182: Chapter 182 While everyone else was desperately defending, he was just standing there charging up!

Young Master Gu Lingfeng stared at that slender back, a ball of fire burning in his chest.

"It's you?!"

It was this little bastard again!

Old grudges and new resentment rushed to his head all at once.

The humiliating scene at the gate of Jiangcheng School, where he was choked half to death by being called "Uncle" and kicked until he ate dirt in public by Commander Huangfu Jing, was playing on a loop in his mind right now.

How on earth did he... jump down from a thousand meters high and end up perfectly fine?

Young Master Gu Lingfeng's first reaction was that this kid must be wearing some kind of top-tier physical shock-absorbing armor.

Equipment of this level usually comes with a spatial stability anchor.

It's priceless on the market; you couldn't get it without some influence behind you.

What is this kid's background?

Immediately after, a thought that broke his defenses even more popped up.

Did this brat jump out because he was also targeting this Thunder Horn Rhino?

Could it be... that he also wanted to hunt this beast to give a gift to Commander Huangfu Jing?!

Thinking of this possibility, Young Master Gu Lingfeng felt like he was being cuckolded.

No! Absolutely not!

Commander Huangfu Jing's Qixi Festival gift must be hunted by me personally!

Once the "love brain" condition flares up, even a Peak brain can't save itself.

On the other side, the two Peak Tier 6 instructors from the Shadow Academy didn't have so many complicated thoughts.

Instructor Shen Yuee's tear mole at the corner of her eye twitched, and a dark purple moon shadow silently extended from her fingertips.

Instructor Lin Yan also had a Clone move forward silently, the shadow spreading along the ground to cover Su Ming's heels.

The two's reconnaissance secret techniques began to operate.

The next second, both of their expressions changed drastically.

Instructor Shen Yuee's beautiful eyes widened.

"Empty?"

"How is that possible... There's not even a trace of Source Energy fluctuation?!"

Instructor Lin Yan's brows also furrowed into a " river" shape.

A normal person who doesn't even have Tier 1 Source Energy, free-falling from ten thousand meters, didn't smash into a pulp?

And he dares to point at the nose of a Peak Tier 6 Source Beast and curse?

Could there be anything more outrageous than this!

Meanwhile, the Thunder Horn Rhino, the focus of the entire field, was about to explode with anger.

Tier 7 for transformation, Tier 6 for psychic communication.

This uncrowned king that dominated the Western Desert.

It woke up today, wanting to come out to bask in the sun and stretch its muscles.

And the result?

First, it was covered in sand by that human using Earth-element powers, ending up with a mouthful of dirt.

Then it watched two groups of humans arguing over a dozen meters away, leaving it standing there like a background prop.

It stood there, feeling more and more stifled the more it thought about it.

So, in the eyes of you two-legged beasts, I, a dignified Tier 6 Beast King, am just a piece of meat on a cutting board?

Two groups of chefs are arguing with flying spit over who has the right to wield the knife, never once thinking that the meat might jump up and chop you all to pieces, right!

Ferocity and rage accumulated to the Peak in its chest.

Just at this moment, another "lowly human" with absolutely no Source Energy fluctuations popped out, pointing at it and shouting "Electricity thief."

Steal your mother's electricity!

I am a power plant myself!

"Moo...!"

This highly insulting slander became the last straw that broke its sanity!

It was so angry it could die!

It couldn't endure it at all!

Since this bunch of people were squeezed together, it would just wipe them out in one go; nobody would get away.

The Thunder Horn Rhino stopped staring at any one side, suddenly threw its head back, and let out a roar that shook the entire Source Abyss!

The two-meter-long, formidable lightning horn on top of its head was like a lightning rod, pointing straight at the sky.

All the violent blue Source Energy around its body poured upward frantically at this moment!

The originally scattered blue lightning gathered at the tip of the horn, compressing, condensing, and then expanding!

The color of the lightning shifted from deep dark blue to an extremely blinding silver-white!

The air was filled with the acrid smell of ionization.

Zzzzt...!

Arcs of electricity leaped on the two-meter-long lightning horn, and a giant ball of lightning capable of vaporizing a heavy armored vehicle formed with a boom!

"Not good!"

The first to notice the abnormality was Instructor Lin Yan.

The Shadow King's Clone vision could be shared with the main body, and his shadow perception captured the drastic change in the electrostatic field in the air.

"It's using its ultimate move! Scatter!"

But could the speed of lightning be outrun by words?

As soon as the words left his mouth, the giant lightning ball exploded in mid-air, turning into a thunderous net of light covering a hundred meters, descending upon them.

A range-of-effect killer move of a Peak Tier 6 Thunder Beast!

[Thunder Prison Sky Curtain]!

It wanted to electrocute all the humans who had provoked it into charcoal, and then eat them in one bite!

No one was getting away!

The moment the lightning pressed down, all three parties moved simultaneously.

Instructor Lin Yan slashed out with a blade, tearing an opening in the lightning net, but the electric arcs instantly connected and patched it up; it was impossible to pass through.

They had to take it head-on!

He made a prompt decision, splitting into twelve Clones, forming a circle to protect Night Crow and Instructor Shen Yuee in the center, using the Clones to share the damage for his main body.

The dark purple Shadow Domain under Instructor Shen Yuee's feet expanded to its limit, and the rich shadow power surged upward, condensing into an inverted bowl-shaped shadow curtain, firmly protecting the three of them.

