132: Chapter 132 still has some stuff.

A mountain-and-sea-crashing roar erupted from the chests of the thousand Black Armored Guards, converging into an iron will capable of tearing the firmament apart.

Accompanied by the stirring melody of the "Iron Flood March," this black torrent began to move!

"Dong! Dong! Dong!"

The heavy footsteps were perfectly synchronized to every beat of the drum.

It was not a charge of a thousand individual soldiers, but a moving mountain forged from flesh, blood, and steel, surging across the plain!

Their formation showed no sign of disorder; every step they took made the earth tremble.

With every step forward, the air ahead condensed into an invisible barrier.

This imposing aura, forged purely from discipline and strength, possessed a lethality far greater than the deafening music.

The merman forces outside the city had completely collapsed.

For them, the ear-splitting "Iron Flood March" was a form of mental torture more terrifying than Holy Light Purification.

Their pride, the "Abyssal Whisper," was completely suppressed and shattered, plunging their minds into unprecedented chaos.

At this moment, they were facing a death legion marching to the drumbeats of hell.

"Waa—!"

The merman leader, that Level 31 elite chieftain, let out a piercing shriek.

He was not affected as severely; his huge fish eyes stared fixedly at the glowing Music Spire inside the White Jade Capital.

It was that! That thing!

Destroy it! It must be destroyed!

He raised the trident in his hand.

The entire trident lit up with an ominous dark glow, and violent water element energy frantically gathered at the tip of the trident.

"Break for me—!!!"

The merman leader's muscular arms exerted a sudden force, and the trident transformed into a streak of black lightning.

With a shriek that tore through the air, it shot toward the "Cultural Broadcast Center" inside the city with terrifying supersonic momentum!

This strike concentrated all his strength and was capable of piercing mountains!

In the Command Center, everyone's hearts leaped into their throats.

"Warning! High-energy strike! Target locked on one of our functional buildings!"

However, on the city wall, Chen You's expression didn't change in the slightest.

He merely raised his eyelids and watched the rapidly approaching dark light.

"Buzz."

A faint sword hum.

A long, jade-white sword, flowing with a warm luster, materialized in front of him, its blade trembling slightly.

The next moment, the yuhuang sword transformed into a golden streak of light, faster than lightning, striking ahead of the trident and precisely meeting the menacing weapon.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no world-destroying energy clash.

"Ding—!"

A crisp, pleasant sound, like jade striking jade, clearly reached every living being's ears amidst the rousing music and the chaotic battlefield.

That black lightning bolt, imbued with destructive power, looked like a mere pebble casually flicked aside by a child.

It carved a pathetic arc in mid-air, finally landing with a soft 'plop,' sticking diagonally into the mud hundreds of meters away.

The trident body continued to tremble wildly, emitting bursts of unwilling lament.

The jade-white long sword hovered gracefully in the air for a moment, then its light retracted, vanishing as if it had never appeared.

On the city wall, Chen You hadn't even lifted a hand.

Outside the city, the merman leader stared blankly at his empty hands, then looked at the trident stuck in the distant mud.

Finally, he looked toward the figure on the city wall, who remained utterly calm, with an expression as if he had seen a ghost.

...

"Boom!!"

It was at this moment that the iron flood formed by the Black Armored Guards finally crashed violently into the already chaotic formations of the mermen.

This was not a battle.

It was a one-sided slaughter.

"Puchi!"

The guards in the front rank didn't use any flashy techniques with their long halberds; it was the simplest, most unadorned horizontal lift and thrust.

The incredibly sharp halberd heads easily tore through the mermen's tough skin and coarse scales, impaling them one after another like candied hawthorns.

A merman warrior swung a giant bone axe wildly toward the head of a Black Armored soldier.

"Clang!"

Sparks flew.

The giant axe, capable of splitting rocks, only left a shallow white mark on the Black Iron Heavy Armor.

The soldier didn't even react; his comrade beside him tacitly handed over a long halberd.

It pierced precisely through the merman warrior's wide-open mouth, exiting through the back of his skull.

Coordination!

This was the most terrifying aspect!

The mermen were not entirely without cooperation, but the interference from the music had distorted all their movements.

Meanwhile, the guards of the White Jade Capital performed every action filled with the iron-blood and discipline of soldiers.

In teams of ten, they formed small battle arrays, covering both offense and defense, mutually covering each other.

Long halberd thrusts, waist saber follow-ups... every link connected seamlessly.

The thousand guards transformed into a massive meat grinder, tearing everything before them to shreds.

"No... No!!!"

The merman leader let out a mournful roar filled with despair and resentment.

He made a sudden gesture.

"Whoosh—"

The trident stuck in the distant mud let out a mournful cry and transformed into a dark light, instantly flying back into his hand.

The moment he grasped the trident, the merman leader's aura became incomparably frantic.

He didn't look at his kin being slaughtered, nor did he look at the unstoppable iron army.

His gaze was locked tightly on the figure on the city wall who had remained utterly composed from start to finish.

As a special merman race, he had never encountered such a situation among peers of the same level.

Although the House of the Sea King was at the lower rungs among the guilds in the Source Realm due to its rank, this did not mean the mermen were weak!

On the contrary, among peers of the same level, almost no guild could defeat the House of the Sea King!

He never imagined that in this battle, they wouldn't even be able to enter the city gate?

Impossible!

Absolutely impossible!

In those huge fish eyes, it seemed a decision had finally been made.

"The Abyss... will consume everything!"

The merman leader let out a final roar and raised his trident high.

This time, the tip of the trident was aimed not at Chen You, but at himself!

"Puchi!"

The sharp trident pierced his own chest without hesitation.

The dark blood did not flow out; instead, it was completely absorbed by the trident as if being swallowed by a whale.

The merman leader's tall body withered at a speed visible to the naked eye; the aura of life rapidly dissipated.

But the trident in his hand lit up with an unprecedented, eerie glow resembling a black hole.

An aura far older, wilder, and more terrifying than the "Abyssal Whisper" suddenly erupted!

"Not good!"

In the Qinling Command Center, Sun Feng suddenly stood up, staring intently at the soaring energy readings on the screen.

"He is sacrificing! Using his own life as a sacrificial offering to summon something!"

Before the words fell, the world changed color.

The originally dim yellow sky was covered by dark clouds in a matter of seconds.

The air became damp, salty, and viscous, carrying a nauseating fishy smell.

The rousing "Iron Flood March" sounded somewhat thin in the face of this immense natural force.

On the battlefield, everyone stopped their actions. Both the Black Armored Guards and the dying mermen subconsciously looked in the same direction.

Behind the merman leader.

A pitch-black line appeared.

That line was rapidly rising and widening, surging wildly toward the White Jade Capital with a rumbling sound like ten thousand peals of thunder.

A tidal wave!

A pure black abyssal tidal wave over a hundred meters high!

That was not ordinary seawater; in the pitch-black waves, countless twisted, struggling vengeful spirits could be seen, along with the phantoms of ferocious deep-sea behemoths.

This was the personification of the purest malice and destructive will from the world of the "Abyssal Whisper"!

"Hahaha... Hahahahaha!!"

The merman leader, now reduced to a dried corpse, let out a maniacal laugh.

"Sink into the abyss, all of you!!"