A silent yet heavy tremor swept through the hearts of everyone present, and the air seemed to freeze instantly, as if an enormous, invisible monster had passed through the air, bringing a heavy feeling, as if someone was spying on their souls.
Instantly, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at the nameless sky with surprise and uncertainty. This feeling was too strange, and the stronger the person was, the stronger they felt it, which made them feel a strong sense of unease.
Oswit's face turned ashen instantly. His power had reached a level where he could keenly sense things; the feeling he'd just experienced was definitely not a fleeting illusion, but rather the sudden arrival of an overwhelmingly powerful being that had caused a tremor within the ability user's heart. A strong sense of alarm rippled through his mind, foreshadowing extreme danger.
Oswit gritted his teeth, and the silver light of his mental field suddenly burst forth, activating the Soul Searching Technique. No matter what, he had to take Fang Taiping's memories away, even if everyone except himself would die here.
"Give me twenty seconds," the major general roared in his mind, unleashing his full telekinetic power.
However... Fang Taiping's body seemed to have stopped moving. The telekinetic energy only flashed across the surface of his head and could not penetrate inside.
Was he dead? The major general broke out in a cold sweat and hurriedly looked down. What he saw made him tremble violently. He couldn't help but pull his hand away from the head and, pointing at the person he was still holding, asked in a trembling voice, "Who are you?"
No one knows when it happened, but Fang Taiping had disappeared without a trace. In his place was the figure of a young man, who looked at the lieutenant with a cold and ruthless gaze. His left eye was a strange blood-red pupil, while his right eye was a bright green pupil that shone with a faint green light.
The boy gently raised his hand, and a muffled sound came from the horizon. The next moment, countless golden lightning bolts descended from the sky!
Chapter 183 A Strange Scene
Oswit was terrified. What had happened was too bizarre. He could clearly sense that his hand had never left Fang Taiping, and his mental energy field hadn't detected anything unusual. How could Fang Taiping suddenly change without him noticing? It was simply impossible. Even if Lu Ximing were alive today, he couldn't have done this right under his nose.
Unless... unless this boy isn't human!
The major general roared, and a tangible silver light burst forth from his single hand, spiraling straight into Ling Yun's chest. He had used all his strength in this attack, and the air around his palm crackled. Suddenly, pale white flames ignited around the silver light. Oswit's palm was no longer a palm, but a galaxy of extreme brightness, and the flames on the galaxy were enough to evaporate all matter in an instant.
In that instant, Oswit suddenly broke through the limit of his strength bottleneck that had lasted for many years. After advancing to the rank of Major General, Oswit's power had stagnated for several years. No matter how hard he cultivated, he could only refine his existing power. It was as difficult as climbing to the sky if he wanted to take another step forward.
In fact, the stronger one's power, the more difficult it is to advance further and the more bottlenecks one will encounter. Although Oswit looks very young, if he does not have the opportunity or make progress through hard work, his achievements in life will come to an end.
Unexpectedly, Oswit suddenly achieved a breakthrough under the stimulation of this strange boy, and judging from the strength of his attack and the impact it caused, the bottleneck he broke through was not just a small one.
But Oswit had no time to savor the exhilaration of his greatly increased power after the breakthrough. His entire mind was focused on this single-handed strike, his consciousness clear and empty, entering a mysterious and profound state. Even if someone waved a finger in front of his eyes, he wouldn't see it. All his attention was focused on the still expressionless boy, Ling Yun.
If you slowed down Oswit's movements countless times, you could clearly see that as his palm approached Ling Yun's chest, tiny air molecules were intensely compressed and expelled, forming air waves like swordfish swimming. Then, the background suddenly turned black, all the air was expelled, and a narrow, isolated black vacuum space suddenly appeared! The violent flow of air over a short distance had become a wind blade capable of cutting through steel!
Even the strongest person in the world would have to temporarily avoid Oswit's simplest palm strike.
Absolute emptiness, absolute silence, absolute power.
