34: Chapter 34: The Transformation Period! The Divine Skill "Veil of Delusion" Awakens, and the Entire City is Locked Down!

Su Yun sat cross-legged on the bed.

The boundary constructed by [black day] completely isolated the entire room from the dimension of reality.

Purple-black mist rapidly permeated the entire room.

It was no longer simple gas.

Instead, it materialized, transforming into countless eerily wriggling tentacles, wrapping Su Yun into a giant black cocoon.

Everything inside Su Yun was crazily restructuring.

This was not a simple spiritual energy upgrade, but a leap in the level of life.

Above Linhai City.

The originally clear night sky darkened without warning.

There were no dark clouds, just pure darkness.

The light of the stars was swallowed alive by some invisible, massive shadow.

All the stray cats and dogs in the city laid on the ground simultaneously, pressing firmly against the earth, not daring to make any sound.

Low-level Strange Tales hiding in the city's sewers and abandoned buildings knelt towards the east of the city, trembling all over, as if worshipping some indescribable fear.

Ten thousand meters in the air.

The current Saintess Lin Xinglan was meditating on a spiritual energy platform.

She suddenly opened her eyes, her gaze piercing through the clouds, locking tightly onto Linhai City below.

She felt a strong palpitation.

It was as if a terrifying existence, one that transcended the Laws of the current world, was slowly opening its eyes in some corner of that city.

"What is going on? This filthy and irresistible feeling."

Lin Xinglan's fingers clenched, cold sweat seeping from her smooth forehead.

Her pure Holy Light spiritual energy was so weak before that invisible shadow that it couldn't even compare to a firefly.

"This is no longer an ordinary Strange Tales, could it be that an Abyss deity beyond S-Rank has appeared in the world?"

At the same time.

The Su family home.

Su Chen woke up with a start from his dream.

He sat up abruptly, clutching his chest tightly.

His heart was beating extremely fast, as if it were about to break through his chest cavity.

He turned his head to look out the window; the oppressive feeling that made even an S-Rank powerhouse like him feel suffocated flashed and vanished.

This trembling feeling of having no power to resist...

My S-Rank water-type ability is actually on strike out of fear?

What kind of monster is hiding in Linhai City?!

Su Jianguo turned over and opened his eyes abruptly.

His hand instinctively reached for the revolver under his pillow, his muscles tensed like iron.

But the firearm that used to bring him a sense of security felt like a ridiculous plastic toy in his hand right now.

His Monster Hunter intuition, honed from over a decade in the Underworld, was screaming in his mind: Don't move! To move is to die!

A touch of golden Holy Light lit up on Lin Wanqing's fingertips, but the moment it lit up, it was crushed directly by that invisible pressure, turning into nothingness.

She was completely stunned.

Her own power, in front of this unknown existence, didn't even have the qualification to exist?

Su Qing hugged her teddy bear, curled up under the quilt, shivering.

"What level of Strange Tales is this? It's too terrifying."

Four in the morning.

"Click."

An extremely crisp sound of breaking echoed simultaneously in the minds of all powerhouses above A-Rank in Linhai City.

It was as if some ancient shackle had been forcibly broken.

Subsequently, all the pressure receded like a tide.

The dark night returned to normal.

Early morning.

Su Yun opened his eyes.

The purple-black cocoon wrapping him turned into countless light spots, merging back into his body.

He looked down at his own hands.

His skin was fairer, and the lines of his bones were more symmetrical.

There were no exaggerated muscle bulges, but every inch of his body was filled with absolute violence capable of easily tearing space apart.

Dark red characters popped up on his retina.

[Growth Progress: 100%. Metamorphosis complete.]

[Current Stage: Growth Stage.]

[Obtained Exclusive Skill: Curtain of Delusion]

[Curtain of Delusion: Within the Domain of Void Tentacles, one can tamper with the opponent's five senses through the tentacles. During the process, the Void Tentacles are in a real state.]

[Growth progress required for the next advancement (Adulthood Stage): 0 / 1000.]

Su Yun sat on the edge of the bed, staring at the dark red skill description on his retina, his eyebrows slightly raised.

Manipulating the five senses?

Su Yun chewed on these words repeatedly, a cold light emerging from the depths of his pupils.

Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch.

All channels through which humans perceive the world could be arbitrarily tampered with by him.

What did this mean?

It meant that within his Domain, the enemy's eyes would deceive their brain, their ears would transmit false signals, and even pain could be fabricated out of thin air or completely erased.

Everything the opponent saw, heard, and felt was entirely up to him.

This was no longer a simple combat skill.

Under these circumstances, he was their god.

Is it that strong?

Su Yun took a deep breath, suppressing the excitement surging in his heart, and focused his attention on the second half of the description.

"During the process, the Void Tentacles are in a real state."

Real state.

These four words were the key.

His Void Tentacles normally existed in the interlayer between reality and nothingness.

