72: Chapter 72 Crushing a "God" with Bare Hands?

Inside the Ghost Fortress.

Shen Wanbing gripped the edge of the desk with both hands.

The concentration ice heart necklace flashed frantically, attempting to resist this mental impact.

"Chen Chen! Retreat, now!" Shen Wanbing shouted into the communicator through gritted teeth, the blood from her nose flowing even more fiercely.

"This isn't a physical entity! Radar shows it's a pure mental aggregate! It's a mid-tier Apostle-level mental projection!"

Chen Chen stood at the edge of the massive crater, looking up at the colossal bone hand that blotted out the sky.

Not only was it immune to physical attacks, but it also carried an area-of-effect mental pollution.

No wonder Qin Hongye's Gauss sniper rifle felt like a mere tickle to it.

The Lord of Flesh really did have some tricks up its sleeve.

Chen Chen curled his lips and opened his personal panel.

For killing the Crimson Hive just now, the system had awarded him 20 free attribute points.

Without hesitation, he willed all 20 points into [Spirit].

[Ding! Host has consumed 20 free attribute points.]

[Spirit: 55 -> 75!]

The moment he broke through the 70-point threshold.

It was as if a supernova had exploded in Chen Chen's mind.

His solidified sea of consciousness surged with monstrous waves, undergoing a qualitative transformation.

That invisible power overflowed, manifesting directly on the surface of his body.

A sharp "crackle" rang out in the air.

Purple static sparks danced wildly around Chen Chen's body, and even the surrounding mud was repelled by this mental power, forming an absolute vacuum circle.

The mental pollution pressed down by the colossal bone hand slammed into this vacuum circle and was forcibly pushed back!

Iron Wall lay on the ground, his eyes wide as he stared at Chen Chen's back.

He saw purple currents intertwining around Chen Chen; that imposing aura resisting the Divine Projection was even more terrifying than a monster.

"Playing with mental power?"

Chen Chen raised his right hand, index and middle fingers together, pointing from afar at the descending colossal bone hand.

"Let me teach you."

A-grade skill: Soul Pierce!

Previously, this move could only release an invisible mental blade.

But with the support of 75 terrifying Spirit points, the skill's form had completely changed.

"Boom!"

A purple soul storm over two meters in diameter erupted from Chen Chen's fingertip.

The storm carried a scream that could tear through anything as it surged upward, striking the palm of the colossal bone hand.

A cracking sound that struck the soul directly.

"Crack!"

A massive, transparent hole was pierced right through the palm of the colossal bone hand by the soul storm!

The Divine Projection let out an indescribable, shrill wail.

The entire giant hand began to disintegrate like shattered glass.

Massive chunks of pale white fragments fell from the sky, and before they even hit the ground, they turned into thumb-sized mental crystals emitting high-purity energy.

On the first floor of the carriage.

Su Xiaoqi, who was gnawing on a monster's leg, suddenly pricked up her ears.

She smelled a fragrance a hundred times more enticing than the core of the broodmother.

"Yummy stuff!"

The little girl threw away the bone in her hand.

Completely ignoring the residual mental pressure around her, she kicked off from the mud and leaped into the air.

SS-grade talent Gluttony Evolution was operating at full power!

Su Xiaoqi opened her mouth and began to devour the mental crystals falling from the sky like a whale sucking in water.

As soon as those high-purity mental crystals entered her stomach, they immediately turned into violent energy.

In Chen Chen's mind, the system notifications scrolled through again.

[Ding! Su Xiaoqi has devoured high-tier Apostle mental crystals, triggering the LV3 effect 'Gluttonous Feast'!]

[Energy feedback successful! Host Spirit +1!]

[Host Spirit +2!]

[Host Spirit +1!]

Chen Chen felt his sea of consciousness expand again, his mental power rising steadily like a rolling snowball.

The colossal bone hand completely panicked.

It realized that the human before it was no ant, but a monster capable of devouring its energy!

Its remaining skeletal fingers suddenly contracted, and the knuckles on the back of the hand glowed with a blinding red light.

It wanted to detonate its core and take the entire underground space down with it!

"Trying to self-destruct?"

Chen Chen snorted coldly, his legs slightly apart, and the mud beneath his feet instantly collapsed.

He pressed his left hand down into the air.

[Absolute Control: Gravity Field]!

Twenty times gravity acted like an invisible hydraulic press, pinning down the top of the colossal bone hand.

The giant hand's descent suddenly accelerated.

Simultaneously, Chen Chen thrust his right hand upward.

Over eighty points of mental power poured out, manifesting in the air as a purple translucent giant hand that caught the bottom of the colossal bone hand.

Double suppression, from above and below.

Chen Chen clenched his fist.

The purple giant hand in the air followed suit and squeezed violently.

"Bang!"

The colossal bone hand's self-destruction process was forcibly cut short.

Under the terrifying dual pressure of physical and mental force, the remaining projection core shattered on the spot, turning into a sky full of purple light motes.

The Divine Projection was crushed by hand!

[Ding! Killed a mid-tier Apostle projection of the Lord of Flesh!]

[Congratulations on obtaining a special item: Fragmented Divinity of the Lord of Flesh (Purple)!]

A diamond-shaped purple crystal fell from the light motes and landed steadily in Chen Chen's palm.

Eerie blood-red patterns flowed on the surface of the crystal, emitting extremely pure energy fluctuations.

Chen Chen casually tossed it into his silver-grade storage ring.

In the distance.

Iron Wall and the remaining dozen or so military soldiers were completely stunned.

Sitting in the waist-deep acidic mud, they even forgot the pain of their burns.

Iron Wall's mouth hung open, his mind a blank.

He had been a soldier for half his life and believed in the supremacy of firepower.

Fifty heavy armored vehicles were his source of confidence.

But today, his confidence had been ground into the dirt by the broodmother.

Yet Chen Chen, who made the broodmother fear and caused the Divine Projection to descend...

Had actually crushed the Divine Projection with his bare hands!

Was he even still human?

What kind of monster from which dimension was this!

Iron Wall swallowed a mouthful of bloody saliva, just about to call out Chen Chen's name.

The underground space suddenly trembled violently.

With both the broodmother and the Apostle fallen, this stomach zone, which relied on high-tier energy for support, had completely lost its stability.

The calcified rock layer dozens of meters thick overhead let out an ear-splitting tearing sound, as massive boulders crashed into the mud.

Acid fountains erupted into the sky, and the entire space began a total collapse.

"Boss! It's going to collapse!" Jiang Yanxue shouted at Chen Chen from the door of the Ghost Fortress.

Chen Chen pushed off the ground, his figure leaving an afterimage in the air.

He scooped up Su Xiaoqi, who was still picking up mental crystals to eat, and leaped directly into the carriage.

"Close the door."

The armored door slammed shut.

"Shen Wanbing, find the weakest rock channel. Qin Hongye, use the Gauss gun to clear a path for me!"