146: Chapter 146 You're Running Naked on the Radar

The night sky was like ink, and the cold wind howled.

A dark red stream of light, difficult for the naked eye to capture, was darting frantically three thousand meters above Donghai City.

This was the Primordial Spirit of the Old Ancestor of the Blood River, Su Yang.

Having detached from that Physical Body which was not a perfect fit, he felt an unprecedented sense of lightness.

The heavy feeling of being bound by flesh and blood had vanished, replaced by the exhilaration of being able to travel a thousand miles in an instant with a single thought.

"This is the taste of freedom!"

Su Yang's Primordial Spirit rolled through the clouds, letting out a wild laugh that could only be heard on a spiritual level.

"Gu Changan, you were a move behind after all. The eyes of a Mortal can only see physical entities, but they cannot see energy. I am now but a wisp of wind between heaven and earth; how will you catch me? With what will you catch me?"

He set his sights on a stretch of continuous mountains in the southwest.

That place was rarely visited by humans and had extremely heavy Yin Qi. As long as he drilled into the deep mountains and old forests, found some wandering ghost to devour, or possessed some wild beast, he only needed to survive for a few years, and he would still be able to make a comeback.

Moreover, his speed was extremely fast.

Even ordinary jet planes might not be able to catch up to the full-speed flight of a Primordial Spirit.

However, just as he was getting carried away, a faint buzzing sound suddenly alerted him.

Su Yang turned his head to look, and his Soul body fluctuated instantly.

He saw that in the night sky behind him, six silver-gray streamlined drones were biting tightly onto his tail in a triangular formation.

These drones had no propellers; their tails were emitting faint blue ion flames, and their speed was actually a notch faster than his!

"It's these annoying iron birds again!"

Su Yang felt annoyed, but he was not panicked.

"So what if they are fast? I am a formless entity; nothing in this world can stop me!"

A skyscraper in the CBD that towered into the clouds appeared in front of him.

Su Yang sneered; instead of slowing down, he accelerated and crashed toward the glass curtain wall of the building.

Swish!

A flash of red light streaked past.

His Primordial Spirit passed through the reinforced concrete wall without any obstruction, going directly from one end of the building to the other. During this, he even passed through the bodies of a few office workers working overtime, causing those people to shiver, thinking the air conditioning was set too low.

Su Yang looked back.

Those drones were indeed blocked by the building and had to split into two groups to fly around it.

"Idiots."

Su Yang felt relieved, preparing to use the cover of the buildings to completely shake off the pursuit.

Bzzzt—

Just then, a harsh sound of electric current suddenly exploded directly in his mind.

Immediately after, that voice he hated to the bone rang directly inside his Primordial Spirit through some special frequency vibration.

"Old Ancestor Su, do you think passing through walls is fun?"

Su Yang's Primordial Spirit stiffened abruptly, hovering in mid-air.

He looked around in terror: "Gu Changan?! Where are you?!"

"Look up."

Su Yang looked up subconsciously.

He saw that the six drones had gathered again at some point and were hovering a hundred meters above his head.

In the holographic projection cast below the drones, Gu Changan was sitting upright in the command chair of the Bureau of Anomalies, holding a tablet computer, with that calm expression on his face that made people want to tear it to shreds.

"Don't waste your energy."

Gu Changan swiped his finger across the screen, "Two kilometers to the left is a high-voltage power transmission grid with a voltage of 500 kilovolts. For a pure energy entity like you, it's an electric mosquito swatter."

"Three kilometers to the right is a cluster of mobile communication base station towers. The electromagnetic radiation there is enough to weaken your current Divine Soul strength by thirty percent."

"As for going down..."

Gu Changan pointed to the brightly lit street below.

"That is the substation in the city center. If you dare to go down there, you will be instantly sucked into the magnetic field and shredded to pieces."

"See, your path has long been calculated by me."

Su Yang's Primordial Spirit trembled violently; that was a manifestation of extreme anger and fear.

"You... how could you possibly know my location?! I clearly passed through the building and cut off visual contact!"

"Visual contact?"

Gu Changan seemed to have heard some joke; he turned the tablet in his hand and showed it to the camera.

On the screen was a complex radar scanning interface.

Against the pitch-black background, a purple-red energy cluster was clearly displayed in the center, with lines of jumping data labeled next to it.

