221: Chapter 221 A multinational technical team provides on-site maintenance!

The shattered dark gold chains were still falling.

Fragments of Law light grazed the rock walls, leaving behind dense clusters of tiny holes.

Black Karmic Fire rolled into the crevices of the rubble, causing the stone debris to sizzle, with a charred smell rising along with the heat waves.

Su Ming hovered in the center of the aftermath, flexing his wrists.

The casual wear mimicked by sinking star clung to his body, not even the cuffs torn.

He raised his head, looked at the black-robed old man holding a bone staff in mid-air, and grinned.

"Is the bondage program over?"

"What's next, a foot massage or cupping therapy?"

Samuel's face was livid; how could he possibly respond?

His five fingers gripping the bone staff tightened bit by bit, and the dark Death Qi at the tip of the staff churned, repeatedly scattering the surrounding, unextinguished fragments of Law light.

Su Ming took advantage of this gap to open the System panel.

[Host: Su Ming]

[Life Form: Third Life Form · Star Core Embryo]

[True Mass: 1355 tons (+)]

[mass points: 2026070]

[Evolution Progress: 13.5%]

[Equipment: sinking star]

[Grade: Planetary Level (Damaged Basic State)]

[Current Repair Level: 24.12%]

Two million and twenty thousand mass points.

Su Ming stared at that string of numbers, his tongue pressing against his back molars.

In just a few short seconds, the God-Punishment Chains contributed nearly two hundred thousand mass points, along with six percentage points of repair.

When he entered the canyon, the repair level of [sinking star] had just barely exceeded four percent.

After being serviced in turns by the spider swarm, the mountain demon, and Tiger Fiend, it had now reached twenty-four percent.

Is this really about capturing someone?

This is a multinational technical team providing on-site maintenance.

The gains from this trip to Black Spider Canyon really far exceeded expectations!

Who said all Source Beasts are monsters?

Rumors. Pure rumors.

Little critters are so cute!

They can spin silk, produce poison, and even be exchanged for mass points after they die.

When alive, they are responsible for repairing equipment, and after they lie down, they continue to contribute their remaining value.

Working without complaint, what diligent employees!

Later, he could discuss with Ye Canglan about finding a larger spider nest.

He could move in himself—room and board included, a daily salary of one million mass points, and no need to pay rent or property management fees!

Can a villa in an A-grade city offer such treatment?

Su Ming glanced at the 24.12% behind [sinking star] again.

Setting it at ten percent before was still too conservative.

As a capitalist, how could he have a conscience!

Today, he had to push sinking star to fifty percent.

Workplace bullying and PUA manipulation must be carried through to the end.

Even one percentage point less would be disrespectful to this group of foreign technicians.

In mid-air, Samuel did not immediately make a move.

The dark Death Qi at the tip of his bone staff churned ceaselessly.

He stared at Su Ming, his pupils beneath the hood contracting violently.

In his thirty-seven years in the profession, he had judged over a thousand heretics!

[God-Punishment Chains] was his signature technique!

It was not as simple as an ordinary energy beam, but an embodiment of Abyss Laws, mixed with three types of power: Space Sealing, Holy Radiance Erosion, and Abyss Judgment.

Once locked, the Physical Body, Source Energy, and consciousness would all be suppressed together.

Below the eighth rank, he had never failed.

Let alone crushing them with bare hands?!

Child of Star Remains?

This was the forbidden title that had appeared most frequently within the Church over the past two months.

His strength was actually this unexpected!

Samuel had originally felt that the General Church placed too much importance on a test subject that had just completed a life transition.

Now it seemed that what those old fogies knew was far more than he had imagined!

He could not make the mistake of underestimating his enemy again.

He held the bone staff horizontally in front of him, lowering the staff head by half an inch toward Su Ming, and the twelve Abyss Knights originally scattered around the giant pit looked up simultaneously.

"Abyss Knights."

His voice came from beneath his hood. "Six of you, form the array and capture the Star Remains. The rest, purify the heretic."

"Understood!"

Twelve dark gold heavy cross-swords vibrated simultaneously, thick armor plates clashing together.

