97: Chapter 97 Reverse Charge

"Break for me!!!"

Outside the blood-colored light barrier, Major General Lei Wuji of the Zhenyuan Army let out a hoarse, desperate roar.

His eyes were bloodshot, and his right fist, wrapped in the Purple Lightning thunder of the Grandmaster Realm—capable of moving mountains and filling seas—smashed fiercely against the barrier of the "Abyssal Heaven-Severing Formation."

"Boom!"

Lightning exploded. But the seemingly thin blood-colored light barrier only rippled faintly on its surface, immediately swallowing up Major General Lei Wuji's world-destroying punch entirely.

"It's useless, Major General Lei!"

Not far away, Patriarch Lin Zhen was disheveled, blood constantly spilling from the corners of his mouth. He had just unleashed three killing moves of the Wuzong Realm in succession, and his spiritual energy was now nearly depleted.

Staring at the hellish scene inside the light barrier, his voice trembled: "This Formation is absorbing our power! The harder we hit, the more stable the Formation inside becomes!"

"Then what do we do? Just watch?!" Major General Lei Wuji grabbed Patriarch Lin Zhen by the collar, his tiger-like eyes bloodshot. "The soldier king I have my eye on is in there! Your daughter is in there too! There are also one hundred thousand innocent people from Jiangnan City inside!"

Patriarch Lin Zhen closed his eyes in pain and said nothing.

Around the perimeter of the entire Arena, tens of thousands of spectators and family members who had luckily escaped or hadn't managed to enter were now huddled together, crying.

The cries and screams of despair shook the heavens and earth.

Everyone knew that the people inside the light barrier were doomed.

"Look at the big screen!"

In the midst of this suffocating despair, someone suddenly shouted.

Major General Lei Wuji suddenly looked up.

Above the holographic Arena, the largest floating broadcast screen had been showing the tragic, distant view of exotic beasts slaughtering civilians. But at this moment, the director suddenly cut to an extreme close-up.

In the image, thousands of blood-covered students, their spirits completely shattered, were huddled shivering behind the high ground. Some closed their eyes, waiting for death; some knelt on the ground praying; some were even so scared they lost control of their bladders.

And in the very front of these desperate students, there was only one person. A youth with a bare upper body, his frame lean yet brimming with explosive power. In his right hand, he casually carried a pitch-black broken sword. No panic, no retreat.

While everyone else was running away desperately, he was walking, step by step, with a suffocatingly calm demeanor, back turned to all of humanity, facing the tens of thousands of exotic beasts that blotted out the sky and let out deafening roars.

"Is this kid... crazy..." Patriarch Lin Zhen stared at the big screen and muttered blankly.

"It's Su Chen!" Major General Lei Wuji released Patriarch Lin Zhen's collar, his eyes locked onto that solitary, arrogant figure.

The crying of one hundred thousand people, at this moment, strangely paused.

Inside and outside the light barrier, everyone who saw this scene unconsciously held their breath.

On one side, the dark, tsunami-like tide of Abyssal beasts; on the other, a lone, slender figure with a bare chest, holding a broken sword.

This posture of moving against the current in the midst of an apocalyptic flood created an extremely intense visual contrast that was almost enough to tear one's eyes apart!

…Inside the light barrier, on the ruined high ground.

"Roar——!" A foul, fishy gale rushed toward them, even blowing the black hair on Su Chen's forehead.

The first wave of 3rd Order Shadow Demon Wolf had already charged to within less than thirty meters of Su Chen. Thirty meters, for a 3rd Order exotic beast, was nothing more than the distance of a single pounce.

Su Chen stopped. He slowly lowered his head and glanced at the black sword in his hand, which was wrapped in Armament Haki. Then, he raised his head, his scarlet Sharingan staring coldly at the black frenzy ahead.

"Thirty meters." Su Chen silently recited the number in his heart.

The next instant, the muscles in his legs suddenly underwent a terrifying change. The Martial Master Realm muscle fibers, having been tempered by System potions and just put through the extreme grinding of Haki, suddenly contracted within a thousandth of a second to an extreme that completely defied biological logic!

Su Chen's body leaned forward slightly. [Marine Six Styles: Shave]. Full power, erupt!

"Bang————!!!" It wasn't the sound of footsteps. It was a terrifying sonic boom, more deafening than the thunder of the Nine Heavens, enough to tear eardrums apart!

The moment the sonic boom rang out, the alloy ground beneath Su Chen's feet could not withstand the terrifying reaction force, comparable to a missile launch. "Boom!" The hard alloy steel plate instantly turned into dust, and a giant crater several meters deep exploded into existence out of thin air!

The violent shockwave swept backward, directly knocking over a dozen nearby students.

"What happened?!" Jiang Feng, unable to open his eyes due to the shockwave, shielded Lin Qinghan tightly in his arms and roared.

Lin Qinghan had just regained a sliver of consciousness. She struggled to open her eyes, looked toward the sound of the sonic boom, and her cold eyes instantly shrank to the size of pinpricks.

In her field of vision, Su Chen had disappeared. At the same time the sonic boom rang out, he was no longer in his original spot. He did not, like a conventional Martial Artist, choose to circle the edges of the beast horde, nor did he choose to rely on the high ground for a defensive counterattack.

He transformed into a black lightning bolt that the naked eye could not possibly track. Facing that mountain-toppling charge, in a violent posture that appeared completely "suicidal" to outsiders, he plunged headfirst into the deepest part of the dense, impenetrable beast horde!

In the footage from high above, that black lightning bolt was like a drop of thick ink, actively and resolutely dripping into a violently churning black ocean.

"Seeking death." In mid-air, the Cult Deacon standing on the skull of a flying dragon saw this scene and let out a merciless sneer.

He had originally been wary of the Aura Su Chen displayed after breaking through, but seeing Su Chen actually make such a move, he felt completely at ease.

"Even a Grandmaster wouldn't dare to charge alone into the center of so many high-level exotic beasts!" The Cult Deacon's voice, amplified by spiritual energy, spread across the entire field. "You arrogant fool. You will be torn to shreds by those beasts in an instant, and not even your bone fragments will be left!"

"Brother Chen!!!" On the high ground, Jiang Feng's eyes cracked, and he let out a heart-wrenching roar.

He struggled to stand up and rush in, but was held down tightly by several students around him.

"Are you crazy! It's all 3rd and 4th Order exotic beasts ahead, if you go in now, you're just throwing your life away!" Chen Fei used his only remaining hand to grab Jiang Feng's arm tightly.

Lin Qinghan lay in the crook of Jiang Feng's arm, her fingers digging desperately into the gravel on the ground, her nails curling back, seeping blood. She did not speak, but her heart was already in her throat, and even her breathing had completely stopped.

She stared fixedly at the very center of the beast horde. A siege of tens of thousands of exotic beasts. Even a god would fall, right?

"Kill him!" In mid-air, the Cult Deacon coldly issued the final order.

The exotic beasts from all directions let out excited, wild roars, like collapsing black mountains, pressing down fiercely toward the black lightning bolt that had charged in!