204: Chapter 204 The Steel Fortress Behind the Lava Fall

Drip. Drip.

Dark red blood trickled down the hem of Su Chen's black trench coat, dripping continuously onto the scorched earth.

Behind him lay over a hundred mangled corpses of Grandmasters. Blood flowed like a river, a shocking sight to behold.

With his hands in his trench coat pockets, Su Chen strode forward, stepping through the blood-soaked ground. Jiang Feng and Lin Qinghan followed closely behind, not even daring to breathe too loudly.

The three of them passed through the permeating fire poison miasma and arrived at the deepest part of the Dragonfall Basin.

"Rumble—" A deafening roar resounded ahead.

A massive lava waterfall, a hundred meters high, poured down frantically like an inverted fire dragon. The terrifying heat rushed at them, distorting the very air.

Jiang Feng wiped the hot sweat from his forehead. "Brother Chen, there's no way forward!" he shouted against the intense heat. "This lava must be at least several thousand degrees. A Martial Master's Protective Aura would be burned right through upon contact!"

Lin Qinghan immediately stepped forward. "I'll clear the path!" She gripped her newly condensed frost longsword, preparing to use the Law of Extreme Cold to freeze the lava by force.

"No need to waste your energy," Su Chen said calmly, interrupting Lin Qinghan's movements.

He didn't even have any intention of stopping. He walked straight toward the lava waterfall, which was hot enough to melt steel.

"Brother Chen!" Jiang Feng panicked.

Just as Su Chen was less than three meters away from the lava waterfall, he slowly pulled out his right hand.

A wisp of dark red airflow instantly swirled and leaped over Su Chen's knuckles! High-rank Ryuo!

Su Chen didn't throw a punch. He simply made a casual, gentle swipe forward with his right hand.

"Chii—!"

The dark red Ryuo airflow swirling around his hand was like an invisible giant blade dozens of meters long! It sliced brutally into the hundred-meter-high lava waterfall!

"Boom!"

Before the astonished eyes of Jiang Feng and Lin Qinghan, the lava waterfall was actually split in two from the very middle by this invisible dark force!

The boiling lava rolled back frantically to both sides! A vacuum path five meters wide was forcefully carved out of the lava waterfall!

"Let's go," Su Chen said expressionlessly, taking the lead to step into the path.

The two quickly followed. The moment they passed through the lava waterfall, the view before them suddenly opened up.

Behind the waterfall, a massive hollow karst cave was actually hidden.

And at the end of the cave stood a colossal metal gate!

This gate was a deep dark silver all over, its surface carved with complex heat-insulating and defensive Formation runes, blocking the way into the interior of the mountain.

Recognizing the material of the gate, Lin Qinghan gasped. "It's Deep Sea Sunken Silver! A top-secret material used by the Great Xia's military to build underground nuclear shelters!" She stepped forward quickly, carefully observing the gaps at the edge of the gate.

"This gate weighs at least a hundred tons! Moreover, the defensive Formation is an internal loop, capable of withstanding a direct hit from a high-grade armor-piercing missile."

Lin Qinghan frowned. "There must be a passcode lock or mechanism. Let's split up and look..."

"Look for a passcode?" Su Chen sneered.

He walked right up to the hundred-ton metal gate. "I don't have that kind of patience."

As soon as he finished speaking, Su Chen suddenly pulled his right leg back!

"Buzz!" The deep, light-devouring dark-black Armament Haki instantly coated his entire right leg! Dark red Ryuo airflow swirled wildly around his leg, tearing through the air.

"To open a door, a foot is enough."

Su Chen exerted sudden force from his waist. His right leg, like a swung black battering ram, kicked out fiercely with a terrifying sonic boom that tore through the air!

[Navy Six Styles: Tempest Kick]! Grand Shockwave!

"BOOM————!!!"

A deafening explosion, ten times more terrifying than thunder from the Nine Heavens, erupted inside the enclosed cave!

The entire Dragonfall Basin seemed to experience a magnitude-eight earthquake! Even the lava waterfall overhead was shaken into a brief stoppage!

Under the ghost-seeing gazes of Lin Qinghan and Jiang Feng...

The hundred-ton Deep Sea Sunken Silver gate, which was said to be able to withstand missile bombardments, instantly caved in deeply at its center under Su Chen's kick!

"Crack! Crack!" The thick alloy hinges at the edge of the gate let out a shrill, overburdened shriek before snapping one by one!

"Bang!"

The hundred-ton metal gate was actually kicked clean off the wall by Su Chen! Like a massive cannonball, it flew backward frantically into the internal corridor!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The giant gate smashed through the long metal corridor inside, bringing sparks and lightning all the way, plowing a bottomless trench.

The true face of the secret base was brutally kicked open at this moment!

"This..." Jiang Feng swallowed hard, looking at Su Chen's right leg, and then at the deformed hundred-ton gate in the distance. "Brother Chen, is your leg made of titanium alloy?"

"Let's go." Su Chen retracted his right leg, slipped his hands back into his pockets, and strode into the dark corridor.

"Wooo—! Wooo—! Wooo—!"

The absolute instant the gate was destroyed, the piercing, highest-level red alert inside the base blared frantically!

