85: The energy was so hot it made the monster cry!

"Roar—!"

The monster let out a shriek, and under its urging, the Great Sacrificial Formation's suction reached its peak!

The entire steel factory seemed to have become a funnel.

And Lin Yuan was at the center of that funnel.

Endless black-purple lightning was forcibly pulled from Lin Yuan's body by that suction, surging towards the monster!

"He's crazy!"

Liu Yan was thrown back by the energy shockwave. She barely managed to stabilize herself and shrieked in horror at the terrifying scene before her.

"He's actively feeding the monster! He's going to die!"

"Captain!"

Shi Lei's roar was filled with anxiety. He wanted to rush forward but was firmly blocked by the violent lightning domain.

Only Su Wanqing stared intently at Lin Yuan.

Her intuition told her that things were not that simple.

"Awesome!"

"This is f*cking awesome!"

Lin Yuan roared in his heart.

His depleted Dantian Thunder Sea was instantly refilled by the dual ignition of the heavenly thunder fragment and abyssal origin.

Then, it was drawn away again.

His body had become a transit station.

The Primordial Thunder God Body forcibly blended the destruction of heavenly thunder with the chaos of the abyss, creating Abyssal Tribulation Thunder.

Then, in the next second, these freshly produced "products" were snatched away by the monster without question.

An indescribable pain washed over every inch of his meridians.

But the electrical charge in his body showed a strange balance.

[God Body Charge: 47%... 48%... 47%... 49%...]

The charge fluctuated between falling and rising.

The speed at which the monster absorbed and the speed at which he produced were strangely balanced!

And in this process, Lin Yuan discovered a problem.

His own primordial lightning power was constantly being transformed by this forced fusion process!

Golden lightning became less and less.

Black-purple lightning was becoming the mainstream in his body!

This feeling... it was like someone was holding his head down, forcibly infusing him with a hundred or eighty years of cultivation!

Although the process was a bit painful, the result... seemed like a huge profit!

On the other side.

The monster also noticed something was wrong.

It was indeed getting stronger.

Stronger than ever before.

But... this energy was too "hot to handle"!

That black-purple lightning was not a docile tonic at all, but a deadly poison! It was sulfuric acid!

As they surged into its body, they simultaneously destroyed within it! Destroying its cells, eroding its will!

It wanted to stop.

But it couldn't stop!

Once the Great Sacrificial Formation was activated, there was no possibility of stopping it unless the energy was depleted or the caster died!

And Lin Yuan, this damned "food," was continuously supplying energy!

It was forcibly held down at the dining table, its mouth pried open, and one plate after another of scorching molten iron was poured into its mouth!

"Roar... ooh..."

The monster's roar, which had started with satisfaction and greed, gradually took on a hint of pain.

"Something's wrong!"

As a support, Mo Chen's perception was the keenest. He pointed at the monster.

"That monster... its energy is running wild!"

Only then did everyone notice.

The monster, over five meters tall, was changing.

Tumors grew on its body.

When the tumors burst, what flowed out was not energy, but wisps of black-purple electric arcs.

"Mmm..."

Just then, a faint groan came from the unconscious crowd nearby.

A middle-aged man shook his head and was the first to open his eyes.

Immediately after, as if contagious, more and more people began to wake up.

They looked around blankly, and then fear crept across their faces.

"Mon-monster!"

"What is that?! Oh my God!"

Panic and screams instantly erupted!

"What... are you still standing there for..."

In the center of the lightning pillar, Lin Yuan's voice squeezed out from between his teeth.

"Do you... want to die with me?!"

Su Wanqing, Liu Yan, Shi Lei, Mo Chen: "..."

"Pfft—" Lin Yuan coughed up a mouthful of blood foam laced with electricity, his body trembled, and then he roared in a hoarse voice, "Contact outside! Control them! Get... all of you get out of here!"

His voice was intermittent with pain.

"This place... is going to explode! No one... will survive!"

Liu Yan looked at the panicked citizens running around, then at Lin Yuan in the lightning, and was at a loss for what to do.

"What about you?"

Su Wanqing asked the most crucial question.

Now, Lin Yuan and the monster had formed a balance.

Once they interfered, or Lin Yuan himself stopped, this balance would likely be broken.

At that time, no one could predict what would happen.

"Me?"

Lin Yuan's voice came from the lightning pillar.

"I won't die... ha."

He paused, then used all his strength to let out a roar.

"Hurry up and go!"

"This is an order!"

"You being here! Will only... get in the way! Delaying me... from getting my pension!"

Liu Yan's eyes instantly turned red.

She shouted at the lightning pillar: "We can't leave you alone! The citizens are awake too, the scene is too chaotic!"

"Right!" Shi Lei also roared in a muffled voice, "If we go, we go together!"

"Get out!!!"

Lin Yuan let out a beast-like roar, and the lightning around his body surged, forcing Liu Yan and Shi Lei to retreat repeatedly.

"Don't you f*cking get in the way here!"

"If I die... there's an eight-figure sum!"

"Besides, who do you think I am? I won't die!"

"Take the people... complete the mission! Get out!!!"

Su Wanqing looked at the tall figure, trembling violently in the lightning but still speaking with arrogant defiance, and then at the citizens who had fallen into panic.

Reason told her that Lin Yuan was right.

Their mission was to "contain, control, and protect."

She took a deep breath, making one of the most difficult decisions of her life.

"Shi Lei, Mo Chen!"

Su Wanqing's voice was terrifyingly calm.

"Build an earth wall, open a western evacuation route! Pacify the crowd!"

"Captain!" Shi Lei and Mo Chen exclaimed simultaneously.

"Liu Yan!" Su Wanqing ignored them and looked at Liu Yan, "You and I, use wind pressure and ice walls to herd the crowd into the passage, be responsible for cover!"

"Yes!"

Liu Yan gritted her teeth, no longer hesitating.

"Roar—!"

The monster also seemed to sense their intentions and let out an even more furious roar.

It wanted to stop them, but its body was so distended by the terrifying energy that it couldn't move.

It could only watch as those tiny insects began to organize the orderly evacuation of its "food."

Su Wanqing looked at Lin Yuan one last time, a hint of complex emotion, unnoticed by anyone, flashing in her eyes.

She turned around, no longer hesitating, and issued the final command to her already moving teammates: "Full speed evacuation!"