84: Thor has possessed me! I'll let you indulge to your heart's content today!

The masked person's maniacal laughter echoed through the steel factory.

Su Wanqing, Liu Yan, and Shi Lei immediately reformed their defensive formation, shielding Mo Chen behind them, warily staring at the madman half-kneeling on the ground.

They didn't understand.

Why could this guy say such things even though he had been severely injured by Lin Yuan?

"Putting on an act!" Liu Yan gritted her teeth and growled, but cold sweat involuntarily seeped from the hand holding her wind blade.

Her intuition told her that it wasn't over yet.

"Hehehe..."

The masked person uttered incomprehensible syllables from his throat, slowly straightening his body.

"For the advent of 'Apocalypse'."

He spoke a baffling sentence in an almost詠嘆調-like tone.

The injured Black-Robed People shuddered upon hearing this sentence.

Then, they made a move that sent chills down everyone's spines.

As if receiving some command, they drew a... black dagger from beneath their robes.

"What are they going to do?!" Mo Chen exclaimed in alarm.

"Oh no! Stop them!" Su Wanqing reacted the fastest, her figure moving as she tried to rush over.

However, it was too late.

"Pfft!"

"Pfft!"

"Pfft!"

More than a dozen Black-Robed People, without the slightest hesitation, plunged the daggers in their hands into their own hearts.

Su Wanqing's figure abruptly stopped midway.

Liu Yan and Shi Lei also froze.

They watched as the Black-Robed People, with eerie smiles on their lips, slowly fell.

There were no screams.

No struggles.

"Holy crap..."

Lin Yuan was also taken aback by this sudden scene.

"Are pyramid scheme cultists this dedicated these days?"

"A suicide team-building exercise?"

He truly couldn't comprehend the thought processes of these people.

However, the next second, he had no time to complain.

Because, with the deaths of those Black-Robed People, the ground of the entire steel factory suddenly lit up!

Streaks of blood-red patterns rapidly spread, using the corpses as nodes.

Finally, they formed a formation that covered the entire factory area!

"Boom—!"

A terrifying suction force erupted from the center of the formation, which was beneath the masked person's feet!

The flesh, energy, and even the souls of the recently deceased Black-Robed People.

All transformed into streams of energy, frantically siphoned by the formation, then continuously poured into the masked person's body!

"This is... the Great Sacrificial Formation!" Su Wanqing's voice trembled.

She recognized this evil formation.

It was recorded in the Dragon Shield Bureau's top-secret archives.

This was a forbidden art used by ancient evil cultivators to sacrifice living beings and forcefully break through their cultivation realms!

"Not only that..."

Lin Yuan's expression also changed.

In his Electromagnetic Induction, the two "nests" he had previously marked in the east and south directions, at this moment, also simultaneously erupted with powerful energy fluctuations!

Three massive streams of energy shot into the sky, converged in the air, and poured towards the masked person!

This Great Sacrificial Formation not only absorbed these cultists.

It also connected to those two abyssal lairs!

With over a dozen C-rank powerhouses as sacrifices, and two abyssal lairs as energy sources... what kind of monster were they trying to create?!

The answer was quickly revealed.

"Roar—!"

The masked person let out a non-human roar.

His body, under the infusion of energy, began to undergo terrifying mutations!

His body grew taller, his clothes ripped, and his skin cracked open.

What flowed from the cracks was not blood, but energy full of destructive aura!

His limbs became thick, his fingers turned into sharp claws, and two gashes tore open on his back.

Two insect-like wings suddenly unfurled!

The half-shattered mask on his face finally fell off.

Beneath it, there was no longer a human face.

The only organ on his face was a single deep purple eye!

"So hungry..."

The monster let out a guttural, indistinct growl.

Its single eye fixed intently on Lin Yuan.

"Energy... more energy!"

With its growl, the formation's suction force surged again!

"Ugh!"

Liu Yan let out a muffled grunt, feeling the power of wind elements within her body being forcefully siphoned out by a force!

"My power... is draining!" Shi Lei also gritted his teeth and growled, the earthy yellow light around him dimming.

Even Su Wanqing felt the pressure.

Her Ice Phoenix Bloodline was instinctively resisting the suction, but it was still being drawn away little by little.

All of them had become this monster's "buffet"!

"Captain! We must break through!" Liu Yan said urgently.

If this continued, in less than five minutes, they would be sucked dry alive!

"It's useless..."

Lin Yuan's voice echoed faintly.

"This formation has enveloped all of us."

"No matter how fast we run, we can't outrun the speed of energy loss."

"Then what do we do?!" Liu Yan was on the verge of going crazy, "Are we just going to wait for death?!"

"Wait for death?"

Lin Yuan bared his teeth.

Feeling the power within him, which had just recovered to 50% and was now dropping again, his expression became incredibly grim.

He had worked so hard just now, risking an explosion of his body, to recover a little power.

Now, this ugly monster, without a word, just came up and started stealing?

What's the difference between this and directly taking money from my wallet?!

Lin Yuan hated it most when others touched his money.

Or, touched his power.

"Hey."

Lin Yuan suddenly spoke, shouting at the monster.

"You're very hungry, aren't you?" Lin Yuan asked.

The monster didn't answer, only let out a more greedy growl.

"You want to suck, don't you?"

The expression on Lin Yuan's face became strange.

"Alright."

He took a deep breath.

"Beauty Su, all of you step back."

"Get behind me, the farther the better."

Su Wanqing was startled, "Lin Yuan, what are you going to do?"

"Nothing much."

Lin Yuan looked at the monster, which had already swelled to over five meters tall, and licked his lips.

"Today, I'll let this ignorant bumpkin see something new."

"Let him witness what the hell is called..."

"Full! Belly!"

Before he finished speaking.

Lin Yuan abandoned the suppression of the energy within his body!

The Abyssal Tribulation Thunder, which he had just forcefully fused and had been dormant in his dantian for not long, was once again detonated by him!

"Boom—!"

The black-purple lightning no longer coiled around his body.

Instead, it surged into the sky from every pore of his body, like a volcanic eruption!

Forming a pillar of lightning that connected heaven and earth!

The terrifying energy fluctuation even temporarily offset the formation's suction force.

Liu Yan, Shi Lei, and Mo Chen were directly thrown back by this energy shockwave.

Only Su Wanqing, at the last moment, barely protected herself with an ice wall, but she also retreated more than a dozen steps before stabilizing herself.

And Lin Yuan, bathed in his own lightning, spread his arms.

He showed a smile to the monster, which was stunned by the energy interruption.

"Come on!"

"Didn't you want to suck?"

"Today, I'll let you suck your fill!"