Free Web NovelA thunderous roar that made heaven and earth tremble resounded, as if announcing something to all living beings under this sky, instantly drawing the gaze of all Psychic and urban legend around Mountain City.
They dared not look directly, only glancing sideways or using external objects to gaze at the sky.
But there were always those who didn't believe in evil, insisting on a look, and then their eyes were blinded.
The first flash of lightning, as if reconnoitering and testing, streaked across the sky, scattering tiny arcs that were hard for the naked eye to catch, and were soon swallowed by the night and thick fog.
For a moment, lightning flashed and crackled on the lightning rods atop skyscrapers within a radius of several kilometers.
Even the fine, drizzling rain became imbued and filled with the power of lightning, emitting a faint blue glow.
Perhaps fearing the majesty of °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° the lightning, the thick fog shrouding Mountain City quickly dispersed and drifted away.
Seeing that things were not right, the Maitian God was already preparing to flee.
By this point, it no longer cared about finding that minuscule chance to devour the core of its offspring's urban legend body; its life was always more important than increasing its strength.
And fleeing even faster than it was Ju Meng.
As the storm dissipated, flocks of Magpies in the wind, led by a sleek, extraordinarily majestic Magpie, flew straight towards the city's edge, as if animals, sensing a coming Disaster, migrated in advance to leave the troubled area.
Immediately after, scattered tiny arcs were drawn by some force, like a school of piranhas smelling blood, darting nimbly and swiftly through the air, converging around the massive shadow looming above Jiaochangkou Subway Station.
As if a deity were using thunder as ink, writing with a flourish, arcs of electricity swiftly sketched a flowing talisman upon the massive shadow's body.
As the talisman solidified, an Old man thousands of miles away slowly exhaled a turbid breath.
Target locked.
The lightning, solidified as if tangible, flew from the horizon, leaving a several-kilometer-long gash across the sky, piled with dark clouds and still thick with fog, like a blade tearing through fabric. ƒreewebɳovel.com
The next second, a sudden bolt of lightning descended from the sky, and heaven and earth instantly fell into pallor and silence.
Only the massive shadow's tragic wail erupted and spread, raising layers of sound waves.
For a moment, it was as if thousands of people in heaven and earth cried out simultaneously, wailing, screaming, or weeping, as if the end of the world had arrived.
Ghastly wounds appeared on its semi-ethereal, massive body, as if something had been instantly annihilated. Terrifying intense light burst forth from these wounds, yet it did not fall, but instead drifted in mid-air, lingering for a long time, like a brilliant starry river.
Every star in the starry river trembled violently, emitting chaotic and ominous Spiritual Energy fluctuations, plunging the surroundings into a doomsday-like oppression.
And the blue-violet lightning, after striking its target, did not dissipate but instead poured into the massive shadow's body, continuing to wreak havoc. Under a shroud of pitch-black shadow, explosions continued relentlessly, tearing apart the colossal body intermittently, accompanied by horn-like roars and spurting pale white air currents.
In various legends, thunder, a natural phenomenon, often serves as a symbol of judgment, divine punishment, and tribulation. Before thunder, all things are equal, even a tianzai level strange story, with only one outcome—destruction!
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On the rooftop of Mountain City's 101 Building.
Only when the radiance of the second bolt of lightning gradually dissipated did Void gather courage, look up at the area above Jiaochangkou Subway Station, and couldn't help but exclaim.
“Is this the power of the Zixiao Platform? It doesn't seem to be at maximum power output yet? Hmm, maybe it can even be overclocked...”
The Zixiao Platform was constructed from the most prized Spiritual Energy items of successive generations of Da Chunyang Palace's sages. It inherently gathered astonishing Power, and was controlled by the Da Chunyang Palace's Sect Master, whose Spirit Mark Power was highly compatible with it.
According to the limited intelligence Void possessed, if the Zixiao Platform operated at maximum power output, a Calamity of the Maitian God's caliber might be severely wounded with just one strike.
The Pink Fluffy Rabbit that appeared previously, if its sleeping true body hadn't been non-existent in reality, preventing the Zixiao Platform from effectively locking onto and striking it, wouldn't have required such trouble to deal with. Perhaps the Da Chunyang Palace's master alone could have resolved the crisis.
Of course, the Pink Fluffy Rabbit's Power, which could corrupt the Spiritual Energy items within the Zixiao Platform, was also an important reason why the Da Chunyang Palace's master did not use the Zixiao Platform.
Now, that massive shadow could still stand there, so he felt that it was most likely because the target was in the city center, and the Da Chunyang Palace's master had to reduce the power for precise strikes.
In fact, the reason why existing high-level urban legend, despite possessing great strength, still feared the Night Watch was not entirely due to the presence of the Guardians, but also because the Night Watch controlled ultra-standard large-scale Spiritual Energy items like the Zixiao Platform and Tong Gong.
After all, if a Guardian couldn't win, he could still run, but those ultra-standard large-scale Spiritual Energy items could strike without anyone even needing to show their face.
