92: Chapter 92: Perfect Timing for Entry! Lin Yuan's Perfect Shadow Step Enters the Game!

The red light erupting from the rift stung everyone's eyes.

Though the distance was mere inches, it felt like an unbridgeable chasm lay between them.

A swirl of Law turbulence formed around the Source Beast's chest.

Several nearby Platinum-grade Dragons didn't even have time to scream.

Their bodies vaporized the moment they touched that layer of turbulence, leaving nothing behind.

"The Law of Matter Annihilation is overflowing!" Su Yueying bit her lip, her cross sword flickering with uncertain light.

"The gravity field and space around the Core Source are completely distorted; any creature that gets close will be crushed!"

Everyone's heart sank.

The target was right before them, but there was no path.

Chu Yunxuan stared intently at the energy readings on the light screen, his eye sockets turning red from congestion.

"We can't wait any longer; the Source Beast's shell is self-repairing." A flash of ruthlessness crossed Chu Yunxuan's eyes.

He raised his hand and slammed a blood-red command key on the floating light screen.

"Main battleship, remove power furnace restrictions, overload and detonate!"

Without the slightest hesitation, this technological Prodigy played his final trump card.

In the air, the thousand-meter-long silver heavy main battleship...

...spouted blue-white flames from its tail, resembling a meteor dragging destructive heat as it crashed straight into the Law turbulence at the Source Beast's chest.

Boom—!

A deafening explosion erupted at the bottom of the pit.

The ghostly blue plasma flames collided with the dark red Law of Annihilation.

A terrifying shockwave tore up sheets of metal and rock from the ground.

Chu Yunxuan's main battleship disintegrated the moment it touched the turbulence, but the extreme heat and kinetic energy generated by the explosion...

...tore a ten-meter-wide path through the dark matter turbulence at the Source Beast's chest, leading straight to the Core Source!

"The path will only last for three seconds!" Chu Yunxuan roared, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth as the backlash to his Mental Energy caused a splitting headache. "Who's going?!"

Three seconds.

Under the pressure of a Peak Diamond-grade Source Beast, these three seconds were the boundary between life and death.

Just as everyone was still weighing the risks, a blue-purple figure had already rushed out ahead of them.

It was Xiao Ting.

At this moment, Xiao Ting's eyes were filled with undisguised greed.

He knew the current situation all too well.

The nine-family coalition army was decimated, his Lion Dragon army had suffered heavy losses, and he had even sparked a scandal involving backlash.

If he couldn't take first place in the Grand Exam today, he would definitely become a laughingstock in the noble circles upon returning to Tianhai Province.

But he had speed.

The Law of Wind and Thunder was the fastest burst method on the field.

As long as he could beat everyone else to it and crush that Core Source.

All his humiliations and mistakes would be covered up by the halo of first place.

"The first place in Tianhai Province can only be me, Xiao Ting!"

Xiao Ting roared, draining every ounce of Divine Power in his body.

Man and beast turned into a wind-thunder awl, piercing into the path Chu Yunxuan had blasted open.

One second.

He rushed through the first half of the path; the beating frequency of the Core Source was already clearly audible.

Xiao Ting grinned with wild joy; he had already thought about how to accept the praise of the bigwigs after getting out.

However, the Source Beast was not dead.

Just as Xiao Ting was about to touch the Core Source.

A black tail, thick as a mountain ridge, swung over from the side behind the Source Beast.

The speed was so fast it broke the sound barrier.

Bang!

The Lion Dragon King didn't even have time to scream before half its body was whipped into a blood mist.

Xiao Ting's Wind-Thunder shield shattered like paper, and he was slammed into a distant metal cliff, his life or death unknown.

"Idiot! You're always a step behind!" Li Changfeng cursed angrily upon seeing this.

But he did not pause.

"Rise, sword!"

Li Changfeng bit his tongue and sprayed a mouthful of essence blood onto his only remaining Flying Sword.

He merged with the Flying Sword, transforming into a brilliant silver Sword Qi.

Following the trajectory of Xiao Ting's failure, he charged into the path.

Two seconds.

The Sword Qi collided with the final layer of dark matter film on the surface of the Core Source.

Crack.

The film shattered, and Li Changfeng's Sword Intent successfully pierced the skin of the Source Beast's core.

But the recoil from the Peak Diamond-grade Law also surged back along the sword body.

"Pfft—"

Li Changfeng spat out a large mouthful of blood, his Sword Intent dissipated, and he was knocked out of the path by the recoil.

He had done his best.

"The path is closing!" Chu Yunxuan watched in despair as the rift propped up by the mechanical wreckage was rapidly shrinking.

Just as the second second was about to end and the third second was beginning.

Lin Yuan, who had been standing in the back watching coldly, moved.

There was no howling of wind and thunder, no sharpness of Sword Qi.

Lin Yuan's figure blurred in a flash, merging into the shadows of this dim space.

Shadow Lurker Law.

The Tyrant turned into a pool of dark golden liquid, wrapping Lin Yuan inside.

