59: Chapter 59 The Realm of Equality for All Beings Opens

The blood-colored thunder outside the window continued to roar, and with every flash of lightning, the entire electrical System of Donghai City flickered.

The pedestrians on the streets had long since descended into chaos; screams and the sounds of car collisions rose and fell one after another.

But inside the Cloud Top Restaurant, Gu Changan merely raised his hand to check his watch, his expression as calm as if he were waiting for a late bus.

He pressed his earpiece, his voice not loud, yet clearly audible in the deathly silent restaurant.

"Command Center, this is Gu Changan."

"Target energy response has exceeded the S-rank threshold; conventional firepower cannot effectively suppress it."

"According to Article A-01 of the 'Special Regulations for Extraordinary Matters,' I request the activation of the 'Damocles' System."

Gu Changan looked up through the shattered floor-to-ceiling windows toward the blood-red clouds filling the sky.

"Coordinates locked: Donghai City Center, directly above the Genting Building."

"Strike method: Space-based kinetic weapon—'Rod of God'."

"Authorization confirmed."

As the final word fell, far beyond the atmosphere, in a high-altitude orbit thirty-six thousand kilometers up.

A giant military satellite, disguised as a weather satellite, suddenly emitted several pulses for attitude adjustment.

Massive solar panels slowly retracted, revealing two six-meter-long, pitch-black, high-density tungsten alloy rods in its belly.

There was no gunpowder, and no warheads were needed.

Under the acceleration of gravity, these two tungsten rods would reach ten times the speed of sound upon impact, carrying enough kinetic energy to instantly vaporize half a city block.

Ding—!

An infrared guidance laser, invisible to the naked eye, instantly pierced through the thick blood clouds and locked precisely onto Empress Su Hongyi's high hair bun.

Empress Su Hongyi's face, which had been contorted in wild laughter, suddenly froze.

In that instant, an unprecedented chill of death, like a bucket of ice water, poured from her head to her toes.

It was a biological organism's instinctive fear of destructive power.

She jerked her head up, her crimson-gold pupils staring intently at the ceiling, as if she could see through the reinforced concrete to the two scepters of the Grim Reaper hanging over her head.

"What is this thing..."

For the first time, a trace of a tremble appeared in Empress Su Hongyi's voice.

Even when facing ancient Vicious Beasts, she had never felt such a pure, cold, and emotionless will of destruction.

Gu Changan lowered his hand from his earpiece and adjusted his glasses.

"Final warning."

"If you dare to throw that energy ball in your hand, even if it just grazes the ground..."

"...two seconds later, tungsten alloy rods from outer space will teach you how to behave."

Gu Changan's tone was flat, as if he were stating a common fact of physics.

"Trust me, even if you are an Empress Reincarnation, under this kind of pure kinetic strike, you will only turn into a puddle of carbon-based powder evenly distributed over a five-kilometer radius."

Empress Su Hongyi's face turned pale, and the red energy ball in her hand flickered uncertainly.

The sensation of being locked on by the Heavenly Dao was too real.

Her current Physical Body had not yet returned to its Peak; if she took this hit head-on, death was certain.

However, her dignity as an Empress would never allow her to bow to a group of Mortals.

Especially in front of so many ants.

"A mere Mortal's toy... and you dare speak of slaying an Empress?!"

Empress Su Hongyi bit the tip of her tongue and spat a mouthful of essence blood onto the energy ball in her hand.

The red light surged, and the previously unstable energy ball instantly solidified, emitting a heart-palpitating heat.

Seeing this, Lin Fan, who was standing to the side, immediately jumped out as if he had been injected with chicken blood.

He had no idea what a space-based weapon was; he only felt that his wife's Aura was magnificent and he had to support her.

"Wife, you're mighty! What 'Rod of God' bullshit? Smash it for me!"

Lin Fan waved his fists, his face full of fanaticism.

"Let these frogs at the bottom of the well see what true power is!"

"Hongyi, don't hold back! Poke a hole in the sky!"

Being shouted at by Lin Fan, Empress Su Hongyi's originally hesitant thoughts were instantly pushed to the point of no return.

If she retreated now, how could she rule over the myriad worlds in the future?

"Good!"

A flash of determined madness crossed Empress Su Hongyi's eyes.

"Since this heaven wants to suppress me, then this Empress shall break it!"

She suddenly formed hand seals, the surrounding space began to distort violently, and the terrifying energy ball slowly rose, about to blast toward the ceiling.

Gu Changan looked at this pair of fools who didn't know the meaning of death and shook his head helplessly.

"Stubborn and foolish."

"Since you don't want to be dignified, then I'll help you be dignified."

He awakened the System interface in his mind.

"System, activate [All Beings Equal Domain]."

"Consume all Law Enforcement Points, coverage radius of five hundred meters."

[Ding!]

[Confirmed consumption of 2000 Law Enforcement Points.]

[All Beings Equal Domain (Temporary Version) has been deployed.]

[Duration: 30 minutes.]

[Within this Domain, except for the physical rules of the technology side, all Spiritual Qi, magic, supernatural abilities, Battle Qi, and other supernatural energies will be forcibly reduced to zero.]

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

There were no brilliant or colorful light effects.

Only an invisible ripple, like a pebble thrown into a calm lake, instantly swept across the entire Cloud Top Restaurant and spread outward.

"Buzz—"

Everyone's eardrums felt a slight vibration.

The next second.

The world went quiet.

The thunder that had been roaring outside the window came to an abrupt halt.

The blood clouds rolling across the sky vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye, like second-hand smoke blown away by a gust of wind.

Revealing Donghai City's original clear night sky, dotted with a few sparse stars.

Inside the restaurant, the broken glass and tableware floating in the air lost their support and fell to the ground with a "clatter."

The most awkward one was Empress Su Hongyi.

The red energy ball in her hand, which had condensed her life's cultivation and was prepared to defy heaven...

...made a "poof" sound, like a fart being held back.

Then, like a leaking balloon, it instantly shriveled and extinguished, without even a puff of smoke.

Empress Su Hongyi maintained her posture of holding both hands up toward the sky, her entire body as stiff as a stone statue.

Her red qipao, which had been fluttering and snapping in the wind, now clung limply to her body.

That terrifying pressure that looked down on the world and viewed all living beings as ants had vanished completely.

Now, she looked just like an ordinary woman at a food stall who had drunk too much and wanted to throw a drunken fit.

"Eh?"

Empress Su Hongyi was stunned.

She blinked her eyes, which had already turned back to black, and looked blankly at her empty hands.

Where was her Spiritual Power?

Where was her vast, sea-like Spiritual Power that was enough to destroy heaven and earth?

Refusing to give up, she tried to mobilize her Dantian again.

It was completely empty.

It was like an emptied rice jar; not even a grain of dust remained.

"Impossible... this is absolutely impossible!"

Empress Su Hongyi panicked; she frantically formed hand seals, trying to reconjure a Spell.

"Heaven and Earth without limits! Borrowing the Law of Qiankun! Gather for me!"

Her fingers flew, forming one complex hand seal after another.

But in the eyes of others...

...this beautiful woman in a qipao was standing in a pile of broken glass shards, making all sorts of strange gestures with a distorted face.

It looked like she was performing some kind of awkward square dance.

She even almost strained her waist because her movements were too large.