The entire corridor within flashed with violent red light.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

"The gate has been breached! Squad One and Squad Two, intercept immediately!"

Along with the roaring from the base's broadcast, a dense, heavy sound of footsteps echoed from deep within the corridor.

"Rumble!"

In just a few seconds, a dense, dark crowd of guards surged out from the corner at the end of the corridor like a tide!

There were easily five to six hundred of them!

But when they saw the appearance of these guards, the faces of both Jiang Feng and Lin Qinghan changed.

"W-What are these monsters?!" Jiang Feng gasped.

The five to six hundred guards rushing out were not normal human Martial Artists at all! They were the most infamous products of the Abyss Cult—"beast-man cyborgs"!

Some of them retained a human appearance on half of their face, while the other half was covered in crocodile-like hard green scales. Others had arms as thick as buckets, with their fingers turned into pitch-black claws as sharp as those of demonic wolves.

Still others had horns growing from their foreheads, their eyes emitting a bloodthirsty red glow like wild beasts.

"They're The Cult's genetically modified death soldiers!" Lin Qinghan gripped her longsword, her voice icy. "They feel no pain and have had their sanity completely wiped out. They only know how to slaughter!"

"Clack! Clack! Clack!"

Five to six hundred beast-man guards packed the wide metal corridor to the brim. In their hands, they held uniform heavy spiritual energy firearms!

Pitch-black muzzles and blue-flashing spiritual energy barrels formed an airtight net of deathly firepower in front of the corridor, all aimed at the intruding trio of Su Chen.

"Fire!" The leading beast-man captain let out a non-human roar.

"Brother Chen! There are too many of them!" Jiang Feng's eyes turned blood-red as he roared.

His muscles instantly bulged, and the greenish-gray luster of [Rokushiki: Iron Body] was pushed to its limit. He suddenly raised his mountain-splitting giant axe, blocking Su Chen like a wall of flesh.

"The corridor is too narrow, there's absolutely no room to dodge!" Jiang Feng stared intently at the hundreds of heavy firearms ahead. "My skin is thick! I'll tank the firepower, you guys find an opportunity to rush through!"

Lin Qinghan also bit her fingertip, preparing to release a large-scale extreme cold ice shield.

However, a hand brushed Jiang Feng aside.

With his hands in his trench coat pockets, Su Chen bypassed the two and walked unhurriedly to the very front.

He looked at the five to six hundred hideous beast-man monsters ahead who were about to pull their triggers, his footsteps not pausing in the slightest.

"Tank the firepower?" Su Chen's tone carried an extreme contempt that made one's scalp tingle.

"Just with this bunch of trash polluted by the Abyss?"

Su Chen slightly raised his chin. Deep within his pitch-black eyes, an ultimate arrogance that ruled over the world and looked down upon all creation suddenly erupted!

"Do they even deserve to waste my time?"

At the absolute instant his voice fell!

Within Su Chen's body, the [Conqueror's Haki] that had been deliberately suppressed and restrained was unleashed at full power, without reservation, at this very moment!

"Buzz————!!!"

There was no earth-shaking clash of blood and Qi. There were no gorgeous, blinding spiritual energy lights.

There was only a dark red, almost tangible, terrifying Soul storm! With Su Chen as the center, it swept out with a bang toward the enclosed metal corridor ahead!

This Conqueror's Haki was infinitely compressed and stacked within the narrow corridor, turning into a category-12 Soul hurricane!

"Thud!"

The five to six hundred ferocious beast-man guards, whose fingers were already on the triggers, felt the dark red storm. Within a single second of contact...

The bloodthirst and madness on their faces instantly froze!

Not a single person had time to pull the trigger. Not a single person could make a sound.

"Thud!" The leading beast-man captain's eyes instantly rolled back, his eyeballs covered in terrifying bloodshot veins. He opened his mouth wide, and a thick white foam gushed out from his mouth.

Immediately after, *clatter clatter clatter!*

The five to six hundred fully armed beast-man monsters, along with the heavy spiritual energy firearms in their hands...

Under this pure Soul crushing, all of them collapsed in unison, completely powerless to resist!

In an instant, the entire wide metal corridor was covered with fallen bodies.

Every single beast-man had their eyes rolled back, foaming at the mouth, twitching slightly on the ground like dead fish, completely losing consciousness.

A single blow, a total wipeout!

A bloodless victory!

Following behind, Jiang Feng and Lin Qinghan were completely dumbfounded.

They knew Su Chen was strong. But this method of instantly defeating five to six hundred elite guards with just a single glance and an Aura, without even moving a hand, was simply unheard of!

"W-What ability is this?" Lin Qinghan looked at the foaming beast-men all over the floor, her cold voice trembling slightly.

This was not some mental attack of the high-martial world. This was an absolute suppression of hierarchy originating from the deepest part of one's Bloodline and Soul!

"Let's go," Su Chen's voice was still flat.

He didn't explain. He just stepped out with his hands in his pockets.

His black leather boots stepped on the foaming faces of those beast-man guards, making squelching sounds.

Su Chen just stepped over the bodies all over the floor. As if taking a stroll in his own backyard, with absolute arrogance and composure, he drove straight in, walking toward the deepest part of the secret base.