Man and beast nearly disappeared on a physical level, following the shadows cast by the mechanical wreckage in the path.

They slid in with an incredibly eerie posture.

The timing was mastered to perfection.

A moment more and he would have been caught in the aftermath of Li Changfeng's Sword Qi; a moment less and the path would have closed.

"Roar—!!!"

Sensing an ant had burrowed into its heart, the Source Beast let out a completely maddened roar.

It abandoned its suppression of the three external Diamond-grade undead.

All the eyeballs on its body rolled back simultaneously; all dark matter tentacles and all annihilation rays...

...shifted direction, preparing to concentrate fire on the chest path to completely obliterate Lin Yuan.

"Stop it!"

Someone shouted.

At this life-or-death moment, these usually high-and-mighty Prodigies who calculated against each other...

...finally displayed the grit belonging to the Human Race.

"Stars, fall!"

The Starlight girl's pretty face turned pale; she did not hesitate to sacrifice all the star phantoms in her Divine Domain.

The starlight filling the sky turned into tens of thousands of silver chains, reaching out from the Void Realm to tightly entangle the Source Beast's flailing dark matter tentacles.

The chains hissed as they were corroded by the Law of Annihilation.

The girl bled from her seven orifices, but she fought to the death without retreating.

"Holy Light, Judgment!"

The six light wings behind Su Yueying ignited with incandescent flames; it was her Angel Divinity fragment operating at overload.

She raised her cross sword high, and a pillar of Holy Light a thousand meters in diameter descended from the sky, holding off the dozens of annihilation rays above the Source Beast.

"Roar!"

Murong Bai's eyes were bloodshot as he commanded the few remaining Purple-Gold Behemoths.

These kings of ground warfare roared, using the totem pillars weighing tens of thousands of tons in their hands as javelins.

They threw them at the Source Beast's flank, interrupting its charge.

"Stop for me!"

Zhan Kuang's bare upper body was covered in bloodstains as he personally piloted a broken heavy mecha.

The mecha's engine spewed red steam as he charged recklessly, hugging one of the Source Beast's legs tightly.

"Money can be earned again if it's gone, but if your life is gone, it's really gone!"

Qian Duoduo wiped away his tears while pulling large handfuls of magic scrolls exuding an ancient aura from his spatial ring.

He didn't even look at them, tearing them all up in one go.

Meteors of fire, extreme cold ice storms, and Void Realm wind blades all smashed into the Source Beast's head.

And at the very front of the battlefield.

Bai Ye was already kneeling on the ground, his hands digging tightly into the metal floor, his fingernails torn back.

"Bone Dragon, self-destruct! Knight, self-destruct!"

A beast-like low growl escaped Bai Ye's throat.

To buy the final time for Lin Yuan, he directly detonated two Diamond-grade entry-level Undead Lords.

Boom! Boom!

The Law of Death exploded on the Source Beast's lower abdomen, penetrating its dark matter defense and causing the Source Beast to spasm in pain.

Everyone was fighting for their lives.

With their own foundations and their own flesh and blood, they...

...carved out a breathing space for Lin Yuan on the Peak Diamond-grade Source Beast.

Inside the path.

The third second.

Lin Yuan passed through the turbulence and arrived before the Core Source.

A beating, dark red heart composed of the Law of the Abyss.

Sensing a fatal threat, the Source Beast's will made a final struggle.

It abandoned its external defenses, and the dark matter shells on both sides of its chest began to squeeze inward.

It wanted to close its chest completely and crush Lin Yuan along with the Tyrant inside its body.

Click, click, click—

The metal shells on both sides closed with the force of ten thousand tons.

At this critical moment.

"Tyrant." Lin Yuan called out softly.

The dark golden liquid wrapping Lin Yuan expanded violently.

The Tyrant released its Shadow Lurker state, its body expanding within the narrow space.

It planted its feet below, raised its arms high, and held back the closing dark matter shell with all its might.

The Extreme Gravity Field outputted in reverse, forming an outward-repelling Domain.

Creak—!

The sound of metal grinding echoed in the path.

On the Tyrant's arms, the dark golden liquid cracked layer by layer, and its bones wailed.

With this intensity of squeezing pressure, even the Tyrant could not hold on for too long.

But this was enough.

Lin Yuan stood in the gap propped open by the Tyrant, facing the beating Core Source directly.

He slowly raised his right fist.

Dark golden Divine Power surged through his Meridians, perfectly merging with his physical strength.

Ultimately, it was infinitely compressed onto the fist of his right hand.

There was no blinding light, no earth-shattering phenomena.

Only a plain, unadorned sense of heaviness that concentrated all his power to the extreme.

Lin Yuan's gaze was firm; he stared at the center of the Core Source and threw a punch.

Bang.

The moment his fist made contact with the Core Source.

Time seemed to have been pressed on the pause button.

The howling cold wind at the bottom of the pit stagnated, and the Source Beast's struggling movements stiffened.

Even the sound of everyone's breathing vanished in this second.