"Rule Judgment."
Chu Hang's icy voice rang out, like two rusty metals grinding in the dead air, devoid of human emotion, only pure, absolute will, like a program executing.
"Target: Ling Chen. Crime: Betrayal of humanity, degenerate mutation, slaughter of living beings. Verdict: Eradication."
Every word was like a cold iron hammer, smashing heavily into everyone's hearts!
Especially Chen Xue, she slumped in the back, hearing the words "eradication," her body trembled violently, and the last faint glimmer of light in her eyes completely extinguished, leaving only ash-like despair.
Chu Hang slowly raised his right hand.
His five fingers were long and pale, like a pianist's hand, yet at this moment, they exuded a terrifying aura more chilling than any weapon!
His fingertips… had no energy fluctuations, no light, no wind, but seemed to condense the entire world's… Rule power!
A… irresistible, inescapable, as if fate itself had delivered the final judgment… absolute will!
Where his fingertip pointed, there was the end of destiny! There was… Ling Chen's… end!
Buzz—!!!
An indescribable, cold and absolute will fluctuation, as if from the world's rules themselves! Like an invisible, time-freezing shackle! It descended instantly! And fiercely clamped onto Ling Chen's soul!
Cognitive Command: Traitor… shall suffer… the punishment of eradication!
Ling Chen's body suddenly stiffened!
An indescribable sense of suffocation, as if his heart was instantly squeezed, mixed with a terrifying feeling of his soul about to be peeled away, crushed, and utterly erased from existence, instantly swept through his entire body!
His throat felt as if it was tightly gripped by a cold hand! All sounds, all breaths, all thoughts… were forcibly stripped away!
The Soul Jade Physique's cold will instantly issued an extremely sharp alarm! That invisible rule shackle, like the sturdiest cage, attempted to completely freeze and crush his soul!
"Alas, rules are indeed very difficult to contend with."
Ling Chen sighed.
"Ugh… ugh…"
He let out a dying, wheezing sound from his throat, like an old bellows! His body slowly slumped down as if his bones had been removed! His life force… was rapidly draining away… at a visible speed!
"No—!!!" Chen Xue let out a heart-wrenching scream! She tried desperately to rush forward! But she was held back tightly by the soldiers beside her!
"Ling Chen—!!!" Li Mingyu's eyes were bloodshot! His Buli (Brute Force) ability burst forth instinctively! He was about to rush towards Chu Hang recklessly! But he was held back tightly by Sun Qiang!
"Don't go over! That's a rule! You can't stop it!" Sun Qiang roared hoarsely, his eyes filled with bloodshot veins and pain!
Xiong Yan and Li Fan's attacks also instantly stalled!
They watched Ling Chen's dying plight in horror!
A chill from the depths of their souls made them feel cold all over! Rule power! This was… the power of rules! Ignoring defense! Ignoring distance! Directly… eradicating existence!
Chu Hang's gaze beneath his mask was calm and unperturbed, as if looking at an ant about to be crushed. The Rule power at his fingertips… slowly contracted!
However!
Just as everyone thought Ling Chen was doomed!
Just at the critical moment when the invisible rule shackle was about to completely crush Ling Chen's soul!
Deep within Ling Chen's "scattered" eyes, a cold and… playful glint… flashed and disappeared!
The Soul Jade Physique's cold will, like the most precise instrument, instantly detonated a… backdoor program buried deep within his soul!
【Talent Skill: Blood Pool Meat Forest · Blood Shadow Doppelganger】!
Buzz—!!!
What kind of person was he? How could he not think of a way to deal with it?
Around Ling Chen's slumped body! The air violently twisted! Thick, dark red blood mist, exuding a strong bloody scent, emerged from thin air! Instantly enveloping him!
At the same time!
Deep within Linghui Academy! In the abandoned underground cold storage of the parking lot, shrouded in shadows!
A clone identical to Ling Chen, immersed in a viscous nutrient solution!
Suddenly opened his eyes! In his crimson pupils… were filled with… the exact same… "terror" and "despair"… as in Ling Chen's eyes at this moment!
This was a clone replicated by Mu Xi using Ling Chen's genetic sample before the apocalypse.
Pfft—!!!
Without any warning! Without any process!
In the parking lot cold storage! The clone's body… like a wax figure thrown into strong acid… instantly… vaporized! Disappeared! Not even a speck of ash remained!
Only a bottomless, mirror-smooth pit remained on the spot! Identical to the pit left by Chu Hang when he eradicated the Bone Armor Corpse Ghoul elite earlier!
