192: Chapter 193 The Terrifying Power of Spatial Abilities

The instant that faint spatial ripple spread silently, alarm bells rang wildly in Hao Qingshan's heart. A fatal sense of crisis, originating from the depths of his soul, left him almost suffocating! He wanted to roar, wanted to order the Heavy Hammer Demon Trecis to dodge, but Su Daji's movements, while seemingly casual, were actually fast to the extreme. From the moment she raised her staff and it glowed faintly, to the outbreak of spatial collapse, there was almost no casting pre-swing; it was as if with just a thought, destruction had already descended.

As a powerful demon who had fought his way out of the blood-and-fire abyss of hell, the Heavy Hammer Demon possessed extremely sharp combat instincts. The moment the Void power began to distort that space, his scarlet demonic pupils suddenly constricted to the size of pinpricks. Without needing his master's command, his survival instinct drove him to unleash all his power! The few remaining black nether-flames around his body exploded, turning into a violent thrust. Simultaneously, the lava-like energy beneath his feet burst forth, and his massive body shot backward with unprecedented speed, like a cannonball leaving the chamber!

His speed was indeed astonishingly fast; he had barely brushed the edge of the spatial collapse explosion and had forcibly "squeezed" his way out!

However... when his massive body, covered in hideous armor, stumbled and steadied itself thirty meters away, a collective gasp of cold air instantly erupted throughout the arena, followed by a dead silence!

Everyone's gaze was frozen on the Heavy Hammer Demon, their pupils constricted violently, their faces filled with incredulous shock and horror!

What kind of scene was that?

The once complete, mighty Heavy Hammer Demon, radiating a terrifying aura, could... no longer be called complete at this moment.

His body seemed to have been sliced from multiple angles in an extremely bizarre manner by an invisible, yet razor-sharp blade that distorted space!

From his left shoulder to his right rib, a perfectly smooth fissure, shimmering with nihilistic black light, had sliced diagonally through nearly half of his upper body. Dark red, lava-like blood and tissue fluid were gushing wildly from the cut, only to be constantly annihilated and evaporated by the residual, minute spatial turbulence at the wound, emitting a "sizzling" sound.

His left arm was severed at the shoulder, the cut as smooth as a mirror. That thick, hideous demonic arm, which had originally gripped the Hellfire Great Hammer, now lay powerlessly on the ground, its fingers still twitching slightly. The stump was also wreathed in the palpitating aftershocks of Void energy.

Although his legs were still connected to his torso, there were obvious, unnatural twists and dislocations at the joints of his thighs and calves, as if they had been violently twisted by an invisible, immense force, and the sound of shattering bones was clearly audible.

Most terrifying of all was his head. A minute, almost imperceptible black fissure ran vertically down from the center of his brow, piercing through his prominent nose bridge, his massive mouth that stretched to his ear roots, and extending all the way to his neck. This fissure hadn't completely split his head open, but it gave his entire face a bizarre texture, as if it were porcelain about to shatter. Those scarlet pupils, which had originally burned with hellfire, were now dim, filled with confusion, pain, and a trace of... incredulous fear.

He did not fall immediately; his powerful vitality and the characteristics of his hellish race sustained him. But anyone could see that he was finished. The minute yet incomparably overbearing Void energy remaining in his wounds was like maggots on bones, continuously destroying his vitality and preventing any form of healing. The massive hellfire within him was now like a candle in the wind, flickering unsteadily, as if it could be extinguished at any moment.

Hao Qingshan watched helplessly as his most powerful and relied-upon summon appeared before him in such a miserable and bizarre state. His brain went "buzz" and turned blank. He could clearly feel that the unbreakable soul link between him and Trecis was, like a candle in the wind, rapidly becoming weak and blurred, as if it would completely sever at any moment.

"No... impossible..." Hao Qingshan's lips trembled, his face as pale as paper. He could not understand, nor could he accept it. The mythic grade armor on Trecis, 【Undying Furnace】, possessed extremely powerful dual physical and magical resistance, and could even automatically generate a Nether-flame Shield that absorbed massive amounts of damage! His own SSS-Rank Talent, 【Magma Bastion】, provided astonishing damage reduction and fire resistance! How could he... how could he be beaten into this state by a single skill? Moreover, this method of damage... was so bizarre, so difficult to defend against!

