Ling Chen's figure hovered in the broken dome opening, his dark purple Thunder Wings slowly flapping, each vibration bringing forth a violent arc storm.
Tang Zhao slowly turned around, his narrow phoenix eyes slightly narrowed, and on his pale face, there was not anger or shock, but a hint of… playful… interest?
"Ling Chen…"
Tang Zhao's voice was clear and cold, with a metallic texture, penetrating clearly through the aftermath of the explosion, "You… are… more interesting than I imagined.
A Bone Eater Realm… can tear apart my spatial confinement? And… hurt my 'Chilong Jade Pendant'?"
He raised his right hand, and on the warm, mutton-fat white jade pendant on his fingertip, an extremely tiny, almost invisible scratch flickered in the dim light.
His fingertip gently brushed over the scratch, and a hint of… cold… anger flashed in his eyes.
"However…"
Tang Zhao's lips slowly curled into a cold arc.
"That… is all."
Before he finished speaking!
Buzz—!!!
An indescribable, cold and absolute… pressure, as if from a higher dimension! Like an invisible mountain! It descended with a crash! Instantly enveloping the entire underground space!
Limit Breaking Realm!
Different from the energy pressure of the Bone Eater Realm! This was a… absolute suppression… at the life level… transcending rules!
Ling Chen's scarlet pupils suddenly contracted!
The flapping frequency of his Thunder Wings instantly decreased! An indescribable sense of heaviness, like cold shackles, tightly clamped onto his body!
The Soul Jade Physique's cold will frantically circulated! Only then could it barely resist this terrifying suppression!
Below! Tang Buyu, Li Bing, and Bai Lingdong, who had just struggled to get up! Were pressed to the ground as if by an invisible giant hand!
Even breathing became extremely difficult! Their bones groaned under the unbearable weight! Blood uncontrollably overflowed from their mouths and noses!
"Limit… Limit Breaking Realm…"
Tang Buyu gritted his teeth, blood oozing from his gums, his eyes filled with unbelievable… despair!
He had thought Tang Zhao was only at the peak of Energy Condensation! He never expected… he was actually… a Limit Breaking Realm! This… was not a battle on the same level at all!
"Now… do you understand the gap?"
Tang Zhao's voice held a hint of lazy mockery, he slowly raised his left hand, his five fingers, as if playing an invisible string instrument, gently… plucked… in the void!
"Spatial Slice · Thousand Thread Pull."
Buzz—!!!
Without any warning! Without any light or shadow!
The space around Ling Chen was filled with countless hair-thin spatial cracks, emanating a fatally sharp aura! They instantly sliced towards him!
Fast! Extremely fast! Beyond visual capture! Beyond neural reaction!
Ling Chen's pupils contracted sharply! His Thunder Wings instinctively flapped frantically! Trying to dodge!
Screech, screech, screech—!!!
Countless tiny sounds, like a hot knife cutting through butter, rang out!
The edges of Ling Chen's Thunder Wings, covered in bone spurs! His hard scales! His tough skin! Instantly… were cut open with countless bone-deep… bloodstains!
Dark red blood spurted out like a fountain! Excruciating pain swept through his entire body like a tide!
"Ugh!" Ling Chen grunted! His body uncontrollably staggered! The light of his Thunder Wings instantly dimmed! He… was injured! With just… one move! He couldn't even… see how the opponent attacked!
"Blood Pool Meat Forest." Ling Chen's expression was grave, and a crimson light erupted from his scarlet pupils!
Buzz—!!!
The invisible Blood Control Domain instantly spread out! Attempting to… control Tang Zhao's blood! Interfere with the cutting!
However!
"A petty trick." The sneer at Tang Zhao's lips deepened, as if unaffected by any control, his fingertip gently plucked again!
Buzz—!!!
Within the Blood Pool Meat Forest Domain! Those invisible spatial threads instantly became even sharper! Ignoring the domain's sluggishness! Their speed surged!
Puff, puff, puff—!!!
More bloodstains burst open on Ling Chen's body! Bone-deep! And even… a spatial thread… grazed his neck!
Leaving a terrifying wound… deep enough to see his windpipe! Instantly, blood gushed out.
"Ants… should have… the awareness of ants."
Tang Zhao's voice was cold and emotionless. He looked at Ling Chen as if looking at a… lamb… waiting to be slaughtered.
"The game… should end."
He slowly raised both hands! The Chilong Jade Pendant on his fingertips burst forth with dazzling white light!
"Third Derivative Skill, Space… Gravity Well!"
Buzz—!!!
The space around Ling Chen collapsed! Twisted! Forming an invisible… gigantic vortex!
Terrifying suction, like countless invisible giant hands! Violently tearing at his body! Trying to… completely… crush… and tear him apart!
"Ugh ah—!!!" Ling Chen's Thunder Wings flapped frantically! Trying to break free! But… that terrifying gravitational pull… was like maggots in his bones! His body was firmly… dragged towards… the center of the Gravity Well!
