49: Chapter 49 System Disconnection, Trapped in a Dire Situation

Killing Intent.

A Killing Intent so intense it felt tangible squeezed in from all directions.

An earthy-yellow Formation light barrier completely sealed off Wangjiang Tower, isolating the interior from the exterior. Runes flowed across the barrier, emitting waves of heavy and obscure energy.

Gu Yan could clearly feel an invisible, heavy force field originating from the earth enveloping his body.

Within this force field, the circulation of his True Qi became much more sluggish, and his Qi Refining Stage 6 cultivation base was forcibly suppressed by nearly thirty percent!

Conversely, looking at Town Mayor Zhao Hong and those three Loose Cultivator Guest Elders at the Late Stage of Qi Refining, their auras were actually rising instead of falling under the enhancement of the Formation!

A Town Mayor Zhao Hong at the Peak of Level 8 Qi Refining.

A Guest Elder at the Early Stage of Level 8 Qi Refining.

Two Guest Elders at the Peak of Qi Refining Stage 7.

Plus dozens of elite guards formed into a battle array and thirty-six archers holding poisoned heavy crossbows...

This was a completely inescapable, dead-end situation!

Gu Yan's expression remained as calm as water, and he even had the leisure to reassuringly pat the back of Liu Ruyan's somewhat cold hand.

But inside, his heart was already churning with turbulent waves, his brain racing at an unprecedented speed, calculating every possibility for breaking the deadlock.

Fight head-on?

Absolutely impossible.

The four Late Stage of Qi Refining experts on the other side were enough to tear him and Liu Ruyan to shreds within ten breaths.

Escape?

Even less possible.

The Earth Net Formation was complete; this place had become a space of its own. Unless he could break the Formation barrier with absolute power in one go, there was no way to fly out.

What to do?

The only way was to catch them off guard!

At the moment when the opponent thought victory was in their grasp and their vigilance was at its lowest, he would use his strongest trump card to kill one or two of them with lightning speed, tearing open a gap!

And his strongest trump card was...

[System!]

[Open the shop! I want to redeem!]

Gu Yan's consciousness sank deep into his mind, sending an urgent call to that System which had been silent for so long!

He had already planned it out.

With the massive fortune in Spirit Stones he had accumulated from selling Medicinal Pills during this period, it was enough to redeem a powerful, one-time attack Talisman in the System shop!

High Grade Yellow-level Talisman — [Thunderclap Talisman]!

Once activated, this Talisman could summon the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, erupting with a terrifying power comparable to a full-force strike from an Early Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator!

As long as he had it, he was ten-tenths sure he could instantly kill anyone except Town Mayor Zhao Hong the moment the Formation was activated, completely disrupting the opponent's deployment!

This was his greatest confidence in daring to attend the banquet!

It was also the most critical step in his plan to turn the tables!

[System! Hurry! It's an emergency! I want to redeem...]

However.

The gorgeous shop interface he had envisioned did not appear.

What he waited for was not the System's familiar, lazy, corporate-slave tone.

Instead, it was a line...

A line of System prompt text composed of cold, emotionless blue data streams.

This line of text hung alone in his consciousness space, which was filled with Killing Intent, glowing quietly.

[Prompt:]

[The System is currently watching Episode 9999 of 'Ancient Famine, Feeding the Sister-in-law' — The Finale — 'Zhou Chen Returns, With One Command, One Hundred Thousand Gods and Demons Head to the Yellow Springs'...]

[Current signal is busy, your request has entered the queue.]

[Estimated waiting time: Cannot be calculated.]

[Please... try again later...]

...

...

...

Gu Yan's consciousness fell into a three-breath-long... absolute blankness the moment he saw this line of text.

He even doubted for a moment if he was hallucinating due to excessive stress.

He blinked.

That line of text was still clearly floating there.

'Ancient Famine, Feeding the Sister-in-law'?

The finale?

Signal busy?

...

Pfft.

Even with the powerful Heart-Nature that Gu Yan had trained over two lifetimes, remaining calm even if Mount Tai collapsed before him...

At this moment, he almost couldn't hold back, and a mouthful of old blood nearly sprayed out on the spot.

This...

What is this supposed to mean?!

He was trapped in a desperate situation, a life-or-death crisis, about to be chopped up and fed to the dogs!

And you, the dog System that serves as my greatest trump card, are actually...

Actually busy binge-watching a show in the background?!

And what's more, you're watching this kind of mindless trashy novel that makes people cringe just by hearing the title?!

A sense of extreme absurdity mixed with extreme frustration rushed straight to Gu Yan's crown.

He wanted to curse.

He wanted to greet the ancestors of this unreliable System up to the eighteenth generation!

But he couldn't curse.

Because Town Mayor Zhao Hong had not left him any more time.

"Kill!"

Looking at Gu Yan, whose expression had suddenly become somewhat strange under the heavy encirclement for no apparent reason, Town Mayor Zhao Hong assumed he had been scared silly.

He did not hesitate a moment longer, Killing Intent surging in his eyes as he issued the order for the all-out attack!

"Chop the man up and feed him to the dogs!"

"That woman, catch her alive! This Town Mayor wants to have a good taste tonight of what this 'Profound Yin Body' really feels like!"

"Kill—!"

With the command given!

Killing Intent erupted with a bang!

Above the roof beams, those thirty-six archers released the bowstrings in their hands!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Thirty-six poisoned arrows shimmering with eerie blue cold light were like poisonous bees in the dark night, emitting sharp piercing sounds as they sealed off all space for Gu Yan and Liu Ruyan to dodge, covering them from all directions!

At the same time, those dozens of elite guards holding blades and shields also stepped forward in unison, forming a battle array, shrinking the encirclement step by step!

And those three Loose Cultivator Guest Elders at the Late Stage of Qi Refining were like three ghostly shadows, lunging toward Gu Yan in a triangular Formation!

The inescapable net was instantly tightened!

Gu Yan knew.

This time...

Truly, he could only rely on himself.