30: Chapter 32 Obeying the People's Wishes! Purifying the World's Fire!

The ancient sword burst with brilliant light.

E—ter—nal! Sup—press! Chang'an!

Several ancient seal script characters on the sword body transformed into crimson text.

Amidst the terrifying heatwave,

one could seemingly see the phantom projection of a king standing tall.

"Eternal suppression of Chang'an..."

"Eternal suppression of Chang'an..."

Yanta District had already transformed into a kingdom of fire.

The sprites leaping within the flames all swayed excitedly, transforming into armored fire soldiers to kowtow to the emperor.

Spanning a millennium of time,

staunch loyalty still had not faded.

Clang——

As the emperor's phantom projection gently pointed,

the armored soldiers intertwined from flames all bowed their heads.

They converged and compressed,

turning into a deafening wave of air.

Just at this moment, the ancient sword in Li Li's hand also flew out on its own accord.

Soaring into the sky with endless flames.

Boom——

A long rainbow piercing the sun!

A fire dragon soared into the heavens, crashing into the gap in mid-air.

Countless flames also swept in.

The entire Yanta District.

Whether in the sky or underground, everything transformed into an ocean of fire, the scorching high temperature making it impossible for people to look directly at it.

Even braving the boiling high temperature, one could only faintly see countless crimson fire lines spreading and intertwining toward the crack in mid-air.

The terrifying heatwave lasted for a full half-day.

The lips of the people all around were chapped and blistered.

Just when their anxious hearts were about to reach their breaking point,

the lingering flames finally gradually receded.

The ancient sword fell, the flames dispersed, and the entire Yanta District turned into fire-colored colored glaze.

On the ground below, a deep pit spanning over a hundred square kilometers even appeared.

Inside the deep pit, it was entirely filled with boiling magma.

Even though all the flames had receded, the temperature in the permanent fire pit still approached a thousand degrees Celsius, making it impossible for anyone to approach.

However, none of this was what the onlookers cared about.

Or rather, it was not the point they cared about the most!

What they cared about the most was still the crack in the sky.

The ghastly gap was deeply branded upon the sky.

This ugly scar was now intertwined with countless flames, covered with a large amount of complex patterns, and then the flames faded and disappeared.

It seemed as if nothing had changed.

But on the other side of the mirage,

right in front of the Spacetime Worm, the wormhole that it had wriggled open suddenly spewed out a massive amount of flames, intertwining and crisscrossing. As mysterious patterns rose, the echo of 'Eternal suppression of Chang'an' resounded.

Pop~

The sound of a bubble shattering rang out.

The wormhole seal vanished, instantly ceasing to exist.

The worm, having lost its wriggling target, looked somewhat dazed, as if it hadn't reacted yet.

Such a big hole.

How did it suddenly disappear?!

——

That's right!

Su Xiu's goal was to seal the wormhole and the crack!

World invasion, spacetime fusion!

This caused Blue Star and this unknown dimension to form an overlapping area. Possessing the power of spacetime, the Spacetime Worm sensed the fluctuations, discovered the anomaly at the first moment, and rushed over rapidly.

It attempted to forcefully chisel through the wormhole via this overlapping area and drill into the dimension where Blue Star was located.

This was the root cause of this natural disaster!

Wanting to take action and deal with a divine entity—even with Su Xiu's past-life experience coupled with the might of his cheat—was very difficult to achieve. The price was simply too huge, so huge that he was unwilling to accept it.

Therefore, prescribing the right medicine for the illness was the best method!

The contact point of the Spacetime Worm was the overlapping area. If he sealed this directly, blocked this door tightly, and made it unable to find a place of contact, wouldn't that solve the problem from the source?

This kind of method, simple to the point of being straightforward,

of course had no effect on most divinities with a not-low IQ.

However, the Spacetime Worm clearly did not belong to the majority.

