86: The End of Xiong Ba

The ugliness of human nature was exposed without reservation before the impending disaster.

Chaos erupted instantly!

Among the remaining guards, some completely collapsed, waiting for death, while others, like that squad leader, turned their butcher knives on their former masters, attempting to exchange their lives for a sliver of slim hope of survival.

Curses, pleas, betrayals, slaughter… above the ruins of Xiong Manor, intertwined into a dirge more chilling than the Alien Queen's screams.

However, all this struggle seemed so ridiculous in the face of the aftermath of a pseudo-Transcendent-level battle.

Boom!

Another violent collision!

A storm of gray-white and ethereal purple energy swept through.

Those guards who were killing each other, those Xiong Family disciples trying to hide, those madmen still cursing… like a wheat field swept by a gale, they fell, vaporized, and disappeared in swathes.

Whether it was the remaining Gold-level powerhouses or the powerless servants, in this destructive torrent, they were all insignificant dust.

Inside Xiong Manor, apart from the two terrifying figures madly clashing, there was no other living thing!

The once prosperous Xiong Family mansion was completely reduced to a desolate, scorched-earth purgatory!

"Ah ah ah!!! Monster! Let's die together!!!"

Xiong Ba had gone completely mad.

He was covered in blood, and although his Ash power was still violent, his aura had already begun to become unstable.

He clearly felt that he was no match for this fully-formed monster in front of him!

Its strength, speed, defense, and especially its terrifying spatial abilities, subtly suppressed him.

What made him even more desperate was that the barrier set up by that mysterious entity cut off his last chance to detonate his power and drag the entire Weiyang City down with him!

Endless humiliation, monstrous hatred, and the despair of his family's complete annihilation finally transformed into the most insane thought… self-destruction!

"Roar!!!"

Xiong Ba let out an earth-shattering roar, no longer suppressing the violent Ash power within him!

The blood vessels all over his body bulged like coiled dragons, his skin cracked inch by inch, and dazzling gray-white light burst from every pore in his body!

A destructive, extremely unstable energy fluctuation, like a volcano about to erupt, surged wildly!

He wanted to transform himself into a pseudo-Transcendent-level bomb, utterly annihilating the monster in front of him, along with the cage that imprisoned him!

"Not good!"

In the distance, Lin Feng, protected by Lie Kong, his pupils constricted, sensing that destructive aura.

Even through the mysterious barrier, the power about to erupt made his soul tremble!

Just as the energy within Xiong Ba's body was about to break through the critical point, reaching the brink of self-destruction, in that split second!

Buzz!

The figure suspended high in the sky, almost merging with space, moved again.

There was no earth-shattering momentum, no dazzling light and shadow effects.

It just very slightly raised its hand… an invisible, vast power, like a sea of stars, descended instantly!

This power precisely penetrated the barrier it had set up, ignored the distance of space, and directly acted upon the energy core of Xiong Ba, which was about to self-destruct!

Like billions of invisible threads instantly coiling and tightening!

Like the vast will of the universe directly suppressing!

Xiong Ba's Ash power, which had soared to its peak and was enough to destroy half a city, was as if an invisible giant hand had firmly grasped his throat!

That destructive sense of expansion was forcibly suppressed and solidified!

He felt like a balloon that had instantly been drained of all gas; that world-destroying power was tightly confined within his body, unable to move!

"Pfft…!"

Xiong Ba's eyes were bloodshot, and he spat out a mouthful of foul blood mixed with fragments of internal organs.

The backlash from forcibly interrupting self-destruction was more fatal than any attack!

His meridians, bones, and internal organs instantly suffered a devastating impact, his power receded like a tide, leaving only endless weakness and bone-deep agony.

His pseudo-Transcendent-level realm, which he was so proud of, completely collapsed at this moment!

"No!!!"

Xiong Ba let out a desperate and unwilling roar, filled with fear of that mysterious power and anger at his own incompetence.

He struggled desperately, but couldn't even mobilize a trace of energy.

The Alien Queen's huge compound eyes watched all this coldly.

