67: Lin Yuan, the one who went against the tide, is the only madman!

That purple lightning, moving against the flow, stung everyone's eyes.

Hundreds of contestants present, every single one of them, were stunned.

"He... what is he doing?"

"He's crazy! He's absolutely crazy!"

A team member from the Zhugang branch office was full of disbelief.

"That's Lord-level! He's just C-rank... how dare he charge forward?!"

"He's looking for death!"

Another survivor nearby, while running backward, spat out curses.

"Why try to be a hero at a time like this?!"

"If he wants to die, don't drag us down with him!"

"Right! Run! Stay away from that lunatic!"

The instinct for survival overwhelmed everything.

Most people didn't even spare Lin Yuan another glance, turning to flee desperately in the direction away from the rift.

"Shut up!"

A cold female voice suddenly rang out.

It was Su Wanqing.

Her face was pale, but her back was perfectly straight.

The team member who had cursed the loudest just now was choked by her gaze.

"Miss Su... you..."

"Run?" Su Wanqing's voice was devoid of emotion, "Do you think you can escape?"

She raised her hand and pointed around.

Although the mutated monsters were devouring each other, their numbers were still despairingly vast.

Moreover, the entire space was collapsing.

No one knew if a chasm would open up beneath their feet the next second.

"There's no exit here!"

"The only way to survive is to deal with that thing in the sky!"

Su Wanqing's words made a few people who were about to run stop in their tracks.

Struggling expressions appeared on their faces.

They understood the logic.

But... that was a Lord-level existence!

What could their group of C-ranks do to fight it?

"He can't hold on for long alone."

Su Wanqing looked at the purple lightning flashing left and right through the monster horde and said in a deep voice.

"But he's attracted all the monsters' attention! If we charge in now, it's not to save him, it's to save ourselves!"

"Help him share the pressure, let him free his hands to deal with the thing in the sky, and we'll have a sliver of hope!"

"What a joke!"

The previous team member shouted again, "Those mutated monsters are more than twice as strong as before! We'll just be sacrificing ourselves if we go up there!"

"I don't care about him! If he wants to die, no one can stop him!"

"Exactly! Goddess Su, you are an Ice Phoenix, you don't need to sacrifice yourself for a madman!"

Su Wanqing didn't bother to argue with them anymore.

She simply took a deep look at that resolute figure.

She didn't understand Lin Yuan.

This man, usually so carefree, obsessed with money, and full of bluster.

But at this moment of despair for everyone, he became the only one who dared to punch despair in the face.

Why?

Su Wanqing couldn't figure it out.

But she knew she couldn't just stand there.

"Hoo..."

She exhaled a breath of cold air.

The Ice Phoenix Bloodline within her began to burn.

She turned around, no longer looking at Lin Yuan, but facing the surging tide of mutated monsters that were tearing at each other on the side.

"Those who want to live."

Her voice echoed through this small corner.

"Follow me!"

As her words fell.

"Buzz—!"

Bone-chilling cold air erupted!

Su Wanqing charged forward proactively!

Frost spread beneath her feet!

Ice walls rose from the ground, directly sending several pouncing mutated monsters flying!

"Crazy..."

"Another crazy person!"

The team members who had tried to persuade her retreated in fear.

But.

Some, after a brief hesitation, had a look of determination burst forth in their eyes.

"Damn it!"

A burly man holding a shield roared.

"We're going to die either way!"

"Dying while running away is too pathetic!"

"I'll go crazy with you all this once!"

He roared, following Su Wanqing's steps, and slammed a mutated demon minion flying with his shield!

A single spark can start a prairie fire.

Where there's a leader, there are followers.

More and more contestants, pushed to the brink, chose to follow that ice-blue figure.

They formed a fragile but resilient defensive line.

They began to furiously assault the mutated monsters.

Their goal was clear.

Not to kill them all.

But to... draw away all the threats in Lin Yuan's path!

...Of everything happening behind him.

Lin Yuan was oblivious.

Or rather.

He simply didn't care.

In his eyes, in his mind, only the eye in the sky remained.

Electromagnetic Induction had long been maximized!

Everything around him had transformed into lines composed of bio-electricity and energy flows.

The mutated monsters, in his eyes, were just moving energy signals.

"Roar!"

A monster, mutated from a Three-Eyed Demonic Wolf, grew six legs and pounced from the side with lightning speed.

"Swish!"

Lightning Step!

Lin Yuan's figure left an afterimage in place.

The monster pounced at empty air.

And Lin Yuan had already appeared a hundred meters behind it.

His forward momentum did not falter in the slightest.

Blocking his way?

Non-existent.

Anything that appeared in his direct path forward.

Whether it was a mutated Spiny Boar Demon, or a twisted Abyssal Lurker.

"Sizzle—"

A wisp of electric light flashed.

And it would turn into charcoal.

These things were too weak.

They didn't even qualify to make him slightly serious.

The Primordial Thunder God Body within him was operating frantically.

Lin Yuan's speed grew faster and faster.

The distance between him and the eye in the sky was rapidly closing.

Finally.

That eye also noticed this ant that dared to challenge it.

Its enormous pupil rotated slightly.

Locking onto that tiny purple figure.

The next second.

A beam of pitch-black light shot out from the center of the pupil!

Wherever the beam passed, space itself seemed to be erased, leaving a dark, black trail.

This was highly concentrated abyssal energy!

A fatal blow capable of annihilating a B-rank Expert!

However.

Just a split second before the beam shot out.

Lin Yuan's figure executed a strange sidestep.

Lightning Step!

He seemed to have anticipated the attack's arrival, narrowly avoiding the destructive beam!

"Boom—!!!"

The beam struck the ground a thousand meters behind him.

A bottomless giant pit appeared there.

Lin Yuan, far from being afraid, grew even more excited!

"Come on!"

He roared at the sky.

"Is that all you've got?!"

As if in response to his provocation.

The giant eye in the sky contracted its pupil!

Buzz—!

A mental storm even more terrifying than before swept down!

This time, it was no longer a physical attack.

But a direct assault on the soul!

"Sizzle!"

At Lin Yuan's glabella, a wisp of golden lightning flashed and disappeared.

That was the primordial power belonging to the Primordial Thunder God Body!

The abyssal mental impact collided with this wisp of golden lightning.

"Mental attack?"

"It's useless against me."

Lin Yuan pouted, a look of disdain on his face.

"Too slow!"

"Too weak!"

"Are you even trying?!"

While complaining, he raised his right hand.

Unceasing thunder energy began to gather and compress in his palm.

A deep purple thunderball quickly formed.

Palm Thunder!

But this time, he didn't throw it.

Instead, he continued to pour energy into it!

The thunderball's size didn't increase.

But its color deepened rapidly!

From deep purple, it turned into a nearly black... dark purple!

"Since you're not putting in the effort, then it's my turn!"

Madness flickered in Lin Yuan's eyes.

He stopped, bent his knees slightly, leaned back, and made a throwing motion.

His target was not the eye.

But the spatial rift behind that eye!

"Get out..."

"Of here!"

With all his might, he threw the dark purple thunderball in his hand!

Instantly, it struck the core of the rift!

"Boom—!!!!!!!!"

The entire fusion space shook violently!

The struck rift was not repaired; instead, it was as if a catalyst had been injected into it!

It began to expand uncontrollably in all directions!

"Roar—!!!!!!!!"

A painful roar came from behind the rift!

Immediately after.

Under everyone's gaze.

A... head covered in black carapace and tentacles forcibly squeezed out of the constantly expanding rift!