262: Chapter 262 Annihilation Killing Eye

"Confirmed!"

Shen Xingchen did not hesitate.

The remaining soldiers were still pleasantly surprised by Shen Xingchen's return, and even Liu Hero wanted to step forward to express some concern.

Abruptly.

Centered on Shen Xingchen, an invisible ripple quietly spread outward.

Wherever the ripples passed, color was forcibly stripped away.

The dying blood sun in the sky seemed to have its light instantly stolen, turning into a grayish-white, lifeless disk.

Scorched earth, blood, battle flags, city walls... Everything in the field of view became like an old-fashioned black-and-white silent film, frantically fading all brilliance and returning to an ultimate, deathly gray.

This gray was not static, but slowly flowing and rotating, as if the entire heaven and earth had become a huge gray vortex, and at the center of the vortex were Shen Xingchen's slowly opening eyes.

What kind of eyes were those?

The boundary between the whites of the eyes and the pupils completely disappeared, replaced by a chaotic gray.

The gray slowly flowed, as deep as an endless abyss, carrying a death-like stillness. Wherever the gaze reached, even space itself seemed to slightly twist and wail.

Shen Xingchen was shrouded in a gray mist.

His pupils were sometimes cold and sometimes blazing, like an alternative cycle of Yin and Yang, carrying a chaotic and boundless aura.

"This is the Destruction Killing Pupil?"

Shen Xingchen could feel that the rules of this ash-silent pupil leaned toward destruction, already infinitely close to the conceptual level among authorities.

The system prompt sounded immediately.

{Destruction Killing Pupil: A pupil of death from the abyss. Anyone directly stared at will be locked onto by this rule, causing their body to involuntarily twist and deform. It belongs to a forbidden-art-level Talent Divine Ability. Consumption: Half of one's vital blood.}

After browsing the explanation of the Destruction Killing Pupil, Shen Xingchen had a moment of realization.

This belonged to a full-map AOE skill. While its lethality was immense, the toll on himself was equally huge... Half his vital blood—wouldn't using it twice in a row directly spell doom?

Before the soldiers could react to what was happening.

Shen Xingchen's pupils gradually focused, sweeping across the battlefield...

In an instant.

All demons within his line of sight were shrouded by a deathly gray aura.

First was the Blood Demon Ape charging at the very front; its body developed irregular distortions, as if forcefully twisted and snapped by an invisible mighty force.

In the rear, more demons began to experience bizarre bodily bends, bursting eyes, and inverted joints, making their already ferocious appearances look even more bizarre.

All of this was far from over.

Everything Shen Xingchen could see along a single line—all sixth and seventh-tier demons—began to have their bones shatter one after another.

Even the eighth-tier demons experienced varying degrees of physical changes. Although it was far from reaching a fatal level, it still left behind tragic deformations.

Everything happened too quickly. Most of the demons were still in a daze before dying due to the extreme distortion of their bodies.

Not only the demons, but even the human soldiers were dumbfounded.

"What happened?" someone asked.

"I don't know. It seems like the commotion came from inside the encirclement."

Actually, there was no encirclement left now. In the direction facing Snowfield Dragon City, the demons had basically been cleared out, leaving only scattered eighth-tier demons wandering around, looking even a bit... helpless!

"That gray killing intent..."

Someone finally noticed the source of the power.

That was a figure young enough to make people envious. As the starting point of the gray aura, his entire body was shrouded in gray mist, sweeping indifferently across everything.

"No way?"

"Who is that? Why have I never seen him before?"

"A newly arrived commander? Why did that scene just now look like the awakening of a high-level Talent Divine Ability?"

"What decent person awakens a Talent Divine Ability only at the sixth or seventh tier?"

"And no one else could possibly have such an outrageous skill..."

"..."

Although all those killed were demons, these human soldiers shrouded under the gray aura also felt a chill.

Exactly what level of power could achieve this extent!?

The most shocked were still the hundreds of people inside the encirclement. They watched with their own eyes as Shen Xingchen awakened, and then erupted with a certain pupil technique, sweeping away the endless hordes of demons.

"Brother Liu... To be honest, is his name really Lin Hu, and is he a newcomer?" a soldier asked.

Liu Hero's throat moved: "I can't tell the truth, but... I only just found out he could release such a terrifying battle skill."

Although Shen Xingchen killed sixth and seventh-tier demons, there were simply too many of them.

Just that single move was enough for a whole company of people to kill for a lifetime...

...

Above the city wall.

Yu Juezhi dropped his jaw in shock: "No, is this reasonable?"

Jiang Shuo showed a thoughtful look: "It seems a new Talent Divine Ability has awakened. This is his third Talent Divine Ability, right? S-rank, SS-rank... Each one is more terrifying than the last."

People with dual awakenings had appeared in history, but triple awakenings... had completely never existed.

Moreover, any one of these three Talent Divine Abilities given to someone else would allow them to be cultivated as a key focus, yet Shen Xingchen actually had a full three of them.

Yu Juezhi had a minor mental breakdown: "They get stronger one after the other. How much stronger can it get when it's already SS-rank? Why doesn't he just awaken a conceptual-level authority instead!"

Actually, before Shen Xingchen appeared, he was very satisfied with his S-rank Wheel of Gods...

"Why are you getting jealous?" Jiang Shuo rolled his eyes at him and continued, "Looking at those gray pupils, it should be a destructive-style finishing move. The consumption shouldn't be low. Get ready to save people."

...

The upper battlefield.

More than a dozen demon generals stopped their actions one after another, looking at that patch of gray with disbelief, full of puzzlement.

From that silver battle armor, to the lightning, and then to the terrifying combat power as a tier six.

Although they all recognized that it was Shen Xingchen, the renowned genius figure within the human race, they still couldn't understand... Was that Shen Xingchen really a human? Could a human reach this extent?

No, absolutely cannot let that person return to the city!

...

The gray anomaly began to slowly recede, and color returned like a receding tide.

The chaotic gray in Shen Xingchen's eyes quietly faded away. Ahead of him was a suffocating vacuum zone, as well as the gazes of countless demons filled with fear and bewilderment.

"Pfft—"

Shen Xingchen spat out a mouthful of blood, his face instantly turning pale, and he could only barely support himself with his willpower.

Fortunately, the previous encirclement had completely collapsed.

The people from the Fengwu Squad rushed over in a hurry, and Chen Meier grabbed and supported Shen Xingchen.

Shen Xingchen just smiled slightly: "I really tried my best this time."

Chen Meier nodded softly: "Mn."

In fact, seeing Shen Xingchen surrounded by so many demons simultaneously, she had felt somewhat despairing; even a tier nine might not necessarily be able to charge into such a pile of demons to rescue someone.

She was pondering countermeasures, but she didn't expect Shen Xingchen to carve a path out by himself, and with such an unreasonable method, forcefully cut right through the entire horde of demons...

As the commander, Chen Meier decisively ordered the surrounding soldiers: "Kill our way back into the city with me."