"Human! So it was you who killed my brother, Si Dele? Aaaargh, I'm going to eat you!"
WHOOSH!
A tail, even longer and harder than Si Dele's, stabbed fiercely at Lin Tang. Space fractured and collapsed wherever it passed.
SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!
More tails followed, lancing in from different angles and weaving an inescapable net, leaving Lin Tang nowhere to run.
But would Lin Tang flee? Of course not.
"A pack of useless curs!" he sneered, thrusting his hands toward the sky once more.
Seven fire dragons erupted from his body, soaring skyward. They intertwined, forming the Seven Dragon Fire Shield to protect him, and they fiercely clawed and bit at the incoming tails, forcing them to retract.
As for the cracks in the shattered space, Lin Tang, now at the Nascent Soul Stage, used his Space Power to seal them shut so he wouldn't be sliced to pieces.
"I'll be taking these!"
Lin Tang was just thinking that a single tail wasn't enough material to refine a proper Magic Artifact. Without pausing, he shot forward. Like harvesting scallions, he ripped their tails off one by one and stashed them away.
The Underworld monsters shrieked in agony. Just a mont ago, they had charged him ferociously; now, they fled with equal speed. They hadn't expected Lin Tang to be so powerful.
Is this really a human?
"Bastard!" Si Dele's brother, unable to contain his fury, flung out a ghastly talisman pulsing with yin energy. "Guide of the Nether River, hear my command! O' spectral qi, seize this human's soul…"
As he chanted, the hovering projection of the Nether River above released a single drop of liquid, which shot toward Lin Tang.
"Don't try to block it! Dodge, quickly!" Xuan Nu's urgent psychic ssage suddenly rang in Lin Tang's mind.
"Why didn't you say so earlier?!" Lin Tang was speechless.
He had intended to dodge, but the droplet was simply too fast. There was no ti! He had no choice but to take it head-on.
The intensely hot and yang-aspected Seven Dragon Fire Shield was instantly frozen and dissolved by the extre yin cold. Lin Tang's entire body stiffened, unable to move.
Fortunately, this was his avatar, which had no soul. This ant he was immune to possession, so the deadliest aspect of the Nether River Water—its power to destroy souls—had no effect on him. But it was still extrely dangerous.
At the critical mont, the golden dragon ford from the National Destiny Power proved its worth. It surged forward to block the droplet. Though the effort consud a massive amount of its energy, it completely neutralized the droplet of Nether River Water, which seed to weigh no more than a few grams.
"How is this possible?" Si Dele's brother's eyes nearly popped from their sockets. He refused to accept this reality. Refusing to accept defeat, he tried to forcefully summon another drop.
Lin Tang, having just regained his mobility, wasn't about to give him the chance. He used Instantaneous Movent to appear at the creature's side and unleashed a furious combo, beating it to death. He then flooded the surrounding area with his Divine Sense, obliterating any chance of it reviving in another body.
The other Underworld beings saw this. They had planned to flee toward the Transmission Array, but they knew that would only get them picked off one by one. Instead, they decisively charged toward the projection of the Nether River. The closer they got, the more vibrant their life force beca.
Lin Tang caught up with a few of them. Before, he could have killed them instantly, but now it took several extra moves, wasting both True Qi and ti. This allowed the majority of the remaining creatures to successfully leap into the Nether River projection.
ROAR!
The mont their bodies touched the water of the Nether River, they inflated like balloons. As their bodies expanded and their power grew, they paid the price by losing their sanity. They went mad and began to slaughter each other.
What the...?
Lin Tang screeched to a halt near the projection, not daring to get any closer. A single drop of Nether River Water had consud so much of his National Destiny Power. If he dared to jump in, no amount of National Destiny Power would be enough to squander.
Thus, he could only watch them fight amongst themselves, musing that it wouldn't be so bad to just wait until they all killed each other off.
But to his surprise, nourished by the Nether River, even their deepest wounds healed in the blink of an eye. After fighting for so ti, they were completely unhard. In fact, they had all grown even stronger!
"Holy crap, these things are hacking!" Lin Tang's eyelid twitched. He decisively turned and retreated, unwilling to waste any more ti on them.
However, his expression turned grim as the Nether River projection, carrying the horde of self-slaughtering Underworld monsters, began to drift on its own toward Luo Fu City. Everywhere the projection passed, plants and animals withered and died. Even solid rock crumbled into sand.