Everything around them had turned grayish-white, everyone had disappeared, and the whole world belonged only to Oswit and Lingyun, except for the pale and almost transparent flames.
With a soft thud, Ling Yun extended two fingers and caught Oswit's palm strike, as if he were catching a paper airplane that was slowly flying towards him.
Everything was frozen in time.
The pale white flames went out with a whoosh, the vacuum zone was instantly filled with air, and the wind blades returned to a gentle, slowly rustling breeze. It was as if nothing had ever happened.
The background returned to reality, and the frozen figures seemed to come alive again, continuing their next action.
An attack that seemed invincible was simply blocked by this ordinary boy? At this moment, Oswit's mind slowly returned to reality. A flush crossed his pale face, as if he had just realized that he had broken through the bottleneck that had stagnated for many years. His eyes were about to reveal a mixture of surprise and joy, but he was immediately plunged into even greater shock. The major general looked at Ling Yun with an incredulous gaze and said, word by word, "You are not human!"
A strange light flashed in Ling Yun's eyes, unseen by anyone. The eerie blue light behind him vanished in a flash, as if some invisible connection had been severed.
Ling Yun remained expressionless, but inwardly he couldn't help but sigh. Within the core space, he was essentially the embodiment of the barrier; the core's energy was entirely at his disposal, making him an invincible being, uncontrollable and even capable of arbitrarily rejecting commands from the SkyNet key. This was the fundamental reason why Fang Taiping and Zhou Mulong's commands repeatedly failed.
He had initially thought he would be able to control the core space's energy once he stepped out of the barrier, but the instant he did, he realized something was amiss. Although he still firmly held control of the Skynet core space, he had lost that sense of complete control over the energy, even though he was still under the protection of the Superpower Headquarters' barrier. It was like a ghost possessing someone who could borrow all of the original body's energy, while the control was merely the ability to command the ghost; the difference between the two was immeasurable.
However, Ling Yun's connection with the core space energy did not disappear instantly, but rather through a rapid process. Although brief, he remained invincible during this process, allowing him to secretly replace Fang Tianping with Oswit and unleash heavenly lightning. But after withstanding the Major General's attack that exceeded his limits, Ling Yun and the core space energy immediately vanished. The immense power accelerated the energy's disappearance; otherwise, Ling Yun could have killed all the intruders in that short time. This is the power of the core energy.
At present, Ling Yun has gained a lot of information in the core space, including the new gene-altering techniques, the memories of people like Blood Eye, and valuable experience. The benefits and breakthroughs brought by his body after being crystallized by energy have exploded. His strength has increased significantly again and has already entered a completely new realm. However, he has not yet competed with anyone and does not know how much his strength has grown.
For Ling Yun, having just returned from invincible mode to his normal level, although he knew he had already gained a great deal and shouldn't complain anymore, he couldn't help but smile bitterly with a sense of loss.
A flash of golden lightning struck down, instantly creating a shimmering silver mental energy field on the ground. With such a dense barrage of lightning, dodging was pointless; only by desperately blocking it could one have a chance of survival.
Everyone stared in utter terror at the thunderbolt descending from the sky, utterly bewildered as to why the most lethal attack from the Skynet would suddenly appear within the outer barrier. Had the Skynet malfunctioned, preparing to indiscriminately kill all life within the barrier? In the chaos, aside from a handful of people, no one noticed Ling Yun's sudden appearance or Major General Oswit's unusual behavior.
At this moment, there was no time to ponder the specific reason for the heavenly lightning strike. The numerous officers of the Heavenly Eye Society were also dumbfounded; they had been preparing for a massacre, never expecting such an unexpected turn of events. The two lowest-ranking captains were even more panicked, thinking that the barrier of the Supernatural Headquarters had lost control.
Xia Lan grabbed Xia Zhen and squatted down, her fair palms facing upwards, a faintly transparent cyan barrier enveloping them both. Although she had minimized the area vulnerable to attack and added the strongest protection, Xia Lan's heart sank to its lowest point. She hugged Xia Zhen tightly, slowly closed her eyes, and prepared to face death at any moment.