Its true form was a ferocious, low-intelligence, and nearly brainless race. Even after undergoing layer-upon-layer of leaps to reach divinity, its intelligence still hadn't improved much, making it easily hoodwinked.

However, the worm possessing the power of spacetime would sooner or later find the clues following the fluctuations, and then rely on its own teeth to bite out a wormhole traversing dimensions from a distant distance.

But that was a story for another day.

Judging by his current growth rate,

perhaps by the time this divinity truly descended, supreme divinities could already appear within the sequences he wrote.

——

"Is... is it over?"

"It seems so?"

"..."

Looking at the world around them that had returned to peace.

The mirage dissipated.

The kingdom of fire faded.

Although the high-temperature fire pit was still boiling, at least there was no longer any threat to life.

Everyone felt the relief of having survived a catastrophe.

However, before they could heave a sigh of relief,

a massive number of black dots abruptly rushed out from the boiling fire pit. Although ninety-nine percent of them were burned away by the high-temperature magma, the remaining one percent still transformed into flying insects after breaking out of their cocoons to launch attacks.

Fluttering sporadically in mid-air, they seemed not worth mentioning.

But after they truly displayed their might,

it made the others involuntarily gasp in cold air.

The flying insects seemed few, but they possessed terrifying teeth, as if they had inherited the appetite of the Spacetime Worm, capable of effortlessly chewing through even steel.

The flying insects landed, the flying insects departed, and in less than the blink of an eye, a tall building was turned into a hollow skeleton.

It was just like a swarm of locusts passing through!

If reinforced concrete was like this, let alone ordinary people made of flesh and blood.

"Open fire——"

The military forces waiting in strict array on the ground were the first to notice the abnormality.

The heavily armored combined brigade took action.

A massive amount of artillery fire thundered in unison, but to no avail. The number of flying insects was too scattered, and they possessed extremely high immunity to physical damage, causing the damage dealt to them by the artillery fire to be very weak.

After seven or eight combined brigades bombarded them for several rounds, the effect was not particularly good.

Moreover, as the flying insects chewed and consumed sufficient resources, their abdomens bulged high, as if they were beginning to gestate insect eggs.

This natural disaster where one wave had not settled before another rose

left the masses terrified, their repeatedly battered nerves on the verge of complete collapse.

——

"Iron-Eating Locusts?"

Su Xiu raised an eyebrow, not unfamiliar with this.

Compared to the panic of others,

he, who had witnessed even more tragic situations, remained as calm as ever.

In his previous life,

the vanguard force encountered by Xijing was precisely this!

Isolated by the lava fire pit, the number that rushed over had already plummeted by ninety-nine percent.

Furthermore, the Spacetime Worm had forcefully relied on wriggling to drill into this overlapping spacetime.

Although it didn't descend in its entirety,

one percent of its length still landed in the dimension where Blue Star was located. Its three ring diameters corresponded to three worlds, sweeping out dozens of monster races that caused Xijing to fall and directly plunging it into a wasteland era.

This time... only the Iron-Eating Locusts appeared.

This was already a blessing in misfortune!

Moreover, he was not completely unprepared for this kind of situation!

The document in his hand emitted a faint fluorescent glow.

Azure ice crystals coordinated with writhing flesh.

Aside from 002 arraying itself with countless split bodies in the name of the Association,

even 004 Crystal Disaster was poised and ready, able to activate its infection traits at a moment's notice to shatter these locusts into ice crystals. The only drawback was that when the ice crystals shattered, it was easy to catch innocent bystanders in the crossfire.

But compared to the spread of the insect disaster, this was already the best method.

However, before Su Xiu could give the order to act,

out of the corner of his eye,

he suddenly caught sight of a mighty blaze soaring into the sky.

"Huh?"

Su Xiu's gaze narrowed slightly.

His calm face carried a hint of surprise.

This fire?

Something was a bit wrong!

He didn't seem to have programmed this function for the ancient sword, did he?