“Suppress!”
The voice slammed precisely into the souls of everyone present, carrying a suppressive force that crushed the stray thoughts in their minds.
The pillar-like spear, trailing a sky-tearing black plume of fire, crashed straight down from above the clouds.
Like an otherworldly judgment, it plunged toward Dawn City!
In the next second, the tip of the spear struck the seemingly unbreakable city defense array.
Boom!!!
The entirety of Dawn City shook violently under the impact.
Yet the green light screen enveloping the entire city—which no one had been able to break—could not hold for even a single second. Like a punctured soap bubble, it instantly burst into a sky full of glittering specks.
As the specks of light drifted down, the people did not even have time to gasp.
Immediately after, the massive human skin that was rapidly expanding in an attempt to blanket the entire city was swept by the residual force of the spear tip, melting away instantly like hot water poured on snow!
Under the spear's piercing thrust, Liang Shuguang's final remaining aura leaked a trace of astonishment. It was imprinted on the ground like a thin film, before shattering and vanishing completely.
The spear tip pointed downward, and the pitch-black spear shadow finally pinned itself into the central plaza of Dawn City.
The moment the tip of the spear struck the earth, all of Dawn City leaped.
This was no metaphor; the ground actually bounced half a meter into the air before crashing heavily back down. Cracks radiated outward in all directions from where the spear landed, spreading for hundreds of meters.
At the same time, black lightning exploded outward with the spear tip as the epicenter!
Thick, black electrical arcs instantly spread across every street and alley of Dawn City like a spiderweb, striking every single person who had completely aberrated with absolute, unerring precision.
It was an instant kill!
The black lightning also crawled up the Avatar-level tree monster, Qiu Jing.
Another instant kill!
Qiu Jing's massive, dozens-of-meters-tall body instantly stiffened under the black lightning. His trunk disintegrated at a visible rate, eventually scattering in the wind without leaving behind even a single speck of dust.
Crushed to the ground by the formidable energy, everyone was completely immobilized. Regardless of their strength, they were all like lambs awaiting the judgment of the spear.
Liu Yun, who had been struggling to control herself as her anomalous energy ran rampant, suddenly shuddered. A massive cloud of inky green aura was forcibly expelled from her body, only to be instantly annihilated under the shock of the black lightning.
Her eyes cleared in an instant, and the uncontrollable power within her body was completely suppressed.
All of this happened in the blink of an eye, taking no more than two seconds from start to finish.
From the descent of the spear to the shattering of the array, the melting of the human skin, and the complete eradication of the city's aberrations.
It took a mere two seconds.
All anomalous energy in Dawn City was completely suppressed, and every single aberrant individual was eliminated in one fell swoop.
It was as if all of Dawn City had been formatted and reset!
A single strike to calm the four seas!
There were no flashy energy clashes, no back-and-forth tug-of-war, and no throat-tearing screams. Everything was accomplished in such a casual and natural manner.
In other words, this was not a clash between equal forces at all!
It was as if some ancient deity passing by had casually waved their sleeve, unleashing a careless strike that effortlessly resolved everything these mortals had struggled so desperately to overcome.
As the rumbling gradually faded, a deathly silence enveloped Dawn City.
The citizens who had been crying out in despair just moments ago knelt on the ground, their heads raised. Tears still stained their faces, but their expressions had completely frozen.
Just now, they had watched with their own eyes as the lightning flashed right past them, shattering every single aberrated figure.
Just a moment ago, they had been a hair's breadth away from death!
They wouldn't dare. They wouldn't dare undergo aberration ever again.
As for the Scavengers who possessed some degree of strength and had been bitterly holding on, their minds were completely blank.
Everyone looked up with trembling heads, staring at the colossal, slowly fading phantom in the sky as if they were looking at a god.
None of them had ever witnessed such power in their entire lives. The shock they felt at this moment was beyond words.
Only now did they understand what the Masked Hermit Society truly was, and what the pinnacle of power in this world looked like.
...
Kong Man stood atop a high point amidst the ruins. The water vapor on her body had not yet fully dissipated, but she was frozen in place as if under a paralysis spell.
She stared at the slowly fading colossal phantom. Her lips parted, but she was left speechless.
As a Prophet, she understood the sheer power of that strike far better than anyone else.
It was not just raw, overwhelming force; it also carried a bizarre efficacy that suppressed all things evil.
During the battle earlier, she had already caught a faint inkling that Dawn City was a web of countless complex forces and tangled karmas. It was by no means a simple border city!
But none of that mattered for the moment, because everything had been ruthlessly blanketed and suppressed by that single spear!
Just now, the Word Soul spoken by that figure had consisted of only a single character, hadn't it?
“A single-character Word Soul... Suppress...”
Kong Man muttered to herself, her voice barely audible even to her own ears.
Right then, the earpiece condensed from water in her ear suddenly vibrated.
Yue Rugou's anxious voice rang out, carrying a trace of uncontrollable panic:
“Sister Man! What happened just now? Why did I suddenly lose contact with you?”
“Your communication signal was completely cut off! What happened over there? Are you alright?”
Kong Man took a deep breath, suppressing the roiling emotions in her chest, and replied in a raspy voice:
“I'm not okay.”
On the other end of the earpiece, Yue Rugou was clearly taken aback. “Huh?”
“I almost died,” Kong Man said, her lips twitching with a mix of relief at surviving the ordeal and a trace of imperceptible lingering fear.
“Or rather, it's still hard to say whether I'll live or die. What if a certain someone is in a bad mood and decides to wipe me out too on a whim...”
Silence fell on the other end of the line.
Yue Rugou knew Kong Man's personality. For her to say something like this, the situation must have escalated to an unimaginable degree.
“What happened?” Yue Rugou's voice grew uncharacteristically serious.
Kong Man slowly turned her head, looking up at the terrifying black silhouette in the sky.
Was this... the legendary Sinking Black...?
“Yueyue,” Kong Man began, her voice carrying an unprecedented gravity.
“The situation here is highly complex. I can't explain it clearly in a short time. I'll tell you when I get back.”
“But as for the strength of the Masked Hermit Society... I'm afraid we need to completely reevaluate it.”
She paused, her fingers unconsciously twirling a damp strand of hair at her temple.
“That Sinking Black... I witnessed him today.”
“His strength is simply terrifying.”
As she spoke, her voice sounded somewhat tense, as if she were afraid the entity hovering above would deem her private discussion disrespectful.
On the other end of the line, Yue Rugou's voice also tensed up. “How so?”
Kong Man's lips parted slightly, and she spoke with some difficulty:
“I suspect now... that he might very well be an awakened Eternal Sleeper!”
Yue Rugou: !?
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