43: Chapter 43 Holy Light Blockade! This woman actually guessed the truth.

Linhai City Port Lighthouse.

The gloomy sky hung over the boundless sea like a massive lead plate, pressing down heavily.

Violent sea winds, carrying briny moisture, scraped across the rusted breakwater like knives.

Towering waves, dozens of meters high, smashed repeatedly against the hard black reefs, creating deafening roars and shattering into a sky full of white foam.

The lighthouse's searchlight had long fallen into disrepair, leaving only a massive glass dome swaying precariously in the wind.

Amidst the howling wind and raging waves, dozens of figures in black tactical gear lurked silently like ghosts behind the massive breakwater.

They were the elite of the Salvation Society's Linhai branch.

Each of them radiated Psionic User energy fluctuations of at least B-Class, their eyes cold and their movements professional.

Su Chen stood at the very front of the team.

He had changed into his iconic black hooded trench coat, with a silver-white metal mask perfectly fitted to his face.

The twisted rune on the forehead of the mask cast a chilling, eerie glow in the dim light.

At this moment, he was no longer Su Chen, the gentle and jade-like Elder brother of the Su family.

Instead, he was Bai Cang, the S-Class wanted criminal who struck fear into the hearts of major Psionic User organizations worldwide, the leader of the Salvation Society.

"Leader, the jamming device has been deployed."

A one-eyed cadre hurried behind Su Chen, knelt on one knee, and lowered his voice to report.

He held a black metal disc flashing with red light in his hands, his forehead covered in fine beads of cold sweat.

It wasn't because he feared the Investigation Bureau, but because standing next to Bai Cang, the invisible S-Class water-type pressure made it difficult for him to even breathe.

"As long as the start button is pressed, these three high-frequency generators can instantly simulate the psionic signatures of at least five S-Class Awakened."

The one-eyed cadre swallowed, his tone filled with fanaticism.

"That Abyssal Eye, which claims to have the strongest reconnaissance capability, will definitely be hooked by this super bait!"

Su Chen did not turn back; he stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze beneath the mask calmly watching the raging sea in the distance.

"Very good."

His voice, processed through the mask's metal voice changer, carried an emotionless, mechanical quality.

"Once Heaven's Vault and the Abyssal Eye detect five S-Class fluctuations here, they will inevitably mobilize the city's elite forces to converge on the port."

Su Chen silently calculated the time in his heart.

It would take at least twenty minutes for the Investigation Bureau's encirclement to tighten and close.

With these twenty minutes, it would be enough time for Xiaoyun to completely shatter the Sanctuary's spirit vein anchor at the Northern Reservoir.

A subtle arc curled at the corner of Su Chen's mouth beneath the mask.

As expected of my, Su Chen's, own younger brother.

As an S-Class powerhouse himself, this decisiveness and courage are fully worthy of the resounding title, Night Owl.

Today, let the Great Xia officials and those arrogant folks from the Sanctuary see how we brothers turn Linhai City upside down.

"Activate the device."

Su Chen commanded coldly.

"Yes!"

The one-eyed cadre's finger pressed heavily onto the red start button.

"Hum!!"

Accompanied by a teeth-grinding low-frequency vibration, the three black metal discs hidden in the shadows simultaneously erupted with a blinding, eerie blue light.

The violent psionic fluctuations spread in all directions like a tsunami.

On the Abyssal Eye's reconnaissance radar, it looked as if five blinding suns had risen here.

The bait had been cast; now, they just had to wait for the fish to bite.

However, just as Su Chen's plan began to unfold, a sudden change occurred.

Above the lighthouse, the originally thick, lead-like clouds were suddenly torn apart by an invisible pair of giant hands!

The space began to distort violently.

The surrounding air became extremely viscous in an instant, and even the howling sea wind was pinned to the ground by some terrifying gravity.

"Leader! We have a situation!"

The one-eyed cadre looked up in terror.

"What's going on? The Investigation Bureau couldn't have arrived this quickly!"

Su Chen jerked his head up, his eyes narrowing sharply.

Those were not people from the Investigation Bureau.

Because he smelled an extremely pungent, sickeningly pure holy aura.

"Crackle!!"

A blindingly dazzling golden Holy Light, like a sword of divine punishment, pierced directly through the thick clouds and smashed heavily into the open ground in the center of the port!

The high temperature instantly evaporated the surrounding seawater, sending up great billows of white steam.