Once deemed a dangerous element that the Night Watch needed to eliminate at all costs, what one would face was the terrifying prospect of being susceptible to lightning strikes and pierced by countless arrows at any time and anywhere.
Although activating those ultra-standard large-scale Spiritual Energy items would also impose a huge burden on the operator, ranging from Spiritual Energy depletion to severe backlash and injury, no one wanted to be on guard day and night, living in constant dread!
“Tsk, that's why an unfired gun is often the most terrifying. This is the deterrence of a weapon...” Void muttered. “Alright, I’ve seen enough of the excitement, it’s time to go.”
In his opinion, the Zixiao Platform's killing of the massive shadow was an inevitable outcome.
And what would happen after the massive shadow was killed by the Zixiao Platform, he could guess with just two bytes of his brain.
It would simply be that Night Watch agents from Mountain City and surrounding areas would enter the urban area, arresting the fanatical Maitian God Offspring followers and killing the urban legend causing trouble amidst the chaos, then clearing the Night erosion left by the toxic smog around Jiaochangkou, and finally, releasing news with a barely plausible excuse to get by.
There was nothing worth watching about these matters; they were as boring as the end credits and special thanks list of a movie. If he really wanted to see it, he could watch it later through the surveillance cameras covering every corner of the city once he returned.
Void thought this, but the next scene was beyond his expectation.
He saw that after the lightning flashed a second time, the massive shadow twisted its enormous body, looked up at the sky, and then, as if contemplating something, its movements briefly halted.
For some reason, looking at that motionless massive body, Void's mind seemed to jump frequencies, and some thoughts that weren't his flashed through it—the time has come, He is leaving, but at some point in the future, Disaster and I will meet Him again.
Void was lost in thought, and the next moment, thunder resounded in his ears.
“Boom—!”
With a clap of thunder, lightning descended from the sky, and the night covering the city was instantly enveloped by ubiquitous, violent light.
The numerous gazes fixed on the massive shadow suddenly blurred.
The next moment, the massive black shadow, the sparks lingering in mid-air, and the ominous Spiritual Energy fluctuations pervading the air, vanished into thin air.
As if the lights had suddenly been turned off, the massive shadow's original location briefly plunged into darkness. By the time the descending lightning illuminated the area, He had already quietly disappeared without a trace.
There was no warning, not a trace of Spiritual Energy fluctuation left behind, as if He had never appeared at all.
“How can this be?” Void asked in surprise. “How could it disappear so cleanly? Without leaving even a single trace...”
Just as he was racking his brain, his processor subtly heating up, he suddenly remembered something and abruptly looked up at the sky. freewёbnoνel.com
The lightning generated by the Zixiao Platform was still descending, and after suddenly losing its target, it seemed to subtly feel as if it was about to go out of control.
If it really went out of control...
Unfortunately, he was within the strike range.
“Fuck!”
Muttering a curse, without time to think further, Void transformed into a faint green stream of light, burrowed into the fiber optic junction box, and fled along the optical fiber without looking back.
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For Lu Yibei, when playing games, finding ways to cheese through by studying game mechanics, and watching a BOSS that could have instantly killed her slowly get chipped away, frantic and enraged but powerless against her, was absolutely an extremely joyful experience.
Generally speaking, to destroy the Maitian God Offspring's vigorous vitality, the most reasonable method was to cut off its Spiritual Energy supply, which meant destroying the net-like flesh that extensively covered Mountain City's underground spaces, greedily extracting Spiritual Energy from the earth's Pulse Breath.
However, Lu Yibei, due to her insufficient strength, was unable to perform this conventional and orthodox operation. It was simply too difficult to completely clear out all the flesh hidden underground in Mountain City that belonged to the urban legend with carcinogenic Power.
Even if she could, she didn't want to go to such great lengths. Torturing it was much more fun!
Watching the Maitian God Offspring slowly being chipped away by her, she was so happy that she completely ignored the thunder in the sky.
That lightning was clearly generated by the Zixiao Platform, and the only one capable of controlling the Zixiao Platform for long-range strikes was that Old man, Zhang Huainan.
Who are we to each other! We're as close as brothers.
Could he really strike down an innocent bystander like me? Lu Yibei thought.
However, happiness is often fleeting.
Only when she felt her long hair, which had hung down from the helmet's Interstitial, subtly floating upwards and spreading out, and the fine hairs on her skin under the armor rubbing against each other, crackling with static electricity, did she realize that something was amiss.
She suddenly looked up and saw the massive shadow disappear into thin air. Immediately after, the brilliant heavenly lightning, like a stray bullet missing its target, flew directly towards her, an innocent bystander.
Lu Yibei, “???”
What the hell? What's going on? Is that old geezer Zhang Huainan getting too old to aim straight? What am I going to do? Lu Yibei thought.
As she pondered, the lightning had already pierced through the ceiling of the underground air-raid shelter. Countless blue-violet arcs instantly filled her vision. A destructive branch of lightning struck, close at hand, the tip of the arc less than a millimeter from her Eyeball...