Xia Zhen struggled restlessly in her arms, saying, "Sister, Ling Yun is over there. I saw him. I want to go find him."
Xia Lan thought to herself, "What kind of time is this to worry about your little lover?" Although she saw Ling Yun appear out of thin air amidst Xia Zhen's shouts, Xia Lan had no time to be surprised or astonished. Her mental energy field was already surging out at full power, ready to meet the wrath of the heavens.
Golden lightning bolts rolled down, the deafening roar instantly drowning out everything. Xia Lan kept hearing roars of people unleashing their mental energy fields and screams of pain from being struck by lightning, her anxiety growing. She was also a little puzzled; why hadn't the lightning struck her and Xia Zhen yet?
Suddenly, Xia Zhen broke free from her embrace, abruptly dispelling the barrier, and excitedly exclaimed, "Sister, look! That lightning attack wasn't aimed at us, look!"
Xia Lan stood up blankly upon hearing this, and her gaze swept across the scene, instantly stunned. Dozens of lightning bolts, like bullets with eyes, missed all the people from the Superpower Headquarters and instead struck the members of the Heavenly Eye Society. The two weaker captains managed to barely block with their mental energy fields, but their fields were immediately shattered by the successive bolts of lightning. Without the protection of their mental energy fields, even the strongest bodies were useless against heavenly lightning. After a dazzling flash of lightning, the two captains were instantly reduced to statues still emitting wisps of smoke.
The stronger officers were mostly dodging the dense lightning attacks with agility. The lightning strikes were too intense, and it was obviously not a good idea to take them head-on. Moreover, the electric current could paralyze the body through the mental field. Even if it only delayed the body for a few seconds, it would be enough for the subsequent lightning to strike one after another. Even officers could not withstand the continuous bombardment of seven hundred lightning bolts on their own.
Therefore, choosing to race against death becomes the most promising option, albeit a dangerous one, even though high-speed movement inevitably leads to insufficient defense. However, standing still and enduring the attack would certainly be suicidal; the strong can discern which is more important.
With a series of blurry afterimages, lightning struck the ground, creating craters several meters deep and emitting blue smoke. Two slightly weaker majors, slower to dodge, screamed as they were struck down from the sky, instantly becoming two black corpses emitting blue smoke. In such high temperatures, insufficient defense or any openings could lead to instant blackening.
More and more superhumans from the headquarters noticed this strange scene, and they all stood up from the ground, staring at everything in utter astonishment. What was happening was beyond their comprehension, causing everyone's mind to go blank for a moment.
Chapter 184 Ling Yun's Trump Card
Oswit also witnessed this strange scene and was momentarily stunned. Even with his vast knowledge and immense strength, he could not fathom what was happening before his eyes.
In the instant he was stunned, a strong sense of unease suddenly swept through his heart. Oswit cursed inwardly, and without any visible exertion, his body shot up into the air like a rocket. He had almost forgotten that the terrifying young man in front of him was the strongest person he had ever encountered in his life. He had actually been distracted in front of him; he must have been asking for trouble.
A blood-red ray, as thick as a pencil, shot out with a whoosh from Ling Yun's left bloodshot eye, striking the major general, who had already leaped several meters into the air, in the thigh with incredible speed. The bloodshot eye returned to normal in the blink of an eye after the ray was fired. Ling Yun's right emerald eye also flashed briefly before returning to normal. His sudden appearance, the divine lightning strike, and his deflection of Oswit's attack all occurred in a mere instant; even Xia Zhen, who had been watching him closely, hadn't noticed the unusual phenomenon in his eyes.
Oswit let out a painful groan, finally paying a heavy price for his carelessness. Before his mental energy field could even release its barrier, his thigh had been pierced by the crimson ray. A sharp pain shot through the wound. With his strength as a major general, he immediately sensed the unusual nature of the crimson ray. The wound was not bleeding; instead, it was showing signs of decay, indicating that the boy's blood-red eyes possessed a corrosive poison.