newbobooks Chapter 229 The Deadly Gaze from the Depths of the Star Gate
Chapter 229 The Deadly Gaze from the Depths of the Star Gate
The monster in prison clothes watched as the remains of two Abyss Lords were devoured by the black lotus.
The crystal core in its mechanical eye spun wildly, and the gears meshed with a sharp, grinding sound. The armor plates on its chest began to vibrate, and unstable light shone through the gaps.
This thing is going to self-destruct.
The black lines on the back of Lu Yan's hand lit up, just as he was about to raise his hand.
A muffled sound came from the depths of the stargate, and the entire spatial rift shook, with large chunks of spatial debris falling from its edges.
The remains of a twelve-winged angel with its wings torn off flew out of the stargate and crashed heavily at the feet of the prison-clad monster, creating a large crater in the black ice.
A piercing cracking sound came from inside the stargate.
Chi You stood shirtless in the passage, his heavy battle sword already chipped and chipped, with bits of flesh from higher-dimensional creatures still clinging to its blade.
He yanked the black iron chain on his arm, crushing a nearby high-dimensional altar, sending rubble and blood flying everywhere.
The high-dimensional garrison's formation was thrown into complete chaos.
Chi You crushed the head of an angel blocking his way with one foot and shouted outside.
"Hey kid from the south, here you go."
His voice came through the passageway.
The prison-dressed monster's mechanical eye malfunctioned and its body stiffened as it tried to look back.
The laws within the star gate began to malfunction.
"All-out assault!"
Lu Yan made a hand gesture.
Zhao Leiguang had been waiting impatiently. With his pulse core running at full power, the Earth Wall uprooted entire rock layers, and he transformed into a dump truck, launching a savage charge.
The earthen-yellow light wall crashed into the monster in prison garb, its twin shields shattering the ice armor on its body, sending ice shards flying everywhere.
Wen Yue raised the World-Destroying Thunder Crossbow, loaded the special high-explosive grenade, and pulled the trigger.
The crossbow bolt whistled through the air, soaring over Zhao Leiguang's head and striking the prison-clad monster's mechanical eyeball. The high-explosive shell detonated a second time inside the eye socket, sending mechanical fragments and slime flying out.
Lin Chuxue did not chant anything; instead, she slammed her staff directly into the sea, and twelve blood explosion magic circles overlapped beneath the monster's feet.
One spell after another rained down, and a crimson pillar of light shot into the sky. The lower half of the monster in the prison uniform was blasted into a bloody pulp, and it knelt on the black ice.
Xiao Qianyu's figure flickered in mid-air, and the mark of the attack lit up. She appeared behind the monster, and the Dragon King Halberd, with a physical dragon shadow, swung down, severing the mechanical joint of the monster's knee.
Sparks mingled with black blood, gushing forth.
The energy inside the monster's chest was still surging wildly. Lu Yan leaped off the deck and rose into the air, the black energy in his palm condensing into a black lotus of destruction.
The twelve petals are fully open.
He grabbed the black lotus and slammed it down, smashing it heavily into the chest cavity of the monster in prison clothes.
The two collided without making a sound.
The monster in the prison garb began to disintegrate from its chest, turning into black ash. The remaining half of Gonggong's body followed, being devoured and decomposed by the black lotus.
【Ding. 】
[Deconstruction successful.]
[Obtained: S-rank material - Divine Remains Fragment x20.]
The system notification tone passed.
Lu Yan landed back on the deck.
The roars of the Chinese army at the front lines shook the heavens, and their offensive intensified. The Shield Guard phalanx pushed forward, stepping over the remains of the Frost Aberrations, while mages' fireballs and archers' arrows covered the edge of the stargate, wiping out swathes of higher-dimensional creatures.
The stargate crack began to shrink.
Chi You cut down the last group of guards in the passage, picked up his dulled sword and walked back, preparing to break out from the south exit.
"Old Li, we missed those on the left." The Shield Guard Captain smashed the head of a mutant with his tower shield.
"Received." The fire mage guild leader threw out a string of fireballs, and the monsters were burned to ashes.
Lu Yan watched the star gate about to close. As long as Chi You came out, the battle here would be over.
The closing trend of the stargate crack has stopped.
An inexplicable force emanated from the depths of the void, forcefully fixing the edge of the spatial rift. The air seemed to solidify, and even the edges of the magma buffer zone were covered in frost.
Lu Yan looked up into the depths of the star gate.
A crack appeared in the void.
There was no metallic scraping sound, nor the hissing of higher-dimensional beings, only a pure white light.
An eye slowly opened deep within the crack.
It has no eyelids, no eye sockets, only a huge eyeball floating in the void, with a pure white pupil.
