47: Chapter 47 The good news was cut off, and two bad news items grew. Jiang Xu: How am I supposed to play this?

An incredibly terrifying spear strike.

This was not merely a physical throw; it was more like a small, highly condensed meteorite.

The white spear carved a blinding streak of destruction through the dim underground pump room.

Wherever it passed, even the air was crushed by the extremely compressed kinetic energy, emitting a series of sonic booms comparable to thunder.

This was the full, unreserved power of Executive Jiang Xu, the S-Class Executive of Great Xia and the renowned ceiling of combat strength.

This single strike was enough to instantly flatten a mountain several hundred meters high.

Violent gusts of wind, mixed with shattered chunks of concrete, lashed fiercely around Su Yun's body.

Su Yun did not dodge.

He stood where he was, not even shifting his feet by a fraction.

The scarlet Foolish Eye watched the approaching white light coldly from deep within the mist.

He did not need to dodge, because he was now the Lord of Blind Idiot God.

Just as the white spear was about to slam into the one-meter radius in front of Su Yun, the shadows at his feet suddenly boiled.

Dozens of purple-black Void Tentacles, as thick as an adult's waist, erupted without warning from the concrete and steel floor.

The surface of these tentacles was covered in sickening fleshy textures and barbs.

Within a thousandth of a second, they twisted and tangled together, instantly constructing an incredibly thick, fleshy barrier in front of Su Yun.

"Boom!!!"

The Spear of the Firmament slammed heavily against the tentacle barrier.

Blinding white light and purple-black abyssal blood exploded simultaneously, causing the entire underground reservoir to shake violently as if from an earthquake.

Carrying terrifying piercing power, the spear broke through the first dozen tentacles with unstoppable momentum.

Vast amounts of purple-black abyssal blood splashed in all directions like a rainstorm.

Su Yao knelt at the distant entrance, covering her ears tightly, watching the apocalyptic collision in terror.

A glimmer of hope rose in her heart.

Executive Jiang Xu was the pinnacle of human strength; this strike at full power must be able to pierce that monster's defense!

However, reality dealt her a brutally cruel slap in the face.

The white spear, which had been unstoppable, saw its speed plummet after piercing through a dozen tentacles.

Finally, it hovered rigidly in mid-air, just one inch away from Su Yun's main body.

It could not advance a single step further!

The powerful kinetic energy behind the spear was completely strangled away by the remaining dozens of tightly coiled tentacles.

Executive Jiang Xu's eyes, usually as cold and hard as iron, suddenly revealed extreme shock.

Ever since he had taken control of the s-class sequencing weapon, the Spear of the Firmament had never been blocked head-on when releasing its full power.

In the past, those arrogant A-level Anomalies had all been instantly annihilated by this spear.

But this monster had actually caught it with its Physical Body!

Executive Jiang Xu's shock lasted only a tenth of a second.

Years of life-and-death combat experience left him without any hesitation.

Since physical penetration was ineffective, he would use rule-based erasure!

Executive Jiang Xu clenched his right hand violently toward the void, veins bulging on the back of his hand.

"Detonate!"

He directly triggered the S-Class gravity collapse rule attached to the Spear of the Firmament.

The space in the core area of the pump room underwent a terrifying distortion and folding in that instant.

The air turned directly into a solid state.

A terrifying gravity, thousands of times that of the Earth's surface, descended upon Su Yun's head like an invisible mountain ten thousand zhang high.

Executive Jiang Xu attempted to use the extreme gravity field to crush this indescribable monster into a puddle of meat paste.

"Crack! Crack!"

The ground beneath Su Yun could not withstand this annihilating pressure.

The special alloy steel plates, several meters thick, instantly deformed and fractured.

With Su Yun at the center, the ground was forced into a massive crater over ten meters in diameter.

Countless streams of groundwater erupted from the cracks in the ground, only to be instantly crushed into water vapor by the gravity field.

Su Yao, caught by the edge of this gravity on the periphery, was pinned flat to the ground, unable to move a single finger.

Su Yun was trapped in the center of the pit, surrounded by twisted light and exploding rubble.

Gravity thousands of times stronger squeezed every inch of his body from all directions.

Yet, he only swayed ever so slightly at the moment this terrifying force descended.

Then, he straightened his back completely.

The face hidden beneath the mist of tentacles showed no pain.

Instead, he evaluated it inwardly.

"Is this the value of Great Xia's top combat ceiling? It's truly got something."

This destructive power, which toyed with physical laws to the extreme, far exceeded any B-level or A-level Anomalies he had devoured before.

It was even stronger than Ye Xinglan.

Executive Jiang Xu was truly qualified to represent human powerhouses.

If Su Yun were merely an A-level Awakened, he would likely have had his entire skeleton shattered within a second under this gravity.

But he was not human now.

He was Sequence 000, the Lord of Blind Idiot God, who had just passed his infancy and entered his growth phase.