Dark gold patterns lit up beneath the feet of six knights as they leaped into the air, occupying the six positions above, below, in front, behind, left, and right of Su Ming.

The other six turned their sword blades and descended toward the bottom of the pit.

Su Ming lifted his eyelids slightly.

After this group changed their formation, their movements were not in the slightest bit chaotic.

The fact that he had crushed those chains right in front of them hadn't even made them slow down by a beat.

They were indeed more professional than that gold-medal technician, the mountain demon, who only knew how to throw wild haymakers.

Six heavy cross-swords were held horizontally at the same time, their tips pointing at each other.

Dark gold light bands were drawn out from the spines of the swords, rapidly closing in around Su Ming, and finally assembling into a Six-Point Soul-Locking Array.

A fine, dense cracking sound emanated from the intersections of the array patterns.

A basketball-sized rock to Su Ming's side was just grazed by a light band; its surface did not shatter but was neatly shifted into six layers, the cuts smooth and shiny.

Space folded along with the array patterns.

Immediately after, a force pressed down on his chest and back simultaneously, and the outer layer of sinking star lit up with silver-blue crystal grids, dispersing the pressure along his shoulders and back.

"Six-Point Soul-Locking Array."

Samuel raised his bone staff, the tip pointing at the center of the array diagram.

A shout from Ye Canglan came from the bottom of the pit.

"Su Ming, be careful!"

"The twelve knights' combined array can trap a Peak eighth-rank! Don't let the array patterns close completely!"

Unfortunately, it was too late!

Hum—

The Six-Point Soul-Locking Array contracted inward.

The air around Su Ming was instantly squeezed out, and six layers of intersecting spatial cutting planes rotated at high speed against sinking star.

White light poured in from inside the array patterns.

The temperature soared, and even the air beneath his soles was burned into distorted ripples.

In less than half a second, Su Ming was completely enveloped by the white light.

From the outside, all that remained was a white furnace suspended above the giant pit.

The light pressed against the rock walls, and even the shadows originally cast were squeezed into a few thin lines.

In the very center of the array eye, Su Ming had his hands in his trouser pockets.

The silver-blue crystal grids beneath his armor lit up layer by layer, climbing from his chest up to his neck, finally sealing his forehead and eyelids, leaving only two transparent membranes in front of his pupils.

[Kinetic Siphon] activated at full power.

The System notification sounds rang out in a chorus immediately.

[Detected high-dimensional spatial cutting waveband... mass points +32000!]

[Detected high-dimensional spatial cutting waveband... mass points +31000!]

[Detected continuous Holy Radiance Law erosion... mass points +28000!]

[Detected physical pressure wave superposition... sinking star repair level +0.43%!]

...

The array patterns had only rotated once, and his mass points had already increased by over ninety thousand!

Today is another day of eating well!

Su Ming narrowed his eyes, swaying his shoulders slightly in the direction of the spatial pressure, a dense tingling sensation spreading across his back.

Six people forming an array, spatial cutting, high-temperature baking, and even full-body pressure included.

Truly professional.

They were more than a notch better than that mountain demon who only knew how to throw wild haymakers.

Breaking the array now would be too much of a loss.

Su Ming did not rush to act, letting the six layers of spatial cutting planes repeatedly rub against sinking star.

In any case, this level of force wouldn't kill him.

Squeeze them for another round first.

The six outside hadn't officially started working yet; if he made too much of a scene here, it would be easy to scare them off.

While enjoying the "full-body therapy" of the high-dimensional Laws, he quietly extended the perception range of [Gravity Anchoring] downward.

Invisible gravitational tentacles pierced through the white light barrier, shrouding the entire battlefield within a hundred-meter radius below.

The vibrations of footsteps hitting the ground, the airflow from the heavy swords slashing, and the positions where rubble was cracked underfoot all fell into his perception via gravitational feedback.

Six Abyss Knights.

Night Crow, Ye Canglan, Ye Xiao, and Young Master Gu Lingfeng.

And the mountain demon and Tiger Fiend huddled on the other side of the ruins.

Not a single position was missing.

Once someone dared to make a lethal move, he would give them a forced pause.

Everything was under control!