220: Chapter 220 Who am I?

Pfft!

His lower body was severed cleanly by the closing space power, and blood sprayed out like a fountain. Only a bloody half of a body remained, crashing heavily back onto the cold metal floor.

"This... this is the Tower of Heaven's defense mechanism?! How could you possibly control it?! Who on earth are you!!!"

Elder Yuhuo was so terrified by this scene that his movements to maintain the magic formation stalled, and the pale white flames trembled violently. He looked at the red-haired girl radiating golden divine light, as if he were seeing the most terrifying monster in the world.

This was a high-dimensional artifact that even their leader couldn't fully control back then! Why could this freshman female student determine life and death with a single word?!

"Who am I?"

Ye Fei floated in mid-air, her golden eyes coldly looking down at Blood Nightmare wailing on the ground and the panic-stricken Hellfire.

"I am... the master of this tower."

She raised her hand and pointed at the half-bodied Elder Blood Nightmare, her crimson lips parting slightly to utter the coldest sentence:

"Gravity Suppression. One hundred thousand times."

BOOM—!!!

There was no warning whatsoever.

Under Ye Fei's absolute command, the gravity matrix on the eightieth floor, originally set to defend against intruders, instantly concentrated all its power on the small area where Elder Blood Nightmare was located.

Crack, crack, crack... Pfft!

The Lv.85 peak Rank 8 powerhouse couldn't even let out a second scream.

Under the terrifying gravity comparable to the center of a black hole, his powerful physical body was instantly compressed into a thin meat patty. Blood and internal organs were squeezed into the most primitive blood mist, deeply embedded into the cracks of the metal floor.

He was as dead as could be.

"Blood Nightmare!!!"

Elder Yuhuo's eyes nearly split, and his mental defenses completely collapsed.

Too terrifying! Before this girl who could manipulate the rules of the Tower of Heaven at will, they, the so-called Rank 8 powerhouses, were simply ants that could be crushed at any moment!

"Run! I must run!"

He abruptly retracted the flames of the Nine Dragons Heaven-Burning Array and turned to flee toward the entrance leading to the eighty-first floor.

However, once the wall of fire blocking the xingtian mecha vanished, how could Chen Xi let him go?

"Xiao Xiao! Stop him!"

Chen Xi roared from within the cockpit, and the xingtian mecha's giant axe was already raised again.

"He won't get away."

Without needing Chen Xi's reminder, Su Xiaoxiao's figure had already turned into a bolt of purple lightning, vanishing from her spot.

Void Walk!

Zzzzt—!

Just as Elder Yuhuo took two steps, Su Xiaoxiao appeared directly in front of him like a ghost, blocking his path.

At this moment, a cold killing intent flickered in Su Xiaoxiao's eyes. She had long discarded her staff; in its place, a three-meter-long purple spear condensed from the purest Void Divine Thunder was held between her hands.

"Don't you like playing with fire?"

Su Xiaoxiao looked at the panicked Elder Yuhuo, her lips curling into a death-god-like smile:

"Taste this. Let's see if your fire is fiercer or my lightning is wilder!"

"Void Thunder Punishment: Spear of the Fallen God!!!"

Su Xiaoxiao poured all her magic power into the lightning spear, gripping it with both hands and throwing it ruthlessly toward Elder Yuhuo's chest!

"No!! Get away!!"

Elder Yuhuo roared, trying to muster the remaining pale white flames in his body for defense.

But he had overextended himself too much to block Xingtian earlier, and combined with being suppressed by Ye Fei's authority within the Tower of Heaven, his movements were clearly half a beat too slow.

Pfft—!!!

The purple lightning spear, carrying a terrifying sonic boom that tore through the void, pierced through Elder Yuhuo's heart without resistance.

The violent power of the void lightning instantly exploded inside him, frantically destroying his internal organs and every inch of his meridians.

"Ugh... ah..."

Elder Yuhuo lowered his head, looking at the huge charred hole in his chest as the fire of life in his eyes rapidly dimmed.

He opened his mouth, seemingly wanting to say something, but in the end, he only spat out a mouthful of black blood mixed with fragments of internal organs.

Thud.

With the last elder falling, the entire eightieth floor finally returned to a deathly silence.

Three arrogant Lv.80+ Rank 8 elders were completely wiped out under the Nirvana Battle Team's hidden trump cards and the rule suppression of the Tower of Heaven!

The smoke of battle gradually dissipated.

The pungent smell of blood and scorched metal permeated the hall on the eightieth floor.

Huff— huff—

The cockpit door on the chest of the xingtian mecha slowly opened, and Chen Xi crawled out with a pale face, collapsing onto the cold metal floor and gasping for breath.

Forcing himself to control such a mythic-level summoned mecha above his level consumed a terrifying amount of mental power. If Ye Fei hadn't awakened control over the Tower of Heaven at the last moment and insta-killed Blood Nightmare, he probably wouldn't have lasted until Su Xiaoxiao killed Hellfire.

"Captain Chen! Are you okay!"

Li Murou quickly ran over, her small hands resting on Chen Xi's back as streams of gentle Time Rewind power flowed into his body, helping him slowly restore his depleted mental sea and damaged meridians.

"I'm fine, I won't die."

Chen Xi forced out a slight smile and turned to look at Ye Fei, who was slowly descending from mid-air nearby.

At this moment, the golden light in Ye Fei's eyes had faded, returning to her usual fiery red hair, but she appeared unsteady due to mental exhaustion.

Su Xiaoxiao was quick and stepped forward to support her.

"A-Fei, job well done." Chen Xi gave a thumbs up. "That 'commanding the laws' moment just now was incredibly cool."

Ye Fei smiled weakly, glanced at the puddle of meat that was Elder Blood Nightmare on the ground, and a flash of lingering fear crossed her eyes. "I don't know what happened either. In that moment, I felt like this tower became a part of my body... those defense commands were like they were carved into my brain."

"That's right."

Chen Xi stood up, his gaze deep as he looked toward the passage leading to the top floor:

"You are the bloodline continuation of the first creator. The core 'Source Stone' in this tower originally awakened because of her. It's only logical and reasonable that you have the highest control authority."

"Alright, everyone take the time to recover a bit."

Chen Xi walked to the remains of the broken Watcher and bowed silently. If this veteran hadn't dug out the core at the final moment, they definitely wouldn't have made it past these three elders today.

"There are twenty floors left, and the Black-Clothed Organization's headquarters is up there. We must push through in one go and completely seal that Source Stone; we can't let it fall into the hands of those madmen!"

However.

Just as the four members of the Nirvana Battle Team breathed a slight sigh of relief and prepared to rest briefly before continuing their climb.

Clap, clap, clap.

A series of extremely slow, crisp claps, which sounded exceptionally piercing in this deathly silent environment, suddenly echoed from the dark passage entrance leading to the eighty-first floor.