88: Chapter 88 Lunar Eclipse

Jealousy surfaced in Yomi Boy's eyes.

The breathing behind Faceless Lady's mask also grew slightly rapid.

"The King's masterpiece."

These four words were nearly a divine gift in their ears.

But Executive Jiang Xu only felt it was absurd.

So absurd that he even felt like laughing.

"My power comes from my arduous training and the resources of Great Xia."

Executive Jiang Xu's tone was devoid of any ripples.

"My life comes from the time my comrades fought to win for me."

"I survived because I still have responsibilities left unfulfilled."

"Saving a life does not equate to allegiance."

"Restructuring does not equate to a blessing."

"Contamination does not equate to glory."

He lifted his eyes.

That pair of eyes was as cold as a blade.

"I survived to slay even more calamities."

A flash of astonishment crossed Tsukuyomi's eyes.

This astonishment was not because Executive Jiang Xu refused.

It was because he could not comprehend.

Why could an existence touched by the King, transformed by the King, and pulled back from the brink of death by the King still so calmly deny the divine grace?

"You are stained with the King's divine grace, yet you reject the King?"

There was finally a trace of anger in Tsukuyomi's voice.

"Are you not afraid of inviting a cleansing from the Abyss?"

Executive Jiang Xu looked at him.

"If the Abyss dares to come to Linhai."

His gaze was cold and sharp.

"I will slay it as well."

As these words fell.

Inverse Buddha was furious.

He slammed his palms together, and the three pitch-black Buddha faces behind him opened their eyes simultaneously.

"Blasphemy!"

"You talk too much."

Executive Jiang Xu's voice was still echoing in the original spot.

But he had already vanished.

There was no fluctuation of rules.

No flickering of Psionic energy.

Not even any warning signs.

The concrete ground beneath his feet hadn't even had time to crack.

The air was directly compressed and deformed by the terrifying, massive force instantly displaced.

A blinding sonic boom cloud exploded where Executive Jiang Xu had originally stood.

A white wave of air swept across the warehouse entrance, tearing the door off a nearby cold-chain truck.

Tsukuyomi's pupils contracted to the size of pinpricks.

So fast!

This was the absolute physical speed produced by an S-rank Psionic Martial Artist after rigorous tempering, relying purely on muscle fibers, bone density, and the eruption of Qi and blood!

The Strange Tales' retinas could not capture his movement trajectory at all!

Tsukuyomi didn't even have time to issue an order.

The black moon in his right eye spun violently.

The pitch-black radiance instantly drew away all surrounding light, forcibly folding twelve Abyss barriers in front of him.

Boom!

The tip of the dark gold spear struck the first barrier.

There was no stalemate.

The spear, carrying the terrifying kinetic energy of breaking the sound barrier, was unstoppable.

The first layer. The third layer. The seventh layer.

The sound of the barriers shattering was so dense that it merged into a single sharp screech.

Tsukuyomi crossed his arms, bracing himself desperately behind the last three defensive lines.

The spear tip finally paused.

But the destructive force attached to the spear shaft pierced straight through the siege.

Tsukuyomi's feet slammed deeply into the surface.

Plowing a forty-meter-deep trench through the rusted rails and piles of gravel.

The sleeve of his suit on his entire right arm shattered inch by inch.

His bones emitted a teeth-grinding friction sound.

Black blood dripped from his fingertips onto the soil.

The entire scene was deathly silent.

The grimace on Yomi Boy's face froze completely.

The rules Inverse Buddha was preparing to release were forcibly interrupted.

The veins on the back of Headless Samurai's hand, gripping his blade, bulged.

The copper coins in the eyes of Elder of the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade stopped spinning for a moment.

The Noh mask on Faceless Lady's face also seemed to freeze.

Relying solely on the speed and power erupted from his Physical Body.

Without using any abilities.

He pierced through the twelve absolute defenses of Neon's strongest Strange Talk Sequence in a single strike?

Is this really a human?

Or another monster wearing the skin of a Great Xia executive?

Executive Jiang Xu stood in the spot where Tsukuyomi had originally stood, slowly retracting his spear.

Dark gold patterns lit up along his wrist.

That Abyss rule, forcibly injected into his body by Su Yun, appeared exceptionally compliant at this moment.

So compliant that it made Executive Jiang Xu even more disgusted.

Because it was indeed useful.

"Your rules are sturdy."

Executive Jiang Xu remarked.

"But your Physical Body is too weak."

"This makes you unable to even see my movements clearly."

Faceless Lady shrieked sharply.

"Attack together!"

Inverse Buddha stepped forward.

