Chapter 674 - 268: Desolate Ancient War Body, One-Punch Annihilation
Chapter 674: Chapter 268: Desolate Ancient War Body, One-Punch Annihilation
「Longyin Academy, Central Conference Room.」
The moment Lin Ye’s figure vanished as the bizarre, giant door slammed shut, it felt as if all the air had been sucked out of the conference room.
"He went in! He... is he crazy?!"
Sun Lie shot to his feet, knocking his chair over with a deafening CRASH.
"It’s over...!"
Mu Qingyin covered her mouth and nose, her face ashen. "The Dark Domain... that’s a place of no return...!"
The domain she projected could block out spiritual pollution, but it couldn’t stop the despair seeping through the screen—a soul-trembling hopelessness that originated from a higher plane of existence.
Even Zhu Mingyi’s face was now as pale as a sheet of paper.
Only Hou Guanghe rose from his chair.
He stared at the screen, a storm gathering in his eyes.
"The Umbilicus of the Myriad Progenitor..."
"Yui Hanyi once said this is one of the oldest and most bizarre existences in the Dark Domain."
"It doesn’t have direct offensive capabilities. Its essence is connection and assimilation."
"Any living being entangled by it will be forcibly connected to the entire Dark Domain, eventually becoming a new conduit for it to birth more monsters... This process is irreversible!"
The temperature in the conference room seemed to drop to freezing.
Irreversible!
This meant that Yui Hanyi was finished.
And Lin Ye, who had charged in on his own initiative, was finished too.
"Dammit!"
"Two of the very best prospects... lost just like that in a single selection trial?!"
"It’s too late." Yan Che pushed up his glasses, but the gaze behind the lenses was exceptionally grave. "The coordinates of the Dark Domain are random and constantly shifting. Once the gate closes, even our Control Department can’t relocate and reopen it in a short amount of time..."
He hadn’t even finished his sentence.
Hou Guanghe’s figure had already vanished from the spot.
He left only a single, cold, and imperious sentence echoing through the conference room.
"I’m going to bring them back."
...
「Celestial Dragon’s Nest.」
Space distorted slightly, and Hou Guanghe’s figure appeared directly above the ruins that had been blasted into a giant crater.
He closed his eyes, and his Spiritual Power, vast as the sea, instantly enveloped the entire Nest.
A moment later, he snapped his eyes open, his gaze locking onto a single point in the void.
There, a faint spatial ripple remained, so weak it was almost imperceptible.
’Found it!’
Hou Guanghe’s eyes narrowed, all hesitation gone.
He took a deep breath, and the sky above the entire Dragon’s Nest changed color as if endless energy began to converge on him.
This old man, who usually looked amiable and kind, at this moment finally revealed the fearsome power befitting a Martial Saint!
He raised his hand, splayed his fingers, and with a sudden motion, tore at that patch of empty space!
RRRRRIP—!!!
It was as if the entire fabric of space was a canvas, brutally ripped open by an invisible giant hand, leaving a hideous gash!
However, beyond the rift was not the scene of the Dark Domain everyone imagined, but an even deeper, more chaotic dimensional turbulence!
Hou Guanghe’s expression instantly sank.
’One step too late. The gate has already drifted away completely.’
...
This was a world that defied all description.
The sky was a viscous liquid, endlessly flowing and shifting in color. Everything else was pitch-black.
The ground was composed of countless twisted, writhing piles of flesh and bone.
The air was filled with a cloying sweet and rotten smell so thick it was suffocating, and countless mad whispers, like maggots clinging to bone, constantly bored into your mind.
[Ding! You have received a DEBUFF: Spirit Pollution...]
[Ding! You have received a DEBUFF: Soul Corruption...]
[Ding! You have received a DEBUFF: Sensory Deprivation...]
A series of system notifications sounded in Lin Ye’s mind, but in the next second, they were completely overwritten by another notification.
[The "Immune to All Techniques" mechanic has taken effect! All negative effects are nullified!]
Lin Ye stood quietly on the pitch-black ground, maintaining his P4 Dragon Descendant Incarnation form.
He didn’t move.
Surrounding him was pure darkness. His Spiritual Power extended outwards, touching a cold, viscous malice that felt like a living thing.
The ground squirmed slightly under his feet, as if it were forcibly stitched together from the flesh and sinews of countless dying creatures.
There were two reasons why he had dared to charge in without hesitation.
First, the system quest had not registered as complete.
Lin Ye glanced at a mechanic quest that had been sitting in his quest log for a long time—
[Quest Objective: Defeat "Ye Wujiang".]
[Quest Reward: 1,000,000 EXP, 7 Skill Points, Unlock New Mechanic: Command Reading!]
This meant that Yui Hanyi was still alive. Or rather, that the core objective of the quest, "Ye Wujiang," had not yet been truly defeated.
Second, he had [Castling].
If worse came to worst, he could just swap places with any one of his minions outside and escape at any time.
No matter how bizarre this place was, it couldn’t trap him here forever.
But as he spent more time in this strange place, Lin Ye’s brow furrowed slightly.
The passive effect of [Immune to All Techniques], which granted immunity to all negative statuses, indeed didn’t consume anything.
But when he tried to spread this purifying power to form a completely safe domain, the consumption of his Spiritual Power was like an opened floodgate.
With a thought, he stopped deliberately maintaining the large-scale purification.
Instead, he contracted it to a three-meter radius around himself.
Just then, dozens of monsters with insect-like limbs and infant heads burst out from the writhing flesh on the ground, letting out strange cackles as they charged toward him at high speed!
However, the instant they stepped into that three-meter range...
There was no explosion, no sound.
The monsters’ bodies, like drawings being wiped away by an invisible eraser, began to silently dissipate the moment they came into contact with the purification field, eventually vanishing into nothingness.