208: Chapter 207 The Seven-Colored Void Rift! Supreme Power Descends, Lin Feng Decides to Investigate.

After leaving the office building, Lin Feng no longer flew along the main roads, instead entrusting their direction to Xiao Jin's antennae.

They spent most of the day weaving through ruins.

Xiao Jin's perception of treasure auras was intermittent in this city saturated with void energy, but every time it relocked onto a direction, it led them to Materials buried deep within collapsed buildings—several high-purity void crystals, a small pouch of well-sealed dark purple powder, and a small meteorite fragment embedded in a broken wall. It wasn't as large as the one found in the secret room earlier, but its surface also seeped with a faint red mist.

They encountered many Void Creatures along the way.

Most were the Stone Scorpions and Single-Horned Dogs they had seen before, with the occasional Void Shadow Leopard pouncing from the shadows of collapsed skyscrapers.

Shadow Leopards were much faster than Single-Horned Dogs, practicing Dual Cultivation of the dark and wind attributes. Their claw strikes carried a laceration effect, but their defense was relatively low.

Lin Feng had faced one head-on with his dragon slaying sword; the feedback when the blade struck its shoulder blade was distinct—this creature's skeletal structure was somewhat similar to the bone spikes of Iron Bone Clan warriors, but much less dense, snapping with a single strike.

Afterward, he switched to using light bullets for long-range kills, keeping combat consumption to a minimum.

Xiao Guang didn't activate his mecha, instead lying on Lin Feng's shoulder the whole time while forming defensive formation Seals. He occasionally used small trapping formations to restrict the Shadow Leopards' movement, making it easier for Lin Feng to aim for their eyes and throats.

But what concerned Lin Feng was that from the office building to the edge of the city district, he hadn't encountered any more Fusion monsters.

Those artificial weapons, assembled from the organs of different races, seemed to only occupy the vicinity of the office building and the ring-shaped building.

He recalled the experimental log he'd seen on Xiao Guang's tablet: stitched entities had a limited range of activity, most relying on some external energy supply to maintain long-term stability.

The office building lab had an independent energy shielding device, and deep within the ring-shaped building lay a void energy core. While the void energy concentration on the city's outskirts was high, it wasn't "refined" enough—like the difference between regular gasoline and aviation fuel.

In other words, those Fusion monsters didn't choose to stay near the office building and the ring-shaped building; they were locked in by the energy supply radius.

This deduction allowed him to breathe a slight sigh of relief.

At least until he got close to the ring-shaped building, he didn't have to worry about bumping into those giant Fusion monsters again.

But looking at it from another angle—a laboratory capable of creating such monsters had an energy supply radius covering at least half the city district.

That meant the energy source deep within the ring-shaped building was much larger than he had previously estimated.

They traveled intermittently for another half day.

Xiao Jin's antennae would occasionally stand straight, pointing deep into the ruins, and each time they would find hidden Spirit Stone fragments or void crystals.

Lin Feng collected these Materials one by one into his void mithril ring, planning to fuse them all once they found a safe camp.

Midway, Xiao Guang pulled out his tablet again. Sitting on Lin Feng's shoulder and swinging his legs, he continued to flip through the data taken from the lab, trying to dig out more clues about "Tang" or "Eris" from the dense tables.

"Lin Feng."

Xiao Guang suddenly spoke, his tone somewhat uncertain.

"I've found a problem with the timeline of this experimental data. The main experimental direction written in the log was stitching together organs and tissues from different races. It mentions the Iron Bone Clan, beasts, and Void Stone Scorpions as standard Materials, but not a single table records 'humanoid Fusion entities.' The two Fusion monsters we fought—the small humanoid at the TV tower and the giant one at the office building entrance—both had human forms, besides the Iron Bone Clan arm-blades and Taotie tail-hooks. Yet this experimental log doesn't mention 'human form' or 'humanoid test subjects' from start to finish. It doesn't make sense."

Lin Feng stopped in mid-air, his Wind Wings hovering at the edge of a half-collapsed commercial building's roof.

"Are you saying those Fusion monsters weren't created by this batch of experiments?"

Xiao Guang sat cross-legged, holding up the tablet to show him a screenshot on the screen.

It was a page of control group data from the log. The table listed the sources and implantation times of all tested organs, with a tiny note in the bottom right corner: 'Humanoid test subjects have been transferred to the Ring Zone; all subsequent related records will no longer be included in file ED-003.'

He pointed at that line and said, "The whole project didn't stop; the humanoid experiments were just moved separately. Transferred inside the ring-shaped building. Those two Fusion monsters we dealt with earlier might have been created internally by the Ring Zone. In other words—the lab in the office building was just an outpost, and the ring-shaped building is the true research center."

Lin Feng noted this crucial piece of information.

Just as he was about to continue his journey, Xiao Jin suddenly stood up from his right shoulder, both antennae turning simultaneously toward a low hill not far ahead.

It wasn't the "treasure nearby" detection response from before, but a much stronger warning signal—its antennae stood high, the purple light patterns flashing violently, and a very low tremolo sound came from its throat.