And within that dazzling Holy Light, a stunningly beautiful figure slowly emerged.

It was a woman wearing a moon-white dress.

She stepped barefoot through the Void Realm, surrounded by countless golden holy runes, looking like a true deity descending into the mortal world.

Her eyes were a pure, pale gold, devoid of any human emotion.

Behind her, twelve red-robed bishop-level Elders, like twelve pillars stabilizing the sea, hovered in a circle in mid-air.

Twelve powerful A-Class Peak auras merged into one, completely sealing off all escape routes from the port.

The current Saintess, Saintess Lin Xinglan.

Su Chen's face beneath the mask sank instantly.

He had calculated everything, accounting for Heaven's Vault and the Abyssal Eye, but he had never accounted for this crazy woman!

How could she be here?

Saintess Lin Xinglan looked down condescendingly at the members of the Salvation Society behind the breakwater.

Her gaze locked directly onto Bai Cang, who stood at the very front.

"Stop hiding, Bai Cang."

Saintess Lin Xinglan's voice was cold and dignified, echoing over the entire port like a divine oracle.

"Those clumsy disguises of yours are not even as good as circus tricks in my eyes."

Su Chen did not move; he stared coldly at the Saintess in mid-air, the water-type psionic energy within him beginning to boil furiously.

Since he had been discovered, there was nothing to do but fight.

But before making a move, he had to clarify one thing.

"The Saintess of the Sanctuary, not enjoying your blessings in your temple, running over to Great Xia territory to throw a tantrum?"

Su Chen's voice was thick with mockery.

"What? Has your master finally lost patience and decided to tear off the mask and show their true colors?"

Saintess Lin Xinglan let out a sneer of disdain.

"You overestimate yourself, Bai Cang. Dealing with a rat like you, living in the gutter, isn't worth the attention of the gods."

She floated down slowly from mid-air, stopping ten meters above the ground.

"I came here today for only one thing."

An extremely terrifying, wise light flickered in Saintess Lin Xinglan's pale golden eyes.

"Last night, a terrifying Abyssal Eye fluctuation erupted in Linhai City, and today the authorities locked down the whole city. Normally, a terrorist like you, wanted globally, should have already tucked your tail and fled Linhai."

She extended a fair finger, pointing it from afar at Su Chen.

"But you didn't flee. Not only did you not flee, but you also made a big show of bringing people to set up a camouflage formation at the port."

"What are you trying to do? You want to use the chaos to blow up the spirit vein anchor our Sanctuary buried here!"

Su Chen's heart skipped a beat.

This woman—not only is her strength terrifying, but her mind is also incredibly sharp!

A cruel smile curled at the corner of Saintess Lin Xinglan's mouth.

"There are three anchors in Linhai City. The Eastern Industrial Zone, the Northern Reservoir, and this port lighthouse."

"Since you, Bai Cang, decided to risk being surrounded by the Investigation Bureau just to stay and destroy the anchor, it means there is something in Linhai City you absolutely cannot abandon. Or rather..."

Saintess Lin Xinglan's eyes became incomparably sharp in an instant.

"You, Bai Cang, are actually a local from Linhai!"

Behind the breakwater, the Salvation Society cadres let out a slight commotion.

The leader's true identity had always been the organization's highest secret; even they did not know it.

Su Chen took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the shock in his heart.

He had to admit that this current Saintess's logical reasoning ability was nothing short of a Prodigy's.

Just by observing his actions today, she had accurately deduced his hometown.

This made him feel an extremely dangerous sense of crisis.

If he let this woman continue investigating, the Su family's secrets would sooner or later be dug up by her!

Saintess Lin Xinglan continued her deduction, her tone becoming increasingly certain.

"Before this, I made an assumption."

"Assume that you are a Psionic User whose home is in Linhai."

"You possess S-Class water-type abilities. Therefore, among these three anchors, the port lighthouse, where the water-attribute psionic energy is most concentrated, would definitely be your primary target."

"So, I don't need to search the whole city for you. I only need to wait here, and I can completely purify you, this notorious heretic, along with your organization!"

The moment her words fell, the golden Holy Light surrounding Saintess Lin Xinglan surged violently!

Twelve red-robed Elders simultaneously raised their staffs, the blinding radiance weaving into a massive heavenly net in the sky, which slammed down towards the breakwater!

"Hum!"

