6: Group Leader 6

In the group chat, the temporary silence caused by the system task was instantly ignited.

500 basic points might not even be a speck of dust to Gu Jianghan.

But for the other group members, this was nothing short of a windfall.

A rescue mission personally overseen by the Group Leader, with a clear objective, was simply a welfare game where points were given away for free.

Gu Yanci was the first to speak excitedly in the group, perfectly playing the role of a mood-setter.

Su Qingyuan, on the other hand, saw this as an act of grace to follow in the footsteps of a god and witness a miracle firsthand.

Even the usually calm Lin Moyan believed this was an excellent opportunity to observe the workings of higher-level world laws up close.

Gu Jianghan sat on his throne in the Sea of Concepts, watching the reactions of the group members with interest.

He didn't care about their petty thoughts; the greed of ants could sometimes be an interesting theatrical embellishment.

His will stirred slightly.

A power, more solid and clearer than any previous time, peeled away from his infinite true body.

This avatar was far more powerful than the one that had descended upon the Hunyuan World before.

After all,

that was a world capable of bearing a [Tier 10: Grand Unity] in the future.

Even in its early stages, the world's barriers and laws were far beyond what lower-tier planes could compare to.

If not for that, he wouldn't have even entertained a hint of 'seriousness'.

The next moment,

in the Perfect World, above that cliff frozen in time.

Space rippled like water.

Gu Jianghan's self-teleported avatar stepped out first.

Closely following him were Lin Moyan, Su Qingyuan, and Gu Yanci, who had been teleported by the chat group.

“Hiss––”

The moment they appeared,

Gu Yanci gasped. In front of them, the three pursuers, frozen in mid-air, remained motionless.

However, the pure, violent, and mountain-shattering law fluctuations emanating from their bodies pressed down on their hearts like an ancient divine mountain.

It was a terrifying pressure that made their souls tremble.

It was as if a mere flick of a finger from the opponents would cause their souls to be annihilated.

The three of them turned pale, their earlier excitement about getting free points completely gone, and they instinctively shielded Gu Jianghan.

Gu Jianghan didn't even glance at the three behind him; his gaze calmly fell upon the three pursuers.

There was no earth-shattering divine light, no world-destroying explosions.

He merely… looked at them.

And that single glance spanned ten thousand years.

Those three enemies, who were impossibly strong in the eyes of the group members,

their bodies, along with the violent laws within them,

were like sand sculptures weathered by the wind for billions of years.

Starting from their fingertips, they silently peeled away, disintegrated, and turned into the most insignificant particles.

Their sneers were still frozen on their faces, but their very existence was being completely "erased" from this world.

They weren't dead; they simply ceased to exist.

In less than a second,

the three of them scattered like leaves in the wind, completely dissipating into nothingness.

The time confinement was then lifted.

The mountain breeze blew again, stirring up dust on the ground.

Everything returned to normal, as if everything that had just happened was merely an illusion.

The entire place was deathly silent.

Lin Moyan, Su Qingyuan, and Gu Yanci, despite being prepared, were still dumbfounded.

They stared blankly at the empty scene before them, their minds a void.

And on the ground,

the dying Shi Hao, using his last ounce of strength, slightly raised his head.

In his blurry vision, he only saw a figure with his back to him, a figure that seemed to have existed since ancient times.

Gu Jianghan's gaze retracted from the void and fell upon the newcomer on the ground who had just joined the chat group.

He didn't speak.

He merely casually raised a finger, and at its tip, a wisp of light, seemingly non-existent in the world, neither black nor white, quietly floated.

He flicked his finger.

That wisp of light cut through space, silently merging into Shi Hao's glabella.

A miracle occurred in a way that transcended understanding.

Shi Hao's almost collapsing Dao foundations, his completely burned-out Cave Heaven origins, his shattered bones and meridians—

were not "healed," but rather, the fact of their injury was forcibly "negated" by an irresistible power.

Time and causality were violently twisted, and his body was restored to its peak state before embarking on this escape.

Having done all this,

Gu Jianghan's gaze indifferently swept towards the far distance, in the direction of forces like the Yu Clan and the Tuoba Ancient Clan.

Without leaving any words, his figure slowly faded as if he had never appeared, eventually disappearing completely from the spot.

To cut grass, one must remove the roots—he understood this principle better than anyone.

Almost at the same time he disappeared, Shi Hao suddenly sprang up from the ground!

He incredulously examined himself internally, his perfectly flawless state making his mind roar.

He raised his head, vigilantly looking at the three remaining people in front of him, his brows tightly furrowed.

These three people… their strength seems to be even weaker than mine.

Shi Hao's heart was filled with doubts.

Was that unimaginably powerful being in league with them?

