403: Chapter 404 Tearing apart the quantum prison, the entire city transforms into a colossal armor that blots out the sky!

A blue pillar of destructive light, like divine punishment, plunged down from ten thousand feet in the sky. It was over a hundred meters in diameter. Its blinding radiance illuminated the entire steel city. Metal skyscrapers on both sides of the street melted rapidly under the high temperature, turning into glowing molten iron that flowed frantically down the drainage pipes.

Facing an energy bombardment capable of destroying a planet, Su Yang stood in the middle of the street with his hands hanging at his sides, his expression perfectly calm. He didn't even deploy a defensive barrier.

Just as the destructive pillar of light was less than ten meters above his head, Su Yang slowly raised his right hand.

The silver light of the world king bead flickered at his fingertips. Su Yang curved his five fingers into a claw and tore forcefully at the Void Realm above his head.

There was a thunderous ripping sound.

A black spatial crack several hundred meters long was torn open directly in mid-air. A violent void storm began to howl inside the rift. The blue pillar of light plunged headlong into the spatial crack, vanishing instantly without a trace, without even a ripple of energy leaking out.

Ten-odd kilometers away, directly above a towering black giant tower, space suddenly shattered.

The vanished blue pillar of light gushed out from within, striking the top of the tower that had fired the railgun with even more ferocious momentum.

Boom!!!

A deafening, earth-shattering roar echoed through the entire Black Iron City. The black giant tower was hit head-on by its own weapon, its hard alloy body snapping instantly from the middle. A massive mushroom cloud rose into the air. The high tower turned into countless burning steel fragments, raining down on the surrounding blocks like a meteor shower. The ground shook incessantly, and anti-aircraft sirens pierced the sky.

Before the dust and smoke could settle, a ball of dazzling silver light rose from the center of the ruins.

A three-meter-tall silver metal man floated slowly in mid-air. The metal man was composed entirely of flowing liquid silver and had no facial features. Its face was merely a flat black screen, with green data code flashing rapidly across it.

The overbearing pressure of the Early Stage Void Refinement Stage weighed down over the entire city. The surrounding air became extremely heavy, making even breathing difficult.

“Warning. Energy trajectory deviated. Target survived.” A synthesized mechanical voice echoed over the city, devoid of any emotional fluctuation. “Re-evaluating target combat power. Carbon-based lifeform, danger Rank raised to maximum.”

Su Yang looked at the metal man in the distance, the corners of his mouth curling into a mocking smirk.

“A pile of talking scrap metal. Hurry up and get over here to be crushed. Su Yang is in a hurry.”

The red light on the metal man's facial screen flashed wildly. Its hands quickly reconfigured and transformed in front of its chest, turning into two massive polygonal launchers. A deep blue halo lit up in the center of the launchers, causing the surrounding space to warp.

“Initiating Quantum Prison. Executing physical erasure.”

Whir!

Around the street where Su Yang's group of five stood, six transparent pale blue energy curtains suddenly rose. The curtains quickly closed together, becoming a massive cube with sides a hundred meters long, firmly trapping everyone in the center.

Inside the cube, gravity vanished instantly.

Qin Xueji's body floated uncontrollably into the air, her hands waving frantically. Her high heels fell off her feet and hit the transparent light curtain. Bai Li quickly waved the Folding Fan in her hand, her purple Demonic Power transforming into a rope that wrapped around Qin Xueji's waist, pulling her back to her side.

On the surrounding curtains, dense red laser beams began to emerge, weaving into a lethal net of slaughter that continuously contracted toward the center.

Mary flapped her black bat wings, her ten fingers extending sharp blood claws, her pretty face full of rage.

“What kind of crappy glass cage is this! Watch this Young Miss tear it to pieces!”

Mary turned into a streak of black lightning and clawed fiercely at the pale blue curtain.

Sizzle! Blinding electric sparks sprayed out. Mary felt as if her hands had grabbed a red-hot iron plate; her ten sharp nails snapped on the spot. The powerful counter-shock force sent her flying back over ten meters, slamming into another curtain with a cry of pain.

Chu Ling’s ice-blue dress fluttered as she condensed a deep blue ice sword in her hand. Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cold Qi gushed out, transforming into an ice dragon that slammed into the curtain.

Bang!

The ice dragon hit the curtain and directly collapsed into ice shards. The curtain didn't even wobble.

Su Qingcheng was dressed in red as bright as fire, her long sword unsheathed. A red Sword Qi several dozen meters long slashed fiercely at the curtain. The Sword Qi was like a clay ox entering the sea, vanishing without a trace and failing to stir even a single ripple.

Bai Li’s delicate brows furrowed slightly as she softly reminded them, “This barrier is not a Formation, but a pure quantum energy force field. Physical and Spell attacks will find it hard to be effective.”

Su Yang stepped through the Void Realm as if walking on level ground. His deep eyes swept over the laser net that was constantly contracting around them.

“Just a high-tech toy. I'll just smash it.”

Su Yang flipped his right hand. The purple-gold Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Seal appeared in his palm. The thunder dragon totem on the bottom of the seal flashed with blinding light, and violent lightning power leaped around it.

“Go.” Su Yang tossed it casually.

The Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Seal expanded rapidly against the wind, transforming into a thunderous divine mountain dozens of meters high. Ten thousand bolts of purple-blue lightning, like enraged dragons, frantically struck the eight corner nodes of the pale blue light curtain.

When the quantum energy force field encountered the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, it instantly fell into a state of paralysis. Sizzling sounds of electrical short-circuits rang out continuously. Large areas of static noise appeared on the surface of the curtain, and the red laser net flickered a few times before being completely extinguished.

Boom!

A few seconds later, the massive cube exploded, dissipating into a sky full of blue light spots. Gravity returned to normal. Qin Xueji landed steadily on the ground, let out a long breath of turbid air, and reached out to pat her full chest.

The flashing frequency on the metal man's facial screen in the distance became extremely chaotic. Its entire body stiffened in mid-air for several seconds, seemingly unable to comprehend the scene before its eyes.

“Calculation error. Unknown energy intervention. Conventional simulation failed,” the metal man spoke in its mechanical voice.

The metal man's chest cracked open, revealing a diamond-shaped Crystal Core emitting a dazzling blue light. Its body transformed into a pool of silver liquid, falling directly to the ground and merging into the steel ruins beneath its feet.

“Initiating ultimate defense contingency. City core takeover.”

As the words fell...

The entire Black Iron City suddenly erupted with a magnitude ten earthquake. The metal streets split open with massive cracks. Around them, hundreds of metal skyscrapers as high as a thousand meters actually began to violently deform and fold. Countless thick steel pipes and gears meshed together, producing a grinding sound that could shatter eardrums.

A gargantuan steel giant, large enough to blot out the sun, was slowly rising from the city ruins. The metal skyscrapers became the giant's limbs, and the wide streets became the giant's torso.