The air emitted a groaning sound under the intense heat, unable to bear the pressure.

"Purify me?"

Su Chen suddenly burst into loud laughter.

The laughter was filled with arrogant and unbridled defiance.

"Just by relying on you bunch of charlatans who only know how to kowtow to clay idols?"

He threw his arms wide open.

"Boom!"

The waves that had been slapping against the reefs seemed to receive some kind of terrifying summons.

The entire ocean went completely berserk at this moment!

Thousands of tons of seawater instantly broke free from the shackles of gravity, rising against the heavens!

The seawater spun at high speed in mid-air, transforming into a terrifying water tornado hundreds of meters long, carrying the crushing power to tear everything apart, and headed straight for Saintess Lin Xinglan in mid-air!

"You're right!"

"This is the seaside, my absolute home turf!"

Su Chen's eyes beneath his mask were blood-red, his S-Class water-type ability driven to its absolute limit at this moment.

"In my domain of the sea, even a god has to suffocate to death!"

The water tornado and the golden net of Holy Light collided violently in mid-air!

Two cataclysmic S-Class forces were locked in a frenzied struggle.

The deafening explosion sounded as if it would tear everyone's eardrums apart.

Large swathes of seawater were instantly evaporated by the Holy Light into thick white mist, while even more seawater rose continuously from the surface, frantically scouring the edges of the Holy Light net.

The entire harbor instantly turned into a steaming purgatory on earth!

Less than a hundred meters from the center of the battle.

In a maze stacked with hundreds of rusted, abandoned shipping containers.

The environment was sickeningly filthy.

The ground was covered in stinking, rotting fish and shrimp, with some unknown black oil sludge mixed into the muddy water.

Several sea rats, as large as adult cats, were scurrying recklessly through the trash pile.

And behind a half-crushed iron barrel, a man was crouching.

Su Jianguo.

The dignified S-Class legendary Monster Hunter, Night Owl.

Was currently huddled up in extreme humiliation.

He was wearing an old, faded jacket, with an extremely tattered baseball cap on his head, its brim pulled very low.

He had half a cheap, unlit cigarette hanging from his mouth, his face full of bad luck.

"Damn it, what the hell is this."

Su Jianguo cursed inwardly while carefully rubbing his lower back.

Yesterday evening at the quarry in the suburbs, he just wanted to break up a fight and, by the way, drag his good-for-nothing little daughter home for a beating.

And what happened?

That bunch of immortal Elders in the Sanctuary didn't care about right or wrong; they even ganged up on him and beat him to within an inch of his life!

Especially that leading Saintess.

Looking like a pretty, delicate little girl, her attacks were sickeningly ruthless!

With one finger poke, she almost broke his old waist, which had been through over a decade of battlefields.

If he hadn't run fast, the dignified Night Owl would be lying in a hospital orthopedic ward today, being a laughingstock.

The more Su Jianguo thought about it, the angrier he got.

But anger aside, the city-wide lockdown order broadcast on TV this morning almost scared him into a heart attack.

S-Class Executive Tianqiong, and that perverted Abyssal Eye.

The authorities were really going for the kill!

Su Jianguo knew the abilities of the Abyssal Eye too well.

Once that blind little girl scanned at full power, any hidden psionic fluctuations would be as obvious as a searchlight in the dark night.

Even if he buried himself at the very bottom of the city center air-raid shelter, he might not be able to hide.

To avoid the spotlight, he didn't even finish his breakfast; he used the excuse of unloading cargo at the company and slipped out of the house.

He drove his beat-up van the whole way, specifically choosing small roads without surveillance, and finally hid in this godforsaken abandoned harbor.

The seawater here contained large amounts of heavy metals and salt, and combined with piles of industrial waste, it could greatly interfere with the Abyssal Eye's scanning waves.

It could be said to be a natural shielding field.

"Sigh, back in my day, I was someone who could walk sideways, but now look at me, forced by the authorities and a little girl to smell dead fish in a trash heap."

Su Jianguo took the half-cigarette out of his mouth and sighed gloomily.

Once this storm blew over, he swore he would go find those old charlatans in the Sanctuary to demand justice.

Just as Su Jianguo was calculating whether to order takeout for lunch.

The sky above suddenly darkened.

Immediately following that was the blinding golden Holy Light, and the twelve A-Class Peak auras that came with it!

Su Jianguo shuddered violently, and the half-cigarette in his hand dropped straight into the mud at his feet.

