140: Chapter 142 Strange Monster

Two pillars of light erupted from the sea snake's gaze.

The crimson beams were so bright.

That the sky where they passed turned pure white.

Even before the beams had fully formed.

Lu Chen's body instinctively began to signal a warning.

His brain operated at a speed faster than any computer in the modern world.

He could feel every atomic vibration of this attack.

He could predict its trajectory and the resulting consequences.

If those beams hit him.

Even the Atomic Rebirth Technique would make it difficult to recover.

However, if he dodged.

The base dozens of miles behind him would vanish in an instant.

At the critical moment.

His brain whirred rapidly.

Energy needed to be consumed.

It needed a target for consumption.

Waves of power radiated from his body.

Simultaneously, all two thousand Clones vanished from the battlefield.

They appeared in front of the incoming beams.

They lined up side by side.

Their entire bodies were covered in elemental armor.

Each Clone was reinforced with a trace of his Mental Energy.

In almost an instant.

They formed a barrier.

Like an unbreakable high wall.

Then, the light-speed beams struck them.

The two collided.

There was no explosion.

No loud bang.

—Those two beams of light were too swift, too powerful.

Like the world fixing its own bug.

A flash of light passed.

And swallowed their bodies.

Body after body was annihilated.

Each body was as powerful as a B-rank Peak.

Yet they shattered into light particles under the crimson glow.

Disappearing completely into the air.

The massive shockwave tore through the entire battlefield.

Leveling sand dunes one by one.

Evaporating the corpses of monsters.

The earth was scarred.

The desolate desert turned into a world of black glass.

But those Clones had won a crucial moment of respite for the original body.

The powerful energy beams were decomposed, dispersed, and their potency reduced.

Lu Chen let out a breath.

He adjusted his breathing rhythm.

Then he slowly raised the origin energy weapon in his hand.

At this moment.

Every cell in his body was roaring.

Releasing endless energy.

Pouring it into the origin energy weapon.

An indescribable, brilliant light erupted.

Power amplified by 3,267 times collided with the weakened beams.

Exploding with immense force.

At the point where the longsword and the light beams collided.

In an instant.

A white sphere of energy bloomed.

Spreading outward.

An invisible light shield expanded from around him.

Instantly enveloping the entire battlefield.

No matter what.

That surging energy could not leak out.

The power of those two beams was immense—over 54 trillion tons of destructive force.

Though his counterattack dispersed their power and slowed their speed.

It did not truly eliminate them.

Crimson streaks of light reached his body.

Leaving billions of tons of force in the end.

A blazing light erupted.

Directly tearing apart his battle armor and elemental armor.

Lu Chen's skin was instantly scorched, cracked, and shattered.

But before he could even feel the pain.

The Atomic Rebirth Technique began to operate.

The flesh burned to ash began to recover.

His shattered heart began to regrow.

The powerful force of destruction and the incredible power of Rebirth reached a perfect balance.

Even so.

The pure impact sent his body tumbling backward continuously.

Half-buried in the molten sand.

For a moment.

The whole world became blurred.

Then the blazing light finally dissipated.

The entire world fell into a dead silence again.

Lu Chen's chest rose and fell slightly.

Damn it.

A single strike—and he was in such a wretched state.

If he hadn't sacrificed his Clones.

If his reaction had been a bit slower.

He would have vanished from the world entirely.

He tried to condense his Clones again.

But felt empty inside.

The energy in his Spiritual Veins had been exhausted by the atomic Rebirth.

He had to operate the Primal Eternal Origin Art to replenish his energy.

Only then could he condense his Clones once more.

He slowly stood up from the earth that had been scorched into glass.

As the Atomic Rebirth Technique finished repairing the last of his wounds.

A flicker of red light danced on his skin.

Then shattered and disappeared.

“How can a monster use a Combat Technique that amplifies power?”

Lu Chen narrowed his eyes.

“What secret is hidden within it?”

The sea snake's hair-raising gaze.

Seemed filled with endless intelligence.

It immediately caught sight of him.

A crimson glow flickered in its pupils.

Despite releasing such powerful energy.

It seemed to show no change.

As if those two attacks against Lu Chen were just a casual gesture.

However.

He believed the truth wasn't that simple.

He couldn't let it charge those beams again.

If he remained on the defensive.

When the next strike came.

It would either evaporate him.

Or wipe out the city behind him.

He moved.

In the blink of an eye.

He traversed over a dozen kilometers.

This was a position he had deliberately chosen.

So that any subsequent attacks would fire harmlessly into the empty desert.

But the danger was not entirely over.

In the waters behind the sea snake.

Three more Deep-sea Behemoths rose.

A Piranha the size of a castle.

A crocodile larger than a stadium.

A giant octopus as massive as an island.

They rose from beneath the surface.

Churning kilometers of the ocean.