Lin Tang's eyes widened in horror. He took a deep breath and imdiately sent a ssage to Jiang Shan.
Upon hearing the news, Jiang Shan's expression grew grave. He imdiately contacted Luo Fu City and ordered an imdiate evacuation for the survivors.
"What? A river that kills any living thing it touches? And it will reach Luo Fu City soon?"
"At the speed of ordinary people like us, no matter how fast we evacuate, it's already too late, isn't it?"
"Are we dood to die today?"
"Even the powerful State Preceptor Long can't stop it?"
"Why are we so unlucky!"
Of the entire country, even the entire world, Luo Fu City had sohow beco the first target of the Underworld's invasion. Their luck was truly the worst.
The projection cast by Xuan Nu was still active. The local TV station had cleverly aid its live broadcast equipnt at it. Thus, countless netizens once again saw the battle unfolding. They saw Long Tianji retreat in fear from the Nether River projection. When they saw the projection advancing on Luo Fu City, the internet exploded. If even Long Tianji was helpless, forced to watch Luo Fu City be destroyed by this river, wouldn't the rest of the world soon follow?
"What is State Preceptor Long doing? Charge at it!"
"Why is he so afraid of death?"
"I was just praising him, but I never expected…"
In their panic, so couldn't help but bla Long Tianji for being ineffective. Jiang Shan was also glued to the live broadcast while ssaging Lin Tang back.
"You don't have any ideas either?"
Lin Tang's brows were knitted tightly as he circled the Nether River projection. From a distance, it wasn't a problem, but as soon as he got close, his body would inevitably grow stiff and difficult to move. At the sa ti, his National Destiny Power would be consud at an enormous rate. As soon as it was depleted, his avatar would imdiately shatter.
He had also contacted Xuan Nu to learn the origin of this thing.
"Even an Earth Immortal's true body wouldn't dare touch it? Then what's the point of fighting!"
"You misunderstand. I said an Earth Immortal's true body wouldn't dare touch the Nether River itself. Against a re projection, an Earth Immortal's true body could still contend with it."
"Yeah, right... So, this thing has no weaknesses?"
"Of course it has weaknesses. For example, it has no sentience of its own; it's being remotely controlled by soone behind the scenes. If this remote connection were severed, the projection would disappear."
"You might as well have said nothing!" Lin Tang rolled his eyes. Since he couldn't make direct contact, he couldn't sense the connection to the person behind the scenes. And if he couldn't sense it, how could he sever it?
As the situation grew more desperate, Jiang Shan kept sending ssages.
Lin Tang said irritably, "All you people do is shout from the sidelines! How about so tangible support!"
"What kind of support do you want?"
"Hmph, get a nuclear bomb. We'll blow it to hell!"
"Err—"
Jiang Shan was faced with a profound dilemma. First, he had to consider whether the radiation from a nuclear blast would cause irreversible harm to the surrounding population. Then, he had to consider the international impact. After all, the subject was incredibly sensitive.
Finally, he pondered one last question.
Can a nuclear bomb really destroy it?
After all, so many missiles had failed to even break through Si Dele's defenses. As long as they could block it with a spatial rift, no physical attack, however powerful, could touch them. The power of a nuclear bomb was terrifying, but it couldn't tear space itself.
Cultivators like Lin Tang and Si Dele could tear space not through brute force, but because their high cultivation allowed them to comprehend the rules governing space itself. They could alter and destroy reality on a fundantal level, which was sothing entirely different.
"Who cares if it can? We won't know unless we try!" Lin Tang urged.
Jiang Shan was silent for another brief mont. "Alright, I'll make the arrangents. Give a mont."
Once the decision was made, there was no hesitation.
With the joint authorization from him and the other elders, a secret base roared to life with the sound of machinery. The silo doors, which had never been officially opened since the base's construction, slowly slid apart. The massive nuclear warhead was revealed, looking nacing. Technicians urgently ran diagnostics and confird the coordinates.
"All preparations complete. Awaiting launch confirmation, please instruct!"
"Please instruct!"
"Please instruct!"
Jiang Shan took a deep breath. "Long Tianji, are you ready?"
"Bring it on!"
"Good!"
Jiang Shan and the elders exchanged a glance. He then spread his fingers and pressed his hand onto a square console.
"LAUNCH!!!"
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