147: Chapter 147 Physical Annihilation

The night was as thick as ink that would not dissolve. Three hundred kilometers southwest of Donghai City lay a stretch of undulating, abandoned mining area.

This place used to be the province's largest magnetite vein. Although production had long been halted and the mines sealed, the high concentration of magnetite Ore remaining underground still made this region a natural electromagnetic exclusion zone. Compasses here would spin wildly like fans, and ordinary radio signals would turn into static the moment they entered the mountains.

For Su Yang, who was currently fleeing for his life, this was simply a godsend of a sanctuary.

"A good place! Truly, heaven never seals off all exits!"

Su Yang's Primordial Spirit was currently so dim it looked like a kerosene lamp running out of oil. Although those few rounds of electromagnetic pulses had not scattered him, they had shaved off more than half of his thousand years of cultivation. Now, apart from still being able to fly, he had almost no means of attack.

He dived headfirst into the pitch-black heart of the mine.

As his Primordial Spirit passed through those magnetite-rich rocks and felt the chaotic, disorderly natural magnetic field around him, Su Yang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

That feeling of being watched, like a thorn in his back, had vanished.

"Gu Changan, oh Gu Changan, you rely too much on those iron gadgets."

Su Yang burrowed into an abandoned mine shaft and followed an underground river deep down. The magnetite layer, which was several hundred meters thick, was the best shielding cover.

"Quantum radar is indeed powerful, but in this kind of natural, strong magnetic interference environment, I don't believe you can still distinguish what is this Seat and what is magnetite!"

He curled up in a karst cave two hundred meters underground, greedily absorbing the meager Yin Qi from the underground dark river, attempting to repair his dilapidated Soul body. If given one night, he could stabilize his injuries, and at that time, he could just find some backpacker exploring the mountains to perform Possession on, change his identity, and be a fine man again.

Meanwhile.

Inside the mobile command vehicle of the Bureau of Anomalous Affairs.

Director Gu sat on a leather sofa with a freshly brewed cup of goji berry tea in front of him. He watched the red dot that had suddenly disappeared into the pile of rubble on the big screen, his expression devoid of any fluctuation.

"Boss, the target has entered the magnetite area, and the signal is severely interfered with." Chen Xiaobei's fingers tapped rapidly on the Keyboard, but his brows were furrowed. "The geomagnetic environment over there is too complex; the quantum radar echoes are all noise, making it very difficult to pinpoint his location."

"Interference?"

Director Gu picked up his teacup and blew on the hot steam, his tone as flat as if he were chatting about what to have for dinner.

"Xiaobei, that's where you're wrong. You're a technician; you need to look past the phenomena to see the essence."

"He is a Primordial Spirit, a high-energy spiritual particle aggregate. And what is magnetite? It's iron(II,III) oxide."

Director Gu extended a finger and tapped on the screen.

"Since the radar can't see clearly, then change the strategy. Activate the [Deep Earth 3D Geological Scanner] and load the [Spiritual Energy Thermal Imaging] filter."

"No matter how thick the rock crevice he's hiding in is, he's still hot at the energy level. Is it hard to find a heat source in a pile of cold stones?"

Chen Xiaobei's eyes lit up, and he slapped his thigh hard.

"Understood! Switching scan modes now!"

A few seconds later.

The screen, which had been full of snowy noise, suddenly changed.

The image turned into a translucent 3D model. The structure of the entire mountain was peeled away layer by layer, like a precise anthill. And right next to the dark river two hundred meters underground, a red-to-purple glowing dot was flickering clearly.

It was like a drop of fresh red blood suddenly dripping onto a black-and-white X-ray.

"Found him! Coordinates locked!"

Chen Xiaobei shouted excitedly, "This guy is hiding in an underground karst cave, thinking we can't see him, and he's just lying there absorbing Yin Qi!"

Director Gu set down his teacup, a cold sneer curling the corner of his mouth.

"Let him absorb; that's his last breath in this world."

He stood up and walked to the weapon control console of the command vehicle. There was a red launch button, with a prominent yellow warning label posted above it: [Danger: Antimatter Weapon, Strictly Prohibited in Densely Populated Areas].

"Boss, should we use the bunker-buster?" the operations captain next to him asked. "At that depth, our heavy bunker-busters can penetrate it."

"Bunker-busters are for blowing up physical objects."

Director Gu shook his head and reached out to peel off the yellow label.