[Target Nature: High-Energy Spirit Particle Aggregate]

[Current Energy Value: 4200 Joules]

[Movement Speed: 1.2 Mach]

[Core Structural Stability: 78% (Decreasing)]

"Su Yang, let me educate you a bit."

Gu Changan's voice was as cold as ice, "This is the latest airborne quantum radar. It doesn't lock onto your shape, but your energy frequency."

"Under the scanning of the quantum entangled state, let alone passing through walls, even if you buried yourself in lead plates, as long as you are still releasing energy, this radar can find you."

"And..."

Gu Changan paused, a hint of pity in his eyes.

"The resolution is 0.01 nanometers."

"In other words, how many cracks are on your Divine Soul right now, which part of the energy is weaker, and even the fact that your Divine Soul frequency trembled a few times just now due to fear, I can see it all clearly."

"Simply put, your current state is like someone without underwear, streaking on a stage full of spotlights."

Streaking.

These two words were like a heavy hammer, smashing fiercely against Su Yang's self-esteem.

Who was he?

He was the Old Ancestor of the Blood River! He was a titan of the Demonic Path who once made the Immortal Realm tremble with fear!

Now, he was actually being pointed at by a Mortal holding a piece of broken glass, being told that he was streaking?!

"This is too much!"

Su Yang went completely mad.

The humiliation of being visually violated, dissected, and treated as data for analysis made him lose his mind.

"Mortal! I will make you pay the price!"

"Shatter for me!"

Su Yang's Primordial Spirit expanded violently, turning into a huge blood-colored claw, and with a shrill screeching sound, he rushed desperately toward the drone closest to him.

Since he couldn't run away, he would destroy these damned eyes!

Even at the cost of damaging his Primordial Spirit, he would smash all these iron birds staring at him!

However, the scene that happened next made him feel deep despair.

Whoosh—

The blood-colored claw struck fiercely at the drone's fuselage.

No sparks.

No impact sound.

Not even a wobble.

Su Yang's claw was like striking air, passing directly through the middle of the drone's fuselage.

Physical immunity.

This was the greatest advantage of the Primordial Spirit: ignoring physical attacks.

But at this moment, this advantage had become the greatest disadvantage.

Because he also could not touch the physical drones!

"Is this the price you wanted?"

Gu Changan's voice rang out eerily, "Forgot to tell you, the coating on these drone shells is a specially made insulating ceramic; it doesn't conduct electricity, doesn't conduct magnetism, and has no reaction to spiritual energy."

"Your current behavior is like a ghost trying to push over a wall; besides tiring yourself out, it has no meaning."

Su Yang stared blankly at his claw that had passed through the fuselage, feeling for the first time what helplessness was.

Couldn't hit.

Couldn't touch.

Couldn't run.

Couldn't hide.

"Are you done playing?"

Gu Changan in the screen put down the tablet, his eyes suddenly becoming sharp.

"If you're done playing, it's time for me to move my hands."

"Chen Xiaobei, activate the [EMP Electromagnetic Pulse Cannon]."

"Power at thirty percent; don't disperse him, I want him alive."

In the sky, a small hatch opened simultaneously on the belly of the six drones.

Six short, thick metal tubes extended out, and a faint blue light lit up at the muzzle.

Su Yang instinctively felt a terrifying aura capable of destroying him.

"No! Wait..."

Bzzzt—!!!

Six blue-white electric arcs instantly shot out, weaving into a huge electric net in the air, trapping Su Yang's Primordial Spirit tightly in the middle.

This was not Lightning Magic.

This was pure, high-intensity electromagnetic pulse.

For a Primordial Spirit that exists by relying on a magnetic field, this kind of pulse was like countless blunt, red-hot knives, frantically cutting through his Soul structure.

"Ah—!!!"

A shrill, extremely miserable scream resounded through the night sky.

Su Yang felt as if his Soul had been thrown into a meat grinder.

That pain did not come from the Physical Body, but acted directly on the Origin of consciousness. Every inch of Divine Thought was being torn apart, reorganized, and then torn apart again.

"What kind of fire is this?! Why can it burn this seat's True Spirit!"

Su Yang rolled frantically in the electric net; his originally solid Primordial Spirit was instantly dispersed by half, becoming thin and transparent.

"This is called science."

Gu Changan looked coldly at the painfully twisting ball of light on the screen.

"Magnetic field interference, specifically for curing all kinds of disobedient wandering ghosts."

"Su Yang, if this is all the skill you have, then tonight's hunt will be too boring."