241: Chapter 241 Burning away all but nothingness, leaving not even ashes

The dawn of the third day finally broke.

The first rays of sunlight struggled to pierce through the thick volcanic ash and smoke above the capital, spilling onto the devastated, broken land.

On the outskirts of the restricted zone, Major General Lei Wuji's bloodshot eyes stared at the deep crater in the distance. He hadn't closed his eyes for three days and nights.

"General Lei, it's dawn." His adjutant walked over carrying a cup of hot water, his voice hoarse.

Major General Lei Wuji didn't take the water. He simply raised his hand and pointed at the massive crater.

"Look!"

At the bottom of the pit, that cluster of ink-black flames was still burning quietly. And in the center of the black fire...

That abyss Sacred Beast—the Undead Blood Beast—which once blotted out the sky and was hailed as an indestructible concept-level entity, had been burned down to the very last piece! It was only the size of an adult's fist!

"Cheep... Cheep..."

A sound like the whimper of a dying rat emerged from that scrap of flesh.

It no longer possessed its former ferocity and arrogance. This remaining piece of flesh twisted and struggled frantically in the black fire. It tried to split off even a single cell, attempting to burrow into the stone cracks in the ground to escape.

But the Amaterasu Black Flame clung to it like a maggot on a bone, wrapping it tightly. It didn't give it any chance to make contact with the outside world at all!

At the top of the tower.

Su Chen's face was as pale as paper. His right eye, the blood and tears, had dried completely, forming a dark red scab. But the six-pointed star pattern in his eye was still rotating with extreme stability.

"Trying to run?" A cold arc curled at the corner of Su Chen's mouth.

He looked down from on high at the scrap of flesh. His voice drifted away in the cold wind.

"I said, until it burns to ashes, it will never extinguish."

"Die for me!"

"Boom!"

Accompanied by Su Chen's mental command, the Amaterasu Black Flame at the bottom of the pit suddenly contracted inwards!

The black fire, which had been burning quietly, instantly erupted with one last violent act of consumption!

"Woooo——"

A sharp, yet incredibly faint wail resounded through the world.

This was the very last sound of the Undead Blood Beast in this world. The sound was filled with extreme fear of this black flame!

The next second, the sound stopped abruptly.

Under the gaze of tens of millions of people in the city and countless spy satellites around the globe.

That fist-sized piece of flesh. That drop of abyss blood hidden in the deepest part. Even the last high-dimensional cell that maintained its "undead concept"!

Under the ruthless consumption of the Amaterasu Black Flame, with a "hiss," it turned into a tiny wisp of blue smoke. It rose in curls, and then completely dissipated into nothingness in the morning breeze.

No remains were left. Not a single genetic fragment that could be used for resurrection remained.

This concept-level forbidden creature that had plunged the Great Xia high-martial arts system into absolute despair was completely and utterly burned into absolute nothingness!

"Beep... Beep, beep, beep!"

At the supreme command center of the Great Xia Zhenyuan Army, the super-mainframe, which had been flashing with piercing red lights and emitting harsh alarms, suddenly went quiet.

The entire command hall fell into a deathly silence.

All the data analysts stared blankly at the energy detector on the big screen.

"Da... Data?" The Commander-in-Chief stood in front of the big screen, his voice trembling slightly.

The chief analyst swallowed hard, his hands frantically typing on the keyboard. He adjusted the detector's precision to the maximum and expanded the scanning range tenfold.

"Zero." The analyst raised his head, his eye sockets instantly turning red as tears welled up.

"Commander! It's zero!" The analyst stood up abruptly, shouting at the top of his lungs in hysteria!

"Energy reaction, zero!"

"Life magnetic field, zero!"

"Abyss high-dimensional concept fluctuation, zero!"

"It's dead! That monster is completely and utterly dead! Not even a single cell is left!"

"Boom!" The entire command hall exploded in an instant!

Dozens of high-ranking military officials with stars on their shoulders hugged each other in excitement. Some took off their military caps and smashed them on the ground, while others covered their faces and wailed.

"It's dead! It really was burned to death!"

"Great Xia has been saved!"