Lin Feng immediately retracted his Wind Wings and landed on the rooftop of a mall that was nothing but a skeleton, crouching down to expand his perception to its limit.

Then he saw that fissure.

It wasn't behind the hill, but further away on the horizon—a massive void fissure that could not be ignored, spanning across the sky.

It extended from a crack in the ground all the way above the clouds, shaped like a wound hacked open by a giant's axe. Its edges had no regular halo, instead constantly churning with seven-colored light—red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple—like a shredded rainbow stuck at the edge of the Void Realm.

The seven-colored light shone from within the crack, illuminating half of the greyish sky.

All surrounding void energy was pushed away, forming a vacuum zone much denser than the one around the office building, with a radius of at least several kilometers.

Around the fissure, the low-level Void Creatures that were originally everywhere had all disappeared. They hadn't just run away; they simply didn't dare to approach.

Lin Feng stood at the edge of the mall's rooftop, staring at that fissure for a long time.

In all the days since he entered the Void Corridor, every bit of void energy he had seen was dark purple or grey-white—destructive, cold, and possessing a corrosiveness that rejected all spiritual power.

But the seven-colored light in the fissure before him was completely different. It didn't emit any corrosive void energy; instead, it seemed like an existence completely opposite to void energy—warm, vast, and full of vitality.

He had seen that color of light before, on the seven-colored Divine Stones of the Taigu Dojo, and at the edges of the golden light emitted by the tower soul.

That was definitely no ordinary void fissure.

It didn't look like an unstable spatial crack torn open by void energy, and even less like those dark purple pulses on the tails of the Void Stone Scorpions he'd encountered.

Ordinary void fissures would constantly diffuse void energy outward after being torn open, but this fissure not only didn't diffuse energy, it had cleanly purged the void energy within several thousand meters of it.

It wasn't an energy vacuum, but a "Law-level expulsion"—a higher level of power that did not allow void energy to exist within its radiation range.

"Seven-colored light... void energy being purged..."

Xiao Guang stood up from his shoulder, his eyes fixed on the fissure.

"Lin Feng, I'm not unfamiliar with this power—back at the Taigu Dojo, when that person sealed the Taotie, they used a Restriction of a similar color. But that was an ancient Restriction of the Taigu Dojo, not the kind in this fissure. This is even more ancient than the Taixu Restriction."

Lin Feng quickly ran through all the clues in his mind from the time he entered the Dungeon until now.

This city had been dragged into the Void Interlayer by a spatial rift torn open by the stitched monster codenamed "Eris." The lab was piled with organs and tissues from various races, and deep within the ring-shaped building likely lay the core of the entire stitching experiment—and now, deep within this city swallowed by the Void Realm, a fissure emitting seven-colored light had appeared, which even void energy dared not approach.

If the ring-shaped building represented the core where the city was most deeply eroded by the Void Realm, then what did this fissure represent?

Some kind of power that was swallowed by the Void Realm but was still resisting?

He retracted his Wind Wings into his body, sat cross-legged at the edge of the rooftop, and took out paper and a pen to organize his thoughts.

The log found in the lab repeatedly mentioned a "core energy source" inside the ring-shaped building, and all the stitching experiments were ultimately aimed at creating a vessel that could withstand that energy.

If the parts of those Fusion monsters—the Iron Bone Clan arm-blades, the Taotie tail-hooks, the Void Stone Scorpion carapaces—were all prototypes of some kind of "vessel," then could the thing hidden in this seven-colored fissure be the very energy they were trying to withstand?

Or more precisely—was it a door they were trying to open using the Fusion monsters?

This fissure wasn't torn open by the Void Realm, but opened in reverse by them—a fissure opened from deep within the Void Realm outward.

He remembered his parents' diary, the second half of which recorded in detail the patterns of spatial structure changes in the middle section of the Void Corridor.

One page was specifically marked, saying they had observed a never-before-seen energy fluctuation source whose form and frequency did not match any known void energy.

The date on that page was shortly before they sent their last mission report to the Explorer Association six years ago.

Lin Feng put away the paper and pen, stood up, and redeployed his Wind Wings.

He looked down and told Xiao Jin to continue toward the ring-shaped building, flying along its outer side first.

Xiao Jin turned its antennae toward the fissure, its purple light patterns flashing violently again before it reluctantly turned its antennae back.

It could sense something in the fissure calling to it—more accurately, calling not just to it alone, but to everything carrying the Void Holy Beetle Bloodline.

Lin Feng adjusted his direction, spreading his wings and flying toward the outskirts of the ring-shaped building.

Xiao Guang sat cross-legged on his shoulder with arms crossed, thinking for a long time before speaking, saying that if there really was something extraordinary here, they should go take a look.

He scooped Xiao Jin from Lin Feng's shoulder and placed it on the mecha's knee, letting the still-shaking little beetle steady itself. He patted its carapace, saying that if anything really jumped out, he'd lead with the mecha and take a few hits first to buy time for Xiao Jin to spray Soul-Confusing Incense.

Xiao Jin raised its antennae, the purple light patterns flashing gently twice, then buried its head in the pocket of Xiao Guang's combat suit, leaving only a pair of constantly twitching antenna tips exposed.