His bones groaned as if about to break! His skin cracked inch by inch! Blood gushed out like a fountain from the wounds all over his body! His life force… rapidly dwindled!
Yet Ling Chen remained expressionless, he still had other trump cards he hadn't used, and the reason he deliberately didn't use them was to see how Tang Zhao had disappeared in his previous life.
"Ling Chen—!!!" Tang Buyu's eyes were about to split!
Watching that figure, once like a demon god, struggling in the terrifying gravitational vortex!
An indescribable… complex emotion… instantly overwhelmed the fear and despair in his heart!
It was Ling Chen… who drew Tang Zhao away! It was they… who caused Ling Chen to fall into despair! And it was Ling Chen… just now… who saved Bai Lingdong!
Although… he was a mutant! An enemy!
But at this moment… Tang Zhao was the true devil! He was… the devil… who wanted to destroy all of them!
"Damn it! Let's fight him!"
Tang Buyu's eyes erupted with unprecedented madness and… determination! He suddenly turned his head! Looking at Li Bing and Bai Lingdong beside him, who were also suppressed and unable to move, with blood overflowing from their mouths and noses!
"Li Bing! Lingdong!"
Tang Buyu's voice was hoarse and full of bloodlust.
"Listen to me! We… have no retreat! Tang Zhao… won't let any of us go! He wants the silver foil! He wants our lives!"
Li Bing gasped violently in the shadows, a hint of struggle flashed in his cold eyes, finally… turning into a kind of… cold… determination! He slowly nodded.
Bai Lingdong's face was as pale as paper, her body trembling violently from fear, but looking at Tang Zhao's indifferent figure, like a god… the last trace of hesitation in her eyes… disappeared!
Replaced by a kind of… almost martyrlike… resolve!
"Brother Buyu… I… I'll listen to you!"
Bai Lingdong's voice was choked with tears, yet unusually firm! She tightly clutched the spatial fragment pendant around her neck!
"Good!"
A hint of pain and… a hint of… mad… light flashed in Tang Buyu's eyes!
"Give me… your power! All of it! Without reservation… give it to me!"
"Li Bing! Your shadow! Your spatial affinity! All of it… merge into my Metal Storm!"
"Lingdong! Your spatial fragments! Your mental power! All of it… inject into my ability core!"
"We… will become one! We'll trade our lives for his!"
"Tang Family Forbidden Art… Thousand Mechanism Pull · Three Phase Reversion!"
Tang Buyu's voice was like the last war drum! Carrying an unquestionable resolve!
This was his mother's last gift to him.
Li Bing didn't hesitate at all! He suddenly gritted his teeth! His body instantly transformed into a pure, ink-like… shadow!
Carrying all of his mental power, all of his spatial affinity and understanding! Like a bursting dam! Madly… surging into Tang Buyu's body!
"Ugh ah—!!!"
Tang Buyu let out a painful groan! His body trembled violently! Countless strange black patterns instantly appeared on the surface of his skin!
His shadow… instantly became… like a living thing… twisting! Expanding!
Emitting a cold and… eerie aura!
Bai Lingdong was in tears! She bit her lower lip tightly! Pouring all of her mental power! All of her will! All of it… into the spatial fragment pendant around her neck!
Buzz—!!!
The pendant erupted with an unprecedented dazzling silver light!
A vast and chaotic spatial energy! Like an uncontrolled torrent! Flowing along her arm! Madly… surging into Tang Buyu's chest!
"Ah—!!!"
Bai Lingdong let out a shrill, distorted scream! Her body, as if all strength had been drained from it! Collapsed limply to the ground!
Her pupils instantly lost focus! Her life force… rapidly dwindled! Like… a burned-out candle!
"Lingdong—!!!"
Tang Buyu let out a heartbreaking wail! His eyes filled with bloody tears! But he didn't stop!
He knew… this was… the only chance!
He forcefully suppressed the sharp pain and indignation in his heart! Frantically operating his Metal Storm ability! The shadow power integrated by Li Bing!
The spatial energy infused by Bai Lingdong! Along with all of his own life force! All of his will! All of his… anger! Despair! And unwillingness! All of it… compressed! Fused! Condensed!
His body swelled violently!
The metallic luster and black shadow patterns on his skin surface intertwined frantically!
An indescribable, terrifying energy fluctuation, filled with destruction and instability!
Within his body… frantically brewed! Surged!
"Hmm?!"
Tang Zhao finally noticed the anomaly! He suddenly turned his head! Looking at Tang Buyu! For the first time, his narrow phoenix eyes showed true solemnity and disbelief!
"Ability fusion? Burning life? Forcibly… breaking the limit?!" Tang Zhao's voice held a hint of surprise, "An ant… dares to… shake the heavens?!"
Ling Chen, at this moment, was covered in bloody wounds from the spatial tearing, but a barely concealed smile was on his face. As if he had seen something extremely interesting.
"Shake your mother—!!!"
Tang Buyu let out a beast-like roar! His eyes completely transformed into… a pure, blood-flame burning… metallic luster!
