164: Chapter 164 Causal Assassination
The scene cuts back to the Central Star City of Ten Thousand Races. Within the ten-thousand-fold gravity secret realm underground, two terrifying auras suddenly erupted, soaring straight into the clouds!
"Daluo Heaven-Severing—Sever!"
"Starry Calamity Poison—Silence!"
Sword light swirled around Ancient Sword Soul, and he even managed to forcibly carve out a vacuum within that ten-thousand-fold gravity!
Ji Hongyi, meanwhile, transformed into a peerless god of poison. Her dark purple Calamity Poison caused the surrounding walls to dissolve frantically!
Under Lin Yuan's reckless expenditure of resources, every member of the Starry Sky Expeditionary Force's national team had stepped into the realm of Seventh-Rank Grandmaster!
However, in the bustling night sky of the Star City surrounding the manor, a killing intent quietly descended.
Silent, yet lethal!
The space directly above the manor rippled with eerie, water-like distortions.
Three figures draped in invisibility cloaks descended slowly, like gods of death crawling out from the depths of hell.
Beneath their voluminous cloaks, dark red mechanical cores flickered faintly.
The highest adjudicators of the Cult of the Machine God—Eighth-Rank Peak Mechanical Inquisitors!
A total of three Eighth-Rank Peaks!
They didn't trigger any of the Star City's alarms; even the patrolling law enforcement teams in the vicinity were completely unaware.
The Inquisitor in the center raised his right arm, which was covered in Liquid Divine Gold. A mechanical sphere emitting an eerie black light rose silently from his palm.
This was the Cult of the Machine God's most notorious barrier!
"Target locked. Executing purge."
Causality Law: Absolute Silence Field!
Hum!
A black ripple, invisible to the naked eye, instantly covered the entire manor in a hemispherical shape!
At this moment, the laws were forcibly rewritten!
From the outside, the manor still stood quietly in the night.
But in high-dimensional space, the real manor... had been forcibly "peeled" away from the physical space of Central Star City by this eerie power of causality!
Those inside could not get out, and those outside could not see in.
"The hunt begins."
The three Mechanical Inquisitors flickered and descended silently toward the underground secret realm!
Hum—!
Without warning, an eerie physical disorder suddenly appeared within the ten-thousand-fold gravity field beneath the manor!
Ancient Sword Soul and Ji Hongyi, who had just shattered the shackles of the Sixth Rank and been promoted to Seventh-Rank Grandmasters, opened their eyes almost simultaneously.
"Something's wrong!"
"The surrounding spatial coordinates have been forcibly tampered with! My divine sense can't even penetrate the walls of this secret room!"
Ji Hongyi quickly glanced at the communicator on her wrist. "Signal completely lost."
There were no alarms, no roar of energy.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Three figures emerged silently.
They held no conventional swords or cannons; instead, each gripped a firearm that seemed condensed from pure beams of light.
The muzzles flickered with High-Dimensional Dimensionality-Reduction Rays—capable of directly slicing through a martial artist's lifespan!
"Beep—Target locked. Confirmed as high-dimensional lifeforms following the heretic."
The Inquisitor in the center spoke in an emotionless, synthesized voice.
The sound bypassed air transmission, projecting directly into their minds from a high dimension.
"To be able to assist in the eradication of the Tianming Star Branch, you low-level carbon-based organisms indeed have some skill."
The Inquisitor slowly raised the dimensionality-reduction ray gun, its muzzle locking onto the two below.
"But before the high-dimensional causality of the Cult, martial artists who only understand physical violence... are nothing more than slightly stronger insects."
"Declaration: Death Penalty."
Sizzle!!!
Three grayish-white rays erupted instantly!
Wherever the rays passed, even the molecules in the air aged and were annihilated in an instant!
"Causality? I was just worrying about finding a whetstone for my newly reforged sword intent!"
Ancient Sword Soul laughed wildly. Instead of dodging, he charged toward the three grayish-white rays, his entire being transforming into an unsheathed, malevolent sword!
"Daluo Heaven-Severing, break for me!"
A sword light that tore through the darkness suddenly erupted from Ancient Sword Soul's hand!
There was no flashy external sword qi, only a peerless sharpness that sought to sever even causality and time with a single strike!
Crack!
The high-dimensional rays fired by the three Inquisitors were actually physically severed into sections by this unreasonable sword strike!
“Hehe... Since the three of you have come to visit in the middle of the night, why not have a taste of this little lady's tea?”
At the same time, Ji Hongyi's soul-stirring giggle echoed in the secret room.
Her figure flickered like a ghost, and a wisp of dark purple poison mist rose from her fingertips!
The Starry Calamity Poison, which had evolved under the ten-thousand-fold gravity, instantly vaporized!
"Warning! Ultra-high-risk corrosive energy detected! Spatial coordinates are being poisoned!"
They discovered to their absolute horror that the purple poison gas could not only corrode alloy armor, but was even frantically dissolving the 'high-dimensional spatial folding layers' they used for invisibility!
Riiip—!
The three Inquisitors were forced to fall out of their high-dimensional invisible state in a pathetic manner, their Liquid Divine Gold bodies tainted by the poison gas!
Two early-stage Seventh-Ranks had actually managed to withstand the lethal combined attack of three Eighth-Rank Peaks in just a few breaths!
They even seemed to be gaining the upper hand!
"Severe database error! Logical calculations collapsing!"
The leading Inquisitor frantically pulled back while staring at the two ferocious people below in disbelief. "Intelligence indicated they were only Fourth-Rank! Why are they all Seventh-Rank Grandmasters?!"
"And with this level of cultivation foundation and law resistance... how is this possible! Even the top Holy Sons of Central Star City, fed on divine medicines, don't have such monstrous cross-realm combat power!!"
The Mechanical Inquisitors were completely panicking!
"If this continues, we'll be killed! Immediately detonate the 'Absolute Silence Field' core!"
The leading Inquisitor made a split-second decision. "We'll perish together with them!"
Boom—!
The black hexagram barrier covering the manor instantly erupted with destructive red light!
A surge of anti-matter energy, sufficient to wipe out the entire inner city of the Star City, was frantically charging up!
However, at this critical moment.
BANG!!!!!
Behind the two of them, the gate weighing tens of thousands of tons was kicked into powder!
Amidst the swirling dust, a figure slowly stepped out.
Lin Yuan was bare-chested, his perfect muscles—resembling Ancient Greek sculptures—flowing with dark golden Ancient God-runes!
"Phew..."
Lin Yuan lazily cracked his neck and exhaled a puff of scorching white air.
His eyes, like those of an Ancient God-Demon, slowly lifted. He didn't even spare a glance at the three Eighth-Rank Inquisitors who were acting as if facing a great enemy.
Lin Yuan's gaze was fixed on the Absolute Silence Field core overhead, which was flashing red and preparing to self-destruct.
"I was just worrying that the security door of this base wasn't strong enough and the soundproofing was poor..."
[Ding! Detected Eighth-Rank high-dimensional causality technology—Absolute Silence Field core!]
[Lossless analysis and modification initiated!]