In the VIP seats, the seven Nation-Guarding Level Experts could no longer maintain their composure. When Su Daji raised her staff and it glowed faintly, they had already sensed that unusual energy fluctuation. When the Void Burst actually erupted, and the Heavy Hammer Demon escaped in such a tragic manner, the shock on their faces was ten times more intense than when Su Daji had previously used 【Innate Charm】!

"Void power! It's pure Void damage!" Zhou Wenyuan stared fixedly at the minute black light at Trecis's wounds that was constantly annihilating matter and preventing healing, his voice dry: "Ignoring conventional defenses and acting directly on existence itself... This skill is mythic grade! And it's one of the top-tier, rarest kinds of mythic grade skills!"

"Where did this Lin Muyang... get such a skill book? Or perhaps, did this Nine-Tailed Fox awaken it herself?" The old man in military uniform furrowed his brows, his fingers tapping the armrest unconsciously. "Void-attribute skills, even for those at our level, are extremely rare and dangerous. How could a summon under level 100 master it so skillfully? And with such astonishing power?"

Xu Ruohan did not speak, but her cold, beautiful eyes were now filled with gravity and inquiry. She looked at the figure of the fox girl standing independently in the arena, then looked at Lin Muyang, who remained calm in the contestant seats as if everything were under his control, and a tumultuous storm rose in her heart. How many secrets did Lin Muyang still hide? To what extent did the potential and true strength of this Nine-Tailed Fox actually reach?

And audiences all over the world watching this scene via live stream were completely blown away!

"What... what did I just see? That demon... was shredded?"

"Space itself shattered! It's a spatial skill! No, it's even more terrifying than a spatial skill!"

"One hit! Just one hit! It almost instantly killed the Heavy Hammer Demon? What kind of damage is this?"

"Hao Qingshan's trump card... is just gone like that?"

"What skill did that fox use? The cooldown is so short? She doesn't seem to have consumed much!"

"Invincible! Lin Muyang is invincible! Su Daji is invincible!"

"Who said Lin Muyang was relying on luck before? Stand up! This strength, this skill—you call this luck?"

"Is there any suspense left in this final? It feels like the champion is already decided!"

Just as the entire internet was in an uproar, and everyone was shocked by the terrifying power of the Void Burst, another anomaly occurred in the arena!

The Heavy Hammer Demon Trecis's broken body, which had been barely holding on, finally reached its limit. The Void energy remaining in his wounds erupted completely, like countless tiny black fissures instantly crawling all over his body!

Bang!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a dull sound, as if space itself had been punctured.

Trecis's massive body, along with his severed arm and war hammer that had fallen to the ground, simultaneously turned into countless minute, dark-red shimmering particles. Like sand blown away by the wind, they slowly drifted, annihilated, and finally disappeared completely from this world, leaving behind only a trace of space that was slightly distorted by spatial power and had not yet fully recovered.

The white light representing the death and forced repatriation of a summon lit up, but it was quickly shredded and swallowed by the residual Void turbulence, appearing exceptionally dim.

Hao Qingshan's body swayed violently, his complexion instantly turning from pale to an unnatural flush. A mouthful of blood surged up his throat, which he forcibly swallowed back. The forced severance of the soul link caused significant backlash to his spirit. He gritted his teeth hard, his eyes looking at Su Daji in the arena filled with disbelief, unwillingness, and a trace of deep dread. It was over. His journey in the National Tournament, his dream of the championship, had been completely ended in this humiliating manner in less than a minute of the opening.

And the instigator of all this, Su Daji, seemed as if she had only done a trivial thing. She didn't even glance at the annihilated demon remains; the faint, palpitating Void fluctuation in her staff began to condense again, and the target was already locked onto the next survivor—the Millennium Scorpion Spirit, Chilian!

In the contestant seats, Zhao Man's face turned pale in a "swish," devoid of all color.

She had broken free from the charm earlier than Hao Qingshan and had witnessed the entire process of the Heavy Hammer Demon being instantly severely wounded and then annihilated. That bizarre and terrifying attack method, that damage which ignored defenses and struck directly at the origin, made her whole body go cold. The various means she had relied on to deal with Hao Qingshan and had prepared for a long time—whether it was the damage conversion of the 【Poison Source Shield】 or various lethal lingering toxins—appeared so ridiculous and powerless in the face of such absolute power and bizarre attack methods.

"Run!" This was the only thought in Zhao Man's mind.

However, would Su Daji give her a chance?

Just as alarm bells rang in Zhao Man's heart, and she was preparing to order the Millennium Scorpion Spirit to retreat at all costs or even surrender directly, Su Daji moved.

