95: Nuclear bombs, it's not impossible to intercept!

“Attention all units!”

“The nuclear missile has been launched and will arrive at Yunxia Mountain in five minutes!”

“Please evacuate as quickly as possible…”

Instructions for retreat were already coming through the communication channel, and the atmosphere suddenly became incredibly tense.

At this moment, General Ning’s gaze became resolute.

He quickly thought to himself that there were currently three helicopters on the battlefield, and he and some officers could safely leave during this time.

However, the casualties this time were truly immense, and General Ning had already conceived the idea of staying here to watch the mushroom cloud after the nuclear bomb exploded.

“Today, I shall die for my country!”

Hearing this, the other officers were stunned, and after a long silence, they didn't say much more.

General Ning couldn't help but let out a light laugh.

“Is it here?”

In the Yunxia Mountain Range, Xia Fan slightly raised his head, staring in the direction from which the nuclear warhead was approaching, a growing sense of danger intensifying.

Even though the nuclear bomb was still thousands of miles away from him, this feeling was like a sword hanging over his head, making him uneasy, but this was also an instinct of his.

Since becoming a third-tier expert, Xia Fan had long since become extraordinary, and his sensory abilities were naturally beyond what ordinary people could imagine.

“Little one, will you take a gamble with me?”

A moment later, Xia Fan turned to look at Magic Cat, who immediately let out an excited cry, “Wherever Tiger Brother is, I am there.”

“Good!”

The next moment, he directly allowed Magic Cat to possess him, and his aura surged again.

Xia Fan’s strength instantly surpassed the early third-tier, and even vaguely showed a trend of entering the late third-tier, which slightly strengthened his confidence.

“Ta Mu!”

The moment they completed the possession, Xia Fan let out a furious roar, his true body leaping out from the mountain, and in just a few seconds, he directly rushed to the edge of the mountain range.

Whoosh—

A giant toad rushed out of the lake, stirring up huge waves.

He also looked in the direction from which the nuclear missile was approaching, and a hint of fear gradually appeared in his cunning eyes, but he didn’t say much.

“The Tiger King has appeared!”

In mid-air, General Ning looked at that awe-inspiring golden glow and couldn't help but get excited.

After fighting until now, the main character finally appeared, and it was time for a decisive blow.

In just a brief moment, his expression was as if he were insane, his eyes flashing with a look of facing death unflinchingly, “This time, you will die with me!”

General Ning knew the immense power of the nuclear missile, so he didn't believe that Xia Fan could survive this strike.

By then, he would personally watch the Golden Tiger King turn to ashes, even though he himself would also die.

But none of that mattered anymore.

“My King, what should we do next?”

Ta Mu saw that Xia Fan wasn't moving, and the sense of danger was growing more intense, so he finally couldn't help but ask.

At this moment, Xia Fan let out a low growl, “You also sensed the source of the danger, right?”

“Follow this direction, take us there, the faster the better!”

“Alright, My King!”

Ta Mu readily agreed, and their figures vanished with their voices, almost instantly disappearing hundreds of miles away.

This scene was naturally witnessed by General Ning and the others.

“Is the Golden Tiger King… running away?”

An officer widened his eyes, even rubbing them hard, almost unable to believe what he was seeing, “If we don’t stop him, won’t that be letting the tiger return to the mountain?”

Another officer shook his head and sighed, “The Golden Tiger King’s movements are too fast, and the current situation makes us a bit uncertain!”

“Is he trying to escape, or does he already have a solution?”

Although he said that, everyone quickly abandoned such a possibility.

After all, under a nuclear missile, all living beings are equal; no matter how powerful the Golden Tiger King was, how could he escape this calamity?

After a dozen seconds, an officer mused, “If it only destroys Yunxia Mountain and lets the Golden Tiger King roam free, then this mission… can still be considered a failure!”

“It’s already enough.”

An officer held a different opinion, “Exterminating the Golden Tiger King’s core forces means he can only develop alone from now on, greatly reducing his threat!”

Including General Ning, almost everyone believed that the Golden Tiger King had sensed the danger and directly fled.

This was also a reasonable thing.

But they didn't know that Xia Fan was already waiting on the inevitable path for the nuclear bomb to pass by.

From sensing the danger to reacting, it was only a minute or two.

“Here it comes, here it comes!”

Ta Mu felt the danger in his instincts, and immediately became nervous.

However, when he saw his King composed beside him, his heart suddenly settled down for some reason.

“Now is the time.”

Another minute passed, and Xia Fan could already see the nuclear missile streaking from afar, immediately seizing the opportunity.

His enormous body, propelled by the wind, instantly soared into the extremely high sky.

In an instant, a rich purple light flickered around Xia Fan. When these forces gathered to their peak, he suddenly opened his mouth and shot a purple energy beam towards the distance, his roar shaking the heavens—

“Purple Crystal Sun Piercer!”

The purple energy beam was extremely fast, and coupled with its head-on trajectory with the nuclear missile, it instantly hit its target.

Bang—

Rumble!

In an instant, an earth-shattering explosion erupted, and the terrifying energy within the nuclear missile was fully released at this moment, with an immensely powerful shockwave sweeping in all directions almost in the blink of an eye.

Even though this nuclear missile exploded in the air, and in a desolate, uninhabited mountain forest, even humans hundreds of miles away could feel the slight tremor of the ground.

For a moment, all beings were astonished.

“Was that an earthquake?”

“But it doesn’t look like an earthquake; it seems more like power coming from the sky.”

“What exactly happened?”

As everyone wondered, the Yunzhou command center looked at the final images from the nuclear bomb monitoring, and almost all of them were stunned, “The nuclear bomb was intercepted?”

“How is this possible?”

“What was that purple energy beam just now?”

Inside the command post, apart from gasps, there was no idle chatter; almost everyone was dumbfounded.

Having lived for so long, they had never heard of a precedent for a nuclear bomb being intercepted, but the facts were right before their eyes!

Thump—

At the same time.

After unleashing Purple Crystal Sun Piercer, Xia Fan immediately returned to the ground, and at the same time, opened his mouth to spit out his innate spirit weapon—the Tiger God Cauldron.

This divine cauldron rapidly expanded, heavily enveloping Xia Fan and Ta Mu, and causing the ground to tremble heavily.

Bang bang bang—

Almost the instant he entered the Tiger God Cauldron, Xia Fan felt countless shell-like impacts outside the cauldron, coming one after another, but apart from the thunderous crashing sounds in his ears, there was no mishap.

Even though the nuclear missile’s explosion point was only one or two kilometers from Xia Fan, they were still safe and sound!