He very slowly and carefully poked half his head out from behind the iron barrel, looking out through the gap in the shipping containers.

He only took one look.

Su Jianguo's eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets.

"What the f*ck!?"

He let out a shrill scream in his heart.

That woman glowing with gold in mid-air, wasn't she that crazy woman from the Sanctuary who almost broke his old waist yesterday!

Why did she run here too?

And looking at this lineup, all twelve Elders were here; they were planning to flatten the entire harbor!

Su Jianguo was so scared he quickly pulled his head back.

His heart was pounding in his chest like a drum.

It's over.

Could this woman have tracked him all the way here?

That shouldn't be right; he had suppressed his psionic power completely along the way, not even daring to fart, so it was impossible to be exposed.

Su Jianguo mustered the courage again and peered out through the gap.

This time, he saw Bai Cang standing behind the breakwater.

That iconic black hooded trench coat, and that silver-white mask with twisted runes.

Su Jianguo's face instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot.

The Salvation Society leader!

One of the top five extreme terrorists on the global wanted list, that cold-blooded pervert!

"Are these lunatics not sleeping in the middle of the day, coming to the harbor for a team-building event?"

Su Jianguo greeted all eighteen generations of Bai Cang's ancestors in his heart.

If you two S-Class big shots want to fight, can't you go to the middle of the Pacific Ocean?

Why do you have to come to the place where I'm playing hide-and-seek to fight?

This is so unprincipled!

Su Jianguo, adhering to the principle of "less trouble is better," hunched over and prepared to make a run for it.

As long as he slipped out through the sewer while these two were busy fighting, today's incident would be over without a hitch.

However, he underestimated the destructive power generated by two S-Class powerhouses clashing at full strength.

Just as Su Jianguo had taken one step.

Su Chen's terrifying water tornado, hundreds of meters long, had already collided fiercely with Saintess Lin Xinglan's Holy Light net!

"BOOM!!!"

An indescribably terrifying explosion instantly shattered all the glass within a thousand-meter radius.

A terrifying shockwave comparable to a Category 12 hurricane, carrying boiling hot steam, like the shock front of a nuclear explosion, swept crazily in all directions with the center of the battle as the origin!

The first to bear the brunt was the area of abandoned shipping containers where Su Jianguo was hiding.

"Clang! Crack!"

The steel shipping containers, weighing dozens of tons, were as fragile as paper toys in the face of this shockwave.

They were easily torn apart and sent flying, colliding with each other in mid-air, emitting hair-raising sounds of twisting steel.

The rusted iron barrel in front of Su Jianguo didn't even last a second before it was turned into shrapnel.

The violent heatwave, mixed with sharp iron shards, slashed fiercely toward Su Jianguo's face!

He couldn't dodge it!

If he continued to suppress his psionic power, he would definitely be ground into a pile of minced meat in this aftermath!

"Go to hell!"

Su Jianguo completely broke his cover, letting out an extremely angry roar.

Since he couldn't dodge, he wouldn't dodge!

At the critical moment when those iron shards, capable of dismembering him, were about to cut into his flesh.

"BOOM!"

An extremely oppressive, intensely violent jet-Black Flame erupted from Su Jianguo's body without warning!

This was a fire from the abyss that did not belong to any known element in the current world.

It had no temperature, yet it could incinerate everything.

The Black Flame instantly formed an absolute defensive fire shield around Su Jianguo.

Those sharp iron shards, the violent shockwave, and the boiling hot steam all turned into nothingness the moment they touched the Black Flame!

The jet-Black Flame shot into the sky, like a black pillar of fire reaching the heavens, forcefully tearing a gap at the junction of the Holy Light and the water tornado!

The highly iconic S-Class psionic signature completely ignited the entire scene at this moment!

Saintess Lin Xinglan and Su Chen, who were originally locked in a life-or-death struggle, both paused for a split second.

All eyes, whether it was the Sanctuary Elders in mid-air or the Salvation Society cadres behind the breakwater, shifted in unison across the ruins, staring fixedly at that pillar of Black Flame.

In that mass of twisted darkness.

A man wearing a black iron mask and a tattered jacket was maintaining an extremely awkward half-crouching position.

Su Jianguo turned his head stiffly, looking at the hundreds of eyes staring straight at him.

The air seemed to have completely frozen at this moment.

It's over.

Completely exposed.