76: Chapter 76 Schemes, Attempts to Imprison Lin Chuan
"Great One... please be careful..."
The book of omniscience said a few more words intermittently, and then its voice came to an abrupt halt.
It was as if it had seen some unspeakable great horror; its pages trembled frantically before shutting tight with a 'snap'.
The dense cluster of eyes on its cover all squeezed shut instantly, not daring to leave even a single crack exposed.
It even straight up started playing dead.
Even the Rule Power fluctuations on its body were restrained to the extreme, as if it had turned into an ordinary, lifeless book.
Lin Chuan felt the fear emanating from the depths of the book of omniscience's Origin.
"To make an S-Rank special Taboo Item this terrified..."
"It seems an incredible existence has truly arrived."
Rumble!!!
Lin Chuan's thoughts had just settled.
The southern sky completely collapsed.
That gargantuan, eerie object composed of countless pitch-black rings began to move slowly!
However, its movement trajectory was very strange!
It was as if it were "embedded" in space; with every inch it moved, the surrounding space was like glass baked by high heat, emitting chilling cracking sounds before disintegrating inch by inch to reveal an indescribably deep and void-like Chaos.
It also resembled a black, one-eyed gaze hanging above the firmament, indifferently watching over the land.
At the center of those rings was a patch of absolute darkness.
Light, sound, and even rules would be ruthlessly devoured once they approached that center.
Sensing the arrival of the [ring of calamity], Lin Chuan's mind flickered as he activated the [Teleportation Rule], appearing directly at a location not far from it!
Immediately after, his evil buddha golden body grew to a thousand zhang tall, sitting cross-legged in the Void Realm with a churning sea of blood hanging upside down behind him and countless hideous bone Lotus Pedestals beneath his feet.
Chaos black light circulated around his body, forming an indestructible rule barrier that forcibly withstood the Rule Power radiating from the [ring of calamity].
The two behemoths confronted each other across the distance.
One side was the pitch-black rings representing Chaos and calamity.
The other side was the Chaos Evil Buddha representing distortion and horror.
The mere collision of their rules caused the dozens of miles between them to instantly turn into a vacuum zone.
"amitabha buddha..."
Lin Chuan took the lead in activating his own Taboo Rule—[Universal Illumination of Buddhas Light]!!
Facing the true form of an S-Rank Eighth-Tier Taboo, he had no intention of testing the waters and erupted with full power immediately!
Boom!!!
The black halo behind the head of the evil buddha golden body spun violently.
Billions of beams of Chaos black light, like a flood breaching a dam, surged frantically toward the [ring of calamity] with overbearing rules that corroded and assimilated everything!
Sizzle... the black light struck the edges of the [ring of calamity], emitting a piercing, searing sound!
The previously calm rings suddenly began to shake violently.
It seemed to have been provoked.
Buzz—!!!
A low hum echoed through heaven and earth.
The space around the [ring of calamity] began to undergo an eerie distortion.
The object that was originally just ring-shaped was now actually beginning to undergo a morphological change.
The pitch-black rings actually began to deconstruct, reorganize, and collapse inward.
At the same time, an even more dangerous and terrifying aura was reviving from within it.
Deep in Lin Chuan's consciousness, red warning text instantly popped up on the panel:
[Warning! Warning!]
[Detected that the taboo form is 'deconstructing and reorganizing'!]
[Target: ring of calamity is unlocking its second form!]
[Source Analysis: This taboo is a creation of a certain "high sovereign" from the Chaos Void Realm! It possesses two rule forms!]
[Second Form Rule Manifestation: Devour! Destroy! Return all tangible and intangible things to absolute nothingness!]
"A creation of a high sovereign?!"
Lin Chuan's heart sank abruptly.
The so-called Dominators refer to SSS-rank ninth-tier taboos!
Such existences can be called the root of horror and Chaos!
Boom!!!
Just as Lin Chuan was thinking.
The [ring of calamity] had completed its transformation.
It had turned into a gargantuan black sphere.
The surface of the sphere had no luster, just like a real black hole.
An indescribable, terrifying gravitational force erupted from within the sphere.
"Roar!!!"
Stimulated by this power.
The Beast Tide of the Strange below, which was already frenzied, underwent an even more startling mutation at this moment.
These Monstrous Beasts howled excitedly, their bodies beginning to rapidly swell and split.
One became two, two became four... the original Beast Tide of the Strange of three million.
In just a few minutes, the number exploded to nearly ten million!
Looking out, they seemed endless, like a world-ending torrent!!
The black beast tide, like a tsunami, frantically crashed against the defensive line constructed by Lin Chuan's subordinates.
"Damn it!"
On the defensive line.
Xiao Hong used Rule Power to crush an A-rank Monstrous Beast, but before she could catch her breath, three more identical Monstrous Beasts pounced.
"There are too many! It's impossible to suppress them all!!"
"Hold the line!!"
Beside her, Bai Ling was covered in blood, gritting her teeth as she desperately held on while shouting:
"We absolutely cannot retreat!!"
...Great Xin Dynasty, Supreme Operations Command Center.
At this moment, the place was in a state of complete Chaos.
"How could this happen?!"
"How did the numbers suddenly explode like this?!"
"Ten million... this is a ten-million-level Beast Tide of the Strange!!"
A strategist looked at the satellite images being sent back, his face as pale as paper.
"With an impact of this scale, let alone one Province, the entire southern part of the Great Xin Dynasty could fall within a day!"
"Director! We must provide support!"
"If we don't support them, once that Evil Buddha is defeated, we're finished too!"
"Support?"
Another strategist smiled bitterly:
"With what would we support them?"
"Our main forces still have to defend against the revival of taboo mediums in other areas."
"Unless..."
His gaze turned toward Mr. K.
"Unless we ask the Yanlong Empire for help!"
"Request that they use strategic weapons of that level, or... invite one of the Yanlong Empire's 'Pillars of the Nation' to take action!"
Everyone's eyes were focused on Mr. K.
Waiting for his decision.
However.
Mr. K remained seated in his chair, fingers interlaced, his expression frighteningly calm.
"No rush."
He calmly uttered those two words.
"Director!!"
The crowd grew anxious.
"The fire is at our eyebrows, and you're saying there's no rush?!"
"It'll be too late if we wait any longer!"
"Quiet."
Mr. K's voice wasn't loud, yet it carried an unquestionable authority.
The meeting room fell silent instantly.
Mr. K pushed up his glasses, his gaze deep as he watched the evil buddha golden body on the screen confronting the black hole.
"You underestimate our 'ally' too much."
"He hasn't even used his full strength yet."
"And..."
A trace of cold calculation flashed through Mr. K's heart.
"When he and that [ring of calamity] fight to a stalemate..."
"That will be the best time for us to strike."
"That thing we just developed in our Laboratory... though unstable, if used correctly..."
"Perhaps we can imprison both this buddha and the ring!"
At this point, Mr. K's face was etched with a touch of madness!