Rule Judgment… completed! But… the target… was transferred!
Thump!
On the observation deck! Ling Chen's body, enveloped in blood mist, suddenly trembled! The dying sense of suffocation and soul stripping instantly vanished!
He coughed violently! Gulping in large breaths! His face was still pale, and his eyes were still "scattered," but… his life force… had miraculously… stabilized! And even… was slowly recovering!
He "weakly" raised his head, looking at Chu Hang, and with extreme difficulty, slowly… curved his lips into a cold and… mocking arc!
"Judgment?"
Ling Chen's voice carried a penetrating sarcasm,
"Chu Hang, your rules seem a bit nearsighted?"
"What?!"
Beneath Chu Hang's pure white mask, there was a very obvious fluctuation for the first time!
In his unfathomable eyes, a flash of unbelievable astonishment and an indescribable confusion flickered!
The target was transferred?! How was this possible?!
"Roar—!!!"
Just as Chu Hang's mind was distracted by this sudden change, and a very subtle… loosening appeared in his Rule power!
A roar full of violent and destructive aura! Like a thunderclap from a clear sky! Suddenly exploded from deep within the Zoo!
Rumble—!!!
The wall on the side of the observation deck! Was suddenly smashed to pieces by a terrifying force! Rubble splattered like cannonballs!
A… massive! Ferocious! Covered in smooth, ink-jade-like bone armor! Fangs like scimitars! Like an out-of-control locomotive! It slammed in fiercely!
It was Zhuang Han!
His massive body carried a terrifying momentum that crushed everything! His giant claws, covered in bone spikes! Gleamed with a faint blue cold light!
With a shriek that tore through the air! He fiercely swiped at… Chu Hang, who was facing away from him and whose mind was drawn to Ling Chen!
"Master… go!"
Zhuang Han let out a suppressed, beast-like roar from his throat! His crimson beast eyes were filled with determination and… a hint of instinctive… fear of rules!
A sneak attack! Precisely timed! Clear target! Straight for Chu Hang!
"Seeking death!"
Chu Hang's icy voice carried a hint of anger at being provoked by an ant! He didn't even turn his head! He just… casually waved his left hand backward!
Buzz—!!!
An invisible Rule power instantly descended!
Zhuang Han's giant claw, powerful enough to shatter mountains… suddenly… froze… less than half a meter from Chu Hang's back!
As if a pause button had been pressed! The giant claw, covered in bone spikes, trembled violently!
But it couldn't advance another inch! His crimson beast eyes were filled with raging fury and… a bone-deep… horror!
Rule Imprisonment!
"Roar—!!!"
Zhuang Han let out an unwilling roar! His massive body struggled frantically! The ink-jade bone armor groaned under the strain!
But… in the face of absolute rules… his strength… was like an ant trying to shake a tree!
"Annoying."
Chu Hang's voice was cold and emotionless. His left hand's five fingers… slowly… contracted!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Bone-shattering sounds that made one's teeth ache rang out! Zhuang Han's imprisoned giant claw! His arm, covered in ink-jade bone armor! Was as if tightly squeezed by an invisible giant hand! Instantly… twisted! Deformed!
"Ugh ah—!!!" Zhuang Han let out a distorted, shrill scream! The intense pain made his massive body convulse violently!
But Ling Chen merely glanced indifferently at the wailing Zhuang Han, then refocused his gaze on Chu Hang.
"Your opponent… is me!"
Xiong Yan's furious roar sounded like a thunderclap! He had long been completely enraged by Ling Chen's "trickery" and Zhuang Han's sneak attack! A terrifying pillar of fiery white, tinged with bluish-green light! Like a roaring fire dragon!
Instantly tore through the pervasive smoke and dust! And fiercely slammed into Ling Chen!
"Samadhi True Fire · City Burn!"
Before the flames even arrived! The terrifying high temperature had already warped the air! The metal railings of the observation deck instantly turned red and softened! Ling Chen's hair and the edges of his clothes even began to scorch and curl!
At the same time!
A dark shadow, like a ghost merging into the night! Silently appeared in Ling Chen's blind spot to his left! A sharp claw covered in dark golden scales!
Gleamed with a deadly cold light! Carrying a sharpness that could tear through anything! It pierced directly towards Ling Chen's temple! Its speed was extreme! Its angle was extremely tricky!
Li Fan! Ya Zi Beast Transformation · Soul Splitting Claw!
