182: Surrounded by a tide of beasts, in dire straits

"Boom—!!!"

An indescribable pressure erupted!

The sea surface within a hundred-mile radius was instantly flattened like a mirror!

All the black lightning spears shattered inch by inch!

Lei Mietian's movements became incredibly slow, as if he had sunk into a quagmire.

"This... this is impossible!"

His voice began to tremble. He looked at what was before him in disbelief.

But Su Lei, who should have been at the end of his rope, was now surrounded by an aura that made his Soul tremble.

The power from the dark aura was like child's play in the face of this pressure.

His newly reshaped body was rapidly disintegrating uncontrollably!

"Ve... Venerable Realm?!"

Facing Lei Mietian's roar, a mixture of shock and fury, Su Lei's lips merely twitched slightly.

At this moment, every breath he took consumed the power that Hong Tian Venerable had exchanged by burning his residual Soul.

He could clearly feel that this borrowed Venerable Realm was rapidly slipping away like sand through his fingers, every second escaping from his grasp.

"I must... finish this quickly!"

Su Lei slowly raised his right hand.

"Crack, crack, crack—"

Lei Mietian's newly formed body suddenly emitted a grating, twisting sound.

He looked down in horror, discovering that his limbs were bending at bizarre angles, as if being kneaded arbitrarily by a pair of invisible hands.

The black carapace cracked inch by inch, revealing the writhing flesh beneath.

"No! True God save me..."

The piercing scream abruptly ceased.

Su Lei suddenly clenched his five fingers, and a translucent Soul was forcibly extracted from the body.

The Soul struggled and twisted continuously, finally compressing into a walnut-sized black Soul Pearl, suspended above Su Lei's palm.

The moment he crushed it, Su Lei's vision seemed to penetrate time and space.

He saw a black thread, even finer than a hair, extending all the way to the darkest abyss of the East Sea... "Found it."

Just as he was about to investigate further, his face suddenly turned ashen white.

Hong Tian Venerable's power was finally exhausted, and that mysterious Realm rapidly dissipated like a receding tide.

"Thud!"

Dropping heavily to his knees, Su Lei felt all the strength drained from his body.

The insight from that brief moment was still clearly imprinted in the depths of his consciousness, but exhaustion had already swept over him like a tsunami.

His vision began to blur, and all he could hear was the roaring of blood pounding against his eardrums... He didn't know how much time had passed.

Su Lei's eyelids were as heavy as lead, and after struggling for a long time, he barely managed to open them into a slit.

In his blurry vision, the mottled ceiling swayed continuously, and he heard the sound of breathing rising and falling around him.

"He's awake!"

Lin Qianqian's voice was the first to reach him.

Su Lei wanted to turn his head, but found that he couldn't even manage such a simple movement.

His body felt as if it had been crushed and then reassembled, every muscle trembling, every Meridian throbbing with a burning pain.

A cool hand gently clasped his wrist.

Su Lei knew who it was without looking,

that familiar elegant fragrance, that familiar voice... "Don't move."

Li Xue凝's voice was very soft, yet it carried an undeniable firmness, "Your body's condition is very bad."

Su Lei opened his mouth, his throat too dry to make a sound.

He wanted to question his wife why she had come to such a dangerous place,

but when he met her reddened eyes and saw the unshed tears at their corners, all words became stuck in his throat.

They ultimately transformed into a soft sigh.

"You're finally awake... It's good that you're alright."

Ye Qingyun, not far away, looked at him with concern, "How do you feel now?"

Su Lei moved his lips with difficulty, "Water..."

Li Xue凝 immediately supported the back of his neck and carefully fed him a few sips of water.

From that angle, Su Lei finally got a clear view of his surroundings.

This was an abandoned factory, and outside the broken glass windows, the sky had already darkened.

Eight familiar faces, either sitting or standing, cast worried glances at him.

But Su Lei quickly noticed that Lin Qianqian's right arm was wrapped in a blood-soaked bandage, and Ye Qingyun's face was terrifyingly pale.

Everyone had an undisguised weariness in their brows, and varying degrees of injuries on their bodies.

Su Lei took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "Where is this?"

Li Xue凝 put down the kettle, her voice low: "An abandoned industrial area three hundred kilometers from Dongling Island."

She paused, "Border Commander Liao mobilized all Martial Artists to help clear the way and escort us..."

"We passed through the front line, following the traces of your battle all the way east..."

Her voice was very soft, but Su Lei could hear the suppressed lingering fear within it.

Just as they were about to split up and search, an extremely powerful aura suddenly erupted from somewhere in the sea.

That was the Venerable pressure that Su Lei had unleashed for a brief moment.

Everyone quickly followed the aura, finally finding the unconscious Su Lei at the last moment before Dongling Island was about to sink.

"As soon as we took you away, the Demonic Beasts went berserk."

Lin Qianqian took a deep breath, "Before you woke up, we had already encountered seven waves of attacks... and the intervals were getting shorter and shorter."

"We can only hold out here, waiting for reinforcements to arrive and safely escort us out of here."

"After receiving our distress signal," she said with a bitter smile, "the Federation sent three top-tier combat forces to support us, but they were intercepted by the beast tide on the way... We have to prepare for the worst."

Su Lei nodded gently, knowing how bad the situation was without them having to say it.

The Demonic Beasts' furious counterattack, the blocked reinforcements, and their own small team, injured and crippled... Suddenly, Chen Xuan's warning cry came from outside.

"Get ready, they're coming again!"

In the darkness in the distance, countless roars rose and fell, like a tide moving from far to near.

The ground began to tremble slightly, and the rusted steel frames groaned under the strain.

Everyone instantly tensed, the sound of weapons being drawn echoing all around.

Li Xue凝 gently moved Su Lei towards the corner of the wall and set up a Mental Energy barrier around him.

"Don't worry, I'm here."

After speaking, she turned and rushed with the others to their respective defensive positions.

Su Lei watched their backs as they rushed to the battlefield, clenching his fists.

His consciousness sank into the Sea of Consciousness Small World.

The sky, which once held both sun and moon, now had only a solitary sun hanging high.

Revered Xinghe's aura was clearly much weaker, even that bright sun appeared dim and lifeless.

Su Lei's Divine Sense phantom bowed deeply towards the sky.

Memories of that world kept surfacing in his mind.

When he stepped through the teleportation gate and returned thirty thousand years ago, it was only to obtain the method to Seal the Demonic Beasts.

Going to Xinghui City was only to pass Venerable Tianhe's test.

Although Hong Tian Venerable's physical body had died, the other party's remaining Divine Soul had saved him more than once.

Su Lei understood very well.

With the secret technique of the Star Pivot Art, Hong Tian Venerable could easily perform Possession on ordinary people for Rebirth.

With his Venerable Realm, he could probably recover his strength from his previous life in less than ten years.

However, he chose to... Su Lei's heart was filled with mixed emotions, and he sighed deeply.

"Boom!"

A violent explosion suddenly came from outside.

Su Lei took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the complex emotions in his heart.

Now was not the time for sadness.

Although this trip had resulted in the deaths of the Situ Family and Lei Mietian, the Three Great Families were no longer a threat.

The East Sea Demonic Beasts were currently corrupting the entire sea in its depths, and for a time, they had no leisure to deal with him.

But the crisis was not over, and the Demonic Beast army's counterattack was enough to kill them here!

At such a critical moment, he was lying here like a cripple... "I must recover as soon as possible!"

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