Free Web NovelChapter 448: Chapter 359: Single-Handed Suppression [2]
His features could only be described as ordinary. His face was plain, with nothing special about it. If he were lost in a crowd, he would be difficult to remember at a glance.
However, he exuded a powerful, unignorable presence. His aura was as deep and vast as an abyss, seemingly capable of devouring everything around him.
This was none other than the leader of the Pan Mountain Gathering Place: Yin Zuocang.
"That’s the situation. According to radar scans and our think tank’s analysis of its route, the Desolate God codenamed ’Loudra’ is highly likely to pass by our Pan Mountain Gathering Place in the next few days..." Yin Zuocang said gravely.
On the wall behind him, flickering light projected a massive map.
The map was highly detailed, clearly showing the location of the Pan Mountain Gathering Place and a blinking red dot a hundred kilometers away.
Hearing this, everyone’s expression turned grim.
A Desolate God.
This term generally referred to a Wild Beast that had reached Tier Five in strength.
However, some peak Tier Four beasts with extreme destructive power were also included in this classification.
For a gathering place, the existence of a Desolate God was a massive catastrophe.
Although this Desolate God, codenamed ’Loudra,’ was not a Tier Five, but rather a peak Tier Four.
But the destructive power it possessed was by no means small.
If it truly passed through the Pan Mountain Gathering Place, the resulting damage would be incalculable.
"Regardless, we must prepare our defenses in advance. Also, send people to monitor its trajectory twenty-four hours a day..." someone suggested.
However, Yin Zuocang didn’t answer immediately. Instead, he looked to the side, toward the main door.
Seeing this, the others followed his gaze.
The next second, the conference room door was violently pushed open with a CLICK.
A stern-faced Young Man walked in.
Before Yin Zuocang, seated at the head of the table, could speak, a chubby man sitting at the side of the conference table could no longer hold back.
He SLAMMED his hand on the table, shot to his feet, and demanded in a low voice,
"Chen Yi, don’t you even know the basic courtesy of knocking before you enter?"
As he spoke, he seemed to remember something and looked past Hu Qi’s shoulder, toward the space behind him.
"Where are Xu Qing and the other one? Why did you come back alone?"
"There was an accident during the mission. They’re dead."
Hu Qi’s expression was calm, his tone devoid of any emotion.
"What? They’re dead, yet you’re completely unscathed? Are you trying to mock us?"
At these words, another person shot to their feet.
He was a middle-aged man who radiated a sense of pressure. His strength had already reached the Tier Three Late Stage.
Looking closely, one could see a slight resemblance between his features and those of the red-haired Miao Xu, one of the three.
At this moment, his face was so dark it looked like water could drip from it. His eyes were locked onto Hu Qi.
It was as if he would attack without hesitation if Hu Qi didn’t provide a satisfactory explanation.
"Xu Qing and Miao Xu were the elites of our Pan Mountain Gathering Place’s younger generation, our rising stars of the future! And you actually..."
The fat man who had spoken first interjected again, his tone icy as he stared malevolently at Hu Qi.
But before he could finish, Hu Qi simply shook his head.
"So noisy."
As the words fell, two thick, white Ice Cones materialized and pierced directly through both men’s chests.
The chilling aura of the Ice Cones spread rapidly, pinning the two Evolvers—one mid-stage Tier Three, the other Late Stage—in place as if time itself had frozen.
"You... you..."
As Tier Three Evolvers, their Life Force was extremely strong. Despite having their chests run through, they didn’t die instantly.
Instead, their eyes widened in disbelief as they stared at Hu Qi.
They couldn’t understand how he had done it, why they hadn’t sensed a thing.
However, Hu Qi offered no explanation.
The terrifying chill spread, extinguishing their Vitality.
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This turn of events was too sudden.
Everyone’s faces turned deathly pale. They gasped in terror and subconsciously stumbled backward.
"How dare you!"
Seeing this, Yin Zuocang, who was sitting at the very front, shot to his feet with a thunderous roar that made the air itself BUZZ.
His figure flashed like a phantom, vanishing from his spot and reappearing in front of Hu Qi in the next instant.
In that moment, a silver light surged from his body like a raging tide, and he seemed to merge with the brilliance itself.
Yin Zuocang raised his hand high, a vast silver power gathering in his palm. With the force of a landslide, he brought it crashing down.
Facing this fierce attack, Hu Qi neither dodged nor retreated, but threw a punch of his own.
The punch seemed simple, yet it contained infinite power. The air shrieked as his fist cut through it.
BOOM—
The instant the fist and palm collided, a powerful shockwave erupted from the point of impact, spreading wildly in all directions.
The surrounding walls shattered and collapsed.
Then, under the force of this powerful impact, the entire steel-reinforced building began to sway as if it were made of toy blocks, before collapsing with a thunderous CRASH.
The many Tier Three Evolvers standing nearby had no time to dodge and were caught in the aftershock of the clash.
A few unlucky ones died on the spot, while the rest coughed up blood, severely injured, and writhed in agony on the ground.
For a moment, stone fragments rained down and dust filled the air, blotting out the sky.
WHOOSH!
A fierce gust of wind swept through.
The dust quickly dispersed.
Amidst the ruins, Hu Qi’s figure stood as firm and unmoving as a great mountain rooted in the earth.
His gaze was serene as he watched what was in front of him.
CRASH—
From a pile of rubble to the side, Yin Zuocang struggled to push away a huge slab of concrete and staggered to his feet.
His expression was a mixture of shock and disbelief. He looked down at his palm and saw that it was covered in a thick layer of white frost.
His arm had also grown numb and lost all feeling due to the Erosion of the cold.
Worse, the chill was still spreading through the rest of his body.
"You’re not Chen Yi. Who the hell are you?"
Yin Zuocang’s face was grim.
"Who I am isn’t important. What’s important is that you now have two choices: submit to me, or die!"
Hu Qi’s expression was placid, his hands clasped behind his back. He spoke as if stating a simple, ordinary fact.
"Haha! Submit? That’s utterly ridiculous! Since the day I awakened, I, Yin Zuocang, have blazed a trail through all obstacles and slain countless enemies. Do you really think you can beat me with just this much strength? That you can make me submit?"
Yin Zuocang laughed up at the sky, a hint of madness in his voice.
The moment he finished speaking, an intense, sharp silver light erupted from his body once more, spewing outward like a raging silver flame.
Under the force of this powerful energy, the white frost on his palm instantly shattered like broken glass.
Yin Zuocang suddenly reached out and grabbed at the empty air. A streak of silver light shot like lightning from a corner of the gathering place and landed firmly in his hand.
It was a silver spear, emblazoned with a dragon pattern.
"Die!"
he roared, his voice like a great bell.
He swung the spear in his hand, moving like a python coiling. Wreathed in silver light, he thrust nearly a hundred times in a single instant.
In an instant, a dense swarm of silver light motes appeared in the space before him, carrying an endless killing aura as they shot toward Hu Qi.
"I don’t care who you are, just die!"
Veins bulged on Yin Zuocang’s forehead.
The silver light around him was so dense it almost completely enveloped him.
Unlike other Evolvers who tended toward defense, strength, or similar abilities, his Ability was unique. He had named it Breaking Kill, and its effect was to enhance his attack power, allowing him to pierce any defense.
With this Ability, he had once even managed to ambush and severely injure a peak Tier Four Wild Beast.
The person before him was strong, but he could sense that his opponent hadn’t taken that final step. He was still at the Celestial King Level.
’He’s not invincible.’
However, in the next second, the wild laugh froze on his face.