His Physical Body strength had long since surpassed the limits of carbon-based life.

"Quite strong," Su Yun commented silently to himself, "too bad it's not enough."

He did not want to waste too much time here.

The situation outside was still unclear, and his older brother Bai Cang was attracting fire at the port; he couldn't drag this out for too long.

Since he had already tested the physical level, it was time for some high-dimensional intensity.

To settle this quickly, Su Yun gave up on pure strength wrestling with Executive Jiang Xu.

He decided to initiate a dimensional strike directly.

Scarlet light ignited in the darkness, like two setting suns falling into a sea of blood.

The skills [Curtain of Delusion] and [Foolish Eye] were activated at full power simultaneously.

There was no explosion of physical energy.

Instead, it was an overlay of abyssal aura from a deeper, Soul-dimensional level.

The extreme pollution wave, with Su Yun as the center, spread outwards in a ring like a tsunami.

This was not spiritual energy; it was pure SAN value pollution.

Su Yun attempted to bypass Executive Jiang Xu's impregnable physical defense to directly destroy his rational defense line.

"Hum!!!"

A bizarre, twisted, and indescribable whispering filled with terror instantly penetrated the blockade of the gravity field.

These whispers sounded like thousands of insects gnawing on bone marrow, and like an ancient evil god whispering in one's ear.

They ignored all physical barriers and exploded frantically deep within the minds of Executive Jiang Xu, Su Yao, and Ye Zhiwei.

Su Yao and Ye Zhiwei, kneeling at the entrance, only felt a trace of the spreading aftermath.

"Ah!!!" They clutched their heads tightly with both hands, letting out miserable screams.

Their pupils instantly lost focus, and the whites of their eyes were covered in terrifying bloodshot veins.

Two lines of scarlet blood uncontrollably overflowed from the corners of their eyes, tracing down their pale cheeks.

In her vision, the entire underground pump room had turned into a slaughterhouse made of flesh and blood.

The walls were writhing, the ceiling was dripping with viscous yellow fluid, and the air was thick with a nauseating stench of decay.

The fear from her past life, dominated by the despair of the apocalypse, perfectly overlapped with the current mental pollution, completely tearing apart her psychological defenses.

If not for the gravity field pinning her to the ground, she would have already gone insane and started biting into her own flesh.

Even Su Yao, who was so far away and had only endured the ripples on the edge, had ended up like this.

What, then, was Executive Jiang Xu experiencing while at the very core of the pollution, facing this dimensional strike head-on?

Executive Jiang Xu's body stiffened in place.

The thick, purple-black mist, seemingly dense enough to drip ink, had tightly enveloped his entire being.

The extreme intracranial pressure made him feel as if his entire skull was about to explode.

Blood began to uncontrollably spill from his seven orifices.

His nasal cavity, ears, and even eye sockets were seeping blood beads, staining his pristine white trench coat red.

Not only that, because he was excessively stimulating his spiritual energy to resist the mental pollution, the carbonization marks on his left arm, which had originally been suppressed by the inhibitor band, began to spread crazily.

The black carbonized stratum corneum, like scales, quickly crawled up to his elbow.

The intense pain of physical tearing and the madness of mental torture were simultaneously inflicted upon this man.

Su Yun stood at the bottom of the pit, watching this scene quietly.

According to common sense, even an S-Class powerhouse, when facing this pollution without any preparation, would have their sanity completely collapse within three seconds.

They would become a madman who only knew how to drool and giggle, just like that group of Arbitrators dancing in the square outside.

However, the perfect plan that Su Yun thought would instantly kill the mental defense line deviated.

Executive Jiang Xu's performance completely exceeded Su Yun's understanding of human willpower.

He stood where he was, his face smeared with blood.

Yet, the eyes that stared ahead through the bloodstains showed not even a shred of fear or confusion!

Not only was there no fear, but they were also burning with a near-pathological, absolute coldness.

Executive Jiang Xu was a madman.

He had relied on injecting special inhibitors containing the blood of Strange Tales to suppress his injuries for years.

He was accustomed to dancing wildly on the edge of reason and madness.

Relying on that extremely perverted, almost mechanical absolute calm, he had forcibly built a breakwater in his spiritual world.

He held on!

Executive Jiang Xu ignored the terrifying whispers in his mind that would have made an ordinary person instantly go mad and eat themselves.

He bit down and shattered half a molar, forcibly swallowing the blood that surged into his throat.

"You thing that plays at being gods and ghosts."

Executive Jiang Xu's voice was as hoarse as sandpaper rubbing against steel, yet it carried an inviolable majesty.

The gravity field surged again.

Executive Jiang Xu made a backhand gesture, and the Spear of the Firmament, which had been hovering in mid-air, let out a hum and flew back into his hand.

Enduring the abyssal pressure that could crush a Soul, he stamped his right foot heavily on the ground.