"Old Ancestor Su is currently a pure energy entity. If you hit him with explosives, at most you'll just scatter him, and he'll be able to gather himself back together in a few days."

"To deal with an old ghost like this who has no physical body, you have to use some ruthless tricks he can't comprehend."

Director Gu's finger hovered above the button, his gaze becoming extremely cold.

"Notify the vehicle team to pull up that [Vehicle-Mounted Antimatter Constraint Cannon] that's still in the testing phase."

"Although it can only fire a microgram-level antimatter beam, it's enough to give Old Ancestor Su a 'deep cleaning'."

On the road outside the mining area.

A heavy truck with an extremely sci-fi appearance slowly came to a stop. The top of the carriage slid open to both sides, raising a five-meter-long black metal tube. The tube body had no reflection at all, surrounded by rings of light blue constraint magnetic fields.

This was the pinnacle crystallization of human physics.

Although it was just an experimental model that had not been mass-produced, and although every launch burned through hundreds of millions in funding, it was worth the money to deal with a cultivation monster who had lived for a thousand years.

"Charging complete."

"Magnetic constraint field stable."

"Target locked, error correction zero."

The fire control officer's report came through the headset.

Director Gu looked at the red dot still wriggling on the screen and said softly:

"Goodbye, old thing. Your era is completely over."

He pressed the button.

"Zzzzt—!"

There was no earth-shattering explosion, nor was there any fire in the sky.

The black metal tube muzzle just trembled slightly. A black beam of light, almost impossible for the naked eye to catch, instantly pierced the night sky.

The moment this beam of light made contact with the mountain rock, no collision occurred.

It was as if it passed through a layer of water mist, silently annihilating all matter along its path. Hard magnetite Ore, thick rock layers, flowing groundwater... everything touched by this black light disappeared into thin air in an instant.

Not even dust was left behind.

That was the pure annihilation that occurs when antimatter comes into contact with positive matter.

Inside the underground karst cave.

Su Yang was sitting cross-legged, hovering above the water surface, the relief of having survived a disaster making him relax his vigilance slightly.

"Once this Seat recovers his cultivation, I will surely wash this hundred-mile radius in blood..."

Before he could finish his sentence.

A terrifying sense of crisis that made the depths of his Soul tremble suddenly descended. This was not danger; this was death.

He subconsciously wanted to dodge, but that black light was too fast.

So fast it exceeded the reaction speed of his Divine Thought.

"Pfft."

A very faint, muffled sound.

Su Yang looked down blankly.

He looked at his left arm.

It had originally been a mass of solid blood-colored energy, but now, it was empty.

There were no wounds, no pain, not even a severed stump. His entire left arm, along with his left shoulder, had just vanished into thin air. It was as if it had been gently erased from a drawing by an eraser.

"Ah???"

Su Yang let out a shrill scream that went out of tune.

This fear was ten thousand times stronger than being electrocuted just now. Because he did not understand. He did not understand why such a power could exist; it had no Spiritual Qi fluctuations, no Spell trajectories, yet it could directly erase his very existence!

"What is this?! What kind of evil magic is this?!"

Su Yang looked in horror at the straight hole that had pierced through the rock layer above his head. Through that hole, he could even see the stars in the night sky.

If it had been slightly off just now and hit his head or his Primordial Spirit core...

He would no longer exist!

"Heavenly Tribulation! This is the Immeasurable Heavenly Tribulation!"

Su Yang completely collapsed. Even the Nine Heavens Lightning Tribulation encountered during Ascension in legends would only strike a person into charcoal. But this kind of power that could directly "erase" a person could only be achieved by the Heavenly Dao that had mastered the Law of Creation!

"No! I'm not playing anymore! I'm not cultivating anymore!"

Su Yang no longer had any of the dignity of a Demonic Path Old Ancestor.

He knelt down in mid-air with a thud, kowtowing frantically toward the pitch-black hole above his head.

"Immortal, spare me! Director Gu, spare me!"

"This Seat... no, this lowly one was wrong! This lowly one is willing to surrender! This lowly one is willing to hand over all Demonic Path Secret Manuals, willing to be a beast of burden for the country, I beg you to withdraw your Divine Ability!"

His Primordial Spirit was trembling violently; it was a humbleness born from the instinct of life. In the face of that absolute power capable of erasing existence at will, what dignity, what backbone—it was all bullshit.