They only appeared when attacking.

They were invisible to the naked eye, and spiritual energy detection was extremely difficult to capture.

But once [Curtain of Delusion] was activated, those tentacles hidden in the dark would be dragged out of the Void and exposed in the dimension of reality.

In other words.

People outside the Domain would see his Void Tentacles.

Su Yun narrowed his eyes.

Trading concealment for the authority to manipulate the five senses.

Whether this was really the case could not be fully determined by text alone; the specific mechanism would need to be verified in actual combat.

But it was highly likely to be so.

Su Yun leaned back against the headboard, his fingers tapping his knees unconsciously.

However, whether this cost could be considered a cost depended on a core variable.

How large of an area could his Void Tentacles Domain cover now?

If the Domain radius was large enough, large enough to shroud the entire battlefield or even the entire area, then there would be no bystanders outside the Domain.

Everyone was under his control, so what if they saw the tentacles?

Their five senses had long since ceased to belong to themselves.

Su Yun's mouth curled up slightly.

And with this metamorphosis, the coverage of the Void Tentacles had nearly doubled.

It was about one hundred meters.

Su Yun got up from the bed and flexed his wrists.

He did not rush to dispel the boundary; instead, in this space isolated from reality, he slowly clenched his right fist.

He didn't deliberately urge any spiritual energy; he simply exerted force.

"Crack."

A faint yet clear shattering sound came from the air.

This speed exceeded the speed of sound.

He hadn't even fully exerted his strength.

Su Yun was stunned for a moment, looking down at his fist, his eyes full of astonishment.

He loosened his fist and gently flicked the base of the metal desk lamp on the headboard with his fingertip.

"Creak."

After a harsh sound, a penetrating dent appeared on the solid cast-iron base, and the edges of the metal curled inward like paper.

Su Yun was silent for two seconds.

Before the metamorphosis, although his body was peculiar, the gap was still visible to the naked eye when facing a true S-Rank powerhouse.

Yesterday at the factory in the south of the city, his eldest brother Su Chen's water blade had cut him in half at the waist.

That slash was crisp and neat, without any hesitation.

If it weren't for his immortal strange body, which could stitch the severed flesh back together with tentacles in a few seconds, that blow would have been a death sentence.

Later, the active Fusion of [black day] was nothing more than barely holding the situation on the defensive level.

To put it bluntly, he had scared off the two true powerhouses yesterday by relying on the special recovery ability of his aberrant Physique and the active attachment behavior of his s-class sequencing weapon.

Essentially, he had bluffed them, not defeated them.

But now it was different.

Su Yun repeatedly felt the steady and majestic power within his body, and he had a clear judgment in his heart.

If he were to fight his eldest brother again, that water blade would likely not be able to cut his body.

His current physical fitness had truly stepped into that realm.

Su Yun withdrew his fist and leaned against the headboard, his gaze falling on the glaring numbers on his retina.

0 / 1000.

The corner of his mouth twitched involuntarily.

In the previous stage from infancy to the growth stage, the maximum growth progress was one hundred points.

He had only managed to gather enough by devouring the remains of one D-Rank, one B-Rank, and nine A-level Anomalies.

Now it had increased tenfold.

One thousand points.

Roughly estimating based on the previous exchange ratio, this meant he needed to devour at least dozens of complete A-level Anomalies, or several S-Rank existences, to touch the threshold of the next advancement.

"It seems... I need to find a way to get some big jobs next."

Su Yun got up.

With a thought, [black day] turned back into a knife-shaped tattoo on his heart.

The boundary was dispelled.

He pushed open the bedroom door and walked out.

The living room was full of people, and the noisy mode unique to the morning had already begun.

"Su Qing! Did you steal the boneless chicken claws I bought yesterday again? There's only an empty box left in the fridge!"

Eldest sister Su Yao walked out of the kitchen with a pot of seafood porridge, placed it heavily on the dining table, and glared at Su Qing on the carpet while untying her apron.

"I didn't! I had a headache last night and went to sleep early!"

Su Qing was wearing an eye mask, lying spread-eagled on the carpet, holding the bump on her head that had gone down a little, and arguing loudly.

Lin Wanqing sat beside her, flipping through a fashion magazine, and rolled her eyes in annoyance.

"Alright, is a chicken claw worth arguing about? Everyone come over to eat."

Just then, with a "click," Su Yun's door opened.

"Everyone is up."

Su Yun said casually, pulling out a chair and sitting down at the dining table.

The air went quiet for a second.

Five pairs of eyes fell on Su Yun at the same time.

Su Jianguo's hand actually shook this time, and his thermos cup made a crisp clinking sound. He stared straight at his son.

Something was wrong.

Very wrong.

Su Yun was clearly still the same Su Yun, with no spiritual energy fluctuations on him.

