217: Chapter 217 Gravitational Anchoring! The Ultimate in Violent Aesthetics!

Ye Xiao's shout was full of vigor, overflowing with an infinite attachment to life and a deep trust in Su Ming.

The echo reverberated through the sinkhole, sounding exceptionally desolate.

"Brother Ming! Help me, ahhh!!!..."

A touch of human-like mockery flickered across Tiger Fiend's perfectly streamlined silver face.

"Brother Ming?!"

"Help?!"

"Who can save you here?"

"That Body Cultivator kid who is pinned down by Big Brother Mandrill?"

"He can't even save himself!"

Killing intent flared in his ice-blue beastly pupils, and his lightning-fast tiger claws tore through the vacuum, the tips of the claws less than three inches from Ye Xiao's throat.

Ye Xiao could even smell the thick stench of blood on the claws and the icy breath of death.

He closed his eyes in despair.

"My life is over!"

"Pity that my primordial yang has not yet been discharged, and I am still a virgin!"

However, the anticipated agonizing pain of his windpipe being pierced did not come.

One second.

Two seconds.

Ye Xiao trembling opened a slit of his eyes.

He saw that ferocious tiger claw, which was powerful enough to shatter stone tablets, hovering a mere inch from his neck in an extremely bizarre posture.

Unable to advance even a fraction of an inch further.

Looking exactly like a silver specimen cast in an instant.

"Huh?"

Ye Xiao was stunned.

In the distance, Young Master Gu Lingfeng and Night Crow were also stunned.

Even Ye Canglan, who had just been preparing to fight to the death, had his vertical pupils filled with sheer disbelief.

What happened?

How did this Tiger King, whose speed was so fast that not even an afterimage could be seen, suddenly freeze?

The horror in Tiger Fiend's heart was ten thousand times more intense than anyone else present!

He wasn't frozen.

He was firmly imprisoned in place by an invisible yet overwhelmingly heavy and irresistible terrifying force!

This force did not act on the surface of his body, but directly penetrated his Beast Emperor-level protective Source Energy, precisely locking down every bone and every muscle fiber in his body...

Even his surging blood was condensed into blocks of lead.

He was no longer a Tier 7 Beast King.

But a fly frozen in amber.

No matter how frantically he stimulated the Beast King Origin within his body or mobilized his space-tearing speed, his body could not move even a fraction of an inch!

Fear!

An unprecedented fear flooded his sanity.

What the hell is this ability?!

A Domain?

It doesn't seem like it!

His eyes rolled frantically, looking at the shivering high school student in front of him, as well as the approaching Spider King, spiderlings, and that chuunibyou youth who played with sand.

Which of these people was worthy of using a Domain?!

Furthermore, a Domain has surges of Source Energy.

But right now, not even a ripple of Source Energy could be felt in the surrounding air!

Mental control?

Even more impossible!

His Beast Emperor's will had been tempered by the secret techniques of the Tongyuan Society, making him immune to most mental control!

Then what on earth was it?!

Just as Tiger Fiend's thoughts ground to a halt, a lazy, somewhat dissatisfied complaint drifted over from the center of the roaring, smoke-filled battlefield dozens of meters away.

"What are you screaming for? Can't you see I'm enjoying a head massage here?"

"I just started getting into it, and your shout completely ruined the mood!"

Tiger Fiend's pupils contracted sharply.

It was that kid!

The Silver Blood Body Cultivator who was being frantically pummeled by Big Brother Mandrill in his twelve-meter complete form!

He was still alive?!

!!!

...

The battlefield on the other side.

The twelve-meter Vajra Giant Ape—Mandrill—was going a bit mad!

The agonizing pain of the recoil cracked his bones and turned his fists into a bloody mess, but he disregarded it all, unleashing a frenzied barrage of attacks in an attempt to completely crush the prey at the bottom of the pit.

Yet at this moment, his movements abruptly froze.

It wasn't that he wanted to stop.

But because of a hand.

A hand belonging to a human, not particularly large, reached out from the billowing dust, its five fingers precisely clamping onto the giant ape's wrist, which was thicker than the front of a car.

Effortlessly.

Handling a heavy weight as if it were light.

The continuous booming sounds came to a grinding halt.

The entire world suddenly fell into a terrifying silence.

The twelve-meter-tall Bu-style Vajra Ape lowered its head, looking through the gradually dispersing dust at the unharmed youth below.

For the first time, confusion surfaced in his orange-gold beastly eyes.

He tried to pull back his arm, but that giant arm, which was powerful enough to shake mountains, seemed welded in place, completely motionless.

Su Ming gripped his fist, used his other hand to scratch his ear which was slightly itchy from the vibrations, and then raised his head to grin at him.

"Your brother is no good. He has absolutely no professionalism. Don't you know that disrupting the customer experience warrants a bad review?"

After saying that, he didn't even bother to look at Mandrill again. His gaze crossed a distance of a hundred meters, looking directly at Tiger Fiend, who was imprisoned in mid-air.

"And you!"

Su Ming's tone became somewhat impatient.

"Fighting a Tier 4 underling and you're still putting on a cosplay show? Aren't you embarrassed?"

"Are you a sore loser or what?!"

Tiger Fiend's scalp went numb.

This kid...

Locked him down from nearly a hundred meters away?

He couldn't understand it!

Did his boss's dozen or so punches hit thin air?

Why was this kid still standing?

And still able to talk and infuriate people?

And still having the fucking time to mind others' business?!