His whole body, like an ancient tyrannosaur killing its way out of a sea of blood, straightened its back and took a step forward.

Battle Intent soared to the heavens!

At this moment, the truly brutal, extreme close-quarters combat erupted completely.

Executive Jiang Xu did not retreat a single step; he forcibly compressed the terrifying gravity field and attached it entirely to the blade of the Spear of the Firmament.

The surface of the originally white spear now faintly shimmered with a black edge that devoured light, due to the extreme collapse of gravity.

Executive Jiang Xu's figure instantly transformed into a dozen blurry white afterimages.

He began to move at an extremely terrifying high speed within the narrow and dilapidated underground pump room.

The ground beneath his feet was constantly shattered and exploded as he moved, with gravel flying around like bullets.

"Die!"

Executive Jiang Xu roared, arriving in front of Su Yun.

The spear, carrying a gravity field that tore through space, slashed fiercely at the protective layer of tentacles around Su Yun.

Every swing of the spear was accompanied by an extremely piercing sonic boom.

The space itself seemed to be sliced into visible white air waves under this gravity slash.

Precise, ruthless, without any wasted movement.

"Puchi! Puchi! Puchi!"

The dull sounds of blades slicing through flesh became a dense chorus.

Executive Jiang Xu's slashes were indeed powerful to the extreme; those incredibly thick Void Tentacles were like butter being cut by a hot knife in the face of this gravity cutting.

Dozens of tentacles were severed at the waist.

Dark purple-black abyssal blood sprayed like a fountain, splattering over more than half of the pump room.

The air was filled with severed purple-black tentacle stumps falling to the ground.

They twisted and bounced frantically on the pockmarked concrete floor, like a pile of giant earthworms dug out of the soil.

Subsequently, these detached limbs quickly turned into pools of foul-smelling black water emitting black smoke.

Executive Jiang Xu's eyes were like torches, and the spear in his hand danced, leaving no gaps, as he pressed forward step by step.

At this rate, he would be able to shred all these tentacles within ten seconds.

But that was just what he thought.

No matter how fast Executive Jiang Xu's blade was, and no matter how strong the gravity he attached to it was, he discovered with extreme terror that he could never break through that critical last half-meter!

He simply could not touch the mysterious main body within the abyssal mist.

There was no other reason: Su Yun's regenerative recovery power was simply too unsolvable.

The roots of those tentacles that had just been severed by Executive Jiang Xu's blade, spraying blood wildly, did something else.

In less than 0.5 seconds, accompanied by a scalp-numbing sound of writhing granulation, brand new, even thicker tentacles instantly grew to completion, joining the camp of strangulation, claws and fangs bared once again.

Cut off one, two grew back.

Shred two, four grew out.

Executive Jiang Xu was like a lumberjack trapped in a thick swamp.

He seemed to be hacking away feverishly, but in reality, he hadn't caused any substantial damage to this monster at all.

And in this seemingly incredibly intense slaughter, Su Yun's posture could simply be described as absurd.

He didn't even use both hands.

Su Yun stood quietly in place, having only slightly raised his right hand.

He controlled the sky-filling Void Tentacles with just that one hand, blocking Executive Jiang Xu's storm-like attacks as he pleased.

This posture did not look like a life-and-death struggle.

It looked more like a Martial Forest master feeding moves to a beginner child in a guidance spar.

Both sides fell into a somewhat extremely bizarre stalemate.

Executive Jiang Xu couldn't attack, and Su Yun didn't take the initiative to use the tentacles to counter-kill Executive Jiang Xu.

The reason Su Yun didn't fight back directly to swat Executive Jiang Xu away was because most of his attention wasn't on this battle at all.

In the gaps of the high-speed strangulation, Su Yun's peripheral vision quietly swept across the direction behind him.

Just now, in order to block Executive Jiang Xu, he had withdrawn a batch of those tentacles that were originally stuck to the golden Spiritual Vein Formation doing "physical polishing."

But he had left behind a few of the hardest tentacles, which had never stopped their high-frequency scraping against the Formation's light shield.

At this moment, that originally brilliant, golden, and impregnable Sanctuary defense Formation had been completely "stripped bare" under this hooligan-like grinding.

The golden circuit lines in mid-air were extremely dim, and the light shield protecting the central anchor point had become as thin as a cicada's wing.

The Formation's energy nodes even began to emit a mournful sound of electricity, unable to bear the load.

With just a light touch, this great Formation would crumble to pieces.

Su Yun looked at the tottering Formation, the corners of his mouth beneath the mist curling up slightly.

It was finally about to be worn through.

The goal of stalling for time had been perfectly achieved.

There was no need to continue playing house with this human ceiling of Great Xia.

It was time to end this boring farce.

He had to leave a permanent psychological shadow on this S-Class powerhouse in the most shocking way possible.

Thinking of this, Su Yun's eyes turned cold, and he prepared to close the net.