A pitch-black, three-faced Buddha statue rose behind him with a roar.

The Buddha statue's three faces—compassionate, wrathful, and sorrowful—looked down at Executive Jiang Xu simultaneously.

"Inverse Life of All Beings—"

The S-rank rule descended.

Attempting to forcibly reverse all the blood, Psionic energy, and neural conduction within Executive Jiang Xu's body.

This was a rule specifically targeting the internal circulation of living organisms.

Once successful, blood would flow backward, the heart would invert, and Psionic energy would surge violently.

Even an S-rank would be killed by their own body in an instant.

Executive Jiang Xu didn't even look at him.

He flicked his wrist.

The spear tip traced a very short arc in mid-air.

Gravity was no longer a simple, downward crushing force of a thousand jun.

Extremely microscopic gravitational tangents erupted along the spear tip.

The gravity on the pitch-black Buddha statue's left shoulder was instantly modified to twenty times upward.

The gravity on the right leg was fifty times downward.

The chest was pulled to the left.

The back was torn to the right.

The head collapsed inward.

The arms were torn outward.

Three hundred and sixty gravitational sources of different directions and magnitudes detonated simultaneously inside the Buddha statue.

Crack!

The S-rank rule Buddha statue, several zhang tall, couldn't even let out a complete roar.

Under this extreme, chaotic spatial pulling, it was torn alive into tens of thousands of fingernail-sized fragments.

Inverse Buddha vomited a mouthful of black blood.

Half of his body disintegrated along with it.

He collapsed to his knees in despair.

Fear appeared in his eyes for the first time.

"How is this possible..."

Executive Jiang Xu did not answer.

Because this was not a question.

This was the result.

The copper coin eyes of Elder of the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade spun rapidly.

His back was hunched, and he spat out a string of garbled, strange syllables.

Hundreds of faceless, short, resentful spirits crawled frantically out of the shadows of the containers.

They used their hands and feet, like a swarm of starving, crazed infants, surrounding Executive Jiang Xu densely.

"Executive Jiang Xu!" "Executive Jiang Xu!" "Executive Jiang Xu!"

This was a locking rule that called out one's true name.

As long as the sound waves entered the ears, the Soul would be locked instantly.

What Elder of the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade was best at was dragging others into the ranks of the dead using their names.

Executive Jiang Xu did not retreat but advanced.

He opened his left hand and made a fist in the air.

With him as the center, the air mass within a three-meter radius was forcibly increased by ten thousand times by gravity.

A dense, invisible gravity wall formed instantly.

The sound waves of the resentful spirits' calls struck this wall.

The sound did not spread.

Because the medium transmitting the sound became so heavy at this moment that it was nearly solidified.

Those eerie calls were smashed forcibly to the ground by heavy air particles.

Like a group of ghosts who hadn't had a chance to complain, they were slapped back into their graves with a brick.

Executive Jiang Xu stomped his right foot.

In the central area where the hundred resentful spirits were, the gravity parameters collapsed in reverse.

A miniature gravitational black hole formed out of thin air.

Hundreds of spiritual resentful spirits without substantial bodies, before they could even finish the motion of fleeing, were forcibly sucked into a single point by this extreme collapsing force.

Compression. Aggregation. Collapse.

Finally, it turned into a pure black, high-density Soul orb that fell to the ground.

Pop. The Soul orb shattered. It turned into dust.

The copper coin eyes of Elder of the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade shattered simultaneously.

He screamed, covering his eye sockets with his hands, and black blood seeped frantically from between his fingers.

Headless Samurai seized the opportunity at this moment.

The blade left its sheath.

A flash of cold light severed the curtain of rain.

The head in his arms stared fixedly at Executive Jiang Xu's throat and spat out the rule words.

"Headless."

Karma lock. Ignoring distance. Ignoring defense.

As long as it was seen by his head, and as long as the blade was drawn, the target would be judged as "should be headless."

An extremely thin line of blood appeared out of thin air on the surface of Executive Jiang Xu's neck.

Fanaticism flashed in the depths of Headless Samurai's eyes.

No matter how strong your Physical Body is. No matter how fast your speed is.

Facing a rule that acts directly on concepts, you only have the fate of bowing your head to be slaughtered!

However. Executive Jiang Xu's head did not fall.

Within the blood and flesh of the S-rank Psionic Martial Artist, tempered through thousands of trials, dark gold patterns suddenly lit up.

The violent rules of the Abyss merged perfectly with the ultimate human physique.

Forming a conceptual barrier that could not be defined or destroyed.

Executive Jiang Xu lifted his left hand.

His index and middle fingers precisely pinched that invisible blood line attempting to sever his cervical spine.