"Damn it... move for me!!!"

Tiger Fiend roared frantically in his mind, desperately stimulating the boiling Tier 8 Beast Emperor Bloodline within his body.

It was completely useless.

In the face of this gravitational field as heavy as Mount Tai, his proud speed couldn't even make a single whisker twitch.

Before he could figure out the situation, an even more brutal and unreasonable pulling force swept through his entire body!

"Since you love playing around so much, get the hell over here and work overtime together!"

Su Ming's voice wasn't loud, but it spread clearly throughout the entire sinkhole.

Su Ming slowly raised his right hand in Tiger Fiend's direction.

His five fingers spread open.

And then... suddenly clenched!

[Gravity Anchoring], activate!

"Buzz—!"

An invisible and terrifying colossal force instantly acted upon Tiger Fiend's five-meter-long silver tiger body.

"Roar...!"

Tiger Fiend let out a roar of extreme terror.

His body was uncontrollably "yanked" from its spot by this force, turning into a silver stream of light!

Swoosh—!!!

Ye Xiao only felt a flash of silver light before his eyes.

The Instant Prison Shadowless Tiger, which had just had its claws against his neck, flew backward completely defenseless, like a cat sucked in by a giant industrial vacuum cleaner!

The entire process took less than 0.1 seconds!

...

In the center of the sinkhole.

Mandrill was being clamped by the wrist with one hand by Su Ming, struggling desperately but unable to break free.

His orange-gold beastly eyes were filled with humiliation and fury, and he was about to raise his other giant fist to strike down with all his might...

Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of a silver shadow flying toward him, accompanied by a piercing sonic boom.

His beastly pupils contracted sharply.

Before he could see what it was, it slammed heavily into his chest.

"Boom!!!"

The muffled explosion shook the sky.

Even as strong as Mandrill, his massive body weighing hundreds of tons was sent stumbling backward by this terrifying kinetic energy, each step collapsing the rock layers into deep pits.

Tiger Fiend, who was used as a cannonball, had an even worse fate.

He had been flung by Su Ming at supersonic speed, and Mandrill's chest was covered in thick, keratinous armor plates, making his defense equally astonishing!

This collision was literally flesh slamming into an iron wall.

Dense cracking sounds echoed from his sternum, and a mouthful of deep-blue beast blood was instantly spat out.

The two Beast Kings tangled and rolled into a heap, crashing into the rock wall at the edge of the sinkhole, kicking up sky-high debris and dust.

The entire sinkhole fell into a collective stupor.

Ye Xiao froze in place, maintaining his posture of shrinking his neck and covering his crotch.

Young Master Gu Lingfeng's Extreme Emperor Sand Nails dropped to the ground, and he was completely unaware of it.

Night Crow's gaze was blank, the [Dawnbreaker] dagger in his hand drooping slightly.

For the first time, a strong wave of doubt arose in his heart regarding the Way of the Assassin that he had believed in for over a decade.

Those who walked in the shadows spent their entire lives polishing the skill of a single-strike kill, treating the throat-sealing executions hidden in the darkness as an art on the edge of a blade.

But this scene before his eyes...

Swinging a Tier 8 giant beast weighing hundreds of tons around like a meteor hammer...

To hell with precision!

To hell with being silent!

Compared to the boss's pure aesthetics of violence, he was basically embroidering with a sewing needle, alright?!

This is what the fuck the boss calls the art of combat!

This is the true aesthetics of violence!

And among everyone present, the one who had the most intense reaction was Ye Canglan.

It wasn't shock.

But... trembling in fear!

They had expected Su Ming to be strong, but they had never expected him to be this strong!

From over a hundred meters away, with a mere raise of his hand, he locked down a speed-type Beast King weighing dozens of tons, and then pulled him out like a shot put to smash him into another strength-type Beast King?

Is this something a human can do?

Those dark purple vertical pupils had already contracted into the size of two pinpricks.

He had been a federal Advanced military officer for fifteen years, and had fought alone in the deepest depths of the Source Abyss for another five years.

No one present understood the essence of power better than him.

He could clearly sense that what had imprisoned Tiger Fiend and dragged him to be thrown was not any known Source Energy talent!

There was no mental interference.

There were no Source Energy fluctuations!

It was more like a more primal, more overbearing... sort of underlying Law of the Universe?!

"Boom!"

The few remaining spider legs of Ye Canglan began to tremble uncontrollably.

At the same time, deep fear also welled up in his eyes.

Because... he had seen this power before!

After completely mutating into the Spider King, relying on a high-tier Source Beast's absolute affinity with the Source Abyss space, he had once risked entering the deepest part of a Source Abyss rift.

There, he did not see any naturally formed spatial disasters.

He saw some kind of... higher-dimensional existence.

Even if he could only touch the tip of the iceberg, that icy reality was enough to drag him into the abyss of despair.

Even to this day, he instinctively shuddered at the mere recollection of it.

But now—

Ye Canglan abruptly raised his head, his dark purple vertical pupils locked onto the youth in the center of the sinkhole.

That brutal absolute dominance that had just seized the trajectory of all things and held the power over life and death.

Was exactly the same as the indescribable, vast, and mighty power in the deepest part of the Source Abyss.

Were cut from the same cloth!

His Adam's apple bobbed violently.

This youth, who was even more like a Vicious Beast than himself...

Just what level of existence was he?!

...

(Releasing one chapter first. Having found out about the plot of the next chapter only two hours earlier than you awesome readers, I'll start typing the second chapter now...)