the broadcasts; the entire Yanlong Empire seemed to be pulled back to the darkest period of the Terror Resurgence in an instant.
The skies over coastal cities had already been dyed an eerie pink.
The flickering phantoms of the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade within the mist filled countless ordinary people with despair and terror...
Inside the command hall of the Bureau 749 headquarters, Chaos reigned.
Xia Xuanyuan's expression was terrifyingly grim. He watched the rapidly spreading patches of pollution on the large screen, his hands clenched tightly into fists.
"Chief Executive! The entire East Sea defense line is in critical condition!"
"The three stationed A-Rank Ghost Controllers and one S-rank Taboo Master... lasted only three minutes before all communication was lost!"
The intelligence officer's voice carried an uncontrollable despair.
"Deploy our hidden trump cards immediately!"
Xia Xuanyuan did not hesitate, directly issuing the highest order.
"Activate experimental subject no. 001, The Old Master of the Leopard, and experimental subject no. 004, Earth God!"
"At all costs, block the pollution outside the coastline!"
These were the masterpieces of the Yanlong Empire's Deification Project and their final reliance.
Boom! Boom!
Two terrifying Auras of laws soon soared into the sky from deep beneath the Yanlong Empire.
A man with hair like steel needles and the head of a leopard... and an old man leaning on a cane, radiating dense Death Qi, instantly crossed through space and descended above the East Sea defense line.
Both emitted SSS-Rank law fluctuations, barely managing to withstand the erosion of the pink mist.
Seeing this scene.
Many people in the command hall breathed a sigh of relief.
However, before that breath could be fully exhaled, it got stuck in their throats!
Because, in the deepest part of the pink mist, those three overlapping suns of the Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun suddenly turned!
Three giant purple-black eyeballs locked directly onto the The Old Master of the Leopard and the Earth God!
An absolute pollution belonging to the SSS-Rank Eighth Stage, even mixed with a trace of a demigod's dark-side authority, came crashing down!
Crack!
The bodies of the two experimental subjects trembled!
Then...
"Roar—!!!"
The The Old Master of the Leopard let out an agonizing and frenzied roar.
His originally pupil-less eyes were instantly dyed a heart-palpitating pink.
The Earth God was the same.
An incredibly eerie, wild laugh appeared on his wrinkled face.
The withered wooden cane in his hand swung violently—not toward the ghosts on the sea, but toward the Yanlong Empire's coastline behind him!
They... had lost control!
They were even reverse-assimilated!
These two ultimate weapons, upon which the Yanlong Empire had pinned its hopes, directly became sources of chaotic horror under the influence of the Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun!
"It's over..."
Xia Xuanyuan slumped powerlessly into his chair, his eyes filled with the gray of death.
The Yanlong Empire had exhausted almost all its foundations, yet before even touching the opponent, they had become the opponent's pawns.
Inside Bureau 749, Ghost Controllers and Taboo Masters frantically used various trump-card Taboo Items, attempting to save the situation.
But before that absolute gap in strength, all struggles were as fragile as bubbles, bursting instantly.
Just as the entire Yanlong Empire was about to fall into an abyss of eternal damnation.
A cold, thin figure appeared silently in the center of the command hall.
The Mysterious Youth.
He did not look at the desperate battle on the screen, but slowly reached his hand toward the broken sword on his back.
Clang...
A crisp sword chime, yet one that seemed capable of tearing through eternity, echoed in the depths of everyone's Souls!
As the broken sword was unsheathed.
The Aura on the Mysterious Youth underwent a terrifying transformation!
He was like an ancient god who had just been released from some peerless Seal.
His originally calm Aura erupted like a volcano, climbing higher and higher!
In an instant, his Terror Level... soared directly to SSS-Rank Ninth Stage!!
Sharp laws began to spread from him!
The terror of these laws even caused Lin Chuan, far away in the West Continent, to tremble slightly.
Swish!
The youth did not say a word.
Holding the rust-mottled broken sword that flowed with heaven-shaking sword light in one hand, he stepped through the Void Realm.
He descended directly above the East Sea, where the pink mist permeated!
One person, one sword.
Standing alone against the overwhelming Hundred Ghosts Night Parade and those three suns of the Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun that radiated an Aura of world-ending destruction!
"Slash."
The youth's voice was as cold as frost, without any emotional fluctuation.
He simply swung his sword once.
But this single strike sliced through the firmament!
A pale white sword light tens of thousands of feet long, like the first ray of sharpness at the creation of the world.
It forced open an impassable chasm within that dense pink mist!
The phantoms of the hundred ghosts touched by the sword light didn't even have time to scream before they were annihilated into nothingness.