What kind of group chat was this, that it actually accepted him?

“Hey, newbie, don’t look at us like that.”

Gu Yanci broke the silence, crossing his arms, a smug look of an experienced veteran on his face.

“I know what you're thinking. Are you thinking that the three of us don't look like much and aren't worthy of the status of that adult just now?”

Shi Hao didn't speak, but his expression had already acknowledged everything.

“Mortal, put away your pathetic pride.”

Su Qingyuan's eyes held a hint of pity and fanaticism.

“You simply don't understand what you just witnessed. That wasn't a divine ability, nor a spell; that was… a judgment from a god! What we follow is the sole truth walking among the worlds!”

Shi Hao's brows furrowed even deeper; he didn't understand these mystical words.

Just then,

the always silent Lin Moyan spoke coldly.

Her words, like ice picks, precisely pierced Shi Hao's core understanding:

“Let me put it in a way you can understand. Those three who were just erased by the Group Leader were probably around Tier 5 in strength, possessing the ability to initially interfere with local laws. As for the Group Leader…”

Lin Moyan paused, then stated in a factual, emotionless tone:

“He is beyond specification, impossible to evaluate. What he just did was not to kill, but to delete the very ‘existence of the enemy’ from the root of this world. Now, do you understand?”

Shi Hao.

This young man, who had swept aside all enemies since his birth and was hailed as a born supreme being,

after hearing these words, was struck by lightning and completely froze in place.

His proud strength, talent, and will,

faced with the immense power described by Lin Moyan, were as insignificant as a speck of dust.

Shi Hao was still frozen in place.

Lin Moyan's words, “deleted the very ‘existence of the enemy’ from the root of this world,”

reverberated in his mind like an unextinguishable demonic sound.

He felt his worldview, along with his innate pride, collapsing and shattering inch by inch.

Just then,

an indescribable tremor came from the ends of the world.

It wasn't a sound, nor a vibration, but a… "mistake."

The distant horizon, that sky tens of thousands of miles away from here,

was as if someone had roughly smeared it with an invisible eraser.

Light began to bend at unnatural angles.

Clouds were stretched into grotesque shapes, then dissipated into primal energy particles.

Immediately following,

a visible shockwave, composed of pure "spatial folds,"

swept out in all directions at a speed beyond light, beyond observation!

That wasn't energy; that was the wail of laws!

It was the collapse of reality itself, unable to bear the burden!

Shi Hao's pupils suddenly contracted to pinpricks, and the hairs on his body stood on end!

He felt it.

He felt a death threat billions of times stronger than when he faced those three Venerables earlier!

He instinctively wanted to unleash his Cave Heaven and burn his divine radiance to resist, but he despairingly realized that

before that power, all his means were as insignificant as a praying mantis trying to stop a chariot.

“Holy crap!”

Gu Yanci shrieked.

But his face showed no fear; instead, there was a morbid excitement and boastfulness.

“See that? See that! That’s the Group Leader’s ‘cutting the grass by the roots’! We’re so far away from here, and just seeing it almost made us wet ourselves. I can’t imagine what those unlucky guys are experiencing right now!”

The shockwave arrived instantly, but at a distance of a hundred meters from them,

it was gently smoothed out and turned into nothingness, like a raging tide hitting an invisible glass wall.

Not even a single pebble on the cliff they were on shook.

Su Qingyuan closed her eyes, spread her arms, and her face was filled with intoxicated fanaticism:

“No… this isn’t destruction; this is cleansing. It is the supreme will correcting the errors of this world. Listen, that is the wail of the old order, the prelude to the New Era! How fortunate we are to witness the descent of divine punishment with our own eyes!”

Shi Hao's mind had stopped thinking; he stared blankly at the erased distant horizon.

He had once believed that the actions of the Upper Realm's giants—moving mountains and filling seas, plucking stars and seizing the moon—were the pinnacle of power.

But the scene before him had completely exceeded his comprehension.

“Spatial laws are permanently failing in that area, the flow of time is cut off, and causal lines are burned to ashes.”

Lin Moyan adjusted her non-existent glasses on her nose.

With her characteristic, emotionless analytical tone, she delivered the most devastating conclusion.

“To put it in a way you can understand, the Group Leader isn’t ‘attacking’; he is modifying the ‘existence’ permission of that area from ‘has’ to ‘none’.”

She paused, then added a final sentence:

“Those families that pursued you, along with their ancestral lands, their sects, their history, and all concepts related to them, no longer exist.”

Shi Hao opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

Finally,

his legs gave way, and he sat down on the ground, utterly lost.

Gazing at the "erased" and clean horizon, revealing the endless void behind it, he completely lost the ability to speak.