In front, there was the Blazing City Flames! To the left, a Soul Splitting sneak attack!
Behind him were shattered walls and the chaotic battlefield below! To his right... was Chu Hang, who had just severely wounded Zhuang Han and whose icy gaze was once again fixed on him!
A deadly trap! There was no escaping it!
In Ling Chen's crimson pupils, the 'weakness' and 'fear' instantly vanished!
In their place was a... coldness like the abyss... calmness and... a hint of... completely ignited... mad battle intent!
"Blood Pool Meat Forest... open!"
The cold voice was like a whisper from the god of death!
"If I can't kill Chu Hang, can't I kill you?"
Boom—!!!
An indescribable, cold, and majestic will fluctuation, as if from the deepest part of the soul, exploded around Ling Chen! Like an invisible ripple, it instantly swept across the entire viewing platform! It even... spread down to the battlefield below!
Innate Spirit Skill—Blood Pool Meat Forest!
This time, the true... domain unfolded!
Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!
On the battlefield below! The Bone Armor Corpse Ghouls that were frantically tearing at soldiers! And the soldiers who were fighting, their movements suddenly stiffened!
The blood in their bodies... seemed to be frozen! Congealed! Forcibly deprived of the right to flow!
The soldiers who were desperately resisting were stunned! They looked at the suddenly stiff Bone Armor Corpse Ghouls in front of them, their eyes filled with unbelievable shock!
Xiong Yan's pillar of fire from the Blazing City Flames!
The moment it rushed into the Blood Pool Meat Forest domain! Its speed... suddenly slowed down! As if it had hit an invisible, extremely viscous, gelatinous wall!
The flames twisted and fluctuated wildly! Emitting a "sizzling" roar! As if struggling forward with difficulty! The terrifying high temperature that could incinerate everything... was actually... forcibly suppressed and weakened!
Li Fan's Soul Splitting Claw, as fast as lightning and tearing through the air! The moment it pierced into the domain!
Its speed... plummeted! As if it had sunk into the most viscous mire! The scaly claws trembled violently!
A hint of horror flashed in his dark golden vertical pupils!
He felt... that the blood in his body... seemed to be flowing backward! As if it wanted to burst out of his body! A cold and overbearing will... was... forcibly controlling his blood!
"Within the domain! I am the master!"
Ling Chen's figure, the moment the domain unfolded! Vanished from his original spot like a ghost! Narrowly avoiding the direct impact of the Blazing City Flames and the fatal sneak attack of the Soul Splitting Claw!
The scorching white flames grazed his afterimage! Melting a huge, terrifying hole with flowing lava edges in the wall of the viewing platform behind him!
The Soul Splitting Claw tore through the air! The strong wind it brought scraped Ling Chen's face painfully! But it only tore through an afterimage!
"What?!"
Xiong Yan and Li Fan simultaneously let out exclamations of disbelief! Their proud attacks... were actually... forcibly delayed! And... dodged?!
Ling Chen's figure appeared on the other side of the viewing platform, his face as pale as paper, a trickle of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth! Forcibly expanding the domain to counter the attacks of two Energy Condensation Stage powerhouses put a huge burden on him!
But in his crimson pupils, the burning battle intent... grew even more intense!
"Thunder Wings... open!"
The cold voice carried an undeniable resolve!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
A grating sound of bones cracking erupted from behind him! His skin instantly tore! Dark purple electric arcs surged out like dancing thunder snakes! Entwining! Compressing! Condensing!
In just a few breaths!
Two giant Thunder Wings, covered in ferocious bone spurs, flowing with violent dark purple electric arcs, and with a wingspan of nearly five meters! Like the claws of a sleeping demon! They fiercely tore through his upper garment! And... unfurled behind him with a roar!
Hum—!!!
An indescribable, terrifying pressure filled with destructive aura! Like a tangible storm! Instantly swept across the entire scene! The air was ionized! Emitting a sharp "crackling" roar! The pungent smell of ozone permeated the air!
Bone Eater Stage Peak! Thunder Wings Asura Form!
"reverse scale pendant... hundredfold amplification... open!"
Ling Chen's voice carried a hint of madness! He fiercely bit the tip of his tongue! A mouthful of blood containing his essence blood sprayed onto the floating reverse scale pendant on his chest, which emitted a cold, eerie glow!
Hum—!!!
The reverse scale pendant instantly erupted with dazzling, eerie light!
