46: Chapter 46 This kid is truly strange; he even wore down the Holy Domain Formation to the point of being bald!
The basement pump room of the reservoir.
The air was damp, and the sound of underground water currents roared.
Su Yun stood in the center of the pump room.
In front of him floated an extremely complex, three-dimensional golden Formation.
Dozens of rings were intertwined and nested within each other, spinning at a constant, uniform speed.
At the very center of the Formation eye, a crystal emitting pure fluctuations hovered slowly. That was the spirit vein anchor that the Sanctuary had buried here.
It was responsible for stabilizing the boundaries of reality in Linhai City.
Su Yun did not hesitate.
Dozens of purple-black tentacles surged out from his sleeves, back, and the shadows beneath his feet.
They stretched out in the air, quickly weaving into a large net that directly covered the golden Formation.
Su Yun pressed down with his will.
The two thickest tentacles lashed out violently at the light shield surrounding the Formation.
The counter-shock force exploded instantly.
The tentacles were sent flying, slamming heavily into the load-bearing wall behind him.
The wall cracked, and large chunks of debris fell.
The Formation remained unscathed.
Golden energy circuits lit up in mid-air.
Rows of ancient Sanctuary inscriptions appeared in the air.
The characters radiated an inviolable majesty.
"Sanctuary Forbidden Ground."
"Those who tamper with the anchor are considered heretics and will be hunted throughout the territory."
Su Yun looked at the inscriptions and curled his lip.
Red tape.
High and mighty.
The people of the Sanctuary always liked to make things extremely complicated.
Su Yun raised his right hand and snapped his fingers.
"If brute force doesn't work, then I'll just change tactics."
All the purple-black tentacles instantly changed strategy.
They no longer attempted violent dismantling, but instead adhered directly to the surface of the golden light shield.
Countless tiny suction cups split open at the tips of the tentacles, gripping the light shield tightly.
Dozens of tentacles began to rub at an extremely high frequency along the curvature of the light shield.
Up and down, left and right, forwards and backwards.
Random, high-frequency scraping.
The harsh sound of metal grinding instantly filled the entire pump room.
The underlying logic of the Formation was very rigorous.
If it encountered a single powerful attack, it would reflect the damage proportionally.
If it encountered sustained suppression, it would draw spiritual energy to replenish itself.
But it had never anticipated this kind of completely unreasonable, hooligan tactic.
This was equivalent to using a high-speed industrial grinding wheel to forcibly cut open a bank vault.
The light of the Formation began to flicker violently.
The computational logic quickly overloaded.
The warning inscriptions in mid-air collapsed and disintegrated, turning into strings of unreadable garbled text.
In less than two minutes, the energy nodes of the light shield could not withstand this extreme physical-level consumption and let out a crisp sound.
A gap appeared.
Su Yun stepped forward, and the tentacles drove straight through the gap, heading directly for the spirit vein anchor at the center of the Formation eye.
The open space outside the reservoir.
The strong wind whipped up huge waves, which slammed heavily against the outside of the dam.
A pitch-black official transport helicopter broke through the clouds and landed on the helipad outside the reservoir.
The roar of the propellers was deafening.
The cabin door pushed open.
Executive Jiang Xu jumped down directly.
His white trench coat snapped in the wind.
Su Yao followed closely and jumped off the helicopter.
She held her service pistol with both hands, the muzzle pointing downward, her eyes extremely solemn.
Two medical officers helped Ye Zhiwei out of the cabin.
Ye Zhiwei's eyes were wrapped in thick white bandages, and the lower half of the bandages was already stained red with seeping blood.
She was trembling all over, her legs unable to stand at all.
The helicopter engine cut out.
The scene in the open space was completely revealed before everyone.
Executive Jiang Xu's footsteps stopped.
Su Yao suddenly held her breath.
In front of them was a wide concrete clearing.
It connected to the main gate leading to the underground fortress.
Standing in the clearing were more than fifty elite Sanctuary Arbitrators.
They were wearing uniform black tactical gear, carrying heavy firepower, and had spiritual energy battle blades hanging at their waists.
This force was enough to flatten an A-level Anomalies stronghold within ten minutes.
But now, they had no guard up whatsoever.
More than fifty people were lined up in five neat columns.
Everyone had their hands raised above their heads, their wrists flipping flexibly.
Their hips and waists swayed in perfect rhythm to a beat that didn't exist in the wind.
Step to the left, step to the right.
Clap, turn around.
Extremely standard square dance steps.
More than fifty fully armed killing machines were dancing in perfect unison amidst the gloomy, wind-swept, apocalyptic atmosphere.
Every single person's face wore an expression of extreme happiness and satisfied idiocy.
Drool flowed down their chins, leaving trails on their tactical vests.
Some even emitted unconscious, low, silly giggles.
The huge noise of the helicopter landing and the intrusion of Executive Jiang Xu and the others did not provoke any reaction from them.
They were completely immersed in their own world.
Ye Zhiwei clutched the hem of Executive Jiang Xu's trench coat tightly, her fingers exerting so much force that she was about to tear the fabric.
"It's inside."
Ye Zhiwei's voice was hoarse and carried a heavy, tearful tone. "That thing's Domain has completely covered this place! It has directly altered the Law of reality! These people's five senses and cognition have been completely overturned!"