No, to be precise, it was the staff in her hand that gently tapped again.

It was still that unremarkable movement, still that imperceptible ripple of space spreading.

But this time, Zhao Man saw it more clearly and could better appreciate the great terror contained within it! At the source where that faint light bloomed, space seemed to turn into fragile glass. First, an extremely minute black dot, almost invisible to the naked eye, appeared inward. Immediately after, the black dot instantly expanded, turning into a miniature black hole with a diameter of only about one meter, yet it radiated an aura that devoured all light and breath! Around the black hole, space presented a bizarre, glass-shattering pattern of cracks!

mythic grade skill—Void Burst! Second activation! Target, Millennium Scorpion Spirit, Chilian!

"Hiss—!"

The Millennium Scorpion Spirit Chilian let out an extremely sharp hiss, the most instinctive fear of a creature facing a death threat! Her seductive face was twisted by extreme fear, and the scorpion tail on her lower body swung wildly, attempting to spring backward. The purple light of the 【Poison Source Shield】 around her body, which could convert spell damage, flared brightly, attempting to resist.

However, everything was in vain.

The moment the miniature black hole appeared, it did not produce an explosion, but a more terrifying phenomenon—spatial collapse and annihilation!

Centered on Chilian, in a spherical area with a radius of more than one meter, space was as if grabbed by an invisible giant hand, then crazily squeezed and collapsed inward! That seemingly bizarre purple poison shield couldn't even hold for 0.1 seconds before it shattered and dissipated with a "pop" sound like a soap bubble in the sun, not even stirring up a ripple.

Immediately following was Chilian's scorpion body covered in hard armor, her seductive human body, her scorpion tail with its lethal barb... everything was mercilessly twisted, compressed, and crushed under the absolute power of that spatial collapse! There was no blood splashing, no shattering of armor, only the most minute particles of matter being completely decomposed and annihilated in that collapsing space, turning into the most basic energy particles, returning to nothingness.

The whole process was faster than imaginable.

From Su Daji raising her hand to the black hole appearing, space collapsing, and Chilian disappearing along with the area she was in, it took only a fraction of a second in total.

When that space slowly calmed down and the distorted light returned to normal, only a hemispherical pit with a diameter of about two meters and a depth of about half a foot remained, its edges incomparably smooth and rounded. The material at the bottom and edges of the pit was not melted by high heat or violently shattered but presented a bizarre texture as if it had been "erased," smooth enough to reflect a person's image.

The Millennium Scorpion Spirit, Chilian—this trump card summon that Zhao Man had placed high hopes on, carefully cultivated, and prepared to make a stunning appearance in the final—hadn't even been able to make any effective resistance or counterattack, and just like that, silently, was "erased" from this world.

Not even the white light representing death had lit up. Because under the power of that spatial collapse and annihilation, even the basic particles constituting her existence had been decomposed, naturally unable to trigger the protective repatriation mechanism of the Blue Star world's rules.

In the contestant seats, Zhao Man was struck by lightning, her whole person falling backward onto her chair. Her face was as pale as paper, her eyes empty, her lips trembling, but she couldn't make any sound. The backlash brought by the forced severance of the soul link with her summon was far less than the mental shock of witnessing her trump card being so easily and thoroughly "erased." All her calculations, all her preparations, all her ambitions, under this one strike, appeared so pale, so ridiculous.

Silence.

A deathly silence once again shrouded the huge martial arts arena and was transmitted to the whole world via the live broadcast signal. If the previous instant kill of the Heavy Hammer Demon still carried a trace of blood and tragedy, then this strike that instantly killed the Millennium Scorpion Spirit was filled with hair-raising "cleanliness" and "strangeness." It was an absolute domination and erasure of space and the very existence of matter, and the shock and fear it brought were even more deeply ingrained than a bloody scene.

In the VIP seats, the seven Nation-Guarding Level Experts also fell into a long silence.

Once could be called a coincidence, a burst, or a trump card.

But twice in a row, in such a short time, releasing a Void-attribute mythic grade skill with such terrifying power and such rare properties... What did this mean? It meant that this Nine-Tailed Fox's mastery of Void power might far exceed their imagination! It meant that for her, a skill of this level might not consume that much, and the cooldown time might also be shockingly short! It even more meant that this young man, Lin Muyang, possessed resources and hidden depths that were likely far deeper than their most exaggerated estimates!