The Eye of the Supreme God.
The eye shifted, its gaze passing through the stargate passage, fixing on Chi You as he walked out.
Chi You stopped in his tracks, and the battle sword in his hand fell to the ground with a crisp sound.
He raised his head and looked into the depths of the void, his muscles tense, and the chains rattled under the strain.
"That's interesting."
Chi You spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, bent down to pick up his battle sword, and pointed the tip of the sword at the eye in the void.
"What the hell are you looking at?"
The Eye of the Supreme God remained still, simply watching him. The space within the Star Gate passage began to collapse, trapping Chi You inside.
Lu Yan looked at that eye, the black lines on the back of his hand twitched, and the Void Disc spun in his palm, but the power was too strong. The Void Law had only just begun to emerge when it was crushed.
Yang Jian's thousand-foot-tall Dharma body retreated, blocking the rift in the Star Gate, his three-pointed double-edged sword held horizontally in front of his chest, the golden light in his Heavenly Eye dimmed. Nezha retracted his three heads and six arms, the flames of his Wind-Fire Wheels shrank, and he stood beside Yang Jian without saying a word.
The Chinese Awakened Ones at the front lines stopped their attack, staring at the eye in the void, their weapons trembling.
The gaze of the Eye of God shifted, past the edge of the stargate, past the Chinese army on the sea, and finally settled on Lu Yan.
Lu Yan felt a sharp pain in his soul, and the projection of the Heart Mirror was shattered. He bit his tongue, the taste of blood keeping him awake.
"Old Qin," Lu Yan said, "cut off all energy supplies to the southern front and remove all defensive arrays from the positions."
Qin Wangshan did not reply immediately on the communicator.
"What are you going to do?"
"That thing is targeting this area; leaving it here will only make us a target. Let's retreat."
Qin Wangshan remained silent for two seconds.
"clear."
The lava barrier on the sea surface extinguished, the Mage Guild put away their array plates, and the Shield Guard formation began to retreat. There were no chaotic footsteps, only the metallic clanging of equipment.
The Eye of the Supreme God watched the retreating Chinese army without launching an attack; it simply observed.
The stargate rift neither expanded nor closed; it remained stuck there.
Chi You swung his sword at the void in the passage, and the sword energy struck the void around the Eye of the God and disappeared without leaving any trace.
"We can't get out." Chi You's voice came from the crack, somewhat hoarse, "That bastard has blocked the road."
Lu Yan looked at the star gate. He knew that today's battle was not over; this was just the beginning.
He turned to look at the first squad.
"Check equipment. Replenish consumables."
Zhao Leiguang slung the Taotie Shield on his back. "Captain, how do you fight that thing?"
"We can't win."
"If you can't fight, just hold your ground?"
"Defend until you can fight."
Wen Yue changed to a new magazine. "I'm out of crossbow bolts."
"Logistics will be here soon."
Su Yunqing put away her staff, her hands still trembling. "The shield value has been restored."
Lin Chuxue looked at the mana points on the panel. "Full mana."
Xiao Qianyu wiped the blood from the halberd blade. "We're ready to go anytime."
Shen Xinglin planted his lance in the ice. "I'll lead the way."
Lu Yan looked at them, then raised his head and looked towards the Eye of the God deep within the Star Gate.
That eye was also watching him.
The Void Disc stopped spinning in his palm, and the patterns of the black lotus covered half of his face.
He didn't back down, not even a single step.
The Chinese army behind them did not retreat either; several thousand people stood on the ice, facing that eye.
The snowstorm has stopped.
The waves stopped.
The pure white pupil of the Eye of the Supreme God contracted slightly and then closed.
The stargate rift began to close slowly, without sound or pressure.
The crack closed, leaving only a thin slit.
Chi You's voice came from the cracks, growing farther and farther away.
"Kid, leave the door open for me. I'll chop it up sooner or later."
The sound stopped.
The stargate is completely closed.
The black ice on the sea began to melt, and sunlight shone through gaps in the clouds onto the wrecked deck.
Lu Yan put away the Void Disc, and the black patterns retreated to the back of his hand.
He turned around.
"Fall back."
Zhao Leiguang breathed a sigh of relief, "Finally finished. I told you I should take a vacation, Lao Qin definitely approved it."
The first squad headed towards the transport plane, and the Chinese army began its orderly withdrawal.
The southern waters have returned to calm, with only debris floating on the surface.
Lu Yan sat in the cabin and closed his eyes.
The black lotus within the soul was spinning.
The image of the Eye of God was still in his mind.
That's not the end.
That was just the beginning.
He knew that the real war was yet to come.
The transport plane took off, its engine roar drowning out the sea breeze, and flew inland.