Executive Jiang Xu was expressionless.
He glanced at the group of dancing Arbitrators and raised his left hand.
The silver suppression band on his wrist was flashing with a blinding red light.
Executive Jiang Xu grabbed the suppression band and tore it off with force.
The sound of metal snapping rang out.
The sealed S-class spiritual energy was completely unleashed.
The surrounding air instantly became extremely viscous.
A gravitational field descended with a boom, and the standing water on the ground was forcibly pressed into the cracks of the concrete.
Those dozens of dancing Arbitrators collapsed to the ground under this pressure and fell into a coma.
"Follow me closely."
Executive Jiang Xu spoke, his voice devoid of any temperature.
He transformed into a white afterimage and rushed straight into the main passage of the fortress.
Su Yao gritted her teeth, unleashed her spiritual energy, and followed.
The light in the passage was dim.
The infrared warning laser grids on the walls on both sides were still flashing, but the control terminals had been violently smashed, and wires hung in mid-air, sparking.
The barrels of heavy machine cannons were twisted and deformed, scattered on the ground.
There were no signs of combat.
There were no scorch marks from spiritual energy collisions.
All the defensive facilities had been directly torn apart by some extremely barbaric physical force.
Executive Jiang Xu did not slow down.
With every step he took, he left a deep footprint on the special alloy steel plates under his feet.
At the end of the passage.
The alloy door of the bottom-most pump room was tightly shut.
The Sanctuary's Seal emblem was imprinted on the door.
Executive Jiang Xu did not pause at all.
He rushed to the door and raised his right leg.
All his spiritual energy was concentrated at a single point on his heel.
He kicked out fiercely.
A loud bang erupted.
The half-meter-thick alloy door snapped in the middle on the spot. The load-bearing walls around the door frame collapsed over a large area.
The shattered door panels were sent flying by the immense force, slamming heavily into the interior of the pump room.
The cold mist of the underground water veins mixed with an extremely pungent, despair-inducing aura and surged out instantly.
The door swung wide open.
Su Yao followed behind Executive Jiang Xu, her gaze piercing through the pervasive water vapor and landing on the center of the pump room.
In front of the broken golden Formation stood a figure.
Dozens of extremely thick, twisted purple-black Void Tentacles were dancing wildly in mid-air.
The surface of every tentacle was covered in eerie patterns, constantly oozing purple-black mucus.
The mucus dripped onto the concrete floor, instantly burning through it.
Those tentacles intertwined and wove together, forming a huge black cage that tightly wrapped around the figure in the center.
Under the dim light, combined with the obstruction of the tentacles, Su Yao could not see the person's face at all.
But there was no need to see the face clearly.
That aura. That sense of despair that made one's breathing feel painful.
It matched perfectly with the memories of her past life.
Su Yao's mind went blank.
Ruined walls, mountains of corpses, and seas of blood. The entire city turned into scorched earth.
The sky took on a sickening dark red color.
The indescribable thing standing at the end of the world perfectly overlapped with the figure before her eyes.
The extreme fear from her past life completely shattered her psychological defenses.
Su Yao's legs went weak, and she knelt heavily on the ground.
The service pistol in her hand fell to the ground.
"It's that!"
She pointed at the figure wrapped in tentacles in front of her, letting out an extremely shrill, desperate scream.
"It's that! It has evolved! Kill him quickly!"
Su Yao's voice echoed in the pump room, carrying hysterical madness.
Executive Jiang Xu's eyes were cold.
He didn't need Su Yao's reminder.
The moment he saw those tentacles, the combat instincts within Executive Jiang Xu had already issued the highest-level lethal warning.
He didn't have any probing, nor any nonsense.
To deal with a monster capable of destroying the world, there was only one method.
Physical erasure.
Executive Jiang Xu raised his right hand.
An extremely blinding white light instantly compressed in his palm.
The brilliance of the light overshadowed all the lighting facilities in the pump room.
s-class sequencing weapon [Spear of the Firmament].
The moment the spear formed, Executive Jiang Xu directly unleashed his full combat power.
The gravitational field of the entire underground pump room soared a hundredfold in 0.1 seconds!
The ceiling began to crack, and large chunks of concrete fell.
The air was extremely compressed, emitting a continuous, dull, explosive sound.
The water vapor originally suspended in mid-air was forcibly compressed into water droplets, which then slammed into the ground under gravity, exploding into mist.
Executive Jiang Xu's feet crushed the ground.
He locked onto the figure in the center of the tentacles, pouring all his killing intent and spiritual energy into his right arm.
There were no fancy moves.
"Die!"
Executive Jiang Xu's wrist exerted force violently, throwing this fatal spear.
The white Spear of the Firmament transformed into a beam of destructive light that pierced through everything.
Wherever it passed, the space showed visible distortions and creases.
The violent kinetic energy instantly drained the surrounding oxygen.
The spear aimed straight for the center of the tentacles.
Faced with this thunderous death trap.
Faced with this absolute power capable of obliterating any S-class powerhouse.
Su Yun, who was concentrating on dealing with the spirit vein anchor, sensed the movement behind him.
He stopped his actions.
Following that extremely terrifying killing intent, Su Yun slowly turned his head...