The head in Headless Samurai's arms widened its eyes in terror.

Crushing a Karma line with bare hands?

What kind of outrageous human is this?

He had seen monsters in the ruins of Neon. He had also seen crazed divine gift recipients.

But he had never seen something that was clearly wearing the uniform of the Investigation Bureau, yet was like a humanoid rule-crushing machine.

"Conceptual locking is indeed a trouble."

Executive Jiang Xu exerted force with his knuckles.

The gravitational field of the dark gold spear surged frantically along his fingers into that blood line.

"But your blade-drawing wind-up is enough for me to kill you ten times."

Snap!

The invisible blood line shattered inch by inch at Executive Jiang Xu's fingertips.

The rule backlash smashed back violently along the Karma line.

The katana in Headless Samurai's hand exploded into countless scrap metal on the spot.

His chest was instantly smashed into a depression by an invisible, massive force.

His whole body flew backward, smashing fiercely through three containers.

Boom boom boom!

The containers collapsed one after another.

Headless Samurai, hugging his own head, was stuck in the pile of scrap metal and couldn't crawl out for a long time.

In just three breaths.

The five S-rank Strange Talk Sequence members that Neon was so proud of had absolutely no room to resist in front of this Great Xia executive.

Speed faster than neural conduction.

Physical Body resisting conceptual rules head-on.

The application of gravity was refined to the terrifying extent of splitting microscopic particles.

He was not fighting.

He was cutting the pride of the Strange Tales into pieces, just like dismantling inferior machines on an assembly line.

Yomi Boy's face turned pale.

For the first time, he felt that the crying sounds in his schoolbag were too noisy.

Faceless Lady did not scream again.

The mask on her face trembled slightly, as if she wanted to change to an expression more suited to fear.

Elder of the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade backed away, covering his eyes.

Inverse Buddha knelt halfway on the ground, the three-faced Buddha statue shattered into residue.

Headless Samurai's chest was collapsed, and even the head in his arms had a crack.

They were S-rank.

They were once called calamities by countless survivors in the ruins of Neon.

But now.

They were like five mobs that were cleared away casually by the main storyline BOSS just after appearing.

Tsukuyomi stood at the end of the deep trench.

His right arm hung powerlessly.

The fanaticism on his face was replaced by extreme gravity.

Conventional probing was meaningless.

Flawless on the physical level.

Impeccable on the rule level.

What was even more terrifying was that this man was not a pure Strange Tales.

He had human will.

He had human combat experience.

He had the human's almost paranoid execution of order.

And he had the Abyss rules that the King had personally combed through.

This was the most dangerous combination.

Tsukuyomi slowly straightened his body.

The black moon in his right eye expanded completely, dyeing the entire eye socket a deep pitch black.

"I retract what I said just now."

His voice lost that flippant ease.

"The executive of Great Xia is indeed qualified to witness the afterglow of the arrival of the Kingdom of God."

The cumulonimbus clouds in the sky were swallowed by an even purer darkness.

The light above the abandoned freight station began to disappear inch by inch.

It was not nightfall.

It was that the light had been stolen.

Rails. Warehouse. Containers. Weeds. Scrapped cold-chain truck.

The shadows of everything were elongated, then melted into a boundless black moonlight.

A massive black full moon rose behind Tsukuyomi.

That moon had no temperature. No radiance.

Yet it was like a pitch-black eye hanging upside down in the sky.

It looked down at the earth. It also looked down at Executive Jiang Xu.

This was no longer a simple defense or attack.

It was a Domain expansion that completely distorted the reality of the environment.

Lunar Eclipse.

Within this Domain, all common sense began to be eroded by the black moonlight.

Gravity no longer fully obeyed Executive Jiang Xu.

Air density began to be redefined by the moonlight.

The direction of the ground became blurred.

Even the Psionic energy flow within Executive Jiang Xu's body was forcibly assimilated by a cold rule.

Fine black spots appeared on the surface of his Physical Body.

The dark gold patterns emitted a low tremor.

It was as if a System was trying to take over his body parameters.

Executive Jiang Xu looked down at the back of his hand.

The black moonlight was drilling under his skin.

He gripped the spear with an expressionless face.

The Martial Arts Qi and blood inside his body boiled with a roar.

The mutant Awakening core began to vibrate.

The Abyss rules also roared silently, like a provoked beast.

Tsukuyomi lifted his hands.

The radiance of the black moon smashed towards Executive Jiang Xu like a waterfall.

"Die before the throne of the old kingdom."

"Use yourself to offer a congratulatory gift for the King's ascension!"