He suddenly raised his right hand! His five fingers spread open! Aiming at… Tang Zhao!
"Thousand Mechanism Pull · Three Phase Reversion… Break!"
Buzz—!!!
An… indescribable… attack! Instantly… erupted!
That was not an energy beam!
Not a physical impact!
But a kind of… twisted space! Fused with the absolute sharpness of Metal Storm! The absolute penetration of shadow! And… the absolute cutting of spatial fragments! Forming… an… invisible… torrent of destruction!
Wherever it passed! Space… like fragile glass… shattered… inch by inch! Collapsed! Forming a… gigantic, continuously spreading… spatial… fault!
The target… was directly… Tang Zhao!
"Space… Dimensional Anchor!"
Tang Zhao's expression changed slightly! For the first time… a hint of… solemnity… appeared! He suddenly clasped his hands together! The Chilong Jade Pendant on his fingertips burst forth with an unprecedented dazzling white light!
Buzz—!!!
A spatial barrier, condensed to the extreme, as if it could fix the void, instantly formed! Trying to… block that torrent of destruction!
However!
Rip—!!!
Like a hot knife cutting through butter! That torrent of destruction, fused with three abilities and burning three lives! Unobstructed… tore through… the Space Dimensional Anchor!
"What?!" Tang Zhao's pupils suddenly contracted! For the first time… an expression of… unbelievable… horror… appeared in his eyes!
He wanted to dodge! But… that torrent… was too fast! Too strange! As if… it had locked onto… space itself!
Pfft—!!!
Silently!
The torrent of destruction… instantly… pierced through… Tang Zhao's… chest!
There was no earth-shattering explosion! No scene of flesh and blood flying!
Tang Zhao's body… suddenly… froze in place!
He slowly lowered his head, looking at… the gigantic, front-to-back transparent… void… in his chest!
The edges of the void… had no blood! No wounds! Only… a pure, continuously spreading… spatial… void! As if… that part of his body… had been… directly… erased… from the meaning of existence!
"Ugh…" Tang Zhao let out an extremely faint, air-leaking… hiss from his throat. His narrow phoenix eyes were filled with unbelievable… blankness, astonishment, and… a hint of… bone-deep… fear!
He slowly raised his head, looking at Tang Buyu, whose body was disintegrating inch by inch, like a burned-out torch.
"You… you…" Tang Zhao's voice was weak and… hoarse, "…Tang Family… rebel… rebel…"
His words… were left unfinished.
Buzz—!!!
The gigantic spatial void in his chest… instantly… expanded! Spread!
Like… an invisible giant mouth! Instantly… swallowed… his… entire body!
There was no scream! No struggle!
Tang Zhao's figure… like a pencil drawing erased by an eraser… instantly… vanished… without a trace!
In his place… only… a continuously twisting, slowly healing… spatial… void… remained!
A Limit Breaking Realm expert! Tang Family Emissary! Tang Zhao… had fallen!
Annihilated… by… three… Bone Eater Realm ants… who burned their lives and souls… in a mutually destructive manner… forcibly… erased!
"Pfft—!!!"
Tang Buyu's body trembled violently! The liquid metal armor covering his entire body instantly disintegrated! Turning into a sky full of metal fragments! He, as if all his bones had been removed… limply… knelt to the ground!
The shadow power integrated by Li Bing completely dissipated! His figure… never appeared again! As if… he had never existed!
Bai Lingdong… had already… lost all signs of life! Like a… withered… white flower!
Tang Buyu struggled to raise his head, looking at the slowly healing spatial void, and then at Bai Lingdong's cold corpse beside him, his eyes… showed no joy of victory… only… a desolate… emptiness and… bone-deep… exhaustion.
"Lingdong… Li Bing…" His lips moved, uttering a voice so faint it was almost inaudible, "We… won…"
His body… slowly… leaned… forward…
The flame of life… was about to… completely… extinguish!
Just then!
A figure… like a ghost… appeared beside Tang Buyu!
It was Ling Chen!
His wounds were still gruesome, dripping with blood, but his Thunder Wings had retracted, and in his scarlet pupils… there was not a single ripple! Only… an… absolute… calmness and… indifference!
He didn't even glance at the dying Tang Buyu! His gaze… instantly… locked onto… the spatial fragment pendant… around Bai Lingdong's neck… which was completely dim, yet still intact!
"Time-Gap Silver Foil…" Ling Chen's cold voice rang out.
He slowly extended his hand! His sharp claws, covered in bone spurs… precisely… reached for that pendant.
Without the slightest hesitation! Without the slightest pity!
These three lives, who traded their lives for victory… in his eyes… were nothing but… dust!
"No… don't…" Tang Buyu used his last ounce of strength, letting out a faint plea like a mosquito's buzz, his eyes filled with despair and unwillingness! That was… what Lingdong… protected with her life!
But… Ling Chen… paid no heed!
His fingertips… had already… touched… that… cold… silver foil!