Even the two out-of-control artificial Dominators were violently knocked back by the aftershocks of this strike, and a moment of clarity appeared in the pink light of their eyes.
One sword stroke severed the sea!
The youth stood with his sword, the tip pointing directly at the three overlapping turbid suns.
That extreme sharpness belonging to the SSS-Rank Ninth Stage actually caused the overbearing Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun...
...and the featureless dark side of Izanami in the depths of the mist to pause in wary hesitation.
"Kunlun jade breaks as the startled swan rises; the sword Soul carries a ten-thousand-foot wind from the heavens!"
"Reversing the starry river to pour into the vast sea; cleaving through Chaos to suppress the Eastern Peak!"
“Hiss!! A Sword Immortal! This must be a Sword Immortal descending to the world! We are saved!”
On the defense line behind him, countless surviving Ghost Controllers erupted in fanatical cheers.
However.
This brief hope was like a meteor in the night sky, fleeting and gone in an instant.
Just as the Mysterious Youth prepared to swing his sword again to completely repel the pink mist!
An anomaly erupted once again in the heart of the Yanlong Empire!
Rumble!!!
It was... the direction of the Kunlun Ruins!
A law fluctuation even older, more decayed, and filled with extreme silence than the pink mist soared into the sky!
Above the firmament, that tattered painting that had been blotting out the sky trembled violently.
Beneath the painting, the three terrifying taboos became restless once more!
And within the Bronze Palace in the deepest part of the Kunlun Ruins.
Those bronze doors, which had been tightly shut for countless eons, let out a heavy boom.
They slowly opened a crack!
An eerie old corpse covered in green hair, so decayed that only a skeleton and a few strips of shriveled muscle remained.
Dragging a massive, rust-covered iron chain, it walked step by step out of the darkness of the Bronze Palace!
With every step this old corpse took.
Large areas of the surrounding time and space collapsed and became distorted.
This was a demigod pressure that completely transcended Dominators, even older and purer than the dark side of Izanami!
"Damn it..."
Above the East Sea, the Mysterious Youth's expression changed drastically.
In his originally calm eyes, extreme gravity and anxiety appeared for the first time.
He knew well what kind of world-shaking great horror was hidden within the Kunlun Ruins.
If that old corpse were allowed to completely walk out of the Kunlun Ruins.
The entire Yanlong Empire, and even the entire Dongsheng Continent, would instantly turn into a land of death with no life remaining!
The youth did not hesitate.
He took a deep look at the rolling pink mist and suddenly turned around.
Transforming into a heaven-shaking sword light, he tore through the Void Realm and rushed toward the Kunlun Ruins at top speed to provide support!
He had to go and suppress that old corpse!
Otherwise, before the pink mist could even cover it, the entire Dongsheng Continent would be completely turned into a land of death!
"Why did the Sword Immortal leave?!"
"Why... why is this happening..."
With the departure of the Mysterious Youth.
The barrier of sword light spanning the sea surface quickly dimmed and dissipated.
Without the youth's suppression, the pink mist began to spread once more...
The two artificial Dominators, controlled once again, also let out frenzied roars and charged toward the Yanlong Empire's defense line.
Inside the Bureau 749 command hall.
There was a deathly silence; despair was written on everyone's faces.
Xia Xuanyuan's expression was heavy.
He knew that the Yanlong Empire had reached a true moment of life or death.
Suddenly.
The Heavenly Secret Daoist, who had been silent, stepped forward.
"Chief Executive."
The Heavenly Secret Daoist spoke somberly.
"Things have come to this; we have no way back!"
"We can only ask that existence for help!"
Xia Xuanyuan looked up abruptly, a flash of complexity in his eyes.
That existence?
That Evil Buddha far away in the West Continent!
"Contact the West Continent immediately!"
Xia Xuanyuan grit his teeth and issued the command.
West Continent.
Rebirth Temple.
Lin Chuan's evil buddha golden body sat upon the Lotus Pedestal, purple-black buddha light flowing quietly in the darkness.
His omniscient and all-seeing law perspective had already taken in everything happening in Dongsheng Continent.
The phantom of Izanami's dark side, the Illuminating Heaven Turbid Sun, and the anomalies in the Kunlun Ruins.
All were under his gaze.
When he heard the Yanlong Empire's plea for help, Lin Chuan did not refuse.
However, he was thinking about what kind of posture he should use for his entrance to best intimidate more ordinary people of Dongsheng Continent and then harvest as much taboo value as possible!
To advance to the SSS-Rank Ninth Stage, he still needed over twenty—nearly thirty thousand—taboo value!