237: underground

Inside the barrier, a barrage of death continued to pour down madly!

Swish, swish, swish—!

Earth-yellow energy orbs, seemingly endless, condensed out of thin air from every corner of the barrier's inner wall, mercilessly bombarding every living creature trapped within with a piercing, air-tearing shriek.

Bang! Boom!

Warriors with weaker defenses were hit by multiple energy orbs simultaneously before they could even scream, exploding into a sky full of debris.

Even those powerful High-ranking Official personal guards had to struggle to maintain their energy shields, barely holding on amidst the dense bombardment as their formation was constantly compressed and casualties continued to mount.

Chaos! Despair!

The Kalazange Great Plain had completely transformed into a purgatory shrouded by an earth-yellow curtain of light!

Amidst this sudden barrage of death, Kuta's cold compound eyes flickered rapidly.

He precisely waved his limbs, shattering or deflecting the orbs attacking him with minimal energy consumption, while calmly analyzing the situation before him.

Everything that had happened before the barrier appeared flashed rapidly through his mind.

Soon, based on the limited information, he reached a relatively reliable conclusion.

Without a moment's hesitation, Kuta's mental fluctuations instantly connected with Saras and Hivedi, who was also resisting the energy orbs on the other side: "Zanbuluo is underground! He is controlling the barrier! Target, below!"

"Roar!!" Saras's response was a furious roar; he had long since had enough of this stifling, passive beating!

The lava energy on his body surface condensed instantly, covering him in a simple yet sturdy dark red shield to block those annoying energy orbs.

Immediately following, the surrounding temperature rose sharply, and a giant warhammer burning with raging flames, seemingly condensed from the core of a volcano—【Molten Core Roar】—appeared out of thin air in his limbs! A soul weapon had manifested!

Hivedi was even swifter; he was not as berserk as Saras, but his movements exuded a deadly efficiency.

Several deep blue energy shields layered themselves in front of him like breathing, blocking the incoming orbs.

At the same time, his several slender and flexible limbs reached out simultaneously, and from the tip of each limb "grew" a dagger of energy that glimmered with a chilling, cold light—thin as a cicada's wing yet incomparably sharp—【Thousand Blades Edge】!

Hum—!

The soul weapon was also successfully summoned!

Without hesitation, both of them dove towards the earth below.

"Want to go down? Dream on!" The tree-root-shaped High-ranking Official saw Saras and Hivedi reveal their soul weapons and move toward the ground; understanding their intent immediately, he let out a sharp shriek.

He exchanged a cold, sinister glance with several other Wanderers High-ranking Officials who had been lingering, and immediately split off five of them, transforming into five streams of light that viciously pounced toward Saras and Hivedi, who were preparing to charge into the ground!

They must not let these two guys interfere with Zanbuluo!

However, they were fast, but Kuta was faster!

Kuta's figure remained suspended in mid-air, calmly dealing with the barrage from the barrier, but at the same time, the tips of his free limbs suddenly burst forth with countless finer, more precise, cold rays!

Sss, sss, sss—!

These rays did not attack the distant enemies but instead rapidly intertwined in mid-air, instantly forming a huge web of energy emitting a chill of absolute zero, intercepting the five pouncing Wanderers High-ranking Officials with pinpoint precision, completely sealing off all their attack routes and directions of advance!

"Get out of the way!!" One of the Wanderers High-ranking Officials roared, attempting to use brute force to break through this ice web, slamming his violent energy into it!

Bang!

Energy exploded, ice chips scattered, but the ice web only trembled violently before returning to normal, indestructible!

The High-ranking Official attempting to break through was instead shaken by the massive recoil force, causing his blood to surge and his figure to falter!

Kuta, with his own strength, single-handedly forced these five High-ranking Officials and their troops to be temporarily blocked outside!

He proved with his actions that even in such a passive situation, the top-tier The Strong Ones still possessed the terrifying power to control a local battle!

Just in that brief moment while Kuta blocked the pursuers, Saras had completed his accumulation of power! His lava-like eyes stared fixedly at the earth beneath his feet, as if he wanted to burn right through it!

"Break for me—break!!"

Accompanied by a heaven-shaking roar, Saras raised the burning 【Molten Core Roar】 high above his head, then used all his strength to smash it fiercely down onto the incredibly hard Kalazange Great Plain, which was shrouded by the barrier!

Rumble!!!

An unimaginably violent energy of flame, like the soul of a reawakened volcano, poured madly into the ground along the hammerhead!

The earth let out a painful groan, trembling violently and cracking layer by layer!

A massive deep pit with melted edges and a charred center instantly appeared, and the terrifying, scorching heat wave spread wildly in all directions like a shockwave, even directly blowing away and igniting some of the nearby warriors who were fighting other enemies!

On the other side, Hivedi's movements were equally swift and fierce!

He did not have the earth-shattering momentum of Saras, but he was more focused and more deadly!

He suddenly brought together several of the limbs holding the 【Thousand Blades Edge】, then spun them at high speed with incredible velocity!

Hum, hum, hum—!

Those thin and sharp energy daggers seemed to fuse together during the high-speed rotation into a huge energy drill shimmering with a deep blue, cold light!

The tip of the drill condensed into a point of extreme sharpness, and with a sharp, space-tearing whistling sound, it drilled fiercely into the ground!

Sss, la, la, la—!

The hard rock layer, which might even have been reinforced with energy by Zanbuluo, was as fragile as rotten wood in front of this terrifying energy drill!

Broken stones mixed with energized soil debris flew wildly, and a bottomless hole with mirror-smooth inner walls was rapidly drilled open by the 【Thousand Blades Edge】 at an astonishing speed!

One with a violent bombardment, one with precise drilling!

Saras and Hivedi, two of The Strong Ones standing at the pinnacle of the Suradi Continent, simultaneously advanced toward Zanbuluo, who was hidden deep underground.