Meanwhile, at the ruins in the capital.

Major General Lei Wuji heard the report from the communicator, and he swayed violently. He knelt on one knee on the ground and punched the scorched earth hard.

"Good! Good! Good!" This iron-blooded Martial King shouted "good" three times, tears mixing with blood flowing down.

"Brother Chen did it!" In the ruins in the distance, Jiang Feng raised his giant axe and roared at the sky.

Lin Qinghan leaned against a broken wall, a beautiful smile blooming on her pale face. She looked at the black figure at the top of the tower. "He really... erased the concept."

However, just when the whole city was immersed in the ecstasy of surviving the disaster.

"Wait! General! Look at the bottom of the pit!" The adjutant suddenly raised his binoculars, pointing in shock at the huge crater in the city center.

Major General Lei Wuji stood up abruptly and snatched the binoculars.

Although the Undead Blood Beast had been completely burned to nothingness, that cluster of ink-black Amaterasu Black Flame was still burning quietly at the bottom of the pit!

"Send a drone over! Zoom in!" Major General Lei Wuji roared.

"Buzz, buzz, buzz—" Several military high-definition reconnaissance drones flew rapidly over the deep crater, transmitting the scene at the bottom to screens all over the city in real time.

When everyone saw the scene at the bottom of the pit, the cheers that had just erupted in the city stopped abruptly once again!

Everyone gasped, their scalps tingling!

That was a huge crater with a diameter of over a kilometer. Originally, the bottom of this pit had been severely polluted by the highly corrosive abyss poisonous blood because of the Undead Blood Beast's presence.

The soil had turned into foul-smelling black mud, and deadly abyss radiation was everywhere.

Even if the monster died, this land would definitely be barren for a hundred years.

But now!

Under the high-definition lens of the drone.

Where was the poisonous mud at the bottom of the pit? Where was the foul-smelling blood?

Under the continuous burning of the black fire for three days and three nights, the entire bottom of the huge crater had actually turned into a piece of extremely flat, mirror-smooth black glass!

It was as if someone had used the most precise instrument to polish a huge obsidian mirror on the ground!

"This... how is this possible?" A military researcher looked at the screen, his legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground.

"Quick! Test the radiation index! Test the poison gas concentration!" Major General Lei Wuji roared at the communicator.

"Gen... General..." On the other end of the communicator, the officer in charge of environmental monitoring had a voice shaking like a sieve.

"No radiation... poison gas concentration is zero..."

"Even the DNA of the abyss germs in the soil cannot be found!"

The officer's words were like a heavy hammer, slamming into everyone's hearts.

"All sources of pollution... have all been burned away by that black fire."

"It not only burned the monster to death, but even... completely purified this polluted land!"

Purification!

Hearing these two words, the eyes of everyone in the city looking at that black fire changed completely.

This wasn't just simple destruction; this was an absolute tyranny that burned away all sins, toxins, radiation, and even microscopic germs!

Not even dregs left! This was the true fire of world-ending! This was the true flame of purification!

"Water can't extinguish it, poison gas can be ignited, and even abyss radiation can be burned into nothingness..." Major General Lei Wuji looked at the black glass flat ground on the screen and shook his head with a bitter smile.

"Is there anything in this world that this fire can't burn?"

"A miracle." Lin Qinghan looked at the huge black obsidian mirror and muttered to herself. "He used fire to burn a pure land out of these ruins."

At this moment, the sun had fully risen. Golden sunlight spilled onto the ruined land of the capital.

The sunlight shone into that huge crater, refracting dazzling light on that mirror-smooth black glass.

And in the center of that black glass, that cluster of Amaterasu Black Flame was still burning quietly. It seemed that as long as Su Chen didn't close his eyes, it would keep burning until it burned through the Blue Star.

"Su Chen!"

Major General Lei Wuji took a deep breath. He gathered his courage and shouted loudly towards the broadcast tower hundreds of meters away.

"The monster is dead! The pollution has been cleared!"

Major General Lei Wuji swallowed hard, his tone carrying a deep awe he hadn't even realized himself. He even used a tone of asking for instructions.

"Can this divine fire... be extinguished?"