The mysterious power only suppressed Xiong Ba's self-destruction and did not stop her.

Her huge bone tail shot out like lightning, precisely coiling around the falling Xiong Ba, binding him firmly and dragging him before her.

The hideous mouth, gleaming with cold light, was only inches from Xiong Ba's head, and cold saliva dripped onto his face.

The shadow of death had never been so clear as it was now!

Xiong Ba's face, twisted by madness and anger, was instantly replaced by boundless terror.

The dignity of a pseudo-Transcendent-level powerhouse?

The pride of the Xiong Family ancestor?

Before true death, they were insignificant!

"Spare… spare my life!"

Xiong Ba's voice was hoarse and dry, filled with unprecedented fear and subservience.

He difficultly rolled his eyes, looking towards the edge of the ruins in the distance, at Lin Feng, who was protected by Lie Kong.

That was his only possible hope of survival.

"Lin Feng… Young Friend Lin! Spare my life! I am willing to surrender! Everything of the Xiong Family is yours! I… I know many secrets! Many treasures! Spare me! Please!!!"

He was incoherent, tears and snot flowing, no longer possessing any of the demeanor of a pseudo-Transcendent-level powerhouse.

Lin Feng watched this scene coldly, his eyes without the slightest ripple.

Xiong Ba's pleas, to him, sounded like the whines of a defeated dog.

He gently raised his hand.

The Alien Queen received the command.

The bone tail binding Xiong Ba loosened slightly, but still firmly controlled him, preventing him from moving.

A creature, entirely black, smooth as metal, shaped like a combination of a spider and a scorpion, appeared, bringing with it a chilling aura!

A Facehugger!

"No! What is this?! Get away!!"

Xiong Ba instantly felt a fatal threat!

He desperately twisted his broken body, his eyes filled with extreme fear of the unknown.

But severely wounded, near death, and bound by the bone tail, he had no strength to even dodge.

Thump!

That cold, slimy Facehugger precisely covered Xiong Ba's terrified, twisted face!

Eight segmented limbs pierced into his cheeks and temples like steel needles, making him let out a distorted, shrill scream!

Subconsciously, Xiong Ba wanted to mobilize the remaining power in his body, but how could the Alien Queen let him succeed.

The thick tail tightened sharply!

"Ugh… ugh ugh…"

Xiong Ba's body twitched violently, and the unformed power instantly dissipated.

His eyeballs bulged from hypoxia and fear.

Stretching out his hands, Xiong Ba tried to tear off the thing on his face with brute force.

But it was all in vain!

Feeling the pointed tip of the cold creature's tail, with an irresistible paralyzing force, forcefully prying open his mouth and nose, and delving deep into his throat… Xiong Ba's struggles gradually weakened, eventually leaving only unconscious spasms of his body.

The Alien Queen released her bone tail, and Xiong Ba's body slumped to the ground like a broken puppet, his face covered by the chilling Facehugger.

His slightly rising chest proved that Xiong Ba's life had not completely ended, but everyone knew that the consciousness belonging to "Xiong Ba" had completely fallen into the abyss of darkness, and what awaited him would be the hatching of the Alien embryo and the end of his destiny.

Inside Xiong Manor, there was dead silence.

The mysterious figure suspended high in the sky, at the moment the Facehugger successfully parasitized, silently dissipated like ink dissolving in water, as if it had never appeared.

Leaving behind only this completely sealed land of death, and the chilling, silent barrier that enveloped everything.

In the distance, above Weiyang City, countless strong wills, filled with doubt and uncertainty, like invisible tentacles, intertwined and collided in the night sky. Many of them also discovered the figures hidden in the dark, and some even guessed the identity of the dark figures.

"High-level executives from the Association Headquarters?"

In the City Lord's Mansion, Qin Zhenyue looked at his granddaughter, an amused expression on his face.

"Yuyan, ever since the college entrance exam ended, you've been talking about Lin Feng. It just so happens that I also want to meet this top scholar. How about it? Why don't you invite him to our house tomorrow?"