But the moment he sat down, as an S-Rank Monster Hunter who had struggled on the edge of life and death for over a decade, Su Jianguo's intuition sent out a frantic alarm.

That was the instinctive trembling prey felt when facing a top predator.

To cover up his lapse in composure, Old Su coughed quickly and forced out a daily greeting from an old father.

"Xiao Yun, did you... did you secretly put on a facial mask behind your mother's back last night? How come your face looks whiter than yesterday?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Wanqing's brows immediately knit together.

She leaned in closer to examine Su Yun carefully; not only was his skin fairer, but even the lines of his facial features seemed to have become more symmetrical and perfect.

"Good boy, I was wondering why the Miracle Water on my vanity table went down so fast!"

Lin Wanqing narrowed her eyes suspiciously.

"Confess, did you steal my skincare products? If you dare to use my two-thousand-yuan-a-bottle essence on your neck, I'll beat you today!"

"I didn't use it. I only use Dabao."

Su Yun picked up his bowl, scooped a spoonful of porridge for himself without changing his expression, and took a bite of a deep-fried dough stick.

"I slept well last night, slept until dawn. Maybe it's because I'm well-rested."

The pure Holy Light spiritual energy within Lin Wanqing experienced a moment of stagnation the instant Su Yun came out, and there was even a faint, pure sense of disgust.

That was the trembling one would only feel when facing an ancient Strange Tales of the Abyss.

But seeing her son chewing on the dough stick slowly, that feeling vanished into thin air.

Could it be that the remnants of that terrifying pressure last night made me too tense?

Lin Wanqing suppressed the doubts in her heart and glared at him: "Stop with the lip. Eat quickly, you're picky about eating dough sticks, take more side dishes."

On the carpet, Su Qing pushed her eye mask up.

She only glanced at Su Yun, and she gasped, sitting up straight abruptly.

It's over.

Completely over.

Su Qing's eyes widened.

Her brother had just changed into an ordinary white T-shirt and was sitting there drinking porridge.

But that temperament, which was lazy yet carried a deadly oppressiveness, was simply ten times stronger than yesterday!

He definitely evolved!

This damn Succubus Physique has reached Major Achievement!

Even she, his own sister, found it hard to look away from him; if he were let out, wouldn't all the women in Linhai City go crazy?

"Mom!"

Su Qing suddenly jumped up from the carpet and pointed at Su Yun, accusing him loudly.

"You absolutely cannot let him go out today! Look at him, wearing a white T-shirt like a peacock, spreading pheromones everywhere! If he goes out today, he will definitely be snatched away by other bad women!"

Su Yun didn't even lift his eyelids; he extended his chopsticks with extreme precision, snatched the half-salted duck egg that she loved most from the plate in front of Su Qing, and put it into his own bowl.

"Eat your food, it's bad enough that you're short, and your eyes have problems too."

"Ah! My oily salted duck egg! Su Yun, spit it out!"

Su Qing was so angry that she clawed and pounced at him.

"Alright, Xiao Qing."

On the single sofa, Su Chen closed his newspaper and stopped her in a gentle voice.

"Xiao Yun is growing, what's wrong with him eating half of your egg."

Su Qing: "???"

Am I not growing?

Although Su Chen was smiling, all his attention was focused on Su Yun.

Unfathomable.

It's simply a flawless disguise!

This was Su Chen's only evaluation of Su Yun right now.

No spiritual energy fluctuations?

No, that might be because Xiao Yun's power dimension was too high, and he had already achieved true return to simplicity!

Thinking about how his little brother had stated his secrets word for word last night, and this terrifying aura that even he, an S-Rank leader, couldn't see through, a trace of fanaticism gradually ignited in the depths of Su Chen's eyes.

"As expected of my brother, Su Chen! Only this indifference, which treats all rules of the world as nothing, is worthy of the pattern of my Salvation Society. He must have long seen through these decaying Laws of the current world. The nonchalance he showed just now when grabbing the egg was clearly demonstrating his absolute control over the power of all plunder in the world!"

A trace of paranoid determination flashed in Su Chen's eyes.

His little brother was definitely qualified, no, he must join the Salvation Society!

With such an unfathomable accomplice, why worry that the great cause won't succeed?

He must find an opportunity today to show his hand to him.

Just then.

The morning news playing on the TV was suddenly interrupted.

The screen flickered, and an extremely urgent official announcement cut in. The news anchor's expression was serious, and his speaking speed was extremely fast.

"An urgent announcement."

"In view of the major spiritual energy fluctuation incident that occurred in Linhai last night, the Supreme Command of the National Strange Tales Investigation Bureau has dispatched a special action team to arrive in Linhai City."

"This operation is led by the S-Class Executive codenamed 'Tianqiong'."

"From this moment on, Linhai City has entered a state of total lockdown. No one is allowed to go out at will."

"The special action team will conduct a dragnet investigation of the entire city. Please remain at home and cooperate with the investigation."