An unimaginable, terrifying energy, as if from an ancient giant dragon! Like a bursting flood! Surged fiercely into Ling Chen's body! Into the pair of Thunder Wings that had just unfurled!
The price... a hundred years of lifespan! Instantly burned!
In the early morning, a few strands of Ling Chen's black hair at his temples instantly turned snow white!
But in return... on the Thunder Wings! The dark purple electric arcs instantly surged!
Their color deepened like an abyss! The leaping electric arcs condensed into a tangible thunder liquid! Emitting a terrifying power capable of tearing through space!
The bone spurs at the edge of the wings flickered with a chilling light that made hearts palpitate! Every time an electric arc leaped, it brought with it subtle ripples in space!
"Roar—!!!"
The Thunder Wings violently flapped!
Boom—!!!
A dark purple, terrifying thunder pillar as thick as a bucket! Carrying a destructive shriek that tore through the sky! Like a spear of judgment from the nine heavens!
Instantly crossed space! And fiercely struck... Zhuang Han, who had just broken free from the rule's confinement and was frantically rushing over!
No! The target... was not Zhuang Han!
The thunder pillar, just as it was about to hit Zhuang Han!
Suddenly... turned! With a world-destroying momentum! Fiercely crashing into... Chu Hang, who was trying to re-condense the power of rules and lock onto Ling Chen!
Besiege Wei to rescue Zhao! Attack the enemy's vital point!
"What?!"
Chu Hang's pupils under his mask suddenly constricted! He hadn't expected Ling Chen's target to be him!
Nor had he expected the speed and power of this thunder pillar... to be so terrifying under the hundredfold amplification of the reverse scale pendant! So... fast!
So fast that he... didn't have time to activate the rule judgment again!
If he had been directly hit by that, he would have probably been instantly reduced to charcoal.
He could only... instinctively raise his hands! Dazzling white light erupted from his palms! Trying to use the power of rules... forcibly... twist! Deviate! This destructive lightning!
Boom—!!!
The dark purple destructive thunder pillar! Fiercely collided with the invisible rule barrier in front of Chu Hang!
Dazzling light instantly swallowed everything! The entire viewing platform was as if thrown into the core of a supernova explosion! The terrifying shockwave mixed with violent lightning power! Exploded like a destructive storm!
Boom—!!!
The entire viewing platform... along with the architectural ruins within a few tens of meters below... instantly... were leveled! Reduced to dust!
Smoke and dust soared into the sky! Mixed with violent lightning! Forming a huge, slowly rising... mushroom cloud!
"Ugh ah—!!!"
A mournful scream! A figure was violently thrown from the center of the explosion like a broken sack! Crashing heavily into a pile of ruins hundreds of meters away! Kicking up a cloud of smoke and dust!
It was... Sun Qiang!
He had just put his body in front to protect Chen Xue, who had been thrown by the shockwave! His Buli (Brute Force) body, covered in metallic luster!
In front of the aftermath of the destructive thunder pillar and the terrifying impact... it was as fragile as paper!
His chest... was fiercely pierced by a large piece of flying concrete debris, carrying violent lightning! Blood mixed with fragments of internal organs... gushed out... like a fountain!
"Sun Qiang—!!!"
Li Mingyu let out a heartbroken roar! His eyes were splitting with rage! He frantically rushed towards the pile of ruins!
Chen Xue stared blankly in the direction where Sun Qiang had fallen, then looked at her own body, pushed away by him and unharmed, her pupils instantly lost focus! Tears... silently... surged out!
The smoke and dust slowly dispersed.
At the center of the explosion.
Chu Hang's figure... still stood!
But his pure white uniform... was now charred and tattered!
The pure white mask was covered in spiderweb-like cracks! Under the mask... a trickle of dark red blood... slowly flowed down... along the corner of his mouth! Dripping onto his charred clothes!
He... was injured! Under the destructive thunder pillar amplified a hundredfold by the reverse scale pendant! His rule barrier... was... forcibly shaken! And even... partially penetrated!
It would probably be difficult for him to fully recover in a short time.
And Ling Chen...
He floated in mid-air! The huge dark purple Thunder Wings slowly flapped behind him! Each flap brought violent lightning!
His crimson pupils coldly scanned the battlefield below, which resembled the end of the world!
The corner of his mouth... slowly curved into a cold and... disdainful... arc!
"Now..."
Ling Chen's voice, carrying the roar of thunder, resounded across the entire battlefield, "It's... my... turn!"
Under the Blood Moon! Thunder Wings Asura! Reigning over the ruins!