244: Chapter 244 As long as I have a breath left, no one will lay a finger on a hair on your head!

“Hehehehe... Hahahahaha!!!”

Gu Yuan suddenly looked up to the sky and let out a hair-raising, wild laugh. He stared fixedly at Chen Xi, and in those eyes that were originally cloudy, a strange, ghostly blue flame that did not belong to humans was now burning.

“Chen Xi, do you think you’ve won?”

“Do you think that by killing all this trash, you can stop the arrival of the gods?”

Gu Yuan suddenly tore open the black robes on his body!

In the pupils of Chen Xi and the others, which suddenly contracted, they saw that on Gu Yuan's withered chest, a polyhedral blue crystal emitting a thick high-dimensional aura was actually embedded! That was clearly an energy core identical to those of the [High-Dimensional Observers] on the Extreme North Ice Field!

“As early as ten years ago, I already sacrificed my soul to the great high-dimensional will!”

Gu Yuan's voice became overlapping and ethereal, as if countless voices were speaking at the same time:

“This decaying physical body should have been discarded long ago! Since you low-level creatures are so stubborn...”

“Then let my life, and the bloodlines of this entire Imperial Capital, serve as the guiding light!”

“Welcome... the will of the [Lord of the Void], descend by force!!!”

“Puchi——!!!”

Before his words had even fallen, Gu Yuan actually joined two fingers together and thrust them into his own chest without hesitation, crushing that high-dimensional crystal into powder with one grab!

“Rumble————!!!!!”

The moment Gu Yuan crushed that high-dimensional crystal, an indescribable wave of terrifying energy, like the singularity of the Big Bang, exploded violently in the very center of the Pantheon's plaza!

This was no ordinary explosion, but a collapse of dimensions!

Centering on Gu Yuan’s rapidly shriveling and carbonizing physical body, a point so black it could swallow even light formed instantly. Immediately following that, the 'World-Extinguishing Star Array' that had been cowed by Chen Xi’s dimensional strike actually began to rotate backward frantically in a way that completely defied physical common sense, after absorbing Gu Yuan’s sacrificed soul and high-dimensional core!

“Buzz— Buzz— Buzz—!”

The shrill sound of dimensional alarms echoed mournfully throughout the sky above the Imperial Capital. The sky split open.

This time, the crack was no longer a small-scale purple fissure, but a massive abyss rift tens of kilometers long that spanned the entire firmament of the Imperial Capital! From within that rift, no beasts emerged, nor did any violent energy; there was only a suffocating, absolute [Silence].

“What... what is that thing...”

The Southern District soldiers below, who were fighting the remaining Star Guard, involuntarily stopped their movements. Everyone, friend and foe alike, as they looked up at that rift, felt their weapons drop uncontrollably to the ground; their legs went weak, and their eyes were filled with the most primitive trembling and fear originating from the base of their genes.

An eye.

A massive eye, large enough to cover half the city and appearing as a strangely ghostly blue, slowly emerged from the depths of that space-time rift, looking down coldly at this azure planet below.

Being gazed upon by that eye for just one second!

“Ahhhhh!!!”

On the outskirts of the plaza, thousands of lower-level Star Guard and Southern District soldiers didn't even have time to let out a full scream before their bodies, like sand sculptures weathered for a thousand years, instantly turned into gray-white powder dancing in the sky, dissipating with the wind! There was no blood, no explosion; they were simply erased from existence by pure [Rule Erasure]!

“Damn it! This is a dimensional gaze that transcends the concept of levels! Everyone, close your eyes! Do not look directly at the sky!!!”

Lei Zhentian's eyes were bloodshot as he recklessly burned his Lv.95 Origin Battle Qi, attempting to prop up a thunder shield over the Southern District army. But under the gaze of that abyssal giant eye, his battle qi shield, which was strong enough to withstand a nuclear blast, actually melted rapidly like snow meeting boiling water. Even he coughed up a large mouthful of blood and fell to one knee!

“This is no ordinary high-dimensional creature... this is a true [Divine Projection]! It wants to use this eye to forcibly assimilate the dimensional laws of this space!” Li Zhenhai's face was equally pale as he gritted his teeth, supporting his body. Before the great power of this dimensional strike, even level-100 powerhouses felt their own smallness and helplessness.

“Captain Chen! My time rules are frozen! The timeline of this area has been forcibly locked by that eye!”

In mid-air, Li Murou let out an anxious cry. She desperately plucked the [harp of time reversal], her fingers cut bloody by the strings, yet she couldn't play even a single complete note. That high-dimensional gaze directly locked the flow of time in the three-dimensional world!

“My lightning is the same! The spatial elements around us have been completely drained; I can't gather magic!” Su Xiaoxiao gripped her staff tightly, her purple-silver long hair losing its luster under the invisible pressure. Her body felt as if it were being crushed by an invisible mountain, making even remaining suspended extremely difficult.

“Beep beep beep! Warning! Force majeure rule overwrite detected!”

“The mecha's external armor is being decomposed by high-dimensional assimilation! Reactor energy loss rate: 800%!”

Inside the cockpit of the xingtian mecha, the alarm sounds merged into a shrill noise. Chen Xi gripped the control stick tightly, watching helplessly as the mecha's indestructible dark-gold outer shell began to disintegrate inch by inch like peeling wall paint under the gaze of that ghostly blue giant eye, dissipating into points of blue light.

“These alien bastards actually managed to forcibly summon a projection of a god...”

The corners of Chen Xi's eyes cracked with blood due to extreme mental pressure, and his breathing became as heavy as a bellows. Facing this indiscriminate attack that directly performed a 'dimensional formatting' on the entire space, physical defense and conventional magic resistance—even the 'Anti-Rule Field' he was previously proud of—became useless!

Because the opponent wasn't attacking you; it was [erasing] the canvas of the world you were in!

“Is there... really no way?” The divine mark on Ye Fei's brow flashed frantically. She tried to use the pressure of the [Divine Maiden of Ten Thousand Spirits] to counter that eye, but in return, she felt a burst of sharp pain in the depths of her soul that almost tore her apart. That was the price a low-dimensional life had to pay for attempting to look directly at a high-dimensional god.

“No... there is still a way.”

At this desperate moment that felt like the end of the world, when everyone was closing their eyes and waiting for death.

A figure, burly as an iron tower, covered in blood but still as firm as a rock, slowly walked to the very front of the xingtian mecha.

It was Lin Shan.

The heavy armor on his body had already been shattered during the melee just now, and his lean upper body was covered in wounds of various sizes, some deep enough to see bone. But at this moment, in those bloodshot eyes, there wasn't a hint of fear toward the Divine Projection; instead, there burned an extreme fire of martyrdom that would make even a god find it piercing!

“Lin Shan! What are you doing?! Fall back! That's not something you can block!” Chen Xi roared through the mecha's loudspeaker. He sensed the crazy aura within Lin Shan that was heading toward the edge of destruction.

“Captain, this life of mine, Lin Shan, was picked up by you from the ruins. Without you, I would have long been a cripple only able to lie in a hospital bed wailing.”

Lin Shan did not look back; he only slowly raised the two giant tower shields in his hands, which were already battered and broken. His voice was exceptionally calm, yet it carried a heroic spirit and determination that could pierce through gold and stone:

“You said that you needed a shield that even a god couldn't break.”

“I promised you that as long as I have a single breath left, no one will touch a hair on your heads!”