Sizzle...!

The lightning struck the shadow curtain, and the shadow power was rapidly evaporated!

The radius of the Shadow Domain was visibly compressed by a third!

"Ugh!"

Instructor Shen Yuee groaned, her face turning three shades paler.

A stray bolt of lightning grazed Night Crow's shoulder, instantly paralyzing half his body, and the flesh under his combat suit was charred black.

"Hiss..."

The two Peak Tier 6 instructors stood back-to-back, protecting him tightly behind them.

Under the Thunder Prison Sky Curtain, although they weren't seriously injured, they had consumed nearly 30% of their Source Energy.

The composed attitude they had during the earlier standoff had vanished completely.

On the other side, Young Master Gu Lingfeng was also startled by the sudden explosive power of the Thunder Beast.

This beast hadn't used its full strength when it was standing off against them earlier!

A golden light flashed around his body, and the Dark Gold Flowing Sand Armor automatically appeared.

Fine particles of Dark Gold Sand, constrained by a heavy magnetic field, covered his entire body, forming a layer of dark gold armor.

The first blazing white lightning bolt struck his shoulder armor, and the high-speed impact triggered the sand particles to lock up.

The flowing sand layer suddenly solidified, its hardness approaching that of a special alloy.

The lightning exploded into fine electric sparks, leaving not even a trace.

As the continuous lightning pressure fell, the sand layer switched back to a fluid state, ripples spreading across the armor surface, shedding the violent lightning energy along the patterns into the ground.

A non-Newtonian fluid defense mechanism... the unique specialty of the Dark Gold Flowing Sand.

His sand-ified right hand suddenly lifted upward.

"Boom!"

In the black rock ground beneath his feet, countless Dark Gold Sand particles rose from the ground, frantically stacking and compacting!

A heavy sand wall spanning over ten meters and three meters thick rose from the ground!

[Sand Dust Absolute Wall]!

(Or maybe call it Absolute Dust Sand Wall?)

The heavy magnetic field layers inside the wall interfered, constantly magnetizing and dissipating the lightning energy that penetrated it.

Dense lightning strikes slammed into the sand wall, only blasting out dense shallow pits, and couldn't hurt anyone behind the wall at all.

The four guards held their shields and formed a formation, huddled behind the sand wall, just barely managing to stay safe.

One of the Tier 4 Amplifiers took a half-step too far, his shield torn apart by a stray lightning bolt that leaked through a gap, and he went stiff and fell backward.

Young Master Gu Lingfeng didn't even turn his head; he gripped the air with his left hand, and the iron sand by his feet condensed into a large hand, scooping the man up and throwing him back into the safe zone.

"Idiot."

He cursed with his mouth, but his hand sent a wisp of sand particles to channel Source Energy to help stabilize the man's Meridians.

The crisis was temporarily averted.

Whether it was the Shadow Academy or the Hunter Association, they had used all their might to barely keep themselves safe under the [Thunder Prison Sky Curtain].

Everyone's gaze, without exception, turned toward the area where the lightning was most intense.

Upon looking, everyone felt terrible.

That kid, that kid... was still standing there.

The lightning net covered the sky and earth, shrouding his entire body, yet he hadn't moved a single bit.

He just stood there, lonely and isolated, letting the lightning net pour over him from head to toe.

"He's not defending?"

Young Master Gu Lingfeng's mouth twitched.

"How does he dare to?"

"Could his flesh be insulated?"

But insulation is useless.

Lightning is something that can pierce through insulators, let alone the innate lightning energy of a Peak Tier 6 beast.

...

"Moo...!!"

An even angrier, more brutal bull roar echoed across the Gobi desert.

The Thunder Horn Rhino saw that its area-of-effect ultimate move hadn't managed to insta-kill these insects, and it was even angrier.

Its obsidian-like lightning armor burned bright in an instant, and the dried-up earth veins for several kilometers around, and even the dark purple ionized clouds drifting in the sky, were forcibly drained by its roar!

The two-meter-long lightning horn on the tip of its nose turned into a super battery, frantically extracting all lightning elements in the vicinity.

The terrifying electromagnetic field caused all the gravel within a hundred meters to lose gravity and float in mid-air.

Rumble...!!

On the single horn, the pale blue charge was compressed to its physical limit.

The next moment, it turned into a giant lightning pillar with a diameter of over ten meters reaching the sky!

[Sky-Breaking Thunder Pillar]!

The Thunder Horn Rhino's innate killer move, its strongest strike!

A destructive force capable of shattering Tier 7 defensive armor head-on.

Carrying blinding light and high heat, it smashed down toward everyone on the battlefield.

Behind the sand wall, Young Master Gu Lingfeng gritted his teeth and once again urged the Dark Gold Sand particles to reinforce the wall.

Inside the shadow curtain, Instructor Shen Yuee's face was pale, knowing that if she took this blow head-on, the Shadow Domain would definitely shatter.

And at the edge of everyone's peripheral vision.

The boy who had no Source Energy at all, who should have been the first to be blasted into dust, actually slowly raised his head the moment the lightning pillar pressed down.

He grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.

"Oh my, are the border benefits this good?! There's even a light pillar for a bath?!"

The next second, the blindingly white lightning crashed down, completely engulfing the boy's figure...